Tasks Underway

Option One: Locust Incarnation.

Option Two: Ember Dwarf Incarnation.

Option Three: Sword Wind Tribe Incarnation.

Option Four: Skeleton Lord Incarnation (Weakened) (Incomplete) (Sealed).

The retinue incarnations had actually been options generated after tallying every retinue race within Han Wu's divine realm.

Han Wu was the first to rule out the Locust Incarnation.

Choosing an incarnation that could only self-destruct was simply seeking death.

The Ember Dwarf Incarnation was far superior to the Locust Incarnation, but compared to the Sword Wind Tribe Incarnation that followed, it fell far short.

What Han Wu struggled over was whether to choose the Sword Wind Tribe Incarnation or the Skeleton Lord Incarnation.

The Sword Wind Tribe Incarnation was unquestionably a Hero Level Lifeform. Its practical combat ability was exceedingly high—a truly terrifying existence capable of fighting a thousand alone.

But Option Four, the Skeleton Lord Incarnation, was Lord Level!

Higher than Hero Grade!

And it belonged to the undead, allowing it to avoid the corruption of the demonic energy within the Demon Abyss.

Though the three negative conditions it carried severely affected its strength, its overall advantages still surpassed those of the Sword Wind Tribe.

After thinking it over and over, Han Wu made his choice.

He chose the Skeleton Lord Incarnation!

In the next instant, his body shrank to one meter. His flesh vanished, leaving behind only jade-white bones.

Han Wu now looked exactly like Little Skeleton.

Han Wu touched his bare skull. Soul Fire burned silently within his hollow eye sockets.

The demonic energy drifting through the air had no adverse effect on him. Instead, it made him feel quite comfortable.

The Demon Abyss truly is a paradise for undead and Demonic Beasts, Han Wu marveled inwardly.

After selecting his incarnation, Han Wu began summoning his retinue.

The examination rules stipulated that each student could summon their retinue only once per day, and each summoning was limited to one hundred retinue members.

Thus, Han Wu summoned one hundred Gluttonous Locusts that were Elite Lifeforms, intending to test the waters first.

The moment the hundred Gluttonous Locusts were teleported to the Demon Abyss Plane, they were assailed by demonic energy.

In less than an hour, ninety-four of the hundred Gluttonous Locusts had died. Of the remaining six, three were barely clinging to life, while the other three had been infected by demonic energy and were mutating into Demonic Locusts.

Han Wu had expected this result.

To living creatures, demonic energy was like poison.

To avoid being corroded to death by demonic energy, becoming a Demonic Creature was the best choice.

But after creatures became demonized, they often lost their reason and turned incomparably brutal.

Yet that did not matter for Locusts.

Locusts had no intelligence to begin with. Even after becoming demonized, they would still faithfully obey the instructions of Han Wu, their god.

Only after the three Locusts completed their mutation did Han Wu officially begin his assessment journey.

By observing his surroundings and comparing them to the map included in the examination materials, he roughly determined his current location.

Pulling up the task list, Han Wu quickly picked out the tasks nearby.

Task 49: Gather 100 Bone Demon Fruits... Reward: 20 Assessment Points.

Task 280: Clear out a Flesh Puppet nest... Reward: 60 Assessment Points, one random Level 1 holy relic.

Task 423: Mine 100 pieces of Demonic Flame Ore... Reward: 50 Assessment Points, one random piece of Faith Equipment.

Of the three tasks, gathering Bone Demon Fruits was the easiest. Han Wu decided to start with the simple one.

Following the map's directions, Han Wu brought the three Demonic Locusts to a pitch-black forest.

The fruits on the black trees, with black skins marked by skull patterns, were the Bone Demon Fruits mentioned in the task.

Han Wu was currently just a small skeleton frame and could not conveniently climb trees, so he had the three Demonic Locusts pick the fruit for him.

Compared to ordinary Locusts, Demonic Locusts possessed sharper serrated teeth.

They moved quickly and soon bit off one hundred Bone Demon Fruits.

Han Wu piled them together and sealed them into a card, preparing to submit the task.

Low growls rose from underground.

Han Wu looked down and saw corpses crawling out of the soil.

