Chapter Sixty-One: The Three-Soul Life-Locking Pact, Subduing the Daoist Sect Female Disciple!

"The old geezer fled, now it's your turn!"

Qin Feng leaped forward, hurtling directly toward the beautiful Taoist nun.

The latter trembled violently and hurriedly hurled the smartphone in her hand at Qin Feng with all her might.

"Thud!"

The phone smashed against Qin Feng's body, causing no pain whatsoever. Instead, the phone shattered into two pieces.

The beautiful Taoist nun stepped out a Dipper pace, but before she could complete two steps, Qin Feng landed firmly right in front of her.

"Hiss!"

A breath of corpse Qi spewed forth.

The beautiful Taoist nun turned pale with fright, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably.

"You... don't come closer..."

She drew her peachwood sword, staring at Qin Feng with a fierce expression that masked her inner panic. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans continuously seeped from her forehead.

"Big... Big Brother Zombie... I was wrong, please spare my life. My blood doesn't taste good, I... I have AIDS..."

With a crying expression, the beautiful Taoist nun was on the verge of kneeling before Qin Feng.

Qin Feng wasn't buying it. AIDS? What would a zombie care about AIDS?

"Die!"

Qin Feng extended his sharp nails and slashed toward the beautiful Taoist nun's neck.

"Big Brother Zombie, I can submit to you and become your subordinate!" she cried out hysterically, her eyes tightly closed.

Instantly, she sensed a bone-chilling cold aura halting right beside her neck.

Opening her eyes, she saw five sharp nails radiating an intimidating, eerie dark light.

"Phew..."

Following that, she let out a long breath as if utterly drained.

The zombie had stopped. It seemed her little life was temporarily saved. As long as she could survive, submitting to a zombie was no big deal.

"You just said you wanted to submit to me?" Qin Feng withdrew his hand and looked the beautiful Taoist nun up and down.

He was currently in great need of an intelligent being to manage his zombie army. If he could take this woman in, it would indeed be a good choice. Since she was only at the early stage of the Qi Realm, drinking her blood wouldn't boost his power by much anyway. Having a Taoist sect disciple working for him would also give him some prestige.

As for whether she would betray him, he wasn't worried in the least. He had a way to control the life and death of the female ghost Fang Xiaolan, so naturally, he had a way to control this female disciple as well.

"Yes, I am willing to submit to you and serve you," the beautiful Taoist nun hurriedly said. "If you tell me to go east, I will go east; if you tell me to kill, I will kill. Even if you ask me to kill my master, I won't hesitate for a second."

If her master showed no loyalty, she had no reason to show him any. Dozens of her fellow senior disciples had been killed by her master; she certainly didn't want to die.

"What's your name, which sect do you belong to, and what brings you to Songshan City?" Qin Feng asked.

"My name is Qing Shuiyan, and I'm a disciple of the Two-Eternities Sect. I came to Songshan City because my master received news that a group of Miao border Gu masters recently arrived here. He wanted to kill them to make a name for the Two-Eternities Sect. Right now, there are only the two of us left in the sect. My master's lifelong wish is to make the sect famous, bring prosperity to the Two-Eternities Sect, and restore its former glory," Qing Shuiyan explained in great detail.

"Your master is quite well-informed, though he doesn't seem to care much about you," Qin Feng remarked.

"Not just me, the same went for my other senior brothers. Because of his arrogance, he has already caused the deaths of sixty-seven senior brothers. I am the last one left, but now that I'm your subordinate, he has become a lone wolf," Qing Shuiyan replied.

"Pull out three strands of your hair for me, and also tell me your birth date and time," Qin Feng said, looking at her.

"Alright."

Qing Shuiyan was very cooperative. She pulled out three strands of hair and told him her exact birth date and time.

After getting the hair, Qin Feng took out a yellow talisman paper and wrapped the hair inside it. He then wrote Qing Shuiyan's name and her birth date and time directly onto the talisman.

