Common zombies were usually dealt with by burning them to the ground. However, the Maoshan Sect had specifically placed the zombies that had already matured.
The reason for that was simple. Those zombies had been cultivating for years, absorbing the extreme Yin aura of the world. Corpse Cores had already formed within their bodies, which was something rarely seen in the world.
Corpse Cores were of extreme Yin aura. If common folk were to come into contact with even a tiny bit of them, they would immediately be poisoned and die.
While corpse Cores were known to be harmful, the Maoshan Sect saw them as having other uses.
Corpse Cores were capable of harming people, but if used properly, they could also be used to remove the poison from the body and heal people.
Whenever a large number of zombies were wreaking havoc, the Maoshan Sect would send people down the mountain to deal with the zombies. Along with corpse-suppressing power items, they would also bring along corpse Cores, which would be used to remove the people being bitten by the zombies.
Of course, those who were allowed to bring along corpse Cores had to be disciples of the Maoshan Sect of high cultivation, and they had to have the permission of the Maoshan Sect's sectmaster. Disciples of low cultivation were never allowed to bring along corpse Cores.
The Yin aura of the corpse Cores was extremely dense. Without reaching a certain level of cultivation, it was very easy for corpse aura to latch onto one's body. If one was not careful, they would be harmed and turned into something that was neither human nor ghost.
While corpse Cores sounded simple, they were actually extremely hard to come by. It was worth noting that zombies were born from the resentment of dead people. They were soulless, so it was very rare for them to be able to develop their own consciousness, let alone be able to cultivate on their own.
Common zombies would have only been able to develop their own consciousness after training for a century. It would have taken them at least two to three hundred years to develop corpse Cores.
For immortal zombies, two to three hundred years would have been nothing more than a snap of a finger. However, it was worth noting that most zombies only had the instinct to bite living things after they were born. They were nothing more than walking corpses with no consciousness at all, and they would have been killed by formidable cultivators before long. The zombies that survived were either buried deep underground, where no one knew where they were, or they were living in the wilderness where no one would go. As such, zombies that were able to live for more than a century were already extremely rare. Zombies that were hundreds or even thousands of years old were even rarer.
Aside from using zombie pills to extract zombie toxins and heal people, the Maoshan Sect had another purpose for keeping those unusual zombies around: to control zombies.
It was common knowledge that after being bitten by a zombie, if the poison was not removed in time, it would not take long for the person to become like a zombie, biting anyone they saw. In this way, the poison would quickly spread, and the number of zombies would naturally rise. Sometimes, an entire village would be wiped out by zombies in a single night, and hundreds of villagers would turn into walking corpses in the blink of an eye.
The Maoshan Sect sent out a large number of their disciples to keep the zombies under control. They also released the zombies that had been locked up in their stone chambers, using the method of controlling zombies to control the masses.
Although these zombies were soulless, they still retained their animal instincts. Once they discovered a zombie whose level far exceeded their own, they would worship it as a zombie king.
With the Zombie King under control, it would be much easier to deal with the remaining zombies.
However, controlling zombies required extremely high levels of cultivation. Every time such a method was used, the eight elders of the Maoshan Sect would personally intervene, fearing that the Zombie King would cause trouble.
The seven zombies in the stone chambers were rare Zombie Kings that the Maoshan Sect had accumulated over the generations since the sect was founded. Even the youngest of them was over 500 years old.
Lu Yuanshan put his hands behind his back and walked around, stepping on yellow talismans. He slowly walked past each of the zombies, taking a good look at the Zombie Kings before him.
Lu Yuanshan's eyes lit up when he walked to a coffin in the corner.
The coffin was made entirely of pure copper. It was huge, standing over nine feet tall, and had nine thick copper chains wrapped around it. Countless demon-subduing runes were carved on the chains, and they were as red as blood.
The copper chains were anything but ordinary. They were demon-sealing chains that had been crafted through over a dozen complicated refinement processes.
There were over a dozen demon-subduing runes carved all over the coffin, and they were soaked in cinnabar.
Other than that, there was also a seven-inch Eight Trigrams Demon-Subduing Bronze Mirror embedded on the lid of the coffin.
The bronze mirror was simple and unadorned. It was carved with the Eight Trigrams and the Maoshan Demon-Subduing Runes, giving it a righteous aura.
A three-foot-long yellow cloth hung on top of the coffin. The seals of the Nine Old Deities were carved on the yellow cloth.
Bronze coffin, cinnabar runes, demon-subduing Bronze Mirror, demon-subduing chains, and the seals of the Nine Old Deities.
One could only imagine the level of the Zombie King within the coffin if such a complicated secret art was used to subdue the item.
According to the records of the Maoshan Sect, the Zombie King within the coffin was a king of the barbarians during the Three Kingdoms period.
It was said that the king of the barbarians was extremely talented when he was alive. He was born with a body covered in scales that made him invulnerable to weapons. Coupled with his massive build and formidable combat prowess, he quickly became the overlord of the barbarians.
The barbarians were adept at sorcery. After the king of the barbarians died of old age, the local god of sorcery cast spells and soaked him in secret medicine, preventing his body from rotting. He was worshipped in the local temple as a god.
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