Midnight.
Two figures scurried furtively through Bai Mu Village, ignoring the grotesque fiend monsters around them.
"I say, do we have to be so sneaky?" the female corpse asked Fang Ming, who was ahead, her expression one of incomprehension.
"Shh—" Fang Ming signaled. "You don't understand. We're going to ambush them. What if we're discovered?"
"But I feel like this is really beneath me. I understand ambushing, but why do we have to walk hunched over?"
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"What?" Fang Ming was bewildered. He looked back at the female corpse, and her current posture was indeed, well— not quite fitting her appearance.
Can you imagine a woman who looked like a lady from a noble family in ancient times, stooping with her head raised?
"I didn't tell you to do that, why are you copying me?" Fang Ming said in a low voice.
"Didn't you say we had to be careful when ambushing? I saw you doing it, so I followed suit."
Well, Fang Ming finally understood what kind of being this old well fiend was. No, she wasn't human. What kind of fiend was she?
She was a pure female fiend filled with a desire for revenge. If you removed her resentment, she'd probably just be a simple-minded brute.
In that instant, the grand, mysterious, and aloof image of the old well fiend in his mind completely collapsed.
"I think there might be other factors besides you being unable to defeat the ancient locust fiend," Fang Ming muttered.
"What other factors?" the female corpse asked, confused. The reason she couldn't defeat the ancient locust fiend was indeed that the ancient locust fiend had a powerful means of replenishing resentment. Were there other reasons?
"Never mind, never mind. Let's speed up," Fang Ming waved his hand and continued to lead the way.
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Should he tell the female corpse that she lacked intelligence? For the sake of his life, it was best not to criticize.
"Strange man," the female corpse grumbled.
Half an hour later.
They followed the path to the main road in front of the ancestral hall. Fang Ming stopped, looked up at the large locust tree in the ancestral hall, then turned and said:
"We're about to reach our destination. Pay close attention to your surroundings. We're quite close to the ancient locust fiend's main body, so be extra careful."
The female corpse replied, "Don't worry. I've already set up a resentment net around here. Within a hundred meters, I can detect any movement immediately."
Fang Ming nodded. "That's good. Follow me."
With that, he cautiously approached the ancestral hall and then hugged the courtyard wall, circling towards the back of the hall.
The ancient locust fiend probably never imagined that the two guys it had chased away during the day would have the audacity to return near its main body.
Because the female corpse was constantly by his side, Fang Ming couldn't take out his diary to check the upcoming events. After all, the secret of the diary must never be revealed, especially to these fiends.
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The female corpse was acting like a naive and innocent girl, but who knew if she would suddenly go mad the next second? Fiends were inherently irrational. To deduce their actions with common sense would only lead to your doom.
Therefore, Fang Ming proceeded with extreme caution, stopping every few steps to observe his surroundings, and only moving on after confirming there was no other activity.
The absence of villagers and fiends near the ancestral hall eased many of Fang Ming's worries.
About ten minutes later.
"We're here."
Fang Ming stopped and looked at a cemetery before him. He had seen this cemetery before when he first came to Bai Mu Village as Zhao Xue and was imprisoned in the ancestral hall's backyard, glimpsing it through the window. He had been surprised at the time.
According to the supplementary information in the diary, this was actually the ancestral burial ground of Bai Mu Village for a thousand years. All villagers of Bai Mu Village were buried here after death. Over time, even though fiends were theoretically immortal, many died for various reasons and were buried here.
The female corpse frowned, looking at the cemetery with some confusion. It didn't give her any special feeling, and she couldn't sense any abnormal resentment. How could it be the source of the ancient locust tree's resentment replenishment?
"Is there anything special about this place? It just looks like an ordinary graveyard to me."
"Do you see the runes on the ground?" Fang Ming pointed to a patch of ground not covered by wind and sand. "These runes can block human scent and the resentment aura generated by fiends. This is also the most commonly used rune in Bai Mu Village; you can find it everywhere."
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"On the surface, you see nothing, but in reality, a large number of fiends are buried underground. And you should know better than I do what happens when fiends die."
The female corpse looked at Fang Ming in shock. As a century-old fiend, she naturally knew what happened when fiends died—when fiends died, they were gradually decomposed by the world into pure resentment. The more powerful the fiend, the more resentment released upon death. Fierce spirits were similar.
With Bai Mu Village's accumulation of a thousand years, how many fiends were buried underground? And how much resentment had accumulated?
Fang Ming saw the expression on the female corpse's face and knew she had already guessed the answer. He continued:
"With Bai Mu Village's thousand-year accumulation and the sealing by specially made runes, this is no longer just a simple graveyard. In other words, this is the ancient locust fiend's resentment reservoir."
"And I suspect that the resentment you lose each year is also stored here by some unknown means."
The diary's descriptions of this graveyard led Fang Ming to deduce many things.
He had always believed that the reason all the villagers in Bai Mu Village were transformed into fiends was simply that they captured young fiends to sacrifice during the ancestral worship ceremony, serving as labor.
