I Become The Richest Man With A monthly Salary of Twenty Thousand Yuan-Chapter 622: Unexpected Discovery_2

Xia Liang watched as the corpse in front of him suddenly moved.

At the sight, his eyes lit up in excitement. It really worked. He shook the Soul Spelling Bell again, casting out a thought. The corpse before him slowly raised its arm.

Previously, the objects the Soul Spelling Bell could control couldn’t be too heavy. By Xia Liang’s estimation, it probably couldn’t control anything over a kilogram. But the corpse in front of him weighed dozens of kilograms, and unlike other objects, it seemed he couldn’t maintain control indefinitely.

Could it be that this is the true function of the Soul Spelling Bell?

Swallowing hard, Xia Liang conducted a few more experiments and finally confirmed that the bell in his hand was specifically for controlling corpses.

Looks like from now on I’m not only a Heavenly Master but can also pass as a Taoist priest.

He chuckled to himself. Seeing someone approaching, Xia Liang put away the bell, a bolder idea already forming in his mind.

「Not long after, the day’s filming came to an end.」

「Several hours later, at ten o’clock in the evening.」

At a Mass Burial Mound on Wolong Slope in Xiangjiang, the air was still. Although Xiangjiang had long since implemented cremation, the policy hadn’t been enforced back in the nineties. As a result, many bodies had been haphazardly abandoned here. The luckier ones had their own tombstones, while the less fortunate were lost, their final resting places unknown. It was estimated that tens of thousands were buried beneath this mound, all crammed into a confined space. This gave rise to a local rumor: take a few steps on the Wolong Slope Mass Burial Mound, and you were bound to tread on at least several dozen skeletons.

This Mass Burial Mound was also the place in Xiangjiang with the most reports of hauntings and supernatural rumors. Usually, no one dared to come here for days at a time; the place was simply too eerie.

Xia Liang had come here for one reason: to test his Soul Spelling Bell. After all, the few corpses from the film set earlier had not been dead for long. He wanted to know if there were any limits on the corpses his bell could control. Would it still work if only bones remained? Furthermore, the daytime restrictions and the crowd of people had prevented him from experimenting with anything too extreme. That was why he had informed Wu Tong before coming here alone.

To avoid being discovered, Xia Liang walked deeper into the Mass Burial Mound. In a dark corner, unseen even by him, two people were following his every move.

Seeing Xia Liang head into the depths of the burial ground, one of them made a phone call.

"Boss, we’ve got a fish at the Mass Burial Mound, and it’s a big one."

"A big fish? How big?" the voice on the other end of the line asked.

"This kid was just driving a sports car worth at least tens of millions of Yuan."

On his way back from the film set, Xia Liang had passed a car dealership, taken a liking to a sports car, and bought it on the spot. He wasn’t short of a few tens of millions of Yuan, after all. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Damn, that really is a big fish! Driving a sports car worth that much, he must have other valuables on him. Wait there, I’m on my way."

"But the Mass Burial Mound is huge. I’m afraid the kid might get away," the man following Xia Liang said, still worried.

The man he called boss clicked his tongue. "Don’t worry. I’ll call all our brothers and have them surround the place. The kid isn’t going anywhere."

After venturing deeper into the Mass Burial Mound, Xia Liang casually stopped before a tombstone and crouched down. With a thought, the bell appeared in his hand. He gave it a casual shake towards the tombstone.

A hand suddenly shot out from beneath the ground.

Watching it, Xia Liang’s eyes filled with excitement. It was a skeletal hand; the flesh and blood had long since vanished.

In other words, I can even control a corpse that has decayed to nothing but bone.

After he shook the bell for a few more moments, the rest of the corpse crawled out from the earth. Not a shred of intact flesh remained on its body, a truly horrifying sight. Xia Liang was quite satisfied. He controlled it, maneuvering it into a shadowy corner to lean against a tree.

He then began studying other bodies, soon discovering he could control several corpses at once. However, when he tried to control more, the amount of Spiritual Power consumed would double with each addition.

「Meanwhile, as Xia Liang was engrossed in studying his Soul Spelling Bell, oblivious to the fact that half an hour had passed, a large group of figures had gathered outside the Mass Burial Mound.」

"Damn, the car in the lot is the latest model supercar. It’s gotta be worth at least thirty million Yuan. This fish isn’t just big, it’s a whale!"

"But Big Bro Tai, a supercar like that won’t be easy to sell, will it?" The speaker was one of the men who had tailed Xia Liang.

"Are you stupid?" the man called Big Bro Tai snapped, slapping him on the back of the head. "Anyone who can drive a car like that must be from a rich family. We kidnap him, and we can extort at least a few tens of millions. Worst-case scenario, he’s definitely carrying some valuables. At the very least, we can take his car. It’ll be hard to move, sure, but do you think a thirty-million-Yuan car wouldn’t sell if we dropped the price to three million?"

"Big Bro is a genius! Once we get our hands on him... hehe."

"Let’s go, get in there and check it out. I’ve got men posted all around the Mass Burial Mound. The kid can’t escape."

At that moment, a chilling aura filled the depths of the Mass Burial Mound. Several figures were gathered around Xia Liang. If anyone else had been there, they would have been scared witless. The "people" standing beside Xia Liang were all terrifying skeletons of various forms. They stood in neat rows, their gazes empty, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet. Luckily, no one else was around, or they would have been scared to death.

Looking at the corpses surrounding him, Xia Liang’s eyes shimmered with excitement.

I’m on a completely different level now. Before, no matter how powerful or fearsome my abilities were, I could only control the living. But now, even the dead are completely under my command. This is what it means to control life and death. Whether you are alive or dead, you are but a plaything in my palm. This is the mark of a true Diviner, one who stands out even among the greatest of Taoist masters. After all, stories of Taoists controlling zombies are just rumors and movie fiction, but I can genuinely command the souls of the dead. Even if all that remains of them are bones.

As he looked at his new "bodyguards," Xia Liang smiled with satisfaction. But a moment later, he stiffened, his smile freezing on his face. One of the skeletons he was controlling had apparently sensed something.

With a flicker of his thoughts, the image observed by the skeleton appeared in Xia Liang’s mind.

He saw numerous figures approaching from the outskirts of the Mass Burial Mound. Focusing his mind on one of them, Xia Liang instantly understood their origins and purpose. This group was a notorious gang of criminals, a veritable plague on Xiangjiang. They were controlled by a man named Fang Liwen and were known for murder, arson, robbery, and smuggling—there was no evil they wouldn’t commit. They had informants in many of Xiangjiang’s lawless territories. Once they targeted someone, they would bleed their victim of all value before ultimately killing them and even trafficking their organs. None of their kidnapping victims had ever survived.

Although the Xiangjiang Security Bureau had organized countless raids against them, they had never once managed to capture the leader of the organization, Fang Liwen. His counter-surveillance skills were terrifyingly effective. He was also an extremely cautious man; not even his own subordinates knew all of his hideouts or where they were located. As long as he remained at large, the gang would always rise again, no matter how many times it was struck down. And their boss was, by far, the most ruthless and vicious among them.