Black Phoenix Hellfire / Corpse Refining

[Divine Grade Black Phoenix Hellfire Cultivation Technique:

Cultivate the Black Phoenix race's Hellfire. Also allows you to transform into a black phoenix. Hellfire can be used for all purposes including Equipment refining and Alchemy]

"Wow, looks very useful. Let's cultivate it" Zeke happily started getting into position and cultivated the technique.

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Zeke gained Exp every 5 seconds. He cultivated for around 2 hours before finally breaking through to the 8th level.

[Ding! Congratulations host for breaking through and entering the Nascent Soul 8th level! +10,000 spirit crystals, Corpse Refining Technique]

Zeke opened his eyes, he felt as if he could destroy an entire mountain with a single fist.

"A corpse refining technique huh… Looks like the system gives me rewards according to my state"

Zeke took out the technique and checked it out

[Peak grade Heaven Tier Corpse Refining Technique: Turn any corpse into a corpse slave. The puppet will retain its previous combat technique and experience.

Level 1: The host can manually control the corpse and see the world through the corpse's eyes. It can follow basic commands.

Level 2: Seal a nearby soul inside the corpse and turn it into a living puppet. Only cultivators who are above the level of the refiner can see the puppet's true nature. Slaves at this level cannot grow.

Level 3: The corpse will resurrect and become a living slave.

Current Level: 1]

"Interesting, Let's try it out!"

He took out one of the black-robed corpses. This corpse was intact and the body only had the heart stabbed.

Zeke used the technique on it and the corpse started moving. Eventually, it stood up on its own and kneeled in front of Zeke.

Zeke gave the corpse a black set of robes that fully covered the slave's body. Its body seemed to have stopped rotting the moment it became a slave and there is no smell either. Zeke then gave it a mask.

This slave was a Nascent Soul level 4 expert so it still has its usefulness for now. Zeke was eager to level up this technique so that he will never have to go back to hell ever again. He also doesn't want his wife to do it for him all the time.

"Let's prioritize leveling up this technique!" Zeke said as he wondered where he can find a bunch of corpses.

"For now, let's refine the rest of the corpses"

Zeke refined 9 corpses. 3 of which are level 4, 2 level 3, 2 level 2, and 2 level 1.

[Ding! Corpse Refining technique has leveled up!]

"Hell yes"

"The only sad part is that I don't have any souls, either way they're still very strong"

In his entire kingdom, he only had around 20 nascent soul experts excluding experts from noble families as they're not really considered his.

Now with these new additions, his kingdom could be considered stronger than most as the rest of the kingdoms had similar strengths.

he gave them names 1 to 10. The strongest was named 1 while the weakest was called 10. He gave them all black robes and a mask to cover up their rotten bodies.

Zeke put on a white-golden robe and made his way to the central market. Here, people can buy anything they want, even human slaves. He went toward the biggest merchant in the entire Crowns kingdom, the Xeno Chamber of Commerce.

The Xeno Chamber of Commerce was owned by a mysterious force. They had branches in every major city of every kingdom on the continent. In the memories, the old Zeke tried investigating the force behind them but every time, it always failed.

Zeke walked in and was greeted by one of the salespeople. "Welcome, sir. How can I help you?" He was greeted by a female salesperson who had above-average looks. She had some pretty good assets as well. The more shocking thing is that her cultivation is at the Golden Core real which is just below the Nascent Soul.

Experts of this level are still rare in the kingdom and could become the masters of a decent-sized family. To think she would be willing to become a salesperson for this group. "Interesting...." Zeke said as he grinned.

"Call for your manager, I have a huge deal that only your manager can accommodate," Zeke stated to the salesperson. "Please wait while I call the manager, sir"

Zeke sat on the couch in the lounge area while waiting. A few minutes later, the saleslady came back with a very delicate-looking lady.

"Hello, My name is Mina. According to my employee, you have a huge deal that would require my attention?" Mina said in a monotone voice. She was busy handling some papers when she was interrupted by one of her employees hence she was a little unhappy but after looking at Zeke, all that went away.

She looked at Zeke from top to bottom and could not help but blush. She quickly changed her attitude. It couldn't be helped, Zeke was simply too handsome! His white hair and golden eyes were very attractive. Of course, another reason why she quickly changed her attitude was that she found out that Zeke was a Nascent soul cultivator and high-level one at that.

While Mina looking at Zeke, He was also checking her out. Mina seemed to be in her late 20s and other than her average-sized boobs, the rest of her figure was definitely top-notch.

Zeke heard Mina and he simply nodded his head once at her. "Please follow me," Mina said.

Zeke followed Mina from behind while occasionally looking at her behind. They went inside a luxurious room and sat down in front of each other.

"Please state your deal," Mina said with still a little bit of blush on her face. She found it hard to look Zeke in the eyes without blushing.

Zeke noticed her actions but chose to ignore them. Who asked him to be so handsome? "I need thousands of corpses, the higher the cultivation the better. The corpses don't need to be in good condition."

"What?" Mina was shocked once again. "What the hell is this guy planning?" She thought to herself.

Zeke saw her reaction. "You do not need to know why, just tell me if you can fulfill this request."

"Yes, we can gather a few thousand corpses of demon beasts and even humans but we would need a least a day to transport them here," Mina stated in a serious voice.

It was Zeke's turn to be surprised. "They can gather human corpses as well? They're not gonna go around and kill people just for this request right?" He thought.

"I don't want the corpse of innocent people" Zeke coldly stated. Mina on the other hand felt a little happy. "He seems to have a righteous mind."

"Don't worry, any human corpses we gather will be those of bandits, members of the devil faction, and the vilest prisoners on this land."

"Why didn't I think of that" Zeke was astonished. His kingdom had a prison meant for those who committed the worst possible actions therefore he can just order his men to kill a bunch of them. But after thinking about it, most of them were low-level cultivators and might not give him much exp in his techniques.

"Alright, give me the most you can gather, I want them in a day. Now give me an estimate."

"As I don't know how many high-level corpses we have in total, I cannot give you an estimate. However, I at least know that this deal would cost at least tens of thousands of high-grade spirit crystals."

"That much?"

"yes, a single Nascent soul realm corpse can go for around 500 high-grade spirit crystals since the remains contain materials for refining. Also although I don't know how many corpses we can gather in total, I am confident we can gather at least 100 nascent soul realm corpses. As for corpses below that, we only gather Golden Core and Foundation Establishment Corpses. Anything else below that is considered worthless to us."

"Alright, I understand. Are 25,000 high-grade spirit crystals enough to show my sincerity for this deal? I will give you the rest once you can give me the total amount." Zeke asked

"Of course, please take this token. It will glow once it's ready." Mina said as she accepted the initial payment.

Zeke took the token and left the place.