Version Update Begins

Tens of thousands of zombies vanished into the black mist, as if they had been swallowed without the slightest power to resist.

The black mist expanded outward at an unimaginable speed, even moving several notches faster than the Gigantic Zombie King's pace.

In just a few seconds, the black mist caught up with the Gigantic Zombie King and drowned that indestructible giant.

The black mist devoured everything. Naturally, the four of them were no exception.

The four felt as though they had fallen into the underworld. A chill that came from their very souls continuously swept through the black mist.

"Where is this?"

Someone asked, but no one responded.

As the strongest person present, Li Kang immediately regained his composure after the initial shock.

Using the surrounding buildings to determine their position, Li Kang pointed toward the direction away from Jiao City.

"Although we haven't seen any danger yet, we should leave Jiao City first no matter what and report this matter to the upper levels of the settlement."

The other three nodded repeatedly and immediately fled along the route they had taken to come here.

However, just after they had run several hundred meters, a deafening roar exploded within the black mist.

"Roar!!!"

A vast stretch of black mist was forcibly scattered. In the distance, the more-than-ten-meter-tall Gigantic Zombie King was fighting with all its might.

The creature fighting this terrifying fourth-tier being was an extremely strange lifeform in Li Kang and the others' eyes.

It seemed to have been stitched together from countless Vengeful Souls. Its several-dozen-meter-tall body was covered from head to toe in countless numb, twisted faces.

Its enormous Ghost Claw swept through the black mist, and all the dead souls on its body wailed in unison. The sound seemed capable of freezing the soul.

Even though Li Kang and the others were several hundred meters away, they could still feel their souls trembling. Negative emotions such as fear and unease seemed to solidify and swallow them whole.

The Gigantic Zombie King was driven back again and again before this strange Vengeful Soul, while the transcendent power surging around its body rapidly weakened.

The Gigantic Zombie King had not failed to attempt a counterattack, but every time the transcendent power carried by its terrifying heavy fist descended, most of it was devoured by the surrounding black mist. The remaining strength, combined with the physical attack, was simply insufficient to shake this stitched-together Vengeful Soul.

Anyone could see that the Gigantic Zombie King's defeat and death were only a matter of time.

Within the black mist, even more Vengeful Souls slowly emerged and advanced toward Li Kang and the others, who had stumbled in by accident. In an instant, several hundred Vengeful Souls had surrounded them completely.

"Terrifying undead capable of fighting a Zombie King, and this gloomy Specter Ghost Domain as well... What exactly happened to the ruins of Jiao City?"

Li Kang's eyes were filled with despair.

Just then, a voice rang out from within the black mist.

"Who are you?"

The moment the voice sounded, the numerous Vengeful Souls stopped moving. Their bodies dispersed and merged into the black mist.

The four survivors looked toward the voice, only to see a person standing amid the roiling black mist. His entire body was wrapped in the gloomy mist, leaving only the vague outline of a human figure visible.

He merely stood there, as if he were the center of the entire black mist. A terrifying aura that made people tremble radiated from him.

Was he human?

Li Kang's heart was filled with confusion, but faced with this figure who had appeared within the black mist, he did not dare ask. Instead, he respectfully answered the question:

"Honored sir, we are transcendent beings from the Seventy-Third Settlement. We came to Jiao City to search for supplies."

Within the Ghost Mist, Lu Yan held the Hundred Soul Banner and curiously sized up the four transcendent beings before him.

They were the first living people he had seen in the three months since entering the Apocalypse Version.

Ever since he had killed the Peak Qi Refining Transcendent Zombie Bloodbeard and refined it into a Main Soul, elevating the Soul Banner into the Top Grade Magic Tool Hundred Soul Banner, Lu Yan had relied on killing zombies to accumulate Vengeful Souls.

For more than two months, Lu Yan had refined zombie wandering souls day and night, accumulating a full eight hundred Vengeful Souls. He had swept all the zombies from the outskirts of the city.

Every one of those Vengeful Souls was at the Third Layer Qi Refining, while the Main Soul Warrior, Bloodbeard, had reached Peak Qi Refining under Lu Yan's nourishment.

Once the Soul Banner emerged, it evolved into the Specter Ghost Domain. Had Lu Yan not been held back by his failure to break through, those eight hundred Vengeful Souls might even have advanced to Mid-Stage Qi Refinement under the nourishment of the numerous wandering souls.

After accumulating power for three months, today was the perfect time to initiate a Version Update. Lu Yan had decided to see whether he could hunt a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Zombie King.

