Tai Du City.
One of the prefectures of Zhenjiang City.
This month, Qin Tianhan was in charge of guarding the northern part of the city.
He had a 20-person City Guard squad under his command.
Every human city established by the Da Xia Kingdom had a City Guard.
The City Guard was open to all cultivators with clean backgrounds. Regardless of whether they were rogue cultivators or cultivators from clans, they could all apply to join the City Guard.
After joining the City Guard, as long as they fulfilled their duties and took shifts, they would be able to enjoy the fixed amount of spirit stones, pills, and other cultivation resources distributed by the Da Xia Kingdom.
The City Guard's duty was to protect the human race within the city.
They had to guard against demon beasts from the wilderness outside the city, and they also had to monitor the battles between cultivators within the city.
As usual, Qin Tianhan stood on the city wall and looked into the distance at the dark wilderness outside the city.
Everything was calm and peaceful.
Regarding this kind of situation, Qin Tianhan was also accustomed to it.
He had already joined the City Guard for sixty years and had yet to encounter any major trouble, let alone demon beasts attacking the city.
Normally, if they encountered cultivators fighting within the city, they would have to step in and punish them.
Unless there was a special reason, the Da Xia Kingdom strictly prohibited cultivators from fighting within the city.
However, cultivators were a group of people with no restrictions.
As a result, cultivators fighting within the city would happen once or twice every two or three days.
As long as no mortals were injured, the City Guard would reprimand them and make them pay a fine of spirit stones.
This job was much easier than he had imagined.
Qin Tianhan's eyes drifted and he began to calculate in his mind.
After he had luckily advanced to Foundation Establishment as a rogue cultivator, the resources required for Foundation Establishment were too much for a rogue cultivator like him to bear.
He deeply felt that it was difficult for rogue cultivators to cultivate, and after much consideration, he finally decided to join the City Guard of Tai Du City.
Although the City Guard's rules were very strict and they were not as free as rogue cultivators, the City Guard's treatment was very good.
Not only did they have a fixed supply of resources, they only had to be on duty for four months in a year. The rest of the time, they could freely allocate resources.
Under such conditions, he actually managed to cultivate step by step to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Now, he was only 130 years old. He still had a chance to try to break through the Golden Elixir after a decade or two of preparation.
Once he became a Golden Elixir Daoist, it would be like a carp leaping through the dragon gate. He would be considered an almighty figure in Tai Du City.
It was already extremely rare for a rogue cultivator to be able to do this.
Thinking of such a prospect, Qin Tianhan couldn't help but show some pride on his face.
"Hmm? What is this? Did something rot? "Qin Tianhan, who was daydreaming, sniffed subconsciously.
There was an extremely faint stench of decay in the air, which he smelled.
Humans have six senses, namely, vision, hearing, nose, tongue, body, and divine sense.
Each of the six senses had their own uses, but the most important was the divine sense. Cultivation methods were extremely precious and difficult for ordinary people to obtain.
Apart from the divine sense, cultivating the other five senses was extremely time-consuming and did not directly increase one's battle strength as compared to magic arts.
Generally speaking, cultivators would choose to spend their time cultivating methods to accumulate spiritual power or cultivating magic arts to increase their battle strength.
Very few people would cultivate the five senses.
However, Qin Tianhan was an exception.
The reason why he was able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm as a rogue cultivator was because he cultivated an auxiliary technique to train his sense of the nose.
After cultivating this technique, although his battle strength did not increase, because his sense of the nose was far better than ordinary cultivators, he could often smell some demonic beasts in the wilderness and avoid dangerous areas.
He could even use the unique smell of spiritual medicine to find those hidden and difficult to find spiritual medicines.
It was also because of this that he was able to rely on his own strength to gather enough resources to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Deeply aware of the wonderful use of his sense of the nose, even after becoming a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator and grasping the ability to release his divine sense, he did not slack off on cultivating his sense of the nose.
Facts proved that this choice was not wrong.
Because the range of his divine sense was limited, many times, he could feel things that his divine sense could not detect, but his sense of the nose could.
For example, now.
"Something's wrong!" Qin Tianhan's face darkened.
Because this rotten smell was different from ordinary rotten items, it … was more like the smell of a corpse!
As a rogue cultivator, Qin Tianhan was extremely cautious.
Perhaps other people who smelled this smell would not take it seriously. After all, in such a big city, it was not strange for the smell of a corpse to appear, right?
But Qin Tianhan would not.
"All of you, follow me," Qin Tianhan's face darkened, and he led the cultivators under him in the direction of the rotten smell.
