Novel Full Chapter 1385 - 718: The Mermaid Corpse
Chapter 1385: Chapter 718: The Mermaid Corpse
"This woman knows quite a few ancient secrets, she’s practically a living dictionary."
"We might be able to inquire some secrets from the Ancient Era from her mouth."
Liang Yuan felt a slight stir in his heart and was about to collect Yu Rong’s soul to leave.
At this moment, Yu Rong suddenly spoke, "Wait a minute!"
Liang Yuan looked at Yu Rong, "What? Do you have something else to say?"
Yu Rong looked at the corpse on the ground and said solemnly, "Liang..."
"Hmm? What did you call me?"
Yu Rong paused instantly, an invisible pressure enveloped her, and within her, the imprisonment rune trembled. She gasped as an invisible force compelled her to speak: "Master..."
Liang Yuan nodded in satisfaction, saying, "What do you want to say?"
Yu Rong took a deep breath and said, "My body can be taken back."
Liang Yuan was surprised, "What do you mean? Is there still use for this corpse?"
Yu Rong nodded slightly, "Yes, this body is not my original body, but a corpse I prepared thousands of years ago for cultivation and reincarnation longevity."
Liang Yuan was astonished, "A prepared corpse? What do you mean?"
"After reaching the realm of gene recombination, the soul’s memory can be transmitted through the bloodline, hidden within it."
"But the flesh cannot truly live for thousands of years."
"Even if one cultivates a Divine Beast Map to perfection, it’s impossible."
"To solve this problem, some of us chose to use the bodies of Outer Beast to refine a powerful corpse that wouldn’t decay for thousands of years."
"My body was refined using the corpse of an Outer Beast and sealed with Frost Power in an ice crystal palace."
"Because when this body was refined, my own essence blood was used, so it can perfectly merge with my Spiritual Split Thought."
Liang Yuan was somewhat puzzled and asked, "So is it dead?"
Yu Rong shook her head, "It doesn’t exist as dead or alive; it was just a vessel to contain my spiritual soul."
"Oh? Can you still use it?"
Liang Yuan became interested and inquired.
Yu Rong nodded, "Yes, as long as my soul returns to its body."
Liang Yuan immediately said, "Then you go back, I don’t have anywhere else to place your soul."
Yu Rong’s spirit body quickly returned to that corpse.
Soon, the self-inflicted injuries on the corpse were rapidly healing to its original state, visible to the naked eye.
Liang Yuan watched in amazement, asking, "This body isn’t even yours, how did you achieve gene recombination?"
Yu Rong opened her eyes and got up, saying, "This body was nurtured with my blood, originally nourished by my bloodline."
"According to your understanding, all genes are in the blood, so I can naturally recombine genes and reshape the flesh."
Liang Yuan asked puzzledly, "What about the bones? Surely they’re not yours, how can they undergo gene recombination?"
Yu Rong replied, "Because this Outer Mutant Beast’s original form is a merman, highly similar to my Divine Beast Map, hence its body contains gene fragments similar to mine."
"My spiritual power is enough to enable me to manipulate these genes and compose a Divine Beast Map, transforming into a beast form."
Only then did Liang Yuan understand that choosing the corpse wasn’t random; it had to be highly similar to one’s genetic map.
Yu Rong’s genetic map originally took the form of a mermaid, and the Outer Beast she found was also merman-shaped.
The two shared the same origin, their internal genes identical; with Yu Rong’s strong spiritual power and her bloodline genes, she could control this corpse.
Suddenly, Liang Yuan recalled the merman skeleton he obtained in the ancient tomb beneath the sea!
The merman creatures congregated in the tomb, worshipping the skeletal coffin.
Could it be that the skeleton contained an ancient superpower user readying to revive?
Was this skeleton reserved for resurrection?
Thinking about these, Liang Yuan secretly took note, promptly asking, "Is creating such a skeleton difficult?"
"It’s somewhat difficult; firstly, finding an Outer Beast of the same origin isn’t easy."
"Once found, it’s exceedingly laborious to remake the corpse."
"A perfect corpse requires an enormous amount of time, energy, and substantial financial and material resources."
Although Yu Rong was reluctant to answer, Liang Yuan’s command compelled her to respond honestly under the control of the imprisonment rune.
Liang Yuan immediately took out the merman skeleton he had previously obtained, shaking it, the skeleton emerged from space with a crash.
"Take a look, is this similar to the Outer skeleton you’re talking about?"
Seeing the skeleton, Yu Rong was suddenly shocked and pale!
"A Qingxuan Merman Skeleton!"
"What’s that?" Liang Yuan asked.
Yu Rong took a deep breath and quickly asked, "Where did this come from?"
Liang Yuan’s face darkened, "I ask you, not the other way around."
Yu Rong held her breath and immediately answered obediently, "This is a merman-type mutant beast skeleton."
"Mermaids are classified by color into many varieties."
"Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple; amongst them, Qingxuan has reached the cyan level, very high quality, slightly lower than blue and purple quality."
"According to your current understanding, only when the progress of gene recombination reaches 80 or above does the merman skeleton exhibit Qingxuan hues!"
Liang Yuan understood and said, "So, the owner of this skeleton had a gene recombination progress of over 80% before their death?"
