Chapter 415

Nai Nai Ge Li Si was quite confused when it heard "Undead Offering," because it couldn't connect a living person's life force fading away and dying with an Undead Offering.

An Undead Offering isn't for living people; what is offered is the soul.

An Undead Offering is a method for a living person to reincarnate as an undead creature; by offering one's own soul, one reincarnates as an undead while retaining the memories of their previous life. Lisha was the one who reincarnated as a lich through an Undead Offering.

This isn't some profound secret technique, it's just that the success rate is a bit low; many people reincarnate, but fail to retain their memories, or they retain their memories but their intelligence is a bit low.

But regardless, an Undead Offering doesn't require killing a living person. What is this cloud of smoke talking about?

"A necromancer?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si asked suspiciously.

"Eh? A dragon? So small? Is it stunted? Are you the one who ruined my Undead Offering? I thought it was some blind peer of mine." The smoke was also stunned for a moment, but soon it said viciously:

"A dragon is even better; its flesh and soul are both tougher than a human's. I'll just use your flesh and blood to offer to the God of the Undead."

Following its words, it was Ang's turn to be stunned, as a soul flame drifted from the smoke toward Ang.

Is this really a believer of the God of the Undead?

Ang waved his hand and swatted the soul flame away; he didn't want this soul flame. Otherwise, how could it be an equivalent exchange? Should he kill the human girl he just saved?

A look of hesitation appeared on the face of the smoke, and it muttered: "Eh, what's going on? Did the God of the Undead reject my offering? How is that possible? It must be an illusion, an illusion. There was never a reaction before, an illusion..."

The smoke comforted itself, then 'screamed' at Nai Nai Ge Li Si—a Soul Shock.

After it finished screaming, Nai Nai Ge Li Si picked at its ear and asked pretentiously: "Are you done? Didn't you eat? Your voice is so small."

"You're fine? Oh, right, a dragon's magic resistance is high. Then, accept the gnawing of the abyss!" Following the smoke's shout, countless tangible, visible wraiths surged out from the smoke, pouncing on Nai Nai Ge Li Si and gnawing frantically.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si sighed: "Is that it? Is that all? I thought I might run into some master of necromancy. You're just an apprentice, aren't you?"

It took out a clump of grave grass, waved it left and right, and those wraiths screamed and fled back into the smoke at an even faster speed.

"You..." The smoke realized the situation was a bit wrong.

It had originally thought it was some ignorant magic apprentice who was trying to be a hero and ruin its curse.

Only those magic apprentices who had just started would have their sense of justice explode and come to cause trouble; anyone else would know what was going on the moment they saw the curse.

So it came over wanting to scare the other party, and if they could exchange business cards, maybe they even knew its teacher. It didn't expect that upon arriving, it would be a stunted dragon.

Now, two spells had been cast, and both were ignored by the other party. What was going on?

Honestly, this necromancer's response was fine; using a Soul Scream to scare the other party away and using wraiths to bite them away were both intended for immediate expulsion. It was still preparing the Undead Offering, so it had no time to play around.

It just didn't expect that the brass dragon opposite would have no reaction at all. Could it be because the dragon's magic resistance was too high?

It seemed it couldn't scare the other party away, so it would have to bring its main body over for a proper necromancer duel.

The smoke glared viciously at the brass dragon and wanted to shrink back into the mouse hole, but as soon as its form moved, it discovered it could no longer move.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si sneered: "If you were more powerful, we might have the mood to play with you, but you're so weak that playing with you isn't even interesting."

Nai Nai Ge Li Si had originally wanted to see the necromancers of this world and compare how they differed from those in the main plane.

But looking at the two little spells the other party used, it was like a street-performing circus troupe—a waste of time.

Ang reached out toward the smoke, and with a hiss, the entire cloud of smoke was sucked into his palm, coalescing into a ball of soul fire.

That's why the other party was weak; Ang wasn't using his main body right now, he was just projecting himself. The soul of this current body was only at the level of a Soul Heart, but this necromancer already had no power to fight back in his hands.

The necromancer was also stunned. What was going on? Its consciousness was attached to the Mist of Death; it was reasonable for you to disperse the Mist of Death, but why was its consciousness also being extracted?

Isn't this the same as touching a tree, you cutting it down, and then your own head falling off? Is this something an ordinary person can do?

Even now, this necromancer still thought it had encountered an 'ordinary' necromancer.

Ang grabbed the necromancer's consciousness and left the house, following the sensation forward, and soon arrived in front of a high wall.

