The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 718 Mermaid Corpse
"This woman knows many ancient secrets; she's practically a living encyclopedia."

"We might be able to glean some secrets from ancient times from her."

Liang Yuan's heart stirred slightly, and he was about to collect Ling Yurong's soul and leave.

At this moment, Ling Yurong suddenly spoke up: "Wait!"

Liang Yuan looked at Ling Yurong: "What? Do you have something else to say?"

Ling Yurong looked at the corpse on the ground and said in a deep voice, "The one surnamed Liang..."

"Huh? What did you call me?"

Ling Yurong froze instantly as an invisible pressure enveloped her. The restraint talisman within her body vibrated, and she let out a muffled groan. An invisible force compelled her to speak, "Master..."

Liang Yuan nodded in satisfaction and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Ling Yurong took a deep breath and said, "My body can be taken back."

Liang Yuan asked in surprise, "What do you mean? This corpse is still useful?"

Ling Yurong nodded slightly: "Yes, this body is not my original body, but a corpse that I prepared in advance thousands of years ago in order to cultivate the Reincarnation Longevity Method."

Liang Yuan was astonished: "Pre-prepared corpses? What does that mean?"

"After cultivating to the point of gene recombination, the soul's memories can be transmitted through the bloodline and hidden within the bloodline."

"But the physical body cannot really live for thousands of years."

"Even if you cultivate the Divine Beast Diagram to perfection, you still can't do this."

"To solve this problem, some of us chose to use the bodies of extraterrestrial beasts to create a powerful corpse that would not decay for millions of years."

"My body was forged from the corpse of an extraterrestrial behemoth and then sealed within an ice crystal palace with the power of frost."

"Because I used my own blood essence when I created this body, it can perfectly merge with my spiritual essence."

Liang Yuan asked, somewhat puzzled, "So it's dead?"

Ling Yurong shook her head: "It doesn't exist in the realm of life or death; it was originally just a body that housed my spirit and soul."

"Oh? So you can still use it?"

Liang Yuan became interested and began to inquire.

Ling Yurong nodded: "Okay, as long as my soul returns to its body."

Liang Yuan immediately said, "Then you should go back. I don't have anywhere to put your soul here anyway."

Ling Yurong's spirit quickly burrowed back into the corpse.

Then they saw the corpse's self-inflicted wounds, which healed completely at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Liang Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement and asked, "This corpse isn't even your own. How did you achieve genetic recombination?"

Ling Yurong opened her eyes, got up, and said, "This body was formed by my blood and was originally nourished by my bloodline."

"According to you, all genes are in the blood, so I can naturally recombine genes and reshape my body."

Liang Yuan asked in confusion, "Where are the bones? The bones aren't your own, are they? How can they undergo genetic recombination?"

Ling Yurong said, "Because this extraterrestrial mutated beast is actually a mermaid, and it is highly similar to my divine beast diagram, it has the same gene fragments as me in its body."

"My mental strength is sufficient to support me in mobilizing these genes, composing the divine beast diagram, and transforming into the form of a giant beast."

Liang Yuan then realized that the corpse was not chosen randomly; it had to be highly similar to his genetic map.

Ling Yurong's genetic map shows that she is in the form of a mermaid, and the extraterrestrial behemoth she found is also in the form of a mermaid.

The two are of the same origin and share the same genes. Ling Yurong was able to control this skeleton by using her powerful spiritual strength and her own bloodline genes.

Suddenly, Liang Yuan remembered the mermaid skeleton he had obtained from the underwater tomb!
Those mermaid monsters gathered in that ancient tomb, worshipping the coffin containing the remains.

Could it be that some ancient superhuman was hidden within that skeleton?
Were these remains kept by the other party for future revival?

Thinking of this, Liang Yuan immediately became cautious and asked, "Is it difficult to refine these kinds of remains?"

"There are some difficulties. First of all, it is not easy to find extraterrestrial behemoths that share the same origin as us."

"Secondly, after finding it, a lot of effort is needed to reconstruct the body."

“A perfect corpse requires a lot of time, effort, and financial and material resources.”

Although Ling Yurong didn't want to answer, once Liang Yuan asked, she had no choice but to answer honestly under the control of the detention talisman.

Liang Yuan immediately took out the mermaid skeleton he had obtained before, and with a flick of his wrist, the skeleton was pulled out of his spatial storage with a whoosh.

"Let me see, isn't this what you called extraterrestrial remains?"

When Ling Yurong saw the skeleton, she was immediately horrified!
"Azure Mermaid Skeleton!"

"What is it?" Liang Yuan asked.

Ling Yurong took a deep breath and quickly asked, "Where did this come from?"

Liang Yuan's face darkened: "Should I ask you, or should you ask me?"

Ling Yurong's breath hitched, and she immediately answered honestly, "This is the remains of a mutated mermaid beast."

"Mermaids are also divided into many types according to their color."

"Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. Among them, Qingxuan has reached the cyan level, which is of very high quality, only slightly lower than blue and purple."

"According to your current understanding, only when the genetic recombination progress reaches 80% or more can the mermaid skeleton show a bluish-black color!"

