My words have become law; I truly have no desire to display my divine power before others.

Lu Yang pointed tremblingly into the bushes: "A...a female ghost! A female ghost in white! She...she's chasing me!"

Before the words were even finished, a series of thuds came from the bushes.

The sound grew closer and louder.

The next second, a white figure leaped out of the darkness.

Her white dress was tattered, her hair was disheveled, and she wore that eerie smile.

Her legs were stiff as two wooden sticks as she hopped and skipped towards this side, leaving a shallow crater with each jump.

Lu Yang screamed and immediately hid behind Ye Qingfeng.

"Hmph! Playing tricks!"

Shen Zhaoyue moved.

She didn't draw her sword, but charged straight at them.

With one step, she was already in front of the female corpse.

With his right fist clenched, he slammed it into the woman's chest!

"Bang!"

The female corpse was sent flying backward by the punch, crashing into a tree and breaking the trunk.

Lü Yang's eyes widened.

Shen Zhaoyue did not stop.

She chased after her and kicked the female corpse in the abdomen again.

The woman's body was folded in half, bent at a ninety-degree angle, like a piece of paper folded in half.

"Click—"

The sound of bones breaking was clearly audible.

Lü Yang's mouth was wide open enough to fit an egg.

The female corpse lay bent over on the ground, her limbs still twitching.

Her head was tilted to one side, the eerie smile still lingering on her face, but her eyes were already closed.

But she was still moving.

Her hands were grabbing, her feet were kicking, and her body was struggling like a severed earthworm.

Shen Zhaoyue frowned.

She raised her hand and placed it on the hilt of the knife at her waist.

Just then, a series of hurried footsteps came from afar, followed by a heart-wrenching scream:

"Leave the body unharmed!!!"

A figure rushed out of the darkness, panting heavily.

It is Miao Gui.

He was wearing a drab gray robe, covered in sweat, and his face was deathly pale.

He rushed over and immediately saw the folded female corpse on the ground, freezing in place.

"My corpse... my corpse..."

He murmured to himself, lunged at the woman's corpse, his hands trembling, wanting to touch her but not daring to.

Shen Zhaoyue's hand was still on the hilt of the knife as she looked at him coldly.

"Who are you?"

Miao Gui didn't even look up. He carefully reached out and gently straightened the woman's bent body little by little.

"Click—click—"

The sound of bones realigning is so loud it makes your teeth ache.

Lu Yang peeked out from behind Ye Qingfeng and felt a chill run down his spine as he watched this scene.

Miao Gui restored the woman's body to its original state, then took out a yellow talisman from his pocket and stuck it on the woman's forehead.

The woman's limbs finally stopped moving, and she lay quietly on the ground, like a real corpse.

Miao Gui finally breathed a sigh of relief, then looked up at Shen Zhaoyue, his eyes filled with heartache and anger.

He pointed to the fist marks and cracks on the woman's body, his voice trembling:

"Look at what you've done! Three bones in his chest are broken! Four ribs are broken! His leg is broken too! And his face... his face is completely deformed!"

Shen Zhaoyue looked at him expressionlessly.

Miao Gui became increasingly angry as he spoke:

"This is my client! Don't you understand what a client is? His family is waiting for his funeral! Now he's been beaten like this, how am I supposed to explain this? Pay compensation? How can I pay compensation?"

Shen Zhaoyue finally spoke:

"Who are you?"

Miao Gui rolled her eyes in annoyance:

"Can't you tell? A corpse driver! A corpse driver!"

He pointed to his robes, then to the talisman on the female corpse's forehead:

"It's so obvious, there's no way the people of the Ten Thousand Mountains wouldn't recognize you. What are you acting for? Trying to renege on your promise?"

Lu Yang peeked out from behind Ye Qingfeng and asked suspiciously:

"What is a corpse driver? And what is the Ten Thousand Mountains?"

Miao Gui was stunned.

He stared at Lü Yang for a long time, then looked at Shen Zhaoyue, then at Ye Qingfeng, his expression changing from anger to confusion, and then from confusion to sudden realization.

"You...aren't from the Ten Thousand Mountains?"

Shen Zhaoyue said calmly:

"no."

Miao Gui slapped his thigh:

"No wonder! No wonder I didn't recognize him!"

Then, he seemed too lazy to care anymore, and squatted down, touching the broken bones with heartache.

"So what exactly is a corpse driver?"

Shen Zhaoyue continued to ask.

Upon hearing this, Miao Gui looked up and rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Why should I tell you?"

He stood up and pointed to the badly injured female corpse:

"You beat my client up like this, you have to pay up! Pay up first, then we'll talk!"

Lu Yang was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening:

"This female corpse...is yours, isn't it?"

Miao Gui sneered:

"Nonsense! If it's not mine, how could it be yours? This is my client! Their family is waiting for their burial!"

Lü Yang was immediately enraged:

"Since she's yours, why don't you keep an eye on her?! She almost scared me to death just now! And it happened when I was at my most... most vulnerable!"

He blushed as he finished speaking.

Miao Gui curled his lip, looked him up and down, then suddenly leaned closer and sniffed, before slapping his thigh:

"Oh—I get it!"

Lü Yang felt uneasy under his gaze.

"What do you know?"

Miao Gui chuckled:

"That female corpse was just an ordinary walking corpse that had been dead for less than a few days. It had no consciousness and could only jump around instinctively. Such a thing would never dare to get close to a living person."

"If someone with strong yang energy gets too close to her, she'll run away on her own. But she insists on chasing you—what does that mean?"

"(⊙o⊙) Huh?" Lu Yang asked subconsciously.

"Insufficient Yang energy, kidney deficiency!"

Lü Yang's face instantly turned bright red:

"You...you're the one with kidney deficiency! Your whole family has kidney deficiency!"

Miao Gui took a step back, looking completely innocent.

"I'm telling the truth. If you have enough yang energy, she won't dare to come near you at all."

Lü Yang was so angry that he trembled all over:

"How can someone who looks to be in their forties speak so shamelessly?!"

Miao Gui's smile froze instantly.

"Who...who are you saying is in their forties?"

Lü Yang pointed at his face:

"You! Look at your face, you must be at least forty! Shameless old man! You still have the nerve to say I have kidney deficiency?"

Miao Gui was furious.

He hates it most when people say he's old.

Eighteen years old, but with the face of a forty-year-old—this is a pain that will forever remain in his heart.

"I'm eighteen! Eighteen years old! Are you blind?!"

Lu Yang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter:

"Eighteen? You're eighteen? You're kidding me!"

Miao Gui was so angry that he stomped his feet:

"I really am eighteen! I just look a little older than my age!"

Lü Yang laughed even harder:

"Are you growing up too fast? You've been waiting for twenty years!"

The two of them argued back and forth, getting into a huge fight.

-

Just then, something golden suddenly flew over.

Clang.

It landed at Miao Gui's feet.

It is a gold ingot.

It weighed a full ten taels, gleaming alluringly in the moonlight.

Miao Gui was stunned.

He looked down at the gold ingot, then looked up at the person who threw it.