Cultivation Reconstruction in the End Times

Chapter 6 Rage and Hatred

According to the records on the silk, the essence of the beast should be the concentrated essence of ancient ferocious beasts. Once it successfully merges with the blood essence of the person performing the refinement, it can reshape a physical body for a complete soul, which can then be used by the person casting the spell.

However, the ancient essence of the beast has extremely high requirements for the soul on which the spell is cast. If the soul is not supported by a powerful grudge, it cannot withstand the pain of refining the body with the essence of the beast. The soul will be scattered during the process of casting the spell. Moreover, beast species that are incompatible with the essence of the beast cannot be refined. Even if both conditions are met, the refining process takes as long as forty-nine days. There are countless possible reasons for failure during this period. Once the essence of the beast combines with the caster's blood essence, if the refining fails, it is equivalent to being wasted. The success rate is probably less than 10%.

Even so, Zhang He still decided to give it a try. If it fails, it will indeed be a pity, wasting precious time and energy. But if it succeeds, it will undoubtedly be an extra life-saving measure for him, and the benefits will be countless.

That night, after dispelling the stench of the essence of the beast, he took about half a bowl of his own blood essence according to the records on the silk.

The blood essence is the essence of all the blood in the body. Taking such a large amount at once made Zhang He's face turn a little yellowish. But at this moment, he couldn't care about his physical condition. He immediately began to refine the blood essence with the essence of the beast. Fortunately, the forbidden technique recorded on the silk was very detailed. Most of the places where spiritual power was required were accompanied by talismans with the same spiritual power as a substitute in case the spiritual power was insufficient. And these were not rare talismans. Even though a few of the talismans were very complicated to draw, there were records in his father's notes, and the key points were marked, which saved Zhang He a lot of trouble in drawing the talismans.

The night passed in the blink of an eye. When Zhang He took out the essence of the beast with a tired face, even though he had been prepared after reading the description on the silk, he couldn't help but turn pale. The essence of the beast, which was originally only the size of a duck egg, after merging with his blood essence, seemed to come to life. It swelled to the size of a football and turned blood red all over. It could be said to be a mass of living flesh and blood, which was really terrifying.

If Zhang He hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might not have believed that such a thing could exist in the world. However, he was no longer the Zhang He of ten years ago. With the blood vine and the living dead before, although the essence of the beast was strange, it wasn't enough to scare him out of his wits.

Moreover, after refining it with his own blood essence, he felt a connection with it in his heart. If it merged with the soul of the little leopard, this essence of the beast would be the thing that he could use to control his servant beast in the future, which was very important.

According to the records on the silk, the beast's body and soul should not be separated. They should be buried underground together with the essence of the beast. After forty-nine days of refining, if the servant beast takes shape, the refining is successful. If there is only a broken body left without a soul, it is a failure.

However, Zhang He lived in a building, and it was almost impossible to bury it underground for refining. What the silk emphasized was nothing more than an undisturbed and completely sealed space. Zhang He remembered that there seemed to be a wooden box in his father's study. It had a steel plate inside, which was very closed and secret. In summer, when ice cream was put in it, it wouldn't melt for a whole day and night. So he immediately went to get it.

The utility room had already been cleaned up by him. First, on the ground, he used thick ink stained with cinnabar and his own blood essence to draw a soul-locking talisman that was three meters square according to the records on the silk. The six corners were respectively surrounded by six other complex talismans. In addition to enhancing the effect of the soul-locking talisman, it also extended its service time.

Then he placed the box on the center of the talisman, that is, the very middle of the soul-locking talisman. Then he brought the body of the little leopard. Under normal circumstances, in the hot summer, the body would have already rotted and given off a stench. But because there was a soul-locking talisman pasted on the outside of the bag, which locked the soul in the body, the resentful soul gathered and did not disperse. Coupled with the fact that the little leopard had suffered a lot before it died and was full of resentment, the body not only did not decay at all, but was also unusually cold.

After putting the bag and the refined essence of the beast into the box, Zhang He immediately closed the box. To prevent any accidents, he found a lock and locked the box tightly.

In one breath, he pasted more than a dozen different refining talismans stained with his blood essence that he had already drawn onto the box one by one. After pasting the last talisman, the whole forbidden technique was formed. At that moment, Zhang He felt that the utility room, which was originally so hot that it made people sweat, suddenly became very cold. Even the wind at the window changed direction and dissipated when it hit the window. Even with the window open, not a trace of wind could blow in.

