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Chapter 491 100%

This time, Ye Mo and his group can only stay in the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm for about three days. After three days, the Secret Realm will automatically expel outsiders.

With time running out, Ye Mo had no choice but to go all out. Even the Bloodwing Bats he sent out to investigate suffered too many casualties on their journey, so he had Xiao Liu'er and Bai You quickly create some new puppets.

Otherwise, if all the Bloodwing Bat puppets were to perish, even if he still had time, he wouldn't be able to find so many traces of the Xuanming Ghost Kings.

In addition to ensuring that the number of Xuanming Ghost Kings found is sufficient, the speed at which they are killed must also be fast enough. Otherwise, even if many of the Xuanming Ghost Kings' hiding places are discovered, only a few can be killed in three days.

In response, Ye Mo devised several battle plans based on the abilities of his spirit pets, aiming to kill the Xuanming Ghost King who had condensed his soul and the quasi-Xuanming Ghost King who had not yet condensed his soul with minimal resource consumption.

These plans weren't particularly profound. Whether it was killing the formidable Xuanming Ghost King or the ordinary quasi-Xuanming Ghost King, Ye Mo's plans revolved around Bai You's invisible formation and Hanhan's overlord-level domain.

The former formation allows them to conceal their presence, thus gaining the initiative to launch a righteous attack and ambush. The latter, with its stronger domain, can directly suppress the target's strength, preventing them from reacting immediately and forcing them to endure the long-prepared burst of power.

Under such targeted circumstances, let alone a fourth-order domain-level Xuanming Ghost King who has only condensed a soul, even a fifth-order existence with the cultivation level of a monarch would probably suffer a great loss when faced with this level of sneak attack and encirclement.

Following the plan, Ye Mo, through the discovery made by the thousands of winged bat puppets, personally visited the hiding place of the Xuanming Ghost King with his spirit pets.

If the Xuanming Ghost King finally found is one that has already condensed a soul, then Ye Mo will have his spirit pets prepare before launching a sneak attack and destroying it, as planned.

If Ye Mo found a quasi-Xuanming Ghost King who hadn't yet condensed a soul, he would be much more relaxed. He could simply have Hanhan, Bai Ling, or Isaac launch a sneak attack and take it away. After all, if a Xuanming Ghost King hadn't condensed a complete soul, it would just be an ordinary fourth-tier Domain-level Transcendent. In the outside world, it might be considered exceptionally talented, but for Ye Mo now, his spirit pets could easily wipe it out.

In this way, as time went by, Ye Mo collected the souls of the Xuanming Ghost King one by one.

He had long been prepared for the use of these soul beads. The first few soul beads, whether from the Xuanming Ghost King or the Quasi-Xuanming Ghost King, were given to Hanhan to absorb. This was both because Hanhan was the strongest and because he wanted to test how many Xuanming Ghost King soul beads could be absorbed.

Soul beads dropped from the Xuanming Underworld by the demise of Xuanming ghost spirits, whether Xuanming ghost generals or Xuanming ghost commanders, become ineffective after absorbing a certain number, as if developing "drug resistance." Naturally, the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Bead is no exception.

Ye Mo's purpose in coming here was to allow all his spirit pets to maximize their soul-condensing progress by absorbing soul beads. Ideally, this would continue until they reached 100%, allowing him to prioritize the use of soul beads on individual spirit pets, thus ensuring he could have spirit pets capable of breaking through to the fifth rank at any time during future interdimensional wars.

However, if the spirit pets cannot maximize their soul condensation progress even after absorbing the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Pearl, then the subsequent Soul Pearls can be absorbed in turn, and there is no need to allocate them specifically.

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Inside the Xuanming Underworld, the deathly silent sky remained gray, with only scattered will-o'-the-wisps and blackish-red lava flowing on the ground preventing the world from being completely pitch black.

High in the sky above a certain place, a red light streaked across the sky. If one's eyesight were sharp enough, one would be able to tell that the owner of that red light was a majestic dragon.

"Silly boy, how's it going? Can you still absorb it?"

Ye Mo stood on the back of the Crimson Crystal Dragon Isaac, his brows furrowed. He looked at the Purple Radiance Giant Bear Han, whose aura was fierce, and asked somewhat nervously.

The simple-minded man sitting there met Ye Mo's gaze, sighed, and shook his head.

"Sigh, I see. The Soul Pearl of the Xuanming Ghost King was indeed ineffective against you." Ye Mo shook his head and sighed.

Just now, after Hanhan absorbed the Soul Bead, he confirmed that the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Bead was no longer effective. However, he had expected this, so he wasn't too surprised.

