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

Chapter 176: Shedding the Old Skin, Living a Second Life

Half a year later.

In the silent cave, only the almost depleted spiritual energy of the jade crystal mountain in front was emitting a faint light. The surroundings were empty and desolate, with a spreading green color and a sinister atmosphere.

In this man-made cave, it seemed as if it had been buried in the dust of history, with no trace of life whatsoever. Even the air carried a sense of loneliness and emptiness.

Crack!

At this moment, a slight movement could be heard. The sound was extremely light, like a needle falling on the ground. But because of the absolute silence in the environment, it seemed somewhat thrilling.

The gentle sound, like the expanding sound of cracking skin, suddenly merged into one, echoing in the cave like thunder.

The vibrating sound continued to spread, becoming more and more urgent, and the frequency higher. Invisibly, it brought a hint of vitality and vigor to the lifeless cave.

On the ground, the countless white threads wrapped around a huge cocoon suddenly burst open. Section by section, it disintegrated, revealing a figure sitting cross-legged. The figure was tall, completely motionless, as if dead, not even a slight movement, not even breathing.

Suddenly, the body bent forward, the spine on the back rose high, slowly forming a large lump. Within the raised lump, faint signs of movement could be seen, as if there was something alive inside, struggling and wriggling beneath the skin. The outline of a pair of small feet and hands could faintly be seen.

What kind of creature was still inside this human body?

Crack! Crack!

Accompanied by a series of crisp sounds, the ribs on both sides were directly broken off from the spine, becoming completely symmetrical. A small crack appeared in the raised spine.

Suddenly, a pair of tiny baby hands reached out from inside, pale and chubby, stained with blood. They directly grabbed the split spine and pulled it open.

When it opened to a certain extent, the man's back split open, like a zipper being torn apart from the middle, as if a moth or butterfly was emerging from its cocoon.

Just like a silkworm breaking out of its cocoon, the tall body was the cocoon shell, and a tiny baby crawled out from inside.

The whole process was extremely horrifying, especially in the environment of this earth vein stone cave, making it even more shocking.

The chubby and pale baby body, with bloodstains from the swaddling cloth, slowly crawled out from the adult's body, crawling down from the gap in the back, as if the original body was just a smelly skin, and the baby body crawling out now was the true self.

Or perhaps it was a parasite that matured in the original body, and now it tore open the host's body to achieve its true form.

The chubby baby crawled on the ground, using its small hands and feet with all its might. It was clear that it was not yet accustomed to coordinating its limbs, trembling and stumbling, leaving a clear trace on the ground.

Ignoring the bloodstains on its face, the chubby baby crawled all the way to the figure sitting on the ground, came to the front of the jade crystal mountain, and carefully climbed up. It sat down next to the lifeless body.

"What a wonderful 'journey'..."

The chubby baby that crawled out is none other than Zheng Yi after his transformation. Through the Immortal Transformation of the Immortal Transformation silkworm, he has shed his old body and achieved a completely new form.

The information about the Immortal Transformation technique is contained within the cocoon of the Immortal Transformation silkworm. Once refined, it is immediately released and absorbed by the host.

It must be said that Zheng Yi finds this miraculous transformation, which can be considered a second life, unbelievable.

When Zheng Yi found the Immortal Transformation silkworm, he had various speculations about the process of the Heavenly Human Rebirth. However, he never expected the entire process to be so strange. It was as if his whole being was directly placed back into the womb, returning to an innate state in the amniotic fluid. In a dazed and hazy state, he completed a rebirth.

No wonder this place is named "Embryonic Transformation." It truly borrows the transformation of a fetus to change and transform the body, turning decay into something magical.

I never expected that refining the Immortal Transformation silkworm would bring about such indescribable and marvelous changes.

Even if this experience were to be shared, I'm afraid few would believe it.

Transforming from Postnatal to Innate, shedding the old body and forming a new one!

This miraculous change is truly too mysterious and difficult to accept.

Although Zheng Yi has pieced together some information from the notes left by Yi Qingzi and the soul memories of the three cultivators in the Profound Spirit Domain, these people were not personally involved in the Immortal Gate's secret Immortal Transformation. Many things are just speculations and not detailed explanations.

