From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"Master, it's that woman who has bats..."

Wen Cai made an excuse, but seeing Lin Jiu glaring at him, he quickly lowered his head and admitted his mistake, saying that he would definitely practice hard in the future and strive to be able to use his superpower.

"Uncle Jiu, have you dealt with the vampire?" Jiang Liu looked towards the corridor overgrown with wisteria.

"Of course!"

Lin Jiu, however, became smug. "I infused the whisk with my Qi, transforming it into a blade. I cut it open from its right waist to its left shoulder, severing all its internal organs. It certainly can't revive! The only problem is the aftermath... We'll find some dry grass and kerosene, then burn it..."

Lin Jiu turned around, and his voice stopped abruptly.

But then the vampire, whose head was on the ground, opened its eyes, its face contorted in a ferocious grimace. Threads resembling meridians emerged from the cuts on its upper and lower body, connecting with each other and reassembling themselves!

"They've been resurrected?!"

Not only Wen Cai, who was so frightened that he fell backward, but even the well-informed Lin Jiu couldn't help but swallow hard.

He had seen corpse demons before; those things could still move even without a head. But the problem was that the core of the corpse worm was hidden in the internal organs and spine, not in the skull.

He had also heard of the Threefold Reversal of Life of the Three Ones Sect. Cultivating to a certain level at the second level, one could regenerate severed limbs, but this was achieved through Qi transformation, not by directly connecting severed flesh and blood like this vampire in front of him!

Western alchemy is so bizarre?

The vampire roared as if it had returned to normal, but as soon as it stepped out of the wisteria corridor and touched the sunlight, it emitted a puff of smoke, forcing it to retreat back into the corridor.

Seeing this, Jiang Liu twisted his arms and plunged them into the ground, instantly spreading out from under the vampire's feet. With a spiraling, strangling force, he destroyed the corridor and wisteria where the vampire stood, and enveloped it within.

Clench your fists and twist them together!

Click!

In an instant, the magnetic field surrounding the vampire began to spin rapidly, twisting its body into a pretzel and exposing it to the sunlight—

# Chapter 184 Fire and Thunder Talisman

"Roar!"

The vampire, twisted into a pretzel by a magnetic field and exposed to the sun, was not immediately dead. Wisps of smoke rose from its body, and it let out a roar like a wild beast.

Upon seeing this, Lin Jiu immediately took out a yellow talisman: the Five Thunder Talisman.

Unlike the Five Thunder Talisman that he drew remotely using all his Qi when dealing with the Corpse Demon, this talisman is drawn with cinnabar ink on specially made yellow paper. It is stamped with Lu Zu's Pure Yang Dharma Seal and the four characters "Pure Yang Immortal Brush" written in small seal script. The middle part is composed of fire and thunder characters and the twenty-eight constellations, and the bottom part is the intersection of Qian and Kun in the Eight Trigrams.

This is the Fire Thunder Talisman from the Five Thunder Talismans.

Driven by Qi, the yellow talisman in his hand flew out, transforming into lightning, yet also like fire. After striking the vampire's body, it turned into a blue flame, causing the vampire's entire body to burst into flames.

However, this blue flame was different from ordinary fire magic; it could burn along with the Qi, so much so that Jiang Liu had to withdraw the magnetic field that reversed in all directions.

"Uncle Jiu, is that Samadhi True Fire?"

"Insightful!"

Lin Jiu stared at the vampire struggling in the firelight and exhaled, "The Fire Thunder Talisman can ward off evil and disaster, and can release Samadhi True Fire to scorch the soul."

Just as Jiang Liu breathed a sigh of relief at the vampire thrashing about in the blue flames, he noticed that the vampire's life force, after weakening to a certain extent, stabilized and stopped decreasing in the slightest.

He's not dead?

Lin Jiu also noticed this scene. His eyes were solemn, so he took out another Immortal-Binding Talisman and cast a spell on the body that was wrapped in firelight, intending to seal its energy channels.