With such a high wall, it must be a noble's manor, separated from the slum where John lived by only one wall. No wonder it could cast the curse by following the Mist of Death.

Ang climbed the courtyard wall and peeked inside.

The little angel climbed the courtyard wall to peek inside, the little zombie climbed the courtyard wall to peek inside, and Nai Nai Ge Li Si flew up directly to peek inside. Before long, a row of heads appeared on the wall.

"Who..." It was indeed a noble's manor, and the defense was tight. Soon, Ang's group was discovered. A guard was just about to shout when a Gold-Touching Rod knocked him on the head.

The small Gold-Touching Rod knocked with the effect of a giant hammer; the guard went limp and fainted. A cloak emerged from nothingness and rolled out Du Luo Ken, who politely tipped his hat to the fainted guard to show his apology.

The guards behind the wall didn't even know when they had been taken down by him.

So why be polite? The row of heads on the wall flipped over in a rush.

Following the sensation, Ang soon found a tomb house in the corner.

Some noble families like to build family tombs in their own manors, and this house was the entrance to the tomb.

A row of skeletons hung in front of the door, originally sleeping with their heads bowed. Sensing movement, their empty eye sockets ignited with ghostly blue flames, and they raised their heads.

Du Luo Ken was just about to go over and knock them out, but he didn't expect that when these skeletons saw Ang, they hurriedly climbed down from the rack and stood straight.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si finally realized this anomaly, because it wasn't the first time it had happened. It couldn't help but say: "What's going on? The skeleton guards at the gate of Huangshanyeling were like this too, and these are the same. Do they recognize Ang's identity?"

That shouldn't be; Ang was just a projection, looking harmless to humans and animals, and not even as strong as Du Luo Ken's aura. Why were these skeletons not afraid of Du Luo Ken, but afraid of Ang?

And the necromancer didn't recognize him, and liches like Luokesi didn't recognize him, so why did these low-level skeletons recognize him?

Du Luo Ken thought for a moment and said: "It might be because these skeletons are ownerless and have no intelligence. When they see a soul stronger than them, they instinctively obey."

Ownerless undead roaming the wilderness have their own way of confirming rank, often more sensitive than other creatures.

It didn't make sense, and it couldn't be verified in a short time, so they could only put the question aside and walk into the tomb house one after another.

Once inside the tomb house, there was a wide staircase leading underground. The staircase was made so wide mainly to allow coffins to be carried directly inside.

At this moment, there were two human guards at the top of the stairs. They had just discovered Ang's group and hadn't had time to do anything before they were knocked out by the Gold-Touching Rod.

Ang's group entered the tomb without obstruction.

The layout of the tomb was the very common 'U' shape. Once down the stairs, it was the coffin-resting area, with a stone platform as high as a thigh for placing coffins for worship.

The other three sides of the coffin-resting area were the tomb itself, square pits chiseled out of the stone, just right for fitting a stone coffin. Now, these three walls were almost filled with stone coffins, with fewer than four empty spots left.

If four more people in this family died, they would have to expand the tomb.

On the stone platform where the coffins were originally placed, an old man's corpse was now lying. The corpse was wearing luxurious formal attire, and except for the face being a bit pale, it looked as if it were sleeping.

And beside the stone coffin, another person was slumped over; judging by the attire, it was a necromancer.

The rest of the people were at a loss, staring at the necromancer, not knowing what to do.

Originally, they were conducting an Undead Offering when the necromancer suddenly roared: "Not good, someone has ruined the sacrifice, I'll go take a look."

Then it spewed a cloud of smoke and went out. Not long after, the necromancer who had been standing suddenly shuddered and collapsed to the ground.

Everyone knew that an accident must have happened, but the matter was already beyond their understanding, and they couldn't guess what kind of accident it was. They could only stand there at a loss until Ang's group entered.

"Who are you?!" someone shouted loudly.

Ang looked around; those standing were all ordinary people, so he didn't pay them any mind and just released the soul fire in his hand.

The soul fire immediately turned into smoke and frantically pounced into the body of the necromancer who had collapsed on the ground.

The necromancer opened his eyes wide, looking at Ang with a face full of terror. On the way here after being grabbed, he might have already realized the gap between them, so he hurriedly flipped over and knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed to the ground, shivering.

Just by casually extracting his consciousness from his body, this kind of means had already exceeded the scope of magic.

The necromancer's actions made these people in the tomb misunderstand something; they gasped and knelt down one after another: "The... the Undead Council?"