Although the cultivators of the City Guard felt a little strange, they would not disobey orders and quickly followed.
After searching for the source of the rotten smell for a moment, Qin Tianhan was stunned.
The rotten smell he was looking for was getting thicker, which meant that he was about to find the source of the smell.
However, Qin Tianhan's nose twitched slightly.
At this moment, in the air, in all directions, was mixed with the same rotten smell.
In just a short while, the entire city seemed to be filled with the stench of decay.
What shocked him even more was that under this thick rotten smell, he also smelled a faint smell of blood.
A bad premonition floated in his heart.
Their footsteps did not stop, and they continued to rush toward the source of the rotten smell.
What kind of ghost was causing trouble!
"What … is that?!" A cultivator's teeth chattered, and he pointed not far away.
In the night.
A huge humanoid creature stood in the distance, its face stained with blood, its skin was strangely pale, and its face shape was distorted.
The eyes on its head were blooming with an incomparably ferocious bloody light, and its mouth was full of sharp fangs, shining with the luster of gold and iron.
Its skin was like a layer of pure black hard armor, and it looked incomparably tough.
At this distance, not only Qin Tianhan, but the other cultivators also smelled the thick rotten smell and the stench of blood from its body.
This huge creature was grabbing a mortal, its fangs plunging into the mortal's throat, and sucking the blood from within.
That mortal shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into a dried corpse.
"Blood … Blood Zombie!" A City Guard cultivator from a cultivator family, who had seen a lot of things, replied with a trembling voice.
Naturally, a Blood Zombie would not scare him so much.
Behind the Blood Zombie, there were countless black shadows, although those black shadows were much smaller than the Blood Zombie in the lead.
However, there were too many of them.
The houses in this area had long collapsed, and were in a mess, turning into ruins. The ground was littered with dried corpses of mortals.
The reason why there had been no commotion earlier was that someone had covered this area with an extremely crude Soundproof Barrier at some point in time.
The scene in front of him was like hell on earth, and Qin Tianhan was both horrified and shocked.
Even Foundation Establishment cultivators seemed insignificant in the face of such a large number of undead puppets.
At this moment, when the Corpse Puppets saw Qin Tianhan and the City Guard squad, they instantly swarmed over in a frenzy.
Their instincts told them that stronger and sweeter blood flowed in the cultivator's body.
A cultivator's blood essence would be more effective for their evolution.
For Qin Tianhan, the sight of countless Corpse Puppets charging at him made him feel as if he had fallen into an icy cavern. It was an unforgettable scene.
Seeing the frightening scene before him, Qin Tianhan's face twitched violently, and he roared, "Activate the signal smoke!"
Then, Qin Tianhan quickly retreated. At the same time, he took out a spirit talisman from his storage ring, circulated his spiritual energy, and tossed it into the air.
The spirit talisman instantly shone brightly, turning into a roiling red smoke that soared into the sky.
Even with the cover of night, the red smoke's light could not be hidden.
Signal Smoke Talisman!
It was a talisman used to activate a warning signal.
Qin Tianhan received this talisman as soon as he joined the City Guard.
Only when a large group of demonic beasts attacked the city would the Wolf Smoke Talisman be used to warn the entire city.
For so many years, this talisman had never been used. Finally, tonight, the Wolf Smoke Talisman was used for the first time!
Under Qin Tianhan's roar, the City Guard cultivators finally reacted. They also took out the Wolf Smoke Talisman and sent out a warning signal.
For a moment, smoke rose from all directions.
… …
Corpse Puppets attacking the city!
An incalculable number of Corpse Puppets attacking the city!
This was a great mess, and even more so, a disaster!
Accompanying the darkness of night were thousands upon thousands of Corpse Puppets of unknown origins.
Among them, there were First Grade Corpse Puppets equivalent to Qi Refinement cultivators: Iron Corpse and White Corpse. There were also Second Grade Corpse Puppets equivalent to Foundation Establishment cultivators: Wandering Corpse and Flying Corpse. There were even Third Grade Corpse Puppets that could contend with the Golden Elixir Daoist: Blood Corpse and Unmelted Bone!
Although their ranks were different, these Corpse Puppets all had a pair of red, ferocious eyes.
In the darkness of night, they were like specks of red stars, but they made those who saw them feel cold all over and their scalps tingle.
These Corpse Puppets were like a tide, covering the mortal houses in the city.
Corpse Puppets used blood as the source of their power. After devouring a certain amount of blood, they could evolve and strengthen themselves.
They mercilessly ran over humans, ignoring their struggles and screams. They bit off their throats and madly devoured the sweet blood in their flesh.
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