Even so, the vampire's vitality remained unchanged, without diminishing in the slightest.

Until the Samadhi Fire dissipated, only a dry, charred corpse remained, lying motionless in place.

"Master, is it dead?"

Wen Cai noticed that the bats that had been fluttering on the ground had also stopped moving, realizing that these bats had some kind of connection with the mummified corpse. Once the mummified corpse died, these bats would also lose their vitality.

"No."

Lin Jiu disagreed, saying, "Go find some dry grass and firewood nearby; you must burn this thing."

This vampire is incredibly evil!

Their methods based on Qi can damage this thing, but they cannot truly kill it. It seems that only natural thunder and fire can completely destroy it.

Upon hearing this, Wencai immediately went to make preparations.

Click!

Just then, a sound came from beneath the collapsed church wall, and a wrinkled hand reached out, and then—

Bang!

The pile of stones was violently shaken apart, and from it stood an "old woman" with skin as wrinkled as tree bark.

In just a short while, Sister Hua looked about thirty or forty years older. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she had sharp teeth, but she already looked like she was in her eighties. She had no muscles at all, and was just skin and bones, as if a gust of wind could blow her over.

Seeing Wencai standing there in a daze, Lin Jiu scolded, "What are you still standing there for? Go find some hay and firewood!"

"Ah? Yes, Master!"

Realizing what had happened, Wencai hurriedly ran down the mountain.

"Why would a perfectly good girl go down the wrong path and end up like this?" Lin Jiu sighed slightly, voicing the question in her heart, but her eyes remained completely calm.

Having lived for so many years, what kind of people hasn't he seen?

There are countless people in this world who have their own grievances and suffer hardships, but having grievances is not a reason to do evil!

A few days ago, they stole corpses from the ancestral graves of residents in Renjia Town and used them for corpse refining...

Three days ago, the streams and rivers near Renjia Town were again contaminated by bat carcasses...

What secret method did she use to transform herself into such an old woman? She's gone completely mad!

"What do you know?"

Sister Hua felt that Lin Jiu was extremely hypocritical, but she only glanced at him before focusing all her attention on Jiang Liu. Her eyes were bloodshot, and two drops of bloody tears rolled down her cheeks. "Are you not satisfied until you ruin all my plans? Isn't it ridiculous that a Great Sage who descended to the mortal realm treats a weak woman like this?"

"Now that I've 'descended to the mortal realm,' I'm a mortal, and so are you. It's just mortals facing mortals."

Jiang Liu chuckled, then composed himself and said seriously, "Back in Goose City, I gave you a choice, and Zhang Muzhi agreed. As long as you dared to point a gun at Huang Silang, you could join us."

But in that final moment, we couldn't even see a trace of you...

What happened to you after you arrived in Renjia Town... I don't care, and I don't want to know, but the result is that you approached Ren Wei, stole his vital energy, so that the corpse demon would target the Ren family, and even dug up other people's graves to practice your corpse-driving technique with the corpses of their deceased elders...

Now, you've escaped from prison, feel wronged, and want to take revenge on Renjia Town—

If I'm not mistaken, after you escaped from prison, you probably found a tree with bats hanging upside down in the woods near the stream and river in Renjia Town. After collecting some for your own use, you broke off the tree, causing the remaining bats to enter the water and pollute the water source.

As a result, someone in the town will inevitably fall ill. In addition, many people in the town are superstitious about feng shui, so the town mayor will definitely ask Lin Jiu to look at the feng shui and find a new water source.

After Uncle Nine finds the location of the new water source, you might just be planning to move the wooden stake to damage Uncle Nine's reputation, or you might want to poison the well after it's dug, just like you did with the bats you put into the stream before.

However, since the mummified corpse happened to be buried nearby, the bat in your hand started moving on its own, changing the position of the wooden stake. As a result, you were probably bitten or scratched by the bat, which led to you being poisoned by some strange toxin, giving you red eyes, sharp teeth, and greater strength.

