I'm modifying myself into the ultimate demon.

Chapter 143 The Great Horror of Yinshan: A New Zombie is Born!!!

Chen Kun had served at Nantianlou for quite some time and had witnessed the rise and fall of many prominent figures in the capital. But in his memory, no one seemed capable of carving such a vast river with a single sword stroke…

Nangong Ye did not answer, but walked a few steps along the Qinghe River, then stood upright by the lake, closed his eyes, and quietly felt the air, the wind blowing from the Qinghe River, and the damp, cold air of the Dayin Mountain...

Chen Kun seemed to understand something, so he stopped asking questions and stood respectfully to the side.

She had been following Nangong Ye for quite some time and knew that this Chief had an eccentric temperament, especially disliking talkative people.

The night breeze stirred the long hair and sash of the woman in purple, making her seem to blend into the world around her.

After a moment, the woman in purple slowly opened her eyes and replied to Chen Kun, "You will meet that person sooner or later, so there's no need to be too curious now."

After saying that, Nangong Ye walked towards the abandoned red bridge.

Chen Kun, standing to the side, spoke up, "My lord, this Red Bridge is said to be a bridge built for ghosts. We humans..."

"You don't even consider yourself human," Nangong Ye said, then strode across the red bridge. Chen Kun scratched his head, feeling that this wasn't quite in accordance with the rules, but seeing that even the head monk had crossed the line, he drew his sword and followed.

After crossing the Red Bridge, we entered the territory of the Dayin Mountain.

hiss!
Chen Kun immediately felt a bone-chilling cold sweep over him, and couldn't help but shiver. He quickly used his internal energy to resist the cold before continuing to catch up with Nangong Ye.

"My lord, I've killed many evil spirits and seen quite a few powerful ghosts in the capital. But none of them have felt as eerie as this place. Something's wrong here. Be careful."

Nangong Ye walked into the forest step by step, slowly climbing the mountain, explaining as he went: "Back then, that person cleaved the Qinghe River with a single sword. Besides dividing the Qinghe River into two yin and yang, it also set the border line of the Great Qian Dynasty."

Chen Kun was unaware of these secrets and was very curious after hearing them: "So, Qinghe is the border of the Great Qian Dynasty in the southeast?"

"You can think so."

"Then we've crossed the line now..."

Nangong Ye had grown accustomed to Chen Kun's impulsive and easily startled nature. At Nangong Ye's level, many things in the world seemed uninteresting; some people might not be particularly capable, but they were certainly interesting. Having them around always brought some joy.

For example... Chen Kun.

For example... that bald guy.

Nangong Ye walked through the deep ravines of the Dayin Mountains as if treading on flat ground, saying as he went, "Actually, many years ago, the Dayin Mountains belonged to the Great Qian Dynasty. But a hundred years ago, something happened, and that person had to use the Qinghe River as the boundary, which was equivalent to ceding three thousand miles of the Dayin Mountains. Before the Qinghe boundary was drawn, the late emperor believed that the Dayin Mountains blocked the dragon vein of our Great Qian Dynasty to the east, so he was ambitious and tried to dig through the Dayin Mountains, but he did not expect to be attacked by evil spirits here and be tainted by a ghost curse. After that, the matter was left unresolved. In those years, the court was in turmoil, and the once prosperous Great Qian Dynasty immediately declined, becoming filthy and evil spirits everywhere."

I've long suspected something was amiss with the Great Yin Mountain. After spending months, I finally found that little zombie and learned some things about it. Now I must go in and see for myself.

Chen Kun was unaware of Jiang Hongyue's situation, so he didn't ask any questions and followed Nangong Ye all the way.

After crossing a small hill and reaching the ridge, the two continued their journey deeper into the Dayin Mountains. The further they went, the more Chen Kun felt the surrounding air become eerie and terrifying, filled with a ghostly aura.

Suddenly, a stream of sticky liquid fell from the tree and dripped onto Chen Kun's face.

Click!

Chen Kun immediately stopped and looked up. He saw a dark shadow flash by.

"Who?"

Clang!

Chen Kun drew his sword and unleashed a white sword beam that swept across dozens of meters, slashing down at the dark figure. Trees were snapped in half along its path, creating a deafening roar.

brush!
Chen Kun instantly transformed into a blur, leaping up the tree trunks and appearing on the treetop, where he stood alone, sword in hand, gazing into all directions.

But saw nothing.

"That's strange, that ghostly figure is running so fast..."

