Apocalypse Version

Mysterious, Myth, and Apocalypse. These were the three versions Lu Yan could choose from this time.

When he saw the information for the three versions, Lu Yan instinctively furrowed his brows. None of these three versions were easy to deal with.

There was no need to say much about the Mysterious version. It was a high-risk version involving True Gods and the Ancient Days. According to the information, even extraordinary powers were extremely dangerous things within the Mysterious version.

Such a dangerous version was clearly not suitable for Lu Yan, who had just entered the Qi Refining Stage, to explore.

The Myth version, strictly speaking, should be a rule-based Myth game.

In the face of the rules of the rule-based Myth game, low-level cultivators were almost no different from ordinary people. Unless they had means to leverage the rules, the Myth game was definitely not a good choice.

As for the Apocalypse version, it had already appeared in the previous version update.

However, in the previous three options, the Apocalypse version was the dangerous one.

But in this set of options, the Apocalypse version was the safest one.

Roughly looking at it, the post-apocalyptic world seemed very dangerous, but whether it was a Nuclear Apocalypse or a Zombie Apocalypse, the dangers within were at least traceable.

With little room for thought, Lu Yan decisively made his choice.

"Update, Apocalypse Version!"

The next moment, the world outside the window began to undergo earth-shattering changes.

Brand new, prosperous skyscrapers were replaced by dilapidated tall buildings. Faded yellow marks remained on the buildings, as if from the erosion of time.

Large areas of low-rise houses had long turned into ruins, and the city's roads were covered with car wrecks. Looking out, it was like a city that had long since died.

Lu Yan looked at the house he was in. The furniture in the room was in disarray. Many wooden furniture pieces had even been dismantled and used for burning. There was trash everywhere on the floor.

"Is this the world after the apocalypse?"

Lu Yan curiously surveyed everything.

The city looked like it had been abandoned for decades, with no signs of any life activity.

After exploring the room for a while, Lu Yan found that almost all valuable things in the room had been looted, and there was no food.

The tap water and electricity had been cut off for who knows how many years. Only on a discarded desk did he find a calendar, with the time frozen at 2012.

But this exploration was not without good news.

Lu Yan could sense that the spiritual energy concentration in the Apocalypse version was at least ten times higher than in the Urban version.

Since he hadn't cultivated in the Xianxia version, Lu Yan wasn't sure what the spiritual energy concentration was in the Xianxia version, but it was clear that the spiritual energy concentration in the Apocalypse version was already sufficient to support Lu Yan's cultivation.

Even cultivating diligently in the Apocalypse version for three months would be a quite profitable deal for Lu Yan.

"The most lacking thing in the Apocalypse version should be supplies.

Fortunately, to cope with the version update, I prepared three months of food and daily necessities in advance. They can come in handy now.

However, this room is uninhabitable. I should first find a more suitable room to temporarily stay in, and then explore the dangers of the Apocalypse version."

Lu Yan guided his right hand and took out several Spirit Talismans from his Storage Bag. He held a few talismans in his palm and then walked out of the room.

This was an old-style building. Lu Yan was on the seventh floor in the middle. The hallway was full of residual trash and dried blood. There were even a few corpses piled up in some rooms, but after who knows how much time, they had long turned into white bones.

Lu Yan had anticipated this and began searching for a suitable house to live in, but most of the houses had already been trashed, with some even piled high with large amounts of feces.

It was clear that since the water supply was cut off and normal toilets couldn't be flushed, these houses were being used as public restrooms by survivors.

It wasn't until he was almost at the top floor that Lu Yan found a house with its door closed.

Glancing at the old anti-theft door lock, Lu Yan flicked his finger, condensing Mana to destroy the already rusted and decayed lock cylinder, and pushed open the door.

The room was also a mess, with large patches of dried bloodstains on the floor. However, compared to the houses that had been completely ruined, this place was clearly much cleaner.

But Lu Yan didn't let his guard down because of this; instead, he vigilantly observed his surroundings.

All the other houses had been thoroughly trashed, yet this one remained intact. No one would believe there wasn't something wrong here.

Just as Lu Yan approached the bedroom, abloody wind accompanied by a hoarse roar suddenly struck. What appeared before Lu Yan was a zombie whose entire body had already rotted.

Having been prepared, the Spirit Talisman in Lu Yan's palm flickered, and an ice cone instantly condensed in the void, stabbing towards the zombie in front of him. The spreading ice instantly froze it.

However, the danger was far from over. The zombie's roar seemed to trigger a switch, and more zombies rushed out from inside the room. There were actually more than ten zombies in the small bedroom.

Lu Yan immediately realized that it must have been the survivors who had deliberately lured the zombies in and then locked the door to trap them.

Their flesh and blood had long since rotted, and many of the zombies had even lost their vocal cords, unable to even let out a roar.

Yet, these rotten zombies still displayed agility far exceeding that of normal people.

Lu Yan's expression turned serious. These zombies didn't pose a high threat to him; he could easily kill them by using Spirit Talismans.

But Lu Yan had a limited number of Spirit Talismans. If he spent so many just on this initial exploration, what would he do if he encountered stronger zombies later?

Forming a hand seal, a Soul Banner instantly appeared in Lu Yan's hand. With a wave of the Soul Banner, four Vengeful Souls comparable to the Qi Refining Stage flew out from the Soul Banner and pounced on the more than ten zombies.

The eerie ghostly energy condensed into frost, slowing down the zombies, while the ghostly claws directly pierced into the zombies' largely decayed bodies.

As the ghostly claws were withdrawn, a phantom soul appeared in the Vengeful Soul's hand. The zombie's rotten body collapsed as if it had lost its support, and its flesh and blood accelerated their decay at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a skeleton in an instant.

Lu Yan was stunned for a moment, then his face filled with pleasant surprise:

"These zombies... they actually have souls?"

"No! It should be said that it is precisely because they have souls that these bodies, which should have long since decayed, have been able to survive until now."

The methods of Vengeful Souls at the Qi Refining Stage were mostly only effective against souls. Lu Yan had thought they would be of little use against zombies.

But who would have thought that these bodies, which looked like they were almost completely rotten, actually still had souls remaining? Moreover, their soul strength was far weaker than that of normal people. The Vengeful Souls faced with a dozen zombies with weakened souls were completely engaged in a one-sided slaughter.

Every time the ghostly claws flashed, they could easily strip away the souls attached to the bodies, while the zombies' attacks had no effect on the Vengeful Souls.

In just one minute, all the zombies turned into skeletons, leaving only fifteen phantom wandering souls in the room.