The Ancient Truth of Zombies and Buddhas

Li Li had never imagined that Earthlings possessed extraordinary bloodlines too.

Even if they did, he had assumed they were the bloodlines of the Physics Buddha or the Chemistry Dao. But what lay before him completely surpassed his imagination.

As he watched the white-haired old soldier whose throat he had bitten struggle on the ground after absorbing his blood, the familiar scene of mutation made goosebumps rise all over his body. Instinctively, he thought of a mythical creature: a zombie!

Or rather, it was called a zombie in the East and a vampire in the West. The two were similar.

They possessed lifespans so long there seemed to be no end, bit people on the neck, drank their blood, transformed descendants, and granted others nearly immortal lives. In ancient myths, both feared the sun and intense light, and both loved to sleep in coffins. Moreover, Cain in the West and Jiang Chen in the East both had the concept of an Embrace.

First-generation, second-generation, third-generation vampires. Zombies. Then why did the ancient myths and legends of every continent across the world all coincidentally feature identical mysterious creatures like vampires and zombies?

"This means they really existed!"

He pursed his lips. "And why can they live forever? In our myths, zombies are said to never age or die, to transcend the Three Realms and exist beyond the Five Elements..."

Could immortality truly be possible? After all, every living creature had a limit to its life. Cells had lifespans and limits to their division. Yet there was one exception: cancer cells, which divided without limit. So this old soldier, who should have died of old age in the ice, became young because the so-called Embrace was essentially... my cancer cells being passed into him?

So! That! Was! It! He was utterly stunned!