Chapter 320: Corpse Seed Human Immortal Seed Or Rogue Immortal Seed
Arriving at Greenhouse No. 1, Yuan Zhu lightly knocked twice before pushing the door open and entering, then immediately saw two figures, one large and one small, with their backs turned.
At this time, Little Girl Yuan Tang occupied the C-position, softly explaining something to Senior Student, her hands not stopping as she performed some kind of operation.
After approaching, he finally saw clearly in front of the two: a long table with uniformly shaped square transparent glass containers placed on it. Inside each container lay a dark, serene animal—some extra-large frogs, some brightly feathered birds, or cleanly washed guinea pigs, nameless wild animals.
But they all had one thing in common: they were all dead.
At this moment, Little Girl was demonstrating to Senior Student the spirit medicine cultivation secret technique Corpse Seed from Cicada City.
Yuan Zhu: “Sister Chen, Little Tang, are you planting spirit grass? How’s the effect? Any success?”
Hearing this, the solemn Little Girl silently shook her head, saying in a tone of existential doubt: “It failed.”
“Ah? How could that be?”
He still remembered after returning to Eclosion World for the second time, he immediately entered the Inner World of the Domain. The Shadow Space had already contained and planted the Reverse Growth Mulberry Tree, the entire space transformed into a Garden, filled everywhere with variously shaped Magic Worm Corpses. From the gaps in their shells and the orifices of their heads, various spirit grasses sprouted, growing vigorously, carrying an indescribable eerie vitality and beauty.
Clearly, as the person in charge of Reverse Birth Garden, Yuan Tang had already proficiently mastered Corpse Seed, able to sow seeds inside various corpses and use True Qi to urge them to develop.
So Candle asked: “Didn’t you use True Qi to awaken them?”
Although he had required Brother and Sister to save their internal True Qi as much as possible, he hadn’t explicitly forbidden its use.
Yuan Tang shook her head: “Of course I did. I tried 10 different animals and used True Qi to stimulate the seeds, but they all failed without exception. This seems related to the Upper Realm environment and these strange creature corpses.”
These past few days, Yuan Tang had followed Senior Student throughout to learn, and when performing Corpse Seed, she had unreservedly shared all her planting experience and technical operations with Senior Student.
Through their discussions and inferences, the probable reason for Corpse Seed’s failure was related to the surrounding environment and the substandard quality of the corpses.
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In Eclosion World, any creature’s corpse met the standard for planting medicine; but after coming to Running City, none of them worked.
In Underground World, the accessible corpses were two types: bugs and humans. Bug varieties were numerous, with the minimum standard larger than one soccer ball. Or equivalent to the size of a standard flower pot in human society.
Whether human or bug, they had been eroded and transformed by the Underground polluting environment during life. Thus after death, their bodies naturally contained large amounts of uncleaned miasma pollution, Immortal Zombie Tendrils, iron poison, and other pollution traces.
According to Immortal Scripture analysis, the key to Corpse Seed lies in Immortal Zombie Tendrils, followed by the massive polluting energy (nutrients) contained in the corpse. What is Immortal Zombie Tendrils? A mutated polluting version of Kunlun System degraded spiritual root.
A corpse filled with Immortal Zombie Tendrils, mixed with Knight System iron poison, naturally does not decay after death and can be preserved long-term. It also contains abundant energy, as well as massive inactivated but beginning to proliferate out of control Immortal Zombie Tendrils (Kunlun spiritual essence).
What concept is this? Naturally complete five elements nutrient soil.
Planting a spirit medicine seed in such a fertile flower pot, after urging it to awaken, it quickly adapts to the superior environment, continuously absorbing Immortal Zombie Tendrils (Kunlun spiritual essence) to grow vigorously.
From another perspective, this simulates a low-end version of Elixir of Immortality. The resulting spirit grass and medicine naturally brim with medicinal properties.
Now, Nie Yin replaced the flower pot with local ordinary animal corpses, losing the naturally proliferating Immortal Zombie Tendrils and iron poison; Little Girl couldn’t even handle preservation.
Several frog corpses she had confidently seeded now showed no signs of seed sprouting, and even faintly emitted an off smell.
Yuan Zhu leaned in, casually scanned around, and pointed to a Frog Corpse Seed completed yesterday.
“The smell is wrong; this is heading toward rotting. Didn’t you do preservation processing?”
Yuan Tang looked unpleasant, self-blaming and puzzled: “I didn’t expect the Upper Realm environment to be so strange. In Hometown, any creature after death is hard to decay; the Immortal Zombie Tendrils inside the corpse quickly proliferate after the host dies, filling the body, even reverse-tempering and reinforcing it.”
Senior Student, listening on the side, suddenly spoke: “Just like the mushroom cultivation substrate bags?”
Yuan Zhu thought for a moment, then nodded: “Huh? Indeed very similar!”
Senior Student then comforted: “Little Candle, no need to overly blame your sister. Although she couldn’t urge the spirit medicine, the Corpse Seed technical concept she provided, and the theoretical knowledge behind it, are extremely valuable and greatly inspired me! This batch of seeds failed, but it doesn’t mean no gains.”
“On the contrary, we can summarize plenty of experience and lessons from it. Planting technology summarized in another world under another special environment naturally requires changes to successfully replicate on Du Ling Star, to adapt to local conditions. I think we can process the corpses first to solve the rotting problem. Also, what exactly are the Immortal Zombie Tendrils you mention?”
Yuan Zhu saw Little Girl somewhat at a loss, wanting to organize words to introduce Immortal Zombie Tendrils, but she only half-understood the origins of Underground World.
