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Chapter 499 Research
"Let's go, Youyou, let's go and call Xiaoliu'er. It's time to properly study that 'Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld'."

After reviewing the development information of his subordinate merchants and other forces during this period, Ye Mo turned to Bai You and said with a smile.

Bai You had been looking forward to this for a long time. With bright eyes, she lightly leaped onto Ye Mo's shoulder.

Their purpose this time was to study the incomplete "Heart of Xuanming" that they had obtained from the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm, so they didn't need to mobilize the entire army like they had when they fought the Cloud Mist Island Whale.

Ultimately, after some consideration, Ye Mo decided that the people going to the Abyss of the Dead would be himself, the most important Bai You, and Xiao Liu'er, who wanted to rest and play for a while.

As for the others, Hanhan was immersed in forging, Isaac was diligently practicing his skills, and Bai Ling and Xing Li, who were free, didn't really want to go to the deathly abyss. In addition, their relationship had become more and more harmonious recently, so Ye Mo simply let them go and have fun on their own.

A short while later, in the center of the island, not far from the lush giant tree, Ye Mo, along with Bai You, found Xiao Liu'er, who was resting after finishing her work. After telling her about it, as expected, Xiao Liu'er was overjoyed and hugged Ye Mo's hand tightly.

"Okay! Daddy, when are we leaving?" Little Willow looked at Ye Mo with a smile on her face, her expression full of eagerness. For her, being with her Master was much more interesting than staying here tending to the flowers and plants.

"Let's set off now. Come on, Youyou." Ye Mo reached out and tapped Xiao Liu'er's forehead, shaking his head and smiling.

Bai You on her shoulder yawned, and a surge of rich spiritual energy flowed from her body. A moment later, the teleportation array not far away was activated, and silver light immediately appeared.

"The teleportation array is about to open, let's go. The Skeleton King must be getting impatient." Ye Mo, with his spirit pet, chuckled as he approached the teleportation array. He activated his contract space, took out an item containing stored spatial power, and then channeled that power into the array.

The next moment, the array, having absorbed the power of space, emitted a bright light, and the array patterns surrounding it were lit up one by one. Then, after all the array patterns were lit up, a spatial passage condensed at the very center of the array.

The silvery power swirled and flowed continuously, yet the spatial aura emanating from it remained remarkably stable.

Upon seeing this, Ye Mo glanced at Bai You on his shoulder, then reached out and grasped Xiao Liu'er's hand before stepping into the spatial passage. A flash of silver light, and their figures vanished instantly.

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The Land of Light and Spirits, in the far west, lies the Abyss of the Dead.

Within the core area, in the burial grounds of the fifth-tier undead golden skeleton king's territory, a silver light suddenly appeared, followed by a spatial passage. Then, under the watchful eyes of powerful undead warriors, Ye Mo led Xiao Liu'er and Bai You out of the spatial passage.

"Golden Skeleton King, Netherflame Knight, you've both arrived. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Seeing the large number of powerful undead gathered around, Ye Mo smiled and waved, offering a simple greeting. Bai You, on the other hand, remained calm and composed in the face of the undead. Xiao Liu'er, however, looked at the powerful undead with great interest.

The Golden Skeleton King, the Giant Gargoyle Commander, the Corpse Lord, the Netherflame Knight, the Necromancer, the Shadow Demon, and other powerful undead creatures, the weakest of whom are all at the fourth level of the Awakening Realm. It can be said that if this force were to travel to the Light Spirit Continent, it could completely annihilate top-tier forces like the Sapphire Merchant Guild.

These powerful undead beings had all signed contracts with Ye Mo, becoming powerful undead under his command. The vast majority of them had participated in Ye Mo's first kill of a fifth-tier transcendent being. Therefore, they were quite familiar with each other.

"Ye Mo, King Bai You, I've brought them with me. What do you need us to do?" The Golden Skeleton King was the first to ask. In his mind, Ye Mo was a partner and a friend, while Bai You was someone to be respected, the "King of the Dead," who was likely to become the ruler of the Abyss of the Dead in the future.

That's why he asked that question, especially as Bai You's aura grew stronger, his attitude towards her became more and more respectful.

The other undead powerhouses were similar in attitude, but compared to the Golden Skeleton King's lukewarm attitude towards Ye Mo, theirs was far more respectful, no less so than Bai You's. After all, the transaction contracts these fourth-tier domain-level undead signed with Ye Mo were not as simple as those with the Golden Skeleton King.

