Chapter 201. Zombie
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
TN:- 2 chapters today..
“……”
Du Yan was helpless, not understanding why the current situation was similar to the previous dream.
Everything was pitch black before his eyes, and he couldn’t move or speak.
After trying for a while, Du Yan asked: “Xiao Ba, is there something wrong? Has the dream world been restarted?”
Xiao Ba responded quickly: “There’s no problem, this is indeed entering the third level of dreaming, come on, the next level is the subconscious level!”
After hearing Xiao Ba’s insincere encouragement, Du Yan felt much more relaxed. The next level is the subconscious level, and he can finally get rid of these strange dreams.
As for Du Yan’s personality, he is more accustomed to having everything planned and under control.
The feeling of uncertainty that he will never know what he will become after entering the dream makes him feel anxious and in a bad mood.
The root cause of all this is still his half-sentence.
I am not a human being.
Du Yan had never expected that Shao Lingheng’s ability to fill in the blanks was so strong. With just a few words, he could come up with so many strange settings.
First, it was a cat demon, then it was a soul living in the painting. He wondered what kind of magical setting was there this time.
Du Yan’s standards have been lowered to the lowest level. As long as he can move freely, he would accept turning into an animal.
It’s often the case that what you expect never comes as promised.
The environment outside finally moved. Du Yan only felt the place where he was slightly vibrating, and then there was a sound coming in.
“This is the coffin of longevity wood! Be careful.”
“It’s okay, it’s not my first time here.”
It turned out that it wasn’t because the environment was pitch black, but because he couldn’t open his eyes. This time, the situation was even worse than before. How did he become a corpse?
Du Yan could only judge the current situation from the voices of the people who came. He seemed to be a corpse lying in a coffin. The purpose of these two people was a little unclear. They didn’t sound like grave robbers.
After opening the coffin lid, those people did not search for valuables but remained silent and looked at something.
“Sure enough, it’s exactly the same as the standard picture.”
“If the picture wasn’t made up of the facial features of those who were let go, I would have thought it was taken of this face.”
“Longevity wood coffin, who knows what the identity of this person is. It is said that the ancestor of a certain sect has been looking for a piece of longevity wood for many years but has not been able to find one to wear on his body.”
“Why are you talking so much? Take the coffin and the corpse away. Once the refining is complete, the longevity wood can be used to stabilize the sect.”
Afterward, Du Yan was taken away by these people.
In the past few days, Du Yan has basically figured out the current situation. He has arrived at the Lingxing Sect, the necromancer branch of the Tianshi Sect.
Originally in this dream world, Du Yan came from Hezao Mountain, a lineage of exorcist people.
There are many factions in the Tianshi sect. Some sects take the extremely positive path and regard ghosts and monsters as evil and want to destroy them all. There are also sects like Hezao Mountain that are both good and evil, associating with powerful ghosts and borrowing the power of evil.
This necromancing sect is somewhat similar to Hezao Mountain, but Hezao Mountain deals with ghosts while they deal with corpses.
Although Du Yan couldn’t move and couldn’t see anything, he learned from the changes in his body and conversations with the outside world that he is in the corpse refining array.
As time went by, Du Yan felt as if something was reviving inside his body, and his stiff limbs slowly became soft.
Du Yan began to regain consciousness and could feel that he was lying on a hard object. He finally opened his eyes and saw everything in front of him.
Du Yan’s body moved, but it was not under his conscious control. He was not too panicked. The current situation was probably that he had become a corpse, and naturally, he could not control his body.
He climbed out of the longevity wood coffin, and the moment he landed, the priests who were responsible for maintaining the formation technique beside him all cried out in panic.
It turned out that the moment Du Yan left the coffin, the huge longevity wood coffin beside him turned into powder, leaving only a pile of ashes on the ground.
Such a precious treasure was destroyed, and the priests of Lingxing Sect were naturally heartbroken.
Du Yan clearly saw dots of green light in the ashes, like fireflies all over the sky. Then, like baby swallows flying into the forest, all of the green light dots sank into Du Yan’s body.
Du Yan could feel that the shackles in his body that prevented him from fully controlling himself seemed to have loosened slightly.
