Chapter 141: Cutting Melons and Vegetables

Seeing this, Sun Xuan couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly, then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he said:

"Brother Chu, it seems that us walking swaggeringly down the street just now exposed our whereabouts!"

Seeing this, a flash of murderous intent also crossed Chu Lin's face as he gently nodded and said:

"Indeed. In that case, let's teach this group of bedbugs a lesson first. Ma Yuan, Dongyang, the six of you get ready. Since these people have come, let's keep all of them here."

As Chu Lin's voice fell, a flash of murderous intent immediately crossed the eyes of the six Town Demon Guard reserves as they softly acknowledged the order.

A person's renown precedes them, just as a tree casts its shadow.

Chu Lin was considered quite a famous figure within the Qinghe County Demon Suppression Guard.

If these six reserves were asked to go head-to-head with these obviously abnormal enemies on their own, they might hesitate.

But with Chu Lin giving the order, and even participating personally, these six reserves could completely rest assured and fight the opponents.

At this moment, two to thirty figures dressed in constable attire had already arrived by Sun Xuan and the others' side.

These twenty or thirty people had fierce looks in their eyes, and an unnatural sluggishness appeared on their faces.

After arriving by Sun Xuan and the others' side, these people immediately surrounded Sun Xuan, Chu Lin, and the six reserves.

The residents around them were also staring at Sun Xuan's group with somewhat abnormal expressions.

If they were normal residents, upon discovering that a large-scale battle and slaughter was about to take place, their first reaction would definitely be to flee and hide.

Ordinary people would be terrified of avoiding such military disasters and bandit scourges.

Yet these Wuling Town residents were still hawking their wares and laughing and chatting away at this moment.

It was as if Sun Xuan and Chu Lin were not about to engage in a bloody slaughter, but were here to put on a monkey show.

These bizarre and abnormal situations made Sun Xuan and Chu Lin feel even more grave in their hearts.

If Sun Xuan guessed correctly, there shouldn't be a single living person left in the entire Wuling Town right now.

Thinking of this, even with Sun Xuan's Heart-Nature, he became somewhat angry at this moment.

These idiots, making a move against civilians with no ability to resist, were not only useless, but also hateful.

At this moment, Sun Xuan had already placed these rats hiding in the gutters onto his must-kill list.

"Brother Chu, do the corpses of these people still need to be kept intact?"

Just at the moment when the battle was about to break out, Chu Lin suddenly spoke up and asked Sun Xuan.

Clearly, after seeing Sun Xuan transform a corpse into a Bronze Zombie earlier, Chu Lin was asking whether assimilating a Bronze Zombie required the corpse to remain intact.

The skill Sun Xuan used to transform corpses into Bronze Zombies was the Shijiang Technique attached to the true spirit artifact itself.

Just like the female corpse previously possessed by the xuanyin sword, when assimilating into a Bronze Zombie, there were no special requirements for the corpse.

When Sun Xuan used the xuanyin sword skill to assimilate zombies, the requirements for the corpse were similarly not large.

However, if the corpse was missing arms and legs or was too mutilated, even if it was assimilated into a Bronze Zombie, its combat power would be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the corpse Materials used to assimilate into Bronze Zombies were better kept somewhat intact.

Although these assimilated Bronze Zombies had no intelligence and did not understand Martial Skill,

their strength greatly increased, and they had copper tendons and iron bones.

As long as one had not become a ranked Martial Artist, dealing with these Bronze Zombies one-on-one was still quite difficult.

Especially in large-scale battles, Sun Xuan's Shijiang Technique could often play some unexpected roles.

At this moment, after hearing Chu Lin's inquiry, a smile immediately appeared at the corner of Sun Xuan's mouth as he said:

"As long as it's not too mutilated!"

After hearing Sun Xuan's words, Chu Lin immediately nodded softly, indicating that he understood.

When Sun Xuan and the others arrived at Wuling Town, the sky was already quite late.

Now, after some time had passed, the sun had already set down the mountain, and a layer of dim sky had shrouded the entire earth.

Right at this moment, the constables who had surrounded Sun Xuan and the others let out an unnatural roar from their mouths, and then frantically charged at Sun Xuan and the others to kill them.

Seeing this, the six reserves immediately held weapons in their hands and charged toward those people dressed as constables.

These reserves of the Town Demon Guard were also good hands with decent martial arts. Dealing with these mediocre constables was a direct, easy crushing.

