The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 4

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Episode 4
Chapter 4
Curiosity is a disease I can’t resist. I decided to test it right away.
Whoosh!
Corpse Spirit Power Manipulation is a passive skill.
Essentially, the Corpse Spirit Mana moves at my will. Following my intention, the Corpse Spirit Mana extended outward and took root in three Walking Corpses.
I felt their movements quicken, their strength intensify.
Huh… if this works right…
Snap!
The rat-beasts’ necks snapped in a single blow.
The three rat-beasts, struck by fist technique, leg technique, and footwork, became corpses on the spot.
Of course, I’d extracted the spear before killing them.
I needed an Undead wielding a spear.
Truth be told, a formation built around the spear was far more effective than one centered on fist technique.
-What did I just watch?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋWhat the hell is this?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wait, why is a corpse using fist technique?
-What was that system window just now? A Formation Technique? Wasn’t that supposed to be something only Awakened martial artists use?
The viewers were in an uproar. They all seemed shocked.
But I had no real explanation to give them.
If I said something like “I was a martial god in my previous life,” they’d never believe me.
Though thinking about it, maybe they would.
The Dimensional Tower exists, Awakenings exist — so why not past lives?
I’ve actually experienced rebirth myself.
There are plenty of web novels about past lives and regressions anyway.
If I claimed I was actually a martial god in my past life, some people would probably buy it.
But that might get annoying in its own way.
Better to keep quiet about the past life story.
[The next enemy is being summoned.]
And then the long-awaited fifth enemy appeared — Nolbird, surprisingly.
“Oh.”
Nolbird already? Wasn’t that bastard supposed to show up on the sixth round?
-Nolbird’s here!
-Isn’t this supposed to be the fifth? But Nolbird?
-But if it’s the teacher, they should be able to handle it easily.
-Can they manage that with the Formation Technique? Nolbird’s no joke.
The viewers’ concern was palpable.
That’s right. Nolbird wasn’t strong just because he carried a Halberd.
Based on the various videos I’d seen,
that bastard was a warrior who actually knew how to fight.
A warrior skilled enough to wield the Halberd with mastery, and with superior physical capabilities to boot.
His strength and stamina were roughly twice that of an ordinary human.
One bare-handed strike from him could shatter bone.
A creature like that wielding a Halberd with such skill?
The nickname “Despairer” wasn’t given to him for nothing.
Still,
221 viewers already?
Where was this going viral from?
Then… I should give them something interesting to see, shouldn’t I?
I flopped down and sat.
-What’s this?
-Teacher? What are you doing?
-Why are you suddenly sitting down like thatㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I’ve been watching from the start and this person’s concept is extremely confusing.
Watching the viewers chatter away, I offered them a word.
“Welcome, all who have come to witness the superior one. I am known as the Corpse Spirit Martial Saint.”
In my past life, I would have been a martial god, but in this one, I’m a corpse manipulator. Still, I haven’t spent this life doing evil deeds like that Corpse Spirit Demon Lord bastard.
Therefore, in this present life,
my title shall be the Corpse Spirit Martial Saint.
-Hah, not bad.
-Say, have you watched much martial arts fiction?
-This Corpse Spirit Martial Saint concept, hahahahaha
“My corpse spirits grow hungry. Allow me to demonstrate their power.”
-Wait, you’re really committing to this concept?
-Hahahaha, seriously? Hahahaha
Watching the audience erupt in laughter, I moved my Corpse Spirit Power.
And then.
I poured it into the corpse’s body.
Making it flow along the Eight Extraordinary Meridians within the corpse.
Then.
[Creature: ‘Walking Corpse’ is operating the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Rigid One Body Technique.]
A message appeared.
Interesting… I was only experimenting once….
But this works.
So it’s possible to operate Corpse Spirit Power like Inner Energy within an Undead’s body?
But when I use it directly like Inner Energy, that’s forbidden?
What the hell kind of judgment is this?
[Combat begins.]
-Here it comes!
-Master, dodge!
“Shaaaaaa!”
Nolbird roared and charged forward.
The ‘Walking Corpse’ wielding the spear faced him head-on.
The other two retreated left and right, with only one advancing.
Within that dead body, Corpse Spirit Power operated as the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Rigid One Body Technique, and the spear in its grip began to move under my spiritual control.
Yang Family Spear Technique—Furious Dragon Fang.
The spear trembled, then moved like a living dragon, cutting forward without hesitation.
As Corpse Spirit Power flowed like Inner Energy into the spear, it struck with the force of an enraged dragon’s fangs.
Seeing this, Nolbird—mid-charge—smashed his tail against the ground, destroying his own balance.
Indeed.
Definitely a seasoned fighter.
Normally such a dodge would work, but the Yang Family Spear Technique didn’t earn its reputation as a Divine Martial Technique across all the Gangho for nothing.
Crack!
The spear curved through the air and pierced Nolbird.
But the amount of Corpse Spirit Power available wasn’t great, so the Penetrating Force generated by the Walking Corpse was weak.
As a result, it couldn’t drive through his neck or skull completely—only his shoulder was pierced.
“Kiaaaaah!”
He shrieked in pain.
Then he swung his Halberd at me.
Crack!
