"Boom—" When Zhou Ziwei poured 600,000 units of soul power into that bottomless vortex in one breath, a sudden change occurred.
Zhou Ziwei felt that the small but profound vortex that had been there all along seemed to come alive at this moment. The soul power that Zhou Ziwei sent out was no longer being swallowed up by a whirlwind, but instead began to compress the absorption speed.
This clearly indicates that the Sea of Souls has been initially successfully constructed, and the entrance to the Sea of Souls has begun to shrink and become hidden.
It was at this moment.
While Zhou Ziwei was relieved that he hadn't been completely drained by an experimental subject, he didn't hesitate to send the cluster of Emily's soul memories, which he had found earlier, directly into the unstable, pulsating sea of souls with his still-steady soul power...
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 603: Taking Advantage of Others
The soul memory cluster at this moment contains the memories of Emily, the daughter of the Soul Chaser, before her death. However, after these memories have been purified and decomposed by the Six-Syllable Mantra, they are obviously not very complete, and Zhou Ziwei is powerless to change this.
Following this cluster of soul memories being implanted into the soon-to-be-formed soul, Zhou Ziwei bestowed upon this new, independent soul with unique personality traits.
Personality is definitely a luxury, a high-end item. In any case, Zhou Ziwei would never have given personality to ordinary Kun pets or other independent soul entities when he created them in the past.
Even if Zhou Ziwei wanted to do that, it would be useless. Those simple non-living things or small insects are simply unable to produce such things due to their own limitations.
Previously, it seemed that only Shin-chan had developed a small personality on its own, which was determined by its naturally complex integrated circuit structure, which was as complex as the human brain.
Afterwards, Xiaoxin mentioned to Zhou Ziwei that if Zhou Ziwei had planned his personality traits according to his own wishes before creating him, then Xiaoxin would very likely have become the kind of personality that Zhou Ziwei idealized.
Although it was just Xiaoxin's deduction and had not been verified in any way, Zhou Ziwei still trusted Xiaoxin a lot. He secretly remembered what Xiaoxin said and thought that one day he could create all kinds of people with different personalities at will, which would be a lot of fun.
Almost the instant Zhou Ziwei cast those soul personality traits into the endless, deep vortex, the vortex suddenly trembled violently, and a powerful repulsive force arose. Even though the soul energy emanating from it was so similar to Zhou Ziwei's own aura, the soul's inherent self-protective repulsion still took effect, immediately repelling the soul power that Zhou Ziwei was still continuously sending into it.
At the same time, Zhou Ziwei clearly saw the corpse lying on the stone bed tremble slightly before returning to calm.
Zhou Ziwei knew that this independent soul entity had been fully formed and had attempted to directly control that body, but had failed.
It wasn't that the independent soul created by Zhou Ziwei wasn't powerful enough to control the human body.
The reason for this situation is that the body had been dead for a long time and had been placed in the cold storage for more than ten hours. The blood in the body had all congealed, and most of the internal organs were damaged and unable to function properly.
Then Zhou Ziwei clearly sensed a pitiful emotion being transmitted to his heart through instinctive soul connection; it was clearly a signal from the newly formed soul being pleading for help from Zhou Ziwei.
"Master... please help me... I feel so weak, and without any energy supply, I... I feel like I'm about to collapse! Master, please save me..."
Zhou Ziwei was slightly taken aback that this newly formed independent soul would automatically and consciously regard him as her master. He couldn't help but feel secretly pleased and quickly responded in his soul, saying, "Don't be afraid. I painstakingly created you, so naturally I won't just stand by and watch you be destroyed like this. Just wait... I'll heal your body right away..."
As Zhou Ziwei spoke, his hands began to wave as if dancing. Instantly, a large ball of gentle heat energy, separated and transformed from attribute-less energy, condensed in his left palm. With a "whoosh," he slammed it heavily onto the female corpse's left chest. The heat energy immediately penetrated into the female corpse's heart. Then, this ball of heat began to dart around inside the female corpse's body like a lively and mischievous little mouse. Wherever the heat energy touched, the body temperature quickly returned to above the normal level. However, the congealed blood could not melt due to the increased temperature.
Just then... Zhou Ziwei's other small hand, wrapped with a thick mass of liquid soul power, struck the female corpse's right chest. The liquid soul power quickly seeped into the female corpse's chest, and then, like a silent spring rain, it brought the cells and organs that had long since lost their vitality back to life.
