Chapter 287: Fall Seal Human Pillar! Human Body Alchemy
Yuan Zhu returned once again to his loyal ‘Disease Garden’, and looking around, compared to the past when it was filled with eerie flesh sensations and plants full of twisted, vigorous vitality farm.
Now, the vigorous ‘vitality’ of the [Disease Garden] showed a bit of desolation.
The most obvious place was that originally, due to the dense vegetation, it was hard to see the ‘fertile flesh tumor soil’ oozing with oil. Now, because of excessive logging and harvesting, it was like patchy baldness, with chunks dug out here and there bald.
In addition, on the vast land of the [Garden], there were also many ‘burn scars’ left from when Yuan Zhu cultivated [Holy Light].
These fertile soils infused with flesh characteristics by ‘Disease Pollution’, when sealed and incinerated by the [Holy Light Barrier] to refine ’embers’, were charred together with the polluted crops, leaving crater-like burn scars that had lost activity and could not recover vitality for a long time.
Even though the pollution in the air of the [Disease Garden] seemed to be diluted and weakened a bit, its concentration still surpassed that of [Eclosion World. Animal Husbandry Village]. With his current strength, he still could not consume this [Garden].
Even if the [Shadow Domain] was successfully created from scratch, it would be hard to catch up and surpass this place in the short term. So he once again had the idea of selling the [Disease Garden].
Back then, he couldn’t sell the [Disease Garden] entirely because his own strength was poor, his connections were few, he was new and knew nothing, and he couldn’t contact suitable buyers at all. He also didn’t dare to act rashly, fearing exposure and attracting attention.
But things were different now. He had quickly integrated into Du Ling Star and had his own understanding of the supernatural world; his increased strength and network of connections supported him in finding new buyers.
Especially with a safer and more reliable [Domain], the [Garden] he temporarily stayed in became dispensable. Selling it off early, introducing a new sucker to take over this karma, could better shield him and avoid retaliation from the ‘original owner’!
So he sighed: “Once the [Shadow Domain] is built, I’ll thoroughly loot the [Garden]. After recovering all the supplies that can be moved and harvested, I’ll consider selling the [Garden] and making another profit by flipping it.”
Snake Snake: “Absolutely agree, extremely wise! This [Garden] is a ticking time bomb. Burning the ‘diseased crops’ feels great now, but when the original owner comes knocking, it’ll be disastrous. Judging from the scale and pollution concentration of this [Garden], it’s equivalent to 1/3 of a [Cicada City], yet it’s been abandoned and hidden, entering silent standby mode and left unattended. So the ‘original owner’s’ strength must far exceed [Cicada City].”
In Running, he had no [Happy Home] backing him up. Yuan Zhu was gradually realizing that the karma of the [Garden] was a bit too big, and he needed to find a high-end buyer to take the pot.
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After patrolling the ‘Garden Farm’ once, Yuan Zhu quickly arrived in front of a field full of ‘weird eyeballs’.
On this fertile, oily flesh fertile soil, the same kind of diseased crop bearing ‘eyeball-shaped fruit’ was artificially planted. Each plant could grow to 1 meter tall, looking no different from roadside weeds. But the stamen position of the flowers it bloomed had a tiny mouth that could stick out its tongue.
When these ‘diseased crops’ bloomed, they would emit noisy ‘coughing sounds’, and when densely packed together forming resonance, they would bring disgusting ‘infrasound mental pollution’.
When these active flowers that could murmur and bite each other mutually gnawed, biting off and eating each other’s tongues. The petals would scatter, and the ‘miniature mouths’ would gradually burst and tear from the inside, forming a lifelike, rotatable ‘Eyeball Fruit’.
Notably, these eyeball fruits could only adjust focus, curiously observing Yuan Zhu moving in the field, but unable to launch ‘Disease Ray’ for attack. Those that could emit ‘rays’ were the goblin experimental subjects that had consumed large amounts of this fruit and undergone pollution mutation.
Therefore, when Yuan Zhu stopped to observe this fertile field, he was ‘focused stared at’ by a large number of disease eyeballs, becoming the center of attention. Yet he suffered no attack, just that the collective coughing from this field became more annoying.
