Please control me, my divine being!

Chapter 90 Invite the Corpse to Ride the Evil Scroll

After Jin Buhuan left, Gu Qinghan began rummaging through the room, looking for the blood food the shopkeeper had mentioned, hoping to solve his hunger problem.

The shop owner didn't lie to her.

The blood food specifically for the zombies was kept in a cabinet, stored in individual earthenware jars.

Looking at the congealed blood clots in the vat, which resembled pastries and contained bits of flesh such as human fingers and skin that had not been broken up, Gu Qinghan's corpse instinctively swallowed, feeling an even greater hunger.

"These blood-based dishes are all made from corpses."

She suppressed her inner impulse and looked away.

Not all corpses can be turned into zombies. Some that are incomplete, missing limbs, or lack sufficient resentment will be turned into other things.

For example, these blood-based foods.

Her main idea is to make the most of everything and never waste anything, which fits her stereotype of the practice of summoning corpses to drive evil spirits.

Gu Qinghan slammed the cabinet door shut and took a deep breath, but she was so hungry that she had no choice but to open her mouth and bite at the corner of the table in order to distract herself.

Click.

She bit a crescent-shaped notch into the tabletop, and the hard splinter scraped against her mouth, drawing out specks of black blood.

She chewed twice, frowned, spat out a mouthful of scum, and collected all the bloody food and severed limbs in the room, intending to destroy them completely.

These severed limbs are worthless.

If it is the complete, still-living corpse raiser, then it is something of "value" that can be offered to the gods.

Now the shop has been torn to pieces, and these pieces of flesh and blood have no special parts that contain strong emotions, so that they can be transformed into corresponding offerings or mundane objects.

The opponent died too quickly, never having considered the possibility of losing before his death, so naturally there was no resentment or hatred.

"If it's a live sacrifice, the offering needs to be slowly killed during the ritual, using methods most favored by the gods. This is the only way to maximize the value of the offering."

Gu Qinghan recalled the knowledge in his mind: "Death sacrifice, on the other hand, requires offering dead objects that contain value, mostly corresponding mundane items, and the effect is quite different from that of living sacrifice."

She planned to perform a ritual on the spot to enhance her strength, so as to avoid encountering such danger again in the future.

Gods can help once or twice, but they can't help every time.

By taking advantage of the fact that this deity has saved them multiple times, the chances of gaining power through a ritual will greatly increase.

"My previous path was that of a 'coffin craftsman.' If I were to worship the gods now and embark on another path, what would I become?" Gu Qinghan was aware of the situation of having two paths.

However, she was unsure whether entering the path of cultivation as a zombie would affect her later transformation into a human.

Moreover, have there ever been cases of zombies entering the Dao in the past?

Zombies with intelligence are rare, and those that can be accepted by the gods and embark on the path of enlightenment are even rarer.

Just as Gu Qinghan was pondering, a voice suddenly came from the noodle shop outside: "Hey, Manager Song, are you there? Hurry up and come out to do business!"

Gu Qinghan frowned.

The entire shop is embedded in the mountain wall. Apart from the storefront facing the street, further inside is the inner room where the battle just took place. This room also serves as a storage room, containing various goods that are inconvenient to display for sale outside.

Further inside the storage room was the shopkeeper's bedroom, where he rested and lived. In the corner of the bedroom, there was a downward passage that should have connected to the cellar.

Gu Qinghan thought for a moment and then went into the inner bedroom.

In the deep darkness, only a small burning candle provided light.

She found the wardrobe, took out a set of oversized clothes from the shop, put them on, wrapped herself up tightly, and went outside the shop.

A middle-aged man looked at the various items on the counter and asked, "Why is it taking so long?"

Hearing footsteps, she turned around, her tone somewhat displeased.

However, upon seeing Gu Qinghan's unfamiliar figure, the words she was about to say were swallowed back down, and she frowned, asking, "Is Manager Song not here? Are you new here?"