The blood clots that had completely congealed in the blood vessels and chest cavity began to melt away little by little. What could be reduced was immediately converted into useful substances, while what could not be reduced was ruthlessly devoured by the cells that had regained their vitality and life force. It was then broken down into nutrients, completely integrated with the cells, and then the saturated cells underwent cell division to generate new cells...
Almost instantly, the woman's originally cold and stiff body began to undergo a dramatic transformation under Zhou Ziwei's energy manipulation. Slowly, the cold, pale color on the corpse faded rapidly, replaced by an excited crimson. In particular, the corpse's face, like a blooming peach blossom, gradually developed an alluring blush on its cheeks, making the already somewhat beautiful young woman's corpse exude an irresistible temptation.
Zhuihun finally snapped out of his shock at Zhou Ziwei's seemingly boundless "spiritual power." Seeing the changes in the female corpse's body and face, he realized that Zhou Ziwei's efforts had likely not been in vain, and his "daughter" should soon be truly resurrected.
In an instant, Zhuihun became as excited as the female corpse lying on the stone bed, his face flushed with excitement.
However... when he saw Zhou Ziwei's appearance at that moment, he was speechless.
That's disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
Because Zhou Ziwei was too short, and when Zhuihun used the spiritual artifact to carve this stone bed, he forgot to take Zhou Ziwei's height into account, so... he made the stone bed too high.
So... when Zhou Ziwei initially channeled his soul power from between his eyebrows into the female corpse's head, he didn't feel anything amiss. However, when a new sea of souls formed within the female corpse, and at this crucial moment when he needed to quickly restore the girl's life force, the issue of Zhou Ziwei's height and the height of the stone bed became somewhat acute.
In order to directly touch the corpse's chest with both hands and send the energy he had transformed into the female corpse's body without reservation, Zhou Ziwei had to jump onto the stone bed and sit on the female corpse's lower abdomen. Then he bent his body slightly, stretched out his arms, and placed his two small hands on one of the girl's high and firm breasts.
Anyone who saw this scene would immediately have some unhealthy thoughts, let alone Zhuihun. If Zhou Ziwei really managed to revive Emily this time, then... the naked female corpse in front of him would become Zhuihun's daughter, Emily. And right now... that bastard Zhou Ziwei was actually sitting on Emily's lower abdomen... rubbing his buttocks against Emily's private parts, grabbing Emily's full breasts with both hands. This... wasn't he taking full advantage of Emily?
Shameless... Absolutely shameless! Couldn't you have tried a different position? Why did you have to be so lewd? Isn't this just making him, as the father, feel utterly disgusted?
Of course, at such a crucial moment, no matter how dissatisfied he was, Zhuihun would never utter a sound. After all, his daughter had not truly come back to life yet, or even if the girl on the bed were to be resurrected, Zhuihun would not know whether she was his daughter or not. So... before everything was confirmed, Zhuihun would not act impulsively.
However, on the other hand, even if Zhuihun's daughter's soul can be resurrected on this girl's corpse, it will be a great achievement for Zhou Ziwei. Zhuihun will still be grateful to Zhou Ziwei, so how could she possibly turn against him because of some indecent little actions he made when saving Emily? Sigh... no matter how unhappy she is, she will have to endure it.
"Hey... don't just stand there... lend a hand..."
Just as Zhuihun was standing there dumbfounded, staring at the scene before him, he heard Zhou Ziwei turn around and yell at him, "Quick... help me cut that severed limb into pieces and scatter them on her chest. Remember, the finer the better..."
"Ugh... this thing... needs to be chopped up."
Upon hearing this, Zhuihun snapped out of his daze. He glanced at the severed arm that had been randomly cut off from a corpse in the morgue along with the female corpse. Helplessly, Zhuihun followed Zhou Ziwei's instructions, extracting two sharp, steel-like objects from his magical artifact. The two steel bars combined resembled an incomparably sharp pair of scissors. Zhuihun then tossed the severed arm into the air. The two dark steel bars danced back and forth between them a few times, and the once-intact arm instantly turned into a bloody, mangled mess of flesh and blood... With a "thud," it fell heavily from the air, smearing onto the female corpse's chest and completely filling the cleavage between the girl's snow-white legs.
When Zhou Ziwei saw that disgusting mass of flesh and blood fall, splattering all over his body and hands, he didn't react at all. Instead, he pressed his hands even tighter against the breasts and began to continuously inject another round of energy into the girl's corpse... Oh, in fact, the body had fully recovered its vitality, and even the originally severely damaged internal organs began to heal rapidly at a visible speed under the nourishment of this mass of fresh flesh and blood.
