Successfully sacrificing and refining the Main Soul Warrior, Lu Yan's gaze swept over the remaining dozens of Zombie Wandering Souls on the first floor. With a wave of the Soul Banner, the ghostly fog rolled back, directly swallowing the rest of the Zombie Wandering Souls around.
Inside the Soul Banner, the sixth Resentful Soul Soul Body, which had already taken shape, quickly solidified, adding another Resentful Soul pattern to the banner's surface.
A Resentful Soul emerged once more from the ghostly fog, appearing on the first floor.
Six Resentful Souls at the first level of Qi Cultivation, and one Main Soul at the fourth level of Qi Cultivation, such an assembly could already be considered extravagant, far surpassing the situation when Lu Yan first arrived in the Apocalypse Version.
This was only after cleaning the first building in the community, and there were as many as twenty such buildings in the entire community.
Similar communities were spread throughout the city, and a rough estimate suggested that the number of zombies in the entire city had exceeded one million.
Even though the Zombie Wandering Souls lacked the two souls of heaven and earth, making them far inferior to ordinary people, such a massive quantity was enough to compensate for everything!
"However, such a massive quantity will inevitably give rise to even more powerful Extraordinary Zombies.
When hunting zombies, one must always be cautious and never let their guard down."
With this thought, Lu Yan glanced at the sky outside, realizing it was still early, and there was enough time to clear another building.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Yan could also find a suitable place to shelter.
Lu Yan left the building full of bones, heading towards the adjacent building. The weathered exterior of the walls still faintly showed the number 13.
Leaving the dark and old building, the warm sunlight outside slightly dispelled the Cold Yin Qi around Lu Yan.
Lu Yan raised his head, looking at the warm sun in the sky.
In this Apocalypse Version, where the concentration of Spiritual Qi was ten times that of the City Version, Lu Yan vaguely sensed that the sun in the sky seemed to have changed as well.
The sunlight contained a hint of Spiritual Qi, surpassing the surrounding environment's concentration.
The sunlight was originally a natural enemy of the Yin Souls. Zombies, lacking the two souls of heaven and earth, if exposed to the Spiritual Qi-infused sunlight for a long time, their souls might dissipate. This was why most zombies hid in buildings to avoid the sun.
If ordinary people were exposed to sunlight for a long time, with sufficient Spiritual Qi replenishment, they could potentially awaken some special abilities.
"With Spiritual Qi ten times that of the City Version, and the peculiar sunlight, could the Apocalypse Version survivors have already developed an Extraordinary System?"
A hint of surprise appeared in Lu Yan's eyes, but he had no interest in contacting humans for now.
Although the Apocalypse Version hiddenly harbored dangers, these ordinary zombies were evidently opportunities for Lu Yan. What he could do was to enhance his strength as much as possible in the Apocalypse Version to prepare for the upcoming version update.
Leaving the Apocalypse Version, where else could he find such a place to refine the Soul Banner without fearing the pursuit of righteous cultivators?
With a wave of the Soul Banner in his hand, the ghostly fog spread in the sunlight to the nearest building. The Warrior led six Resentful Souls swiftly into building number 13.
"Boom!"
A violent collision erupted. Lu Yan could see that under the Warrior's lead, the six Resentful Souls abandoned their previous eerie and sinister tactics, recklessly charging into the zombie horde like brutes.
Unlike other Resentful Souls, which attacked by ignoring physical characteristics with their Soul Bodies, the Warrior manifested a Soul Body from the ghostly fog and clashed head-on with the zombies.
With a single punch, a zombie covered in decaying flesh exploded, rotten blood and flesh scattering, and the disintegrating soul crumbled alongside the body.
And when a zombie's claws struck the Warrior, it didn't even leave a mark.
At that moment, an ominous howl echoed in the stairwell.
A Zombie Dog, about two meters long, appeared from the zombie horde, resembling a wolf hound with no fur on its body.
