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Chapter 488 Bloodwing Bats and Arrangements
"Is that the Pearl of the Mysterious Netherworld?"

As the battle ended, Bai You looked at the grayish-white beads scattered on the ground and suddenly remembered the Soul Beads that Ye Mo had mentioned when he introduced the secret realm.

According to her understanding, the greatest treasure in this secret realm is these Soul Beads; after absorbing them, extraordinary individuals can begin to gradually condense their souls. This is also their primary purpose in coming here.

"Yes, those are the Xuanming Pearls. However, only one of them is the Xuanming Ghost General Pearl, which is somewhat effective. The other soul pearls dropped by Xuanming Ghost Spirits that are not even Xuanming Ghost Generals have almost no effect. So don't waste your mental energy absorbing those useless soul pearls."

Ye Mo looked at the curious Bai You and Xiao Liu'er and said to them.

The soul beads dropped in the Xuanming Underworld are indeed good items, but if you want them to have a significant effect on his spirit pets, not only must the soul beads be of the fourth rank, but they must also be soul beads dropped by Xuanming Ghost Generals of the Monarch race and Xuanming Ghost Kings of the Upper Monarch race.

Other soul beads, such as those from Xuanming Ghost Generals, can be somewhat useful if there are enough of them, but those dropped by ordinary Xuanming Ghost Spirits are almost useless.

"So that's how it is." Little Willow flew beside Ye Mo, biting her little finger and nodding repeatedly with pouting lips.

"Alright, time is of the essence, let's not waste any more time this time, let's proceed directly according to plan." Ye Mo clapped his hands, and after seeing all the spirit pets turn their gazes towards him, he said in a serious tone.

As the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm is one of the core components of his plan to help his spirit pet break through to the fifth rank, he naturally wouldn't arrange it as casually as before.

Therefore, when he learned the opening time of his reserved qualification for the Xuanming Underworld, he officially began to prepare his plans and arrangements for the Xuanming Underworld.

After all, his goal this time wasn't just to get his spirit pets to the initial stage of soul condensation, as before. This time, he planned to maximize the soul condensation progress of all his contracted spirit pets here, to the point where there was no more room for advancement.

To achieve this, there is a crucial element: finding a sufficient number of Xuanming Ghost Kings. Only by defeating enough Xuanming Ghost Kings and obtaining their dropped Xuanming Ghost King Pearls can his spirit pets' soul condensation progress break through fifty percent or even higher.

Otherwise, relying solely on the soul beads dropped by the Xuanming Ghost General and Xuanming Ghost Commander, Xiao Liu'er and Bai You would probably only be able to increase their progress by about 40% at most. After all, absorbing too many soul beads can lead to "drug resistance."

"Okay, Daddy, I'll go first." After hearing Ye Mo's words, Xiao Liu'er took the lead and started to work.

A massive crimson vortex appeared in the void, and soon after, flesh and blood puppets emerged from it, resembling a vast army.

These flesh and blood puppets all look the same, similar to bats, and are not very big, only about one to three meters tall, and their aura is all at the third to fourth level.

Ye Mo looked at the puppet army summoned by Xiao Liu'er and nodded in satisfaction.

These flesh and blood puppets are different from Xiao Liu'er's original main battle puppets, the Flesh and Blood Flying Wolf and the Flesh and Blood Giant Ape. They are brand new flesh and blood puppets—the Bloodwing Bats.

In terms of combat strength, these Bloodwing Bats are far superior to the Flesh-and-Blood Flying Wolves and Flesh-and-Blood Giant Apes, but in terms of reconnaissance and stealth capabilities, the Bloodwing Bats far surpass the other two types of flesh puppets.

In other words, the Bloodwing Bat puppet was a model that Ye Mo had Xiao Liu'er specially make during this period, so that these puppets could find as many Xuanming Ghost Kings as possible in the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm.

To this end, Ye Mo not only sent Pirate Bay and the Verdant Islands to find samples of various magical beasts, but also spent time having his grandfather search within Yanhuang for any monsters or creatures with outstanding abilities in detection and concealment.

Finally, by combining the powers of several magical beasts and monsters, Xiao Liu'er was able to create the Bloodwing Bat puppet.

Of course, Xiao Liu'er's [Flesh and Blood Golem] skill isn't that magical; it can't truly combine the advantages of many magical beasts to create a new race of flesh and blood golems. But it can certainly make the created flesh and blood golems stand out in a certain aspect.

“Very good, Little Willow, you will be in charge of these 3,324 Bloodwing Bats. Let them help us find those Xuanming Ghost Kings.”