Unfortunately for them, he had [Soul Crystal] protecting him, innately immune to this infrasound mental pollution tactic.
“Someone come, send ten goblins in!”
With Yuan Zhu’s command, the ‘Eggplant Head Ghost Four Heavenly Kings’ who had followed him low-key into the [Garden] all responded with: “Boss! Boss! Boss!”, seamlessly switching from low-key submission to passionate fervor, giving clean responses.
Soon, two Eggplant Head Ghosts ran wildly, detaching from the garden and dragging in huge black dormant embryos one by one from the attic.
Candle flicked his finger, and a strand of ‘Holy Light’ compressed into a blade by the [Sanctuary] tore through the flesh membrane wrapping the Eggplant Goblin, accompanied by a small amount of amniotic fluid-like nutrient solution seeping into the flesh fertile soil. One by one, the dormant ‘Eggplant Goblins’ sprawled crookedly on the ground, not yet awakened from hibernation.
“You all, go pick the fruits!”
With the order issued, the other two Eggplant Head Ghost bosses rushed into the field, enduring mental pollution and sonic shockwave, twisting their bodies and using the dozen arms grafted onto their backs to work simultaneously, efficiently harvesting ‘Eyeball Fruit’.
One of the Eggplant Head Ghosts had perfectly inherited and fused that [Shadow Pollution Crystal. Disease Ray Eyeball], occasionally emitting ‘ghastly green rays’ from its eyes, striking large patches of polluted plants, making them quickly shut up and not perform another sonic shockwave chorus.
Snake Snake: “Huh? This kind of [Disease Eyeball] can still interfere with and affect the field that birthed it.”
Under the diligent ray attacks of the ‘Evil Eye Eggplant Head Ghost’, this stimulated field that was wailing like ghosts and gods finally quieted down.
Soon, Yuan Zhu’s feet were piled with ‘Eyeball Fruits’ that could still rotate and focus after their eye stalks were snapped off. A bloody pile of eyeballs (fruits) stacked into a small bundle, looking quite scary.
“You two, feed these ‘Eyeball Fruits’ to them. The other two, go select vigorous ‘eyeball mother plants’, pull them out from the soil, and bring them back! Understand?”
“Eggplant eggplant eggplant!”, “Understand eggplant!”, “Understand eggplant!” The four Eggplant Head Ghosts nodded repeatedly, responding positively.
The two responsible for picking fruits manipulated the dozen ‘spoils of war arms’ plundered onto their backs, grabbing fruit after fruit and stuffing them into the mouths of the comatose ‘Eggplant Goblins’.
The other two Eggplant Head Ghosts who had transported ‘Eggplant Goblins’ from the [Haunted House] had completed their task and were waiting for orders. So without a word, they rushed into the field, selected the largest and tallest ‘plants’, and yanked them out of the ground with all four limbs, bringing them back before Yuan Zhu.
Yuan Zhu wasn’t idle either, using the [Soul Crystal]’s evil detection targeted at pollution to monitor every change in the Eggplant Goblins being force-fed ‘Disease Fruits’.
Compared to the ‘First Generation. Blank Slate Cripples. Near-Death Goblins’ he had hunted from the sewer back then, the current [Shadow Eggplant Goblins] had stronger physiques, denser internal shadow pollution, and the ‘Eggplant Parasite’ life support system.
The ‘blank slate goblins’ back then, after consuming just a few eyeball fruits and still having [Holy Cough] blessing remnants on them, had completely lost control and turned into demonic creatures after just one night here.
But the current [Eggplant Goblin] warriors were entirely different; each was forcibly fed (stuffed) 12 eyeball fruits, bulging their eyes, but the invading ‘disease pollution’ still failed to breach the immune line of [Shadow. Eggplant Parasite].
But as the [Disease Fruits] were continuously digested, the balance in its body was gradually broken, and under the amplification of the external ‘disease pollution’ environment, it began transforming into a ‘Disease Demonic Creature’.
Of course, Yuan Zhu did not want the [Eggplant Goblins] to degenerate and twist quickly. Because the easier the alienation and mutation, the faster the strength inflation, the lower the value of the ‘demonic creature’ itself.
