Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor

"Thump!" Suddenly, as if the sound of a heartbeat echoed in the night, unnaturally dull.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

"Dammit!" Shi Feng's face changed drastically. He heard it clearly, the sound was coming from the stone coffin.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, Shi Feng saw, the coffin lid beside his foot suddenly burst open, splashing rocks everywhere. The violent Dark Evil Qi, like a fierce storm, swept around from the stone coffin as the center, as if to destroy everything.

Shi Feng was alarmed, and quickly circulated the Nine Nether Technique with frenzy. His body generated strong suction, devouring all the violent Dark Evil Qi into his own flesh. If this violent Dark Evil Qi were to spread, Shi Ling and Bai Yue'e wouldn't be able to withstand it.

"Fuck! Why did it have to wake up now? I can't have such bad luck!"

Shi Feng felt like jumping up and swearing. That damned thing had not awakened earlier or later, but just at this time. Now he was probably doomed. Not to mention subduing the Absolute Evil Corpse, even saving his own life was questionable.

Among the splashing rocks, a pale face slowly emerged. Shi Feng saw it was the face of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old, somewhat thin but extremely handsome.

"A fifteen or sixteen-year-old? Wasn't it said that the Absolute Evil Yin Body doesn't live past five years?" Shi Feng frowned. At this moment, the Yin Corpse in the stone coffin slowly sat up, stark naked, its eyes open, but its expression was blank.

"Something is off, but no matter!" Shi Feng had no way to retreat at this moment. He flicked a handprint forward, and the small vortex spinning above his head pressed down, rolling toward the Yin Corpse.

As the vortex pressed down, the Yin Corpse still had a blank expression, making no resistance and no movements, just sitting motionless.

This made Shi Feng more curious. "Is this guy, perhaps, stupid?"

Shi Feng had never imagined such a situation. In his past life, the Yin Corpses he had seen had low intelligence and aggression comparable to wild beasts. They would attack any living being on sight, especially when they were unearthed and disturbed from their slumber—they would be particularly ferocious.

But the Yin Corpse in front of him was just too docile, so compliant that it was unbelievable.

The vortex spun around the Yin Corpse, gradually merging into its flesh. Subsequently, a bone-white, tadpole-sized character resembling the character "Nether" from Emperor Nine Nether emerged on its forehead, making his handsome face appear even more sinister.

"If you look closely at this bone-white character, it slightly resembles the 'Nether' character of Emperor Nine Nether."

"So, it's subdued by me like this?" At this point, Shi Feng still couldn't believe it was real, but the Soul Mark had indeed appeared on the Yin Corpse's forehead, clearly indicating the Master-Servant Contract was successfully formed.

With a thought from Shi Feng, the Yin Corpse directly stood up from the stone coffin, and at that moment, Shi Feng saw another different aspect of this Yin Corpse; it actually showed a curious expression, as if... it was sizing him up.

Shi Feng felt that this Yin Corpse was indeed a bit eerie. He sensed it again and found that this corpse had evolved to the Third-stage Spirit Rank.

Regardless, with the Master-Servant Contract formed, this Yin Corpse was under his control forever, never able to escape.

Suddenly, a white light flashed on Shi Feng's body again, the violent Dark Evil Qi he had just absorbed had been completely digested, transformed into pure Nine Nether Power in his Dantian.

This was already the sixth time Shi Feng flashed white light today. He had entered the Six-star Martial Disciple Realm.

"Although the Dark Evil Qi it's emitting now isn't as ferocious as when it first came out of the coffin, even at this level, it should allow me to advance to Nine-star Martial Apprentice before dawn," Shi Feng said, feeling the Dark Evil Qi emitting from the Yin Corpse's body.

The reason why it was so fierce and violent when it came out of the coffin was that years of Dark Evil Qi had all gathered in the stone coffin. The moment the coffin lid broke, all the Dark Evil Qi surged out at once, resulting in the spectacle just now.

This time, Shi Feng had quite a double harvest, not only obtaining a Spirit Level enforcer but also acquiring a dark cultivation treasure.

However, the more Shi Feng looked at this Yin Corpse, the more he felt something was off, its eyes were too human-like.

But this was undoubtedly a Yin Corpse, and the Dark Evil Qi emitting from its body was not something ordinary Yin Corpses could match. It was essentially consistent with the Absolute Evil Corpse described in ancient texts, but the text did indeed record that those with Absolute Evil Yin Bodies wouldn't live past five years.

"Perhaps someone used a method against the natural order to extend its life," Shi Feng murmured softly, "Too bad, since ancient times those with Absolute Evil Yin Bodies couldn't escape their fate. If the Absolute Evil Yin Body didn't die, and cultivated my Nine Nether Technique and then refined a Nine Nether Body, that would truly be defying the heavens."

"I… am… not... dead..." Just then, the ghastly pale face that had been staring at Shi Feng suddenly spoke up, its voice hoarse and intermittent, as if it hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Hmm?" Shi Feng looked at the Yin Corpse and, hearing the voice that the Yin Corpse had just emitted, asked, "Do you retain the memories from before your death?"

A Yin Corpse arises after death when the body mutates and develops spiritual wisdom.

But this spiritual wisdom has absolutely no connection to its previous life, as though it's the same body but a different life.

"Me? Before… life?" The Yin Corpse still looked confused, "I... am... who... am... I... am... Nangong... I…" The Yin Corpse looked at its own hands as if trying hard to remember something.

Shi Feng somewhat understood, this Yin Corpse was indeed a bit special. It understood the Human Clan language, indicating it still retained some memories from its previous life, but those memories had mostly dissipated with its death.

Shi Feng sensed that the soul inside this body was indeed no longer present, but this life was still considered the same as its previous life, just as a human might experience amnesia. Such a state occurring in a Yin Corpse was really the first he had seen.

However, Shi Feng immediately came to terms with it. In his previous life, he had been beaten into oblivion by numerous Martial Emperors and yet had managed to reincarnate; was there anything stranger than that in the world?

This time he really had stumbled upon incredible luck. Just because this Absolute Evil Corpse still retained its human nature, it had emerged from the coffin so docile. If it were a regular Yin Corpse, with its wild and ferocious nature, it probably would have wanted to tear him to shreds upon awakening.

"Past lives are like fleeting clouds, from now on follow me and be called Dark Evil," Shi Feng said in a tone that brooked no refusal.

"Dark… Evil… I… I…" Dark Evil still looked blankly at Shi Feng.

"Just absolutely obey my commands!" Shi Feng said, then with a thought, the ground trembled, and suddenly two pillars of earth rose, lifting him and Dark Evil from the pit to the ground.

The earth pillars stopped rising when they reached level with the ground.

Looking down at the two earth pillars that had grown from the pit, Shi Feng nodded in satisfaction, "Absolute Evil Corpse, truly worthy of being called the darling of the earth."

The ancient texts recorded that Absolute Evil Corpses were born from the nurturing of the earth, naturally possessing Earth Divine Power, and were called the darlings of the earth.

Just now, with a thought, he had used Dark Evil to wield Earth Divine Power.

Then, with another thought, the soil originally piled around the pit seemed to come alive, all of it automatically falling back into the pit.

In just a few breaths, the large pit that had taken most of the night to dig was completely filled back in, and under Shi Feng's control, there wasn't a single trace left that it had ever been dug.

"This... is really miraculous." Even Shi Feng couldn't help but marvel at the miraculous power of the Absolute Evil Corpse to control the power of the earth.

"Hmm?" And just at that moment, Shi Feng's expression suddenly turned cold.