Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

Mao Shanjian withdrew his hands and exhaled a long breath.

It's not that I'm tired, it's that I'm nervous.

After all, it's about helping Hades' wife and sister-in-law awaken their bloodlines. If this is messed up, the Dharma King's face will be ruined.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly.

"Very good, thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty." Lin Yi nodded in satisfaction. "You may leave now."

"Having completed my duties, I shall take my leave."

Mao Shanjian bowed to Lin Yi, then cupped his hands to Ren Tingting and Qingqing respectively, before turning and leaving the main hall.

Only Lin Yi, Ren Tingting, and Qingqing remained in the main hall.

Just as Lin Yi was about to step forward and ask them how they were feeling, the two women suddenly opened their eyes wide.

Those were no longer human eyes; deep within their pupils surged a dense, blood-red light, and a palpable aura of malevolence rose from their bodies.

Ren Tingting and Qingqing's fingernails grew longer and harder at a speed visible to the naked eye, gleaming with a cold, grayish-blue light.

They made low, hoarse sounds from their throats, like two wild beasts that had been chained for too long finally breaking free of their restraints.

"Aww!"

The two of them let out a hoarse roar at the same time, and turned into two afterimages as they rushed towards Lin Yi.

Ren Tingting's claws went straight for his throat, while Qingqing circled around to the side, her five fingers like hooks reaching for his back.

The two worked in perfect harmony, their speed so fast that they created a sharp whistling sound as they cut through the air.

Lin Yi did not retreat, remaining perfectly still, but merely squinted her eyes to observe their condition.

In the past, he might have thought it was just a normal loss of control after his bloodline awakened.

Just like when he first turned into a zombie, it was an instinctive, violent reaction when his bloodline was awakened.

But as the King of the Underworld, he saw something deeper: they possessed the aura of otherworldly souls.

"Is the source of our bloodline not completely dead yet?" Lin Yi muttered to himself.

Ren Tingting and Qingqing, now enraged, continued their frenzied attack on him.

Claws tore open his suit sleeves, and the murderous aura left several shallow white scratches on his chest. The Xuan Yin Corpse Water splashed on his shoulders, corroding the fabric and creating several large holes.

Uncle Shou sensed something was wrong and hunched over as he came in from the side hall to make a move, but Lin Yi waved him away.

Then, Ox-Head and Horse-Face rushed in carrying steel forks and soul-hooking chains, but were driven back by Lin Yi's shout of "Step back!"

Michelle, who had been woken up, hurriedly walked towards the main hall wearing an overcoat. She was blocked at the door by Lin Yi's pentagram barrier. "It's okay, you can go back to your room and rest."

Lin Yi stood there and took the beating for nearly ten minutes, silently estimating their attack data in her mind as she was being hit.

Qingqing's pure strength is around three tons, while Ren Tingting is stronger, close to four tons, stronger than the black zombie, but weaker than the jumping zombie.

The claw wind, imbued with malevolent energy, has a strong penetrating power; when it strikes the bluestone ground, it can plow a trench half a meter deep, which is much stronger than that of the water corpse A-Qiang.

What surprised him most was the corrosive nature of the Xuan Yin Corpse Water—

A few drops of bodily fluids splashed onto the ground, eroding the bluestone slabs and creating fist-sized deep pits.

Overall, their current strength is at the peak level of the "jumping zombie" class.

Perhaps they were tired of hitting, or perhaps the fact that the person being hit remained expressionless and unresponsive frustrated their violent instincts.

After a frenzied attack lasting more than ten minutes, the bloodshot in their eyes began to fade, and their pupils regained their clarity.

Ren Tingting looked down at her hands, which were covered in scraps of cloth, then at the uneven cobblestones on the ground. Her expression changed from bewilderment to panic.

"What happened? Why is the ground all cratered? Were we hit by artillery shells? Ah Yi, where are your clothes? Why are they torn like this?"

Qingqing's reaction was more intense than hers.

She realized that one of her hands was still pressed against Lin Yi's chest—in her frenzied state, that hand was meant to rip out her heart and lungs.

When I came to my senses, I could only feel the other person's heart beating steadily and powerfully.

She recoiled as if burned, her pretty face flushing red to her ears, and she lowered her head, not daring to look at Lin Yi.

Although her heart had stopped beating, she could feel her blood flowing faster.

She had never been so close to a young man before, especially since she had torn his clothes herself.

She originally only regarded Lin Yi as her brother-in-law, but now she felt a strange flutter in her heart.

With a thought, Lin Yi put on a brand new black Zhongshan suit.

