Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 535 Zhao Yang, the Living Dead (9K)

The ability to charge a baby bottle without relying on the power of a Soul Master is a terrifying feat that any qualified Soul Master who understands the current baby bottle technology can realize.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is an epoch-making feat.

In particular, Xuan Ziwen has now developed a method for manufacturing sealed baby bottles.

If combined with the 'Poseidon-Ammonite' power station, the Sun and Moon Soul Master Legion, equipped with arrayed soul tools, could easily kill Limit Douluo, which would no longer be just empty talk.

Isn't the main factor limiting the many legions of the Sun Moon Empire right now the lack of manpower to recharge the milk bottles?

With the 'Poseidon-Ammonite' power station, Xuan Ziwen could already imagine just how powerful the Soul Master Legion would be when paired with sealed baby bottles.

Although such a massive Poseidon-Ammonite power station cannot be carried along with the troops, it is the same to transport the sealed milk bottles to the front line after it is fully charged!

Even the most basic soul-guided storage device, which is only one cubic meter in size, is enough to carry hundreds of baby bottles!

Sweat was beading on his forehead, some of it forming trickles that slid down his temples.

The back of his shirt was completely soaked.

At this moment, Xuan Ziwen had entered a state of complete absorption, his brain working at high speed, constantly pondering amidst his wandering thoughts.

Nearly half an hour has passed.

When Xuan Ziwen realized what was happening, he was already surrounded by people.

That's not entirely accurate; it should be said that the laboratory was filled with undead. All sorts of undead were piled up inside, and at the very front of the line was a lich whose aura was terrifying.

"Yuhao? Nana?"

Xuan Ziwen was a little flustered. Where had Huo Yuhao and Nana gone? He was still a little scared to be standing alone with such a group of undead.

Electrox shook his staff, temporarily halting his experiment.

"Yuhao is in the Class B test zone. This is the Class A test zone. Just turn right after you leave."

Electrolux kindly reminded Xuan Ziwen, who could only look longingly at the 'Ammonite-Poseidon' workstation that drove him crazy before hurrying off to find Huo Yuhao.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao held the Life-Carving Knife and stood in front of an operating table in the Class B experimental area. Lying on the operating table was none other than Zhao Yang, the eldest son of the Glorious Duke family and the Soul Saint of the Violent Golden Bear Martial Soul.

At this moment, Zhao Yang was lying on the operating table, while Huo Yuhao held the Life-Carving Knife and carefully used the power of life to repair Zhao Yang's damaged body.

This was Electrolux's new assignment for him: to manually create an undead.

This homework question wasn't difficult, but Electrolux added some additional options, such as preserving Zhao Yang's consciousness and extracting the martial soul from Zhao Yang's body, waiting for Zhao Yang to transform into an undead creature before returning the martial soul.

Electrolux asked Huo Yuhao to do this because Qian Daoliu had previously mentioned that the Ghost Douluo in the Spirit Hall had died once in his childhood, but somehow he was resurrected and his spirit had become the so-called "Ghost".

Since people who haven't awakened their martial souls will awaken a ghostly martial soul after being resurrected, will the martial souls of soul masters who have already awakened their martial souls change after being resurrected?

If nothing changes, what happens if we first extract the opponent's martial soul, revive them, and then return the martial soul to them?

These were all experimental projects that Huo Yuhao needed to try, and just then, Zhao Yang delivered the goods to his door again, which Huo Yuhao naturally accepted with pleasure.

"Your Highness, please be gentle when you strike."

By this time, Zhao Yang had figured out many things, such as why his father's rebellion was so strange. He hated the Holy Spirit Cult even more. As for Huo Yuhao, who had cut him down to the neck and made him lose all sensation below the neck, Zhao Yang didn't resent him as much.

The battlefield is ruthless. If he gets the chance, Huo Yuhao's fate might be even worse than his current situation. The victor is king, the loser is villain; there's nothing more to say about that.

Just then, Huo Yuhao made him a suggestion that he couldn't refuse.

Transforming into a spirit to serve Huo Yuhao not only offers the chance for revenge but also the possibility of becoming stronger and having an extremely long lifespan. The spirit can also undergo changes. The only risk is that the spirit might die on the operating table.

Zhao Yang accepted the offer without hesitation.

If Huo Yuhao hadn't thrown him into the undead demiplane, he would probably have been torn apart alive by the angry soldiers below, his spine already severed by a single blow.

Even though Huo Yuhao saved him, he is no longer a Soul Saint, but a useless person who can only move his eyes.

After learning the possible real reason for his father's betrayal, Zhao Yang was left with only the thought of revenge, but in his current state, he was far from being able to get revenge.

"I'll do my best."

Huo Yuhao slowly repaired the hideous wound on Zhao Yang's back using the rich life force in the Life Carving Knife, then frowned and looked at Zhao Yang's neck.

