"The key in my hand was something the Ghost King had concealed and left for me. Based on this, Azathoth determined that the Ghost King had hidden things from him back then. Thus, he knew the Ghost King must have left behind many arrangements for future generations. This group of confidants who vanished after the Ghost King's fall, along with the vast number of ghost creature soldiers from the Sunken Ghost Realm, had all been calculated by Azathoth. Therefore, he intended to wipe out every force of the Sunken Ghost Realm gathered here."
Zhang Chen scrutinized the ghost creatures before him. The so-called three confidants were all True Ghosts, with True Ghost Body completion rates of at least thirty percent. In particular, the young man who had swallowed Xi Chan's poison in one gulp earlier—Zhang Chen estimated that his True Ghost completion rate exceeded fifty percent.
"At present, we have three of the Ghost King's confidants, an army of ghost creatures, Ghost Tomb, Guo Chen, and me. In just the past few minutes, I absorbed the ghost source aura flowing through the Sunken Ghost Realm via the King's Mark, raising my True Ghost Body completion rate from 52.1% to 60%."
"But after Azathoth used Chaos Tentacles to seal this place off completely, my connection to the outside world weakened and my absorption rate dropped. Reaching one hundred percent completion here is absolutely impossible. I need to find a way..."
Zhang Chen's gaze quickly shifted to Jia Xin at the back of the crowd.
Jia Xin gave him a subtle look. This signal was not telling Zhang Chen to surrender without resistance; it carried another meaning.
"Lowly ghost creatures, even if the Ghost King were to submit to me completely, you would still be of no use."
After completely sealing off