I am Jinshan Youxia

This body has quite a few modifiable stats, such as [Corpse Qi], [Copper Skin], [Iron Bones], [Fangs], [Corpse Poison], [Soul], etc. It's a bit like a zombie body; you can't improve [Constitution] as a whole, as they are all separate stats.

Zombies are those whose bodies are constantly rotting, while zombies are those whose bodies are completely stiff. Muscle strength is completely useless and cannot be adjusted. Movement and strength are all driven by the corpse energy.

To be honest, Zhang Chengyi felt quite uncomfortable. At least zombies could walk and run, but he could only hop and jump around.

As for the urge to drink human blood, it's not much different from the urge of a zombie to bite people, so it doesn't affect him.

The most noteworthy thing to mention is that among the many values ​​that can be modified on the panel, there's one that stands out—

[Heavenly Thunder]

"Snap! Sizzle!"

Zhang Chengyi accidentally adjusted the amount a little too much, and his entire body was charred again amidst the crackling sounds. If he hadn't raised and locked up his faint corpse energy, he would have already died along with the zombie that provided the body.

"Hiccup~ Woo~"

That's really impressive.

Zhang Chengyi strangely gained a sense of pleasure from the feeling of the heavenly lightning exploding inside his body. After the corpse energy in his body was purified, his stiff and numb body actually 'came alive' for a moment. So, amidst the pain, that vivid feeling made something inside his body active.

What a strange reaction.

He didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't dare to try anything. The corpse energy was truly powerless against the heavenly lightning. The corpse energy that he had locked inside his body was being defeated by the small amount of heavenly lightning.

Moreover, compared to the pain, that little bit of pleasure is insignificant.

However, it still needs to be locked; the name "Heavenly Thunder" sounds pretty awesome, right?

Then Zhang Chengyi adjusted the corpse energy. The higher he pulled it, the stronger his body felt. He could even hear his withered skin gradually filling with corpse energy, making a creaking sound.

After maxing it out, a new option appeared in the status bar: [Evolution].

The body sends out a strong urge to sleep, which is irresistible.

Seeing his body swaying precariously, Zhang Chengyi quickly dragged it back to a state where it was almost full.

Evolution is a good thing, but we need to know what kind of world this is first, right?

You can't just fall asleep without thinking. What if he wakes up to find the world gone wrong, or misses out on something good?

Zhang Chengyi then adjusted the other data. The physical attributes were mostly positively correlated with the corpse energy, confirming that the corpse energy was the root of zombies. However, there was a problem with the adjustment of the [Soul] attribute. The stronger the corpse energy, the weaker the Soul became. He didn't know what was going on.

If I don't understand it, I'll lock it for now and deal with it later when I can figure it out.

[A world with zombies and Taoist priests must also have demons and monsters, right?]

After a preliminary examination of the new body's panel, Zhang Chengyi began to contemplate this world. His entire body was soaked through with rainwater, and wisps of electric arcs kept emanating from his body, flowing onto the surrounding water surface, making him look like a short-circuited light bulb, flickering on and off.

The bodies he has captured so far are all movies, novels, comics, and games that he saw or watched on Earth in his previous life. Essentially, as a modifier, he can lock onto a large number of worlds with the same information through information, so the world in front of him must also be a work he saw in his previous life.

A world related to zombies and Taoist priests?

He searched his mind and realized there were indeed too many targets; he needed more information.

Let's walk around and take a look first.

Zhang Chengyi tried jumping for the first time. Because his body data had already been maxed out, he jumped more than ten meters high before landing straight down with a thud, half of his body hitting the ground.

His physical stats were off the charts, making his body even more robust, but at the cost of doubling his weight. Now, with such heavy rain, it's no surprise that he's getting soaked in the soft soil.

However, since he had done things like jumping to travel in the world of Tianlong before, he quickly got used to it.

But he didn't know where he was. He jumped around randomly for dozens of kilometers before the rain stopped, but he didn't see anyone.

What does it taste like?

Zhang Chengyi suddenly smelled a fragrant aroma. The desire he felt was genuine. Following the scent, he quickly jumped to a ravine and saw a large fox in a long women's dress in the woods, fiercely gnawing on a headless corpse dressed as a scholar.

Upon seeing him arrive, the large fox raised its head, a wary expression on its face. It leaped onto a treetop, carrying half a corpse, and bared its teeth, saying, "Get out of my way!"

Ancient Chinese setting? Fox spirit? Zombie? Taoist priest?

Could it be a ghost story from Liaozhai?

Zhang Chengyi pondered, his legs motionless, but under the influence of the corpse energy, he jumped up with a bang, his stiff arms suddenly shooting forward to grab the big fox's neck.

"Crack!" The tree couldn't bear the weight and snapped.

The big fox struggled desperately, but it was just as powerless as the neighbor's wife facing the garbage dump uncle; its claws dug into the copper and iron bones and broke off with a snap.

Chapter 222 Young Mistress

"You don't know anything when I ask you anything, so what do you know?"

Zhang Chengyi squeezed the large fox and shook it wildly.

This fox spirit knew nothing about the dynasty, the emperor, or even who the famous humans were. She simply kept saying "I don't know." The most she knew about humans was that two hundred miles to the east was Huashigang, in which was Huajiagou, and in which was Huajiazhen. There were many people in Huajiazhen, but they were not edible.

It sounds like a tongue twister.

"What about monsters? Are there any famous ghosts or monsters?" He stopped waving his arm and asked again.