It wasn't until he read the cemetery's description that Fang Ming realized these villager fiends were not laborers at all, but rather "food" for the ancient locust fiend.
With the runes arranged by his outrageous father, it could easily help the ancient locust fiend store the resentment transformed from the dead fiends.
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And to accumulate more resentment from a limited number of villagers, the ancient locust fiend devised a method of separating genders. Taking advantage of the feudalistic thinking of the time, it continuously played along with and intensified the villagers' ideas, eventually forming Bai Mu Village's current extreme worldview.
The people of Bai Mu Village were both detestable and pitiable.
Twisted by monsters, they ultimately became the monsters' food.
The female corpse listened, then came to the cemetery, crouched down, and touched a rune. As expected, the rune immediately lit up, resisting her touch.
Fang Ming asked, "How is it? Can you destroy these runes?"
"I can destroy them. These runes can't withstand my attack; they can at most defend against ordinary fiends," the female corpse said, standing up. "But I'm worried that attacking these runes will alert the ancient locust tree. Then it will be difficult." kuAiδugg
Fang Ming also frowned. This was indeed a difficult problem. Simply destroying the runes was meaningless; what mattered was destroying the resentment beneath the runes. If the female corpse acted, she would definitely alert the ancient locust fiend. The ancestral hall and the cemetery were built so close, there must have been consideration for this.
They fell silent. Unless they could draw away the ancient locust fiend's attention, and also possess the ability to destroy the runes, only the female corpse could accomplish either of these.
"I've got it!" Suddenly, the female corpse's eyes lit up. "I have a way to destroy these runes and attract the ancient locust fiend's attention at the same time."
"What way?" Fang Ming eagerly asked.
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"I can set up some fiends here, fill them with resentment, and then detonate them after I leave. That should be enough to destroy these runes and the resentment pool below," the female corpse explained.
"Then what are you waiting for? Set them up quickly," Fang Ming said joyfully.
The female corpse hesitated again. "But this method has a problem."
Fang Ming looked at the female corpse's expression, feeling a bad premonition. "What problem?"
"Once these fiends are too far from me, I can no longer control their self-destruction. Over time, they will die. And if I want to lure the ancient locust tree away so it can't return, I need to lure it at least to the other side of the village. This distance exceeds my control range."
"..." Fang Ming was silent for a moment. "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"
The female corpse's stammering clearly indicated she needed him to do something, and the danger level would not be low.
"You need to stay here and use the resentment primers I leave you to detonate the fiends one by one. This is very dangerous because I don't know if I can lure the ancient locust tree away and prevent it from returning."
"You... have you decided to take the risk?" the female corpse stared at Fang Ming's face, watching his expression.
"..." After a moment of silence, Fang Ming suddenly grinned. "Why wouldn't I be willing? This plan was mine to begin with. If there's risk, I should be the one to take it. If it gets dangerous, I'll be the first to run."
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"But what about you? Is attracting the ancient locust fiend's attention really okay? Don't get beaten around again."
"Of course, it's fine. Do you think I'm afraid of it?" the female corpse retorted indignantly, but there was admiration in her eyes for Fang Ming. A man who wasn't afraid of death was truly rare.
"No time to waste, let's start."
"Okay," the female corpse nodded, floating up. Her clothes billowed in the wind, and her hair flew.
"Come out!" with a soft exclamation, the space around them churned, and decaying female corpses emerged from the void, dripping murky well water.
The female corpse directed these corpses to crawl into the cemetery and stop at intervals. Once all were in place, hundreds of visible white wisps of resentment emanated from the female corpse, spreading into each corpse in the cemetery.
Fang Ming "calmly" watched this scene. It was just a small matter. He had seen much worse. However, this void summoning was something he hadn't seen before.
Ten minutes later, the female corpse landed and said to Fang Ming, "I've filled these fiends with resentment energy. Take this and stab them to detonate them."
With that, she raised her right hand. Resentment surged in her palm, and a solidified resentment staff appeared in her hand. She then handed it to Fang Ming.
"Won't I get blown up?" Fang Ming asked jokingly as he took the resentment staff.
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"Don't worry, it won't harm you," the female corpse shook her head and glanced in the direction of the ancestral hall. "I'll go attract the ancient locust tree's attention now. After I start fighting it, you begin detonating these fiends to destroy the seal and the resentment pool."
"Okay, no problem."
"Then I'm going. Be careful," the female corpse smiled and winked at Fang Ming. "You're quite an unusual man. You must stay alive."
"Stop, stop, cut the flag," Fang Ming quickly gestured for her to stop.
"What's a flag?" the female corpse asked, confused, not understanding the English word.
"Nothing, nothing. Hurry up and go," Fang Ming waved his hand, urging her to leave quickly.
"Tch, always saying half the story," the female corpse scoffed and flew rapidly towards the other side of the village.
A few minutes later, a vast curtain of water surged on the east side of Bai Mu Village. Monstrous corpses surfaced and sank in the water, their eyes blood-red as they attacked the village...