Chapter 65: The Empire

The carriage drove along the somewhat bumpy road, and Xu Jiujiu withdrew her gaze from outside the window. She leaned on Shu Yan's shoulder again, but she was still somewhat disappointed.

"A-Yan, actually, just as you said last time, in the near future, the continent is destined to usher in another storm of blood and rain."

"The Sun Moon Empire in the west is restless. The soul tool technology they possess is at least a thousand years ahead of our three original continental countries, and even until now, no true level 9 soul tool master has appeared on the side of the three original continental countries..."

"Whether it is the empire or Shrek Academy, the most powerful soul tool masters are all stuck at the level of eight and a half. But what about the Sun Moon Empire? They possess at least more than two hands' worth of level 9 soul tool masters. How terrifying is this on the battlefield? A level 9 soul tool master on a real battlefield brings a deterrent that is almost no less than a Super Douluo, because they are almost lethal to low-level soul masters and even ordinary soldiers..."

"Putting aside the Sun Moon Empire, whose ambitions are growing day by day, even if we only look at the interior of the empire, the corruption of the high-level officials and nobles has already embarked on the old path of the Heaven Dou Empire ten thousand years ago. But under this situation, it is impossible for the country to carry out large-scale reforms again. At first, my Imperial Brother placed his hope on Shrek Academy, but later my Imperial Brother changed his mind. If we could use the power of the whole country to cultivate a Limit Douluo with extreme attributes, wouldn't everything be able to change?"

Shu Yan shook his head and playfully pinched Xu Jiujiu's fair, delicate nose.

"Not very likely. Even according to the original idea, if I became an extreme attribute Limit Douluo, that would at most protect the empire for a hundred or two hundred years of stability. Not solving the problem at the root is absolutely a stupid thing."

"Don't think about these things anymore. Since those old things have lived enough, don't blame us for being ruthless."

"After I obtain my sixth soul ring, I will use the power of Elder Yi to eradicate them root and branch. As for the power of the factions they belong to, it would be good if they are willing to surrender, but if they are unwilling... the creatures in the Undead Half-Plane happen to need a batch of high-quality flesh and blood energy..."

Unfamiliar vocabulary appeared again, and the attention of Xu Jiujiu and the Snow Emperor's trio was instantly attracted.

"Good, you've inexplicably come up with some big thing again, and you're actually being mysterious and not telling us. Shu Yan, you really have grown bold..."

The Ice Emperor threw the snacks in her hand onto the table and said angrily.

Xu Jiujiu and the Snow Emperor also cast suspicious gazes over, seemingly waiting for Shu Yan's explanation.

Shu Yan looked at the inquiring or curious gazes on the three women's faces, and for a moment, he could not help but feel helpless.

Glancing at Luo Qinghan, who had already fallen into a state of deep meditation in the corner, Shu Yan casually said something in his spiritual sea, and after receiving a faint response, he said: "Forget it, you would have to be told sooner or later, so it doesn't matter if it's a little earlier."

"I have already briefly introduced Elder Yi to you before. Now, I will explain Elder Yi's abilities and the gifts he has given me again."

"In his own world, Elder Yi was already a powerhouse who had reached the limit. In other words, Elder Yi's strength was almost infinitely close to what is called a god. Becoming a god was not difficult for Elder Yi, and even if Elder Yi wanted to, he would be the well-deserved God of Death. But why Elder Yi was left with only a trace of divine consciousness and drifted to our Douluo plane, I cannot say much about the reason. This is Elder Yi's privacy, and we should respect it."

"With the help of the vast life energy of the Life Gold, Elder Yi's state has basically stabilized. He has also remembered many past events and began to slowly teach me his undead magic, which is completely different from the power system of the Douluo plane."

"And the Undead Half-Plane is even easier to understand. In this world, there are many, many planes. Each plane is a planet and also a main world. This involves some knowledge of space, which I cannot explain for the time being, but you only need to know that Elder Yi once used his powerful strength to create some relatively small worlds, which are the so-called half-planes."

"Through the soul imprint left by Elder Yi, I roughly tried some of the simplest undead magic, but to be honest, although Elder Yi gave me permission to enter and exit the Undead Half-Plane freely, I have never actually been in, and I don't know how many powerful undead creatures are inside..."

Shu Yan finished speaking in one breath, then looked at the three women who were already in shock. After waving his hand helplessly, he continued: "If you want, you can go in and take a look now. I can't grasp the essence of undead magic for the time being, but entering and exiting the Undead Half-Plane is still very simple with Elder Yi's permission."

