Thousands upon thousands of undead soldiers climbed the city walls in an endless stream. These soldiers, who had lost their lives and felt no pain, were not hindered in the slightest by the arrows.
During the day, when facing a thousand zombie soldiers, everyone had already done their best to barely manage to cope. Now, facing ten times the number of zombie soldiers, it would be extremely difficult to burn them all to ashes as they had during the day.
"Look! There's a light up ahead!"
Looking ahead, Mu Jin and the others saw a dense cluster of firelight flickering on the mountains not far away. It must be the Eastern Yue army watching their corpse soldiers climb Liangmen Pass step by step.
Clearly, they intended to use these ten thousand walking corpses to retake Liangmen Pass and gradually erode the territory of Southern Shu in the same way. And they only needed to watch their masterpiece from a short distance away.
Mu Jin frowned as she looked at everything before her. She had no mind to pay attention to the Eastern Yue army in the distance. Right now, she only wanted to deal with these corpse soldiers as soon as possible. If she couldn't even deal with these corpse soldiers, how could she talk about fighting against the Eastern Yue army in the distance?
The one who tied the knot must untie it. This corpse poison originated from the Nangong Divine Sect, so Nangong Min must have a solution. Just as Mu Jin turned her head, intending to ask Nangong Min if he had any countermeasures, she saw Nangong Min say to Mu Yan.
"Please have someone prepare a few round balls made of dry grass, General Mu."
Mu Yan knew that the hay balls Nangong Min had asked him to prepare must be related to eliminating the corpse soldiers in front of him, so he didn't ask any more questions and instead ordered people to prepare them as soon as possible.
Not long after, a dozen soldiers carried several piles of dry hay, each the size of a water vat, from the foot of the city wall and brought them to Nangong Min.
Nangong Min untied a water pouch from his waist, gently removed the stopper, and poured a shimmering white liquid onto several haystacks. A moment later, a faint herbal aroma filled the air.
"Quick, throw these hay bales over the wall."
Upon hearing Nangong Min's command, the soldiers immediately threw the hay balls outside the city wall. When the hay balls came into contact with the fire burning on the corpse soldiers, they instantly turned into large fireballs and burst into flames.
As the fireball ignited, the herbal fragrance in the air became even stronger, and even the stench of corpses was largely masked.
As the fragrant fireballs passed by the corpse soldiers, their movements ceased, until one by one they fell from the city wall, unable to move, and remained motionless.
The Southern Shu soldiers on the wall, seeing all this, couldn't help but shout with joy, "Great! The fireball can subdue them!"
Seeing this, Su Yi and the others couldn't help but relax a bit.
"Quick! Have someone bring up more hay bales!" Mu Yan shouted happily.
Then the Southern Shu army followed suit, sending more and more hay balls up to the city wall, pouring on the shimmering white liquid brought by Nangong Min, and throwing them outside the city wall. More and more corpse soldiers fell down and stopped moving.
"Min." Mu Jin smiled and asked Nangong Min happily, "Was it your white fluid that had the effect?"
When Nangong Min saw Mu Jin's long-lost smile, his heart melted. He softly replied, "Yes, it's made from spiritual herbs from Shennong Mountain."
Mu Jin's curiosity was piqued, and she continued to ask, "What's the reason behind this?"
Nangong Min smiled and said to Mu Jin, "The juice of this spiritual herb has a deadly attraction to the Gu worms on the corpse soldiers. They will crawl out of the corpse soldiers' bodies, and then, attracted by the scent, desperately crawl into those fragrant fireballs."
After hearing this, Mu Jin suddenly realized, "You mean that once the Gu worms on the corpse soldiers smell the scent of the spiritual herbs, they will leave the corpse soldiers' bodies, and these corpse soldiers, without the control of the Gu worms, will become powerless."
Nangong Min nodded slightly, "That's right. Once the Gu worms crawl into the fireball, they will be burned to ashes. Naturally, they won't be able to crawl back onto these dead Dongyue soldiers and control them to attack people."
Upon hearing this, Mu Yan, who was standing to the side, instantly got goosebumps all over his body, as if countless worms were wriggling under his skin.
He frowned and asked Nangong Min, "Does the sect leader mean that there are a large number of invisible Gu worms hidden under the city wall, crawling towards the direction of those fireballs?"
"Mm!" Nangong Min nodded in response.
"That's fucking disgusting!" Mu Yan cursed angrily.
"Why don't you go throw up over there for a while, brother?" Mu Yan's face fell when Mu Jin teased him. He said, "Laugh away! Don't tell Father!"
As the fireballs and corpses, still carrying the scent of medicine, slowly burned to ashes, the flames on the distant mountains continued to burn.
With a "smack," Nangong Ce was knocked to the ground by the enraged Su Yuntian. Su Yuntian knelt on one knee, grabbed Nangong Ce by the collar, and roared.
"Didn't you tell me that with just 10,000 corpse soldiers, I could destroy the 200,000-strong army of Southern Shu, and that in less than ten days I could seize all of Southern Shu's territory, and in less than half a year I would be the only king in this world?"
"I...I...I~" Nangong Ce said to Su Yuntian, trembling, "It's impossible. The Southern Shu army could not possibly understand how to break this method, unless, unless they invite someone who can solve this method."
Nangong Ce seemed to have realized something: "I know, I know, they must have invited people from the Nangong Divine Sect to come out of seclusion."
"That's right, Nangong Min. They must have asked Nangong Min to take action, otherwise no one could break this technique."
"Nangong Min actually defied ancestral teachings for that bitch Mu Jin and openly left the mountains to participate in the struggle between nations!"
"Ah!" Nangong Ce screamed as Su Yuntian pierced his hand with a sword.
Su Yuntian said coldly, "Remember! My women are not for trash like you to insult at will. If there's a next time, I'll kill you!"
Nangong Ce got up and repeatedly told Su Yuntian that he dared not!
Su Yuntian looked at Nangong Ce kneeling before him with disgust and asked, "Is there any other way to deal with the Southern Shu army?"
Nangong Ce knelt before Su Yuntian, his body still trembling slightly, his forehead covered with large beads of sweat.
All his skills were learned from the Nangong Divine Palace. If, as he guessed, Nangong Min had come out of seclusion to help the Southern Shu army, then the poison formulas he stole from the Nangong Divine Sect would be completely useless in front of Nangong Min.
But he cannot be known by Su Yuntian. Once Su Yuntian realizes that he is worthless, he will be killed without hesitation.
His only option now is to appease Su Yuntian first, and then find an opportunity to escape.
Just as Nangong Ce was about to speak, trying to fool Su Yuntian, a series of piercing flute sounds rang out, like a summons, or like a death knell.
As the sound of the flute rang out in the open mountains and fields, birds in the surrounding forests took flight in fright, and even the grass seemed to be covered with something, rustling along.
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