Chapter 531: Corpse Reincarnation

The sun set in the west, and Bailian Mountain became empty again.

"Woof woof!"

Just as You Huan was about to walk down the mountain, he heard a familiar dog barking.

The white puppy possessed by Xiao Pu rushed out of the forest.

There was a faint smell of blood coming from it, it seemed that it had gone into the mountains to hunt.

After possessing the dog, Xiao Pu's abilities were naturally mostly gone.

But its consciousness itself is unique and can independently control all the cells in its body.

Through continuous attempts, it is able to cause the cells in the dog's body to mutate until they become independent multicellular life forms, and then gain the ability to leave the body, move, and proliferate until it regains its original abilities.

Before, whenever it appeared, it could knock the mutated eldest wife away, not because it was a monster.

This is because it has caused certain changes in the body and can exert a maximum strength of about fifty times the original.

Now, its degree of variation has naturally deepened further.

In addition to obtaining varied nutrition, it also brings one thing.

The white puppy jumped up, jumped into You Huan's arms, and then put down something in its mouth.

"This is..." He picked up the blood-stained stick-like object.

It looks like a hard stick, but feels smooth and warm, like some kind of organ.

Is this part of the spring flag of the ghost fairy just now?

As he was looking at it, Joshua also came over, took a look at the stick and said, "Oh? This thing is not something of this level, but... according to the tone of those people, it is something that manifests the 'Way of Heaven'."

The Way of Heaven, the Great Way.

They had just heard Zhen Qingyao and the immortal say such words.

It seems that it is the "Way of Heaven" that makes people fall into ignorant and unconscious madness.

At present, they are still unable to determine whether "Heaven's Way" is a specific thing or a general term for certain truths.

"Is this for the pot of grass? If I'm not mistaken, that grass...seems to have been gifted by the Dreamer before it took shape?"

[Dream Playwright] is one of the titles of "God". It is said that this god has many common titles.

"Woof." Xiao Pu called out, acknowledging what he said.

You Huan nodded and put the stick in his pocket.

"That grass can absorb truths that cannot be understood and digested, right? It will be of great help when I fulfill my promise to the princess next time."

"..." You Huan turned his head and looked down the mountain, in the direction where Zhen Qingyao left.

Just now, after agreeing to Zhen Qingyao's deal, she mentioned a method of ascending to immortality called "corpse transformation".

The so-called corpse transformation is to abandon one's own body and ascend to heaven by pretending to be an object outside of the body.

For "Pang Leyun", it means abandoning the body and transferring the mind into the Azure Dragon's egg, transforming into a Azure Dragon and becoming a fairy beast.

This is the reincarnation magic they are looking for!

Zhen Qingyao did not hold back and directly told You Huan all the steps of the corpse-reincarnation method in detail.

A mortal who wants to become a ghost immortal has to go through a long and painful process, let alone the method of corpse transformation.

The steps are not only cumbersome, but also consume a huge amount of resources.

Fortunately, You Huan's body controls the huge Pang family, so it is still possible to complete every step of the corpse disintegration.

He immediately decided to start the autopsy process as soon as he returned from the outing.

This decisiveness surprised Zhen Qingyao a little, and seemed to make her appreciate him even more.

After discussing the subsequent matters of corpse reincarnation, the outing ended. Helian Feng seemed to have finished his work of receiving the immortals and came to the foot of the mountain to pick up Zhen Qingyao.

The two rode the same horse and left happily.

I heard that they were married by the emperor of the time a long time ago.

But You Huan always felt that neither the obviously problematic Princess Zhaoxia Zhen Qingyao, nor the famous general Helian Feng were such simple people.

In this world that seems stable but people's minds have already fallen into madness, they are a little different.

Joshua shared the same view: "Those two people are different from ordinary people and immortals. I don't know if this is good or bad. Oh, it's a pity to think that I might become an enemy of that beautiful lady in the future."

