Chapter 44

The skin of the Mutant Zombie snake is definitely a good thing; it is perfectly suited for drawing talismans.

However, the blood of the Mutant Zombie snake is not necessarily inferior.

For the sake of drawing talismans, he does not know how much of his own blood he has consumed.

If he could find a substitute, it would save him so much trouble.

On Earth, many Daoist priests use chicken blood mixed with cinnabar to draw talismans, but the talismans drawn that way are far less effective than those drawn with his own blood.

If chicken blood and cinnabar on Earth can be used to draw talismans, then logically, the blood of a Bianyi Shou should work too, right?

Chen Yusheng decided to give it a try on the spot.

Soon, he walked over to the body of the Mutant Zombie snake.

Before long, he used the long sword in his hand to cut an opening in the snake's body and took some of the Mutant Zombie snake's blood from inside.

After obtaining the blood, Chen Yusheng immediately tried to refine the snake blood using his True Qi.

Once the refining was complete, he immediately used it to draw a talisman.

Upon using it, he discovered that the talisman drawn with the specially refined Mutant Zombie snake blood was actually more effective than one drawn with his own blood.

Seeing this result, Chen Yusheng did not hesitate at all and walked straight to the snake's tail.

Half an hour later, Chen Yusheng peeled off the entire skin of the snake's tail in one piece.

In this way, he gained a container capable of holding liquid.

Another hour passed, and Chen Yusheng used his long sword to pinpoint the giant snake's heart, using the bag made from the snake tail skin to fill it with a large amount of blood, weighing a full two to three hundred kilograms.

With this much blood, it would be enough to last him for a very long time.

As for how to carry this blood, Chen Yusheng simply tied the bag onto the giant Sangshi; let alone two or three hundred kilograms, the giant Sangshi could easily carry two or three tons of weight.

After collecting the blood, Chen Yusheng also cut off a significant amount of the Mutant Zombie snake's meat to keep as food for later.

After finishing this, Chen Yusheng gave an order, and countless Sangshi immediately swarmed toward the Mutant Zombie snake's carcass, beginning to devour it frantically.

……

Under a large tree, several Sangshi stood guard around Chen Yusheng to protect him.

He himself was seizing the time to cultivate.

But as he practiced, the smile at the corners of Chen Yusheng's mouth became increasingly uncontrollable, eventually turning into a manic grin.

"Hahaha!"

Not long after, Chen Yusheng could no longer hold it back and burst into loud laughter on the spot.

Just now, he had tried cultivating using the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core; he didn't know until he tried, and he was shocked by the result.

He discovered that the speed of cultivating with the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core was actually ten times faster than with a Sangshi Crystal.

And the cultivation speed using a Sangshi Crystal was ten times that of a regular Sangshi Crystal.

In other words, using the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core, the speed was over a hundred times faster than with a regular Sangshi Crystal.

Previously, when Chen Yusheng cultivated with a regular Sangshi Crystal, it took fifty minutes to refine a single strand of True Qi.

But now, using the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core, he had actually cultivated over a hundred strands of True Qi in just over fifty minutes.

Furthermore, Chen Yusheng also discovered that the Spiritual Qi content within the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core was high enough to allow him to cultivate over six thousand strands of True Qi.

In other words, just this one Bianyi Shou Crystal Core could allow him to forcefully break through to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer or higher.

"Good stuff, this is truly great!"

……

Over the next few days, Chen Yusheng remained under the protection of a group of Sangshi, focusing on his cultivation.

During these days, the Mutant Zombie snake's meat was devoured by the group of Sangshi and the Bianyi Shou, Xiao Hui, until only bones and snake skin remained.

During these days, the loli Zombie King, Xiao Jiu, also ate to her heart's content.

After a few days, Chen Yusheng noticed that Xiao Jiu seemed to have grown taller again.

Originally, Xiao Jiu was only about 1.35 meters tall, looking like a little girl of eleven or twelve.

But after eating and drinking non-stop these past few days, her height had risen to over 1.5 meters, making her look a year or two older.

Besides the Zombie King, Chen Yusheng also discovered that the Sangshi had undergone massive changes after eating the giant snake meat.

The giant Sangshi, which were originally about three meters tall, had now all grown to over four meters.

In addition to the giant Sangshi, the agile Sangshi also saw significant improvements.

