The blood essence of life is the concentration of blood essence in the whole body, and it contains a certain amount of soul power. Once consumed, it will take a lot of time to practice and recover.
This drop of natal essence dripped onto Tiao Zang's forehead, and soon disappeared.
Tiao Zang's body twitched immediately, and his face twisted for a while, as if he was enduring a great struggle, and he could respond even when he was suppressed.
Without hesitation, Zhang Yang circulated his mana, forcing out another drop of natal essence and blood.
This time, the life essence blood was not dripped directly on the forehead, but was condensed on the fingers, Zhang Yang immediately started waving his fingers, drawing tadpole-like runes.
Woo—
The extent of the jumping corpse's struggle suddenly increased, and the yellow "Town" character on his forehead was activated, shining with light, looming.
Zhang Yang's face was solemn, and his subordinates kept on drawing the runes.
Halfway through the painting, the drop of blood has been exhausted.
Zhang Yang gritted his teeth and forced out the third drop of blood.
At the same time as the third drop of natal blood was forced out, Zhang Yang's momentum suddenly weakened, and he even staggered.
As a seventh-level wandering corpse, he forced out three drops of life essence blood in a row, which has almost reached the limit of his endurance. I am afraid that there is no need to recover in a few months after the incident.
But... as long as this zombie puppet is successfully controlled, all the sacrifices will be worthwhile.
Zhang Yang controlled the essence and blood, skillfully sprayed it, and quickly finished drawing the rune.
The moment the rune was completed, a yellow light flashed.
hum—
The tadpole-like character sank into the forehead of the jumping corpse.
In an instant, the jumping corpse stopped struggling and lay there peacefully.
call!
Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the most critical step in controlling the jumping corpse has been succeeded.
The runes drawn with the blood essence just now have successfully wiped out the remaining soul in the jumping corpse, and the blood essence containing the power of his own soul has also penetrated into the body of the jumping corpse.
Zombies, born from the resentment and filth of the world, are immortal, immortal, and immortal—of course, this "immortality" refers to the highest-level drought demon—and are discarded by the three realms of heaven, earth, and human beings outside the six realms. It turns into a remnant soul and stays in the body. After cultivating to black stiffness (compared to the golden core stage of human monks), it will generate a soul and form a consciousness equivalent to human beings. Before that, it can only be muddled, with some residual consciousness. .
The first step in making a zombie puppet is to wipe out the remaining soul consciousness and implant your own soul power into it.
What Zhang Yang did just now has successfully wiped out the remnant soul consciousness of this jumping corpse, and implanted the soul power attached to the blood essence.
The next thing to do is to fully integrate this soul power into the zombie puppet and realize communication with the puppet.
This process cannot be completed overnight. According to the records in "Taiyin Refining Shape Puppets", it may take several days if it is fast, and months or even years if it is slow.
Zhang Yang was not in a hurry, he lay flat beside the jumping corpse, reached out and took out a Yin Condensation Bead in his mouth, and began to replenish consumption.
…
Ten days later.
A jumping corpse stood upright against the wall of the tomb, and Zhang Yang stood opposite him. With a wave of his claws, he cut his wrist, and a string of thick blood was forced out during the operation of mana.
These bloods are not natal essence blood, but just ordinary blood.
Even so, Zhang Yang also felt a little weak.
For ten days in a row, every other hour for the first three days, and then once a day, Zhang Yang cut his wrist to force out blood to draw a rune on the forehead of the jumping corpse.
This rune is recorded in "Taiyin Refining Shape Puppet Chapter", which can perfectly integrate the trace of soul carried by Zhang Yang's life essence and blood with the entire body of the jumping corpse.
"It's been ten days, and I feel that the communication with the jumping corpse has improved, but it's still far from being fully in control."
"I don't know how long this kind of wrist cutting and bloodletting will last!"
Zhang Yang frowned, feeling pain and joy.
…
Twenty days later.
Zhang Yang looked at the jumping corpse in front of him.
