Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

Lin Yi was picking up a piece of tuna sashimi and dipping it in wasabi when she heard the roar of a car engine.

"Da Niu and the others should have arrived by now." Lin Yi stuffed some sashimi into her mouth, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and said to Ma Dayong at the door, "Go and call them over."

A moment later, Wang Daniu strode into the courtyard, snapped to attention, and saluted, his voice booming: "Commander, the entire engineering company of 103 men is present! We await your command!"

Lin Yi nodded. "Da Niu, you're here early. Have you and the brothers had breakfast? Are you feeling alright?"

"Reporting to the commander, the brothers rested during the day yesterday, set off at midnight last night, and had breakfast on the way. They are now camped at the town entrance and can start work at any time."

"Okay." Lin Yi stood up and handed a slice of sashimi to Ren Tingting.

"Take your time eating, I'll go clean up that hanging coffin mountain." He then said to Ma Dayong, "Go and invite Master Maoshan Jian over, and have him bring the necessary items for the altar opening."

Ren Tingting took the sashimi, told him to come back early, and then continued to enjoy her breakfast. Lin Yi and Wang Dani strode out of the courtyard.

Several military vehicles were already parked at the entrance of the town. The brothers of the engineering company were squatting beside the vehicles, drinking water and resting. When they saw Lin Yi coming over, they all stood up and saluted.

Lin Yi waved his hand, indicating that everyone didn't need to be so polite, and then led his men straight to the Hanging Coffin Cliff.

As dawn broke, the Hanging Coffin Cliff appeared particularly eerie in the thin mist.

With sheer cliffs on all sides, a solitary peak rises abruptly in the middle, its body appearing an ominous gray-black.

Hundreds of black coffins hang densely on the cliff face halfway up the mountain. Some are teetering on the verge of collapse, while others have already partially collapsed, revealing the stark white bones inside.

The engineers gasped in astonishment at the sight of this display of force.

Soon after, Maoshan Jian arrived with his disciples, carrying the altar table, incense burner, and copper bell on their shoulders.

"General, please tell me your orders, and I will do my best to cooperate."

Lin Yi nodded and pointed to the Hanging Coffin Mountain, saying, "Daoist Master, look. This place is a solitary yin dead dragon formation formed by the earthquake that tore apart the great dragon vein."

He then turned to the solitary peak, "It is surrounded by sand on all sides, like an iron barrel, and the circulation of yang energy is cut off here."

An underground river, the Yellow Springs, flows through the mountain's belly, allowing only yin energy to enter and not exit, like a giant basin accumulating yin. The only way to resolve this is to draw yang energy through nine acupoints, restoring the yin-yang cycle of the mountains and rivers.

The soldiers were completely confused, but they couldn't suppress the oppressive feeling that made it hard to breathe.

Mao Shanjian was also surprised. Although he was not very knowledgeable about feng shui, Lin Yi's words, when combined with the terrain in front of him, fit perfectly, and he couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"The nine geomantic veins need to be excavated along the nine branches of the main dragon vein, progressing layer by layer from the foot of the mountain to the main peak, and supplemented by the use of five emperor coins to lock the veins and stabilize the energy."

Lin Yi stopped explaining, turned to face the engineering company, and began to deploy the equipment, pointing to the nine locations marked with red flags in advance.

"Li Ming, take a team to the first burial site and dig a water outlet in the southeast direction to break through the stagnant water and bring in the rising sun energy from the outside world."

"Wang Huiming, Zhou Zhifeng, you take men to the second and third caves, cut down all those old locust trees, fill in the mountain stream and ditch, and then plant seven sun-facing peach trees in a seven-star formation."

"The fourth to seventh burial sites are located below the cliff face halfway up the mountain, directly opposite the bottom of the layers of hanging coffins."

Wang Er and Li Yong, you two need to carve two nine-foot-three-inch air channels at the appropriate locations to drain the negative energy accumulated by the coffin from the mountainside.

"Cui Cheng, take your men to the entrance of the eighth cave and use the Three Talents Formation to drive in three dark coffin nails to seal the gap in the Yellow Spring Yin Vein."

The Taoist priest will explain how to set up the Three Talents Formation later.

"Jiang Wen, take your men to the ninth cave on the mountaintop, pile up a ten-foot-high blue stone platform to gather the sunlight and yang energy, and connect the earth's veins throughout the entire mountain range."

Lin Yi finished setting everything up in one go, glanced at everyone, and added at the end:

"After each burial site is completed, a set of five Emperor coins must be buried. The five metals converge to lock the earth's veins and prevent them from collapsing."

The other two peach saplings were planted on the sides of the first and ninth holes, using the Lesser Yang Wood Qi as a bridge to connect the Yang Qi of heaven and earth with the Yin veins of the earth.

Only when yin and yang are in balance can a dead dragon be reborn.

He then turned to Maoshan Jian, cupped his hands and said, "Please, Daoist, first set up an altar to consecrate the Five Emperor Coins, and also give some pointers on the spot, so that these guys don't act rashly and ruin the feng shui."

