Chapter 157: Reversing Corpse Poison

Corpse poison is a special type of Yin Attribute energy. It is like a virus that can rapidly multiply and fission within the host's flesh and blood—one becomes two, two become four, four become eight—continuing to propagate in this manner until all of the host's Blood Qi is completely exhausted and the host is thoroughly mutated into a Zombie.

More than half of Meng Yifan's body has now mutated into a Zombie, which has also left him depleted of Blood Qi, shaking the very foundation of his martial path.

Even if he could expel all the corpse poison from his body now, he would still suffer a severe illness, which would be highly detrimental to his future martial arts cultivation.

While Meng Yifan was cultivating, Liu Zhongyong was carefully flipping through the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art, searching for a way to neutralize the corpse poison. When he saw Meng Yifan open his eyes, he hurriedly asked him, "Yifan, look here. In this sheepskin scroll, there is actually a secret technique that can use Yin Spiritual Power to reverse corpse poison."

Meng Yifan's heart stirred. He hurriedly took the sheepskin scroll and examined the secret technique for reversing corpse poison, discovering that this technique was truly miraculous; it could cause the corpse poison to undergo a reverse transformation, converting the corpse poison back into Blood Qi Power.

"It can actually do this?" Meng Yifan was also somewhat surprised. He attempted to mobilize the wisp of Yin Spiritual Power within his body to attach to a wisp of corpse poison. As he operated the secret technique, the Yin Spiritual Power rotated counter-clockwise, and that wisp of corpse poison followed suit.

Soon, a stream of pure Blood Qi Power was converted, which filled Meng Yifan with immense joy; he finally had a way to neutralize the corpse poison.

This method of reversing corpse poison was indeed effective; not only could it neutralize the corpse poison, but it could also restore his own Blood Qi Power.

Furthermore, during the process of converting the corpse poison, Meng Yifan's Blood Qi Power was also tempered, becoming even more refined.

The martial True Qi converted from this Blood Qi Power was extremely dense and even carried a trace of a Zombie's cold Yin energy. This made Meng Yifan's heart stir, as he felt this special True Qi was somewhat similar to the Gang Qi formed by Condensing Qi into Steel.

Meng Yifan attempted to control this wisp of special True Qi to leave his body bit by bit, only to discover that even after this True Qi had moved an inch away from him, it remained condensed and did not dissipate.

Moreover, that wisp of True Qi was like a nimble little snake, obeying Meng Yifan's commands as it circled around his body, which left Meng Yifan ecstatic.

True Qi leaving the body while remaining condensed without dissipating—this was the hallmark of Gang Qi. This wisp of special True Qi could fully be called Gang Qi.

Meng Yifan had longed to obtain the secret technique for Condensing Qi into Steel, but he had not yet managed to get his hands on it. This time, having been struck by corpse poison and using the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art to neutralize it, he had unexpectedly stumbled upon the right path and converted Gang Qi from within his own body.

Meng Yifan continued to mobilize that wisp of Yin Spiritual Power to convert the corpse poison in his body, but he discovered a very serious problem: there was too little Yin Spiritual Power. To reverse all the corpse poison in his body into Gang Qi would take at least several months, or perhaps even a year.

He still had many things to attend to, especially since Zuo Moyan's Spirit Core was still buried in Wanxiang Tower; that wicked, evil person could escape at any moment.

Meng Yifan had to neutralize the corpse poison on his body as quickly as possible and return to Wanxiang Tower to deal with Zuo Moyan's Spirit Core. If Zuo Moyan escaped and possessed someone to be reborn, it would surely lead to endless trouble in the future.

"If there is too little Yin Spiritual Power, then I must increase the amount of Yin Spiritual Power." The Yin Spirit Stone in Meng Yifan's hand was very precious, and now, nearly half of the Spirit Qi within it had been consumed.

