Harvesting One Hundred Thousand Yin Soldiers
Above the Shattered Void Bone Plains, a fierce wind howled.
The poisonous fog dissipated as the corpse of the Thousand Poisons Old Monster fell to the ground.
Only the two enormous remains of the Heavenly Monarch remained in the world, lying in the scorched frozen earth, gurgling with the remaining life force of their death.
The formation of the 100,000-strong allied army was completely thrown into chaos.
The White Bone War Banner snapped on the spot.
The Myriad Poison Flying Banner fell limply to the ground.
All the skeleton cavalry, Myriad Poison Sect members, and Black-Robed Poison Cultivators stared blankly at the white-robed youth in mid-air.
The two Peak Heavenly Monarch Stage, who relied on the heavens as their foundation, had their heads severed by this young Cultivator from the Yang Realm in full view of everyone.
Not even a trace of their Primordial Spirit remained.
"Lord... the lord is dead!"
"Even our ancestor has fallen!"
It was unclear which of the Steward of Myriad Poison Ridge screamed, but the shrill sound immediately echoed for miles around.
The defensive formation of an entire army of 100,000 collapsed instantly.
The army's will to fight vanished at that moment.
Thousands of White Bone Heavy Cavalry turned their beast heads, attempting to tear through the void and flee backward.
The countless Poison Cultivators of Myriad Poison Ridge transformed into various colors of smoke and scattered like headless flies.
"Can they escape?"
Chen Changqing stood in the sky, his white robes fluttering.
His Divine Sense had long ago sealed off the land within a radius of five thousand miles.
Even if each of these 100,000 troops only provides a few thousand or even tens of thousands of AFK Points, the combined force would be an unimaginable fortune.
Since they've come to him of their own accord, Chen Changqing naturally won't overlook any opportunity.
"Go."
Chen Changqing's mind raced.
The five Late True Lord Stage Avatar standing behind him simultaneously unfolded their forms.
The first Avatar, wielding the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, traversed a hundred miles in a single step, the spear sweeping across the air with a ten-thousand-foot-long golden spear light.
A large group of White Bone Heavy Cavalry attempting to escape were crushed head-on by the spear's edge, their hard bone armor shattering into a shower of bone dust.
The second Avatar swung the Haotian Hammer, unleashing Heavenly Thunder Sword to smash into the central army of Myriad Poison Ridge.
Thunder Light cascaded down like a waterfall, Heavenly Thunder Sword turning thousands of Poison Cultivators and their deformed poisonous beasts into ashes.
The third Avatar activated the Grand Void Illuminating Spirit Mirror, and dazzling divine light descended from the sky, transforming into a huge light curtain that completely cut off the retreat routes of the entire Shattered Void Bone Plains.
The fourth Avatar formed hand seals, and the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal floated in the sky tens of thousands of feet high. The imperial power transformed into a visible golden Gravity Domain, which crashed down.
The ground within a radius of a hundred miles sank ten feet.
Tens of thousands of fleeing Yin Soldiers were crushed by this overwhelming force of humanity, their knees shattered, and they collapsed to their knees in the mud, unable to move.
The fifth Avatar then unleashed the Taiqing Divine Light, which, like a giant white rainbow sword, mercilessly swept away the stubbornly resisting leaders of various tribes.
The crisp, rapid notification sounds bombarded Chen Changqing Sea of Consciousness.
[Defeat Ghost General in the Tribulation Transcendence Stage to AFK Points!]
[Defeat True Lord Realm early-stage commander, gain 40,000 AFK Points!]
[Defeat a mid-stage True Lord Realm elder, gain 60,000 AFK Points!]
[Gained AFK Points...]
The points on the system panel jumped rapidly, the numbers almost becoming a blurry afterimage.
Chen Changqing himself did not even continue swinging his sword.
He simply stood with his hands behind his back in the void, coldly watching the unilateral cleanup below.
In the short time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the high-ranking generals who stubbornly resisted in the army were completely wiped out.