With the trees no longer blocking the sunlight, the moonlight shone down. Chen Kun looked up and his pupils shrank immediately. "Chief, look... why has the moon turned red? It was clearly white before we crossed the Red Bridge."

Nangong Ye looked up and saw the blood-red moon hanging high in the sky. At first, she didn't think much of it, assuming it was some kind of ghostly illusion. So she made a hand seal in the air with her right hand and slowly swept it across her eyes.

I opened my eyes again and looked up.

It was still a blood moon.

Nangong Ye frowned: "This place is really eerie. No wonder... Jiang Hongyue perished here."

Chen Kun was young and didn't know much about that past event, nor did he think there was anything special about the name Jiang Hongyue, so he didn't ask any more questions. He jumped down to the ground and said, "My lord, this place is strange. I'll go a few miles ahead and find a place with a good view to see if the moon changes color."

Nangong Ye nodded. Then, he transformed into two blurry figures and sped southeast along the mountain ridge. After crossing another mountain, he arrived at the highest point.

What we saw was still a blood moon.

Moreover, the blood moon was even more crimson. There was also a blood-red halo around it.

Being under a blood moon is unsettling.

Even Nangong Ye, who was the head of the group, was no exception.

Chen Kun's expression became much more serious. "Chief, this place is unsettling. I have a feeling that something bad will happen if we continue in. Should we still go?"

Nangong Ye glanced at the rolling hills in the distance. "Let's go. We've already traveled tens of thousands of miles; we can't let this mere thousand-mile-long Yinshan Mountain stop us."

"I'll clear the way for the Chief." Knowing the danger of the place, Chen Kun's previous alarmed expression disappeared, and he carried his sword and hurried ahead.

The two walked down the ridge to the valley, and then continued up the ridge in the valley.

The surrounding area consisted of rolling hills, the peaks of which were not high, perhaps only a thousand meters or so. But the atmosphere there was unusually eerie.

Just as they were about to cross the valley, Chen Kun stopped again, staring at a large snake coiled in a tree ahead.

The giant snake was about 25 or 26 meters long, with a body larger than a water vat. It raised its head and stared at Chen Kun, flicking out its huge forked tongue and making a hissing sound.

"You beast, get out of my way!"

call out!
Chen Kun slashed out with his sword, and a white sword beam flew out fiercely, directly splitting the giant snake in two. Suddenly, with two loud "booms," the giant snake broke into two pieces and crashed to the ground.

But... it immediately transformed into two giant snakes, raising their heads to stare at Chen Kun and his companion.

"Ok?"

Chen Kun swung his sword again, cleaving the two giant snakes into four pieces. Four more giant snakes sprouted and stood side-by-side blocking the path on the mountain ridge, their heads raised, staring at the two men.

Chen Kun was somewhat unsettled. "This is really strange... My sword aura has a great restraining effect on ghosts and monsters, yet I survived without dying or getting hurt?"

Nangong Ye remained calm: "Look at the snake's eyes."

Chen Kun looked at the giant snake's eyes, then at the blood moon in the sky, and exclaimed in surprise, "Strange, why do the giant snake's eyes look somewhat similar to the blood moon in the sky?"

"Ignore the giant snakes, go around them." Nangong Ye left these words behind, then pushed off the ground and transformed into a purple blur as he rushed away. Chen Kun hurriedly followed, glancing back every now and then, only to find that the four giant snakes hadn't caught up.

In this way, the two traveled over mountains and valleys, passing five hills, and finally arrived at a valley where they saw a huge mountain range, 1,600 to 1,700 feet high, stretching across the sky and earth.

Nangong Ye stopped and looked up at the mountain. "This must be the main mountain of the Great Yin Mountain."

Chen Kun drew his sword and was about to step forward, saying, "I'll clear the way for you, sir."

"Wait a minute."

Nangong Ye called out to Chen Kun, then took out two shadow puppets from his person. He made a hand seal and blew on them. The two shadow puppets transformed into two people.

A teenage boy and a teenage girl, both fair-skinned and clean-cut. They looked exactly like real people.

"Meet the master."

Nangong Ye waved his hand, "Let's go ahead and scout the way."

"Yes!"

The boy and girl received the order and walked side by side toward the mountain path ahead.

Chen Kun smiled, "The adults are indeed very thoughtful."

Nangong Ye stared at the mountains ahead. "This should be where Jiang Hongyue fell. There must be something terrifying there. Even I need to be cautious. If we encounter anything amiss, we should retreat."

Others may not know how powerful Jiang Hongyue was in her lifetime, but Nangong Ye, as the head of the Great Qian Demon Suppression Division, did know.

