Douluo Dalu: The Frozen Throne

Chapter 65: The Empire's Trouble, the Undead Demiplane and the First Encounter with Undead Creatures

The carriage drove on the bumpy road. Xu Jiujiu withdrew her gaze from the window and leaned on Shu Yan's shoulder again, but she still felt a little lost.

"Ah Yan, as you said last time, the continent is destined to see another bloody storm in the near future."

"The Sun-Moon Empire in the west is ready to make a move. The soul guidance technology they possess is at least a thousand years ahead of our three countries on the original continent. Even until now, there has not been a true ninth-level soul guide in the three countries on the original continent...

"Whether it is the Empire or Shrek Academy, the most powerful soul masters are all at the level of eight and a half. But what about the Sun Moon Empire? They have at least more than two dozen level nine soul masters. How terrifying is this on the battlefield? The deterrence that a level nine soul master can bring on a real battlefield is almost no less than that of a Super Douluo, because they are almost fatal to low-level soul masters and even ordinary soldiers..."

"Apart from the Sun-Moon Empire, whose ambitions are growing day by day, even if we only look at the interior of the empire, the corruption of the upper echelons and nobles has already embarked on the old path of the Heaven Dou Empire ten thousand years ago. However, under this situation, it is impossible to carry out large-scale reforms in the country again. At first, my brother placed his hopes on Shrek Academy, but later he changed his mind. If we can use the whole country's strength to cultivate an Ultimate Douluo with extreme attributes, then can everything be changed?"

Shu Yan shook his head and pinched his fair nose with amusement.

"It's unlikely. Even if I become an Ultimate Douluo according to the original plan, I can only protect the empire for a hundred or two hundred years at most. It would be absolutely stupid not to solve the problem fundamentally."

"Don't think about these things anymore. Since those old guys have lived enough, don't blame us for being cruel and ruthless."

"After I obtain the sixth soul ring, I will use the power of Elder Yi to eradicate them completely. As for the power of their faction, it would be great if they are willing to surrender, but if they are not willing... the creatures in the undead demiplane also need a batch of high-quality flesh and blood energy..."

The unfamiliar words appeared again, and the attention of Xu Jiujiu, Xue Di and the other two were instantly attracted.

"Well, you have done something inexplicably wrong again, and you are keeping it a secret from us. Shu Yan, you are really bold..."

Bingdi threw the snacks in his hand onto the table and then spoke angrily.

Xu Jiujiu and Xue Di also cast suspicious glances over, as if waiting for Shu Yan's explanation.

Shu Yan looked at the three women's faces with inquiring or curious looks, and for a moment he couldn't help feeling helpless.

Glancing at Luo Qinghan who was already in a deep state of meditation in the corner, Shu Yan casually said something in the sea of ​​​​spirituality, and after receiving a slight response, he said:
"Forget it. I'll have to tell you guys sooner or later anyway. It doesn't hurt to tell you earlier."

"I have already briefly introduced Yi Lao to you. Now, I will explain Yi Lao's abilities and the gifts he brought me again."

"In his own world, Yi Lao is already a powerful person who has reached the limit. In other words, Yi Lao's strength is almost infinitely close to the so-called god. It is not difficult for Yi Lao to become a god. As long as Yi Lao is willing, he is a well-deserved god of death. But why is there only a trace of consciousness left in Yi Lao and drifted to our Douluo plane? I am not in a position to explain the reason. This is Yi Lao's privacy and we should respect it."

"With the help of the huge life energy of the Gold of Life, Yi Lao's condition has basically stabilized. He also remembered a lot of past events and began to slowly teach me his undead magic, which is completely different from the power of the Douluo plane system."

"And the undead demiplane is easier to understand. There are many, many planes in this world. Each plane is a planet and also a main world. This involves some knowledge of space, which I cannot explain clearly for now. But you just need to know that Yi Lao once used his powerful strength to create some smaller worlds, which are the so-called demiplanes."

"Through the soul imprint left by Elder Yi, I roughly tried the simplest undead magic, but to be honest, although Elder Yi gave me the right to enter and exit the undead demiplane freely, I have never been in it, and I don't know how many powerful undead creatures there are..."

Shu Yan finished speaking in one breath, then he looked at the three women who were already in shock, waved his hands helplessly, and then continued:
"If you want, you can go in and take a look now. I haven't figured out the essentials of necromancy yet, but with Elder Yi's permission, entering and exiting the Undead Demiplane is pretty easy."

