Everyone was sitting in the hall, and Shi Chishang also learned about the trump cards of Zang Wudi and Zang Wuchang.
Zhan Wuchang's parents prepared for her a strong figure from the Shadow Puppet Clan who was in the early stage of the Underworld Emperor. Zhan Wuchang recruited a Shura tribe who was in the late stage of the Underworld Emperor through the connections left by his parents during his lifetime.
Shi Chishang once encountered the shadow puppet clan. This clan is not very capable of direct confrontation and is better at hiding in the dark and controlling other creatures through possession.
As for the Shura Tribe, they are a powerful race after the Zombie Tribe, the Tauren Tribe, and the Horse-faced Tribe. Together with the Rakshasa Tribe, they are also known as the two major fighting races. If their population had not been too sparse, they would have both become powerful tribes. , together with the zombie, ox-headed, and horse-faced tribes.
Although inferior in name, the Shura clan's actual combat ability is not weak at all. Once a Shura in the late stage of the Underworld King enters a fighting state, it is enough to rival the ordinary early stage Underworld King.
In addition to these two people, Emperor Zhanwu and Changwuchang each have twenty or thirty masters of various races under their command. Most of them are from their own zombie race. However, their cultivation levels range from weak to strong, and they can reach the peak of the Ming Master. The weak ones are only in the early stage of Mingshi.
As the two narrated, Shi Chishang's understanding of this competition gradually became clearer.
Although on the surface, these candidates can rely on their family connections to recruit super strong people to participate in the war, the purpose of this competition held by the zombie clan is to select those talented descendants, not to make the clan strong and weak. The differentiation is even greater, so the ancestor generals also personally issued a decree that all those who have reached the level of Hades Lord or above can only participate in the war as followers.
This alone is enough to wipe out 99% of people.
Although the top experts in the ghost world are comparable to those in the underworld, due to the fact that those who reach the underworld level can only practice by extracting the underworld energy from the water of the Styx River, there are not many middle-level masters. Probably no more than a million.
It seems that there are a lot of them, but if the scope is enlarged to the entire ghost world, then there may not be even one of these millions of strong men for hundreds of millions of miles.
Things are rare and valuable. Precisely because of their scarcity, the status of those who can cultivate to the Underworld Lord is not comparable to that of ordinary ghosts. With such a noble status, even if there are affections and relationships to cause trouble, almost no ghosts will be willing to bear it. Participate as a retinue.
What's more, the status of a follower is tantamount to becoming the slave of the other party. These contestants are only half-step underworld masters. It is simply humiliating for powerful men of the level of Hades Lord and Hades Emperor to become the followers of these people. .
Therefore, even if this kind of competition has been held countless times, the number of times that Ming Lord or above has participated can only be counted on one's fingers.
What's more, this is a candidate competition for the leader of the zombie clan.
Once you participate in the competition, you will be involved in the internal struggle of the zombie clan. If you have a backer like Niu Sanshan and Ma Hanxue, it's okay. But if you are just a casual cultivator or not powerful, you will easily incur the revenge of the defeated candidates.
The zombie clan, the head of the three powerful clans, even if it is only one of tens of thousands of branches, is not something that ordinary forces can contend with.
Everyone had been deliberating in the hall for more than three hours. Shi Chishang also had a thorough understanding of this competition. He also secretly laughed at himself for being frightened by countless powerful people in Jushanguan and Zishan City. He thought that this There will be powerful people like Ming Zun and Ming Emperor participating in the competition.
The soul path is compatible with the two paths of ghosts and the underworld, and Shi Chishang relies on the magical power of Zhulong to control the opposing methods. He is naturally able to restrain all ghosts. With his current strength as a half-step underworld master, he is enough to compete with the peak underworld master. If he summons the projection of the Styx again, Maybe he can compete with the Pluto level.
Of course, during everyone's discussion, Ma Hanxue also specifically reminded Shi Chishang that Styx's status in the ghost world is extraordinary, and his ability to summon Styx's projection must not be exposed, otherwise it will easily provoke the action of giants. , trying to figure out how he could influence Styx.
