A blessing in disguise

　　The only way for Edmund to save himself now was to try to control the heat flow to circulate within the Qi Sea according to the circumferential route.

　　Once a true circumferential qi cyclone was formed, and all the qi currents circulated according to the law and got into the right track, it would not cause any more damage to the body, but instead could become a boost for Edmund, thus breaking through the threshold and advancing to the rank of a traveling corpse in one fell swoop.

　　This is just like a flood, when it floods, it is a flood; when it flows in a river, it can irrigate and navigate, benefiting the people.

　　Thinking this through, Edmund no longer hesitated and immediately made his move.

　　However, the qi currents within the Sea of Qi were simply too violent, giving Edmund the feeling that he had no way of doing anything, and with his current strength, those qi currents wouldn't listen to his command at all.

　　Empty of a way to save his life, but no ability to save his life.

　　Edmund was torn!

　　...

　　The essence blood in the python's body continued to pour in, transforming into wisps of gas under the effect of the Sorcerer's True and Wondrous Code, accelerating Edmund's demise.

　　Edmund had a flash of inspiration.

　　I can't deal with the raging gases in my Qi Sea, can I not deal with these newly influxed gases?

　　Trying hard to focus his spirit on the newly influxed silk gas, he led it to start circulating according to the small circumference route recorded in the "Witch True Wonderful Canon - Body Refining Chapter".

　　Success!

　　Edmund was immediately pleasantly surprised to find that the thin wisps of gas very obediently began to circulate according to the small circumference route.

　　Edmund didn't dare to be careless and carefully maintained this "silk".

　　A miracle happened. Every cycle of the circumference of the day, a trace of the surrounding violent air flow will be merged into the "swimming silk".

　　One week days ... two weeks days ...

　　The "swimming silk" was getting thicker and thicker, its power was getting bigger and bigger, and its efficiency in absorbing the surrounding airflow was also getting higher and higher.

　　As things developed to this point, it was already certain that the violent airflow in Edmund's body would no longer be able to harm him.

　　If things went on like this, given enough time, this warm current would definitely be completely digested;however, Edmund was still restless.

　　Because, by this time, the east had already begun to whiten - it was going to be dawn!

　　Zombies could only act at night, once they touched the sunlight, it was the end of ashes.

　　This was something that Edmund had already experimented with, and it was unquestionable.

　　If he couldn't regain his freedom before the sun rose, the sunlight would be able to turn his tiny jumping zombie into ashes.

　　This was the most most horrible way for a zombie to die. According to the Witch True Wonderful Canon, zombies were born in the Yin ground, and before advancing to the Purple Stalemate, their souls would not enter the reincarnation cycle after being turned to ashes by the sun.

　　"Quickly! Quickly! Quick!"

　　Edmund's face had no expression, but his heart was on fire with anxiety.

　　However, the more anxious, the more bad things.

　　Under the impatience, just smoothed out the air circulation route, but even the "sudden" jump, almost a mistake.

　　Out of the corner of his eye, Edmund could already see a bright white line in the sky, as well as oranges, dark blues, and upwards, a black canopy with a few sparse stars.

　　The scene was truly stunning, if one was in a good mood to appreciate it.

　　It was, however, for Edmund now, the horn of doom.

　　When one is in the mountains, sunrise is fast, and I'm afraid it won't take more than an incense stick of time for the daylight to shine through.

　　And last night in order to maximize the absorption of the essence of the moon, Edmund picked this cultivation place with sparse trees; only a dozen or so trees, and the surrounding bushes were also swept away by the python's dying struggle.

　　Edmund had no doubt that as soon as the sun appeared, the sunlight would immediately shine on him, absolutely unobstructed.

　　As the east grew brighter and brighter, and his body remained unchanged in the slightest, Edmund's heart had begun to grow desperate.

　　"This is going to die? Crossing into a zombie would have been enough of a cup, it was not easy to change the mind to start accepting, was about to make up his mind to cultivate properly, ready to achieve the supreme corpse, undead and indestructible it! I didn't expect to end up with a soulful end."

　　Edmund smiled to himself, his heart calming down instead.

　　With the calmness of his mind, the "Witch True Classic - Body Refining" technique naturally entered the right track. Under the foundation of several days of practice, the warm current in the body followed the route of rapid circulation, one week, another week and day...

　　And Edmund's body, too, began to change.

　　Almost visible to the naked eye, the body of the wax yellow skin, began to turn into a horny layer of the same existence; teeth continue to protrude, making the face even more hideous; originally more than three inches long nails did not continue to grow long, but became purple, black, at a glance is more sharp look ...

　　Just at the moment when the sun revealed its head and the first ray of sunlight shone on the earth, Edmund felt that something in his body suddenly loosened.

　　Boom--

　　It turned out that the gases circulating according to the small circumference within the abdominal qi sea continued to increase, finally surpassing the raging gases in terms of total quantity.

　　A quantitative change caused a qualitative change.

　　At this moment, the current inside the river channel completely overpowered the current outside the river channel.

　　All of the gas currents were instantly subdued and fused into one, and all of them began to completely follow the small circumferential circulation, forming a small cyclone in the abdominal Qi Sea.

　　Edmund's eyes lit up.

　　...

　　Whoosh!

　　A zombie suddenly popped up from the python.

　　Zi zi zi zi...

