Taibai Mining Area.
Lu Jun hovered high in the sky. After the seawater receded, he saw the lifeless corpse of the Scorpion Lord Medusa and finally let out a breath of relief.
This time, he had gone all out. Eight magic elements were used at will, and his combat power at the Super Tier was exceptionally terrifying.
Previously, the Small-Monarch Jiehai Grand Duke Serpent had not truly tested his limits. Only now, after fighting an True Monarch like Medusa, did he roughly determine his own positioning at the Super Tier.
Of course, Lu Jun had benefited from the bug-like advantage of the Time Domain. His opening move was practically unsolvable.
Under normal circumstances, one would need four Super Tier elements and mastery of Transcendent Power to slay a Small Monarch, just like Mo Fan's battle against the Wolf Queen in the Southern Ridges.
"Once I fully grasp the Super Tier combat power of Curse and Psychic magic, I should be even stronger. If I activate the Ascension state, I can probably fight a Great Monarch for one or two minutes."
Lu Jun felt exhilarated as he looked down at the densely packed Scorpion tribes below, which were already collapsing and fleeing in all directions.
Seeing this, he chuckled softly. These Servant-level creatures had finally gathered together with great difficulty—there was no way he would let them escape.
High-Tier Level 2 Flower Sky: Sky Collapsing Waterfalls
At this moment, Lu Jun's expression turned solemn. Vast black-water radiance surged around him as he clenched his fists. Dark clouds gathered in the void, accompanied by torrential rain and raging winds. One after another, broad pitch-black waterfalls descended, roaring as they scoured the plains.
Crash—!
Most of the mountain ranges in the mining area were submerged by the surging black sea. Powerful corrosive force seeped into the mountains, and the immense water pressure crushed the mine tunnels.
The black marsh continued to expand, swallowing Scorpion monsters one after another, like a Nether Sea harvesting lives. No matter how fast they fled, they could not escape the spread of the Northern Abyss Sea.
No one knew how long passed before a vast Northern Abyss Marsh was forcefully transported onto land, crashing down heavily and unleashing mountain-toppling waves in all directions, carrying enormous amounts of moisture across hundreds of kilometers.
Even the people in Cape of Good Hope City clearly felt a cool, damp breeze sweep over them.
Lu Jun withdrew his magic. The Water Element Star River dimmed, and he let out a long breath.
The Taibai Mining Area had turned into a vast muddy wasteland. Countless Scorpion monster corpses floated on the remaining water, water flooding over gold mountains, corpses piling up by the millions.
Buzz buzz buzz!
Within his field of vision, countless azure-blue essences rose into the air, sparkling like a brilliant starry sky—Servant-level, Warrior-level, Commander-level, all mixed together.
Lu Jun had exhausted his Water Element magic power, stacking the tidal effects to their extreme. He had slaughtered a full fifty thousand Scorpion monsters.
Based on the Servant-level essence drop rate, he alone harvested five hundred essences. Adding the synthesis of residual essences, the total reached one thousand essences. The Warrior-level essence drop rate was higher, yielding around a hundred, while the Commander-level produced about seven or eight.
A tremendous harvest. With so many essences, it was enough to push two or three magic elements to High Tier Level Four spells, with power equivalent to half a Super Tier spell.
Hiss—hiss—hiss!
Just as Lu Jun was feeling overjoyed, a banshee-like shriek rang out from deep within the corpse of the Scorpion Lord Medusa. A vast azure-blue sun slowly rose, occupying the center of the entire blue starry sky, radiating supreme and domineering aura.
Buzz buzz! In an instant, all the Scorpion essences trembled and froze. Glowing points, faint flames, stars, and moons swayed as they all bowed toward their king.
Within the azure sun, a graceful figure appeared. A mature, beautiful face twisted and illusory, filled with ferocity, continuously emitting soul wails and boundless resentment, as if trying to command hundreds of thousands to overthrow Lu Jun.
"Trying to pull a 'return to the Yellow Springs to summon old troops, banners of a hundred thousand to slay Yama'? What a joke!"
Lu Jun muttered lightly, his tone full of mockery. With the orthodox inheritor of the Ancient King standing here, how could he fear undead turmoil? Moreover, they had all been slain beneath his blade in life—mere losers.
However, as he stared at the azure sun in the void, his expression turned slightly surprised. "A Monarch-level essence? I'm quite lucky this time. Converted into money, that's at least three to four billion."
The probability of Monarch-level monsters dropping essences was extremely high—roughly one in ten. He had already killed several Monarchs, so statistically it made sense.
Furthermore, Medusa specialized in Psychic and Curse demonic arts, with profound soul attainments, so dropping an essence was perfectly reasonable.
Boom!
Immediately after, Lu Jun's eyes flashed with deep blue radiance. He snorted coldly as vast spiritual power burst forth from his body, whipping up an invisible mental storm in the void. It was as if darkness had descended, and the surrounding essences dimmed slightly.
The azure sun shook violently. Inside it, Medusa's soul projection was struck as if by lightning, collapsing completely.
Next, the White Tiger Pendant radiated light. The azure-blue essences scattered across the sky disintegrated, transforming into countless threads of soul energy that continuously poured into the air above the blood-red marsh.
Before long, Lu Jun swept clean all the essences in the Taibai Mining Area, leaving behind only innumerable corpses exuding dense deathly aura.
Naturally, he did not hold back. He softly chanted an incantation and released the Death Element basic spell [Necromantic Revival]. One blood-red formation after another appeared beneath the corpses, slowly engulfing them in crimson light.
Lu Jun had limited time. With such an enormous number of corpses, turning them all into undead would take an extremely long period. Moreover, many incomplete bodies would require [Flesh Stitching] to be reforged and repaired, an immense workload.
So he simply stored these corpses within his Undead Space first.
"With the Nether Serpent Undead Lord and the Medusa Undead Lord as the core, selecting a few powerful individuals that give birth to talents as backbone contracts, plus this massive batch of corpses, it should be enough to form a formidable cannon-fodder undead army."
Lu Jun calculated silently. Once this undead army was refined, the high-frequency practice of his Death Element would likely cause his cultivation to surge steadily, making a breakthrough to High Tier effortless.
However, when he was storing the Medusa and other snake-scorpion corpses into the Undead Space, a certain bizarre aura rose from deep within their flesh and blood, converging toward him.
At first, Lu Jun thought it was Medusa Scorpion Lord's final countermeasure before death, a kind of mental curse meant to retaliate against an enemy.
But after circulating Super Tier Curse and Psychic magic, he found no trace of any supernatural residue on himself.
This was more like a scent mark—using Medusa as the hub, at the cost of the deaths of large numbers of snake-scorpion corpses, it attached itself to the enemy and lingered without dispersing.
"Hm? A special trait of the Medusa lineage?"
Seeing this, Lu Jun pondered. He knew that Medusa's Mother, the sovereign of the snake-scorpion race, possessed unparalleled mastery over curses, psychic arts, and other sinister techniques. As her direct descendants, they naturally inherited certain mysterious traits or ritual backhands.
He remembered that in the original timeline, when Mo Fan came to Africa and provoked a Monarch-level Medusa, merely her remote curse had tortured a group of top-tier High Tier young elites to the point of unbearable agony.
It was only dispelled by Apas's tears.
As for Lu Jun, because his attainments in both the Curse Element and Psychic Element were equally profound, curses from Medusas of the same tier had no effect on him. Only methods left deep within the bloodline by Medusa's Mother herself could take effect.
It was likely a retaliation specifically aimed at troublesome enemies like him.
After all, the snake-scorpion race was the most vengeful of all.
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