I am the Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysterious-Chapter 340 - 304: Raising Corpses
After leaving the council hall, Sang Que pondered as she walked all the way to the stables behind the village to get some fodder for the Black Donkey.
The issue of Divine mentioned by Liu Tianyou was something Sang Que had considered before.
Actually, people are not limited to worshipping only one Divine or providing Heart Lamp power to just one person.
Because of the Wangshan City incident, Sang Que herself gained the power of incense from tens of thousands of Qinzhou citizens, but these tens of thousands of people have other beliefs, which do not conflict with each other.
Human emotions are constantly changing; stepping into despair, when survival is not guaranteed, the desire to pray to the gods for help is strongest, and at such times, the power of incense brought to the gods by people is also the strongest.
In Bright Moon Mountain now and in the future, the number of people in the team will continue to grow, and the need for incense will also greatly increase. It would be better to create an image of a Divine for each person who needs incense; as long as duties are clearly defined, there will be no conflict.
For instance, she could be the ’War God’, safeguarding a region’s safety, and Liu Tianyou, the Zhuangyuan Ghost, can exist like Wenquxing, providing wisdom when worshipped, and so on.
The Xuan Dynasty prohibits writing and spreading stories about people; she can ignore these matters, transform some events in Bright Moon Mountain into stories for dissemination, thus artificially creating gods.
Sang Que had a rough idea in her mind and gradually understood why there were always some legendary stories of ’mandates from heaven’ related to founding emperors in history books; it was all to rally the people’s hearts.
Now, she still needs a suitable opportunity.
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As days went by, under Liu Tianyou’s governance, Bright Moon Mountain gradually became orderly.
Yao Zhen went to Pu’an County to register the Taoist Temple and recruit workers, while also inquiring about the situation in Qinzhou and asking Zhang Junyao what else is needed so Sang Que can prepare the next batch of goods.
After several nights of practice and exploration, Liu Tianyou had become skilled in using the Ghost Realm and the Zhuangyuan Ghost’s abilities. As he anticipated, the twenty or so Ghost Slaves left by the Zhuangyuan Ghost in the Ghost Realm, who are all literary ghosts meticulously selected by him, can fully assist Liu Tianyou in handling literary matters.
At first, Yu Da wandered the mountain daily, watching the bustle, but later Liu Tianyou called him over, gave him a pile of legal documents, and sent him to each village to preach. If there were conflicts between the people, he was to mediate.
Qiao Ling still wandered the mountain daily, gathering medicinal herbs, accompanied by Xia Chan and Xuan Yu. Xia Chan was not pleased but didn’t refuse; Sang Que had seen Qiao Ling teaching Xia Chan surgical techniques of dissection and suture.
Besides that, Qiao Ling occasionally treated illnesses for the villagers in the village.
Sang Que recruited two hundred people, assigning Luo Danian, Luo Dayong, Miao Zhongtian, and Pei Li to lead them in daily heavy rotation in the mountains, practicing formations and slogans. Once their physical fitness improved and they could fully obey orders, the next training phase would begin.
The people naturally feared military personnel, so Sang Que prepared discipline and attention guidelines related to Huaxia to guide these people, gradually changing the people’s impression of the military.
Everything proceeded in an orderly and systematic manner. Everyone went to Liu Tianyou when they had problems, and Sang Que finally had some time to check on the status of the zombies in the Corpse Nourishing Land.
The Corpse Nourishing Land was originally located in the chaotic burial mound of Bright Moon Mountain, in a valley. The area was vast, and after Yao Zhen’s feng shui alteration, many stones were piled around, along with transplanted locust trees.
There is subtlety within the Chaotic Stone Forest; if someone accidentally enters, they will get lost and be unable to penetrate deeper.
Moreover, the chaotic stones are arranged according to the Reversed Eight Diagrams, which can accumulate yin energy, nurturing corpses and ghosts.
