Chapter 405: Chapter 404 The people of Wild State have a very advanced concept _1

While sleeping overnight, they encountered two groups of living corpses.

These living corpses held farm tools such as shovels and rakes, apparently stolen from the villagers. These tools transformed into weapons at this moment, making them extremely dangerous.

“True or not, this is certainly Wild State. You can’t encounter this kind of situation anywhere else. Truly an eye-opener.” Lu Yang joked with a smile at the corner of his mouth. He took out his Green Peak Sword and looked relaxed. The sword’s glow shone brilliantly under the candlelight.

Although there was a large number of living corpses possessing weapons and surrounding the Ancestral Hall, the two of them, as esteemed figures of the Golden Core Stage, could establish minor influential families and establish sects, surely wouldn’t be trapped by such rural living corpses.

“No wonder the villagers didn’t let us stay. They were afraid of danger, weren’t they? They even spoke of being eaten by corpses. Did they mean this situation?”

Despite the villagers’ unfriendly attitude towards him, Meng Jingzhou wasn’t vengeful. Helping the village deal with trouble was no big deal.

“Look, there are women among the corpses!” Lu Yang pointed to one particular female corpse with disheveled hair and called out in surprise.

Meng Jingzhou was confused, “Isn’t it normal for corpses to be both male and female? Who distinguishes corpses by gender?”

“What I mean is, aren’t you currently unable to see women due to the backlash of Causality? Now you can face a female corpse, which means your Causality backlash only targets living human beings. Corpse, Demon Race, and so on, are not included. If you can’t solve the problem in Wild State, you can stay in the Demon Territory for a while, until you reach the Spirit Transformation Stage.”

“Forget it. I don’t believe that Eldest Senior Sister will never come!” Meng Jingzhou angrily replied, stepping forward to meet the living corpses.

“Exploding Punch!” Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists and aimed them at the living corpse.

Bang——

The living corpse was blown to pieces. The living corpses rushing into the Ancestral Hall were hit by this punch, opening a pathway.

“Huh, their bodies are so hard,” Meng Jingzhou praised. He had assumed that these corpses were just common wild corpses with fragile bodies that could easily be blown apart by the exploding punch.

“Fairy, are these living corpses infectious?” Initially, Lu Yang wanted to stop Meng Jingzhou, confirming if there was any danger before taking action. However, it seemed a bit late now.

“What do you mean by infectious?” Fairy Eternity was puzzled by Lu Yang’s question.

“Like, if a living person is bitten, they also turn into a living corpse.”

Fairy Eternity looked at Lu Yang as if he’s an idiot, not understanding why he would think this way, “Of course not. On the contrary, I have never heard of such a thing. Why would you think that?”

“Just a thought.”

Assured that there would be no infection, Lu Yang finally felt relieved to enter the fray.

After starting the fight, Lu Yang also discovered that these living corpses were surprisingly hard, definitely cultivated by a master

“And you guys thought you could eat us? Dream on!” The two laughed, tossing all the living corpses out of the Ancestral Hall.

In the eyes of the living corpses, they had surrounded Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, but in the eyes of these two, they were the ones that had surrounded the corpses.

“None of you can escape. Today, we two brothers will eradicate you for the people!”

Just as the two were about to unleash a deadly attack to clear these living corpses, they heard an old voice calling out from a distance.

“Both of you, please show mercy. They mean no harm!”

The person who came was the old man who had initially refused to let them stay.

“The talk about them eating humans was just to scare you. They actually wanted to eat the offerings in the Ancestral Hall, and that just so happened to coincide with your visit!”

On hearing this, both of them were dumbfounded, and upon thinking about it, it did seem that the living corpses had no intentions of attacking them from the beginning.

The two decided to tentatively cease their attacks, only to find out that the living corpses indeed didn’t attack them, instead, they bypassed the two and headed into the Ancestral Hall.

After all the living corpses had entered the Ancestral Hall, the two approached the old man to ask about what happened.

The old man sighed and said, “I’m the village head of Firmstone Village. The matter about the living corpses may be hard for you to believe, so let’s just watch for now.”

They saw the living corpses pouring into the Ancestral Hall, circling around the steaming hot buns. In no time, the buns turned ice-cold and lost all their heat, at which point the living corpses ceased their actions.

When they left the Ancestral Hall, they saw the living corpses holding shovels, rakes, and plows, marching out of Firmstone Village in neat and ordered step.

The three of them followed the living corpses, who didn’t go too far before stopping in the fields with their tools in hand, ready to till the land.

Some of them were diving into the river with poles, tirelessly watering the fields.

Others who didn’t have tools squatted on the ground, pulling out weeds and removing pests.

The living corpses had a clear division of labor and seemed as diligent as old farmers.

After completing their tasks, the living corpses took their tools and walked from the fields to the entrance of the village, from the entrance of the village to the burial ground at the end, dug pits with their tools, and buried themselves.

Lu Yang: “…”

Meng Jingzhou: “…”

Both of them painfully rubbed their temples, feeling as if they were hallucinating.

“Do all of you in Wild State use living corpses for farming?”

This was far more advanced than any other states. Even their Seek Dao Sect couldn’t compare.

In their Seek Dao Sect, it was the Green-eyed Buffalos and Third Elder who did the farming.

The Village Chief of Firmstone Village explained helplessly, “It’s not what you think. We’re just ordinary people. How could we afford to keep so many living corpses?”

“Actually, we don’t know where this group of living corpses came from either. One day, on a casual night, as we were sitting under a tree at the entrance of the village, we saw these living corpses approaching. Initially, we were all very scared and thought the living corpses were going to attack us.”

“But after interacting with them, we found that they had no intention of harming us. It’s probably because they ran out of energy and stopped moving in our village.”

“Although our village doesn’t have a corpse-driver, I followed one when I was young and learned a bit from him. So I tried steaming buns to feed these living corpses.”

“This method really works. The living corpses started moving again. That was when someone suggested if we could let the living corpses till the fields. I thought it was a good idea, so I drove these living corpses to work, asking them to cultivate.”

“And so, we rest during the day and steam a pot of buns in the evening, placing them in the Ancestral Hall. When it gets dark, the living corpses come out from the graveyard, absorb the Yang Qi from the buns, and start farming. Since everyone is still afraid of living corpses, all the families close their doors at night.”

“After they finish farming, the living corpses automatically bury themselves, and the cycle repeats the next night.”

“Bizarre, but ever since the living corpses took over our farming duties, life has become much easier, and we get to spare time for other things.”

“Why did you refuse to let us stay then?”

The Village Chief confessed honestly, “We were afraid that you would discover these ownerless living corpses and report them to the government office. If they found the owner, wouldn’t we be back to farming ourselves?”

“We initially wanted to scare you away. But who would have thought that not only did you not leave, you even stayed at the Ancestral Hall. Seeing how things would unravel regardless, instead of having you injured by the living corpses, I figure it’s better that I explain.”