Chapter 544: Chapter 371 Vine Overgrown Dead City_2
“Lord Su, we need to head to the ground. Although the Corpse Crows are only First Rank in strength, there will be many of them, and they’re difficult to deal with in the fog.”
“Then let’s go down.”
With Su Han’s permission, Niu Ben and the others quickly descended, escaping the pursuit of the Corpse Crows and landing on the ground.
The cold struck instantly, the white fog near the ground turning grey and murky, gradually tinged with the Power of Death, carrying an inescapable chill.
Surrounding them was desolation, with bones and decaying corpses visible everywhere on the ground, scattered in the pitch-black soil like growing pale dead trees, exuding an aura of death.
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“The area gradually occupied by the Undead Race will be shrouded by the energy of death. It’s one of the variants of Spiritual Energy. The corpses and skeletons will decay much slower in these areas, and the erosion effect on some creatures is not insignificant.”
Niu Ben explained with a solemn face, “Given the current situation, even if there are living people in the city, I fear for their physical condition.”
Not every kind of monster goes on a killing spree, but their harm can sometimes be more terrifying than direct slaughter.
“Crack crack.”
As they spoke, some bones buried in the dark earth slowly moved, and figures of human-shaped skeletons began to crawl out. Their hollow eyes gazed at the squad, making indistinct noises.
“Prepare to kill the skeletons.”
Niu Ben wanted to continue making way for Su Han, but Su Han stopped him.
“From now on, you just watch.”
Niu Ben was stunned, then immediately responded, “Understood.”
Su Han’s spiritual power swept over the entire area of Chu Yuan City, and he had already roughly determined the positions of the three alien space rifts within the city.
Then he waved his hand, summoning the Blood Prison Dragon, its enormous body casting a shadow over the area like a dark cloud.
The sheer presence weighed down on Niu Ben and his company, making their chests heavy and their faces pale.
‘Such a terrifying Angel Envoy.’
Niu Ben had seen the Blood Prison Dragon before, but that time, he had only watched from a distance as it rose from Fenglu City and headed straight for the Ice Ghost King, which was not as direct an encounter.
Blood Domain!
Su Han paid no attention to their reactions and commanded the Blood Prison Dragon to unleash its skill.
The bloody boundary enveloped the entire city; in just a few minutes, Chu Yuan City was wrapped in the Blood Domain, as if plunged into an apocalyptic world.
The white fog began to thin and become isolated under the power of the Blood Prison Dragon. The Undead Race within the city finally reacted, awakening and howling.
“Roar”
The skeletons closest to Su Han seemed to be summoned, launching an attack, hundreds charging at Su Han’s group.
Su Han remained unmoved, simply summoning the Blood Sea Ancestral Tree and the Ice Ghost King.
A large and a smaller figure appeared by his side, an icy blast gushed forth toward the hundreds of skeletons, instantly freezing them into ice sculptures, immobile.
[Material for Fusion detected: Soul of the Undead; belongs to lower-grade material suitable for fusion with Foolish Dead God’s Power. Proceed with fusion?]
Proceed with fusion.
The Ice Ghost King grasped the bodies of the skeletons, beginning Fusion, gradually converting the Souls of the Undead into the Foolish Dead God’s Power it required.
Monstrous howls rose from the depths of the city; more powerful members of the Undead Race clearly sensed what was happening here.
Niu Ben’s face shifted slightly; the power contained in those howls was probably not weaker than Fourth Grade.
“Let’s go into the city.”
Su Han merely said calmly, then Niu Ben saw thousands of vines and roots from the Blood Sea Ancestral Tree plunging into the ground, spreading like dragons under the earth, wildly extending throughout the city.
The Corpse Kings and skeletons that had just risen were caught by the vines, dragged underground, and gathered before the Ice Ghost King.
Ice blades pierced through; then the Spirits of the Undead on their bodies were continually fused; this time, the Ice Ghost King didn’t even use Control of the Undead to manipulate them, for all the Undead were to be its nourishment.
Su Han led Niu Ben and his team toward the city. However, at this point, Niu Ben’s squad had lost the ability to speak.
