Chapter 696: Frenzied Harvesting

Meanwhile.

In front of the relic entrance of the Abyss of Mist.

Zhou Huai's consciousness descended upon the body of the Great Sage Li Er.

In those eyes, which were originally as calm as an ancient well, flashed an extremely human-like shrewdness and cold sharpness.

"Are you still not completely dead?"

In his mind, the System remained quiet, and no prompt tone regarding killing the Human Sovereign or issuing rewards for pacifying the ruins popped up.

This meant that the once-defiant Human Sovereign of the old era had managed to keep a breath of life after experiencing the world-destroying thunder baptism of the will of heaven!

"This old fellow's life is really tougher than usual."

Zhou Huai sneered in his heart.

But this was merely having a tough life.

Under that level of heavenly punishment, the forced reshaping of flesh and blood failed, and the Dharma body was shattered. Even if that Human Sovereign was not dead yet, he must be completely exhausted.

"Naturally, one should pick the soft persimmons to squeeze."

"Take your life while you are sick. Not beating such a drowning dog is simply intolerable by heaven and earth!"

Zhou Huai calculated intently.

He looked down from the edge of the cave.

The densely packed skeleton army that had previously surged outward like a black tide had now retreated completely, leaving not even a scrap of bone behind.

Clearly, after being struck down into the abyss, that Human Sovereign had contracted all his remaining power in order to self-preserve and fled back into the imperial palace deep within the ruins.

"At a time like this, having too many people is actually a burden."

Zhou Huai pondered slightly and chose not to transfer manpower from the Great Xia Military Department or the Eternal Night Guild.

With a thought, he issued only a short command: "Xiang Yu, come over!"

Swish!

A towering, iron-tower-like figure with an unmatched Overlord aura appeared by Li Er's side.

"Let's go!"

Without any hesitation, Zhou Huai controlled Li Er, and together with Xiang Yu, one in front and one behind, leaped directly into that dim abyss cave.

As soon as they passed through the long corridor and entered the bottom plaza of the Abyss of Mist.

Roar—!

Hiss hiss hiss—!

A scalp-tingling roar rushed towards them like a tsunami.

At the bottom of the abyss, large batches of undead skeletons, like evil ghosts that had smelled the aura of living people, surged crazily from all directions and every dark corner, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they lunged to kill Li Er and Xiang Yu.

Burning with deep blue Soul fire in their eye sockets and brandishing rusted ancient weapons in their hands, their number was so vast that one could not see the end at a glance.

However, facing this overwhelming tide of the undead, Zhou Huai's heart did not even ripple.

The next second.

Hum—!

Around Li Er, that layer of previously restrained golden body of Karma suddenly burst into brilliant light!

The brilliant golden Buddha light and Daoist pure Qi intertwined, illuminating a dazzling scorching sun in the dark abyss!

This golden light of Karma was an auspicious sign like bathing in a spring breeze for living beings, but for these undead skeletons condensed from Death Qi and resentment, it was the most fatal sulfuric acid!

It had an extremely terrifying absolute restraint effect!

Chi chi chi—!

The front row of skeletons charging ahead had not even had time to swing their weapons; the moment they touched the spreading golden light of Karma, they were like residual snow under the scorching sun, making a harsh corrosive sound.

Their hard dark golden skeletons cracked and melted inch by inch under the illumination of the golden light.

Along with the Soul fire in their eye sockets, they were forcibly purified by this righteous Qi and shattered into a ground of bone powder!

However, the skeleton army had no sense of pain, and the monsters in the rear were still surging forward one after another.

At this moment, Zhou Huai was full of confidence.

That act of righteousness just now had allowed him to wildly earn ten million Karma points from the Heavenly Dao.

Li Er was currently in an unprecedentedly wealthy state!

Moreover, standing beside him was Xiang Yu, whose health bar was bottomless and who was specifically responsible for resisting backslash.

"Since you are so anxious to seek death, I will show mercy and send you on your way."

Zhou Huai chanted silently in his heart.

On Li Er's wrinkle-filled old face, there was neither sorrow nor joy.

He simply raised his right hand and gently waved the wide sleeve of his Daoist robe toward the tsunami-like surging skeleton frenzy ahead.

His aged lips parted slightly, casually spitting out a sentence:

"Dissipate."

Word of Law!

Boom—!!!

An invisible yet extremely domineering power of rules, centered on Li Er, heavily crushed forward in a fan shape!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

A continuous stream of explosions blasted in the abyss!

Within the vast area directly in front of Li Er, spanning hundreds of meters, large areas of skeleton warriors were hit as if by an invisible giant hammer.

Their movements came to an abrupt halt, and then their entire skeletons collapsed, transforming into white dust all over the sky!

Like a sandcastle disintegrating in a violent wind, they didn't even have room to resist!

What was even more crucial—

After falling to the ground, those skeletons that turned into dust no longer pieced themselves back together and resurrected under the eerie gravitational pull like before.

The Death Qi was completely cut off!

"It seems my deduction was correct."

Seeing this scene, Zhou Huai's heart settled greatly.

"That Human Sovereign has become so weak that he doesn't even have the surplus energy to maintain the infinite resurrection of these skeletons."

Facing this terrifying strike that was like divine punishment, the remaining skeletons that had not been affected finally felt fear originating from the depths of their Souls.

The deep blue flames in their eye sockets flickered violently, and they dared not take another step forward.

Every time Zhou Huai controlled Li Er to take a step forward, the undead army that had once been fearless of death retreated a step backward instead.

The sabers and spears in their hands hung low, filled with uncontrollable dread toward the white-haired old man radiating golden light in front of them.

They wanted to retreat.

However…

Zhou Huai did not intend to let them off.

Because just at the instant when that large patch of skeletons turned into dust,

in Zhou Huai's mind, the System prompt tones began to frantically flood the screen like a crazy typewriter!

[Ding! Killed ancient undead soldier, obtained Karma points: 1,000 points!]

[Ding! Killed ancient undead soldier, obtained Karma points: 1,000 points!]

[Ding! Killed ancient undead lieutenant, obtained Karma points: 5,000 points!]

…

The dense prompt tones stunned Zhou Huai for a moment.

He quickly pulled out the panel to take a glance and gasped.

"Every single most ordinary skeleton can actually provide a full one thousand Karma points?!"

You must know that with just that casual word-spirit statement just now, over a thousand undead skeletons were instantly killed within a vast range!

In just the blink of an eye, the Karma points gained amounted to over one million!

Correspondingly,

the consumed magic power and the triggered Heavenly Dao backlash transferred to Xiang Yu only caused Xiang Yu's health bar to drop very slightly. Xiang Yu even automatically recovered to full in two seconds relying on his own recovery ability!

Trading a negligible word-spirit backlash for a million-level Karma return!

What kind of concept was this?

This was simply a guaranteed, highly profitable money printing machine!

"Good fellow…"

Zhou Huai's eyes became extremely bright in the darkness, and his breathing couldn't help but grow a bit hurried.

Now, these skeletons all over the ground were no longer terrifying monsters in his eyes.

These were clearly stacks of walking golden Karma wallets!

"Want to run?"

Zhou Huai smiled cruelly and excitedly.

"Since you've all come out, then stay here! Then I can let you off even less!"