vstars Chapter 1: The First Day as a Corpse, Being Refined
Chapter 1: The First Day as a Corpse, Being Refined
The Kingdom of Nanyue.
Corpse Refining Sect.
Early summer.
At the foot of Zayi Peak, in a dense forest filled with gloomy atmosphere.
A two-meter-tall corpse, clad in tattered ancient armor and exuding an overwhelming stench of decay, was viciously biting a palm-sized black-armored corpse worm.
It was swallowed in two gulps.
"Um?"
"As expected, it tasted like chewing wax."
Lin Li, who had been a corpse for three hours, had been in a daze for one or two hours, absorbing a lot of memories.
Driven by unbearable hunger, he finally couldn't resist attacking the disgusting black beetles on the ground. His survival instinct to devour them overcame the rationality he had developed as a human in his previous life.
In his previous life, he was a lowly beast of burden on Earth. After working overtime all night, he woke up as a low-level corpse wandering in the jungle.
I never imagined that after transmigrating, I wouldn't even be able to be a human being anymore.
[Reincarnation Disc successfully included for the first time]
[Unranked Bloodline Bloodlust Worm]
At this moment, a white panel appeared in front of Lin Li.
[Reincarnation Compass: This compass can collect all living beings that have come into contact with other non-human bloodlines. Once collected, upon death, one can choose one of the bloodlines collected for reincarnation.]
[Note: If one dies after reincarnation without having their bloodline recorded in time, they will not be able to reincarnate again.]
After Lin Li scanned the panel, an ancient bronze disc appeared in his sea of consciousness, displaying the projection of the bloodthirsty corpse worm that Lin Li had just swallowed.
The projection of the bloodthirsty worm was so lifelike that it seemed as if it could fly out of the rebirth disc at any moment.
"Including reincarnation?"
"All living beings with non-human bloodlines?"
"I finally got a cheat code, and it's making me unable to live a human life forever!"
"No!"
"Even if I die and can't be reborn as a human, I'd rather not be that damned bug!"
Lin Li began to move his somewhat sluggish body, looking around. Although his vision was a little blurry, he could still see what was around him.
Bugs, bugs, and they're bugs!
"I refuse to believe that there's nothing else around here besides insects."
Lin Li lifted his somewhat stiff legs and began to walk forward step by step. After a few steps, he felt hungry again.
He grabbed a bloodthirsty worm from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.
Who would have thought that becoming a corpse in this forest would still leave one starving and extremely hungry?
"Never mind."
"I won't starve to death. Fortunately, to this corpse's sense of taste, these worms don't taste bitter, spicy, sour, or rotten, so I can still barely swallow them."
Lin Li took it all in stride.
At any time like these, the most important thing is to survive.
After walking several hundred steps forward.
Lin Li saw another living creature besides the bloodthirsty worm.
It was a crow perched on a withered tree. The crow was dark red all over and had a third blood-red eye on its head.
Lin Li is tentatively designated as the Three-Eyed Crow.
The crow was two feet tall and had claws as sharp as iron. It was frozen in place on the withered tree branch as if petrified.
Even when Lin Li reached the withered tree that several people could barely encircle, he could only look up at the three-eyed crow on the branch, feeling powerless to do anything about it.
He couldn't reach it at all. How could a corpse like him, who struggles to even walk, possibly climb a tree?
The three-eyed crow in the tree glanced down at the burly, stunned corpse below, its eyes filled with disdain.
Right now,
As if sensing something, the three-eyed crow hurriedly flapped its wings, trying to fly away. But in the blink of an eye, a cyan crescent-shaped wind blade rushed from the forest on one side, accurately cleaving the three-eyed crow in two.
The three-eyed crow, now split in two on the tree, splattered its blood onto Lin Li below.
[Inclusion successful]
[Tier 1, Lower Bloodline, Blood-Eyed Corpse Crow]
Subsequently, within Lin Li's sea of consciousness, another projection appeared on the Reincarnation Disc: a blood-eyed corpse crow that had just been cleaved in two.
