The system was set three years in advance, but the universal deities still hadn't arrived.

"Ready to go!"

Zeng Shen said softly, then activated the Elementary Small World Card in his hand.

next second.

A dazzling light burst forth from the card, and the space before them seemed to be torn open, revealing a purple vortex that suddenly unfolded on the beach, gradually expanding into a three-meter-high dimensional gate.

As soon as the dimensional gate of the small world was formed, faint roars of beasts and the sound of wind came from inside, along with a suction force that seemed to want to swallow everything around it.

"go!"

Zeng Shen stepped in first, followed closely by the others.

After passing through the dimensional gate, the group found themselves on a gray, desolate wasteland.

Three blood moons hung in the sky above the wasteland, and faint roars of beasts echoed in the distance. The air was thick with the stench of decay and blood, and on the ground, one could occasionally see scattered humanoid skeletons and tattered, rusty weapons and armor.

"Master, this place... looks like a battlefield that has witnessed a great battle." Youying frowned and looked around, whispering.

"Um,"

Zeng Shen responded softly, and while waiting for all the Darkwing Bat Dragons to fly in, he took out the card he had obtained a long time ago—[Small World Resource Distribution Map].

Followed by.

His consciousness solidified, and an invisible radar wave surged from the card in his hand, beginning to mark the resource points and danger zones of this small world.

Soon, all resource points and their descriptions were marked on the [Small World Resource Distribution Map] card.

Zeng Shen glanced at it, then pointed northeast and said to Wu Nisha, "There is a 'Soul-Silent Swamp' there, where a kind of soul-guiding grass grows that can nurture souls. It is home to a large number of wandering souls of the dead creatures of this world. Let's go and see if there are any wandering souls with strong potential that we can use as materials."

“Master, before we go, perhaps we can let the dragon-winged creatures have a good meal first.” Wu Nisha squinted at a pile of bones and remains that looked like a small hill not far away.

As soon as she finished speaking, Zeng Shen heard a howl that sounded like a wolf or a dog. Immediately afterward, more than thirty strange beasts, resembling giant wolves or wild dogs, with a row of bone spikes on their backs and scarlet eyes, rushed out from behind the pile of remains.

Zeng Shen had seen this kind of beast in the virtual game world of elves. It was a bone-rotting wolfhound, which was extremely fierce and bloodthirsty, as well as xenophobic and belligerent, and liked to kill living beings.

Back in the virtual game world of Pokémon, Zeng Shen had tamed some of his other pets, but they would often hunt, bite, or kill him innocently, and they would never listen to his instructions.

So afterwards, he simply executed the beast. Now, encountering it again, Zeng Shen had no intention of taming it at all, and directly addressed the dragon wings in the sky:

"Deal with them!"

"Roar."

The Darkwing Bat Dragon King let out an excited shriek and led its swarm of bat dragons in a swoop down, its sharp claws and venomous fangs instantly tearing apart several bone-rotting wolfhounds.

Wu Nisha hovered in mid-air, actively absorbing the souls of these rotting wolves and dogs after their deaths, storing them within her body for future use.

When these bone-rotting wolves realized that these creatures were not to be trifled with, they tried to turn and run away, but the dragon wing did not give them a chance and hunted them all down.

After all, these are their food rations; one head can barely feed them halfway.

The battle ended quickly.

In just two or three minutes, all the dead skeletal wolfhounds were devoured by the Darkwing Bat Dragon swarm.

Seeing this, Zeng Shen nodded in satisfaction, then took the three women and flew onto the back of the dragon wing, saying, "Now that we've finished our appetizer, it's time to get to work. Fly northeast."

"Roar."

With a roar, Longyi flew off towards the northeast.

five minutes later.

The group then arrived above the edge of the Soul-Silent Swamp.

Visibility in the Soul-Silent Swamp is extremely low, and the surrounding area is shrouded in mist, with countless eerie blue lights floating in the swamp.

Those points of light were the Soul-Guiding Grass. And around the Soul-Guiding Grass, faint, transparent figures flickered.

Without much thought, Zeng Shen realized that those figures were the wandering souls attracted by the Soul-Guiding Grass, commonly known as wandering spirits.

"Dragon Wing, go down," Zeng Shen said softly.

Dragon Wing flew to the edge of the Soul-Silent Swamp and landed.

As soon as He landed, Wu Nisha spread her arms and actively released her talent [Soul Stealing - Raven Soldier].

In an instant.

The wandering spirits around her seemed to transform into a torrent, rapidly surging into and converging upon her body.

Meanwhile, Zeng Shen, along with Ye Li and You Ying, quickly gathered Soul-Guiding Grass from the surrounding Soul-Silent Swamp.

Two minutes later, the thick fog in the Soul-Silent Swamp became much thinner than before.

Wu Nisha also stopped absorbing the wandering souls around her, opened her eyes, and looked at Zeng Shen, who was collecting soul-guiding herbs.

“Master, the quality of these souls is very average. The highest one is only a lord-level talent, which is too much for refining crow soldiers. However… I sense a powerful soul force fluctuation deep in the swamp, resisting my attraction. It may be a high-level dead soul with the talent of a king-level being and with consciousness.”

“In that case, let’s go capture that ghost and forge crow soldiers for you.” Zeng Shen said, as he gathered soul-guiding herbs and ventured deeper into the swamp.

It took about half an hour to walk.

The group then arrived at the center of the swamp.

At this moment, in the center of the swamp, a huge skeleton was half-buried in the mud, with a ghostly green soul fire burning at its skull, releasing a cold aura.

Upon seeing the skeleton, Wu Nisha immediately exclaimed excitedly, "Master, this is a wandering soul with the potential of a third-tier king. It should still retain a lot of its strength from its previous life, making it very suitable to be my crow soldier!"

"Yes, absorb it."

As soon as Zeng Shen finished speaking, the soul fire inside the skeleton's skull suddenly surged, and it slowly broke through the ground to stand up, locking onto Wu Nisha with its huge, empty eye sockets and roaring.

"Intruder... it's you. You absorbed my people. I will kill you and leave your souls behind..." A hoarse voice echoed from inside the skeletal skull.

The shadow instantly entered combat mode, and Shadow Binding attempted to entangle the skeleton and restrict its movement.

at the same time.

Wu Nisha seized the opportunity and activated [Soul Stealing], using her soul power to form chains to bind the wandering soul within the skeleton, attempting to pull it out.

However, this wandering spirit resisted with great force, and every time Wu Nisha pulled it out, it would retract back into the skull of the skeleton.

This immediately created a tug-of-war.

Seeing this, Zeng Shen said to Ye Li, who was standing to the side, "Ye Li, devour its bones!"

“Yes, Master,” Ye Li replied excitedly, then pounced on the skeleton and began to devour it.

As it devoured the skeleton, the wandering soul inside the skull, which was resisting Wu Nisha, suddenly let out a shrill howl, and was eventually completely pulled out and absorbed into Wu Nisha's body.

Ye Li devoured all of its remains in one go. In an instant, black light shone brightly around her, and her aura suddenly surged.

Followed by.

She licked her lips, then turned away, satisfied.

At that moment, Wu Nisha opened her eyes and looked at Zeng Shen, saying, "Master, I have obtained some of the wandering soul's memories..."

"Tell me about it," Zeng Shen asked curiously.

“Hmm.” Wu Nisha nodded slightly and slowly said, “Master, a primordial god was once born in this small world, and later a divine war took place… In the deepest part of the swamp, there is a ‘Temple of the Dead,’ where the remains of that fallen primordial god are kept…” (End of Chapter)