Two Worlds: Demonic Cultivator with His Zombie Materials-Chapter 73 - 72: Ink Spirit Evil

The absorbed pure soul power quickly circulated along the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, continuously gathering in the hidden acupoints of Zheng Yi’s body.

Under the supplementation of soul power essence, the spiritual energy formed by the Black Evil Technique rapidly grew stronger.

Whether it was an illusion or not, the cyan ghostly flame originally gathering on his body became even darker at this moment, flickering with a faint, mysterious light, gradually carrying a peculiar corrosive aura.

Having finally found such a holy land for cultivating the Black Evil Technique, Zheng Yi naturally was reluctant to leave easily. He stopped wandering around looking for other locations and directly stayed in this eerie and terrifying mountain gully, beginning to enter seclusion for cultivation.

Relying on the blood-clothed female ghost and the ghost soldiers and ghosts under his command, he delved deep into this ghost cave area to capture resentful ghosts for cultivation.

The time lasted a full half month. To not delay his usual cultivation, Zheng Yi mostly expended spirit stones daily.

In the Doomsday World, there are no spirit veins, and spiritual qi is extremely sparse. Even if condensed and extracted through magic, it is merely a thread, extremely rare.

This place truly isn’t suitable for cultivators’ presence. Fortunately, Zheng Yi had brought a large number of low-grade spirit stones to meet his usual cultivation needs.

But the results were very fruitful. During this period, he refined a total of over three hundred and forty resentful ghosts. The Cyan Profound Fiend circulating within his body had already naturally evolved into about one-third Ink Spirit Evil.

Even the demon flame condensed from his thick evil qi turned into a cyan-black demon flame, significantly increasing in power.

The corrosive power generated could even directly affect cultivators’ divine souls and divine thoughts, a remarkable achievement indeed.

And the resentful ghosts in this mountain gully were almost worn down by Zheng Yi little by little, eventually all fed to his cyan-black demon flame evil qi, virtually sweeping it clean.

The originally chilling ghost cave unexpectedly had a few strands of Yang qi, sunlight shining back in, with the coldness gradually dissipating.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Zheng Yi extended his right hand, palm up. The operation route of the Black Evil Technique in his body ran quickly, with spiritual qi surging between, accompanied by a bang, as a fierce cyan-black flame burst forth from his palm.

The flame seemed to have no temperature at all, causing no damage to Zheng Yi’s flesh, and even seemed to carry some abnormal icy feeling.

As the cyan-black demon flame burned and flickered in Zheng Yi’s palm, the surrounding air temperature seemed to suddenly drop by two or three degrees.

A layer of fine white frost condensed on the ground along his body.

As Zheng Yi refined all the surrounding resentful ghosts during this time, the Black Evil Technique advanced again, gradually transforming from Cyan Profound Fiend to Ink Spirit Evil.

However, to completely upgrade to Ink Spirit Evil, Zheng Yi needs to refine nine hundred ninety-nine resentful ghosts or cultivators’ divine souls.

If using living souls for cultivation, the number must be multiplied by ten times.

This demon technique, though with great potential and simple to cultivate, also creates incredible karmic force, not something ordinary cultivators can bear. This is why many cultivators abandon it midway, with few able to reach the pinnacle level.

If not for being in the Doomsday World, Zheng Yi might not have chosen to cultivate this demon technique.

After all, while strength is important, his little life is too, and he doesn’t want to be countered by karmic force and die painfully.

The entire ghost cave was cleaned by Zheng Yi, all the resentful ghosts completely wiped out, becoming resources for Zheng Yi’s cultivation, providing nourishment for the Black Evil Technique’s advancement.

With no cultivation resources left, he had to stop this period of seclusion.

But the harvest was considerable, with one-third of the Ink Spirit Evil transformed, power greatly increased, and Zheng Yi’s own cultivation reaching Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer high tier at this time.

Zheng Yi planned to continue sweeping the surrounding resentful ghosts.

He just needed to devour a few more demon caves, and it wasn’t impossible to break through another Qi cultivation layer.

Unfortunately, Zheng Yi was forced to interrupt his cultivation because the materials for the Soul-Catching Banner could no longer sustain the ghost creatures nourished inside it.

Because of fighting alongside Zheng Yi, especially in the Doomsday World, by devouring a large amount of the soul power of ghost creatures, the main soul of the Soul-Catching Banner and the blood-clothed female ghost’s realm were nearing middle tier of the eighth layer, with many others at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.

However, as Zheng Yi’s lifebound spiritual artifact during the Qi Cultivation Stage, the Soul-Catching Banner hadn’t undergone a second refinement, and the materials used could no longer withstand the impact of the blood-clothed female ghost’s and all the fierce ghost shadow soldiers’ own realms, as cracks had already begun to appear on the Soul-Catching Banner.

This was like a gas tank designed to hold a hundred liters of gas that’s forced to contain two thousand liters, resulting only in an explosion of the tank.

The current state of the Soul-Catching Banner was like this.

Hastily ending his cultivation in the Doomsday World, Zheng Yi hurried back to the Great Yi City Immortal Realm, directly summoning Qi Lin to inquire about upgrading the materials for the Soul-Catching Banner.

As a subordinate, the most loyal follower, Qi Lin deeply understood that everything he currently possessed came from Zheng Yi, and his future wealth and glory also depended on Zheng Yi’s favor.

One could say the interests of both were firmly bound together.

Although Qi Lin’s cultivation talent wasn’t great and he wasn’t young anymore, he was most understanding of worldly affairs and adept at handling matters, which was why Zheng Yi dared to rely on him.

Qi Lin had long entered this mode, naturally knowing what the higher-ups needed most and what matters were most urgent. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

So when Zheng Yi inquired, he almost without hesitation, gave an accurate answer.

Apart from the mine, the Qi Family also had income from some shops, and under Zheng Yi’s leadership, they had diversified into a dozen or so trade caravans, boosting the business of fierce ghost essence stones.

With the continued supply of essence stones provided by Zheng Yi, the Qi family trade caravans’ business expanded to more distant regions, significantly increasing their ability to accrue wealth.

These trade caravans were not only Zheng Yi’s cash cow but also responsible for sourcing the information Zheng Yi desired, such as the acquisition of the Blood and Flesh Gourd in the Youzhong City underground auction.

The subsequent task arranged by Zheng Yi was to collect, at any cost, the materials needed for upgrading the Soul-Catching Banner.

Money can move mountains!

As the caravans expanded in all directions, the shopkeepers naturally attached great importance to the tasks laid out by Zheng Yi, actively seeking information and offering substantial rewards for the purchase of several most precious materials.

The unique information sources, coupled with efficient financial operation, enabled several caravans to obtain all the materials Zheng Yi needed to upgrade the Soul-Catching Banner in approximately half a month’s time.

The high efficiency opened Zheng Yi’s eyes with admiration.

Facing Zheng Yi’s sincere praise, now nominally the master of the entire Qi family, Qi Lin hurriedly expressed that it was merely the habit of a merchant.

Being able to alleviate the worries of the higher-ups was his greatest value.