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Tens of thousands of zombies were completely engulfed by the black mist, as if they were swallowed without any resistance.

The black mist expanded outwards at an unimaginable speed, even faster than the Giant Zombie King's movement.

In just a few seconds, the black mist caught up to the Giant Zombie King, submerging the indestructible giant.

The black mist devoured everything, and Li Kang and the other three were naturally no exception.

The four of them felt as if they had fallen into a netherworld, with a soul-chilling cold constantly assailing them from the black mist.

"Where is this?"

Someone asked, but no one responded.

As the strongest person present, Li Kang quickly calmed down from his initial shock.

Confirming their direction by the surrounding buildings, Li Kang pointed towards the way out of Jiao City.

"Although we haven't seen any danger yet, no matter what, let's leave Jiao City first and report this matter to the higher-ups of the settlement."

The other three nodded repeatedly and immediately fled along the route they had come from.

However, just as they had run a few hundred meters, a deafening roar exploded in the black mist.

"Roar!!!"

Large swathes of black mist were forcibly dispersed, revealing the Giant Zombie King, over ten meters tall, fighting fiercely not far away.

Engaging this terrifying fourth-tier creature was a bizarre being in the eyes of Li Kang and the others.

It seemed to be stitched together from numerous Vengeful Souls, its body, dozens of meters tall, covered in numb and distorted faces.

As its massive ghost claws slashed through the black mist, the souls all over its body cried out in unison, their wails seemingly capable of freezing the soul.

Even though Li Kang and the others were hundreds of meters away, they could still feel their souls trembling, and negative emotions like fear and unease seemed to materialize and engulf them.

The Giant Zombie King was repeatedly defeated in front of this strange Vengeful Soul, its surging transcendent power rapidly weakening.

The Giant Zombie King also attempted to counterattack, but each time its terrifying heavy punch, carrying transcendent power, landed, most of the power would be swallowed by the surrounding black mist. The remaining power and physical attacks were simply not enough to shake this stitched Vengeful Soul.

Anyone could see that the Giant Zombie King's defeat was only a matter of time.

And within the black mist, more Vengeful Souls slowly appeared, heading towards Li Kang and the others who had unexpectedly intruded. In an instant, hundreds of Vengeful Souls had completely surrounded them.

"Terrifying undead capable of fighting a Zombie King, and this eerie Ghost Domain, what exactly happened in the ruins of Jiao City?"

Li Kang's eyes were filled with despair.

Just then, a voice sounded from within the black mist.

"Who are you?"

The moment the voice sounded, the numerous Vengeful Souls stopped moving, their bodies dissipating and merging into the black mist.

The four survivors looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a person standing in the rolling black mist, completely enveloped by the eerie black mist, with only a vague human outline visible.

He just stood there, as if he were the center of the entire black mist, and a chilling aura emanated from him.

Is it human?

Li Kang was filled with doubt, but facing the figure that had appeared in the black mist, he didn't dare to ask questions. Instead, he respectfully answered:

"Respected sir, we are Transcendent beings from the Seventy-Third Settlement. Our purpose in coming to Jiao City is 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.

This was the first time he had seen living people since entering the Apocalypse Version three months ago.

Since killing the Peak Qi Refining Transcendent Zombie, Blood Beard, and refining it into a Main Soul, promoting the Soul Banner to a Top Grade Magic Tool, the Hundred Soul Banner, Lu Yan had been relying on killing zombies to accumulate Vengeful Souls.

In over two months, Lu Yan had refined Zombie Wandering Souls day and night, accumulating a total of eight hundred Vengeful Souls. The zombies on the outskirts of the city had been completely cleared out by Lu Yan.

Each of these Vengeful Souls was at the Third Layer Qi Refining, and the Main Soul Warrior, Blood Beard, had even reached Peak Qi Refining under Lu Yan's nourishment.

As soon as the Soul Banner appeared, it evolved into a Specter Ghost Domain. If not for Lu Yan's inability to break through, the eight hundred Vengeful Souls could have even advanced to Mid-Stage Qi Refinement with the nourishment of numerous Wandering Souls.

After three months of accumulation, today was the time for a version update. Lu Yan had been thinking of trying to hunt a Foundation Establishment early stage Zombie King.

A Foundation Establishment stage soul was a precious material, even in the Xianxia Version.