First, their bodies grew larger, and subsequently, their speed and attack power were greatly enhanced.

It could be said that the strength of the group of Sangshi under Chen Yusheng and Xiao Jiu had jumped up by a significant margin as a whole.

……

A few days passed in a flash, and Chen Yusheng finally finished absorbing the Mutant Zombie snake's Crystal Core completely.

His cultivation level had also soared all the way from the Qi Refining Second Layer to the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and he was on the verge of breaking through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.

With the improvement in his cultivation, most of the Meridians and Acupoints in his body had been cleared one by one.

Under the compression of the Meridians and Acupoints, the quality of Chen Yusheng's True Qi was now a full seventy to eighty percent more refined than when he started.

Chen Yusheng could now draw a Soul-Suppressing Talisman in the void, and its power was nearly double what it had been before.

Besides this, his Spiritual Power perception range had also expanded to over eight meters.

That is to say, as long as someone entered within his eight-meter radius, his Spiritual Power could easily detect them.

Of course, this was on the condition that he had his Spiritual Power perception active.

However, the greatest benefit of the Spiritual Power range expanding to eight or nine meters for him was in casting spells.

As long as it was within the range covered by his Spiritual Power, he could basically hit whatever he pointed at.

For example, if he fired a fireball, even if it deviated from the target by several meters, he could directly use Mental Object Manipulation to control the fireball to turn and hit the target.

After finishing his cultivation, Chen Yusheng finally began to pack up the skin of the Mutant Zombie snake.

By this time, the Mutant Giant Snake had long since been gnawed clean by the Mutant Zombies, with only a skin left of the entire carcass.

With such a large piece of snake skin, Chen Yusheng did not intend to take it all; it was simply too much and took up too much space.

In the end, Chen Yusheng spent the better part of a day cutting off over thirty square meters of snake skin, leaving the rest where it lay.

The snake skin he took included some of the toughest and sturdiest skin from the back, and some of the more supple skin from the belly.

Chen Yusheng felt that the tough skin would surely be excellent for making leather armor.

The supple skin was perfect for drawing talismans.

Besides the snake skin, Chen Yusheng also picked out the hardest snake bone and forged a new long sword by fusing it into metal.

The sword made from the snake bone was far superior in hardness and toughness to the one he had previously made from a steel pipe, and it conducted True Qi faster and more smoothly, resulting in greater and more powerful strikes.

"Let's go, Xiao Jiu!"

On the fifth day, Chen Yusheng once again left this place, taking the Zombie King Xiao Jiu with him.

Not long after Chen Yusheng led the group of Mutant Zombies away, a transparent figure resembling a water ripple appeared near the giant snake.

After observing the vicinity for half a day, the transparent water ripple dissipated, and a young man appeared near the giant snake's carcass.

"Holy crap! This is just too... huge!"

Looking at the incomparably massive giant snake skeleton before him, the young man was stunned and dumbfounded on the spot.

This person was none other than Ge Ning, who was responsible for tracking Chen Yusheng and his group.

For the past few days, he had initially trailed far behind, not daring to get close.

After discovering that Chen Yusheng had stopped with the Zombie Group, he found a mountaintop a few kilometers away, climbed a large tree, and kept watch for several days.

He did not know what Chen Yusheng's group was doing staying here, because the area was dense forest, and the trees blocked all lines of sight to the ground.

Today, upon discovering that Chen Yusheng's group had left, he quietly crept over to investigate the situation.

He didn't know until he looked, and he was truly shocked when he did; such a massive giant snake skeleton, and it looked like it had been killed only in the last few days.

After looking at the skeleton, Ge Ning did not hesitate; he immediately used a satellite phone to photograph the scene and then transmitted it to his superiors.

"Boss, this Mutant Giant Snake is a full hundred meters long, and by the looks of it, it died only four or five days ago; it must have been that Zombie King with its group of Mutant Zombies that did it.

I feel that the strength of this Mutant Giant Snake is extremely powerful, likely no weaker than that mutant tiger in the Northeast...

Since that Zombie King can even kill such a giant beast, I believe we must not underestimate it; we must treat it with even greater caution.

Therefore, I suggest reporting this to the national leadership immediately and having the country arrange for more powerful lethal weapons, such as the nuclear bombs at Lantian Jidi..."