Lead-gray dark clouds appeared from nowhere, completely obscuring the sun. Only a few rays of sunlight barely pierced through the gaps in the clouds, casting ominous streaks of light onto the ground.
Lin Xiao stood in midair. Gray mist condensed in his hand into a weapon resembling a long staff. Slightly raising his head, beneath the gray cloak, only two points of candle-like gray glow could be seen.
The first gray light slowly shone. The long staff pointed toward the ground. In an instant, on the surface that had been leveled flat by the ninth-grade soul cannon, countless mounds slowly rose, like graves of various sizes.
"What… what are those things?"
At this moment, the Evil Demon Forest was exceptionally quiet. The soul beasts that used to be noisy had already vanished under the attack of the ninth-grade soul tool. In the ranks of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, some soldiers watched the continuously rising and falling ground, involuntarily swallowing hard. Trembling voices came from their mouths.
In the strictly disciplined Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, waves of noisy discussion arose. Xu Tianyuan, as the corps commander, opened his mouth but for a moment could not stop the discussions in the army. Even his own gaze was firmly fixed on what was ahead.
As Xu Tianran's confidant, he naturally knew what they had come to face on this mission. But despite having sufficient mental preparation, he had never imagined that an evil soul master could reach such an extent.
Right before Xu Tianyuan's eyes, skeletal hands with only white bones suddenly broke through the soil, their five twisted fingers grasping toward the sky.
Then a second, a third… countless more.
The dead who had been buried in the Holy Spirit Cult, buried beneath the Evil Demon Forest for who knows how many years, were at this moment, under Lin Xiao's summons, returning to the mortal world.
On the ground, what seemed to sprout out of nowhere was a densely populated forest of white bones. Lin Xiao looked at the corpses that kept being dragged continuously from under the ground. His soul core vibrated within his body, and the second soul ring next to him was also illuminated with a gray light.
Within the soul core, the countless remnant souls that Lin Xiao had collected surged out as if summoned, then drilled into one corpse after another.
In the empty eye sockets of those corpses, gray candle flames immediately ignited. Without needing Lin Xiao to speak, this army formed by the dead surged forward toward the front.
Buzz——
The earth began to tremble slightly. At first, it was only small stones jumping, but then amid the continuous sound of bones rubbing against soil, the shaking grew intense.
In the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, many soul engineers changed color. An invisible aura of death spread to everyone around them, as if even their own movements had become sluggish.
Evil soul master… evil soul master…
Xu Tianyuan muttered these words in his heart several times. Although Xu Tianran had told him that there would be no experts in the current Holy Spirit Cult, looking at this expanse of white bones before him, he began to have some doubts. Could the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps really be a match for an evil soul master capable of creating such momentum?
"Everyone, attack!"
Slightly shaking his head to force himself to calm down, Xu Tianyuan shouted.
He no longer used the sound-transmitting soul tool, but instead used his soul power to send his voice directly into everyone's ears, causing everyone to unconsciously feel a surge of spirit.
Boom——
The soul cannons fired in unison. Those corpses were far more fragile than anyone had expected. Countless bone fragments flew, and the corpses shattered into pieces under the soul cannon attacks.
However, before Xu Tianyuan could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw those scattered fragments slowly crawl back together, reforming into new skeletons.
Moreover, while countless skeletons continued to surge endlessly forward, the soil was still constantly churning. More and more incomplete bone frames struggled to climb out from beneath the ground.
Some of them had not been dead for long and still had rotting flesh hanging from their bodies. Visible maggots wriggled within.
"Ugh—"
In the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, someone let out a sound, immediately causing many nearby to dry-heave together. The corpse stench emanating from the bodies spread through the air, causing the soldiers in the soul engineer corps to begin falling into disorder.
"Hold steady!"
Xu Tianyuan shouted and flew forward. But before he could land, the corpses on the ground leaped up and began climbing onto him.
His soul power shook, shattering the attacking dead bodies around him into pieces. Yet on Xu Tianyuan's armor, unsightly streaks of blood filth remained.
"Ah—"
At the front of the army, the earliest skeletons had already charged through heavy attacks to appear before the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps. The soul cannon fire only paused for an instant before a soldier was pounced upon and knocked to the ground.
The equipment on his body continuously flashed with light, but amid the seemingly endless assault of skeletons, amid the successive "crunch crunch" sounds of gnawing, he completely lost all sound.
In the sky above, Lin Xiao's gaze was also fixed on the ground, where the number of the undead army had already surpassed that of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps.
"This is the true terror of undead magic."
In his spiritual sea, Electrolux's voice slowly rang out. "Recovering the fragments of divine sense has also allowed me to recall many things from before. Back then, it was precisely by relying on this immortal, indestructible, and endlessly replenishing undead army that I forced the Radiant Church to join forces with the two great empires to confront me together."
The terror of undead magic…
Lin Xiao savored Electrolux's words. His gaze fell on the soldier who had just been pounced upon. The soul rings beside him flashed, and gray light enveloped the entire battlefield.
The soldier who had just been knocked down actually staggered to his feet at this moment. The soul cannon in his hand turned toward his former comrades, and then a beam of light blasted out.
To conserve the soldiers' soul power, the Sun Moon Empire had installed sealed charging soul tools in the soul cannons. But at this moment, these soul cannons had instead become weapons that the dead could use.
Although it seemed to have forgotten how to aim, and this shot did not land on the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, it completely shattered their psychological defenses.
Xu Tianyuan was still entangled in endless combat with the skeletons, continuously shouting, but some people had already begun disregarding military orders and fleeing backward.
And when the first person left the formation, the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps' battle array quickly collapsed along with it.
When Xu Tianyuan realized something was wrong and turned to look back, the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, once the pride of the Sun Moon Empire, could no longer mount any effective resistance. Only scattered figures were being swallowed by the boundless ocean of bones.
Xu Tianyuan suddenly raised his head to look at the figure in the air, shrouded in gray mist. An inexplicable sense of fear rose in his heart.
Although Lin Xiao only had two soul rings around him, Xu Tianyuan could feel that his cultivation was definitely above rank 90.
Perhaps it was twin martial souls, or perhaps some other reason, Xu Tianyuan no longer wanted to think about it.
Evil soul master?
No, that person could no longer be described with the word "soul master." In his heart, two words inexplicably emerged: natural disaster.
When this immortal and indestructible undead army appeared, to the Sun Moon Empire, to the Douluo Continent, it was a natural disaster, a natural disaster of the undead.
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