Of course... how the internal organs of the corpse healed cannot be seen with the naked eye, but the Soul Chaser could clearly see that the bloody mess he had just chopped up was rapidly decreasing at a visible speed, and it seemed that it had been absorbed into the girl's body in just a short while.
"Thump thump thump thump..." The blood melted completely and began to flow in the blood vessels that had regained their elasticity. At first, the blood flowed very slowly, but when the somewhat damaged heart was completely repaired under Zhou Ziwei's massive amount of life force and slowly resumed beating, the bright red blood in the blood vessels finally began to fully regain its vitality and flow jubilantly.
Zhuihun's eyes widened suddenly. He was a well-traveled and knowledgeable man who had seen all sorts of brilliant and talented people before. Since contracting a strange disease, he had seen many famous doctors from all over the world, but he had never seen anyone as miraculous as Zhou Ziwei. Without using any instruments or surgery, he could instantly repair the body of a female corpse whose internal organs were almost completely shattered into a pot of porridge, restoring her vitality in such a short time.
If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it, even if it meant death. Even now, witnessing a corpse come back to life right before his eyes, watching a stiff and frozen body regain its vitality, he still couldn't quite believe his eyes. It was all... simply too unbelievable.
"Hmm..." Finally, a faint groan, seemingly coming from the heavens, slowly escaped from the girl's throat. At this moment, the body lying on the stone bed... which had fully recovered its vitality and the characteristics of a living person, could no longer be called a corpse, because it had completely possessed all the abilities of a living person.
Breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, brain waves... all of these can prove one thing, that is... this girl is really a living person. Even if she were sent back to the morgue right now, the doctor who signed the girl's death certificate would have to immediately retract his judgment.
"Emily...she...is she really Emily back to life?"
Upon hearing the girl's moans, Zhuihun trembled all over, his expression so agitated that he seemed to have an epileptic seizure.
Zhou Ziwei smiled slightly, wiping away the large amount of flesh and blood remaining on the girl's chest that hadn't been absorbed by her body cells and tossing it aside. He then grinned at Zhuihun and said, "Whether your daughter has been resurrected or not, you'll find out by asking her yourself later. I suppose you have a way to verify if her soul is your daughter's! Hmm, but I also need to remind you beforehand that although she was resurrected from your daughter's soul,... after your daughter's soul is resurrected in another person's body, there will inevitably be a certain degree of rejection between her and that person's body. This could potentially cause some damage to her brain's memories... Hmm, that means... even if your daughter is resurrected completely healthy, she might still lose some of her memories. You need to understand this. Don't let your daughter forget a secret that only you and your father know, and then doubt the authenticity of your daughter."
"Oh, I see... I understand now."
Upon hearing this, Zhuihun nodded vigorously. He had no doubts about it. For someone to be resurrected from the dead was already an extremely miraculous thing, so it was only natural that some memories would be lost. In any case, he and his daughter had lived together for more than ten years and had many little secrets that were unknown to outsiders. He could just find some to verify. Even if his daughter had lost some memories, as long as most of them remained, she was still his daughter, Zhuihun.
After wiping away the large, disgusting clump from the girl's chest, Zhuihun frowned upon seeing the large stain still remaining. "Damn it, there's no water here. Otherwise, I should have washed the stain off my daughter before she woke up. Otherwise... Emily is a bit of a clean freak. If she finds out that her body was once so dirty, it will definitely leave a shadow in her heart."
"So she actually has obsessive-compulsive disorder about cleanliness!" Zhou Ziwei nodded upon hearing this. He had overlooked this point; when he endowed this newborn independent soul with personality traits, he hadn't included the characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder about cleanliness.
But it doesn't matter... People always change, especially someone like "Emily" who has already died once. Whatever personality changes occur in her, it's all reasonable. Zhou Ziwei isn't worried at all that he'll be exposed because of this.
Although Zhou Ziwei knew that the girl wouldn't be a germaphobe, he still nodded cooperatively and said, "Then I'll help her wash her body!"
"Don't even think about it!" Upon hearing this, Zhuihun immediately glared with his bull-like eyes, staring fiercely at Zhou Ziwei. He then stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Ziwei's hands, which were still gripping the girl's chest, saying, "Your treatment should be finished, right? Now all that's left is to wait for my daughter to wake up on her own? Then why aren't you getting down here? Are you trying to take advantage of my daughter?"