"Okay, Dad."

Little Willow's innocent yet firm words came out, and the next moment, at his command, the thousands of blood-winged bats spread their wings and rose into the air, flying off in different directions.

At the same time, these bloodwing bats activated concealment or invisibility formations, and after flying away for a while, their entire figures disappeared from everyone's sight.

Seeing this, Ye Mo nodded secretly, feeling quite satisfied.

Although the Bloodwing Bats were specially made flesh puppets by Xiao Liu'er, most of those flesh puppets were only at the third level of cultivation, with only a very few at the fourth level.

What's the situation like inside the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm? It's teeming with fourth-order Xuanming ghosts; even an ordinary fourth-order ghost would have a hard time surviving a single night there.

In this situation, if he were to directly send the Bloodwing Bat army to investigate the Xuanming Ghost King within the secret realm, it would likely take less than half a day for at least half of the Bloodwing Bat puppets, apart from those at the fourth level of cultivation, to be lost.

Therefore, both to better utilize the Bloodwing Bats' abilities and to allow the puppets to find more Xuanming Ghost Kings, Ye Mo began to further strengthen the Bloodwing Bat puppets.

The enhancement is quite simple: it involves formations.

Since the Bloodwing Bats' mission was simply to find targets and hide themselves, their strength was irrelevant. Therefore, Ye Mo arranged for Bai You to install formations on the Bloodwing Bats.

Even without a fifth-order invisible formation, a fourth-order invisible formation or even a third-order concealment formation would be enough for the Bloodwing Bats to freely explore the Xuanming Underworld.

Besides the formation, Ye Mo originally planned to have Hanhan create extraordinary equipment suitable for these flesh and blood puppets. However, after creating some, he found through experiments that the effects of the extraordinary equipment were actually quite average, so he stopped having Hanhan create these things.

After all, for those Bloodwing Bat golems, ordinary Tier 3 and Tier 4 extraordinary equipment mostly just improves their survivability, making them more durable and capable of dealing more damage.

But putting aside the third-tier Bloodwing Bats whose combat power is like cannon fodder in the Xuanming Underworld, even if those fourth-tier Bloodwing Bats are equipped with those extraordinary equipment, if they are discovered by those wandering Xuanming Ghosts in the secret realm, they will probably still only face death.

Unfortunately, the flesh and blood puppets created by Xiao Liu'er were already at the bottom of the combat power among those of the same level. Their performance in battles where they could overwhelm the enemy with sheer numbers or suppress them by their level might be decent, but in one-on-one combat or even when ganged up on, the flesh and blood puppets would die very quickly. And so, in a valley somewhere within the secret realm, after Ye Mo and his spirit pets saw the group of blood-winged bats leave, it was their turn.

"Little Willow, Isaac and Little White will be in my team, and Hanhan and Youyou will be in yours. We'll split into two groups, and our main objective is to collect as many Soul Beads as possible dropped by the Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders. Is that alright?" Ye Mo's serious gaze swept over everyone. Hanhan, Isaac, and Bai Ling all had no objections, as they had discussed this before entering the secret realm.

While the Xuanming Ghost King is indeed difficult to find within the secret realm, the Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders are much easier to locate. You could easily find several Xuanming Ghost Commanders and more than ten Xuanming Ghost Generals in any large gathering place of Xuanming ghost spirits.

However, this time they were in a hurry, and if Bai You and Xiao Liu'er wanted to keep absorbing the soul beads dropped by Xuanming Ghost General and Xuanming Ghost General until they became ineffective, then they would need a large number of soul beads.

Therefore, Ye Mo chose to split his forces into two groups. In any case, whether it was Hanhan's strength, or the combat power of Isaac, Bai Ling, and Xiao Liu'er, they could directly crush both the Xuanming Ghost General who ruled their race and the Xuanming Ghost Commander of the monarch race.

In this situation, splitting up into two groups would definitely save much more time than going together.

"Everyone must remain vigilant and pay attention to safety. Well, that's all, let's go." Ye Mo raised his eyebrows, gave a warning to the spirit pets, and then turned his gaze to Hanhan.

"Hanhan, I'm entrusting Youyou to you. You must protect her well."

"Awoo~" (I know, don't worry about it, leave it to me.)
Hanhan patted his chest, his eyes resolute and serious. He always obeyed his Master's orders, especially now that it was his Master's command to protect his companions.

Hearing this, Bai You glanced at Ye Mo and rolled her eyes. Seriously? Even if her true form was weaker, she was still a genuine fourth-tier Domain-level expert; she could easily slaughter everyone here.