"Was that a wind blade?"
Looking at the blood-eyed corpse crow cut in half on the ground, Lin Li recalled the swift blue light from just now.
"Huh!?"
"Junior Sister Zhang, look."
"Under the tree where the blood-eyed corpse crow dwells, there is also a wandering shadow corpse."
"Perfect timing. Junior sister, you've just entered the first level of Qi Refining. You can try controlling a low-level Yin Corpse."
"With a little refining, this Yin Corpse can be used by my junior sister for self-defense."
At this moment, a man and a woman walked out from the jungle on one side. Both of them were wearing blue robes.
Among them, the male cultivator Liu Changfeng was in his early twenties with a long face and a very ordinary appearance.
The female cultivator, Zhang Xiaowan, was about sixteen years old. She had a slender figure, bright eyes and white teeth, and her peach blossom eyes made her stand out even more.
"Thank you, senior brother."
Zhang Xiaowan smiled, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth, and said...
"Junior sister, you're too kind. As your senior brother, this is what I should do."
Immediately, Liu Changfeng took out a black talisman.
Bang! !
The talisman immediately exploded, transforming into a black, malevolent mist about ten feet in diameter, which hovered above Liu Changfeng's head, emanating a chilling aura.
"go!"
Liu Changfeng pointed at Lin Li, and the black aura floating above his head turned into wisps of black smoke that enveloped Lin Li.
"My power is growing stronger."
Lin Li could clearly sense that the malevolent energy was constantly merging into his body.
The five senses, which were previously somewhat blurred, are becoming stronger.
It lasted for more than ten breaths before it ended.
"Clang!"
A clear, crisp bell rang in my ears.
At some point, a small bronze bell, about seven or eight inches tall, appeared in front of the male cultivator.
A streak of blue light flew out from the ancient bronze bell and entered Lin Li's brow.
At this moment, Lin Li could feel a very intimate connection with the bronze bell.
"Is it used to control me?"
Lin Li immediately understood that this senior brother was a sycophant.
"As long as Junior Sister Zhang injects her magical energy into this Soul Control Bell, she will be able to control this low-level Yin Corpse."
"Now that this Yin Corpse has absorbed a lot of evil energy, in a couple of days it will become an Iron Corpse at the early stage of Qi Refining, and it will be able to protect Junior Sister's cultivation."
Liu Changfeng handed over the simple bronze bell.
Zhang Xiaowan accepted it with a smile, immediately infusing it with a wisp of magic power, and said with a sweet smile, "Thank you, Senior Brother."
But then, an unexpected change occurred.
The smiling female cultivator surnamed Zhang took out a talisman that glowed with black light from her bosom. The talisman was instantly activated, and a cloud of black mist exploded, from which emerged a white bone claw over ten feet long.
The enormous skeletal claws moved with the speed of a whirlwind, smashing the male cultivator's head and half his body to pieces.
The female cultivator's expression immediately turned cold.
Immediately afterwards, he began to nimbly search the corpse, quickly taking away the storage bag of the cultivator surnamed Liu, and then cast a fireball spell to burn the mangled remains on the ground to ashes.
Then, the female cultivator surnamed Zhang looked up and saw Lin Li standing there.
"Simps die so quickly!"
"I'm just a low-level Yin Corpse, surely they wouldn't burn me too?"
Lin Li panicked a little. The female cultivator's movements were so practiced that she must have done this more than once.
Sure enough, under Lin Li's watchful eyes, the female cultivator who originally had a beautiful appearance and temperament aged visibly. In just a few breaths, she turned into a middle-aged female cultivator with sallow skin and clear crow's feet at the corners of her eyes.
On the chest of the middle-aged female cultivator was a faint red talisman with a dim light.
At this moment, Zhang Xiaowan, who had regained her original appearance, raised her hand and took out a corpse-nurturing bag. She put the low-level refined corpse in front of her into the bag. Once this Yin Corpse advances to the lower-level Qi Refining Iron Corpse, it will definitely be able to sell for a sum of spirit stones in the sect's market.