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Chapter 190 Qiongyuan God, Promotion to Thousand Soul Banner
Lu Yan sat cross-legged and used the soul flag to mobilize a large amount of ghost fog to begin refining the soul of the Golden Core Corpse King.

Under normal circumstances, it would be a pipe dream for Lu Yan, who was at the initial stage of foundation building, to want to sacrifice the soul of a Golden Core Corpse King.

However, Lu Yan's soul flag at this moment had already gathered three ghosts and gods and a thousand ghost soldiers, which was completely capable of suppressing the golden elixir soul.

More importantly, within the Soul Banner, there is the Soul Continent, a killer weapon that has almost absolute suppression on the soul, which increases the possibility of Lu Yan refining the soul.

The ghost fog engulfed the golden elixir's soul. As the ritual began, the ghost soldiers gradually loosened the soul-catching ropes that bound the soul.

The Soul Flag moved in the void without wind, and the ghost mist turned into strands of silk threads and fell from the flag, pouring down like a pitch-black waterfall, controlling every subtle change of the ghost mist.

The golden elixir soul that had escaped from the soul-catching rope struggled in the ghost fog, with golden light flashing, trying to break free from the restraints, but it was ultimately in vain.

Even a Jindan Corpse King in his prime was refined by the formation set up by the Soul Banner Ghosts, let alone a mere soul?
The vast continent on the banner was flickering with light, and infinite pressure from the soul continent fell. In front of the power that was enough to destroy the golden elixir soul, the fragile soul let out a silent wail, and the golden spiritual light gradually dimmed.

The soul was refined and began to actively devour the surrounding ghost fog and soul power.

Seeing this, Lu Yan immediately ordered: "Harvest the wandering souls!"

As soon as the order was given, thousands of ghost soldiers armed with soul-catching ropes began to carry out a carpet-style cleanup of the entire small ruined city.

Without the harassment of the Space Corpse King, no one in the entire ruined city could resist thousands of ghost soldiers.

Even the strongest corpse king in the middle stage of foundation building in the entire city could not withstand the siege of hundreds of Yin soldiers in the late stage of Qi training, and his soul was soon stripped away and sent to Lu Yan's side.

The successfully refined golden elixir soul was surrounded by black mist and began to devour wandering souls and divine souls in large numbers, almost accepting all of them as long as they could be brought close to it.

As the ghost fog surged, a powerful aura of the Jindan period began to revive from the ghost fog.

This ritual lasted for two days. In the first few hours of these two days, thousands of ghost soldiers slaughtered the entire ruined small city with 400,000 zombies.

Half of the wandering souls transformed into ghost fog, and raised the cultivation of thousands of ghost soldiers to the late stage of Qi training.

The other half of the wandering zombie souls were all fed to the budding golden elixir soul.

During this process, Lu Yan did not allow the Jindan soul to evolve completely autonomously, but instead took out the psychic fission battery to provide psychic energy for the Jindan soul to transform into a ghost.

The toughness of the Golden Core Soul far exceeds that of the ordinary Foundation Establishment Soul. If Lu Yan had not used the process of soul transformation to transform it, with Lu Yan's current strength, he might not be able to easily engrave those complicated psychic codes.

As the final truth was engraved into the instincts of the Golden Elixir's soul, the ritual that lasted for two full days finally came to an end.

A majestic figure emerged from the ghost fog.

He was wearing a dark black robe with golden psychic codes embroidered on the cuffs and hem. The robe was decorated with silver lines, and each line contained the mystery of space.

The face had some human features, yet was pale and deathly pale. Deep in the pupils, a silver space vortex was constantly rotating.

He was surrounded by broken pieces of space, like countless mirrors suspended in the void, reflecting everything within a radius of several miles. When he lightly raised his fingertips, the void would silently split open, revealing a deep darkness.

He stood in place, with the aura of the Golden Core Realm lingering around him. The ghosts, gods, and evil spirits surrounding him all lowered their heads unconsciously, not daring to look at him.

But when his eyes focused on Lu Yan, the majestic aura dissipated, and his pale face was filled with respect and piety.

"God of the Abyss pays respect to my Lord!"

As the fourth main soul, Qiongyuan God, returned to his position, the soul flag in Lu Yan's hand suddenly began to change.

Thousands of Yin soldiers in the late stage of Qi training, three ghost gods in the foundation-building stage, and one golden elixir ghost god have returned, indicating that the Hundred Souls Banner in Lu Yan's hand, which is of the highest quality as a magical weapon, has qualified for promotion.

