Oh no! I've been reincarnated as a corpse!

The zombies are physically powerful; their hands can be used as shovels, making them incredibly efficient at digging sand.

Moreover, they have incredible stamina and don't need to rest at all; they dug for half an hour without slowing down.

They're practically chosen by heaven.

An hour later, the pit containing the female zombie had been completely transformed.

What was originally a shallow pit, about a person's length and half a person's width, has become a large rectangular pit, three or four meters long, two meters wide, and more than one meter deep.

Four undead stood at the edge of the pit, their bodies covered in grayish-white sand, like four terracotta figures just dug out of the ground.

They stared blankly at Lu You, waiting for the next instruction.

He jumped down from the boulder, walked to the edge of the pit, and looked around with satisfaction.

That's it.

That's enough to fit his coffin.

He took the homemade coffin out of his storage bag.

The crooked wooden planks were inlaid with fragments of ancient ice of varying sizes, which emitted a faint blue light and a bone-chilling cold in the gray mist.

Lu You held the coffin in both hands and carefully placed it in the center of the deep pit. Her movements were as gentle as if she were placing a fragile treasure, afraid that she would break the already fragile coffin if she used too much force.

After placing the coffin, Lu You jumped out of the pit and began to arrange the two sets of array flags he had chosen earlier around the area.

The defensive formation's five flags were planted in the five directions of the pit, forming a pentagon that covered an area of ​​fifty meters in radius; the trapping formation's seven flags were planted on the outer perimeter, staggered from the defensive formation's flags, forming a larger concentric circle.

He repeatedly checked the position and angle of each flag to ensure that the direction of the runes was exactly as recorded in the "New Moon Qi Induction Chapter".

After setting up the formation, Lu You turned around and looked at the four guardians standing neatly by the small pit.

"You four, go outside and keep watch." He pointed away from the small pit. "Don't let any other demons, monsters, or human cultivators get close. Understand?"

The four guardians stood there blankly, their murky eyes staring straight at Lu You.

After a long while, the four zombies finally received and understood Lu You's orders.

Then they turned around and slowly, unsteadily walked outside.

After walking about twenty meters, they stopped, turned around, faced outwards, and stood still like four door gods.

Lu You quickly shouted, "Go further out!"

The four guardians continued to stagger outwards.

Soon, they moved out of the array's coverage area.

Lu You then made them stop.

Afterwards, Lu You withdrew his gaze, took out several spirit stones from his storage bag, and embedded them into the grooves of the array plates of the defensive array and the trapping array, respectively.

The moment the spirit stone was embedded, a warm light shone on the array plate, and the runes lit up one by one.

Immediately afterwards, the twelve array flags planted around the area simultaneously emitted a faint humming sound, and spiritual energy surged out from the flags, connecting with each other to form an invisible network.

Within a radius of fifty meters, wisps of black mist rose from the ground, intertwining with the original gray mist of the Yin Domain, making the entire area even darker and more indistinct.

Within the black mist, a layer of grayish-black, semi-transparent light slowly rose, like an inverted bowl, tightly enveloping the large pit and the surrounding area.

The four guardians stood blankly outside the formation.

The activation of the formation brought a subtle fluctuation of spiritual energy. They seemed to sense something and turned their heads in unison to look in the direction of the light barrier.

Then they turned their gaze away and remained motionless, facing the gray fog outside.

Lu You stood at the edge of the pit, taking one last look at the gray-black light shield above his head, and then at the four blurry figures that were faintly visible outside the light shield.

Then he took a deep breath, opened the coffin lid, and lay down inside.

The interior of the coffin was quite spacious.

He made sure to leave some extra room when he made it, so as not to squeeze himself into a can.

Fragments of century-old black ice were embedded on the inside of the wooden planks, emanating a bone-chilling cold, making the entire interior of the coffin feel like an ice cellar.

The cold air enveloped his body from all directions, causing a thin layer of frost to condense on his skin.

He pulled the coffin lid shut from the inside.

He lay in darkness and cold, the yin energy within his body slowly dissipating, seeping through the cracks in the coffin's wooden planks and extending into the sand outside.

The grayish-white sand, drawn by the yin energy, seemed to flow as if it were alive, gathering from both sides of the pit towards the center, layer upon layer covering the coffin.

The sound of sand covering the coffin was extremely faint, like silkworms munching on mulberry leaves, a soft, continuous rustling sound.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound finally stopped.

