Weapons that injure upon touch and kill upon impact, the giant hamr swept through the air, quickly resolving both the Giant Power and speed zombies.
anwhile, the vice-captain, together with the other Blood Warriors, also took care of the remaining zombie hordes, soon leaving only a field of zombie corpses.
Then, a call was made for a heavy-duty truck to load these zombie corpses en masse. Once fully loaded, it drove directly towards the gathering site’s direction.
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The zombie Flesh Factory had been operating for several months, and apart from consuming a massive amount of flesh, it had accumulated a large amount of human skin and white bones.
These materials were precisely what Zheng Yi needed for the third transformation upgrade of the Soul-Catching Banner.
In the factory building where the white bones were piled, bones were systematically categorized and stacked together, forming small white bone mountains.
In terms of color, these bones showed significant differences.
The largest quantity was the ghastly white bones, which ca from ordinary zombies and were the most abundant.
Others included so snow-white bones, possessed by zombies that had evolved once, and a small portion of special-shaped bones.
Such as jade-like bones, or jet-black bones emitting a tallic overtone when struck, or bones with a pale yellow surface and remarkable weight...
Due to the potential for zombies to evolve when they had sufficient energy, bones stripped from zombies with various different superpowers also exhibited entirely different colors.
Operating the Black Evil Technique, Zheng Yi was shrouded in a thick black mist. Against the backdrop of these nurous white bone mountains, he truly appeared like a peerless Demon Cultivator, fierce and sinister.
An endless stream of dense Profound Ink Evil Qi transford into surging flas, directly enveloping the entire Soul-Catching Banner, casting Zheng Yi’s entire space into darkness.
The raging Profound Ink Fla rapidly spread, as if transforming into a giant hand of flas, enveloping the surrounding white bones to form a massive white bone sphere, hovering in mid-air, defying gravity, enveloping the Soul-Catching Banner.
Under the burning of the Profound Ink Fla, the piled white bones gradually dried up, slowly decaying, and subsequently turned into ashes...
The essence contained within the bones, or mysterious superpower, and the power of evolution, all transford into a trickling stream, pouring into the shaft of the Soul-Catching Banner, not leaving a shred behind.
Zheng Yi’s current strength had nearly reached the zenith of the Qi Cultivation Stage. After the Soul-Catching Banner underwent two refinents as his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, it was becoming a bit of a drag. The ghosts within were growing ever stronger, and if not for the suppression by the golden seed, they would not be as obedient as they were now.
The banner’s shaft had shown signs of rust due to long-term erosion by Ghost Qi, but now supplented swiftly by the endless white bone essence, it was rapidly filling the cracks and undergoing so mysterious transformation.
Although the warehouse housed a vast number of bones, piled high like small mountains, the amount of White Bone Essence that could be refined through the Demon Dao Bone Refining Skill was negligible.
Even a mountain-like pile of white bones only yielded a small bit of White Bone Essence, but this small bit was extrely rare and was a spiritual material that greatly benefited the strengthening of the Soul-Catching Banner’s shaft.
After distilling the bone essence, the remaining material was burned until it turned into ashes, scattering on the floor.
The refining process was ongoing, and as piles and piles of white bones were devoured, refined, and decayed, more and more White Bone Essence entered the shaft of the Soul-Catching Banner, making the previously cracked shaft beco full and solid.
Moreover, the surface of the shaft gradually transford towards a glossy, white jade-like luster. The radiant gloss pierced through the Profound Ink Fla, revealing a gemstone-like texture.
It was a peculiar texture akin to both bone and mutton fat jade.
The whole factory’s white bones had been refined, yet the shaft had only converted less than twenty percent, the pure white jade luster intermixed with black impurities, appeared quite discordant.
However, the unique functions of the raw materials extracted during the initial establishnt of the zombie Flesh Factory all served as cultivation resources, with bones being the primary material.
Now, refining the Soul-Catching Banner and extracting a large amount of zombie White Bone Essence, though consuming a large quantity, did not deplete the stock instantly.
When Zheng Yi initially chose the Soul-Catching Banner as his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact at the Qi Cultivation Stage, he had considered this aspect.
The higher a Magical Artifact is upgraded, the more precious the materials it requires, or it may need a large amount of other materials to rely on specific properties for upgrading, which is also why Artifact Refiners are highly sought after in the Cultivation Realm.
Many early-stage Foundation Establishnt Cultivators might still use Upper-Grade Spiritual Artifacts as their primary battle tools, with only a few possessing Top-Grade Spiritual Artifacts as their treasure. This emphasizes the rarity and investnt in high-end artifacts.
In the Great Yi City Immortal Realm, countless facts and blood-soaked lessons have proven one thing: cultivators possessing Magical Artifacts and those empty-handed combatants are on completely different levels of combat power.
Human cultivators, unlike demons and ghostly beings, lack naturally robust physiques with strange attacks. Their reliance lies in pure magical power, arcane spells, and having one or two attack artifacts at hand, which form the core of their combat ability. Stripping this core naturally results in a significant reduction in combat strength.
Therefore, Zheng Yi holds this in high regard.
After the Soul-Catching Banner evolves twice, it has two evolutionary paths, one of which involves extrely rare refining materials.
For example, the Thousand Soul Banner, proclaid by the Withered Soul Ancestor two hundred years ago, was concocted using an exceedingly precious Godslaying Purple Essence Stone, which is why it possessed such imnse power, even enabling temporary skirmishes against Golden Core Stage Sword Cultivators.
The other evolutionary path involves, after a secondary refinent, forcefully converting its characteristics to refine the shaft into a White Bone Banner, then continually supplenting it with cultivators’ bones, refining it into another Magical Artifact known as the White Bone Soul-Catching Banner.
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