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Ten miles away.

Fifty meters below Old Qing Mountain.

This is an ancient tomb from nine hundred years ago, dating back to the Song Dynasty.

"Blood spirit refining method? The owner of this tomb is a martial arts alliance leader in the jianghu? Nickname... Leader Xun?"

At this moment.

In the main tomb chamber.

Six tomb robbers, with specialized silk scarves covering their mouths and noses, were looking at a well-preserved bamboo book.

It was entirely coated in a special tree sap and sealed within a small jar containing some kind of liquid.

Although the liquid inside had dried up, the bamboo book was still like new, and the writing on it was clearly visible.

By the light of the kerosene lamp.

Besides seeing the tomb owner's name, they also saw that this place was once called 'Cloud Mist Mountain Villa'.

Although they didn't know why it had become a mountain now, perhaps this Cloud Mist Mountain Villa was built against the mountain.

After all, the name itself contained the word 'mountain'.

So they weren't very curious about this, and instead, they were searching for other jars in the dimly lit tomb chamber, hoping to find other discoveries.

And in the center of the tomb, there was a coffin.

At the same time, a young tomb robber was casting spells and incantations, sticking some 'evil-dispelling' talismans above the coffin to prevent 'corpse rising'.

Corpse rising is the resurrection of the dead.

"The Yin energy here is too heavy."

The young man applied talismans while observing his surroundings.

His eyes were covered by a layer of gray water, sparkling under the light, and in the fluctuation of the water, his eyeballs seemed to shift, appearing somewhat eerie.

But with the help of the Yin-Sha water gathered by the 'Sha Observation Talisman'.

He was able to see the Sha energy filling the air.

This Sha energy slowly gathered, gradually seeping into the coffin.

At this moment, another tomb robber looked at the young man and asked curiously, "Little Daoren, have you ever seen a thousand-year-old corpse rise?"

"No," the young man said while drawing talismans, "and I don't want to see one."

"Who would want to see one?" The tomb robber shook his head and asked again, "How do these corpses, dead for decades or hundreds of years, come back to life?

You specialize in the path of Sha energy, you must have learned corpse-raising techniques, right?"

Although the tomb robber was asking questions, the others, while still searching for other bamboo books, perked up their ears towards the young man, wanting to know his answer.

Of course, they were more focused on the coffin under the young man's care.

This was the most dangerous thing in the entire tomb.

As for the mechanisms along the way, most were broken.

And since they were all cultivators, they basically just forced their way through.

And at this moment.

When the young man heard the question about how corpses could resurrect, he wasn't very eager to speak.

He remained silent for a while.

Only the sounds of rummaging through jars and drawing talismans remained in the tomb.

Perhaps the atmosphere was too stifling.

And fearing that these temporary partners would 'isolate' him.

The young man finally broke the silence and said, "Do you know about the Corpse Herding Sect?"

During the silence and speaking, he spent another ten minutes drawing a 'one-stroke' evil-dispelling talisman.

"Of course we know," one person replied, "We deal with tombs and corpses every day, so we definitely know about the Corpse Herding Sect.

Sometimes we even go to them for advice."

"Corpse Herding Sect?" Another person looked at the young man suspiciously, "You're so skilled in Yin-Sha techniques, could it be... you were once a member of the Corpse Herding Sect? And got kicked out, so you don't want to mention it?"

"Yes," the young man saw that the topic was open and didn't hide it, "I used to be."

As he spoke, he looked at the coffin again, "The matter of corpses resurrecting seems mystical to you because you don't have the technique of the Yin-Sha Eye and can't see the Sha energy in the air.

But I can see this Sha energy.

I can also see that the Corpse Herding technique, which appears to be 'resurrecting' the herded corpses, is actually my 'fellow disciples' controlling them with Yin-Sha.

However, if Sha energy stays in a corpse for a long time, it will nourish some tiny things (various bacteria) invisible to the naked eye.

They are affected by Sha energy and coexist with the corpse.

Over time, under the influence of Sha energy, the corpses don't decay, and they also develop some subtle spirit that only knows how to 'eat'.

These tiny things merge with Sha energy and reside in the symbiotic corpse.

When spirituality is born within the Sha energy, it finally controls the corpse.

This is what you call corpse transformation."

The young man spoke eloquently, leaving these people stunned.

At the same time.

In the 'side chamber' next to the main tomb chamber.

Zhang Feng had already arrived with his people and was also listening to his theory.

"This person is very capable..." Lin Daoyou and others were also sighing, they didn't expect there to be such a person among tomb robbers?

