The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 15

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Episode 15
Episode 15
Four years of cultivation.
This is no trivial matter.
Thinking back on my previous life’s experience of accumulating four years of Inner Power, it becomes all the more apparent.
For instance.
Suppose there exists a martial artist renowned for mastering the Three Disasters Heart Method, a second-rate technique.
Assume this martial artist possessed only mediocre affinity for Inner Power and ordinary talent across the board.
Such a person would need to spend at least four double-hour periods each day performing Qi Circulation Training just to accumulate one day’s worth of Inner Power.
Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Yet it’s the truth.
Four double-hour periods.
You might not grasp how enormous that is, but it truly is staggering.
In the modern time I currently inhabit, that translates to a full eight hours of sitting in meditation, controlling breath and gathering energy—just to earn a single day’s worth of cultivation!!
Right. With merely ordinary Three Disasters Heart Method and middling talent, that would indeed be the case.
But then.
What of the Heavenly Martial Perfect Body—the supreme talent in the realm of Divine Technique cultivation?
In truth, even Divine Technique cultivation has its own foundational entry-level Inner Power methods.
To master the Wudang Sect’s supreme Inner Power technique, the Taeching Kanggi, one must first learn the Sochung Qigong.
Sochung Qigong, Sochung Divine Technique, then Taeching Kanggi in sequence.
After mastering Taeching Kanggi comes the standard practice of also learning the Yangui Divine Technique.
Simply mastering these four Divine Technique-level Inner Power methods takes nearly thirty years.
Terrifying, is it not?
In any case.
Take the Sochung Qigong as an example. This is quite excellent—a person of ordinary talent would gain one day’s cultivation with roughly two double-hour periods of practice.
Someone of superior talent would accumulate a day’s worth in a single double-hour period, and with Heavenly Martial Perfect Body, one could build a day’s cultivation in half a double-hour period.
Half a double-hour period. In modern terms, that’s thirty minutes.
A full day’s cultivation in thirty minutes.
Theoretically, if you excluded roughly ten hours for eating, bathing, and sleeping, then spent sixteen hours straight performing Qi Circulation Training relentlessly, you could accumulate thirty-two days’ worth of cultivation in a single day—that’s the mathematics of it.
Of course, even with Heavenly Martial Perfect Body, no one would be mad enough to practice that obsessively, so it remains theoretical.
But here’s the thing.
The experimental Jiangshi right before my eyes acquired four years of cultivation in less than an hour.
“Wait. Is this even right?”
The Bone Depository, successor to the Necron Emperor. This is completely broken, isn’t it? I can’t tell if I’m just overpowered, or if other classes are equally ridiculous at this level.
Hmm.
At this rate, my corpse might actually recover the martial prowess I possessed in my past life.
“Let’s see then… why don’t I test just how far this experimental Jiangshi Number One can go?”
I had the experimental Jiangshi Number One execute various martial techniques.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Thump!
Sitting in the Entrance Hall, I put the experimental Jiangshi Number One through its paces.
From the results, I discovered two critical facts.
First.
Despite having acquired Inner Power, the experimental Jiangshi Number One remains weak.
Second.
There’s a subtle delay when issuing commands.
The second problem is troublesome, but frankly, the first is worse.
This boils down to one thing: it’s still a corpse, so without Inner Power, it can’t grow at all……
“What do I do? Without Outer Power training to complement martial technique cultivation, the body becomes completely soft and useless……”
The vast majority of the Jianghu stake their lives on Inner Power cultivation and cast aside their very existence for a single miracle elixir.
Precisely because Inner Power is valued so highly, a tendency has emerged to belittle Outer Power training.
Yet the truly renowned sects and great families never neglect Outer Power cultivation.
If Inner Power is the energy source, then Outer Power is the vessel that contains and channels it.
What good is abundant Inner Power if the vessel is no larger than a soy sauce dish?
Therefore, even if one doesn’t make Outer Power training the primary focus, maintaining cultivation in balance with Inner Power is absolutely essential.
But this experimental Jiangshi Number One is simply a corpse.
Just an ordinary person’s cadaver—nothing more muscular than that.
Moreover, since it wasn’t created using the Jiangshi Grand Method, it’s nothing but soft, flaccid tissue.
This body is truly useless.
A dead corpse incapable of training or cultivation.
That’s the fundamental problem.
This Jiangshi transformation is still in progress… but when exactly will I become a Jiangshi?
And.
What’s the benefit of becoming a Jiangshi anyway?
The Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi Unified Body Technique keeps operating, but once the transformation completes, what exactly will I become?
Will I turn into a Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi?
Or just some worthless common Jiangshi?
Which is it?
“No point pondering this forever. How do necromancers solve this problem? Let me see…”
Awakeners can access the internet through the system without needing a computer.
They browse GodTube, post in communities.
After searching this way and that, I learned something.
Necromancers can modify corpses.
There are skills that reinforce, modify, and fuse corpses.
Or they trap souls to use as materials, and apparently there are cases where they hunt corpses that were strong in life.
They also reinforce corpses using demons and other monsters as raw materials.
But none of that was something I could do right now.
What’s a low-level nobody supposed to accomplish?
The fact that the corpse is accumulating Inner Power in the first place is already absurd.
Then I need to think of another approach.
Should I use Alchemy?
I studied Alchemy in my past life, and I can apply some of it here in this one…
Maybe I could use it to strengthen the corpse?
I still remember the contents of the Secret Manual I beat out of Siryeong Magun and took from him—there’s a Jiangshi manufacture method in it.