When Jiang Hongyue was alive, the Jiang family was the most powerful of the four great demon-suppressing families in the world, and Jiang Hongyue was the head of the Jiang family. Since such a figure had perished at Dayin Mountain, Nangong Ye naturally needed to be careful.

Just then, Chen Kun looked ahead in surprise: "Sir, those two shadow puppets... why did they stop?"

Nangong Ye looked closely and saw two shadow puppets standing blankly on the mountain path, their backs to him, frozen in place.

Ok?
Nangong Ye felt something was off, so he went closer to take a look. He was shocked to see that the two shadow puppets slowly turned around. Their originally normal pupils had turned into the shape of a blood moon, and even the pupils had disappeared, replaced by a blood-red circle.

"Hee hee~"

The puppet boy suddenly made a strange sound, then opened his blood-red maw, revealing rows of fine, sharp fangs, and charged towards Nangong Ye with a roar.

The other puppet girl did the same. She bared her fangs and lunged forward with a fierce howl.

Nangong Ye formed hand seals, attempting to control the two shadow puppets.

Both of these shadow puppets are powerful ghosts. They were previously sealed inside shadow puppets by Nangong Ye and used as his pawns.

Always obedient.

However, this time something was wrong.

Although Nangong Ye's hand seals were extremely effective at restraining the two shadow puppets, another force within the puppets resisted. Finally, with a loud "boom," they exploded, turning into countless pieces of flesh and blood that scattered everywhere.

Chen Kun was secretly shocked: "How amazing! It can actually resist the adult's shadow puppet sealing technique."

Nangong Ye didn't reply. Instead, he looked up at the crimson blood moon in the sky, a sense of unease creeping into his heart. He thought to himself: The place that could cause Jiang Hongyue's demise truly harbors great terror. We haven't even reached the mountain yet, and strange things are already happening frequently. If we continue deeper, I fear there will truly be danger.

Just then, Chen Kun suddenly shouted, "Sir, look, there's a new tea pavilion up ahead. There wasn't one just now!"

brush!
Nangong Ye immediately turned around and saw a tea pavilion at the intersection ahead.

It is not an illusion.

The walls and roof of this teahouse were all painted red, appearing especially crimson under the moonlight. A red lantern hung at the entrance, adding to the eerie atmosphere.

An old Taoist priest dressed in a black robe was busy brewing tea and cooking meat at the stove in the tea pavilion. The aroma of tea mingled with the aroma of meat, filling the air.

Even Chen Kun, a master from the Demon Suppression Division, couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine and held his sword on guard.

Not to mention Chen Kun, even the chief seat master Nangong Ye felt somewhat uneasy at this moment.

This place... is so eerie?

However, Nangong Ye is, after all, the head of the Demon Suppression Division. If even she is afraid of him, then the Demon Suppression Division has no reason to exist.

"Be careful."

Nangong Ye said something, then walked towards the tea pavilion with light steps. At the same time, he looked at the old Taoist priest on the stove, who was skillfully cutting meat and boiling tea.

His technique was skillful; he was clearly a seasoned veteran.

He's definitely a teahouse owner.

Seeing that someone was coming, the old Taoist in black robes raised his head and showed a very bright smile, "You two are in for a treat today, please sit down. I will prepare meat and tea for you. Xiao Bai, come out and greet the guests."

As the innkeeper called out, a girl dressed in white, with her hair in a bun and tied with a red string, from which two bells hung, walked out of the room behind the tea pavilion.

With each step the girl took, the bells on her hair jingled.

"Brother and sister, please have a seat. Father's meat dishes are delicious, and his tea is also very good. Most people don't have the chance to enjoy such good food." The girl with the bun took a floral towel, wiped an empty table and chairs clean, and invited Nangong Ye and his sister to sit down, while speaking to them warmly.

After Chen Kun took his seat, he asked, "In this desolate wilderness, you've come here to open a teahouse. Can you make money?"

The girl with the bun hairstyle glanced at the moon outside, then at the towering Yinshan Mountain behind her, and sighed, "My father and I know business here isn't good, and we'd like to go out and do business, but we can't go out. So there's nothing we can do."

Chen Kun asked curiously, "Is it difficult to go out? Your hands and feet are on your own bodies, what's wrong with going out?"

The girl with the bun looked at the old Taoist priest in black robes and said, "I don't know about that. My father told me all this. I'm just here with my father, begging for food."

Nangong Ye asked, "What's your name?"

