Two hours, a full four hours, enough time to pass from noon until the sun went down.
As the sun set, the moon rose, and the Yin energy within Ping An Building gradually intensified.
However, those within Ping An Building, aside from sensing the thickening Yin energy, felt nothing else. They merely felt that the two hours had passed quickly.
Finally, the red-eyed zombie also dissolved into a pile of white bones.
Luo Ning immediately shouted, "The one from the Lu Shan Sect, prepare to take over!"
The corpse puppet was about to be refined and emerge. If the soul was not promptly locked into the corpse puppet’s body, the puppet would inevitably transform into a mindless beast, unstoppable until everyone present was killed!
Lin Zitong, holding a Taoist talisman, fixed her gaze on the suspended coffin, standing by.
Even Zhong Qi, who had been causing trouble repeatedly, couldn't help but look at the suspended coffin. It seemed he hoped that what he himself couldn't accomplish would now succeed in Yan Shouyi.
Suddenly, the suspended coffin trembled violently, rapidly absorbing all the blood mist!
Bang!!
With a deafening bang, the suspended coffin instantly shattered, and the chains snapped inch by inch, recoiling in all directions!
Lin Zitong advanced instead of retreating. While dodging the fragments of flying chain, she rushed towards the suspended coffin!
The suspended coffin landed heavily on the ground with a thud, falling apart. Then, a figure crawled out from within.
His clothes seemed to be restraints from the chains. He couldn't help but growl and tear at them, soon ripping his clothes apart until only a pair of shorts remained.
Under the dim candlelight, Yan Shouyi opened his eyes, revealing a pair of scarlet pupils, just like the red-eyed zombie!
And his pupils were even purer red than those of the two red-eyed zombies before, as clear and translucent as two rubies!
Under the interplay of light and shadow, his muscles were defined, and his veins slightly bulged, making it impossible to doubt the fearsome power beneath this body!
His chest, which had been deeply sunken due to severe injuries, was now completely restored!
“Roar!!”
Yan Shouyi stomped heavily on the ground. The cement floor cracked directly under his foot. If it weren't for the steel bars maintaining its structure, that one step might have sent him straight to the 43rd floor!
“You big idiot, calm down!”
Lin Zitong rushed in front of Yan Shouyi, intending to use a soul-鎮符 (zhenhun fu) to stabilize him.
However, Yan Shouyi was extremely fast. He instantly grabbed Lin Zitong by the neck!
“Miss Lin!” Xia Zhi exclaimed in alarm.
Luo Ning quickly shouted, “The current Yan Shouyi is merely a walking corpse. His soul has not been awakened, and he won’t remember you! Don’t appeal to his emotions. Even if you cut off one of his arms, he can regenerate it!”
Hearing this, Lin Zitong gritted her teeth, threw out a golden flying talisman, and decisively severed the five fingers of Yan Shouyi that were gripping her neck!
His five fingers were cut off, yet Yan Shouyi seemed to feel no pain. He shook his hand, and bones rapidly grew from the wound, followed by nerves, flesh, and finally skin, hair, and nails.
This entire process took only a few seconds!
The recovery ability of a corpse puppet was truly terrifying, Lin Zitong now witnessed it firsthand.
Without daring to delay, she seized the opportunity to circle behind Yan Shouyi, placing her feet on his spine and leaping up!
“Demons roam and spirits disperse, all to be resolved by lightning. Sever heads by the thousands, cut forms by the tens of thousands. Those who obey me live, those who defy me perish. Disobey my command, and defy the Highest Purity! Soul-镇 Incantation!”
As the incantation was uttered, the talisman in Lin Zitong’s hand also glowed golden. She quickly pressed the talisman to Yan Shouyi’s forehead, and it began to take effect.
Yan Shouyi trembled all over, and then his movements froze.
In zombie movies, corpse drivers used similar talismans to subdue zombies. The same talisman had an effect on Yan Shouyi, after all, he was just an unconscious corpse puppet at the moment.
