Blood Sacrifice To Millions Of Zombies, I Will Be A Demon Cultivator In The Apocalypse

Chapter 165: Progress in Puppetry

After sorting through the storage bags left by the cultivators in the Profound Spirit Domain, Zheng Yi returned to his residence in the Great Principle Alliance.

It was a huge garden-style estate, nestled by mountains and water. Within the garden was a massive lake, adorned with various artificial mountains and strange rocks. Flocks of white egrets roamed about, and agile spotted deer grazed on the grass. The ancient and picturesque buildings were arranged in an orderly manner, creating a scenery reminiscent of an ink landscape painting.

According to the agreement Zheng Yi made with his two concubines, he would return to the garden every evening to have dinner with them whenever he had the time.

Afterwards, he would proceed to the backyard.

With continuous communication and cooperation with Luo Yaoji, their coordination became more proficient.

Especially, Zheng Yi did not forcefully absorb the Innate Peach Divine Fetus from Luo Yaoji, completely taking away its origin. Instead, he used the Yin-Yang Way to enjoy the bliss of Great Bliss while nourishing and repairing Luo Yaoji's body with his own mana, gradually absorbing and transferring the entire Divine Fetus.

At the same time, although Luo Yaoji's Innate Wood Constitution lost the nourishment from the Innate Peach Divine Fetus, the nourishment from Zheng Yi's higher-level mana made her Wood Source True Qi become more active.

In just half a year, Luo Yaoji's cultivation had already reached the 9th level of Qi Refining, a rapid advancement of two levels, which could be considered as remarkable progress.

After absorbing the complete Innate Peach Divine Fetus, Zheng Yi felt an additional mass of green energy in his body, as if there was life gestating within it. It emitted a lively and vibrant aura, constantly purifying his original body like a filter, gradually transforming his body into a purer state.

On this point, Zheng Yi had long anticipated it. The Innate Peach Divine Fetus was only obtained through dual cultivation, and it had a more important role for him in the future.

As for Luo Yaoji's two-level advancement in cultivation within half a year, although it was aided by Zheng Yi, it was mostly due to her own Innate Wood Constitution, which had a unique advantage in absorbing the wood source energy between heaven and earth.

Zheng Yi himself was already at the Foundation Building Late Stage, but he was not in a hurry to break through to the Violet Palace realm. He wanted to transform into a powerful physique during the process of advancement, in order to better enhance his aptitude and lay a solid foundation for future realms and cultivation.

And the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him, a chance to change his fate.

At the same time, he had started to carefully study the creation technique of the Five Yin True Monarch that he had obtained from the Lock Heaven Pavilion cultivator from the Profound Spirit Domain.

After all, it was a secret technique passed down by a Nascent Soul stage True Monarch. Although it belonged to the category of esoteric and unorthodox arts, the combination of puppetry and the Lock Heaven Pavilion's transformation technique was far less valuable than the inherited techniques of Nascent Soul stage and battle techniques, but it was still considered precious.

If it were placed outside, not to mention a cultivator like Zheng Yi at the Foundation Building Stage, even a great cultivator at the Golden Core stage would fight to the death for it.

After studying it for a while, Zheng Yi discovered that the "Five Yin Skin Puppetry" technique, as the foundation of the creation technique passed down by the Five Yin True Monarch, was actually more focused on the resources and materials used in the refining process. Although the technique itself was also important, with Zheng Yi's extraordinary soul power surpassing others at the same level, achieving this was not difficult.

Therefore, after familiarizing himself with the technique, he did not put it aside, but began to practice it on the spot.

Every day, he would go to the Apocalypse World and directly oversee the skinning workshop of the zombie flesh factory, using the skin of zombies to refine the Five Yin skin puppets.

The purple flames were not vigorous, but emitted small flames that carefully licked the surface of the zombie skin, burning out tiny black spots that slowly drifted in the air.

The strength of zombie skin is naturally inferior to that of cultivators' skin, but in terms of quantity, zombie skin undoubtedly has an absolute advantage.

The Lock Heaven Sect's secret technique has always been both righteous and evil. The True Monarch's Creation Technique, as described in the inheritance jade slip, states that human skin is the face and the soul is the spirit, making it the highest quality.

Although Zheng Yi does not have the skin of cultivators or the souls of cultivators, he is not afraid of failure. Zombie skin and ghostly spirits are sufficient for his role as a substitute.

Moreover, with the advantage of quantity, by taking advantage of strengths and compensating for weaknesses, extracting essence, a quantitative change will ultimately lead to a qualitative change.

