The Great Worm Lich

Hearing that Tumu did not reject his orders with many unreasonable reasons as he would usually do, Tugra showed a disappointed look. “Chief Tumu, it looks like your brain is not filled entirely with muscles.” Then, he proceeded to turn and leave the wooden house.

The sentence that the headman had said before he left made the unruly warriors in the wooden house realize that it was obviously a trap just now. Had they been a little slow just now, they would have most likely enraged that tribal living faith of theirs!

The moment they recalled the powerfulness of the Tudenan’s Remodeler who destroyed the entire Luami tribe with only the help of the two legendary beasts, one of the most powerful warriors with revealed sharp teeth and a fully wrinkled face howled in a twisted expression, “It’s obvious that he wants to die by the hands of the Great Remodeler! To think that Tugra actually has such a vicious mind! He’s not worthy of being our headman! ”

“Luhu, if you really treat him as a chief, perhaps Tugra would not have been tempted to get rid of you anymore.” Upon hearing the toothy warrior’s howl, a skinny aborigine beside him who had sharp eyes said in a low voice.

“Nunani! W-What did you mean?!” The toothy warrior stuttered. “Don’t tell me that y-you’re actually willing to let such an incompetent person rule the tribe…”

“Enough, Luhu! Right now, the most important thing is to carry out the Great Remodeler’s command! Follow me!” Tumu, who had been silent after Tugra left, slapped the wooden table with a grave expression. After taking a good look at Nunani, he proceeded to stride out of the wooden house by himself.

Not long after, the warrior chief with three bright feathers stuck on his head who had the highest position in the Tudenan tribe brought his loyal subordinate and the carefully selected 28 strong aborigine warriors to stride up to Zhang Lisheng.

Crouching on the ground, Tumu kissed the Remodeler’s foot and said in a strong voice, “Tudenan tribal living faith, your devout warrior, Tumu, has come to serve you.”

“Very good, Tumu!” Even though Zhang Lisheng did not know who the warrior beside his feet was, he was equipped with the knowledge that a warrior with three feathers on his head had a high position in the tribe. For this reason, he caressed Tumu’s head and said, “I’ve already felt your devotion to me. Right now, follow me to have hearty hunting with the Menger tribesmen! None of you have to make any move, you just have to transport the ‘preys’.”

Tumu could not understand the reason why this powerful spiritual monster, who could shrink his body to the size of a Hellfire tribesman, wanted to attack the Menger tribesmen who lived next to Tudenan. However, after the Remodeler caressed him, he could clearly sense the good intention behind it. Thus, without hesitance, he answered, “Yes, Great Remodeler.” Then, he rose from the ground and commanded the warriors behind him to arrange themselves in a battle formation right away.

It looked ridiculous to let a group of rabbits guard a lion, but the meaning implied in it was completely different. “These aborigines seem to be much more complicated than I thought, and much more useful too…” When Zhang Lisheng saw the performance of the aborigine chief warrior, he curled his lips and muttered to himself in a very low voice before leading this group of aborigines to walk out of the valley.

The moment they entered the forest, the Tudenan Remodeler immediately expanded his body to become a ferocious giant, turning his mouth into the size of a wooden door and blew out strong cyclones to destroy the forest indiscriminately. After obtaining enough beast carcasses, he directly cast the ‘assemble’ spell through his mind.

Very soon, countless insects lured in by the spell leaped out of the deep jungle as they gathered to feed on the blood food. This time, Zhang Lisheng did not take the opportunity to screen for wizard gu. Instead, he enslaved the temporarily lured-in insects and commanded them to head to the east of the Tudenan Valley like a flood.

After the insects spread out, he waited quietly without saying a word until he could faintly sense the general direction of where the prey emerged. With a whisper, he said, “Tumu, follow my footsteps closely”. He then stepped on the mud and moved forward in a seemingly slow but actually fast pace that the aborigine warriors could hardly catch up.

More than ten minutes later, Zhang Lisheng tracked down a group of indigenous hunters who were hunting a green forest goat with four long horns and a length of more than five meters.

Even though that fat giant forest goat looked huge in size, it was still only a herbivore no matter what. When the spear-yielding aborigines surrounded it, the only method of resistance was to run into them using the horns on his head. Unfortunately, the agile hunters always dodged it away

Perhaps it was due to the reason that the prey was too weak, the hunters who did not know that they had also become prey barred their teeth and shouted intimidatingly, “roarrr roar…” As they did so, they actually still had the capability to move agilely while chatting with each other.

“So many flying insects today! They’ve covered my eyes already! Daru, I told you to ignite the smoked grass, but you didn’t want to listen! The forest spiritual monster will be born in these next few days and the big trees on the island would sprout once they’re slashed. The beasts and insects have gone crazy…”

“The insects will go crazy, but in the daytime, the four-horned goat will not be stupid enough to enter woodland with an ignited smoked grass. Aruka, if I really had listened to you, we’d not have any delicious fat goat for our dinner tonight anymore…”

Hiding behind a lush tree, looking at the aborigines hunting casually not far away, Zhang Lisheng whispered and asked Tumu who was following behind him with a spear in his hand, “Are these hunters from Menger?”

