Human Soul Seven Spirits

After confirming that the zombies in the room had been cleared, Lu Yan finally had the leisure to examine the illusory wandering souls stripped from the zombies.

Reaching out and grabbing a wandering soul, he saw a blank, dazed expression on it, completely lacking the intelligence displayed by Gongyang Xuanming's soul in the Urban Version.

With a slight activation of his mana, Lu Yan could clearly see that these wandering souls, having detached from their decaying bodies, were as fragile as a piece of paper.

They didn't even require the use of spells; just a few wisps of mana were enough to dissolve them.

"How can there be such fragile souls?"

Lu Yan frowned slightly and took out a first-grade low-tier Spirit Talisman from his Storage Bag.

Under the activation of mana, the Spirit Talisman transformed into a spiritual light that merged into Lu Yan's eyes. His eyes shone brightly, and everything around him seemed to become incredibly clear, even the trajectories of flowing spiritual energy were faintly visible.

Then, Lu Yan focused his gaze on the dazed wandering soul before him.

With this look, Lu Yan immediately discovered the reason for the wandering soul's fragility.

"Among the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Souls, the Heaven and Earth souls are missing. Only the Human Soul and Seven Spirits remain, trapped within the decaying flesh.

Even after the body's death, the Human Soul and Seven Spirits could not escape the corpse. Over a long period, the body decayed and the soul sank, leading to the creation of zombies, walking corpses.

The rotten flesh of the zombies bound the Human Soul and Seven Spirits, but to another extent, the presence of the Human Soul and Seven Spirits also slowed down the decay of the zombie flesh.

Otherwise, after so many years, a normal corpse should have completely rotted away long ago.

This is also why, once the wandering soul is stripped away, the zombie's flesh, losing the support of the soul, rapidly decays into a pile of white bones."

The Spirit Eye Art in his eyes slowly dissipated, and a sharp glint appeared in Lu Yan's eyes, as if he had discovered a new continent.

Lu Yan had never expected that behind the birth of zombies, there was such a "Xianxia" explanation hidden.

"If that's the case, where did the Heaven and Earth souls of these zombies go? Why were the Human Souls trapped within the dead bodies? What is the source of the apocalypse?"

A series of questions arose in Lu Yan's heart. However, he had only just entered this Apocalypse Version, and the existing information was insufficient to answer these questions.

Dispelling the spiritual light in his eyes, Lu Yan looked at the fifteen wandering souls before him, missing their Heaven and Earth souls, and a plan had already formed in his mind.

These wandering souls, having decayed with the zombie bodies for decades, had long since fallen into a dazed state. Their Heaven and Earth souls were even more unknown, lacking even the qualification to re-enter reincarnation.

These weak wandering souls, after leaving their bodies, would completely dissipate into the world within a few days.

Rather than letting these wandering souls naturally dissipate, it would be better to use them to assist Lu Yan in refining the Soul Banner.

With this thought, Lu Yan did not hesitate and directly used the Soul Banner to begin refining.

Lu Yan might not be able to commit mass slaughter of the innocent for the sake of refining the Soul Banner, but using the wandering souls of already dead zombies for refinement, Lu Yan had no psychological burden whatsoever.

Refining the already completed low-grade Soul Banner no longer required redrawing the formation. The ghostly mist within the Soul Banner instantly enveloped the entire room.

The fifteen dazed zombie wandering souls instantly melted like ice and snow under the ghostly mist, refined into a part of the Soul Banner.

Holding the Soul Banner, Lu Yan sensed the changes within it.

Normally, after the Soul Banner is refined, subsequent refinement becomes much easier, unlike before where it took more than twenty Qi Refining cultivators to barely refine four Vengeful Souls.

But the problem was that the souls of the zombie wandering souls were too incomplete and weak. After refining a dozen or so wandering souls, the fifth Vengeful Soul within the Soul Banner had only just condensed into a rudimentary form, far inferior in quality to the souls of Gongyang Xuanming and those bodyguards.

Based on this number, it would likely take hundreds of wandering souls to completely refine a fifth Vengeful Soul at the first level of Qi Refining.

If this were the Urban Version or Xianxia Version, this speed would be absolutely despair-inducing. A single Qi Refining level one Vengeful Soul would require the sacrifice of hundreds of Wandering Souls. Even the most insane Demonic Path Cultivators wouldn't dare to harvest souls on such a large scale.

The modern armies in the Urban Version and the sect law enforcement teams in the Xianxia Version would be enough to hunt down Demonic Path Cultivators to the ends of the earth.

But in the Apocalypse Version, in this apocalyptic city that has long since fallen, the one thing that is not lacking is zombies.

Sacrificing hundreds of Wandering Souls to refine one Vengeful Soul is a completely cost-free business for Lu Yan. The only thing that can limit Lu Yan is the speed at which he harvests Wandering Souls!

Lu Yan immediately showed a look of pleasant surprise. He didn't care about conserving Mana at all. He waved his Soul Banner and ordered the four Vengeful Souls:

"Explore the upper floors, kill all the zombies, and bring me their Wandering Souls!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the four Vengeful Souls immediately passed through the walls and explored the other rooms and floors.

He took out a Spirit Stone from his Storage Bag to ensure a constant supply of Mana for the Soul Banner. Lu Yan walked towards the upper floors that the Vengeful Souls had already explored.

Before long, angry roars began to echo from upstairs, and loud thuds resounded as things were struck against the walls.

Lu Yan formed a hand seal, and his eyes instantly became incredibly deep. With the help of the Vengeful Souls' vision, Lu Yan could clearly see that dozens of zombies were gathered on the top floor of the building.

There were large and small ones among them, and around them were even some tools that had long since decayed and traces of rotten food residue.

In the hands of some zombies, there were even tightly gripped fire axes and hammers. It was clear that they were once survivors who had used the top floor as a defensive line against the zombie invasion.

But in the end, they failed to survive. Perhaps someone was infected by a zombie during a hunt and didn't speak up, or perhaps they were targeted by more powerful zombies. In any case, when the unexpected came, all the survivors died and turned into zombies. No one on the top floor was spared.

Those zombies, following their instincts, still tightly gripped the weapons in their hands and attacked the Vengeful Souls, but everything was ultimately futile.

The Vengeful Souls, immune to physical attacks, didn't even need to dodge. With a thrust of their ghostly claws, they could strip away the zombies' Wandering Souls, turning these decaying monsters into piles of white bones.

One after another, the zombies fell, and their muddled Wandering Souls appeared, emitting a pale, faint glow.

When Lu Yan reached the top floor, all the zombies had been killed, and a large number of Wandering Souls filled the entire corridor.

The black mist from Lu Yan's Soul Banner spread out, instantly enveloping all the Wandering Souls.

As the black mist surged, a large number of Wandering Souls were refined by the Soul Banner. Lu Yan could clearly sense that the fifth Vengeful Soul was forming.

A moment later, the black mist dissipated, and the fifth Vengeful Soul appeared before Lu Yan.

This Vengeful Soul was entirely refined from weak Wandering Souls, but even so, it had reached the Qi Refining level one realm.

On the soul bodies of the Wandering Souls, there were embedded blank and muddled pale faces, making the Vengeful Soul look even more hideous and terrifying.

Lu Yan's gaze swept over the ruins on the top floor. He pointed the Soul Banner in his hand towards the lowest floor, which had not yet been explored.

"Continue!"