The girl with the bun hairstyle looked very innocent, tilted her head and thought for a moment, "My name is Big Bell."

Nangong Ye seemed to have thought of something and continued to ask, "Do you have an older sister or a younger sister?"

The girl with the bun hairstyle said, "I have a younger sister named Little Bell."

Nangong Ye and Chen Kun exchanged a glance, then Nangong Ye asked, "Why isn't your sister home?"

The girl with the bun hairstyle said, "My younger sister is playful and ran away a few months ago. I still don't know what she's doing out there, and I haven't heard from her at all."

Just then, the old Taoist priest in black robes came up with meat and tea, and scolded the girl with the bun hairstyle: "Don't say so much. The guest is just passing through and is tired. He wants to have some tea and a meal. You're chattering away and ruining his enjoyment."

The girl with the bun hairstyle said "Oh," then turned and left, returning to the room behind, where she squatted down, lost in thought.

The room was dark, illuminated only by the red lanterns outside, which made the girl with the bun hairstyle appear exceptionally crimson. Half of her body was in shadow, half black and half red, which was truly eerie and sinister.

Nangong Ye glanced at the meat and tea on the table. The meat was scarlet and stained with blood, and the tea was also red, filled with the smell of blood.

But she clearly saw the old Taoist priest in black robes cook the meat.

In other words... even if this piece of meat is cooked, it will still be covered in blood.

This blood will not coagulate or change color due to high temperature.

Naturally, Nangong Ye and Chen Kun had no appetite for such food.

The old Taoist priest in black robes then asked, "Why aren't you two eating? My meat dishes and tea are delicious."

Nangong Ye did not offend the old Taoist priest. "Please help us pack up the meat, innkeeper. We still need to get going."

The old Taoist priest didn't get angry and took out some mulberry paper to pack the meat.

Chen Kun tossed down a piece of silver, saying, "Keep the change."

The old Taoist in black robes did not reach out to take the silver coins, but simply smiled and said, "You two have misunderstood. I do not accept silver coins here."

Chen Kun was taken aback: "Then what do you want?"

The old Taoist priest in black robes smiled with a sinister glint in his eyes: "In this desolate wilderness, even if you gave me money, I would have nowhere to spend it. All I need from you two is for you to listen to a ghost story. That will be considered payment."

Ghost story?
ghost……

Chen Kun felt a sudden chill and remained silent.

Nangong Ye placed the meat on the table. "We didn't eat this meat, so we don't need it. I won't listen to your ghost story. Thank you, shopkeeper."

After leaving a message, Nangong Ye got up and left with Chen Kun.

"Jie Jie Jie~"

The old Taoist priest in black robes watched the two figures leave, but didn't ask for money; he just gave a sinister smile.

The girl with the bun hairstyle suddenly came out. "Daddy, they haven't paid yet. Are you just going to let them go like this? How are we supposed to do business?"

The old Taoist priest in black robes wiped the smile off his face and scolded the girl with the bun: "What do you know? Once you're inside the teahouse, you can't just leave. You have to pay eventually. There's no such thing as a free lunch. As for you, don't talk so much to the customers in the future. You answer every question they ask you. Have you lost your mind?"

The girl with the bun hairstyle said, "But I do have a younger sister..."

"She's nothing but a household slave, your servant!" the old man snapped.

……

Meanwhile, Nangong Ye and Chen Kun left the tea pavilion and continued walking forward.

Chen Kun shrugged: "Sir, this teahouse was very strange just now. The innkeeper was also very abnormal. Who would give people food for free and then ask them to listen to ghost stories?"

Nangong Ye said, "There's something wrong with this ghost story. We shouldn't listen to it unless absolutely necessary."

Chen Kun said, "With your level of cultivation, listening to a ghost story is naturally no problem for you."

Nangong Ye shook his head: "Something's not right here. We should be careful. Ghosts have not only the power of perception, but also the power of attraction."

Chen Kun then asked, "Why should you fear the power of inspiration, sir?"

Nangong Ye shook his head: "You underestimate the corpses, ghosts, and demons of the world. You've become complacent after getting used to the capital. There's also the power of the field above the summoning. It's always good to be cautious."

Field power...

These three words made Chen Kun's expression change drastically. "Such power is extremely rare even in the capital. Could it be that we've entered a forbidden zone... Damn it!"

Before Chen Kun could finish speaking, he suddenly jumped up.

Another tea pavilion appeared ahead.

That tea pavilion is exactly the same as the one from before.

