After Rex thought about the whole process of how the brain stops working and the Zombie dies before transforming, several questions came to him.
Why does the Zombie transformation fail just because of a soul? most of Zombie's bodies are considered dead so why does thew soul matter that much… and then Rex finally realized that he was going on the wrong way from the very start.
Zombies are mostly dead but a small part of their brain still works which makes their body works and it can't survive with a nonfunctional brain, then Rex noticed a big difference between the dead person and an alive person which was the Sea Of Consciousness inside a dead person is collapsed
When a person dies their sea of consciousness slowly starts to collapse and when the brain stops functioning it completely collapses and vice-versa.
According to Rex's knowledge the Sea Of Consciousness which is located between the eyebrows is closely related to the brain, he still remembered that opening the Sea Of Consciousness was a necessity to acquire Spiritual Sense and walk down the path of cultivation
After discovering this problem Rex finally found a solution.
When Rex was using the new puppet technique on the corpse he used his SE points to construct a soul seal in their collapsing Sea Of Consciousness to prevent it from completely collapsing and save some of their memory.
[Would you like to implant a 'Fake Soul Seed' inside the target for 89 SE Points: Yes/No]
'Yes' (Rex)
Fake Soul Seed is the name of the newly created soul seal, Rex was using the souls seal to bind the collapsing Sea Of Consciousness like how a doctor uses stitches to reattach the skin at the wound of a patient.
In the start Rex tried to create the soul seal in the same way as Friend List, it wasn't easy for Rex to make it even with the help of Rose that's why he asked every single one of his doubt from Zakiya, In the start, Zakiya proudly cleared few of his doubts to show his profound knowledge but then Rex kept firing questions at him like he was wielding an assault rifle.
Rex didn't stop asking questions even when Zakiya went into seclusion with the 'Elixir Of Life'. At one point Zakiya completely ignored him but Rex kept bugging him moreover he started to yell, where is my Reward you talked about? I worked so hard to make the potion and the big black wolf ran off with my potion without even paying for it… in the end, Zakiya took a break from his seclusion and came out to reluctantly give him a book 'Basics of Soul Arrays & Soul Seals'.
After seeing this book Rex realized that he gad underestimated the Array technology of the higher realm until now.
Zakiya gave this book to Rex and told him that it's the first edition of the 'Basics of Soul Arrays & Soul Seals'series there are two more addition and all three will be the 'reward' for making the 'Elixir Of Life' for him but he only gave Rex first edition saying that the remaining two editions will be given to him after he checked the effects of the 'Elixir Of Life', nevertheless the first one was more than enough for Rex to make 'Fake Soul Seed'.
With every second the corpse of the man absorbed more and more black fog as his inner body was going through a complete metamorphosis.
'This corpse has absorbed more than twice as Qi compared to what it would've cost if I had used this technique on an alive person, I know that the result won't be the same either but it's better if I get something good or all my effort so far will be wasted,' Rex thought while keep supplying the corpse with Yin Qi.
After a few minutes the corpse stopped absorbing anymore Qi, Rex released him and observed him.
The body didn't look like it changed much with naked eyes but Rex could sense the Qi circulating in the new channels inside the corpse's body, the channels weren't same as meridian, unlike meridian which had a fixed path the channels were not fixed, the Qi inside their body was moving anywhere without a fixed route and the dead muscles and bones were absorbing this Qi to strengthen themselves
The corpse eyes have turned pitch black and his skin was occasionally emitting faint wisps of black fog, just like Lesser Zombie this one had also formed a Yin bead inside their head
When Rex touched his skin to check the changes he was surprised because it was hard as normal iron and cold as ice, it reminded him of cold iron, a type of iron that is influenced by Yin Qi and feels cold on the touch that cold iron can be used to make shield because it gives damage reduction towards any Yin-type attribute attack.
'Appraisal: Full Body' (Rex)
[Title: Undead, Absolutely Loyal
Name: N/A
HP: 230 P/230 P | reg 13 P/s
Dark Qi: 180 P/180 P | reg 15 P/s
Race: Undead Zombie
Origin Race: Human
Combat Strength: Human Venerable late stage
Level: 8 / 36
EXP: 78 P / 250 P
STR: D WIS: G-
AGI: E INT: G
VIT: F+ END E+
DEF: E
Traits: Fair Vision(Locked), Digging, Pain-Nullification, Meat-Bomb, Undead-Regeneration, Cold Yin Skin.
Basic Skills: None]
Rex was surprised after appraising him, he found out that the Undead Zombie had lost almost all the skills he got in his life when his Sea Of Consciousness collapsed but his trait remained because it was something he earned when he was born nevertheless it got locked after he transformed into an Undead Zombie.
His trait was not that good either, it only allowed him to have slightly better eyesight than a normal person as for the other traits and title, he got them after transforming. They were basically meant...
The title Undead was given to a being who was not spiritually alive, the title increased their affinity towards the Dark element by 100% but it also decreased their resistance towards the Light element by 100%.
The title Absolutely Loyal is given to a being who had become eternally loyal to someone, the title's effect was that the Undead Zombie can never go against Rex's wishes and can never harm him.
The trait Digging meant that he can proficiently dig the ground, which meant he can even dig tunnels or hide inside the ground.
The trait Pain Nullification, nullifies all the pain inflicted on the Undead Zombie.
The trait Meat-Bomb meant that he can use the Yin bead inside them to self destruct like a meant bomb and inflict damage to the enemy while destroying himself in the process.
