Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 675: I will rebuild your physical body so that you can fight for the Qin Dynasty again. Are you willing?

This is foreshadowing for Zhang Yuan!
Under the guise of "escorting fishermen and selling goods," their true intention was to "demonstrate strength and open up trade routes!"
Fishermen of the Eastern Wei Dynasty testified that the rare and valuable sea monster supplies, worth real gold and silver, were enough to attract Eastern Wei merchants eager for profit to flock to the area.

This was not only to obtain supplies and intelligence, but also to quietly and closely bind the huge chain of interests of "hunting in the East China Sea" with the people of Eastern Wei.

Yuwen Tuo heavily relied on demon cultivators, colluded with cultivators from beyond the realm, and sacrificed the people of the country, thus losing the support of the people.

Now all Zhang Yuan has to do is continue to poach his men.

A thousand-foot-long sea-suppressing ship, guided by the demon-suppressing envoy, slowly departed from the port and headed towards the Eastern Wei.

The boat was laden with grateful fishermen and with wealth enough to shake the market of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Zhang Yuan stopped looking at the departing giant ship and slowly turned around.

His gaze, like a deep, cold pool, fell upon the Seven Star Reef, upon which lay the 50,000-strong new army, though victorious and weary, had forged an iron-willed military spirit.

The secret method of the Ancestral Dragon Guard, which uses the essence and spirit of high-level demon beasts to refine and fuse with the physical body and soul of soldiers, has been perfected to create the "half-demon guards" who are immune to pain and whose combat power has increased dramatically. The time is ripe for large-scale testing of this method.

This place has just experienced a bloody battle, and the essence of countless demonic beasts has not yet completely dissipated. In addition, a massive amount of spiritual materials and flesh and blood fill the sea area.

It is the best crucible for forging this elite guard, transforming it into a truly terrifying army of dragon teeth.

The sea breeze whistled as Zhang Yuan gripped the hilts of his twin swords, standing tall and unwavering, his gaze deep and intense.
"Send the order to the Three Departments and the Nine Yang Sword Sect."

"Set up camp at Seven Star Reef".

"Melting demon bones, tempering weapons and armor."

"Yin Jiuyou..."

Seven Star Reef.

Deep within a chaotic island, layers of soldiers from the Three Divisions of the Heavenly Guard, clad in black armor, formed a hidden formation.

Several powerful members of the Spirit Array Division have joined forces to set up three arrays that radiate spiritual light.

Guided by Yin Jiuyou, Zhang Yuan traversed three thousand winding stone steps before finally stopping in a hundred-zhang-wide underwater cave.

Three hundred bright pearls hang high above the cave ceiling, illuminating the entire space.

More than a hundred seriously wounded soldiers lay in the middle of the cave, with spiritual patterns intertwined on the ground around them.

"My Lord, my Lord..."

Upon seeing Zhang Yuan, a soldier whose body was half torn apart and whose face was pale looked up.

"My lord, to be able to accompany you on your hunting expedition in the East Sea, I, your humble servant, would die without regret."

On the other side, the soldier lying down had half his body broken, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Zhang Yuan with excitement in his eyes.

"This humble servant only begs, only begs, that before I die, Your Excellency will give me, give me a badge as a personal guard..."

The soldier's face was ashen, and his hands gripped his tattered armor tightly.

Inside the cave, the hundred or so dying soldiers struggled to look up at Zhang Yuan.

They are not afraid of death.

I would have no regrets if I could die while hunting in the East China Sea with Zhang Yuan.

But the real regret is that they haven't truly become the personal guards of the Marquis of Qingyang yet.

Zhang Yuan's gaze swept over the crowd and landed on the body lying not far away.

The soldier's body was already stiff; he had clearly died in battle.

"Have you managed to gather your divine soul?"

Zhang Yuan's voice rang out.

The Netherworld cultivator standing beside the soldier nodded, the bluish-gray crystal in his palm gleaming.

A bluish-gray figure appeared, its face identical to that of the lying soldier.

Divine soul.

Or rather, a ghost.

The methods of the Underworld are used to steal souls and possess spirits.

The illusory figure looked bewildered, glanced around, and then slowly looked at Zhang Yuan standing in front of it.

"Master Hou..."

