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

Chapter 7: Black Fiend Technique

The advancement speed and combat power of the "Black Fiend Technique" depend entirely on the number of souls refined. Sufficient divine souls or resentful spirits from cultivators can quickly advance it.

It may start with low power, but it becomes increasingly powerful as it advances.

However, without refining souls, the "Black Fiend Technique" is just a transitional technique for ordinary outer disciples of the Soul Devouring Sect.

It is a technique that requires a heap of cultivation resources, but the refinement to the level of the Ninth Underworld Soul Devouring Fiend requires a large number of divine souls of cultivators or resentful spirits and evil ghosts, or a massive amount of ordinary mortal souls.

For a Qi Refining stage cultivator, it is almost impossible to succeed.

It is these restrictive conditions that have led to few people choosing to cultivate the Black Fiend Technique, and most people only use it as a transitional phase before switching to other techniques in the future.

So when Zheng Yi ultimately chose the Black Fiend Technique in Bloodmist Abyss City, it was quite ordinary and unremarkable.

The elder thought that Zheng Yi chose the Black Fiend Technique just to lay a good foundation and then switch to other techniques.

However, little did the elder know that these issues simply did not exist for Zheng Yi.

His goal this time was to refine the Qingxuan Fiend.

This playground had undergone some unknown changes, with an astonishing amount of resentment, forming a place of gloom, where a hundred ghosts were reborn, and it was forbidden for the living.

But for Zheng Yi, it was indeed a good place to refine resentful spirits and evil ghosts.

Moreover, Zheng Yi had previously carried out a massacre, and a large number of resentful spirits and evil ghosts had already been refined by the Soul Assimilating Banner, leaving only a small number of evil ghosts and resentful spirits, which were not too strong, making it perfect for him to practice.

As night fell once again, Zheng Yi once more set up the Soul Guiding Formation and unfurled the Soul Assimilating Banner.

The sturdy bronze pole was inserted into the ground, and in the gusts of yin wind, a huge black banner fluttered, gathering the intense Fiend Qi, completely shrouding the surrounding area within dozens of meters.

Zheng Yi manipulated the incantation, controlling the Soul Assimilating Banner, and released twenty evil ghosts from the black mist.

Led by the woman in red, they hid in the dense black mist.

"With the protection of the Soul Assimilating Banner, there is no danger in cultivating this Black Fiend Technique," Zheng Yi said cautiously, maintaining his character even in this situation.

This was a habit he had developed over the years of struggling at the bottom of the Immortal Cultivation World, and in fact, most Independent Cultivators at the bottom were the same.

There were reckless Independent Cultivators, but few could survive past the mid Qi Refining stage.

To avoid being disturbed during cultivation, Zheng Yi prudently released the evil ghosts from the Soul Assimilating Banner to protect himself, as it was time for the Law Weapon to come into play.

The Soul Guiding Formation indeed had an unparalleled allure for the evil ghosts, as even though many of them had been refined here before, there were still quite a few evil ghosts roaring into the black mist.

As they entered the black mist, the entire Soul Assimilating Banner lit up, emitting a hazy black light and wildly expanding the Fiend Qi, rendering these evil ghosts blind and deaf.

At the same time, the evil ghosts hidden in the black mist suddenly appeared and, led by the woman in red, tore apart each of the resentful spirits and evil ghosts' Spirit Bodies.

Sensing the situation, Zheng Yi directly manipulated the incantation, controlled the Soul Assimilating Banner, and opened a passage within it.

After being torn apart four or five times, a resentful spirit that had been severely injured by the evil ghosts was brought to Zheng Yi.

Without any hesitation or unnecessary words, Zheng Yi, following the hand movements of the "Black Fiend Technique," firmly pressed his hand on the head of the resentful spirit.

The intense black Fiend Qi surged, like an octopus with teeth and claws.

The terrifying and corrosive Black Fiend aura with the Spirit Body spread out, directly enveloping the entire resentful spirit, voraciously devouring its power.

After about three minutes, the resentful spirit was completely absorbed.

Under Zheng Yi's control, the Soul Assimilating Banner continuously delivered resentful spirits and evil ghosts to him, all of which were transformed into cultivation resources for the "Black Fiend Technique."

As Zheng Yi's cultivation speed increased, his techniques became more proficient, to the point where he could devour a resentful spirit or evil ghost in just a dozen minutes.

At the same time, the Black Fiend Qi surging around him had transformed into the Xuan Yin Fiend Qi, with a color resembling black oil, shimmering with a dark luster.

The texture had also changed from the initial gas to a somewhat viscous liquid, gradually transitioning into a peculiar dark blue-black color, although this change was not very obvious.

If one were to approach Zheng Yi at this moment, they would clearly feel the temperature dropping around his body.

The area shrouded in the dark blue-black mist began to accumulate specks of frost, layer upon layer, a precursor to the advancement of the technique. From the initial Black Fiend Qi, it evolved into the Xuan Yin Fiend Qi, and was now transitioning to the higher level of Qingxuan Fiend.

Such efficiency was probably unprecedented among the disciples of the Soul Devouring Sect who had cultivated the "Black Fiend Technique" throughout history.

Even some outer disciples, who might have found a Xuan Yin gathering place due to luck or family background, would need to slowly cultivate it and would never be able to advance the Black Fiend Qi so rapidly.

As for those who fell into the demonic path, slaughtering ordinary mortals to cultivate demonic techniques, the Demon Dao cultivators who fell into the demonic path during the Qi Refining stage would end up with a tragic fate, with blood and karma entwined, and most would die miserably.

In history, there were indeed people who, because of cultivating the "Black Fiend Technique," turned into mad killers or even mutated into demonic monsters.

But here, Zheng Yi felt no guilt or remorse for killing these resentful spirits and evil ghosts; instead, it could be considered a good deed for this world.

He was helping the people struggling to survive in this world, making a small improvement in this "harsh" environment.

So there was no talk of bloodshed and karma.

The slaughter continued throughout the night, and Zheng Yi finally stopped.

"I absorbed too crazily in the first half month, only refining about fifty percent," Zheng Yi said somewhat dissatisfied as he opened his eyes and casually put away the Soul Assimilating Banner, collecting all the evil ghosts and the woman in red that had been released. There was a hint of helplessness on his face.

To refine the Soul Assimilating Banner, he had killed quite a few of the school's resentful spirits and evil ghosts.

In just one night, the Black Fiend Qi of the "Black Fiend Technique" had transformed into the Xuan Yin Fiend Qi, but the transformation into Qingxuan Fiend was only halfway complete. It seemed that it was time to leave this place.

Then, Zheng Yi put away the materials for the Soul Guiding Formation, walked out of the school gate, and as he turned to look at the dilapidated school once again, a ray of sunlight shone down, enveloping the ruins in a golden light, giving off a warm feeling.

When he looked again, Zheng Yi had a faint feeling that this place had become "clean."

(End of this chapter)