Gongye Yushu simply greeted them and then activated a speed-up skill to leave.

"What an impolite guy!" Ning Yanlan muttered to herself.

"It's clear that he only has eyes for the strong!" Jiang Yuan's assessment of this person was quite good; he maintained a distance from others while showing them sufficient respect.

This is only what Jiang Yuan sees; naturally, there is also what the Heavenly Eye sees.

Human, 8th tier dual-element, physical strength: 278, spiritual strength: 263, bloodline: advanced swift wolf, talent: storm blade.

Stormblade: Intermediate talent, allows you to summon a storm of blades beside you.

The data for an eighth-tier dual-system is quite impressive, and a large part of the reason why Gongye Yushu can reach 260 or 270 energy points is because he fused with the advanced Gale Wolf bloodline. The power that the bloodline gave him was enough to push him to a very good level of the eighth tier.

"Perhaps he just likes beautiful women!" Leng Yue smiled inexplicably, then strode towards the third street.

Upon entering the Third Street, all three were stunned by the scene before them.

"Just how many monsters have flooded into this West Gate?" Jiang Yuan couldn't help but ask himself.

The Third Street was teeming with monsters, which filled the residential buildings on both sides of the street. Human screams and monster roars filled the air, creating a scene of slaughter and extinction.

"If no human Spirit Awakener comes to help, everyone here will surely perish in the beasts' jaws!" Leng Yue had seen a lot of blood, but she was still shocked by the scene.

"Yanlan, you stay close to me with the Heavenly Soul Child!" Jiang Yuan placed the shrunken Heavenly Soul Child into Ning Yanlan's arms. The Heavenly Soul Child had shown its face at the South City Prison, and if it appeared directly, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. That's why he had the Heavenly Soul Child stay by Ning Yanlan's side in its shrunken form.

"Should we go together or split up and fight?" Leng Yue drew her weapon and couldn't wait to jump into the battlefield.

"Let's split up! Third Street is a large area. Splitting up can save as many people as possible!" Jiang Yuan mustered his strength and shot out.

"good!"

Leng Yue had no objections, but simply carried her dagger and moved swiftly across the battlefield.

Nearly half of the two million people in Ximen were lost overnight. This is the horror of the beast tide. When monsters with strength of dozens or hundreds attacked, how could ordinary people possibly resist? They did not seize the opportunity on the day of the cataclysm, and thus lost the initiative forever. With the death of the first batch of first-tier monsters, those who had not yet awakened their spirits, except for a few who naturally awakened their spirits through their own potential, were almost all ordinary people who could only passively wait for death.

Jiang Yuan kept attacking, but the deeper he went into the residential buildings, the more intense the grief became. He did not become numb, because he could hear the endless lamentations of the dead. Fear, sadness, resentment, hatred and other emotions reminded him that these people were still living, breathing people just a few hours ago.

Death deserves our reverence!

"No need to linger, enter the cycle of reincarnation!"

As Jiang Yuan slew a fifth-tier monster, countless souls came to his ears, wailing in despair. These souls had all been killed by the fifth-tier monsters he had killed in their previous lives, which was why he could evoke emotional resonance from the souls when he killed monsters.

He couldn't absorb the mark of the dead from spirits whose karma was unrelated to him, but he still gave these spirits the respect they deserved. These people were not wrong; the fault lay in the cruelty of this world.

A fluctuation that only Jiang Yuan could sense occurred, causing nearly half of the undead to dissipate on their own, but half of the undead remained.

"What do you want to do by not entering the cycle of reincarnation?" Jiang Yuan raised his hand, and a shadow visible only to the dead appeared behind him.

There are many people who do not enter the cycle of reincarnation, such as the soldiers' spirits we saw in Area C before. They were heroic spirits that spontaneously gathered to protect the country.

"revenge!"

"Revenge! Revenge!"

"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"

Jiang Yuan's question seemed to have stirred up all the spirits on the Third Street. At that moment, two deafening words entered Jiang Yuan's ears. Perhaps "deafening" is not an accurate description, because he was the only one on the entire Third Street who heard those two words.

However, this does not mean that nothing has changed on the Third Street. When all the dead shouted for revenge, gusts of cold wind blew through the Third Street, and everyone felt a bone-chilling cold, as if the cold went straight to their souls.

"Revenge!" Jiang Yuan looked up and saw endless waves of beasts ahead.

The will of the undead is clear: they hate not just a single monster, but all the monsters that have invaded the Third Street, and even the entire beast tide.

"Fine, I will avenge you!" Jiang Yuan blurted out the two words as if possessed. He knew it was an impossible task, but he could not remain unmoved by the pleas of all the innocent souls.

"Hint: Completing the Undead's Death Will will activate the Grim Reaper's Chant."

"The chant of death: cursing the living, welcoming the dead, accepting innocent souls with the chant of death, and thus receiving the mark of the dead."

Jiang Yuan was stunned. He hadn't expected that by simply agreeing to one condition, he had activated another function of the Grim Reaper's Hand.

The description of Death's Chant is similar to, but not exactly the same as, Death's Blessing. Death's Chant can be used not only on the dead, but also on the living, and can even accept the mark of the dead from those who were not killed by the user in another form.

When Jiang Yuan agreed to the request, the Third Street instantly calmed down, but what followed was an even more frantic commotion, which was clearly directed at Jiang Yuan alone.

Each of the dead offered up a sliver of their power—pure and exquisite soul energy.

This scene reminded Jiang Yuan of the strange things he had encountered in Tieling Village. It was the same thing: a group of undead were killed and their soul energy was fed back to them little by little. However, this time it was obviously different from the last time.

The spirits of the villagers of Tieling Village were absorbed by the Heavenly Soul Child in a peculiar way, making it impossible for them to enter the cycle of reincarnation. However, the spirits of the Third Street are different; they have the opportunity to enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their soul power is at most temporarily residing in Jiang Yuan's body, and it will still disappear when they enter the cycle of reincarnation again.

"Are you crazy?!" Jiang Yuan was somewhat taken aback. He hadn't expected to become powerful again in this way.

There were tens of thousands of resentful spirits on the third street, and 70% of them transferred their soul power to Jiang Yuan.

An ordinary person's soul energy is a fraction of a point, but after death, when they become undead, their soul energy increases instead of decreasing, with each one having three or four points of soul energy. It was these nearly ten thousand undead who contributed one hundred points of soul energy to Jiang Yuan.

"Are you crazy? Why did I suddenly become a single-element soul energy system?" Jiang Yuan was puzzled because he could feel the divine energy in his body as calm as still water. Logically speaking, divine energy should include the soul energy system, but the hundred points of soul energy contributed by the undead seemed to exist separately in the hands of the god of death, and did not interfere with the divine energy.

"revenge!"

Soul energy surged, urged on by the will of countless undead.