A Farmer's Journey To Immortality

Chapter 602: Turning Fear Into Pure Dread: Making Ideal Use of the Wisp Mastery Aether Realm

The Aurous warrior fought back fiercely, each strike heavy with condensed elemental power.

After all, with a breakthrough into the Aurous Body realm came access to compatible elemental Qi for all the martial artists.

Aksai blocked and deflected using his martial arts, relying on speed and technique rather than raw strength.

His Qi Flow templates for various martial arts moves were operated by the Neural Link Fabric. The optimum use of these templates allowed him to conserve his Qi reserves as well as his stamina.

At mid-range, he cast Spirit spells — waves of wood-element energy that burst into glowing green vines and thorns. The Devil’s Den responded to his magic, amplifying its strength. Each spell he cast grew faster and sharper, wrapping around his opponent and trying to crush him.

The Aurous artist broke free again and again, his fire elemental Qi flashing like sparks in the dark. But Aksai’s attacks didn’t slow down.

He weaved between close combat and spell casting, his dagger flashing in one hand while his other controlled the flying blades and vines. Around them, the battlefield roared — vines whipping, blades cutting through the air, screams filling the night.

“What… what the fuc*k is happening here? How… how can one man be so–”

Jin Jolan, Wen Wei, and Lin Lan stood frozen in disbelief as the battlefield around them descended into madness.

Aksai moved like a demonic phantom, his weapons flying through the air on their own, his vines lashing out like whips, and his Spirit essence flooding the entire Devil’s Den.

Every motion he made felt controlled — yet filled with chaos that no normal human could understand.

Hundreds of martial artists from the Grand Martial Hall had gathered to capture him, but now, their formation had collapsed into a scene of horror. Screams filled the air as bodies fell, one after another, either torn apart by vines or pierced through by the countless blades that moved in the air like swarming locusts.

Jin’s hands trembled as he tried to process what he was seeing. Wen and Lin stood beside him, both pale and stiff, unable to even lift their weapons.

Then, they saw something that turned their fear into pure dread.

The fallen warriors — the same comrades they had trained and eaten with — began to move again. Thick, dark green and brown vines sprouted from the ground beneath the corpses, piercing through their limbs and torsos. The vines wriggled like worms, wrapping around the dead bodies tightly.

If a corpse had lost a limb, the vines split apart, slithering across the blood-soaked ground to fetch the severed arm or leg. Then, like careful tailors, the vines sewed the missing parts back together using thinner, thorn-covered strands that acted like bloody threads.

This scene was straight from one’s nightmares. It was so gruesome that a normal human being would forget to sleep peacefully for weeks on end.

Jin’s stomach churned. “No… that’s impossible…” he muttered under his breath. He forgot to close his mouth, and in doing so, accidentally swallowed a random drop of blood that had flown toward him from who knows where.

Even after the blood drop turned his tongue red, his mouth stayed open, the metallic taste flooding his senses. But he still couldn’t take his eyes off the scene before him — a gruesome chaos where body parts of all kinds and sizes flew through the air in every direction.

It was like watching someone play a Fruit Ninja game — except the slashed pieces weren’t fruits but human organs. The splattering red juices looked disturbingly similar to the game’s colorful slashes.

Before Wen could say anything else, one of the corpses — now completely wrapped in vines — twitched. Its eyes opened, glowing faint red, and the sound of bones cracking filled the air. A strange growl escaped from its throat, more beast than human.

The creature stood up. The vines tightened, forming a wooden armor over its skin. Its limbs, once limp, now moved with purpose. Then, with terrifying speed, it turned toward the nearest living Grand Martial Hall warrior and attacked.

Dozens more followed. The battlefield began to change as the dead came back to life — not as mindless puppets, but as tree monsters filled with unnatural awareness. Their movements were too coordinated, too intelligent.

Wen’s voice trembled. “They’re… thinking. They’re fighting in teams!”

He wasn’t wrong. The undead monsters weren’t just swinging wildly like zombies. They dodged attacks, flanked their opponents, and even shielded each other. Some used the terrain to their advantage — leaping from fallen branches or ducking behind broken walls before pouncing on their prey.

Lin’s lips quivered as she whispered, “This… this isn’t like the tree devils from Serenity Peak. Those things were dangerous, but at least they were slow… dull… But these… these are alive. What… what the hell are these tree monsters?”

Aksai stood at the center of it all, his golden eyes glowing faintly beneath the crimson vines that covered the dome.

As he moved and fought his opponent, his face was calm, almost peaceful — as if everything happening around him was nothing more than another one of his experiments.

Unlike the corrupted druids of the past, Aksai had refined his art to perfection. His Neural Link Fabric allowed him to control each undead warrior individually — hundreds of them moving in unison under his will. Each death only added to his army. Every drop of blood became nourishment for the growing forest of carnage.

Using the Neural Link Fabric in such a way would have been impossible before. Even with its multi-threaded processing capabilities, controlling so many weapons, vines, and undead at once should have been beyond anyone’s limit.

However, Aksai had recently achieved a breakthrough into the Third Aether Cultivation Realm — the Wisp Mastery Realm. His mental prowess had grown, and he could now divide his mental workload with his Aether Wisp.

It was like turning an old, single-core computer into a professional machine after being equipped with a powerful multi-core processor.

In fact, among the three paths that he practiced, his Aether path was currently the strongest path in terms of cultivation realm. His mental prowess was so strong that his current Spirit and Qi cultivation bases could be labelled as bottlenecks.