Blood of the Four Yin

Yang Ye.

That was the name of the Immortal Cultivator steward.

After his sister left, Wen Jiu secretly memorized the name.

In the following days, because the Yin energy in the dead land grew heavier, the middle-aged steward didn't let the many Corpse Buriers work for too long, but they still worked for about six hours each day.

They went at sunrise.

They returned at sunset.

Perhaps it was because his sister sent him inferior Spirit Rice and Monster Beast Meat, but each day's settlement brought some new experience. A bowl of inferior Spirit Rice and a piece of Monster Beast Meat could give Wen Jiu 0.1 Body Refining experience.

However, reaching Body Refining First Layer required 1000 experience points.

It was better than nothing.

It was better than having nothing.

After all, the Spirit Rice and Monster Beast Meat fully restored the energy and strength he consumed daily.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

Today was the day the corpses would turn into zombies.

As soon as midnight struck.

The daily settlement began.

[Daily Settlement Panel Lv1 (18/100)]

[Today's Settlement!]

[Practiced Yin Province Corpse Nurturing Art for two hours, Panel EXP +1, Yin Province Corpse Nurturing Art EXP +2]
[Burying corpses in the dead land for six hours, continuously absorbing Corpse Qi and Death Qi, Panel EXP +1, Corpse Qi +6, Death Qi +6]
[Nurtured in the extreme Yin land for twelve hours, Panel EXP +1, Mutate Corpse EXP +12, Corpse Nurturer EXP +1]
[Used one bowl of inferior Spirit Rice and one piece of non-grade Monster Beast Meat, Body Refining EXP +0.1]

Immediately after.

Wen Jiu quickly opened his personal information panel.

Yesterday, he was only 8 points short of Mutate Corpse experience, and today's settlement alone gave him 12 points.

The mutation should have been successful.

As expected.

When he looked at the Corpse Nurturer panel again, the Mutate Corpse experience had changed.

[White Zombie -- Nurturing (0/200)]

However, the extra 4 experience points did not carry over, which was within Wen Jiu's expectations.

Once a corpse turned into a zombie, it was an entirely different stage. It couldn't grow rapidly in a short period simply by absorbing Yin energy. The Yin Province Corpse Nurturing Record had relevant details about this.

Corpse to Zombie Transformation.

After transforming into a White Zombie, the next step was to evolve into a Black Zombie. This process required the Corpse Nurturer to chant the Corpse Nurturing Incantation for an hour each night at the hour of Hai (9-11 PM) in the corpse nurturing ground, drawing in the Earth Fiend Yin energy to nourish the White Zombie.

This process was called spiritual connection.

The Earth Fiend Yin energy nurtured the Corpse Spirit. Once the Corpse Spirit was nurtured, the Corpse Nurturer could establish a spiritual connection with the zombie and control it at will.

However, nurturing a Corpse Spirit was only the first step to becoming a Black Zombie; the corpse body still needed to be nurtured.

The Yin Province Corpse Nurturing Record stated that at least a hundred drops of human blood must be offered daily in the White Zombie's nurturing ground for it to consume. Moreover, this blood could not be ordinary human blood; it had to adhere to the rule of being born in a Yin year, Yin month, Yin day, and Yin hour.

By doing so, one could cultivate a corpse body that was impervious to blades and magic. As for how long it would take.

There was no definitive answer.

If you could find plenty of fresh blood, it would be fast.

If there were only a hundred drops of fresh blood daily, then it was unpredictable.

"Where am I supposed to find the blood of someone born under the Four Yin, I can't just go kill people, can I?" Wen Jiu fell into thought, understanding why the Unorthodox Path was looked down upon. Even a Black Zombie required human blood; what would come later?

Next.

Wen Jiu calculated his own birth details.

Upon doing so, he discovered that he himself was a person born under the Four Yin.

Using his own blood would work.

But he still had to bury corpses and do physical labor every day. If he offered a hundred drops of blood daily, wouldn't he become weak and die over time?

"I wonder if the blood of those cultivators can be a substitute?" While the blood of someone born under the Four Yin was special and important, the blood of cultivators was not bad either. If it could be a substitute, then he would move the White Zombie back to the dead land.

In the dead land, the ground was already soaked with blood.