The walls, tiles, and lanterns remain the same, and the old Taoist priest in black robes still stands in front of the stove.

This is not an illusion...

how come……

Chen Kun had never encountered such a terrifying scene before.

Just then, the old Taoist priest in black robes raised his head and smiled at Nangong Ye and the other man, saying, "You two haven't paid yet. I know a ghost story, I'll tell you one. That will count as payment."

Nangong Ye's pupils contracted, and then he asked, "Was this ghost story interesting?"

The old Taoist priest in black robes said, "It sounds good. If you don't like it, you don't have to pay."

Nangong Ye finally realized something.

The power of the field!
I entered into a venue myself.

An infinitely looping field.

If I don't listen to this ghost story, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of this place.

So, Nangong Ye had Chen Kun stand guard outside while he sat down alone in an empty seat. "Then please, innkeeper, tell us your ghost stories."

The old Taoist priest in black robes was overjoyed and immediately brewed tea for the two of them. Then he leaned over and slowly began to speak: "This story goes back a hundred years. There was a large family in the north. The patriarch of that family traveled thousands of miles to the Dayin Mountain to dig a mountain. It is said that the Dayin Mountain is a very ominous place, but the patriarch refused to believe in evil and insisted on digging out the mountain in front of him."

Nangong Ye looked up at the towering Dayin Mountain in front of him and said, "This gentleman doesn't live near Dayin Mountain, so why did he travel all this way to dig up the mountain?"

Others do not know who this old man who digs the mountain is.

But Nangong Ye already knew.

It was the late emperor!

The late emperor had lofty ambitions. He believed that the Dayin Mountain blocked the dragon vein of the Great Qian Dynasty's eastward expansion, so he resolved to open up the Dayin Mountain and create a passage for the Great Qian Dynasty's eastward expansion.

The so-called "opening up" means digging out this mountain.

The old Taoist priest in black robes spoke in a sinister tone, "I don't know. Perhaps that gentleman harbored great ambitions. He wanted to accomplish something significant and leave his mark on history." Nangong Ye nodded slightly, thinking to himself: The late emperor indeed had lofty ambitions, wanting to leave his name in history. However, he was later cursed here and had to stop the excavation. The entire Great Qian Dynasty began to decline from that time onwards.

"Please continue, shopkeeper."

The old Taoist chuckled and said, "Don't be in such a hurry, let me tell you the story. These thousands of miles of the Great Yin Mountains aren't so easy to dig. This digging took years. Later, the master's wife brought people here to visit..."

As the old Taoist priest spoke, his eyes suddenly turned blood-red, just like the blood moon in the sky...

……

The Huai River is a marshland.

Chen Mo sat on the deck, absorbing the eight stiff lines of the Red Lantern Lady.

As the stiffening patterns continued to roam within his body, they collided and entangled with the original eight Yin Water Corpse Ghost patterns. This process caused Chen Mo immense pain.

It was so painful.

Chen Mo took out a broadsword, bit it tightly in his mouth, and stubbornly persisted.

Logically speaking, Chen Mo was already a zombie, his physical body was dead, so even if he felt pain, he shouldn't be able to bear it. But the zombie markings brought by the Red Lantern Lady were exceptionally powerful.

wow~
The pain continues.

Chen Mo quickly realized that the Red Lantern Goddess's stiffness pattern seemed to be devouring the stiffness pattern of the eight Yin Water Corpse Ghosts.

Can the stiff skin patterns devour each other?
The situation was beyond Chen Mo's comprehension.

He had a vague bad feeling.

As the devouring intensified, Chen Mo clearly felt that his entire body was beginning to change, and the direction of this change was... beyond his expectations.

"I'm afraid I'm about to mutate! The situation the cheat system described has appeared... I just don't know if it's a good or bad mutation?"

This made Chen Mo somewhat uneasy.

boom!
The next moment, the eight stiff patterns directly devoured the Yin Water Corpse Ghost's stiff patterns, and the patterns also underwent some kind of change.

A message appeared on the panel:
[You have fused with two types of zombie patterns simultaneously, resulting in a mutation!]

Chen Mo: "..."

Chen Mo hoped that the cheat system would provide more information, such as the direction of the mutation and whether it was controllable.

However, the game did not provide any relevant warnings.

Chen Mo just had to grit his teeth and endure it.

Before long, new stiff lines appeared and then stabilized.

Chen Mo's condition was finally brought under control. The pain also subsided considerably.

