Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 793 - 143

The man with the surname Jie on the main stage began to wave the flag in his hand.

Wisps of black smoke continuously rose from below, gathering into the black whirlpool, making it more massive and intense.

Li Zhiyuan noticed that the man with the surname Jie was not chanting; he was merely guiding.

The curse cloud above was essentially unrelated to him.

Perhaps because the curse power from the people around him was being drawn upwards to gather, they temporarily became less "unbearable to look at."

At least, when Li Zhiyuan deliberately turned his head, and his gaze was about to encompass someone sitting next to him, he didn't feel a strong sense of foreboding, and his eyelids stopped twitching.

Although still very dangerous, Li Zhiyuan continued to turn his head and looked at the person.

For the first time, he saw the person clearly.

Wearing a black robe, nearing forty, even with a face pale as snow, it couldn't hide the steadfast lines on his face.

Clearly someone who had died long ago, yet still exuded a sense of righteousness.

It felt incongruous, yet truly existed.

Because this person, hundreds of years ago, came here full of hot blood, shouting slogans, to suppress the General and ended a catastrophe.

Such a person, even in death, could still command respect.

At this moment, his eyelids drooped, forming seals with his hands.

He,

was casting a spell.

Li Zhiyuan shifted his gaze, boldly looking at the others.

Most of the people present were dressed in four main colors, and these four colors represented the four families of the Old Heavenly Gate.

They were the essence of that generation from the Old Heavenly Gate's four families; otherwise, they wouldn't have been chosen to fight alongside the Dragon King.

Xiong Shan and others had investigated the stories of those years, and through Lihua's words, Li Zhiyuan roughly understood the course of events back then.

All that is known is that after that battle, the "big figure," namely the Dragon King of the Qin Family, vanished from Jianghu.

Li Zhiyuan suspected that the Dragon King of the Qin Family was Qin Kan, because Qin Kan was also from the Yuan Dynasty.

If placed in the lineage of another family, it would undoubtedly be Qin Kan.

For instance, in the lineage of the Yin Family, when it comes to the glorious deeds of ancestors, there's no need for thoughts or doubts—just flip to the first page of the lineage; it must be Yin Changsheng's work.

But the Qin Family was different; there were too many Dragon Kings produced, even with the short reign of the Yuan Dynasty, the Qin Family might have produced more than one Dragon King during that time.

The disappearance of the Dragon King of the Qin Family after the battle could have been due to severe injuries making a return impossible, or a decision to retire from the Jianghu out of weary, or perhaps because the next generation of the family was emerging, allowing him to rest. No one knows for sure.

However, when the Dragon King acted, he brought along the four families of the Old Heavenly Gate, and during the sealing of the General, he even had Niu Dao Jie use his own blood relative as a sacrifice to complete the seal on the General.

This shows just how difficult the General was to deal with back then.

Sometimes it isn't that one can't win, but that some evils are genuinely hard to kill.

In any case, that battle was brutal; the number of people present here reveals this. The backbone of the four great corpse-driving families at the time nearly fell here.

Now, everyone present was doing the exact same thing.

They were all forming seals, all casting spells.

The wisps of curse power were gathered upwards through this method.

At first, Li Zhiyuan suspected that the man with the surname Jie had turned them into puppets.

But Li Zhiyuan quickly dismissed this guess.

If the man with the surname Jie had such great abilities, would he need to hide here?

He would have already actively sought revenge against the other three families.

So, they were not puppets, at least not under the man with the surname Jie's control.

Next, Li Zhiyuan began to observe if they possessed self-awareness.

The environment here was very similar to what he had seen with the cat-faced old lady before.

The cat-faced old lady once borrowed the paper figures, tables, chairs, pots, and bowls in the Grandmaster's house to hold a birthday banquet on the first floor.

It was just that using a newly formed Corpse Demon from the countryside to compare with a general once suppressed by the Dragon King was a great insult to the General.

Here, it was actually the General's "miasma"; he borrowed himself, the resentment of comrades and the deceased, to create a special environment belonging to him.

The maids, eunuchs, soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty, knights, and all the phantoms seen on the way here were actually the General's pawns, as they all existed by relying on the General.

However, not all pawns were under absolute control.

For example, Little Huang Ying from home, now Xiao Yingying working as help at the Grandmaster's house, she is actually a pawn under the peach tree, but her conduct is entirely autonomous.

So, do these people forming seals and casting spells here possess autonomy?

Li Zhiyuan, currently in the Banquet Hall, was unaware that Zhuangzhuang, as Dragon King, had already used bribes to navigate the relationship with the eunuch outside.

If he knew, he could confirm that the pawns here, these "people," actually retained a part of their self-awareness and weren't puppets controlled by the General.

Li Zhiyuan could only analyze from the General's status that a General about to face the end of his life staging a shadow play seemed pointless.

Then, taking advantage of the moment the man with the surname Jie on the main stage turned to face another direction, Li Zhiyuan pushed away the straw man beside him, proactively extended his hand, and waved at the neighbor. Even though the neighbor continued casting the spell, under his eyelids, his eyes surprisingly glanced at him.