Tumu narrowed his eyes and raised his head to take a careful look with the help of the mottled light penetrating through the giant tree leaves and branches before saying with certainty, “Great Remodeler, their chief has an ugly feather from the grey mud bird on his head and his knees are full of mud. He’s definitely a hunter from the Menger.”

“How lucky! Wait right here, you guys.” Upon hearing this satisfactory answer, Zhang Lisheng showed a pleasant smile and urged the Tudenan warriors before walking out from behind the tree briskly.

Although the four-horned goat attracted most of the attention, when a big living person walked out straight towards them, it caught the attention of the Menger hunters.

In the primitive jungle that advocated the law of the jungle, there was no moral norm to follow, so it was extremely common for tribal hunting teams to snatch each other’s prey.

“This is our prey, go away…” Although Zhang Lisheng was alone and did not appear to have any other intention, the chief hunter still howled at him immediately with a gloomy glare.

However, after their gap was narrowed to a suitable distance before this strong aborigine warrior could manage to finish his sentence, he immediately charged out towards the wizard’s outstretched arms and sent a punch to the wizard’s stomach.

After that, Zhang Lisheng’s gaze sharpened as he started to count, “one, two, three… thirty-two”, giving off a series of attacks with both his punches and kicks with a movement so agile nobody could catch his movement clearly. Since the aborigine’s simple weapons could not penetrate through his defense, he wantonly knocked the entire group of Menger hunters to the ground in a short period of time.

“Tumu, come out. Lead your men and carry these Menger tribesmen back to the Tudenan Valley.”

“Yes, Great Remodeler!” Tumu agilely led the tribal warriors to emerge from the dense jungle and carry the Menger hunter who had fallen to the ground. After glancing at the forest goat that had leaped and ran away towards the distance regrettably, they followed behind Zhang Lisheng and returned to the tribal territory.

The time it took for Zhang Lisheng to voice out the plan of hunting down the Menger tribesmen to bring the 30 living Menger captives back home was less than the time it took for firewood to burn out.

When Tugra, who was personally leading the tribal women to feed the giant beetle who was standing in a daze like a statue in front of the totem pole, saw Zhang Lisheng walking back to the valley, he rushed forward in astonishment, before crouching on the ground and kissing on the young man’s foot. “Great Remodeler…”

“Enough, Tugra. Every time when you guys see me, you’ll kneel and salute me before repeating the prayer ‘Oh Great Remodeler’. Is this a necessary ritual for Hellfire people or the habit of Tudenan tribe?”

“It’s not a necessary ritual for Hellfire people, but to every tribe, the Great Remodeler is…”

“If it’s not a necessary ritual, then there’s no need to repeat it again and again.” Zhang Lisheng originally wanted to abolish the tedious primitive habits of saluting the God, but he suddenly had a change of thought. If there was no ritual at all, the pious belief would inevitably fade away. “It’s enough to do this once a day only. You only have to bow to show me respect and call me Remodeler directly.”

“Yes, G-Gre… Erm, Remodeler!” Tugra was stunned for a moment before replying awkwardly.

“Did you hear me? Tumu? The same applies to all of you too.” Zhang Lisheng turned and told the aborigine chief warrior behind him before striding to the bark house that enshrined the tribal book of history.

As he passed the totem pole, he stopped and looked at the wizard gu who instinctively swallowed the blood the tribal women offered. “Tugra, stop feeding this insect bloody food. It’ll never be full even if it eats till the entire Tudenan is famished.”

“Yes, Remodeler!”

“Also, I want to carry out a bloody ritual to send a curse to the Menger tribe. It’s not too good for me to do this kind of thing in the tree house that enshrines the book of history. Order your men to prepare a clean house for me. Place a wooden table in the middle that can accommodate a Hellfire person and use a wooden tub to prepare clean water condensed from steam. Tumu, Tugra, after cleaning the tree bark house, tie the Menger tribesmen and place them outside the houses. Remember to monitor them properly.”

“Yes, Remodeler!” Upon hearing Zhang Lisheng’s order, Tugra and Tumu bowed awkwardly and answered at the same time.

After feeling that he had arranged everything, Zhang Lisheng walked into the sacred bark house in front of him and took out the metal box with the ’01 mixed reagent’.

Then, the young man carried out the cruel Corpse Puppet Refining Method with the 32 Menger hunters as his materials in the other slightly smaller bark house.

The results were outstanding, except for the first two. Due to the reason that he had not mastered the amount of ’01 mixed reagent’ needed for a living material, it caused the two of them to erode directly from their own blood during the refining process that caused them to turn into ashes. However, the other 30 aborigines were all transformed.

After using the concentrated blending reagents in two silver containers and spending a few hours to get his desired Corpse Puppets, Zhang Lisheng heaved a long sigh of relief, before commanding the Corpse Puppets to walk out of the wooden house stiffly.