At 1:30 in the afternoon, the sun was scorching, the dust was all over the street, and the slightly bumpy streets were emitting scorching heat and distorting the air.
The dusty taxi parked on the roadside, not far away was the archway of Wuhen Hotel.
Zhang Yuanqing, carrying a backpack, wearing a baseball cap and a mask, opened the door and got out of the car.
"Young man, are you going back to Songhai? I can wait for you!"
The driver stuck his head out and shouted enthusiastically at his back.
Although he made a lot of money this time, he still wanted to make more.
Zhang Yuanqing thought about it, turned around and said, "I'll go back in the evening, how about you wait?"
"Have a good trip!" The driver stepped on the accelerator and left.
Zhang Yuanqing pressed the brim of his hat, strode through the parking space in front of the store, and pushed open the door of the lobby.
A strong cold wind whistled in, and Zhang Yuanqing was refreshed and relaxed.
Aunt Xiaoyuan stood in front of the counter, still wearing the uniform of a white shirt and a burgundy suit, tall and plump, with bright features.
Xiaoyuan glanced at him and said lightly: "Follow me!"
Then she left the counter and walked into the hotel in high heels.
Why is this woman's attitude so hot and cold? Zhang Yuanqing hurriedly followed and entered the elevator.
The two came to the third floor, Xiaoyuan took out her employee card from her pocket and swiped the door of Room 306.
"The level 3 bewitching demon you want has an experience value of about 30%-60%. He is quite powerful. He is the leader of a black and evil force in Jinshan City and has done a lot of unscrupulous things." Xiaoyuan leaned against the door with her hands on her chest.
Zhang Yuanqing entered the room and saw a man lying quietly on the bed. He was about 35 years old, with a thin face, a well-proportioned body, full muscles, and no excess fat.
He checked and confirmed that there were no obvious external injuries on the body, no broken bones, and nodded with satisfaction.
The body is equivalent to material, it must be intact, and it is definitely not okay to have missing arms and legs. This body is very intact, which shows that Xiaoyuan is very concerned.
"How long has it been dead?" he asked again.
The time of death of the "material" is best controlled within 12 hours, because the concentration of the spirit body remaining in the body directly determines the quality of the "material".
"Just hunted this morning." She said.
Zhang Yuanqing nodded again with satisfaction, took off his backpack, and took out 20 bundles of thick banknotes, 10,000 per bundle.
"This is the reward."
Xiaoyuan was stunned for a moment, her face suddenly turned cold, and said:
"No reward is needed. Helping you hunt the bewitching demon is my promise, and it is also a favor to you."
Her eyes were on the 200,000 yuan cash, reluctantly for a few seconds, and then moved away firmly.
Does she think I am pitying her? She is so sensitive. A little bit of kindness can easily hurt her self-esteem. Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice:
"The favor is owed to me by Kou Beiyue, and he should pay it back by himself. Now, I have to pay back the favor I owe you."
Xiaoyuan frowned and fell silent.
The hotel business is not very good. In recent years, the overall environment has been sluggish and it is difficult to make money. She has to maintain the expenses of the small team, which is actually very stressful.
Master Wuhen's team is not just her and Kou Beiyue.
200,000 yuan in cash is very important.
Zhang Yuanqing struck while the iron was hot and said angrily:
"You are paying back the favor owed to me on behalf of Kou Beiyue, which makes me seem like an outsider. Am I not as good as that idiot in Aunt Xiaoyuan's heart?"
"Yes!" Xiaoyuan said.
Zhang Yuanqing: "."
A smile flashed across Xiaoyuan's eyes, but she quickly hid it, and said with a cold face:
"But you are right, Kou Beiyue's favor should be repaid by himself. He is already 16 years old, and he should take on some things by himself."
Zhang Yuanqing handed over 200,000 cash.