Since the last time he refined the White Bone Banner and depleted all the human skin in the zombie flesh factory warehouse, and also incorporated all the zombie skin he refined in the following three months into the White Bone Banner, Zheng Yi has discovered the problem of insufficient material resources in the warehouse in the short term.

But after completely occupying the entire Fengdu Ghost City, the tentacles of the Soul Hall began to spread to every corner of the city and rapidly expand outward.

Some survivors and various small and large forces were all recruited and recovered by the Soul Hall. The population of the entire Luo City was gathered together again.

The Fengdu Ghost City is like a tireless, greedy monster, spreading countless tentacles and devouring everything it can touch. The size of the city continues to expand outward, and the population continues to increase, reaching a total of nearly 300,000 people.

Of course, this number is incomparable to before the great disaster struck.

But after experiencing various terrifying events and disasters, being able to gather so many surviving people is considered a small miracle.

The newly arrived population quickly integrates into the collective. In front of the massive machinery of the Fengdu Ghost City, all the people are just small screws, swept away by the torrent of steel and quickly adapting to everything.

And this is already what countless people dream of. After all, an end-time force like the Fengdu Ghost City, occupying the entire city and possessing terrifying power, is enough to eliminate all kinds of weirdness, zombie hordes, fierce ghosts, and mutant monsters. At least within the city and its outskirts, it is safe, and one does not have to live in constant fear, fearing death at any moment.

The massive city system operates with its own rules, and there is no survival of the fittest or cruel fighting between human beings of the same kind.

In the end-time era, being able to survive and survive is a goal that many people can only hope for.

But now in the Fengdu Ghost City, they have gained even more. Not only are they safe and able to eat their fill, but they can also come into contact with the mysterious power of the supernatural side and have the opportunity to evolve. Where would they dare to slack off? Where would they dare not to work like crazy, strive for progress, and fight desperately to change their fate?

Many newcomers quickly adapt to the rhythm of the city and, under the strict religious preaching of the Tai Mountain Lord, quickly convert.

After all, no matter from which aspect, the current Fengdu Ghost City is a theocratic state, and the Tai Mountain Lord, as the ultimate belief, has established the entire massive divine system of the Underworld. For most people who want to live here, the first thing they need to do is to start believing in the Tai Mountain Lord.

Heretics have no qualification to live in the Fengdu Ghost City.

In a short period of time, the number of Tai Mountain Lord's followers has increased several times over.

Moreover, the Soul Hall has established a more complete system, and more high-level officials have been discovered. The organizational structure has been established, truly becoming a tightly-knit city power.

Jin Wuqian, Mu Jiangliu, and other high-level members of the highest management committee quickly adapted to their positions and issued one decree after another. The massive war machine came to life.

The current Fengdu Ghost City has absorbed the resources of the Black God Group, the Redeemer Alliance, the Lute Military Base, and countless other forces, forming an increasingly perfect military system.

The armed forces on the outskirts of the city are armed to the teeth, forming military combat units. Dozens of defense lines have been established outside the city, with various observation posts scattered around, densely distributed like a chessboard.

Within the city, the cancerous tumors are eradicated. Those extreme evil organizations and individuals who took advantage of the lawlessness of the apocalypse and posed a significant security threat are publicly tried and quickly dismantled.

Internally stable, the divine power structure of the Fengdu Ghost City unifies the masses. The terrifying divine power machinery begins to exert its influence, quickly occupying several small towns in the vicinity and establishing strongholds.

Relying on the powerful mobility of the Blood Warriors and Ghost Warriors, as well as increasingly advanced high-saturation thermal weapons, they join the struggle for global power.

This development system is not beyond Zheng Yi's expectations.

He desires to establish a new unified dynasty in this apocalyptic world, establishing the Yama King of Mount Tai as the dominant deity in the underworld. Anyone or any force that stands in the way of this goal will inevitably be crushed and dissolved in the torrent of history.

Internally, the increasingly powerful military strength and the more stable environment and rules make those who have joined the Fengdu City, whether voluntarily or forcibly, feel an unprecedented sense of security.

As a result, many people have become extremely devout in their beliefs, and in a short period of time, the Temple of Yama King has gained many fanatical followers.

Under the projection of the Fengdu Ghost City, the city of Mount Tai is growing and gradually perfecting the rules of the spiritual realm, attracting more and more non-human beings to settle there.

This can also be considered an unexpected gain.

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In the human skin warehouse, Zheng Yi uses the Purple Demon Flame to refine hundreds or even thousands of Wuyin human skins.