Just like ginseng, the longer it grows in the wild, the stronger its medicinal properties. Whereas artificially planted quick-growth varieties have inferior quality.
[Demonic Creatures] are the same; like Yuan Zhu, those who can suppress the expansion speed of internal pollution and build a solid foundation through ‘cultivation methods’ as ‘polluted bodies’ have higher quality and stronger strength.
Therefore, to refine ‘pollution eyeballs’ sufficient for [2 Seals] demand. He needed to slow down the ‘Eggplant Goblins” degeneration speed, repeatedly pull and temper them, deeply mining their potential.
And the best tempering method was naturally the [Holy Cough Blessing] that had once confronted [Disease Erosion].
Now, no longer bothering with weak [Holy Cough Attacks], he instead looked at the ‘polluted plants’ brought by the other two Eggplant Head Ghosts. None had high pollution degree, but no problem, as long as piled up in quantity, it was quite considerable.
Yuan Zhu commanded an Eggplant Head Ghost that could cough toxic mist: “Use your vines to bundle these polluted plants, 15 per group, total 10 groups!”
Hearing this, the toxic mist Eggplant Head Ghost nimbly released roots of ‘shadow vines’, quickly bundling and packing the plants. The other one, realizing the plant quantity was insufficient, had already turned back to the field to continue harvesting plants.
Meanwhile, Yuan Zhu took out the [Fallen Seal Flask] from his [Soul Space], holding it in hand. Then he raised both hands in a gesture similar to ‘Solar Fist’, bringing the first bundled pack of ‘disease plants’ into his field of view.
The next moment, a holy light beam erupted from his hands, blasting onto the disease plants, enveloping them in the light pillar, and quickly establishing connection with the [Demon Seal Wave].
The opponent was full of evil polluted aura and showed no resistance consciousness. So with a thought, he activated the [Sealing Technique], easily containing it into the ‘Fallen Seal Flask’ in his hand.
After the brand new ‘pollutant’ was sealed into the [Fallen Seal Flask], the flask’s own properties were also activated, able to spontaneously low-efficiency incinerate ‘polluted plants’ with ‘Fallen Seal Holy Light’, storing the resulting ‘degraded Fallen Seal Holy Light’, or releasing it according to the user’s will.
At this time, Yuan Zhu selected the best quality one from the Eggplant Goblins.
The nearby ‘Eggplant Head Ghost’, under [Snake Snake]’s manipulation (Brain Eggplant. Artificial Intelligence Program), proactively stepped forward, releasing numerous vines to wrap the goblin’s limbs and torso, hoisting it high before Yuan Zhu.
Candle suddenly struck; his right hand wrapped in Holy Light punched through the abdomen, deeply piercing a hole, and simultaneously completed ‘high-temperature hemostasis’ and cleaning disinfection.
Then, he stuffed the [Human Pillar Power. Flask] into the hole in the goblin’s abdomen. Without further action, the [Flask] under his will influence began exuding faint ‘Fallen Seal Holy Light’ outward, starting to repair the goblin’s abdominal wound.
[Holy Light] inherently possessed the ‘healing effect’ of overdrawing cell division potential to accelerate wound regeneration and healing.
Shadow System Eggplant Goblins adapted better to mild ‘Fallen Seal Holy Light’ relative to ‘disease pollution erosion’. Thus, the abdominal wound quickly healed.
However, the treatment did not stop there. On the contrary, the goblin turned into ‘Flask Human Pillar Power’, its abdomen began heating up. The [Flask] started extracting its vitality as fuel to accelerate refining the internal polluted plants, regenerating ‘Fallen Seal. Holy Cough Particles’, which flowed out from the abdomen, spreading throughout the body, repairing and correcting the distortion and alienation brought by ‘disease pollution’.
As the dozen or so ‘disease eyeball fruits’ shattered and decomposed inside, massive disease pollution spread in the upper body, rampaging and eroding, destroying the ‘Eggplant Parasite’ firewall, ultimately occupying both eyeballs as headquarters.
Moreover, the disease power rapidly spread toward the ‘lungs’, beginning to nurture a brand new ‘upper respiratory disease’.