"This time I just need your help to conduct an experiment. Youyou, it's up to you." Ye Mo took a few steps forward and answered with a smile under the gaze of many powerful necromancers, then looked at Bai You on his shoulder.

"Hmm." Bai You nodded calmly. The next moment, the skill [Netherworld Kingdom] was activated, and a gate appeared from the void. As death energy overflowed, half an oval stone ball fell from it.

The moment the stone sphere landed on the ground covered with bone fragments, the gray-black mist emanating from its surface suddenly became active, and the amount of mist it exhaled increased.

Hmm? Is it because of the abundant necromantic energy here? Ye Mo wondered to himself as he watched this scene.

Although the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm also contains a large amount of necromantic power, it is far inferior to the Forbidden Land of the Necromantic Abyss of the Light Spirit Continent, especially since this is the core area of ​​the Necromantic Abyss.

"Special research? What do you need us to do?" The Golden Skeleton King examined the falling stone sphere, but found nothing special. He turned to Ye Mo and asked curiously.

Some of the other powerful necromancers were also curious, but most were indifferent, coming here simply to complete a mission.

For the undead creatures that yearn for life, what they really long for is for Ye Mo to take them away from here to the outside world, even if it means fighting stronger beings, they would be willing to do so.

"Don't worry, there's not much for you to do. By the way, did you bring your army?" Ye Mo smiled, then looked at the Golden Skeleton King and the others, and asked.

If his research succeeds as he envisions, he will need a large number of undead to assist him. Although the powerful undead before him are more effective, their numbers are still too few.

"I've brought them all; they're ready to fight at any time," the Golden Skeleton King said in a deep voice, nodding slightly.

"Then let's begin." Ye Mo nodded with a smile, looking at the half-oval stone sphere lying on the bone fragments on the ground, his heart filled with anticipation. ...

Time passed slowly, and Ye Mo, along with Bai You and the Golden Skull King, tested the abilities of the incomplete "Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld" step by step, according to his own plan.

Compared to when he was in the Xuanming Underworld Secret Realm, this time he not only has ample time, but also many powerful helpers.

For example, when he was in the secret realm, he discovered that the "Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld" needed a lot of spiritual power and necromantic power to quickly nurture the Mysterious Netherworld Ghost Spirit. And in this Abyss of the Dead, Ye Mo had far too many of those two things.

If there is a lack of spiritual power, the undead can simply step forward to replenish it. There is no need to even use fourth-tier domain-level undead powerhouses. First-tier, second-tier, and even third-tier undead can simply inject their spiritual power into it. Although their spiritual power is small, once their numbers reach a certain amount, the spiritual power they gather will probably be far superior to that of those undead powerhouses.

As for the "quality" requirements of the spiritual power absorbed by the "Heart of the Profound Netherworld," this is probably not a big deal. After all, aside from the fact that he has a considerable number of fourth-tier undead under his command, the spiritual power of most low-tier undead is not much different from that of fourth-tier domain-level undead. After all, they are all beings that have not yet condensed a complete soul, and their spiritual power has not yet undergone a true qualitative change.

There's no problem with mental strength, and necromantic power is even less of a concern. This place is a "paradise" for undead creatures; they could lack anything but necromantic power.

Moreover, apart from the fact that spiritual power is relatively rare for some undead races, none of the undead creatures here lack necromantic power; otherwise, they wouldn't be called undead creatures.

Therefore, with ample "materials," Ye Mo and Bai You were able to thoroughly study the incomplete "Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld."

Through continuous testing and experimentation, Ye Mo and his team also determined the functions and limits of the incomplete "Heart of the Profound Netherworld".

Just as he thought, the incomplete "Heart of the Netherworld" could indeed create Netherworld Ghost Spirits. This ability seemed to be something it was born with. As long as it absorbed enough necromantic power, a Netherworld Ghost Spirit would be automatically born.

That's right, the process of creating the Xuanming Ghost Spirit does not actually require any spiritual power. In fact, the effect of spiritual power on the incomplete "Xuanming Heart" is to accelerate the process of creating the Xuanming Ghost Spirit.

If the incomplete "Heart of the Dark" is not infused with spiritual power and necromantic power, it will automatically absorb the necromantic power contained in the air and then transform that power into gray-black mist. Once there is enough mist, it will generate the prototype of a ghost spirit.

