The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

At the same time, the level column on the Sword Manual panel also fluctuated slightly.

Level: 8 → Level: 9!

Virtual Realm, breakthrough!

At this moment, Wu You felt his physical fitness and mental strength surge once again.

At the same time, the power he had experienced under the blessing of [Lihentian] also emerged within his body.

He could sense that if he wanted, he could project the power within his body into the outside world at any time, forming a virtual body.

Wu You slightly raised his head, his silver eyes looking towards the direction where the dark fog was even thicker in the distance.

That's the location of the Class A danger zone.

Now that he has broken through to the ninth rank, the A-level danger zone, which has a maximum of only eighth-rank corpse species, can no longer pose a threat to him.

He no longer needs to cross that Class A danger zone to reach the other Class B danger zone.

Now, he's going to sweep through everything in his path!

Wu You tapped the map of the deep dark domain on his watch. A silver-white light screen unfolded on his watch, revealing the detailed terrain of the surrounding area layer by layer before his eyes.

He ruled out those dangerous zones that were too close to or even adjacent to the S-class restricted areas.

Although he has now reached the ninth rank and is protected by the Pivot Sword and the Xuan Lock Sword, he can fight against even the tenth rank.

However, even True Yang Realm experts barely qualify to go to the S-level forbidden zone.

This is still too risky for Wu You right now.

Moreover, the danger zones on the map are only approximate divisions, and the types of zombies can move around. It is quite possible that some super-sized zombies from S-level forbidden zones will appear in the danger zones adjacent to S-level forbidden zones.

Therefore, as a precaution, Wu You excluded all dangerous areas near the S-level restricted zone from the cleanup scope.

Then Wu You tallied up the dangerous areas he could clear near the Jiuli base: 13 Class A dangerous areas, 9 Class B dangerous areas, and dozens of Class C dangerous areas.

The remaining areas are the S-level restricted zones and the areas near the S-level restricted zones, as well as the areas marked as "unknown areas" on the map beyond the S-level restricted zones.

Turn off the map.

"We probably won't be able to finish cleaning today, but let's try to clean as many areas as possible."

"Perfect, let's test the upgraded combat power as well."

Then, Wu You's figure disappeared from the spot.

A moment later, he arrived at the nearest Class A danger zone.

Wu You's silver eyes stared at the A-level danger zone ahead, shrouded in thick dark fog, and the pale silver sword mark between his brows glowed slightly.

Let's start here.

Wu You plunged headfirst into the thick fog in front of him.

His figure existed in the mist for less than half a second before being completely swallowed up by the thick layer of gray-black.

next moment.

boom--!

Within the dense fog of the Class A danger zone, a patch of dark fog appeared to be being compressed outwards, spreading outwards at a visible speed.

It wasn't blown away by the wind, but rather something pushed it open from the inside, like an invisible hand plunging into the very center of the fog and then suddenly pulling it outwards.

The dark fog surged, receded, and fled in all directions.

In the center of that area, a circular space several hundred meters in diameter was cleared out, forming a clean, fog-free vacuum zone.

Then, a silver giant nearly a thousand meters tall appeared from below in the cleared dark fog.

Its entire body radiated a bright and solid silver-white light, which did not come from the outside but from within, like a layer of glowing skin.

The giant's eyes, however, were an even purer and more dazzling silver: those eyes had no pupils, no irises, only silver, pure light, like two miniature stars compressed into two spheres.

Even more strangely, a slender silver sword mark between the giant's eyebrows was also quietly emitting a bright light.

The shape and position of the sword mark were exactly the same as the mark between Wu You's eyebrows, only magnified countless times. The sword mark hovered between the giant's eyebrows, completely integrated with the giant's entire body.

This giant, radiating silver light, was Wu You's illusory form.

The power projected from his body coalesced outside him into a body hundreds of times larger than himself, composed of pure energy.

Then, the giant slightly raised his right hand toward the sky, and a huge, jet-black longsword, its color completely incongruous with the giant's, took shape in his hand.

At this moment, the torchbearers who were carrying out various tasks at the edge of this Class A danger zone and in the nearby Class B danger zone also raised their heads.

Some were cleaning up low-level zombies, some were gathering resources, and some were on their way back to the base—but whatever they were doing, at this moment, all their actions stopped.

All eyes were turned in the same direction.

"Hey, look over there!" A torchbearer who was cleaning up the corpses in a Class B danger zone was the first to see the silvery-white light.

"Which Lord Impermanence is it?"

The other person squinted, trying to make out the outline of the huge figure through the thick fog.

But the fog was too thick, and he couldn't see the details. He could only see the silvery-white area that was glowing in the fog, and the towering human figure that was taller than any hill in the area.

"Wow, it's a big shot from the Illusionary Realm!"

"How envious I am! When will I be able to achieve that illusory form?"

"I'm outta here—"

An experienced torchbearer stepped back a few paces, shielding the crowd in front of him.

"Perhaps some tyrant has nothing better to do than take on the task of cleaning up mid-to-high-level corpses. If we don't leave soon, we feel like we're going to get caught in that tyrant's area-of-effect attack."

"Absolutely, absolutely, I'll go first."

The people next to them exchanged glances, and without any hesitation, turned and left.

On the other side, somewhere on the edge of this Class A danger zone.

"So, we just took on the mission to clean up the high-level zombies that escaped from the A-level danger zone."

"It ended before it even started?"

"Judging from this, it should be."

His teammate patted him on the shoulder, looking relaxed: "However, we can't be sure of that person's purpose yet. Let's go check after that person leaves."

"Ah, how wonderful!"

"I hadn't even started, and the task was already completed by itself. So satisfying!"