The three women looked at each other, the astonishment in their eyes undisguised, but at the same time, a thick curiosity and eagerness to try came along. Finally, it was the Snow Emperor who spoke: "Let's wait until we settle down tonight. It's not very suitable here."

The Ice Emperor and Xu Jiujiu also nodded, agreeing with the Snow Emperor's view.

Shu Yan laughed dumbly, but did not refuse. He said softly: "With our speed, it won't be difficult to reach Xuanyu City before dark. We'll talk about it then..."

Time passed quickly. The originally bright sunlight had begun to slant westward. The blood-red sunset, combined with the endless fields, outlined a beautiful picture on the horizon in the distance. In such magnificent scenery, at the end of the distant fields, the pitch-black city walls finally appeared, and the flow of people returning late gradually came into view, which also indicated that everyone had finally arrived at tonight's resting place, Xuanyu City.

After paying the eternal city entry fee, the group finally successfully entered the city.

After Luo Qinghan woke up, several people casually found a large hotel to check in. After quietly finishing the dinner prepared by the hotel, they returned to their respective rooms.

As the night grew deeper, Shu Yan, who was sitting on the bed with his eyes closed, suddenly heard a crisp sound of the door opening.

Opening his eyes, Shu Yan looked at the three women standing in front of him and said with great emotion: "The three of you really have the same habit of not knocking when entering a room..."

The Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor raised their eyes and glanced at Shu Yan without saying anything, while Xu Jiujiu was completely confused. She had seen the Ice Emperor open the door and walk in directly out of familiarity, so she followed in... Looking at Shu Yan's words now, why does it feel like there are other stories between the three of them...

Of course, this was just an aside, and Shu Yan quickly returned to the main topic.

"Let me explain in advance: entering the Undead Half-Plane means that we will completely leave the original world. I am not sure what that world is like, so be mentally prepared in advance."

The three women nodded one after another. Seeing this, Shu Yan did not say anything more. He called out softly in his spiritual sea, and then, the soul imprint left by Electrolux in his spiritual sea erupted instantly. A chilling aura that made one's hair stand on end erupted suddenly from Shu Yan's body. A sense of dead silence suddenly permeated the hearts of the three women. Xu Jiujiu touched her own exposed, cold skin and could not help but gasp.

Accompanied by a soft boom, a pitch-black gate suddenly opened from behind Shu Yan. A cold wind carrying the aura of death rushed toward them. The various furnishings in the room were blown to sway, but the pitch-black gate and the chilling aura on Shu Yan's body were all well controlled, and not a single bit leaked out of this suite.

Shu Yan walked toward the pitch-black gate, which looked like a bottomless abyss, and said: "Come on, just follow my footsteps later."

The Snow Emperor did not say anything and followed Shu Yan's footsteps directly. The Ice Emperor looked at Xu Jiujiu on the side, hesitated for a moment, but still took the other's hand, and then took Xu Jiujiu to follow...

After a burst of weightlessness and dizziness, the four of them landed steadily.

The place where they landed was on the heights of a bare mountain range, so the scenery they could see was very vast and shocking.

This is a very dark world, with a strange black sun hanging high in the sky, emitting purple light full of weirdness and ominousness.

Looking out from the heights, there is not much vegetation on the mountains or the gentle slopes in the distance, which can be described as a scene of desolation. The cold wind blowing from nowhere is somewhat biting. Shu Yan pulled Xu Jiujiu to his side. This world has a great suppression on the light attribute. Although the Star Crown martial soul is a starlight attribute, it is somewhat related to the light attribute, so Xu Jiujiu still cannot escape the fate of being suppressed.

The Snow Emperor stood beside Shu Yan, her vast and boundless spiritual power spreading outward, and then she said with some surprise: "Although in your words this is just an incomplete plane, the vastness here is indeed beyond my imagination. However, except for the land that has already taken shape here, if you want to explore further outward or upward, you can only feel endless darkness and void..."

Shu Yan nodded and said: "Elder Yi created this place to study a kind of extremely powerful undead magic. For thousands of years, the undead creatures here have been constantly multiplying, and now they have reached a scale and strength that cannot be underestimated."

"Because of Elder Yi's existence, I can enter and exit the Undead Half-Plane freely, so you don't have to worry too much about my safety in the future. Once there is danger, I can enter here immediately. Even a Limit Douluo would absolutely not be able to capture this place. To put it bluntly, even if he captured it, he would absolutely not be able to enter here. This Undead Half-Plane is also an excellent protective means for me personally."

"In addition, I have already said before that Elder Yi gave me the authority to control the undead creatures in this world. This is what we should pay the most attention to. Until now, there have been thirteen types of undead creatures in this world."