Lu Yan noticed that the Zombie Dog's aura was only at the initial level of Qi Cultivation, far inferior to the Warrior.
Yet, a series of low growls emanated from the Zombie Dog, as if threatening the Warrior to retreat. However, this action only incited the Warrior's ferocity.
A vicious smile appeared on the blue-faced and sharp-toothed face, and the Warrior charged at the Zombie Dog like a cannonball, smashing through several zombies along the way, amidst flying flesh and blood, the humanoid beast grasped at the Zombie Dog's head.
Faced with this imminent threat, the Zombie Dog did not choose to evade but instead opened its fang-filled mouth, attempting to trade injury for injury.
At that moment, a flash of black light crossed the Warrior's body, and armor resembling black iron appeared on his body.
Talent Skill: Ghost Armor Skill!
Accompanied by the sound of metal clashing, the armor created by the Ghost Armor Skill blocked the Zombie Dog's sharp fangs.
The Zombie Dog then realized the danger, trying to dodge and escape, but it was already too late.
A powerful punch violently smashed down, shattering most of the Zombie Dog's head. Amidst the splattering blood, the Warrior raised his fist again. However, a cold reprimand stopped his action.
"Stop!"
The Warrior instinctively trembled, withdrawing his fist, allowing the Zombie Dog with half of its head missing to lie on the ground, constantly twitching.
Only then did the six Resentful Souls arrive belatedly, with several Ghost Claws reaching into the Zombie Dog, effortlessly extracting its unresisting soul.
Afterward, the Resentful Souls continued their slaughter of ordinary zombies, leaving the Warrior standing at the same spot, shivering like a schoolchild waiting for a teacher's scolding.
At the entrance of building number 13, Lu Yan looked at the Warrior's appearance and couldn't help but have a headache.
The Warrior's demonstrated strength indeed matched the identity of the Soul Banner Main Soul, and the Extraordinary Ability of metallizing a zombie's body had transformed into the Ghost Armor Skill, which became his talent skill after being refined into the Main Soul.
The Main Soul Warrior could use the Ghost Armor Skill to clad itself and subordinate Resentful Soul Bodies in armor, enhancing Soul Body Defense, which was quite a practical spell.
There was only one thing that dissatisfied Lu Yan, and that was that the Warrior Main Soul didn't resemble a ghost creature at all; instead, it resembled the Dharma Protector Venerable God, Yellow Turban Warriors.
If it were in the Xianxia Version, the Warrior's formidable close combat abilities would be an advantage, and the Ghost Armor Skill would compensate for inadequate defense, effectively countering some cultivators focusing on spell-based cultivation.
However, in this Apocalypse Version, Lu Yan hunted zombies to collect wandering souls for refining the Soul Banner, and the Warrior's direct punches shattered zombies, preventing the extraction of complete wandering souls.
Every zombie killed by the Warrior represented a lost sacrificial wandering soul, which was precisely what gave Lu Yan a headache.
If he hadn't stopped it in time, even the Zombie Dog's soul would have been smashed along with its body.
In the building number 13, ghostly shadows flickered. A large number of zombies gathered on the first floor were massacred by the Resentful Souls, and even the other floors within the Soul Banner's control range were not spared by the Resentful Souls.
A total of over two hundred wandering souls were sent to the first-floor hall, and more than half of building number 13 was cleaned, far faster than before.
The main reason for this was the quick elimination of the Extraordinary Zombies in building number 13 by the Warrior, leaving no other forces to impede the Resentful Souls' slaughter.
The ghostly fog permeated, and all the wandering souls were sacrificed and refined.
This time, the number of wandering souls was too many, and it took Lu Yan nearly an hour to complete the sacrifice, adding two more Resentful Souls to the Soul Banner.
Looking at one Main Soul and eight Resentful Souls within the Soul Banner, Lu Yan had a vague realization.
"The advancement of the Soul Banner to a mid-grade Magical Artifact is not far off!"