Chapter 816: 784. Shura King and Ghost Bride
Xia Feng knew that his fake death couldn't be hidden for long.
After all, when the settlement and exchange phase begins, all players must temporarily be transported back to the initial Nine Pillars Space for the current round's reward settlement.
For example, if Jinyang Tian used a Calamity Fog Card and really killed Xia Feng, he could get a reward of 30 Ember Stones during the settlement phase.
Moreover, since this is the first kill, there's an additional 30 Ember Stones as a first kill reward.
It could be said to be very profitable.
Of course, when the settlement phase comes, Jinyang Tian and Jin Shiyin will only find that the Black Spade Man is not dead at all.
But these are not things to worry about now; survival is the priority.
Playing games with these Holy Realm experts is really too difficult, each one doesn't play by the rules. Xia Feng mocked while enduring hardship, gazing at the Western Heaven.
The Calamity Fog Sea was sweeping quickly towards here and finally approached after about twenty minutes.
At the same time, a man and a woman, two silhouettes, were being chased by the upturned Calamity Fog Sea.
As the figures got closer, Xia Feng recognized them as Zong Yue and Lady Mi.
Zong Yue is the Guardian Sage of the Just Church, but he is a little different from another Guardian Sage.
During the Middle Ages Chaos, nations fought and cults flourished.
The unrighteous multitude regarded the Shura Palace as the head, worshiping the Shura King, and for a time even stood toe-to-toe with the other five nations with legitimate Star Gods.
However, with the rise of Tianwu Empress, the Shura King was suppressed by the Tianwu Empress.
Unfortunately, the Shura King's ability was special and couldn't be killed, so they could only incorporate him into the Church Court, using the Divine Power of the Justice Star God to purify the Shura King's murderous intent.
And this Zong Yue is indeed the reincarnated body of the Shura King!
It must be said, those who can enter the Sumeru Realm are surely not simple figures.
"How dare such little evil spirits act rampant!" A cold voice of disdain seemed like a punishment from heaven—
The Six-eyed Spider Calamity chasing the two was instantly trapped by a storm of thunder, struggling with hisses, its numerous gray-green compound eyes on its chest turning—
The surrounding thunder immediately transformed into countless jets of gray-green venom shooting towards Zong Yue.
Zong Yue, bare-chested, his dark green long hair like waves cascading down his back, his back muscles developed, his lower body bound in black warrior pants, his large foot stomped down fiercely, shouted an ancient and powerful 'Kill' word while raising his blade to slay the Six-eyed Spider Calamity.
"Don't get caught up, leave." A commanding cold female voice came from behind, and the bare-chested man hesitated, then turned and left.
There was a strange woman wearing a sleeveless black cheongsam, her white hair falling to her knees, her face covered with a ghostly white veil like a bridal veil, through which only the contours of her eyes could be vaguely seen.
She held a lantern lightly with fingers wrapped in black silk mesh.
The lantern, made of ancient mulberry paper, was thin and translucent, clearly revealing a white jasmine flower glowing with a ghostly light inside.
The lantern swayed in the dim world.
Like a ghost bride from hell.
This was Lady Mi, from the Third Pillar·Yama Army.
About this existence, Cha Naixue only collected a name and an affiliation, nothing more, very mysterious.
While speeding, the Ghost Bride glanced back, and another Six-eyed Spider Calamity crawled out of the Calamity Fog Sea.
Although one need not fear these soul-lost evildoers, being trapped in the Calamity Fog Sea would be somewhat troublesome.
No need to continue fighting.
Soon enough, the Ghost Bride and the bare-chested strongman rapidly moved away, disappearing over the horizon.
But Xia Feng still vaguely heard their conversation.
"Before the crowd, you and I are strangers, understood?"
"Understood."
The voices gradually faded.
The Calamity Fog Sea completely engulfed the sand layer where Xia Feng was, advancing slowly towards the distance.
The world plunged into darkness.
Xia Feng waited silently for another two hours.
Once he was sure no players were left in the Calamity Fog Sea, he chose to release the transformation state of Myriad Phenomena.
A large hand emerged from the dead sand layer, the entire body crawling out.
"Ptooey—ptooey—" Xia Feng spat out the sand from his mouth, brushing off his clothes,
He had to admit, hiding had its advantages, he actually heard some secrets.
Lady Mi and Zong Yue seemed to be working together, but wanted to pretend not to know each other in front of others.
Really impressive, how come all these people have allies, and I'm the only one fighting solo?
Xia Feng sighed helplessly; if only....
Miss Mu were here....
But he quickly gathered himself, looking around, he thought, ha~ a true strong man doesn't need allies!
Xia Feng spread his arms wide, tilted his head back, and took a deep breath, the current carried the scent of vanilla ice cream, cool and refreshing, quite delicious!
I like this place!
It's just a pity that the concentration of the Calamity Fog Sea was far less than that of the Calamity Land just now, even half a day of inhaling wouldn't increase it by a thousandth of a percent.
Oh well, still need to focus on the important matters! He shook his head, hand opened.
The Residual Soul floated out in his palm, grasped it firmly—
Instantly refined!
[Death Spirit Map]
[Undead Knight: You do not need to spend any spiritual material, just consume spiritual power to make the Residual Soul of a dead person into an Undead Knight, retaining 50%~100% of their power in life. Both you and the undead can use their lifetimes' Spiritual Artifacts.]
[Knight Limit: Base 1, currently 3 (Ascension, Entering Saint, becoming a god all add +2)]
[You have successfully refined 'Xia Feng·Residual Soul' into 'Xia·Undead Knight·Feng'—]
[Current Knights: 1/3]
The Undead Knight had no face, its body was just bones and muscles without skin, quite eerie.
But it didn't matter, the Black Spade Man didn't need to show his true face.
Xia Feng envisaged, immersing his thoughts into the vision of the Undead Knight, applying the Bronze Mask, at once a black robe emerged on his body, and a Black Spade covered his face.
The two Black Spade Men stood face to face in the desert, both raising their right hands simultaneously, then jumping at the same time, finally giving each other a thumbs-up facing down.
"Hey~"
"Not bad." Xia Feng was very satisfied with this doppelganger, not only able to use the original body's Spiritual Clothes but also all Spiritual Artifacts.
The only downside was when the doppelganger deployed any means, it consumed the original body's spiritual power, exerting 50%~100% of the full effect, and the closer to 100%, the more terrifying the spiritual power consumption.
But fortunately, now his spiritual power had reached the Light Holding level, enough for the duplicate to closely match the original body, ready for a good fight.
The thought passed, and he controlled the doppelganger knight, dashing out of the Calamity Fog Sea.
The doppelganger could use Spiritual Artifacts and could open the ash land, let the doppelganger play with those Holy Realm big shots; even if overly arrogant and killed, it didn't matter.
At worst, wait for the Vermilion Bird Demon Armor cooldown to end, then the original body could commit suicide again... then refine another Undead Knight, to happily play with the big shots again.
Simply perfect!
"Roar—"
However, just as Xia Feng pondered his ultimate hiding strategy, two huge figures slowly crawled out of the misty Calamity Fog.
It was those two Six-eyed Spider Calamities, followed by a scattering of several Four-eyed and Three-eyed Calamities....
Xia Feng's face stiffened slightly. The Evil Clan's Six-eyed generally had Venerate Four to Holy Realm strength.
Not to mention these two Six-eyed Spider Calamities seemed to be transforming into a major disaster, which, translated, meant near-peak Holy Realm strength.