What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

He tossed the burning yellow talisman into the air, chanting, "Heaven is clear, earth is bright, yin and yang lend their power! Break!"

call--!

The wad of yellow paper exploded in mid-air, creating a whirlwind.

Wherever the whirlwind passed, the blue mist seemed to have met its nemesis and quickly retreated to both sides.

The field of vision quickly opened up.

However, just as the fog dissipated, a rustling sound came from all directions.

"Watch your step!"

Li Qing loudly reminded him.

My ears twitched, and my keen hearing allowed me to instantly detect the unusual movement under the dead leaves.

Almost instinctively, I plunged the scalpel downwards with all my might!

puff!

When I pulled out the knife, I saw that it was a centipede as thick as an arm, which I had pinned to the ground.

The centipede didn't seem to be completely dead; its hundred legs were still twitching wildly, and green venom was oozing from its severed ends, instantly corroding and withering the surrounding weeds.

Seeing this, I added insult to injury.

But this is just the beginning.

As the fog dissipated, all sorts of poisonous insects crawled out densely from the surrounding tree trunks and grass!

The venomous insects, like sharks that have smelled blood, swarmed towards us frantically.

"Damn! We've stirred up a hornet's nest!"

Li Qing cursed, took out a copper coin sword from his bag, and muttered incantations. The copper coin sword instantly emitted a golden light.

He swung his copper coin sword, instantly slicing several poisonous spiders that lunged at his face.

"Don't linger! Charge!"

I roared, and the willow-leaf dagger in my hand turned into a blur.

Since we can't avoid it, let's fight our way out!

My knife skills are not fancy at all, only fast and accurate.

With each swing of the blade, a poisonous insect is severed in two.

And so, Li Qing and I covered for each other and fought our way through the swarm of insects.

Finally, after I had cut down who knows how many poisonous insects, the view in front of me suddenly opened up.

The forest exit is just ahead!

After exchanging a glance, Li Qing and I suddenly accelerated and rushed forward.

After we scrambled out of the woods, the swarm of insects suddenly disappeared, as if they were afraid of something.

Although I could still hear the hissing sounds from the woods behind me, the swarm of insects gradually dispersed, as if they dared not cross some invisible boundary.

After letting out a long breath, I looked around and found that we were standing on a barren piece of land.

"wrong."

I stopped abruptly, sensing that something was wrong.

Although the scene before me was also a wasteland, this was definitely not the back mountain I was familiar with.

The vegetation on the back hill is mostly pine trees and shrubs, but on this wasteland grows a kind of black vine that I have never seen before.

More importantly, I didn't see that iconic cliff, nor that crooked old locust tree.

Even my grandfather's grave is gone.

Before I could even say anything to remind him, Li Qing's voice came through.

"We didn't get out."

His face was ashen, and the compass needle in his hand was spinning wildly. "Or rather, we've fallen from one trap into an even bigger one."

After saying that, he squatted down, grabbed a handful of black soil from the ground, smelled it, and his expression changed drastically.

"This is submerged soil! Only soil buried in extremely yin places for hundreds of years will have this color and smell."

Someone has set up an array here, altering the ley lines. If I'm not mistaken, we're standing right here at the Death Gate!

"The Death Gate?" I frowned, gripping the knife tighter. "Can it be broken?"

"Yes, but it will take time."

Li Qing bit his tongue, spitting blood onto the compass. The previously erratic needle suddenly stabilized. "This formation is alive; its core is constantly moving. I need to freeze it, and then..."

Roar--!

Before Li Qing could finish speaking, a muffled roar suddenly came from the ground beneath our feet.

Immediately afterwards, the soil began to churn, and withered arms sprouted from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!

"It seems the people who set up the formation don't want to give you that time."

I sneered and stepped in front of Li Qing.

Those things that broke through the ground were not the living people controlled by the Gu worms that we had just seen in the village, but real corpses!

They wore tattered clothes, their flesh was withered and stuck to their bones, and their eye sockets were sunken.

The walking dead.

Moreover, they were specially crafted zombies!

"Chen Yang! Give me three minutes! Don't let these monstrous things touch me!"

Li Qing roared, sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands rapidly forming hand seals, and chanted obscure incantations, clearly entrusting his back to me completely.

"Don't worry, as long as I'm alive, nothing can touch you."

I took a deep breath, and the murderous aura within me began to boil.

The corpse-stitcher: the needle can do good, and the knife can cut down evil!

boom!

The closest zombie lunged at me first, its black fingernails piercing straight into my face.

Instead of retreating, I advanced, and with a whoosh of wind, my willow-leaf blade struck its wrist joint.

clang!

A crisp clang of metal rang out, and my scalpel was actually deflected. The force of the rebound made my hand go numb.

The bones of this thing are as hard as iron!

As the black fingernail drew closer and closer to me, I didn't panic. Instead, I made another cut.

This strike carried a murderous aura.

With a "whoosh," those originally incredibly hard hands were chopped off as easily as cutting tofu.

Taking advantage of the zombie's momentary lapse in movement, I thrust my scalpel out again from my left hand, aiming directly at its eye socket and straight for its brain!

puff!

Instantly, black corpse fluid gushed out, and the zombie seemed to have all its strength drained away, falling backward.

But this is just the beginning.

More and more zombies crawled out from underground, densely packed, surrounding us.

However, it is precisely in times like these that I become the calmest.

After killing another zombie in the same way, I was just about to catch my breath when I heard a whoosh of wind behind me.

As I quickly dodged to the side, I looked up and saw a pair of sharp claws grazing my scalp.

If I hadn't dodged in time, those claws would have slashed across my throat!

I dodged behind him, and before the zombie could regain its footing, I drew my willow-leaf knife again!

The knife pierced through the jaw and reached the head.

With a flick of the wrist, brains are churned to shreds.

Instantly, the zombie collapsed.

The third one.

Before I could even sheathe my sword, another zombie pounced on me.

Without even turning around, I swung the scalpel in my left hand backward and precisely severed the joint of its cervical vertebrae.

Click.

The zombie's head tilted to one side, but its body still lurched forward a few steps due to inertia before finally crashing heavily at Li Qing's feet.

The fourth one.

Sheathing his sword, he looked around and saw only the largest, most imposing zombie left.

It appeared to be dressed in the attire of a Qing Dynasty military officer, watching me intently from a distance, but did not rush towards me rashly.