An emaciated camel was still larger than a horse.
As Umbrella Corporation’s European headquarters, even though Blue Umbrella Corporation had been impacted by the aftermath of the Resident Evil outbreak two years ago, its core foundation remained untouched.
Given sufficient authority, Blue Umbrella Corporation’s influence was vast.
Sub-level 33, Grade-1 Hive Laboratory.
Although many of the items Mark requested were unusual, none were particularly rare.
Natural crystals, gemstones, jade, and similar items could easily be bought at jewelry stores across major global cities.
Other items like cinnabar, red ink, gold dust, wood powder, camphor, kerosene, and soil could all be found in Chinatown.
That was right—Mark was preparing to refine spiritual ink.
In the heritage of the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, drawing talismans or setting arrays with blood was a very inefficient act.
Refining a Dao Seed had been a last resort out of necessity.
Moreover, during the etching of the Precious Lotus Array, only Mark’s blood, essence, energy, and spirit served as the core; the rest of the blood talisman seals were merely nourishment.
When refining Dao soldiers, however, there was no need to be so extravagant.
He couldn’t possibly drain his own blood every time he refined something.
Demonic methods were far more versatile than that.
Through countless years of accumulation and inheritance, the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect had long developed a complete assembly-line blueprint for refining Dao soldiers.
The process had even coalesced into a dedicated branch known as the Asura Path.
Once all materials were gathered in the laboratory, Mark didn’t care about the surveillance cameras.
He unleashed a strand of true qi, setting up the Precious Lotus Flame Light inside a high-temperature plasma furnace.
This illusory Precious Lotus Flame Light could merge with any fire, and the furnace’s plasma flame was no exception.
Furthermore, the high-temperature plasma furnace had a smart operating system, saving time and effort.
Once the flame light gathered, it burned away the internal impurities of the crystals, gemstones, and jade.
Under extreme heat and true qi protection, a special spiritual essence quickly formed.
When the spiritual essence was refined, he infused it with the yang energy of cinnabar, the yin aura of red ink, and the five elements essence.
Gathering the yin, yang, and five elements energy, the spiritual essence was sufficient to bear the Dao resonance and true intent. The source of this chapter is g.com.
As Mark struck a series of strange hand seals, the entire mass of spiritual essence solidified into a high-grade spiritual ink with restrained radiance.
After the spiritual ink was formed, Mark didn’t immediately modify the bio-weapons like Tyrants and Lickers.
Modifying them one by one was too tedious and wasteful.
Mark already viewed all of Blue Umbrella Corporation as his personal property.
In the future, this place might serve as his secondary lair.
A frequently used laboratory like this naturally required modification.
To Mark, such simple modifications were effortless.
With his formidable physical body and wondrous true qi, he spent less than two hours using his true qi as a brush, inscribing a complete Dao Soldier Refinement Array onto the layout, equipment, pipes, and walls of the entire laboratory.
With this array diagram covering every surface, he only needed to trace it with spiritual ink to form permanent array seals.
Once completed, the entire laboratory could be considered half a composite artifact.
Although a composite laboratory artifact couldn’t compare to magic treasures or spirit treasures like the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s Dao Soldier Gourds or Dao Soldier Bronze Cauldrons, Mark found it usable enough.
At least a lab with fixed array seals counted as a small-scale Dao soldier factory.
With his tools perfected, Mark began studying the Tyrants, Lickers, and other test subjects sent from the Hive’s other labs.
Just as he expected, these Tyrants and Lickers were ideal prototypes for Dao soldiers.
In Mark’s eyes, the Progenitor Virus, T-Virus, and the like were essentially mixtures of fiend qi containing malevolent fiend, yin fiend, blood fiend, toxic fiend, and more.
The Asura Path emphasized devouring fiend qi.
Through the true intent of slaughter and battle, it devoured fiend qi and drank blood to temper the physical form.
These Asura Dao Soldiers didn’t rely on essence, energy, or spirit.
Instead, they absorbed the core cultivation principles of the Zombie Dao, seeking to achieve the Dao through physical refinement.
The only difference was that zombies devoured yin to refine their bodies, while Asuras devoured fiend qi.
These prototypes naturally harbored massive amounts of mixed fiend qi, and their souls and wills were completely washed away—like blank-slate Dao soldiers specifically cleansed for use.
On a blank slate, as long as he imprinted his mark and refined Dao soldier seals into them, wouldn’t they instantly become his?
Their foundation might be a bit weak, but they were cheap, reliable, and mass-producible.
Once the number of Dao soldiers increased, he could use the gu-cultivation method to let them devour one another to raise their slaughter intent and ferocious fiend qi, turning them into proper Asura Dao Soldiers.
If any of these Dao soldiers were fortunate enough to regenerate intelligence, they would become true Asuras capable of embarking on the path of cultivation.
And the Asura Path was born to serve as guardians for the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect.
Looking at the preliminary array artifact, as power flooded in, spirit runes rapidly lit up one after another, stamping layer upon layer of imprints onto the Tyrants and Lickers.
Wisps of Asura fiend intent began to emerge.
A smile spread across Mark’s face; he was clearly in an excellent mood.
What could be better than watching his own strength grow?
Blue Umbrella Corporation’s power supply was a bit lacking, but barely acceptable.
It was only natural that modern electrical power couldn’t compare to the spiritual veins, blood pools, or fiend pits of the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect.
At worst, the refinement process would take a little longer.
While the lab array seals ran automatically to refine the Dao soldiers, he could take the opportunity to refine a simplified Blood God Banner.
If Asura Dao Soldiers were Mark’s means for battle and protection, then the Blood God Banner was his tool for controlling, refining, and farming vampires in the future.
The Blood God Banner was different from Dao soldiers.
It was a genuine growth-type demonic magic treasure without any shortcut for mass production; every step required Mark’s personal operation.
Furthermore, as a true magic treasure, refining a Blood God Banner required actual spiritual materials.
This was also why Mark had Michelle prepare a batch of supernatural subjects.
“Supernatural” was simply a high concentration of spiritual energy.
The more perfect a supernatural creature, the higher quality the spiritual material it became.
Skinning, deboning, extracting blood and marrow, drawing out souls—these were ancient crafts of the demonic path.
The demonic path was all about defying the heavens to profit oneself at others’ expense.
Using other creatures to pave his own cultivation road was absolute demonic orthodoxy.
*Tsk, I almost let demonic intent corrupt my mindset.*
*Forging a grand human cultivator from the flesh and marrow of foreign races—this should count as meritorious service in slaying demons and defending the Dao!*
*Yes, exactly.*
Firm in his conviction, Mark turned his gaze toward the werewolves, goblins, molemen, and other dark creatures in the laboratory.
These were prime “spiritual materials” that Blue Umbrella Corporation had gathered for him.