When he finished, he formed hand seals, paced the Dipper steps, and chanted an incantation: "Heaven is clear and earth is turbid, humanity is divided into Yin and Yang. The Tai-gu governs life, the Shuang-ling manages intellect, the You-jing commands desire. The three souls depart their shells, the seven souls serve as the bond. Now using hair and birth time as a guide, the Northern Dipper as the scale, all matters of life and death are entrusted to this pact. Decree!"

As the incantation ended, the yellow talisman together with the three strands of hair burst into flames simultaneously. Qin Feng swallowed the talisman ash in one gulp.

From that moment on, Qing Shuiyan's fate was entirely within his grasp.

The three strands of hair represented the three souls—Tai-gu, Shuang-ling, and You-jing. With her three souls in his hands, if he wanted Qing Shuiyan to die, she would have to die.

"This is the Three Souls Life-Locking Pact?!"

Qing Shuiyan's eyes widened in utter shock. Was this fellow a zombie or a supreme master of the Taoist sect? Just like when he fought her master and even used lightning magic, now he had pulled off the forbidden Taoist technique of the Three Souls Life-Locking Pact. Where on earth did a zombie acquire these cultivation techniques? And how had he successfully practiced them?

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed any of it was real. Even having witnessed it firsthand, it felt like a dream.

"You have some insight to actually recognize the Three Souls Life-Locking Pact," Qin Feng said, giving her an appreciative look before turning serious. "Since you know what it is, you should understand the purpose of this technique. Serve me well from now on, and I won't treat you poorly. If you do a good job, it's not out of the question for me to teach you a technique or two."

"You... can teach me cultivation techniques?" Qing Shuiyan's face lit up with joy.

This zombie's techniques all seemed remarkably powerful. If she could really learn one or two of them, it sounded quite promising. Only... having a zombie teach her Taoist techniques felt somewhat absurd. To anyone unaware of the situation, they would think she had gone mad. After all, how could a zombie teach a Taoist disciple spells? Yet, somehow, he actually could.

"Not just techniques; footwork, hand seals, formations, and more are all within my repertoire," Qin Feng stated.

"You even know formations?" Qing Shuiyan's eyes widened as if she had discovered a new continent.

"Anything your Taoist sect disciples know, I know. And things you don't know, I know as well." Qin Feng smiled slightly and then said, "Alright, let's head back to the base first."

"Thud..."

"Thud..."

Over eight thousand zombies moved in unison, their footsteps falling in a neat rhythm.

"Big Brother Zombie, congratulations on acquiring another capable assistant," the female ghost Fang Xiaolan said respectfully.

Big Brother Zombie was truly awesome, actually taking a Taoist disciple as his underling. She wouldn't even have dared to dream of such a thing. Even her former mistress didn't possess that kind of capability.

Qin Feng nodded faintly in acknowledgment.

...

More than an hour later, Qin Feng led the zombie army back to the exterior of the Corpse Cave.

"We've arrived at the base," Qin Feng announced.

"We're here? Right here? Isn't this just a small stream? How can it possibly accommodate so many zombies? Once daylight comes and the sun rises, won't they all be burned to ashes?" Qing Shuiyan asked with a bewildered expression.

Wasn't this monstrous zombie supposed to be quite smart? Why was he acting so foolish now?

"Get in!"

Qin Feng gave Qing Shuiyan a shove, pushing her directly into the stream.

The next moment, the scene before Qing Shuiyan's eyes shifted completely. It was actually a towering cliff, at the base of which lay a massive karst cave with the characters "Corpse Cave" inscribed upon it.

"This... this is an illusion formation?"

Qing Shuiyan reacted instantly. Looking at Qin Feng, who followed closely behind her, she said in disbelief, "I didn't expect Big Brother Zombie to truly know formations. And your formation-setting technique is so profound that even I couldn't tell that stream was an illusion array. Wait, besides the illusion array, there's also a formation to suppress corpse Qi! The corpse Qi inside this cave is so dense, yet outside the formation, I couldn't sense a trace of it."

At this point, Qing Shuiyan was thoroughly shocked.

Between the illusion array and the corpse-Qi-masking formation, this zombie's methods were simply too formidable. Could this fellow actually be some supreme Taoist master who underwent a corpse transformation after death and retained his memories from life? How else could he be this powerful?