319: Chapter 319 Miao Jiang!

Ye Chen drove away from Ludo Villa and headed south along the Coastal Road.

With the car window half-open, he held the steering wheel with one hand and rested the other on the window frame, his mind still replaying the scene from just now.

"Heh..."

He couldn't help but chuckle.

This girl was probably cursing his ancestors back eighteen generations in her heart right now.

But cursing aside, she still had to do the work.

Who told her to be the team leader?

Who told her to deliberately pick a fight in the first place?

Ye Chen pulled back his thoughts, his gaze falling on the road ahead, and he suddenly sighed.

"Old Master Xuanyuan has forcefully tied me down..."

He murmured to himself, his tone carrying a hint of helplessness.

Chief Instructor of the Hidden Dragon Pavilion.

The title sounded quite intimidating, but in reality, it was a bit exhausting... providing food, housing, and training, and even having to fix their flaws.

Yet, he couldn't refuse.

Why?

Because it was Xuanyuan Huo.

Because it was the Hidden Dragon Pavilion.

Because... he, Ye Chen, was a citizen of the Dragon Country.

"Fine then."

He shrugged, comforting himself under his breath.

"I'll just treat it as cultivating talent for the country."

"Who told me to be so patriotic?"

But then again.

Yan Qingwu had mentioned before that Gongsun Long likely still had a key to open the bronze gate, but it hadn't been found yet.

He had already asked Jessica to keep an eye out and let him know as soon as there were results... Thinking of this.

Ye Chen glanced at the time on the dashboard.

A little after one in the afternoon.

At this time, Bing Lan and the others should be resting. It was the perfect time to head over and keep an eye on that beauty product.

The formula was given by him, and he had set the technological process, but the mass production stage was when problems were most likely to occur.

He had to go and check things over.

He was just about to step on the gas to speed up... Suddenly!

A heavy truck abruptly charged out from a side road on the right!

The truck was like an out-of-control beast, its engine roaring like thunder as the front of the vehicle slammed straight toward Ye Chen's car!

The speed was incredible!

The distance was so close!

There was no time to react at all!

Ye Chen's pupils constricted!

He slammed the steering wheel all the way to the left!

The tires screeched piercingly against the pavement!

The car body tilted violently under the force of inertia, and the two wheels on the right side almost left the ground!

The next moment.

"Boom!!!"

The truck roared past the rear of Ye Chen's car, the fierce wind it whipped up sending leaves from the roadside green belt flying everywhere.

Ye Chen's car spun half a circle on the road, barely coming to a stop at the edge of the oncoming lane.

"Screech!"

"Screech!"

"Screech!"

Immediately after, the sounds of urgent braking came from all directions.

Three silver-gray vans sped toward him from different directions, forming a triangular formation that trapped Ye Chen's car firmly in the middle.

The doors of several vehicles were pulled open almost simultaneously.

Figures poured out from inside the vans.

Over twenty people, all dressed in black martial arts suits, their faces sallow and their gazes sinister.

They stood around the vans without saying a word, yet they had blocked off all possible escape routes.

Ye Chen sat in the driver's seat, looking at these uninvited guests through the windshield, and lightly sniffed the air.

A faint, strange odor drifted in through the gap in the car window.

That smell... was like an aged shroud, like decaying soil, like... a corpse.

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes, pushed open the door to get out, and lazily swept his gaze over those twenty-plus figures.

"The smell of bedbugs."

"Are you people from the Miao Sect?"

The words had just left his mouth.

A series of footsteps came from behind the crowd.

Two figures, one in front of the other, slowly walked out from behind the vans.

The one in front was an old man in his sixties, as thin as a rail with high cheekbones and a pair of triangular eyes that flickered with a cold light.

Following behind him was the Middle-aged Man.

As soon as the two appeared, the twenty-plus black-clad men bowed even lower.

Ye Chen's gaze fell on the old man's face.

"Oh, you're that Miao Sect Great Elder... what was your name again?"

"Miao Renfeng?"

The Middle-aged Man's lip twitched: "I'm Miao Renfeng!"

"I am the Miao Sect Great Elder!" The Miao Sect Great Elder's face darkened.

Ye Chen smiled.

"Regardless of whether you are Miao Renfeng or the Miao Sect Great Elder, the smell on you is too strong."

"I can smell that coffin-lid stench from eight hundred miles away."

"What?"

"Last time you came calmly and with ease, but ended up leaving in a panicked scramble."

"Have you come to seek death again today?"

"Let's make this clear..."

"This time, neither of you will be able to run away."

Hearing this, the Miao Sect Great Elder's gaze turned icy cold.

"Sharp-tongued brat."

"Ye Chen, today the two of us have brought the Miao Zombiess; you are certainly going to die."

Ye Chen leaned against the car door and yawned.

"Miao Zombiess?"

He tilted his head, his gaze sweeping over the group of black-clad men. "Just these?"

The Miao Sect Great Elder did not answer.

He simply raised his hand and gave a light wave.

The group of black-clad men immediately dispersed to both sides, revealing an open space behind the crowd.

Then.

A rustling sound rang out.

It was as if something was crawling out from deep within the vans.

Ye Chen's gaze shifted in that direction.

The next second.

His pupils constricted slightly.

Those weren't "things."

They were people.