"...Don't think too much." You Huan came back to his senses, "We need to prepare and start the corpse transformation--"

Ten days later, in the Pang Mansion built on the mountainside—

The entire Pang Mansion's gate was tightly closed, and layer upon layer of locked buildings trapped a rich and exotic fragrance.

A dark cloud hung over the entire Pang Mansion, as if some living beast was lurking there, casting an unspeakable depressing shadow.

But if you look closely, the sky is crystal clear and there is nothing in sight. There are no dark clouds at all.

A messenger covered in heavy armor, riding a warhorse that was also fully armed, stopped at the gate of Pang Mansion.

He raised his head and looked at the gloomy and closed gate of Pang Mansion. There were no guards on either side of the gate.

He knocked on the door for a long time before a servant opened the door a crack from the inside.

The servant had a sallow complexion and a gaunt body, like a seriously ill patient who was about to die. The most striking thing was his eyes, which looked like two deep holes.

When the messenger saw this person, he seemed to be unmoved and just pasted a handwritten note on the crack of the open door.

Seeing Princess Zhaoxia's emblem on the imperial edict, the servant silently opened the door.

When You Huan received the news and came out of the deepest secret room in Pang Mansion, he saw a fully armed and heavily armored soldier standing in the yard like a huge tree stump.

The messenger was looking at the interior of the Pang Mansion.

The moment he walked in, he felt like he had entered another world, and an indescribable feeling of stuffiness weighed heavily on his heart.

Every corner of the Pang Mansion looked extremely dark, with countless details hidden in the darkness and unable to be seen clearly.

The air seemed to be distorted, and a strange fragrance accompanied by an invisible heat wave surrounded him.

This place is like the inside of a huge alchemy furnace...

He thought so, but his emotions did not fluctuate at all.

He saw a strange figure slowly walking out from the unclear shadows in front of him, which seemed to hide countless moving things.

There was a black veil hanging over the figure's head, completely wrapping it up like a corpse bag. Through the veil, one could vaguely see the black clothes it was wearing, wrapping its body layer by layer.

A strong smell of spices emanated from the black and red figure.

The messenger remained calm, as if the figure was just an ordinary person. He saluted respectfully and said, "The general ordered me to bring the supplies and the imperial edict provided by the princess."

"...Thank you for your hard work." A voice came from under the black veil. Perhaps because of the clothes wrapped around it, the voice became a little strange, or perhaps it was not because of the clothes.

The messenger saw a long black object suddenly extending from under the red clothes, and the imperial edict in his hand was taken away in an instant.

"…The supplies are loaded onto my warhorse. Please wait a moment, young lady."

After saying that, he walked to the quietly standing warhorse, stretched out his hand, and removed the heavy armor on the warhorse.

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It was a deformed, swollen, ever-changing creature with four swollen limbs. Some yellowed teeth and dry hair could be vaguely seen embedded in the slightly undulating flesh, just like a person who had not been fully digested.

The outline of the "war horse"'s head and neck is the clearest. It looks like it is made up of many skinny human bodies, and the long head is formed by a pair of dry hands glued together.

Seeing such a "war horse" appear, neither the cavalrymen who served as temporary messengers nor the servants of the Pang Mansion who were waiting for orders on the side showed any sign of fluctuation in expression.

It seems natural to assume that this is what a war horse looks like.

The messenger put his hand into the warhorse's body, and the horse's body immediately trembled slightly, and a sound like the painful groan of an old human was heard.

Soon, the warhorse's body split into two halves, with the flesh and blood stuck to each other, and dark red threads were pulled out in the process of separation.

This monster of considerable size has a cavity inside its body. It can be imagined that this cavity could be used to store necessary survival supplies when the cavalry went into battle.

Today, several tightly packed small packages are placed in this cavity.

The servant nearby immediately stepped forward, took the package, and then walked up to the black and red figure.