The remaining tens of thousands of low-ranking ghost soldiers were finally terrified.
"We surrender! We surrender!"
A commander of ten thousand from the White Bone Territory dropped his bone spear, knelt on the ground with a thud, and his bones trembled violently.
"Please spare us, Immortal! We are willing to surrender!"
Tens of thousands of disciples of Myriad Poison Ridge also collapsed to the ground, unfastening their poison sacs and Law Treasure and throwing them in front of them, before kowtowing and begging for mercy in unison.
The cries of surrender echoed across the wasteland, stretching for miles.
Chen Changqing then raised his hand, signaling the five Avatars to restrain their killing intent.
In the Cultivation World, the points provided by low-level trash are ultimately limited, and excessive slaughter is not very meaningful.
Moreover, these surrendered soldiers still have some use in the subsequent takeover of White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge.
The void swayed slightly.
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord, stepping on the Taiyin Divine Light, slowly landed ten feet away from Chen Changqing.
She looked at the calm-looking young man before her, a hint of barely concealed apprehension flashing deep in her eyes.
This battle just now completely overturned her understanding of cultivators in the outside world.
He reversed the situation and killed two Peak Heavenly Monarch Stage at the Late True Lord Stage.
Even after the killing, he could still relentlessly command Avatar five avatars to suppress an army of 100,000 with thunderous force.
Such temperament and skill are unmatched, even by the monsters cultivated by the ancient Dao lineages of the Nine Netherworlds Central Domain.
"Fellow Daoist Chen... truly possesses remarkable skills."
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord took a deep breath, suppressed his turbulent thoughts, and slowly spoke.
"You flatter me, City Lord."
Chen Changqing remained calm and put away Avatar five avatars.
"Now that the army has surrendered, the remaining situation is left to the city lord to handle."
"I only take the spoils of war."
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord nodded slightly.
"That's only right."
"I will immediately dispatch the Dark Moon Army out of the city to recruit the surrendered soldiers. Fellow Daoist Chen may choose freely from the sect treasure troves of White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge."
Chen Changqing didn't stand on ceremony and stepped back onto the ground.
He walked to the corpses of Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster, and with a flick of his sleeve, two Storage Rings made of black jade flew into his palm.
The resources of Peak Heavenly Monarch Stage are unlikely to disappoint.
Meanwhile, atop the Dark Moon City, the 80,000 defending soldiers erupted in a deafening cheer.
The First Ghost General led a large force out of the city gate, quickly taking control of the battlefield, seizing Law Treasure, and detaining surrendered soldiers.
The entire Dark Moon City was completely turned around from the annihilation.
Chen Changqing did not linger on the noisy battlefield.
He transformed into a streak of green light and returned directly to the Purple Sky Villa within the city.
The large array surrounding the courtyard remained intact.
Chen Changqing entered the quiet room and waved his hand to create several isolation barriers, blocking out all the noise from the outside world.
On the jade couch made of ice, Chen Changqing sat cross-legged, holding two jet-black Storage Ring rings in his palms.
This is a spatial treasure carried by Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster.
The Divine Soul Imprint of the Heavenly Monarch Realm expert is extremely difficult to erase.
However, the Primordial Spirits of these two Heavenly Monarch had already Immortal Execution Sword, and the Divine Sense imprints left on the rings had long since become water without a source.
At Chen Changqing's brow, the Twelve Primordial Spirits circulated slightly, and the three Star Primordial Spirits shone brightly.
A vast amount of Divine Sense surged into the two Storage Rings like a tidal wave.
Click!
Two soft, crisp sounds echoed in the quiet room.
The defensive barrier on the ring shattered instantly.
Chen Changqing probed into it with his Divine Sense, and the scene inside the Storage Ring was completely visible.
The Storage Ring of the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch has an internal space of tens of thousands of miles in diameter, resembling an independent Minor World.
In the very center stood several towering crystal mountains, each thousands of feet high, emanating a pure, pungent, and extremely yin death aura.