A Foundation Establishment Realm soul was considered precious material even in the Xianxia Version.

Lu Yan had deliberately chosen the weakest of the several Zombie Kings: the Gigantic Zombie King, which had only advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm two months ago. Thus began today's hunt.

The main attacker was Bloodbeard, the Main Soul Lu Yan had refined earlier.

After becoming the Main Soul, Bloodbeard had converted the transcendent power of the zombies it had once fused with into the Talent Spell, Soul Fusion Technique.

By gathering the power of four hundred Vengeful Souls at Peak Qi Refining, Bloodbeard had directly caused the Gigantic Vengeful Soul it fused to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, brutally suppressing the Gigantic Zombie King.

Overcome by fear, the Gigantic Zombie King had summoned a zombie horde and chosen to flee. That was what had led to the scene earlier.

Lu Yan paid no attention to the battle between the Gigantic Zombie King and Bloodbeard. The moment the Zombie King fled, the outcome had already been decided.

By comparison, Lu Yan was more curious about the four transcendent beings before him and the settlement they had mentioned.

With Lu Yan's insight, he could naturally tell that three of the four transcendent beings, all young men, were in the early Qi Refining Stage, while the scar-faced man was in the Late Stage Qi Refining.

Such strength was not weak in this ruined city. No wonder they had dared to venture inside.

If they had arrived a few days earlier, Lu Yan might still have been willing to communicate with them and confirm the situation of the Apocalypse Version and its transcendent system.

But a new round of Version Update was about to begin, and Lu Yan still needed to harvest the Gigantic Zombie King's soul in advance. He had no time to waste on them.

With a casual wave of his right hand, a path opened within the ghost domain. Lu Yan pointed toward it.

"Follow this road and you can leave the city."

Everyone was overjoyed. The three young men hurriedly bowed and thanked Lu Yan, then fled along the road.

Only Li Kang hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and taking three orange rhomboid gems from his robes. He respectfully offered them to Lu Yan.

"Thank you for showing us the way, honored sir. I have nothing to repay you with, so I can only offer you these three Sun Stones."

Lu Yan's pupils trembled slightly. At a glance, he could tell that the gems contained a vast amount of Great Sun Spiritual Energy.

Although the sunlight during the day contained some Great Sun Spiritual Energy, it was extremely sparse, and Lu Yan had never figured out what it did.

The Great Sun Spiritual Energy within these three Sun Stones nearly exceeded the total amount he had absorbed during his three months of cultivation. They were absolutely rare treasures.

A hint of satisfaction entered Lu Yan's gaze as he used his magic power to draw the three Sun Stones over.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Yan took out all the supplies remaining in his Storage Bag.

As his cultivation advanced, his need for food had gradually decreased. The supplies Lu Yan had prepared for three months were still more than half intact.

These foods and drinks should be worth quite a bit in the Apocalypse Version.

With a wave of his hand, Lu Yan used his magic power to erase all the writing that might reveal information, then sent all the supplies to Li Kang.

"I won't take your things for nothing. Use these as an exchange."

Looking at the cases of Happy Water, self-heating meals, instant noodles, and clean bottled water Lu Yan had left behind, Li Kang froze on the spot.

As someone who had personally survived the Apocalypse Version, he no longer remembered how many years it had been since he had seen these things.

Even the transcendent beings at the very top of the settlement could not enjoy supplies this precious. They were enough to make the settlement's influential figures fight over them, and their value far exceeded that of the three Sun Stones.

Li Kang trembled with excitement and repeatedly said:

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!"

However, when he shifted his gaze away from the supplies, he discovered that the figure within the Ghost Mist had vanished at some point. Even the sky-obscuring Specter Ghost Domain had disappeared with it.

Only an enormous skeleton remained in the street.

One kilometer away, inside an abandoned building, Bloodbeard and numerous Vengeful Souls were suppressing a powerful soul. It was the soul of the Foundation Establishment Zombie King they had fought earlier.

Lu Yan swept the Soul Banner in his hand, suppressing the Zombie King's soul into the Hundred Soul Banner.

This was Lu Yan's first time hunting a Foundation Establishment Zombie King. He had already decided to refine it into a Main Soul, but his cultivation was still an entire major realm below the Zombie King's. Even with the Hundred Soul Banner suppressing it, the refinement could still fail.

Lu Yan could only store it for now and wait until he broke through to refine it later.

Time passed bit by bit. The progress bar on the interface before Lu Yan finally reached 100%.

The next moment, information appeared.

This Apocalypse Version has ended. Version Change Value: 0.2%

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