Ghost Shadow

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"Damn it, it's the Necromancer's Corpse Explosion! When did he manage to sneak a corpse among us?" One of the survivors, still alive, looked utterly horrified, clearly unable to comprehend what had happened...

Corpse Explosion is a B-rank skill in necromancy. It uses a unique incantation to detonate a corpse, creating an explosion similar to a powerful bomb that can kill enemies over a large area. However, this skill requires a corpse as a trigger, but they had already checked and there were no corpses around.

Liu Yuchen smiled smugly, but said disdainfully, "People from lower-level star regions are far behind in their research on skills. I've only occupied this body for two months, yet I've thoroughly studied all necromancy. Don't you know that killing a living person just results in a corpse?"

The severely injured reincarnators were stunned, but they turned around to look. One of them was completely dead, which should be the one who was killed by the Necromancer in some way and then subjected to the Corpse Explosion.

How did he do that?

To kill without leaving a trace—only ghosts and monsters could do that.

"Even if it kills me, I'll skin you alive!" A heavily wounded reincarnator struggled to get up. He had just taken out his weapon when he saw the Necromancer in the tree with a mocking smile on his lips.

Wait a moment

The opponent is Necromancer, skilled in Corpse Explosion. Several low-level reincarnators were just killed in the explosion, and their corpses are all around here...

"Oh no, run!" The reincarnator suddenly realized, but it was too late.

"Corpse Explosion, Explode!"

The Necromancer chanted his incantation rapidly, and once again, flesh and blood flew everywhere. The most lethal element was the human body itself; skin, blood, and bones scattered like shrapnel from a bomb. After the chaos, calm returned; no reincarnators were still alive. The Necromancer had cast a chain Corpse Explosion. It could be detonated with just one corpse, and subsequent deaths would become new corpses for the spell. Therefore, the more enemies there were, the greater the power.

Of course, the magic power consumed by casting this move was also quite astonishing. The Necromancer's face grew paler and paler. Logically speaking, such reckless casting would put a great burden on his body and might even affect the rest of his life. However, this body was just a puppet controlled by Liu Yuchen, so he didn't care at all.

After jumping down from the tree, Liu Yuchen picked up all the Yellow Paper that had fallen from everyone's hands and checked their storage spaces one by one, but he couldn't find his target.

Dragon Jade

"So, Gaia wasn't killed by these few reincarnators?" Liu Yuchen's face twisted in a grimace. "However, they collected quite a few different types of troops, so it wasn't a complete waste."

After taking everything, Liu Yuchen summoned a flying dragon, leaped onto its back, and flew towards his next target.

At this moment, only a handful of reincarnators remain alive.

The Land of the Dead.

Aside from Li Wei and his group, the last team of reincarnators had already perished under Liu Yuchen's Corpse Explosion. Among them was even an A2-level combatant. The reason they were so easily defeated and killed by Liu Yuchen was simply due to the group's bad luck.

What is the one thing they have in abundance in this Land of the Dead?

Skeletons, Ghost, and Vampire, and of course, corpses everywhere.

Therefore, even the powerful A2-level reincarnator died in the violent explosion. Liu Yuchen still searched all the Yellow Paper of these reincarnators, but naturally still couldn't find the Dragon Jade.

With a gloomy expression, Liu Yuchen continued flying relentlessly towards his next target.

Li Wei and his two companions had arrived at a desolate place several days earlier. There were no trees to hide in, no green spaces, only barren ground and endless sandstorms.

According to Li Wei, the reason for choosing this location was to suppress the special effects of "Liu Yuchen" through environmental means.

Based on the previous mission, 'Liu Yuchen' can only use the special skills of the puppet he possesses. This time, he possesses one of the four suspects.

The four suspects are an assassin, a mage, Necromancer, and a melee fighter, respectively. Among them, if the puppet is an assassin or Necromancer, then their combat power will be affected by the surrounding environment to some extent.

Just like an assassin, if you fight him in Jungle, your side probably won't have any advantage. The enemy's special skills will definitely be various traps and mechanisms, and the Jungle will be their natural battlefield. The same goes for Necromancer. Li Wei himself had put himself in the necromancer's shoes. If he had mastered the Necromancer's magic, the most practical one would be the ' Corpse Explosion.

Moreover, all it takes is to use some kind of spatial technique to collect a large number of corpses, throw them all out when facing an enemy, and then unleash the Corpse Explosion. Even an S-rank powerhouse would have no chance of getting the better of him.

