The Eight Gates of Dunjia consist of the Open Gate, the Rest Gate, the Life Gate, the Injury Gate, the Obstructive Gate, the View Gate, the Alarm Gate, and the Death Gate.
The View Gate, the Alarm Gate, and the Obstructive Gate can trap sentient beings.
They stir up the deepest emotions within them, making them indulge and fall into a daze.
It's equivalent to magical damage.
The Injury Gate, the Death Gate, and the Rest Gate are fierce means for attack and slaying, causing physical pain.
It's equivalent to physical damage.
To break this situation, one can only start from the Life Gate.
However, the Eight Gates' strange formation is ever - changing. It's easy to get lost inside, and it's not easy to find the real Life Gate.
Niannian has always been a well - behaved child. She dislikes killing and would never hurt others casually.
Once the Injury Gate is opened, it will surely cause harm to these villagers.
If any of those gates that confuse the mind were effective, she wouldn't choose to open the Injury Gate.
When Niannian was adjusting the formation plate, she only felt that there was nothing but emptiness inside these people's bodies.
They had completely turned into mindless zombies.
In other words, they had become breathing corpses.
Who could be so immoral?
And so powerful.
After extracting the souls of the living, they could still drive them to move, attack, and even devour the essence, qi, and spirit of others.
"Can they still be saved?"
Zhang Zicheng frowned, looking a bit worried.
If it was just the simple departure of the soul, it wouldn't be a big deal.
This kind of situation wasn't very rare.
Some children were born with unstable souls or weak bazi. After being frightened, their three souls and seven spirits would separate and leave their bodies.
The whole person would become dull or have a continuous high fever.
This meant that their souls had been scared away.
This wasn't difficult to solve. As long as one kept calling their names at the place where they were frightened and led the way with an object,
After calling back their souls and guiding them back into their physical bodies, they could become living people again.
It wouldn't take long for them to be as lively as ordinary people.
But all of this was based on the premise that the person's soul was still there and not restricted.
If the souls of the villagers had been captured and imprisoned, no matter how much they were called, they couldn't return to their physical bodies.
There was an even more terrifying possibility.
That was that after their souls left their bodies, their souls had been destroyed by someone.
Then there would be no way for them to return to their physical bodies.
"I don't know. There's no aura of ghosts around. Their souls should not be nearby."
"Well... and I can't figure out either. With their souls gone, what kind of technique could control them to continue moving?"
Niannian frowned, deep in thought.
But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find an answer in her little head.
Shen Weixun and Zhang Zicheng, one well - read and the other experienced, had never encountered such a situation either.
They couldn't come up with an idea for a long time.
But soon, the sound around them gave them the answer.
"Dinglingling... Dinglingling..."
The clear and pleasant sound of a copper bell rang out. The sound was very ethereal, as if it was coming from all directions, or as if it was covering the sky.
As the bell rang, the villagers who had just fallen slowly got up again.
This time, their movements were more flexible than before. Black qi was emanating from their whole bodies, as if they were filled with malevolent qi.
"Dinglingling... Dinglingling..."
The copper bell rang twice more. The villagers who had got up all turned around neatly. They stood straight, with their empty and expressionless eyes staring directly at Niannian and the other two.
"Damn it! Again?!"
Zhang Zicheng was shocked.
The person controlling the villagers behind the scenes was really a shameless person with no bottom line.
They were naturally no match for such a shameless person.
The other side was taking advantage of this psychology, knowing that they wouldn't hurt people for no reason and would definitely rack their brains to save the villagers first. That's why they were so unscrupulous in using these villagers to attack them.
If the person behind the scenes were standing right in front of them now, they would have torn the person apart alive.
They wouldn't have any scruples when making a move.
But now, this kind of feeling of being unable to fight and unable to retreat was simply infuriating.
"What are you standing there for? Do you still want to fight? Hurry up and run!"
Although he really didn't want to run away in the face of danger, running away was the best option at the moment.
This time, Shen Weixun didn't care if Zhang Zicheng would mock him. He picked up Niannian and started running backwards.
He still stepped on the magic steps methodically, looking so dashing and decisive.
Zhang Zicheng had no choice but to follow.
First, they should get away from this place and come back to check after dawn.
It was night now.
The yin qi was strong and the yang qi was weak. They didn't have the advantage of time.
But just as they wanted to run, the mastermind who had finally lured them here didn't want them to escape so easily.
After walking only a few steps, Shen Weixun felt the ground under his feet suddenly start to tremble.
He kept retreating and saw a half - decomposed human hand suddenly reach out from the soil.
Then more and more hands broke through the ground, followed by arms...
"I know who's controlling them."
Shen Weixun was speechless.
"A corpse - driver..."
Seeing this situation, Zhang Zicheng quickly guessed the identity of the person controlling the villagers.
The things breaking through the ground were all corpses.
Judging from their degree of decomposition, some of them had been dead for a long time.
It must have taken a lot of effort to bury so many corpses here.
The person who had gone to great lengths to lure them here and set a trap for them was really...
Hard to describe.
"The inheritance of the corpse - driving technique is not meant for you to harm others. Since you can drive the bodies of the living dead, you're surely not an ordinary person. Aren't you afraid of disgracing your ancestors by doing such things?!"
Zhang Zicheng shouted into the air, trying to get the person hiding in the dark to show up.
The corpse - driver surely wouldn't be too far away from the corpses they were controlling.
This person must be not far from them, secretly watching.
"Dinglingling... Dinglingling..."
The only response he got was the shaking sound of the bell twice, as if in a brazen reply that he just wouldn't show up. What could you do about it?
This attitude really infuriated Zhang Zicheng.
"Niannian, activate the formation and find the person. He must be not far away. Open the Bagua formation to its maximum!"
If the person in the dark didn't want to come out, they would find him themselves.
They still had Niannian here with a formation plate who could act as a human - shaped radar.
"Okay!"
Niannian nodded heavily.
She adjusted the formation plate and activated the formation again, opening the range to the maximum.
But in this way, it didn't have the same terrifying and wonderful effect as before.
But at least she could still feel the movement trajectories of all things on the land covered by the formation plate.
As long as the person behind the scenes stepped into the formation, she could easily find him.