Those seed-like ghostly nascent forms will leave the incomplete "Heart of the Netherworld," then float to places where the power of the dead is more concentrated, and slowly absorb the power of the dead in the world, eventually taking shape and becoming true Netherworld ghosts.

The growth level and racial level of the newly born Xuanming ghost spirits depend on the amount and strength of the necromantic power they absorbed before their birth.

For example, if a ghost spirit nascent form slowly absorbs and takes shape in a place where the power of the dead is scarce, then the resulting Xuanming ghost spirit will almost certainly be the most ordinary Xuanming ghost soldier, without even the ability to lead a race, and its growth level will probably be very low, around level 10 or 20.

If a nascent ghost spirit absorbs its full potential in a place with abundant necromantic power, the resulting Xuanming Ghost Spirit will at least be a Xuanming Ghost General capable of leading its race, and there's a good chance it will be a Xuanming Ghost Commander of a monarch race. As for its growth level, it will start at around level thirty.

These are all conclusions that Ye Mo deduced based on the fact that the incomplete "Xuanming Heart" naturally gave birth to Xuanming Ghost Spirits. If he were to help the incomplete "Xuanming Heart" create Xuanming Ghost Spirits, then things would be completely different.

If conceived naturally, most of those ghostly prototypes are incompletely developed, making it difficult for them to give birth to Xuanming Ghost Generals and Xuanming Ghost Commanders, not to mention Xuanming Ghost Kings.

However, if Ye Mo and the others intervene personally, once the incomplete "Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld" condenses into a rudimentary ghost spirit, he can have the undead directly inject their necromantic power into it.

In this way, the prototype of the ghost spirit not only takes shape very quickly, but the Xuanming ghost spirits that are born are often not weak in terms of both race level and growth level, especially the latter.

Regarding racial hierarchy, Ye Mo, through continuous testing, found that if ordinary undead creatures were infused with necromantic power, the prototype of the ghost spirit would most likely give birth to a Xuanming Ghost General who would lead the race, and would have a very small chance of becoming a Xuanming Ghost Commander of a monarch race.

As for the Xuanming Ghost King, a race of superior monarchs, it has not yet been born. However, according to Ye Mo's prediction, there should be a slight probability that a Xuanming Ghost King will be born.

If a fourth-tier undead from the realms of Netherflame Knight, Necromancer, or Corpse Lord were to infuse necromancy with necromancy power, then the nascent ghost spirit would have an 80-90% chance of giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost General, a 10-20% chance of giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost Commander, and only a 2-3% chance of giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost King.

Don't be fooled by the seemingly low probability of 10-20% giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost General and 2-3% giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost King. Compared to the approximately 1% probability of a regular undead giving birth to a Xuanming Ghost General, it's already quite good.

Moreover, if the Golden Skeleton King, a true fifth-order undead, were to infuse the ghost spirit prototype with undead power, the resulting Xuanming Ghost Spirit would have a 70-80% chance of becoming a Xuanming Ghost General, while the probability of becoming a Xuanming Ghost Commander would be less than 10%. It should be noted that even the probability of creating a Xuanming Ghost King is a full 10-20%.

This shows how different the forms of a ghostly prototype are after it is born: one that is actively infused with a large amount of necromantic power and the other that naturally absorbs necromantic power.

Furthermore, whether it is the Golden Skeleton King who infuses necromancy with power or an ordinary necromancy that infuses necromancy with power, the ghost spirit prototype will not give birth to the Xuanming Ghost Soldier, which is only a high-level race.

Although Ye Mo only created a few hundred Xuanming Ghost Spirits with the incomplete "Xuanming Heart" during his testing and research, which seemed like a small number, he was still able to distinguish the subtle differences between the nascent forms of those ghost spirits and those before they were born as Xuanming Ghost Soldiers and Xuanming Ghost Generals, thanks to his powerful detection ability.

Therefore, he was so certain that as long as enough necromantic power was injected into the prototype of the ghost spirit, the Xuanming ghost spirit that was born would at least be a Xuanming ghost general who would lead the race.

"The testing is almost complete."

After nearly a day of experimentation, Ye Mo smiled as he thought about his results.

Our current understanding of the incomplete "Heart of the Mysterious Netherworld" is sufficient to make good use of it.

(End of this chapter)