As a large amount of impurities are removed, leaving behind the essence of the skin, the final material is only small pieces of clean, snow-like human skin.

Then, through refining, Zheng Yi uses a unique technique to brand the shrunken human skins, causing them to merge with each other and eventually form the desired size.

Then, based on the Creation Secret Technique, the refined human skins are reshaped into the form of horses. In Zheng Yi's eyes, this process is more like making paper horses or paper people in a traditional paper-cutting shop.

With his exceptional spiritual power, Zheng Yi handles this task with ease. In a moment, a three-meter-tall, majestic Wuyin skin horse stands tall, with hooves treading on the snow, glossy fur, black mane burning like flames, a long and strong neck, and a powerful muscular body.

However, if one were to observe closely, they would find that the impressive-looking horse is just a paper horse with an empty belly, wrapped in a layer of human skin.

Where there is one, there is another. The key to this process lies in the meticulousness of the transformation of spiritual power. With practice, Zheng Yi quickly becomes proficient.

Another tall and majestic paper skin horse is successfully refined, and Zheng Yi points his finger, causing the paper skin horse to automatically return to its position.

In front of him, there are already hundreds of equally sized Wuyin skin horses that have been refined, forming an army of cavalry.

After exhausting all the zombie human skins in the warehouse, Zheng Yi finally stops the pace of further refinement and takes out the Ghost Gourd. He opens the mouth of the gourd and extracts a mass of ghostly substance, injecting it into the body of the nearest tall human skin paper horse, filling it up.

Suddenly, the originally empty Wuyin skin horse's blood-red eyes light up, and it raises its head and lets out a long neigh.

"Xililu!"

A sound like a dragon's roar, the dense black mist spread out from the tall and majestic horse, like black tentacles, showing its teeth and claws.

On the surface of the skin, which was as white as snow, clear black lines began to appear. These were the energy sources transformed by the ghostly aura inside the body. Under the control of Zheng Yi's soul, they formed tattoo-like patterns, among which the evil spirits were rampant and extremely eerie.

This is the ghost tattoo, a dwelling place for fierce ghosts, and also the origin of the fusion between human skin Yin horse and evil spirits. Through the art of dotting and transforming spirits, this lifeless puppet has come alive, as if reborn, known as the art of living puppets.

On the strong and robust horse body, the clearly depicted lines emerged, all of them resembling ferocious ghostly figures. Suddenly, the tattooed areas seemed to come alive, flickering with a mysterious red light.

Under its hooves, black flames burned rapidly. The gloomy fires from death showed no signs of extinguishing. On the back of the tall and majestic horse, a string of black flames gradually merged and transformed into a mane. In the dark night, it emitted a dazzling light, giving people a terrifying feeling.

This was simply a nightmare that had escaped from hell.

The Nightmare Horse.

Bang!

However, before the strong and agile Five Yin Skin Horse could start running, a loud noise suddenly came from within its body. It seemed that the Yin Qi filled inside was too immense, causing the human skin that had been refined to explode directly.

Fragments of human skin and ghostly aura scattered in the air, creating a gust of wind.

It was normal for mistakes to occur during the first experiment, and Zheng Yi didn't mind.

Casually, he continued to refine the next Five Yin Skin Horse.

After a few simple attempts, Zheng Yi accurately grasped the rhythm and structure, and the experiment was successful.

The first fully developed, streamlined Five Yin Skin Horse appeared before his eyes.

With a height of more than ten feet and a length of twenty feet, its entire body was pitch black, covered with green ghost tattoos. Its muscles were knotted, and its hooves trampled the snow. It was completely the appearance of a tall and majestic living horse.

With Zheng Yi's command, the Five Yin Skin Horse moved like a black lightning, raising its head and letting out a long neigh.

"Xilulu!"

It stepped on black flames and swiftly traversed the night sky, its speed extremely fast, like lightning, traveling thousands of miles in a day, flying across the land.

The first batch of Five Yin Skin Horses came out of the furnace. Zheng Yi's dotting and transforming spirits had a slight mistake, resulting in a total of eighty successful refinements. Looking at these tall and majestic human skin horses, he couldn't help but nod in approval.

Immediately, he collected these human skin horses into the ghost gourd, letting them roam in the second layer of the ghost realm space, accompanied by the Soul-Eating Skeleton Tree, grazing in the Yin Spirit Ranch.

These Yin creatures, refined through this special secret technique, possessed the characteristics of ghostly beings. In an environment abundant with Yin Qi, they could continue to grow and reach even greater heights and levels.

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(End of this chapter)