Cultivating Immortality in the Apocalypse: Zombie Evolution Under a Collective Consciousness

[Slow burn] [Slow burn] + [Cultivation] + [Zombies] + [Collective Consciousness] + [Dystopia] + [Post-apocalyptic sci-fi]

(PS: This is a slow-burn story, so if you're interested, you can check out Chapter 32 first to get a sense of the setting.)

A towering dragon circles high above the nine heavens, a pearl in its mouth, regarded as a ladder to the heavens.

A serpent hidden beneath the sea fog bites its own tail, its head and tail joined, regarded as a prison of reincarnation.

A phantom forest stands amid the ruins of the world, its jagged, icy glints regarded as a lost paradise.

What humans, demons, immortals, and fiends see, hear, and think may not be true. Only what all beings recognize under the collective consciousness is the one and only reality.

Yet in the eyes of those who have fallen into heresy and depravity, this so-called reality is merely an illusory paradise, built beneath a desolate wasteland by the rulers of this world for creatures whose minds have been enslaved, so they can eke out an existence in this dying world.