Though these Flesh Gourds were shaped like gourds, they were indeed gourds of flesh, as if grown from blood and meat.
Zheng Yi had never seen a gourd with blood and flesh before, but it matched the cultivation technique and secret formula for Flesh Gourds that the auction seller had included with the Flesh Gourd Seeds.
Unconcerned, Zheng Yi directly took out the Blood Iron, Obsidian Steel Ore, Blood Mother Copper... that he had prepared long ago.
Including the most important Geng Metal Essence, he had prepared five portions of each. He selected five different Flesh Gourds, bored holes into them, inserted the materials, and sealed them again with a secret technique.
Before long, after absorbing enough zombie flesh and blood, these Flesh Gourds would heal on their own and mend the wounds anew.
At that moment, the gourd vine suddenly erupted with a powerful suction force. More zombie flesh and blood was drawn toward the center of the formation, then transformed into an endless stream of blood energy that the gourd vine absorbed and supplied to the seven or eight flesh gourds growing upon it.
The five gourds stimulated by Zheng Yi's secret technique were especially ravenous. They rapidly devoured the zombie flesh and blood, swaying back and forth as they gradually repaired their earlier wounds.
Zheng Yi's divine sense could even feel the metal ores within those five flesh gourds beginning to melt and slowly merge together, forming a sharp edge within the flesh gourds, as though a Flying Sword were being nurtured inside.
In a short time, the metal ores had settled within the Flesh Gourds. All that remained was to wait.
They only needed continued cultivation. The richer the nutrients provided, the more zombie flesh and blood they consumed, the better the Flesh Gourd vine would