His hair was completely chaotic, and he had forgotten that he was not in the Spiritual Flow Sect. He was fully immersed in the desperate struggle with the medicine, until the frenzied predicament. His eyes burned red, even the soul pretending to be a Nightmare trembled. He almost felt as if he had returned to the Fallen Sword World, and did not dare to interrupt Yan Xiaobao in the slightest way.

"This Yan Xiaobao is crazy!" he thought.

While Yan Xiaobao was researching his new spiritual medicine, Xu Xiaoshan was in another place in the Corpse Refinery, dejectedly pondering a certain issue that had emerged over the past six months or so. For some reason, the corpse refining serum in his oil refinery was being discharged faster than usual.

"What happened?" he wondered. Considering that at any given time over a thousand corpses were being refined, investigating the matter was a very daunting task. In any case, the serum discharge rate was still within an acceptable range.

"Ah, no matter. I suppose this just means I can upgrade my refinery faster than expected." With this, he set the issue aside.

A month later, Yan Xiaobao was in the corpse cave, watching the pill furnace and giggling. He even poured his own blood into the mixture to make this batch of medicinal incense. He hoped his blood would agitate a great blood aura, producing a shocking transformation!

He tapped the side of the pill furnace, a pungent smoke billowed out, and he waved his hand aside. When he saw the fingernail-sized white incense inside, he tilted his head back and laughed loudly.

"This time it will definitely turn white!" He carefully picked up the incense and examined it. Although it was very small, it was actually stronger than any other type of incense he had produced so far.

In fact, even all the previous large pieces of incense combined did not equal this one.

"Finally, I will produce my pale zombie!" he roared. He waved his hand, sending the fingernail-sized incense flying toward the corpse. It instantly shot through all the hair, landing on the zombie's forehead, where it began to burn, releasing dense white smoke.

The smoke spread rapidly, in response, Yan Xiaobao shot backward. At some point, it stopped expanding, but was so thick that nothing inside was visible. However, an incredibly terrifying howl could respond from within.

Somehow, there even seemed to be some joy in the howling.

Yan Xiaobao began to feel more excited than before. Meanwhile, Xu Xiaoshan was in the room at the Corpse Refinery, looking very anxious, as he stood in front of an old man sitting in a chair, staring at him coldly.

The old man wore a wide gray robe, embroidered with the image of a peak. Upon close examination, it was the Corpse Peak. On the sleeves of the old man's robe, a vicious zombie face could be seen, which looked very realistic when he flicked his sleeves.

This old guy had chaotic hair, and scars all over his face, yet he exuded strong life force. Clearly, his real age was different from his appearance.

His cultivation base was not at the Golden Core Stage, but he was at the peak of Foundation Establishment, in fact, he was at the Quasi-Core Stage. He was just a short distance from core formation.

Xu Xiaoshan cleared his throat and hurriedly explained, "Great Elder, don't I still have time? Don't worry. I, Xu Xiaoshan, have cultivated this oil refinery for almost a year. How could I not pay the spirit stones I owe? In three months, the first batch of zombies will be ready, and I will pay your principal and interest!"

He never thought that the Elder Council of Corpse Peak would personally come to ask him about the cost of the Corpse Refinery.

"Elder Xu," said the grand elder, "I really hope you do as you say. If the time comes and you haven't paid your debts, it doesn't matter that you have a Clan Leader supporting you. I will still hold you accountable for the loss!"

With this, the Great Elder of Corpse Peak turned to leave.

But just then, the door suddenly slammed open, and a panicked young man rushed in.

"What nerve!" Xu Xiaoshan roared, looking sternly. Just as he had succeeded in getting this elder off his back, this clumsy person had entered into trouble.

However, even as his murderous intent raged, he noticed how frightened this young man looked.

"Young master, something terrible is happening! Almost thirty percent of the corpse refining serum has disappeared, vanished at once!" The pale-faced young man seemed close to tears. He was responsible for keeping records regarding the corpse refining serum, and as he saw such a large-scale reduction, he didn't know what to do. Only when he finished speaking did he realize that the young Master Yang wasn't alone. The old man in the room seemed somewhat familiar, as he looked more closely at him, his thoughts suddenly spun.

"Gg-grand Elder..."

As Xu Xiaoshan heard about what was happening, his scalp began to tingle, feeling as if it might explode.

"Thirty percent??!!" he exclaimed, eyes full of bloodshot veins. He immediately ran to check the serum altar. As for the elder, he looked completely shocked. Even during the critical moments of corpse refining, the serum would not suffer such drastic losses, unless a very powerful zombie was being produced.

"Loss of thirty percent?" he thought. He hesitated not at all, starting to act immediately.

Soon, Xu Xiaoshan was at the serum altar. There, a huge Blood Pool could be seen, with more than a thousand channels leading to different corpse caves. As Xu Xiaoshan arrived, the disciples at the altar looked. Pale-faced, they clasped their hands in greeting.

Xu Xiaoshan did not even hear them speak. He stared at the enormous reservoir, recalling roughly that it was full the day before. But now, half of this amount had disappeared...

"How can this be?!?!" he thought, starting to tremble. The serum had to be purchased at high cost, and the sight in front of him led his vision to start fading away. But then, he watched as almost all the remaining serum drained away, exposing the reservoir's bottom, leaving it completely empty...

All the serum could be seen flowing into one particular channel...

"This leads to the Nightcrypt's corpse cave!" A burst of vicious aura erupted, and he let out an angry howl, striding from the bloody altar toward Yan Xiaobao's corpse cave.

In that very corpse cave, Yan Xiaobao was watching the white smoke clear. Filled with joy, he suddenly took a step forward, his face falling, his eyes widening in disbelief. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"What happened!?!?" he exclaimed. He rubbed his eyes, unable to believe what he saw. Within the white smoke, there were numerous green tendrils, twisting and turning in the air as they floated.

Some actually were drilling holes into the cave walls.

Yan Xiaobao felt his scalp tingle. He quickly opened his third eye, looking into the smoke. By now, the reservoir wasn't even visible, nor was the corpse. What he saw was just an enormous green mass of hair!

The hair not only spread out to fill the corpse cave; some had already pierced the walls and were spreading to who knew where.

"Is it that hair?" Yan Xiaobao thought, backing up as quickly as possible, his thoughts spinning.

At that moment, shocked and panicked cries began to echo from over a thousand other corpse caves.

"What is going on!?!?"

"Heavens! What's happening? What are these green strands!?!?"

"Damn it! What are these green lines doing in my corpse cave!?!?"

Just then, a massive rumbling sound arose, shaking heaven and earth, filling the entire Corpse Refinery.

As the green hair entered, the corpse caves began to collapse. Next, green hair pierced the zombie corpses that were still in mid-production. Then, the hair on those zombies' heads began to turn green, even those that had already turned white.

But that was not all. Some hair pierced underground. Although it couldn't go very deep, so it would leave the ground for a distance before stabbing back in.

As the Corpse Refinery began to collapse, Xu Xiaoshan watched in shock. Additionally, the area's trees began to sprout green hair, as did the rocks, plants, flowers, and other buildings. Everything turned green.

As the Corpse Refinery collapsed, more green hair appeared and spread in all directions. Countless disciples appeared, fleeing with expressions of shock and fear on their faces.

"What is this thing?! My refined corpse! I've been working on that for two years! Now they've turned green because of those green lines!"

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