Witnessing the lowly and weak human reappear at the heart of the Black Dragon Niraseck, the dragon's first thought was of a dragon slayer taking advantage of its weakest moment to kill it and eliminate a future threat.
The Black Dragon roared in unwillingness, its injured wings flapping powerfully, causing a wild wind within a ten-zhang radius. However, this had no effect on Ye Han.
"Roar," Ye Han let out a low shout, his two sharp zombie fangs bared again. His eyes emitted bursts of grey light, and his whole body was ablaze with purple flames, standing like a demonic god.
He bit fiercely into the Black Dragon's heart wound, his fangs penetrating deep into the dragon's blood vessels. A drop of dark purple essence blood from the grey cloud flowed through his fangs and into the dragon's bloodstream, towards its heart.
After doing this, Ye Han's figure faded again, reappearing in front of Autrus. It was only when his afterimage completely dissipated that one could appreciate how fast Ye Han had become.
Ye Han slowly descended and stood in front of Autrus, crouching down. He grabbed Autrus's body, bit fiercely into the neck of the unconscious man, and a drop of dark purple essence blood flowed from his fangs into Autrus's body, reaching the heart in an instant.
Having done all this in no more than the span of two breaths, Ye Han instantly used his escape technique and vanished from the Black Dragon's sight.
Looking up quietly at the moon, the purple flames on his body retracted. He stretched out his hands covered in purple scales and placed them on his chest, closing his eyes.
Suddenly, Ye Han's grey eyes snapped open, a sharp light bursting forth as he spread his hands in front of him.
"Star Absorption," Ye Han's powerful wings beat behind him, his white hair billowing. His cold voice echoed throughout the world.
As Ye Han shouted "Star Absorption," Yin energy within a ten-zhang radius centered on him exploded, visibly converging towards him at an observable speed, with the area of activity expanding. It stopped expanding at fifty zhang, likely reaching Ye Han's current limit.
As massive amounts of Yin energy entered his body, Ye Han quickly ran the Fan Shi Jue, guiding the energy that was surging into him.
The energy increased, the Fan Shi Jue ran faster, and with each circulation through his body, it was absorbed by the cloud in his heart. As the cloud absorbed more and more energy, it began to expand and compress in a regular pattern, increasing in density and gradually transforming from gas to liquid until the palm-sized cloud condensed into a droplet. This astonished Ye Han, "How much energy is needed to form a Corpse Pill?"
Time passed, and the energy within fifty zhang of Ye Han became sparse as he plundered it, the absorption rate of the droplet outpacing the outside energy's inflow.
Ye Han panicked; stopping midway would mean he could never form a pill again. Then he noticed the red Corpse Pill from Yan Yu within him. With a flash of inspiration, he used his mental power to nudge the droplet toward the red Corpse Pill. Upon contact, the green Corpse Pill shook violently, almost shattering Ye Han's newly condensed energy droplet.
Just as Ye Han was about to push the water droplet away, the green Corpse Pill suddenly cracked, and a massive energy that Ye Han had never felt before burst out, wreaking havoc inside him, destroying his meridians in an instant.
"It's over. I've just awakened, and now I'm going to die here," Ye Han thought in despair.
However, just as he was about to give up and wait for death, that energy rushed in front of the heart's droplet and was crazily absorbed. Seeing this, Ye Han rejoiced and stopped absorbing energy from the outside.
With the injection of vast energy, the droplet expanded rapidly, filling his chest cavity before beginning to compress autonomously. It expanded and compressed repeatedly, the liquid's density increasing with each compression until it started to solidify.
At that moment, the broken green Corpse Pill completely dissipated, transforming into energy and being absorbed by the liquid energy.
"Roar,"
Ye Han spread his wings, howled, his sharp fangs exposed to the air. The purple flames on his body burned even more vigorously and beautifully than before. New, more tightly arranged purple scales emerged on his body, and a beam of grey light shot from his eyes.
As the energy fully surged into it, Ye Han heard a thunderous explosion inside his body. After the sound, he saw a grey Corpse Pill the size of a chicken egg quietly resting in his chest.
"Corpse Pill, I've finally formed the Corpse Pill, I can finally live in the sunlight," Ye Han
exclaimed loudly. Moments later, he calmed his emotions and looked at the changes in his body, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Ye Han descended slowly, sitting on the ground, running the Fan Shi Jue. With the support of that strong energy, the Fan Shi Jue jumped two levels, entering the third layer. The benefits it brought were beyond Ye Han's imagination.
He spent the whole night consolidating the Fan Shi Jue. As the sun rose, Ye Han ended his cultivation. Now back in human form, looking no different from ordinary people except for his grey eyes, he put on a magic robe he took from his ring.
Suddenly, a powerful murderous aura rose behind him, permeating the air and jolting Ye Han from his joy over the successful formation of the Corpse Pill.
The powerful murderous intent and the aura of the saintly tier oppressed Ye Han, making his breathing feel suffocated. He quickly ran the Fan Shi Jue, and as it rotated rapidly, he no longer felt choked under the saintly aura but remained immobilized.
"Saintly tier is indeed saintly tier, just their aura is not something I can easily withstand now," Ye Han couldn't help but marvel at the power of the saintly tier, yet his face showed no worry.
With a thought, Ye Han dissipated the essence blood in Autrus and Niraseck's bodies.
At the same time, both Autrus and Niraseck found they could no longer harbor any killing intent toward Ye Han, feeling instead a faint respect and fear. They withdrew their auras, their eyes showing confusion.
"Lowly human, what have you done to me?" the Black Dragon roared angrily. As a top creature of the continent, it had never felt respect or fear towards other beings.
While Autrus seemed to understand his situation, he quietly watched Ye Han.
"I haven't done much. I just left my blood mark inside you," Ye Han said with a smile.
"What is a blood mark?" Autrus asked. He had lived for thousands of years and had never heard of such a thing.
"The blood mark is the drop of essence blood I left in you."
"What does it do?" Autrus asked, anxious about his life.
"Have you not experienced it already?" Ye Han said with a smile.
The feeling from just now, unable to harbor any killing intent towards him, even a sense of respect and fear as if a subordinate to a superior, was...
"That means, from now on, I am your master, and you are my subordinates. In my terms, you are corpse slaves," Ye Han said indifferently, stating their status in his eyes despite their pride as saintly tier beings.
Slave, master. These two words full of irony instantly angered the two saintly tier powerhouses. The suppressed killing intent burst forth fiercely.
The sudden surge of murderous intent made Ye Han step back, spitting out a mouthful of dark red blood. "Saintly tier is indeed saintly tier, far from what I can currently confront. Even the blood mark can't fully suppress them," Ye Han said coldly, marveling at the power of the two saintly tier beings in front of him.
But Ye Han was not worried. The blood mark wasn't that simple. When he activated the blood mark, he had already branded their souls with his mark.