Some were severely decayed, leaving only heaps of dry bones. Others still had bits of rotten flesh clinging to them, their bodies surrounded by green, foul-smelling vapor.

Fortunately, Han Wu had no nose while in his Skeleton Lord Incarnation. Otherwise, these rotting corpses would have stunk him to death.

These rotting corpses had no intelligence, retaining only the instinct to attack.

They shuffled slowly toward Han Wu.

Han Wu had been wanting to test the strength of this retinue incarnation.

He raised his little bone claw, took a swift stride forward, and pierced straight through a rotting corpse's chest.

The rotting corpse was undead. Even if its heart were removed, it meant nothing to it.

It still had the strength to swing an arm at Han Wu, trying to strike back.

How could Han Wu let a mere rotting corpse have its way? With one swipe of his bone claw, he sent its head flying.

Only after losing its head did the rotting corpse finally die.

Han Wu repeated the process, easily eliminating the twenty rotting corpses that had crawled from the ground before gaining a moment of peace.

"Seriously, twenty Assessment Points are already this troublesome. Just how difficult must a task worth a full hundred points be?" After storing the Bone Demon Fruits in a card and submitting the task to obtain the points, Han Wu searched through the task list.

In the end, he found a task worth one hundred Assessment Points.

Task 500: Slay the Dark Frogman demigod... Reward: 100 Assessment Points, 1 point of divinity, 1,000 Class Points.

"It's actually slaying a demigod. I'm scared, I'm scared. I'd better honestly do tasks and save up points." Han Wu admitted defeat.

Even the weakest demigod possessed five points of divinity and commanded at least a batch of believers numbering in the tens of thousands.

That was not something Han Wu, who currently had only three Demonic Locusts, could afford to provoke.

After closing the task list, Han Wu saw the three Demonic Locusts gnawing on the corpses of the rotting undead.

He immediately felt somewhat nauseated.

Though he did not even have a stomach now.

Turning back to look at the forest, Han Wu saw that many Bone Demon Fruits still remained on the black trees.

An idea flashed through Han Wu's mind.

He immediately ordered the Demonic Locusts to pick every Bone Demon Fruit in the forest.

The three Demonic Locusts could only temporarily give up eating and work hard on the task Han Wu had assigned them.

In the blink of an eye, a day passed, and every Bone Demon Fruit in the forest had been gathered into Han Wu's hands.

He sealed every hundred Bone Demon Fruits into a card, ultimately obtaining forty cards.

From another angle, that could perhaps be considered eight hundred Assessment Points.

Task 49 was a repeatable task, and everyone could complete it once.

Though Han Wu could no longer submit it himself.

Other students could.

Trading some supplies for twenty Assessment Points—he believed other students would be willing.

With that thought, Han Wu pulled up the communication interface and opened the class group chat.

"Anyone want the one hundred Bone Demon Fruits required for Task 49? Bartering is acceptable too."

The moment that message was sent, the entire group fell deathly silent.

After waiting a full ten seconds without receiving a warning from their homeroom teacher, Tian Wen, the group instantly exploded.

"You can play it like that? Isn't this cheating? This has to be cheating, right?!"

"What the hell do you know? This is called resource integration. Great God Han, I want one set of Bone Demon Fruits. I'll offer fifty divine power."

"I want one too. I'll offer fifty divine power."

"Only resources obtained within this plane may be used for trade. Violators will receive one warning. Three warnings will result in disqualification from the assessment." Homeroom teacher Tian Wen finally replied.

For a time, the group became even livelier. Many students traded with Han Wu, and Han Wu answered them one by one.

"Thirty Dark Frogman hides for one set of Bone Demon Fruits. Deal?" "Deal."

"One hundred zombie fangs for one set of Bone Demon Fruits." "Deal."

"Twenty black death herbs for one set of Bone Demon Fruits, please!" "Get lost!"

Watching the communication interface, Zhang Xiaolong, incarnated as an Abyssal Dragon, sneered inwardly. I was still worrying about how to find you, yet you actually dared to expose your location. Let's see how you die this time!

With that, Zhang Xiaolong charged toward Han Wu's location.

Behind Zhang Xiaolong, one hundred hellhounds followed close behind.