Chapter 164: The Forbidden Land of Luoyang

Outside the city of Luoyang lies a place recognized by players as a forbidden zone!
The Mass Graveyard…
In this chaotic, damp, and eerily gloomy cemetery, ghostly flames flicker. Day or night, zombies dressed in black official robes and wearing round hats wander around, their arms raised high. Their terrifying faces are grim and expressionless, yet their movements are agile—bending their knees and springing forward to leap several meters, leaving shallow pits behind, as if they were clumsy martial arts masters.
This is the stronghold of the “Corpse Gate,” as famous as the “Heavenly Secrets Valley,” the premier valley of the righteous path. It is the foremost puppet sect of evil forces, which creates zombies using the corpses of various martial arts masters, giving them combat prowess comparable to those of the Heavenly Secrets Valley’s puppets.
These zombies have been famous in the martial arts world for many years!
Through secret techniques, the Corpse Gate preserves each one perfectly, maintaining their original muscles and bones. They retain some fighting instincts and can use certain combat techniques from their lives.
What’s more terrifying…
The Corpse Gate coats these corpses with copper oil, enhancing their physical strength to that of elite weapons—ordinary weapons can hardly harm them. Coupled with their skills, which rival those of martial arts masters at the Mystical Realm level, players and guilds dare not approach the Mass Graveyard. Yet, since the game “Jianghu” started, countless players have recklessly entered it only to be mercilessly killed by the zombies and left as corpses in the graveyard.
Thus, the Mass Graveyard’s notorious reputation spread…
But today…
The Mass Graveyard welcomed a visitor.
With sharp eyebrows and piercing eyes, dressed in a blue robe, he moved swiftly through the gloomy cemetery as if it didn’t exist, stepping deep into its depths without touching the ground. Those following from afar stared at each other in shock, almost biting their tongues in disbelief!
“…”
“What do we do?”
“Damn it, he knows we’re behind him!”
“Nonsense. If he really wanted to get rid of us, he’d have turned back and killed us. Do you think we’re easier to deal with than the zombies here?” The group gathered together, discussing frantically.
“What should we do now…”
“There’s no way we can enter the Mass Graveyard. You stay here and guard while I send a message to the guild leader to make a decision.” One of them sighed and quickly wrote a letter, sending it off with a pigeon.
The others glanced at the dense miasma ahead, the bulging graves, and the faint black shadows moving through the mist—their scalps prickling with fear.
“This guy’s crazy.”

Wandering among groups of zombies at the Mysterious Realm level, probably no human would dare to act so recklessly. The few of them quickly reached a conclusion about the young man in blue.
To be honest…
From when they accepted the mission until now, they still didn’t know his identity. All they knew was to follow this guy, figure out where he was going, and what he was doing.
Before long, the homing pigeon returned.
The person who received the message slowly turned around:
“The boss says we can leave now.”
“Uh, didn’t all that effort go to waste?”
“What else did you expect?” Though they said that, to be honest, they still had a slight hope in their hearts.
The Graveyard of the Dead—a forbidden area!
The more dangerous a place, the more attractive it is to players.
Of course, overly dangerous places, especially this minefield-like area, would make most sensible people avoid stepping in.
What they didn’t know was that the one who had dared to enter the sacred place of the Graveyard of the Dead was Kai Xin—third on the recent list of famous players widely discussed by many players!
Because of several major actions Kai Xin had taken—bloodshed at the temple, fighting against the First-Class Hall at the Peak of Punishment, several escapes that earned him the title of “Heavenly Killer Star,” and even uncovering a way to counter the Zhou Yi Master—many players claimed that Kai Xin’s reputation had far surpassed that of the First-Class Hall’s leader, and even “Swift Sword Xiao San” and “Soul-Stealing Marquis Ding Bei Hou” paled in comparison!
Yet the list of famous players remained unchanged, keeping Kai Xin in third place.
As a result…
Controversy arose.
But Kai Xin knew nothing about this and didn’t care.
He was still frustrated about how a momentary slip of the tongue had brought such trouble and responsibility…
Although he tried his best to make things right, the “Lonely Three Wolves” still assigned him the task of handing over at least one high-quality martial arts manual per day—under the pretense of strengthening the Power of Colorful Robes Sect and boosting the fame and influence of the “Nan Hua Jiang Hu List”!
Fortunately, the task of producing one manual wasn’t too heavy.
And…
Actually, even before this, he had planned to make a profit by dealing in high-quality martial arts manuals, taking advantage of the shortage to reap big gains—so as not to waste his rebirth.
However…
Though there were many sources for high-quality martial arts manuals, he actually knew quite few that could be learned at the Fate Realm level, and he only had a vague memory of a few relatively famous ones.

In this city of Luoyang, Kai Xin had also visited once before. Drawn by the fame of the “Mass Burial Ground” of the Corpse Gate, he spent some time here, learning that there was a highly effective poison-based martial art called “Thousand Corpse Hands.” Moreover, there was a certain chance of uncovering an even superior martial art, “Ten Thousand Poisons Palm!”
Although “Ten Thousand Poisons Palm” was considered an unorthodox technique, it could unleash palm strikes that made people vomit and feel dizzy in close combat. Those without experience were easily caught off guard, and its lethality was considerable—making it a decent high-level martial art.
As for the zombies here, their combat strength wasn’t greater than that of the Violation Monks at the Mysterious Realm. Their fearless fighting style was tricky, along with their mastery of poisons.
For this reason, Kai Xin brought plenty of antidote pills as preparation.
“Whoosh!” “Whoosh!”
Yet, not long after entering the Mass Burial Ground, two sounds of wind cutting through the air came from ahead. Two zombies dressed in gray coarse cloth, with shriveled faces and terrifying expressions, emerged from behind the graves and rushed at Kai Xin at lightning speed.
“…”
Kai Xin’s heart warned him!
But he remained calm, stopping his advance abruptly. The blade of his Battle-Tested Sword emitted a bright deep blue glow, instantly sweeping across the bodies of the two zombies.
Bang! Bang!
With solid thuds, the two zombies in gray robes were sent flying by Kai Xin’s swift slash…
Seeing the threat gone, Kai Xin was instead shocked! He bent his knees and stepped back several meters, scanning the surroundings with a serious expression, becoming even more vigilant.
He shouted firmly:
“Who’s there! Show yourself!!”
He had already been puzzled earlier.
He remembered there were no zombies in the area—how could these two suddenly appear here, as if they had been lying in wait?
What was even stranger was that, with his usual strength at the tenth level of the Mysterious Realm, even if he faced the zombies of the Mass Burial Ground, he could at most force them to fall, not easily send them flying several meters away.
These weren’t zombies at the Mysterious Realm level… they were lower-tier zombies at the Mysterious Realm!
These zombies were different from those born in the Mass Burial Ground—they were zombie puppets controlled by players, nothing more than weapons acting according to their controllers’ wills!