["Ding~ Welcome to [Divine Tomb], Necromancer·Zero. Please note, your current location is the Second Floor of the Divine Tomb!"]
With the system prompt sounding, Zhang Yue appeared in a place that looked like an ancient ruin.
"That voice again," Zhang Yue analyzed the system prompt he'd just heard.
Not a mechanical synthesized voice, but a human voice.
And a very crisp female voice.
'Kind of pleasant, too.'
["Wow, whose voice is that? So delicate, and actually pretty nice to listen to!"]
In front of the screen, Wu Haotian couldn't help sighing.
At that moment, Chen Zijin, who had come over without anyone noticing, frowned at the screen and asked, "Nice to listen to? Her voice sounds good?"
Wu Haotian gave a fake laugh, "Of course… not as nice as yours!"
"Right, President?", Wu Haotian frantically prompted Zhang Yue.
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[Inside the Divine Tomb]
Zhang Yue stood in the middle of a ruin.
Looking around, he found this place to be completely different from the scene on the first floor.
There were no messy graves in sight.
Only dozens of stone pillars, each ten-plus meters high, standing in the open space.
On each pillar was carved a different pattern.
And those patterns shared one thing in common: they were all animals.
The worst part was: the animals on them all looked grotesque, with twisted faces and ugly features.
Following Zhang Yue's gaze for a long time, the people in front of the screen still couldn't recognize a single one of the patterns.
["Damn! What the hell is that? A many-armed snake?"]
["A human-faced tiger?"]
["A dog-headed owl?"]
["Wow, why do they all look like this?"]
At that time, Ouyang Ling'er had already started working.
Based on the images Zhang Yue was sending, she immediately began analyzing the carvings on the pillars.
Instantly, dozens or even hundreds of windows popped up across several computer screens nearby, Ouyang Ling'er handled the full data parsing.
Wu Haotian and the others were left completely bewildered.
Zhang Yue, meanwhile, examined the pillars on the second floor of the Divine Tomb.
He was trying to figure out what the challenge for this floor was.
But obviously, he didn't discover anything right away.
Because the surrounding pillars remained perfectly still.
While Zhang Yue was searching for a way to break the puzzle, Ouyang Ling'er suddenly sent a message.
After snapping her fingers, she confidently told Zhang Yue, ["President, try using your blood to consecrate the pillars!"]
["Blood?"]
Zhang Yue hesitated a moment, then followed Ouyang Ling'er's instruction, extended his left hand, and cut a cut into his palm.
Blood welled up at once.
The next moment, the stone pillars around him stirred wildly.
Then, beams of white light shot out from the pillars.
The white lights circled around Zhang Yue and gradually transformed into bizarre, monstrous beasts.
Those beasts were exactly the same as the beast patterns carved on the pillars.
At the same time, as the beasts materialized, the patterns on the pillars all disappeared.
As if they had transformed from picture into reality.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
A dozen or so monstrous beasts suddenly appeared and surrounded Zhang Yue.
Many-armed snake, dog-headed owl, human-faced tiger… All kinds of weird, deformed monsters let out hair-raising roars, each opening a maw as if to swallow Zhang Yue whole.
At that moment, reconnaissance magic revealed that they were all BOSS-level monsters.
Compared with the lord monsters on the first floor, the enemies on this second floor had immediately jumped up a tier.
Although they were only ordinary BOSSes of around 58-star level.
But the sight of being attacked by a dozen BOSSes at once sent an intense pressure even through the screen to Wu Haotian, Liyue, and the others.
Zhang Yue himself remained calm.
The instant those BOSSes lunged at him, he—
Whoosh!
Unfurled his angel wings and shot up from the ground, avoiding their strikes.
The next second, from high above, using his height advantage, he cast spells rapidly to strike them hard.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
One powerful SSS-rank lightning skill after another crashed down on the group of BOSSes on the ground with world-shattering force.
He also summoned his pet army to focus-fire.
To deal with Zhang Yue, these dozen BOSSes alone were obviously not enough.
Even though Zhang Yue's 47-star transcendent set lagged behind, it was still more than sufficient to handle these BOSSes.
Very quickly, the dozen or so BOSSes were all killed.
Zhang Yue then did the same at another location: using his blood to lure the beasts sealed inside the pillars.
Gotta say, this was all thanks to Ouyang Ling'er.
Otherwise, there's no way Zhang Yue would ever have thought to use blood to lure the beasts from the pillars on this floor.
Likewise, on the first floor, Zhang Yue would never have thought to use fire to burn the God's Apostles to activate the teleport to the second floor.
According to Ouyang Ling'er's analysis and calculations, under the god who surpassed the supreme god Xingtian, besides the army of God's Apostles, there was also a more powerful legion of divine beasts.
After Xingtian fell, the divine beast legion was buried with him.
And Xingtian used to feed those divine beasts with blood.
These divine beasts feed on fresh blood.
Only fresh blood can excite them.
To lure those beasts, Zhang Yue bled a lot.
Watching, Chen Zijin felt sick at heart, ["How can this work? You need blood to attract those BOSSes, and this place is so big with so many BOSSes, how much blood do you have to spill?"]
["What if you bleed out completely? Won't someone die?"]
At that moment, Ouyang Ling'er told Zhang Yue, ["President, it doesn't have to be human blood. I suggest you have someone else provide the blood…"]
["Someone else?"], Zhang Yue glanced at the Doomsday Black Dragon beside him.
The Doomsday Black Dragon looked at its master.
Suddenly, it felt something bad.
"Never mind, use mine. It's just a little blood. Plenty."
Saying that, Zhang Yue moved on and continued bleeding.
There were hundreds of stone pillars in the huge ruin.
Which meant: hundreds of BOSSes were sealed here.
Zhang Yue, by continuously bleeding, lured every BOSS out of its pillar and killed them.
Finally, before all his blood ran dry, he had killed every single BOSS!
Then Zhang Yue turned his gaze back to the strategist, ["Strategist, what do we do next?"]
["Do we need to burn all their corpses?"]
["No need for that,"] Ouyang Ling'er said, ["You should burn the pillars."]
Zhang Yue was silent for a long moment, then couldn't help saying one word, "Amazing."
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