The three girls looked at each other, their astonishment undisguised, but at the same time they were filled with curiosity and eagerness to try. Finally, it was Xue Di who spoke up:
"Let's wait until we get settled tonight. It's not appropriate to stay here."

Bingdi and Xu Jiujiu also nodded, agreeing with Xuedi's opinion.

Shu Yan laughed dumbly, but did not refuse. He said softly:
"At our speed, it won't be difficult to reach Xuanyu City before dark. We'll talk about it then..."

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Time passed quickly. The originally bright sunshine had begun to set in the west. The blood-red sunset and the endless fields outlined a beautiful picture above the distant horizon. In such a magnificent scenery, at the end of the distant fields, the dark city wall finally appeared, and the crowds of people returning late gradually came into view, which also indicated that everyone had finally arrived at Xuanyu City, their place of stay for the night.

After paying the unchanged entrance fee, the group finally entered the city smoothly.

After Luo Qinghan woke up, the few of them randomly found a big hotel to check in. After quietly eating the dinner prepared by the hotel, they returned to their respective rooms.

As the night deepened, Shu Yan, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed, suddenly heard the sound of a door opening.

Shu Yan opened his eyes and looked at the three women standing in front of him, then said with emotion:
"You three even have the same habit of not knocking when entering a room..."

Xue Di and Bing Di looked up at Shu Yan and didn't say anything. Xu Jiujiu was confused. She saw Bing Di open the door and come in with ease, so she followed him in... After hearing what Shu Yan said, why did it feel like there was another story between the three of them...

Of course, this was just a digression, and Shu Yan quickly got back to the point.

"Let me explain in advance that entering the Undead Demiplane means that we have to completely leave our original world. I am not sure what that world is like, so be mentally prepared in advance."

The three women nodded one after another. Shu Yan didn't say anything more when he saw this. He called out softly in his sea of ​​​​spirit, and then the soul imprint left by Alex in his sea of ​​​​spirit instantly burst out. A chilling breath that made people's hair stand on end suddenly burst out from Shu Yan. A feeling of deathly silence immediately filled the hearts of the three women. After touching their exposed cold skin for a long time, they couldn't help but gasp.

With a slight rumbling sound, a pitch-black door suddenly opened from behind Shu Yan, and a cold wind carrying the breath of death blew towards him. Various furnishings in the room were blown and swayed, but the pitch-black door and the cold aura on Shu Yan's body were all well controlled, and not a trace of it leaked out from the suite.

Shu Yan took the lead and walked towards the dark door that looked like a bottomless abyss, and then said:
"Come on, just follow my steps later."

Xue Di didn't say anything and followed Shu Yan's footsteps directly. Bing Di looked at Xu Jiujiu beside him, hesitated for a moment, and still held the other's hand, then followed with Xu Jiujiu...

After a dizzying moment of weightlessness, the four of them landed safely on the ground.

The place where they landed was high up in a bare mountain range, so the scenery they could see was extremely vast and shocking.

This is a world with very dim light. There is a strange black sun hanging high in the sky, emitting a weird and ominous purple light.

Looking from a high place, there was not much vegetation on the mountains or the gentle slopes in the distance. It was a desolate scene. The cold wind blew from somewhere and was a bit biting. Shu Yan pulled Xu Jiujiu to his side. This world had a great suppressive effect on the attribute of light. Although the Star Crown Martial Soul was of the starlight attribute, it was also somewhat related to the light attribute, so Xu Jiujiu could not avoid the fate of being suppressed.

Xue Di stood beside Shu Yan, her boundless spiritual power spreading outwards, and then she said with some surprise:
"Although you said this is just an incomplete plane, the vastness here is indeed beyond my imagination. However, apart from the land that has already taken shape here, if I want to explore outside or above, I can only feel endless darkness and nothingness..."

Shu Yan nodded, and then said:
"The purpose of Yilao creating this place is to study an extremely powerful undead magic. For thousands of years, the undead creatures here have continued to multiply and thrive, and now they have reached a scale and strength that cannot be underestimated."

"Because of Yi Lao's existence, I can freely enter and exit the Undead Demiplane, so you don't have to worry too much about my safety in the future. Once there is danger, I can enter here immediately. Even the Ultimate Douluo will never be able to capture it. To put it in a bigger way, even if he captures it, he will never be able to enter here. This Undead Demiplane is also an excellent means of self-defense for me."

"In addition, as I said before, Elder Yi gave me the authority to control the undead creatures in this world. This is what we should pay the most attention to. Up to now, there are already thirteen kinds of undead creatures in this world."