Zhang Yuan nodded, looking at the figure: "Ke Yicheng, you should have died in battle, but I have captured your soul and reconstructed your body so that you can fight for Qin again. Are you willing?"

Zhang Yuan's voice rang out, startling the figure.

Not only the remnant soul of the soldier named Ke Yicheng, but also the other seriously wounded soldiers were stunned.

Can a remnant soul still reshape its physical body?
"Ke Yicheng, your soul is weak and cannot last long. Will you dissolve here, or will you rebuild your physical body to serve the Great Qin? Make a decision quickly." Yin Jiuyou urged again from the side.

"I...I am willing..." Ke Yicheng murmured blankly.

Zhang Yuan nodded and waved his hand.

Several practitioners dressed in black robes stepped forward.

"Your soul is too weak and needs to be replenished with the pure soul power of the Soul-Devouring Jellyfish." Zhang Yuan raised his hand, and streams of crystal-like soul power enveloped him.

His voice echoed through the cave.

"There are three methods to reshape your body here. Which one do you choose?"

"The first type is a body made of spiritual materials and the sinews and bones of demonic beasts. It will still look like you before, but the physical body will be difficult to control and you will need to rest for about three months."

"Once you master the second spirit beast body, I will personally help you transform into human form, and from then on you will be a half-demon."

"The third type is the body of a demon beast, which does not take human form, but directly uses the soul to seize the body of a great demon in the innate realm."

Zhang Yuan's gaze swept over the wounded soldiers around him who were looking up at him: "There is a fourth method, which is to use the flesh and bones of demonic beasts to repair the body's defects. However, in this way, one can also be considered a half-demon."

Ke Yicheng's remnant soul opened its mouth, unsure of what to choose.

……

Half a day later.

Clad in a black military robe, soldier Cai Xu stepped out of the island and looked up at the sky. Suddenly, a dark green light flashed in his pupils, like a dragon.

"Cai Xu, you, you're not dead—"

A soldier carrying a long spear, patrolling nearby, looked excited and hurried over.

As they approached, the soldiers looked Cai Xu up and down, their surprise barely concealed: "When you were carried away, I remember this half of your arm..."

Reaching out and pressing on Cai Xu's shoulder, feeling its firmness, the soldier couldn't help but grin and punch it: "It really is—"

"Bam—"

The soldier's body was thrown three zhang away by the force of the impact from Cai Xu's shoulder.

The soldier fell to the ground, tumbled to his feet, and looked at Cai Xu with a blank expression.

"You, your cultivation..."

He and Cai Xu were from the same sect, and his cultivation level was previously a bit stronger than Cai Xu's. However, at this moment, the force of the recoil alone sent him flying several feet away.

How can this be?

Cai Xu shook his head with a wry smile, rubbed his shoulder, and whispered, "The Marquis ordered the Secret Medicine Department to use a secret method to repair my arm injury. I can't fully control the power in this arm yet..."

The Marquis instructed that the method of reshaping the physical body was too shocking and must be kept secret for the time being.

The message about the physical transformation could only be revealed once the soldiers in the new army had gradually adapted.

The soldiers standing three zhang away looked at Cai Xu with shining eyes.

How can one possess such power if one cannot fully control it?

If one could fully master the power of this arm, wouldn't that be incredible?

"boom--"

Not far away on the sea, a ten-zhang-square-meter black tortoise leaped high into the air and then crashed down, stirring up waves several zhang high.

"Bam—"

On the other side, a soldier in black armor smashed his head against a two-zhang-high reef...

Zhang Yuan stood with his hands behind his back on the cliff.

"My lord, all 107 wounded soldiers have been transferred to new bodies."

Yin Jiuyou bowed slightly and reported in a low voice.

"Thirteen of them possessed the bodies of demonic beasts, thirty-two transformed into armored bodies, and the rest were half-demons."

“Once they fully control their own power, their minimum combat strength,” Yin Jiuyou looked up, his eyes flashing with a deep light, “will be at least at the mid-stage of the Innate Realm.”

Zhang Yuan nodded.

He was not surprised by the soldiers' fighting strength.

These soldiers' own cultivation was still too weak, and their physical strength was also too weak.

Once they hone their own strength and combine it with other secret techniques, the combat power of these soldiers will increase by at least ten times, or even a hundred times!
An army of tens of thousands of Grandmasters—how terrifying that must be!
(End of this chapter)