"Can you see if this is a normal skeleton or if it has been refined by someone?"
Yu Rong observed briefly and said, "It has been refined by someone, and there are blood rune marks on it."
"Blood rune marks?"
"Yes, this kind of skeleton requires a large amount of fresh blood to activate the runes within, making it grow flesh and blood."
"Once the flesh and blood grow, the spirit body parasitized deep in the bones can then awaken."
"Are you saying there’s a spiritual split thought hidden within this skeleton?" Liang Yuan immediately asked.
"Definitely, and it seems it’s about to awaken. Has it absorbed fresh blood before?"
Liang Yuan thought of the altar in the ancient tomb, estimating that the people from Spirit Jade Island were blood sacrificed to this corpse back then.
But why did those fish monsters want to assist in the blood sacrifice of this skeleton?
Does the spirit body within this skeleton have a way to control these monsters?
Liang Yuan recounted the situation he saw in the ancient tomb and asked, "Based on your experience, what exactly is going on here?"
Yu Rong said with a slight gravity, "It’s highly likely that some ancient superpower user, using the method of spiritual split thought, passed on their bloodline inheritance to descendants and is gradually awakening now."
"He embedded hereditary information within the bloodline gene, allowing any being that awakens his genes to spontaneously perform these actions according to genetic inheritance, which can help him awaken swiftly."
Liang Yuan raised an eyebrow, "Hereditary information... So it was intentionally left within the genes by you?"
Yu Rong shook her head slightly, "We merely exploited the characteristic that hereditary information can be continuously passed down to descendants, applying this method to the path to immortality."
"All creatures have hereditary information, and not all mutated creatures’ hereditary information was tampered with by ancient superpower users."
"In ancient times, not many superpower users could employ such methods."
At this, she seemed somewhat proud.
Liang Yuan glanced at her and said coolly, "You are quite proud?"
Yu Rong replied, "Of course. If you lived in my era, you would naturally see my brilliance."
Liang Yuan chuckled and didn’t argue with her, but instead looked at the skeleton and asked, "I am also curious what kind of ancient superpower user might be hidden in this skeleton."
"Apart from blood casting, are there other ways to awaken it quickly?"
"Destroy it." Yu Rong said straightforwardly.
"Hmm? Destroy it?" Liang Yuan was startled.
"Yes, the skeleton is a mere vessel; directly destroying it will naturally awaken the spirit body inside."
"However, awakening through such a method is too violent, causing its power to be very weak upon awakening."
Liang Yuan asked, "How did you awaken back then, and what did you rely on to regain strong power?"
Yu Rong glanced at Liang Yuan and said, "I drained Chang Yuntao."
"He was a superpower user in the Genetic Reorganization Realm with a progress of up to 20%; by absorbing his essence blood, this body instantly restored to a gene recombination progress of 20%."
"Later, I found several parts of spiritual split thoughts one after another, and after absorbing them, rapidly raised the progress."
Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan couldn’t help but silently mourn for Chang Yuntao for half a second.
This guy was unlucky too; after refining a Floating Island, his blood crystals got mined by himself.
After becoming the Floating Island Lord, he was tricked by Yu Rong, an ancient superpower user, who drained his flesh and blood.
Chang Yuntao was simply a toolman.
Liang Yuan looked at Yu Rong and asked, "If you can’t die in flesh, then why did you resolutely commit suicide just now?"
Yu Rong sighed, "After suicide, the spirit soul body can separate from the flesh."
"I didn’t expect your imprisonment rune to directly act upon my spirit body."
Liang Yuan gave her a deep look and said coolly, "Oh? I thought you were just trying to play dead and escape."
Yu Rong immediately felt both ashamed and furious, clenching her fists.
However, because her spirit body was enslaved, she couldn’t resist and had to swallow her grievances.
In truth, she did harbor such thoughts earlier.
The only unexpected thing was that the Soul Imprisonment Rune acted upon the soul spirit, making escape impossible even in death.
Her seemingly decisive self-beheading just now seemed somewhat ridiculous at this moment.
Liang Yuan no longer paid attention to her, instead focusing on studying the merfolk skeleton, with a slight hum reflecting in thought.
This skeleton conceals the spirit body of an ancient superpower user, which is yet to awaken. Under such circumstances, can his Soul Imprisonment Rune enslave it?
Using the method of destroying the skeleton and forcing the opponent’s soul to awaken doesn’t seem feasible.
If the intention is to enslave the opponent, making them his servant, then their power must be as strong as possible.
Destroying the skeleton would cause a rapid decline in the opponent’s awakened power; what’s the point of receiving such servants?
Liang Yuan asked, "Does the blood pour have to be human blood? Can mutant beast blood work?"
Yu Rong glanced at Liang Yuan and said, "It can, but the more superpower energy the blood contains, the better."
Liang Yuan nodded slightly; there are many mutant beasts of Yangshan genetic species level.
The slaughterhouse often receives mutant beasts of genetic species level hunted by residents.
These can completely be used for casting blood upon this skeleton, allowing it to recover quickly.
Of course, before that, Liang Yuan decided to first imprint the Soul Imprisonment Rune.