"She went to buy supplies, and I'm helping to keep an eye on things," Gu Qinghan replied.

"Alright, now give me five white zombies, and hurry up." With that, he took out five strings of blood money from his pocket.

However, Gu Qinghan did not act immediately.

The man frowned even more deeply: "What? Don't tell me you didn't. I booked to pick it up today, and I've already paid the deposit!"

"Um... just a moment."

Gu Qinghan turned and walked into the bedroom, then went down to the cellar through the passage.

In the battle just now, we didn't see any white zombies. These zombies are nurtured and refined by evil energy, and they are extremely ferocious. They are not suitable for use as household servants. If there are any, they must be sealed in the cellar.

And it was pretty much what she had guessed.

In the dimly lit cellar, illuminated by candlelight, rows of zombies were laid out, all bound with ink lines and long coffin nails driven into their foreheads.

Most of these zombies are covered in snow-white hair, commonly known as white zombies.

Gu Qinghan immediately used his sharp tiger teeth to bite open his finger, squeezed out black blood from the fingertip, and fed it into the mouths of the five white zombies.

Immediately afterwards, she pulled out the coffin nail from the white zombie's forehead, removed the ink thread, and slowly shook the corpse-controlling bell.

This process is called "awakening the corpse".

Zombies sealed using specific methods need to be activated and awakened with blood to be unsealed.

The old shopkeeper's method of sealing a corpse is called "nail-eyebrow binding with ink".

She had dealt with corpses when she was in the Gu family in Yinqi, and was very familiar with the process. She had even used similar methods to deal with the most notorious zombies, the wandering corpses.

Zombies are divided into nine classes.

Purple zombies, white zombies, black zombies, jumping corpses, wandering corpses, lying corpses, demons, roaring demons, and uncorrupted bones.

Most corpses are purple zombies, named for the purple coloration of their skin after death.

White stiff plants need to be raised using professional techniques.

As for the most top-tier ones, they only exist in legends.

I've heard that the main deity of the evil path of summoning corpses, the extremely famous Yin Corpse Lord, was a body that attained enlightenment through uncorrupted bones.

After the corpse was revived.

The five white zombies opened their dark eyes, emanating a strong aura of resentment.

Gu Qinghan increased the force in his hand, shaking the corpse-controlling bell he had obtained from the shopkeeper to suppress their resentment. He then led the five white zombies to the shop and embedded five coffin nails between their eyebrows to calm them down.

After carefully examining the five white zombies, the man's eyes lit up. He nodded and took out two more strings of cash: "These five are all in pretty good condition. You're a very straightforward businessman, much more so than that Mrs. Song. I won't take advantage of you."

After saying that, he erased the talismans drawn by the previous owner from the five white zombies, drew talismans that corresponded to his own corpse-controlling bell, and left with them.

Seeing the other party leave in such a hurry, Gu Qinghan felt that this deal must have been a loss.

But since the shop isn't owned by them anyway, it's a win-win situation with no investment.

After completing this transaction, Gu Qinghan closed the shop door, hung up a "Closed" sign, and then returned to his room to re-inspect every place, collect offerings, and prepare for his first sacrificial ceremony after becoming a zombie.

Only in this way can one obtain sufficient means to revert to human form.

Although we don't know what the god in the shadows likes, since they all use the Corpse Chariot Evil Path, their preferences must be those things.

Before long, she found the mundane items related to the evil path of summoning corpses, most of which contained strong resentment.

The zombie's fingers and flesh have undergone a special metamorphosis.

This is the most common thing in this field.

She had collected some from the corpse workers when she was in the kiln workshop, but the quantity and purity were far inferior to the mundane items in front of her. Therefore, the sacrifices to the Yin Corpse Venerable and the Myriad Corpse Immortals were undoubtedly unsuccessful.

These offerings must have been accumulated by the shop owner over the years.

