Here, Ji Ruxue was under the sacred Bodhi tree, being baptized by the precious light. Her cultivation finally reached the peak of the eighth level. The next step was to be promoted to the ninth level.

On the other side, Lu Chuan, who was left behind by Ji Ruxue, quickly returned to the base city with his army of zombies.

After returning, Lu Chuan made a series of arrangements, patrolling when necessary and hunting when necessary.

A large number of corpse puppets were arranged in the sky and on the ground to patrol the entire Lijiang City to prevent alien races or insect races from pouring into Lijiang City without its knowledge.

In addition, Lu Chuan also allocated some manpower to hunting.

Before leaving, he cleared out all the zombie breeding bases, and now that he is back, he naturally has to build this zombie breeding base again.

The most important thing for a zombie breeding base is sufficient flesh and blood. Only through a large amount of hunting can the zombie breeding base and the pigpen recover.

Afterwards, Lu Chuan quickly returned to the villa, put some things down as he was familiar with the place.

Without rushing to clean up the supplies or put things away, Lu Chuan directly took the bag of crystal cores and returned to his room.

Then, Lu Chuan took out four eighth-level crystal cores from the bag, held them in his hand and looked at them, his eyes filled with eagerness.

Right now, there is no shortage of eighth-level crystal cores. By swallowing these four eighth-level crystal cores, he will be able to break through to the ninth level and reach the highest peak in this world.

By then, with the ninth-level cultivation as a foundation, he can go anywhere in the world. In addition, Lu Chuan is already able to mass-produce ninth-level corpse dolls.

As the zombie king, if Lu Chuan cannot reach the ninth level, it is naturally impossible for him to command the zombies.

However, it is not so easy to get a batch of ninth-level corpse puppets.

Eighth-level crystal cores are extremely rare. In Lu Chuan's opinion, it is almost an impossible task to successfully assemble a group of ninth-level corpse puppets that rely on eighth-level crystal cores for advancement.

The number of eighth-level crystal cores is already too small. It is okay to upgrade one or two ninth-level corpses by swallowing them, and the crystal cores can be collected as much as possible.

But no matter how many there are, it won’t work. Where can he find so many crystal-level eighth-level beasts and zombies?

Perhaps there are enough eighth-level ferocious beasts in the sea, but the sea is vast and deep. It is extremely difficult to hunt eighth-level sea beasts in the sea.

However, Lu Chuan had already made a plan for this. Since the route of hunting the eighth-level ferocious beast was not feasible, he would slaughter the alien insect race on a large scale and use their flesh and blood as nourishment for promotion.

As long as a group of eighth-level corpses can devour enough Zerg aliens, they will be able to accumulate enough energy and gradually advance to the ninth level.

However, this method takes a bit of time.

"Let's advance to the ninth level first..."

Afterwards, Lu Chuan gradually calmed down and stopped thinking about it. He looked at the crystal core in his palm. The next second, he put the crystal cores in his hand into his mouth one by one and swallowed them.

boom!

In an instant, the four crystal cores instantly turned into surging energy and began to surge wildly in Lu Chuan's body, just like a surging river, flowing endlessly and constantly impacting the meridians in the body.

Feeling this huge energy, Lu Chuan did not dare to be negligent at all. He quickly sat down cross-legged, carefully mobilized the spiritual energy in his body, and began to continuously refine this external energy.

As time went by, these surging energies were gradually refined into strands of spiritual essence and quickly merged into Lu Chuan's original spiritual essence.

As the spiritual energy continued to grow, Lu Chuan's cultivation level also increased, and his aura became stronger and stronger.

Lu Chuan, who was already at the peak of the eighth level, felt for the first time the solidity of the ninth level barrier, which was like a solid wall of iron and steel. He tried it but found that the impact of his own spiritual energy could not shake it at all.

For a moment, Lu Chuan's face was heavy and he felt extremely uncomfortable.

However, Lu Chuan naturally would not give up. He regrouped and continued to transfer the increasing spiritual energy and rushed towards the realm barrier.

boom!

Suddenly, Lu Chuan's head felt like it was hit by a heavy hammer, and his whole body felt like it was struck by lightning. A deafening bang kept echoing in his mind.

After the tinnitus disappeared, Lu Chuan only felt dizzy, as if his head and body had separated.

In response, Lu Chuan could only shake his head, trying to keep himself awake.

However, even so, the barrier did not move at all.

Lu Chuan gritted his teeth, unwilling to give up.

Rumble

The impact again and again continued to affect Lu Chuan's body, causing Lu Chuan to feel dull pain all over his body.

Especially the damage to the meridians. Due to the continuous impact of the violent spiritual energy, the meridians along the way were all slightly damaged and had some minor scars.

In addition, in the process of impacting the barrier, the surrounding energy seemed to be attracted and slowly gathered towards Lu Chuan.

Soon, the absorbed energy was transformed into Lu Chuan's own spiritual energy. As a result, the pressure on Lu Chuan's meridians became even greater.

In this regard, Lu Chuan now has only one solution, which is to be promoted to the ninth level as soon as possible. As long as he breaks through the barrier, the surging spiritual energy will naturally flow unimpeded, and the pressure on the meridians will also disappear.

Thinking of this, Lu Chuan gritted his teeth, continuously mobilizing his spiritual energy, and launched the final attack on the realm barrier.

Rumble

A deafening roar kept coming from his mind. Lu Chuan's whole body was shaking constantly. He had already started bleeding and the situation was extremely serious.

Lu Chuan knew that physical trauma was inevitable, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to attack the realm barrier.

In a blink of an eye, it was already evening.

Boom~

Suddenly, the realm barrier loosened a little. Lu Chuan was delighted and mobilized his spiritual energy again to launch an attack.

And every subsequent impact would shake the realm barrier, and soon, the realm barrier began to dissipate bit by bit.

boom!

The next moment, the realm barrier was finally broken down by the spiritual energy, just like a collapsed dam.

The spiritual energy flowed unimpeded and rapidly in the meridians. Even the wounds on the surface of the meridians gradually healed under the circulation of the spiritual energy.

At the moment when Lu Chuan broke through the ninth level, the sky changed color and endless energy began to flow back rapidly, causing the amount of spiritual energy in Lu Chuan's body to soar at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, a terrifying ninth-level aura surged out from Lu Chuan's body, sweeping across all directions, and no one could stop it.

"Ninth level! I finally broke through to the ninth level!"

Lu Chuan slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of excitement.

(End of this chapter)