Having subdued Yan Shouyi, Lin Zitong did not hesitate. She bit her fingertip and used her own blood to draw symbols on Yan Shouyi’s body!
The symbols drawn with blood were like tattoos, spread across Yan Shouyi’s body. When she connected these symbols to the talisman on Yan Shouyi’s head, all the symbols simultaneously flashed with golden light!
“Pure and divine, Ren and Gui face the True One. Three souls return to the body, seven spirits find peace. Tai Guang, Ling You, essences swiftly attach to the body. By the command of Lu Shan, none dare to disobey!”
Lin Zitong rapidly chanted the incantation, her hands also moving. She joined two fingers and pressed them onto the extremities of Yan Shouyi’s limbs, then pushed a mass of blood essence into Yan Shouyi’s chest!
Three souls return to the body!
Then, she tapped Yan Shouyi’s chest seven times. Each hand seal was different, the pressure varied, and even the speed differed!
Seven spirits find peace!
Luo Ning, watching from the side, couldn’t help but say,
“This is one of the ultimate skills of the Lu Shan Sect… the Soul Awakening Incantation.”
Yan Shouyi had truly died. The moment he took his last breath, his three souls and seven spirits scattered throughout his body, as if falling into a slumber.
If there were no external interference, Yan Shouyi’s soul would have returned to the places he had once visited, reviewing his life. Only on the seventh day after death would his soul gather near his corpse.
But after Lin Zitong used the Soul Awakening Incantation, Yan Shouyi’s soul would awaken directly and control his current body!
Having finished everything, Lin Zitong withdrew her hands from Yan Shouyi’s body. She gathered her energy in her dantian and suddenly spoke, her voice resounding like a bell, “Yan Shouyi, wake up!!”
Boom!!!
It was like a bolt of lightning exploding in Yan Shouyi’s mind!
Yan Shouyi’s eyes snapped open instantly. He stared wide-eyed at Lin Zitong in front of him.
“You little rascal…”
He mumbled, “Am I still alive?”
The moment she heard Yan Shouyi call her “little rascal” again, Lin Zitong couldn’t hold back her tears.
No matter how strong she was, she couldn't accept Yan Shouyi's death. Therefore, before Yan Shouyi opened his eyes, Lin Zitong’s heart had been hanging in suspense.
At this moment, she finally breathed a true sigh of relief.
She couldn’t help but throw herself into Yan Shouyi’s arms, her voice choked with sobs, “You jerk, why didn’t you just die!”
Yan Shouyi hugged Lin Zitong blankly, “I… I think I died, but not completely.”
“You’re still in the mood to joke?!” Lin Zitong was so angry that she punched Yan Shouyi twice in the chest.
Yan Shouyi felt as if his body had undergone some change.
Lin Zitong’s punches would normally have caused him internal injuries.
But at this moment, Lin Zitong’s punches felt soft and weak, unable to harm him at all.
He hadn’t yet figured out what had happened.
After punching and finding no reaction from Yan Shouyi, Lin Zitong’s gaze softened again.
She reached out and touched the chest she had just punched, intending to see if Yan Shouyi’s injury had healed, but she unexpectedly discovered that Yan Shouyi’s body was… very cold.
Lin Zitong quickly came back to her senses: although Yan Shouyi had awakened, he did not yet have a “heart.” He was still a corpse!
If they didn’t quickly find Yan Shouyi’s heart, his consciousness would gradually blur, he would no longer experience emotional fluctuations, and he would remain a walking dead, possibly even becoming a terrifying corpse puppet that acted on its own accord, without any sense of good or evil!
Lin Zitong immediately turned her head and shouted, “Elder Jin, have you found the correct position for the Fusang wood?!”
In a corner, Old Jin, looking at the complex star chart on the ground, couldn't help but sweat on his forehead.
Where… where is it?!
Where should the Fusang wood be placed!
If I don't solve this riddle in time, Yan Shouyi will still die!