The torchbearers nearby, seeing the enormous figure radiating a dazzling silver light even in the thick fog, all retreated and moved away from the area.

Standing within the combat range of a Void Realm expert is inherently unwise.

Meanwhile, Wu You, who was inside the illusory body, quietly waited for the torchbearers around him to leave.

He hovered inside the giant's body, his silver eyes peering through the silvery-white energy shell at the dense dark fog below.

The A-level danger zone was shrouded in dense fog with extremely poor visibility. In order to improve the efficiency of clearing out the zombies and gain as much experience as possible, Wu You planned to use a large-area damage skill directly in his illusory state.

A few minutes later, Wu You slowly raised the massive Pivot Sword in his hand, controlling the illusory body.

The tip of the Pivot Sword pointed to the ground, and the dark patterns on the sword's blade, illuminated by the silvery light emanating from the giant's body, exhibited a strange, flowing luster.

Then, Wu You suddenly thrust downwards.

The moment the sword tip pierced the ground, a silvery-white light exploded from the point of contact between the sword tip and the ground, then quickly rose up along the blade, contracted sharply at the guard, and then expanded outwards again.

A ring of silvery-white sword energy rippled out from the massive, jet-black longsword, spreading into the thick, dark fog around it.

The silvery-white sword energy slowly advanced through the dark mist, like a ripple spreading across the surface of water.

The areas it swept over—rocks, vegetation, soil, and even the mid-to-high-level corpses hidden in the dark mist—instantly turned to dust upon contact with the silver sword energy.

Experience points +8000

Experience points +15000

Experience points +8000

Experience points +8000

Experience points +15000

……

Wu You glanced at the Sword Manual panel.

The numbers above are climbing at an extremely rapid pace.

The frequency of those experience points jumping was many times faster than when he was killing them one by one.

The ring-shaped silver-white sword energy spread for nearly ten kilometers before slowly dissipating.

But then, Wu You's brows furrowed slightly.

Although this large-scale, indiscriminate attack covers a wide enough area, many still manage to slip through the net.

Some reacted quickly enough to burrow deep into the ground before the sword energy arrived, while others were flying in the air at the time, and the ring-shaped sword energy swept past their feet without hitting them.

Wu You frowned for a moment, then relaxed.

That being the case.

Wu You once again manipulated the illusory body to slowly raise the proportionally enlarged Pivot Sword in his hand.

The jet-black longsword pointed at the ground once more, and the silvery-white light at its tip shone brightly again.

He swung downwards again.

A huge, ring-shaped, silvery-white sword aura reappeared, spreading outward from the tip of the sword.

No, that's not a dish!

Instead, it is a ring of sword energy composed of countless tiny, silvery-white sword energies.

They are arranged densely together, end to end, layer upon layer, each one like a straightened silver-white ray of light.

It's only because there are so many of them, and they're so densely packed, that from a distance it looks like a whole halo.

At the same time, Wu You also applied the effects of the Yao Guang Dong Ming Sword, Tian Quan Wen Qu Sword, and Tian Shu Po Jun Sword to these dense silver-white sword energies.

These three sword techniques are respectively the Lock-on Tracking, Finding Weaknesses, and One-Hit Kill Sword from the Seven Luminaries of the Star Pivot Sword.

He integrated these three elements into the millions of tiny sword energies, giving each sword energy the ability to autonomously find its target, adjust its direction, and complete its attack.

As the distance increased, the huge ring-shaped sword energy began to disperse into thin, silvery-white sword energies.

They are like tributaries branching off from a main river, turning from one direction into hundreds of directions, and from hundreds of directions into thousands of directions.

Each silvery-white line pointed to a different location, and each silvery-white line drew a different arc in the air.

Some sword energies flew straight out, some made a turn in the air and burrowed into the cracks in the ground, and some shot into a dark mist that seemed to be empty in the air.

Whether they were hiding at the bottom of the swamp or flying in the sky, all kinds of corpses were found and killed one by one.

Puffs of black smoke rose from the ground, from the sky, from the cracks in the rocks, and from the bottom of the swamp, like black fireworks that bloomed simultaneously and vanished in an instant.

Experience points +8000

Experience points +15000

Experience points +8000

Experience points +15000

……

The numbers on the Sword Manual panel began to climb rapidly again.

Wu You sensed the sword energy precisely targeting his enemy, his silver eyes reflecting the trajectories of those silver-white sword energies weaving through the dark mist. He nodded slightly: "This time, nothing has been wasted."

Next, Wu You released his sword energy in several different locations to ensure that no place or corner of this A-level danger zone was missed.

After confirming that there were no more corpses in the area, the huge silver-white phantom began to fade.

Its nearly 1,000-meter-tall body resembled a melting iceberg, disintegrating from the top into countless silvery-white particles of light that slowly drifted away in the dark mist.

Wu You's figure reappeared in mid-air. His black trench coat was perfectly wrinkle-free, his long white hair was perfectly straight, and his eyes remained completely calm.

Then, his figure disappeared from the spot again.

After Wu You left, many of the torchbearers who had accepted the mission also stepped forward and entered the Class A danger zone.

As they passed through the now much thinner dark fog and stepped onto the ground that had been repeatedly swept by the silvery-white sword energy, everyone fell silent.

The once perilous Class A danger zone was now eerily quiet.

The group searched several locations, but apart from the mess on the ground, they couldn't find even a single hair of the corpse.

They couldn't help but exclaim:

"Goodness, is this a master of the Illusionary Realm?"

Are there still any zombie species in this Class A danger zone?

"Excellent! The mission was completed by itself!"

Meanwhile, Wu You was on his way to the nearby Class B danger zone.

This time, he's going to push through any danger zone, whether it's a Class B or Class A!