Although compared to Senior Zhang, he was too inferior, he was far stronger than them.

Zhang Feng, meanwhile, was setting up a spiritual energy barrier to prevent the sound from leaking out while pondering the young man's words.

As for exploring the tomb and searching for treasures, just leave it to the professionals in the main tomb chamber.

He would go over after they had finished dealing with the mechanisms.

While contemplating.

Zhang Feng's Spiritual Mind could penetrate the walls and see everything in the main tomb chamber.

He also saw these tomb robbers continuing to question the young man, discussing some deeper principles of corpse rising.

Zhang Feng naturally learned and waited at the same time.

And through the young man's subsequent explanation about corpse herding.

Zhang Feng found that he was indeed very insightful, not much worse than the 'Ocean Evil Cultivator'.

It seems the higher the world, the more talents there are.

Or perhaps they were talents, which is why they cultivated to such a high level.

It's just that Zhang Feng had also learned about the Corpse Herding Sect in this world.

He felt that if Sha energy could be seen, then the people of the Corpse Herding Sect in this world were indeed unique.

They belonged to those who created their own 'Yin-Sha Eye'.

This must be copied, and those talismans of his must also be copied.

Afterwards.

Zhang Feng's Spiritual Mind swept past the talismans on the coffin, then reached into the coffin, looking at this uncorrupted 'nine-hundred-year-old corpse'.

Their caution was not wrong, this corpse indeed had problems.

It was just the words 'Leader Xun' and 'Cloud Mist Mountain Villa'.

Zhang Feng always felt he had heard them somewhere before.

As for the Blood spirit cultivation method, he knew about it; he had practiced this in the Prince's world.

He didn't expect this world to have it too.

Furthermore, this cultivation method and Blood spirits were together.

Zhang Feng felt that this Leader Xun should be an old acquaintance of his.

At the same time.

While Zhang Feng was recalling who this person was.

The talismans the young man drew were not enough to suppress this 'zombie' that had absorbed nine hundred years of Sha energy.

Even though the spiritual energy here wasn't high, the quantity produced a qualitative change.

And as the main tomb was opened earlier, a large number of elemental attributes surged in, stimulating the pure Sha energy and causing some kind of elemental vibration.

At this moment, while several tomb robbers were searching for treasures and the young man was continuing to draw talismans.

Crash—

The coffin lid suddenly flew open, its heavy force scattering all the talismans on it.

Even though the young man had been on guard, facing such a sudden change at this moment, he only had time to retreat half a step.

Bang!

With a muffled thud, the coffin lid struck his instinctively raised arms, breaking both of them directly, and the residual force also sent him crashing against the nearby wall.

Whoosh—

On the other side of this wall, Zhang Feng even saw a lot of dust falling from his side of the wall, knowing that the impact was quite forceful.

"Zombie!"

At the same time, the tomb robbers inside the tomb also cried out in alarm, seeing a completely black 'person' in the tomb stand up with a stiff movement.

Its features were no longer discernible; its entire body was a muddy black, as if it had been mummified.

Whoosh—

Although it had no facial features, upon hearing the startled cries, it charged straight out of the coffin, and in the next instant, it was in front of a tomb robber, its Sha-energy-enhanced palm easily piercing his chest.

As the zombie withdrew its palm, black smoke visible to the naked eye also permeated the tomb robber's chest, corroded by the Sha energy.

"Run!"

"Corpse King..."

Most people, after a second of stunned silence, rushed directly towards the tomb chamber entrance.

When the young man saw a nearly thousand-year-old zombie appear, he also endured the pain to get up, and then ran without hesitation.

Facing this unknown life form, with such terrifying skill and speed, they didn't want to risk their lives to try.

"Return my brother's life!"

But one cultivator, consumed by rage, raised a hundred-refined divine weapon, and under the cover of spiritual energy, the cold blade slashed at the zombie's neck.

This single slash could cut through a thumb-thick solid iron pipe without any problem.

Hearing this shout, everyone also turned their heads for a look while running towards the tomb entrance.

If their companion could kill the zombie, then they wouldn't run anymore.

Hiss—

However, after cutting into the zombie's neck, the blade only went in an inch, cutting open half of the neck.

And what would be a fatal injury for a normal person had no effect on the zombie; instead, it grabbed back with its palm, crushing more than half of the cultivator's face.

"Run... run..."

When the others saw that the zombie was 'immortal', they were even more terrified out of their wits and dared not linger.