So Yuan Zhu stepped forward to answer on her behalf: “Immortal Zombie Tendrils is a special polluting variant of Kunlun System. Just like Holy Light after Fall Seal has countless directions. Immortal Zombie Tendrils is also a special variant of Kunlun System after entering demonic path, liking to proliferate wildly in corpses in the form of microscopic decaying root tendrils, gradually zombifying the deceased’s body. It can even use the corpse as foundation, extending countless capillary root tendrils outward (white-haired zombie), absorbing decaying miasma and pollution from the surroundings, gnawing on decayed Kunlun System plant roots to grow stronger.”
Senior Student propped her chin, recalling her textbook: “Very familiar; sounds like reverse-refining Human Immortal!”
Yuan Zhu puzzled: “Reverse-refining Human Immortal?”
Senior Student nodded: “Do you know Kunlun Human Immortal? After implanting peach of immortality root tendrils in the body, the cultivator initially forms spiritual root, can breathe heaven and earth spiritual energy, nurturing and growing the internal spiritual root, continuously expanding and proliferating to cover limbs and hundreds of bones, forming meridian system. After this step, all Kunlun Cultivators must refine a natal spirit plant. This spirit plant can be selected from ordinary plants, or inherited sect spirit plant branches or seeds, or even branches from Kunlun Mother. In short, only one requirement: must be woody plant.”
“The Human Immortal path begins with using the physical body as flower pot, planting the natal spirit plant into the flesh and blood body, overlapping and fusing with the meridian system, living and dying together. The cultivator stacks ‘self’ and ‘spirit plant’ dual cultivation progress to reinforce the same carrier (physical body), quickly growing to gain powerful power. And extremely high freedom, unbound and uncontrolled, free and unfettered. The Immortal Zombie Tendrils you mentioned resembles the spiritual root inside Kunlun Cultivators, and also somewhat like planting natal plant in the body via Human Immortal method to grow and reinforce the physical body.”
Senior Student added: “Only Human Immortal is alive, and the internal natal spirit plant is alive, continuously growing and strengthening. While your Immortal Zombie Tendrils and Immortal Zombie though dead, can still continuously grow. Using such Immortal Zombie extremely similar to Human Immortal to plant spirit grass indeed can cultivate top-tier spirit medicine; very reasonable.”
Yuan Zhu curiously asked: “Then among Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, God, what are the paths of the other four immortals?”
Senior Student: “On this, I don’t know deeply enough; only know Earth Immortal plants natal spirit plant externally, merging with deed, rooting and expanding to nurture a spiritual land, further opening Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, using spirit plant as the blessed land hub.”
“Ghost Immortal is called Underground Lord, seems somewhat linked to Yellow Springs? Not common. Heavenly Immortal some legends closely related to Earth Immortal, one step higher; others say related to Kunlun Mother on Geng Continent. As for God Immortal, I’ve only heard.”
Yuan Zhu: “So Kunlun Immortal Path commonly has only Earth Immortal and Human Immortal lines?”
Senior Student: “Earth Immortal not common, controlled by land, always hidden in one place, acting low-key. Only Human Immortal can move freely, frequently appearing in Human World. Ghost Immortal reportedly in Underworld, Heavenly Immortal hard to find, God Immortal ethereal and traceless.”
Yuan Zhu: “Tsk! By your meaning, need to first make these ordinary animals into Human Immortals, then perform Corpse Seed? Then the cost is too high!”
Thinking carefully, Underground World’s polluting environment is uniquely blessed; any living thing after death becomes natural culture medium + nutrient packet + flower pot.
Senior Student thought, then shook her head: “Not necessarily. We can do more control experiments, like introducing corpse refining technique to halt decay in ordinary animals from Mist Forest. After simple refinement (preservation processing), then try Corpse Seed. Additionally, I can perform Plant School dao seed parasitism on these corpses, make pseudo Rogue Immortals then Corpse Seed…”
School of Dangerous Botany aims to explore Rogue Immortal mysteries, same origin as Kunlun System. If not pursuing unique dao seed (new seed variety), Senior Student can provide large amounts of controlled dao seeds and defective works awaiting destruction.
Implanting these dao seeds into animals to make pseudo Rogue Immortals, then killing for Corpse Seed—can it substitute Immortal Zombie Tendrils?
One idea after another emerged in her mind, rousing the originally somewhat discouraged Yuan Tang again.
At this time, Yuan Zhu who had only been talking joined in, suggesting: “I have an idea! Little Tang, besides using Corpse Seed to cultivate spirit medicine seeds, you can also allocate some energy to fungi medicinal herbs.”
Running City’s local corpses may not smoothly grow spirit medicine, but definitely can culture cordyceps and zombie fungus!
Because such bug grass and zombie fungus characteristics are parasitizing organisms, proliferating mycelium in flesh, ultimately killing life, absorbing nutrients from the biological remains to grow mushrooms, spirit plants, cordyceps… and other medicinal herbs.
This biological habit has nothing to do with whether the corpse contains Immortal Zombie Tendrils, polluting energy, iron poison.
Senior Student, learning of such wondrous treasures as otherworld bug grass and zombie fungus, strongly demanded with thirst for knowledge that Yuan Tang quickly demonstrate.
She said: “Although fungi completely don’t meet Rogue Immortal dao seed standards, they meet spirit medicine standards; great for alchemy and medicine making! Hurry, hurry.”
Seeing time still early, Yuan Zhu left the Greenhouse, drove back to Running City, planning to return to Haunted House to harvest his cultivation materials. After raising so long, time to fully forge the 2 Seals, and see if the family Goblin Strongman can be harvested?