Chen Mo let out a long sigh, sensing that the eight stiff lines within his body had grown larger, but remained white. Moreover, they didn't immediately transform into a wisp of red moonlight, but continued to circulate within his body.

It roamed faster and faster, more and more violently, as if searching for an exit.

"Hmm? The stiff patterns have all fused, so why are you still looking for an exit?"

Having adapted to being a zombie for a few days, Chen Mo knew how to circulate the zombie runes and power. Now, he used these methods to try and suppress the zombie runes.

However... it didn't work.

The stiff lines continued to wander frantically, searching for an exit.

The more it is suppressed, the stronger its resistance becomes.

Chen Mo decided to let go of his inhibitions and wanted to see where the eight stiff lines were headed.

Sudden--

boom!
Eight stiff lines surged wildly into Chen Mo's head, eventually entering his sea of ​​consciousness and circling around his natal incense burner, thus slowing down the violent aura.

"Could this new zombie mark be eyeing my natal ghost incense? And it even seems incredibly greedy... What exactly does this zombie mark want?"

When I fused with the Yin Water Corpse Ghost Pattern before... zombies were zombies, and ghosts were ghosts... they were clearly distinct.

what do you want?

Chen Mo mobilized the power of the ghosts to protect his natal incense, looking quite vigilant.

The next moment, the eight stiff patterns collapsed with a roar, transforming into a wisp of red energy that circled around the incense burner containing the natal ghost incense.

Chen Mo sensed the red, stiff energy and found it particularly eerie, a scarlet color.

"This is the Crimson Moonlight... No wonder the Golden Finger said it was of extremely high quality. Judging from its current performance, it is indeed very different from other zombie energies. I wonder what this thing is up to..."

boom!
The crimson moonlight suddenly flowed into the incense burner, merging with the natal ghost incense. Soon it became a wisp of air, swirling within the burner.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Mo felt an unprecedented dramatic change in his body.

Concussion, muscle tremors.

Blood flow stopped, heartbeat stopped.

Chen Mo collapsed onto the deck with a thud once again.

The body died, and the mind died too.

However, having learned from his previous experience, Chen Mo was not too panicked, knowing that this was a stage of the transformation from a zombie to a zombie.

But... I'm already a zombie, so why do I have to "die" again when I merge with this red moonlight?
This is unreasonable.

Not long after, Chen Mo regained sensation in his body.

Heartbeat and blood flow resumed, and the six senses and six consciousnesses gradually recovered.

When Chen Mo stood up again, he clearly felt that his body had undergone another transformation. His flesh and bones were far stronger than before, and every movement he made was filled with power that he had never dared to imagine before.

Immediately afterwards, entirely new stiff lines began to appear.

One, two... eight.

Eight stiff lines appeared very quickly.

Chen Mo activated the Tranquility Technique, clearing his mind of all distracting thoughts and curiosity. He sat cross-legged on the deck, carefully sensing the enhancements and changes brought about by the various stiff patterns.

"I still have eight zombie markings, but my current strength is more than three or four times greater than before. It even far surpasses the Red Lantern Lady's prime. I guess it's because my physical body is inherently stronger than the Red Lantern Lady's. Plus, the zombie markings have mutated... so even when facing ordinary nine-marked white zombies, I'm not too afraid."

call!
After getting used to his new body, Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up and stretched his limbs. Feeling uncomfortable on the deck, he ran off the ship and went to the swamp to test himself out.

It’s different!

My body seemed to have become somewhat beyond the realm of physics; my limbs were incredibly agile, allowing me to stand on leaves. I could coil and circle around tree branches like a snake, and I could walk step by step up a large tree.

If it unleashes its power, it can move so fast that it is invisible to the naked eye.

He raised his hand, pressed it against a large banyan tree, and with a sudden burst of strength, the tree flew off.

Stepping on the water, he barely made a ripple; it was as if he were walking on flat ground. With a leap, he soared four or five zhang high…

Even casting Blood Mist wouldn't have this effect.

"I feel like I'm not an ordinary zombie anymore, but a zombie with some kind of animal attribute. Soft as a snake..." Chen Mo clearly felt the image of snakes flashing through his mind.

The frequency is very high.

Could this red moonlight be related to snakes?
Chen Mo felt that the hallucinations that frequently appeared in his mind were not unfounded.

"I'll give it a test."

Chen Mo walked to a large tree, and his body immediately coiled around it like a snake, his bones bending and twisting, carrying an extremely strong restraining force, and finally he actually snapped the tree in two.

He moved with incredible speed, his feet barely touching the water, and he was perfectly suited to walking in a zigzag pattern. Wasn't that the very posture of a giant snake swimming in the water?