“In that case, let Youyou absorb the next batch of Soul Beads. She is probably the one among us most likely to reach 100% progress by absorbing the Ghost King's Soul Beads.” Ye Mo turned his gaze to Bai You, who was resting on the other side, and said.

Although Hanhan had absorbed the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Pearl to the point of ineffectiveness, his progress in condensing his soul had truly reached 89%, just a little short of 100%. Before absorbing the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Pearl, his progress was only 41%, meaning the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Pearl had boosted his progress by a whopping 48%.

Based on this calculation, Bai You's progress in condensing his soul has already reached 53% even without absorbing the Xuanming Ghost King's soul pearl. If he were to absorb the Xuanming Ghost King's soul pearl, the probability of his progress reaching 100% would be extremely high.

Therefore, Ye Mo chose to have Bai You absorb the next Soul Bead. Otherwise, if the Xuanming Ghost King Soul Bead couldn't help the spirit pets reach 100% progress, he would have the spirit pets share it equally.

Isaac, Bai Ling, and Xiao Liu'er all expressed their approval and agreement after hearing Ye Mo's words. As spirit pets and family members, they have always respected and approved of their master Ye Mo, so they naturally approved of his decision.

"Alright, everyone, quickly adjust your condition and recover properly. The Bloodwing Bats found a few new Xuanming Ghost Kings, so we still have a long way to go." Ye Mo looked at his spirit pets, smiled, and then closed his eyes to begin recovering from his previous losses.

Although the Xuanming Ghost King Soul Beads are divided into two types, the Soul Beads dropped by the Xuanming Ghost King who has condensed his soul are more effective, while the latter are less effective. However, this does not mean that having your spirit pet absorb only the former will increase the progress of soul condensation more before the Ghost King Soul Beads become ineffective.

Ye Mo had already figured out the true meaning of the "drug resistance" that resulted from absorbing the Xuanming Ghost King's Soul Pearl through his investigation.

"Drug resistance" does not gradually increase based on the number of Soul Beads absorbed, thus rendering the absorption of Soul Beads ineffective. Instead, it only becomes ineffective after the progress of the spirit pet's soul condensation reaches a certain level.

Therefore, whether the spirit pets absorb Ghost King Soul Beads with good or bad effects, once their soul condensation progress reaches a certain level, the absorption will become ineffective.

Therefore, any soul beads dropped by the Xuanming Ghost King can be absorbed directly without much consideration.

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In the following time, Ye Mo led his spirit pets to continue chasing and killing those Xuanming Ghost Kings. With the spirit pets' fifth-tier combat power and sneak attacks, those beings who should have been invincible overlords in the secret realm were killed one by one, unable to even fight back.

As a result, Ye Mo obtained more and more Xuanming Ghost King Soul Beads, and the spirit pets also continuously improved their soul condensation progress by absorbing the Soul Beads.

The next morning, after Ye Mo had been in the secret realm for a full thirty hours, Bai You finally finished absorbing the thirteenth Xuanming Ghost King Soul Pearl. Her progress in condensing her soul had reached one hundred percent, that is, the perfect state. This was also the first of Ye Mo's current spirit pets to reach such a state.

Furthermore, after Bai You absorbed the thirteenth soul bead, she didn't develop complete "resistance." This means that if her soul condensation progress wasn't full, she could even absorb more soul beads to improve. It's no wonder she's a dual-elemental spirit pet, possessing both necromancy and spirituality; her compatibility with soul beads is far superior to that of the simpleton. However, since her progress is already full, Bai You has no need to absorb any more soul beads. After all, she can begin condensing a complete soul at any time, but she didn't choose that path, and Ye Mo shared the same attitude.

Although with Bai You's current attribute panel, if she were to condense a complete soul and then raise her level from forty-eight to forty-nine, she would be able to directly break through to the fifth rank and become a monarch-level being.

After all, the most crucial requirements for breaking through to the fifth rank are level, soul, and domain, and Bai You has already achieved the other aspects.

Even so, Ye Mo would not allow Bai You to break through to the fifth rank so early, nor would he allow her to condense her soul so soon.

After all, he would be participating in the interdimensional war in two months. If his spirit pet condensed a complete soul by then, according to what Palace Master Li had said, the spirit pet would be targeted by the interdimensional will of the other world. In that case, he would be unable to carry out his infiltration mission.

Therefore, as long as the spirit pets can increase their soul condensation progress to 100% before the interdimensional war, then when he completes his mission during the interdimensional war, he can let the spirit pets break through when he needs to escape or counterattack.

And once the spirit pet has condensed a complete soul, it can begin to break through to the fifth rank, and its strength will increase dramatically. In that case, its success rate in escaping will also increase significantly, so it will not need to use its life-saving trump card, [Phoenix Feather].

