Chapter 163: A Family of Three

Meng Yifan looked at the couple Wang Laoshi and his wife, then looked at Wang Shitou, who was still sucking Liu Meihua's fresh blood, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

He could understand the feelings of Wang Laoshi and his wife, knowing this was the pitiful heart of parents everywhere, but Wang Shitou had already become a Zombie; he had lost his self and was no longer a person. In his eyes, his former parents were nothing more than two lumps of delicious, appetizing flesh and blood.

Meng Yifan sympathized with the couple's experience of losing a child in middle age, but he could not stand by and watch Wang Shitou devour his own biological parents.

"You wicked beast!" Meng Yifan channeled a strand of Yin Spiritual Power into the Command Flag, activating the Corpse Control Array within it. He pointed forward, and an invisible ripple spread out. The blood-red Runes on Wang Shitou's body flashed violently, and then he stood frozen on the spot, falling straight to the ground.

Liu Meihua was greatly shocked; like a mother leopard protecting her cub, she blocked the way in front of Wang Shitou and roared viciously at Meng Yifan, "What are you doing? You are not allowed to hurt my son."

"Shitou, my son, what has happened to you?" Wang Laoshi held Wang Shitou, and seeing his son motionless, he thought of his son's fondness for devouring fresh blood. Wang Laoshi actually bit his own index finger and stuffed the bleeding finger into Wang Shitou's mouth.

"Gulp! Gulp!" Devouring flesh and blood was a Zombie's instinct. Feeling the fresh blood flowing into his body, Wang Shitou seemed to obtain some kind of special energy from it. He broke through Meng Yifan's control slightly and actually clamped onto Wang Laoshi's index finger, swallowing Wang Laoshi's blood in large gulps just like drinking milk.

"He has already become a Zombie; he has lost his humanity and is no longer your son. You two move aside quickly; I must cremate him as soon as possible," Meng Yifan said.

"No! He is still Shitou, he is my son, I won't allow you to hurt him." Liu Meihua was like a mother leopard protecting her cub, her arms spread wide, determined to block Meng Yifan from destroying Wang Shitou.

"This is bad, you two have been infected with Corpse Poison. Don't be so stubborn; I must detoxify you quickly, otherwise you will also turn into Zombies."

Meng Yifan saw that on Liu Meihua's shoulder, the place where she had been bitten by the Zombie had already begun to rot, and the Corpse Poison was spreading rapidly toward her head.

Not only that, after Wang Laoshi's right finger was bitten by the Zombie, the Corpse Poison was also spreading upward. At this moment, his entire palm had turned pitch black. If Meng Yifan treated them immediately, there was still a possibility of a cure.

Hearing Meng Yifan's words, Liu Meihua was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "I am going to turn into a Zombie? Haha, good, that way I will be the same as Shitou, and I can stay with Shitou forever."

"Lord Meng, you are a good person. Please, stop worrying about our family of three. Shitou is our lifeblood. Since he has become a Zombie, we, the couple, are also willing to become Zombies. As long as our family of three is together, we don't care what we turn into," Wang Laoshi said.

"Why must you do this?" Meng Yifan could see that the couple had already resolved to die and had no desire to live at all. Even if he removed the Corpse Poison, they would not cling to life. This was their choice, so Meng Yifan stopped trying to persuade them.

Liu Meihua and Wang Laoshi sat together with their son, the two of them looking at Wang Shitou devouring blood with loving eyes. The family of three was harmonious, just as if they were feeding Wang Shitou a meal as they usually did.

Time passed bit by bit. Liu Meihua and Wang Laoshi were only ordinary people; they had no True Qi in their bodies to resist the Corpse Poison, so the poison spread through them very quickly.

About ten minutes later, Wang Laoshi and Liu Meihua had both mutated into Zombies. The muscles on their faces were stiff, but their mouths held smiles, overflowing with feelings of doting love for their son.

"Sigh!" Meng Yifan let out a sigh, then waved the Command Flag in his right hand, sealing the family of three away. He prepared to use a spell to shatter the residual spirituality within the Zombies so they would not harm anyone else, then place them together in a large coffin and bury them to let them rest in peace, so the three of them would be together forever.

Meng Yifan shook his head and stopped thinking about it; there was still a pile of Zombies on the fifth floor of Wanxiang Tower waiting for him to deal with.

Those two hulking Zombies and that dual-blade Zombie were all Third Grade Zombies. They had been refined by Zuo Moyan using the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art; they feared neither life nor death, and their combat power was comparable to three Third Grade Martial Artists.

However, commanding Zombies in battle required a cultivator to use Spiritual Power to control them. Zuo Moyan was a Third-Grade High-Level Immortal Cultivator with powerful Spiritual Power, capable of multitasking and commanding many Zombies to fight simultaneously.

Meng Yifan was currently only a First-grade Immortal Cultivator with insufficient Spiritual Power. He could at most multitask to control two things at once—fighting himself while commanding one Zombie to fight. After pondering for a moment, he decided to choose to refine the dual-blade Zombie.

Zombies were powerful, but they also needed a source of energy. Zuo Moyan used an Array Disk to release Yin Spirit Qi to nurture the Zombies. Yin Spirit Qi was a great tonic for Zombies, allowing them to evolve continuously and become increasingly powerful in combat.

Meng Yifan had limited Yin Spirit Stones, and the few Yin Spirit Stones originally on the Array Disk were already on the verge of shattering; they could not possibly release Yin Spirit Qi for a long time to nourish the Zombies.

He had no choice but to find a place where Yin Spirit Qi gathered and temporarily bury the two hulking Zombies there, waiting until his strength grew before summoning them again.

The place with the most abundant Yin Spirit Qi in Luolong County was the Mass Grave outside the city, where countless corpses had been buried over the years.

Even in broad daylight, ordinary people would feel a chill down their spines and tremble with fear when approaching this place. At night, Ghost Fire would drift about, and no one dared to come near.

Meng Yifan channeled the Yin Spiritual Power in his body into his eyes, walked around the Mass Grave, and found the spot with the most abundant Yin Spirit Qi. He then controlled the two hulking Zombies to dig pits and bury themselves.

Meng Yifan formed seals with his right hand, continuously casting spells around the burial site of the two Zombies to seal them there, preventing them from escaping and committing evil.

Within the Nine Yin Corpse Refining Art, there was a type of Gathering Yin Array that could draw the Yin Spirit Qi between Heaven and Earth and concentrate it in a small area. This kind of Array was different from an Array Disk.

An Array Disk required the installation of Spirit Stones and, once the Array was activated, would continuously consume the Spirit Qi within the stones. However, once a Gathering Yin Array was successfully set up, it could automatically absorb the free-floating Yin Spirit Qi in the surroundings, making the Yin Spirit Qi within the Array increasingly dense, which was very suitable for Yin Attribute cultivators to practice, refine Zombies, and so on.

Both had their advantages and disadvantages: an Array Disk could be carried around but required the consumption of Spirit Stones, while an Array was difficult to move but did not require the consumption of Spirit Stones.

Many Immortal Cultivation Sects had similar Gathering Spirit Arrays set up. It was precisely because of this that the Spirit Qi within an Immortal Cultivation Sect was much denser than in the outside world; cultivators practicing inside could achieve twice the result with half the effort, accelerating their cultivation speed.

Meng Yifan also wanted to set up a Gathering Yin Array, but unfortunately, setting up such an Array required the use of rare treasures.

Those treasures were precious cultivation resources even among Immortal Cultivators. Meng Yifan was barely a rogue cultivator; he had no suitable materials for setting up an Array on hand and was completely unable to set up a Gathering Yin Array.