Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 673 - 670: Ill-intentioned Visitor?

Chapter 673: Chapter 670: Ill-intentioned Visitor?

Lin Tian’s blade pierced through Guizhong Yilang’s chest, emerging from the back, yet at this moment Guizhong Yilang revealed a strange smile.

Hmm? Is this old guy unkillable? Lin Tian was stunned, thinking that he might also be some sort of undead, but when the blade had pierced him, there was hardly any resistance felt. If he were undead, he shouldn’t have been so weak.

Suddenly, Guizhong Yilang, with the blade still in him, began to fade, flickered a few times, and then disappeared, leaving only a wooden doll suspended in mid-air.

The doll was carved very realistically, with nose and eyes, and the Demon Blade was penetrating the wooden doll’s chest.

Damn, I killed a dummy! Lin Tian cursed inwardly, having let Guizhong Yilang use a spell on him without realizing, the little Japanese guy was indeed cunning.

"Lin Tian, that was the Substitute Technique, similar to the Demon Exorcist’s Substitute Talisman, also originating from Huaxia. I didn’t expect his Substitute Technique to be so lifelike; I didn’t see through it just now," the Heavenly Master Girl said in surprise.

"Even you didn’t see through it. It seems Guizhong Yilang is indeed skilled in escaping," said Lin Tian, as he removed the wooden dummy from the Demon Blade.

"Escape? Young man, this is my territory, the ones who should be running are you," Guizhong Yilang’s voice suddenly came from afar.

Lin Tian turned his head to look, and there Guizhong Yilang was, standing at the top of the stone steps on a platform, looking down on Lin Tian and the others with an air of superiority, showing no sign of defeat.

"You have any more tricks up your sleeve, hurry up and use them, otherwise, you won’t have a chance," Lin Tian said indifferently.

"Tricks up my sleeve? The trick has been right above your heads the whole time, just sitting there. Haven’t you noticed?" Guizhong Yilang stretched out his hands, making a gesture as if embracing the entire sky, and said with a mild smile.

The sky? Lin Tian looked up, as did Ning Luoxi and the other women, but aside from the night sky, the sparse stars, and the moon, there was nothing else.

Oda Manaka also looked up, a puzzled look on her face. Lin Tian noticed her expression. She was the leader of the Shrine, and she didn’t know about the trap Guizhong Yilang had set? That was odd.

"Demon Blade, you have been here for so long, are there any secrets to the Shrine?" Lin Tian asked softly.

"I don’t know, I was sealed the whole time, how would I know anything," the Demon Blade replied.

Guizhong Yilang retracted his hands, looking down at Lin Tian, and said, "Looking at your puzzled faces, it seems you have not figured it out yet. I can give you a hint. What did you encounter before you entered?"

"Barrier!" the Heavenly Master Girl exclaimed.

"It seems you remember, you are within my Barrier!" Guizhong Yilang said with a laugh.

Lin Tian also remembered; before entering, he even shot at the Barrier with a sniper rifle, but was stopped by the Heavenly Master Girl. However, that Barrier didn’t seem very powerful, since the Heavenly Master Girl could open it, and Li Qingyun even found a secret passage through the Barrier in the back mountain to get in.

"Your Barrier didn’t seem too impressive; if it had been, we wouldn’t have made it in here, let alone stand before you," Lin Tian said intentionally, testing Guizhong Yilang.

"Of course, it was just so-so before, but it will be different very soon," Guizhong Yilang replied.

After he finished speaking, he took out a short staff from behind his back, followed by a talisman, which he stuck onto the staff. Guizhong Yilang held the staff and began to chant a spell.

"Lin Tian, stop him quickly. Guizhong Yilang is about to cast a barrier again," Li Yue shouted.

"It’s useless. If he dares to chant a spell in front of us, he must have something to rely on. We can’t stop it; let’s see what kind of barrier he conjures this time," Lin Tian said calmly.

As Guizhong Yilang continued chanting, the staff caught fire and quickly turned to ash. As the staff burned away, several fiery beams of light surged around the Shrine. Then, a faint curtain of light flashed across the sky, and high above, a semi-transparent barrier appeared, just like the one seen from the outside.

"Huaxia people, your composure must be because you don’t know what this barrier is. This is a Prison Barrier that I’ve derived from my ancestors. It took me ten years to create this new barrier technique. Although it lacks the ability to seal, its defensive power is no less than that of the Prison Barrier. You won’t be able to leave; you’ll stay in the Shrine for the rest of your lives. Oh, no, you will be trapped to death in the Shrine until you submit to me or after you die, when I’ll turn you into zombies!" Guizhong Yilang laughed triumphantly.

If he indeed innovated a new barrier technique, then he had a right to be proud. Almost all Cultivation Techniques, martial arts, or Ancient Martial skills are left by the ancestors. They have been developed after many generations into a rigorous system of Daoist arts and Ancient Martial arts, crystallizing collective wisdom.

Anyone who creates a new Daoist art is an individual of exceptional talent. In that respect, Guizhong Yilang is pretty amazing.

"Guizhong, you want us to submit, but isn’t the outcome the same as being turned into Shishen? What’s the difference between that and being turned into zombies after death?" Lin Tian wasn’t in a hurry to break the barrier; understanding it first would make the task of breaking it much easier.

Lin Tian may possess the formidable body of a zombie, but that doesn’t make him a mindless fool with brawn and no brains.

"Of course, there’s a difference. Even though you’ll end up as Shishen either way, if you’re alive when I refine you, I can allow you to retain a bit of consciousness and keep your memories. If you become Shishen after turning into zombies, you’ll just be puppets. That’s a big difference you need to think over," Guizhong Yilang said mockingly.

What a douchebag, thinking it’s better to become a Shishen with some degree of consciousness left, only to be enslaved and suffer even more! Lin Tian understood this all too well.

It’s like the Fox Concubine and Ghost Princess, who, because they have their consciousness, always carry the humiliation of being commanded; that’s practically a fate worse than death.

From those words, Lin Tian could see just how twisted Guizhong Yilang’s mind was, delighting in tormenting others, which was a million times more perverse than a simple killing.

As Lin Tian pondered how to break the barrier, the sound of helicopter rotors suddenly came from above, getting closer and closer.

"How could there be helicopters appearing? And more than one?" Lin Tian said with confusion as he looked up and saw at least five helicopters flying outside the barrier.

The helicopters weren’t just passing by accident; they hovered directly above the Shrine and stayed there, the noise shaking everyone’s eardrums on site.

Guizhong Yilang and Oda Manaka both frowned, clearly puzzled, as they too didn’t know what was going on.

"Are they our people?" Lin Tian turned to Ning Luoxi, thinking that she might have arranged for backup, but she shook her head.

If they weren’t their own people, nor Guizhong Yilang and Oda Manaka’s, who would come to such a godforsaken place in the middle of the night in several helicopters? Lin Tian absolutely didn’t believe they were there to enjoy the night view.

The people in the helicopters seemed to be aware of the barrier, as they just hovered outside of it. Then, the door of the helicopter in the middle opened, and a figure appeared at the doorway.

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