"Holy crap... I really am a zombie connected to snakes."

"What exactly is this Red Moon Essence, and how is it related to snakes? The Red Lantern Goddess didn't show any symptoms like this before. It seems that the Red Lantern Goddess's body is not strong enough to awaken this characteristic."

After much thought, Chen Mo could only come up with this one explanation.

snake……

Cold-blooded animals.

It's terrifying to even think about.

In reality, Chen Mo did feel that the aura around him had become even colder, reaching the extreme of extreme cold and gloom.

The body also lost its temperature.

Chen Mo stood on the water's surface, looking at his reflection in the water.

His appearance was largely the same as before, but when Chen Mo opened his mouth, he was shocked to find that his mouth, which originally had several rows of fine teeth... had become only one row.

Along the edges on both sides, there are several particularly large venomous fangs.

It's the shape of snake teeth.

"With snake fangs, wouldn't the venom be doubled?"

Chen Mo brought in several large crocodiles known for their death roll to test the venom of the snake's fangs, discovering it was far more potent than before. A single drop of saliva on a crocodile would indeed cause it to roll in death.

"I'm a bit of a weirdo."

Chen Mo withdrew his hand, stroked his skin, and found that it had become incredibly smooth and resilient, similar to the feeling of touching a snake. He could even vaguely sense the outline of scales.

It's so cold, and I'm so scared.

Judging from his current sensations and aura... not to mention that others would be frightened, even Chen Mo himself felt frightened.

Red moonlight... how could it be related to snakes?

Could it be that the corpses of snakes can also turn into zombies?

Chen Mo didn't dare to think any further.

If that's the case, then this Jiang Hongyue... I really don't know if she's still human.

"Brother Mo, you..."

Just as Chen Mo was in a daze, Juan'er ran over. But she didn't dare to approach Chen Mo, stopping a short distance away, trembling as she looked at him.

Chen Mo asked, "Do I look scary?"

Juan'er trembled as she said, "Yes. It's much scarier than before. The atmosphere is extremely cold, and Juan'er is terrified."

Chen Mo smiled kindly: "Juan'er, don't be afraid, we're all on the same side. By the way, what's on my mind?"

Juan'er carefully examined Chen Mo and finally uttered a single word: "Snake? A very venomous snake."

really……

Not only did Juan'er feel like she was a snake, but she did too.

"Juan'er, go catch a big snake and bring it to me. A big snake, the bigger the better." Chen Mo instructed Juan'er to do the deed, then stood on the water's surface and continued to look at his reflection underwater.

Because Chen Mo had destroyed all the surrounding trees, a large clearing had been created. At that moment, the moon climbed out of the clouds, casting bright moonlight. Chen Mo could now see himself more clearly underwater.

His eyes... had turned blood red.

It has no pupils, but a blood-red circle in the center.

Chen Mo thought he was seeing things. He blinked and looked again, but it was still the same.

Fangs, sharp nails, a chilling stench of decay, a snake, red eyes with an even redder ring of pupils inside.

"Am I really that fierce?"

"What am I right now?"

Chen Mo opened the control panel to look at himself underwater.

"Deconstruction!"

Deconstructing myself didn't hurt; soon lines of subtitles appeared.

Name: Chen Mo

[Species: Half-human, half-ghoul]

"A ghoul?"

"The stiff energy of the red moonlight entered the natal ghost incense, and the ghost and the zombie combined, so it became a corpse ghost? That makes sense. People often confuse zombies with corpse ghosts, but that's because most zombies are transformed from physical ghosts. After all, the success rate of a person directly turning into a zombie is too low, and human corpses are too weak to withstand the stiff energy. But I have become a true corpse ghost."

Chen Mo cleared his mind of distractions and continued reading.

[Type: Snake-like Corpse Demon]

[Rank: Eight-Chapter Yellow Page Ghost, Eight-Patterned White Corpse Ghost]

[Note: Eighty years of cultivation, a ferocious corpse demon]

[Ingredients: Your innate ghost incense and the marks of death begin to merge; you are a new type of ghoul.]

[Characteristics: A powerful ghoul possessing serpentine characteristics. The Shadow Skeleton remains the foundation for your demigod status. Once the Shadow Skeleton's fusion reaches 100%, the unknown portion within it will awaken. Preliminary assessment suggests this unknown portion is related to serpents.]

