Mediocre Skill

Once Shen Ying got her hands upon the improved Dawn of the Living Dead skill, she gave off a wide grin which showed all her teeth. The patients besides her ignored her, because they feared that she would direct her attention to them, and they would suffer a lot from her unusual actions.

Shen Ying felt that she should test this skill out and see how impressive it was. The skill book had also contained the recall technique, so she could always lay the wraiths back to rest if they caused any trouble within the hospital.

"The ones who has crossed over to the beyond, come back to the world you have abandoned!" Shen Ying muttered under her breath. Her eyes turned black, while releasing a ghastly aura which could dampen one's spirit.

As her Unshaking Qi transformed into bony hands which opened the portal inside Shen Ying's mind further, the room temperature starting dropping drastically.

The patients, who nearly wanted to cry at this point, felt a literal chill going down their spine. If not for the fact that they were bedridden, they would have escaped far away from the scary looking teenager long ago.

Through her mind, she could see apparitions heading towards the portal from the Underworld. However, whenever one of the apparitions exited from the portal, the bony arms grew smaller and smaller. Eventually, the bony arms were sucked into the portal, and the portal went back to its normal size.

After the portal had gone back to normal, the apparitions that were still residing in Shen Ying's mind started to exit her body. An even greater chill descended on the patients that were in Shen Ying's ward. Their teeth started chattering involuntarily.

Out of the corners of their eyes, they could see a wispy figure rise up from that girl's body. The girl's skin had turned sheet white from the cold. The wispy figure then started to turn around, looking directly at the patients.

Soon, it's' companions also joined it, forming a squad of wispy figures hanging in the cold air. They stared directly into the eyes of the patients, who were eyeing them, in case the wispy figures decided to attack them. The patients could not tell whether if the figures were hostile, as there were no expressions on their faces.

As quickly as they rise from Shen Ying's body, they dissipated, at least from the patients' points of view. However, to Shen Ying's horror, they had only split their bodies up to not attract attention to themselves as they got closer to the patients.

"Beings that has abandoned this realm, go back to...." Shen Ying quickly muttered under her breath the dispelling ritual, and used her fingernails to draw some blood from her arm. However, it was too late, as the misty figures had already reached next to the patients!

The moment the patients saw the misty figures, their bodies were paralysed with shock and fear. As the misty figures tried to reach for their bodies, the patients began to pray to the God of Fate to protect them from the figures.

As the ghostly figures touched the patients, they started to whimper pathetically, before collapsing into nothing. Shen Ying, who was about to complete the dispelling ritual, suffered a backlash, spitting out some congealed blood from the damage done to her body.

She wiped her mouth with the tissue paper next to her bed. More importantly, was the fact that the wraiths she had summoned was so utterly useless! They had only maintained human contact for less than a second and broke down immediately.

She went back into her mind and activated the system once more. When she entered the system menu, the voice of the system started to talk.

"My apologies, but it seemed that we had forgotten to unlock the description function for the skills and Cultivation Path. From now on, there will be descriptions for the various types of skills and Cultivation Path!"

[Name: Shen Ying

Cultivation Level: 1-tier Body Building

Cultivation Path: Unshaking Cultivation Low Skill(10/100)

Skills:Dawn of the Living Dead Mid Skill(1/10000)

Redemption Shop

Missions

System Rewards]

Shen Ying pressed on the Dawn of the Living Dead Mid Skill. A description provided by the system appeared in the form of a pop-up. [Dawn of the Living Dead Mid Skill: More wraiths can be summoned than the Low Skill version. Higher ranked wraiths are also available. Sacrifice more Qi to summon higher ranked wraiths!]

As Shen Ying read the description, it did make sense. To summon higher ranked wraiths to do your bidding, it was necessary to sacrifice more. As her father had told her, nothing in this world was free. Everything had to come with a price tag. Apparently, to build his empire, her father had to sacrifice his cultivation levels to destroy all his enemies in one fell swoop, which established Ling Empire and prevented it from being threatened.

So far, Dawn of the Living Dead was nothing but a mediocre skill to her. She had not cultivated far enough to summon any wraiths that could protect her. This meant that she had to be careful, and she had learned that her counterpart had been born into a family of cultivators.

If she was not careful enough, one of the enemies of the cultivator family she was in might take this chance when she was weak to strike at her. She sighed as she realised that she had been too careless just now. She should not have summoned the wraiths in such a crowded hospital. Who knew if someone was spying on her?

As she thought about this possibility, the door to the hospital ward Shen Ying was in slid open. As Shen Ying cranked her head to look, she gave out a tiny gasp of surprise. This was... Li Tang Zi's aunt!