The soul flag slowly unfolded in the void, and tiny statues representing the four main soul gods hung from the corners of the flag. The black silk threads on the flag squirmed like living things, and thousands of faint lights intertwined into a mysterious soul continent.

Lu Yan could clearly sense that as the Soul Flag began to advance, the connection between the Soul Continent and the Soul Flag became closer and closer, and the vast ghost fog in that small world began to spread to the entire Soul Continent.

Before, Lu Yan had very limited control over the ghost fog, but this time when he returned to the apocalyptic version, he slaughtered 400,000 zombies right away.

Although half of them were used as materials for refining the God of the Sky Abyss, the remaining half of the wandering souls were used to refine two hundred Yin soldiers and raised the cultivation of all the Yin soldiers to the late stage of Qi training, so there were still a lot left.

The ghost fog transformed from this part of wandering souls directly spread over an area of ​​more than ten miles, and Lu Yan's control over the soul continent was also enhanced somewhat.

Finally, as the changes caused by the Soul Banner's upgrade gradually subsided, the Hundred Soul Banner in Lu Yan's hand was successfully upgraded to the Thousand Soul Banner of magic weapon quality.

This means that Lu Yan can control the Soul Continent more easily, and the Soul Banner can accommodate more and stronger ghosts, gods, and evil soldiers.

However, Lu Yan knew very well that for this apocalyptic version of the journey, upgrading the Thousand Souls Banner was just the beginning.

Lu Yan looked at the Qiongyuan God and asked:
"Do you remember the memories before you hunted me down?"

Upon hearing this, Qiongyuan God frowned in confusion, searched his mind for a while, and shook his head:
"Reporting to my Lord, I only have the memory of being granted the power of ghosts and gods by my Lord."

After hearing this, Lu Yan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

The original form of the God of Qiongyuan in the demon version is obviously related to the immortal version. If one could know the memory, perhaps one could obtain more information about the immortal version.

It’s a pity that during the version update process, the powerful warrior in the Nether Abyss Realm who was almost a demon directly fell into a Golden Core Corpse King, and all his memories disappeared.

Without dwelling too much on this matter, Lu Yan began to ask about the point that concerned him most.

"What is your innate spell?"

In the battle with the Space Corpse King, the Space Corpse King's powerful spatial ability undoubtedly brought great trouble to Lu Yan.

After the extraordinary zombies in the apocalyptic version are sacrificed and refined into the main soul, the extraordinary abilities they possess will also change accordingly and become the main soul's innate magic.

The biggest reason why Lu Yan invested such a huge amount of resources to refine the soul of the Space Corpse King was that he wanted to completely preserve the spatial abilities possessed by the Space Corpse King.

Upon hearing this, God Qiongyuan opened his palm towards Lu Yan. The broken space in the center of his palm gathered into a diamond-shaped crystal, and the light was constantly refracted and distorted in the space crystal.

“This is my innate spell, Space Control.

I can interfere with the changes in real space based on my understanding of the rules of space."

As he spoke, God Qiongyuan slowly pushed his right hand forward, and the space prismatic crystal in his hand disappeared, replaced by a portal connecting to a place one kilometer away.

Then he snapped his fingers, and the space portal collapsed, eventually turning into space cracks.

While demonstrating his abilities, countless spatial inscriptions seemed to rise in the eyes of Qiongyuan God, and he spoke to Lu Yan:

"In terms of ghost and god evolution, thanks to the influence of space control, I invested all ghost and god computing power into rule deduction, which made me more adept at space control. In this process, I unexpectedly gained insight into the source of extraordinary abilities and innate spells. It seems to be derived from the development of a certain ability deep in the soul after breathing in a large amount of moonlight spiritual energy.

This kind of development is not obvious during the Qi training and foundation building stages, and it can only be felt as an extraordinary ability.

But once promoted to the Golden Core stage, this ability will be fully developed and will have a strength far beyond its previous level.

This ability seems to have surpassed the description of the innate spells in the information provided by the Soul Banner, and is more similar to the magical power method in the information provided by my Lord."

After hearing the story told by the God of the Abyss, a term immediately flashed through Lu Yan's mind.

Innate magical power!
After a cultivator is promoted to the foundation-building stage, a seed of his innate magical power will be buried in his Tao foundation. If he can achieve the golden elixir realm, he can let the seed of his innate magical power take root and sprout, thereby deriving a wide variety of innate magical powers.

The innate spells come from the extraordinary abilities of extraordinary zombies. Lu Yan originally thought that it was just a special system in the doomsday version.

But considering the situation of the God of the Sky Abyss, the so-called extraordinary abilities are most likely the early development of his innate magical powers.

