Chapter 697: Section 484: Cultivating Undead Magic Again

“Black Iron Level…” the Fishman youth nodded, feeling a sense of urgency.

According to the plan he had made with Cang Xu, time was a crucial element.

Cultivation couldn’t be achieved overnight, yet the Dragon-man youth needed to quickly improve his Mage Level at this juncture.

Just as fighters relied on Fighting energy to improve their Level, Mages depended on Meditation Techniques.

“How do you find this Meditation Technique?” the Fishman youth handed the Tide Sound Meditation Method to Zhongyong for review.

After reading only a third of it, Zhongyong displayed a look of admiration: “Lord Hou Lang, this Meditation Technique is truly outstanding and very suitable for someone with the Fishman Bloodline like yourself. It’s much better than my own technique!”

“This is rare indeed.”

“To tell you the truth,” Zhongyong continued, “my Meditation Technique was exchanged from the Lijian family and is considered Advanced, extraordinary by any standard.”

The Fishman youth laughed: “In that case, I’ll give this Meditation Technique to you.”

Zhongyong was shaken: “My lord, this is too precious…”

“Consider it a personal gift from me to thank you for your teachings,” the Fishman youth said as he patted Zhongyong’s shoulder. “Besides, there are very few Fishmen in the entire Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps. As your senior, it is only right for me to help a junior.”

Zhongyong was even more grateful.

In his presence, the youth had concealed his identity as the squad leader Long Fu, appearing only as the “senior Hou Lang.”

Coupled with the Familiarity Aura bestowed by his bloodline, Zhongyong felt incredibly fortunate to have met a noble person who was close to him and wanted to support him right after arriving at this unfamiliar organization!

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps also became much dearer to him.

The Fishman youth further encouraged Zhongyong before letting him return to continue his alchemy work.

Having received the Tide Sound Meditation Method, Zhongyong left the Meditation Room with renewed vigor.

Now, the Meditation Room was left with only the Fishman youth.

The youth didn’t rush to meditate but used the Blood Core to undergo a composite transformation.

The next moment, his appearance drastically changed.

His fish scales turned black-grey, and twisted patterns formed a ghost-faced on his chest and back.

This was the Ghost-faced Fish change used by the Fishman youth.

With this layer of Bloodline enhancement, he was qualified to absorb negative energy, converting it into Undead Mana, and then practice Undead Magic.

This shows that Bloodline is the foundation.

Without the corresponding Bloodline, many forms of Extraordinary Cultivation are difficult even to begin with.

Earlier, the Fishman youth had already depleted the Water Magic in his Mana Pool.

This allowed him to directly absorb negative energy, converting it into Undead Mana.

The Deep Sea Monster Fish’s Meditation Room was specially designed for War Merchants, with excellent facilities that could directly consume corresponding materials from the storerooms, allowing for energy extraction and creating an environment suitable for Mages to meditate.

This method of energy extraction was far superior to Zi Di crushing Undead Materials, far more efficient. The same amount of material could yield more negative energy.

It’s worth mentioning that these Undead Materials were mostly of the type like ghost-faced fish corpses.

Ghost-faced Fish have both Water Element and Undead properties.

They could be sold as Water Element materials on the market, and they also skirted the edge of being classified as Undead.

Thus, in some places, the sale of such materials is prohibited, but in others, like Twin Eyes Island, they could be openly bought and sold.

Since the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps began acquiring Undead Materials, the materials they managed to obtain from the market were all of this type.

Previously, when the Dragon-man youth wanted to transform into a ghost, he was unable to do so precisely because these materials could not allow him to transform into a ghost-type Undead Life.

At most, he could only become a solid-life form like the Ghost-faced Fish.

The Fishman youth refined Water Element mana using the Tide Sound Meditation Technique. However, at this moment, when refining Undead mana, he used the Death Energy Meditation Method.

The former he selected from the War Merchant’s databank. The latter came from the legitimate Soul Vein inheritance of the Undead Orthodoxy, and Cang Xu was the contributor.

“Refining Undead mana is far less efficient than refining Water Element.”

“After all, the Ghost-faced Fish is only at most a Silver Level Magic Beast, and this Ghost-faced Fish Bloodline is merely a Silver Level Bloodline.”

But this was already the best choice for the Fishman youth.

Despite this, in the storage room of the Deep Sea Monster Fish, there were even Gold Level materials that were on par with Undead.

Absorbing such materials, the Fishman youth could obtain a Gold Level Undead Bloodline, but it was not as useful as the Ghost-faced Fish Bloodline.

Because the scope of the Gold Level near-Undead material was far inferior to that of the Ghost-faced Fish corpse.

The Fishman youth had absorbed a large number of Ghost-faced Fish corpses and had already maximized this Bloodline Concentration.

A 100% Silver Level Ghost-faced Fish Bloodline, compared to less than 5% of a Gold Level Undead Bloodline, the former was evidently better.

The Fishman youth began to self-learn Undead Magic.

Having experienced learning Water Magic before, he quickly mastered the most basic Undead Spells.

However, he could clearly feel that learning this time was more difficult than before and required active effort to learn.

The first time he cast these basic Undead Spells, it was not 100% successful. Nor did he feel the natural casting sensation, as if breathing, like before.

Fortunately, the foundation brought by his Fishman Bloodline was still there, allowing him, to a great extent, to draw knowledge from related skills.

The Fishman youth’s strong spirit made it easy for him to map out the models for Undead Spells.

After practicing basic Undead Spells, the Fishman youth immediately proceeded to practice Black Iron Level Undead Spells without rest.

During this period, the Tower Spirit was responsible for external surveillance.

The focus of the monitoring was on Cang Xu.

Should Cang Xu’s life be in danger, the youth would destroy the nest and perform the emergency rescue!

In the youth’s heart, Cang Xu’s life was far more precious than the Ocean Nest.

Currently, it seemed Cang Xu’s adventure was a success.

But although he had temporarily passed Zhou Zhang’s examination, the latter had not removed the double seal on Cang Xu.

It was even more improbable for the ship ghost.

Before this Transmission Blood Sacrifice, the cunning ship ghost had insinuated to Cang Xu that there were still methods from the Broken Corpse Healer on him. This was hinting to Cang Xu that you are under my control, but the killer is not me, it’s the Broken Corpse Healer.

If in the future, Cang Xu were to discover the deadly traps someone had set on him, then this excuse could immediately inform Cang Xu—the killer was indeed the Broken Corpse Healer.

Cang Xu arrived at the ship ghost’s residence.

Accompanying him were the Little Prince, Fin Spirit, and Ku Feng.

Just like the previous sharing of fabricated memory experiences, after everyone entered the room, they sat down in a circle.

“Cang Xu, you being able to come back alive is really wonderful!!” ship ghost exclaimed warmly.

The expressions of the others varied.

The Little Prince was actually the happiest, as he had been tormented by guilt these past few days.

Ku Feng’s gaze was honest. In his view, competition for survival that employed every conceivable method was not to be condemned!

Fin Spirit had a somber expression.

She had never expected that Cang Xu would be able to teleport back again.

The schemes she had plotted against Cang Xu previously now served as a legitimate reason for Cang Xu to retaliate against her.