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With a creases on his brow and an unamused expression on his face, Zhang eyed the one hundred Jiangshi chained to the walls of in the far end of the room. He was waiting for more of his men to descend the stairs and use their mirrors to lay these Jiangshi to rest.
“I should prepare just in case something stupid happens…” He thought as he activated the Cape of the Abyss that was draped over his shoulders. From the shadows and dark depth dozens of abyssal beasts spawned ready to obey Zhang’s commands.
The Jiangshi as if sensing something was about to happen began rattling their chains, trying to break free and charge at Zhang. If even half of them managed to break free then they would have more than enough power to rip him limb from limb.
Then with a wave of his hand, thousands of Lightning Eater scaled tipped arrows appeared on the ground. With a thought a purple glow enveloped them and sent them levitating into the air. Moments later the thousands of arrows pierced and danced through the air towards the Jiangshi.
It was dark and not a lot of light was present so Zhang could no target their joints like he had done to the three Jiangshi that they had caught earlier, so instead he opted to just use a large amount of arrows instead. Although he could not truly extinguish them with the arrows, Zhang would be able to damage and incapacitate them. The thousands of arrows whizzed through the air and punctured into their targets with deadly force.
That was when something peculiar occurred, whereas Zhang had planned to have the arrows embed themselves into the Jiangshi to lower their mobility in the case that they were able to break free of their bounds, instead a few of them turned to ashes.
“That shouldn’t have happened.” Zhang mumbled as he was confused at how the arrows were able to extinguish a Jiangshi.
“My lord, I thought you said those things could only be killed by expose to direct sunlight.” The man who had followed Zhang all the way to the bottom of the staircase asked. He had been scared speechless moments before when the Jiangshi tried to break free of their chains and only just now managed to calm himself enough to speak.
“I don’t know…” Zhang replied as he felt a hint of fatigue. Controlling thousands of arrows with essence was not something that one could do often because of the high consumption of essence, even in Zhang’s case. The replenishment rate of the Underworld Heart, although fast was not able to keep up to the consumption rate of manipulating the arrows
With a thought a few torches that Zhang kept floating in the air flew over to where some of the Jiangshi had perished. That was when he noticed something glittering underneath the torch light.
“Fetch.” Zhang said as he looked at an Abyssal Hellhound that he had summoned. Without a moment’s hesitation the Abyssal Hellhound sped through the room with a part of its body transforming into a trial of black smoke and arrived at the object in question and retrieved it, all the while avoiding the Jiangshi who were only embedded with arrows and were not extinguished. With the object in its mouth the Abyssal Hellhound returned to Zhang’s side in a flash. Soon two halves of a black pearl were left in Zhang’s hand.
“These things again, actually this one isn’t identical like the other three that I found. This one as some white dots on its surface.” Zhang said as he examined the pearl fragments. Then with a wave of his hand three pitch black pearls appeared in his other palm.
“I guess these Jiangshi are either defective or have yet to reach perfection like those three.” He thought as he came to a conclusion based on the pearls.
“If my guess is right these pearls were used to create these Jiangshi, so realistically speaking we might be able to use them to raise an army of Jiangshi.” Zhang murmured as a glint appeared in his eyes. If he and Yuying could raise an army of Jiangshi then the conquest of the entire warring states region and perhaps the entire continent would be smooth sailing.
“Let alone those bastards from the Siwang Empire, even if those guys in the eastern empire decided to go against me with an army of Jiangshi, nothing will be able to hinder my plans.”
As they moved further and further into the corridor the group was greeted by a wall of blood red eyes that radiated killing intent.