The undead army advanced steadily. To one candidate for the Lord of the Undead, the aura of another was like a newborn sun igniting within the endless darkness.
It was incredibly conspicuous, leaving nowhere to hide.
Chen Xu had firmly locked onto the aura of Old Insight and his earthly divine kingdom, the two overlapping perfectly.
It appeared that Old Insight had fled back to his nest.
Chen Xu wondered if the territory built by this interesting ghoul could provide any surprises.
He had even deployed the heavy hitter, Guixu, with its two Chaos Mana Cores running at full capacity, continuously channeling energy to the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector and various mana cannons.
With a single command from Chen Xu, Guixu could instantly launch a terrifying attack akin to an apocalypse.
The terrain of the Land of the Undead was mostly flat, allowing the undead army to move quickly, and they soon reached the outskirts of Old Insight's territory.
Looking from afar, the territory was barren with almost no buildings, except for a few Gargoyle Bell Towers and some strange houses; the rest of the area was filled with Ghoul Dens.
Chen Xu's mental strength swept through, estimating roughly ten thousand Ghoul Dens, more than half of which were large-scale ones.
No wonder there was nothing else in the territory besides the Gargoyle Bell Towers.
With so many ghouls, only stone-bodied creatures like gargoyles could coexist with them. Any other undead, including skeletons, would likely be eaten until not even scraps remained.
At this moment, Old Insight was in a majestic castle at the very center of the territory.
As the final destination for the dead, the Land of the Undead took in the homeless souls of all worlds.
Living beings without faith or those whose civilizations lacked specific burial grounds came to the Land of the Undead after death, transforming into ordinary undead creatures.
This process not only replenished the population of the Land of the Undead but also brought in various strange items.
Old Insight had obtained a contract scroll from a skeleton mage.
This majestic castle was acquired by using that contract scroll to establish an agreement with an orc civilization from the outside world.
The contract stipulated that the orcs would help Old Insight build the castle, and in exchange, Old Insight would provide them with an endless army of ghouls.
Ultimately, the contract was fulfilled. The castle stood in Old Insight's territory, and the endless army of ghouls enthusiastically kept the orcs in the territory forever.
The power of ordinary contract rules could not affect a candidate for the Lord of the Undead within the Land of the Undead.
The empowerment of the Lord of the Undead's authority was his confidence to ignore such external forces.
But that empowerment would soon be gone. Chen Xu's army was at the gates, and what terrified Old Insight the most was the massive city floating in the sky.
There was a default rule in the Land of the Undead: when you couldn't gauge an enemy's strength, size was the best criterion for judgment.
While the strong weren't necessarily large, large creatures were almost never weak.
Naturally large beings like Undead Bone Dragons, abominations, and Bone Kuns were inevitably more powerful than short ghouls.
But Old Insight could swear to the Lord of the Undead that this eerie floating city was the largest moving and flying thing he had ever seen in his life.
Furthermore, a terrifying and lethal aura faintly emanated from deep within that city.
Old Insight had only felt such a horrifying aura from those necrotic archdukes.
Chen Xu, a newborn candidate for the Lord of the Undead, had reached the throne and established an earthly divine kingdom in just a few dozen days, yet he possessed such terrifying strength.
Old Insight wondered if this was a force secretly supported by some necrotic archduke who had broken the rules to intervene.
Moreover, Chen Xu looked like a living human.
Initially, Old Insight thought a ghost had occupied a human shell, but now, recalling Chen Xu's strange name and the immense strength he displayed upon arriving in the Land of the Undead...
He feared Chen Xu might truly be a human from the outside world.
However, why would the authority of the Lord of the Undead favor a living person? It defied the fundamental laws of the universe.
Old Insight's thoughts were in turmoil, but he continued to accelerate the development of the flesh balls within the Ghoul Dens.
The authority of the Lord of the Undead granted him supreme glory. Even facing such a strange enemy, Old Insight intended to risk everything.
He could not bring himself to abandon his authority, surrender his territory, and survive as a pathetic, broken ghoul.
Within the ten thousand Ghoul Dens, the ghouls had finished their initial frantic cannibalism, and massive flesh balls were now writhing constantly.
