books44 Chapter 79 He'll never be so impulsive again in his next life.
Chapter 79 He'll never be so impulsive again in his next life.
The vendor was an ordinary person, as ordinary as could be.
He has an ordinary family background, an ordinary origin, and an ordinary upbringing.
He started working in the fields at six, married at sixteen, had a child at eighteen, and went to perform corvée labor with the able-bodied men of the village at twenty.
It is said that the emperor wanted to build a super-duper, colossal, and luxurious palace.
He was one of the many nameless laborers responsible for building the imperial city.
He was sent to quarry stone, but he died unexpectedly under a rolling boulder on a high slope. His body was crushed, and his head was turned into a pile of minced meat.
His wife and son didn't even receive news of his death, let alone any compensation. What is that?
The accident at the quarry killed many people; the bodies were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to tell who was who. So the foreman decided to lie about the injuries.
The body was buried on the spot, and once the wind and sand blew, everything was as if nothing had happened.
An ordinary person died quietly like that.
But that's alright, the historical records of later generations will be resounding:
In a certain month of a certain year, during the reign of a certain emperor, the imperial city was completed, and a miracle in the history of human architecture was born.
This was another great achievement in the emperor's life, and a symbol of the dynasty he ruled reaching its zenith!
As for how many ants must be sacrificed to create a prosperous era, no one cares.
The vendor, recalling his tragic past, concluded with three words: "Living in misery."
Being a human is so hard.
"I... I don't really have much to say about my life, it's been so boring."
He suddenly pointed to the large sack he had been dozing off against and said, "That's what makes a man's life interesting!"
Li Tingyun looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw that the sack seemed to contain something alive; a cricket pupa poked its head out after a few movements.
There was another person hiding in the sack.
If this disfigured, rotting-faced creature can still be considered a "human".
"Don't let his current wretched state fool you; he was a great general in life, quite the figurehead!"
"Moreover, I heard him say that he also had a past relationship with the daughter of the Prime Minister..."
The vendor, his face a bloody mess, grinned, revealing two rows of large white teeth, and said, "See? Only kings, generals, scholars, and beauties can give a storyteller that real flair! We common folk live our whole lives without even knowing what we've accomplished; it's so meaningless..."
Li Tingyun had no interest in listening to his incessant chatter. His eyes were fixed on the guy, and he noticed that a layer of green hair was growing under his rotting flesh.
It's like a pot of rotten, spoiled food covered in disgusting mold.
"He is no longer human."
Li Tingyun said to the vendor, "You've got guts! Where did you find this green-haired zombie?"
The vendor stammered, "Zombie...?"
Li Tingyun nodded. Yes, zombies.
In a small number of cases, after death, the body that has lost its soul may become a zombie by chance.
The process from corpse to zombie is a long and painful one.
When a corpse grows green mold during the decomposition process, it becomes a "hairy rigor mortis".
The decaying flesh of the corpse provides nutrients for these wildly growing hairs. If you don't have the heart to pluck all the green hairs and shave off all the good and bad skin and flesh, the hairs will slowly grow deeper and deeper, taking root in the bones.
When the corpse is covered in green hair, it means that the flesh and skeleton have been completely eaten away.
Such a hairy stunt will not live long.
Only by enduring the pain of shaving off all the flesh and blood from the body, digging out and discarding all the internal organs and brains, leaving only a clean skeleton, can one wait for the bones to turn into jade over the long years, becoming a true "uncorrupted bone".
The "Undying Bone" is neither harmed nor destroyed; it feeds on human blood, thereby reshaping its own physical body.
At this point, a true zombie has been formed.
Legend has it that a Taoist priest once dug up an incorruptible skeleton in a drought-stricken area and subdued it. Since then, the area has never suffered from drought again, and the saying "a zombie sucks water, and a great drought descends from the sky" gradually spread.
Zombies are associated with drought, and given their thirst and blood-sucking characteristics, people often refer to them as the ancient ferocious god "Hanba".
The "Drought Demon" zombie neither ages nor dies, and possesses extremely strong destructive power and a destructive urge.
Even if the body is damaged, one will not feel any pain and can recover in a very short time.
The appearance of the "Drought Demon" will surely alert the cultivation world, and they will spare no effort to eliminate it to prevent zombies from wreaking havoc on the world.
Li Tingyun saw these statements in Wang Laoliu's original book.
Who knows if he's just spouting nonsense?
But without a doubt, now that he is in the world of the book, even if Wang Laoliu is talking nonsense, he can only believe that it is true.
Upon hearing Li Tingyun's assertion that the "person" in the sack was a zombie, the vendor couldn't help but become nervous.
But he wasn't afraid, after all, he was a ghost himself, standing in the underworld, so who could scare whom?
Zombies in the hairy zombie stage are not very aggressive, but all cultivators wish they could grind them to dust.
Because once the hairy zombie survives the dangerous period of plucking its fur and shaving its flesh, it has a high probability of evolving into an incorruptible bone.
Undying creatures are very difficult to kill. Usually, they can only be sealed or suppressed by forming an array, which comes at a great cost. There is also a chance that they will find a chance to escape and continue to do evil, causing unrest in the lower realm.
All of this...
Li Tingyun: What does this have to do with me?
If it were Mei Shiyu, he would have drawn his sword to rid the people of this scourge long ago, but Li Tingyun couldn't be bothered to lift a finger.
He didn't even intend to inform his master about the danger of the green-haired zombie.
But he generously shared his method for becoming an incorruptible zombie with the green-haired zombie.
And the vendor gave the zombie a meat cleaver, which helped him successfully remove the green hair and cut away the rotten flesh.
This was because Li Tingyun was very curious about what kind of jade the "unmelted bone" was... agate or jadeite?
To satisfy his curiosity, he even cheered on the green-haired zombie.
"Keep going! Work hard! Turn into jade quickly! It doesn't matter if it's not agate, I still love imperial green!"
(P.S.: Imperial Green is the jadeite with the best texture and highest value.)
The zombie was stunned. Who the hell was this person? Did they want to sell his bones for money?!
Seeing that he was so angry that the green hairs on his face were trembling, and that he opened his mouth wide as if to curse, but couldn't say a word, Li Tingyun felt a little frustrated.
He waved his hand and said, "You're already a zombie, and you still have such a temper. Aren't you afraid of biting your tongue?"
The green-haired zombie kicked off the sack covering its body with force, its stiff joints making it difficult to move.
But Li Tingyun has the ability to anger the living to death, the dead to life, and even an eighty-year-old man to the point of walking briskly.
Naturally, it can also make zombies walk without jumping, and they can run whenever they want!
The zombie was eight feet tall when it stood up.
Li Tingyun remained seated on the ground, neither dodging nor even raising his head.
His gaze fell directly on the zombie's two legs covered in green hair.
His focus was strange: "...Your leg hair is so exaggerated."
Li Tingyun grabbed one of the flowing hairs and yanked it hard.
The zombie felt excruciating pain and instinctively kicked out with the force of a thousand pounds!
The boy was kicked five meters high and ten feet away.
A few seconds later, it crashed to the ground with a loud thud.
Li Tingyun vowed that he would never be so impulsive again in his next life.