White-haired Zhang Chen, his entire body shrouded in ghostly shadows, dragged the greatsword "Tooth Cleaver" across the ground in his right hand.
When an undead being resembling an old man approached Zhang Chen, its body swiftly fused with the surrounding sand and earth, transforming into a sandman ten times larger than Zhang Chen.
"Die! Intruder..."
As the gigantic arm crushed down toward Zhang Chen below, a dark flash of blade light streaked through the air. The entire sand-grain arm was severed at its midpoint, along with its head.
Zhang Chen, descending from the air, held a gray gaseous mass in his hand—the old man's core as an undead being.
However, when Zhang Chen tried to swallow it using the Devourer Ghost's ability, he discovered a rule barrier beyond his comprehension blocking his throat. He simply could not consume a Death Spirit Core within the Void.
Such rules originated from a higher-dimensional universe several levels above Zhang Chen. It was like a human playing an online game being unable to eat the food within the game. This was the Void. As a creature not belonging here, Zhang Chen trying to obtain material energy from native undead was something the rules absolutely did not permit.
Zhang Chen cut through countless obstacles along the way, killing hundreds of undead. Since the Death Spirit Cores could not be devoured, he could only let them drift away on the sandstorm winds.
"Though these undead are weak, such numbers charging at us without fear of death are directly accelerating the depletion of our vitality."
"It can't be helped. The two of us living beings are in a Void that completely rejects life, like two drops of fresh blood in a cave filled with bloodsucking worms. The Void Port opened by Azathoth lies at the boundary of