Eastern Undead System

"Mr. Guo's Guidance Stone really is of superior quality. This time, I finally got what I wanted," Jiang Yuan said with a smile, not stingy with his praise.

"Not at all, not at all," Guo Liyu said quickly, waving his hands. "Being able to awaken the Space element is also because of your outstanding natural talent. So many high-level mages hope to awaken the Space element, but none of them succeed."

Those words were quite true.

Off to the side, Xiao Mian nodded deeply in agreement.

Jiang Yuan felt that Guo Liyu had suddenly become much more enthusiastic.

Guo Liyu smiled broadly and handed over his business card. "This is my card. If you need a Guidance Stone in the future, just call the number on it."

"All right, thank you." Jiang Yuan took the business card and put it away properly.

Now that his magic awakening was complete, it was time to return to school.

Watching Jiang Yuan's departing back, Guo Liyu suddenly turned his head and asked Xiao Mian beside him, "You should know where his student dormitory is, right?"

"Huh?"

Xiao Mian froze for a moment, then quickly reacted and nodded. "I don't know, but I can ask around and find out. A student dormitory isn't exactly confidential."

"That's good." Guo Liyu nodded lightly, a meaningful glint flashing through his eyes.

Time flew, and several days passed in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Yuan's life remained the same as before.

Aside from meditating and cultivating, he went to class.

His course schedule was not tight. There were only one or two classes a week.

Only magic students who delved into magical research had more classes.

The other students mainly studied magic, basic knowledge related to demons and monsters, and combat techniques. There were not many complicated courses.

Jiang Yuan had just finished half a day of meditation.

After lunch, he headed toward the classroom.

There was an Undead element class that afternoon, and the lecturer was Qin Yun.

When he arrived at the classroom, the empty room could hold forty people, but at that moment, he was the only lonely figure there.

Jiang Yuan inexplicably felt a wave of solitude.

In the past, when he attended class, he at least had classmates with him. Now, he was all alone.

He could not help thinking of the Ancient Capital. He wondered whether there were many Undead mages over there.

As he was thinking, Qin Yun pushed the door open and walked in.

He was not holding any teaching materials. As soon as he came in, he greeted Jiang Yuan with a smile. "You're here, Jiang Yuan. Have you eaten?"

Seeing Jiang Yuan nod, Qin Yun casually dragged over a chair from beside the lectern, sat down opposite Jiang Yuan, and said, "Since it's just the two of us in the classroom, there's no need to stick to the traditional teaching format. Talking face-to-face like this is more comfortable."

Jiang Yuan quite agreed with the suggestion.

In truth, he had always felt that Qin Yun did not carry much of a teacher's air. Instead, he seemed more like an elder of his.

But that was indeed the case. Qin Yun had already decided to spare no effort in cultivating Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan waited for Qin Yun to begin the lesson.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yun first threw out a question.

"Do you know who created the Undead element?"

Jiang Yuan nodded without hesitation. "I know the Undead element has two creators. One is our country's Ancient King, and the other is the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh King, Khufu."

"That's right." A hint of approval flashed in Qin Yun's eyes, and he continued asking, "The Undead element was created by different people from two countries, one in the East and one in distant Egypt, and the eras were also far apart. What do you think is different about the Undead elements they created?"

As Qin Yun spoke, his fingers lightly tapped the tabletop, making crisp "tap, tap" sounds.

Different?

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, then said, "It doesn't seem like there's much difference, but the types of undead are different. Our country's most famous undead are zombies, while Egypt's are mummies."

He paused, then added, "Also, Eastern undead hide by day and come out at night, and are afraid of sunlight. Western undead can move freely as long as they are within an area covered by underworld radiance."

With Jiang Yuan's current store of knowledge about the Undead element, this was all he could say.

After Qin Yun listened, he stood up, picked up a piece of chalk, and began writing on the blackboard.

At the very top of the blackboard, he wrote the three large words "Undead System."

Below that, he wrote "Eastern Undead System" and "Western Undead System" respectively.

"In fact, according to the way the ancients divided them, the Eastern Undead System and the Western Undead System are very different. Eastern undead originally came from secret arts in ancient our country such as the Corpse Raising Technique and the Ghost Raising Technique. Western undead, meanwhile, were born through the evolution of immortality brought about by curses."

"The Undead Systems on both sides carry their respective cultures. The undead magic of every level developed from their respective secret arts."

At this point, Qin Yun's tone took on an unconcealable regret as he continued:

"Our Eastern Undead System once had a glorious golden age too. Unfortunately, after a great undead catastrophe several hundred years ago, all Undead Mages were brutally purged. From then on, the Eastern Undead System rapidly declined."

"Our unique undead secret arts vanished into the long river of history because of it, while the Western Undead System has remained active to this day."

"That is also why today's Undead System is completely dominated by the Western Undead System, and the undead magic being used is all that Western framework, full of enslavement and oppression."

After Qin Yun finished speaking, he could not help sighing, his eyes filled with nostalgia for the glorious years of the Eastern Undead System.

Even though he had never lived through that era.

But as an Undead Mage, merely hearing about that age made him yearn for it despite himself.

After Jiang Yuan heard this, he sank into thought.

In truth, he had long suspected that there had to be clear differences between the Eastern and Western Undead Systems.

Now it seemed that sure enough, there were.

"Too many powerful Eastern undead spells have been lost," Qin Yun said with another long sigh, his face full of regret.

"Then, teacher, do you know which Eastern undead spells have been lost?" Jiang Yuan immediately grew interested.

The Undead System materials he had read before rarely mentioned Eastern undead secret arts. Basically, they were all like Qin Yun, lamenting the loss of Eastern undead secret arts.

Qin Yun nodded and said, "What I know is limited too. However, some time ago, several ancient books of unknown age were dug up in my ancestral home, and they recorded three undead secret arts."

"The first is Soul Extraction. By casting this secret art, one can directly extract complete soul power from a living demon or monster and condense it into Soul Essence."

"The second is the Soul Sealing Technique, which can seal energy bodies such as ghosts inside vessels, granting the vessels mysterious and unfathomable power. Many ancient vessels passed down to this day were made according to the Soul Sealing Technique."

"The last is the Ghost Devouring Technique. When a cultivator uses this technique, they can directly devour and destroy undead, absorbing the undead's power and turning themselves into an existence similar to an undead. Moreover, according to the ancient records, there seems to be no upper limit to the cultivation of this secret art."

Hearing this, the Undead Master Zhong Kui from historical records instantly surfaced in Jiang Yuan's mind.

In legend, Zhong Kui had grown into a top-tier Undead Mage in an extremely short time.

And the most widely known legend was the tale of him devouring evil ghosts.

Could it be that what Zhong Kui had mastered was the Ghost Devouring Technique?