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Chapter 24 Where does the merit come from?

The effect of the elixir in the storage bag was so strong that it far exceeded Lu Yan's expectations.

Originally he thought it would take five to six days to break through to the second level of Qi training, but that elixir advanced the time by several days.

This is especially important for Lu Yan, who is in urgent need of improving his cultivation at this stage.

In addition, Lu Yan also sensed another kind of spiritual energy that was completely opposite to the moonlight spiritual energy during this practice, which was the big sun spiritual energy hidden in the sunlight.

The spiritual energy of the sun is everywhere under the sunlight, but it is very weak and can only be refined by breathing in a large amount of spiritual energy.

Lu Yan has not yet figured out the effect of the Sun's spiritual energy, but he can feel that after the Sun's spiritual energy circulates around his body, his spiritual energy has become more refined.

Lu Yan speculated that the moonlight aura gave birth to the extraordinary system among zombies, and the sun aura might be related to the extraordinary system of humans in the apocalyptic version.

However, Lu Yan had never seen any survivors, so naturally he had no way of confirming the authenticity of this speculation.

He picked up the soul flag again, waved it, and twenty-seven resentful souls and one main soul appeared behind Lu Yan, and the eerie and ghostly place reappeared in the room.

After the promotion, Lu Yan could feel that the burden of the Soul Banner on himself was reduced by several points, and it could last for three minutes if he used it at full power.

This was naturally a big improvement for Lu Yan. He collected most of the resentful souls and only left nine.

After walking out of the abandoned building, Lu Yan began to harvest wandering souls according to the established plan, and harvest the weak extraordinary zombie territories in the surrounding areas.

Outside the building is the city's main street, which has long been blocked by a large number of scrapped cars.

Walking on the streets littered with car wreckage, Lu Yan could clearly feel that as he appeared in the surrounding buildings, pairs of eyes were looking at him. The shadows of the buildings were full of bloodthirstiness and fanaticism.

However, due to the daytime sunlight and the solar spiritual energy contained in it, these zombies dare not move freely under the sun.

Looking around, Lu Yan had already found out that among the shops on the entire street, the strongest extraordinary zombies were only three in the middle stage of Qi training, and they posed no threat to him at all.

As he walked closer to a large supermarket, Lu Yan could even hear the threatening roar of a transcendent zombie in the middle stage of Qi training in the supermarket.

The corner of his mouth curled up, and the black mist in the soul flag instantly spread and covered the entire building.

Start hunting!
Half a month passed in a flash, and it seemed that no changes had been brought to this city that had been abandoned for decades.

Still in the abandoned building, Lu Yan sat cross-legged on the ground and took out the last pill from the porcelain bottle.

It seemed that he had used up a lot of the elixirs he got from Manager Chu, and only three were left.

Lu Yan took one pill to break through the second level of Qi training, and took another pill a few days ago to speed up his practice. This is the last pill in his hand.

Lu Yan swallowed the pill and started practicing again.

As the spiritual energy vortex accelerated, a clear sound of shattering was heard in the room, and Lu Yan finally broke through to the third level of Qi training.

He slowly opened his eyes, but there was not much joy in Lu Yan's eyes.

In the past half month, Lu Yan has been harvesting zombies and wandering souls during the day and taking elixirs to practice at night, and his cultivation strength has improved rapidly.

But in Lu Yan's heart, he was still not satisfied with this.

His eyes fell on the soul flag stuck in the ground, and Lu Yan stretched out his right hand, but the next moment the manic ghost energy directly bounced Lu Yan's right hand away.

Seeing this, Lu Yan couldn't help but frown.

The Soul Banner at this time has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to half a month ago.

The flagpole seemed to be carved from some kind of crystal stone, with an eerie aura constantly rising from it. The black flag woven with gold threads was covered in intricate patterns.

A group of hideous-looking vengeful spirits seemed to be wandering on the banner, and in the center, a ferocious ghost that looked like a ghost general from the underworld was suppressing the other ghosts.

Just looking at it directly, it seemed as if a group of ghosts would break free from the soul flag in the next moment and devour all the flesh and blood creatures around.

If you count the ghosts on the banner carefully, you will find that the number of resentful souls has reached an astonishing ninety-eight, including the strong man who is the main soul, there are as many as ninety-nine.