The fox spirit, feeling dizzy and disoriented, mechanically said, "The most powerful monster in the vicinity is Young Mistress Hua from Hua Family Town."

"I heard, I heard that she has already transformed into human form, and is a bull demon."

"Anything more powerful, I've only ever heard of the City of the Wrongfully Dead in the Underworld. There's a very powerful Black Mountain Demon there. A hundred years ago, when the Black Mountain Demon got married, Young Madam Hua asked us for a lot of things, saying they were gifts for the Black Mountain Demon."

Zhang Chengyi tried to put on a thoughtful expression, but his stiff face wouldn't cooperate. "Young Mistress Hua? Black Mountain Demon?"

I've never heard of "Young Lady Hua," but I'm very familiar with "Black Mountain Demon."

The great demon from A Chinese Ghost Story.

Wait a minute, isn't there a Black Mountain Demon in A Chinese Odyssey?

"Have you ever heard of monsters like the Bull Demon King or Sun Wukong?" Zhang Chengyi asked impatiently.

Wow, if it were a Journey to the West movie, that would be awesome! I'd be so motivated to figure out a way to take down all the gods and Buddhas.

"I don't know."

The fox spirit finished speaking subconsciously, then closed her eyes in despair.

"waste."

Zhang Chengyi was too lazy to continue communicating with this country bumpkin monster. His mind was filled with nothing but eating people. He slammed his hands together and with a snap, the fox spirit's neck was flattened.

Blood flowed down his palm, and as he looked at the fox spirit's blood, he felt a desire even stronger than when he saw the blood flowing from a human corpse.

It smelled so good, it was as if the Queen Mother of the West had plucked her peaches from heaven and presented them to you.

He tried to swallow again, but found he couldn't. He took a deep breath to control his emotions, held the fox spirit's corpse to his mouth, and his slightly bent arm made a creaking sound as the joints rubbed together.

So close, he felt that if he hadn't been in control, this body would have already bitten him.

"Snapped!"

With a flash of lightning, Zhang Chengyi's desire vanished, but the price was that the corpse energy shrank back to his chest.

It turns out it was the corpse energy that was causing this.

He pondered thoughtfully, "Why does the corpse energy make the body crave blood?"

This thing seems a bit off. When it's fully charged, it wants the body to sleep and evolve; when it's not fully charged, it craves blood. Could it be that blood can increase the corpse energy?

Similar plots appear in many zombie movies, where zombies become much stronger after drinking blood, especially the blood of cultivators.

But he doesn't lack corpse energy at all.

Zhang Chengyi shook his head and threw the fox spirit's corpse on the ground. He didn't know what the consequences of blood-sucking would be, but such a wicked method of becoming stronger was really unnecessary.

According to traditional Chinese culture, bloodsucking is considered an evil practice and often involves problems.

Especially since he already has no shortage of corpse energy, it's even less likely that he would try to absorb blood to become stronger.

He skipped and hopped as he hurried eastward.

Young Mistress Hua, who can command a large group of monsters in this area, should have some knowledge, right?

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Huashigang, Huajiagou, Huajiazhen, Huajiayi.

"Young Master Hua, the Black Mountain Demon is getting married again this year. I heard he's already engaged to a female ghost under the command of the Tree Demon Granny at Lanruo Temple. Should we give him another wedding gift?"

The magpie perched on the mill chirped and chattered.

The woman, with her red lips, white teeth, and delicate skin, and a beauty mark under her lip, sat by the pool, her small feet splashing in the water. She casually looked at the crescent moon in the sky and said, "The world has been in chaos for so long, it will come to an end in a few years. How can the lords of the underworld and the gods and Buddhas in the sky sit still?"

"Once things calm down, the Black Mountain Demon will be dead."

"I see that it is ignorant of divination and acts recklessly; its demise is not far off."

Don't be fooled by her small plot of land; before she was turned into a cow by her own magic, she was a practitioner skilled in evil magic. She and her two sisters would play with men, turn those stinky men into cows and sell them, living a carefree life. Unfortunately, the hunters eventually got their eyes pecked out, and all three sisters were turned into cows.

She spent hundreds of years becoming human again, waiting for her enemy to be reincarnated.

It has been more than a thousand years since it was transformed into a cow.

A hint of loneliness appeared on Hua Shao's face. As she waited, it seemed that all that remained of her life was revenge.

"It'll be soon, it'll be soon." She was counting down the days; in another hundred years, it would be the day her enemy was reincarnated.

"what?"

Mrs. Hua suddenly frowned as she sensed a not-so-weak aura of death approaching.

Zombies?

With a push of her hand on the ground, she lightly leaped onto the wall. The little monsters under her command were all casually conjured by her and had no real skills; they couldn't possibly defeat a zombie with such a high level of corpse energy.

Fortunately, most zombies are soulless and not very intelligent.

It should be known that a person has three souls and seven spirits. The soul is pure while the spirits are impure, and the soul is intelligent while the spirits are foolish. Therefore, a person is only called a soul after death.

When the soul leaves the body to go to the underworld, the part of the spirit that cannot be taken with it due to its weight will settle in the body along with the vital energy.

If one is lucky enough to die, they might turn into a zombie.

These monsters, which are simply dominated by the soul, have no brains whatsoever except for eating and killing. They can be easily toyed with and then sent away. It seems good that the more blood a zombie drinks, the stronger it becomes, but the price is that as the corpse energy dissipates, the remaining seven souls will continue to die until they breathe their last and become a corpse made of steel.

As for whether or not to go through the trouble of killing zombies?

Is she very free?