“These thirteen undead creatures are of different races and have different strengths, just like our human soul master system. The weakest race has the largest number of races and the weakest individual strength, while the stronger races have the smallest number of races and the strongest individual strength. It is no exaggeration to say that this is an undead army that completely obeys my orders. Even if I bring them to the continent, the strong people on the continent will definitely not suspect me. Instead, they will focus more on those evil soul masters…”

Bingdi sighed at the side, and then said with some emotion:

“Don’t mention it, it really has some of the flavor of you evil soul masters… But that old man does have some skills. He can create a small world for the body of a god. The horror of this method is unheard of…”

Xu Jiujiu pulled Shu Yan's sleeve, but she did not notice her feelings and opinions. Instead, she pointed her finger at a valley not far away, swallowed her saliva, and said with difficulty:
"Ayan, what are those?"

Shu Yan and the other two looked in the direction of Xu Jiujiu's finger. In the dark valley, a scarlet light was flickering. As a burst of messy footsteps sounded, the creatures hiding in the darkness slowly appeared. They were a group of the weakest white skeletons in the undead demiplane.

As if they smelled the scent of fresh flesh and blood, the soul fire in the eyes of these white skeletons jumped more violently. But before they could get any closer, a stream of gray air appeared from Shu Yan's hand again. Then Shu Yan waved his hand, and they turned around and retreated back into the dark canyon as if they were controlled.

"These are just a bunch of ordinary skeletons in the Undead Demiplane. In fact, if you use your mental power to sense them, you will find that their fighting power is about the same as that of an ordinary middle-aged man without soul power. They are at the bottom of the world in terms of fighting power, but they have a large number. According to Elder Yi, their number is almost endless. Of course, this can only be said within the limit that the world can bear."

Shu Yan explained casually, not paying much attention to this group of undead creatures who were extremely eager for fresh flesh and blood, and instead led the three of them towards the distant mountain top.

Walking on the nearly dark black land, several people looked around. In addition to the white skeletons, they also found many other low-level undead creatures. These undead creatures were almost the same as the white skeletons. They were the type with average individual strength but huge race numbers, but there were inevitably some exceptions among them.

Looking at the giant white skeleton below that was over five meters tall, Shu Yan simply sensed it and then said:

"This should be the king among the skeletons nearby. If converted into the strength of a human soul master, he is roughly at the Soul Emperor to Soul Saint level."

The Ice Emperor at the side looked at the skeleton king who had been watching the group of people below for a while, and then asked the question in his heart:

"Shu Yan, I am a little curious, what level has the most powerful creature in this plane reached?"

"This……"

Shu Yan was a little speechless for a moment. To be honest, Bingdi's question really made him not know how to answer. After thinking for a moment, he asked Alex in the sea of ​​​​spirituality again, and then said:

"I don't know much about the Undead Demiplane. It's hard to say what level the most powerful creature here would be at if it were to be substituted into our Douluo plane. It could be at the Titled Douluo level, or it could be at the Super Douluo level. I need to learn more about it before I can make a conclusion. After all, Elder Yi is still asleep, and he can only give me the simplest response based on that soul imprint, and he can't explain anything specifically."

Bingdi said "oh" but didn't ask any further questions.

Xue Di walked alone in front. She stood in front of a cliff, frowned slightly at the scene in the distance, then turned around and said:

"But now we can be sure that there must be a strong person who can rival the Titled Douluo level in this small plane. You will know when you come and take a look."

The three of them came to Xue Di's side, followed her gaze, and for a moment they couldn't help but be stunned.

Below the cliff was an endless plain, and on the plain were white skeletons with blood-red soul fire flashing in their eyes. In the center of all the skeletons, several giant skeletons with a dark gold color that was obviously deeper stood in the middle, commanding all the white skeletons like an absolute king.

"When I used my spiritual power to explore this world earlier, I sensed several obscure and powerful auras in the deeper parts. Those dark golden skeletons are also powerful enough to rival the Titled Douluo. Ah Yan, can you try to control them?"

Xue Di said softly, pointing at the largest and most special dark golden skeletons.

Shu Yan was stunned for a moment, but did not refuse. He just said:
"Let me try. The authority that Master Yi gave me is very comprehensive, but I have only been in contact with him for a short time, and my comprehension is not deep enough. It is hard to say whether I can control him for the time being. But if Master Yi wakes up completely, there will be no problem..."

Xue Di hummed softly, and continued to look down...

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(End of this chapter)