From the perspective of the Lingxing Sect’s priests, the corpse standing in the formation was lifeless and looked like a Zombie. After the longevity wooden coffin turned into ashes, the corpse slowly became like an ordinary person.
After the dead air on the corpse’s face disappeared, he looked up like a living person. His facial features were already very good, and although they looked a little gloomy, it made people unable to look away for a while.
His skin is fair, and every line of his facial features is as delicate as a meticulous painting. His pale eyes give people a sense of beauty that is as white as frost and snow.
Several younger disciples stared at him with their eyes wide open, thinking that they had never seen such a good-looking person.
“I, why do I think he looks much better than that composite picture.”
“Is the Ghost King obsessed with looks?”
The elders standing in the front row turned around and glared at the young disciples to stop their unreliable guesses. After seeing the abnormal state of the corpse in front of them, the thoughts in the minds of the elders were, of course, completely different from those of the young disciples behind them.
In their view, the outstanding appearance is just an appearance, although it was because of the appearance that they spent so much effort to refine this corpse.
However, now, this corpse, which is only useful in appearance, seems to be more valuable.
The leader of the Lingxing Sect, who was standing at the front, uttered two words: “Corpse King.”
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A few days later, Du Yan finally knew the whole story.
After Du Yan was refined, he became the natal corpse guardian of the most promising priest in the Lingxing Sect, the sect leader’s son, Wen Yicheng.
The Lingxing Sect emphasizes living and traveling with the natal corpse guardian, so Du Yan followed the son of the sect leader and attended many of the sect’s meetings.
It turns out that all the preparations they made were to pacify the ghost king.
A hundred years ago, something strange happened in Shunping City, and the ghost king changed. Each and every Tianshi sect were on high alert, fearing that the new ghost king would be too violent and endanger other places.
Unexpectedly, nothing happened in the past ten years, and even Shunping Ghost City rarely appeared. Everyone was relieved, thinking that the ghost king was a pacifist ghost king who maintained human rationality.
But for unknown reasons, the ghost king acted against the will of Heaven and was struck by thunderbolts 81 times. Even so, the ghost king did not perish in the thunderbolts but became even more powerful.
The ghost king changed his previous behavior and became extremely angry, slaughtering all the members of a certain Tianshi sect.
All the elites of the Tianshi sect were mobilized, and even many retired seniors came out again, and they joined forces to seal the ghost king back to Shunping Ghost City.
This saved the world from a bloody disaster, but the peaceful days only lasted a few years before the dead began to resurrect and disrupted the order of the world.
Finally, after investigation by the Tianshi sect, it was discovered that these people were pulled into a ghostly domain before they died and experienced one supernatural world after another like a game.
If they can successfully complete the mission, they can survive in the world of the living, and if they die in the ghost domain, they will be completely destroyed.
The source of the ghost domain is the sealed ghost king of Shunping City. As time goes by, more and more people are pulled into the ghost domain, and the Tianshi sect begins to worry.
Although those who were pulled into the ghost domain were all dying, the ghost king of Shunping City did not kill innocent people indiscriminately. However, his purpose was unclear, which always made everyone feel that there was a sword hanging over their heads, and a disaster could happen at any time, like what happened many years ago
After a collective exchange meeting of the Tianshi sect, the Tianshi sect decided to take the initiative and try to enter the ghost domain to investigate the purpose of the ghost king, and it would be best if they could completely eliminate the ghost king.
Du Yan’s existence is due to a composite picture.
The ghost king of Shunping City sometimes appears in certain spaces in the ghost domain. When he appears, almost all players in the ghost domain will be wiped out.
There were a few exceptions, however, when the ghost king was about to strike, he spared some lucky people. These lucky people later recalled that the ghost king was usually stunned at first and then said something like, you have beautiful eyes.
Later, someone pieced together a picture like this based on the facial features that the ghost king had praised.
According to long-term statistics, it is not that the more one looks like this picture, the more the ghost king will show mercy, but that only when a certain part of them looks exactly like this picture can they escape.
Someone once thought about having plastic surgery to look like the one in the picture, but it caused the ghost king to become furious, and in the end, his soul was scattered.
