Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

"What a terrifying person, to have actually seized the creation of the god Pangu."

The newcomer was dressed in a plain-colored long robe, his hair was casually tied up with a wooden hairpin, and his face was delicate and handsome. He looked to be no more than thirty years old, but his eyes revealed a kind of indifference that had seen through the world.

Beneath his feet lay the shattered remains of a star, and around him shimmered aurora borealis, a spectacle woven from streams of high-energy particles.

But these dangerous things vanished automatically when they reached within three feet of him, not even touching the hem of his clothes.

His name is Zaijie, a traveler of the Kunlun tribe in this era.

He looked at the devastated battlefield, a complex expression on his face.

"I don't know if coming into their sights is a good thing or a bad thing for you," he muttered to himself.

"However, thanks to you, the Heavenly Book was reassembled, and my disciple was able to change his fate."

He flipped his hand, and a silver needle appeared in his palm. The needle was entirely silver-white, and its surface was engraved with dense runes.

"Very well, although we stand on different sides, I still owe you a debt of gratitude."

After he finished speaking, he flicked his finger lightly. The silver needle transformed into a streak of silver light and disappeared silently into the starry sky, flying towards Earth.

The silver light was incredibly fast; it pierced through layers of spatial barriers and precisely entered Ren Tingting's body, who was breaking through at the edge of the Goose Battlefield.

After Jie finished doing all this, he stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the starry sky, and sighed deeply: "Alas, having already transcended the world, why must I return to it?"

After he finished speaking, his figure gradually faded away, like sand paintings scattered by the wind, dissolving one by one into the starry sky.

A week later, Lin Yi received news that Ren Tingting had returned to the underworld.

He rushed to the Hall of Reincarnation. Several ghosts and gods on duty bowed to him and then tactfully withdrew.

Lin Yi nodded and walked into the Reincarnation Hall, where she immediately saw Ren Tingting standing in the center of the hall.

She's changed after a few months apart.

Her eyes were as black as ink, with pupils like black vortexes that seemed to suck in one's soul.

Her eyes were surrounded by a heavy bluish-black tint, which, like smoky makeup, made her skin appear even whiter and more aloof.

Two dark gold lines extend diagonally from between his eyebrows to his temples, resembling some kind of ancient totem.

Her feet didn't touch the ground; her whole body was suspended an inch above the ground, with her toes naturally pointing downwards.

Behind her, two ribbons of the Netherworld, formed from divine power and the waters of the underworld, moved without wind. The ribbons were interwoven with azure and dark yellow, and were semi-transparent.

She was enveloped in a faint divine light; without that light, she would have looked like a witch.

Lin Yi narrowed her eyes slightly as she watched.

Ren Tingting's presence is now no less imposing than Kuang Guohua's.

Although Kuang Guohua was somewhat "malnourished," he was still at least a top-tier third-generation zombie, barely reaching the threshold of a second-generation zombie.

Ren Tingting now genuinely possesses power approaching that of a second-generation zombie.

"Ayi!" Ren Tingting's cold and beautiful face instantly broke into a smile, and she transformed into a black shadow and pounced over.

Lin Yi reached out and caught her, giving her a tight hug.

"You're finally back. Looks like you had a good time." Lin Yi hugged her and looked her up and down with a smile.

"Of course." Ren Tingting wriggled out of his arms, raised her chin triumphantly, "Those red-haired devils and yellow-haired devils, they beat their brains out."

The murderous aura on the battlefield was almost tangible. The eyes of those foreigners were bloodshot; so many had died, their resentment so intense it blocked out even the sun.

She paused, her tone tinged with resentment: "If it weren't for the Western Grim Reaper guarding the battlefield every day, collecting the souls of the fallen, I would have come back here long ago."

Lin Yi noticed that Ren Tingting's tone of voice was much more assertive and flamboyant than before.

Although Ren Tingting was stubborn in the past, she still retained some of the demureness of a well-bred young lady.

Now, she exudes a sharp and flamboyant aura.

It seems that Ying Gou's bloodline has indeed influenced her personality.

Fortunately, the suppression of her divine status prevented her from being blinded by the evil aura.

"There should be more than that." Lin Yi wrapped one arm around her waist and reached for the ribbon behind her back with the other.

"Don't touch it—" Ren Tingting had just opened her mouth to stop him when she saw Lin Yi's hand had already grabbed the ribbon.

Her expression changed, but she froze the next second.

The ribbon from the Netherworld hung quietly in Lin Yi's hand, without harming him in the slightest.

"Don't touch what?" Lin Yi looked at her teasingly. "Looks like you've forgotten who I am."

"Look at me," Ren Tingting slapped her forehead, "I forgot you're Hades."

"But don't underestimate it." She then puffed out her chest as if to show off.

"Before I came back, a wolf demon who called himself the Wolf God of Veles tried to harm me, but he was killed on the spot by the Netherworld Alliance, and even his demon soul was devoured."

"That's really impressive."

Lin Yi gave her a thumbs up.

Veles is the wolf god in Slavic mythology. Although his strength may not be great, he is at least a legitimate mythological being.

Ren Tingting can be considered to have achieved the feat of slaying a god.

Ren Tingting smiled slightly, clearly pleased with Lin Yi's praise.

She pulled Lin Yi into the inner chamber of the Reincarnation Palace. After they sat down, she said seriously:

"However, my current level is not simply due to absorbing evil energy. When I advanced, I also encountered the erosion of Ying Gou's remnant soul."

Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.

"The situation was very dangerous." A hint of lingering fear flashed in Ren Tingting's eyes, and her fingers unconsciously clenched the hem of her clothes.

"I didn't expect Ying Gou's remnant soul to appear at that time, and it was much stronger than the one I encountered when I awakened my bloodline before."

Just as I reached the critical point, it suddenly emerged from the depths of my bloodline and directly attacked my soul.

"If my corpse soul hadn't transformed into a divine soul after I became a god, it probably would have possessed me immediately."

She took a deep breath and continued, "Although the divine essence naturally restrains foreign souls, that remnant soul was actually able to mobilize the power of Ying Gou's bloodline within me."

In this way, it is no longer a foreign object, but rather another version of myself.

Unfortunately, the remnant soul was stronger than me. It attacked my soul again and again, causing my soul to tremble and making it impossible for me to even return to the underworld.

I really thought I was going to die then.

"And then?" Lin Yi asked.

"Later," Ren Tingting's expression became somewhat subtle, "the remnant soul suddenly stopped attacking and became listless."

I seized the opportunity, decisively defeated Ying Gou's remnant soul, and absorbed its essence.

As she said this, her tone became somewhat wistful:

"After absorbing part of the remnant soul's memories, I realized that this was Ying Gou's last gamble."

For tens of thousands of years, every critical moment when it tries to possess another body has been disrupted, making its situation increasingly difficult.

Especially when Qingqing and I awakened our bloodlines, it was severely injured by you and became even weaker.

Moreover, all the other bloodline families it established have been severed, leaving only our Ren family.

But the Ren family has declined with each generation, and Qingqing and I are the last hope.

"You turned Qingqing into a second-generation Hou, leaving me as the only survivor. That's why it chose to go all in when I advanced."

"Unfortunately, I was lucky enough to survive and wasn't possessed by it."

Ren Tingting's lips curved into a smile. "It was thanks to the support of Ying Gou's last remnant soul that I was able to cross two levels and become the second-generation Ying Gou, and I'm only one step away from Ying Gou's ancestral realm."