Lord Little Skeleton

Han Wu immediately split off a portion of his consciousness to inspect the situation.

Having located God Hammer, chieftain of the Ember Dwarves, Han Wu's Divinity Avatar descended.

He saw God Hammer fighting a skeleton.

God Hammer wielded a Faith Weapon modeled after the Purgatory War Hammer, and every swing roared with fierce momentum.

His opponent, meanwhile, was a Little Skeleton only one meter tall. Its entire skeleton was like white jade, crystalline and translucent, looking like a work of art.

It reminded Han Wu of the Skeleton Lord that had appeared in the twenty-first wave of the unified examination.

The Little Skeleton and the Skeleton Lord looked as though they had been cast from the same mold.

As Han Wu patiently watched their battle, he discovered that the Little Skeleton's combat power was terrifyingly strong.

Its tiny bone claws collided with the Faith Weapon war hammer, easily leaving Claw Marks on the hammer.

Yet its bone claws suffered not the slightest damage.

"Impressive!" Han Wu instinctively used his divine authority, intending to inspect the Little Skeleton's information.

The attempt failed.

The system informed him that the Little Skeleton was not Han Wu's believer, and that Han Wu lacked any scouting methods, making him unable to view its information.

Han Wu was helpless.

Seeing that God Hammer was no match for the Little Skeleton either, he hurriedly issued a Divine Decree, calling Sword Wind Iron Cutter over to fight.

Worthy of being a Heroic Lifeform, Sword Wind Iron Cutter took the field and shattered the Little Skeleton into a scattered pile of bones with a single Whirlwind Slash.

Yet in the blink of an eye, the scattered bones reassembled, and the Little Skeleton leaped at Sword Wind Iron Cutter once more.

Sword Wind Iron Cutter struck again, shattering the Little Skeleton, but it soon returned to its original state.

Han Wu noticed that the Little Skeleton took one second longer to recover the second time than it had the first.

He guessed that being shattered did not leave the Little Skeleton entirely unharmed.

Sure enough, as the Little Skeleton was smashed apart again and again, its recovery speed gradually slowed, and its strength weakened as well.

Han Wu took the opportunity to step forward and persuade it. "Submit to me. Believe in me, and you will be reborn."

The Little Skeleton answered with a swipe of its bone claw, tearing apart Han Wu's Divinity Avatar in defiance.

Han Wu sneered. So long as his divine realm remained unbroken, his Divinity Avatar could exist forever.

"Keep fighting. Beat it until it submits," Han Wu issued a Divine Decree.

Sword Wind Iron Cutter and God Hammer carried it out to the letter.

Three days later, Sword Wind Iron Cutter and God Hammer arrived at the temple carrying a pile of lusterless bones.

A faint female voice prayed within Han Wu's mind.

"I... am willing... to submit... to the god..."

Han Wu's Divine Incarnation appeared in the temple and, greatly pleased, patted the Little Skeleton's smooth, bare skull.

Not bad. It actually felt pretty nice.

He used his divine authority to inspect the believer's information.

The Little Skeleton's information appeared before Han Wu.

Kin Name: Skeleton Race

Kin Rank: Lord Undead (Weakened) (Incomplete) (Sealed)

Kin Talents: Crystal Bone, Revival.

Faith Rank: General Believer.

Faith Power: 1,000,000/day.

Han Wu blinked hard. Huh? Where had the Little Skeleton's Life Cycle gone?

But on closer thought, the Skeleton Race belonged to the undead. They were dead things to begin with and simply had no Life Cycle.

What Han Wu found hard to believe was that the Little Skeleton before him was actually a Lord Lifeform.

Though it bore three negative statuses, the essence of a Lord Lifeform remained. With proper cultivation, perhaps the Little Skeleton could regain the splendor of a Lord Lifeform.

Just as Han Wu was imagining the Little Skeleton's future glory, its prayer sounded in his mind again.

"God... I... am hungry..."

Han Wu hesitated.

The Little Skeleton said it was hungry, but it certainly could not eat normal flesh and blood.

After all, its chest cavity was open at a glance, and it did not even possess digestive organs.

"I... want... Bone Material..."

The Little Skeleton's prayer became clearer.

Han Wu slapped his hand against his forehead. It wanted bones? It should've said so sooner.

He issued a Divine Decree, ordering the Locust to bring back a large quantity of Flesh Puppet bones.

Little Skeleton hurriedly pounced on them, hugging the bones as it absorbed the Bone Energy contained within.

A leg bone longer than its own body took a full minute to drain dry.

The bone turned into dead, withered remains, while Little Skeleton's own bones gained a faint gleam.

Han Wu frowned. At this rate of absorption, Little Skeleton would need at least three to five days just to recover to its previous state, let alone grow stronger.

Han Wu immediately ordered that a large number of Flesh Puppet bones be thrown into the Decomposition Machine to extract pure Bone Crystals.

Before long, a Bone Crystal was delivered.

The Soul Fire in Little Skeleton's eye sockets leaped wildly.

If the bones it had just absorbed were steamed buns, then the Bone Crystal before it was a Manchu-Han imperial feast.

"God... give... to me. I... want..." Little Skeleton prayed impatiently.

Only then did Han Wu order the Bone Crystal handed over to Little Skeleton.

Hugging the fist-sized Bone Crystal, Little Skeleton absorbed it with all its strength, and the bones making up its body swiftly regained their luster.

"Follow me, and there will be even more Bone Crystals for you to absorb in the future," Han Wu said.

Within Little Skeleton's eye sockets, its Soul Fire flickered madly.

It actually rose from a General Believer to a True Believer in one leap. The Faith Power it offered each day increased tenfold as well, reaching ten million—one-tenth of a unit of divine power.

Han Wu could not help but marvel. Lord Lifeforms really were formidable. Even a Lord Lifeform under three layers of negative status effects could still crush ten million Heavenly Demon Insects in terms of faith.

After settling Little Skeleton in, Han Wu noticed the unguarded envy in Sword Wind Iron Cutter and God Hammer's eyes whenever they looked at Little Skeleton.

The two were envious that Little Skeleton had Bone Crystals to absorb.

As a god, Han Wu had to care for every one of his followers.

So Han Wu waved his hand grandly and went to the shop to buy Wind Attribute Ore and Fire Attribute Ore—one hundred million divine power's worth!

He had the Decomposition Machine continuously produce Wind Attribute and Fire Attribute Energy Crystals.

If his followers could not use them all, he could sell them. Either way, he would not lose money.

Han Wu saved the remaining divine power to buy Flesh Puppets for the Locust.

After handling everything, Han Wu checked the time. It was 7:59 in the real world.

Time to go to school.

The next instant, Han Wu's figure teleported into the classroom.

A minute later, the Homeroom Teacher, Tian Wen, entered the classroom and announced, "Students, are you ready to face a new challenge?"