Even upon entering this mission world, the opponent can rely on this terrifying Corpse Explosion to directly provoke the Sacred Dragon King, provided, of course, that they have sufficient magic power.

However, to guard against this at this moment, it is necessary to stay away from any place with corpses, and this desolate place is the best choice.

After waiting for three whole days, Li Wei finally sensed an aura coming from afar and quickly notified Zheng Yutong and An Hei.

When Liu Yuchen arrived on a flying dragon, he was met with three opponents who were ready for battle. He chuckled and said, "As expected of the Destroyer of Earth Star, you are different from those Reincarnators. Judging from your formation, I'm afraid the Dragon Jade is in your hands, isn't it?"

Li Wei did not answer. The moment he saw the other party, he activated the Blood Slaughter Technique allowed him to Blood Control.

A flash of blood appeared, and the Necromancer's head fell to the ground.

Liu Yuchen's puppet was only A1 level, so Li Wei's Blood Control was effective against the A3 level puppet.

The head rolled to the ground, the headless corpse bleeding as it lay there.

"We succeeded!" Zheng Yutong cheered first, but Li Wei and An Hei's expressions remained unchanged, staring at the corpse from beginning to end.

"Stop acting. The puppet died the moment you took control of it, which is why it can't use the Yellow Paper," Li Wei said coldly. Then he slapped the Beast Soul and summoned three Old Ghost.

The three Old Ghost howled and pounced, but were thrown back as if they had hit something.

At the same time, a faint humanoid figure gradually emerged above the Necromancer's corpse.

Upon seeing this scene, Zheng Yutong was shocked. "What's going on? Could this be his true form?"

Li Wei nodded. "From the very beginning, we were misled by this guy. The so-called puppet would naturally lead us to believe that the other party possessed the body of a reincarnator, but in reality, he was just using some kind of puppet-like method to control the body of a dead reincarnator. And the first task issued by the Main God, to find the anomaly, actually refers to finding this ghost... Compared to living beings, ghosts are naturally an anomaly."

"Your notes state that you control the puppets here using some kind of remote special skill, but that's inherently illogical. Starfields are separated by billions of miles, and I've even shut down the starfield teleportation arrays. Under these circumstances, you can still control the puppets, so aren't you even more powerful than Main God? With such power, why would you need to pursue the Dragon Power?"

Li Wei chuckled and continued, "So, the notebook I got from Liu Yuchen was also fabricated by you. Your purpose was to confuse the issue and use it to get that unfortunate 'Liu Yuchen' to collect Dragon Jade for you. However, by chance, the notebook ended up in my hands."

Zheng Yutong was completely confused by what he said, but An Hei explained, "After Li Wei returned from the last mission, we analyzed this matter carefully. First of all, the information in the notes that Li Wei obtained, the description of the Dragon Jade, was too detailed, so detailed that... it seemed to be a description specifically for someone else."

"If it were me, I would only keep this top-secret information in my head; how could I possibly write it down in black and white?"

Zheng Yutong suddenly realized.

"Besides, Li Wei isn't someone who's easily fooled; he sensed something was following us long ago..."

Li Wei interrupted An Hei's words, saying, "I have to thank those three Old Ghost for this. I was also lucky to have taken them into my sword in the Demon-Locking Tower. They've been ghosts for a thousand years, so they're extremely sensitive to the scent of their own kind. Ever since I obtained the scroll, they discovered a wisp of ghostly intent on it. This ghostly intent can take on countless forms, has no offensive power, but can possess something. The owner of the ghostly intent can then use it to find the location of the possessed object... From the moment that poisonous fog exploded at the start of the mission, all 60 of us reincarnators were tainted with his ghostly intent, which is why he found us so easily."

"So that's how it is?" Zheng Yutong finally understood why the other party could know her and Li Wei's locations so accurately. After thinking about it, she felt something was off. "Why would he do that? Also, you say he used Liu Yuchen, but isn't he Liu Yuchen?"

Li Wei chuckled and said, "Of course he's not Liu Yuchen. Liu Yuchen is just a reincarnator he's using. The reason he started doing this in this mission is to take advantage of the situation. When we were about to find his puppet, he used poisonous fog to spread ghostly thoughts, just in case. If any reincarnator killed the Sacred Dragon Gaia first and obtained the Dragon Jade, he could find all of us immediately and retrieve the Dragon Jade."

Zheng Yutong was still immersed in Li Wei's words.

If the other party isn't Liu Yuchen, then what is this Ghost Shadow?