One thing is clear, they have never witnessed the process of the Immortal Transformation silkworm's transformation. After all, it has been thousands of years since the Immortal Gate's destruction, and the records of the Immortal Transformation silkworm and the Heavenly Human Rebirth technique have become legends passed down through generations, with no one truly witnessing this transformation.

Therefore, there is a gap between reality and imagination, which is inevitable.

However, for Zheng Yi, all he wants is to achieve his goal, and now it seems that everything has been successfully accomplished.

Zheng Yi is equally satisfied with his new body.

"My current body is just like a newborn baby, without the ability to protect myself in the outside world, let alone go out and meet people..."

"What I need to do next is to replenish my blood and spiritual energy in large quantities and recover quickly."

Zheng Yi is not worried about his current physical condition. Rejuvenation is difficult, but growing rapidly from a baby to a young adult is not a big challenge for him.

His current body has transformed from his old body, with self-generated magical power and abundant vitality. He has inherited all the advantages from before, and his cultivation level has not been lost. It is not difficult to recover.

He just needs to retrace his previous path, breaking through each barrier and shackle one by one. As long as his spiritual energy and blood reach the required standards, he can quickly improve.

The light on the forehead of the chubby baby flickered, and he raised his chubby little hand, pointing forward. He took off the storage bag from his old body and used the power of his divine soul to suspend it in front of him.

Using the power of his divine soul, he opened the storage bag and then took out a large number of pills to replenish blood and restore mana, one by one, swallowing them.

These medicinal pills are all exquisite pills collected by Zheng Yi. They were refined using pure blood qi herbs combined with a large amount of precious medicinal materials. Zheng Yi had specially arranged for them to be collected with the help of the Great Principle Alliance's wealth and resources, all for the current situation.

Now, it seems that they have indeed come in handy.

This is the benefit of having people under his command. With the support of a big tree, one can enjoy the shade. Zheng Yi himself is the big tree, but he also needs more people to serve him, pruning branches, watering and fertilizing, in order to grow into a towering tree, a forest of its own, and occupy a fertile land.

Zheng Yi has always believed that in the Immortal Cultivation World, being a lone wolf is either soaring to the sky or dying on the streets. It is difficult to go far without cultivating various forces to serve oneself.

He took out a Blood Qi Pill, grabbed it with his chubby baby hand, and put it into his mouth.

The pill emitted a strong medicinal power, filling the baby's cheeks so full that he couldn't swallow it. Zheng Yi pressed his tongue against it, used his mana to dissolve it, and immediately turned it into a warm red stream, which he swallowed.

Instantly, the strong blood qi turned into an explosive blood-colored energy, rapidly impacting every part of his body. Under the impact of the blood qi, the chubby baby's body grew rapidly, visibly growing at a fast pace.

The fair and tender skin gradually cracked and transformed into a bronze color. The bones developed, the face changed, and the limbs and bones all grew rapidly.

The whole process was extremely short. The newly born body was like a bottomless pit, not at all like the fragile body of an ordinary baby, but exceptionally strong, like a black hole that could never be filled, completely adapting to the impact of blood qi, absorbing a large amount of blood energy, and returning it as the vigorous growth of the body.

This rapid growth also proved the potential of this baby's body, which made Zheng Yi very satisfied.

Immediately, without hesitation, Zheng Yi swallowed one Blood Qi Pill after another.

The originally small arms began to grow, leg bones grew thicker and longer.

The fingers started to develop, from chubby little palms to gradually having the outline of slender fingers. The fleshy little body also developed, growing taller, bones growing, muscles growing, becoming stronger and more robust. The whole body underwent rapid development from all angles, growing quickly.

In the mountains, there is no day or night, and thousands of years have passed in the world.

Zheng Yi hid in the depths of the earth vein cave, rapidly growing and aging at a visible speed, starting from a small baby body, gradually developing into an adult size, tall and strong, growing thick eyebrows and hair, even the thing between his legs also developed well, not much different from before.

The powerful divine soul in his sea of consciousness had completely recovered along with the growth of his body. The massive divine soul stood tall in the sea of consciousness, breathing and swallowing, causing a roaring tsunami.

The surging aura swept through the sea of consciousness, silently roaring and shaking the heavens and earth. The originally majestic aura reappeared on the body, strand by strand.