Mao Shanjian quickly returned the greeting with a cupped-fist salute: "General, you flatter me. Your feng shui skills are already at a level of divine perfection. I can certainly lend a hand."

But a storm raged within him—

What is the lineage of this Commander Lin? How can he possess such profound knowledge of feng shui at such a young age? And what about the strength to suppress an unparalleled evil weapon? Is this person some kind of reincarnation of a deity?

"start!"

At Lin Yi's command, more than a hundred engineers were divided into nine teams, carrying shovels, picks, and steel shovels, and scattered with a rumble.

The once desolate Hanging Coffin Mountain suddenly came alive with the clanging of chisels, the shouts of workers, and the rumble of falling trees echoing through the valley.

Mao Shanjian didn't dare to be idle either. He had his disciples raise the altar, light the talismans, and chant incantations while burning strings of five-emperor coins over incense to consecrate them.

He then shuttled back and forth between the nine locations like a supervisor.

Mao Shanjian is, after all, an industry insider. He can correct even the slightest deviation in the depth of the excavation or the location of the acupoint on the spot.

Lin Yi stood with his hands behind his back on a boulder halfway up the mountain, observing coldly.

He could clearly feel the Yin energy that had been stagnant underground for thousands of years beginning to loosen.

As the first water inlet was breached, a stream of black, foul-smelling water gushed out. Immediately afterward, a faint ray of dawn pierced the darkness through the inlet.

The locust trees in the second and third locations were uprooted, and after the peach saplings were planted, the cold and gloomy atmosphere in the mountain stream noticeably diminished.

As the sun rises higher, the midday sun is at its most intense, making it the best time to dispel negative energy.

"General! The Yaotai for the ninth acupoint is ready!" Jiang Wen ran over to report, covered in sweat.

When Lin Yi arrived at the mountain peak, she saw that a circular platform made of bluestone had already taken shape, with a hole in the center leading directly into the mountainside.

He took out the last set of Five Emperor Coins and inserted them into the hole, forming the Earth Emperor Seal with both hands to activate the earth's energy, and uttered a low shout: "Suppress!"

An invisible wave instantly spread from the mountaintop to the entire mountain range.

The nine acupoints simultaneously lit up with golden light, flashing sequentially from the foot of the mountain to the summit, like nine stars strung together by an invisible thread.

The coffins on the hanging coffin cliff trembled slightly at the same time, and a gust of wind blew in from the mountain pass in the southeast, dispersing the decaying smell that had accumulated at the foot of the cliff for more than two thousand years.

The "Lone Yin Dead Dragon Formation" has been broken.

Lin Yi hadn't even had time to savor her sense of accomplishment while standing atop the mountain when the ground beneath her feet suddenly trembled violently.

Just as he was about to teleport away, a dense, almost liquid spiritual energy gushed out from the crack in the earth's veins, engulfing him completely.

The density of that spiritual energy was terrifying. Wang Teng remembered a Feng Shui master's cultivation method, which involved improving the earth's veins to obtain feedback from the earth's energy.

However, this was not the thin earth vein energy that Wang Teng remembered, but something more ancient and primitive, the essence of the earth vein, the blood of Mother Earth.

Mao Shanjian noticed Lin Yi's unusual behavior and stopped Wang Daniu and the others who were about to step forward, standing guard with a complicated expression on his face.

Lin Yi was enveloped in spiritual energy, and all the pores on her body opened at the same time.

Pangu's bloodline was circulating wildly within his body, like a sponge thrown into water, desperately absorbing the essence of the surrounding earth veins.

It felt like an entire ley line had been injected into my blood vessels.

That energy wasn't the violent impact of bloodsucking, but a warm and lingering penetration, seeping in layer by layer from the skin to the muscles, from the muscles to the bones, and from the bones to the bone marrow.

During the absorption process, the essence of the earth veins and the bloodline of Pangu were undergoing a reaction that even Lin Yi himself couldn't explain—

The silvery moonlight flowed faster and faster in the depths of his veins, intertwining with the azure light of the earth's essence, like two different colored threads woven into the same piece of cloth.

The blood was being filled up bit by bit—

Previously, less than 80% of the void had been filled, but the remaining 25% was being filled at a visible speed thanks to the infusion of the earth's essence.

80%, 90%, 100%!

The moment the last bit of emptiness was filled, Lin Yi felt a silent hum emanating from deep within her body, like a string stretched to its limit finally tuned to its precise, ultimate pitch.

The second-generation bloodline has been fulfilled.

Lin Yi looked down at her hands. Her skin was still the same, but beneath it, there was a faint, jade-like luster.

He could feel that the power contained in those hands was now more than ten times stronger than before.

Previously, the normal force was around 20 tons, but now it is at least 200 tons.

He tried clenching his fist, and the pressure from his palm squeezed out a very faint sonic boom, like crushing an invisible bubble.

Mao Shanjian's legs trembled involuntarily when he heard the loud explosion.