The Rise of the Black Plain

Chapter 2576  Experiments (1)

The General turned away from Minos and Abby, positioning himself to act if necessary.

Minos would participate in the experiment, which meant the level of danger could easily reach the same level as his powers.

It could be deadly dangerous, so the peak Sovereign circulated his energies and prepared himself in case problems arose from this first experiment.

Abby nodded to Minos while holding the black liquid.

He prepared himself by opening his wings, ready to also use the Hydra's Amulet if necessary.

The corpse said, "I'm ready." He sat down in the lotus position.

The best way for a cultivator to control an internal force entering their body or soul was through meditation!

Whatever the black liquid was going to do to him, he had better be in a state of cultivation to handle the problems or benefits the black liquid would bring him.

Minos closely watched Abby's movement as she took 5% of the black liquid they had and used her energy to move a large drop, the size of a grape, toward the head of the corpse.

'In living beings, I know it would corrupt the body and soul. It could threaten life, or even cause severe mutation in the creature if it survived contact. But in something already dead... Well, anything could happen.'

As Minos watched the drop fall towards the corpse's forehead, Abby prepared herself, circulating her energy to get rid of her connection to the corpse in case something strange happened.

Abby's connection to the undead wasn't direct. After reviving them, the connection she had with them was one of superiority, in case they were within her limits. But her aura or power was not directly connected to the undead's soul.

What was there was a small mark on the soul of these creatures, something that could affect her to some degree, even though it wasn't directly connected to her.

She could sever that connection and cut off any negative effects that would result from the destruction or corruption of it.

'Even if my connection with it were to be corrupted, at most I would feel a slight injury to my soul and lose that mark. The rest of my essence cannot be affected by anything external to my body and soul.'

She thought silently as she felt the tension of the moment and the negative vibrations of the liquid.

The moment the black drop touched the forehead of the level 111 corpse, the corpse's eyes opened wide, and the darkness of the pupil covered the entire eye, even reaching the sclera.

The black liquid seeped through its forehead and disappeared without a trace, just like a drop of water disappears after touching the sand and dries up on its way to the depths of the ground.

Then, a pulse burst out from the corpse's body, instantly raising the creature's cultivation to level 112, while the spiritual pathways of its body were covered in a black energy that was only visible to Minos, who had the Bright Eyes on his side. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

But even though she couldn't see the same thing as her husband, Abby felt the sensation that came from the internal changes in the corpse's body under her powers.

"Upir, how do you feel?" Her eyes shut as if in pain.

But Upir didn't answer, trembling violently as profound changes rapidly developed in his body.

Instead of being corrupted, as normally happened to living beings, Upir had parts of himself improved, with his bones leaving their previous state and turning black as night. His aura gradually stabilized at its new level, while his heart, which had been silent until a moment ago, beat.

"Is he back to life?" the General asked with an interested expression on his face.

He knew the black liquid could revive the dead. That was the guild's primary goal in collecting it, which was found long ago by the first generation of members who went on the Black Heart mission.

However, as far as they knew, the dead who were revived by the black liquid didn't revive in the way they wanted. Their once peaceful existence became tumultuous as they failed to fully restore their physical forms. Consumed by darkness, they left a trail of devastation and destruction wherever they tread, desecrating the land, annihilating property, and unleashing uncontrollable acts of violence.

As a result, the guild had yet to use the black liquid they had.

Nevertheless, upon witnessing the initial findings of Abby's experiment, the General couldn't contain his excitement as he gazed upon Upir. Abby might just be the solution they had been desperately seeking to effectively and securely harness the power of the enigmatic black substance.

"No," Minos took his wife's place, seeing glimpses of the future when she would fully understand the effect of her abilities on this man.

Abby answered in more detail than her husband, "He is not alive. But he's not dead either... It's hard to understand, but his body seems to be alive, while his soul is still that of an undead. The moment his soul dissipates, his body will die."

"What does that mean? What is the effect of the black liquid?" the General asked as he changed his voice, emphasizing the lines on his forehead.

"He is stronger. That's the main point of this experiment. I still have to analyze it bit by bit, but as we advance in level, we have new possibilities. Is it possible to cultivate the dead? And if we cultivate him up to the 12th stage, would anything change after the qualitative evolution?" Abby asked her questions.

Abby's undead should not be able to cultivate. She knew it because she had already tried it in the Spiritual World and in The Enchanted Realm when she tested the limits of her powers.

But the undead in front of them had progressed in a stable manner, similar to living cultivators, unlike the temporary strengthening that Minos' innate ability could cause.

If this were to be repeated through cultivation, many things might change in Abby's undead!

Minos realized something else. "His vitality has also increased more than tenfold. If he could only survive a few hours before the black liquid, now he can resist for more than a day outside of his coffin."

"This is fantastic!" The general understood this point and immediately got eager about the experiments.

They had only used the volume of one drop on that corpse!

But what if they had used an entire liter?

Even if the creature wasn't able to raise its cultivation to level 115 in one day, it could still survive as it was now, but perhaps it could evolve and have a longer lifespan if it absorbed more of the black liquid!