Chapter 88

The alchemist spoke with a grand and generous tone—indeed, he was truly quite grand and generous.

The Yin Soul Sect was the sect most skilled in dealing with ghosts. The ghost banner, within the Yin Soul Sect, could be said to be the most sought-after item! If one could have a better ghost banner and capture some ghosts with decent strength, one's own strength could increase significantly in a short time!

For low-grade ghost banners, the lower quality ones were trash, and could be bought for dozens of low-grade spirit stones. However, as the quality increased, the price would skyrocket! A mid-grade ghost banner was worth hundreds, a high-grade one thousands, and an exquisite one tens of thousands!

And the Thousand Ghost Banner followed the same principle. A high-grade Thousand Ghost Banner could easily sell for over two hundred high-grade spirit stones within the sect! Even so, it was still in high demand!

As for Hu Donghan, he had a Hundred Ghost Banner—a low-grade one he had found on the body of the servant he had killed. The entire Hundred Ghost Banner could only control a few dozen wandering souls, and was only useful for bullying early-stage Qi Cultivation practitioners; it had no other significant use.

Now, if he could get a Thousand Ghost Banner, even if he couldn't fully unleash its true power due to his strength, it would still significantly enhance his combat ability.

Without further ado, Hu Donghan took out a hundred high-grade spirit stones and bought the Thousand Ghost Banner.

With the item in hand, Hu Donghan bid farewell and left, then ran to the junkyard to collect the corpses of the Corpse Ghost Pythons into a Corpse Refinement Bag—

The Corpse Refinement Bag was indeed magical. These huge corpses couldn't even fit into a storage ring, but the Corpse Refinement Bag easily accommodated them, and they didn't even take up half the space.

Having obtained the Corpse Ghost Python corpses, Hu Donghan didn't waste any time. He hurriedly left the Earth Fire Hall, first returning to the Old Medicine Mountain to give some instructions, then turned around and found a suitable place for Qi Cultivation practitioners to hunt ghosts near the main peak, and headed there.

Near the main peak, there was a place suitable for Qi Cultivation disciples to raise ghosts, called Little Burial Village. The distribution of ghosts in this place was like a village, with their own activity areas, hence the name.

Upon reaching the outskirts of Little Burial Village, Hu Donghan first communicated with the Foundation Establishment cultivator stationed there, asking about the location of the bone pits within Little Burial Village, and then immediately entered the village.

The entire Little Burial Village had five bone pits. Three were located at the core, and two were on the periphery.

Hu Donghan naturally wouldn't be idle and go to the core of Little Burial Village to seek punishment. He only searched the peripheral areas.

According to the Foundation Establishment cultivator, Hu Donghan quickly found a bone pit. As he approached the bone pit, he could feel the substantial corpse qi spreading around.

Hu Donghan activated the Earth Fire True Method to avoid the large intake of corpse qi, and slowly walked to the edge of the bone pit.

Looking down from the edge of the bone pit, there were countless human and animal bones, and the corpse qi was still continuously seeping out. The air above and around the bone pit was thick with corpse qi, making it impossible to see the surroundings clearly.

Hu Donghan used the inner technique of the Corpse Raising Art, scanning the surroundings with his eyes, feeling pleasantly surprised:

"What a dense corpse qi! The corpse qi here is even denser than that in the bone pit on Lone Ghost Ridge! With such dense corpse qi, combined with the Corpse Raising Great Art and the excellent corpses I obtained earlier, it will be easy to cultivate an Iron Armor Corpse within three years!"

"Previously, I estimated that it would take three years to cultivate an Iron Armor Corpse, based on the minimum requirements. At that time, I never expected to obtain a suitable Corpse Ghost Python!"

"Now, the corpse qi here is sufficient for the Corpse Raising Great Art, and the Corpse Ghost Python I obtained was quite powerful in life. With secret techniques to assist, it can quickly recover its former strength. In my view, it should be normal to cultivate an Iron Armor Corpse within half a year!"

Hu Donghan thought: "However, I must absolutely keep the secret of my zombie cultivation. It seems I will have to stay here for some time to guard the secret of the Corpse Raising Great Art."

"Generally, no other cultivators would come here except for those cultivating zombies. Besides, as a disciple of the Earth Fire Hall, even if other cultivators see me, they probably wouldn't dare to approach. Moreover, I have no risk of losing control of the Earth Fire True Method, and the affairs of the Old Medicine Mountain are handled by others. Staying here for some time should be fine."

Soon, Hu Donghan had sorted out his thoughts. He left the range of the bone pit and sat in meditation for a while.

This bone pit was located on the periphery of Little Burial Village, and the number of ghosts was not many, so there was no need to worry about any danger.

After slightly adjusting his internal spiritual energy, Hu Donghan reached into his Corpse Refinement Bag and selected the largest Corpse Ghost Python corpse.

The size and strength of the Corpse Ghost Python were proportional. The larger the size, the stronger the strength. The largest Corpse Ghost Python was definitely at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, or even the peak of the mid-stage! Similarly, this Corpse Ghost Python corpse was the best among all the corpses.

Placing the Corpse Ghost Python in front of him, Hu Donghan stood up, formed hand seals, and mobilized the spiritual energy within his soul through the Soul Chart, starting to extract the soul power of Medicine One.

After about a quarter of an hour, Hu Donghan stopped forming hand seals, and at the same time, a strange symbol formed by condensed soul power appeared in his hand.

Seeing the strange symbol successfully formed, Hu Donghan finally breathed a sigh of relief—this strange-looking symbol was the Soul Seal!

"Go!"

Hu Donghan shouted clearly, and the Soul Seal on his finger quickly flashed, directly entering the forehead of the Corpse Ghost Python. At the same time, the Corpse Ghost Python's body seemed to be pushed by someone, and it slightly trembled.

Although the Soul Seal had entered the Corpse Ghost Python's body, Hu Donghan did not relax but formed hand seals again. After about ten seconds, Hu Donghan stopped forming hand seals and shouted again, "Condense!"

As he spoke, a faint blue light burst from within the Corpse Ghost Python's body, and the originally scattered corpse qi began to converge. After about half a minute, the Corpse Ghost Python's head slightly turned, its nearly twenty-meter-long tail swept around, and its huge eyes finally opened, with the eyeballs constantly moving and occasionally emitting blue flames.

Although the eyeballs were moving, there was no vitality in the Corpse Ghost Python's eyes, like a puppet.

This Corpse Ghost Python was merely a revived zombie!