Those were top-grade cultivation resources commonly used in Outer Domain — Supreme Yin Crystals, numbering in the tens of millions.
On one side of Jingshan, dozens of rows of shelves are neatly arranged.
Listed above are various rare spiritual materials excavated from the Nine Netherworlds Abyss: Nine Yin Black Iron, Netherworld Bone Jade, and Yellow Springs Cold Marrow.
Most eye-catching were the three black Jade Slip slips suspended in mid-air, and an ancient parchment scroll gleaming with a grayish-white light.
Chen Changqing raised his hand and summoned the three Jade Slips and the sheepskin scroll into his hand.
The system panel's authentication prompt then lit up.
[The Heavenly Monarch -level Cultivation Method "Nine Netherworlds Heavenly Demon Bone Scripture" has been detected. It can be used while AFK. Do you want to add it?]
[The Quasi-Immortal-level Secret Technique "Myriad Bones Soul-Seizing Method" has been detected. It can be used while AFK. Do you want to add it?]
[The superior-grade Ghostly Dao Divine Ability "Senluo White Bone Claw" has been detected. It can be used while AFK. Record it?]
Chen Changqing glanced at it briefly before looking away.
Although these three Cultivation Method are of extremely high grade, they are all pure Yin demonic methods, which are completely different from his main Yang Immortal Methods and the Heaven-Stepping Emperor Art. There is no need to waste points by leaving them idle for the time being.
Then, his gaze fell on the ancient parchment scroll.
Upon unfolding it, one finds a detailed diagram of the Spirit Vein's trajectory.
[The Earth Vein map of the 'Taiyin Ancestral Vein' in the Nine Nether Outer Domain has been detected, and three unexploited top-grade ore deposits have been marked.]
Chen Changqing nodded slightly.
No wonder the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch was willing to join forces with the Thousand Poisons Old Monster to destroy Dark Moon City.
It turns out that the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch had already discovered the core source of the Taiyin Ore Vein, but lacked the opportunity to seize it.
Next, Chen Changqing checked the Storage Ring of the Thousand Poisons Old Monster.
The interior furnishings were even more cluttered and gloomy.
In addition to an equally large quantity of Supreme Yin Crystals, the ring contained tens of thousands of black jade porcelain bottles.
It contains the most potent poisons and rare alchemical treasures collected by the Thousand Poisons Old Monster over thousands of years.
In the corner, several broken flying swords and armor lay scattered, radiating the spiritual light of Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, clearly relics of powerful outsiders who had died at his hands.
Chen Changqing selected several Supreme Yin Divine Medicine that were over ten thousand years old and put them into his Heaven-Stepping Ring, gathering the rest of the supplies together.
These two Heavenly Monarch Lords possessed immense wealth; if converted into top -Top-Grade Spirit Stones, it would likely be enough to buy half of a human Imperial Dynasty.
However, for Chen Changqing, the most crucial gain was never material possessions.
He closed his eyes, his mind sinking into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.
The system panel quietly appeared before my eyes.
[Host: Chen Changqing]
[Cultivation Level: Late True Lord Stage (Limit of the True Lord Realm)]
[Primordial Spirits: Twelve Deities (Nine Great Red-Gold Primordial Spirits and Three Great Star Primordial Spirits)]
[Physical Body: Sixth Turn the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art (Quasi-Immortal Artifact Body)]
[Divine Sense Range: 5,000 li]
[Avatars: Five Venerable Ones (all Late True Lord Stage)]
[AFK Points Balance: 24,680,000 points]
Twenty-four million six hundred and eighty thousand!
He obtained eight million by slaying the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch.
He obtained eight million by slaying the Thousand Poisons Old Monster.
They killed five Half-Step Heavenly Monarch and thousands of remnants of their army, and amassed over three million in revenue.
In addition, there was a surplus of over five million.
His total AFK Points have now reached an astonishing 24 million.
Looking at the long string of numbers, Chen Changqing let out a breath of stale air.
Although this battle was perilous, the rewards were astonishing.