It has to be said that the growth and development of this body completely exceeded Zheng Yi's expectations.

He originally thought that it would take at least half a year to achieve such a physique, but it only took three months for his body to fully develop.

This indicates that this body has completely inherited the foundation of the previous body. Not only has his cultivation level fully recovered, but the degree of absorption and fusion of mana and blood qi is much higher than before, increasing in multiples. This is why he was able to grow so quickly and his aptitude is extraordinary.

"Hmm?! Why is there a foreign consciousness in my sea of consciousness?!"

When the massive divine soul shook the entire sea of consciousness, Zheng Yi suddenly discovered that deep within his consciousness, there was actually a foreign consciousness hidden.

It was like a growing peach tree, stealthily rooted on the surface of the sea of consciousness, constantly stealing and absorbing the energy from Zheng Yi's sea of consciousness, hiding its form and quietly growing.

If it were in any other area, Zheng Yi might have been unaware and allowed it to grow wildly, unable to detect it.

But this was the sea of consciousness that Zheng Yi had opened up, and he was the master of this mysterious space.

Especially after the transformation of the Heavenly Human Rebirth, all of his divine souls gathered as one, and his Primordial Origin mana became one, almost forming a whole without any traces of impurities. Moreover, his massive divine soul covered every inch of the area, and any slight change or movement could not escape his detection.

At this moment, someone dared to leave a trace of impurity in his sea of consciousness, wanting to cause trouble and steal his achievements. It was simply seeking death.

Immediately, Zheng Yi, without any hesitation, transformed his massive divine soul into a giant hand that descended from the sky and grabbed the peach tree, pulling it out from the shadows.

Without any further ado, he directly crushed it, accompanied by a resentful wail. The fragments of the small peach tree's shadow shattered and turned into pure energy, reintegrating into the sea of consciousness.

The position of the sea level couldn't help but rise rapidly as the boundless essence of consciousness merged into the sea of consciousness, expanding the capacity of the entire Divine Aperture by thirty percent.

Although this replenishing divine soul power was relatively weak, its essence was indeed extraordinary. It was an extremely high-level primordial power. However, now it was cheapened by Zheng Yi, completely crushed, torn apart, devoured, and absorbed by his sea of consciousness.

"As I expected, within the Innate Peach Divine Embryo, there is indeed an unnoticed hidden danger. How could a peach tree that has grown for thousands of years and achieved Dao for five hundred years be just a self-sacrificing good person making clothes for others?"

If it weren't for the transformation and the precise reconstruction of his sea of consciousness, Zheng Yi wouldn't have been able to accurately perceive the trace of consciousness left by the peach tree.

Otherwise, if he had allowed it to freely absorb the power of the sea of consciousness, there would be no immediate impact. However, if it suddenly caused trouble at a critical moment, it would likely bring unnecessary trouble.

Originally, this thought was left for Luo Yaoji. With her pure wood attribute constitution, when she reached a certain level of cultivation, the consciousness of the Peach God would revive, forcibly seizing her body and resurrecting itself by directly devouring her divine soul consciousness, inheriting everything from Luo Yaoji and coming back to life.

But unexpectedly, this Innate Peach Divine Embryo was actually taken by Zheng Yi to balance the yin and yang, and under the influence of the Heavenly Human Rebirth technique, it merged into his own body and became a part of him.

The consciousness of the Peach God failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice. Not only did it lose the opportunity for revival, but the remaining fragments of its will were also devoured by Zheng Yi, turning into pure fragments of divine soul power, supplementing his sea of consciousness.

Unbeknownst to Luo Yaoji, Zheng Yi had blocked a terrifying blow for her.

Of course, Zheng Yi had some reservations about this hidden danger. After all, one must always be cautious, as the Immortal Cultivation World is full of various cunning tricks. It is very normal to accidentally fall into a trap and have one's achievements stolen.

Therefore, in the realm of the Incense Fire Law, when using the super brain main god for calculations and deductions, Zheng Yi had already calculated all possibilities and made comprehensive preparations.

Even without this Heavenly Human Rebirth, if the consciousness of the Peach God wanted to revive and occupy his body, it would only end up making clothes for Zheng Yi and would never succeed.

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(End of this chapter)