Zhou Ziwei, somewhat amused and exasperated, said, "Hey, I'm healing your daughter, bringing her back to life! How... how did I become someone who takes advantage of you?"
Zhuihun gritted his teeth and said, "But the way you're acting right now is like you're taking advantage of my daughter, and you even dared to try to bathe her. What else could it be but trying to take advantage of her?"
Volume 3, King of the City, Chapter 604: Washing Makes You Healthier
Seeing Zhuihun's furious expression, as if she wanted to pounce on him and bite him, Zhou Ziwei looked at his current position, straddling the girl's lower abdomen with his hands gripping her snow-white breasts. This... really did feel incredibly lewd...
Although Zhou Ziwei looks like an innocent child, Zhuihun knows that Zhou Ziwei is definitely not a five or six-year-old child, and is absolutely not innocent at all.
That's why Zhuihun became so agitated after hearing that Zhou Ziwei wanted to wash the girl's body.
Zhou Ziwei chuckled awkwardly, then jumped off the girl, clapped his hands, flicked the sticky bits of flesh and blood off them, and said with a wry smile, "This stuff is disgusting... not only does your daughter need to wash, but I need to wash too. It's so uncomfortable to have this on me..."
Upon hearing this, Zhuihun flew into a rage, glaring and roaring, "What?! You...you want to take a bath with my daughter?! You can forget about it! Be careful, or I'll castrate you, you little brat!"
Zhou Ziwei rolled his eyes helplessly and said, "When did I say I wanted to take a bath with your daughter? Even if we really wanted to, we'd wait until you, old man, weren't around! Fine... don't glare at me. If you don't want me to help your daughter bathe, fine. I really need to wash myself properly. This... is flesh and blood cut from a corpse. It's disgusting to have it on my skin, haha... washing it makes me healthier!"
As Zhou Ziwei spoke, a large amount of water energy was immediately released from his body, instantly spreading around him.
Although this water energy is not the same as real water, as long as it has water energy, it can immediately and quickly absorb free moisture in the air. So, just a few seconds later, layers of thick water mist began to float around Zhou Ziwei.
After a short while, the mist condensed further and quickly turned into tiny water droplets. Countless such droplets gathered together to form a stream of water.
Fortunately, this is a mountainous area, where the humidity is high and the air contains more moisture. Otherwise, no matter how abundant Zhou Ziwei's water energy was, he wouldn't have been able to create water out of thin air.
If Zhou Ziwei were thrown into the scorching desert, he could still use water energy to absorb some moisture from the air.
However, even if he tries for an hour, he might not be able to collect even a small cup of water from the air.
Here, in just a short while, the absorbed moisture formed a ribbon of water around Zhou Ziwei that resembled a python.
Watching the water ribbon dance around Zhou Ziwei like a living dragon, never touching the ground, left Zhuihun speechless. Although he knew Zhou Ziwei was no ordinary person, or even an ordinary spiritual martial artist, he never expected the kid to be so amazing.
What kind of technique is this? There's no such skill among Spirit Warriors... and for Strength Warriors... it's even more out of the question. It's completely impossible! But... this impossible thing happened right before his eyes, so how could he not believe it?
Moreover, he clearly sensed that the water was filled with a powerful yet mysterious energy, proving that this water was not ordinary water, but a deadly weapon that could kill at any moment... This energy felt very unfamiliar to Zhuihun. It was definitely different from the spiritual energy possessed by spiritual warriors, and of course, it had nothing to do with physical warriors. So... what was it?
Zhou Ziwei was too lazy to pay attention to Zhuihun's reaction. When he felt that the water belt had gathered enough, he rolled up his sleeves high... Of course, this action was actually for Zhuihun's benefit. In fact, the clothes he was wearing were alloy clothes with spirituality. As long as he had a thought, his sleeves would disappear, so there was no need for him to roll them up with his hands.
After rolling up his sleeves, Zhou Ziwei simply stretched out both hands and inserted them directly into the water jets swirling around him.
"Splash..." A crisp and pleasant sound of flowing water rang out, and the water, as if it were alive, flowed over Zhou Ziwei's hands. Then, Zhou Ziwei's hands, which were originally covered with dirt, were immediately clean. No matter how picky a person was, they would never be able to find even a speck of dirt on his hands.