This number may seem like a lot, but if you think about it carefully, Lu Yan can easily sacrifice more than ten resentful souls in a day. If the soul flag's sacrifice speed is not slow, it can be even faster.

Only ninety-eight resentful souls in half a month, this number is a bit too little. It's not that Lu Yan is unwilling to continue the ritual, but because the soul flag has reached the upper limit of Lu Yan's control.

When the number of resentful souls reached fifty, the quality of the Soul Banner broke through and reached the level of a top-grade magical weapon.

The ninety-nine ghosts have made the quality of the Soul Banner close to that of a top-grade magical weapon.

Even though this soul flag was made by Lu Yan himself, he was unable to suppress the magic weapon of near-top quality with his initial Qi training level.

Top-grade magic tools! Those are usually precious magic tools that can only be used by great cultivators in the foundation-building stage. Even if they are top-grade magic tools that are close to the best quality, they are not something that ordinary Qi-cultivating cultivators can use.

When the number of resentful souls reached ninety-eight, Lu Yan encountered the Soul Banner's riot for the first time. Even though Lu Yan did not release the resentful souls, those inside the Soul Banner still resisted, wanting to devour all the living things around them.

Lu Yan tried his best to suppress the Soul Banner. Relying on his control over the Soul Banner and the suppression of the main soul warrior, Lu Yan was able to suppress the riot of the resentful soul.

But as a price, if Lu Yan drives the Soul Banner again in a short period of time, he may still face the risk of resentful souls rioting.

There are only two options to suppress the riot: either you have enough cultivation to completely control the Soul Banner, or you have enough strength to suppress all the resentful souls.

Lu Yan chose the former, trying to break through the third level of Qi training to get out of the predicament.

But the result now is very obvious. Even though the third level of Qi training is still within the scope of the initial stage of Qi training, it is not enough to activate the Soul Banner, which is close to the quality of the top-grade magic weapon.

"Do I really have to practice hard for several months, waiting to break through to the middle stage of Qi training, and waste this great opportunity for growth in this apocalyptic version?"

Lu Yan's heart sank to the bottom.

The opportunity in the apocalyptic version is too rare, and there is even hope that he can master a Hundred Souls Banner during the Qi Refining Stage and possess enough strength to protect himself.

If we waste this opportunity and wait like this, we don’t know when the next doomsday version will be opened.

The elixirs that Manager Chu had obtained had been used up, and it would be difficult for him to successfully break through before the version was updated.

"It seems that the only option left is the second one."

If your cultivation is insufficient, you can only suppress the resentful spirits with your physical strength.

Normally speaking, if a person were to encounter nearly a hundred Qi-cultivating resentful spirits, even a Qi-cultivating expert at the peak of his powers would have no way out. Lu Yan’s strength was definitely not enough to suppress the resentful spirits.

However, in the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" that Lu Yan practiced, there is an excellent spell that can restrain the resentful spirits to a certain extent.

Red lotus karma fire!

Although the Red Lotus Karma Fire comes from the magic skills, using karma to condense the Red Lotus Fire is the best way to restrain the magic, and the Soul Banner's resentful soul is naturally no exception.

If one can successfully cultivate it and then suppress it with the help of the identity of the Soul Banner Master, there may be a turning point.

The only problem was that Lu Yan had failed to comprehend this top-grade spell several times before, and he was not sure whether he could succeed at the moment.

"Maybe after killing so many zombies, I've accumulated enough karma."

With the idea of ​​trying everything possible, Lu Yan began to practice the Red Lotus Karma Fire Technique.

As his mind was contemplating, invisible and intangible objects appeared with strange brilliance. These things, which had never been seen before, were easily captured by Lu Yan by condensing his karma, and then refined using the method of the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

“Those things are karma?”

Lu Yan didn't expect that the spell that had troubled him for months would succeed so easily.

Spreading out his right palm, Lu Yan instinctively cast a spell, and the next moment a dark yellow flame rose from Lu Yan's palm.

Above the dark yellow flames, it seemed as if the gods of the universe were chanting scriptures, reciting Sanskrit chants, and singing Zen songs. The majestic aura of great righteousness drove away all evil.

Inside the soul flag beside him, the resentful souls that had been restless before were now dead silent.

Lu Yan was silent. He stared at the Xuanhuang Fire in his hand for a long while before a doubtful voice sounded in the room.

"Where does the merit come from?"

(End of this chapter)