"I still don't understand why we brought her along?" Long Lei felt a chill run down his spine because the tomb maiden who had just joined the team wasn't walking; she was floating coldly the whole time. Coupled with the eerie atmosphere inside the underground palace, it was a truly terrifying scene.
I don't understand!
Jiang Yuan murmured the same phrase, his gaze fixed ahead. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, you'll understand soon enough!"
"Huh?" Long Lei looked puzzled.
Jiang Yuan remained silent, then flung a ball of energy from his palm, the immense energy exploding more than ten meters in front of him.
"Come out!" Jiang Yuan remained remarkably calm after the explosion.
Long Lei and Long Huo looked at each other in bewilderment, while the bewildered little dumpling jumped down and growled at the air. As for the Tomb Maiden, she followed behind with a look of fear, as if she had seen something terrifying.
"You dare to be so arrogant in my Land of the Dead!"
Only eerie words echoed from the tomb passage ablaze with spiritual energy. Following the energy, a troop of undead soldiers marched in formation, the leader, a bronze-armored undead, riding a ghostly warhorse with great majesty.
"The opponent has arrived!" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.
He had already detected the anomaly using the Breath of Stone. The squad of undead soldiers in front of him was not weak; under the detection of the Heavenly Eye, each of them possessed the strength of a ninth-tier warrior.
"General, the spirits in the underground palace often devour each other, so their strength should not be underestimated!" the tomb maiden whispered a warning. Although she was afraid, since she had chosen to follow the person in front of her, there was no room for regret.
“It’s been over a thousand years since a fresh soul entered the underground palace. Looks like we’ll be able to enjoy a good meal today!” The bronze-armored undead knight stared at Jiang Yuan and the others with the eyes of someone eyeing food.
"What do the dead fear most?" Jiang Yuan muttered calmly to himself.
"It should be light, right?" Long Huo asked uncertainly.
"Then, do you believe in light?"
Jiang Yuan's lips curled up, and his face was full of confidence as he asked the question.
"Major Jiang, this is not the time for jokes!" Long Lei said with a bitter face. The enemy's undead knight had already begun to charge, along with a squad of undead behind it.
"I originally wanted to interact with you as an ordinary person, but!"
Jiang Yuan's eyes suddenly sharpened, and the Light Moon Inheritance within him began to exert its power.
He didn't really want to use the Holy Spirit Clan's abilities because it would make him seem like a heretic, but now it seems he has no choice.
The purifying power of the Moon has a multiplier effect on these undead.
"Moonlight Holy Light!" The energy in Jiang Yuan's hand radiated a holy light, and the next second, the light was pushed out by Jiang Yuan, the first to be hit was the bronze-armored undead knight.
Before the undead even charged in, their skeletons began to make a hissing sound as they were being corroded.
"This Sun and Moon Mirror really consumes a terrifying amount of energy. Just by casually emitting a burst of moonlight, it evaporated two hundred points of divine energy!" Jiang Yuan withdrew his hand.
The moonlight in the tomb passage still shone brightly, but this was no ordinary light. It was moonlight with extremely high intensity, no weaker than a super ninth-tier skill. Moreover, compared to a normal super ninth-tier skill, the moonlight dealt almost ten times the damage to the undead.
As the moonlight settled, the only thing standing in the tomb passage was the bronze-armored undead. Even its undead warhorse had fallen, no longer able to fight.
"Who are you?" The will-o'-the-wisps flickered in the empty eye sockets of the bronze-armored undead, as if they might be extinguished at any moment.
"Me!" Jiang Yuan pointed his spear forward and suddenly charged forward, shouting, "The Grim Reaper who reaps your souls!"
"Hidden Assassination!"
The God-Slaying Spear, its killing intent fully revealed, instantly appeared before the bronze-armored undead.
The bronze-armored undead tried to make a final struggle, but the Moonlight Holy Light was too damaging to undead creatures. Even it couldn't recover, so before it could fight back, the Godslayer Spear had already crushed its head.
"General!"
Seeing Jiang Yuan effortlessly annihilate a squad of undead, the Tomb Maiden was extremely surprised, but then she thought that since the General could step into the path of killing, it meant that the General's strength was naturally top-notch.
"Soul Refining Pot!"
Jiang Yuan summoned the ancient human magic weapon at his waist—the Soul Refining Pot. When the Soul Refining Pot appeared, the undead spirits that had not yet dissipated on the ground began to re-condense, but this time the direction of the condensation was the mouth of the Soul Refining Pot.
The Heavenly Eye's assessment of the Soul Refining Pot is very unclear, and such an assessment result can only prove that the Soul Refining Pot is not a treasure of this battlefield, or even the battlefield of Godfall.
The more difficult an item is to identify, the longer the battlefield it was on must have been. Only such complex battlefield rules can render even the most discerning eye helpless.
Although the Heavenly Eye couldn't provide specific information about the Soul Refining Pot, its value was undeniable. The fact that it could annihilate the Spirit King, a being with countless methods, was enough to prove its power. As for why Luo Fei gave him the Soul Refining Pot, he had two guesses: First, Luo Fei had a compelling reason to kill the Spirit King, and she didn't want to get involved in the cause and effect of his death, so she used someone else to do it; second, because the Soul Refining Pot was a treasure of the human race, Luo Fei, as a Holy Spirit, couldn't use it and therefore couldn't know its abilities. Rather than keeping a useless item, she figured it was better to do him a favor.
In just fifteen seconds, all the undead on the ground were absorbed by the Soul Refining Pot.
Jiang Yuan also received a notification about the increase in the marks of the deceased.
In terms of reincarnation, these undead are fundamentally different from the millions of undead that Bai Qi killed. First, they are new individuals formed by constantly devouring the millions of undead, and their wills are completely independent. Second, because of the constant devouring and merging, these undead are far stronger than the single undead they once were.
Moreover, judging from the number of dead marks obtained, the number of undead they merged with was considerable. Each undead with this level of power devoured at least hundreds or thousands of undead when it was formed, otherwise it would not be able to have independent consciousness and powerful strength.
"A team of twelve undead has collected a total of 1,300 marks of the dead!" Jiang Yuan counted in his mind. The bronze-armored undead alone had nearly 300 marks, including the 80 marks of the dead on its undead warhorse.
This shows that the power of these undead is related to the marks of the dead they devour.
"General, those undead are all dead!" the tomb maiden whispered from behind.
Jiang Yuan smiled faintly and said, "I know!"
After saying that, he opened the Soul Refining Pot in his hand, and a cloud of white mist flew out.
"General, what is this?"
The white mist had already flown to the tomb maiden, but she couldn't be sure if the mist was a gift from the general.
“What I need is a pure you, not an assembly mixed with the will of other undead!” Jiang Yuan pointed to the white mist and explained, “This thing is for you. It can eliminate the possible side effects of devouring other undead.”
"You want me to be my true self?" The tomb maiden was secretly startled. People always thought that the dead had no meaning to their existence and that the spirits of the dead received no recognition. But now the general's words gave her a different perspective.
"You are lucky because you are special!"
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