After Bai You successfully absorbed the Soul Bead and reached 100% completion, Ye Mo did not rest or celebrate. Time was of the essence, so he immediately led his spirit pets to continue hunting the Xuanming Ghost King.

As for the subsequent arrangements of the Soul Beads, he decided to arrange them according to the progress before absorbing the Ghost King-level Soul Beads, with Bai Ling, Xiao Liu'er, and Isaac absorbing the Soul Beads in that order.

Judging from the absorption effect of Hanhan, compared with Isaac, who is similar to him, even after absorbing the Xuanming Ghost King Soul Pearl to the limit, his soul condensation progress could not reach 100%.

But Bai Ling and Xiao Liu'er still have a tiny chance.

And so, Ye Mo, who dared not rest for a moment, led his spirit pets, spending their time either traveling or fighting the Xuanming Ghost King. The spirit pets did much the same; aside from drinking potions or absorbing restorative rare and precious herbs, they mainly fought and absorbed soul beads.

Half a day later, Bai Ling finally reached the limit of absorbing soul beads. The Xuanming Ghost King-level soul beads were no longer effective against him, and his soul condensation progress stopped at ninety-six percent.

Because Bai Ling had already increased her absorption to 66% when she absorbed the Soul Pearl last time, she was able to reach the limit so quickly. Otherwise, if she were like Xiao Liu'er and the others, it would have taken much longer.

Another half day passed. After absorbing enough Xuanming Ghost King Soul Pearls, Xiao Liu'er also reached the absorption limit. Her soul condensation progress reached 94%, which was slightly less than Bai Ling's.

There are still fourteen or fifteen hours left before Ye Mo leaves the secret realm, and the only remaining spirit pet is Isaac.

Although it seems like there's plenty of time, by now, the number of Xuanming Ghost Kings who have died at the hands of Ye Mo and his group is at least sixty, if not eighty. This is probably enough to deplete most of the Xuanming Ghost Kings in the entire Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm.

After all, even though the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm is extremely special, with an unimaginable number of fourth-order Xuanming Ghost Spirits within it, almost in the tens of thousands, the Xuanming Ghost Kings of the superior monarch race are by no means commonplace within the secret realm.

In just over two days, most of the Bloodwing Bat puppets that Ye Mo had sent out to investigate had perished.

Even while traveling, he had Xiao Liu'er create more Bloodwing Bats, and then Bai You set up an array to conceal the puppets. However, the journey and repeated battles had taken a heavy toll on both Xiao Liu'er and Bai You. Therefore, even now, they had only created a few hundred Bloodwing Bat puppets, which was relatively small compared to the overall number.

Moreover, the Bloodwing Bats' exploration route gradually expands outwards, so after detecting more than sixty Xuanming Ghost Kings, their exploration range had already reached a very far place.

However, the distance is actually not too bad, since Bai You's teleportation array is there. As long as you are willing to spend resources, the journey is still very fast.

However, apart from the distance, the biggest challenge is that the Xuanming Ghost King is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Currently, the Bloodwing Bats have found more than sixty Xuanming Ghost Kings, and it is unknown how many Xuanming Ghost Kings are left in the secret realm, but they are definitely not many.

After all, the Bloodwing Bats' search for the Ghost King was getting slower and slower, which was noticeable.

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In the depths of the secret realm, beside a lake formed by magma, Ye Mo and his spirit pets stood.

Within the lake, a dark figure emerged from a newly formed, enormous crater and soon appeared before Ye Mo.

"The Soul Pearl has been retrieved." Bai You said to Ye Mo with a hint of fatigue.

Ye Mo nodded slightly and looked at Isaac beside him, "Take it and absorb it quickly."

Isaac, who had just returned from his diamond dragon form, nodded and began to absorb the soul orb by directing his mental power.

"Sigh, we've already killed all the Xuanming Ghost Kings we found. I wonder when we'll get any new information from the Bloodwing Bats." Ye Mo found a rock and sat down, saying wearily.

Now, he and his spirit pets are hunting the Xuanming Ghost King at a speed that has caught up with the speed at which the Bloodwing Bat Puppets are searching for him, which means that their efficiency in hunting the Ghost King will be greatly reduced.

If things continue like this, whether Isaac can absorb the Soul Bead to its maximum limit before leaving the secret realm is entirely up to luck.

Bai You, who was standing to the side, came to Ye Mo's side and also sighed, her eyes showing a hint of anxiety.

But just then, little Liu'er, who was yawning nearby, suddenly perked up and looked at Ye Mo with a joyful expression: "Daddy, we've found another one of those little bats."

"They found the Demon King of the Underworld again?"

"Hmm, but judging from the messages they've sent back, something seems a bit strange."

(End of this chapter)