An Evil Cultivator's Evil Cultivation Method
"Jingle bells~"
Accompanied by the sound of bells, a faint fluctuation of magical power soothed the zombie, gradually calming it down.
The corpse-driver put away his bell, his hands flashing with black mist as he drew a complex talisman in mid-air and pressed it against the zombie's forehead.
"Hehe~" A few red lights flashed in the zombie's eyes, but it quickly calmed down.
"It's done!" Lin Xu's eyes lit up as he watched the zombie, now freed from its restraints, stagger to its feet.
Name: Zombie (White) Race: Undead Level: 2
Strength: 12
Agility: 4
Physical condition: 11
Spirit: 4
Intelligence: 2
Life: 110
Skill: White Jiangshi Body - White (Basic) Immune to mental damage, Defense +2, Magic Defense +1
Evaluation: The dry, hardened old meat. At this moment, the zombie had already completed a life contract with the corpse driver. A faint yin energy, through an inexplicable connection, linked the two together.
Strands of white down quietly grew on the greyish-black skin of the corpse.
The first stage of corpse refining: White Jiangshi.
White Jiangshi are covered in white fur, move slowly, and are afraid of sunlight and fire. They usually have a job level of 1 to 2.
"Practice the Profound Yin Corpse Refinement Art. As long as you don't die, practice until you die!" Lin Xu ordered the corpse-driving craftsman who had completed the contract.
He had previously studied this corpse -Corpse Refining Technique; the biggest advantage of this unorthodox method was its rapid success rate.
The corpse-driver responded and sat cross-legged on the ground.
The zombie opposite him struggled to sit down, its hands facing his.
Suddenly, wisps of black smoke rose from where the hands of the man and the corpse met. Dark Yin Dharma Power flowed from the corpse driver's dantian, circulating along his meridians and rushing into the zombie's body.
The chilling, Sha Qi within the zombie was instantly activated, spontaneously attacking the Dark Yin Dharma Power that had entered its body.
Compared to the mixed and chaotic qi, the Xuan Dark Yin Dharma Power refined by the corpse driver is undoubtedly of higher quality. With just a swirling motion within the body, it draws the impacting corpse qi into the meridians and refines it into new magic power with every breath.
The magical power flowed, seeping into the zombie's parched meridians, slowly nourishing the old, succulent flesh imbued with the aura of death.
When the Dark Yin Dharma Power circulated within the zombie's body and returned to the corpse driver's body through his palm, the magic power not only did not decrease, but actually increased by about 10% due to the absorption of a large amount of corpse energy.
The corpse-driving craftsman circulated his somewhat mixed Dark Yin Dharma Power within his body. The cold magic power absorbed the traces of blood energy, mixing with the undigested vital energy in the magic power to refine it into pure Dark Yin Dharma Power.
In the blink of an eye, a complete cycle of the Greater Celestial Circuit was completed. The corpse driver's magical power increased, but his body became thinner.
This is why the Corpse Refining Technique is considered a heretical and unorthodox practice. Not only is it useless, but it is also harmful. For normal people, shortening their lifespan is a minor matter when practicing this method; the most common thing is to accidentally kill themselves.
Lin Xu opened his character panel and found that his Corpse Driver's profession level had increased by about 1%.
However, 10 points of his originally full health were directly depleted during the cultivation!
Keep in mind that corpse drivers are a fragile class; even at full health, they only have 110 points, enough for just 10 consecutive training sessions.
Lin Xu waited for the Heavenly Artisan Yaoguai to fill the cave while watching the corpse-driving craftsman cultivate.
According to the cultivation speed of the Profound Yin Corpse Refinement Art, one Greater Celestial Circuit Circulation takes approximately 5 minutes, and 10 consecutive cycles would take 50 minutes.
Minutes, less than an hour.
After practicing for 11 consecutive times, the emaciated corpse driver collapsed to the ground and fainted.
If it weren't for the dungeon's protective mechanisms, he would be dead by now!
The Heavenly Rabbit came rushing in like a gust of wind, dragging the withered corpse-driver towards the exit of the mine.
These corpse-driving craftsmen who participated in the special training were all placed in a small cave not far from the mine, a training aid specially prepared for them by Lin Xu.
With a forceful movement, the rabbit demon placed the skinny corpse driver onto an empty spirit-patterned bed. As a faint spiritual light flickered, a trace of blood appeared on the corpse driver's body, which had been as withered as firewood.
As time went by, the corpse-driver, who had exhausted himself in training, slowly regained his vitality.
Two or three hours later, the corpse-driver, looking refreshed and radiant, sat up from the bed. He had completely recovered from his near-death state and regained his health.
Ignoring his companions who were still sleeping on the beds, he went to the kitchen next to the lounge, where a villager who also worked as a cook had already prepared the meal.
