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Chapter 191: Legend of the Underworld
The destruction of a small town was just an appetizer for Lu Yan.

The last time Lu Yan was in the apocalyptic version, his cultivation was only at the initial stage of Qi training, and he controlled only the resentful souls at the initial stage of Qi training.

In the past, when resentful spirits hunt zombies, they need to use ghost claws to peel off the zombies' souls. When facing extraordinary zombies in the early and middle stages of Qi training, they need to surround and kill them in order to solve the problem.

But now, not only have the Yin soldiers' cultivation been improved to the late stage of Qi training, surpassing most of the extraordinary zombies, but they have also been transformed into Yin soldiers and can use the Yin Qi to condense standard Yin armor and soul-catching ropes.

The absolute crushing strength coupled with the use of the Soul-Hooking Rope has increased the speed at which the Yin Soldiers kill zombies exponentially. As long as there is no Golden Core Stage Zombie King, there is almost no zombie that can restrain the thousands of Yin Soldiers.

In addition, the biggest bonus comes from the God of Qiongyuan. This ghost god who controls the power of space can accurately deploy the ghost soldiers to a small town dozens of miles away, and then return after the ghost soldiers have harvested all the zombies and wandering souls.

This can be called a strategic deployment capability, ensuring that the ghost soldiers can harvest zombies and wandering souls as quickly as possible.

In addition, the town is not very big, and most of the zombies will leave their cover at night to absorb the moonlight and spiritual energy, which makes it even easier for the ghost soldiers to reap the spoils.

When the 40,000 zombie wandering souls that had been harvested were brought back to the Soul Banner by the ghost soldiers, the other three ghosts and gods immediately began to sacrifice and refine the wandering souls and transform the ghost soldiers, striving to increase the number of ghost soldiers in the Soul Banner as quickly as possible.

Under Lu Yan's control, the entire Soul Banner was turned into an assembly line, from harvesting wandering souls to refining wandering souls and then to transforming ghost soldiers, all in one go. The excess wandering souls were directly transformed into ghost fog and spread to deeper parts of the Soul Continent.

After a round of harvesting, the God of the Abyss will lock onto the next place where zombies gather and open the portal again to harvest.

During the whole process, Lu Yan could sit back and relax, breathing in the moonlight spiritual energy at night and absorbing the sun spiritual energy during the day without wasting any opportunity to practice.

At some point, myths and legends about the underworld's evil soldiers began to spread in the apocalyptic wasteland.

In the widely circulated version, some people claim that the end of the world is coming because humans do not obey the gods, so God sent down disasters to take away part of the souls of humans, turning them into hideous and terrifying zombies.

This disaster affected the entire world and lasted for a full thirteen years.

A year ago, the Lord of the Underworld came to the wasteland out of pity for all living beings and suppressed the chaos caused by ghosts and gods.

Then a few months ago, he sent ghosts and gods from the underworld, as well as ghost soldiers and generals to fight in all directions and slaughter the ruined cities where zombies were roaming.

Millions of zombies were harvested by the underworld's soldiers. A large number of dangerous forbidden areas cities turned into deathly silence again. The shadow that had shrouded the apocalyptic wasteland for thirteen years was gradually dissipating.

The more chaotic the background, the easier it is for extreme religious beliefs to emerge, and this apocalyptic wasteland is no exception.

In the past thirteen years, countless doomsday religions have emerged, such as the Doomsday Savior, the White Lotus Mother Church, the End of the World, the Fire God Church, the Flying Pasta God Church, and so on.

At the beginning, the survivors at the bottom will be bewitched by these fanatical religions and are willing to sacrifice their faith and even their lives.

But as time went on, after gathering places for survivors were gradually established, the survivors suddenly discovered that these so-called religions were of no use.

These religions cannot provide them with a stable environment, delicious food, or the opportunity to become extraordinary. In the name of religion, they even exploit the food they earn through hard work.

Over time, except for a few religious organizations that have established supernatural powers, most other religions have completely disappeared.

Everyone just treated the recent sudden popularity of the underworld as a joke.

But as time went on, more and more extraordinary scavengers ventured into the surrounding zombie restricted areas, and shocking news spread back to the gathering place.

In those towns that were turned into restricted areas, tens of thousands of zombies disappeared overnight.

At first people thought it was fake, but as more and more people took the initiative to walk out of the gathering place to verify, whether it was the extraordinary zombies or the fifth-level zombie kings, they all turned into white bones, and a large number of towns and even ruined cities were recaptured.

Although the apocalypse has lasted for thirteen years and most of the materials in the ruined city are no longer usable, there must be some industrial machinery and chemical products preserved in such a large city.

These things will not be completely damaged in a dozen years or so, and they can be put back into use with just a little repair.

With these things as a foundation, the settlement will be able to escape from the difficult environment and have the basis for resuming industrial production.

Similar things happened in more than one survivor gathering place.

Through mutual communication between the top leaders of the gathering places, the zombie restricted areas around dozens of the thousands of gathering places in the East Country have been resolved, leaving only a small number of zombie groups in the wilderness and villages.