Afterwards, the mummified corpse came to life, was bitten and scratched by bats, and you, afflicted with a strange bat venom, made contact with it. You now desire to capture someone to feed it, and refine it into a living corpse you can control?

Sister Hua's face was as cold as frost.

Although Jiang Liu got some of the information wrong, it wasn't too far off from the truth. However, after escaping from prison, she initially hid in a church two miles away from Renjia Town, and found a secret manual in the church's bedroom—"Human Transformation."

It is impossible to write it in Chinese characters.

But Sister Hua was no ordinary person. She was once a lady from a wealthy family and had studied foreign languages ​​and writing. However, after her parents passed away and there were no men in the family, her family property was taken away by Huang Silang. She could only endure it and even became a prostitute to sleep with others, just to survive and find an opportunity.

She never cared about chastity in order to achieve her goals!

The traditional virtues that bound women of the Qing Dynasty could not bind her!

If she were just an ordinary woman bought by Huang Silang, she would probably have become as timid, cowardly, and apathetic as everyone else in the city. Where would she have the "courage" to threaten Zhang Muzhi?

Therefore, she could read the text in "Human Transformation".

Unlike Jiang Liu, Sister Hua believes that Western law is stronger and superior than Eastern law!

Nothing more!

If ordinary Westerners could break through the Qing Dynasty's borders with guns and cannons, and their technology far surpassed that of China, then how strong must a Western superhuman be to survive in an environment created by guns and cannons?

Adhering to this philosophy, Sister Hua, who had already obtained Qi, taught herself alchemy. Using bat venom as material, she used Qi to perform the alchemy and successfully integrated the venom into her body on her first attempt, completing the initial human alchemy!

# Chapter 185 I! Want! To! Win! Once!

Is Sister Hua's ability to complete human transmutation on her first try due to her extraordinary talent?

No.

Rather, the method she used during the human body refining process was the circulation of Qi, which better maintained the balance of her own organs.

Based on the meaning of the sign of the cross made by Maria and the fluctuations of Qi on the vampire's body, Jiang Liu deduced that Western alchemy also focused on the brain and internal organs, but absolutely did not have the concept of circulating Qi throughout the body, let alone know how to make Qi circulate through the eight extraordinary meridians in the body.

The flow of Qi in a vampire's body is also cyclical, but it doesn't follow the Eight Extraordinary Meridians; instead, it's a different kind of energy circuit that seems to be constructed later in life.

Based on the settings of some novels that Jiang Liu had read in his previous life, it could perhaps be set as: alchemical array patterns and magic circuits.

Alchemists and magicians likely use special methods to construct magical circuits throughout the flesh and blood body, thereby creating magic and alchemical runes inside and outside the body, and ultimately altering flesh and blood tissue, releasing magic, and synthesizing alchemical creations.

Therefore, it is not without reason that human transmutation is listed as a forbidden art in the West, because anyone who dares to use a complex individual as material to transmute will die if the balance is slightly disrupted.

However, Eastern Qi cultivation is different. As long as it is not an overly unorthodox method, it focuses on circulating Qi throughout the body in order to strengthen the internal organs and prolong one's breath.

By using Eastern Qi cultivation techniques to practice Western alchemy, Sister Hua's chances of success in her cultivation naturally increase significantly.

It's all because the balance of the five internal organs has been stabilized!

"Judging from your appearance, even if Jiang Liu is wrong, it's probably not far off."

Seeing Sister Hua's unfriendly expression, Lin Jiu was certain, and his eyes also revealed hostility. "As long as you haven't killed anyone yet, we won't lie to you. Surrender and go back to the cell!"

I will warn Ren Wei, and I assure you, he will never bully you again!

"hehe!"

Sister Hua sneered, "Even if I wanted him to bully me, he wouldn't dare!"