Chapter 96: Lone Charge into the Skeleton Sea, Andrew Grandpa, You Idiot!

Inside the dark dungeon.

Su Hao walked to the place where the white wolf's corpse had been; during the time he was frozen in ice, the white wolf's corpse had already been fully refined.

At this moment, the white wolf's corpse had disappeared, and on the ground appeared a white ice block, twenty to thirty drops of jelly-like azure blood, and a piece of white wolf fur.

That ice block was only the size of a fist, emitting a freezing chill that condensed the moisture in the surrounding air into a layer of frost on the ground.

【Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's Ice Crystal】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

Effect: If consumed by a demon race, it can comprehensively enhance physique and spiritual power, increase affinity for the ice element, and there is a very small chance to gain the passive skill — Ice Wolf Swiftness.

……

"Ice Wolf Swiftness... this could be given to Da Xiong Mao to use."

Although I still don't know the specific effects of the Ice Wolf Swiftness skill.

But from the skill's name, combined with the white wolf's earlier performance, this is likely a skill that lets the user possess the white wolf's inhuman speed.

Da Xiong Mao has the Divine Beast Physique talent and the Food Supplement skill, so its physique is destined to far surpass others of the same rank.

The stronger the physique, the greater the strength, the higher the bodily toughness, and the faster the speed.

If Da Xiong Mao could obtain the Ice Wolf Swiftness passive skill and gain the white wolf's supernatural speed, its speed would instantly jump several levels! But if, after consuming this ice crystal, it fails to gain that passive skill, the effect would be much worse.

"So, let's wait until we have suitable materials, then synthesize it and give it to Da Xiong Mao to eat!"

Su Hao nodded, stored the ice crystal in his Storage Bag, and looked at the twenty to thirty drops of blood beside him.

These blood drops, just like that ice crystal, emit a freezing chill that turns the moisture in the surrounding air into tiny ice crystals that fall to the ground.

【Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's Blood】

Supernatural Grade: First Rank

Effect: Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's Blood contains the power of frost; after consumption, there is a very small chance to increase ice-element affinity.

……

"Being able to increase ice-element affinity is not bad!"

The higher the affinity for an element, the more it reduces damage from that element's skills, and when one uses that element's skills, they can exert a stronger effect.

So, even if Su Hao lacks ice-element skills, these Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's blood drops still have a significant effect on him.

Moreover, because he is a blood-flesh controller, each different blood can give Su Hao a completely new boost to physique and spiritual power.

Furthermore, Su Hao still has the Synthesis Heart in hand; synthesizing these First-Rank blood drops will surely improve the chance and extent of ice-element enhancement!

For Su Hao, the value of these blood drops is in no way inferior to that of a Second-Rank Supernatural Grade ice crystal, and may even be somewhat higher.

"One… two… three… forty-three, not bad, not bad, I didn't expect there to be so many."

Su Hao counted them and found there were a full forty-three drops of blood, enough for fourteen syntheses; if successful, they could be synthesized into Third-Rank blood!

After storing the forty-three drops of Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's blood in his Storage Bag, only a piece of white wolf fur remained on the ground.

This fur is completely intact, without a single tear, as if it were the pelt obtained after dissolving and pouring out the white wolf's flesh and bones.

【Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's Fur】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

Effect: Through Item Refining Technique, a complete fur obtained from the corpse of an Extreme Cold Ice Wolf.

After forging this fur into armor, there is a certain chance to gain some of the Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's abilities from its lifetime.

……

"Part of its lifetime abilities? Does that mean that after making this fur into armor, one could still possess that white wolf's supernatural speed?"

Su Hao lightly tapped his fingers, revealing a hint of joy.

In that earlier battle, the white wolf's supernatural speed left a deep impression on Su Hao; if he could also gain that speed, his combat power would definitely increase significantly.

While running at high speed, continuously launching bloody missiles and summoning scarlet tentacles.

Finally, leveraging the momentum from high-speed movement plus the Gravity Rock Axe's fifty-ton gravity, he would unleash a full-force axe strike; such a heavy blow would definitely be unstoppable by any Second-Rank Supernatural being!

To achieve these things, the method is also simple: just make the Extreme Cold Ice Wolf's fur into a piece of clothing to wear.

"Hmm..."

"If I use a better piece of armor for synthesis, perhaps the chance to gain the white wolf's supernatural speed will be even greater!"

Su Hao gave a faint smile and stored the white fur in his Storage Bag.

Now he only has ordinary clothes on; if he combined this fur with ordinary clothing, it would probably be difficult to obtain the white wolf's supernatural speed.

So, Su Hao plans to find suitable synthesis armor during this period, then use it for synthesis.

Afterward, Su Hao checked the surroundings, confirmed nothing was missed, picked up the heart fragments on the ground, took out Andrew Grandpa's bone fragments, and set off again following the direction indicated by the bone fragments.

……

After Su Hao ran at full speed for two or three hours, a faint green light point appeared in the dark plain.

"That should be the place."

After confirming again the direction indicated by the bone fragments, a hint of joy appeared on Su Hao's face.

