Two Worlds: Demonic Cultivator with His Zombie Materials-Chapter 59 - 58: Ghost Infant’s Transformation, Steady Development

Chapter 59: Chapter 58: Ghost Infant’s Transformation, Steady Development

Having obtained the Merit Seed and knowing that slaughtering zombies and Resentful Ghosts is beneficial to this world, bringing the Power of Merit in return from heaven and earth, Zheng Yi became even more diligent.

From within fifty miles of the settlement to over a hundred miles, and then to a range of five hundred miles, Zheng Yi exerted himself to slaughter zombie hordes and Resentful Ghosts.

One demon cave and ghost nest after another were swept by him, leaving zombies and ghosts eradicated wherever he passed.

The Merit Seed in his sea of consciousness remained in its illusory state, but Zheng Yi could clearly feel that this seed indeed solidified a bit as he slaughtered more Evil Ghosts and zombie hordes.

Although faint, the change was indeed an enhancement, albeit not evident.

The seed, only the size of a bean, emitted gold light that became a bit brighter.

In the process, as Zheng Yi rampantly cleared ghosts and zombies in the Doomsday World, the zombie crystal cores and ghost materials he gathered quickly piled up like small hills.

On the one hand, the formation nurturing the Five-headed Blood Embryo Ghost Infants operated at an increased efficiency and speed, greatly enhancing energy consumption, and thus required more zombie crystal cores to sustain.

Initially, Zheng Yi had doubts, as these Blood Embryo Ghost Infants were ultimately Netherworld Dao evils transplanted into this world; would they acclimate?

But now, based on his observations, he found that these Ghost Infants very much favored zombie flesh, even undergoing some peculiar transformation.

From a state of being somewhat illusory, they began to solidify gradually, undergoing some transformations akin to those in this world’s zombie and ghost creatures.

Simultaneously, with the abundance of resources and zombie crystal cores, the Flesh and Blood Demon Pool became more efficient in absorbing zombie flesh. Its scale was tens of times larger than the Qi Family in Badong Town.

After all, the Qi Family courted the wrath of the world by cultivating Forbidden Techniques and naturally aimed to be as hidden as possible, inevitably reducing their scale.

In the Doomsday World, Zheng Yi had no such scruples.

He dared not crazily use living humans to feed the Ghost Infants, but as a Sovereign of the settlement, zombies in this world were rampant, with an endless supply.

Moreover, zombie flesh contained mysterious energy, feeding each Blood Embryo Ghost Infant to a chubby, well-fed state.

Now, Zheng Yi instead worried that overnourishing these Ghost Infants might make them hard to control or even impossible to refine.

On the other hand, the number of Essence Stones refined from the many slain ghosts naturally increased.

All low-grade Essence Stones were handed to the Qi Family’s trade caravan for sale, with the Spirit Stones brought back supporting his own cultivation and the acquisition of large quantities of materials.

"The Merit Seed needs a long time to sprout and grow."

Through this period, Zheng Yi confirmed that with his current strength, eliminating ordinary zombie hordes and common Resentful Ghosts yielded minimal returns.

Only by advancing his realm and increasing his strength to seek more powerful Resentful Ghosts and Zombie Kings in the Doomsday World could he gather world merit faster.

Thus, Zheng Yi no longer crazily slaughtered zombie hordes or sought Evil Ghost Nests birthing Resentful Ghosts as before.

Instead, he allocated some time to focus on his own cultivation.

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Great Yi City Immortal Realm.

Badong Town mine, Black Iron Ore Vein, at the deep underground.

Zheng Yi developed a simple cultivation secret room deep underground here.

He had designated this area as a forbidden zone, with guards outside, set up with an Illusionary Array, preventing ordinary people from entering, as the complex passageways could easily cause one to lose their way, with no one daring to trespass.

Because the Qi Family previously set up the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Extinct Meridian Array, it extracted the original Spirit Vein prototype from the Earth Vein here, making the Spiritual Qi in this area very sparse.

Only this mine area, with its mineral veins and array setup, had its broken Spirit Vein untouched by the Qi Family.

Thus, the Spiritual Qi here was significantly higher than in other areas.

Zheng Yi directly dug out a space of dozens of square meters in the mountain body, arranging a Spirit Gathering Array with various cultivation materials.

Being a cultivation secret room, Zheng Yi naturally wouldn’t shortchange himself.

Moreover, with the Qi Family caravan trading outward, the highly popular Essence Stones made his finances quite ample.

Essence Stones are a basic material used readily by any Demon Cultivator during cultivation processes.

Refining pills, artifacts, and cultivation techniques and spells all require Essence Stones, so their sale went rather smoothly.

Previously, Zheng Yi had insightful foresight by equipping the Qi Family caravan leader with Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts.

Since the Resentful Ghosts Zheng Yi captured and refined in the Doomsday World were all low-grade, equating to nothing more than the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer.

The Qi Family sold Essence Stones in not too large quantities, expanding outward in several small-scale sales, thus dodging others’ attention.

In this world, with profit comes greed, especially in the Demon Realm filled with Demon Dao Loose Cultivators, each with a greedy heart; raiding each other is not hard to understand.

The Qi Family Commerce Association had several trade routes, attracting the attention of some greedy Demon Cultivators.

Demon Cultivators in the Demon Realm swarmed like locusts.

Many were Loose Cultivators, influenced by the prevalent conduct in the Demon Realm, greedily acting without regard for consequences.

When finding easily plunderable profit, they wouldn’t hesitate to act.

According to Qi Lin’s report to Zheng Yi, in the past two months alone, several groups of Loose Cultivators had targeted the Qi Family.

Once, even a group of mid-stage Qi Cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Fourth and Fifth Layers made a move to raid.

However, the Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts refined with the Soul-Catching Banner were extraordinary, being terrifying ghosts condensed from mutual slaughter and devouring among numerous Resentful Spirits.

Moreover, Qi Lin’s selection of caravan leaders might not rank in Cultivation, but they had rich experience, being crafty old foxes.

Sometimes, they feigned surrender to suddenly unleash Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts in ambush.

Coupled with experts hired by the caravan, they would slaughter the attackers, leaving even ordinary Sixth Layer Qi Cultivators dying regretfully.

The Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts refined by Zheng Yi maintained combat capabilities, being finely honed masterpieces from among dozens to hundreds of Resentful Spirits in the Doomsday World, making them difficult to counter by ordinary same tier Qi Cultivators.

Unless a High Tier of Qi Cultivator intervened, it was challenging to overcome these Yin Soldiers and Fierce Ghosts.

One killing spree after another validated Zheng Yi’s means, demonstrating the Qi Family caravan’s strength to the outside world and deterring many petty forces intending to fish in troubled waters.

After these tribulations, the subsequent trades returned to normalcy and became smoother.