That's right, this is Hades' everyday attire, which can be changed with a single click using his divine authority.

He briefly recounted what had just happened.

Ren Tingting turned pale after hearing this, and Qingqing also looked worried.

They had finally awakened their powers, but before they could even rejoice, they were told that there was a hidden danger within them that could cause them to lose their minds. This was even more distressing than never having awakened them at all.

"Don't worry, I'll handle it."

Lin Yi offered a word of comfort, and the Hades mark between his brows lit up. A beam of light shot into Ren Tingting's body, beginning to search for traces of that remnant soul.

A moment later he frowned—he couldn't find it.

He searched Qingqing's body using the same method, and the result was the same—nothing was found.

Hades is in charge of souls, and his control over them is unparalleled in this world. Almost no soul can escape his detection.

But the truth is that the strange soul was inside them, and it had just guided them to attack him, but now it seemed to have evaporated without a trace.

Lin Yi pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and grabbed the souls, or rather, the corpses, of the two people from their bodies.

The human soul consists of three souls and seven spirits, but their souls have been refined by the Ying Gou bloodline, resulting in a completely different structure.

The original Heavenly Soul transformed into a Corpse Soul, which absorbed the other two Souls and seven Spirits, becoming a special condensed state similar to a demon soul.

The corpse's soul was a translucent blood color, gleaming faintly in the candlelight, and much more solid than ordinary ghosts.

The moment Lin Yi saw their corpses, she knew she was in trouble.

The strange soul was not hidden elsewhere, but was directly embedded inside the corpse soul, entangled with the core structure of the corpse soul.

It's not so much a matter of hiding as a symbiotic relationship with two sides of the same coin.

You are in me, and I am in you. Every tendril of the remnant soul is closely intertwined with the veins of the corpse soul, like two trees growing together underground with the same root system.

Lin Yi sensed the strength of that remnant soul and found that its level was extremely high, at least no weaker than the remnant soul of Rahu that he had devoured.

The remnant soul of an ancient demon god would be an incredible opportunity for an ordinary person.

With it inside the body, the speed of bloodline awakening will be faster, the strength will increase more rapidly, and it may even take the initiative to protect its master when encountering danger.

But judging from their performance, this thing is clearly not a good thing.

If he wasn't mistaken, Ren Tingting, Qingqing, and even the entire Ren clan could all be tools for His resurrection!

Whoever's bloodline awakens, He will awaken within that person, stimulating their growth, gradually assimilating and replacing them, ultimately achieving the goal of resurrection.

"That's fucking sneaky," Lin Yi couldn't help but curse.

The bloodline is passed down from generation to generation, and the process of possession is initiated when a person with sufficient bloodline concentration appears.

This layout spans countless millennia and is so profound it sends chills down one's spine.

However, no matter how deep his schemes were, they couldn't compare to the depths of this world. Over all these years, this guy had never succeeded even once.

It's unclear who was behind it, fate or the Book of the Ground...

However, this method is indeed disgusting, and even Hades, who controls souls, is somewhat helpless in this situation.

The alien souls have already become one with the corpse souls. Forcibly separating them is equivalent to tearing their souls apart, but they cannot be removed without violence.

Just like someone with dissociative identity disorder, you can't cut off their other personality from their soul.

However, there are solutions.

Lin Yi thought of the blue teardrop between her eyebrows.

Back then, Rahu's demonic soul was incredibly arrogant, rushing into his sea of ​​consciousness to try and possess him, only to be reduced to the purest Taiyin essence by a beam of light from the blue teardrop.

As long as he can accurately locate that strange soul in a state of spiritual communion, the blue teardrop can surgically remove it completely from their corpses, leaving no future troubles.

The problem is that the fusion of spirit and soul needs to be achieved through the dual emptiness of joy and fortune.

Lin Yi told the two of them about the method without hiding anything, including the prerequisite for the fusion of their souls.

After listening, Ren Tingting rolled her eyes at him: "Then hurry up, otherwise it won't be good if you go crazy and hurt someone later."

This wasn't the first time she and Lin Yi had practiced dual cultivation, so it wasn't a problem for her; in fact, it made Lin Yi urge her on.

Qingqing lowered her head, twisting the hem of her clothes with both hands, and a blush spread from her cheeks to her neck.

She just turned sixteen a few days ago, which is an age when she should be getting married in this day and age.

She came from a poor background and wasn't that pretentious. Marrying anyone was the same to her, and marrying Hades was a blessing for her.

"Mmm." Qingqing nodded gently, her voice as soft as a mosquito's hum.

It was already 12:30 a.m. when Lin Yi led them to Ren Tingting's room.