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Zhao Hongzhong, transformed into the Thunder God, quickly collapsed in the face of the Ghost General's charge, lasting barely a second.

The war spear, entwined with Yin Wind and Nether Fire, pierced through his body, and his powerful Divine Soul was rapidly eroded. A painful howl escaped Zhao Hongzhong's lips.

The other Corpse Kings, who accompanied Zhao Hongzhong in the beheading array, were even less able to withstand it. Their extraordinary abilities faltered before the Ghost General's charge; the iron cavalry from the Netherworld shattered their decaying bodies, and their broken Divine Souls were easily detained.

In the agony of his soul's erosion, Zhao Hongzhong shouted loudly:

"I am willing to surrender! I am willing to surrender!"

However, the Ghost Generals were unmoved. Until Lu Yan issued a new order, Zhao Hongzhong's pleas could not influence their execution of commands.

As the last spark of thunder extinguished on Zhao Hongzhong's body, his nearly shattered Golden Core Divine Soul was forcibly separated from his body, and the Yin Horse crushed Zhao Hongzhong's body into a pulp.

With just a charge using the Netherworld army's formation, six Early Stage Golden Core cultivators perished.

If placed in the Demon God version, these were six Nether Abyss Realm powerhouses.

Back then, a single Nether Abyss Realm entity of the Skydome God had left Lu Yan with no escape, and before six Nether Abyss Realm powerhouses, Lu Yan wouldn't even have a chance to resist. Any one could easily crush Lu Yan with just one hand.

But in this apocalypse version, the power level restrictions limited them to only the Early Stage of Golden Core, while Lu Yan could continue refining the Soul Banner using the zombie-laden world.

It was this ever-changing dynamic that created the current situation.

With all six Early Stage Golden Core powerhouses fallen, the coalition of Transcendents and zombies instantly crumbled.

One by one, powerful Transcendents frantically fled into the distance, leaving millions of zombies to shield them from the pursuit of the Netherworld army.

Lu Yan smiled calmly, thinking it's as easy to come as it is to leave? In this world, nothing is that simple.

"It's your turn now."

As Lu Yan's words fell, from the rift connecting to the Soul Continent, the Skydome God, clad in a Profound Robe etched with gold and silver patterns, stepped into reality.

"Ghost God Array!"

The command resounded among the Netherworld army, and in an instant, six thousand Yin Soldiers and six hundred Ghost Generals began to transform into a military array.

The prototype of the Ghost God Array was recorded in Lu Yan's tome "Array Profound Mystery," based on a second-tier Spirit Gathering Array and the Heaven Computation Center from the cyber version.

Over the past month, the Giant Spirit God had used the Spirit Gathering Array as a foundation, combined with the Heaven Computation Center's design, and utilized the soul computation power of the entire Netherworld for deductions, successfully deducing this third-tier Ghost God Array.

Since the Netherworld's Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals share a common origin, the Ghost God Array could gather the Yin energy, cultivation, and even soul computation power of the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals, enhancing a single Ghost God's power.

The only regret is that the third-tier Ghost God Array cannot break through a major realm and can only enhance from the Early Stage of Golden Core to the Golden Core Peak.

Yet, even the Golden Core Peak is enough to crush everything in the apocalypse version.

As the Ghost God Array took form, a vast amount of Yin energy gathered with the soul computation power, descending in enhancement. The Skydome God's cultivation, initially at the Early Stage of Golden Core, surged, almost instantly rising to the Golden Core Peak.

A massive amount of uncontrollable Yin energy dissipated from the Skydome God's body, forming space-time rifts spreading in all directions under the influence of space control.

With eyes harboring space-time whirlpools, the Skydome God surveyed the space around; invisible barriers rose ten kilometers away, turning the whole area into a spatial cage.

...

The first to reach the edge of the battlefield was Gu Yan, who chose to run for his life at the first opportunity.

His ability is high-speed, one of the most common abilities in the apocalypse.

But repeated fortuitous encounters after the apocalypse's arrival allowed Gu Yan's high-speed ability to break through original limits, becoming a unique special ability.

Throughout the apocalypse version, few can elevate the speed ability beyond the fifth tier, and finding someone who can use it to reach the ninth tier—only he could be found throughout the apocalypse.

Such extremely powerful speed allowed Gu Yan to remain undefeated on any battlefield, and even other ninth-tier Transcendents couldn't catch up to him, fostering his proud and arrogant nature.

Initially, on hearing about the Netherworld army, Gu Yan merely dismissed it as a joke, not thinking the army could catch up to him.

He even saw this encirclement organized by the various Transcendents against Lu Yan as a game; if successful, it would eliminate a threat, and even if it failed, he had enough confidence to escape unscathed.

The moment the six hundred Ghost Generals appeared, Gu Yan realized something was wrong and prepared to flee at any moment.

When the five Corpse Kings and Zhao Hongzhong perished, Gu Yan was the first to flee, directly causing the Transcendents' formation to collapse, resulting in the death of several seventh-tier Transcendents.

Gu Yan was indifferent to this, seeing them merely as a bunch of fools doomed to die sooner or later. Now dead, they delayed the Netherworld army, serving some valuable purpose.