Liang Yuan understood and said, "So, the owner of this skeleton had a genetic recombination rate of over 80% before death?" "Take a look and see if this is a normal skeleton, or if it has been refined by someone?"

Ling Yurong examined it for a moment and said, "It has been refined by someone; there are traces of blood talismans on it."

"Traces of a blood talisman?"

"Yes, this kind of skeleton needs a lot of blood to activate the runes inside, and then let flesh grow back."

"Only when the flesh and blood grow back can the spirit that is parasitizing deep in the bones be revived."

"You mean, there's a spiritual entity hidden within these bones?" Liang Yuan asked immediately.

"It definitely is, and it seems to be recovering quickly. Did it absorb blood before?"

Liang Yuan thought of the altar in that ancient tomb. He guessed that those people from Lingyu Island were sacrificed to these corpses.

Why would those mermaid monsters help with this blood sacrifice of bones?
Is there any way that the spirit within these skeletons can control these monsters?
Liang Yuan recounted what he had seen in the ancient tomb and asked, "Based on your experience, what exactly happened?"

Ling Yurong's expression darkened slightly as he said, "It's highly likely that an ancient ability user used the mental splitting technique to pass on their bloodline to their descendants, and it's gradually reviving now."

"He left behind genetic information in his bloodline genes, so that any creature that awakens his genes can spontaneously do this according to the genetic information, which can help him awaken quickly."

Liang Yuan raised an eyebrow: "Genetic information... so it was all deliberately left in your genes?"

Ling Yurong shook her head slightly: "We are just taking advantage of the fact that genetic information can be continuously passed on to offspring, and applying this method to the method of longevity."

"All living things have genetic information, but not all mutated organisms have genetic information that was tampered with by ancient superhumans."

“In ancient times, there were not many people with superpowers who could use this method.”

She seemed somewhat proud as she said this.

Liang Yuan glanced at her and said indifferently, "Are you feeling smug?"

Ling Yurong said, "Of course, if you lived in my time, you would naturally see my splendor."

Liang Yuan chuckled and didn't argue with her. Instead, he looked at the skeleton and asked, "I'm also curious about what kind of ancient superhuman might be hidden among these remains."

"Besides using blood to revive it, what other way is there to wake it up quickly?"

“Destroy it,” Ling Yu Rong said directly.

"Huh? Destroy it?" Liang Yuan was taken aback.

"Yes, the bones are the vessel itself. If you destroy them directly, the spirit hidden inside will naturally awaken."

"Awakening it in this way is too violent and will result in it being very weak after awakening."

Liang Yuan asked, "How did you awaken back then? And how did you regain your powerful strength?"

Ling Yurong glanced at Liang Yuan and said, "I drained Chang Yuntao dry."

"He is a superhuman at the gene recombination level, already at 20% progress. After absorbing his essence blood, my body has also directly recovered to 20% gene recombination progress."

"After that, I found some more fragments of spiritual energy, and after absorbing them, I was able to quickly accelerate my progress."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan couldn't help but silently mourn for Chang Yuntao for half a second.

This guy was really unlucky; he refined a floating island, but then he mined all the blood crystals out of it.

After becoming the owner of the floating island, he was tricked by Ling Yurong, an ancient superhuman, who drained his flesh and blood.

Chang Yuntao is simply a tool.

Liang Yuan looked at Ling Yurong and asked, "Since your physical body is immortal, why did you commit suicide so decisively just now?"

Ling Yurong sighed: "After suicide, the spirit and soul can leave the body."

"I didn't expect your confinement rune to directly affect my spiritual body."

Liang Yuan gave her a deep look and said indifferently, "Oh? I thought you were trying to play dead to escape."

Ling Yurong was immediately filled with shame and indignation, and clenched her fists.

However, because their spirits were enslaved, they were powerless to resist and could only swallow their anger.

However, in fact, that was exactly what she had in mind just now.

The only thing I didn't expect was that the Soul Restraint Talisman would actually affect the soul and spirit, so that even if the physical body died, it couldn't escape it.

The seemingly decisive act of suicide just now looks somewhat ridiculous.

Liang Yuan ignored her and began to study the mermaid skeleton, pondering for a moment.

This skeleton contains the spirit of an ancient superhuman. Although it has not yet awakened, under these circumstances, can my soul-binding talisman enslave it?
Forcing someone's soul to awaken by destroying their remains is not a viable method.

If you want to enslave the other party and make them your servant, then the other party's strength must be higher and higher.

Destroying the remains will rapidly weaken the opponent even if they awaken. What's the point of keeping such a servant?
Liang Yuan asked, "Does it have to be human blood to irrigate it? Would the blood of a mutated beast work?"

Ling Yurong glanced at Liang Yuan and said, "Okay, but the more supernatural energy contained in the blood, the better."

Liang Yuan nodded slightly. There are many mutant beasts at the gene level in Yangshan.

The slaughterhouse also frequently receives reports of genetically modified beasts hunted by residents.

These can be used to cast a cauldron on the skeleton, allowing it to revive as quickly as possible.

Of course, before that, Liang Yuan decided to brand it with a soul restraint talisman first.

(End of this chapter)