Ghost Infant Manipulation Manual

Although the levels of these demonic secret arts were not particularly high, gathering so many of them had clearly cost the Qi Family no small amount of effort.

However, the three books that interested Zheng Yi the most were:

"Essentials of the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Formation," "Ghost Infant Cultivation Guide," and "Ghost Infant Manipulation Manual."

The first book Zheng Yi opened was the "Ghost Infant Cultivation Guide." He was also very curious about how the Qi Family had raised those bizarre Blood Fetus Ghost Infants.

According to the records in the book, these Blood Fetus Ghost Infants required at least a hundred years of cultivation before they could be successfully formed, nourished with vast quantities of flesh, blood, and souls.

Most importantly, the vessel had to be a virgin girl born in a year of extreme yin. She would be impregnated with a Demonic Seed, then nourished with all manner of precious demonic materials. Once the fetus took shape, the pregnant woman would be subjected to brutal torture, causing boundless resentment to form within her.

The fetus would then absorb the pregnant woman's hatred and gradually transform into a Ghost Fetus.

Especially when the fetus was about to be born, the pregnant woman would already have had her soul seized and spirit torn away, refined into a fetal corpse, then placed at the core of the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array. The Flesh and Blood Demon Pool would sustain the Ghost Infant's nourishment until, a hundred years later, it was completely born.

"The Qi Family truly is a pack of lunatics!"

Even Zheng Yi found the sight horrifying as he read this.

According to the records, in their search for women with an Extreme Yin Physique, the Qi Family had caused the deaths of more than ten thousand women.

Even more terrifying was that Ghost Infants were difficult to tame. To refine them, one had to share the same bloodline. When Zheng Yi saw this, his scalp went numb.

That meant the Ghost Infants carried by those five Extreme Yin women were in fact of the Qi Family's bloodline. Only through that bloodline connection could the Qi Family's higher-ups be confident of refining and taming the Ghost Infants.

To commit such acts, the Qi Family had truly taken madness and cruelty to the absolute extreme.

"The wheel of heaven turns; retribution never misses."

"Perhaps I am Heaven's punishment upon the Qi Family!"

For no apparent reason, those words surfaced in Zheng Yi's mind. Then he shook his head and cast the strange thought aside.

In truth, the Qi Family had already cultivated these five Blood Fetus Ghost Infants for a hundred years. In at most three more years, the Ghost Infants would mature and be born.

Perhaps believing their grand undertaking was complete, the Qi Family had grown complacent, only to be directly suppressed by Zheng Yi, dead beyond death.

"Once these Ghost Infants are born, they will be monstrous evils outside the Five Elements!"

"If they escape, they will be enough to create a Ghost Domain in one region."

"Since they still need three years to grow, continuing to cultivate them with human flesh, blood, and souls would shroud me in the power of Blood Sin and pile Karmic Force high as the heavens. That is absolutely impossible."

"But it seems I have a bug I can exploit."

"These Blood Fetus Ghost Infants have already taken shape and consumed countless resources. Destroying them outright would be rather wasteful."

"What if I take them back to the Apocalyptic World and use endless zombie flesh, along with Vengeful Spirits and Malevolent Ghosts, to cultivate the Ghost Infants?"

Since these Blood Fetus Ghost Infants needed only about three more years before they could be born, and considering the bizarre methods and formidable strength described in the records, Zheng Yi could not help feeling tempted.

With the Apocalyptic World at his back, Zheng Yi possessed unimaginable cultivation resources. Increasing his strength was not difficult.

On the contrary, what he lacked most right now was time. Given enough time, Zheng Yi believed he could travel very far upon the path of cultivation.

In the dangerous Demon Domain, Zheng Yi needed the ability to protect himself, and these controllable Ghost Infants were undoubtedly excellent helpers.

At the very least, Ghost Infants equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Realm were combat power that could not be ignored in this region.

Of course, Zheng Yi could not possibly follow the Nether Path secret art's instructions and use the flesh and souls of living people for cultivation.

Such vicious methods had already crossed Zheng Yi's bottom line.

But one must not forget that the Apocalyptic World was full of zombies. Those flesh-and-blood monsters mutated from humans, along with those bizarre Malevolent Ghosts, were all exceedingly abundant nourishment—enough to hatch demonic creatures like Ghost Infants into the world.

Now that he also had the "Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Formation" and the "Ghost Infant Control Manual," everything was ready but the east wind.

With that thought, Zheng Yi first left the area and sealed the entrance once more. He found Qi Lin, gave him several instructions, then directly chose to enter seclusion.

Under his thunderous methods, Zheng Yi believed Qi Lin was a smart man. There was no need for him to personally intervene in how the Qi Family would be dealt with.

Boom! Boom!

The thunderous roar of cannons shook the earth. Flames rising from the ground directly swallowed the dense horde of corpses, while the terrifying explosive force blasted apart everything within a radius of more than ten meters.

Countless severed limbs flew into the air. Every zombie caught in the cannon fire was blown to pieces, not a single one spared.

"Good! Good! Good!"

This was a small human Gathering Place inhabited by over a thousand people. Its leader was Jin Wuqian, an Ability User who controlled fire. He had gathered a batch of firearms under his command, including two 80-millimeter cannons, making this a heavily defended base.

Relying on their powerful firepower and the strength of Ability Users, they had swept through the area within several dozen kilometers. There were rarely any traces of zombies nearby.

Yet over the past few days, a zombie horde numbering in the tens of thousands had suddenly swept in from the south.

The base was caught off guard. The enormous horde had directly breached the warning perimeter and was already nearing the base's survival boundary.

The situation was critical. Zombies filled the area for several thousand meters.

For survival, Jin Wuqian had no choice but to order the use of the cannons, these great weapons of destruction, setting off waves of flame and explosions amid the zombie horde.

The power appeared considerable. Each shell could eliminate dozens of zombies, but compared to a horde of tens of thousands, it was hardly worth mentioning.

Bang! Bang!

Boom! Boom!

The area around the base had long been filled with countless traps and landmines dug by the humans. As the horde rapidly charged through this area, its numbers were reduced by more than a tenth.

Yet rather than making Jin Wuqian happy, this rapid reduction in zombie numbers only made his expression grow more solemn.

The still-vast zombie horde surged toward the Gathering Place without the slightest fear, like a tide, mixed with Red-Eyed Zombies and Mutated Zombies.

He personally saw a zombie resembling King Kong, five meters tall with bulging muscles all over its body. Even shells exploding beside it had no effect whatsoever as it charged forward like a tank.

There were other zombies whose bodies looked like skinned flesh, evolved to be better suited for running. Fast as lightning, they constantly darted through the explosions, completely unaffected by the shells.

There were dozens of such powerful Mutated Zombies at a glance. Even if every Ability User and mutant in the entire Gathering Place joined forces, they might not necessarily be able to handle them.