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

He paused when he reached the gate of light.

The black kitten in the pocket woke up at some point, poked its head out, and stared at the churning black mist inside the door with its deep blue eyes. Its pupils were slightly dilated, and its ears were pressed back, looking both wary and frightened.

Wu You reached out and patted its head, then put it back in his pocket before stepping into the portal.

The biting black mist enveloped him once again.

But this time he didn't close his eyes, letting the thick darkness engulf him. His vision vanished, his sound vanished, even the passage of time became blurred.

The next moment, everything returned to normal.

Wu You looked around and found himself standing on unfamiliar land. Under his feet was black gravel, which made a slight crunching sound when he stepped on it. The gravel was also very fine, and when the wind blew, it raised a cloud of black dust, which settled on his trench coat, leaving a thin layer of gray.

Behind them stood the massive city wall, its black stone appearing even more somber under the crimson light, like a scar across the earth. The portals on the wall still churned with black mist; occasionally, someone would emerge, glance around, and then quickly move on in a certain direction.

Ahead lay rolling hills, not high, but stretching endlessly, like a frozen black ocean.

A faint black mist floated in the air, reflecting a dark red light under the black sun, coloring the world within Wu You's sight with an ominous hue.

Wu You looked up and saw nothing but barren land. There were no trees, no grass, nothing green at all. Only black rocks and black sand, with the occasional oddly shaped stone emerging from the ground.

Meanwhile, there were no clouds or birds in the sky, only the pitch-black sun, lying directly overhead, emitting a dark red, cold light.

In the distance, among the hills, shadowy figures moved about. They were creatures of various shapes and forms that he had never seen in reality before: some resembled wolves, walking on all fours, slender and agile, but with two or three tails; others were shaped like snakes with heads resembling the mouthparts of some insect, their long, thick bodies slithering across the black sand, leaving deep furrows; still others looked like some twisted, unnamed thing, with several limbs sticking out haphazardly from their bodies, their gait appearing as if they were struggling.

But they all have one thing in common: they are all shrouded in a faint black mist.

Wu You opened the map on his watch.

The screen lights up, displaying a complex array of contour lines and color blocks, with different colored areas indicating different levels of danger.

Green represents areas with a danger level of C or below, yellow represents B, red represents A, and black represents S-level restricted areas.

His current location, near the base, is a green area marked as a "safe zone".

He had previously browsed the database for information on the distribution of different types of corpses in areas with varying levels of danger.

The green area is a largely cleared area where only a small number of corpses below the fifth rank will appear, posing little danger.

Most of those low-level corpses roamed from deeper areas, scattered here and there, posing no threat.

Starting from the yellow area representing Rank B, Rank 5 and Rank 6 corpses will appear, but in small numbers and they will not appear in large groups.

Once you reach the A-level red zone, the situation is completely different; an unspecified number of fifth to eighth-tier corpses will appear.

As for the S-level black zone, the information only describes it in one sentence: "It is not recommended for torchbearers below the True Yang Realm to go there, whether alone or in a team."

Wu You frowned slightly: his mission was to kill three seventh-tier corpses, which meant he needed to go to an area with an A-level danger level.

After all, seventh-tier corpse species don't appear in green or yellow areas; they only appear in red areas.

If he were at his peak, he naturally wouldn't be afraid. With his combat strength at his peak, unless he was surrounded by layers of eighth-tier corpses, he could easily escape even if he couldn't win.

But the situation is different now. Although he can exert most of his strength, it is not sustainable. The sense of decay brought about by the lifespan that was burned away is still there, like an invisible shackle, locking his body and soul.

He can wield a sword and kill the zombies, but he cannot fight for long; he can only finish the battle quickly.

Encountering seventh-tier corpses is fine; as long as their numbers don't reach double digits, it's just a matter of wielding a few more swords for Wu You.

But if he encounters an eighth-tier opponent, even just one, he can only run away.

After all, Starfall is currently unusable, so it can't be used to kill instantly; the aftereffects of [Separation from Heaven] are still present, so it can't be worn down any longer.

Then, Wu You seemed to have thought of something.

He reached into the inside pocket of his trench coat, pulled out the small, dark stone box, and opened it.

The Resurrection Plant lay quietly on the velvet in the box, its entire body emerald green, with a few golden threads interspersed on its stems, gleaming faintly in the dark red light.

Without any hesitation.

Wu You threw the Reversal Grass directly into his mouth.

Contrary to his expectations, he couldn't taste any plant flavor at all; there was no bitterness, no fragrance.

The moment the Reversal Herb entered the mouth, it transformed into a warm current, like a warm spring, flowing down the throat into the esophagus and then rapidly spreading to every part of the body.

Wherever that warm current passed, the bodies that were originally silent, cold, and reeking of decay seemed to be infused with a glimmer of life.

A warm feeling spread throughout my body, and every part that had been eroded by that sense of decay felt as if it were being gently caressed by a pair of warm hands.

Wu You narrowed his eyes: This feeling... it's a bit like when I fused with divinity? It's just that the effect brought by the Reversal Grass is obviously not as good as divinity, it's like a weakened version of divinity.

He quietly sensed the changes within his body. The heavy, gloomy aura lessened slightly—not much, but it was definitely weakening, like a thick layer of dust being gently blown away, revealing a bit of its original color.

The herb that reverses fate does have an effect, but it's not a big one.

Wu You snapped out of his thoughts and shook his head.

It seems we still have to stick to the original plan. The Reversal Grass is just icing on the cake; the real solution is to increase our level and divinity.

He closed the map and drew his eight-colored crystal longsword.

The sword gleamed eerily under the dark red light, with eight colors shifting and changing, like a rainbow frozen on the blade.

The little black cat in the pocket poked its head out again, its deep blue eyes fixed on the moving black shadows in the distance, its nose twitching slightly as if trying to discern something, and its ears no longer pressed against its head but stood up and turned slightly.

Wu You ignored it and walked forward, stepping on the black gravel.

The dark figures in the distance were getting closer and closer.

Although they were just some corpses below the fifth rank, since we were already here, we couldn't waste them.

A moment later, several silver sword lights flashed against the dark red sky.

Experience points +500, +1000, +1000...

Those beast corpses below the fifth rank—no, those lustful corpses controlling the bodies of the beast corpses—were instantly cleaved into several pieces, then dissipated into black smoke and dust under the dark red light, and were blown away by the wind.

Wu You didn't actually exert much effort; he simply applied the Jade Balance and Integrity Sword's inherent additional damage to his sword and then lightly slashed across the bodies of these low-level corpses.

Those zombie species that would be deadly to ordinary people or even low-level ability users are as fragile as paper, turning into warm experience points without any resistance.

Allocable experience points: 0 → 4000.

Wu You nodded in satisfaction, and business finally reopened.

Without any hesitation, Wu You took to the air, his white hair fluttering in the dark red wind.

The next moment, his figure disappeared from the spot.