In the apocalyptic version, Lu Yan absorbed and exhaled three months of lunar spiritual energy. Not only did his soul become stronger, but he also gained the ability of spiritual perception. At that time, Lu Yan thought that this was the prototype of some kind of ability, but this ability was assimilated by his soul when he was promoted to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan subconsciously looked at the bright full moon in the night sky.

"The moon's spiritual energy can not only strengthen the soul, but also develop one's innate magical powers in advance. What secrets are behind this apocalyptic full moon?
In addition, the sun in the apocalyptic version also contains the aura of the sun.

The Sun Spiritual Qi can refine mana. After reaching a certain level, can it also derive some special abilities?"

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Lu Yan's mind.

But after a moment, Lu Yan threw these thoughts out of his mind.

On the version update progress bar, the update progress has reached 1.5%. According to this progress, the stay time in the doomsday version should be about six months.

Lu Yan needs to improve his strength as much as possible in these six months and prepare for the crisis of the next version update. For the time being, he does not have much free time to study the mysteries behind the doomsday version.

Picking up the Soul Banner again, Lu Yan looked at the Qiongyuan God beside him and asked:

"Are there any city ruins around here?"

God Qiongyuan raised his right hand, and the fragments of space in his hand refracted the scene dozens of miles away.

"There is a small town thirty kilometers away, with about 40,000 zombies inside."

"Can the space gate reach the town?"

"can."

As soon as he finished speaking, God Qiongyuan waved his right hand and a space rift connected to the town thirty kilometers away.

Several extraordinary people carrying backpacks and holding weapons walked through the wilderness with difficulty. One of them pointed to the town ahead and said:

"Captain, there is obviously a town there, why don't we search it?"

The leading extraordinary person turned around and scolded:
"Idiot! I told you to read the map carefully before going out, what were you doing?"

“Although there are less than 50,000 zombies in that town, it has bred a fifth-level zombie king, and it is a restricted area that has long been planned by several surrounding gathering places.

There was a gathering place where hundreds of extraordinary people gathered to attack the town, but they were all wiped out in the end. Do you want us to die by going there?"

The team members were suddenly silent.

After a reprimand, the leading extraordinary captain suddenly sighed heavily.

"As time goes by, there are more and more corpse kings above the fourth level. There are four forbidden areas like this within a radius of 100 kilometers. The living space of mankind is constantly being compressed.

Some people with lofty ideals in the survivor gathering places had already discussed clearing these restricted areas in advance, but unfortunately everyone was afraid of death, even those transcendents above level four were no exception.

If we allow these zombies to grow wildly, how will we respond when another zombie outbreak occurs?"

Just as the captain of the extraordinary team was sighing, he noticed that the team members were looking in the direction of the town with horror on their faces.

The captain of the extraordinary team looked cold and reprimanded: "I told you before we came out that we scavengers are in danger when walking in the wilderness, and we must always stay calm."

The team members quickly interrupted the Extraordinary Captain's words:

"Captain, look!"

The captain of the extraordinary team frowned, but still turned his head in the direction of his team members.

Then he saw a scene that he would never forget.

Above the town, a huge crack stretched across the sky, as if an almighty being was casting its gaze towards this place.

Thousands of ghost soldiers poured out from the cracks, their pitch-black armor glowing coldly under the moonlight, and the soul-catching ropes in their hands swam in the air like living things.

On the deathly-filled streets, the rotten zombies had not yet reacted before the Soul-Snatching Rope had already pierced through their bodies like silver lightning.

The hunt began to spread to the entire city. Under the light of the full moon, all the zombies walked out of the houses to bathe in the moonlight, making it easier for the ghost soldiers to harvest them.

One after another, the blue-white wandering souls were forcibly pulled out, wailing silently in the air. The ghost soldiers moved in unison, and every move was as cold and precise as a precision machine.

The Foundation Establishment Corpse King in the center of the corpse group looked up at the evil soldiers descending from the sky, and a strong extraordinary power burst out from his body, trying to resist this sudden attack.

However, hundreds of soul-catching ropes had already broken through the air, like sharp blades cutting through the void, easily tearing through its defense.

The dried body disintegrated under the moonlight, and the pure soul was forcibly taken out.

In just a few minutes, the whole town fell into silence.

The thousands of ghost soldiers who had been cleared out lined up in the void, the soul-catching ropes in their hands were still trembling slightly, and the ghost mist under their feet lifted them up and ascended into the space crack above the sky again.

As the last ghost soldier disappeared into the space crack, the huge space crack slowly closed and everything returned to silence.

In the wilderness, only a small team of scavengers was left, witnessing the destruction of a restricted area.

(End of this chapter)