After the discussion, Emperor Zangwudi and Zangwuchang went home to prepare the final matters, while Shi Chishang and others stayed at the Tauren's post house, taking advantage of the few days left to spend their time to improve the realm they had just broken through. Complete mastery.
Led by Niu Ling, Shi Chishang arrived at the secret room underneath the post house. This was a training room specially set up for the Niutou tribe, so the area and height were extremely scary. Unless Shi Chishang was inflating his soul body, otherwise, just with his strength When Miba entered, it was like an ant entering a human bedroom, which seemed even more empty.
After explaining the use of the training room, Niuling closed the door and left, while Shi Chishang took off and landed on a black altar in the center of the secret room.
This is also an altar made according to the physique of the Tauren. It is undoubtedly quite huge for Shi Chishang. Fortunately, he is now an energy body. With a thought, the true form of the soul body that was originally the size of an ordinary person suddenly expands and rises in a few breaths of time. It has grown to a height of seven meters. Although it is still not as high as the secret room that is twenty meters high, it is much more comfortable than before.
After moving his body for a while, Shi Chishang first adapted to the size of seven meters, and then sat down cross-legged. According to Niu Ling's description, he cast a spell to activate the altar under him, and black spiritual lines suddenly emerged from the surface of the altar, like this. They flowed around like living things, either connecting with each other to form talismans, or spreading continuously, activating the spiritual patterns in the distance.
But in an instant, the huge secret room was completely flooded with black brilliance. The rolling Qi was attracted by the formation, and all rushed into Shi Chi Shang's body along the altar. The huge impact at that moment almost destroyed Shi Chi Shang's soul. His body exploded, but fortunately he reacted quickly enough and decisively ran "Soul Evolution". At the same time, his soul consciousness continued to sweep through his body, refining the turbulent earth energy and evenly distributed it throughout the soul body.
This secret room is specially used by the Tauren to temper their bodies. Although Shi Chishang has a strong soul and can fight against the Tauren of the same level even if he fights hard, that is due to his powerful true spirit, not his soul. The body itself is comparable to the Tauren.
However, as this massive amount of earth energy continued to pour in, Shi Chishang suddenly broke through and his somewhat "empty" soul gradually became "enriched". Although the majestic earth energy contained a strong yin energy, after " Through the purification of "Soul Evolution", these Yin Qi did not interfere with the stability of his soul body at all, but were completely dissolved by the soul power.
A Mingshi is one who breaks through from the peak of Palm Sea or Ji Ming Stage. He has just been baptized by the Heavenly Tribulation, and the ghost power in his body has not yet been completely transformed into Ming Power. He can only absorb the ghost energy continuously and wash away the traces of the original ghost power little by little. Therefore, if you want to advance to the peak of the underworld, you must convert all the original ghost power into underworld power.
Shi Chishang possessed the Soul Dao in his body, and the ghost and the underworld were one, so naturally there was no need for this step. This was also the reason why he could break through to half-step underworld master in one breath.
And if you want to advance to the rank of Underworld Master, you must condense the soul realm into one and reach the state of being completely round and unbreakable.
After ghost monks become the underworld level, their soul body and soul realm are the key points of their combat power. The soul body is composed of the underworld power, and the soul realm is driven by divine consciousness. Although they both originate from the true spirit, they are different. Belongs to energy and spirit.
The peak of the underworld master is to completely turn energy into the power of the underworld, which is a sublimation of the energy level; the peak of the underworld master is to shrink and condense the soul domain to form a golden elixir similar to that of a cultivator or a Taoist.
For cultivators and Taoists, the golden elixir is just a low-level thing, but for ghost monks, this "underworld elixir" is a key thing after the underworld level, and all the techniques they practice in the future will be It is engraved in this golden elixir as a foundation for advancing to the rank of Hades Emperor in the future.
So sometimes, this Ming Dan is also called Ming Dan.
It's just an ordinary ghost monk. Even after being promoted to the underworld level, the soul domain is at least tens of thousands of square meters. However, even when Shi Chishang first entered the palm sea, the condensed soul domain was as huge as millions of square meters. With the promotion to the underworld level now, , the soul domain has expanded to tens of millions of square meters. It is simply a huge problem to completely collect the soul domain of this size and condense it into one point.
