Three-eyed Underworld General

At this moment, in the mountain forest.

Over a dozen bolts of lightning flashed through.

Accompanied by a series of wolf howls, they vanished into the air.

"Another Remnant Soul." Jiang Yuan looked at the few Remnant Souls inside his Undead Space, furrowing his brow slightly, a trace of disappointment on his face.

The drop rate for Soul Essences was just too low.

But it made sense—after all those demon beasts had died before, he hadn't gotten many Soul Essences either.

Back when the Lightning Disaster had erupted outside Bocheng, thousands of demon beasts had perished on the battlefield.

No one on that battlefield had the ability to collect Soul Essences, and Mo Fan hadn't been there at the time.

So Jiang Yuan had used his Undead Space to scoop up all those Remnant Souls and Soul Essences.

Then he'd fused all the Remnant Souls into Soul Essences.

With those Soul Essences, he'd strengthened all his Beginner-level magic to Level 4.

His Water element Beginner magic had even reached Level 5.

All his Intermediate-level magic had been boosted to Level 4.

Looking at the corpses of One-eyed Magic Wolves and Three-eyed Demon Wolfmen scattered across the ground, Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment. Gray Star Particles formed a Star Track around him.

Beginner Undead element magic—Undead Summoning.

He hadn't used Undead element magic since the day he first awakened it. Today, he finally called on it again.

As the gray light of Undead flickered, a bone-white figure wielding a large blade rose from the cold, still air.

Unlike the Bone Soldier he'd first summoned, this one was taller, with eerie ghostfire burning in its eye sockets.

"Huh?" Jiang Yuan was a bit surprised.

He hadn't actually summoned a different undead. The call in the Netherworld still reached the same Bone Soldier as before.

That meant this Bone Soldier was the same one from before—it was just in the middle of an evolution.

In a while, it might even become a Warrior-level Bone Soldier.

The Bone Soldier clacked its teeth together, making a rattling sound.

Finally remembered to call me, huh.

Do you have any idea what I've been through in the Netherworld?

"Looks like you're a Bone Soldier with ambition. It's been a while, and you're almost at Warrior level already." Jiang Yuan said in surprise.

He remembered how that same Bone Soldier had scared him back then, and couldn't help but find it funny.

Better not let anyone else know about that embarrassing bit of history.

Jiang Yuan took a Warrior-level Soul Essence from his Undead Space and walked over to a wolf skeleton.

He waved for the Bone Soldier to come closer.

"Absorb this Soul Essence, then refine most of the wolf bones here." Jiang Yuan commanded.

As a bone undead, its evolution required absorbing Soul Essences to strengthen its soul, then refining stronger bone materials to reinforce its own skeleton.

This Bone Soldier was clearly quite intelligent. Hearing that, the ghostfire in its eye sockets flickered once.

Then it took the Soul Essence and began strengthening its soul.

Jiang Yuan, meanwhile, picked out suitable wolf bones for the Bone Soldier to refine.

The sun set in the west.

Over three hours had passed in the blink of an eye.

Gray mist swirled, and a massive figure slowly rose from within, reaching a full three meters in height!

Its skeleton gleamed with a cold, eerie light. Its arms had grown thicker and more robust, and even its fingers were lined with sharp, wolf-claw-like bone talons that faintly shimmered with a metallic sheen.

Most terrifying of all was its skull—a mutated human cranium with three eye sockets, its shape rougher and more brutal.

In two of the three eye sockets, ghostfire burned with a deep green glow.

The third eye was hollow, yet a mysterious power seemed to linger within, as if it could see through the souls of the living.

It looked like a Three-eyed Demon Wolfman turned into an undead. The aura it gave off made even the distant One-eyed Magic Wolves keep their distance!

"Not bad, not bad—looks really cool!" Jiang Yuan said happily.

It wasn't just the looks. Its rank had also reached Warrior level.

A true little Warrior-level undead!

Now his Undead element had finally given him a major combat asset.

If he was willing to invest in it, feeding it a few more Warrior-level Soul Essences and letting it refine a few more Three-eyed Demon Wolfman skeletons...

Then it would directly become a Great Warrior-level undead. Even Intermediate-level mages wouldn't be a match for it!

After all, Mo Fan's Old Wolf had only been at Servant level when he first entered Pearl Institute!

Jiang Yuan immediately decided to take advantage of his time in the mountain range to upgrade this Bone Soldier to a Great Warrior.

No, he couldn't call it a Bone Soldier anymore.

He should come up with a better name.

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment. "Three eyes. Calling it Yang Jian wouldn't be right either—that'd be too much of a downgrade for the True Saint of Erlang, and besides, you're an undead. Hmm, how about Three-eyed Underworld General?"

"Clack clack~"

The Three-eyed Underworld General clacked its jaw, conveying agreement.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan corrected it, "If you agree, just nod. No need to open your mouth."

The Three-eyed Underworld General seemed to understand but also didn't, clacking its jaw again.

"Clack clack~"

"..."

"Nod, you get that, right? Like this."

"Clack clack~"

"...Fine, nod like that then, but you need to ditch that cleaver." Jiang Yuan gave in.

Its bone claws were way stronger than that big cleaver—this one had to go, right?

Hearing Jiang Yuan's words, the Three-eyed Underworld General raised the cleaver, tilted its arm back, then hurled it forward with force.

With a whoosh, the cleaver shot through the air at high speed.

It finally landed in the grass far away.

Then the Three-eyed Underworld General walked over, rummaged through the grass, and pulled out a wolf corpse.

The wolf's head had clearly been severed by that cleaver!

This move—it had straight-up used the cleaver as a ranged weapon!

Witnessing this, Jiang Yuan realized the Three-eyed Underworld General had its own way of understanding things.

No wonder it had been thriving in the underworld.

Turns out it was the National Flying Knife King!

Jiang Yuan decided not to say more. He dismissed the Undead Summoning, sent the Three-eyed Underworld General back to the underworld, found a safe spot, and slept for the night.

In the days that followed, Jiang Yuan kept roaming within the Demon Wolf Mountain Range.

It was also around this time that the demon hunting squads coming to hunt beasts noticed with surprise that the number of demon wolves in the mountains was steadily dropping.

Even the numbers of creatures like Giant-eyed Stinky Rats and Blood-patterned Giant Demon Rats had sharply decreased.

Some hunters found lingering traces of undead aura scattered across the mountain range.

So they reached a conclusion: a powerful undead had appeared in the Demon Wolf Mountain Range and was hunting down demon wolves everywhere.

Undead creatures always loved slaughtering living beings—this kind of situation was pretty normal.

The only question was where this undead had come from.

Someone took a bounty to hunt the undead in the mountains, but it moved like a ghost, elusive and unpredictable, with only a handful of hunters ever catching a glimpse of it.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

Modu, Pearl Institute.

Jiang Yuan arrived at Pearl Institute on the very last day of this year's enrollment.

If he missed today, the only way to get into Pearl Institute would be through the special talent admission channel.

Short for Special Admission Student.

And Special Admission Students were usually those with exceptional talents.

For example, Summoning System mages, mages with Innate Talents, and so on.

The vast majority of students entered the institute through the normal admission process.

Only a small number came in as Special Admission Students.

The admission site was set up right inside Pearl Institute.

Jiang Yuan chose not to take the standard unified college entrance trial. Instead, he opted for the more challenging Interview Exam, which demanded higher personal ability.

Back when Mo Fan entered Pearl Institute, he had also chosen the Interview Exam.

Arriving at the interview location, Jiang Yuan decided to use the Undead element for the exam.

After all, just like the Summoning System, the Undead element usually guaranteed entry as long as it was passable.