The huge spider web almost covered the ceiling of the inn. The entire web cascaded down. To escape, one would have to teleport out of the inn at this moment; otherwise, they would surely be trapped by it.
Actually, Gu Yuan could have easily escaped on his own. But at this moment, he was possessing my body. If he left my body, the web would undoubtedly fall on me. I was just an ordinary mortal, and the electric current on the web would be enough to turn me into a human stick.
So, Gu Yuan didn't leave my body. Instead, he watched as the lightning - laden spider web enveloped me. The lightning struck my body, making crackling sounds.
I couldn't help but worry that my physical body might be horribly disfigured by the electric shocks.
"This is a spider web woven with golden silk. Even a great immortal would have to exert some effort to tear it apart, let alone an earthly immortal," Huang Fuqiang said confidently as he took a puff from his tobacco pipe.
"Third Master, I'm really sorry. I had no other choice but to resort to this. Please forgive me. It's not my intention to make you suffer. As long as you leave voluntarily and stop interfering in this matter, I'll let you go. What do you think?" Huang Fuqiang was feigning sympathy at this moment.
"Leave voluntarily? Do you mean to leave my disciple behind for you to deal with?"
Although Gu Yuan was bound by the spider web, his voice showed no sign of timidity. It was still extremely cold.
"I have no choice. As you can see, four people for ten million is not a small sum."
"Are you really doing this for the ten million?" Gu Yuan asked.
Huang Fuqiang replied casually, "Of course."
Was this guy's brain rusted? Madam Ma had already met my cousin, and my cousin had explained everything clearly to her. Why was he still so stubborn and insisting on four lives?
While I was still puzzled, three people walked into the inn. They were none other than Madam Ma and her two subordinates whom I had just seen, and behind them followed the soul of my cousin.
"I said just now that no one in the family can be spared. Although my daughter regarded you as her own sister, what were you doing when she was suffering? You didn't do anything, which indirectly means that you acquiesced," Madam Ma said in a crazy state. She didn't seem like a normal person at all.
She laughed and cried alternately as she spoke, seemingly still unable to get out of the pain of losing her daughter.
"Yellow Immortal, if you can take care of them, I'll give you an extra ten million."
"Mom, don't hurt Lan Lan. She tried to stop them, but she's just a little girl. How could she stop them?" My cousin stood beside Madam Ma and pleaded pitifully for me.
"You're too soft - hearted. Being kind to useless people is being cruel to yourself," Madam Ma said through gritted teeth, with a fierce look on her face.
As she spoke, Huang Fuqiang took a deep puff of his tobacco pipe with one hand and scattered paper money all over the corpse - driving inn with the other.
Muttering incantations, he finally shouted, "The zombie king appears..."
Suddenly, the ground shook violently, and the wooden house trembled, with sawdust falling everywhere.
A two - meter - wide crack appeared on the ground, and a golden - silk wooden coffin suddenly emerged from the middle. As the coffin lid crashed to the ground with a rumbling sound, blue tiles and peach wood scattered out of the coffin. After the dust settled, the true appearance of the zombie king inside was revealed.
Seeing the zombie king, my heart tightened. The zombie king really lived up to his name.
He was about two and a half meters tall, wearing a dragon - patterned python robe and a towering golden crown. His whole body was of a blue - black complexion, his face wrinkled, and his sunken eyes were deeply set in his eye sockets. He looked like an immortal mummy that had lasted for thousands of years.
When I was very young, I heard from the old people that those who died unjustly would have a violent aura. So when burying them, a coffin was set up, surrounded by blue bricks and peach wood. Their seven orifices were blocked to dispel the violent aura, but they could not be buried in the soil. If the coffin was buried in the soil and absorbed the yin energy of the land, the dead would surely turn into a zombie king.
At that time, I just took it as a story, but now it seemed that the rumor might not be false.
"Scared?" Gu Yuan asked softly as he sensed my nervousness, but there was no trace of fear in his voice.
"As long as you're not scared, I'm not scared either," I replied briskly.
"Third Master, I've heard that you have boundless magical powers. If I can subdue you today, it will surely be a great opportunity for me to gain fame," Huang Fuqiang said.
I cursed him silently in my heart: He was so shameless! Binding Gu Yuan with a spider web was no different from tying his hands and feet. How could Gu Yuan possibly fight against the zombie king?
At the same time, the shameless Yellow Immortal walked up to the zombie king and tore off the yellow talisman on his forehead.
The zombie king's sunken eyes suddenly opened, and green malevolent light overflowed from them. He immediately saw me trapped in the spider web.
"Gu Yuan, run away. Don't worry about me," I said. In this situation, at least one of us could be saved.
Gu Yuan didn't respond to me. At this moment, he was already in a full - combat state.
I couldn't help but worry. Although Gu Yuan had high - level magical powers, I didn't know if he could compete with the zombie king. After all, he was just an ordinary earthly immortal.
The zombie king was different from other zombies. He didn't jump like ordinary zombies. His body was even more flexible than that of a normal human being. He was extremely strong, and his magical powers were enough to shake the powerful earthly immortals in the earthly realm.
With a roar from the zombie king, the temperature inside the wooden house suddenly dropped sharply. Large flakes of snow outside were swept into the room through the broken roof.
A long, cylindrical ice pick materialized in his hand. The zombie king was extremely agile. In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of me.
The ice pick glowed with a bright white light. Without any hesitation, he stabbed it straight at my heart.
Trapped in the spider web, I was extremely anxious. I wanted to control my body to run away, but I had no control over it.
I could only pin my hopes on Gu Yuan. Watching the ice pick about to pierce my heart, Gu Yuan didn't move at all. Instead, the corner of his mouth curled up in a wicked arc.
I felt a burning sensation in my eyes. The zombie king's weapon shattered with a "pop". The fragments of the ice pick flew towards the zombie king.
Seeing the danger, the zombie king quickly retreated. His steps were as nimble as a snake. He dodged the fragments of the ice pick skillfully.
Although there was no expression on his face, he must have realized at the moment when the ice pick shattered that the person in front of him was not someone he could easily deal with.
Everyone present, including me, was stunned. No one had expected that Gu Yuan could have such a powerful killing force without even moving.
However, this was just the beginning. As the zombie king retreated, Gu Yuan stood in the spider web, holding the web with one hand. The electric current on the web flowed faster and faster. Sparks erupted from the web, making the entire wooden house as bright as day. Just like this, the electric current of the web was broken through by Gu Yuan. Now, as long as he could break free from the spider web, he would be okay.
Seeing that things were going badly, the Yellow Immortal quickly shook his bell. Hearing the bell sound, the zombie king let out another roar. Several green fireballs emerged from his body. These fireballs were called nether ghost fires.
This kind of fire was green, just like the ghost fires in the cemetery. They rotated around the zombie king, but they were not just ordinary ghost fires.
Their power was no less than that of Hu Qingluan's red lotus karma fire. As long as one got a bit of it, they would be burned to ashes.
Gu Yuan held the spider web with both hands and watched as the nether ghost fires grew bigger. Wherever they passed, the surrounding areas were ablaze, and everything was instantly turned into black ash.
The ghost fires were burning more and more fiercely and were coming straight towards my face.