Chapter 114: Undying Curse

Awesome!

The Lich King provided a massive 2 million experience points, directly boosting Zhou Chu from level 16 to level 20!

After absorbing the entire Yiwang Zhidi, his Life Soul Artifact actually leveled up twice.

It jumped directly from B-Grade to S-Grade.

Not only was every effect greatly enhanced, but two new effects were added: King of All Witches and Undying Curse.

For a moment, Zhou Chu was nearly stunned!

It is worth mentioning that the Hero Tomb has been promoted to the Emperor Tomb.

From now on, Zhou Chu will be able to contract King-level contract servants.

However, this also shows that among the Calamity Forces, once the King-level is reached, there is no longer a separate letter-based grading system.

What surprised Zhou Chu even more was that after his Life Soul Artifact advanced to S-Grade, a refineable entry appeared.

If the Life Soul Artifact is refined, it will become a Soul Artifact with a physical form.

A Soul Artifact is like equipment, and it is equipment that can have its grade improved.

However, Zhou Chu's Life Soul Artifact is a Divine Artifact-level Soul Artifact; refining it to the highest Divine Artifact level is no small feat.

As far as Zhou Chu knows, refining a Divine Artifact requires not only the investment of huge resources but also the constant injection of his own Soul Blood into the Life Soul Artifact.

So-called Soul Blood is the blood of a Soul Professional.

Soul Blood contains unique Soul Power energy, which can increase the refining speed of a Soul Artifact while simultaneously causing it to transform into its refined form.

The higher the grade of the Life Soul Artifact, the more resources it requires, and the more Soul Blood it needs.

If the Soul Professional's own strength cannot keep up with the refining speed of the Soul Artifact, there is a high risk of their Soul Blood being drained dry by the Life Soul Artifact.

However, such situations are relatively rare; in most cases, the refining speed of a Life Soul Artifact is extremely slow.

Zhou Chu has truly witnessed the strength of a Soul Professional after they have refined their Life Soul Artifact.

Lei Jianting's Mountain Splitting Giant Axe is the best example.

During their duel, Zhou Chu could clearly feel the strength of Lei Jianting after being bolstered by his Life Soul Artifact.

If he hadn't had the soul fusion of a Divine-level servant within him, it would have been very difficult to defeat his opponent.

At this moment, Zhou Chu's heart suddenly became somewhat hesitant.

He did not know what form his Life Soul Artifact would awaken into after the first successful refinement.

Because generally speaking, the first refinement of a Life Soul Artifact often awakens its form.

And Zhou Chu's Life Soul Artifact is actually a coffin.

Even after the refinement is complete, there is a high probability that it will still be a coffin.

Running around all day carrying a coffin—wouldn't that be a bit too eye-catching?

Zhou Chu had heard Pantos say that his Life Soul Artifact is called "Dead Man's Divine Domain."

But he had never seen what this "Dead Man's Divine Domain" actually looked like.

Perhaps in the future, he could learn something about "Dead Man's Divine Domain" from Pantos's mouth.

However, what puzzles Zhou Chu is that his Life Soul Artifact does not seem to require any resources, nor does it require any so-called Soul Blood.

Instead, it requires accumulating 1000 Soul Points to complete the refinement.

As for how to collect Soul Points, Zhou Chu feels it should be related to the newly appeared effect, "Undying Curse."

As for what counts as effective collection, Zhou Chu will have to conduct experiments to find out.

After killing Pantos, only a trace of his remnant soul remained in the Emperor Tomb.

And for Pantos to resurrect, it will take another 24 hours.

Since he had subdued the Lich King, this Nightmare-level Copy should have triggered a completion prompt.

But Zhou Chu had been standing here for a full two minutes and still hadn't received any prompts.

Could it be that there is something else hidden in this hidden Copy?

Zhou Chu's gaze inadvertently fell upon the large mausoleum before him.

The heavy aura of death that had previously permeated from within had now dissipated without a trace due to the Lich King's defeat.

Zhou Chu thought for a moment, then stepped toward the mausoleum.

Just as he stepped through the gates of the mausoleum, the torches on both walls suddenly ignited.

The green firelight illuminated the interior of the mausoleum, making everything here appear even more eerie and terrifying.

He saw that inside the entire mausoleum, more than a dozen stone coffins were neatly arranged.

Various severed limbs and broken arms were placed on top of the stone coffins; these limbs looked long-dried and decayed, emitting a stale, putrid odor, as if they had been sitting here for countless years.

Zhou Chu slowly entered the mausoleum, walking alone past these stone coffins.

He discovered that the lids of these stone coffins were all closed, and at the same time, each stone coffin was shrouded in a black aura of death.

Scrape... scrape... scrape...

At this moment, Zhou Chu's ears keenly captured the sound of stone rubbing against stone.

He immediately stopped in his tracks, only to see the lid of a stone coffin not far away already being pushed open by a pale, bony hand from within.

Immediately following, a mummy wearing robes with shriveled skin all over its body sat up from the stone coffin, flickering, ghostly green light shining in its hollow eye sockets, as it turned its head slightly to look toward Zhou Chu.

The next moment, all the stone coffins made sounds; every lid was pushed open, and mummy after mummy sat up from within.

Then, these dozen or so mummies all crawled out of their stone coffins, came neatly and uniformly before Zhou Chu, and then all knelt at his feet.

These undead creatures before him are known as Liches, all of them the masterpieces of Lich King Pantos.

At this moment, they seemed to sense the arrival of the Lich King, as if summoned, all waking from their slumbering stone coffins.

Under the suppression of the King of All Witches effect, they identified Zhou Chu as their king.

Zhou Chu looked at these Liches kowtowing before him, suddenly thought of something, and with a movement of his mind, cast an Undying Curse on one of the Liches.

【You have used the Undying Curse on the Lich! The Lich's Soul Fire will be tormented by the "Tongku Zhuzhou" until the soul burns out!】

The next moment, the Lich upon whom Zhou Chu had cast the Undying Curse began to tremble incessantly, its shriveled skin peeling away to reveal the ghastly white bones beneath.

In its hollow eye sockets, the originally dim green light now flickered unsteadily, as if it were enduring immense agony.

The other Liches nearby saw this scene, and intense fear flashed through their eyes.

They dared not make the slightest move, remaining respectfully on their knees where they were, watching Zhou Chu with eyes full of awe and terror.

The cursed Lich was now trembling even more violently, its skeleton beginning to emit "crack, crack" sounds, as if it might fall apart at any moment.

The bones that had been neatly arranged on its body were now somewhat disordered, and some even detached from its frame, falling to the ground and shattering into several pieces.

Finally, with a "puff" sound, its entire body collapsed to the ground, turning into a pile of scattered white bones and a few wisps of black mist that had yet to dissipate.

【Soul Point +1】

After this Lich was tormented to death by the curse, Zhou Chu successfully collected one Soul Point.

Since the Liches before him were all test subjects of Pantos, Zhou Chu did not mind using them as his own test subjects.

Thus, he cast another Undying Curse on a trembling Lich in front of him.

【You have used the Undying Curse on the Lich! The Lich's Soul Fire will be tormented by the "Chaos Curse" until the soul descends into madness!】