Chapter 167: A New Secret Tactical Squad?

At this time, Long Aofei, who was at the military encampment on the Eastern Front, received a report of victory sent from the Northern Front.

Zhou Chu lived up to expectations and once again successfully resolved the crisis in the Nightmare Land.

Hearing this news made Long Aofei both surprised and delighted; at the same time, the heavy burden that had been weighing on his heart finally lifted, and his entire being felt a sense of relief.

This kid truly has some real skills; even he, the Grand Commander, could not have resolved that King-level Calamity.

Zhou Chu went there and cured the problem immediately; he is simply the bane of Calamities.

If no Soul Professional stronger than Zhou Chu appears in Shenxia in the next few years, then the future leader of the Exorcism Army will undoubtedly be him.

An army can only become stronger if it has a powerful leader.

Although Long Aofei is a Quasi-Seventh Rank powerhouse and the only Black Dragon Knight in the Shenxia Empire, the inability to refine a Life Soul Artifact remains the greatest obstacle limiting his breakthrough in his Soul Profession.

Thinking of this, Long Aofei could not help but feel irritable, and in the end, he could only feel endless helplessness.

He opened his palm, and a phantom formed by purple Soul Power slowly appeared, eventually becoming clear.

What appeared on his palm at this moment was actually a lifelike sculpture of a giant black dragon.

And this black dragon was the true form of his Life Soul Artifact.

To put it plainly, to successfully break through to the Seventh Rank, one must find a real Black Dragon Egg.

Then, one must use Soul Blood to refine the dragon egg and finally have the Black Dragon Egg hatch into a real black dragon to truly become a bona fide Black Dragon Knight.

However, wanting to find a Black Dragon Egg is almost an impossible task.

After all, Dragons are creatures that only appeared in the ancient era, and they have been extinct for at least ten thousand years.

Moreover, there are almost no definitive historical records regarding the existence of Dragons, and most have evolved into ancient Legendary tales.

Perhaps Dragons do not exist in this world at all and are merely things imagined by people.

But if there are no Dragons in this world, why would a Soul Profession related to Dragons appear?

Long Aofei has never given up searching, but decades have passed, and he has not even found a trace of a Dragon.

"Could it be that I am really destined to be stuck at the Quasi-Seventh Rank for my whole life?" Long Aofei muttered to himself, a flash of unwillingness in his eyes.

Just then, the adjutant walked into the tent again, immediately interrupting Long Aofei's train of thought.

"Grand Commander, I've found it. That cousin of Zhou Chu is named Zhou Li, and she is an Awakened one from Tianji City." After saying this, he placed a document in front of Long Aofei.

Long Aofei put away the black dragon phantom on his palm and opened the document to read it.

According to the information about Zhou Li recorded in this document, it seems there is no connection to Zhou Chu's family background.

In other words, Zhou Li is not a descendant of the Chu family, but just a child of an ordinary family with the surname Zhou.

It is just that this couple with the surname Zhou from Tianji City were not very strong Soul Professionals; they usually just made a living by taking on bounty missions at the Soul Professional Guild, and they passed away one after another several years ago.

But Zhou Li was not the biological child of this couple either; she was an abandoned baby the couple had picked up in the wilderness.

However, Zhou Chu's mother came from Tianji City, so perhaps this couple with the surname Zhou had some connection with the Chu family in the past.

This document was compiled and signed by the Military Department's Investigation Division, indicating that there are no issues with Zhou Li's identity.

Zhou Li is also a Social Unified Recruitment student for this year's Shenxia University, and she had excellent grades during her time at school; at the same time, she performed brilliantly in the Shenxia University Peak Elite Tournament, and her strength was recognized by the principal, Yu Dafu.

Such talent is inevitably a priority candidate for the Exorcism Army to recruit.

It seems that the new secret tactical squad of the future will have one more member.

As for the matter of establishing the secret tactical squad, it must be implemented as soon as the war on the Eastern Front is stabilized!

Long Aofei's eyes were bright, and his face was full of anticipation.

At a little past nine o'clock at night, Zhou Chu and Li Er boarded the special plane of the Exorcism Army Scout Team and returned to Shenxia University.

Lying on the bed, Zhou Chu probed his consciousness into his Life Soul Artifact again.

He heard the sound of crackling coming from the Secret Magic Research Institute from time to time.

It is so late, yet the Lich King is still buried in his research.

Entering the research institute, the Lich King held a welding torch and was constantly firing at the body of a huge fellow.

Seeing Zhou Chu enter, he hurriedly stopped his work, ran up a few steps, and said respectfully: "Welcome, my most respected Master!"

Zhou Chu saw that the Lich King at this moment was not in his previous skeletal form, but had changed into the appearance of the vampire aristocrat Edric.

Edric had originally been turned into pieces of flesh under Li Er's Ion Blade Storm.

But fortunately, after the Hero Tomb was upgraded to the Emperor Tomb, it could restore and fuse materials.

Therefore, in just two short hours, Edric's shattered body was restored to new.

Because Edric was only Lord-level, and Zhou Chu already had a King-level Vampire Queen, he threw the restored body of Edric into the material pile.

This was so that the Lich King could make use of it in his research.

Unexpectedly, the Lich King actually made this body into his new carrier, which could be considered not a waste.

I have to say, Pantos, having changed into a new skin, had expressions and movements quite similar to a vampire.

Aristocrats are inherently elegant and very gentlemanly.

After Pantos took it as his new carrier, every gesture he made was full of aristocratic style.

Zhou Chu took a look at the huge fellow in front of him; it was actually assembled from parts of those undead mechs.

This big guy looked more like a mech a few sizes larger.

Under Pantos's imaginative and superb craftsmanship, this mech was built with a sense of science fiction and mystery.

He did not expect the Lich King to also have the skills of a mechanic, which really surprised him.

"You actually have research in the field of mechanics as well?" Zhou Chu could not help but ask.

Pantos smiled elegantly, bowed slightly to Zhou Chu, and said: "Master, this is because my previous carrier was actually a mechanic of the Spirit Energy Clan."

"Therefore, I have completely inherited the life's learning of that mechanic."

"Then can you also inherit the abilities of that vampire?" Zhou Chu immediately asked again.

Pantos shook his head and corrected him: "Replying to Master, it is not inheriting all abilities, only a portion of the memories."

Zhou Chu realized.

If Pantos could inherit all the abilities of every vessel, wouldn't he be invincible?

But even if he could only inherit a portion of the memories, it was already quite impressive.

Zhou Chu had originally wanted to understand the research progress of the Death Secret Art, but Pantos said that researching secret arts was the most complex and tedious, and the most time-consuming and mentally draining.

Especially since it was a relatively obscure and unique secret manual like the Death Secret Art.