"Ah? The Undead Council? Ah, sorry, sorry, I don't know anything, it has nothing to do with me."

The necromancer on the ground also stiffened all over. His actions had made the others misunderstand, but the "Undead Council" exclaimed by the others also made him suddenly realize.

That's right, how could anyone casually extract his consciousness? Only those old monsters of the Undead Council could do that.

"No, we are not from the Undead Council, we are just merchants here to sell vegetables," Nai Nai Ge Li Si said with a smile: "What are you doing here?"

Merchants selling vegetables? Believe that, and you'll believe anything. Everyone scrambled to explain.

The matter was simple: the head of the Laiyin family had died, the head who maintained the family's status and power had died, and he had died at a very bad time.

In order to reincarnate the family head, they decided to have the necromancer perform an Undead Offering, but this practice was illegal.

The Undead Empire had regulations prohibiting the use of artificial methods to offer and reincarnate as an undead creature.

"Ah? Why?" Nai Nai Ge Li Si was a bit confused. Isn't offering and reincarnating as an undead creature a good thing? Why would it be illegal?

The necromancer raised his head and looked at it with a strange expression. You're from the Undead Council and you don't know?

But since the lord had asked, did he dare not answer?

"Because some people will use living people to conduct various reincarnation and offering experiments, some people will use living people as sacrifices, and some people will slaughter living people to make the death aura thicker and make it easier to offer and reincarnate," the necromancer replied.

"So that's how it is. Have you heard of the Reincarnation Altar?" Du Luo Ken suddenly asked.

The necromancer looked confused and shook his head.

After asking a few more questions, which the necromancer answered very obediently, Du Luo Ken finally asked: "What is the punishment for violating the Council's ban?"

Everyone immediately fell silent, looking at each other in dismay, at a loss.

Only the necromancer looked ashen, and replied with a trembling voice: "Beat... beat to death."

Du Luo Ken nodded: "Then beat him to death, for the child who was cursed to death by you."

Ang nodded, the little zombie jumped over and hammered down with a fist.

After executing the necromancer, Nai Nai Ge Li Si then turned its attention to the corpse on the stone platform: "Risking the violation of the Council's ban, you still wanted to offer and reincarnate him, and you even mentioned a critical period. What critical period?"

The others were so scared their legs went soft, and they were trembling so much they couldn't speak. If the necromancer was so obedient and still had to die, would they also have to die after answering the questions?

But not responding wouldn't work either; the undead's methods could make life worse than death. After shivering for a while, someone said with a trembling voice:

"The Beifeng family of Beifeng City is going to leave as a whole clan and is preparing to sell the position of the City Lord of Beifeng City. Our Laiyin family wanted to bid, but we didn't expect the family head to suddenly die of heart failure. If we can't reincarnate the family head within ten days, we will lose the qualification to bid for the position of City Lord."

Nai Nai Ge Li Si was surprised: "Bid? Oh, right, the City Lords and town mayors here can be bought and sold. But isn't Beifeng City a main city directly under the Empire? Can the position of City Lord also be bought and sold?"

You're from the Council and you don't know? Everyone looked at it with strange expressions and had to reply:

"That's why we need the family head to reincarnate. Only families recognized in the city are qualified to bid for the position of City Lord, and only these big families have the ability to solve the city's problems in a short time."

Nai Nai Ge Li Si finally straightened out the context of the whole thing: "The Beifeng family is running away and wants to sell the position of City Lord. Only big families can solve the city's food, public security, order, and other problems, so they limited the candidates for competition. But your family head died at an inconvenient time, and in order to catch up with the bidding time, you didn't hesitate to violate the ban and use the forbidden Undead Offering to reincarnate your family head. Is that it?"

Everyone nodded.

Nai Nai Ge Li Si laughed out loud: "Then have you ever thought that the necromancer you hired might be very weak?"

The other party replied with a bitter smile: "What can we do if we know? It was already a forbidden thing. It was already very difficult to find someone who dared to violate the ban, so how could we care about what his level was?"

This was also a problem; a powerful necromancer probably wouldn't violate the Undead Council's ban for a family in a remote city.

Just as it wanted to ask something else, Yin Bi behind it suddenly clapped his hands and realized: "I understand. The road being cut off was probably done by some family that wanted to bid for the position of City Lord. They wanted to suppress the price and force them to surrender."

After speaking, Yin Bi turned to Ang and said: "My lord, why don't we go bid too? The profit is too big. We can earn a city by paying a little bit of cost. In the future, we won't have to worry about selling the vegetables we grow."