An invasion from the Abyss? I, a demonic cultivator, laughed.

Chapter 131 S-Rank Trait

"The Corpse King...is he dead?"

The crowd stared blankly at the blood-splattered sky, finding it hard to believe.

Just a second ago, the Corpse King had the absolute upper hand, so how did he get killed in the next second?
This dramatic transformation from despair to paradise left everyone momentarily stunned.

Just then, the notification sound indicating the end of the Blood Moon Ritual rang out, dispelling everyone's doubts.

Instantly, a tremendous joy of surviving the ordeal welled up in everyone's hearts!
"Dead! Really dead!"

"Mission accomplished, we survived!"

Some cheered loudly, some wept with joy, while Ye Junlin stood there blankly, unable to articulate his thoughts. But soon, these sentimental notions were swept away by the joy of surviving.

The others did the same. Anya cheered as she poured healing potions into Wei Shan, while Zhang Qingshan and Chu Qin excitedly embraced each other.

"Crash."

At this moment, the Corpse King's blood, mixed with bits of flesh, fell to the ground, and amidst the rain of blood, the figure of the Dark Night King slowly descended.

He stood atop the tower, his body stained dark red, his eyes deep and unfathomable, like a demon god descended to earth.

Looking at that imposing figure, everyone snapped out of their excitement.

Their feelings toward the Night King were complex. On one hand, they were grateful to the Night King for leading them through the world quest, but on the other hand, they instinctively felt fear and wariness toward this powerful creature.

More importantly, everyone felt a strong sense of unreality.

Therefore, the correct way to clear the level is actually to give most of the resources to a wild boss and let it carry you.
This was too bizarre. No one had ever heard of a similar process before, nor did they believe that an Abyss mission could be completed so easily.

Perhaps the Dark Night King wasn't their ally; they only cooperated because they all had a short-term goal of killing the Corpse King. Now that the Corpse King is dead, the Dark Night King might launch an attack on them instead!
The Blood Moon ritual was now over, and everyone was ready to return to Earth. They began to leave.

However, it takes time to break free, and that time is not short, about five minutes. Therefore, the premise for everyone's safe return is that the Dark King has no ill intentions towards them.

Before returning to Earth, anything can happen.

Zhang Qingshan stared at the figure high in the sky, took Chu Qin's hand, and whispered, "Don't let your guard down."

Ye Junlin also gathered his subordinates together.

Zhang Qingshan and his team adopted a defensive posture. Although he knew he was no match for the Dark Night King, he would not sit idly by if the Dark Night King really attacked. He would try to stall for as long as possible.

He didn't ask his teammates to join him, but most of them automatically stood beside Zhang Qingshan. Birds of a feather flock together, and that's pretty much how it is.

Chu Xiu looked at his childhood friend, who was watching him warily, and felt a little amused and surprised. He had to admit that Zhang Qingshan did have a unique personal charm, like a flag. As long as he stuck to his principles, he could always attract a group of followers.

Although Chu Xiu thought he was quite saintly, a saint who doesn't drag others down is a good saint. Moreover, Chu Xiu thought this way because he was strong enough and didn't need Zhang Qingshan's help. If it were an ordinary support class, Zhang Qingshan would be a great benefactor who saved his life.

Without thinking too much, Chu Xiu had one last thing to do, but before doing it, he first briefly checked the spoils he had obtained from the Corpse King.

First, there were over seven thousand karma points. Adding the remaining ones from before, Chu Xiu's karma points directly exceeded ten thousand again.

There are many causes and effects, but for Chu Xiu now, they are nothing. What truly surprised him were the equipment and items that were dropped.

Two legendary items, and a quality level S!
Suppressing his excitement, Chu Xiu began to examine the item's specific attributes.

[The Undying Corpse King's Amulet]

Current Rank: Scholar

[True Rank: Violent]

[Rank: Legendary]

【Attribute 1: All attributes +15, Energy level +30】

【Attribute 2: Mental Attack Resistance +200】

[Attribute 3: When the Corpse King's soul suffers a mental attack, it will automatically launch a mental counterattack with a strength of 50 against the attacker.]

[Attribute 4: Can actively release the Corpse King's soul, unleashing a mental attack of strength 20 on all enemies within a large area, or targeting a single enemy with a mental attack of strength 100. After use, the Corpse King's soul will temporarily fall into a slumber.]

[Attribute 5: Can absorb the soul of the Corpse King, repairing injuries and greatly restoring energy. After use, the Corpse King's soul will temporarily fall into a slumber.]

