Array Dao Initiation?

A moment later.

A Zombie with a refined iron Long Spear through its head was nailed to the ground on the spot, unable to move.

Wang Song wiped the mixture of sweat and rainwater from his forehead, then cupped his hands toward Zhang Ming in the distance.

"Young Master, the Zombie has been slain!"

"Mm, I know."

More than ten meters away, Zhang Ming swayed, and his figure instantly appeared before Wang Song.

Wang Song, who had just 'easily' hunted down a Zombie, was startled inwardly.

The arrogance he had felt from killing the Zombie vanished in an instant, and his respectful attitude remained unchanged.

"You've worked hard."

Zhang Ming nodded, his gaze falling upon the freshly made Zombie, perhaps only a few hours old.

"Lock him up and secretly send him to the Laboratory."

"Yes, Young Master."

Zhang Ming waved a hand, and several Armored Soldiers immediately sprang into action.

They carried over a specially made Iron Cage from afar, loaded the Zombie inside, and transported it away.

Rumble—

Torrential rain poured down as lightning flashed and thunder roared. The Cemetery's scenery reflected in Zhang Ming's pupils, though no one knew what he was thinking.

Only after a while did Zhang Ming give Wang Song, standing beside him, an order.

"Follow the blueprint. Find a Mass Grave where Yin energy is heavy, and recreate the Cemetery's terrain at a one-to-one scale."

Zhang Ming did not dare dig up the Cemetery, fearing that he might destroy its miraculous ability.

He could only settle for the next best thing: find a place like a Mass Grave, a place considered by common folk to be saturated with Yin energy, and replicate everything around the Cemetery step by step.

If the recreated Mass Grave possessed the same effects as the Cemetery, it would mean that the Cemetery truly contained some invisible 'array' that affected its surroundings—or rather, Momentum!

Then, by using elimination at the Mass Grave, he could reverse-engineer a theoretical 'array.'

And what use would this reverse-engineered array, now named the Gathering Yin Zombie Array, have?

Brother.

Had you ever heard the saying, "When one aperture opened, a hundred apertures opened"?

Many things only lacked that first step through the door.

Once one entered, the so-called barriers would cease to exist.

In this era, finding a Mass Grave was not difficult.

What was difficult was recreating identical terrain. The workload involved was simply too great.

Fortunately, the Zhang Family no longer lacked manpower, and refugees from Shu Land served as free labor.

The greatest obstacle to replication no longer existed.

Mass Graves were easy to find, labor was abundant, and the Zhang Family had both money and influence. No difficulties remained.

The only thing left to wait for was time.

And so, time flashed by until a month later.

It was also two months after Zhang Ming completed his experiment with the Cycle Devouring Art.

Under Zhang Ming's repeated supervision and urging, the Mass Grave Project was finally completed.

On the first day after completion, all workers were dismissed. Once the Mass Grave lost its human presence, everything seemed no different from before.

That so-called comfortable aura within the Cemetery was nowhere to be found either.

This made Zhang Ming frown, but when he considered how the Cemetery nurtured Zombies, it was certainly not something accumulated in a day or two.

Thus, Zhang Ming could only suppress the stirrings in his heart and wait for time to test the results.

And so.

The second day, the third day, the fourth day... the tenth day... the twentieth day...

Enough time passed for Zhang Ming to optimize the Cycle Devouring Art once more and successfully replicate the [Rapid Recovery] ability as well as the [Life Sense] ability.

Yet there were still no results.

Speaking of the two abilities, [Rapid Recovery] and [Life Sense].

They truly brought Zhang Ming immense surprises.

First, Rapid Recovery.

As a Warrior, it was inevitable to suffer bumps and bruises while training. Over a long martial career, one might also unknowingly accumulate deeply buried hidden injuries from certain improper training habits.

Those hidden injuries might not cause problems for the moment, but as time passed, issues would inevitably arise.

Even Zhang Ming had accumulated quite a few hidden injuries from certain improper martial training habits over more than a decade before obtaining [Ignite Comprehension].

Although after obtaining [Ignite Comprehension], he had gained Great Perfection Martial Experience the moment he entered the field.

He had corrected and repaired some of them himself.

Yet there were still hidden injuries that could not be healed overnight. The timespan had to be measured in years.

But the Rapid Recovery ability of the Cycle Devouring Art was different.

Not only could it rapidly heal surface wounds on the body, it could also gradually restore hidden injuries.

This peculiar phenomenon greatly stirred Zhang Ming's curiosity.

The Cycle Devouring Art was clearly something he had replicated himself, yet it was like a Tech Black Box, with many aspects that were difficult to grasp and clarify.

For instance, the Cycle Devouring Art strengthened the physique and healed injuries by drawing in and expelling energy as fuel for enhancement and recovery.

But why could drawing in and expelling energy heal injuries and strengthen the body?

What kind of conversion ratio existed within? What sort of exchange formula was there?

The energy from food within the body was energy—was the natural energy outside not energy as well?

Could the Cycle Devouring Art not be enlarged and transplanted into the outside world? Could it form a device that drew in and expelled energy, producing something akin to Life Essence?

And so on. Countless thoughts had surfaced in his mind these past days.

Likewise.

It was not only the Rapid Recovery ability that gave Zhang Ming inspiration. The Life Sense ability did the same.

Life Sense gave one a kind of Third Vision. Through another sense, it could penetrate obstructions and perceive every life aura within dozens of meters.

Like a Thermal Imager, it could detect every living creature that bore traces of life.

With this ability, so-called hiding places and concealment methods all became empty talk.

By the same logic, why did such a peculiar ability as Life Sense come into being?

What was its principle? Could it be altered or transformed?

For example, could it perceive other things that could neither be seen nor touched?

Every advancement was like a Tech Black Box. He had made it work, yet simply did not understand the principle.

This left Zhang Ming, whose curiosity had increased by who knew how many times after obtaining [Ignite Comprehension], itching inside.

He felt he had inexhaustible energy to crack these 'black boxes.'

Yet if a 'black box' could be called a 'black box,' it was not something that could be deciphered in a short time.

And so.

On the thirtieth day after the completion of the Mass Grave Project.

As usual, Zhang Ming inspected the Mass Grave Project, seeking to confirm his conjecture.

"Wait, I feel something!"

At that moment, sensing that faint, peculiar feeling, Zhang Ming was overjoyed.

"It really is an array. It's Momentum!"

"Perhaps the terrain around the Cemetery was formed by chance, or naturally shaped into an array, a Momentum, under some kind of influence, thereby causing corpses to evolve into Zombies."

Such a claim was filled with the unbelievable, filled with coincidence.

But on further thought, the vast world was full of wonders. Besides, this world already possessed supernatural elements.

It was not impossible for the power of nature to form some peculiar array in certain places.

"Good, good, good!"

Zhang Ming was overjoyed as he carefully sensed the change.

"The comfort level now is not even one percent of the Cemetery's, but it is absolutely not an illusion."

"Next!"

Flames blazed in Zhang Ming's eyes.

What came next naturally went without saying.

Having confirmed that the Cemetery terrain map he had drawn was indeed an array, a Momentum.

The next step was to use elimination to study, decipher, and clarify the composition of this array and Momentum.

In the language of cultivation novels, this was using this method to enter the Array Dao!