Not to mention Sun Xuan and Chu Lin.

Sun Xuan took a step forward, and several phantoms actually appeared across the entire field.

Then only a series of slight bone-cracking sounds were heard.

All those constables touched by the phantoms had their hearts shattered and fell to the ground dead.

Chu Lin, who was beside Sun Xuan, flicked his fingers continuously, and then one steel needle after another was immediately shot out by Chu Lin.

Every steel needle would definitely burst a constable's heart.

Looking at Chu Lin's expression, it was a relaxed and casual appearance.

Just like that, after only a moment's time, these twenty or thirty constables all became real corpses.

Then, under Sun Xuan's Shijiang Technique, they staggered to their feet once more.

After silently absorbing the underground attribute light spheres scattered on the ground, Sun Xuan saw that the surrounding residents were now swarming toward Sun Xuan, Chu Lin, and the others with red light in their eyes.

"Brother Chu, it's time to go. No matter how many of these controlled ordinary residents we kill, it's meaningless. To conclude this mission, we still have to drag out those guys hiding behind the scenes."

Hearing this, Chu Lin nodded, and then together with Sun Xuan and the six reserves, they sprinted rapidly into the darkness of the sparsely populated alleyways.

Seeing Sun Xuan and the others running away, the surrounding residents with red eyes immediately stopped disguising themselves.

Instead, they roared towards the sky like beasts and frantically chased in the direction where Sun Xuan and the others had fled.

However, their pursuit was destined to have no results.

Before they could even go chase and kill Sun Xuan and the others,

these twenty or thirty Bronze Zombies immediately charged towards these frantic residents to kill them.

For a time, it was just like two waves of beasts colliding together.

A rich bloody stench immediately diffused across the street.

Although the Bronze Zombies alienated by Sun Xuan using the Shijiang Technique were only twenty or thirty in number, seemingly fewer than the thousands of bizarre residents rushing over,

these residents, although extremely crazy under control, still had combat power at the level of ordinary people.

As for these Bronze Zombies, each of them had copper tendons and iron bones, possessed strength like an ox, and were exceptionally fierce.

These bizarre residents with mediocre combat power simply could not break the defense of these Bronze Zombies.

And these Bronze Zombies could easily sweep away one or even several bizarre residents with a single claw.

Just like that, under the obstruction of these Bronze Zombies, Sun Xuan, Chu Lin, and the others hid very easily.

However, after Sun Xuan and Chu Lin settled the reserves into hiding, they returned once more.

As for those reserves, after Sun Xuan and Chu Lin discussed it, they also assigned them some tasks to go and complete.

It was mainly some investigation tasks. Right now, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin were still not clear enough about the specific situation of Wuling Town.

At this moment, the more information they could master, the better they could drag out these enemies hiding in the shadows.

Sun Xuan and Chu Lin returned at this moment precisely because they wanted to see if, under the ravaging of these Bronze Zombies alienated by Sun Xuan, the person behind the scenes would make a move to deal with these zombies.

Sun Xuan and Chu Lin hid in a deserted courtyard, looking outside through the cracks of the room door.

On the street at this moment, the twenty or thirty zombies and the frantic bizarre residents were fighting fiercely.

Neither of them had any reason left to speak of at this moment, leaving only a frenzied will to slaughter continuously unleashed toward each other.

As time went on, more and more bizarre residents swarmed into the battle group.

However, the twenty or thirty zombies alienated by Sun Xuan showed not the slightest fear because of the large number of people; instead, they grew more courageous the longer they fought.

The corpses of these bizarre residents fell to the ground in rows, just like harvested wheat.

Yet those twenty or thirty zombies did not suffer even the slightest bit of damage.

Seeing this, Sun Xuan, who was hiding in the dark, couldn't help shaking his head slightly, and then said to Chu Lin beside him:

"These bedbugs that attack ordinary residents, although their methods are a bit bizarre, looking at their power, they really aren't all that great."

Chu Lin on the side heard this, smiled, and said:

"Brother Chu, this tactic of human waves still poses some threat to normal Martial Artists like us. After all, our physical strength is limited. Unless our martial arts strength reaches a certain Realm, otherwise, if we just drag it out like this, physical strength will eventually have a time when it is exhausted."

"Brother Sun thinks these methods of alienating all residents are not that great, because the true spirit artifact in Sun Xuan's hands is likewise not simple."

