The Geared Immortal

Human versus Zombie cultivators: Chapter 10

In the middle of the village where a platform made of a huge slab of rock was raised, a figure of a man wearing red leather armor sat atop a white smoothly polished stone throne. This man is Su Aw, who is currently listening to the report of a thin tall man kneeling in front of him. One of the arms of the man is cleanly cut off from under his elbow. This man is Jester who immediately escapes after his defeat to Shin Jiao.

Although Su Aw was able to get the idea, as he is the one controlling the undead beast horde, only because of the huge number he could not focus his mind and listen to the conversation at that time.

After listening to Jester's report and hearing that there is a woman with a special constitution of a dual soul vessel body, he began to feel ecstatic.

A person with a dual soul vessel body is actually someone who can contain multiple souls inside their own body without any conflict, as their physic can accommodate even a legion of soul. And the main soul would be the one who can control everything. Hence if Su Aw can obtain her body and transfer his soul, he can then try to find the soul of his wife in the underworld and summon her back. Hence in one body, he and his wife will join for eternity.

With his imagination running eagerly at the prospect of being together with his wife, Su Aw didn't notice a glint of killing intent from someone's eyes. When Su Aw felt a chill creeping on his back his mind came back to reality. In confusion, he turns his head around because he clearly felt a hint of killing intent. But now he is not sure if it is real or not. Shaking his head he then returns to what he plans to do.

"I'm getting bored and wanted to give each of you a chance to taste blood and flesh. Kekeke…" Su Aw said in a loud voice.

"Our visitors are a bunch with a promising prospect which I wanted to add in our army. So, I don't want it this time to be our usual routine… I wanted to test their mettle first. Hihihi…." He added while chuckling.

"Master, can I be the person-in-charge of this… game?" Suddenly Jester said in a high pitch and excited tone.

One could not determine whether his voice belongs to a man or a woman. But his excited tone made everyone in the platform started to feel ecstatic. When they heard if their master's plan, everyone was excited and wanted to take part in this bloody ordeal, but Su Aw only wanted ten of his so-called generals to participate. And so they had a contest to choose who would participate, and with that, they began to have a brawl.

After some time, out of the hundred-plus generals who fought in that brawl, only ten remained and were picked as they are the strongest among all those under Su Aw's command.

In front of Su Aw now stood the ten figures of both men and women, some of them are devil cultivators and some are undead cultivators. These cultivators are exuding strong auras and the most powerful of them all is already almost in the middle stages of the infant soul realm.

Upon looking at his line up, Su Aw is contented.

His plan is to play with the cultivators which he would trap in this place before turning them into addition to his now growing army.

"Master, I think they have arrived…" Mer Li suddenly said from behind Su Aw.

"But it seems that I cannot detect or find the woman you were looking for, the one with the special body," she added.

"No worries my dear. No one can escape this mist. As long as that person holds the wooden slab, then I can detect their presence where ever they are." Su Aw said with confidence.

Right now he can exactly determine the location of Shin Jiao and Jiyi as they approach closer towards the miasma filled village.

…

Not long later, many groups of people are cautiously entering the village. There are a total of more than 15 groups of people who were able to arrive safely inside the village and all of them are holding the palm-sized wooden slab.

Actually, at that time when they were trying to follow the woman who gave them the slabs, they suddenly noticed that she vanished into thin air after entering the miasma. But they didn't panic, instead, they slowly and carefully traverse the miasma filled area. No one dares to rush forwards and chase after the woman.

As they walk towards the possible direction of the village by following the wooden slab which seems to point them in a certain direction, they saw many stray undead beasts and undead humans that attacked each of their groups. But due to their numbers, they easily took them down. The group of cultivators continues to follow the direction which the wooden slab pointed until they were able to reach a place where there are high walls. That is when they realized that they have arrived at their destination.

"This... this is the village right?"

"I think so… Look at those creepy houses."

"Where should we go next then?"

The groups of cultivators who entered the village began to carefully explore the place.

"Look! I think there are survivors over there!" suddenly someone shouted as that person detected something with his spiritual sense.

Though their spiritual sense could not be fully used in this area, however, one can still use it with a limit of 100 meters in range. And right now that man detected living being while standing near a huge mansion.

What astonished the groups of cultivators is that they can clearly see that the area in that huge mansion is mist free.

"It seems that there is a powerful array protecting this place." Suddenly Ling Ya muttered while standing near Jin Fu.

"What do you mean? There are still people in this forsaken place?" Jin Fu asked with an incredulous look on his face.

"Maybe… I think so… Look those are newly replaced spirit stones." Ling Ya said pointing at a location where there is a glowing rune on the ground and in the middle of that rune is a spirit stone.

"Can we enter this place then?" Elder Jugs suddenly asked.

"Hmmm… Yes… I think we can. I think this barrier is like the Hallowed ground array formation we made in Xiling village." Ling Ya said while she carefully extended her hand towards the thin layer of Qi protecting the place.

Jin Fu wanted to stop her, but she gave him an assured look.

When her hand touches the Qi barrier, it actually goes through it without any problems. Upon seeing this, the eyes of the people in their surroundings suddenly lit up.

"Let's go!" A man with a black beard said to the people behind him.

The man who noticed this huge mansion is with this group and they are the first ones to enter the place. Then after them, the rest of the cultivators followed suit. When they were able to enter the mist free area, they immediately detected eight people inside the house. These people are acting like everything is normal as if they didn't live inside a village ruled by the undead.

And what baffled them is the fact that these people are all only mortals and low-level cultivators.

When they were about to enter the place, a large commotion can be heard from the mist outside which has gotten their attention. Then, from the mist they actually saw a huge head of an undead beast popping out, followed by five cultivators quickly rushing out of the dark green cloud, like flying bullets.

Then the huge beast slowly fell on a part of a wall and breaking it into rubbles.

The five cultivators who fought against that huge beast suddenly cheers loudly.

"Aren't they the people who abandoned us?" a youthful tone coming from Lily Chen who is standing behind Jin Fu muttered in a low voice.

"Yeah, those people from the city of Wu are too arrogant for leaving us in that place." Bei Wei Tang chimed in with indignation in her expression.

"Well, as you can see… they have the ability to back their arrogance." Bok Du suddenly said with a look of respect and admiration in his tone.

Bok Du is a warrior and wanted to fight, more than anything. But in this journey along with his two brothers, they learned that there are people who are stronger than them.

The five people who last entered the town immediately started to turn their gaze around and immediately found the large group of cultivators standing around a mansion not too far from them.

"Huh! There are people who were able to arrive before us? How did that happen?" Xinge Lee said with a disbelieving tone.

"Let's go!" she suddenly said as she walked towards the direction of the huge mansion.

The people who have already entered the mansion 's perimeter began to walk closer towards the building. All of a sudden the main door of the mansion opened and an old man slowly walks out. He then turns his gaze towards all the people around him.

Upon seeing that they are all-powerful cultivators he suddenly shook his head.

"Sigh… I don't know why you people have come to this place, but right now, what I can say is that each of your lives are in danger. You all are now trapped in this place along with us... By the way, I am the village chief of this Yong village. I and my family, we are the only living survivor of this cursed place. Luckily for us… We were able to create this barrier in time. But now... time is running out." The old man said with a sad expression.

"Old man, what really happened here?" suddenly Xinge Lee asked as she and her team entered the barrier and walks directly in front of the old man.