It could absorb it freely.

The next morning.

Sister Wen Ya brought him a bowl of Spirit Rice and a piece of Monster Beast Meat as usual.

Wen Jiu ate it all, of course.

Ever since he had asked about the Immortal Cultivator supervisor's name last time, Wen Jiu had stopped asking questions, as more questions wouldn't solve anything.

Instead, it would only make his sister more upset.

After his sister left, Wen Jiu went to the burial grounds to bury corpses again. However, just as he was about to start, the middle-aged supervisor called a halt to everyone. Uncharacteristically, he introduced himself to everyone.

"My name is Wang Nian, you brats, remember it!"

Wang Nian glared at everyone.

Then he added, "According to the rules, I not only manage your corpse burials, but I also manage your cultivation. There were some things I should have told you on the day you went to the Dharma Transmission Tower, but I was in a bad mood at the time."

Wen Jiu was speechless.

This supervisor was truly straightforward.

What would he say next?

As Wen Jiu anticipated, Wang Nian continued, "First, I need to tell you that you all had your Spiritual Roots tested before coming to Corpse Peak. Except for three people, all of you have inferior Spiritual Roots, the lowest of the low. Hard cultivation is your only way out."

"Normally, if you persist in hard cultivation, with your inferior Spiritual Roots, you can reach Qi Refining Layer One in three years."

"If you maintain this pace, the ever-increasing Yin energy won't damage your foundation too much."

"But if anyone slacks off and disrupts this cultivation rhythm, don't blame me for killing you early... Anyway, if your foundation is damaged by the Yin energy, you won't get far and won't live long."

Wang Nian's tone was heavy with every sentence, like a warning before murder, but to Wen Jiu, it sounded different.

Although this person spoke impolitely.

Every word he said was for their own good.

He seemed to be a person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

"Wait!"

Wen Jiu suddenly realized something.

Most of the Corpse Buriers had inferior Spiritual Roots, but three of them did not?

They wouldn't need to take three years to reach Qi Refining Layer One like those with inferior Spiritual Roots.

Wouldn't the top three cultivators after a year be taken by those three people?

How did that sound so suspicious?

There were exactly three people.

And there were exactly three spots for next year's cultivation.

"A setup... Damn it."

Wen Jiu was speechless.

He quickly looked around and saw three people huddled together in a corner of the crowd, their lips curved in barely perceptible smug smiles.

One of them had even given him a disdainful look outside the Dharma Transmission Tower when he saw the Yin Province Corpse Nurturing Art.

It seemed.

It was highly likely to be these three!

Wen Jiu couldn't help but look at Wang Nian again, feeling that this fierce-looking supervisor was different from usual. "Supervisor Wang Nian has implicitly revealed this in public, it seems he is very dissatisfied with them."

Soon.

Dusk was approaching.

Wang Nian left, and the crowd gradually dispersed.

Wen Jiu found an excuse and returned to the burial grounds, digging out the White Zombie.

Seeing the male cultivator's corpse again, it was covered in white fur, its eyes were red like blood beads, and its claws were an inch long, sharp as knives. What Wen Jiu found most terrifying were its fangs.

Just like in Uncle Ying's movies, they were bone-white and blood-red, ferocious and terrifying—if it bit him.

"Jump yourself."

Although the White Zombie had not been nurtured with spiritual energy, it could still understand simple commands.

Therefore, it could act normally.

A moment later.

The White Zombie jumped into the burial ground.

Wen Jiu told it to stand guard while he dug a pit in the thickest part of the blood mud.

"Get in yourself."

After the White Zombie lay down in the pit, Wen Jiu immediately buried it with blood mud. When the hour of the Pig arrived, he stepped into the night and chanted the Corpse Nurturing Incantation for an hour on the burial ground—if it weren't for the White Zombie accompanying him, he really wouldn't have dared to come alone at night.

Who knows if there are ghosts.

After chanting the Corpse Nurturing Incantation, Wen Jiu left quickly.

Just waiting for the daily settlement.

If the experience increases.

That would mean the blood of cultivators can replace the blood of the Four Yin.

For him, this would undoubtedly be incredibly good news, as there is no shortage of cultivator blood in death lands.

[Thanks to all the fellow Daoists who followed along.

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