Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

Shortly after Lin Yi left, the large black coffin in the courtyard of the mortuary finally moved.

With the suppression of Lin Yi's bloodline gone and the feng shui master having erased most of the binding lines, Old Master Ren, whose body had been transformed into a corpse for twenty years, finally broke free from his final restraints.

The coffin lid was gently lifted. A zombie, its body grayish-white, its fingernails black, and its mouth baring two yellow teeth, sat up from the coffin.

It sniffed the air. A scent emanated from the direction of the main hall that instinctively frightened it, so it chose to go in the opposite direction.

Old Master Ren jumped out of the coffin, easily climbed over the wall of the mortuary, and landed on the stone road outside.

It hopped a few steps along the street and smelled the scent of life—two black sheep were kept in the yard of a house by the roadside.

It jumped into the yard, grabbed a black sheep, bit its neck, and started sucking on it with gulping sounds.

The black sheep struggled twice and then stopped moving. It then grabbed a second sheep and began sucking its blood.

The blood of the two sheep was quickly drained, and a faint trace of blood appeared under Old Master Ren's gray skin.

After drinking the sheep's blood, its previously hazy senses suddenly picked up on an even stronger calling—

It was an aura connected to its very bloodline, emanating from the east side of the town.

Blood of one's closest relatives.

Old Master Ren let out a deep roar, turned around, and jumped towards the Ren residence.

Renfu.

Ren Fa is still awake.

He sat in the armchair in his study, a thick account book spread out in front of him, the light from the incandescent bulb shining on the yellowed pages.

Just then, the study window was suddenly smashed open from the outside.

A foul-smelling wind blew in from the window, causing the account books on the table to flip through rapidly, and the flame of the kerosene lamp to flicker violently, almost going out.

Ren Fa suddenly looked up and, in the dim light, saw a face.

That was his biological father, who had been dead for twenty years.

His skin was grayish-white and shriveled, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and his cheekbones were so high they looked like two knives.

Its eyes had no pupils, only a murky blackness, and two long fangs bared at the corners of its mouth, covered with blackish-red slime.

The fingernails on all ten fingers were long and black, like ten small, black daggers.

Ren Fa was so frightened that his legs felt like they were made of lead, and he was nailed to the chair and couldn't move.

Old Master Ren jumped from the window to the desk, his two withered hands grabbing Ren Fa's shoulders, his nails digging into his flesh.

The next second, Old Master Ren's fangs pierced his neck.

Ren Fa's body convulsed violently a few times, then stopped moving.

When Old Master Ren looked up in his study, he could sense that there was another living person upstairs, and that the living person's blood carried the familiar scent of his closest relatives.

But it has just drunk its fill of its closest relatives' blood, and its body is undergoing drastic changes.

Something was wriggling beneath its skin; fine, black hairs, like steel needles, emerged from its pores, piercing through its tattered burial shroud.

Its fangs are getting longer, its nails are getting harder, and its bones are making cracking sounds.

This evolutionary process is crucial and cannot be interrupted.

Old Master Ren's instincts overcame his desire for more blood from his relatives. He abandoned Ren Fa's corpse, jumped out of the shattered window, and hopped away into the night.

……

The back mountain.

Lin Yi found the cave halfway up a mountain.

The entrance to the cave is not large, about the height of a person, and it is covered with wild grass that is half a person tall. It is not noticeable unless you look carefully.

But Lin Yi didn't use his eyes to find it; he used his nose to smell it.

A strong, fishy stench emanated from the cave entrance, mixed with the distinctive body odor of wild animals, almost making him vomit.

"This smell is too strong." Lin Yi frowned, but still forced herself to go inside.

The cave was pitch black, the kind of black where you can't see your hand in front of your face.

But he didn't need light; a faint green light emanated from his eyes, and everything in his field of vision became clear.

It was just covered with a green filter, like watching a night vision image.

The cave walls were uneven, and the ground beneath our feet was wet and slippery; we couldn't tell if it was water or something else.

Several bats hanging upside down from the cave ceiling were startled by his footsteps and fluttered away.

Then he heard a roar.

The roar came from deep within the cave, causing rubble to fall from the cave walls.

Lin Yi turned a corner and saw it.

A gorilla over two meters tall is squatting on a natural stone platform at the very back of the cave.

Its fur is pure black, glossy and smooth, its muscles are bulging, and its two forearms are as thick as two stone pillars.

It was baring its teeth, growling a low threat in Lin Yi's direction, its two fists pounding its chest alternately, making muffled thuds.

This is a demonstration of power.

Lin Yi opened her mouth, and two fangs emerged from her gums.

The next second, he disappeared.

The gorilla paused for a moment.

It has become a demon, and its sense of danger is much sharper than that of ordinary wild beasts.

It instinctively sensed something was wrong and tried to turn around to defend itself, but it was too late. Lin Yi appeared behind it, grabbed its head from behind with both hands, and fangs accurately pierced the carotid artery on the side of its neck.