This was Old Insight's final trump card and his last gamble.
The production of flesh ghouls was irreversible; they could not be reverted back into ordinary ghouls once the battle was over.
Therefore, this move completely drained Old Insight's entire fortune, creating over a hundred flesh balls. Once they were birthed, they would represent over a hundred mythic-tier combatants.
If even this couldn't take Chen Xu down, then he would accept his fate.
Aboard Guixu, Chen Xu detected the aura of those eerie flesh balls emanating from Old Insight's territory.
Combining this with the fact that not a single ghoul could be seen in this vast territory, Chen Xu guessed that Old Insight intended to play the sacrificial summoning trick again.
One had to admit that the biological templates of the Land of the Undead were extremely versatile. With the empowerment of authority, almost any bizarre method could give rise to new species.
"Perfect. I'll use you to test the power of this Mana Annihilation Beam Projector."
Chen Xu gave orders to Bone Guard One and the Black Knights, telling them to command the army to take a defensive stance outside Old Insight's territory.
Then, he spoke to the air beside him, "Guixu, fully charge the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector. Aim it at the castle below and give that ghoul a shot."
"As you command, my Lord!"
Upon receiving the order, Guixu activated its final energy core, the Bone Throne.
The three energy cores generated a massive amount of power, which was channeled through the Piping Module into the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector.
The core orbits of the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector began to rotate. It was a device resembling a globe, with two tracks on the outer ring and a purple energy ball containing terrifying annihilation power at the center.
The tracks spun faster and faster, and the energy ball in the middle continued to expand.
This horrifying aura made Old Insight below increasingly nervous.
The hatching of the flesh balls still required a little more time, but he could wait no longer. He had to strike down the strange city above his head first.
Old Insight channeled the authority of the Lord of the Undead, and a surging necrotic aura flooded his body.
Turning into a streak of light, Old Insight launched an attack toward Guixu.
Facing the rapidly approaching streak of light, Chen Xu made no move.
Suddenly, a massive fish tail that blotted out the sun appeared in the sky. Carrying the immense power of the Sea God, it struck toward the ascending light.
"Boom!"
The two energies exploded in mid-air with a violent roar. Old Insight was swatted to the ground by Kunpeng, carving a long trench and exposing the flesh balls in the dens to the air.
Old Insight climbed up from the ground, looking at Kunpeng in the sky and cursing.
"There's definitely something wrong with this Chen Xu! Where did he get enough faith to cultivate another god, and a Sea God at that?"
Old Insight's complaint was actually valid. A Lord of the Undead usually wouldn't cultivate a second god but would instead concentrate all faith upon themselves.
With subordinates like Black Knights who could share the god's rank, the proper path was to put all effort into strengthening oneself.
Rather than spending energy and partitioning faith to make another subordinate a god, it was more cost-effective to consume it all personally for higher combat power.
Therefore, in a typical Lord of the Undead's force, only the Lord and his Black Knights were gods; other high-end combatants were mythic-tier.
Just as Old Insight was about to launch another attack toward Guixu, the city had finished charging.
The energy ball on the orbits of the Mana Annihilation Beam Projector had expanded to its limit, teetering on the threshold between stable and unstable.
At the same time, Guixu completed its lock on the castle.
After the floating city birthed its consciousness, Guixu, all equipment in the city required no personnel to operate. These inanimate objects were all part of Guixu's body.
For Guixu, no one knew better than itself how to fire the destruction beam.
Within the orbits, the purple energy ball began to release energy, sending ripples of annihilation power outward.
Suddenly, an annihilation orb appeared out of thin air within the castle below.
Then, the stable state was shattered. The terrifying annihilation power expanded rapidly, instantly swallowing Old Insight's territory.
The raging energy mercilessly consumed all matter, even sucking in many nearby skeleton soldiers.
Only that silly fellow Kunpeng actually tried to lean in, wanting to taste the annihilation power.
Before it could open its massive mouth, Chen Xu forcibly teleported it back to Guixu's side.
After a long while, the annihilation power slowly dissipated, leaving behind only a bottomless abyss and a fragment of the Lord of the Undead's authority floating in the air.
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