Therefore, even with the help of the pressure of the huge earth energy in the secret room, Shi Chishang could only close the soul domain to more than 7 million square meters before the competition started. The distance to complete concentration was still 108,000 meters away.
After casting a spell to stop the operation of the altar, Shi Chishang frowned slightly, and then smiled brightly. His cultivation speed was already hundreds of times faster than others. Now that he has reached the underworld level and there is no pressure from the Taoist sect, maybe it is time to slow down a little. It’s time to polish the foundation.
With a thought in his mind, Shi Chishang, who was originally seven meters tall, suddenly swayed and shrunk inch by inch, turning into his original height of 1.8 meters. However, he suddenly thought that Yu Lewei was 1.7 meters tall, so he immediately pulled out his head and was taller again out of thin air. Five centimeters.
Looking at himself who was 1.85 meters tall, Shi Chishang nodded with satisfaction. The height difference was fifteen centimeters, which was half the cutest height difference. That was enough.
After looking around and seeing that there was no problem, Shi Chishang left the training room.
At this time, Yu Lewei, Ma Hanxue, Niu Sanshan and others had gathered in the front hall. Shi Chishang had just come over and already noticed that the disaster phoenix on Yu Lewei's shoulder was a little different.
Seeing him thinking deeply, Calamity Phoenix raised its wings triumphantly and said with a ferocious smile: "That's right, your Grandma Calamity Phoenix has already broken through to the Underworld Master!"
Shi Chishang was speechless and grabbed it forward. His soul power penetrated ten meters. In an instant, Taixu and Countercurrent were intertwined into a web. He imprisoned the disaster phoenix and pulled it in front of him. Then his hands lit up. Black and white, he grabbed the disaster phoenix and rubbed it until its feathers were all messed up. Then he threw it away and released the restraint.
Bang! As soon as it got out of trouble, the furious Disaster Phoenix let out an angry roar. However, before it could fight back, Shi Chi Shang looked over with a smile. A sharp flash of light in his eyes actually frightened the Disaster Phoenix and stopped it in mid-air. It took a long time before it could not give up. Falling back on Yu Lewei's shoulder.
The two methods of time and space! Yin and Yang merge into one!
As soon as Shi Chi Shangfang took action, he used two top-notch spells, and instantly controlled the Disaster Phoenix in the middle stage of the Underworld Master. The surrounding servants, who were surrounded by cows, mountains, and horses, all had stern looks on their faces, completely dispelling all doubts in their hearts. .
As for Niu Sanshan, Ma Hanxue, Yu Lewei and others, they didn't pay attention at all. It's not like Shi Chishang had never done it before, they were already used to it.
The reason why the disaster phoenix has been following them is mainly due to the contractual relationship, but the ferocious nature of this demon bird has not changed at all. It can easily become a thorn in the back if it is careless, so Shi Chishang took action to teach him a lesson as soon as he found out the clues. , making it understand that there is zero hope of escaping from its clutches.
Because he was a human being, Shi Chishang was not at the forefront, but was led by Niu Sanshan and Ma Hanxue. He, Yu Lewei, Cao Hong, and Zhong Wudi were all sitting on the back of the black blade, mixing in with the Niu and Ma The two men rushed towards the zombie clan's ancestral land.
With the Bullhead Tribe and the Horse-faced Tribe in charge, Shi Chishang and the others walked extremely smoothly. All the ghosts and ghost beasts they met on the road scattered to avoid it. Even the zombie tribe, as landlords, did not have too much trouble, but were very embarrassed. Pass them by peacefully.
Along the way, Shi Chishang also saw countless ghost world creatures walking in groups on the street, heading in the same direction as them. There was no doubt that most of them were from the same participating teams as them.
Not long after, the group had left Zishan City, and along a wide avenue paved with purple marrow copper, it took them nearly half an hour to finally arrive at the ancestral land of the zombies.
The place where the breath of darkness is thickest in the Jiuyou River Basin, the mountain where the ancestor of the zombie clan was born, the Zombie Ancestor Ridge.