Soon after, it was the time for Wen Yicheng to enter the ghost domain for the first time. In order to ensure the safety of his son, the sect leader sent almost all the disciples to find suitable materials for refining corpses.
Du Yan was found in a cave by a young disciple of the sect.
The young disciple found that the body was lying in a longevity wood coffin and was placed in a place with the heaviest yin energy. The body was very well preserved, without any trace of decay or dryness, as if it were sleeping.
This kind of corpse is called a raw corpse and is a rare and excellent material for corpse refining.
After the initial excitement, the young disciple discovered that the body lying in the coffin was exactly the same as the widely circulated composite picture, and it was more natural than the composite picture.
After the young disciple reported the situation, the sect quickly made a decision. Regardless of whether the ghost king had any ties with the corpse in his previous life, judging from the current situation, this is a great opportunity for their sect.
The ghost domain of the ghost king is now expanding, almost covering the entire country, and more and more cities are beginning to pull people into the ghost domain.
Those people struggled to survive in the ghost domain, while the people from the Tianshi sect took the initiative to enter the ghost domain in order to kill the ghost king.
This corpse is probably their only chance to kill the ghost king.
Du Yan followed Wen Yicheng expressionlessly, looking like a perfect corpse guardian.
No one present knew that he was actually conscious, and the shackles in his body that controlled the corpse were not unbreakable.
Du Yan had a vague feeling that as long as certain conditions were met, he would be able to break free of these shackles.
However, he was not in a hurry to resist this situation. From what everyone said, it can be inferred that the Ghost King, who almost caused the yin and yang to be in chaos and put all the Tianshi sects in crisis, should be Xiao Lang.
Instead of breaking free from the shackles, leaving the Lingxing Sect and then trying to find Xiao Lang, it is better to let these priests who already know how to enter the ghost domain take him directly into the ghost domain.
Those dying people who have crossed over once, once they enter the ghost domain, will have a mark on their souls and will be forcibly pulled into the ghost domain every month thereafter.
The situation of the priests or celestial masters is different. They can freely enter the ghost domain and are not restricted to once a month.
But once they are in, the conditions for leaving are the same as those of those who have been marked, and they can only get out after meeting certain conditions.
The priests have been in the ghost domain for decades, but they still haven’t figured out the ghost king’s purpose, let alone completely destroy him.
Up to now, many Tianshi sects have used the spaces in the ghost domain as a place to train their disciples.
In a few days, the gate to the ghost domain will be opened. The people of Lingxing Sect took the newly refined corpse king to the link point calculated this time.
If the priests want to enter the world of the ghost domain, several ancestors of the Tianshi sect need to work together to forcibly open a passage at the overlapping point and send the priests in.
Du Yan’s appearance was too eye-catching. Before coming, Wen Yicheng found a black cloak to cover him from head to toe. This strange rob did not attract the attention of others. Lingxing Sect always behaved like this.
Very few of their corpses are as well preserved as Du Yan’s. Most of them are either incomplete or have green faces and fangs, which always makes people feel uncomfortable when looking at them.
When walking outside, the Lingxing Sect’s priests usually cover their corpse-guardian faces, so Du Yan’s attire can be considered the standard uniform for corpse-guardian.
The time has come, and a thick and gloomy aura suddenly surges between sky and earth.
Du Yan stood behind Wen Yicheng, clearly watching the ink-like black mist spread everywhere.
The ancestors of the Tianshi sect began to use their own spiritual powers to open the passage. Everyone was already very familiar with this process. After only half an hour, the huge ghost domain gate appeared before everyone.
Afterward, the priests and celestial masters entered the ghost domain one after another in the order set by their sects. After entering the ghost domain, they would be assigned to a random space or world of ghost domain, which would depend entirely on luck.
A small sect like Lingxing Sect, which had some unorthodox and evil aura, was naturally ranked last.
After most people had entered, Du Yan followed Wen Yicheng and walked towards the ghost domain gate.
During the whole process, Du Yan found it strange that he did not see his sect.
In this case, could it be that the Tianshi sect that Xiao Lang wiped out was his sect?
So, in this dream world, what plot did Shao Lingheng fill in his mind to lead to the current chaotic situation.
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