Great Demon Leader: Start By Refining Flying Zombies

Chapter 2: The Art of Guardian Dao

Two and a half years flew by in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Outer Sect Sutra Pavilion, Liang Xiao's appearance had gradually matured. His face became more handsome, and his black and white streaked hair was tied up with a sword-shaped hairpin.

It didn't look out of place, as it was a side effect of practicing the Blood Nightmare Technique. It was quite common in the Myriad Demons Cave.

At this moment, Liang Xiao respectfully handed over a jade slip.

An elder with white hair reached out his bony and withered hand like an eagle's claw and took the jade slip, casually glancing at it.

Then he chuckled and said, "Little devil, you have ambitions. Are you coveting the life-bound spirit zombie recorded in this jade slip?"

"When I was in the mortal realm, my martial aptitude was extremely poor, let alone the sword techniques and knife skills of cultivators. I don't think I can learn them. So I dared to try this zombie technique, just to have more means of self-defense!"

Liang Xiao remained composed and spoke with a bitter smile, giving a half-truthful reason.

"According to the rules of the sect, when you break through the third layer of Qi Refining, you can choose any Qi Refining stage spell. Are you sure you want to choose this zombie refining technique?"

"I am sure!"

The elder looked at him mockingly, not knowing whether to believe his words or not. But he didn't say anything more after hearing the affirmative answer.

A trace of spiritual light flashed at his fingertips as he lifted his hand and removed the magic seal on the jade slip.

Then the elder casually threw it to Liang Xiao, causing him to scramble to catch it.

"Then leave quickly and don't disturb me while I sleep. Especially don't come begging me to change your spell in a few days, understand?"

Liang Xiao looked at the elder's expression, waiting to see the joke, and felt quite a headache. He didn't want to attract so much attention.

But this matter wasn't a big deal. In the eyes of outsiders, he was just another ignorant youngster trying to cultivate high-level spells.

Most demonic cultivators were indifferent and cold-hearted. Except for those with wicked tastes like the elder, who enjoyed watching jokes, no one would pay attention to a Qi Refining third-layer cultivator like him.

After Liang Xiao respectfully saluted and securely placed the jade slip on his person, he walked away.

The elder, who had been dozing off in his chair, lifted his eyelids slightly and sneered, "Many Outer Sect disciples with strong cultivation have set their sights on this thing, but without abundant spiritual stones and profound magic power, you can at most obtain a zombie slightly stronger than a walking corpse. Tsk tsk, another fool who throws himself into a mine!"

On the other side, Liang Xiao cautiously returned to his stone room near the Little Ghost Hall and carefully pondered the newly acquired jade slip.

"The refining of a life-bound spirit zombie requires at least one hundred corpses as materials, and there is no upper limit. The more materials, the better the effect."

"After preparing the materials, activate the spiritual energy with a Spirit Pill, then control the corpses using the method of driving zombies, making them fight each other and selecting the leader with combat instincts. Finally, use blood as a medium to imprint the spirit and magic power with a dual-layer seal!"

"With the gradual nurturing, this contract is unbreakable!"

"Such a zombie, not only has great potential and combat power far surpassing ordinary walking corpses, but it also won't backfire on its master. Moreover, when it reaches a certain level of cultivation, it can even provide nourishment."

"Besides the nightmare-like difficulty of refining, this is truly a perfect art of guardian dao!"

Liang Xiao put down the jade slip and pondered for a moment. He finally understood why the elder didn't think highly of him.

Firstly, the massive number of corpses required to refine this life-bound spirit zombie was not something an ordinary cultivator could bear.

In the demonic sect, corpses, even those of mortals, were important cultivation resources.

Without spiritual stones, do you think you can secretly go to the nearby chaotic burial grounds of the Myriad Demons Cave and dig up a few good corpses to refine into zombies?

You're dreaming!

Those corpses contaminated by Yin Qi already have owners.

Within three days, you would be caught by the law enforcement cultivators and meet a miserable end.

Even if you run to a more distant realm and luckily obtain the corpse materials, you still need to prepare pills to activate the spiritual energy and master the spell to control the corpses fighting each other.

The spell and pills can be obtained with some effort, but the crucial step of controlling hundreds of corpses simultaneously is not something anyone can achieve!

