Zhu Tian started by deceiving his father-in-law from the perspective of pirates.

Kel'Thuzad's soul was completely gathered together and then injected into White Zetsu's body.

Some gray substance began to appear, like paper and ink, and began to wrap around White Zetsu's body.

An elderly mage, dressed in a purple robe and looking to be in his fifties, appeared on the spot, panting heavily.

"I've been resurrected! I can't believe I can be resurrected. This is my original human body! My God, this is amazing! My magic! Arcane and necromantic energy have actually merged!" Kel'Thuzad immediately discovered a pleasant surprise.

His magic power, based on his original human form, had also incorporated the necromancy of the lich, essentially merging his human power with the power he possessed during his lich era.

He originally thought that after being resurrected in this form, he would only possess the magical power he had in his human days, which was about the same as Ronin's.

It's incomparable to his lich form; after transforming into a lich, his mana was greatly enhanced by necromancy.

But now, this transformation has pulled his soul out of the lich's body and bestowed it upon the human body. With these two magical powers combined, he is much stronger than before.

Now he can cast arcane magic, frost magic, and necromancy—spells he possessed in his human life and spells he gained in his lich form after death, even combining them perfectly.

"This is the magic of the drawing transformation. Your resurrected body was specially prepared for you," Rhodes said.

Just like the special body that Kabuto Yakushi prepared for Madara Uchiha, Rhode also added the lich's magic power to this body when he transferred his soul.

In any case, the lich's magic can be contained as long as the body is undead, and this kind of impure earth resurrection, although it maintains a human form, is an undead life in every sense of the word.

"Please let me, let me get acquainted with this body, this great demigod," Kel'Thuzad said excitedly.

Rod nodded naturally and gestured for him to proceed.

Once Kel'Thuzad received permission, he immediately began casting his various necromancy spells: frost spells, arcane magic.

He could feel that once his magic was depleted, it would inexplicably surge back again. Now, if he wanted, he could release spells that he had previously had to be drained and honed to release.

Furthermore, it can be cast freely like a normal spell, without any need to worry about stamina issues.

Kel'Thuzad even fired a fireball at himself, shattering half of his body. In just a few dozen seconds, a large number of paper scraps appeared around his body and slowly pieced themselves back together.

“Hahaha! Thank you, great demigod. I am overwhelmed by your blessing. I am now more powerful than ever before,” Kel'Thuzad said.

“We have one last ritual. Actually, I have the ability to resurrect the dead. I can resurrect you as a true human being.” After saying this, Rhodes prepared to cast the Reincarnation Technique.

"No, no, no! Great demigod, please don't punish me!"

This is the most perfect body; I am the strongest now.

Limitless magic power, limitless stamina, immortality, and far greater magical strength—this is the most perfect form, far beyond the reach of a mortal human body.

Kel'Thuzad immediately knelt on the ground and began to plead with Rhodes.

For others, resurrection might be a dream come true, but for Kel'Thuzad, it was not. In his eyes, this impure body was the most perfect body.

“Some spells that target the soul can destroy it, and the ultimate Force can destroy your body, making it impossible for you to recover,” Rhodes said.

"Great demigod, you are but a mortal. You can be killed by spells that target the soul, and you can be killed by the ultimate six fundamental forces. What difference does it make?" Kel'Thuzad retorted.

Yes, that makes sense, and it seems to be true!

The resurrected body is just as vulnerable to these spells, and even some ordinary elemental magic. Ordinary swords and blades can kill it, but this body has absolutely no need to worry about ordinary attacks.

Moreover, there are very few in the entire world of Azeroth who can unleash the ultimate Force. Only the Titans, the Old Gods, the Wilderness Demigods, Sargeras himself who was personally infused with power, or Archimonde and Kil'jaeden can use it.

“Great demigod, you must know that as a lich, I know many soul-targeting spells, and I am very skilled in them. If someone wants to kill me with soul magic, their skill level must be far superior to mine,” Kel'Thuzad said.

No way! I'm a top-tier lich, how could I possibly lack methods to defend against soul magic?

Even the most skilled sorcerer, unless their magical proficiency far surpasses his, cannot possibly attack him with soul magic.

"Hahaha! Well, it seems that completely resurrecting you is actually a punishment for you. This is the kind of situation you like best," Rhodes said.

Perhaps in the future I can have Kabuto Yakushi and Orochimaru finish them off, and work with the Second Hokage to further improve this spell.

These bodies, reborn from the dead, can also cultivate and increase their power. This form of immortality is indeed most suitable for certain psychopaths.

Speaking of increasing power, Rhodes suddenly thought of a way that might allow a certain lich to gain chakra power.

"I will give you another power! Do not resist."

Rhodes approached Kel'Thuzad, touched his forehead with his finger, and infused some chakra into his body.

The White Zetsu's body already possesses the power of Wood Release and chakra; he merely activated and amplified it.

Those who are resurrected using kobolds, fishmen, or werewolves cannot be granted this kind of chakra power.

Rhodes also did not intend to bestow chakra power upon other Edo Tensei users, because possessing chakra meant having the ability to undo Edo Tensei, and it could not be given away indiscriminately.

The power of chakra, using White Zetsu's body as a base, rapidly spread to Kel'Thuzad, and then began to activate and increase his physical activity.

Rhodes added chakra to this body, roughly equivalent to the chakra of a tailed beast.

The resurrection of White Zetsu's body should allow this great lich to master five types of ninjutsu and Wood Release.

