Free Web NovelChapter 555: Chapter 555: Repelling Khufu, Lord of the Fiend Abyss
Across the other shore, Underworld God Khufu cast Lu Jun a deep, lingering glance. He would settle accounts with this man another day.
Rumble!
The next moment, under the rejection of the Fiend Abyss, the chaotic vortex was completely extinguished, and the gray pillar of light reaching the heavens collapsed.
The Underworld Frog Monarch blocking the passage let out an earth-shaking scream. With a ripping sound, its massive bloated body was forcibly split into two halves, green-red blood raining across the sky.
The front half of its body disappeared into the chaotic vortex, while the back half fell into the Yellow Springs Domain. Barely, it could be considered to have saved its life.
Lu Jun took a deep breath and released his God Ascension state. The magic energy of all eight elements was nearly exhausted, and the vast Yellow Springs True Water filling heaven and earth receded. The phantom of the Forbidden Boundary · Yellow Springs Domain vanished.
However, when he sensed his undead space, he nodded in satisfaction. The intact corpses and soul essences of the Supreme Monarch lion-faced beast Sphinx and the Great Monarch specter Evil Child had both fallen into his hands.
He did not intend to simply refine their immense soul essences, but rather treat them as complete wholes and reforge them into undead.
Undead demons were just that crude, die and live again, live and die again, over and over. Of course, whether each reconstructed return was still the original being was another matter.
Including Underworld God Khufu. Though furious, Egypt itself still possessed the pyramids of Sphinx and Evil Child. In essence, these were anchors of resurrection. Given enough underworld energy, one day they could revive.
Only, without their original soul essences and corpses, that process would take an extremely long time, and the revived beings would have fragmented memories. freёwebnovel.com
That was the true reason ancient Egyptian Pharaohs built pyramids one after another. Did people really think the Pharaohs’ pursuit of immortality was false?
Actually, the undead here in the Fiend Abyss were no exception. Their origin imprints remained within the Fiend Abyss. In the original timeline’s Battle of the Ancient Capital, the Bone Nether Lord and Ghost King both died in battle, yet when Zhan Kong transformed into the Ancient King, he revived them all.
Aside from that, Lu Jun’s innate Metal Element magic tool, the Tai’a Sword, had consecutively slain a Supreme Monarch and a Great Monarch, condensing two additional layers of the Sacrificial Sword effect.
Now it had a total of five layers, arranged in order: Standard Monarch, Mid Monarch, Great Monarch, Supreme Monarch, and Emperor.
Among them, Sphinx was a Supreme Monarch, already overlapping with an existing layer, but it could instead be downgraded to serve as the Mid Monarch Sacrificial Sword effect.
This downgraded additional effect had many benefits. At the very least, it reduced the extraction of Sphinx’s origin energy, so when Lu Jun reforged it into undead later, it would not lose much of its original strength.
"Five layers of Sacrificial Sword, a sixfold power boost. Add the Totem Vessel and Divine Seal Praise’s 4.5x base power wouldn’t that make twenty-seven times power?"
Lu Jun was astonished. The Metal Element’s amplification was gradually catching up to Water Element. And purely in destructive force, it even surpassed it.
"Not bad. The Fiend Abyss is temporarily pacified. I’ll cultivate in seclusion for one or two years and strive to raise several more elements to Super Tier. Metal, Water, Curse, and Psychic all have a chance of reaching perfection. There are also star upgrades, all elements to High Tier Level Four, Mid Tier Level Five, and Basic Tier Level Five."
He pondered inwardly. "As for Super Tier Level Four magic depends on the situation."
In truth, there was no real need to upgrade further. The soul essence cost was too high. Even if raised to Super Tier Level Four, it still might not match a Half-Forbidden Curse opponent with Divine Endowment, much less true Forbidden Curse power.
With that wealth, it was better to seek a breakthrough to Forbidden Curse directly. In general, the higher one’s cultivation, the lower the value of upgrading star particles.
Back then, he had regarded Dongfang Lie’s Fire Element talent of +1 spell level as godlike, believing reaching Super Tier would make one invincible. Now, it seemed his vision had been too narrow. Real combat strength depended on factors such as Superpower, Heavenly Seed methods, self-created magic, and more.