"Otherwise, if it were other rank-eight or rank-nine Martial Artists who fell alone into this layer upon layer of encirclement, they would really be in danger."

Hearing what Chu Lin said, Sun Xuan nodded, a hint of pensive expression flashing in his eyes.

Seeing this, Chu Lin continued softly:

"Moreover, as the imperial court's official institution, our Town Demon Guard cannot easily massacre ordinary residents in large numbers."

"If these ordinary residents do not show any bizarre abnormalities, even if the Town Demon Guard comes, they wouldn't dare to easily make a move against them."

"However, these alienated residents made a move against the Town Demon Guard first, which is obviously abnormal."

"Under such circumstances, slaying these alienated entities poses no problem."

After hearing this, Sun Xuan gained a bit more understanding of the institution known as the Town Demon Guard in his heart.

Just as Sun Xuan and Chu Lin were watching the show and chatting, those ground rats hiding in the dark finally couldn't hold back anymore.

A breath clearly distinct from ordinary residents was seen rapidly approaching this place from afar.

Upon perceiving this continuously approaching breath, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin couldn't help exchanging a glance.

Then, in each other's eyes, both saw a hint of excitement.

It's good that the enemy made a move.

Right now, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin weren't afraid of the enemy making a move; they were only afraid that the enemy would hide in the shadows and waste time with them.

In that case, Sun Xuan and Chu Lin would have to expend a lot of effort to find them out.

It seems these residents they alienated were still of some use to them.

Otherwise, under the circumstance where these alienated residents were being massively slaughtered by Bronze Zombies, the other party wouldn't easily make a move.

At this moment, in the underground earthen prison of the Wuling Town Garrison Office, a group of people were gathered here discussing something.

Between the eyebrows of this group of people, each person had a delicate lotus imprint tattooed.

This lotus was wrapped by a blurry flame, and the entire pattern seemed to be burning slowly.

This lotus pattern gave people an extremely evil and strange feeling.

This was precisely the iconic pattern of the Baihuo Cult, the sub-fire imprint left behind by the true spirit artifact Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

It seemed Town-Demon Envoy Lü Qing of Qinghe County guessed correctly; the bizarre events happening in Wuling Town were indeed caused by the rebel Baihuo Cult.

Even looking at the number of Baihuo Cult members gathered in the garrison's earthen prison, it was highly likely that this place was the headquarters of the Baihuo Cult branch lurking in Qinghe County.

Within this earthen prison, besides these Baihuo Cult members, there were also two Martial Artists hung on torture instruments and tortured beyond human recognition.

And there was a Bronze Zombie that had been dismantled into pieces.

This Bronze Zombie should be the first zombie Sun Xuan alienated after arriving at Wuling Town.

The identities of those two Martial Artists were not difficult to guess; they were precisely the two Town Demon Guard reserves captured by a group of people dressed in constable attire.

These two reserves had been tortured to the point where only one breath remained.

At this moment, they were hung on the torture instruments without a sound, just like two corpses.

At this very moment, among these Baihuo Cult members, one person who was obviously the leader walked towards these two Town Demon Guard reserves with a frowned brow and a gloomy expression on his face.

Then, with a somewhat hoarse voice, he spoke to these two reserves:

"Two gentlemen, as long as you state the team lineup of your trip to Wuling Town this time and the information you have gathered, and also reveal some intelligence about that old thing Lü Qing to us, this seat will not only not kill you, but will also apply for the True Qi empowerment method for you, helping you easily become a ranked Martial Artist. Instead of being like now, only able to act as a temporary worker inside the Town Demon Guard, letting you do all the dirty work, heavy work, and dangerous work. With the Soul strength of the two of you, wanting to rely on yourselves to become ranked Martial Artists is basically impossible in this lifetime. Since that is the case, why must you stubbornly risk your lives working for the Town Demon Guard? Why not join our Baihuo Cult right now? Once the Cult Leader overthrows the corrupt Great Wei Dynasty, the two of you might even become founding contributors! How about it? If you agree, just nod your head, and this seat will immediately let you down and treat your injuries."

One of the two Town Demon Guard reserves, after hearing this person's words, slowly raised his head, and then with a trace of mockery on his face, spoke in a hoarse and weak voice:

"Rebels, stop daydreaming! Our two brothers will take our leave first, and someone will avenge us!"