But his shoulder was damaged, his stance broken, and the Halberd swung from his half-collapsed position held little force.
It only embedded itself in the Walking Corpse’s side—far from severing it in two.
Hmm. Nolbird. Not bad at all.
But from this point on, it’s already decided.
Whoosh!
The Yang Family Spear Technique deployed again. In a stance where escape was impossible, I drove the spear cleanly through Nolbird’s neck.
Grrgh….
While he spat blood, I took back the Halberd.
Then Nol died, dissolved into light, and vanished.
-Insane.
-Was the Corpse Spirit Martial Saint concept actually real?
-Unbelievable
-What did I just watch?
-What? A corpse? Martial arts? For real?
-Hahahaha lowest-tier walking corpse using spear techniques hahahaha
-How the hell did he do that.
The viewers were stunned, and the chat exploded with messages.
So the fifth trial.
Clear!
* * *
“An Undead using martial arts!?”
Park Il-chim.
He was entranced. Typically, martial arts refer to skills possessed by people of the Gangho type among Awakeners climbing the Dimensional Tower.
Inner Energy emerges, and most skills concentrate on close combat, which proves quite formidable. In fact, China’s vaunted Awakener Tian Wu is one of the top twenty-four ranked players.
But then.
A Walking Corpse—the lowest-class Undead—is using martial arts like this?
How? Weren’t those supposed to just mindlessly charge into battle when commanded, like beasts?
Then why can’t other necromancers do this?
Countless questions bloomed in his mind.
And he decided immediately—this footage couldn’t stay private.
[An Undead deploying Divine Martial Techniques and slaughtering the tutorial stage?]
He began rapidly posting the same content across every community he frequented.
* * *
The viewer count had suddenly jumped to one thousand twenty-one.
It had been in the hundreds, then the thousands—a five-fold surge in an instant.
Well.
When you watch a trash-tier Undead brutalize Nolbird one-on-one using the Yang Family Spear Technique, it’s worth being shocked about.
I did it myself, but honestly, I was shocked too.
The results of channeling about half my Corpse Spirit Power and operating it were extraordinary.
Measured against my past-life experience in Gangho, the Corpse Spirit Power I’d just infused amounted to maybe a year’s worth of Inner Energy cultivation, give or take.
And yet Inner Energy is Inner Energy.
The Undead displayed formidable might.
As I grow stronger, I can pour more Corpse Spirit Power into my Undead—this is shaping up to be remarkably useful.
And around this point, another thought occurred to me.
Ordinarily, Inner Energy is created by breathing to commune with heaven and earth, drawing Qi and gathering it in the Dantian.
So then.
What if I continuously infuse my Corpse Spirit Power into the Dantian of the Undead I’ve created?
I’d already confirmed that Corpse Spirit Power could function as a dedicated substitute for Inner Energy in Undead.
Could I make it accumulate permanently in the Dantian?
If so, then this would be.
An Undead with Inner Energy!
Like a Jiangshi.
In my past life, I wasn’t called a Martial Sage merely for being strong—I’d amassed an enormous collection of martial arts through various means, memorizing them all.
I was equally versed in theory.
Based on my experience and knowledge.
I had an intuition this would work.
A Jiangshi stores Qi within its body through various sorceries and grand techniques.
And the Jiangshi Technique was created to apply that Jiangshi’s power to humans.
So reversing it—applying the Jiangshi Technique to Undead—would do the trick.
Then they’d gain Inner Energy just like a Jiangshi.
Remarkable!
But my Corpse Spirit Power regenerates automatically. Most Awakeners, when they’ve depleted their Mana reserves entirely, recover them fully in about seven days.
If they have skills, items, or locations that accelerate Mana recovery, it becomes faster.
But such things are expensive or require rare fortune to obtain, or so I’d heard.
There was that streamer who found a dragon vein on a plot of land he’d bought, touted it as Mana-recovery-friendly, and went viral when his real estate investment exploded.
In other words, here’s what it means.
The Corpse Spirit Power I’ve currently infused is equivalent to roughly one year’s cultivation of Inner Energy.
If I assume I continuously infuse Corpse Spirit Power into a single Undead, converting it to Inner Energy, then accumulating a year’s cultivation every seven days becomes possible.
Four weeks yields four years of cultivation.
Sixty weeks yields a complete Sixty-Year Cycle.
Since a year is roughly fifty-two weeks… a little over a year from now, one Undead would possess a full Sixty-Year Cycle’s worth of cultivation. That’s what this means.
This is insane.
Among the Divine Martial Techniques I know, precious few can accumulate Inner Energy at this pace.
And those that do all carry devastating side effects.
In roughly five years, I’d have a single Undead with four to five Sixty-Year Cycles of cultivation ready to go!
What in the world is this.
[Next opponent will be summoned.]
While I’d been lost in thought.
The sixth enemy appeared.
Three more Nolbirds.
Is this difficulty level actually real?
The silver lining was that all my Corpse Spirit Power Manipulation had been restored, and every wound on my Undead was healed.
So it’s true—they really do replenish your condition before each trial?
[Combat begins.]
I remained seated in meditation.
Three Nolbirds came charging.
My three Undead moved to meet them.

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