His high speed carved a shadow across the earth, his figure swiftly like lightning.

Looking back at the Netherworld army, a derisive smile hung on Gu Yan's face.

"Fools!"

His words had barely echoed when his speed surpassed that of sound, rushing toward farther distances with extreme rapidity.

Yet in the next second, as Gu Yan crossed the boundary of space, the scene before his eyes suddenly changed, returning him to the very center of the battlefield, where not far away, a figure clad in a dark robe stood proudly.

Gu Yan's mind was shaken and accelerated his sprint, yet a cold hand emerged from space, straight to grip Gu Yan's throat.

With the sudden halt in his accelerated sprint, the strong inertia almost twisted Gu Yan's neck.

Without hesitation, Gu Yan swung the long sword in his hand to stab at the pale hand. However, in the next moment, the long sword was silently swallowed by space, reappearing soundlessly behind Gu Yan, piercing through his chest with its extraordinary speed.

Gu Yan's eyes widened, staring incredulously at the scene before him.

He had clearly escaped to the edge of the battlefield, yet suddenly found himself back at the center, facing such an eerie enemy.

The opponent's methods were almost entirely beyond his comprehension.

"How... is this possible!"

A hoarse question squeezed out of his throat, and at the same time, the surrounding space changed again. Accompanied by waves of space fluctuations, many transcendent who had fled the battlefield reappeared in the center of the battlefield.

The transcendent used extraordinary abilities to counterattack, but any long-range attack methods were silently swallowed by space.

These abilities swallowed by space would descend upon other transcendent from various angles, creating chaos in the center of the battlefield.

In such a situation, the transcendent couldn't maintain their formation. Fighting alone coupled with the bizarre space left everyone unable to summon the strength to resist.

Ninth-tier transcendent were forcibly stripped of their divine souls by the Soul Hook, and even those comparable to Foundation Establishment transcendent were killed in the encirclement.

In less than half an hour, with the divine soul of the last ninth-tier transcendent stripped away, this war was completely declared over.

Of the six thousand Yin Soldiers, less than a thousand were casualties, and most Yin Soldiers had been killed by ninth-tier transcendent in the first battle array collision.

The six hundred Ghost Generals only lost eleven in the face of resistance from ninth-tier transcendents.

And corresponding to these losses was a harvest that could be described as terrifying.

Apart from divine souls that were completely obliterated during the war, Lu Yan harvested nine Golden Core Realm divine souls and eighty-seven Foundation Establishment Stage divine souls.

As for ordinary Zombie Wandering Souls, due to the tight battle situation, there was barely time to use the Soul Hook for Soul Detention, only reaping over forty thousand Zombie Wandering Souls.

Zombie Wandering Souls were actually secondary, as Lu Yan didn't lack those tens of thousands of Zombie Wandering Souls.

In Lu Yan's eyes, the most important were these Foundation Establishment, Golden Core souls, which could aid in creating powerful Ghost Gods and Ghost Generals.

The Underworld Legion had already passed the initial phase of quantity accumulation and began pursuing higher levels of quality.

And the performance of the six hundred Ghost Generals on the battlefield once again validated Lu Yan's idea.

Apart from these materials for strengthening the Underworld, Lu Yan also gained another kind of harvest.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan looked at the approaching Qiongyuan God.

Beneath Qiongyuan God's palm, a pallid person was firmly restricted by space, their elegant attire now tattered and their spirit clearly suffering severe damage.

Undoubtedly, this was the Shadow Corpse King with whom he had previously had a brief encounter in the underground castle.

The Shadow Corpse King watched Qiongyuan God, eyes filled with hatred and malice.

If it weren't for Qiongyuan God sealing the battlefield, with the concealment of his shadow ability, he could have easily escaped in this dark night. His current plight fueled his resentment towards Qiongyuan God.

And when the Shadow Corpse King turned his gaze from Qiongyuan God to Lu Yan, the hatred in his eyes transformed into irrepressible fear.

In terms of strength, Lu Yan was far weaker than Qiongyuan God.

But the bizarre methods he displayed made the Shadow Corpse King abandon any thought of opposing Lu Yan.

Lu Yan's gaze encompassed the battered Corpse King, the first he encountered who could communicate, proving the Shadow Corpse King's unusual nature.

Yet under the constraints of the Apocalypse Version, no matter how extraordinary the Shadow Corpse King was, he was merely at the early stage of Golden Core, easily crushed by Lu Yan.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan questioned:

"Why were you working with the transcendent to set an ambush?"

The Shadow Corpse King hesitated for a moment, driven by fear to respond: "That's because you..."

Before the Shadow Corpse King could finish speaking, Lu Yan interrupted directly.

He stared intensely at the Shadow Corpse King, overwhelming ghostly fog intertwined around Lu Yan, making him appear as if a Demon God had descended, the unparalleled oppression causing the Shadow Corpse King's divine soul to tremble.

"I want to hear the truth, and you only have one chance."

The Shadow Corpse King finally succumbed to fear, lowering his once elegant head.

"Three months ago, the same thought suddenly appeared in the minds of me and several other Corpse Kings."

"Use all means to kill the Underworld Envoy!"