Complete silence fell outside the coffin.

Lu You knew that he had been buried underground, and his coffin was completely covered by thick sand.

The space he was in was truly isolated from the world—above was several feet of sand, above which was a light shield formed by two layers of arrays, and outside the light shield were four loyal living corpses.

Nothing could bother him.

Lu You took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes.

let's start.

He flipped his hand and took out the piece of Yinming Cold Iron from his storage bag.

As soon as the gray-black metal left the storage bag, it emitted wisps of sinister coldness, like small gray-black snakes coiling around his palms and wrists.

Lu You remained expressionless, extended his right hand, his five fingers pressed together like a knife, and plunged it into his left chest.

The pale skin was torn apart, the dark red muscle tissue was separated, revealing the gray-black heart that had long since stopped beating.

As a zombie, Lu You's heart is completely different from that of a living person.

A living person's heart is bright red, full and elastic, beating continuously, pumping blood throughout the body.

His heart was grayish-black, its surface covered with fine lines, its texture tough and cold, lying quietly in his chest cavity like a stone forgotten in a corner.

Lu You calmly tore open his own heart.

The grayish-black heart muscle was split open to both sides by the force of the fingertips, revealing the empty heart chamber inside.

There was no blood flowing out, no liquid, just an empty cavity.

He placed the Yinming Cold Iron into the hollow cavity.

The gray-black metal was embedded in the heart cavity, as if it had always belonged there.

As soon as the Yinming Cold Iron was placed inside, the Yin and cold energy contained within it was suddenly released.

The chill was several times stronger than the one that had been wrapped around my palms before; it felt like an ice bomb exploding in my heart.

The dark gray chill started from the heart, spreading wildly through the long-stagnant network of blood vessels to every part of the body.

Lu You's entire body was instantly enveloped by a chill that penetrated to the bone.

The chill didn't come from the outside; it spread outwards from the deepest, most core part of the body.

The heart is the source, the blood vessels are the channels, and every inch of muscle and every bone is permeated and infected by this chill.

His body trembled uncontrollably, and his teeth clenched so tightly they clicked.

So cold.

Although he couldn't feel pain, he could still feel cold.

He gritted his teeth, forcibly steadying his trembling body, and took out three small cloth bags from his storage bag.

Fragments of Yin Soul Stone, Ironclad Centipede Shell Powder, and Mystic Iron Ore Powder.

He placed three cloth bags on either side of his body, ensuring he could use them at any time.

As the ceremony progresses, these auxiliary materials need to be incorporated in sequence.

After doing all this, Lu You closed his eyes and activated the breakthrough method recorded in the "New Moon Qi Induction Chapter," actively drawing upon the Yin Sha Qi in the Yin Domain.

Outside the coffin, beneath the grayish-white sand, an invisible suction force suddenly erupted.

The Yin energy within a radius of several hundred meters seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, turning from a slow flow into a surging tide, converging from all directions, passing through the cracks in the sand and the gaps in the coffin's wooden planks, and surging into Lu You's body.

That malevolent energy was violent and chaotic. It seemed to possess some kind of primal, chaotic consciousness. After entering his body, it frantically rammed, tore, and tried to break free.

They rampage through blood vessels, weave freely between muscle fibers, and leave streaks of gray-black erosion on the surface of bones.

Lu You gritted his teeth, suppressing the fragments of the Taiyin Yin Disc in his sea of ​​consciousness, preventing it from converting this Yin energy into Taiyin energy for absorption.

What he needs now is not the pure Yin energy, but the primal, untamed Yin energy that washes over him.

Breaking through the essence of the Iron Corpse involves using the most violent Yin Sha Qi, combined with materials such as Yin Ming Cold Iron, to thoroughly cleanse the living corpse's body from the inside out.

He carefully controlled the Yin energy surging into his body, guiding it to cleanse his body according to the route recorded in the "New Moon Qi Guiding Chapter".

First, the heart—the Yin energy enveloped the Yin-Yang cold iron embedded in the heart cavity, gradually seeping into the gray-black metal and stimulating the Yin power contained within.

Then there are the blood vessels—the Yin energy flows along the blood vessel network throughout the body, bringing the Yin power released from the Yinming Cold Iron to every corner of the body.

Then comes the muscles, bones, and skin, layer by layer, from the inside out.

The breakthrough ceremony officially begins!