Chapter 11

Although the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation had truly fallen this time, under the influence of the Netherworld, he might be reincarnated once more as Jiang Chen. This was the destiny hidden within his fleshly body, though the time of his emergence might be somewhat later.

And this was the result of the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's Self-evolution. But what if Hun Wusheng actively guided it?

Hun Wusheng looked toward the Heart of the Earthly Path and voiced his new idea: to cultivate the remnants left behind by the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation into a new race of the Netherworld, increasing its foundation.

He knew full well that his own strength was insufficient to control the remnants of the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation, so he sought the assistance of the Heart of the Earthly Path and the will of the Netherworld.

Upon hearing his idea, the Heart of the Earthly Path found it novel and voiced its support, believing it would benefit the Netherworld's development.

The Heart of the Earthly Path had never considered this before, and now it was astonished by Hun Wusheng's wild imagination.

In truth, beings of high status usually focused on overwhelming others with power, overlooking the importance of imaginative ideas.

They would never think to explore those "strange and peculiar"

avenues in search of new possibilities.

But that did not mean they could not conceive of more comprehensive or profound ideas. It was simply that their own level often constrained them, causing them to overlook the details.

Yet Hun Wusheng did not conceal his thoughts or plans. He decided to put his ideas into practice and attempt something new.

After deep contemplation and dedicated cultivation, Hun Wusheng revealed his ingenious idea.

He frankly said to the Heart of the Earthly Path, "Senior, I have a bold notion."

He said, "Though my Ghost Clan is wondrous beyond compare, lacking physical bodies is still an obvious weakness."

"To make up for this flaw, I plan to nurture a new race—the Corpse Clan. They will have no souls."

"Then, I will combine the Ghost Clan and the Corpse Clan, letting them dwell together within one body. Such a unique combination will be unbelievable."

"In battle, the Ghost Clan and Corpse Clan can act at the same time: one attacks the soul, the other attacks the flesh. They will complement each other, doubling the effect."

"In the long run, I also plan to incorporate the Corpse Clan into my Ghost Dao and establish a new Corpse Ghost Dao."

"If I can perfect this Dao, perhaps I may achieve a Great Dao like the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos of the Ancient Three Sovereigns."

Hun Wusheng's towering ambition made the Heart of the Earthly Path look at him anew.

After hearing this, the Heart of the Earthly Path could not help but praise him. "You brat always comes up with these wild ideas. They may be a little underworld-ish, but I like them! This plan is feasible and worth trying."

The Heart of the Earthly Path greatly admired his ambition. It believed that on the path of seeking the Dao, those who did not even dare to think could never become true powerhouses.

Hun Wusheng's idea was both bold and unique. He had already taken the first step toward becoming a powerhouse.

The Heart of the Earthly Path did not explicitly state whether it supported or opposed this.

But as an existence that had witnessed the brutality of the Primordial Wilderness, the Heart of the Earthly Path knew well that whether one's methods were open and honorable or steeped in schemes and tricks, so long as one could win, they were good methods.

The Earthly Dao Lineage was currently weak, so it had even greater need to win by surprise.

Regarding Hun Wusheng's plan, the Heart of the Earthly Path offered its own suggestion. "You can first make arrangements for the Ghost Clan. Then I will help you refine the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's remnant corpse."

"You have absorbed his Innate Great Dao Origin, so refining his fleshly body into an external incarnation should not be a problem."

"Afterward, I will mobilize the power of the Netherworld to help you nurture the Corpse Clan."

"That way, you will be able to grasp the fortune of both the Ghost Clan and the Corpse Clan at once."

The Heart of the Earthly Path was greatly looking forward to this.

At present, Hun Wusheng was the host of the Heart of the Earthly Path, and there was not yet a successor to inherit the Power of the Earthly Dao.

He was regarded as the Child of Destiny of the Netherworld. His own strength was directly tied to the Netherworld's prosperity, while the Netherworld's flourishing represented the rise of the Earthly Dao Lineage.

When the future inheritor of the Earthly Dao returned to their rightful place, matters would proceed far more smoothly with Hun Wusheng's assistance.

However, Hun Wusheng knew that he could not bear the heavy duty of inheriting the Earthly Dao. Especially after learning of the burdens behind the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos, he felt even more incapable of shouldering them.

Even so, he and the Heart of the Earthly Path had already begun discussing the feasibility of this plan in detail.

Though limited by his realm, the strength Hun Wusheng displayed far exceeded ordinary expectations.