These zombie groups don’t even have extraordinary zombies, let alone fifth-level zombie kings, and cannot pose any threat to the survivors at all.

This means that these dozens of gathering places have ushered in the dawn after the end of the world.

During this process, many extraordinary scavengers claimed that they had seen thousands of ghost soldiers descending from the sky to attack small towns and ruined cities.

Their statements were so convincing that even the descriptions of the army of ghosts given by scavengers hundreds of miles away were almost identical.

As news like this spread, coupled with the cleared-out ruins of the city, more and more people began to believe in the legend of the underworld.

The name of the underworld gradually spread throughout the entire apocalyptic wasteland world.

Outside of Jiaocheng, a team of elite scavengers from Gathering Place No. 73 were standing in the distance, monitoring this huge ruined city.

This is an elite scavenger team. All members are at least fourth-level transcendents, and the leader is a fifth-level strongman.

In the Doomsday Supernatural System, zombies will have a leap-forward improvement after reaching the fifth level and can be called zombie kings.

And when the extraordinary people step into the fifth level, they can also achieve qualitative improvement. Even in the entire gathering place No. 73, the fifth-level extraordinary people are considered to be the most powerful ones.

As a fifth-level transcendent, one should normally avoid getting close to large ruined cities as much as possible, so as to prevent the powerful aura from attracting the perception of the Corpse King and causing a tide of corpses.

Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of zombies gathered into a corpse tide, which was enough to overwhelm the gathering place of survivors, and even a fifth-level transcendent would suffer a loss.

But this time it was an exception, because their team of extraordinary people was tasked with the important task of monitoring the ruins of Jiaocheng.

In the crowd, a fourth-level transcendent who looked like a fourth-level youth was tossing a stone in his hand out of boredom. With a slight force, the stone flew out like a bullet, leaving deep pits on the ground hundreds of meters away. The lethality was even greater than that of a grenade.

The young man threw stones and muttered quietly:

"We have been monitoring here for three days. Is the information about the gathering place of the 77th survivor reliable?"

The fifth-order extraordinary person in the lead did not speak, but another middle-aged man in the team could not help but rebuke:
"This is the result of an investigation by the elite scavenger team of the No. 77 survivor base, who risked their lives. How can you question it here at will?"

The young man took a glance and sneered, saying:

"I questioned casually? Do you know what ridiculous information they sent me?"

"The underworld is returning to the human world? Are the gods about to return?

Such ridiculous news can be transmitted. I even suspect that the people in No. 77 have been completely brainwashed by the evil cult called Hades!
If it weren't for Captain Guo's sake, do you really think I'd be willing to stay here and play tricks on you guys?"

The middle-aged man was furious: "You"

Seeing that the argument was about to turn into a quarrel, the fifth-level transcendent Guo Ze finally spoke.

"Quiet."

Although the voice was calm, the two people who heard it immediately stopped talking and shut their mouths tightly.

Guo Ze glanced at Jiaocheng in the distance and said in a low voice:
"The so-called news of the appearance of the underworld and the passage of ghost soldiers should have a certain degree of truth. Not only the 77th gathering place, but also three of the 20 gathering places that have established contact with our 73rd gathering place have sent similar news, claiming that ghost soldiers have passed through and cleared the surrounding restricted areas.

The earliest gathering place No. 131 has even moved into the ruined city and started to re-establish a complete power supply to ensure the initial resumption of production and supply."

At this point, Guo Ze paused and said:

"Of course, rather than the so-called underworld myth, I would rather believe that there are several powerful and special extraordinary people who are clearing out the ruined city in order to weaken the intensity of the next zombie outbreak."

"A few extraordinary people can fight against the zombie army of hundreds of thousands or even millions in a ruined city? How is this possible?" The young man said in disbelief.

Guo Ze shook his head: "As long as you have special extraordinary abilities and a sufficient number of extraordinary people above level seven, it is not impossible to clear a city.

Legend has it that in the No. 1 survivor gathering place, a legendary ninth-order transcendent has been born, whose strength is enough to rival an entire ruined city.

but"

Having said that, Guo Ze paused and looked at Jiao Cheng meaningfully.

“If it was a year ago, several teams of special extraordinary people above level five would be enough to clear the ruined city, but now it is far from enough.

Just a few months ago, a ninth-rank corpse king was suspected to have been born in Jiaocheng."

"Ninth level!" the young man exclaimed, his eyes filled with fear.

The fifth-order corpse king was already an unattainable existence for him, let alone the ninth-order corpse king that had undergone a second transformation as described in the legend.

The middle-aged man couldn't help but ask: "Since there is a ninth-level corpse king in Jiaocheng, what is the purpose of our coming here?"

“The ninth-order corpse king will not easily leave the ruined city. If the special team that cleans up the ruined city really rushes into the Burnt City, they will definitely be frustrated by the ninth-order corpse king, and may even be wiped out.

We are monitoring here in order to stop that special team and make some good friends with them.

