Chapter 341 The Castle of the Blood Clan
"What is Sequence Seven for Hunter?" Xu Qingqiang asked curiously after reporting the good news. "And Jacques seems to be taking a different path. I only know of the Summoning rank, and the Hunter's ultimate goal seems to be the Beast God."
Mu Zhong was very aware of this. Iron Heart had already explained it to him. He said, "Indeed, the normal way for a hunter is to summon beasts, combined with ranged attacks. At level one, a new beast is summoned. At sequence nine, legendary beasts can be summoned."
Ding Qi is extremely talented in this regard. She can summon three beasts at each stage. After reaching Sequence 6, she is followed by three level 6 monsters, and her combat power is amazing.
But because of his special Eagle Eye talent, Jacques completely gave up his summoning ability, which ultimately allowed him to step out of his unique special sequence and become a war expert.
Mu Zhong paused after speaking, then continued, "Sequence 5: War Expert, Sequence 6: War Bishop, Sequence 7: War Divine Envoy, Sequence 8: Judgement, Sequence 9: Divine Punishment."
Xu Qingqiang was shocked after hearing this: "Oh my god, what kind of a fancy name is 'Divine Punishment'?"
Mu Zhong laughed. In fact, the name "Divine Punishment" was much better than the names like Demon God, God of Death, God of War, etc. It was just the name of Sequence Nine, which was completely different from the "God" in human cognition.
If you really want to become such a "god", you need to take another "path of law", and compete with billions of opponents on the battlefield of all races, snatch the laws, and reach the finish line first to win.
This road is even more difficult to walk.
Xu Qingqiang tutted his words twice before saying, "Although our combat power has only recovered to 88%, we should be able to defeat the final boss after Jacques completes his advancement. Don't stop, keep going."
Mu Zhong said, "The final boss is at the platinum level. If Jacques doesn't complete the advancement before then, he can't fight."
Xu Qingqiang frowned: "Don't worry, I can do it, I have confidence."
Mu Zhong shook his head, blocking Xu Qingqiang's words: "This is an order, you can't act stubbornly."
Xu Qingqiang still looked at Wei Huan with reluctance.
Wei Huan nodded: "Listen to Mu Zhong."
"Tsk!" Xu Qingqiang muttered and turned off the communication in anger.
Mu Zhong said to Wei Huan, "Three Level 8 vehicles, six Level 8 protective shields, four Level 8 arrow towers, one Level 9 arrow tower, a Level 9 casting net, plus Sequence 7 Captain Xue, Jacques, and Brother Qiang, whose strength has recovered to over 90%, can definitely defeat a Platinum-level monster."
After saying this, Mu Zhong turned and said, "But the prerequisite is that Brother Qiang can recover 90% of his strength, and Jacques can complete the upgrade before the battle. There are only a day and a half left before the assessment is completed, and we have to reserve at least half a day for the battle. In other words, Jacques has to complete the upgrade in one day, which is impossible."
Wei Huan sighed: "As long as I can recover 60% of my strength, I won't have to worry about these things."
Mu Zhong said: "What you are facing is both a disaster and an opportunity."
Wei Huan was very impressed: "During this period of time, I have been struggling with the Law of Death. It is not just as simple as lifting the seal. My understanding of the Law of Death has indeed deepened. Especially in the use of spiritual consciousness, it is much stronger than before."
Mu Zhong said, "A strong person can treat all hardships and crises as a whetstone. The sharper and more powerful you are, the greater our chances of victory will be in the ninth-level world. Just focus on your cultivation, and leave everything else to me. Only when you are strong can we truly rest assured."
Wei Huan nodded.
"Yes, so I didn't take your combat power into account in the plan just now. It's not because your combat power is not enough, but I don't think you need to expend your energy in a battle of this level. It's just the final boss. If you don't have the conditions to fight, then don't fight."
"good."
Wei Huan did have the idea of temporarily giving up his own training to assist Xu Qingqiang in recovering his strength first. Mu Zhong obviously saw this, which led to the conversation just now.
After talking with Mu Zhong for a while, Wei Huan realized that his idea was wrong.
This convoy is centered around itself, and all combat operations are carried out around its own undead army. The stronger it is, the stronger the entire convoy will be. We cannot put the cart before the horse.