The brand-new Ghost Clan possessed extraordinary potential. Not only had they swiftly reached the limits of their realms, they continued accumulating power, waiting for the day when long accumulation would burst forth in one brilliant stroke.

Upon hearing the order, hundreds of thousands of Yin-Yang Ghost Clan members answered in unison.

Previously, Hun Wusheng had imposed restrictions upon the Ghost Clan, leaving the potential of many clan members unrealized.

But now, he allowed the Ghost Clan to compete among themselves, for the strong devouring the weak was the law of heaven and earth.

He had already communicated with the will of the Netherworld, asking the Heart of the Earthly Path to watch over the Ghost Clan.

After all, in a certain sense, the will of the Netherworld was the Heavenly Dao of the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan.

Watching the Yin-Yang Ghost Emperor lead the Ghost Clan in systematically naming every member of the clan, Hun Wusheng nodded in satisfaction.

He himself preferred a free-range approach, and now he was simply carrying out that strategy more thoroughly.

He told the Heart of the Earthly Path beside him that he had already arranged matters for the Ghost Clan and asked it and the will of the Netherworld to look after them well.

He could hardly wait to begin the next stage of the plan.

The Heart of the Earthly Path agreed to begin, though the cultivation process might require some time.

Hun Wusheng himself would still be the main force. How to turn ** into the Corpse Clan was the task he needed to complete.

Only then could he fully bear the fortune of the Corpse Clan lineage.

The Heart of the Earthly Path could only provide a little assistance, preventing the priorities from being turned upside down.

Hun Wusheng began cultivating, his soul body sitting cross-legged atop the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's remnant corpse.

At this moment, he was like a tiny ant attempting to refine a divine mountain.

The process was long and arduous, but time was uncounted in the Primordial World. This cultivation scene atop the Nether Land had already continued for a long while.

Bolstered by the power of the Netherworld, Hun Wusheng's strength surged, as though he had crossed several realms at once.

Even facing the immensely powerful Beast Emperor of Reincarnation, whose True Spirit had already transformed into Dao, its flesh still brimmed with vitality and bore the eternal imprints of Reincarnation Law.

Without the Netherworld's power, even if Hun Wusheng had received the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's inheritance, refining its remnant corpse would have been extraordinarily difficult—he might not even have known where to begin.

Fortunately, Hun Wusheng possessed special assistance and successfully overcame these obstacles.

Now, he could focus wholeheartedly on refining the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's remnant corpse.

His comprehension of Reincarnation Law was astonishingly profound; even he himself felt the urge to switch to cultivating Reincarnation Law.

However, he had already chosen his primary path. Though he would not switch paths, his insights continued to deepen, and his understanding of Reincarnation Law had even approached fifty percent.

The gains from this process were not limited to Reincarnation Law. The embryonic forms of Hun Wusheng's other laws—Yin-Yang, life and death, soul, chaos, and more—were also rapidly taking shape.

Besides the law imprints within the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's body, Shen Ji's help also deserved immense credit for all this progress.

Shen Ji was sorting through the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's memories at an ever-quickening pace. From them, he not only learned Reincarnation Law, but also fused it with other laws, accelerating the formation of those laws.

In this world, no one's laws were flawless.

Only by absorbing the strengths of other laws and making up for the shortcomings of one's own could one forge relatively perfect laws.

Hun Wusheng's path of cultivation was steadily advancing in precisely this direction.

Hun Wusheng comprehended many laws, ultimately choosing Ghost Dao as his primary path.

The laws derived from the Chaos Great Dao—Yin-Yang, life and death, reincarnation, and the like—were all foundations of Ghost Dao.

The Ghost Dao born because of Hun Wusheng was an entirely new Postnatal Great Dao.

Innate Great Daos evolved from the Chaos Great Dao, born before Heaven and Earth, and possessed tremendous potential.

Postnatal Great Daos, on the other hand, were created by living beings, Gods and Devils, and their foundations varied.

Powerful Postnatal Great Daos were no inferior to Innate Great Daos, and in certain aspects, even surpassed them.

The Ancient Three Sovereigns establishing the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos had already proven this.

Yet there were very few Postnatal Great Daos with boundless potential. Since the birth of the Primordial World, no Innate Divine Being had yet become a Supreme Dao Lord through a self-created Postnatal Great Dao.

Thus, the Primordial World was still evolving, and the potential of Postnatal Great Daos had yet to be fully developed.