Repairing nerve bundles is such a delicate task that even the senior healer from Shrek Academy would be stumped, let alone Huo Yuhao. Perhaps only Electrolux's divine sense level of power could reconnect all of Zhao Yang's severed spinal nerve bundles.

Huo Yuhao certainly couldn't do that, but he didn't need to repair Zhao Yang's nerve bundles. He only needed to forcibly glue the severed parts of Zhao Yang's body back together with his life force. Hmm, that sounds like the process of creating Abomination.

However, Huo Yuhao had no intention of turning Zhao Yang into an abomination; he only intended to transform him into an undead creature. In that case, it wouldn't matter whether the tangled nerve bundles in his spine were connected correctly or not.

Have you ever seen any undead creatures that control their bones using nerve fiber bundles?

Therefore, undead life is truly a good thing; otherwise, Elex wouldn't have chosen to abandon his human identity and directly transform himself into a lich. Although this would result in the loss of many human traits, it would also grant him a great deal of power that humans cannot possess.

For example, not aging, not experiencing memory decline, not having dulled thinking, or having an almost infinite lifespan are all extremely difficult to obtain as a human being.

Zhao Yang is in a similar situation now. If Huo Yuhao weren't so reluctant to part with Zhao Yang's Soul Saint-level body, he could simply extract Zhao Yang's soul, transform him into an undead life form, and find him a set of bones, which would be enough.

But if you want to preserve his body as well, you have to turn Zhao Yang into a zombie.

"Um, Your Highness, may I ask you a question?"

Zhao Yang felt Huo Yuhao's life-carving knife flying around his neck, and after thinking for a moment, his mental energy fluctuated.

"What's the problem? Tell me."

Huo Yuhao could use his mind in two ways without difficulty. He had already mastered the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's Mind Control Technique to the point of Six Apertures of Wishful Thinking, and was not far from the final stage of Seven Apertures of Exquisite Thinking.

"Is our Soul Palace the same as the underworld management organization that ordinary people talk about? And is our Necropolis the legendary underworld?"

Zhao Yang recalled how Huo Yuhao casually tossed him into the undead demiplane, where he stared at the purple sun above for a long time, watching all sorts of undead life forms walk around him, some even trying to take a bite out of him. He suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

"The Underworld".

Huo Yuhao smiled and said, "There is indeed such a place on Douluo Continent. You can call it the Underworld if you want, but it's not here. You'll find out more as you work hard with Nana."

"The most important thing for you now is to hold your breath and concentrate, and stop thinking nonsense. The wronged souls who were killed by the Holy Spirit Cult cannot enter the underworld to be reincarnated. They will suffer the torment of the Holy Spirit Cult members for generations."

"So, is my dad also like that?"

Zhao Yang hesitated, a deep worry flashing in his eyes.

"So, the most important thing for you right now is to stop overthinking, accept the modification experiment properly, report to Nana after the experiment is over, and find a way to make our Soul Palace bigger and stronger. Only in this way will you have the opportunity to carry out the mission of destroying the Holy Spirit Cult."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao's life-carving knife danced in his hand, quickly repairing all the wounds except for the nerve fiber bundles. He then reconnected the severed nerve fiber bundles as much as possible.

"Hey, Lord, I think I'm regaining consciousness."

Zhao Yang was pleasantly surprised to find that he could feel the sensations coming from all parts of his body again, and subconsciously wanted to move around.

"puff------"

A loud, smelly fart was released by Zhao Yang.

"I told you not to move around. Your nerves are all randomly connected. You think you're moving your finger? Who knows where the nerve fibers connecting to your index finger have been reconnected to!"

Huo Yuhao was both amused and exasperated; despite all his precautions, he still couldn't prevent it.

Zhao Yang blushed deeply and immediately became obedient, accepting Huo Yuhao's transformation with peace of mind.

As Huo Yuhao chanted, he inscribed profound runes from the void onto Zhao Yang's body, which looked somewhat similar to how Electrolux sealed the Snow Emperor's power and merged the power of the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor into one.

Huo Yuhao has now stumbled and fallen into becoming a fairly qualified necromancer, and even a qualified necromancer according to Electrox's evaluation standards.

As Huo Yuhao drew more and more runes from the void, Zhao Yang felt his body growing colder and colder, his connection to his body weakening, and his consciousness seemingly being separated from his body, leaving him with only an almost endless chill.

Huo Yuhao quickly chanted another spell, and a phantom hand slowly condensed into form.

Besides turning Zhao Yang directly into an undead, Huo Yuhao also needs to extract the martial soul from his body. If all of this goes smoothly, perhaps without implanting a soul core, Zhao Yang can also become an undead that can continuously cultivate and grow stronger.

(End of this chapter)