noveltune Chapter 43 Mysterious-grade Netherworld Artifact, Death Bone Scythe
Chapter 43 Mysterious-grade Netherworld Artifact, Death Bone Scythe
"Well, I have to admit, my contracted Yin artifact is far inferior to Fang Shen's."
"I admit it. Compared to Fang Shen's 'fierce' Yin creature, my proud third-realm vengeful ghost-level Yin creature is about the same as an ant. But this doesn't make sense! Even if Fang Shen's Yin creature had incredible initial luck and truly came from the fifth realm, that only represents its future potential, okay? Fang Shen's female ghost's current combat power doesn't seem to be like that at all; that potential has completely turned into real combat power."
"Yes, that's what I can't understand the most. Our contracted spirits, no matter how extraordinary their potential, still have a growth process from weak to strong. They have to gradually devour resentment and temper their souls to slowly become stronger. But Fang Shen's female ghost was born in this perfect form that completely crushes everything."
Almost every contract envoy who witnessed all of this was stunned by the terrifying combat power that Xiaoqian displayed, which far exceeded their imagination. They were completely dumbfounded and incredulous, as if their worldview had been crushed by this female ghost.
Just then, in the giant pit below, the skeleton knight, who had been smashed into the ground by Xiaoqian's attack, seemed to have his dignity trampled upon like never before, and was completely enraged.
Its broken skeleton was immediately engulfed by even more violent and profound black flames.
The warhorse beneath him, also badly wounded, let out a violent and resentful neigh. Its four hooves kicked wildly, shattering the rocks at the bottom of the pit. Carrying its master, it transformed into a black meteor and soared into the sky from the bottomless abyss.
My innate ghost technique: Death Collision.
The skeleton knight unleashed his most relied-upon charge spell.
The Death Charge instantly propelled the Skeleton Knight and his warhorse into the supersonic speed range, creating a sonic boom cloud on the spot.
With a terrifying sonic boom that could tear eardrums apart, the skeleton knight and his horse transformed into an extremely condensed black spear beam, almost teleporting directly in front of Xiaoqian's slender figure.
However, during the time Xiaoqian followed Fang Han in his battles across the country, through constant practice and imitation, she had already honed a unique and highly efficient combat awareness that belonged only to her, beyond her fierce instincts.
She had already prepared a countermeasure the moment before the opponent's power erupted and the collision even began.
The soul-capturing whip, which had been condensed and was about to be pulled out again, suddenly dispersed as if it had a life of its own, turning into thousands of tiny wisps of aftershocks of the underworld.
Immediately afterwards, under her mental control, these millions of aftershocks began to spin and cut wildly around her slender body along a mysterious trajectory.
The pure Yin energy she had accumulated over three thousand years of cultivation poured into these rapidly rotating, soul-capturing aftershocks as if it were free.
At this moment, Xiaoqian's originally soft, ethereal, and almost invisible whispers, empowered by immense Yin energy, instantly reached an unimaginably terrifying level of sharpness and ferocity.
Under high-speed rotation, it is like an absolute defense composed of countless invisible strangling blades forged from resentment.
What's even more bizarre and poignant is that, because the color of her soul was originally a cool, purplish-red pattern, when these countless soul-capturing aftershocks spun at high speed, they also refracted and reflected the poignant light on her soul.
From afar, Xiaoqian's slender body seemed to be shrouded in a chilling aura that was both exquisitely beautiful and fraught with danger. She looked eerily beautiful, yet every corner was a deadly trap.
Seeing Xiaoqian skillfully execute her signature strangulation defense, Fang Han, who had been quietly watching from the sky, knew that the outcome of the battle was no longer in doubt.
That foolish skeleton knight actually dared to crash head-on into this "Soul-Stealing Killing Field," which is practically an absolute defense, at supersonic speed. There was only one outcome: he would be shattered to pieces and his soul would be scattered.
The scene was exactly as Fang Han had imagined, without the slightest difference.
As the Skeleton Knight broke the sound barrier with the force of his Death Charge, transforming into an indestructible black spear of light, he hurtled towards Xiaoqian, intending to tear her and the void apart. At that moment, a deafening explosion, like stars bursting apart, resounded throughout the entire world.
From afar, a burst of dazzling, firework-like energy turbulence suddenly erupted in the gray sky, illuminating the entire barren land shrouded in deathly aura.