The surging vines were like a colossal beast devouring the city, a tsunami of vines gradually engulfing the once first-tier Chu Yuan City.
Skeletons, rotting corpses, Corpse Crows, bone vultures, skeleton knights, Witch Ghouls, Corpse Ghosts…
Wandering through the city, the Undead Race sensed this astonishing change, swarming out to the streets from all corners, their gathered forces even coalescing into dense clouds that darkened half the city with their oppressive mass.
The sky was inky black, the ground shrouded in swirling mists.
Facing a phalanx like that of the unleashed evil spirits, Niu Ben felt a chill run down his spine just hearing the sounds, far more terrifying than when they suppressed the rifts in an alien space.
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Su Han and his group had just reached the city’s outskirts when they found the open thoroughfare into the city already occupied by the Undead Race.
A towering Corpse King took position on the street, holding a colossal bone mace assembled from unknown skeletons, swinging it as he charged toward Su Han.
Behind him were thousands upon thousands of skeletons, forming a pale torrent that filled the entire street.
“Fourth Rank Lower Class?”
Su Han glanced up and made his judgment of the psychic fluctuations. If entities of the Fourth Rank Lower Class were appearing now, there was no doubt that the fighting power of the Undead Race present here would be higher than expected.
“Humans, invaders, die.”
The Corpse King’s mouth gaped wide, emitting a deep voice; apart from dark, saliva-drenched sharp teeth, nothing else could be seen inside it—his tongue had long since rotted away, making anyone who saw it feel sick.
Whoosh
Su Han’s figure remained still while the vines already burst forth from the streets on both sides, drilling into the army of the Undead Race formed of skeletons and rotting corpses like drill bits.
The vines swept across, their might too great for even the Undead who were not covered with the Blade of Light and Shadow to withstand.
Where they passed, the rotting corpses were impaled by vines, skeletons were bisected, and before they could react, they were dragged back and piled up on the road.
Second Order skeletons and giant-clawed rotting corpses among the Undead Race had thought of attacking the vines, using their sharp claws or weapons to sever them.
But when their attacks struck the vines, they realized that their attacks couldn’t pierce through the vines’ tough exterior.
The Fifth Order Intermediate Blood Sea Ancestral Tree granted the vines a degree of solidity that was terrifying.
Even minor branches no thicker than a pinky finger were hard to sever with ordinary swords, let alone the numerous green vines attacking like snakes.
With the addition of spiritual energy and the strength of the Pulse of the Earth, a faint golden glow circulated on the main vines, bringing their defensive power to the extreme.
Boom
The Corpse King angrily smashed away the vines, barely breaking free, but in the next moment, the ground burst apart, and two thick vines sprouted from the earth, tipping him over.
“Damn Vine Demon!”
Angry curses came from the Corpse King’s mouth, and Su Han’s eyes narrowed thoughtfully.
Vine Demons, those that appeared around the East Sea base, it seems there’s a point of intersection between the Undead Race and the Vine Demons.
No, that’s not right. The Great Blood Sea overlaps with the real world’s space but isn’t perfectly symmetrical. It’s more likely that the real world is at the center of a great whirlpool, with these monsters’ worlds scattered around the periphery.
As he contemplated, the Corpse King channeled the Power of Death into his spiritual energy and onto his bone mace, a sharp blade emerging to heavily strike down on the vines.
Clang
A golden light flashed across the vines; with the spiritual energy in tumult, the blade edge couldn’t break through the vines.
Crack, crack
The vines tightly entwined the Corpse King, stripping the bone mace from his grip and seizing control of his entire body.
With a thud, he was thrown onto the street, landing less than twenty meters in front of Niu Ben.
The vines churned wildly, on one hand strangling a vast number of the Undead, and on the other forming an arena around this section of the street.
Su Han pointed a finger, channeling spiritual energy into Niu Ben’s body along with a trace of the Great Demon’s strength.
“You’ve got nothing else to do, so try breaking through to the Fourth Rank Lower Class and kill it.”
Niu Ben glanced sharply at Su Han, saw the smile on his face, then immediately straightened up and saluted, “I swear to complete the mission!”