Zhang He already knew that the forbidden technique had been activated. All that was left was to replace the more than ten kinds of talismans outside the box every seven hours to ensure that the talismans were always effective. And every seven days in the future, he had to redraw the soul-locking talisman with his blood essence.

Zhang He checked the forbidden technique again. After making sure there were no omissions, he exited the utility room. He looked up at the time. It was already noon the next day. He hadn't slept for almost two days and one night. Coupled with the fact that he had lost a lot of blood essence, his feet felt a bit unsteady. In order to ensure that he still had the energy to draw talismans, he had to quickly eat some instant noodles and then go back to his room to catch up on sleep. Before going to bed, he set an alarm clock. If he didn't wake up to replace the talismans seven hours later, I'm afraid all his efforts would be in vain. With this thought in mind, his head just touched the pillow and he fell into a deep sleep. Due to losing too much blood essence, there was even a hint of blue under his eyes.

About three days later, his aunt called and said that she had already raised 350,000 yuan and demanded to sign the contract and handle the transfer of ownership immediately. Zhang He didn't hesitate. After getting the money, he immediately started to deal with the transfer of the house. However, the house was not in his name but his parents'. So it was a bit more troublesome to handle and took a relatively long time, probably about a month.

Zhang He had already received the money.Logically speaking, the house should already belong to his aunt's family. But for the time being, he couldn't leave. Because he had suddenly decided to practice the forbidden technique before, the utility room had become the place where he cast the spell and couldn't be moved. So he had already informed his aunt in advance, saying that he didn't have a job for the time being and hadn't found a place to live yet. He hoped to stay for a while and would move out as soon as the property certificate came down. His aunt and uncle readily agreed.

During this period, Zhang He was very busy. In addition to preparing the talismans needed for the forbidden technique every day, he also had to practice the method of breathing exercises. Originally, the lost blood essence couldn't be replenished for a while, but after practicing the breathing and health-preserving method on the silk for a few days, he became energetic again in a few days. It seemed that this set of exercises could not only absorb the essence of the outside world but also had an obvious effect on nourishing the spirit, energy, and vitality.

Half a month later, the peach tree in his palm was already more than two meters tall and had divided into three branches. Nourished by the essence, the branches grew very fast, about one foot a day. The leaves were dense. In the past few days, three flower buds had even formed on the three branches, and it seemed that they would bloom soon, which surprised Zhang He. This peach tree growing in the space of the peach pit, after absorbing his essence, if it bore peaches, he didn't know what effects they would have and whether they would be different from those growing in the soil outside.

In the following period, in addition to drawing talismans and practicing breathing exercises, Zhang He kept running between the supermarket and the gas station. Now that he had 350,000 yuan in his hand, he immediately bought hundreds of ten-jin oil barrels as soon as he got the money. For the end of the world, cars might be everywhere, but oil would be impossible to obtain. So he decided to stock up on one ton of gasoline and diesel for future emergency use.

Then there were water and food. He only had more than 300,000 yuan in his hand, and there were so many things he wanted to buy that he had to be very careful with his money. Rice was very expensive in the city. If he wanted to buy it in large quantities, he had to go to the place where rice was produced to purchase it, which was much cheaper. He also had to buy some other foods like white flour and beans. Vegetables and fruits were also essential. However, due to the 49-day time limit of the forbidden technique, he could only buy a small amount in the supermarket for the time being. After 49 days, he would leave City S to collect these necessary items in large quantities, as well as the talisman paper and cinnabar he was using now to deal with various problems after the end of the world.

The property certificate for the transfer of ownership came down a month later. After that, the tone of his aunt and uncle changed. They called every day and even came to the door to urge him to leave, looking very cold and showing no mercy at all. It was only when Zhang He promised to leave the furniture, beds, and other things in the house to his aunt that they gave him a few more days.

At this time, there were only three days left until the forty-nine days of the forbidden technique. The soul-locking talisman on the ground had been redrawn nine times, but the wooden box on the soul-locking talisman still showed no signs of movement. However, the room was even colder than before. And because the essence of the beast was refined with his blood essence, he could vaguely feel a trace of life inside, gradually growing from weak to strong within the forty-nine days.

The reason why the failure rate of the forbidden technique is so high is mostly due to the fusion of the soul and the ancient essence of the beast. During the process, the soul has to constantly endure the pain of being forced to transform its body and refine its soul. For forty-nine days, every day and every night, every minute and every second, the pain of burning the soul is unimaginable. If there is no powerful grudge to support it, even if there are more soul-locking talismans, it will be of no avail. The soul will still disperse on its own after forty-nine days. With only a body and no soul, the forbidden technique will still fail.