No matter how strong the other crew members are, even if Xu Qingqiang recovers to 100%, they cannot replace his role on the battlefield.
After Wei Huan turned around, he sneered in his heart, then devoted himself to cultivation again, returning to the world full of chains, and patiently lifted the seal.
Perhaps it was practice that made perfect, or perhaps the experiences of the past two days had given him some insights. When facing chains of the same thickness again, Wei Huan found that he could break them much faster.
Initially, he needed to erode ten "rings" before the middle one could break. Later, as he became more proficient, he could break the chain with seven or eight "rings".
But this time when he started again, he only eroded three "rings" and the chain broke.
The sound of "clattering" rang in his ears from time to time, like the sound of nature, and Wei Huan's strength was quickly unlocked.
Unknowingly, when Mu Zhong woke him up, his strength had recovered to 36.5%.
In less than a day, the strength he recovered was equivalent to the total strength of the past 10 days.
Wei Huan woke up and felt his strength returning, then he and Mu Zhong looked outside the car.
After a day's journey, they arrived in front of the final boss.
Today is the 11th day of highway assessment.
The deadline is six o'clock tonight. The assessment road will be closed at that time, and all challengers who have not reached the 80th line will be swallowed by darkness.
Although they were not worried about not being able to leave, it was very uncertain whether they could kill the final boss in the next six hours.
"What is it?" Wei Huan stood on the balcony and looked out.
In the kingdom of the dead, even the light is dead. There is no day or night here, only a gray haze. The thick aura of death shrouds the sky and the earth, depriving humans of their five senses.
After staying in this world for ten days, if there were not the Tree of Life in the car and a large number of people praying to dispel the erosion of the power of death, some people in the car who were not good at cultivation, such as the old man and others, might have more or less shown signs of being invaded by "death".
Although these situations are not happening now, the five senses are obscured by the aura of death, and it is almost impossible to see the environment outside the car. Three to five meters away is a thick fog of death, which even the level 8 headlights cannot penetrate.
Only Wei Huan looked at the gray fog with shining eyes, as if he saw his own future.
If Sister Crow's gray snow can reach a level that even a level 8 vehicle cannot handle, then on a battlefield of this level, it might be enough to just send out Sister Crow, which is an absolute crushing force.
However, if one has already reached Sequence Nine, or has embarked on the path to becoming a god, then gaining this level of strength in an eighth-level world is natural and not considered an ability.
What he really needed to work on was to reach this level at Sequence Eight or even Sequence Seven. This sounded difficult, but it was actually not impossible to achieve.
In the final analysis, it is all about embarking on the path of law early on. It has nothing to do with cultivation. If one's understanding of the law is deep enough, even if one is only at Sequence Seven, one can master strength like this fog.
The invisible fog lit up a bright light for Wei Huan's cultivation, illuminating the way forward.
After reaching Sequence Seven, he was lost for a long time. He didn't know whether he should continue to expand the continent within the tomb, seeking out and killing more beings from the real world? Or should he follow the guidance of the Challenge World and cultivate step by step?
Now it seems that a third way has emerged.
While removing the "chains" that controlled him, he was also able to directly "touch" the essence of the law of death and increase his perception of the law of death.
The road has been paved right under his feet. If he doesn't walk on it, how can he be worthy of the "gift" of this world?
"This world is indeed far more difficult than I imagined." Mu Zhong was unable to see the truth behind the gray fog, with only sporadic footage from the drones he dispatched. "It was only thanks to Jacques's eagle eyes that we were able to see the true face of the final boss. Can you guess what it was?"
Wei Huan was pleasantly surprised: "Jacques has completed his advancement?"
Mu nodded: "It's only been a short while since I advanced."
"The time is so short, there's not enough time to settle down, and the improvement in strength is limited."
"He said it can be improved in combat."
Wei Huan didn't comment, then asked, "What is the final boss?"
"Castle." Mu Zhong said.
"Castle..." Wei Huan's first reaction was the Dark Beast Lord. After all, only Dark Beast Lords had "territory". But he soon realized that the Dark Beast Lords who were absent from even the sixth-level world would never come to the eighth-level world, so...
Mu Zhong said, "The vampire's castle."