"These thirteen types of undead creatures are different in race and strength, just like our human soul master system. The weakest existence has the largest number of races and the weakest individual strength, while the more powerful existence has fewer races and the strongest individual strength. It is no exaggeration to say that this is an undead army that completely obeys me. And even if I brought them to the continent, the powerhouses on the continent would absolutely not suspect me, but would focus more on those evil soul masters..."

The Ice Emperor clicked her tongue on the side and then said with some emotion:

"Don't say it, it really has a bit of the flavor of you evil soul masters... But that old man does have some means. Being able to create a small world with the body of a god, the terror of this means is unheard of..."

Xu Jiujiu pulled Shu Yan's sleeve, but she was not expressing her own emotion or opinion, but instead pointed her finger at a valley not far away. Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, she said with difficulty: "A-Yan, what are those?"

The three of Shu Yan looked in the direction Xu Jiujiu was pointing. In the pitch-black valley, a piece of scarlet light was flickering, and with a burst of messy footsteps, these creatures hidden in the darkness slowly appeared. This was clearly a group of the weakest bone skeletons in the Undead Half-Plane.

Seemingly smelling the scent of fresh flesh and blood, the soul fire in the eyes of these bone skeletons jumped more violently, but before they could continue to approach, a gray airflow appeared on Shu Yan's hand again. Then, seeing Shu Yan wave his hand, they were like being manipulated, turning around and retreating into the dark canyon.

"This is just a group of the most ordinary skeletons in the Undead Half-Plane. In fact, if you use spiritual power to sense, you will find that the combat power of these guys is about the same as an ordinary middle-aged man without soul power, belonging to the bottom of the combat power in this world. But they win because there are enough of them. According to Elder Yi, the number of these things can almost be said to be endless. Of course, this can only be said within the limit that the world can bear."

Shu Yan explained casually, not paying much attention to this group of undead creatures that were extremely eager for fresh flesh and blood, and instead took the three of them toward the distant mountain peak.

Walking on the nearly dark land, several people looked around, and except for the bone skeletons, they also found many other low-level undead creatures. These undead creatures were almost identical to the bone skeletons, belonging to the type with average individual strength but a huge number of races, but there would inevitably be some exceptions among them.

Looking at the giant bone skeleton over five meters tall below, Shu Yan sensed it briefly and then said:

"This should be the king among the bone skeletons in this area. If converted into the strength of a human soul master, it is about at the level of a Soul Emperor to Soul Sage."

The Ice Emperor on the side, after observing the bone skeleton king below who had been watching the group of people for a while, asked the doubt in her heart:

"Shu Yan, this Emperor is a bit curious, what level has the most powerful creature in this plane reached?"

"This..."

Shu Yan was also speechless for a moment. Honestly, this question from the Ice Emperor really made him not know how to answer for a while. After thinking for a while, he went to ask Electrolux in his spiritual sea, and then said:

"My understanding of the Undead Half-Plane is actually not deep. It is hard to say what level the most powerful creature here would be if converted to our Douluo plane. It may be at the Title Douluo realm, or it may have reached the Super Douluo level. This still requires me to have a deeper understanding before drawing a conclusion. After all, Elder Yi is still sleeping, and can only give me the simplest response through that soul imprint, and I can't say exactly what it is."

The Ice Emperor said "Oh" and did not continue to ask.

The Snow Emperor walked alone in the front. She stood in front of a cliff, looked at the scene in the distance, frowned slightly, and then turned back and said:

"But what is certain now is that there must be powerhouses comparable to the Title Douluo level in this small plane. You guys come over and take a look and you will know."

The four came to the Snow Emperor's side and looked in the direction of her gaze. For a moment, they could not help but be slightly stunned.

Below the cliff is an endless plain, and on the plain are white skeletons with blood-red soul fire flickering in their eyes. In the center of all the skeletons, several giant skeletons with colors clearly leaning toward deep dark gold are standing in the center, like absolute kings commanding all the white skeletons.

"When I used spiritual power to explore this world earlier, I felt several obscure and powerful auras in the deeper parts. Those few dark gold skeletons are also enough to be comparable to Title Douluo. A-Yan, try it, can you control them?"

The Snow Emperor said softly, while stretching out her finger to point at those few largest and most special dark gold skeletons.

Shu Yan was stunned, but did not refuse. He just said: "I'll try. The authority Elder Yi gave me is very comprehensive, but the time I have been in contact with it is too short, and my realization is not deep enough. It is really hard to say whether I can control the other party for the time being, but if Elder Yi wakes up completely, I think there will absolutely be no problem..."

The Snow Emperor gave a soft "um," and her gaze continued to look downward...

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 66 =====