As long as there are enough AFK Points, his combat power can be pushed up endlessly.
After a moment's thought, Chen Changqing did not immediately pour all his points into breaking through his cultivation level.
The transformation from True Lord to Heavenly Monarch is a qualitative leap.
Not only does it require the accumulation of enormous Law Power, but it also requires overcoming the ultimate Heavenly Tribulation.
He is currently in the Nine Nether Ghost Domain, where the Heaven and Earth Laws are in chaos and reject Cultivators from the Yang Realm. If he were to forcibly trigger the Heavenly Monarch Tribulation here, the lightning punishments brought down by the Heavenly Dao would easily be mixed with the deathly aura of the Yellow Springs, adding unpredictable variables.
The safest approach is to save these points as a trump card.
When entering the Yama Heavenly Palace Ancestral Land three days later, or when encountering a more powerful opponent, you can make emergency skill point allocations according to the battle situation.
With 24 million AFK Points in hand, it's enough to handle any unexpected danger.
Chen Changqing opened his eyes and waved his hand to dispel the restrictions on the meditation room.
Outside the door, dusk was approaching.
The sky over the Dark Moon Ghost Domain remained dark and gloomy, but the shouts of battle throughout the city had completely subsided.
Footsteps came from outside the courtyard.
The First Ghost General strode to the courtyard gate and bowed in greeting.
"Guest Minister Chen, the City Lord has prepared a victory celebration banquet in the main hall and cordially invites you to attend."
The central hall of Dark Moon City was brightly lit.
A huge, luminous pearl hung from the dome, illuminating the entire hall as if it were daytime.
Thousands of elite generals from Dark Moon City stood in two rows.
In the center of the main hall, various delicacies and spirit wines from the Ghost Domain were displayed, their aromas lingering.
However, the atmosphere in the entire hall was unusually quiet and solemn.
All the generals sat upright behind their desks, their gazes occasionally drifting towards the main hall's entrance, their expressions filled with reverence and awe.
The moment Chen Changqing, dressed in a white robe, stepped into the main hall, the previously low whispers vanished instantly.
All the high-ranking Cultivators of Dark Moon City stood up in unison.
"Greetings, Mr. Chen!"
Led by the First Ghost General, thousands of fierce warriors bowed in unison, their voices resounding throughout the palace.
In the world of Ghost Cultivators, the Principle of the strong is absolute.
Today, Chen Changqing single-handedly reversed the battle and saved the entire city from collapse. His prestige in the city even subtly surpassed that of the city lord.
Chen Changqing remained calm, nodded slightly to the crowd, and then stepped forward.
On the main seat, the Dark Moon Ghost Lord changed into a magnificent deep purple palace dress, wearing a phoenix-tail jade crown, her face beautiful and refined.
Upon seeing Chen Changqing approach, she unusually stood up from her seat and walked down the Jade Steps a few steps to greet him.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, please take a seat of honor."
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord gestured, and a purple-gold table had already been placed side by side with her main seat.
That was a seat of equal standing with the lord.
Chen Changqing did not refuse and walked gracefully to the table to sit down cross-legged.
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord picked up the jade cup in front of him and stared intently at Chen Changqing.
"This cup of wine is offered to Fellow Daoist Chen."
"If it weren't for your intervention, fellow Daoist, the Dao lineage of Dark Moon City would cease to exist today."
"Let's drink first as a sign of respect."
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord raised his white chin and drank the spiritual wine in the cup in one gulp.
Chen Changqing also picked up his wine glass and took a sip.
The spirit wine entered the stomach and transformed into a warm and gentle Taiyin Spiritual Power, nourishing the meridians.
"It's simply a matter of each getting what they need."
Chen Changqing put down the jade cup and went straight to the point. "The city lord promised me the teleportation array and the Soul-Guiding Jade Register. I wonder how the preparations are going?"
The Dark Moon Ghost Lord smiled slightly and took out a palm-sized, warm, black jade from his sleeve.