Spirit rice and chicken—simple and straightforward. The Spiritual Qi energy replaces the various trace elements needed by the human body. Theoretically, high-level cultivators could achieve immortality by subsisting on dew and air.
After a hearty meal, the corpse-driver arrived at the cave passage outside the rest room. His assigned corpse was already waiting there, with a food bowl containing dried chicken blood on the ground.
These chickens were taken from the spirit pattern breeding farm. They were bled during slaughter, and the fresh blood became food for the corpse refiners.
Neither pure yin nor pure yang can grow; zombies are purely yin in nature and need to absorb the blood of living beings to replenish their corpse energy.
While the corpse-driver lay in bed recovering, his refining corpse was moved to another rest room.
The biggest advantage of the Spirit Rune Restroom is that it automatically transforms into the corresponding environment, regardless of your race or living environment.
The rest room for the corpse-driving craftsmen is a normal bed, while the bed for the corpse refiners is a place to raise corpses.
After the corpse-driving craftsman recovered, the corpse refiner had also replenished the corpse energy lost during his previous cultivation.
Sitting cross-legged in the passageway, the corpse driver and the corpse refiner once again entered a meditative state.
Lin Xu watched this scene with satisfaction. The 31 corpse-driving craftsmen had each contracted their first zombie and begun the process of refining the corpse.
Compared to the emphasis on gradual accumulation of knowledge and skills by disciples of the Xuanmen sect, the biggest characteristic of unorthodox sects is their rapid pace of cultivation.
By investing heavily in training, a single, intensive training session can increase your class level by approximately 11%.
One training and recovery cycle takes about 4 hours, and you can train 6 times a day in 24 hours, so you can level up in less than two days!
"It's even faster than my cultivation speed back then—" Lin Xu calculated for a moment, then shook his head with a sigh, quite satisfied with his idea.
With the legacy of the dungeons, the conditions for such extreme, life-risking cultivation became possible.
Otherwise, a normal person would die in less than a day if they tried to cultivate in this way.
The corpse-driving master still needs time to improve, so Lin Xu focused his energy on the present.
At this moment, the hall of the Zombie Mine was already covered with spirit-patterned floor tiles, and the Tiger Sha Demon Army, led by the Black Tiger Demon, was advancing inward along the cave passage.
Several Heavenly Artisan Yaoguai followed behind, treading on the spirit-patterned floor tiles, paving a smooth and magnificent passage through the dark cave.
The shimmering spiritual light emitted a faint glow, illuminating the intricately patterned floor tiles. It was as if a ribbon of light had been laid out in the dark cave, creating a stark contrast with the gloomy environment and messy rock walls of the mine.
"Aww~"
The zombies that kept spawning in the cave kept attacking, but the Tiger Sha Soldiers dealt with them one by one.
According to Lin Xu's observation, the zombies in the first-floor cave can be roughly divided into three categories: zombies with diseased legs, ordinary zombies, and zombies with sharp claws.
The zombie with the broken legs could only crawl on the ground, its agility attribute had dropped to 1 point, making it like a toddler learning to walk, and it had no value in making a zombie.
Ordinary zombies have all their limbs intact, but they don't have any distinctive features.
The Claw Zombie looks similar to a regular zombie, but Lin Xu noticed that it could actively gather its vital energy in its hands, and when it attacked, it was imbued with corpse demons, making it even more threatening.
After noticing the differences between the zombies, Lin Xu ordered the Tiger Sha Army to only capture the Claw Zombies, while killing the other two types on the spot.
"The drop rate is too low~" Lin Xu frowned as he looked at the pile of corpses on the ground.
These dungeons retain features from the original game, where monsters have a chance to drop equipment and items after being killed, but the drop rate is extremely low.
Lin Xu estimated that on average, only one item would drop from forty or fifty monsters, and most of them would be dozens or even hundreds of Dharma Coin.
At this moment, the Tiger Sha Army was clearing a large cave in the first-level tunnel. This large cave was about one kilometer long and had an irregular oval shape. It was filled with a large group of zombies.
After the Zombie Mine descended upon the dungeon, an invisible force drove the monsters within to move, slowly but steadily approaching the mine entrance.
This is a unique mechanism in the game dungeons of the Spirit Realm; once merged with a territory, the monsters that spawn there will continuously attack the territory.
The Tiger Sha Army was fighting hordes of zombies and couldn't even spare a hand to capture other targets.
Lin Xu frowned slightly as he looked at the piles of corpses and the few spoils of war on the ground.
The spirit lamp in his hand shone brightly, and with the activation of the Spirit Lamp Prayer Art, dozens of Incense Fire Dharma Coin were consumed.