"roar--!"

The gorilla struggled frantically.

Its two forearms reached back and grabbed Lin Yi's back, desperately trying to pull him off.

Its strength is astonishing; an ordinary person's spine would break long ago if it grabbed it like that.

But Lin Yi's body remained motionless, his feet firmly planted on the ground, his hands firmly gripping the gorilla's neck, his fangs biting deeper and deeper.

The blood rushed into my mouth, but it didn't taste like human blood; it tasted more primal and wild.

Like untamed spirits, it's spicy, intense, and carries a primal, violent quality.

It is completely different from the mellow and sweet medicinal wine of feng shui masters, but it contains much greater energy.

The gorilla's struggles grew weaker and weaker.

Its blood was rapidly draining away, and its two thick forearms finally drooped limply, collapsing to the ground with a thud that shook the earth.

Lin Yisong opened her mouth, straightened up, and let out a burp.

"belch--"

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and sensed the changes within his body.

The gorilla's blood provided four times more energy than the feng shui master's, filling about one-tenth of the emptiness deep within his bloodline.

He could feel his body getting stronger, his muscles becoming firmer, his bones becoming denser, and the energy in his blood becoming more abundant.

At this rate, if he absorbs a few more monsters of this level or a few more cultivators, he will reach the normal level of a second-generation zombie.

Lin Yi glanced down at the gorilla corpse on the ground. This cave connected to a crypt, and the heavy yin energy made it a natural breeding ground for corpses.

Although the creatures he bites and kills will not automatically turn into Pangu zombies if they do not replenish their essence and blood.

However, if left unchecked, there is still a high probability that it will turn into a regular zombie.

So he bent down, grabbed the gorilla's limbs, and tore them off one by one.

Finally, he twisted the gorilla's head off, making sure the cervical vertebrae were completely broken, before clapping his hands in satisfaction.

After dealing with everything, Lin Yi walked out of the cave, took a deep breath of fresh air, and with a thought, his figure disappeared from the mountainside.

The next second, he was already lying on the bed in the side room of the mortuary.

He yawned, closed his eyes, and quickly fell asleep.

In his dream, he saw that blue glass bead again.

It floated in the endless darkness, emitting a soft blue light, like a small blue star.

Lin Yi reached out to grab it, but before her fingers could even touch it, the bead disappeared again.

Then the dream changed.

He began a kind of observer's experience of life, like sitting in the front row of a movie theater watching an extremely long film.

The first person to appear on the screen was Wang Teng—the feng shui master.

...The excitement of discovering the Dragonfly Skimming Water Cave...The anger at having his auspicious burial site forcibly seized by Ren Weiyong...The secret joy of Ren Fa asking him to oversee Ren Weiyong's burial...The trepidation of setting up the corpse-refining array...The joy of about to reap the rewards of the corpse-refining...The resentment of being drained of blood by Lin Yi...

Then comes the life of a chimpanzee.

Abandoned by the circus due to being naturally frail... he accidentally absorbed a wisp of moonlight... and his size and strength grew ever greater...

The final frame of the image shows Lin Yi's fangs piercing its neck.

wake up.

Lin Yi opened her eyes and saw the ceiling of the mortuary's side room.

The sky outside the window was already beginning to lighten, and the early birds were already chirping and singing in the yard.

He lay motionless on the bed, his mind rapidly processing the information he had just received.

Feng Shui secrets.

Wang Teng had absorbed all the feng shui skills he had learned in his life—how to observe mountain formations, identify water veins, locate acupoints, and determine auspiciousness and inauspiciousness—into his mind.

Now, he can just go out and find any mountain, and he can tell at a glance which piece of land is an auspicious burial site, which is an inauspicious one, which is suitable for burying people, and which will nurture corpses.

Corpse refining technique.

—How to choose a place to raise corpses, how to set up a corpse-refining array, how to apply secret medicine to corpses to accelerate their transformation, and how to control the transformed zombies.

Although Lin Yi doesn't need this knowledge, it's better to know than not to know. At least if he encounters someone doing something like this again in the future, he can see through it at a glance.

Besides these two skills, there are two more direct benefits.

One is that his life force has doubled in strength, which is a necessary condition for feng shui and also an important threshold for cultivators.

A strong life force leads to strong yang energy, which is an important source of power in the Taoist system.

The blood from the tip of a Taoist's tongue contains powerful yang energy, which is extremely lethal to demons and monsters, and can also break evil spells such as being trapped in a maze.

Although he does not cultivate Taoism, his life soul is a part of his soul, so naturally the stronger the better.

Another ability is derived from chimpanzees—absorbing the power of the moon.

We'll have to wait until the moon comes out tonight to find out exactly what effect it will have on him.

"Well, after absorbing two monsters, I gained several new skills." Lin Yi sat up from the bed with a smug look on his face.

He had just finished dressing when he heard Wencai's panicked shouts from the front hall: "Something terrible has happened! Master! Old Master Ren is missing!"