"It is recorded in "Taiyin Refining Form" that the fusion of soul power and the time to communicate with zombie puppets can be as fast as a few days, as slow as a few months, or even a few years... I have already spent twenty days, It seems that it is not the kind of luck that is the best, but I just hope that I don't have to wait for a few years."
Zhang Yang sighed, cut off his wrist, and began to draw runes painstakingly.
…
after a month.
"It's been a month, and the fusion and communication of the power of the soul has not been completed. Could it be that I really belong to the most miserable unlucky person, and it will take several years to refine a zombie puppet?"
Zhang Yang looked at the jumping corpse in front of him speechlessly.
…
After half a year.
"Phew! The fusion speed is slow, but it is constantly progressing."
"Half a year! Does it take so much effort for human monks to control zombie puppets? Or, are we zombies born hard?"
Zhang Yang speculated secretly, but he never had any doubts about the level of the exercises in "Taiyin Refining Shape".
You know, this is an existence that has saved his life several times. Moreover, it can also be seen from Zhang Yang's own promotion speed after cultivation, that this technique is definitely a top-level existence.
Another point is that in the past six months, with the fusion of Zhang Yang's life essence and blood, the body of the zombie in front of him is also slowly changing.
Zhang Yang's spiritual sense can clearly capture that its body cells are becoming more and more active, and its skin seems to be breathing, devouring the surrounding Yin Qi and nourishing every cell.
On the body of the zombie puppet, there were already two Yin Condensation Beads, and the slightest trace of Yin energy dissipated. In the past six months, it has advanced to the level of wandering corpses on its own.
Moreover, with the passage of time, the physical characteristics of the zombie puppet became closer and closer to Zhang Yang's own physical characteristics, and the speed at which the cells devoured Yin Qi became faster and faster.
This made Zhang Yang very pleased.
"It took so much effort, I hope you don't let me down!"
…
One year later.
A second-class wandering corpse leaned against the wall of the burial chamber.
In one year, the zombie's skin swallowed every trace of yin energy on its own, and it naturally advanced to the level of a second-level wandering corpse.
"Success! It's finally going to succeed!"
Zhang Yang's face was full of uncontrollable excitement.
"I can clearly feel that the power of the soul in the life essence and blood has been perfectly integrated with the body of this zombie."
"Also, I have a blood connection with this zombie."
"Hey, let's not mention the loss caused to me by those few drops of natal essence blood. Just talking about the blood I have released this year, I am afraid it is more than ten catties?"
"The following is the last step, please don't let me down."
Thinking about it, Zhang Yang cut his wrist with his sharp claws for the last time. During the operation of the kung fu, three drops of life essence and blood were forced out.
Feeling weak for a while, Zhang Yang didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately started to draw runes by waving them.
This is the last step recorded in "Taiyin Forming Body Refining Chapter". The exercises go deep into the soul, and Zhang Yang has practiced them very proficiently. Although the zombie's wrists are stiff, he swings them with incomparable lightness.
In minutes, the rune drawing was completed.
Zhang Yang silently said a word:
"disease!"
hum—
With a flash of light, a series of tadpole-like runes swirled and sank into the zombie's forehead like a whirlpool.
Click!
There was a sound of something breaking.
Snapped!
The zombie suddenly opened its eyes.
A tired smile appeared on Zhang Yang's weak face.
This feeling of blood connection cannot be described in words at all. However, Zhang Yang clearly knew that the zombie puppet in front of him would absolutely obey his orders.
"It can't be described in words, but I know that this zombie puppet is definitely not as rigid as the zombies in the corpse refining gate. It seems that a trace of my soul has been planted like a seed."
"According to the records in the 'Puppet Chapter', when I become stiff, I can refine my own Nascent Soul, and even split the Nascent Soul, turning the zombie puppet into my second clone."
"This is a real blood connection! It is definitely not comparable to ordinary zombie puppets."
"Moreover, the advanced potential of this zombie is enough to instantly kill other zombie puppets."
At this moment, Zhang Yang only had one feeling, that is, all the efforts he had made this year were totally worthwhile.