Xiaoyuan held a bundle of banknotes, closed the door and was about to leave, but suddenly stopped and said:
"I originally wanted to help you hunt an older woman, but such a target is relatively rare, and you are pushing too hard. Next time you want to refine a Yin corpse, remember to tell me half a month in advance, as for the reward."
She looked down at the big bundle of banknotes on her chest, and the corners of her mouth curled up: "It's still 200,000."
Bang!
The door closed.
She was actually kidding me? And it was a joke about this. Zhang Yuanqing was stunned.
But, Xiaoyuan, I like warm older women, not cold ones.
After a while of joy, he suppressed his emotions and turned his attention to the business.
Zhang Yuanqing took out a small white porcelain bowl, a brush, cinnabar, and body fluids extracted from zombies from his backpack, and poured all the black soil from the grave that had precipitated Yin Qi into the small white porcelain bowl, and then quickly stirred it with the pen.
After a while, the objects in the bowl were mixed into a sticky black-brown substance like paste.
He walked to the bedside, cut the clothes on the body with a bloodthirsty blade, held the bowl in one hand and the pen in the other, dipped in "ink", and drew the spirit scroll on the body of this bewitching demon.
After a person dies, the spirit will gradually dissipate. During this process, although the spirit remains in the body, it has actually been separated from the body.
Just like the relationship between a cup and water, the water is in the cup, but it is not one with the cup.
Therefore, the first step in refining a Yin corpse is to let the remaining spirit in the body merge with the body again.
Only in this way can a low-intelligence Yin corpse be refined. A Yin corpse without spiritual intelligence is equivalent to a puppet that cannot move, which is of little significance.
In addition, after the spiritual body merges with the physical body, some attributes will be retained, usually a passive skill.
The Bewitching Demon in the extraordinary stage has only one passive skill - violent!
Zhang Yuanqing concentrated his energy and focused on every stroke, and he carved every stroke very carefully. In addition to the fact that the carving of the spiritual scroll cannot be wrong, the Taiyin power transferred in every stroke must be the same.
Uneven transfer of Taiyin power will lead to an imbalance in the structure of the formation and failure.
After more than ten minutes, the carving of the spiritual scroll was completed, and the twisted and different spells were connected harmoniously and regularly to form an evil and beautiful formation.
Zhang Yuanqing clearly felt that the spirit remaining in the corpse was gradually integrated into the flesh and blood, returning to this already cold body.
"It's done!"
Zhang Yuanqing exhaled heavily, his face full of joy.
Although the spirit scroll is the innate skill of the Night Wandering God, controlling the spirit scroll is only the foundation. Whether it can be successful in one go depends on proficiency.
In this regard, the gap between novices and veterans is huge.
Zhang Yuanqing, who was refining the Yin corpse for the first time, took a deep breath and took out two glass test tubes from his backpack, each containing purple and red liquid.
The purple liquid is the blood of a powerful Yin creature, produced in the exclusive spiritual realm of the Night Wandering God.
The red liquid is the juice of a tree called "Blood Hand Flower", which contains powerful vitality.
The former is used to nourish the Yin corpse and give him evil spirit and Yin spirit. The latter is to revitalize the cold corpse, make the joints no longer stiff, and make the muscles flexible.
A more popular understanding is the lubricating oil that makes the rusty gears turn again.
Finally, Zhang Yuanqing took out an amber-like yellow crystal. Among all the materials, this one is the most expensive, worth two million.
It is a material in the exclusive spiritual realm of earth monsters, containing powerful earth attribute spiritual power, and has strong tolerance, and can be integrated with most things.
He chose the attribute of "earth" for the Yin corpse, which was decided a long time ago, after a well-thought-out idea.
The bewitching monster is a good fighter, and its melee ability ranks among the top in all major professions, but its mediocre self-healing ability and defense are its weaknesses.
Between self-healing ability and defense, Zhang Yuanqing chose the latter.
Because the Yin corpse will not get tired or feel pain, its self-healing ability is a bit useless, but its defense is different. As a puppet and a tool, it will be damaged.