Several long, curved black shadows stretched out from under the figure's cloth and took away the packages in an instant.

The servants brought some horse feed and silver to the messenger. After taking it, the messenger fed the horse feed to the warhorse, and the warhorse ate the food that looked like black unknown meat chunks with its body.

The messenger put heavy armor on his horse again and quickly left Pang's mansion.

The moment he walked out of the gate of Pang Mansion, he heard the door close heavily behind him.

There seemed to be a loud, warm and gloomy music ringing in my ears, but when I listened carefully, there was nothing.

He turned around and looked towards the Pang Mansion. As expected, the "dark clouds" above the entire Pang Mansion became darker and lower. The huge mansion seemed to be sealed and wrapped by some invisible thing.

This huge furnace began to operate.

He thought so, then jumped on his horse and left without looking back.

In the imperial palace in the center of the city, halfway across Baibi City from Pang Mansion, on an elegant and majestic pavilion, a figure was leaning on the railing, staring in the direction of Pang Mansion with clear eyes.

"here we go."

As Zhen Qingyao was murmuring, a large mass of gloomy black air appeared in her field of vision.

Mortals could not see this energy, and the vision of the immortals was blocked by her using the royal decree - the Zhen family had ruled the Central Plains for nearly a thousand years and still had some means.

After this ball of black gas rose from the Pang Mansion, it instantly turned into a vortex. Rolling heat waves, strange fragrances, and faint buzzing sounds emanated from it, as if a huge mechanism was operating.

The method of corpse reincarnation can help people break free from the shackles of a body that has no destiny to become an immortal, and become an immortal by relying on a better thing.

Unlike ghost immortals, they still use their own bodies, and therefore are assimilated by the way of heaven and become the "ghost corpses" hated by immortals.

According to Zhen Qingyao's inference and the records in the royal classics, the "corpse-reincarnated immortal" is a genuine immortal. If the immortal sect is more lenient, he may even be accepted by the immortal sect.

Even if they cannot accept it, because it is not a "ghost corpse", no immortal will take the initiative to eliminate the corpse-reincarnating immortal.

But corpse transformation is not that easy.

To get rid of the original body, you must first "refine" it.

Set up a large formation, use the heaven and earth as a furnace, use all kinds of precious spiritual materials as firewood, and lock the body in a special wrapping way.

This refining continued for many days until all the impurities in the body were eliminated, and the remaining parts were locked in the body and transformed into another thing.

It is like refining elixir in an alchemy furnace, turning the body, the raw material, into an elixir that can make a person immortal.

Once the refining is complete, the body will completely transform into a highly condensed "immortal material".

Eventually, this immortal material will be burned from the inside out, which is equivalent to taking an elixir. The essence, energy and spirit in the body will enter the prepared new object and become a corpse-reincarnated immortal.

She was very surprised when she discovered Pang Leyun's uniqueness.

Pang Leyun had an extraordinary destiny, and the jade that she was born with was the best support for her to become a corpse-reincarnated immortal.

While he was thinking, the huge black gas in the distance suddenly condensed and fell into the Pang Mansion again.

Zhen Qingyao knew that the refining was basically completed and the most critical step was about to come.

At this moment, the tip of her delicate nose moved.

That smell again...

She lowered her eyes in a state of intoxication, and suddenly she seemed to have returned to her mother's womb, wrapped in the warm placenta, and everything was floating in the water filled with nutrients, heartbeats, and warmth...

It was this aura that made her involuntarily approach Pang Leyun, discover the uniqueness of the eldest daughter of the Pang family, and thus find a helper for her plan.

But before she could be intoxicated for a few seconds, the breath suddenly disappeared, and then the entire Pang Mansion became completely quiet in her view.

Her expression turned solemn.

She knew that Pang Leyun's energy and spirit must have started to shift.

There are only two possible outcomes of corpse transformation.

Either survive and become a corpse immortal, or die. (End of this chapter)