But after collecting enough offerings, she suddenly remembered a very serious problem.

They themselves did not know the names of the gods!

"Please, God, guide me, grant me a name that honors believers, and allow me to offer you my devout faith and the sacrifices that lead me to the Way." She opened her mouth and repeatedly recited these words.

It wasn't until a full incense stick had burned.

Just when she was about to give up, she suddenly found that the irresistible force descended again, taking control of her body. She picked up the talisman brush and, like a precise machine, continuously drew lines and outlined diagrams on the ground.

Not long after.

A complete ritual painting was displayed in the room, with six large characters written in the center: Qingxuan Zhiheng Tianzun.

Only after the power faded did Gu Qinghan belatedly realize what had happened. She hurriedly bowed in worship, and no matter how many times she experienced it, she was always afraid of this power.

It can silently control a person's body, and it can also silently disappear.

Other deities, even those who have been cultivated for many years, will be affected by the deities once they descend, their temperament will change drastically, their thinking will become distorted, and in severe cases, they may even go insane or die.

She shook off the distracting thoughts in her mind, looked at the center of the diagram, and her eyes widened in surprise.

The style of this title could never be that of a god who summons corpses to ride the evil path!

But now the arrow is on the bowstring and must be released.

Even with many doubts in my heart, there is no turning back now that things have come to this point.

One by one, ordinary objects were placed in the ritual diagram.

Then the altar was set up.

Because the ritual diagram was drawn by the gods, she was not familiar with it.

Therefore, when choosing a ritual altar, one can only choose the "corpse-offering altar," which is the most widely used and common practice in the evil path of summoning corpses.

[You drew the ritual diagrams, offered sacrifices, and silently recited the names of the deities, and finally received a response from them...]

On the game interface.

A familiar dotted chart popped up.

Zhou Qing breathed a sigh of relief. The ritual diagram he gave Gu Qinghan this time was something he had researched and developed on his own, based on the characteristics of the previous ritual diagrams.

Now it seems that it can indeed be used.

During the sacrificial ceremony.

The ritual diagram serves to communicate with deities and transform sacrificial offerings; it can be understood as a specific refining formation.

Each deity has its own preferred ritual diagrams, resulting in a vast array of ritual diagrams in the world.

The altar is the place where divine power is received, and it is extremely important.

"When Li Qinghe arrives in Jiang'an, let her set about building a cultivator force and designing a special ritual diagram and altar. There's no need for this kind of trouble. Besides, using other altars and ritual diagrams might have hidden dangers. There must be some secrets I don't know about here."

Zhou Qing sighed inwardly, then turned his gaze to the scroll that popped up, "Please summon the Corpse Chariot Evil Scroll!"

The painting depicts a simple scene: corpses dance wildly on the ground, evil spirits fill the sky, and distant mountains and rivers are stained blood red, resembling a hell on earth.

It's just different from before.

Previously, once the scroll was lit up, the character's corresponding path would light up on the scroll, and Zhou Qing could easily click in to add points.

But this time...

Instead, the entire painting kept changing, with wind and clouds rising and falling. Several breaths passed before a yin-yang symbol finally appeared in the center.

[Corpse Demon: A special path that can only be embarked upon through various fortuitous circumstances, using a corpse as its physical body and evil as its spiritual essence.]

"Hidden profession?" Zhou Qing pressed the button without hesitation.

A skill point allocation chart for this path then pops up.

Unlike other paths where skill points are added like a galaxy, the Corpse Demon path has only two clean and tidy paths.

Corpse, evil.

The two lines sometimes separate and sometimes merge.

Those special major nodes are where the two routes intersect, and they are also the nodes where important folk arts exist.

When Zhou Qing saw this rather novel skill point allocation chart, his first thought was not about the special nature of the hidden profession, but rather that his divine power was about to be completely depleted!

To upgrade, you have to follow both paths, which will consume double the divine power.

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