In particular, if she were to use the Spirit Summoning Formation, she could kill even the Xuanming Ghost King on her own, regardless of the cost.

Ye Mo was naturally unaware of Bai You's thoughts. To him, Bai You's race level was the lowest among his current spirit pets, making its foundation the weakest. Furthermore, Bai You wasn't enthusiastic about combat, spending most of its time researching formations, thus its combat experience was also very limited.

Although Xing Li is currently the weakest among them, she has his protection, so her safety is not a concern. Therefore, under these circumstances, he would naturally be more worried about Bai You's safety.

Upon seeing Hanhan's response, Ye Mo nodded, then boarded the back of the Crimson Crystal Dragon Isaac. With a flap of its wings, creating a gust of wind, they quickly left the area.

On the ground, after seeing Master Ye Mo leave, Bai You transformed into a shadow and landed on Hanhan's shoulder. Hanhan was not surprised by this. With a slight movement of his bear paw, the skill [Gravity Control] was instantly activated. Soon they were in the air, flying in another direction.

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Time passes slowly.

Everything proceeded smoothly under Ye Mo's well-prepared plan.

The more than three thousand blood-winged bats sent out traveled along the black-red river flowing within the Xuanming Underworld to search for the powerful Xuanming Ghost King.

As they continued their investigation and search, good news kept coming from the Bloodwing Bats. Little Willow, having received the news, marked the locations of the flesh golems that had sent the messages.

Having learned about the Xuanming Ghost King's daily habits from their previous visit, Ye Mo and his companions knew that the Xuanming Ghost King, whose strength was among the top in the entire secret realm, would not leave its territory unless disturbed.

Therefore, Ye Mo and his group don't need to rush to deal with the Xuanming Ghost King based on the locations sent by the Bloodwing Bats. They just need to remember the locations and then deal with him together after Hanhan and the rest of them reunite.

Ye Mo wouldn't choose to split up to carry out the plan to eliminate the Xuanming Ghost King. After all, compared to the Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders, the Xuanming Ghost King's strength was far greater.

Not only do they both possess domains, but they have also condensed complete souls. In a one-on-one fight, even Bai Ling and Isaac would find it extremely difficult to kill each other.

Therefore, Ye Mo had already planned how to deal with those Xuanming Ghost Kings. He would have his spirit pets use the Youyou Formation to hide their aura and figures, and then they would launch a sneak attack on the Xuanming Ghost Kings together.

In this way, even if the Xuanming Ghost King's true strength is indeed not weak, it won't last long.

This is also the fastest way he has come up with to deal with so many Xuanming Ghost Kings. Although it seems a bit despicable, since it involves a sneak attack and a gang up on them, as long as he can win, and win easily and effortlessly, then it doesn't matter.

As time went by, in addition to the good news coming from the Bloodwing Bat Puppet side, Ye Mo and Hanhan, who split into two groups, also made a lot of progress.

With Hanhan's combat power being no less than that of a fifth-tier monarch, and with Isaac, Bai Ling, and Xiao Liu'er, who were all close to fifth-tier combat power, they crushed and annihilated the Xuanming ghost spirits they found by overwhelming force.

Even those Xuanming ghosts that gathered in thousands were easily defeated by Ye Mo and Hanhan.

After all, relying on Bai You's invisible formation, they were able to launch the first attack, giving them a significant advantage over the group of Xuanming ghost spirits.

If those large groups of thousands of Xuanming ghost spirits could allow the Xuanming ghost generals to consolidate their leadership, then it would be quite troublesome for Hanhan, Isaac, and Bailing to defeat them.

After all, those Xuanming Ghost Generals who have gathered the aura of leadership have a minimum combat strength of the fourth level of the Domain level. If there are enough of them, they can even hold out for a period of time against a true fifth-level transcendent being.

Unfortunately, Ye Mo and Hanhan wouldn't give those Xuanming ghost spirits a chance. They launched a sneak attack, and under the suppression and burst of their domains and skills, those third-tier Xuanming ghost spirits that hadn't yet condensed their commanding power couldn't withstand the first wave of attacks and were instantly annihilated.

The remaining fourth-tier Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders, lacking both domains and the power to command, naturally had little resistance against Hanhan and Isaac.

Under these circumstances, Ye Mo and Hanhan collected soul beads dropped by the Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders. Youyou and Xiaoliu'er, on the other hand, absorbed these soul beads, and their progress in condensing their souls began to increase rapidly.

However, as a result, the Soul Pearls dropped by the Xuanming Ghost General and Xuanming Ghost Commander have become less and less effective for them.

(End of this chapter)