New Ability Every Ten Days: Becoming a Vampire Made Me Too OP

In a desperate bid to save this world, its gifted elites tried every means at their disposal. One of those was the formation of corpse-burning squads. Whenever a corpse was discovered, they burned it on the spot. From the cities to the wilderness, members of corpse-burning squads were everywhere. Human and animal corpses were all reduced to ash.

But the sea soon gave the humans of this world a surprise. They discovered that while burning corpses could slightly slow the increase of corpse miasma, zombies were multiplying at an astonishing rate in the ocean. And clearly, the strategy of burning corpses did not work at sea.

In another effort, a large number of alchemists joined forces to develop corpse miasma conversion devices. They hoped to transform corpse miasma into harmless energy. After several centuries of research, they did succeed, but the conversion rate was utterly insignificant compared to the speed at which corpse miasma was growing. Even more fatal was the fact that this conversion process consumed vast amounts of mithril, which made it unsustainable.

Someone even tried consuming a Forbidden Fruit in hopes of gaining an ability that could devour corpse miasma. In the end, that person became a zombie.

Others consumed Forbidden Fruits in hopes of becoming a non-zombie species capable of devouring corpse miasma. Someone succeeded, but became a ghoul, a monster even more mindless than a zombie.

To save this world, everyone was like a headless fly, crashing around in every direction and daring to try absolutely anything. But without exception, every attempt failed despite the enormous amounts of manpower and resources invested.

***

Yu Xian and Zhang Shou did not linger in front of the strange tree for too long. After figuring out where the tree came from, they continued onward, aimlessly exploring this unknown world.

The tree was called the Despair Tree. It was something the humans of this world had created while trying to save their world. The tree could absorb corpse miasma and grow. People had once placed great hopes in it, that it could improve the environment that was worsening by the day.

In the end, however, the Despair Tree lived up to its name. All it brought the humans in this world was an even more hopeless future. When its seeds fell to the ground, they would burst open and release large amounts of corpse miasma to attract zombies.

When the zombies instinctively absorbed the corpse miasma, the seeds would take the opportunity to enter their bodies. Eventually, they would take root and sprout inside the zombies, growing by feeding on the corpse miasma within them. Once a zombie was drained dry, the seed would break out of its body, take root, and sprout green, rope-like vines to capture any zombies that came near.

Although the tree could kill zombies, it had already become part of the cycle that increased corpse miasma. It only accelerated the destruction of this world.

There was probably an abundance of Despair Trees in this world. If all of them had died out, the oxygen would have grown thinner and thinner, and Yu Xian and Zhang Shou would have definitely noticed that.

Sure enough, two hours later, they saw a forest of Despair Trees. Despair Trees were easy to recognize. Their branches were always covered with hanging bodies in every shape and form. Some were human, some were animals, but without exception, all of them were zombies.

Zhang Shou asked with a grave expression, "Yu Xian, what should we do if our world ends up like this one day?"

His gaze fell on the bodies hanging from the Despair Trees. Among the many zombies, several young ones were especially striking. Some looked only three or four years old, and some looked barely a year old, still wearing diapers.

Yu Xian shook his head. "I don't know."

Throughout their journey, he had been thinking about how to save this world. But he was very clear on one undeniable fact that no matter how powerful his Super Brain was, he could not possibly outthink an entire world's worth of people. The inhabitants of this world had tried almost every method they could think of, but the results showed them nothing but despair.

Suddenly, they heard a deafening explosion echo far away. They immediately looked in the direction of the explosion and saw sword light flashing in the distance. Countless zombies were instantly reduced to ash.

Zhang Shou gasped, his voice tingling with excitement. "Someone's out there?"

Yu Xian grabbed him by the back of his collar, leaped onto the back of the dragon-like Perfect Lifeform, and ordered it to advance at full speed. With a low roar, the Perfect Lifeform charged forward at full tilt. Every zombie blocking its path was crushed beneath it.

Moments later, perched atop the Perfect Lifeform's head, Yu Xian and Zhang Shou spotted a vast expanse of ruins up ahead. From the fractured walls and decaying remnants, they could vaguely deduce that this had once been a city, though its silhouette had long since blurred into the wasteland.

At the front of the ruins stood a zombie in tattered armor, holding a blood-red greatsword. It remained motionless, completely unresponsive to Yu Xian and Zhang Shou's approach.

Although this zombie did not look especially burly, it possessed an indescribable aura, as if before it stood an army of thousands and behind it lay the lights of countless homes. It was wielding a greatsword, yet it loomed like a massive gateway—a sight that could steal one's soul.

Yu Xian took a deep breath and immediately used Appraisal on the zombie. At the same time, he mentally prepared himself to teleport away at any moment.

A moment later, the zombie's attributes panel appeared before him.

Name

- Yan Lingban

Codename

- Martyr

Race

- Supreme Martial Zombie King

Gender

- Male

Age

- 627,811

Lifespan

- 0

Rank

- Lower God Rank

Affiliation

- Neutral Order

[Abilities]

Five Poles Undying Physique

- Draws together the primordial forces of the world's elemental vertices, tempering them within the flesh into an unbroken, self-sustaining cycle that forges an undying physique.

Undying Zombie King

- Greatly increases defense. Makes the user immune to 80% of damage from opponents of the same rank. Increases damage immunity by an additional 10% for every level the opponent is below the user.

Imperishable Zombie Physique

- Nourishes the body through corpse miasma to substantially increase defensive power. Allows the user to rapidly heal and regenerate wounds when taking damage by utilizing corpse miasma.

Yin-Yang Circulation

- Transforms corpse miasma from yin to yang. Can continuously convert both moonlight and sunlight into corpse miasma. At the same time, grants immunity to most yang-attribute damage. When corpse miasma shifts back from yang to yin, it produces Boundless Frost Poison that freezes the soul and is almost impossible to guard against.

Boundless Yin-Yang

- Converts any elemental damage into its opposing element and reflects it on the attacker.

Thousand-Mile Scorched Earth

- Releases all the corpse miasma and sets everything in the surrounding area ablaze.

Summary

- To lay down one's life for one's country is the highest calling of a true hero.

Yu Xian felt that this zombie was even stronger than the Xingtian Zombie King. He swallowed and quickly ordered the Perfect Lifeform to retreat.

The Supreme Martial Zombie King clearly had no interest in either of them. It still stood where it was, gripping its greatsword with both hands, its eyes fixed ahead, as if guarding the ruins behind it.

Thinking of the summary at the end of Supreme Martial Zombie King's appraisal, Yu Xian could already vaguely guess what had happened to it. He took a deep breath and did not disturb this admirable powerhouse any further. Instead, he commanded the Perfect Lifeform to go around it.

Many powerful figures in this world had fled, but not everyone would choose to run. In times of disaster, there would always be those who stepped forward and used their backs to hold up the sky for the people behind them. Even in death, they would stand with their spines straight, dying openly and honorably in battle.

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