Chang Fenglin roared, "Chen Baiying, get the hell away from me! Only if Luo Nian kills you will Luo Nian be able to quell his hatred and let me go, you know that? If it weren't for you, would I have strangled Luo Nian? So, can't you just let Luo Nian kill you for my sake?"

The driver couldn't help but retort angrily, "Young master, how can you say that? Miss is deeply in love with you and has always defended you in front of the young master. What you're saying is too much!"

He knew absolutely nothing about zombies, otherwise he probably would have gone crazy with fear.

"Miss, the young master has gone mad. Let's leave this place quickly!" The driver helped Chen Baiying, who was crying bitterly, back the way they came.

They managed to get out, but Chang Fenglin remained inside the Witch Corpse Gate. Remembering Chang Fenglin's crazed state, Chen Baiying told the driver to quickly take her back to the hotel.

"Master Dai, Miss Jiang, I saw Chang Fenglin in the mountains just now, but I didn't see Luo Nian. Are you sure your method will really work?" Seeing the master and disciple still staring at the strange chessboard, Chen Baiying asked with both fear and anxiety.

Jiang Yuxuan asked in surprise, "You saw Chang Fenglin? When?"

"Just now!" Chen Baiying said, glancing at her watch. "About half an hour ago!"

Jiang Yuxuan looked at Dai Xi with a puzzled expression, and said in disbelief, "Master, could it be that..."

Dai Xi's expression was uncertain. This chess set was a treasure passed down from their Maoshan patriarch. It could be used to perform Taoist secret techniques by utilizing Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. Not to mention ordinary zombies, even thousand-year-old poisonous zombies would be in trouble if they faced this chess set.

Luo Niangang had only recently been turned into a zombie by Zhang Pengju. He was so strong only because he had absorbed the life force of a large number of the Witch Corpse Sect disciples after destroying the sect.

However, the more life force she absorbs from living beings, the stronger the effect of the Dao Chess becomes on her. Therefore, in theory, their attack should not fail.

But how did Chen Baiying end up at the Corpse Witch Sect? Their game plan never showed her participating in this scheme. And she didn't see Luo Nian at the Corpse Witch Sect, only Chang Fenglin, who was terrified to the point of madness…

"Let's go to the Witch Corpse Gate!" Dai Xi gave the order and led the Maoshan Taoists, carrying their Taoist chess pieces, to the Witch Corpse Gate.

The Witch Corpse Sect was located in the remote mountains, but Chen Baiying, who owned a car, and the many Maoshan Taoist priests with magical powers arrived in just over half an hour.

They had only reached the foot of the mountain outside the Witch Corpse Gate when they saw a human-shaped object hanging from a crooked tree amidst the flickering will-o'-the-wisps, swaying back and forth.

Chen Baiying gasped in shock upon seeing him. The same driver who had brought her there before also turned pale upon seeing him.

The Taoist priests were filled with shock and anger.

Chang Fenglin has already hanged himself from a tree in the southeast.

Moreover, judging from the location where it was hung, he probably didn't even enter the Corpse Witch Gate. And the "Corpse Witch Gate" that Chen Baiying mentioned earlier might be this place. The mountain gate that she and Chang Fenglin saw, as well as the situation inside the mountain gate shown on the Dao Chess, were all illusions created by someone secretly casting spells.

"How is this possible?" Dai Xi said in utter shock. "The only thing that can break my Maoshan Dao Chess is another treasure left by the Grandmaster Taishang Zhenren: the Four Treasures of the Talisman Sect."

"The Four Treasures of the Talisman Sect?" Jiang Yuxuan asked in surprise. "Master, how come I've never heard you mention the Supreme True Man and... these so-called Four Treasures of the Talisman Sect?"

Dai Xi said, "That's because I know very little about this patriarch. As for the Four Treasures of the Talisman Sect, I only know that they were originally the Four Treasures of the Study with special magical powers used by this patriarch to refine talismans, and I know nothing else about them."

Jiang Yuxuan then asked, "Since it was passed down by my Maoshan patriarch, why isn't it within my Maoshan sect?"

Dai Xi: "It is said that the Supreme Master passed on the four treasures of the talisman sect, as well as the art of talisman making, to another descendant surnamed Lou."

"A descendant of the Lou family?" Jiang Yuxuan exclaimed in shock, "Lou Qianzong?"

Dai Xi pondered, "Back at that nightclub, I heard Lou Qianzong say that he was the ancestor of our Celestial Masters, so now that I think about it..." It really might be him! His brows were furrowed into a knot the size of a bowl.

Chen Baiying, who was listening from the side, was completely bewildered and asked, "Wait a minute, Sect Leader Dai, Miss Jiang, what do you mean by that? Lou Qianzong... that Mr. Lou is the ancestor of your Maoshan Celestial Masters? How old is he? He looks... quite young to me!"

Dai Xiqi asked, "What, have you seen that Lou Qianzong?" Before Chen Baiying could answer, he stroked his beard and continued, "Even if he is indeed a giant zombie raised by the Witch Corpse Sect, given that he did not harm anyone after waking up, and if what he said is true, then he has a deep connection with our Maoshan Sect, so when he arrived at your brother's nightclub the day he woke up, we Maoshan disciples held back and did not attack him."

That sounds quite grand. The real reason they didn't make a move that day was that they realized even a group of Taoist priests working together might not be able to subdue Lou Qianzong.

Moreover, although Dai Xi heard Lou Qianzong say that he was the ancestor of the Celestial Masters, he did not think that this zombie would be related to the "other descendant of the Supreme True Man" with the surname Lou. At this moment, guessing that someone had used the four treasures of the talisman sect, he remembered that there was such a figure in history, and that's when he connected it with Lou Qianzong.

Jiang Yuxuan didn't notice that Chen Baiying, upon hearing that Lou Qianzong was also a zombie, had turned deathly pale with fright. She gritted her teeth and said, "So, it was Lou Qianzong who made the move this time?! We haven't even fought with him yet, and he's already meddling in zombie affairs and taking the initiative to confront us."

Dai Xi said with a hint of helplessness, "He's a zombie himself!" He paused, then added, "Even if the four treasures of the Fu Sect belong to him, he might not be the one who actually did it. He... has no grudge against this Chang Fenglin, and letting Chang Fenglin hang himself wouldn't benefit him at all, so..."

His analysis was met with nods of agreement from everyone. Chang Fenglin was a living person; zombies could directly absorb his life force to enhance their own zombie energy, so there was no need to hang him like that.

The person who hanged him must have had some kind of hatred towards him, so it could only be Luo Nian.

Chen Baiying, recovering slightly from her initial shock, asked in a trembling voice, "Sect Leader Dai, you just said that Lou Qianzong is also a...zombie?" She still couldn't quite believe it was true. If the other party was a zombie, why was her elder brother so eager to invite him to live in their home?!

Jiang Yuxuan said, "Yes, and he is an even more powerful poisonous zombie than Luo Nian. His corpse energy is incredibly profound and powerful, so much so that even if all of us Celestial Masters combined and used all our methods, we might not be able to fight him."