At this moment, deep in the mountains.
More than a dozen bolts of lightning flashed.
Accompanied by waves of wolf howls, they vanished into the air.
"Remnant Souls again." Jiang Yuan looked at the several Remnant Souls within the Undead Space, frowning slightly with a trace of disappointment on his face.
The drop rate for Soul Essences was simply too low.
Still, that was normal. So many demons had died before, yet not many Soul Essences had been produced.
When he had triggered the Lightning Disaster outside Bocheng, thousands of demons had died across the battlefield.
No one on the battlefield had the ability to collect Soul Essences, and Mo Fan had not been there at the time.
Jiang Yuan had used the Undead Space to gather all those Remnant Souls and Soul Essences.
He then fused all the Remnant Souls into Soul Essences.
Jiang Yuan used those Soul Essences to enhance all his Beginner-level spells to Level Four.
His Water element Beginner-level spells had even been enhanced to Level Five.
All his Intermediate-level spells had been enhanced to Level Four.
Looking at the corpses of One-eyed Magic Wolves and Three-eyed Magic Wolves scattered across the ground, Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment. Gray Star Particles formed a Star Track around him.
Undead element Beginner-level spell—Undead Summoning.
He had not used Undead element magic since awakening it. Today, he was finally using it again.
As undead light flickered, a skeletal figure carrying a broadsword rose amid the cold, silent aura.
Unlike the Bone Soldier he had first seen, this one was much taller, with ghostly flames burning in its eye sockets.
"Hmm?" Jiang Yuan was somewhat surprised.
He had not summoned another undead creature. The one he called from the Underworld was still that original Bone Soldier.
In other words, this Bone Soldier was the same one from before, except it was now in the middle of advancing.
Before long, it would likely become a Warrior-level Bone Soldier.
The Bone Soldier clicked its teeth, producing a clattering sound.
So you finally remembered to call me.
Do you know what I went through in the Underworld?
"Looks like you're quite an ambitious Bone Soldier. We haven't seen each other in so long, and you're already close to advancing to Warrior level." Jiang Yuan said in surprise.
Thinking about how this Bone Soldier had frightened him back then made him want to laugh.
It would be best if no one else ever found out about that embarrassing history.
Jiang Yuan took out a Warrior-level Soul Essence from the Undead Space and walked over to a wolf skeleton.
He waved for the Bone Soldier to come over.
"Absorb this Soul Essence, then refine most of the wolf bones here," Jiang Yuan instructed.
As a skeletal undead, it needed to absorb Soul Essences to increase the strength of its soul before refining stronger bone materials to reinforce its own skeleton.
This Bone Soldier clearly possessed no small amount of intelligence. At Jiang Yuan's words, the ghostly flames in its eye sockets suddenly flickered.
It immediately took the Soul Essence and began strengthening its soul.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yuan selected suitable wolf bones for the Bone Soldier to refine.
The sun sank beyond the western mountains.
More than three hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Gray mist spread through the air as a massive figure slowly rose from within it, reaching a height of three meters!
Its skeleton gleamed with an eerie cold light. Its arms had become thicker, and sharp bone claws like wolf talons lined its fingers, faintly carrying a metallic sheen.
Most terrifying of all was its skull. It was a mutated human skull with three eyes, broader and rougher in shape.
Ghostly green flames burned in two of its three eye sockets.
Though its third eye was hollow, mysterious power seemed to flow within it, as though it could see through the souls of the living.
It looked like an undead formed from a Three-eyed Demon Wolfman, and the aura it gave off made even the distant One-eyed Magic Wolves flee!
"Not bad, not bad. You look awesome!" Jiang Yuan said happily.
It was not just impressive-looking. Its level had also reached Warrior level.
It was a genuine Lesser Warrior undead!
The Undead element had now become one of his major sources of combat strength.
If he was willing to invest in it, feeding it several more Warrior-level Soul Essences and letting it refine several Three-eyed Magic Wolf skeletons—
It would then become a Great Warrior-level undead. Even Intermediate-level mages would not be its match!
After all, Mo Fan's Old Wolf had only been Servant level when it first entered Pearl Institute!
Jiang Yuan immediately decided to use this opportunity in the mountain range to raise this Bone Soldier to Great Warrior level.
No, it could not be called a Bone Soldier anymore.
He should give it a better name.
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment. "Three eyes... Calling you Yang Jian wouldn't be appropriate. That would be too disrespectful to the True Lord Erlang, and you're undead besides. Hmm, how about Three-eyed Underworld General? What do you think?"
"Clack, clack~"
The Three-eyed Underworld General clicked its jaw, conveying that it agreed.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuan corrected it. "If you agree, just nod. You don't need to open your mouth."
The Three-eyed Underworld General seemed to understand, yet not understand. It clicked its jaw again.
"Clack, clack~"
"..."
"Nod. Nod, understand? Like this."
"Clack, clack~"
"...Fine, then just nod like that. But you should throw away that broadsword," Jiang Yuan compromised.
Its bone claws were far more powerful than a broadsword. Surely it could get rid of that, right?
At Jiang Yuan's words, the Three-eyed Underworld General raised its broadsword, drew its arm back, then hurled it forward with all its strength.
With a sharp whoosh, the broadsword shot through the air at incredible speed.
It finally landed in the distant grass.
The Three-eyed Underworld General then walked over and rummaged through the grass, pulling out a wolf corpse.
The wolf's head had been cleanly severed by the broadsword!
With that move, it had directly turned the broadsword into a ranged weapon!
After witnessing this, Jiang Yuan knew that the Three-eyed Underworld General had its own unique way of doing things.
No wonder it had thrived in the Underworld.
So it was the National Flying Knife King!
Jiang Yuan did not intend to say anything more. He dismissed Undead Summoning, sent the Three-eyed Underworld General back to the Underworld, then found a safe place to sleep for the night.
For the following days, Jiang Yuan continued moving throughout the Demon Wolf Mountain Range.
Starting recently, the Demon Hunting Squads that came to hunt demons were surprised to discover that the number of Demon Wolves in the mountain range had been steadily decreasing.
Even the number of demons such as Giant-eyed Stinky Rats and Blood-patterned Giant Demon Rats had dropped drastically.
Hunters found lingering undead auras all over the mountain range.
They reached a conclusion: a powerful undead had appeared in the Demon Wolf Mountain Range and was hunting Demon Wolves everywhere.
Undead creatures had always loved slaughtering living beings, so this situation was fairly normal.
The only question was where this undead had come from.
Some people accepted bounties to enter the mountain range and hunt the undead, but it appeared and vanished like a ghost. Only a very small number of hunters had ever seen it.
A year passed in the blink of an eye.
Modu, Pearl Institute.
Jiang Yuan arrived at Pearl Institute on the final day of admissions that year.
If he missed today, the only way to enter Pearl Institute would be through the special talent admissions channel.
In short, Special Admission Students.
Special Admission Students were usually those with special talents.
For example, Summoning System mages, mages with Innate Talents, and so on.
The vast majority of students entered the institute through normal admissions.
Only a small number entered as Special Admission Students.
The admissions site was located within Pearl Institute.
Jiang Yuan did not choose to take the standard college entrance unified trial. Instead, he chose the more challenging Interview Exam, which placed greater demands on one's own abilities.
When Mo Fan entered Pearl Institute, he had chosen the Interview Exam as well.
Arriving at the interview site, Jiang Yuan decided to use the Undead element for the exam.
After all, like the Summoning System, as long as the Undead element was reasonably proficient, entry into the institute was practically guaranteed.
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