[Evaluation: The Corpse King Pugna was originally the leader of the Seaside City. His desire for immortality made him unable to resist the temptation of the Blood Pool, and he threw himself into the embrace of the sea of ​​blood. As a result, the Seaside City was destroyed, and Pugna was imprisoned in a high tower.]

After a thousand years of guilt and loneliness, the Corpse King's soul became extremely powerful and filled with hatred, capable of protecting its user from mental attacks and automatically retaliating.

Although he knew that as a world boss, defeating him would almost certainly drop [Legendary] equipment, Chu Xiu still couldn't help but show his joy when he got his hands on it.

Another piece of equipment with extremely powerful effects!

Leaving aside the improvement in basic attributes, similar to Vampire Earl's Wings, the key point is that it directly adds a full 200 points of mental attack resistance!
So-called mental attack resistance can be simply equated to the increase in mental attribute when suffering a mental attack. For example, 200 mental attribute and mental resistance means that when facing a mental attack, the ability to resist is equivalent to 400 mental attribute.

It's important to know that mental attributes are much harder to increase than physical attributes. Even with the bonuses from the two legendary equipment pieces, Chu Xiu's mental value is only a little over one hundred. This means that just one piece of equipment has nearly doubled his ability to resist mental attacks!
"And the next three skills are also incredibly powerful!"

A mental attack of 50 points basically means that it can instantly kill enemies with a mental attribute of 25 or less, severely injure enemies with 50 points, effectively resist enemies with 100 points, and achieve complete immunity by reaching at least 200 points!

"The Corpse King can unleash a maximum mental attack of 100, meaning I can instantly kill enemies with a mental attribute below 50."

Chu Xiu couldn't help but gasp. This was terrifying. You have to know that usually, S-rank melee classes only have a spirit attribute of over 50 after reaching level 9 of the Warrior rank! And even S-rank mage classes won't exceed 100! Only a very few classes that specialize in studying the soul can reach even higher.

Of course, as an Awakened One, one will have more or less equipment and skills to resist mental attacks, so the actual effect will not be so exaggerated. And it is a bit of a pity that, limited by the level of the Corpse King's body, the true rank of this legendary equipment is only Fierce, one level weaker than the Vampire Earl's Wings.

Even so, it's still extremely perverted.

What puzzled Chu Xiu was that the evaluation said the Corpse King had been guarding the tower alone for a thousand years, but judging from the descriptions of the underground shelter and some items, only a few decades had passed since the apocalypse. He didn't think much of it, just kept this question in mind, and continued to examine the remaining items.

With this piece of equipment as a precedent, Chu Xiu's expectations for the next two items immediately rose to a new level.

And the result did not disappoint him.

The evaluation of the Blood of Immortality is that it is a drop of blood from the Boundless Blood Pool itself. It is a fierce-level item. Its effect is that after use, one's physique will be greatly enhanced for a short period of time, and one will gain a near-immortal repair effect. The effect will gradually weaken over one minute.

The final trait surprised Chu Xiu even more. This trait was of the highest rank, the "Fierce" rank. Its effect was to consume the user's own life force to heal the summoned creatures under their control, and to designate up to two hundred summoned creatures to share 5% of the user's base attributes! There was also a small chance that the user would inherit some of their skills!
The effect was so powerful that Chu Xiu was completely speechless. It was equivalent to directly giving his summoned creature ten times his base attributes! It could be said that as long as the fusion was successful, the strength of the demon army would increase dramatically! It was almost a perfect match for his path to becoming the supreme demon lord!

"A Rank S trait of the Ferocious Rank is basically equivalent to a Rank S talent of the Ferocious Rank!"

"Once I fuse with it, it's like I'll have an extra S-rank talent compared to others when I'm at the Ferocious Rank! Even if I level up later, this talent will still be quite useful!"

"The only thing to worry about is the potential alienation."

Chu Xiu hesitated for a moment and looked down. Perhaps because the Corpse King was originally human, and because this was a universal talent, the mutation deviation rate was not high, only 0.32%, which was about twice that of Tough Skin (C). Compared to its extremely high grade, this level of mutation was acceptable.

But what caught Chu Xiu's attention was that, in addition to the alienation, there was another description.

[Pollution level: 5.4]

"What the hell is this pollution?"

Chu Xiu had never heard of any trait having this attribute.

However, it's also possible that high-quality items are so rare that they are practically impossible to obtain, which is why there is no relevant information online.