From this, it was clear that Meng Yifan's aptitude was indeed very poor; even if he exhausted all the Spirit Qi in this Yin Spirit Stone, he could at most condense two or three wisps of Yin Spiritual Power.

Yin Spirit Stones had many uses; they could not only be used for cultivation but also for setting up Arrays.

The Array that Zuo Moyan had set up on the fifth floor of Wanxiang Tower was powered by Yin Spirit Stones. Meng Yifan had no place to replenish his Yin Spirit Stones for the time being, so he did not continue to use the Yin Spirit Stone for cultivation, but instead put it away into his Space Ring.

"Haste makes waste, Yifan. Don't be anxious. Now that we have found a way to neutralize the corpse poison, we only need to proceed steadily and surely, and we will eventually be able to neutralize it slowly," Liu Zhongyong advised.

Meng Yifan smiled. For others, they might only be able to spend a vast amount of time slowly neutralizing the corpse poison and condensing Gang Qi, but he did not need to, because he had the Game Panel.

"Add Experience Value to the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art." Meng Yifan silently recited in his mind, directly adding all the remaining 1092 points of Experience Value to the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art.

In this way, the proficiency of the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art soared directly to (1092/3000), and Meng Yifan's Immortal Cultivator cultivation also instantly surged from a First-Grade Lower-Tier Immortal Cultivator to a First Grade Middle Tier Cultivator.

The most direct manifestation was that whereas Meng Yifan originally only had one wisp of Yin Attribute spiritual power in his body, in the blink of an eye, it surged a hundredfold.

The sudden explosion of spiritual power caused the spiritual power throughout Meng Yifan's body to surge, his hair to stand on end, his clothes to flutter without wind, and his body to be filled with a mysterious and unfathomable spiritual pressure.

"This is..." Liu Zhongyong was dumbfounded. He keenly sensed that the spiritual power within Meng Yifan had increased all at once, but how could this be possible? Even if one consumed the Spirit Pills used by Immortal Cultivators, there would still be a process of consumption; it was impossible for one's cultivation to increase so much all at once.

"This is somewhat like an empowerment from a master, or a high-level expert passing on their power, but there is only me and Meng Yifan here; there is no one else. How could his cultivation have increased so much all of a sudden?"

Liu Zhongyong was completely baffled, finding that Meng Yifan was shrouded in layers of mist, making him impossible to fathom.

After the spiritual power in Meng Yifan's body surged, he once again drove the spiritual power to neutralize the corpse poison. If the original conversion speed was like a turtle slowly crawling, the current conversion speed was like a galloping steed, more than a hundred times faster.

One minute, ten minutes, half an hour, one hour—the exterior of Meng Yifan's body was rapidly undergoing physical changes.

The fangs that had grown out retracted bit by bit, and the pitch-black fingernails that had grown out also withered and turned to dust, with new nails growing out on his ten fingers once again.

Meng Yifan's pale skin also rapidly flushed with blood at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming white with a rosy tint, even more delicate and smooth than the skin of a young maiden.

Not only that, as the corpse poison in Meng Yifan's body was rapidly reversed, the cold Gang Qi outside his body also gathered in greater and greater amounts.

After Zhang Chao of the Divine Machine Battalion condensed his Qi into Steel, his Gang Qi would condense into a Divine Bell Cover, while the Gang Qi of Jiang Tian, the leader of the Crocodile Gang, condensed into a cold, gleaming eagle claw.

But Meng Yifan's cold Gang Qi appeared even more unique; it possessed a certain special spirituality and could be controlled by his will, changing freely. At one moment it looked like a large snake coiling around Meng Yifan's body, at another it turned into a Shield, and at another it condensed into a pitch-black long spear, which left Liu Zhongyong watching from the side in amazement.

After another ten minutes passed, Meng Yifan's body shook violently. The corpse poison in his body had been completely converted into Gang Qi, and his body had fully recovered; not only was he no longer weak and powerless, but he had instead become even more formidable.