Undead Mage from a Cell

Chapter 356: Chapter 354: Changes in Evil Wood Lake

”Let’s not talk much, Di Mi, come help me.”

As Gu Xi spoke, he lifted a corpse by himself and started processing it on the spot.

This time, Gu Xi had no time to deal with those ordinary eerie corpses; he was now directly going for the large eerie corpse.

Only when materials were insufficient would he draw from the smaller eerie ones. If the materials were plentiful, Gu Xi had no intention of touching the ordinary eerie ones.

Due to the drink, Gu Xi’s overall mana had increased.

Additionally, after a good sleep, he felt quite energetic, and his processing speed was incredibly fast.

Under Gu Xi’s handling, an Undead Transformation Array was quickly arranged.

This time, it was a serpent-like large eerie corpse that was pushed in.

At this point, Gu Xi had developed further understanding and recognition of the Undead Transformation Technique.

The newly prepared magic array went even smoother than the last. After the serpent-like eerie was sent in, Gu Xi didn’t rush to begin, but carefully checked all the details before starting the ritual of undead transformation.

During the process of Gu Xi’s ritual, he did not, like the previous two times, allow the Undead Transformation Array to draw mana from himself unchecked, but instead controlled the output of his mana.

In places where mana was unnecessary, Gu Xi conserved it.

In areas needing large amounts of mana, he did not stop the loss of mana.

With the injection of mana, that huge serpent-like eerie began to change.

The serpent in front of him obviously grew larger, and its skin and scales slowly turned into an eerie mirror color.

One could even see reflections in the scales.

However, this change appeared for just a moment. Under the control of mana, this serpent-like eerie unexpectedly started to fly by itself, its body becoming incredibly stiff.

However, no matter how stiff it got, the serpent’s body could still twist uninterruptedly.

This is characteristic of a serpent; even without a head, its body can still twist three times.

Now, activated by Gu Xi’s Soul Summoning Skill, the serpent’s death instinct became no longer the same, and its upper half stood up directly.

Just then, Gu Xi suddenly felt a strong suction coming from underneath Evil Wood Lake, as if trying to draw the serpent down.

Under normal circumstances, Gu Xi would only need to express his stance to repel this suction.

After all, this city was his city.

But this time, Gu Xi had a feeling that Evil Wood Lake needed this serpent, that the city needed this serpent.

This feeling was similar to what Gu Xi experienced when he contracted Luna; the connection between him and the Contracted Undead was unparalleled.

With this feeling, without thinking, Gu Xi raised his hand, and the serpent, not yet fully transformed into an undead, fell into Evil Wood Lake.

Then Gu Xi saw a water cyclone rise from Evil Wood Lake, entwined with the tree root tendril still embedded in Evil Wood Lake, yet to be digested.

As the water cyclone moved upward, a large amount of water poured down from above.

That tree root tendril, which wasn’t very long, was slowly disappearing, and normally, three more rounds of sacrifices would cause the tendril to fully merge into Evil Wood Lake.

By then, Evil Wood Lake would become the most crucial part of Yalidov City.

Gu Xi hadn’t expected a serpent-like eerie to cause such a change.

This stirred something within Gu Xi, prompting him to inject mana into that serpent-like eerie’s location.

Yet, as Gu Xi injected mana, a large wave surged in Evil Wood Lake.

The wave knocked over the last tree root tendril in a single blow.

Then Gu Xi heard a booming sound from Evil Wood Lake.

Afterward, the enormous tree root that had been lodged in the lake disappeared, and what was once green lake water now resembled a bright mirror-like surface, covered with large dark green lily leaves, appearing as if serpent scales were embedded on the mirror surface from a distance.

At that moment, a voice rang in Gu Xi’s ears.

[Evil Wood Lake completed the sixth sacrifice round, enhancing all city units’ attack by +1, automatically attracting Yin Qi; city produces negative energy +500 daily.]

[Evil Wood Lake activates seventh sacrifice round (0/2000), enhancing all city units’ attack by +2, defense by +1, life force by +10; all arrow towers gain poison attack; lake water can repair, strengthen, and purify corpses to enhance their quality; a poison cloud forms over Yalidov City prohibiting enemy flight, altering the territory’s environment, and producing negative energy +500 daily.]

Reading the popped-up information, Gu Xi was somewhat speechless. He hadn’t expected a serpent-like eerie to surpass the sacrifices of so many deceitful objects.

Clearly, there were indeed many unique aspects to it.

Although the undead transformation of the serpent-like large eerie failed, Gu Xi gained some insight.

Therefore, Gu Xi was not discouraged at all but quickly took out previously held correspondences to check on the large eeries.

This time, the large eeries dragged back by Di Mi numbered eight, five of which were humanoid corpses.

Gu Xi planned to deal with the humanoid corpses first.

After all, many materials could be reused during processing.

Furthermore, the humanoid eeries in front of him clearly had some abilities that were either similar or mutually enhancing and restraining.

As Gu Xi examined the detailed descriptions of these five humanoid eeries, he discovered that two of them had prominent traits, while the other three were relatively common.

Gu Xi dragged the bodies of the three eeries with more common traits together and extracted their death rules, injecting them into the Water of Order.

He then proceeded to process these three bodies one by one.

The three bodies consisted of a man, a woman, and a child. The man looked like an office worker, but almost all of his hair was gone. If it weren’t for Luna’s detailed description of his condition, Gu Xi might have thought the top of his head was the source of his mysterious power.

The woman, in her twenties, wore a red dress. When she died, Luna handled it somehow, but she was bleeding from the seven apertures, her limbs turning green, clearly indicating she died a violent death.

As for the child, if not lying on the ground, Gu Xi would have thought he was in an undead state.

His small eyes looked as if they had opened to reveal whites.

Gu Xi carefully processed all three bodies.

They belonged to the category of mirror image eeries related to daily life. Anyone triggering their taboos in daily life would be lured by them into their mirror image space and killed, using the life of others to enhance their control over mysterious power and the mirror image space.

Just like the office worker, his mysterious power originated from the glasses on his face, offering comprehensive observation to see through everything, but without a word—that was his ability.