Just as Wei Huan had thought, "vampires and castles" existed in tandem in Western mythology. They were nocturnal, lived deep within castles, and needed to hide in coffins. Furthermore, a vampire that could serve as a final boss must be of a very high level.
Mu Zhong also said: "The Blood Queen is the highest being in this legendary system, which is consistent with the status of a lower-level god."
"So this is a castle of a vampire queen?"
"It must be. This is the final boss."
Wei Huan asked, "How do you say the Sleepless Sequence?"
Mu Zhong said, "I just asked, but the Sleepless's god-level title is 'Lord of Darkness'. They must have separated from the Blood Clan along the way, so there's not much information available. Our strongest Sleepless is only Sequence Six, a mere Night Apostle who hasn't even heard the Dark God's whispers."
The sixth sequence of the sleepless ones is the [Apostle of Dark Night], and the seventh sequence is the [Listener of Dark Night], who can hear the "whisperings of the God of Darkness" and is actually also cultivating on the path of law.
It seems that "Blood" has indeed evolved in two directions.
Mu Zhong quickly added, "However, Agris seems to prefer the path of blood. Her path is different from that of other sleepless ones. Perhaps her destination is the Queen of the Blood Clan.
However, she remains in the sixth-level world, serving as the leader of Osham's garrison there. We are unable to contact her for the time being, and are not aware of the Vampire Queen's strengths and weaknesses."
Wei Huan thought about Agris's abilities and said, "From a glimpse of the leopard, we can tell that the vampire queen should have the ability to clone, restore blood, curse, and infect."
"Do you want to fight?" Mu Zhong asked.
Wei Huan said, "Fight."
Mu Zhong raised his eyebrows.
Wei Huan said, "In terms of clones, one hundred of my undead can surround one of its clones. In terms of health recovery, I think there's no one in the world more powerful than Xu Qingqiang. With luck this time, maybe after eating the vampire queen, Xu Qingqiang's blood-sucking ability will be strengthened. Curses and infections are troublesome, but they allow Xia Yu to deploy "Paradise" in advance and be ready for rescue at any time."
After saying this, Wei Huan smiled faintly: "Adding other combat methods, if it was another final boss, I would still hesitate, but if it was a vampire, I could really beat him."
After all, the undead have no blood and are not afraid of having their blood sucked, which means they are the natural nemesis of vampires.
Seeing Wei Huan so confident, Mu Zhong also smiled and said, "Since you are confident that you can win, let's fight.
Also, after killing the three-legged golden crow yesterday, you went to practice, and you didn't know that we obtained the core material for a level eight protective shield in that battle. This way, we have a seventh level eight protective shield, giving us more room to maneuver."
Wei Huan nodded: "Then fight."
"good."
…
This ancient and mottled building has stood on the land for who knows how many years.
It is shrouded in thick fog, covers a vast area, and is majestic and imposing. It is more like a palace swallowed by time and death than an ancient castle.
The palace was silent, with rotten branches and fallen leaves all over the ground. In the wooded courtyard, rotting corpses were wandering around.
They are a group of zombies in human form, but if you look closely, you can see that they are not quite the same as the humans on Blue Star.
They are relatively tall, with the shortest one exceeding 2.2 meters. They have a pair of pointed ears on both sides of their rotten heads.
Occasionally you see a zombie with a complete face, and you can see that they are handsome in a way that conforms to human aesthetics.
If described according to human legends, they should have been a group of extremely handsome or beautiful elves when they were alive.
Looking at the style of this building, it is also extremely gorgeous and complex, and it is obvious that it comes from a civilization with a very high level of artistic appreciation and high material living standards.
But now, they are dead, turned into consciousnessless zombies, wandering in such a closed palace for who knows how many years.
On this day, in the palace that had been silent for thousands of years, an unusual sound that had never been heard before was heard.
The rotten dead branches on the ground were crushed with a "crackling" sound, and there was a "rustling" sound from the friction between objects. Even the solidified air began to flow due to the invasion of outsiders, making a "whooshing" sound.
The wandering zombies sensed something strange in the air and became alert. They stared in the same direction, paused briefly, and then, as if a switch had been pressed, suddenly rushed forward with ferocious expressions.
They roared through the courtyard, bypassed the coffins scattered on the ground, and even knocked over countless corpses hanging on the dead trees. Finally, they passed through the gray fog and arrived at the square in front of the palace.