The Ninth Order Corpse King is born. Once a zombie tide breaks out, there is no chance that Gathering Area 73 will be spared. We can take this opportunity to establish contact with the gathering area behind the special team in advance, which will be a way out when the time comes."

After hearing Guo Ze's story, all the members looked at him with admiration.

And just at this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed.

"Look at the sky!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a huge crack tearing through the sky. An extremely tiny figure crossed the crack and appeared above Jiaocheng.

"That's the special team? Why is he the only one there?"

Before everyone could figure out the reason, they suddenly saw a flag in the figure's hand.

The next moment, the ghostly fog covered the sky and almost swallowed up all the sunlight.

And in this ghost fog, thousands of ghost soldiers walked in the air and looked down at the large city in front of them. The black armor was hidden in the moonlight, and each piece of armor was surrounded by a eerie and sinister aura.

The soul-catching ropes in their hands moved without wind, emitting a cold glow, like silver snakes ready to strike.

Following an invisible command, the Yin Army's formation was activated.

They were divided into hundreds of teams, pouring into the silent city like a tide in the dark night. The soul-catching ropes wove into a dense and airtight giant net in the air, and wherever they passed, all the wandering souls in the decaying zombie bodies were captured. The bluish-white soul fire danced in the night sky, turning into streams of light that were collected into the ghost bottles on the waists of the ghost soldiers.

The thirteen foundation-building corpse kings in the center of the city were the first to sense the crisis and burst out with amazing supernatural powers in an attempt to protect their territory. The corpse king at the peak of foundation-building even opened up a supernatural domain, and the space within a radius of hundreds of meters was filled with corrosive supernatural powers.

However, facing the well-prepared formation of Yin soldiers, these struggles seemed so futile.

Hundreds of soul-catching ropes broke through the air and weaved into mysterious array patterns in the void, easily tearing apart the field of extraordinary power.

The bodies of those foundation-building corpse kings crumbled bit by bit under the moonlight. Even the peak corpse king could not escape his fate, and his condensed soul was captured by hundreds of elite ghost soldiers.

Silent wails echoed throughout the entire city. Countless wandering souls were harvested and scattered in the night sky like withered petals.

The ghost soldiers moved in unison, coldly and precisely, carrying out this massive soul-collecting operation like a sophisticated war ritual.

Everyone was stunned, especially the young man with a perverse temperament.

He could clearly sense that each of those black-armored ghost soldiers was as powerful as him, and thousands of peak fourth-level transcendents were enough to sweep away everything.

In front of such an extraordinary army, individual strength is so insignificant.

Finally, an angry roar came from the center of the city.

In a tall building, the powerful ninth-order corpse king finally showed up. In an instant, the flames that burned the souls spread over an area of ​​several miles and wanted to burn all the ghost soldiers to ashes.

However, these thousands of Yin soldiers seemed to have been prepared in advance. As the battle formation changed, half of them turned into the Nine Nether Yin Wind Formation, and the other half turned into the Nine Nether Hell Fire Formation.

The Nine Nether Yin Wind Formation was activated with a bang, and countless dark wind blades whistled in the void, like sharp blades cutting through the void. The Yin Wind contained a bone-piercing chill, and even steel would be frozen into fragile glass wherever it passed. The weapons in the hands of the Yin Soldiers trembled at the same time, injecting endless power into the formation.

On the other side, the Nine Netherworld Fire Formation had also taken shape. The dark green ghost fire danced in the formation, like countless stars falling to the earth. Each ghost fire burned with an inextinguishable Yin fire, and was about to burn the corpse king's body into ashes.

The two large formations echoed each other, the cold wind boosted the power of the underworld fire, and the underworld fire swept in all directions with the help of the cold wind.

The two large formations formed by thousands of ghost soldiers suppressed the ninth-level corpse king in an instant like a mountain. Even the flame that burned the corpse king's soul was almost extinguished by the suppression of the formation.

These thousands of ghost soldiers seemed to use the ruined city as a furnace, and the cold wind and dark fire as fuel to burn the ninth-level corpse king.

As night fell, the ninth-level corpse king could no longer hold on, and with thousands of soul-catching ropes forcibly detaining the corpse king's soul, the entire city had become a true death zone.

Thousands of ghost soldiers lined up again, with the light of millions of souls beating in the soul bottles around their waists.

Above the sky, Lu Yan's soul flag attracted thousands of ghost soldiers and brought them into the soul flag.

Then Lu Yan stepped into the void, trying to pass through the unhealed space crack and leave this place.

And at this moment, a loud shout suddenly rang out.

"God, please stay!"

Lu Yan lowered his eyes and finally noticed the tiny figures on the edge of the ruined city.

During these days, Lu Yan had met many extraordinary people in the gathering place, but had never had any interaction with them.

After all, with the threat of the immortal version in front of him, Lu Yan wished he could use every minute and second to harvest zombies and wandering souls, so he didn't want to pay any attention to these extraordinary people in the gathering place.

Just as Lu Yan was about to step over the space crack, he heard another loud and powerful shout from below.

"I wonder if the Supreme God is interested in the large-scale zombie tide?"

(End of this chapter)