"My demigod, I feel a new energy within me, and I also feel a life force," Kel'Thuzad said with surprise, immediately noticing the changes in his body.

I can't believe that life force can still exist within the body of an undead!

"Hmm! This is the new power I bestow upon you. This power is called chakra. The body that was given to you as a sacrifice before already possessed a power called Wood Release."

You can summon trees to fight; these trees can absorb chakra or other energies. You should study this carefully.

After Rhodes finished speaking, he handed over some Wood Release ninjutsu and basic Five Elements Release techniques to Kel'Thuzad.

"Great demigod, are you interested in recruiting more subordinates? If you have any, you can recruit them from Naxxramas Fortress and the Knights of the Ebon Blade."

There are some top-tier liches, and death knights, who are also first-rate experts.

"I've also brought some ice dragons with me from my Naxxramas fortress this time," Kel'Thuzad said.

"Can you make them pledge their allegiance to me?"

“A great demigod, but all liches, you can trust them completely.”

"As for the other undead monsters, there's no need to let them control this power, because many of them are insectoids, or undead modified by other monsters," Kel'Thuzad said.

Abominations are monsters composed of a collection of corpses, pieced together from various bodies, and therefore lack any independent consciousness.

As for the other spiders, cave demons, gargoyles, and the modified monsters, they are all magical creations.

There's no need to use this special resurrection spell on them; all that's needed are some liches and these death knights.

"My Lord Demigod! I can try to persuade these Death Knights."

Those who wish to join your ranks shall be granted new immortality; those who do not shall remain as death knights.

"Then just use dark magic to control it; I can handle that." Kel'Thuzad said.

Most of these death knights can be persuaded; those that cannot be persuaded can be controlled by force.

Chapter 289 Naxxramas, a land teeming with talent, the shadows of the Shadowlands, Uther's resurrection!

“I will resurrect them using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and then talk to them. My goal is also to protect Azeroth,” Rhodes said.

After being resurrected by Edo Tensei, I can control them. Without chakra, they cannot escape my control.

Those who are willing to accept his surrender will not be controlled by Rhodes using the Impure World Reincarnation technique; those who are unwilling will be sealed away.

We can just release these guys when needed; to be honest, with Rhodes' current strength...

In reality, no matter how many of these ordinary Azerothian fighters come, they won't be of much use.

These death knights are only slightly stronger than ordinary adventurers.

The strength is limited; it doesn't mean that one person can destroy a city or a village.

They were merely subordinates to bolster the fighting strength of the newcomers of Hilmanas.

Among the new graduates, although there are people from all walks of life, most of them are ordinary workers.

Only a few Dark Rangers and Sylvanas's Dreadguard can be considered high-end combat forces, while Death Knights can definitely greatly enhance the combat power of the newcomers.

These death knights, once resurrected, can use their powers from their previous lives, in addition to their original abilities.

They won't lose their Death Knight skills, and a new batch of Death Knights will emerge.

Letting them join the Alliance and the Horde respectively would only benefit others; I'll just take the Death Knight class.

"Your word is final, great demigod."

There are over three thousand Death Knights here, more than a thousand of whom are in my Naxxramas Fortress, led by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

There are more than 2,500 Death Knights in the Acherus Fortress of the Knights of the Ebon Blade.

All of them are under the command of Highlord Darion Mograine. Eighty percent of the troops in Acherus Keep are Death Knights, along with some ghouls, abominations, and liches.

Kel'Thuzad could clearly sense that this resurrection was controlled by this demigod, but that was fine too, at least he would gain 100% trust.

Following that guy Arthas is a completely hopeless path!

“By the way, Kel'Thuzad, I remember that Naxxramas Fortress was once captured. Are all the leaders inside now the same ones from before?” Rhodes asked.

Rhodes was actually very curious about this, about the Naxxramas raid from the 60s.

It's basically no different from the Naxxramas raid from the 80s; all the boss mechanics are essentially the same.

"At that time, the elite forces of the Alliance and the Horde, as well as the Knights of the Silver Hand, did launch a decapitation strike on Naxxramas, but the main target was me."

Also, there's Mograine the Elder, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Overall, Naxxramas wasn't severely damaged.

"Now that I've been resurrected, as for Mograine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he's been replaced by Rivendare," Kel'Thuzad said.

Naxxramas Fortress, after all, is the Scourge's trump card floating city, and its military strength is still quite formidable.

With only a few hundred elite troops, it would be very difficult to conquer that place.

Rhodes nodded, then summoned his men and ordered them to capture some low-level creatures such as kobolds, merfolk, and werewolves.

The group to be resurrected this time is quite large, and Kel'Thuzad has announced to everyone the Naxxramas fortress he is carrying.

Furthermore, the Black Knights' Acherus Fortress had all been freed from the Lich King's control and had now joined the forces of the Newborn.

Two days later, Rhodes finally gathered all the offerings and then mobilized his chakra to launch a large-scale Impure World Reincarnation.

All the death knights, as well as some liches, necromancers, and other humanoid beings, were resurrected using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, totaling more than ten thousand people.

As for the remaining ghouls, abominations, gargoyles, spiders, and frost dragons, Rhodes did not undergo the Impure World Reincarnation.

These creatures belong to the category of war weapons. Gargoyles are magical creations, while ghouls and evil spirits are pieced together from the corpses of ordinary civilians.

As for the frost dragons, Rhodes was quite unsure whether they could be resurrected by these low-level sacrifices.