Lu Yan specifically chose the weakest among the several Zombie Kings, a Gigantic Zombie King that had just advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage two months ago, and began today's hunt.

The main attacker was precisely the Main Soul, Blood Beard, which Lu Yan had previously refined.

After becoming a Main Soul, Blood Beard had transformed the Transcendent power he had previously fused with the zombies into the Talent Spell, Soul Fusion Technique.

With the power of four hundred Vengeful Souls gathered at the Peak Qi Refining realm, Blood Beard's fused Gigantic Vengeful Soul directly broke through the Foundation Establishment stage, forcefully suppressing the Gigantic Zombie King.

In fear, the Gigantic Zombie King triggered a zombie tide and chose to flee, which led to the scene that just occurred.

Lu Yan didn't pay attention to the battle between the Gigantic Zombie King and Blood Beard. The moment the Zombie King fled, the outcome was already decided.

In contrast, Lu Yan was more curious about the four Transcendent beings before him and the settlement they mentioned.

With Lu Yan's discerning eye, he could naturally see that among the four Transcendent beings, the three young men were all at the early stage of Qi Refining, while the man with the scar on his face was at the late stage of Qi Refining.

Such strength was not weak in this ruined city, no wonder they had the confidence to venture here.

If they had come a few days earlier, Lu Yan would have had the inclination to communicate with them, confirm the situation of the Apocalypse Version, and the Transcendent system.

But with a new round of version updates about to begin, Lu Yan still needed to harvest the Gigantic Zombie King's soul in advance and didn't have time to waste on them.

With a gentle wave of his right hand, a path was opened within the Ghost Domain. Lu Yan pointed his hand in the direction of the path.

"Follow this path, and you can leave this city."

Everyone was immediately overjoyed. The three young men quickly bowed and thanked Lu Yan, then hurried away along the path.

Only Li Kang hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and took out three orange prismatic gems from hisin one's arms, respectfully offering them to Lu Yan.

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

Lu Yan's pupils trembled slightly. He could tell at a glance that these gems contained a large amount of Great Sun Spiritual Energy.

Although there was Great Sun Spiritual Energy in the sunlight during the day, the content was extremely scarce, and Lu Yan hadn't figured out the use of Great Sun Spiritual Energy.

The amount of Great Sun Spiritual Energy in these three Sun Stones was almost more than the total Great Sun Spiritual Energy he had absorbed during his three months of cultivation. They were definitely rare treasures.

Looking at Li Kang with a hint of satisfaction, Lu Yan's Mana stirred as he accepted the three Sun Stones.

After a moment of thought, Lu Yan took out all the remaining supplies from his storage bag.

As his cultivation increased, his need for food decreased, so Lu Yan still had most of the three months' worth of supplies he had prepared earlier.

In the apocalypse, the value of these food and drinks should not be low.

Waving his mana to erase any text that might reveal information, Lu Yan gave all these supplies to Li Kang.

"I won't take your things for free. I'll use these as an exchange."

Looking at the boxes of happy water, self-heating food, instant noodles, and clean bottled water that Lu Yan left behind, Li Kang was stunned.

As someone who had personally lived through the Apocalypse Version, he hadn't seen these things for many years.

Even the transcendent beings at the top of the settlement couldn't enjoy such precious supplies. They were enough to cause the important figures in the settlement to fight over them, and their value far exceeded the three Sun Stones.

Li Kang trembled with excitement and repeatedly said:

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

However, when he shifted his gaze from the supplies, he found that the figure in the ghost mist had disappeared at some point, and even the Ghost Domain that covered the sky and the sun had dissipated.

In this block, only a huge skeleton remained.

In an abandoned building a kilometer away, Blood Beard and many Vengeful Souls were suppressing a powerful soul, which was from the Foundation Establishment Zombie King they had fought earlier.

Lu Yan's Soul Banner rolled, suppressing the Zombie King's soul into the Hundred Soul Banner.

This was the first time he had hunted a Foundation Establishment Zombie King. Lu Yan had decided to refine it into a Main Soul, but currently, Lu Yan's cultivation was a whole major realm lower than the Zombie King's. Even with the Hundred Soul Banner suppressing it, there was a possibility of failure.

Lu Yan could only put it away for now and refine it after his realm broke through in the future.

Time passed bit by bit, and the progress bar on the interface in front of Lu Yan finally reached 100%.

The next moment, information popped up.

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

Version update progress is full. You can choose one of the following versions to update.

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