The trait Undead-Regeneration meant that as long as the Undead Zombie's head is not destroyed then even if his arm or legs got cut he can slowly recover the lost flesh, this trait uses Qi as fuel to slowly regrow the severed flesh but the regrow speed can be increased by eating the flesh of other organisms.
The trait Cold Yin Skin had a similar effect to the cold iron it can reduce the damage of the Yin-type attribute effect by 50%.
The Undead Zombie was like a completely new entity so it didn't inherit the previous name of the body so Rex could give it a name if he wanted.
'What does this Level mean? don't tell me it's his limit and he can't become stronger than that?…or.. he can advance like beasts, it's good if it's the latter but if it's the former then I will stop this project for now until I achieve a breakthrough in this field,' Rex thought
Rex also has the idea of using Exp to increase their level quickly but he decided to change other corpses in Undead Zombies before taking a risk.
"Sit," Rex said after some thinking.
The Undead Zombie obediently sat on the ground
"Roll,"
The Undead Zombie followed the command and rolled
"Hand Shake"
"Stand Up"
"Jump"
[Well, aren't you treating him like a dog?]
'A Dog? calling him a dog is an insult to the dogs, A intelligent being that cannot understand the life value of another intelligent being has lesser value than poultry in my eyes because at least poultry can be eaten,' Rex said.
[So that's how it is.]
Rose said in an understanding tone like it just solved a mystery.
Rex than converted other corpses into Undead Zombies. Everything went smoothly except two fail attempts, the Collapsing Sea Of Consciousness of two of them was weaker than the others so it wasn't able to sustain the load of the 'Fake Soul Seed' and collapsed before the soul seal completed.
27 Zombies were standing in front of Rex, there were way many people that attacked the beastman village but most people that killed by beastmans had incomplete bodies and died a long time ago so they didn't meet the requirement to become an Undead Zombie.
All the Undead Zombies had Undead, Absolutely Loyal, Digging, Pain-nullification, Meat-Bomb, Undead-Regeneration in common, as for Yin Cold Skin, Rex found that not everyone got this trait and realized that an Undead Zombie only had 70% chances of obtaining it.
Rex still had two corpses left, one of them belonged to Grand Elder and the other belonged to Elder Chen.
'They both are stronger so I might get something new,' Rex thought and started to convert them too.
A few minutes later….
Rex transformed Grand Elder into a Zombie but he was disappointed by the result.
Grand Elder was not much different than other Undead Zombies the only difference being his slightly higher status and the trait 'Curse Bite' that allows him to inject some dark Qi in his target when biting them which deals damage over time to the target.
Rex took a deep breath before he started to work on Elder Chen and this time something unexpected happened. He noticed that unlike other corpse's transformation Elder Chen's transformation was a little different after the process was complete Rex looked at the result.
Unlike other Undead Zombies Elder Chen's muscles shrieked too much, all the skin on his body now looked like tree bark and his canines became very sharp like a blood-sucking bat, when Rex touched him he realized that although his muscles and skin shrieked but his body was now harder than all the other Undead Zombies. Rex quickly upraised him and the result surprised his again.
[Title: Undead, Absolutely Loyal
Name: N/A
HP: 260 P/260 P | reg 14 P/s
Dark Qi: 200 P/ 200 P | reg 16 P/s
Race: Undead Ghoul
Origin Race: Human
Combat Strength: Core Forming 2nd stage
Level: 21 / 40
EXP: 78 P / 250 P
STR: D+ WIS: G
AGI: D INT: G+
VIT: F+ END E+
DEF: D
Traits: Fair Vision(Locked), Digging, Pain-Nullification, Meat-Bomb, Undead-Regeneration, Cold Yin Skin, Flesh Devour.
Basic Skills: Basic Sword Mastery(Lvl 3), Basic Fistfight Mastery(Lvl 1)]
The trait Flesh Devour allowed the Undead Ghoul to eat other organism's flesh, then the newly formed dark acid inside his stomach will digest that flesh and will convert it into nutrients that can further strengthen his body.
'Amazing, his Flesh Devour is good but the thing that is really noteworthy is that he still has the Basic Sword Mastery skill and Basic Fistfight Mastery, these skills might have degraded a lot but the fact that he posses them means that he has higher intelligence than other.
I was right, people with a profession like Alchemist, Inscription Master… etc have strong mental and spiritual strength… thus they also have good quality and stronger Sea Of Consciousness that others, it's probably the reason he became Undead Ghoul…wait a second he can eat flesh to strengthen himself.
Hmmm… then what if I transfer the Blood Transfusion Art I got from Ba Jung to him, this technique is very brute all it does is tries to forcibly extract the blood essence of your target to you which allows the user to get some benefits from the bloodline or physique of the target… if they have any.
The process is very painful for the target and it's useless for me because using it may decrease the purity of my bloodline and I don't like it either, but it suits this Undead Ghoul's trait if he can use Flesh Devour with Blood Transfusion Art then he can gain more benefits with less effort,' Rex placed his hand on Elder Chen's head.
[It's risky.]
'Little Rose risk and success are sworn brother and don't you know about my A+ luck,' Rex said nonchalantly then he used Mind Arts and started to carefully transfer the Blood Transfusion Art's data to the Undead Ghoul.
A few minutes later…..
Rex was looking at the corpse of Elder Chang lying on the ground with a poker face.
[What was it again, who were the sworn brothers.]
'Ahem… Failure is the mother of Success, now let's try to increase their level,' Rex said with a poker face but his heart was bleeding from inside.