Chapter 027: Raising Gu

Sure enough, after some tinkering, the Zombie King sent his blood into Xie Wangsun's body. Unlike the others, Xie Wangsun's corpse did not dissolve into a pool of blood.

Instead, it remained intact.

This thrilled the Zombie King, who began conducting more experiments on Xie Wangsun.

From then on, Xie Wangsun stayed in the tomb chamber.

But even so, the Zombie King did not stop. Every so often, he would go out and capture a person.

Although Xie Wangsun's success was promising, not every subsequent experiment succeeded; in fact, most failed.

One after another, humans turned into blood—men and women, old and young.

But with Xie Wangsun's success, the Zombie King did not fail entirely. Roughly every few failures, there would be a success.

Before long, the Zombie King had created dozens of zombies similar to Xie Wangsun.

One day, the Zombie King suddenly ordered all the zombies to fight among themselves.

Upon receiving the command, the zombies began slaughtering each other without hesitation. After killing a fellow zombie, they would drain its blood dry.

Watching this, Wang Bo's mind flashed with a thought... raising gu!

Yes, what the Zombie King was doing now was strikingly similar to raising gu.

After a brutal carnage, only one zombie remained—the victor was none other than the first success, Xie Wangsun, lord of Divine Sword Manor.

Xie Wangsun looked at the Zombie King, knelt on one knee, and said hoarsely, "Master."

It seemed that after the fierce battle, Xie Wangsun had gained intelligence. The Zombie King was delighted, but soon found that Xie Wangsun's intelligence was too low, far from his requirements.

So he captured more people for experiments.

White Impermanence watched this and said slowly, "The Zombie King is cultivating a new zombie. When the underworld devours the mortal realm, all projections will return to their original bodies, including the Zombie King's projection."

"Once his projection returns to the nineteenth level of hell, the mindless puppets outside have almost no chance of rescuing him. So he plans to cultivate an intelligent zombie. Even if the projection returns to the original body, this intelligent zombie can drive the other puppets to break into the nineteenth level of hell. What a cunning fellow!"

A group of mindless puppets was nothing to fear. Though countless in number, if the underworld got serious and expended some energy, it could eliminate them.

But if a highly intelligent and cunning zombie emerged among them, the situation would change. It might even succeed in rescuing the Zombie King.

Seeing this, Wang Bo couldn't help but admire the Zombie King's craftiness.

No wonder he had caused Heaven and the underworld such great losses; he was not to be underestimated.

The Zombie King's experiments grew more radical, and more people died, but his success rate increased. In the end, he succeeded.

Using the method of raising gu, he created three intelligent zombies.

The three zombies were an old man, a seductive woman, and a grim-faced swordsman.

Though they were zombies, every move and expression was indistinguishable from the living.

An ordinary person standing before them would never guess that these three were no longer human, but zombies.

After the experiment succeeded, the old man left the tomb chamber first and never returned.

The beautiful, seductive woman left second.

The last to leave was the grim-faced swordsman. After he left, only the Zombie King and the failed product Xie Wangsun remained in the tomb.

The Zombie King walked up to Xie Wangsun, as if to destroy him, but ultimately did not. Instead, he took Xie Wangsun and left.

Not long after, the Zombie King returned and waited there for something.

But suddenly, the Zombie King sensed something. He snapped his eyes open and stared into the void.

At that moment, Wang Bo, who had been watching the Zombie King, felt as if their gazes met. Then the Zombie King rose, hurriedly left, and never returned.

When the magic effect ended, White Impermanence said, "I once heard that the Zombie King has the ability to avoid danger. When we suppressed him, we had to ask the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord to obscure the heavenly mechanism, thus deceiving his ability and successfully sealing him."

Wang Bo rubbed his temples and said, "Such important news—why didn't you say so earlier?"

White Impermanence said calmly, "I didn't expect this projection to have the same ability. Clearly, it sensed danger and left this place."

Wang Bo said, "What do we do now?"

White Impermanence said, "We can only work through the three intelligent puppets he created. Find them, and perhaps through them, we can locate the Zombie King."

Wang Bo had no choice but to agree.

So he, White Impermanence, Hela, and Lady Gremory left the tomb chamber.

After emerging from the tomb, Wang Bo suddenly asked, "How many underworld deities have projected themselves into the mortal realm?"

White Impermanence looked at him warily. "Why do you ask?"

"To enlist their help in finding the Zombie King, of course. Many hands make light work. I can't handle everything alone, can I?" Wang Bo gave a seemingly flawless reason.

White Impermanence was silent for a moment, pondering his words.

The underworld deities projected into this realm were not just her and Black Impermanence. In fact, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Judge Lu, and even two of the Ten Kings of Hell had come.

But everyone had their own tasks and did not act together.

Wang Bo's sudden request to contact the others seemed to be about using their strength against the Zombie King, but in reality, he only wanted to pinpoint everyone's location.

Then he could capture all the underworld deities' projections in one fell swoop.

It wasn't that White Impermanence doubted the Ten Kings' strength, but Wang Bo had a cheating artifact—the Chains of Heaven.

This was an artifact specifically designed to counter deities.

Though White Impermanence had never heard of it, she knew well the power of such artifacts, because in their world, there was also an artifact that targeted deities.

The Whip of the Gods!

He who wielded the Whip of the Gods could flog the deities of the Three Realms and Six Paths, suppressing them completely. So White Impermanence dared not reveal the others' locations.

Fearing it would ruin the underworld's great plan.