Sang Que slowly walked in and saw two coffins standing upright in the middle of the chaotic burial mound, surrounded by grass mats in all directions. Other zombies just lazily slept on them, truly wild grass growing wildly, corpses lying everywhere.
Inside those two coffins were the sleeping Red Ghost and Sallya. Sallya’s name was too Southern Ocean in style, so Sang Que changed it to ’White Ghost’, matching the Red Ghost.
"Big Boss?"
Hearing a voice, Sang Que saw Wan He, whom she had not seen for a while, her face covered with a cloth, walking from the depths of the chaotic burial mound, followed by a female zombie with hands raised, jumping and hopping along.
That zombie was Wan He’s deceased sister, and in just a short period, most of the white hair on her body had fallen off, advancing to become a Black Zombie, equivalent to the strength of three-layered evil.
Moreover, zombie Wanyun was unlike other corpses around her, filthy and dirty; her cyan dress, though old, remained clean and tidy, and her hair was styled into a neat bun.
"Why are you here?" Sang Que asked. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
Wan He instinctively touched the old Dao Bell at her waist and smiled, "Daoist Yao Zhen said the Corpse Nourishing Land needed a guard, and my sister needs to be here to grow better, so I took the job. Daoist Yao Zhen gave me her Dao Bell; at first, I was quite afraid, but over time, I found there wasn’t much to fear."
Sang Que nodded. Wan He’s duties here were straightforward: every nightfall, she would shake the Dao Bell, waking all the zombies, taking them out of the Corpse Nourishing Land, letting them patrol various areas in the mountain.
When dawn was near, she shook the Dao Bell again, summoning all zombies back, counting them, and leading them back to the Corpse Nourishing Land.
If there were discrepancies in numbers or any issues arose, she would quickly notify Yao Zhen to handle it.
"How many zombies are here?" Sang Que asked.
Wan He replied briskly, "Two Jumping Zombies, thirty-eight Black Zombies, and the remaining two hundred seventy-five are all White-haired Zombies. Oh yes, Big Boss, among the batch of corpses wearing strange clothes you sent back last time, twenty quickly turned into Black Zombies, and they all, like the White Ghost, can let their heads fly away from their bodies."
Sang Que originally intended to deal with those Southern Ocean villagers’ strange clothes when she had time, but she completely forgot. However, the impact was minor; most Southern Ocean villagers wore vests and trousers, with cyan-black colors, which weren’t particularly odd.
Those transforming into Black Zombies surely practiced Black Magic as Black Magic Masters; Liu Tianyou worried about insufficient mountain guard strength, but these over three hundred zombies, if used wisely, were sufficient to fend off a thousand-man army.
The only trouble would be attracting people from the Evil Suppression Bureau, as they have special means to counter zombies.
She came this time to enhance these zombies with some special abilities.
"Help me find ten ordinary White-haired Zombies; those about to evolve into Black Zombies, don’t touch, find the regular ones."
"Okay, Big Boss, wait at my place; it’s too chaotic here."
Wan He pointed a direction, and Sang Que walked past the slopes of corpses and weeds before seeing a small wooden house at the bottom of the slope.
Even among the chaotic burial mound, the wooden house was well-maintained; a willow tree was planted in front, a small area fenced off, and two big roosters and a Black Dog puppy were raised.
Roosters and Black Dogs were necessities in every household during the Deceit Dynasty if conditions allowed. The little Black Dog Wan He raised, seeing Sang Que, whimpered and fled with its tail between its legs, and the two big roosters fluttered away avoiding her too.
Shortly after, Sang Que heard the sound of the Dao Bell ringing; Wan He walked in front, followed by a line of zombies.
Sang Que took off the bamboo tube from her back, pulling out the painting inside and spreading it out. The painting depicted a room filled with Corpse Mud Evil she’d caught from wild fields, as this type of evil was most prolific in spring, akin to earthworms, a single flip in the fields revealing a plethora.
She prepared to first experiment with assembling supernaturals using zombies, and once proficient and rules were clear, she would then try using live humans.