"Andrew Grandpa, I'm here!" As the saying goes, 'gazing at the mountain runs the horse to death,' Su Hao actually spent over half an hour before reaching the area where that light point was located.

It was a vast graveyard; on it stood countless tombstones, each at least floating with a cluster of green ghost fire.

The light point Su Hao first saw was precisely the glow emitted by these ghost fires.

Near these tombstones, there was also a solitary skeleton monster wandering about.

Most of these skeleton monsters are ordinary undead creatures below First Rank; the soul fire in their heads is extremely weak, as if a breeze would extinguish it.

However, a small portion of the skeleton monsters have blue soul fire burning in their heads, making them First-Rank Supernatural undead monsters.

Among these First-Rank skeleton monsters, a few individually are wearing silver-white armor and wielding giant swords, making them Second-Rank Undead Knights.

Whether ordinary skeleton monsters or First-Rank ones, they pose little threat to Su Hao.

But they can't withstand their numbers; looking around, this graveyard is filled with skeleton monsters everywhere, with no end in sight.

Moreover, among these skeleton monsters there are some Transcendent Second Rank Undead Knights.

If one rashly rushes into this graveyard and is besieged by these skeleton monsters, even if Su Hao won't die instantly, escaping would not be simple.

So taking Andrew Grandpa's skull should be done slowly.

The best method is to first, from a distance, use Blood Missiles to harass and eliminate some ordinary and First Rank skeleton monsters.

At the same time, using the crimson blood left after the Blood Missiles explode to set up the area.

Once the outer area is covered with crimson blood, then go in and slowly search for Andrew Grandpa's skull; that will be much safer.

However, Su Hao had just finished his plan when he hadn't even started acting.

The bone fragment that had been floating before him, responsible for guiding the way, suddenly sped up, flew forward, passing through skeleton after skeleton, and entered an inconspicuous tombstone.

The next moment.

All the skeleton monsters and Undead Knights in the graveyard had the soul fire in their heads flicker simultaneously, then turned their heads in unison to look at Su Hao outside the graveyard.

"Holy shit! Andrew Grandpa, you idiot!"

Su Hao cursed silently, threw the heart fragment from his pocket onto the ground, took out the Gravity Rock Axe, and sprinted toward that tomb. Originally his plan was to harass a bit, then flee, wait to shake off the skeleton monsters' pursuit, then come back to trade blows.

But now, all the skeleton monsters in the graveyard have noticed him—what's the point of trading blows? Fortunately, that tomb isn't far from Su Hao, and there's still some room to maneuver.

Su Hao controlled the Blood Magic Book, which floated to his left side.

As spiritual power from his soul and qi and blood from his body flowed in, the Blood Magic Book automatically opened, and on two blank pages a blood-red water-drop-shaped rune appeared simultaneously.

"Blood Missile!"

Immediately after.

Twenty blood-red missiles appeared above the Blood Magic Book and shot toward the surrounding skeleton monsters.

When a Blood Missile hits an ordinary skeleton monster, it triggers a violent explosion that blows half of its body into fragments, and the soul fire in its head also goes out.

Crimson blood spurted out, dyeing the remaining half of the skeleton monster's body and the surrounding ground red.

Compared to ordinary skeleton monsters, First Rank ones fare better: their bones are harder and their soul fire more stable.

A single Blood Missile striking them usually only shatters part of their body, dimming their soul fire somewhat.

No matter what, these are First Rank monsters; hoping to kill one with a single Blood Missile is unrealistic.

You need at least two or three shots! But the skeleton monsters in this graveyard are far too many to count, like an ocean of white bones.

Even if Blood Missiles can be fired instantly with almost no interval, Su Hao still needs time to turn his spiritual power, circulate his qi and blood, and aim.

Not to mention firing two or three shots at a single skeleton monster; even if Su Hao now, without any aim, launches indiscriminate attacks at all the surrounding skeleton monsters,

it merely slows their encirclement a little; if he doesn't increase the offense, being surrounded by these skeleton monsters is only a matter of time.

By then, when the distant Undead Knights join the fight, not only will digging out Andrew Grandpa's skull be impossible, Su Hao might not even reach that tomb.

To avoid that, after firing two rounds of Blood Missiles, Su Hao changed tactics, lowering their flight trajectory.

He aimed all the Blood Missiles at the lower half of the skeleton monsters.

Since I can't kill you instantly, I'll cripple you! Anyway, my goal this time is just to get Andrew Grandpa's skull; as for you skeleton monsters, I'll settle the score after I advance.

After changing his battle strategy, the effectiveness of the Blood Missile attacks clearly improved a lot.

Although destroying the lower half of a skeleton monster doesn't inflict effective damage—even a First Rank's soul fire doesn't even wobble—

but when a Blood Missile hits their lower half, the explosion can break one or two of their thigh bones, whether they are ordinary or First Rank skeleton monsters.

Without thigh bones, they lose the ability to walk; they can only crawl, which effectively hinders the skeleton monsters' encirclement.

