Your store is breaking the law, you know that?

When he dragged "Frail and Sickly," "Respiratory Weakness," and "Deficiency of Qi and Blood" into the same row in his inventory, a prompt would ask whether he wanted to merge them into the "Living Dead" ability.

Over the past few days, he had synthesized more than fifty copies of living dead.

"Living Dead" LV1, green.

—"What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger. You remain sickly, but illness is no longer fatal; your breathing is weak, yet sufficient for your needs; your qi and blood are depleted, but the cold cannot kill you. Countless hardships will ultimately forge a powerful body, provided you get enough sleep—because you are the living dead!"

Chen Xuan had equipped the first living dead ability as soon as he synthesized it.

He had no choice... This wasn't an ability traded from a customer, after all, so he had no prior experience to draw on. The Ability Store app's description was so amateurish that he could only test it himself and be the guinea pig.

After trying it for several days, he discovered that it was an entirely beneficial ability, and its effects were extraordinarily powerful.

First came the weak breathing...

That didn't sound good, but his need for air had also dropped dramatically. Without using Heavenly Cloud Skill to protect himself, his breath-holding limit had been a little over five minutes. With living dead equipped, he could easily hold his breath for thirty minutes, practically indistinguishable from a corpse.

Considering that his body had already been greatly strengthened by the mind method's constant tempering, an ordinary person who could hold their breath for thirty seconds should probably be able to manage ten minutes or so with it.

The depletion of qi and blood was even more remarkable. Taken literally, qi deficiency should