Especially when encountering a strong opponent, it is possible to be skinned and cramped.
In this way, the Yin corpse was scrapped.
Zhang Yuanqing poured the purple and red liquid into a small bowl, mixed it with the viscous liquid, and stirred it hurriedly.
He dipped the brush into the diluted liquid and began to carve the formation on the floor of the room. It is worth mentioning that the floor of the hotel is paved with wooden boards and tiles. If it were replaced with a red carpet, Zhang Yuanqing would be dumbfounded.
The difficulty of carving the formation is more complicated and more difficult than painting on the corpse. In order to ensure that there is no mistake, Zhang Yuanqing painted very slowly.
After all, there is only one set of materials.
Half an hour later, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and he felt a sense of exhaustion as if he had finally completed the task after a day of building blocks when he was a child.
Zhang Yuanqing picked up the corpse of the bewitching demon and gently placed it in the center of the formation, and then placed the yellow crystal on the chest of the corpse.
"Success or failure depends on this one move!"
He retreated to the edge of the formation, gently pressed his palm on a corner, and continuously passed in the power of Taiyin.
In an instant, the room was filled with cold winds, the temperature dropped sharply, and the dried spells lit up with purple, black and red lights.
The black and purple lights merged into the corpse, condensing into the evil spirit, and the red light nourished the corpse, making the pale skin glow with vitality. Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing immediately increased the delivery of Taiyin power.
The black, purple and red colors surged and rushed straight to the ceiling, magnificent and gorgeous.
The yellow crystal on the chest of the corpse was absorbed by the Yin corpse like a melted ice cream.
The Yin corpse lying in the center of the formation suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were gloomy and violent, and a powerful force swung out of his body, turning into a cold wind that blew up the curtains and sheets.
"It's done!"
Zhang Yuanqing was overjoyed.
No, there was only one last step. He strode into the formation, bit his fingertips, and drew a circle on the forehead of the Yin corpse.
As soon as the circle was formed, it disappeared into the body of the Yin corpse, and Zhang Yuanqing's sea of consciousness had an identical circle.
This is the master's brand, and it is also the medium for controlling the Yin corpse.
This brand has two functions. One is to issue instructions to the Yin corpse and assign it to complete a task, but it can only be a relatively simple and superficial task, such as killing the enemy.
The low-intelligence Yin corpse cannot understand and execute commands that require technical content, such as painting.
The second is to use the brand as a medium to take over the body of the Yin corpse and control it like a spirit servant. In this state, the Yin corpse can perform various delicate operations.
"Look at what abilities this guy has retained, and what attributes the yellow crystal has given it."
Immediately, Zhang Yuanqing concentrated his energy, separated all his thoughts, and integrated them into the brand in the sea of consciousness.
The next moment, he felt that he was "split". He felt two of himself, with two bodies. At the same time, he saw himself wearing narrow-legged cropped pants and a white T-shirt through the perspective of the Yin corpse.
This feeling was not unfamiliar. It was the same when he leaned over to do something funny.
"Fuck, the Yin corpse's physique is stronger than my original body."
After figuring out the properties of the Yin corpse, Zhang Yuanqing was shocked.
First of all, the Yin corpse's physique. As a level 3 bewitching demon, its physical fitness is stronger than its current original body, and Zhang Yuanqing feels a will to fight from this body.
It's as if he was born to fight. The desire and confidence for fighting are not possessed by Zhang Yuanqing's original body.
"It's like a fighting talent has been imposed on me. Is this the normal state of the bewitching demon?"
Secondly, the attributes. The passive ability of seeing blood and being violent has been preserved. This is also the only passive skill of the bewitching demon.
Bewitching and marking as active skills have returned to the spiritual realm.
But what really makes Zhang Yuanqing happy are the three attributes given by the yellow crystal: First, when fighting, the Yin corpse can actively absorb the power of the earth to enhance endurance, without the need for the owner to warm it with the power of the yin.