What Zhang He was worried about was exactly this situation, wasting time and energy and failing at the last moment.

On the forty-ninth day, Zhang He had a premonition the night before. He felt his heart beating faster, and the blood in his body kept surging, making him feel flustered and short of breath. He almost vomited a mouthful of blood. His whole body trembled faintly. It wasn't exactly the feeling of being terrified, but it was something similar. It was only after he closed his eyes and sat cross-legged on the bed to practice breathing exercises that he gradually calmed down. He reached out and wiped the corner of his mouth and actually found blood.

The source that caused his essence to drain quickly was the utility room. There seemed to be a force inside, like a vortex, constantly absorbing essence from the surroundings. This continued from the night until the next day.

Even during the daytime, the sky was still as dark as night.Probably starting from a little after 3 o'clock in the morning, the sky began to flash with lightning and rumble with thunder. Strangely, with dark clouds covering the sky, there were lightning and thunder for a long time, making everyone in the city feel scared and panicky. But not a single drop of rain fell.

At this time, Zhang He opened the door of the utility room. He saw that the soul-locking talisman drawn on the ground was already emitting black smoke. He didn't know when the talisman had failed. The six auxiliary talismans outside also suddenly caught fire and were all destroyed at once. The box in the middle seemed to be out of control and was constantly twisting and deforming.

Zhang He knew exactly how strong the box was. The wood used was hardwood, and the outer layer was thick and heavy. There was a palm-thick steel plate inlaid inside. The force required to deform the box was already beyond imagination.

Zhang He felt that something was wrong and immediately took two steps back. Seeing that the box was deforming even more severely and hearing the sound of the steel plate being shredded, he forced himself to calm down. With a calm expression, he quickly drew one of the Seven Star Talismans, the Void Talisman, in the air with his left hand. This talisman could have the best defensive effect in an emergency. Its disadvantage was that it only existed for a short time, but its advantage was that it took effect immediately.

After drawing the talisman, he stretched out his hands and held a paper talisman between each finger. Before he could light them, he suddenly heard a deafening roar coming from the box. At this moment, a huge thunderbolt struck from the sky.

Zhang He felt that it was suddenly as bright as day in front of him. There was a black shadow that rushed out of the broken box. Under the illumination of the lightning outside, it gradually took shape. A huge black leopard with golden ears and golden claws supported itself on the ground and roared towards the sky. There were strange purple flames surging on its body, and the flames were towering. After roaring, it looked at Zhang He in front of it, staring at him with a ferocious expression and constantly roaring at him. When it saw the talismans in Zhang He's hands, its claws instantly tore the floor apart. There seemed to be bloodstains in its eyes, and the air waves around it were surging.

At this moment, Zhang He's mind went completely blank. He had imagined countless scenarios, but he had never expected that the little leopard after merging with the essence of the beast would be so powerful. He suddenly remembered a warning sentence in the forbidden technique on the silk.

Once a ferocious beast is successfully refined with the essence of the beast, although it can be dispatched at will, because it was brutally killed during its lifetime and is full of resentment after death, and it has been refined continuously for forty-nine days, once it takes shape and breaks out, it will harbor anger and hatred towards the person who refined it. If the mind shows the slightest weakness, it will immediately be backlashed by it.

If Zhang He had known that it would be such a scene, he might have given up long ago. But at this moment, there was no way to retreat. He knew that if he was backlashed by it now, not only would he lose his life, but he might not even have a single bone left. So he immediately concentrated his mind, and the yellow paper mixed with his blood essence in his hand was instantly ignited.

The moment it was ignited, the black leopard's whole body shot towards him like a black-purple arrow. It opened its bloody mouth and roared at Zhang He. Its huge claws seemed to tear him into countless pieces as they struck down at him. Just when Zhang He thought he was doomed, the claws touched the flames of the talisman and instantly turned into blue flames that spread all over its body.

Under the blue flames, the huge leopard let out roars of pain and rolled on the ground continuously. It was like a phantom that had been punctured, and its body got smaller and smaller as it burned. In the end, there was only a little leopard about three or four months old left, similar to its appearance before it died, except that there were some golden marks on its four claws. Even though it was being burned by the blue flames, it still kept biting fiercely on the floor. It wasn't until more than ten minutes later, when the blue flames went out, that it lay on the ground motionless.