　　Boo! Boing!

　　As the sunlight shot on the zombie's body, a burst of smoke rose up, even accompanied by a slight explosion, as if cold water was poured on limestone.

　　Oooh-

　　The zombie didn't have any physical sensations, but the sunlight shining on its body wasn't just an erosion of the flesh, it was also a huge damage to the soul.

　　This kind of pain from the soul made Edmund unable to resist a hiss.

　　However, right now, he didn't dare to delay for a second.

　　Just after landing, his legs stomped on the ground again, whoosh!

　　The whole person was like an arrow, shooting straight into the cave not far away.

　　Into the cave still did not stop, after several small jumps, drilled into the coffin belonging to their own upright leaning against the wall.

　　Oooh...

　　Accompanied by a low wind sound, the lid of the coffin straightened up at one end.

　　Boom!

　　With a loud sound, the lid came down hard on the coffin.

　　Whoosh!

　　Edmund only had time to catch his breath. The rotting, shadowy aura within the coffin surprisingly made him feel a burst of peace.

　　Checking himself, the places on his back and left arm that were illuminated by the sunlight looked like they had been burned by sulfuric acid, and all of his clothes had corroded into strips and chunks that were tattered and torn; his body was even more miserable, with a portion of his flesh and blood directly turning into ash, emitting a gust of charred stench.

　　Fortunately, not only did the place that was not illuminated by the sun not fester, but on the contrary, a layer of keratin membrane had grown, which was hard to the touch, like a layer of armor.

　　However, none of this mattered; what mattered was that it was still alive now.

　　Edmund's heart was already wrapped in the great joy of being alive after the robbery.

　　It was so good to be alive!

　　Even though he was a zombie, Edmund had never given up on the belief of being alive!

　　Another thing that made him happy was that he had successfully advanced to the state of a wandering zombie this time due to a blessing.

　　Edmund felt that small cyclone within his abdominal Qi Sea with all his heart and was filled with joy.

　　"Guiding the Essence Qi to follow a small circumference cycle and forming a small cyclone in the abdominal cavity, this is the sign of a first level Traveling Corpse! Haha, I'm really a grade one traveling corpse!"

　　Edmund smiled triumphantly. However, this smile matched with the zombie's hideous face, it looked as horrible as it could be.

　　The zombie grades, from low to high, were categorized into jumping zombies, wandering zombies, purple stiffs, black stiffs, hairy stiffs, flying stiffs, and dry drought demons, which corresponded to the human cultivator's Mortal, Qi Refining Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, Jindan Stage, Yuanying Stage, Transformation Stage, and Transition Stage.

　　Just as humans are considered to have truly crossed the threshold of cultivators only from the Qi Refining Stage, zombies also cross the threshold of cultivation from the Wandering Corpse.

　　A jumping zombie has only the primitive desire of bloodlust, but not the consciousness of sensing the energy between heaven and earth.

　　After advancing to a zombie, even ordinary zombies, also began to consciously sense and absorb the yin qi between heaven and earth, and the divine sense to be able to internal vision (general zombies, to advance to the purple stiff, before the divine sense can be released) - abdominal cavity of the small circumferential qi cyclone and the divine sense of the internal vision, this is the two major signs of the advancement of the zombie.

　　Edmund's heart moved and immersed his consciousness in his body.

　　Sure enough, the various meridians and even the bones and organs were clearly presented in the brain.

　　This was different from what was seen, but it was many times more detailed than seeing it with one's own eyes, and even every capillary was able to be clearly reflected into the brain by the nerve signals.

　　This kind of feeling, was very marvelous.

　　What made Edmund even more excited was that there was a gong method about exercising divine sense in the Witch True Wonderful Canon - Miscellaneous Chapter. And the foundation of this gong method's cultivation was to have internal awareness.

　　This also meant that for Edmund, there was no need to wait until he advanced to the Purple Stiffness, as long as he practiced diligently, he would be able to achieve externalization of his divine sense.

　　Edmund certainly knew the importance of divine sense.

　　Zombie reaction all kinds of slow, divine sense outside, better grasp of the surrounding environment, to be able to let him multiply the chances of survival.

　　For example, the attack on the python just now was due to Edmund's poor vision, not being able to spot the enemy earlier.

　　If divine sense could be externalized, when the python was approaching, it could be discovered and prepared ahead of time, and not be so passive.

　　Edmund somewhat impatiently mobilized his divine sense and examined his body carefully.

　　"Well, everything is normal! Even those bones that were strangled by the python have been repaired under the nourishment of the essence blood energy."

　　Edmund nodded in satisfaction.

　　Running the essence energy in his body for a while, he felt the small qi whirlpools within the abdominal qi sea rush according to the circumference of the sky, mobilizing at a speed that was many times happier than the original.

　　The advancement of a jumping corpse to a swimming corpse was indeed a step leap, with the two more iconic presences of Divine Sense Inner Vision and the Small Circumferential Qi Cyclone.

　　Although Edmund was now a grade one zombie that had just crossed the threshold, he was confident that if he encountered that giant python again, he would win very easily.

　　During the process of running his Essence Qi, Edmund could even feel the silk of Yin Qi around him penetrating through his skin, constantly joining the track of the Essence Qi circulation in his body, as if a small stream was merging into a hundred rivers.

　　This kind of situation had never happened before in the corpse jumping stage.