Moreover, when they fall, they become obstacles, making it harder for the skeleton monsters behind to approach.

However, the number of skeleton monsters is truly overwhelming; even if Su Hao keeps firing Blood Missiles, many still slip through and rush up to him.

"Hmph, did I let you come over?!"

Su Hao snorted coldly; he now possesses a One Body Two Souls state, enabling him to multitask.

When the surrounding skeleton monsters approached, Su Hao swung his Gravity Rock Axe, controlling its weight, and cleaved all who came near, sending them flying with a single blow.

Pale bone fragments flew out; every skeleton monster within the attack range had its body split apart, collapsing to the ground, unable to advance further.

They swayed the soul fire in their skulls, staring fixedly at Su Hao, but could not launch further attacks, forced instead to become obstacles for the skeleton monsters behind.

At the same time, the Blood Magic Book automatically turned a page, and on the blank page a blood-red tentacle-shaped rune appeared.

"Crimson Touch!"

The next moment.

Around Su Hao on the ground, more than ten crimson tentacles, each about thirty centimeters in diameter and over three meters long, extended from the blood left after the Blood Missiles exploded.

They swept indiscriminately at the surrounding skeleton monsters.

The power of Crimson Touch far exceeds that of Blood Missile.

A single swipe of these crimson tentacles instantly shatters half the body of any skeleton monster, ordinary or First Rank, leaving it unable to fight.

But that wasn't all; after summoning these crimson tentacles, another blank page of the Blood Magic Book displayed a blood-red flame-shaped rune.

"Blood Flame Technique!"

Immediately after.

The crimson tentacles and the crimson blood on the ground ignited, producing blood-red flames eighty to ninety centimeters high that set the surrounding skeleton monsters' bodies ablaze.

Even though these skeleton monsters are bloodless undead creatures, with the crimson blood as a medium, these Blood Flames can still emit scorching heat, inflicting considerable damage on them.

Especially, when the crimson tentacles strike, if lucky, the Blood Flame on them will land on a skeleton monster's skull, igniting its soul.

For most undead creatures, fire already causes extra damage, and the soul is their greatest weakness.

Once the Blood Flame lands on their soul, it becomes a deadly situation.

As Blood Flame and Crimson Touch joined the battle, the death rate of the surrounding skeleton monsters clearly increased significantly.

Thus, Su Hao continually uses Blood Missiles to break the skeleton monsters' legs, lays down crimson blood around, then uses that blood as a medium to summon crimson tentacles and unleash Blood Flame Technique.

Gradually, the places Su Hao passed through became filled with scarlet tentacles, forming a passage that made it difficult for skeleton monsters to approach.

Inside and outside this passage, there was also a vast sea of fire formed by blood flames, burning all skeleton monsters that dared to approach.

As more and more skeleton monsters fell under the triple attack of blood flames, scarlet tentacles, and bloody missiles, two skeleton walls gradually formed outside the passage, each over one meter high and tens of meters wide, making it increasingly difficult for distant skeletons to approach.

It was like a traffic jam on a highway; the road ahead was blocked, so even the distant undead knights found it hard to approach for a while, and could only watch helplessly as Su Hao continually approached Andelu Grandpa's grave.

The numerical advantage of the sea of skeletons was thus turned into a disadvantage by Su Hao alone! "Hahaha! The sea of skeletons, that's all!"

Watching the distant skeletons gradually come to a halt, Su Hao let out a long laugh and casually swept up the bows, arrows, and longbows dropped by the surrounding skeleton monsters into his Storage Bag.

There are some First-Tier Supernatural Items here, after all—can't let them go to waste.

Afterward, Su Hao waved the Gravity Rock Axe in his hand, shattering the skeleton monsters ahead, and continued forward; before long, he arrived in front of Andelu Grandpa's tomb.

"Give me..."

"Open!"

Su Hao let out a loud shout, gripping the Gravity Rock Axe with both hands, tilted his body and spun around, then heavily brought the axe down onto the tomb.

Andelu Grandpa was, in life, a Sixth-Rank Necromancer; the skeleton he left behind after death is naturally not soft, so it's impossible to just split it like that.

Therefore, the most effective way to open the grave is naturally to split the entire tomb.

Boom! Accompanied by a deep, muffled roar, the soil above the tomb, mixed with bits of wood chips, flew outward in all directions.

With that swing of the axe, Andelu Grandpa's tomb was split open by Su Hao into a huge pit.

At the bottom of this pit lay a wooden coffin smashed more than half, inside which lay a pallid humanoid skeleton.

On this skeleton's finger, there was also a broken bone emitting a faint white light—the very shard of bone that had guided Su Hao all the way here.

"Andelu Grandpa, I've finally found you!"

Su Hao swept his hand, storing the skeleton inside the coffin into his Storage Bag, and then prepared to leave.

Although these undead are now hard to approach, after all there are tens of thousands of Wangling Hai, and no one can guarantee that there won't be any other dangers.

"Roar!"

But just then, deep within this graveyard, a dragon's roar suddenly rang out.

(End of chapter)