Chapter 9: Corpse Puppetry Success! (First Update)

  Inside a three-story administrative building in the factory.

  Li Jing, who had just washed away the blood all over his body, stood in the middle of the first floor hall of the administrative building. He felt the life force of the mutated Black-backed Dog about to dissipate from his body and, with the intention of not wasting it, he used Necromancy on the corpse of the mutated Black-backed Dog that had been dragged into the hall.

  Yes! It's Necromancy, previously killed Green Elite Steelback Beast burst out green skill book.

  Necromancy: Revives corpses to fight for you, increases life defense and has a certain hatred effect.

  Liang Jing silently recited the incantation to activate the mysterious symbol in his mind, which emitted a cold and eerie aura. As soon as he activated it, the symbol sent out a wave of suction force, and Liang Jing felt that the slow-moving energy within him, which had appeared after his innate awareness awakened, was being absorbed by the mysterious symbol at an alarming rate. In just a short moment, the absorption was complete, and more than half of the slow-moving energy within Liang Jing's body was depleted, leaving him with an inexplicable feeling of emptiness.

  However, Liang Jing's mood was still pretty good, because he had previously experimented with the Corpse Technique, which consumed about half of his total energy. Now that he only absorbed a small portion, it meant that his internal energy had been slowly increasing all along, even without using the technique. This was actually one of Liang Jing's long-standing concerns, as he felt that his current energy was similar to the inner power in martial arts novels. He had always thought about quickly improving his "inner power" through techniques like the Nine Suns Divine Skill, Easy Muscle Technique, or the Purple Mist Divine Skill. But now it seemed that even without these techniques, his internal energy could still be improved on its own, and at a rate that wasn't so slow after all.

  The mysterious and profound symbol in the sea of knowledge had absorbed nearly half of Liang Jing's energy, and was flashing with a mystical pattern. Liang Jing knew that the skill would be activated soon, just like some powerful skills in games that required a certain amount of buffering time to cast. He was familiar with this skill, having used it before, but unfortunately, he had failed to enslave the Golden Balrog's corpse despite multiple attempts, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

  Splash!

  The dark, cold runes in the sea of knowledge finally stopped flickering and transformed into a flashing, eerie energy sphere with Liang Jing's movements. It flew towards the Variant Black-backed Dog, and everyone in the hall looked at this strong man in confusion as he muttered to himself, his hands and feet making strange movements, like a rural shaman. However, they had just seen Liang Jing engage in close combat with the Variant Black-backed Dog, suppressing it so tightly that it couldn't even counterattack. They didn't dare interrupt him or ask questions, still unsure what kind of person he was.

  They had witnessed it with their own eyes over the past two days, and they knew how terrifying the Variant Blackbacked Dog was. The bloody personal deaths under its claws were deeply etched in their minds and hard to forget. But Liang Jing was an even more frightening existence than this ferocious beast.

  Ah...

  A ball of energy with strange patterns flashed out from Liang Jing's body and appeared in the hall, causing the temperature to drop suddenly. The people in the hall felt a chill run down their spines as if a cold wind had blown past them. They looked at Liang Jing, who was still jumping around on his hands and feet, muttering strange incantations under his breath. Their fear of this powerful man grew, and for a moment, they felt like they were in a haunted house. This person was too terrifying, too strange, and absolutely not to be trifled with.

  In his heart, he had secretly made up his mind that this person was not what he had imagined.

  *sigh*...

  Ah...

  A strange and suffocating voice echoed in the hall, like a ghost wailing, like a female ghost's shrill scream, like a soul crying out in sorrow. The desolate and eerie sound kept swirling around the hall, making Zhang Hu and the others feel even chillier and more frightened. They couldn't help but suspect that something was amiss, and their awe for Liang Jing's mysteriousness grew even stronger.

  Zhang Hu can go to save the soft-footed man when he sees three people running away. They are Liang Jing, who killed a mutated black-backed dog and felt that something was wrong, fearing that it would be more dangerous outside with more monsters, so they awkwardly followed him.

  The strange energy cluster sank into the corpse of the mutated black-backed dog, and the originally tall corpse of the black-backed dog, which was about chest-high, began to spread all over its body with a grayish-black strange energy cluster, flashing strange patterns. The strange energy cluster continued to spread and invade the corpse of the mutated black-backed dog, some spreading and expanding on the surface of the corpse, others constantly invading the interior of the corpse. In no time, the entire corpse of the mutated black-backed dog was covered, invaded, and occupied by the flashing strange pattern of energy, like an entity connected by electric current, with its whole body flashing sparks.