What they saw head on was a group of undead whose faces were no less terrifying than theirs, and even more hideous and twisted.
These undead seemed to have been here for a long time. They were arranged in such dense formations that there was no end in sight, stretching all the way to the depths of the gray fog.
Leading the way was a group of violent bears with six forearms and a pair of strong and powerful hind legs. They were all zombies, their skin and flesh were rotten, the black brains on their heads were flowing down their cheeks, and some of their eyeballs had fallen out.
But even without eyes, raging green flames were burning in their eye sockets, emitting a strong smell of death.
This aura of death made the elven zombies in the palace extremely disgusted. It was as if they had seen their natural enemy. Almost the moment they felt it, they went into a frenzy and rushed forward with "woohoos".
The zombie violent bears also went forward, but unlike the chaotic group of elf zombies, they lined up in an orderly manner and moved forward in a staggered manner. They also had flying monkey "kites" on their bodies and a ball of green light lingering around them to assist them.
At this time, a particularly huge violent bear gradually ran to the front of the team.
Unlike other violent bears, its appearance looks intact, as if it is still alive, and one can even see wisdom in its eyes.
It was so powerful that it rushed to the front and chopped fiercely in the middle of the enemy like a battle axe.
“Boom!”
The war begins.
The two sides soon engaged in a melee.
Wei Huan's strength was indeed suppressed too harshly in this world. Even when he was facing the lowest-level monster in the palace, a level 7 violent bear known for its defense, it was like paper. The elves could often scratch it to death with two or three claws.
Only a few elite violent bears led by the big bear can hold out for a little longer.
This gap in strength cannot be made up by having enough numbers.
Fortunately, Wei Huan had an eighth-level sentry tower and an eighth-level war platform, with long-range output exceeding eighth level.
As long as the big bear and other meat tanks hold on a little, these elven zombies will be killed and torn to pieces, pushing the front line forward.
Soon, they fought their way into the courtyard from the square.
The decayed and dilapidated courtyard was like a long-sealed box that was opened at this moment, with dust and smoke flying in the air that had gone through time.
Then, a crisp sound of "crack" exploded in my ears, and the lid of the coffin parked in the courtyard flew upwards, and black shadows flew out.
They flew extremely fast into the middle of the undead army and quickly pushed back the front line that they had finally forced forward.
The big bear stood up, roared and lunged forward, slapping the ground with its six arms, and a visible impact spread out.
Successfully forced back the dark shadows that rushed out.
Their figures paused in mid-air, and everyone could see their true appearance.
They are a group of extremely ugly monsters with wings, which look like low-level demons.
However, from their appearance, one can vaguely see that they were originally elves, but seemed to have failed to transform into monsters, or maybe that's the case. Their whole bodies became hunched, their skin was dark, and they had short, fluffy hair. Their faces were even more hideous, with their eyeballs bulging out without eyelids, and their sharp fangs were exposed as they roared at the undead army.
Wei Huan noticed that they had devil wings on their backs.
However, their combat power is not comparable to that of ordinary demons. They should be the warriors of the vampire clan. However, even the lowest-level vampire clan should be as powerful as the silver-level treasure chest monster.
Wei Huan's combat effectiveness increased by 3 percentage points. He is now a legendary undead leader, slightly stronger than a silver monster.
He only has a few legendary-level undead, but here there are hundreds and thousands of silver-level undead.
The final boss is indeed very strong. This is just in the courtyard and has not actually entered the building.
Wei Huan ordered: "Follow up with the long-range ones, and prepare to enter the battlefield for close combat."
However, at the current level, it is not a big problem. They are just a group of silver-level monsters. Just because his undead can't withstand it doesn't mean that the main team's melee fighters can't beat them.
The little dog-headed people hiding in the corner had a breath that was almost invisible. Even if the low-level vampires flew past them, they would not notice them. However, they had already spread out in all directions of the courtyard, surrounding the low-level vampires, waiting for Wei Huan's order.
"Drink, tui!"
Close combat is in place!
"Grandson! Grandpa is here!"
“Hehehe!”
“…”
When melee combat arrived at the battlefield, the retreating undead army was instantly stabilized. The seemingly ferocious low-level vampires were often easily killed by the melee team in conjunction with the long-range team.