"Go back and search carefully."

Chu Xiu didn't dwell on it too much. In any case, even if he wanted to fuse with it, he would have to wait until he reached the Fierce Rank.

While he was browsing his gains, one by one the awakened ones successfully broke away. After the main force withdrew, Zhang Qingshan also began to break away, preparing to return to the awakening space.

Chu Xiu glanced down and smiled faintly at Zhang Qingshan, who seemed to have relaxed his guard.

It's time to do the last thing.

With a wave of his hand, a large number of demons suddenly climbed up the tower and appeared around Zhang Qingshan!
This caused Zhang Qingshan's expression to change drastically. He quickly stopped disengaging and gripped his spear tightly, pointing it at the menacing demons around him. A bead of cold sweat involuntarily appeared on his forehead, and his teammates behind him also turned pale.

His nervous appearance reminded Chu Xiu of the time he had scared him before, and he couldn't help but laugh even harder.

He made the monsters assume an attack stance, further putting mental pressure on his good brother and subtly testing his mentality.

Of course, his manipulation of the demons to keep Zhang Qingshan and the others there was not to harm them; on the contrary, it was to give them an opportunity.

Although the Corpse King is dead, the world quest is not over; only the Blood Moon Ritual has ended.

In other words, you can still earn contribution points for world missions, and you will also earn contribution points for auxiliary missions such as killing the Zombie King's minions and even scouting terrain.

The rewards and rankings for World Missions will only begin to be calculated after the Awakened return to the Awakening Space.

"This Corpse King left behind dozens of offspring. Even though the Blood Sea has receded and the hatched Corpse Demons cannot be enhanced to the Ferocious Rank by the Blood Sea, their contribution value, thanks to their extremely high potential, will definitely exceed that of ordinary Warrior-rank monsters and approach the Ferocious Rank!"

"Moreover, their combat strength is not strong, making them perfect targets for farming contribution points."

It should be noted that, apart from Chu Xiu, the other awakened individuals only killed a total of five ferocious-level beings. These dozens of fleshy tumors are definitely a significant contribution.

"If there are good things, of course we should save them for our good brothers." Chu Xiu smiled slightly.

He no longer lacks these contribution points. The core anchor point is a sure thing, far ahead of others. Chu Xiu estimates that even if he takes on all these culprits himself, he will only get a little more cause and effect points at most.

Instead, I'd rather help my good friend and his teammates improve their ranking.

After obtaining the core anchor point, Chu Xiu will have a great deal of control over the Corpse Demon World. He will use the Corpse Demon World as his base for development. However, he will not stay there forever, so he will need to recruit additional people to help him manage it in order to obtain long-term benefits.

If his good friend's team can develop, it will bring him a lot of convenience and help in the future.

"To seize power through force and then maintain it through virtue, a stable environment still requires a principled and compassionate leader."

Chu Xiu felt that if Zhang Qingshan could gain some control, the development of the Corpse Demon World would proceed much more smoothly.

Moreover, from an emotional standpoint, Zhang Qingshan and the others suffered a lot because they went back to rescue the support professions, and Chu Xiu did not want to cause his ranking to drop because of this.

As for Guan Ke, Shen Zhuo, and the others, he stopped them as well. Chu Xiu was very surprised that this girl could go back to save people at the critical moment. Her talent was enough to become a powerful help to Zhang Qingshan. Since that was the case, he didn't mind giving her a chance.

Soon, under Chu Xiu's command, the demons drove the group of Corpse King's sons closer to the remaining people. As he expected, these warrior-level monsters were newly born, had extremely weak combat instincts, and had not yet mastered any skills. They were all devoured by the group in no time.

To Chu Xiu's surprise, although these guys were weak, they seemed to have been judged as "elites" by the Abyss, and dropped a lot of causal points and equipment.

Although Chu Xiu looked down on this, it was still a considerable resource for development for Zhang Qingshan and others who had no background.

After finishing this last task, Chu Xiu didn't linger any longer and eagerly activated the escape mechanism to return to the Awakening Space.

The basic reward for completing a world quest is a total of 50,000 Karma Points plus a large number of special items.

These rewards will be distributed proportionally based on the level of contribution.

Moreover, it is said that if the contribution percentage is particularly high, there will be additional mystery item rewards!

He was eagerly anticipating what terrifying level of contribution he would achieve after he had almost single-handedly taken on all the ferocious creatures, wiped out the three major species, and killed the Corpse King!

(End of this chapter)