Or rather, they used to be people.

Figures tightly wrapped from head to toe in bandages were "walking" out of the vans in a bizarre posture.

Their movements were stiff and slow, the angles of their joints bending in ways that defied common sense, and the skin visible through the gaps in the bandages was a deathly grayish-yellow.

What was even more bizarre was that... every Miao Zombies was connected to a red line as thin as a hair.

The other end of the red lines was tied to the wrists of those black-clad men.

Ye Chen's gaze swept over the Miao Zombiess, then over the black-clad men, and finally fell back on the Miao Sect Great Elder's face.

"Symbiosis?"

He was a bit surprised.

Because this thing could be called the number one evil art of the Southeast Region.

Why the number one?

The reason was that... every "mummy" connected to the red lines by those black-clad men was their most beloved relative!

He hadn't expected that this group of Miao Sect members would actually master such a high-level evil art!

A touch of smugness appeared on the Miao Sect Great Elder's face.

"You have some insight."

"These Miao Zombiess are fed with the essence blood of living people and are connected to the life souls of our Miao Sect disciples."

"If the corpse remains, the person remains; if the corpse perishes, the person perishes."

"Twenty Miao Zombiess paired with twenty Earth Realm disciples—Indestructible Vajra!"

He paused, cold light flickering in his triangular eyes.

"Ye Chen, although you can defeat the two of us, facing the invincible Miao Zombiess..."

"How much of a chance do you think you have?"

As soon as he finished speaking.

Those twenty Earth Realm experts lifted the red strings, and the surrounding Miao Zombiess all took a step forward in unison.

Ye Chen suddenly spoke up: "Wait a moment."

The Miao Sect Great Elder was stunned, then he began to sneer.

"Scared? It's too late!"

At the thought of that day, when he and Miao Renfeng were smashed against the wall, falling together and being seriously injured... If it weren't for the Miao Frontier Holy Gu healing them, they would probably still be lying in bed, unable to get up.

This kind of extreme humiliation could never be tolerated!

Hearing this, Ye Chen shook his head.

"I'm not scared."

"I'm just curious about one thing. You're protecting Li Mei so desperately that you'd rather risk the entire Miao Sect just to kill me..."

"Is it because you're also a simp?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire scene fell into a dead silence.

The expressions on the faces of those twenty-plus Miao Sect disciples instantly became very interesting.

They stared at Ye Chen as if they were looking at a madman.

The smile on Miao Renfeng's face froze.

The Miao Sect Great Elder's expression turned completely dark at this moment: "What did you say?"

Ye Chen spread his hands.

"I said, are you also a simp?"

"Otherwise, as the Great Elder and a man in his sixties, why would you still be at her beck and call, personally leading people here to their deaths..."

"If that's not being a simp, then what is it?"

"What?"

"Could it be that you chased a woman in your youth but failed, and now you're reminiscing about it?"

The Miao Sect Great Elder's withered face twitched violently, and his triangular eyes almost spat fire.

"You're looking for death!!!"

He let out a roar and slammed his right hand forward!

The twenty Earth Realm disciples simultaneously raised their wrists, the red lines gleaming with a bizarre, blood-colored light under the sun.

The next second.

The twenty bandage-wrapped Miao Zombiess moved in unison!

Their movements were stiff and bizarre, the angles of their joint twists completely violating human anatomy, yet they were startlingly fast!

Twenty grayish-white figures, like twenty puppets pulled by strings, lunged toward Ye Chen!

The air was instantly filled with a strong stench of rot.

Ye Chen's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly raised his right fist, smashing it toward the first Miao Zombies that lunged in front of him!

"Bang!"

His fist slammed solidly into the Miao Zombies's chest.

The bandages shattered, revealing the shriveled, sallow skin beneath.

However.

The Miao Zombies actually! Actually! Actually! It stubbornly withstood this strike.

What was even more bizarre was that Ye Chen felt as if the power of his punch was like hitting cotton, being quickly absorbed, dispersed, and neutralized by some kind of force.

He looked down at his fist.

A faint blood-colored aura was attached to the surface of his fist, attempting to drill into his skin... That was the Corpse Qi inside the Miao Zombies, carrying a strong toxicity.

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow slightly: "Interesting."

With a flick of his wrist, the blood-colored aura was instantly shaken apart.

But in just that blink of an eye, the other nineteen Miao Zombiess had already lunged in front of him!

They spread their arms, letting out hisses from their throats as they tore toward Ye Chen!

The twenty Earth Realm disciples stood in place, the red lines on their wrists trembling violently as they continuously channeled their True Qi into the Miao Zombiess' bodies.

If the corpse remains, the person remains.

If the corpse perishes, the person perishes.

But conversely... as long as the Miao Zombiess do not perish, they are immortal and Indestructible Vajra combat machines!

The Miao Sect Great Elder stood behind the crowd, watching Ye Chen being surrounded by the Miao Zombiess, a cruel smile appearing on his face.

"Ye Chen!"

"Do you think my Miao Sect's Miao Zombiess are those ordinary walking dead?!"

"They are fed with the essence blood of living people, connected to the life souls of our Miao Sect disciples, and can even absorb external force for their own use!"

"That punch of yours not only failed to harm it but instead became its nourishment!"

"Today, you are certainly going to die!"