In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Several months have passed, and still nothing has been found. Even the bandit zombies who were able to communicate with him normally at the beginning have gradually lost their memories under the erosion of the Yin energy and turned into complete zombies. Although they have begun to regain consciousness as their level has increased, all their original memories are gone.

The Zombie King had long heard of Ruyi's magical powers. The reason why he kept arranging zombies to "die" even after knowing that Ruyi could turn zombies back into corpses was because he felt that since Ruyi had the means to make zombies degenerate, then perhaps there was a way to make zombies evolve.

In the eyes of the Zombie King, only zombies that retain complete memories like him are his kind, and now Ruyi, this special person, is the one who can make him have the same kind.

He saw that Ruyi's ability needed the nourishment of zombies, so he deliberately used the zombies in the cave to "feed" Ruyi. He planned to catch Ruyi himself after the zombies were almost fed, but he didn't expect that Ruyi, who had been actively eliminating zombies, actually ran away?

The Zombie King was confident that no one in this world could be his opponent, so he wasn't afraid of not being able to catch Ruyi. "He's just a Heavenly Master. Haven't I killed enough Heavenly Masters in the past?"

"But after eating so many of my zombie minions, isn't it too late to run away now?"

The Zombie King left the cave just to capture Ruyi. At this time, Ruyi had just returned to the Bai Niao Town Inn. He hadn't even seen Uncle Jiu and the others, so he called for water, took a bath and fell asleep.

The Zombie King came to the forest and followed the traces of Ruyi and found Bai Niao Town. However, after arriving in Bai Niao Town, he lost all trace of Ruyi. He was unwilling to let Ruyi go, so he had to stay.

On the other side, the helpers that Uncle Jiu and his men called from the Maoshan ancestral temple finally arrived. There were fewer zombies appearing near Bai Niao Town in the past few days. Although Uncle Jiu and Taoist Simu had some time to rest temporarily, they were extremely nervous. A premonition of impending storm was always weighing on their minds.

Uncle Jiu, Taoist Simu and Taoist Qianhe were all very happy to see help at this time.

"Big Brother!" X3

The Taoist priest who leads Maoshan is none other than the eldest brother Shi Jian.

"Yeah." Shi Jian nodded, and after briefly introducing the other people to Uncle Jiu and the others, they didn't exchange any pleasantries and went into the lobby of the inn together. Then they began to ask about the situation.

"Everyone knows the news you sent back. Now tell us in detail what happened."

After all, what Uncle Jiu sent back was just a few words, and many detailed details were omitted. Now that everyone is here, we naturally need to understand it clearly.

"Here's the thing."

Uncle Jiu nodded and began to tell the Taoist priests what had happened. When he mentioned Tengteng Town, Taoist Priest Fang and Taoist Priest Huang on the side also helped to agree and nodded to confirm Uncle Jiu's words.

"Yes, it is exactly as Fellow Daoist Lin said."

"After Daoist Master Fang and Daoist Master Huang parted ways with me, Junior Brother Simu and Junior Brother Qianhe were invited to join me and Daoist Fellow Ruyi in Tengteng Town."

The news that the seal of Tengteng Town was destroyed has been confirmed. Uncle Jiu and his fellow Taoist priests are not far from Tengteng Town, so it is normal for them to come and investigate after receiving the news. Everyone did not think there was anything wrong when they heard this, and they all signaled Uncle Jiu to continue.

"When we arrived at Tianshui Town, we discovered the situation was dire. The town, which was once plagued by zombies, had become a deadly place. Even more bizarre, there wasn't even a single zombie to be seen in the entire town."

"In order to find out where these zombies have gone, my fellow apprentices, my fellow Daoist Ruyi and I split into two teams and explored the surrounding area separately."

"It's not so bad here in Bai Niao Town. Although zombies appear from time to time, they are all solitary zombies, not in large groups. But it's different with Junior Brother and Fellow Daoist Ruyi. They accidentally encountered a group of organized and disciplined zombies in the mountains."

"Organized and disciplined zombies?"

The Taoist priests present looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard this. They all knew that if they wanted to make the beast-like zombies organized and well-organized, it would require either a specialized corpse-refining sect to control them or zombies of a higher level to be controlled from behind.

"Could it be someone from the Corpse Refining Sect?"

Uncle Jiu shook his head. "We're not really sure, but after Junior Brother Qianhe and the others followed the zombies into the mountains, they did find a cave where the zombies were hiding. They just didn't go in for safety reasons."

"It must be the evil heretic behind this. Once I find this person, I will enforce justice on behalf of Heaven and send him to reincarnation!"

After hearing Uncle Jiu's words, all the Taoist priests felt that there was someone behind this matter. Taoist Priest Qianhe suddenly spoke up and interrupted everyone's discussion.

"Everyone, everyone, please listen to what I have to say."

"I saw with my own eyes that there were still quite a few zombies in the cave, all of them above the level of green zombies. Therefore, I believe that this could not have been done by humans."

It's not easy to control a single green zombie, let alone a whole group of them. Taoist Qianhe saw so many zombies with his own eyes and didn't believe anyone could control them. "I guess there are probably higher-level zombies controlling these zombies."

"But in this world, there haven't been any hairy zombies for decades, so how could it be..."

Some of the younger Taoist priests didn't quite believe it, while the older ones frowned and started to think about it.

"Alright, alright. Whether it's a human or a zombie, we'll find out tomorrow when we go explore that cave ourselves."

Shi Jian made the plan very forcefully. Uncle Jiu wanted to persuade him to wait until Ruyi came back so that it would be safer before setting off again, but Shi Jian mocked him for being cowardly and afraid of death.

"That fellow Daoist Ruyi stayed alone in the mountains for half a month and was fine. Could it be that all of us combined are not even as good as a mere Kun Daoist?"

"Lin Jiu, I haven't seen you for so many years. I didn't expect you to become a cowardly loser!"

"It's settled. Tomorrow morning, Qianhe will lead the team and we'll set off together. I, Shi Jian, want to see what's behind this!"

Uncle Jiu couldn't persuade Shi Jian. When everyone heard what Shi Jian said, they thought it made sense. With so many of them, how could anything happen? They all responded to Shi Jian's words.

The next morning, Shi Jian really took everyone to the grotto with Taoist Qianhe, and Uncle Jiu and Taoist Simu had no choice but to follow them.

Ruyi slept all night and woke up refreshed at noon the next day. When she was about to say hello to Uncle Jiu and the others, she heard the innkeeper say that they had already left.

"You mean they went west together?"

"Yes, they are all Taoist priests. They look so majestic and powerful. I wonder what they are doing?" The guy only heard a general idea and was very curious about the "grand occasion" of the Taoist priests coming together.

"..." That cave is no joke. There are at least tens of thousands of zombies in it. If Uncle Jiu and his gang of dozens of people go there, aren't they courting death?