The hose that had just cleaned Zhou Ziwei's hands was still floating in mid-air. Then, the hose twisted back and forth a few times like a giant snake, and a series of "splat" sounds were heard. The grime was separated from the hose and fell to the ground. The hose itself remained clear and clean, completely untouched by any dirt.
Zhuihun, watching from the side, nearly had his eyes pop out of his head. He saw Zhou Ziwei repeatedly examine his hands, then clap his hands in satisfaction, and point at the water ribbon in the air. The water droplets contained within the ribbon began to fly in all directions. Zhuihun hurriedly shouted, "Wait... It's not easy for you to condense water vapor, and it's just dissipated after washing your hands. This... this is too wasteful! At least... at least help my daughter wash off the dirt!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ziwei feigned seriousness and asked, "No way! You just said that if I wanted to bathe your daughter, you would castrate me. I'm telling you, uncle, I need this thing to carry on the family line in the future, so I can't just offer it up to you like this!"
"I..." Zhuihun was so angry that his cheeks trembled, and he almost used his spiritual energy to transform his Hundred Transformations into a large sword to cut the kid in two.
But then I thought about how this person was the great benefactor who had just resurrected my daughter... It seemed a bit unfair of me to do this.
Moreover, there is no water source anywhere in this place, so the only way to bathe my daughter is to rely on this kid. Otherwise, if my daughter, who is a clean freak, wakes up and sees a pile of minced corpse meat on her body, she will be so disgusted that she will vomit to death. There is no other way, but for my daughter's sake, I have to swallow my pride.
Helpless, Zhuihun could only cough dryly, rubbing his hands helplessly while trying to force a smile onto his old face. He said, "Well, young man, don't misunderstand. I was just... just joking with you. You're the one who saved my daughter's life. I'm so grateful to you. How could I... how could I possibly... do that to you? Hehe... You know, it's really unpleasant to have that disgusting stuff stuck to your body. My daughter looks like she's about to wake up. You should go all the way and help her clean up her body, hehe... See... how about... you help me out again?"
Seeing the king of assassins looking so pitiful in front of him, Zhou Ziwei finally couldn't resist teasing him anymore. He chuckled and said, "Alright then! Since you won't castrate me, I'll reluctantly do you this little favor!"
As Zhou Ziwei spoke, he waved his hand, and the water ribbon that was about to disperse in mid-air immediately reformed.
However, Zhou Ziwei did not immediately direct the water stream to rush towards the girl's body. Instead, he flicked his finger and released a wisp of wind energy. The wind energy immediately gathered a large amount of air in the stone chamber, forming a powerful gust of wind. Under Zhou Ziwei's control, this wind was strong but not violent. In an instant, it flew to the stone bed and lifted the girl, who was still unconscious, up. Then, it lifted the girl and hovered her in mid-air. The gale swirled around the girl's body, but it did not harm a single hair on her head. The girl's body, which weighed about 100 pounds, was suspended in the air without falling.
Upon seeing this, Zhuihun's eyes lit up. He carefully sensed the energy contained in the wind and couldn't help but gasp. He turned to Zhou Ziwei and said, "You... what kind of skill is this? How... can you use this energy so skillfully?"
Zhou Ziwei chuckled, but didn't explain anything to Zhuihun. This wasn't something that was easy to explain, and it was a unique skill created by Zhou Ziwei himself. He wouldn't teach it to Zhuihun so easily as if it were a treasure to be presented to him.
Even if Zhuihun really wanted to learn it, it wouldn't be impossible... well, that depends on how effective his spiritual energy cultivation technique is.
Zhuihun naturally realized that his question was rather rash. Seeing that Zhou Ziwei did not answer, he did not press the matter. However, after Zhou Ziwei used the wind to lift the girl up, he immediately pointed again, and the water ribbon that had been swirling in the air for a while immediately wrapped around the girl's body like a snake.
A fierce wind swirled around the girl. If someone were to throw a basin of water at her at this moment, the water would be blown away by the rapidly spinning wind, ensuring that not a single drop of water would be splashed on her.
But for some reason, the wind and water seemed to have a perfect understanding with each other. When the water flowed in, the wind whirl immediately opened a gap, allowing the snake-like water to flow in without any hindrance and directly wrap around the girl's skin.
Then Zhuihun saw the water flow start from the girl's feet, winding upwards and gliding over her. Wherever it went, the filth and corpse aura that had been on the girl's body were completely washed away, leaving no trace of bad smell or dirt.