The skeleton knight's massive, ferocious body was instantly dismembered and torn apart by the unimaginable cutting and strangling force in the fraction of a second it made contact with the rapidly spinning Soul-Stealing Blade, turning into countless fragments of bone and remains burning with black flames.
Then, these remains, like burning oil drums, turned into huge fireballs, trailing long plumes of black smoke, and crashed down on the dense army of undead skeletons below like fire meteors falling from the sky.
The entire scene is visually stunning, like a legendary fire meteor that brought the world to its knees and fell into the endless underworld.
As for the undead skeletons that were used as cannon fodder, they were completely unlucky this time.
The "Heavenly Fire Meteors," formed from the dismembered skeleton knights and imbued with the power of raging death, mostly struck precisely at the core of the densest, tidal wave of the undead calamity army.
Countless terrifying explosions rang out below, one after another; the earth trembled violently, like a dragon turning over; the ground covered with bones was instantly swallowed up by the black flames containing destructive power, turning into a boiling sea of fire.
However, the contract envoys in the beginner village are not having an easy time either.
The destructive power of the impact was immense. Although most of the fireballs and shockwaves were directed at the undead skeleton army, a small portion of the shockwaves and debris, imbued with terrifying power, still crashed into the starting village's defenses.
Those quick-reacting contract envoys roared and pulled out their best defensive ghost techniques, or had their thick-skinned contract spirits stand in front of them, desperately trying to block the aftershocks falling from the sky.
Fang Han still hasn't made a move.
He's not their personal caregiver; he has neither the obligation nor the energy to save people every moment.
The reason he rushed back at top speed to deal with the Calamity of the Dead was that this wave of calamity was triggered after he had cleared the first three waves of bosses.
More importantly, this natural disaster is directly related to the survival of the entire village.
Once the place that marked his beginning is destroyed, no matter how strong he is personally, he will be forced to become an exile without any foundation.
The reduction of various attributes and blessings will not be a good thing for him, as it will severely slow down his progress towards becoming stronger.
After all, it won't be long before he clicks to begin his wondrous journey in "All-People Ghost Taming: Imbuing Ghosts with Power, Regaining Cultivation Power a Hundredfold." He will also have to face the backlash from the soul of the necromancer Gust who is parasitizing his body.
Just after Nie Xiaoqian's deadly move instantly killed the Skeleton Knight, the commander of the Soul Calamity, Fang Han immediately heard a series of cold notification sounds that he had been waiting for a long time.
Your contracted Yin creature successfully killed the rare and ferocious Skeleton Knight, gaining 899 days of Yin Yuan Dao Xing. You also simultaneously gained 899 days of Yin Yuan Dao Xing.
Congratulations on obtaining the special mount, the Undead Warhorse, which can be summoned.
Congratulations on obtaining the Dark Cavern Entrance Ticket, a Breakthrough Token.
Congratulations on obtaining the Mystic-grade Netherworld Artifact, the Death Skeleton Scythe.
The Underworld Path warns: Because you slew the commander of the Undead Calamity Legion, your infamy has spread to the deeper levels of the Abyss Undead race. Currently, your hatred towards all Abyss Undead races has increased by thirty.
When the level of hatred reaches a certain point, you will face endless pursuit and killing by this race.
Your heroic deeds of dispelling darkness, suppressing chaos, and protecting the region have been perceived and recognized by some members of the Order faction, and your reputation has increased by thirty.
The moment the Skeleton Knight vanished completely, a series of notification sounds, like a screen being refreshed, exploded in his ears.
"Would you call this the legendary huge explosion?" Fang Han's eyes immediately lit up with undisguised excitement.
Besides the cultivation of 899 days, three things actually came out at once: one was the cool mount under the skeleton knight, another was the admission ticket related to the second realm of the underworld, and the third was a weapon that looked very impressive just by its aura.
Moreover, this skeleton knight is a genuine species from the second-realm vengeful spirit level underworld. The items that drop from its body, even if they are of the lowest grade, should at least be at the level of Xuan-grade underworld artifacts.
This was already proven when we killed the Undying Bone Fiend, who was also from the second realm.
What surprised Fang Han even more was the emergence of two new reputation systems after this massacre: "hatred value" and "reputation value".
This is very similar to the system of grinding reputation with a specific faction in some large-scale games.
He killed an important figure in the Undead Clan, which naturally forged an irreconcilable enmity with the entire clan, causing his hatred level to soar.
