Chapter 130: Late‑Stage King Advancement!

While conquering Africa, thanks to the effect of the Lord Lion, Chen Mo's transcendence level naturally advanced to the late King stage.

Unfortunately, as Chen Mo had guessed, once the liquid spiritual energy in his body reaches 99,999 Dao, it can no longer increase.

As a blue‑quality title, the Lord Lion can at most raise his transcendence level to the limit of the King realm.

To ascend to the Cataclysm realm, the Lord Lion must be upgraded to purple quality.

After advancing to the late King stage, the panel reward is three Dual‑Line Self‑Discipline Cards.

Chen Mo uses a Dual‑Line Self‑Discipline Card, directly unlocking the Undead Law Lion's self‑discipline challenge.

The Undead Law Lion's self‑discipline challenge requires two conditions.

1. Research undead creatures for five hours each day, for three months.

2. Accumulate research on 30 different undead species within the three months.

The quantity of undead creatures is not urgent.

Earlier, the Ice Lion Legion had brought back many undead creatures from Egypt, and in this campaign they joined the battle as a mini undead legion.

War always brings death, and rotting flesh and the aura of death are the undead's favorite, granting them massive growth.

Soon, Chen Mo arrived at the location of the undead legion.

Although called a legion of undead, it now contains fewer than thirty undead creatures.

The current undead are mainly divided into three types.

Skeleton spirits that appear as skeletons, undead that exist as lingering souls, and creatures such as ghost‑eye spiders and death‑cawing birds.

Sensing Chen Mo's aura, the undead trembled, and a skeletal bone dog frantically dug the ground, trying to make a pit to bury itself.

Seeing this, Chen Mo inexplicably found the little skeleton rather amusing.

"I just don't know what counts as research? Observing its feeding method should count, right?"

After thinking, Chen Mo approached the skeletal bone dog.

It is an extremely gluttonous skeletal bone dog, fond of eating rotting flesh.

Chen Mo had Xiong Ba feed the skeletal bone dog a bite of rotting flesh.

In an instant, the skeletal bone dog that was about to bury itself stopped, the pale soul‑fire in its eye sockets flared dramatically, and it lunged at the rotting flesh, swallowing it in one bite.

Because it consists only of a bone frame, Chen Mo could clearly see that the rotting flesh, once swallowed, did not fall to the ground.

Instead, under the influence of undead energy, it further rotted at an astonishing speed, its embedded death aura converting into gray‑black undead energy that was swiftly absorbed by the skeletal bone dog's soul‑fire.

Chen Mo glanced at the skeletal bone dog's panel stats; its overall combat power increased slightly.

The vast majority of undead can strengthen themselves by eating rotting flesh, and because their soul‑fire does not extinguish, they can revive.

They are essentially the perfect troop type.

Chen Mo checked the self‑discipline panel and saw the Undead Law Lion's challenge progress bar had risen a little.

It increased by five minutes.

Indeed, observation counts as a form of research.

Thus this self‑discipline challenge is similar to the Observation Lion, and its difficulty is not high.

However, after using a Super Self‑Discipline Card, he must observe undead creatures for ten hours each day, for 45 consecutive days! That's a huge waste of time.

After a brief thought, Chen Mo conceived a possible bug‑exploiting method.

So, he slightly released a trace of his own imposing pressure.

He gently tapped the skeletal bone dog with his claw.

In an instant, the overwhelming force caused all its bones to scatter on the ground, yet the soul‑fire in its eye sockets did not extinguish.

Guided by the soul‑fire, the scattered bones began to converge at a slow pace.

Testing how long it takes a low‑tier skeletal dog to reassemble after total disintegration should also count as research, right?

Chen Mo stopped concerning himself with it, closed his eyes, and began practicing the Suanni Meditation Technique.

Countless flowing glows appeared on its body, and behind it manifested a Suanni illusory shadow strikingly similar to it.

The Suanni Meditation Technique was created by Chen Mo's ancestor—the original Suanni itself—and works by visualizing oneself to elevate and condense spirit.

About three hours later.

The white giant lion slowly opened its eyes, and Chen Mo felt his spirit full, his soul attribute increasing by over twenty points.

Although it cannot compare with his current soul attribute, it can keep improving.

In front of him, the skeletal bone dog had just gathered its bones, completing a "revival".

Only the soul‑fire was slightly dimmer than before, a bit weak.

Sensing the Suanni's gaze, its whole skeleton trembled, refusing to move.

Chen Mo somehow read a "pitiful" expression from the pile of bone frames.

He glanced at the Undead Law Lion's self‑discipline challenge and saw the progress bar jump a large segment, now nearing one‑third! Indeed, it works!

"I'll have to wrong you a bit, but I'll compensate you later."

Chen Mo thought to himself, then released his imposing pressure again, disassembling the skeletal bone dog that had just reassembled.

This time, Chen Mo began practicing the Suanni Tempering Body Technique.

This method can stimulate the power in his bloodline, continuously strengthening his physical condition.

With the aid of the Taotie Lion, Chen Mo's strength, speed, and constitution are the strongest of his tier.

If he can hone the Suanni Tempering Body Technique to its limit, he will be able to be invincible in the King realm using only his physical strength!

About four hours later, the little skeletal dog finally completed its bone reconstruction with difficulty.

Compared to before, the soul‑fire in its eye sockets dimmed a bit more.

If this continues, after three or four more times its soul‑fire may be completely extinguished.

When the soul‑fire goes out, it means its life reaches a final end.

Thus, at the moment of completing the reorganization, it didn't say a word, directly started digging a pit, wanting to bury itself.

Among all undead creatures, this skeleton bone dog is considered relatively intelligent.

Chen Mo glanced at the self-discipline panel, but found that the progress bar had not increased.

"Because I have already researched it before, so it shouldn't count as research time, right?"

"In that case, if I raise the skeleton dog's extraordinary level and then conduct research, it should work."

Chen Mo thought.

Testing the "revival time" of the low-level extraordinary skeleton bone dog also counts as research, so the revival time of the medium-level and high-level extraordinary skeleton bone dogs naturally counts as well.

Thus, he took out more than ten seeds of the Netherworld Tree fruit from his backpack and casually released a Greater Spirit Rain technique.

Under the effect of the True Spirit Nine Transformations, the spiritual qi inside his body quickly transformed into death-attribute spiritual power, then turned into a gray-black heavy rain that fell.

These Netherworld Tree fruits sprouted and grew in the blink of an eye, their growth as if a speed button had been pressed.

They took root, grew branches and trunks, flowered and bore fruit. (End of chapter)