Chapter 26 Living Corpse

After hearing what I said, the black-clothed man's expression immediately darkened, and in his eyes that were originally filled with greed, there was clearly a flash of murderous intent.

Seeing this, I smiled awkwardly, and then said with a silly smile: "Uh... I don't mean that, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong... Hehe."

I smiled awkwardly, and the black-clothed man didn't care, just snorted coldly and said: "Whether I can understand it or not, it has nothing to do with you, you just need to get me the River Map and Luo Shu."

"Here..." I rubbed my hands, then looked at Hu Zi, whose face was flushed by holding back, and said: "I can go and get it, but can you let my brother go first?"

"What do you think?" The black-clothed man smiled sinisterly, and my heart sank when I heard it, thinking to myself, damn, this black-clothed man obviously won't act until he sees the rabbit.

Just when I was hesitating whether to fight him, the voice of the man in black suddenly sounded again: "You can let me release him, but I have a condition."

"What condition?" I was delighted and said hurriedly: "As long as you release my brother, let alone one condition, even ten will do."

The man in black said with some disdain, "Ten is not necessary, you just need to seal your own meridians, and then take me to your house to get the River Map and Luoshu, and also, return the arrow I shot into your wall before." "Seal your own

meridians?" I was stunned.

For people who practice martial arts, sealing the meridians is equivalent to abolishing their martial arts, because after the meridians are sealed, the qi in the body cannot circulate normally. If the qi cannot circulate, you cannot muster strength, and your fighting power is even less than that of an ordinary person. .7

"Asking me to seal my own meridians, isn't that the same as asking me to cut off one of my arms? But if I don't seal it..."

I looked up at the man in black and saw him staring at me with his cold eyes. When he saw me looking at him, he sneered, "Why, you don't dare? That's fine, I'll kill him now."

After saying that, he added strength to his hands again, and Hu Zi immediately shuddered, and then his eyes rolled up, and he was about to die.

"Okay, I'll seal it." I hurriedly said, "But you must promise that after I seal the meridians, you must let him go."

"Don't worry, I, Ying Daoist, have never broken my promise to anyone in thousands of years." The man in black said coldly, and I shuddered when I heard it, and my heart was beating wildly.

"Never broken his promise for thousands of years? What does he mean? Could it be...he has lived for thousands of years? But how the hell is that possible!"

I stared with my eyes wide open, looking shocked.

In everyone's cognition, the life span of a person is only a few short decades. Even for the long-lived, it is only a hundred years. But this man in black who calls himself Shadow Taoist has actually lived for thousands of years?

Is he kidding me?

I squinted my eyes and looked at him carefully. At this moment, the night wind blew, and the clothes of the man in black were rustled by the night wind. At this moment, I suddenly smelled a foul smell.

"What is this smell?" I sniffed, and then fixed my eyes on the man in black again.

"The smell seems to be coming from him, but... it seems to be the stench of a decaying corpse. Why does he have the stench of a decaying corpse? Could it be that he is not a human, but a living corpse?"

The so-called living corpse means that after a person dies, their soul is left in the body through a special secret method. They still retain their memories and thoughts before death. They look no different from normal people, but their bodies will slowly decay like corpses, and they will not breathe, and their hearts will no longer beat.

The biggest feature of living corpses is that they always emit a strong stench of decay. This smell is difficult to eliminate because it is emitted from the inside of the body, so even if you use more spices, it is difficult to cover it up.

The man in black was wearing a nightgown, wrapped up tightly. I didn't smell the stench when I fought him before, so I guess he covered it up somehow.

But the night wind blew his clothes, so the smell came out.

My master once told me that those who became zombies were basically cultivators in their lifetime. They were unwilling to die, so they resorted to this desperate measure and used secret methods to turn themselves into zombies.

Although they look like normal people after becoming zombies, their body functions have actually died long ago. To keep their bodies active, they need to constantly eat the blood of living people. Moreover, every full moon night, they will have blood in their stools, just like women having their periods. It is extremely painful when they have blood in their stools. Not only will they lose all their strength and become extremely weak, but if they cannot eat the blood of living people in time, their bodies may dry up and turn into a mummy.

I squinted my eyes and stared at the man in black, and the perception of zombies immediately emerged in my mind.

"What are you looking at?" The man in black saw me in a daze, and suddenly spoke in a cold voice: "Why don't you seal your meridians quickly? Your brother is just an ordinary person, and he can't hold on any longer. Do you want to watch your brother die?"

"Okay, I'll seal it now."

I took a deep breath, then raised my right hand, pinched my sword fingers, and pressed hard on the five acupuncture points of the body, including the Qi Hai, Shen Que, Zhong Ting, Shen Zang, and Hua Gai.

After pressing, I instantly felt that the Qi in my body stagnated significantly, and then it was stagnant in the meridians and could not continue to circulate.

A bloating and pain came faintly from my body, and then my legs softened and I almost fell to the ground.

"Now, can you let my brother go?" I raised my head and whispered to the man in black, but the man in black did not move when he heard it, just kept sneering at me.

My pupils shrank when I saw this, and I said hurriedly: "What do you mean? Are you going to break your promise?"

"I said that I, the Shadow Taoist, have never broken my promise for thousands of years. If I say I will let him go, I will definitely let him go."

The man in black finished speaking, and threw Hu Zi in front of me. I hurriedly stepped forward and supported Hu Zi, asking: "How are you?"

"Cough cough..."

Hu Zi covered his throat, coughing with a red face. After a few minutes, he finally took a breath, and his face, which was red and purple, gradually began to return to its normal color.

I saw him take a deep breath, then shook his head at me and said, "It's okay, I'm not going to die yet."

I nodded slightly. At this time, the man in black suddenly came to my side in a flash, first kicked Hu Zi away, then grabbed my shoulder, smiled sinisterly at me, and said, "I thought that as the descendant of the Yinren lineage, even if you are not a ghost, you can't be a fool. I didn't expect that you actually sealed your own meridians. In this case, I will capture you directly, and then use the soul-searching technique to search your memory directly. In this way, don't even think about playing tricks again!"