After 

Senior Shu

 and I ate something, we went to bed. Dreamily, I thought I heard the strange noise from last night again. Moreover, it was very distinctive this time. 

Feeling curious, 

I got out of the tent and followed the noise. It was from the woods not far from us. 

At this

 moment, the miasma had mostly dispersed. I wanted to go there to see what was crying. 

“Did you forget what I told you?” 

At this

 moment, 

Senior Shu

’s voice arose. With a dark face, he pulled me back to the tent. Then, he started to 

give me an earful

. “Kid, were your ears stuck with donkey hair, or 

did

 you 

think

 that you’ve lived long enough? 

That’s

 not something we can peep or interfere with!” 

I was so scared I couldn’t speak. However, I was doubtful. 

Why was Senior Shu so

 wary of this place? 

A moment later, when he looked better, I smiled servilely and asked, “Grandpa, did something bad happen here before?” 

Senior Shu snorted, then started to speak with an indifferent tone. 

“You want to know

? 

In 1942, when the Kuomintang army marched along the Burma highway to fight the evil Japanese army, 

a

 regiment of theirs passed this place. 

In

 one night, the entire regiment had disappeared…” 

“What?!” 

I took a deep breath. However, I thought it 

shouldn’t

 be true. At that time, the situation was chaotic. Perhaps the Kuomintang troop 

was

 ambushed and destroyed by the enemy. 

“

T

he next day, when the Kuomintang army’s leaders learned about this, they sent some scouts to investigate. 

T

he scouts 

were

 gone, too.” 

When 

Senior Shu

 came to this, his eyes were f

ull of fear

. He sounded a little panicked

.

 “A regiment has around one thousand soldiers. Even if the entire regiment was destroyed by the enemy, there should be many traces left

. Yet, t

hey found nothing!”  

“What happened after that? No more investigation?” My stomach churned, but I was still curious. 

Senior Shu

 waved his hand helplessly. “After the rebe

llion succeeded

, the Kuomintang government 

sent

 people here to do further investigations. They got nothing

 i

n the end, so they made an excuse to fence up the place. They said that the mountain ha

d too

 many wild and dangerous animals.

 S

ome disciples of the Mysticism School also came here to investigate the case. However, they all 

suffered

 the same 

fate

. 

No one ca

me back alive, and 

not even

 the bodies of the dead 

were found

.” 

“Are we still going there?” I felt 

as though

 a little drum was playing rapidly in my heart. 

Senior Shu

 saw 

that I was

 scared

. He 

smiled to calm me. “

No

 need to be so tense, grandson! There are so many mysteries and secrets 

o

n th

is

 thousand-year-old big mountain

, but w

e are not going to investigate anything. As long as we stay 

content with

 our lot, I think we should be all right.” 

After talking, 

Senior Shu

 picked up his Holy Mother Scepter and left the tent. I held the Yin and Yang Umbrella in my left hand while my right hand held 

ont

o the wolf-eye flashlight. On my waist, I had the Sirius Whip and the Emei Piercer. I scurried behind 

Senior Shu

 into the woods. 

I thought it would be boring 

up

 there. 

But

 as the miasma had thinned out, 

it

 felt cool. 

The breeze sometimes b

rushed by, 

which made me feel

 comfortable. 

However, that comfortable feeling was soon replaced by the cold. It felt as cold as falling into an icy cave or standing in front of an air conditioner running at its max

imum 

speed in the middle of the freezing winter. I kept blowing my breath into my palms. Still, I shivered in the cold. 

“Don’t panic. The place that has the Undead Grass 

will

 be much colder than this. You will feel better when you get used to it.” 

Senior Shu

 took out a talisman as big as my hand and adhered it 

to

 my chest. Immediately, I felt a warm current flow from my chest to my entire body. When I walked, it felt much warmer. 

Gradually, I got used to the ambient temperature. After walking a few miles, we saw a stone monument, which was the 

source

 of the cold. 

Behind the stone was a domed 

tomb

. From its appearance, I guessed the tomb’s owner was from the North. The locals here preferred to hang the coffins on the mountain flank rather than burying them. 

Senior Shu

 looked excited

. He began to walk 

faster. 

“

A

 buried coffin will 

have a higher

 chance 

of

 growing the Undead Grass!” 

However, when we approached the grave, 

Senior Shu

 was enraged. From where we 

were standing

, the grave looked intact. However, it had been looted. From the other side, we saw that the grave was dug, and the coffin was scattered on the ground. 

Senior Shu

 sniffed the air. Then, he rubbed the 

coffin a

 few times. In the end, he 

made

 a sad conclusion. 

“We are late. Someone has beat us to it.” 

I shone my flashlight o

ver

 the grave. From the color of the coffin and the moisture of the mud, the grave had been just unearthed. I guessed it was done 

in

 the past two days. With that thought, I felt flustered. “

Senior Shu

, do you think the people f

rom the 

Longquan Villa

are behind this to trouble us?” 

“Impossible. Even if they want to trouble us, they don’t need to risk their lives to come here for the Undead Grass.” 

Senior Shu

 shook his head. “You don’t need to worry that much. Of course, 

many people want

 the Undead Grass. It just happened to be taken before we 

got here

, though. We can look for it somewhere else.”  

Although his voice sounded calm, his face showed a sense of loss. I didn’t talk anymore

. I gritted 

my teeth and 

walked

 forward. 

At this

 moment, thudding sounds echoed behind us. It sounded like someone was hitting 

a

 staff onto the ground. I thought it was 

Senior Shu’s 

walking stick. After a few steps, 

Senior Shu

 had passed me already

. However

, the thudding sound 

continued to

 echo behind me. 