A mere thousand low-level vampires are really nothing.
Under Wei Huan's careful training, the main team not only cooperates well, but also has the ability to fight across levels.
Even if this was a monster from the eighth-level world, with their rich combat experience, they quickly pushed the front line back to the courtyard, and even the coffin where the vampires lived was smashed into pieces.
As if reaching a critical point, their invasion finally aroused the wrath of the master of the palace.
Suddenly, a shrill howl came from the palace deep in the courtyard, and then all the doors and windows broke open, and groups of red objects flew out from inside.
"Be careful!" Wei Huan warned in his headset. His Demon Eye Lord saw the truth first. "It's a high-level vampire warrior."
However, these high-level vampire warriors are different from the legendary vampires in movies and TV dramas. Not only are they not handsome or beautiful at all, they are even uglier than those low-level vampire warriors.
The same hunched body turned red this time, with scarlet blood wings spread out behind it. They were one or two times larger than those of low-level vampire warriors, and flew faster. There were bone spurs on the blood wings, which might be used as weapons.
Their bodies are like they have no skin. After peeling off the skin, the scarlet muscles are directly exposed to the air, but they are covered by a layer of translucent blood, which looks a bit like the sticky texture of toffee.
Its appearance was ugly, even worse than the zombie at the door. It had no elf-like temperament and had completely turned into another kind of creature.
There weren't too many of them roaring out, only about three or four hundred in total, but they were very powerful, much stronger than the lower-level vampires. Among them were many monsters whose strength reached or was close to the gold level. Often, Wei Huan's undead were torn to pieces at the first sight.
Melee classes formed combat teams of three to five, supporting each other, but they could only fend off attacks from one or two high-level vampire warriors. If there were more, they would need the help of Wei Huan's undead army.
Wei Huan has released all the undead, including Dian Ma.
Dian Ma is the only undead leader in his hands who can "stand firm" on this battlefield. After all, he is a god-level being, and he has descendants fighting around him. He can barely cope with more than ten or twenty high-level vampires surrounding him.
The other pseudo-god-level undead leaders are obviously no match for the higher-level vampires. Apart from stepping forward at critical moments to help melee professions block the swords and withstand a few blows, their combat effects are pitifully small.
The fragility of the undead army also made melee professions a little uncomfortable, and casualties occurred not long after fighting with the high-level vampires.
A "Flash" was caught in mid-air by a high-level vampire warrior, and the other vampires rushed forward and tore off one of his arms.
A bullet came out of thin air and hit the high-level vampire warrior who was holding him in the middle of his eyebrows, saving him.
Before he landed on the ground, the puppy-headed man swallowed him up and teleported him back to the chariot at the rear. The "Angels of Life" had been waiting there for a long time and surrounded him immediately to regenerate his broken limbs.
The pain has eased, and he won't die or become disabled, but the pain of having his arm torn off will take a long time to recover, and he won't be able to go back to the battlefield in the short term.
Immediately afterwards, more injured melee fighters were sent in one after another. Some had their stomachs cut and their intestines exposed, but they recovered quickly under the treatment of the praying people, and some turned around and returned to the battlefield.
The melee fighters were very brave, but the situation on the battlefield was not optimistic. Compared with the previous battlefield where they had Wei Huan's undead in the front and had always had an advantage, this battle reminded them of the difficulty of every battle before they boarded this chariot.
In fact, this is normal.
It was because Wei Huan was too strong that they had misunderstood that they were also strong. It was not until this moment that they realized that they were not strong enough to be fearless.
A feeling of frustration is inevitable, but along with it comes the belief that one will never give up.
They weren't incapable of self-care. Could they survive without their boss? They'd practiced hard, too! They'd persevered through it all, gritting their teeth to get to this point! They were humanity's strongest, one-in-a-million geniuses! At this moment, they should rise up and shine their light!
With the help of long-range and close combat, and the assistance of the eighth and ninth level sentry towers, although there were constant casualties, they managed to barely withstand this wave of attacks.
Moreover, the number of enemies is limited. Killing one less will make the battle easier.
Can win!
Hang in there!
come on!
Cooperate with each other, encourage each other, and fight with moderation. Although it is difficult, there is hope of victory and self-confidence is growing.
But Wei Huan frowned slightly as he looked at the locked castle gate.
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