Of course, the reason Lu Jun dared speak so boldly was because this war had provided the White Tiger Pendant with massive numbers of Servant, Warrior, and Commander soul essences—enough to raise all his elements’ star particles to ideal levels.
Moreover, the White Tiger Pendant seemed to have recently finished digesting the soul essences of the Heavenly Crown Tree Monarch and the Dragon Emperor. It was on the verge of upgrading to the peak of a Star Sea Magic Tool, with immense dormant energy stirring within, ready to pour into his spiritual world.
Lu Jun understood this clearly, it was feedback from the White Tiger Pendant. He would finally receive the same benifit Mo Fan enjoyed, likely enough to let him promote two elements to Super Tier.
"I’ll deal with it once things settle down and the totem power."
Lu Jun became thoughtful. Earlier, the Nine Nether Queen had mentioned news of the White Tiger Totem. Now that the war was over, it was time to find an opportunity to ask.
A moment later, his figure slowly descended from the void, standing atop the White Tomb Palace. He swept his gaze over the towering, awe-inspiring Eight Directional Undead Monarchs and said calmly:
"Are you all convinced now?"
At his words, the undead monarchs exchanged glances, then respectfully lowered their heads. Their thunderous voices spread in all directions.
"This subordinate obeys your command!"
"Good."
Lu Jun nodded, then without ceremony began issuing orders. His gaze fell upon the humanoid White Corpse King, and after some thought he said:
"There are certain newly risen undead monarch forces causing chaos in the Ancient Capital forbidden zone. Lead troops and exterminate them."
The White Corpse King silently clasped his fists and replied.
"As you command!"
Now that Lu Jun had subordinates under him, he could not be bothered to personally clear out such minor characters. Sending the locals to handle it was enough.
But he also understood the nature of the undead well—suppression was inferior to channeling. Thus he added.
"You need not worry either. Daytime shall belong to the Ancient Capital, nighttime shall belong to the undead. In addition, three laws shall be set: ordinary civilians may not be killed, official mages may not be killed, and no gathering of forces to siege the city!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the Eight Directional Undead Monarchs looked at one another, yet they could accept it. At the very least, it was better than before, when they were not even allowed to appear at night.
And that was not all.
Lu Jun’s tone suddenly shifted, becoming cold and heavy as he declared.
"As for Khufu, I will settle this matter in the future. How can it be that he invades Jiuzhou, yet we do not retaliate by marching upon Egypt!"
"I know your nature seeks blood essence and underworld energy. Once I ascend to Emperor rank, I shall lead you in an expedition against Egypt and unify the Underworld!"
Lu Jun’s words rang with force and conviction. freewёbnoνel.com
The eyes of the Eight Directional Undead Monarchs brightened greatly, bloodthirsty aura surging from them as they spoke in unison.
"This subordinate obeys the King’s command!"
This unanimous response carried far more sincerity than before.
Truthfully, Lu Jun had encountered the Pyramids twice already and knew very well the "wealth" of the Egyptian undead—factories for refining death energy, plundering the vital essence of countless living humans layer by layer.
And he also knew that leading undead forces to invade the Egyptian Pyramids and seize their resources was only a temporary measure.
By the law of conservation of energy, the essence energy of the Egyptian undead ultimately came from Egypt’s own people.
Lu Jun could not worry about that much right now. That would be for the future.
But if aimed instead at demon empires, the blood vitality contained in demon bodies far surpassed that of humans.
After reaching an agreement with the Eight Directional Undead Monarchs, the various monarchs dispersed to clean up the battlefield, handle the aftermath, and exterminate the newly risen undead forces.
At this moment, only the Nine Nether Queen remained where she was. Her beautiful eyes shimmered with strange light as she smiled sweetly.
"As expected of my King, so domineering."
Lu Jun’s gaze fell upon her, and he waved a hand.
"Enough of that. Back then, what clue did you mention regarding the White Tiger Totem?"
"The White Tiger Totem..."
The Nine Nether Queen’s eyes turned distant. After pondering for a moment, she said softly.
"I do not know much either. You know of the Ancient King’s past, do you not?"
"He unified the roads, standardized the script, forged the Great Wall, and gathered all weapons under heaven to cast the Twelve Bronze Men!"
Hearing this, Lu Jun’s brows twitched.
Especially at the final phrase, gathering all weapons under heaven to cast the Twelve Bronze Men waves of realization suddenly rose within him.
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