Chapter 131: Diverting Attention to the East while Striking in the West
Duan Gujin's mind stirred, and he quickly used the Evil Eye to create a path for Dong Tianheng and others to escape swiftly through the ruins.
After their escape, Duan Gujin let the Evil Eye disturb the energy within the ruins.
In less than twenty breaths of time, Han Zhanyi and others burst out from the collapsed secret chamber passage, and after running out of the secret chamber, they started searching for Dong Tianheng's whereabouts.
Han Zhanyi released his Divine Sense, and moments later, he gasped in shock as he couldn't sense Dong Tianheng's presence.
"It's weird! I clearly marked him, he couldn't have escaped from here so quickly!"
He searched carefully for a while, but still couldn't find Dong Tianheng and had no choice but to give up.
"Who exactly helped him?"
Han Zhanyi racked his brain, pondering hard but could not figure out anyone in Qiankun Continent capable of controlling zombies using Spirit Binder.
"Could it be an assassin from the Assassin Dynasty? But it seems they don't have the ability to control zombies."
After a moment of thought, Han Zhanyi felt it was very likely the work of the Assassin Dynasty.
But then again, he felt that with the capabilities of the Assassin Dynasty, they shouldn't be able to control zombies.
"Besides the Assassin Dynasty, who else in Qiankun Continent could control zombies?"
Han Zhanyi quickly asked the people around him, and after a long thought, they all shook their heads.
"It seems I need to go back and have it investigated!"
Han Zhanyi didn't blame the people around him; he knew they had no intelligence personnel.
"This ruin is very bizarre!"
Having surveyed with his Divine Sense around for a while, Han Zhanyi came to this conclusion.
He guessed that Dong Tianheng and others had left the ruins, and he didn't want them to return to the Netherworld Sect and cause havoc.
"Stay here and protect this place, don't wander around and fall into the enemy's trap! The rest of you, come with me!"
Without any hesitation, Han Zhanyi immediately ordered his subordinates to rapidly return to the Netherworld Sect with him.
Though he guessed the ruins might contain treasures, he felt the Netherworld Sect was more important compared to the treasures.
He left some people at the ruins not to search for treasures, but to observe any movements inside and outside the ruins.
Seeing Han Zhanyi leave with a group of people, Duan Gujin breathed a sigh of relief.
Although many people were still left in the ruins, their Cultivation was not high, and they were ordered by Han Zhanyi only to guard the place, not to search for treasures.
Through the memory of the Evil Eye, Duan Gujin knew exactly where the treasures were inside the ruins.
"This Evil Eye really consumes a lot of Primordial Power!"
Once Duan Gujin confirmed that there were no dangers nearby, he immediately sat down cross-legged to recuperate and recover his Primordial Power.
Three hours passed, and his Primordial Power finally recovered to its Peak State.
"That was close!"
Recalling the previous moment, Duan Gujin expelled a breath of turbid air.
From the memory of the Evil Eye, Duan Gujin knew where the treasures were in the ruins.
Although that place was not far from the secret chamber where the discord among the Netherworld Sect Disciples occurred, to open the chamber containing the treasures, one needs to solve the mechanism inside.
Through the Evil Eye, Duan Gujin knew that the people from the Netherworld Sect had not yet discovered those treasures.
"I hope I can have unexpected gains!"
Duan Gujin took a deep breath, a thought crossed his mind, and he had the Evil Eye spit out some thin worms.
After a two-hour duration, the Evil Eye spat out two thin worms for Duan Gujin.
The previous battle cost Duan Gujin nine corpses, now he only had three corpses left.
He knew his strength was insufficient, he needed to create more corpses to help him against the Netherworld Sect Disciples.
His body flickered, turning into a shadow, disappearing into the Void.
After a while, he arrived next to two abandoned corpses, and he placed the thin worms into the bodies of these two corpses.
After 15 minutes had passed, these two corpses had turned into two zombies controlled by the Evil Eye.
"I need to mislead them and attack from the other side!"
After the previous battles, Duan Gujin knew that the zombies' weaknesses were too apparent and guessed Han Zhanyi would definitely inform his subordinates about those weaknesses.
Thus, Duan Gujin could only resort to making the zombies self-destruct to deal with the Netherworld Sect Disciples.
Currently, he only had five zombies at his disposal, while the number of Netherworld Sect Disciples left at the ruins was at least in the hundreds.
These hundreds of disciples were initially assigned to dig in the chambers, but Han Zhanyi had ordered them to guard the site.
Thus, all of those previously digging in the chambers had come out to guard just outside the chambers.
After Duan Gujin learned about the approximate number of Netherworld Sect Disciples through the Evil Eye, he drew in a sharp breath.
"Darn it! I didn't realize there were so many Netherworld Sect Disciples hidden inside the chambers before!"
Duan Gujin's eyes flashed as he thought of misleading them and attacking from another direction.
Immediately, he sent out two zombies to launch a self-destruct attack on a chamber that had no treasures.
A massive explosion roared, and shortly after, many Netherworld Sect Disciples rushed from the other chambers to the one where the explosion had occurred, extending their Divine Sense to closely inspect the traces on the ground.
Seeing that the chamber containing treasures was also guarded by some Netherworld Sect Disciples, Duan Gujin quickly ordered two zombies to launch a fierce attack on that chamber.
The two zombies rapidly dashed towards the chamber, and though they were soon spotted by the Netherworld Sect Disciples guarding the chamber, Duan Gujin controlled the two zombies, and as they were about to close a distance of less than ten meters with those Netherworld Sect Disciples, he mentally triggered the self-destruction of the two zombies.
After two quick explosions sounded, the Netherworld Sect Disciples guarding the treasure chamber were either killed or injured.
The powerful explosion caused by the zombies collapsed the entrance of the chamber.
Seeing the collapsed entrance of the chamber, Duan Gujin was left speechless.
"Darn it! I didn't expect to mess it up!"
His eyes flashed, and he thought about what the Netherworld Sect Disciples might do next.
Shortly, he saw many Netherworld Sect Disciples gathering at the chamber he had collapsed.
Seeing this, the Netherworld Sect Disciples immediately began discussing.
"Who can guess what that person really wants to do? If he specifically uses those zombies against us, we might suffer countless deaths and injuries!"
The fear arose in the hearts of the Netherworld Sect Disciples guarding outside the chambers, they deduced that Duan Gujin was most likely trying to eliminate them one by one with self-destructing zombies.
The same thought flashed through their minds, and they felt they could not simply stand at the entrance of the chambers like fools.
Because once a self-destructing zombie appeared, those staying at the entrance would only be blown to pieces.
Although the present Netherworld Sect Disciples were loyal to their duties, they didn't want to die foolishly like idiots, they felt they should find a way to deal with Duan Gujin's self-destructing zombies.