Chapter 657: Chapter 657: The Priestess’s Charms (33)

“Ugh—-”

Fu Yu hugged a tree, his stomach churned, and he vomited everything he had eaten.

Chuzheng walked away in disgust and sent an air of condescension towards Fu Yu, “Are you really getting this worked up over a few corpses?”

Little Master Fu Yu’s face turned deathly pale as he vomited, trembling fingers pointing behind him, he spoke in despair, “A few? That huge pit is filled with corpses!!”

All of them, indeed!

What kind of misunderstanding does she have about a few corpses?

He had never seen so many corpses in his whole life.

If he had known Chuzheng was bringing him to see corpses, he would have never come, not if he were beaten to death.

Ugh—-

Chuzheng, unfazed, walked forward a couple of steps and stood above the Pit of Ten Thousand.

Back then, I actually climbed out of it!

Chuzheng looked into the Pit of Ten Thousand.

There was no stench of decay here, and the corpses showed no signs of rotting. There was almost no change since the time she left.

No…

The blood was gone.

The blood that had previously been visible to the naked eye had now completely disappeared.

Fu Yu hugged the tree, squinting one eye and closing the other, glancing towards Chuzheng.

The woman stood in front of the Pit of Ten Thousand with such composure, as if those below were not corpses but her subjects, and she was about to be crowned queen…

Ugh—-

Little Master Fu Yu claimed it wasn’t intentional. Whenever his mind recalled the first scene he witnessed, his stomach would naturally react.

This Pit of Ten Thousand was even more secluded and hidden than Maoling City. With Ye Shuliang throwing the corpses here, even if someone were to discover them, considering the sheer number of bodies, it was unlikely anyone would bother to collect them.

Not only would no one collect the bodies, but it was likely that if someone nearby died, they would use this place as a new dumping ground for corpses.

“Stop vomiting and get to work.”

Little Master Fu Yu was close to tears, “I…I can’t do it…”

“What do you mean you can’t? A man should never say he can’t.” Chuzheng said coldly, “Get to work.”

Little Master Fu Yu: “…”

I really can’t do it!

With a cold glance from Chuzheng, Little Master Fu Yu felt a shiver run down his spine, and he mustered the strength to stand up while hugging the tree trunk.

“Are…Are we supposed to collect these corpses?” Fu Yu dared not look at the Pit of Ten Thousand.

Chuzheng glanced at him icily, “Do you have that hobby?”

Although I’m a good person, I wouldn’t find such tiresome work for myself.

Little Master Fu Yu shuddered, “No…Not that? Then what are we here to do?”

Chuzheng didn’t answer; she simply threw him a bag of Magic Stones.

These were what they had purchased back in Penghua City.

They were quite valuable…

Chuzheng asked him to place the Magic Stones around the perimeter of the Pit of Ten Thousand at certain intervals.

Fu Yu shakily placed the Magic Stones, while Chuzheng sat nearby flipping through a book.

“Magic Array…”

Once Chuzheng had roughly read through it, she suddenly realized, as a Dark Series Magician, how would she set it up?

Fu Yu ran back, “I…I’ve placed them all, now what do we do?”

“Go catch…call a few people from the Mercenary Guild nearby,” Chuzheng paused, “make sure they know about Magic Arrays.”

Fu Yu: “??”

Who would willingly come here?!

And did you just say ‘catch’?

Chuzheng handed him a bag of Gold Coins.

Fu Yu: “…”

–

With Gold Coins as a scouting stone, Fu Yu quickly brought people back.

They were mercenaries from the vicinity. When there were troubles in Maoling City, they were called over. They were already aware of the Pit of Ten Thousand, so their reaction to seeing it again was mere distaste, not extreme.

They had no idea what their employer wanted to do here.

Such a young girl was quite generous, though.

Chuzheng handed them the book, pointing to the Magic Array, “Learn this Magic Array.”

Several people reacted uniformly, utterly shocked, “Learn?!”

Asking them to learn Magic Arrays at the Pit of Ten Thousand… does this girl have a problem with her brain?

Fu Yu was also shocked, with his mouth agape wide enough to fit an egg.

“You can also start directly,” Chuzheng asked earnestly, “Do you know how to do it?”

They looked at the book, it was a Magic Array they had never seen before, very complex in appearance.

How could they possibly know how to do this…

She wasn’t just playing with them, was she?

In light of the Gold Coins Chuzheng had given, one of them stepped forward and cautiously said, “Young Lady, a Magic Array cannot be learned in a day or two.”

If it were so easy to learn, every Magician in the world would know it.

Even a simple Magic Array could take someone with poor comprehension a whole month to learn.

Fu Yu nodded in agreement on the side.

Chuzheng said indifferently, “You just need to remember the steps, I will help you lay out the Magic Array with Magic Stones first.”

The crowd: “…”

So wealthy and imposing!

Most Magic Arrays would opt to use their own elemental power to inscribe.

Theoretically, such Magic Arrays are more powerful.

However, that’s not the case.

Magic Arrays laid out with Magic Stones are more powerful because they are stable, and the Magic Stones themselves contain power that can be harnessed to its fullest. There’s also a downside; such Formations are immovable.

This is the only drawback.

But since most Formations are mostly stationary to begin with, this can hardly be considered a fatal flaw.

And Magic Stones are expensive, way beyond what an ordinary Magician can afford.

Now their employer wanted to use Magic Stones to set up the Array…

“Then… shall we give it a try?”

A few people went to the side to learn the Magic Array right then and there.

Chuzheng asked Fu Yu to continue laying out Magic Stones.

Young Master Fu Yu: “…”

Because the Magic Stones were also needed inside the Pit of Ten Thousand, Young Master Fu Yu would rather die than go down there, so Chuzheng had to roll up her sleeves and go herself.

She tread over the corpses as if walking on solid ground.

Fu Yu watched with revulsion; if there had been anything left in his stomach, he probably would have vomited again.

Actually, Chuzheng was on the verge of explosion inside.

But as a noble and cold high-ranker, she couldn’t show any weakness.

Chuzheng and Fu Yu finished laying the Magic Stones, and over there the few others were still learning the Magic Array.

Learning a Magic Array is not so simple; even just memorizing it is very difficult.

It took several days for those few to declare they had remembered it.

One of them said cautiously, “We… cannot guarantee success on the first try.”

Learning a Magic Array on the fly was something they had never contemplated in their lives.

So the failure couldn’t be blamed on them.

“Oh,” Chuzheng didn’t seem to care that much, suggesting with great bravado, “If it doesn’t work once, then try twice.” Eventually, it would be successful.

“…”

Magic Stones could only be used once; you need new ones after that.

Did she buy her Magic Stones wholesale?

Chuzheng the Boss: “Start when you’re ready.”

The few of them exchanged glances and positioned themselves around the Pit of Ten Thousand.

“What do we do?”

Chuzheng pointed to the first circle of Magic Stones she had laid out, “When I tell you to light it, you light it.”

“Light what?” Fu Yu was somewhat confused.

“The Magic Stones.”

“How… how do we light them?” Young Master Fu Yu’s brain had come to a halt, utterly bewildered.

“Aren’t you a Fire Series?”

“Yes… yes, I am.”

“Just use that to light them.”

“…”