The city gates were Jinghzou Cityās greatest weakness and thus the main target for the ghost zombies; casualties here were the heaviest whenever they attacked. Countless beings used their bodies to blockade the gap and forestall the attacks. Other openings in the formation were inconsequential.
Lu Yun charged out with his fists and beat the horde into retreating!
Correct, retreating. The ghost zombies couldnāt begin to approach the city gates.
āWhat are you guys standing around for?ā Lu Yun roared. āThe ghost zombies have turned their attention to other parts of the city. Are you going to just sit back and watch the show??ā
His shout brought the crowd back to its senses and people hastily streamed off in other directions to fend off their attackers.
āHeās weaker than me and his blood and qi less developed. Why can he kill a ghost zombie with one blow?ā Yuan Yi was also shocked. As she watched Lu Yun cut large swathes through the ghost zombies, a strange feeling rose from the bottom of her heart.
She didnāt know what it was as sheād never felt it before. It felt likeā¦ light was about to shine on her.
It was hope, something that the living of this world had never possessed.
Lu Yunās blood and qi blazed, forming roiling currents that obliterated ghost zombies with every punch he deployed. His blood and qi were very weak, but the power of reincarnation that it simulated could perfectly counter dead entities.
By now, he was certain that the ghost zombies were derived from the dead spirits!
The dead spirits that invaded the fourth realm were more terrifying and uncanny than the ghost zombies. They could be suppressed by the power of heaven and earth or burned by the flame of order to supplement order. These ghost zombies, however, required the power of reincarnation to defeat.
Lu Yun was so familiar with this power that he could mimic it by burning his own blood and qi. Otherwise, he wouldāve been torn apart by the enemy a long time ago.
All the same, he was at the end of his rope and growing incredibly weak. Setting his jaw, he hung on with gritted teeth.
He wouldnāt survive in this world suffused with despair if he was the only one who was strong. He needed to bring hope to others and give them motivation to live. That would bring hope to the entire world and lift the atmosphere of despair, thereby giving rise to civilization.
All of this was so that he could go home.
Blackish-red flames ignited in Lu Yunās eyes. His blood and qi were fully alight and the Method of Life and Death formed a true system that circulated throughout his body.
Being a cultivation method, the Method of Life and Death required external resources for cultivation. But since there was no power of heaven and earth here, Lu Yun could only refine his own blood and qi. He refined them as he would the energy of heaven and earth and concentrated them on himself.
This was a way of forging himself into heaven and earth. It was far more difficult than all of the cultivation methods in the nothing, but Lu Yun possessed prior experience! Heād once refined a body of heaven and earth when he collected the ten connate spirit roots and organs of the world of immortals into his replica. It later became the cosmos of the world and the tool with which he excised the cancerous Dao Tree from immortal dao.
Refining that replica was the experience that he drew upon now, which was why his refinement of blood and qi went so smoothly. If blood and qi could form a circulatory system in his body, one of reincarnation, then he wouldnāt need any external supplement.
He was cultivating as he mowed down the enemy, making his own body into that of heaven and earth.
Lu Yun suddenly understood that everything heād experienced before, from the world of immortals to the nothing, had been an endless series of tests. Heād never encountered any real enemies. Everything had been preparation for his visit to reality. All that heād learned and endured had been for this place.
It looked like heād come wholly unprepared when, truthfully speaking, he came equipped with immense experience, ample knowledge, and incredible practice. He was well fortified for everything in this world.
āThe cultivation method of heaven and earthā¦ with blood and qi as the energy of the world, tempering the self and manifesting the flames of reincarnationā¦ā Lu Yun closed his eyes.
The circulatory system within his body exploded with a dull roar and expanded outside of his body, forming an even bigger cycle of motion. It vaporized all of the ghost zombies that it touched.
The night passed. In the morning, an inexplicable emotion rose from the battered metropolis when they saw that Lu Yun had defended the entire city by himself.
The ghost zombies had attacked them last night, but not a single person died. Hope bloomed starting from yesterday night.
āWhoā¦ who are you!ā Yuan Yi asked incredulously when she walked up to Lu Yun.
āI am me,ā Lu Yun smiled. āIāll teach you how to cultivate. I can teach the entire city how to cultivate.ā
āYou canāt,ā Yuan Yi shook her head. āCultivation requires dense qi and blood. Those who lack it in sufficient quantities will consume it all during cultivation and dieā¦ā
āMy cultivation method doesnāt require that,ā Lu Yun smiled. āAnyone can practice it and become a cultivator.ā
He sent the cultivation method into Yuan Yiās mind with a point of his finger, turning qi and blood into will. She stared incredulously at him. Although she was also a cultivator, she didnāt possess this kind of ability.
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āAlā¦ right!ā Yuan Yi nodded slowly after she spent a while digesting the cultivation method. āDo you know that Iāve only ever known despair from the moment of my birth? The instinctive desire to live is the only thing thatās kept me going to this dayāthe desire to live a bit longer in the darkness.
āBut now, youāve shown me hope.ā She took a deep breath.
āJust from a cultivation method?ā Lu Yun sighed. āIt is but candlelight flickering in the storm and not worth mentioning.ā
āBut youāve lit a candle in a storm and given everyone hope. Look!ā Yuan Yi pointed at the city. The citizens who normally spent the day resting or staring off in a wooden, numb haze slowly gathered around them. For once, some other emotions flickered on their faces. While it wasnāt as strong as what Yuan Yi felt, it was cracks in their bleak miasma all the same.
āIāll teach all of you how to cultivate,ā Lu Yun roared with laughter. āEveryone will be as strong as me after you learn! Youāll all kill a ghost zombie with one punch!ā
He punched forward and vaporized the remaining corpses at the city gates.
Lu Yun had to change this world if he wanted to survive. Otherwise, he would be a skiff bobbing on top of the waves, ready to capsize at any second. When in the world of immortals, he utilized the Karmic Tree for cultivation and devoted himself to good deeds in order to collect goodwill. Heād disseminated all of his cultivation methods and battle techniques also in preparation for today.
Those actions prompted by the Karmic Tree fostered habits that eventually earned Lu Yun the title of āDao Saintā.