It is worth mentioning that the Yin Corpse also has its limits, and is not a perpetual motion machine. After the Taiyin power in the body is exhausted, the owner needs to re-irrigate it.
Second, the defense of the flesh is enhanced.
Although it has not reached the level of copper skin and iron bones, ordinary blades and bullets are difficult to work on it.
Third, summon stone armor.
This attribute is an active skill. The Yin Corpse can convert the earth-attributed spiritual power stored in the body into an invulnerable stone armor for three minutes. The stone armor has extremely strong defense. Even if it encounters the same level of the Bewitching Demon professional props that are good at breaking armor, it can resist for one minute.
"If I don't use props, I feel that the Yin Corpse is a little stronger than my body. No wonder they say that the Night Wandering God with a Yin Corpse and the Night Wandering God of a bachelor are two different things. No wonder that group of scholars ranked me 11th."
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly realized.
I couldn't help but think, the first-ranked Zhao Chenghuang, who has a level 4 Yin Corpse, how strong is his combat power?
Even if the Yin Corpse has lost most of the skills of the Saint Realm, as long as it retains one, it can almost crush most of the extraordinary with the Saint's physique.
And this does not count the combat power of Zhao Chenghuang himself.
I was too confident before, but now I also have a Yin Corpse, and the gap has narrowed. In two days, there will be a ring match, and I will bring my Yin Corpse to make a brilliant appearance. He confidently led the Yin Corpse out of the room.
Taking the elevator back to the first floor, Xiaoyuan in front of the counter heard the movement and looked over.
She paused on the evil Yin Corpse and said lightly:
"You'd better get him a pair of sunglasses and a mask. You don't want to be asked for your ID card by the security guard when you walk on the street."
Zhang Yuanqing looked back at the Yin Corpse and touched his chin:
"That makes sense!
"By the way, I haven't given him a name yet, Aunt Xiaoyuan, do you have any suggestions?"
Xiaoyuan mocked: "Let's call him the Dead One, it suits your aesthetic taste. "
Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up: "Great name, that's it."
The spirit servant is called Little Doubi, and the corpse is called Dead One. Everyone has a bright future.
Xiaoyuan: "."
"Aunt Xiaoyuan, the competition will be held the day after tomorrow. Wait for me to win the championship. Well, it will be no problem to enter the top three." Zhang Yuanqing didn't say it for sure.
Xiaoyuan looked at him: "It's good enough if you can enter the top five."
"Let's make a bet?" Zhang Yuanqing was not convinced.
"What to bet on." Xiaoyuan accepted the challenge.
If it was the little uncle, the bet would definitely be dating and kissing, but I am a serious person. Zhang Yuanqing thought about it and said: "The loser will have sex with the winner! "
Then he and the Yin corpse were thrown out of the hotel by Xiaoyuan.
"Just a joke, really."
Zhang Yuanqing fled in disgrace.
Two days later, early morning.
After breakfast and washing, Zhang Yuanqing returned to the room and locked the door.
Summoned the Yin corpse No. 1 from the closet, put on the waist bag, and installed the Elvis speaker.
Silently waited for nine o'clock to come.
According to the official announcement, the way to enter the ring match is the same as entering the dungeon. Just wait for the spiritual realm prompt sound at home.
The opening ceremony is at nine o'clock in the morning.
"Wait."
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly remembered something. If that Yin Ji is really the lover of the Demon Lord, she must have seen the Elvis speaker.
After all, this prop cannot be collected in the inventory.
If she finds out that I have the Elvis speaker, although she will not determine that I am the descendant of the Demon Lord, she will definitely question and inquire.
It's just trouble.
Thinking of this, he quickly took off his waist bag.
You should continue to lie in the drawer. Alas, a powerful auxiliary prop has been lost. He thought regretfully.
Time passed by minute by minute, and finally it was nine o'clock.