However, because of his fight against these chaotic and evil spirits, his actions were recognized by the ethereal "Order Faction" and he gained corresponding reputation.
Although it's not yet clear what tangible benefits these hatred and reputation points will bring, based on Fang Han's extensive gaming experience, these two items will definitely demonstrate great value in subsequent storylines or certain special events, and may even be exchanged for some unique Netherworld rewards.
After the Skeleton Knights, the core of the Scourge, completely perished, the seemingly endless invasion of the undead scourge naturally lost its leader and could no longer withstand its previous fearless offensive.
In an instant, the death rate of the undead skeletons that had been surging like a tide suddenly increased dramatically after the commander's soul fire was no longer there to empower and drive them.
At the same time, the seemingly endless sea of skulls began to recede rapidly, like a receding tide.
After the overwhelming gray aura of death finally dissipated, this calamity of the dead, which was enough to be recorded in the history of the entire First Realm Underworld, finally came to a temporary end with the victory of the defending side.
Kyushu Underworld War Zone Announcement: Congratulations to No. 13 Soul Town Village on the Road of Helplessness for successfully resisting the invasion of the Legion of the Undead Calamity and protecting the Soul-Suppressing Flame.
The city's defense is rewarded by the Underworld. All participating contracts will increase Yin Virtue by fifty points and Yin Yuan Dao Xing by ten years. The Soul Town Village will be officially upgraded from a village to a one-star town.
Fang Han, the envoy of the contract, slew the Skeleton Knight, the leader of the Undead Calamity Legion, amidst a vast army. His outstanding military achievements earned him an additional reward from the Underworld: 300 points of Yin Virtue, ten years of Yin Yuan Dao cultivation, and a Gold-level Soul Shrine.
Fang Han, the Contract Envoy who made the greatest contribution to this invasion of the calamity of the dead, was specially granted the title of "Great Xia Town Chief" after being assessed by the will of the Netherworld.
Underworld Notice: From now on, the No. 13 Naihe Road Newbie Village in the Kyushu Underworld War Zone has been officially renamed "Daxia Town", and the war zone chat group function for all Soul Town Villages in this war zone has been enabled.
Please take this as an example, continue your efforts, and strive to upgrade your village to the town level as soon as possible to unlock the chat function for this war zone.
When this series of grand and awe-inspiring announcements from the Netherworld resounded in the minds of all the contract envoys in the Nine Provinces Netherworld War Zone, almost all of the billions of contract envoys in the entire Nine Provinces War Zone were completely stunned by this series of increasingly explosive news, leaving their minds blank.
Of course, these internal announcements only apply to the Kyushu Underworld War Zone; people in other national war zones cannot see them.
Even so, the entire No. 13 Naihe Road beginner village—no, the newly born Daxia Town—has become the focus of attention throughout the entire Kyushu war zone and even the entire universe.
After all, the population base of the Kyushu war zone is a massive one billion.
In an instant, almost every newbie village in Kyushu that received the news began to discuss the legendary rise of Daxia Town and its mysterious and ridiculously powerful leader, Fang Han, like madmen.
As for the contract envoys of Daxia Town who had just won the battle to defend the city, they were all extremely excited at this moment, their heads held high and their faces full of pride.
Before they could even take a good look at the generous rewards they had received, they all rushed into the newly unlocked Kyushu War Zone chat group, which allowed them to speak across the entire war zone.
Once this group chat function, which is open to the entire war zone, is enabled, it means that everyone in Daxia Town can look down on the chat content of the "weaklings" in other newbie villages as a "senior expert".
And what they say can be seen by everyone in the newbie village through this war zone network, allowing them to provide "dimensional reduction" style guidance.
However, those novice villages that are still at the village level have no way to communicate on an equal footing with Daxia Town, which has already been upgraded to a town.
This feeling is maddening, filled with an unparalleled sense of superiority.
That's why the guys in Daxia Town, who had been holding back for so long, were so excited. They even put aside the huge benefits they had just gotten and rushed straight into the Kyushu War Zone. They started showing off and offering "senior guidance" to their fellow villagers who were still struggling for the second or even first round of leadership.
Of course, this does not include Fang Han, who single-handedly created this legend.
At this moment, his attention had long since shifted away from those silly netizens and was entirely focused on the "territory" he had just acquired and the unheard-of town chief authority.
After he received the title of town chief, a new option, shimmering with gold, naturally appeared on his personal secret contract file panel.
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