However, the simultaneously erupting [Fallen. Holy Cough Particles] closely followed, wiping out the ‘disease pollution’ twisting the lower body, then rushing to the ‘Lungs. Main Battlefield’ to engage in fierce fighting with the disease pollution attempting to pollute and transform the lungs, vying for control over the [Lungs]’ transformation.
The two pollutions (disease/Fallen Holy Cough) now used the [Eggplant Goblin]’s flesh as the battlefield, locked in mutual tug-of-war stalemate under Yuan Zhu’s artificial balance adjustment.
One side had occupied the eyeballs and was invading the lungs; the other occupied the abdomen (Flask), supporting the lungs. Even these two sides had an inseparable ‘distant relative relationship’. ([Holy Cough] was precisely the [Holy Light System. Upper Respiratory Disease] born from burning disease pollution.)
As long as balance was maintained, not letting either side win. Then the Eggplant Goblin, under alternating dual transformations of ‘disease erosion’ and ‘Holy Cough distortion’, would be repeatedly reformatted, squeezing its body potential over and over, nurturing the most tempered [Pollution Crystal].
When the Eggplant Goblin’s lifespan was completely exhausted, the [Disease Eyeball] extracted from it would inevitably reach maximum quality and intensity. Then secondarily processed by [Ghost Companion Divine Ability], ultimately burned for [Holy Light].
Taking so many detours was all to refine soul embers sufficient for [2 Seals] intensity. Even usable to forge [3 Seals].
Watching the Eggplant Goblin gradually adapting to the [Fallen Seal. Human Pillar Power], Yuan Zhu showed a pleased smile: “I’m such a little genius!”
Snake Snake nodded in deep agreement, engaging in boundless flattery, fully providing the host with emotional value and confidence. His own Boss needed encouragement-style education!
“Indeed a exquisite ‘refining essence’ method. It can even be seen as the prototype of ‘biological alchemy’. Using goblins as flesh cauldrons, inputting disease fruit materials, then using [Fallen Seal. Holy Cough] as the flame. Through repeated wen-wu fire tempering of the cauldron, indirectly elevating the ‘medicinal efficacy (disease pollution)’ to the highest. Finally, pinch the pill formula to condense the immortal pill (disease eyeball).”
Yuan Zhu was immensely pleased by Snake Snake’s flattery, so he nodded and admitted without shame: “Not bad, this is precisely inspiration I drew from [Insect-Type Alchemy]!”
Little Tang needed to raise that [Alchemy Cauldron. Cicada], making it into a flesh cauldron for internal alchemy reactions. Of course Yuan Zhu didn’t understand such operation techniques, but that didn’t stop him from shamelessly claiming credit.
Even… he felt that his development of the [Holy Seal. Sanctuary] might simulate his own [Alchemy]?
Look, isn’t this [Sanctuary] like a fully sealed ‘high-pressure pot alchemy furnace’? Even if not, couldn’t this [Holy Flask] be seen as a ‘glass alchemy cauldron’?
“Keep it up!”
After the first Eggplant Goblin was madly force-fed ‘disease fruits’ with aid and made into [Flask. Human Pillar Power], beginning to endure repeated torment from the two invading pollutions.
He intensified the torment on the Eggplant Goblins, starting to lay hands on the remaining 9.
Just as he was happily playing (cultivating), Nie Yin, who was simply passing on experimental experience to Yuan Tang in the haunted house, unknowingly had her attention drawn by the ‘Eggplant Head Ghosts” activity traces.
So she led the two children, trailing all the way to the tightly closed attic space, then peering through the [Floor Mirror (Entrance)] to glimpse scenes inside the [Disease Garden].
“Gasp!” Nie Yin, who didn’t expect the employer to hide such a shocking secret, couldn’t help sucking in a cold breath, scared by the terrifying and eerie scenes of the [Disease Garden].
Skies and clouds crawling with blood vessels and flesh tissues, scarlet blood rain, fertile soil oozing oil, disease plants full of grotesque eyeballs and mouths…
As for the brother and sister who grew up in the Underground World, they were even more stunned by this vast, flesh-vigorous [Garden World], brains blank. They completely couldn’t comprehend, had never imagined such scenes, and upon sudden exposure to such impact, their thinking directly crashed.