A cultivator's comprehension determined whether a Postnatal Great Dao or Innate Great Dao displayed greater strength.

The defining feature of a Postnatal Great Dao was that its creator became its own Pioneer of Dao, mastering divine abilities and Dao arts while gathering fortune.

Hun Wusheng wished to create Ghost Dao, incorporating Innate Great Daos such as Reincarnation Law and following the example of the Ancient Three Sovereigns' Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos.

At present, Hun Wusheng was still in the stage of accumulating laws. He needed to raise his strength to a certain level before considering such matters.

As time passed, Hun Wusheng gained control over the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's body, experienced the empowerment of the Netherworld's power, and comprehended the realm of the Immortal Venerable God. His cultivation rose to the great perfection of the True God realm.

This was a special privilege.

If the Corpse Clan had not benefited the Netherworld as a whole, Hun Wusheng could never have received such extraordinary treatment.

Time flew like a shuttle, and the years hurried by.

After an unknown number of tens of thousands of years, Hun Wusheng's continuous refinement finally began to transform the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's Eternal Divine Iron body.

Under Hun Wusheng's subjective influence, the refined body gradually changed toward a human form. This transformation reached deep into the essence of life itself, as though he possessed the power of creation.

Normally, the opportunity to establish one's true form appeared only at the very beginning of a race's birth.

For instance, Hun Wusheng's Yin-Yang Ghost Clan had likewise gradually taken on a human shape under his influence.

The Primordial World was boundless, and the true forms of its countless races varied greatly, with no single standard.

Many races had not realized the mysteries within this when they were first born.

This world had been opened by Pangu Clan, who possessed the Great Dao True Form of Creation of Heaven and Earth, the Nine Transformations and Eighty-One Evolutions.

Under his influence, nine Pangu Dao Bodies close to the Great Dao existed within the Primordial World.

Each Pangu Dao Body had nine Great Dao True Form transformations, for a total of eighty-one transformations.

Among them, the human form was the most fundamental Dao Body. Ever since Jiu Tou Shi created the Five-Colored Human Race, countless races had gone to every conceivable length to transform themselves and intermarry with the Five-Colored Human Race.

Even if the offspring thus born lacked the Five-Colored Human Race's talents, they were still stronger than their original races.

Thus, many strange human races appeared throughout the Primordial World, such as the Dragon Human Race, Fish Human Race, Feathered Human Race, Winged Human Race, Beastman Race, and others. These human races were collectively called the Demi-human Race.

"Pangu Dao Bodies, the Five-Colored Human Race, Demi-human Races—what a colorful and mysterious Primordial World!"

Hun Wusheng thought, Perhaps in the future, I can use my own influence to create new ghost clans and corpse clans. This aligns with my vision for the Yin-Yang Ghost Clan and the Corpse Ghost Clan.

At this thought, his vision for Ghost Dao became even firmer.

Creating the Corpse Clan was now an excellent opportunity for him.

After learning the mysteries of the human race and Pangu's Dao, Hun Wusheng decided to reshape the Corpse Clan's bodies, making them resemble humans, just as zombies in later ages could be transformed from humans.

In the future, when people died, body and soul would separate—the soul becoming a ghost, the body gaining spiritual awareness and becoming a corpse.

Thus, the Ghost Clan and Corpse Clan would become two sides of the same coin as the human race.

Although the Ghost Clan and Corpse Clan reproduced more slowly than humans, with humanity's enormous population as their foundation, their numbers would not grow slowly.

So long as humanity endured, the Ghost Clan and Corpse Clan would likewise exist forever.

Though Hun Wusheng's Ghost Dao would be influenced by Jiu Tou Shi's Human Dao, as one born human, he had already formed a close connection with the Earthly Dao Lineage.

Therefore, even if he forged another connection with the Human Dao, Hun Wusheng could handle it with ease.

He did not know whether the original Corpse Clan and Ghost Clan had been like this, but his influence had undoubtedly accelerated the process.

The Heart of the Earthly Path could not know Hun Wusheng's precise thoughts. Even it had to respect the wishes of its host, Hun Wusheng, and could not peer into his heart at will.

If the Heart of the Earthly Path had known Hun Wusheng's thoughts, it would surely have been astonished that he had pushed the evolution of the Ghost Clan and Corpse Clan in an entirely new direction.

He had bound the Earthly Dao Lineage and the Human Dao Lineage tightly together; this bold move involved the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos.