Chapter 12

As time passed, the physical body of the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation was finally reshaped completely into a human form. Its height shrank to 129.6 million zhang, making it resemble an enlarged ordinary human.

Upon closer inspection, one could even discover that this "giant"

looked almost exactly like Hun Wusheng.

This was thanks to his profound understanding of the human body, gained through the Eight Wonders Technique in the One Man World.

At this point, Hun Wusheng had initially refined the physical body of the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation. The body had already been imprinted with Hun Wusheng's mark.

His next task was to continuously nourish the body and deepen their connection until it responded as naturally as his own arm.

At that time, Hun Wusheng of the Corpse Clan would have completed his transformation into an incarnation.

From then on, Hun Wusheng began controlling this enormous body, striving to make it as agile and free as his own physical body as soon as possible.

Throughout the process, Hun Wusheng constantly fine-tuned every detail of the body. As time passed, his compatibility with it grew higher and higher.

He even sensed a feeling of reincarnation merging him with this body.

If he followed this feeling, he might truly obtain a physical body.

But that would mean the Corpse Clan project he had created would be declared a failure.

Therefore, at the critical moment, Hun Wusheng suppressed his instincts.

Then he requested of Senior Heart of the Earthly Path, "Please perform the Soul Splitting Secret Technique."

The Soul Splitting Secret Technique divided Hun Wusheng's soul origin into a primary soul and a secondary soul, with the secondary soul unable to resist the primary soul.

This was a widely popular method for creating an external incarnation in the Primordial World.

Top-grade Primordial World experts often used this method to create alternate accounts.

For ordinary lifeforms, splitting their soul origin might inflict severe injuries. But for Hun Wusheng, an existence equivalent to a high-level Innate Divine Being, it was merely a minor operation.

As long as his Innate Divine Being Origin's Ancestral Qi remained, he could easily recover from such damage.

For Hun Wusheng, only by using this method could he better control this body.

When the Corpse Clan emerged, he would be able to fully receive the Corpse Clan's providence and incorporate the Corpse Dao into his Ghost Dao Lineage.

Although Hun Wusheng's current cultivation could barely accomplish this, the situation would be entirely different with the Heart of the Earthly Path driving the power of the Netherworld.

After the soul splitting succeeded, Hun Wusheng would merge the secondary soul into the physical body, reaching a state of unity between spirit and flesh.

If other lifeforms dared to try this, they might lose their Nascent Souls or have their souls scattered. But with the support of the Netherworld's power, Hun Wusheng could maintain a state that was neither life nor death. Beginning to nourish the corpse at this point would allow him to shape a Corpse Ancestor incarnation perfectly suited to himself.

Senior Heart of the Earthly Path reminded him, "Kid, the path you've chosen for splitting your soul is different from the ordinary one. All kinds of accidents may occur during the process."

Hun Wusheng cultivated the Soul Splitting Secret Technique, facing immense pain and risk. If he failed, his soul would scatter.

Although the Heart of the Earthly Path was worried that his cultivation was insufficient and that accidents might occur easily, Hun Wusheng still insisted on choosing this path.

The Soul Splitting Technique had been created specifically for top-grade Innate Divine Beings to cultivate incarnations. Its ultimate goal was to verify and explore the Dao Master level.

If both Hun Wusheng and his incarnation cultivated to the Dao Master Realm, their strength would surpass that of ordinary Dao Masters.

The creation of life through the Corpse Dao had attracted the attention of the Heart of the Earthly Path, and successfully cultivating it would bring enormous benefits to both sides.

According to the Heart of the Earthly Path's analysis, splitting the soul with the aid of the Netherworld's power would mainly damage the soul origin. But for Hun Wusheng, who possessed the Eight Wonders Technique, this remained within an acceptable range.

Hun Wusheng decided to cultivate the soul-splitting method at the True God Realm, his attitude firm.

After confirming his resolve, the Heart of the Earthly Path began assisting him with the Netherworld's power. It fixed Hun Wusheng's soul body in midair and drew out his soul origin, splitting it into two.

The newly formed secondary Hun Wusheng had no memories, but after the primary soul transmitted its memories, it would possess the Primordial World information he had gathered.

Compared with the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's cultivation inheritance and True Spirit Imprint, Hun Wusheng's incarnation was closer to the essence of a native lifeform of the Primordial World.

After losing forty percent of his soul origin, the Netherworld's power finally stopped its assault.

At that moment, his soul body had become indistinct, and his realm had fallen from the True God Realm's consummation to the early True God Realm.

Despite this, he still forcefully controlled the split soul and merged it into the physical body, guiding the split soul's origin inside.

In an instant, the physical body infused with the soul origin seemed to gain new life, radiating an intense aura of vitality.

After completing this step, Hun Wusheng breathed a sigh of relief and began the process of nourishing the corpse.

He realized that the smoothness of this step was mainly due to most of the split soul's origin bearing the Beast Emperor of Reincarnation's imprint.

The merging of the split soul made his soul body purer and of the same origin as the physical body, producing no rejection whatsoever.

In addition, Hun Wusheng's self-sacrifice was also an important factor.

In short, the best result was for everything to proceed smoothly.

Next, Hun Wusheng needed to recover his origin and stabilize his realm.

Otherwise, his realm might fall out of the True God Realm.

Seeing this, the Heart of the Earthly Path was also satisfied and sent over various heavenly treasures helpful for restoring the soul origin through the Netherworld's power.

Hun Wusheng unceremoniously used the Devouring Law's power from the Six Treasuries Immortal Thief to cultivate.

After several hundred thousand years, he finally recovered ninety percent of his soul origin's power, and his realm also returned to the True God Realm's peak.

Feeling his strength filled once more, he expressed his gratitude to the Heart of the Earthly Path.

However, the Heart of the Earthly Path told him that he had already recovered as far as possible. Recovering the remaining ten percent of his soul origin would require relying on time for slow self-repair, unless he devoured the Innate Great Dao Origin of another Innate Divine Being.

Even so, Hun Wusheng was still satisfied. He sighed that this experience had allowed him to purge the impurities from the soul origins he had previously devoured, making his use of his own power more fluid. The deeper secrets contained within the Soul Splitting Technique had also begun to reveal themselves.

Hun Wusheng pondered and sought understanding.

A mysterious voice said to him, "Kid, the Netherworld has expended a tremendous amount of energy because of you.

You need to create the Corpse Clan as compensation."

The Heart of the Earthly Path continued, "If you don't act soon, the Netherworld's will shall become dissatisfied with me."

Hun Wusheng knew that creating a powerful Corpse Clan would be no easy task. He needed to find the most suitable place to nourish corpses.

Although the Netherworld possessed netherworld power and Soul Power, it still needed the filthy energies of yin, baleful force, death, and the like.

Nourishing corpses required a place where many kinds of negative energy converged.

When the best place to nourish corpses was mentioned, the Heart of the Earthly Path pointed toward the Netherworld Blood Sea—the forbidden land of the Primordial World.

This sea had gathered the negative energy of the entire Primordial World, including endless yin energy, killing energy, death energy, and other filthy powers that could pollute the Nascent Soul and sever one's path of cultivation.

To Hun Wusheng, the Netherworld Blood Sea was indeed the ideal place to refine corpses.

However, he would have to withstand the Baptism of negative energy. Otherwise, even the Heart of the Earthly Path would be unable to save him.

The Heart of the Earthly Path knew just how terrifying the Netherworld Blood Sea was. When Yue Jianshi had opened up the Netherworld, he had chosen the very bottom of the sea, and the Heart of the Earthly Path had personally witnessed the terrifying killing intent within.

Even Yue Jianshi, who had yet to established his path, had to cautiously explore this forbidden land.

Hun Wusheng began setting foot in this forbidden land that everyone else avoided at all costs.

The Heart of the Earthly Path seemed to have experienced a reversal of time, once again feeling the shock it had experienced while accompanying Yue Jianshi.

After hearing Hun Wusheng's plan, the Heart of the Earthly Path could not help but marvel at his peculiar idea.

Hun Wusheng proposed, "Can we open up a long river around the outskirts of the Netherworld and guide the negative energy of the Netherworld Blood Sea into it?"

At the same time, he planned to bury something at the boundary between the Netherworld and the Netherworld Blood Sea to absorb the negative energy, while drawing uncontaminated water from the Netherworld Blood Sea into the new river.