This is a level of intensity that can drain even a Qi Refining Late Stage cultivator, a task that is difficult for a single person to handle alone.

If Liang Xiao really relied on the meager Qi Refining Stage Three cultivation to slowly refine it, the difficulty would be no less than an ordinary person digging through a mountain!

According to reason, after seeing this part of the jade slip, anyone with a bit of intelligence would learn to give up refining Ling Zombies and instead practice other spells.

But Liang Xiao didn't.

He was even happier, a crazed smile appearing on his lips.

"It wasn't in vain that I spent three days browsing the Outer Sect Sutra Pavilion. If my guess is correct, this art of refining Ling Zombies is tailor-made for that bio-crisis world!"

The bio-crisis world!

It was a fantasy work of Liang Xiao's previous life on Blue Star, telling the story of a world that eventually fell into a zombie apocalypse due to a leaked bio-virus.

Perhaps because Liang Xiao was a transmigrator, after officially stepping into the Qi Refining Stage One two years ago, he awakened an extraordinary ability.

He could transmigrate to other worlds in a short period of time, and could instantly return as well!

This ability could even be called a traveler of the heavens!

Unfortunately, according to Liang Xiao's experiments, he could only enter those end-of-the-world worlds filled with death and despair.

The danger of destroying a world was also a deadly threat to a Qi Refining Stage cultivator.

Therefore, in the past two years, apart from some necessary exploration, Liang Xiao had hardly stayed in those end-of-the-world worlds for more than a minute.

Even so, Liang Xiao had encountered danger several times and narrowly escaped. Fortunately, he could instantly return, and after returning, no strange viruses or curses could affect him.

That's why Liang Xiao didn't get into trouble.

After all, there was an endless world between them. If it weren't for Liang Xiao's ability to transmigrate to the end of the world, the Heavenly Mist Continent would have no connection with these worlds at all.

Among them, after continuous attempts, Liang Xiao finally found an end-of-the-world world that was relatively safe for him.

That world was somewhat similar to Blue Star in his previous life, perhaps a parallel world of Blue Star. In the end, due to an unknown virus leak, mutation occurred and infected all humans in the world, ultimately leading to its destruction.

Those infected by the virus would automatically revive after death, controlled by the virus, aimlessly wandering and seeking flesh and blood.

The sense of familiarity was so strong that Liang Xiao called it the bio-crisis world.

"The two most difficult problems in refining Ling Zombies, the corpse materials and controlling the corpses to fight, seem to be nonexistent in the bio-crisis world."

"There are countless corpses gathered there, more than enough, and there is no need to spend mana to control them. They will fight each other on their own. I just need to prepare some spirit-energizing pills and enough blood food!"

"For the pills, I can go find Senior Sister Xie, but if I want to refine Ling Zombies, I definitely can't return at the slightest disturbance like before. It would be best if I could borrow a Law Weapon for protection, even if it's a pseudo Law Weapon."

After pondering for a moment, Liang Xiao counted the remaining spirit stones on his body and carefully picked up a bamboo box from the corner of the stone room. It made a clattering sound, and he didn't know what was inside.

Half an hour later, Liang Xiao arrived at a mountain peak platform outside the Outer Sect, found a corner, and silently waited.

Many disciples set up stalls here to earn spirit stones or exchange goods while practicing.

Among the Outer Sect and Preparatory Disciples, this place was quite popular, so it was not surprising for Liang Xiao, dressed in a gray robe, to be here.

After a while, a tall female disciple appeared, wearing a black robe representing her Outer Sect status.

Liang Xiao's eyes lit up.

This woman's name was Xie Ling'er. She had taken on the task of passing on the sect's teachings to the new disciples of Little Ghost Hall back then, so she had some connection with Liang Xiao. Later, due to some coincidences, the two had some acquaintance.

It was said that Xie Ling'er joined the Spiritual Medicine Hall last year and was now an alchemy apprentice, creating a gap in status between her and Liang Xiao.

If nothing unexpected happened, the shallow relationship between the two would gradually fade away with time.

But she had something that Liang Xiao wanted, and he didn't mind showing her a bit of his value.

Seeing her arrive as agreed, Liang Xiao quickly greeted her, picked up the bamboo box in his hand, and shouted, "Senior Sister Xie, here, I brought the things you wanted!"

(End of this chapter)