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Chapter 17: The Seven Souls of the Human Soul
After confirming that the zombies in the room had been cleared out, Lu Yan finally had the mind to check the illusory wandering souls that had been peeled off from the zombies.

He reached out and grabbed a wandering soul. The soul had a dazed expression and completely lacked the intelligence displayed by Gongyang Xuanming's soul in the urban version.

With a slight activation of his magic power, Lu Yan could clearly see these wandering souls separated from their rotten bodies, and they were as fragile as a piece of paper.

There is no need to even use magic, just a few strands of magic power are enough to dissolve them.

"How can there be such a fragile soul?"

Lu Yan frowned slightly and took out a first-grade lower-grade spirit eye talisman from his storage bag.

Under the activation of magic power, the talisman turned into a ray of spiritual light and merged into Lu Yan's eyes. With the gleam in his eyes, everything around him seemed to become clear in detail, even the trajectory of the flowing spiritual energy was vaguely visible.

Then Lu Yan focused his gaze and looked at the confused wandering soul in front of him.

With just one glance, Lu Yan immediately discovered the reason why the wandering soul was so fragile.

“Of the three souls of heaven, earth and man, two of them are missing, leaving only the human soul and the seven spirits trapped in the decaying flesh.

Even after the physical body dies, the human soul and the seven spirits are still unable to leave the corpse. Over a long period of time, the body decays and the soul sinks, which leads to the human body becoming a zombie.

The zombies' rotting flesh binds the human soul and the seven spirits, but to another extent, the existence of the human soul and the seven spirits also slows down the decay of the zombies' flesh.

Otherwise, after so many years, a normal corpse should have completely decayed.

This is why once the wandering soul is stripped away, the zombie's body will lose the support of the soul and will quickly rot and turn into a pile of bones."

The spiritual eye technique in his eyes slowly dissipated, and a gleam of light flashed in Lu Yan's eyes, as if he had discovered a new continent.

Lu Yan never imagined that behind the birth of zombies, there was such a "cultivating immortals" explanation.

"If that's the case, then where have the heavenly and earthly souls of these zombies gone? Why are human souls trapped in dead bodies? What is the source of the end of the world?"

A series of questions arose in Lu Yan's heart, but he had just entered this apocalyptic version, and the existing information could not answer these questions at all.

After the light in his eyes faded, Lu Yan looked at the fifteen wandering souls in front of him that were missing the two souls of heaven and earth, and he already had a plan in mind.

These wandering souls have been decaying along with the zombies' bodies for decades and have long since fallen into confusion. Their heavenly and earthly souls are nowhere to be found, and they don't even have the qualifications to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.

After these weak wandering souls leave their bodies, they will completely disappear from the world within a few days.

Rather than letting these wandering souls dissipate naturally, it is better to use them to assist Lu Yan in refining the soul flag.

With this thought in mind, Lu Yan did not hesitate to use the Soul Flag to start the ritual.

Lu Yan might not be able to wantonly kill innocent people in order to refine the Soul Banner, but he did not have any psychological burden in just using the wandering souls of long-dead zombies for the ritual.

The already refined inferior soul flag was used for sacrifice and there was no need to redraw the formation. The ghost mist in the soul flag enveloped the entire room in an instant.

Fifteen confused wandering zombies melted like ice and snow in an instant under the ghost fog and were refined into part of the soul flag.

Holding the soul flag in his hand, Lu Yan sensed the changes in the soul flag.

Normally, after the soul flag is refined, the subsequent sacrifices will be much easier, and it will not take more than 20 Qi training monks to sacrifice four resentful souls like before. But the problem is that the souls of the zombie wandering souls are too incomplete and weak. After more than a dozen wandering souls were sacrificed, the fifth resentful soul in the soul flag was just barely condensed into a prototype, which is far inferior to the quality of Gongyang Xuanming and those bodyguards.

According to this number estimate, it would probably take hundreds of wandering souls to completely refine the fifth resentful soul at the first level of Qi training.

If it were placed in the urban version or the fairy-tale version, this speed would definitely make people despair. A resentful soul at the first level of Qi training would require the sacrifice of hundreds of wandering souls. Even the most crazy magic monks would not dare to harvest souls in large numbers.

The urban version of the modern army and the immortal version of the sect's law enforcement team are enough to hunt down the evil monks to the ends of the earth.

But in the apocalyptic version, the thing that is most abundant in this long-fallen doomsday city is zombies.

Hundreds of wandering souls are sacrificed to refine one resentful soul. For Lu Yan, it is a completely cost-free business. The only thing that can limit Lu Yan is the speed of harvesting the wandering souls!

Lu Yan was immediately surprised and did not care about saving any mana. He waved his soul flag and ordered the four resentful souls:
"Explore the upper level, kill all zombies and bring their wandering souls to me!"

As soon as the words came out, the four vengeful spirits immediately passed through the wall and explored other rooms and floors.

Taking out a spirit stone from the storage bag to keep sufficient mana supply to the soul flag at all times, Lu Yan walked towards the upper level that the resentful souls had already explored.

Soon, angry roars began to be heard from upstairs, knocking on the walls with a loud noise.

Lu Yan formed a seal with his hands, and his eyes instantly became extremely deep. With the help of the vision of the resentful soul, Lu Yan could clearly see that dozens of zombies gathered on the top floor of the building.

Some of them are large, some are small, and there are even some long-decayed tools and traces of rotten food placed around them.

Some zombies even held fire axes and hammers in their hands. It was obvious that they were once survivors and used the top layer as a line of defense against the invasion of zombies.

But they still failed to survive. Perhaps during a hunt some people were infected by zombies but did not make it known, or perhaps they were targeted by more powerful zombies. In short, the accident caused all the survivors to die and turn into zombies, and no one at the top was spared.

The zombies who followed their instincts still held their weapons tightly and attacked the resentful spirits, but it was all in vain.

The resentful spirits that ignore physical attacks don't even need to dodge. The ghost claws can peel off the wandering souls of zombies and turn these corrupt monsters into a pile of bones.

Zombies fell one after another, and confused wandering souls appeared here, emitting a pale and glowing light.

When Lu Yan reached the top floor, all the zombies had been killed, and a large number of wandering souls filled the entire corridor.

The black mist from the soul flag in Lu Yan's hand spread, instantly covering all the wandering souls.

As the black fog surged, a large number of wandering souls were refined by the soul flags. Lu Yan could clearly sense that the fifth vengeful soul was taking shape.

After a while, the black fog dissipated, and the fifth vengeful spirit appeared in front of Lu Yan.

This vengeful soul was created entirely from weak wandering souls, but even so, it had reached the first level of Qi training.

On the wandering soul's body, there are pale faces of numbness and confusion, making the resentful soul look even more hideous and terrifying.

Lu Yan's eyes swept across the ruins on the top floor, and the soul flag in his hand pointed to the bottom floor that had not yet been explored.

"continue!"

(End of this chapter)