340: Chapter 153: Hundred Coffins_5 340: Chapter 153: Hundred Coffins_5 “No, things are not as you imagine,” Constable Zhao shook his head and said, “Those one hundred coffins are still within the formation, and each coffin is sealed without any issues.
However, for some unknown reason, the death aura from within the coffins can seep out and disperse, even affecting many corpses buried around Yong Feng City, causing them to become contaminated with its death aura and thus undergo corpse transformation.
Furthermore, after transforming, they pick up weapons and wreak havoc in all directions.
Every night, our constables in the city must go and slay these zombie soldiers.”
“Wait a moment,” Cao Zhen sensitively caught onto a problem.
“You said that common corpses buried in the ground have transformed, right?
Then where did their weapons, their armor come from?”
Constable Zhao pointed to the armor on the table and said, “We don’t know either.
We have no idea where their weapons come from, and after investigating, we found that these weapons are the same ones used during the catastrophe of that year.”
Lan Pili looked down at the armor and said, “Weapons and armor from thousands of years ago and still not decayed after so much time?
That is indeed rare.”
Constable Zhao sighed and said, “We have asked around, and it turns out that these weapons and armor have been through that great war, and are soaked with the blood of countless battles; they are by no means ordinary weapons now.
Nowadays, whenever we fight with them, we even have to prepare boy’s urine and chicken blood to coat our weapons, otherwise it’s difficult to penetrate those armors.”
Cao Zhen, puzzled, said, “The seals on the coffins haven’t been broken?
Then you should have reported it, why come to us instead?”
Constable Zhao replied helplessly, “We don’t have the imperial mandate to report directly to the court.”
Cao Zhen suddenly understood.
In other words, Constable Zhao did not have the authority to report, and he pointed outside, saying, “But don’t you have a Governor here?
Let your Governor report it.”
Constable Zhao replied helplessly, “The Governor said there’s no need to report it.”
“Oh?” Cao Zhen was surprised for a moment and continued asking, “Don’t you have a Garrisoned Immortal here?
Tell your Garrisoned Immortal.”
“We have already informed the Garrisoned Immortal, and the Garrisoned Immortal also said there’s no need to report.”
As Constable Zhao spoke, a look of dissatisfaction appeared on his face, and he said coldly, “If they did report to the Grand Preceptor, upon his arrival, he might reinforce the seals or check the coffins.
But regardless of what the Grand Preceptor does, once he arrives, the first ones to suffer will be the Governor and the Garrison Commander, as the leaking of the death aura would be a sign of their dereliction of duty, and both would be found guilty.
That’s why they’re keeping it under wraps, claiming the formation is fine, that all the coffin seals are intact, and there’s no need to report it.”
Cao Zhen finally understood why they sought out Lan Pili, “So, you thought of us.”
“Exactly,” Constable Zhao nodded firmly in admission, “You are immortal cultivators from the Immortal Sects, and you are also about to visit the Capital City to pay homage, so you need not fear the Garrisoned Immortal here.
If the Garrisoned Immortal here is punished, it won’t affect you at all.
Therefore, I wanted to meet with your leader, hoping that you could help us out, to see if there’s actually a problem with the formation.
If there is a problem, it would be best if you two could repair the formation with your abilities, but if not, I hope that you could report it and inform the court of the situation here, so they can send someone.”
Cao Zhen nodded slightly and looked at Lan Pili, whispering, “Peak Master Lan, shall we have a look?”
If things were as Lan Pili and Constable Zhao described, and the ferocious and terrifying Helian Baitian really was to resurrect and break out of the formation, then this land would surely be devastated, and what’s more important—
The Grand Preceptor’s way of thinking was very peculiar.
With the Grand Preceptor’s way of thinking, if there were indeed problems here and Helian Baitian’s corpse really broke out of the formation, then the Grand Preceptor might very likely implicate them.
At that time, the Grand Preceptor might say that they were here, knew there might be problems, but as people of the Guardian Immortal Imperial Dynasty, they did nothing.
What would happen if they were all implicated in the crime?
And the possibility of this was quite high.
To avoid punishment and prevent the entire Hundred Peaks Sect from being convicted, they had no choice but to take a look.
Lan Pili seemed to understand as well, knowing that if they didn’t go and something unexpected happened here, their Hundred Peaks Sect might be wrongly accused and penalized.
He quickly nodded in agreement, saying, “Then let’s go have a look together.”
The two did not alarm the other disciples from the Hundred Peaks Sect, nor did Constable Zhao disturb other constables, and the three quickly left the city, led by Constable Zhao, towards a mountain range in the distance.
When Cao Zhen and the others arrived at the site, it was high noon, and although there was some delay, the sun was still shining brightly.
Yet upon entering the mountain range, it felt as though they had suddenly entered another world entirely.
A chilling air spread from the heart of the mountain range.
After walking for a while, Cao Zhen’s expression suddenly changed, and he said in a low voice, looking around, “Such a cold place, we’ve been here for quite a while, but I have not seen a single beast.”
As they continued to advance, the chilling air around them grew denser, and not only were animals absent, but even wild grass and trees were nowhere to be seen up ahead.