Although this place felt like it suited him very well, it still wasn't his territory, and Liu Zhi wasn't the master of the Dragon's Graveyard.
For that very reason, Liu Zhi didn't let his guard down just because he felt at home here. Instead, he watched his surroundings even more carefully.
Perhaps it was precisely because he was so vigilant that he noticed something unusual.
He finally realized why this Dragon Lich hadn't simply stayed a dragon, but had instead started meddling with undead souls.
It turned out that although the Dragon Lich seemed to have taken over the entire Dragon's Graveyard and was drawing on its power, he was still following the orthodox path of a lich.
He had simply gone to a lot of extra trouble to become one.
For example, he had split his soul into seven pieces.
That was why he was so familiar with abilities like soul splitting, and why he had claimed he could tear apart someone else's soul while keeping them conscious.
It turned out he'd done the same thing himself.
His seven soul fragments were divided among three black, pyramid-shaped stones. One was buried in the Magic Array underground, one had been fused with the sky, one was inside the Dragon Lich's own body, and the last was hidden in the phylactery that every lich was supposed to have.
The most ridiculous part was that, for some reason, all the soul fragments were still connected to one another.
Once you found one, you could follow the connection to locate the rest.
Even the phylactery that a normal lich should have hidden away could be found by tracing the other soul fragments.
Watching the souls Liu Zhi had exposed in the soul interface, scattered across the sky and underground and resonating with the