But they had just reached the entrance.

Only to see a figure flash.

Zhang Feng arrived at the door and looked at the zombie chasing them from behind.

'Its physique should be around 220, but its physical strength and the characteristic of having no vital points are a bit peculiar.'

Zhang Feng sized it up, feeling that this creature should be the 'conceptual life form' from the zombie refining method.

"Bad!"

The tomb raiders and others were in a state of panic. When they saw Zhang Feng suddenly appear at this moment, they also instinctively stopped, thinking another zombie had arrived outside.

However, before they could get a clear look.

Zhang Feng's Spiritual Mind moved, and these people seemed to be controlled, pushed to both sides by an irresistible force.

The next second.

Zhang Feng arrived in front of the zombie, and under the terrified gazes of everyone, he covered his palm with the Earth Thorn's spiritual energy structure, easily beheading the zombie.

The zombie, however, was not dead yet, and its hand still clawed towards Zhang Feng's face.

Thump!

A dull thud, like leather and steel colliding, echoed within the tomb.

Zhang Feng went head-to-head with the zombie, using his forearm to block its wrist, easily parrying its palm strike.

With Zhang Feng's current physical strength and his practice of the zombie refining method, he was actually stronger than it.

His nearly eight hundred pounds of solid, condensed weight, combined with the blessings of various cultivation techniques, was far superior to the malevolent energy zombie refining method.

Its weight was only a little over three hundred pounds, entirely reinforced by malevolent energy.

In Zhang Feng's view, it was simply 'outwardly strong, inwardly weak'.

Whoosh—

After observing and comparing.

Zhang Feng, under the even more stunned gazes of the crowd, slapped his palm on its severed neck, instantly dispersing its malevolent energy structure.

Thump—

The nine-hundred-year-old immortal zombie that could easily kill many cultivators was effortlessly killed by Zhang Feng.

"You've robbed the tomb. Let's go, come with me to see the officials."

Zhang Feng was calm and collected, using spiritual energy to gather all the bamboo scrolls they had collected to his side.

At this moment, footsteps sounded again. Lin Daoyou and the others arrived and helped Zhang Feng pack the bamboo scrolls.

"We're saved..."

"So be it if we go to prison... It's better than dying here..."

These tomb raiders let out a huge sigh of relief, all feeling a sense of having survived a calamity.

They also looked at Zhang Feng with curiosity and respect, wondering when such an extraordinary person had appeared in the cultivation world.

But when Lin Daoyou and the others addressed Zhang Feng.

They knew who Zhang Feng was; he was General Hang's 'chief retainer!'

Many cultivators and Generals knew about Zhang Feng becoming General Hang's retainer.

But his specific strength, they did not know.

...

On the way to the nearest city.

After Zhang Feng asked about these people's talismans, he obtained several basic construction methods.

This was a great gain.

Their knowledge was far more valuable than the tomb.

As for the books inside the tomb, they were mostly useless, more like burial objects describing the tomb owner's glorious life.

Zhang Feng also read them.

He learned that this person was a Jianghu Alliance Leader from nine hundred years ago, who intended to overthrow the court and was a rebel.

However, he ultimately failed and fled to the Russian region.

Only when he was about to die of old age did he choose to return to his roots, but he was buried in a deserted place under a false identity.

After reading these.

Zhang Feng thought about it again and suddenly knew who he was.

If he hadn't guessed wrong.

Then he was the 'Jianghu, Leader Xun' from another timeline.

That is, one of the two people who fled abroad in the Prince's World.

He didn't expect that in this world, he was still doing this, single-mindedly wanting to assassinate the Emperor and restore Jianghu freedom.

But now, he knew he had fled to the Russian region.

In the Prince's World, it was probably roughly similar.

So, after his Spiritual Mind was a bit higher, he would go look for him.

After all, there were still many things to arrange in reality, and it would also take some time to search after returning to the Prince's World.

This time would also occupy reality.

The physique in the Prince's World wasn't high either, so cultivating and then searching, two or three years might not be enough.

He could only see if the real world time would further increase when he reached the seventh-level world.

Otherwise, there were too many things.

After thinking about this matter.

Zhang Feng looked at the few tomb raiders who were following him again.

The way they looked at him was with fear and curiosity.

And now, all the way to the city.

They had also asked him about how to kill the zombie.

He did not answer them.

But that young man seemed to know.

This was correct, because his eyes could see malevolent energy.

He could also see that when Zhang Feng struck down with his palm, the zombie's entire malevolent energy completely dispersed.