This river would be named the Ming He. Its waters would nourish the Netherworld and form a new water system—the Huang Quan.

In the future, the place where the Ming He and Huang Quan converged would become the entrance to the Netherworld. The Ming He would originate from the Netherworld Blood Sea, while its endpoint would be the Netherworld Huang Quan.

Through this method, Hun Wusheng also envisioned using the Ming He and Huang Quan to guide wandering souls from the Primordial World into the Netherworld. This would both purify the wandering souls and increase the Netherworld's efficiency in receiving You Hun.

Hun Wusheng's ideas emerged one after another, and his eyes grew increasingly bright.

After learning about the terrifying nature of the Netherworld Blood Sea, Hun Wusheng did not act recklessly. He realized that his strength was still insufficient to casually enter this forbidden land.

However, his desire to nourish corpses gave him a sudden flash of inspiration, and he came up with a compromise.

He was deeply dependent on his powerful backer.

After hearing his idea, the Heart of the Earthly Path was shocked by his marvelous notions and even wanted to explore his mind.

Hun Wusheng explained the source of his idea: by devouring a large number of You Hun and obtaining their memories, he had learned about the situation in the Primordial World. He had discovered that many You Hun still wandered throughout the Primordial World, which was clearly abnormal.

Therefore, he deduced that although the Netherworld could attract You Hun, its attraction might be restricted by distance and rules.

Thus, when other powers existed to attract You Hun, they might not be affected by the Netherworld's pull.

Once the Ming He and Huang Quan appeared and completed the Netherworld's laws, its attraction to You Hun would certainly increase greatly.

At that moment, a series of new ideas surged through Hun Wusheng's mind.

The Netherworld had previously possessed only a single stretch of Nether Land, which had always struck him as strange.

After thinking about it more deeply, he believed this was because the Netherworld had yet to be perfected.

Since the Earthly Dao was not yet complete and lacked a place to purify You Hun, the Netherworld's attraction to You Hun was naturally limited.

This attraction would gradually strengthen as the Earthly Dao and Netherworld were perfected step by step.

Hun Wusheng's vision could promote the perfection of the Netherworld.

However, the first problem he had to solve was how much negative energy the Corpse Dao Body achieved through corpse refinement could absorb.

If it absorbed too little, guiding negative energy into the Netherworld might cause contamination.

Next, the Heart of the Earthly Path would assist Hun Wusheng in communicating with the Netherworld's will.

As for how much he could accomplish, that would depend on his own strength.

In certain respects, some of Hun Wusheng's ideas resembled Yue Jianshi's plans from the past. This gave the Heart of the Earthly Path the feeling that Yue Jianshi had reappeared.

But when it thought of Yue Jianshi's might, the Heart of the Earthly Path believed that he might have foreseen everything happening today long ago.

It would not explain these matters to Hun Wusheng.

The series of plans Hun Wusheng proposed today gave the Heart of the Earthly Path a feeling that the time had come.

Perhaps the Netherworld was about to undergo new changes to welcome the future inheritor of the Earthly Path.

As for the specific plan, he could only first rely on his own abilities, observe the results, and then decide on his next step.

Hun Wusheng could not leave the Netherworld for now. He needed to rely on the Heart of the Earthly Path's assistance to deal with any changes and return to the Netherworld in time.

Afterward, the Heart of the Earthly Path communicated with the Netherworld's consciousness.

Not long afterward, a beam of netherworld light guided them and the Corpse Clan embryo out.

For the first time, Hun Wusheng saw the Primordial World outside the Netherworld with his own eyes—a Netherworld Blood Sea.

This was the first step he took. Before him, the Heart of the Earthly Path had transformed into an ancient stele and emitted a ghostly light to block the Netherworld Blood Sea's negative aura.

This forbidden land of the Primordial World remained violently unstable. Terrifying negative energy in the void dyed the entire world red.

Chaotic negative energy surged, seemingly intent on tearing apart and annihilating all laws and order.

All matter and spirit that fell into this land of absolute despair would be assimilated by this immense energy.

Even separated by a layer of ghostly light, Hun Wusheng still felt himself being eroded by the negative energy.

Behind him stretched the boundless barrier of the Netherworld, bringing him a little comfort.