Yin Woman Fetus Corpse, Bewitching Demonic Seed

A Nine Yin Woman was a woman born in an extremely yin year, extremely yin month, extremely yin day, extremely yin hour, and extremely yin quarter.

Women born at such a time were innately of extreme yin nature, having absorbed some mysterious, ineffable extreme yin qi of heaven and earth. They were Cauldrons coveted in the dreams of Demonic Path cultivators.

Yet Nine Yin Women were one in a million, and without careful examination, they showed nothing outwardly and were no different from ordinary people, making them difficult to find.

Thus, Yin Year Yin Month Yin Hour Women were generally used as substitutes. Though the final effect was worlds apart, they were barely usable.

This yin woman had to retain her virginity, after which a demonic cultivator would plant a Demonic Seed within her body. It would gradually develop into an infant embryo. During the final seven days of the ten-month pregnancy, her soul would be seized and her spirit taken, leaving behind only her still-living fleshly body, known as a fetus corpse.

After undergoing special refinement, the fetus corpse would use Nether Path secret techniques, supplemented by the resentment of heaven and earth and founded upon Sha Qi, to absorb the flesh, blood, souls, and spirits of countless living people, forming a Ghost Fetus.

Even during this process, the mother had to be forcibly tortured. The venomous resentment produced would become the finest nourishment, and the cruel Demonic Path ghost creature ultimately born from it was the Blood Fetus Ghost Infant.

This method was likely to incur heaven's condemnation, consumed countless resources, brought enormous Karmic Force backlash, and had a low success rate.

But from the looks of it, the Qi Family seemed close to succeeding. No wonder that after he discovered the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array, he had provoked such an enormous reaction from Qi Yuanzong and his two brothers, to the point that they had even developed murderous intentions toward him.

So this was where the secret lay. No wonder.

Zheng Yi silently marveled at the cruelty of this Demonic Path Secret Technique while becoming even more cautious, fearing that some hidden arrangement remained undiscovered and might cause unnecessary trouble.

However, with the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array in operation, it was difficult for any other formations to exist, or they would restrain one another. Thus, apart from ordinary mechanical traps, the Qi Family actually had no other protective measures.

Zheng Yi circled the area and discovered that the Qi Family had been preparing this Flesh and Blood Demon Pool for a very long time. Some of the bones had already begun to crumble into powder, meaning at least a century had passed.

In other words, ever since the first generation of founders more than a century ago, the Qi Family had begun plotting and preparing this Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array in order to nurture the Blood Fetus Ghost Infant.

Yet according to the records Zheng Yi had consulted in the Soul Devouring Sect, the Qi Family's history in the Ba Dong Town mining district was only around a hundred years long.

They truly had plotted deeply and planned for ages. From the very moment the family was established, the Qi Family Main Lineage had begun preparing to cultivate this Blood Fetus Ghost Infant with the schemes and painstaking efforts of several generations.

If Zheng Yi, this uninvited guest, had not suddenly appeared, then in a few more years, it would have been time for the Qi Family to reap their harvest.

Unfortunately, in the end, human calculations could not surpass heaven's calculations.

This was the result of Karmic Force backlash.

Zheng Yi was their Human Tribulation!

The workings of karma and fate were profound and mysterious. Every person was merely a tiny insect within the vast web of karma between heaven and earth; pull one hair, and the whole body moved. Any minute action could trigger a butterfly effect.

The Qi Family had been arrogant for so many years. Although others had borne the fate of having their souls scattered, the karmic debts of blood accumulated generation after generation, and they had still ushered in their ultimate bitter fruit.

Perhaps Zheng Yi himself was merely a tiny insect manipulated by the power of karma amid this Karmic Force backlash.

Still, for a mere Qi Refining Stage cultivation family like the Qi Family to secretly refine a forbidden technique for so many years without anyone noticing, they deserved to be called formidable figures.

No wonder Zheng Yi had found this Qi Family so peculiar when he had searched through the sect's records.

Within the Soul Devouring Sect's archives, their reputation had always been low-key. They obeyed every arrangement made by the sect, yet they were exceptionally harsh toward their subjects and even their own collateral branches.

Many believed that the Qi Family followed the path of concentrating elites in the main lineage and had no intention of nurturing their collateral branches. Yet after all these years, the Qi Family had not produced any particularly noteworthy experts.

Now it seemed that the Qi Family had hidden themselves deeply. It was not that they did not wish to expand their family's influence, but that every resource in their hands had been used to nurture the Blood Fetus Ghost Infant.

It was possible that throughout the entire Ba Dong Town Mine region, the subjects and collateral descendants alike could all become materials for the Qi Family to cultivate the Ghost Infant.

One could only say that although the Qi Family was merely a small Qi Refining family, the bloodiness and cold cruelty within it far surpassed that of many powerful demonic cultivation clans.

This was a family that would stop at nothing for power. Perhaps their path had already gone astray from the generation of the founding ancestor onward. The coldness and brutality of two or three generations had been passed down generation after generation.

By now, they were already riding a tiger and unable to dismount. Even if they knew the road was wrong, they had invested so much—several generations of effort and countless resources—that they could no longer abandon it midway.

It was just like a gambler whose eyes had gone bloodshot from gambling. He had already lost too many chips and could be said to have staked his entire fortune and life on it. Even if he wanted to stop gambling, he could not.

All he could seek was one final all-in bet, hoping to turn his life around in a single hand.

Either they would rise in a single stroke and become a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation family.

Or the entire family would lose the gamble, sink into ruin, and die together!

Zheng Yi could only say that the coldness and brutality of the demonic cultivation world sometimes exceeded even his imagination.

At that moment, Zheng Yi frowned.

He noticed that within the fetus corpse's belly, the body of the Blood Fetus Ghost Infant seemed to twitch slightly.

He immediately fixed his gaze upon it and observed carefully. He found that the infant wrapped in blood-red viscous fluid did not look much different in appearance, but its entire body was not the fair color of an infant. Instead, it was covered in scarlet, blood-colored skin.

At a single glance, it gave off an aura of eerie wickedness.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, the infant within the fetal membrane and blood-red viscous fluid opened its eyes. A pair of ghostly green eyes met Zheng Yi's.

At some point, this Ghost Infant had opened its eyes.

The scene before him blurred, and heaven and earth immediately spun around. Zheng Yi inexplicably felt the world whirl, his consciousness falling into a haze.

When he opened his eyes again, he had somehow appeared in a clean room.

Waa! Waa!

Startled, Zheng Yi had no time to examine his surroundings before a string of urgent infant cries beside his ear jolted him awake.

He looked up and saw that not far ahead, a jade-carved, powder-sculpted infant hungry for milk was lying in a crib, waving its hands and smiling as it opened its chubby, lotus-root-like arms toward him, seemingly asking to be held.

In an instant, an inexplicable feeling of tenderness arose from the depths of his heart—the instinctive affection humans felt for adorable young.

It was as if the infant before him were his entire world. As the baby waved its plump arms and babbled at him, Zheng Yi's eyes held nothing but that infant.

His body moved forward beyond his control. Zheng Yi wore a blissful smile and opened his arms, walking step by step toward the infant before him, wanting to embrace it.

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