  At this moment, Liang Jing's expression was also a bit apprehensive after stopping all his movements. This was the most successful attempt he had made using the Slave Corpse Technique so far. To think that when he used it on Huang Jinbao before, the dark grey eerie energy mass couldn't even cover Huang Jinbao's entire body, let alone succeed.

  Ugh...

  In the eerie and desolate voice that sends shivers down one's spine, the patterns on the corpse of the black-backed dog began to gather, connect, and slowly form a series of grayish-black lines, intersecting points, and weaving together to form a strange ghostly face. The face seemed to be smiling eerily at everyone, and it looked like an image, but also somewhat like the array diagram seen before. Inside the ghostly face, grayish-black energy was flowing continuously, and with the sound of unknown origin in the hall, it slowly absorbed threads of gray gas visible to the naked eye from the air.

  No good!

  As time slowly passed, the gray airflow merged into the body of the mutated black-backed dog, and the corpse continued to change. However, at this moment, the dark gray energy flowing on the ghost face spectrum was getting slower and slower, occasionally stopping for a while. In the end, Liang Jing's heart was lifted up, knowing that this dark gray energy seemed to be about to stop at any time.

  Liang Jing's heart couldn't help but pray, the Buddha, Guanyin, the Jade Emperor, Pangu, Nuwa, Hongjun Laozi, the original Tianxian teaching master...

  A stream of gray air continuously poured into the corpse of the mutated Blackback Dog, causing its body to swell, increasing in size by nearly a third; afterwards, the ghostly face diagram flashed with a burst of black light, and the entire ghostly face diagram contracted, causing the mutated Blackback Dog's corpse to slowly shrink. The muscles, skin, and bones on its body solidified as it contracted, the bulging muscles visible to the naked eye becoming increasingly tough and hard, emitting a cold, metallic sheen. Even the small patches of yellow fur that still remained on its body gradually turned a layer of dark black.

  The entire corpse of the black-backed dog slowly became larger than it was when it was alive, its fur turned a deep black, and each hair grew thicker and longer, like quills, but lost their original luster, making it look somewhat like a hedgehog. The whole body looked more rigid and ferocious, emitting a cold and gloomy aura, giving people the feeling that it was made of iron, more like hard, cold metal than flesh and blood.

  Waaah...

  The sound is getting smaller and smaller, as if it's getting farther and farther away...

  Half a response, in Liang Jing's nervousness, the slave corpse technique was finally used successfully for the first time. The ghostly face diagram covered in black light flashed and quickly shrank to become a much smaller but more complex ghostly face, which entered the brain of the mutated black-backed dog corpse. Immediately afterwards, the entire body of the mutated black-backed dog corpse flashed with a grayish-black light, and then Liang Jing felt a connection between himself and the gruesome corpse in front of him.

  Liang Jing tried to move the mutated black-backed dog corpse with his mind, and it immediately stood up automatically. He made the corpse attack a nearby office desk, and it quickly sprang into action, its movements a bit stiff, but under the powerful effect of its hardened muscles, its speed was not much slower than when it was alive, only its agility was somewhat lacking.

  Rumble!

  The large office table along with the computer monitor on top that had not been completely destroyed was suddenly smashed to pieces by the mutated black-backed dog corpse, flying out three meters away, shattering into fragments.

  Looking at the mutated Blackback Dog corpse standing in front of him, surprisingly, there was not even a slight damage to its head after the intense impact earlier. He felt more satisfied with this sturdy and intimidating "horse" with thick limbs, claws, and teeth, making it a great meat shield and fighter. Its entire body was covered in long, dark, and coarse fur, like a porcupine, and its height reached his chest, not much different from the Green Elite Steel Spine Beast. The whole body emitted a cold aura, without any signs of life, as if it were just an iron lump. Liang Jingruo's satisfaction with [Slave Corpse Technique] increased even more.

  Name this mutated Blackback Dog corpse as Mutated Blackback Dog Zombie. The experimenter controls the Mutated Blackback Dog Zombie, comparing its strength before and after in his mind. If only considering physical strength without other abilities, the 【Slave Necromancy】 makes the corpse's defense and power greatly increased, although agility is reduced a lot, but the impact speed under the strong power boost is not slow at all. Overall, it's much more formidable than the original Mutated Blackback Dog.

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