My Enemy Became My Cultivation Companion-Chapter 857 - 519: Her? (Quadruple Update Combined as One)_2

The bandits, a group living on the edge, followed the scholar's marks on the trees to find them!

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"Did you send it over?"

Sun Gao was escorted along with the cargo by a group of mountain bandits into the stronghold, through a grand entrance with a plaque reading "Hall of Justice". As the cargo was unloaded, he looked up, trembling, and saw that the bandit leader had one eye missing. Immediately, he cried out in shock:

"One-Eyed Liang?"

One-Eyed Liang sat grandly on a tiger-skin chair. It wasn't surprising Sun Gao recognized him; in the expanse between Nanku County and Xinyang County, they were the only ones.

He watched the cargo on the ground with great interest, reaching out to touch it. In his trembling, Sun Gao couldn't help but feel confused.

Seeing the fear and curiosity in his eyes, One-Eyed Liang chuckled and said, "Kid, you didn't know there was a person inside?"

"A person?" Sun Gao exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't it supposed to be ancient books, paperweights, and inkstones?"

Upon hearing this, One-Eyed Liang burst into laughter, and the crowd of bandits in the hall laughed along with him.

Feeling choked with embarrassment, Sun Gao shrank his head down, yet his gaze still oddly fixed on that package, watching as One-Eyed Liang slowly used the tip of a knife to peel away the cloth. Layer by layer of black cloth was stripped away.

Sun Gao swallowed hard, his eyes widened, as a human face emerged from within the black cloth. The neck's skin was pale, and the body was covered with corpse spots. It looked as though it was sleeping, exuding a scholarly aura from its eyebrows, but its eyes were wide open and lifeless.

"Looks almost alive," murmured One-Eyed Liang, "This corpse person is of excellent quality; it could fetch a high price."

"I wonder how much. Is it as valuable as Miss Shou?"

"Look at what you're saying; she fetched seventy liang of silver! Never been that high!"

So Miss Shou was the one they kidnapped... Sun Gao's pupils constricted sharply, and his legs trembled in confusion.

The situation confounded him, and the sight of that pale human face within the black cloth horrified him further.

"Never seen the world, huh, kid," a big man beside him slapped his head, "This is a Corpse Person."

Corpse Person?

The two words together sent a piercing chill from Sun Gao's soles.

This meant that what he'd been carrying on his back was not luggage, but a dead body, and moreover, a Corpse Person…

Sun Gao's legs weakened, and he nearly knelt on the ground. The big man behind him grabbed his neck, forcing him to stand.

Gathering a few pieces of cloth, One-Eyed Liang asked, "What about that scholar named Su?"

"Dead when we got there."

"Tsk, then how do we sell this cargo south?" One-Eyed Liang spat, "Who knows how to preserve these Corpse People?"

Suddenly one of the bandits in the hall spoke up:

"If I remember correctly, the scholar said this Corpse Person just needs the fresh blood of a virgin boy to be moistened and absorb yang energy to stay fresh, and not rot and change into a corpse, becoming more vibrant by the day."

As the words fell, Sun Gao recalled how the Corpse Person had gotten easier to carry these days, the weight moving upwards, and he shivered upon realization.

No wonder the scholar mentioned several times that he hadn't taken a wife, intending to confirm his virginity in order to nurture the Corpse Person.

Terrified, Sun Gao dared not move as One-Eyed Liang turned his head to look at him.

Sun Gao fell to his knees with a thud, toppling like a mountain, his head banging on the ground with a clang,

"Don't kill me, don't kill me! I'm honest, I'm honest! I'm Sun Gao, an upright man from ten miles around!"

One-Eyed Liang laughed heartily, then looked intently at Sun Gao, patting his head, "Honest and upright, so you'll have to trouble yourself to die just once."

Sun Gao's face stiffened, chills surging up, knowing he could not escape death, trembling like a sieve.

The big man behind him kicked him in the butt, and Sun Gao was sent tumbling into the Corpse Person's lap. The bandits laughed even more heartily, mocking and jeering, as none left. They wanted to see his head fall right there and then.

One-Eyed Liang waved his knife and said, "Say your last words, don't dawdle!"

Sun Gao paused for a long moment, trembling all over, as a cold wind blew past his ears. When he hadn't acted yet, the surrounding sounds seemed to disappear, his mind falling into a blank void.

He hadn't even taken a wife, was he to die like this?

With a heavy heart, Sun Gao, trembling, roared longingly:

"A real man isn't afraid to face death. Kill me if you must. In eighteen years, I'll be a good man again!"

There was no response.

Sun Gao, drenched in cold sweat, looked up, only to see the bandits trembling all over, eyes widened, as if they had seen something inconceivable.

Outside the door, there was an additional figure that seemed familiar, a woman.

"How... how is it you?!"

Not only did the bandits recognize her, Sun Gao did too. She was very similar to the portrait, the only difference being that this woman was covered in corpse spots, her features rotten, and her hollow eyes burning with a ghostly phosphorus flame.

That was the fire of revenge.

A sudden whoosh sounded, and Miss Shou transformed into a gust of sinister wind, pouncing towards the bandits.

One-Eyed Liang, who was at the forefront, didn't even have time to draw his knife before his throat bloomed with a blood flower. Turning to look, he saw his daily brothers, one by one, two by two, three by three... all falling.

Dismembered limbs and organs whirled in the phosphorescent glow, pleas for mercy mixed with the sound of bones cracking echoed against the walls. Someone swung a knife at the flash of red, but the blade only passed through the mist. In the next moment, his own head was rolling on the ground.

In the stronghold, blood splattered, wails, howls, pleas, anger, cries, and regrets intermingled, but all eventually turned into the mad laughter of the Corpse Woman, tearing apart hearts and lungs.

In the chaos, Sun Gao scrambled and crawled out.

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Much later, the entire Hall of Justice was stained crimson; one hundred sixty-eight bandits died miserably, blood soaking every crevice on the ground, with none surviving.

Chen Yi slowly entered, without bringing Yin Tingxue, to spare her from seeing such a scene.