The Sacred Leaves Family's Wishes for Peace

Chapter 83 : Hesitation

"Captain Chang, deploy your troops to

Inside the Canyon.

Deep within the gorge, hidden in a damp, cold cave, the girl in the blue dress crouched over several corpses scavenged from the battlefield.

She was using the sinister, lingering energy from the bodies to nourish her remaining thirty corpse gu.

Suddenly, her heightened spiritual senses detected the faint presence of living humans approaching the canyon entrance.

The group was sizable.

"Perfect," she murmured, her crimson eyes gleaming with a chilling bloodlust.

"The corpses here are running low. Let Little Yellow and the others kill a few more. Fresh blood will make them stronger."

Smiling faintly, she reached into her storage pouch and retrieved thirty golden corpse gu, carefully placing one into the mouth of each of the thirty rotting corpses before her.

As the gu worms burrowed into their new hosts, the lifeless bodies suddenly twitched. Moments later, their eyes snapped open, their pupils clouded over in a pale, eerie blue.

Their mouths gaped, revealing sharp, beast-like fangs.

Their fingernails elongated into razor-like claws, gleaming in the dim light.

Roar!

Low, guttural growls emanated from the thirty reanimated corpses, sending a chill through the air.

"Go on now. The feast has come to you—don't waste it. Eat your fill," the girl said, patting the head of one corpse like a doting parent.

With her command, the thirty corpse puppets vanished into the darkness, moving with an uncanny, ghostly swiftness as they left the cold, damp cave.