And it also contained the Jiangshi Grand Method for reinforcing corpses with various medicines, plus specialized Jiangshi Alchemy techniques.
“Good. I’ll keep that in mind.”
For now, I need to focus on what I can do today.
Even if it’s still soft flesh, more Inner Power is always better.
The Bone Depository recovers Inner Power incredibly fast.
I’d be a fool not to take advantage of that.
How much Inner Power can I actually pour into this thing?
“Full Inner Power charge. Let’s go!”
I sat down in meditation and kept channeling Corpse Spirit Power into Experimental Jiangshi Number One.
Whoooosh!
The Corpse Spirit Power that flowed out of my body entered its body, and by my will was deployed within Experimental Jiangshi Number One’s frame through the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi Unified Body Technique.
After hours of effort like this.
When I’d poured in roughly half a decade’s worth of Inner Power by my estimation.
The system responded.
[The Walking Corpse is undergoing mutation.]
Wait? My Undead’s status is changing?
Before I could fully process my shock.
[The Walking Corpse has become a Jiangshi.]
[The Jiangshi’s rank is Copper Rank.]
The corpse had become a Jiangshi.
Heh… It actually works?
[Jiangshi]
Rank: Copper
A Jiangshi created through mutation of a Walking Corpse.
Crafted by Yi Museon, who transformed Corpse Spirit Power through the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi Unified Body Technique and anchored it within the corpse.
A Copper Rank Jiangshi.
In other words, the lowest rank of Jiangshi.
In the Jianghu Martial World, Jiangshi were ranked in five tiers: Copper, Iron, Jade, Silver, and Gold.
The Copper Rank Jiangshi is treated as the lowest.
But you can’t afford to underestimate it.
Even a Copper Rank Jiangshi has skin as hard as metal by default, so only a master at the peak of perfection capable of wielding Sword Qi or Blade Qi could destroy it easily.
If you can’t properly execute a Qi Strike?
You have to smash it to pieces with excessive physical force.
And that’s not easy.
On top of that, most Jianghu martial artists use swords as their primary weapon.
In truth, the best way to smash a Copper Rank Jiangshi is to cave in its skull with a hammer, but how many martial artists in the world carry an exotic weapon like a hammer?
Strike it with a blade, and the blade won’t survive the blow.
A sword of Titanium Alloy Steel might make some difference, but even so, shattering it cleanly isn’t easy.
That’s why even a Copper Rank Jiangshi is troublesome and exhausting to face.
A first-rate martial artist might manage escape, perhaps.
So there was even a joke that you’d need to practice the Hammer Method to stand against Jiangshi.
The Hammer Method is a martial art wielding a hammer—something like a war hammer. Of course, it’s an exotic weapon, and such martial arts are almost nonexistent.
So anyone below second-rate should consider themselves dead if they encounter one.
“Still…… I wonder if a Copper Rank Jiangshi is stronger than a Ghoul?”
A Ghoul.
An undead that appears often even in the Dimensional Tower, with skin like steel and the tremendous strength of a wild beast far beyond human.
It looks like a withered human corpse and behaves like a beast—that’s its characteristic.
Moreover, its hands are shrouded in Corpse Spirit Power, so it doesn’t rely on mere physical attacks.
Its claws and teeth carry Corpse Poison as well.
A genuinely dangerous creature.
Thinking that far, I recalled something else.
According to hunters’ standards, you need to be level forty before you can face one with ease, wasn’t it?
My Copper Rank Jiangshi does have similar bodily toughness to a Ghoul…… though.
Hmm~.
So what does that mean.
Does that make my corpse a Ghoul-class undead? I thought, then gave my head a light shake.
A Copper Rank Jiangshi merely has a tough body.
Its limbs are stiff, making its movements awkward, and while it’s somewhat stronger, it doesn’t wrap Corpse Spirit Power around itself like sword energy.
Stronger than a zombie, weaker than a Ghoul.
Exactly that level.
“Still…… though.”
Looking at Experimental Jiangshi Number One from that point, something felt odd.
“This one…… it’s a Jiangshi, but…… its limbs aren’t stiff? Huh?”
More surprising than Experimental Jiangshi Number One becoming a Copper Rank Jiangshi is this right now!
So I sent my will and made it display its martial techniques.
Whoosh! Snap!
It moves as smoothly as a human!
It’s even demonstrating the power of one trained in Outer Power!
And the most surprising part.
The Inner Power has vanished!
“Ah. I think I understand the principle now.”
Once the Inner Power exceeded half a Jiapzi, it absorbed that power and evolved. That’s why the Inner Power disappeared, and the body became an Iron Flesh Iron Bone Copper Rank Jiangshi.
Come to think of it.
In the Jianghu, creating Copper Rank Jiangshi is similar to this.
When sorcerers who’ve trained in Jiangshi techniques infuse their power and simmer the body in medicinal broth, it becomes a Copper Rank Jiangshi.
I simply replaced that process with Corpse Spirit Power and the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi Unified Body Technique.
The reason the body is so pliant despite being a Copper Rank Jiangshi…… is probably because I didn’t create it from an ordinary corpse using a grand method.
Since I initially jiangshi-fied the lowest-grade undead—a Walking Corpse—it can use its limbs properly…… that’s how I should see it.
Fascinating.
If Siryeong Magun had seen this, his eyes would’ve popped right out of his head.
But now that it’s like this, the situation changes.
“These things. They can properly use martial techniques now, can’t they?”
My mouth’s watering.
I let out a dark chuckle.

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