E Shengfan could only let out a helpless sigh after eating that stale pancake.

Shi Feiyang continued to watch the boy enter Chenwei Village to slay zombies. Inside, the zombies were more formidable than the ones outside, many of them black-haired zombies, and even white-haired zombies, whose movements were even more agile than normal people, some even faster. Although the boy had over ten years of effort and knew how to wield the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword, there were several instances where he was pounced on by zombies, his body scratched with several bloody marks by their iron-like black nails.

The child was very strong, and too excited in his zombie-killing frenzy to care about the wounds on his body.

However, he didn't know that his village's zombie-slaying activities had long been under the watchful eye of Zhang Qiujie.

Zhang Qiujie and Qu Bamei were on their way to Dai Family Field to seek revenge and to cultivate the Heavenly Corpse Great Technique using the villagers. During cultivation, they had to bury themselves in the earth, eventually becoming zombies just like Xiang Jiugu. Only, Xiang Jiugu's Primordial Spirit was controlled by the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword during the cultivation process and her mind was clouded by its prohibition.

While cultivating, they practiced Taiyin Refining, their minds scattered as if they had truly died. Therefore, the two sisters separated to cultivate. Zhang Qiujie did so from midnight to noon, and Qu Bamei from noon to midnight.

It was now late afternoon, and Zhang Qiujie was meditating in her room when she suddenly felt the presence of a living person enter the village, but the prelaid Ghost Fire Corpse Formation showed no reaction whatsoever.

She hastily came out to check. The formation didn't show any anomalies, nor could she see any living people in the village—since Shi Feiyang was remotely casting spells, making it so she couldn't see the young zombie slayer. She could only sense the presence of a living person in the village, but couldn't pinpoint exactly where.

Zhang Qiujie was fierce by nature and immediately used the Cold Flame Soul Searching Great Technique, flinging out streaks of blue flame that flew across the ground. If it encountered an enemy, the flame would gather toward them, allowing her to lock onto the enemy's location and fly over to cast spells to subdue them.

But with Shi Feiyang present, her Cold Flame Soul Searching Great Technique couldn't detect the boy at all. Seven cold flames swept across the village like brooms several times to no avail; the living person's aura weakened significantly, nearly vanishing under the burning flames.

Although uneasy, Zhang Qiujie had no choice but to return to her room to continue her cultivation.

Zombie after zombie was killed in the village, yet in her senses, nothing had happened—the zombies seemed just fine.

The boy continued slaying zombies well into the night, shouting, "Emperor Yuan Yang! Emperor Yuan Yang! I've leveled up to ten! Don't you have a reward for me? There must be martial arts secrets even more powerful than the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword, right?"

Shi Feiyang said, "It's time to send you back."

"Ah?" The boy reluctantly protested, "But I'm not done playing yet. There must be more powerful zombies in this village, right? There were two with glowing red eyes that I didn't dare to fight. And farther back, it looks like a graveyard with even stronger yin energy. Are there zombie kings there? If I kill them all, what reward will I get?"

"You need to go back," Shi Feiyang said, reaching out through space, and with a gesture, the boy's body dissolved into a five-colored radiance and returned to his Primordial Spirit state in the palm of Shi Feiyang's hand.

The boy stood on his palm, looking up at Shi Feiyang: "Emperor Yuan Yang, you look so handsome! Even more than the Buddha in 'Journey to the West'. Does that make me Sun Wukong?"

Shi Feiyang, finding the child quite lively, smiled and said, "Just don't pee on my fingers."

The boy grinned and suddenly remembered he was about to return, his face fell slightly, "I'm a good kid! I never relieve myself just anywhere! Your Highness, is this really a real world? Or did someone knock me out, and I'm dreaming? Can I come back again? I haven't killed enough zombies yet."

Shi Feiyang replied, "I'll send you back first... if you can successfully awaken..."

He didn't continue because he wasn't entirely sure he could send the boy back, as entering the "Harmonization" Realm before had been quite accidental, akin to a flash of inspiration. Only when entering that realm could he sense Earth and send people back. If he couldn't enter, he wouldn't be able to send anyone back, and the child would have to stay in this world.

Shi Feiyang held the boy's Primordial Spirit in his hands, once again attempted Harmonization with his divine powers, and reached into the void... Luckily, he succeeded. After all, he'd had the experience once before, and this time it went smoothly.

He sensed Earth again, arriving at the alley where the boy had been beaten. The people were no longer there. Through Heavenly Human Sensing, he quickly located a hospital, where the boy lay on a bed with his parents by his side.

The lad had been bullied by classmates and suddenly collapsed without moving. The bullies thought he was faking unconsciousness and kicked his head, but he remained motionless. Realizing he had actually passed out, they began to panic. Thinking of fleeing but noticing the cameras at the street corner, they knew they couldn't escape and so reluctantly called for an ambulance.

Once at the hospital, the boy was examined and found to have multiple soft tissue contusions but no fatal injuries. His vital signs were stable overall, but he just wouldn't wake up... No matter what emergency measures were taken or stimuli provided, there was no reaction, and it seemed very likely that he would become a vegetable...

Luckily, the boy finally woke up. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in the hospital bed with his mother crying beside him like a weeping statue.

There were no serious issues with his body, and now that he had woken up, the danger had passed, though he still needed to be hospitalized for observation for a while.

The boy tried to mobilize the True Qi in his body, but naturally, there was nothing, an empty space.

He missed the feeling of being full of vigor when fighting zombies, being able to leap over twenty feet in one step, and breaking young trees as thick as one's arm with a single punch.

"Could it all have been a dream? The Yuan Yang Emperor, the zombies in the village, were they just dreams?" The boy lay on the bed with his eyes closed, trying to mobilize the Inner Refining Skills of the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword, and to his surprise, he actually felt a weak current of energy flowing along his meridians.

"Holy crap! It's real! I truly know the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword!" He sneaked out of the hospital ward when no one was paying attention, found a secluded spot, and executed a few moves of the swordsmanship. It was exactly like when he had fought the zombies before, only now the Essence Energy in his body was much weaker.

"Yuan Yang Emperor! Yuan Yang Emperor!" the boy whispered a few times. Suddenly, he heard a response in his ear, "Why are you calling me?"

The boy trembled with excitement and looked around. "I'm not hallucinating, am I? Emperor, can you hear me calling you?"

"Of course."

"Then, I'd like to go kill zombies again..." the boy pleaded.

"Wait until tomorrow night, at the Hour of Xu... hmm, ten o'clock at night. Lie on your bed and wait for me."

"It has to be tomorrow, well, okay." The boy was somewhat reluctant.

Shi Feiyang was studying how to interact with this world at this time. He discovered that his Primordial Spirit couldn't cross over and that he couldn't touch anything in this world, not even a speck of dust. He also found that the timelines of the two worlds were not synchronized—about a two-to-one difference. An hour on Earth was three hours in the Shushan World.

He planned to bring more people from Earth to the Shushan World and also tried to send souls from the Shushan World to Earth. There were over two hundred thousand souls in the Heavenly Secret Demon God Lamp, but this had to be done safely and controllably, to avoid causing disasters for both worlds.

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