As soon as I was about to turn my head around to see, 

Senior Shu

 gently cleared his throat. I got it immediately

. 

I shouldn’t care 

about the things that weren’t my business

!

We had walked a few hundred meters. When the strange sounds disappeared, I relaxed and asked 

Senior Shu

, “What 

was

 that noise?” 

Senior Shu

 thought then answered faintly, “When a tomb 

is

 unearthed and the corpse 

is

 revealed

, 

it will become a 

zombie

 under the mo

onlight

.” 

“

A zombie...?

” 

I was shocked

 and dropped 

my jaw. A 

series of

 scenes 

from

 Lin Zhenying’s movies flashed in my head. I now recognized that it wasn’t the thudding noise from 

a

 walking staff. It was the sound that 

the zombie

 created when 

it

 hopped around. 

“

Senior Shu

, why 

didn't we

 deal with that 

zombie

? Although it didn’t want to hurt us, what if it 

left

 the mountain and 

killed

 people down in the village?” 

“It would 

be heaven's

 will. If it happens, we can 

go deal with

 it. However, we can’t take action now.”

 Senior Shu

 sighed. 

I thought about it for quite a long time before I understood what he meant. I shook my head

 and continued to walk 

behind him. 

After that short episode, I thought it 

wouldn’t be

 hard to find the Undead Grass.

 U

nexpectedly, we had moved in the depths of the mountain for quite a long time and found many cold graves, but we hadn’t seen any blade of Undead Grass.

Senior Shu

 became dispirited. He sighed then said, “Either someone had come and taken the Undead Grass on this mountain before us, or there is no Undead Grass here. I’m afraid we will have to go and look somewhere else.” 

“

Why don’t we go

 to the peak to take a look?” 

I was still unwilling. We had 

moved 

around the mountain flank but we hadn’t entered the peak yet

 because Senior Shu

 thought that

 it would be too dangerous

 up there. 

“

That’s our

 last chance. However, you have to wait for me outside. Do not follow me.” 

Senior Shu

 warned me first.

He then 

added

 as he was afraid that I wouldn’t agree with him

,

 “It’s 

better for the

 both of us. Otherwise, I will have to 

lose

 my focus to help you.” 

It wasn’t that he was being pretentious. 

Under

 normal 

circumstances

, I could indeed support him. 

However,

 if we faced 

something too 

intimidating, I would be a burden to him. In the end, I gave him a nod. 

As I had agreed, 

Senior Shu

 smiled and turned around. Using the Holy Mother Scepter to support himself, he started climbing to the mountain peak. 

I followed behind him. When we were about to reach the peak, the temperature dropped sharply. Although I 

had

 th

at

 talisman from 

Senior Shu

, my body still shivered involuntarily. 

However, I wasn’t panicked, but excited

. I said,

 “

Senior Shu

, what do you think?” 

“

Things are a

lmost right. There could be something up there!” 

Senior Shu

 excitedly rubbed his hands and 

increased

 his speed. However, before we reached the peak, two strange 

people

 suddenly dashed toward us on the small mountain path. 

I didn’t know if they were humans or ghosts. However, even from a very far distance, I could feel the 

cold exuding

 from them. Moreover,

one was wearing white clothes 

while

 the 

other was wearing

 black clothes. At first glance, they looked like the Black and White Impermanence

, two deities from legends

. 

My legs turned jelly-like. I gulped and whispered to 

Senior Shu

, “What should we do now?” 

Before 

Senior Shu

 answered, the two strange 

people

 talked in unison. “Return to where you came from. O

therwise,

 we’ll kill you.” 

Their voices were hoarse and matched with each other, which produced 

a

 robotic effect. In this 

ambiance

, their words lingered in our ears. 

Senior Shu

 kept silent. He grabbed my arm and turned around

. We 

descend

ed

 the mountain. 

After walking 

for a while

, I turned around to check. The two strangers, one in black and one in white, didn’t chase after us. I exhaled, still feeling fearful. “

Were they

 humans or ghosts? What 

were

 they doing there?” 

“I don’t know, either.” 

Senior Shu

’s brows slammed together. He rubbed his temple. “If they are humans, how can they have 

such

 thick Yin energy? If they aren’t humans, how can they have shadows?” 

I admired and respected 

Senior Shu

 even more now. I was frightened at that time and didn’t have the mind to observe. Fortunately, 

Senior Shu

 had recognized that they 

had

 shadows. 

“If they are humans, there’s nothing to be afraid of. We can just storm in there!” I suggested. 

The 

fearful

 thing was the 

unknown.

 If they were humans, even though they were fierce, 

I wouldn’t be so scared of them. 

I wanted to return to see if we could brush through them to take the Undead Grass. 

“It seems 

y

ou didn’t 

notice

 that the cold didn’t come from the Undead Grass

.

The 

cold came from those two freaks!” 

Senior Shu

 paused for a while then 

said

, “You sensed the Yin energ

y

 from them, didn’t you?” 

I felt irritated

 and shook 

my head in frust

ration

. 

Senior Shu

 was right. 

Those

 two had thick cold air 

exuding from their bodies

. Tha

t wa

s why I didn’t know if there was Undead Grass up at the peak of the mountain. It wasn’t wise to 

go

 back and risk our lives. 

We then headed back to the place we had camped.

As

 we were about to reach the campsite, 

Senior Shu

 halted

 and sniffed 

around. His face turned strange. “There is Yang energy around. Someone has visited our place!”