[Hint 1: You have obtained the powerful spirit of the Red Lantern Goddess, and can temporarily control the powerful zombie energy (red moonlight) of the Corpse Demon. However, if you condense nine zombie runes, your spirit will not be enough to control it. You will need to absorb more incense offerings to suppress it.]

[Tip 2: Due to the special nature of the red moonlight, absorbing ordinary stiff energy and patterns will not significantly enhance your cultivation level. Continuing to absorb the red moonlight will raise your cultivation level higher and higher.]

[Hint 3: Preliminary inference suggests that the red moonlight is related to the Dayin Mountain.]

[Hint 4: The reason you awakened the serpentine ghoul within the red moonlight is because the red moonlight fused with the stiff markings of the Yin Water Ghoul, triggering the awakening condition.]

After reading all the information, Chen Mo understood.

The Red Lantern Lady didn't awaken the snake-type ghoul because the triggering conditions weren't met. It wasn't because her body was stronger.

"These snake-like corpse demons are monstrous. No wonder they're something Jiang Hongyue created. I'll go check if the Youth Preservation Pill is effective."

While waiting for Juan'er's return, Chen Mo went back to the awning and lit an oil lamp. He took out a mirror to look at himself, then took a youth-preserving pill, hoping that his snake fangs and nails would disappear...

however……

no response.

Although Chen Mo was mentally prepared for this, he was still slightly disappointed after seeing the facts.

"It must be because these snake-like corpse demons are too abnormal that the youth-preserving pills that are effective against ghosts have become ineffective."

"In that case, I will have to wander outside as a lonely ghost until I become a black zombie... before I can regain my appearance. In the days to come, only Juan'er will be by my side."

After adjusting his mindset, Chen Mo stepped out of the awning alone, stood at the bow of the boat, and gazed at the white moon in the sky with his hands behind his back.

A cold wind blew in the night...

It was clearly a cold wind, but Chen Mo felt it was a "hot wind." It was simply too eerie and terrifying.

Before long, Juan'er came running back, carrying a four-meter-long king cobra on her shoulder.

The king cobra, which was originally a fierce creature, was now completely subdued, clearly having suffered torture and abuse at Juan'er's hands.

"Brother Mo, I've searched all around, and this snake is the biggest. Could we use it?"

Chen Mo nodded, "Throw it up."

Juan'er jumped onto the deck and threw the king cobra onto it.

Once freed, the king cobra immediately raised its head high, swaggering at Chen Mo. But the next moment, as if it had seen a ghost, the king cobra curled up and trembled, its proud head resting on the deck, shaking violently.

"This……"

Chen Mo was speechless, as he hadn't done anything at all.

King cobras are known for being fearless, aren't they?

Because I am a snake-like ghoul?

Chen Mo immediately thought of another possibility: Since I am also a snake-type corpse demon, wouldn't it be possible to try to communicate with this king cobra?
Chen Mo verified it. He then tried to communicate with the king cobra.

It worked!

Chen Mo told the king cobra what to do, and it did it.

It's truly too miraculous.

The next moment, Chen Mo dismissed the king cobra and called his companions over for a chat. The king cobra actually nodded, then swayed away.

Not long after, a hissing sound came from all around.

Hundreds and thousands of snakes came over, surrounding the awning boat, but dared not approach. They simply bowed their heads, as if paying homage to Chen Mo.

"interesting!"

From now on, bring snakes with you when you fight.

Even a massive army might not be unable to put up a fight.

However, these snakes are all too small. If I could find a group of large snakes that are tens of meters long, I could... be an army all by myself?

Before Chen Mo could even feel happy, he thought of something terrifying:

He had only absorbed a wisp of red moonlight given to him by Jiang Hongyue, yet he was able to achieve such a feat. Just how monstrous must the real Jiang Hongyue be?
If that old man comes out looking for me...

This is outrageous!
The pressure is just too much.

Just then, Juan'er suddenly said, "Brother Mo, there are a lot of ships heading this way."

Ok?
Chen Mo leaped onto a leaf and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw a large number of boats appearing on the Huai River, surrounding it from all directions. Among them was a particularly magnificent painted boat. A middle-aged man stood with his hands behind his back at the bow, exuding an aura of dominance.

After this transformation, Chen Mo's six senses and six perceptions became exceptionally terrifying. He could clearly see things two or three miles away, and he noticed that the man standing at the bow of the boat bore a striking resemblance to the deceased Shen Song.

"His son died, and now his father is seeking revenge?"

"Very well, this is a good opportunity to test how my snake-like corpse demon fares against Master Shen."

(End of this chapter)