'Malevolent energy' was equivalent to the zombie's 'soul'.

Zhang Feng had dispersed the zombie's soul.

And for these laymen tomb raiders, even though they had encountered many tombs and seen those slow-moving zombies.

But since they couldn't see malevolent energy, they didn't understand the specific reason.

They only knew that malevolent energy dispelling talismans could suppress corpses, but they didn't know the principle behind it. In fact, the 'spirituality of the malevolent energy' was interrupted by the talisman, thereby cutting off the malevolent energy's control over the corpse.

People from the Corpse Driving Sect knew this principle, but they generally wouldn't say it.

Because once the fundamental principle was known, their Corpse Driving Sect would lose its mystique.

Of course, even if others knew the principle, they couldn't manipulate malevolent energy or draw malevolent energy dispelling talismans.

So knowing was useless.

Also, in Zhang Feng's view.

The cultivators in this world cultivate based on their own elemental affinity.

To become a disciple of the Corpse Driving Sect and so on, one must first have a 'Yin-Sha Body'.

Lin Daoyou was considered a genius, and it was by chance that he was able to switch from Earth affinity to cultivating the Yin Earth method.

...

In the following days.

After Zhang Feng handed these tomb raiders over to the authorities, he stayed in the city here and did not return to the General's Mansion.

Firstly, it was to organize the gains from the talismans over these few days.

Secondly, after seeing the zombie, it was to further optimize his own zombie refining method.

Thirdly, there wasn't much time left. After sorting things out for a month or two, he would set off from here and head straight for Yang Mountain.

The schedule was packed.

Originally, he said he would relax his inner demons, but in the past two years, he had a massive memory storm to calculate Spiritual Mind.

In the end, not only did his inner demons not decrease, but they increased by 15%, almost reaching 95%.

This was fine; he wouldn't panic until it reached 120%.

Now, only 120% would affect cultivation.

Because his Spiritual Mind had opened, his subtle control had improved, and relatively speaking, the upper limit of his inner demon value had also increased.

Otherwise, if he didn't have Spiritual Mind.

Seeing it was already 95%, he should be panicking by now.

...

Another ten days passed.

Regarding the replication of talismans, Zhang Feng hadn't fully grasped the Malevolent Energy Suppressing Talisman yet, but he felt it could form 'various suppressions'.

This related to structural decomposition. He had previously researched various thorns and had some experience with this, feeling it was highly likely to be achievable.

This talisman primarily stopped the circulation of various spiritual energy affinities, similar to the legendary 'immobilizing technique'.

Afterwards, if everything went smoothly, and based on forming various suppressions with similar structures, then the Yin-Sha Eye could also be reverse-engineered into 'various eyes'.

relativamente speaking, as long as all the eyes were fully opened, he could replicate the 'Yin-Yang Eye' from the rule entries.

This Yin-Yang Eye, which could see the circulation of spiritual energy, was indeed very powerful.

Furthermore, if he wanted to create something like a 'Superconducting reality spirit array', then the personnel should ideally have 'Spirit Eyes' that could see 'attribute-less spiritual energy'.

Also, that dead tomb raider whose face was half clawed off by the zombie, his enchanting of weapons was actually a semi-finished 'spirit artifact'.

If he didn't obtain anything related to spirit artifacts within Yang Mountain, he could also try to continue calculating.

It could be considered a small safety net.

There was also the malevolent energy dispelling talisman, which dispersed nearby malevolent energy and prevented it from gathering. This was a bit interesting, like the rule-based forms of 'Silence' and 'Magic Ban'.

Or rather, within these divine ability rules, there were prototypes of minor techniques.

It was indeed a kind of 'foundation'.

Zhang Feng felt that he should collect more of these 'one-stroke' minor techniques.

Just then, General Tao, who had a large force and many cultivators under him, was stationed in the city outside Yang Mountain, seemingly not giving up on the treasure.

He might have many one-stroke talismans there.

Also today.

Zhang Feng went to the adjacent guest room and called for Lin Daoyou and the other person.

"Let's go, to Yang Mountain to find General Tao."

"Find him?" Lin Daoyou didn't quite understand.

"Dao Brother." The Daoren was a little scared, "He has many cultivators under him."

Even a brave man can't fight four hands with two fists, let alone a group of cultivators and over ten thousand soldiers with firearms.

"Yes, they have many people." Zhang Feng didn't care, "But I alone am enough. Let's go, I'll take you two Dao Friends to seek justice from him."