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Since the underworld is essentially illusory, could an excessive amount of heavenly lightning directly tear open a rift?

Of course, it's best not to try such dangerous things near the Naihe River or the underworld, lest some strange anomalies occur.

Zhang Chengyi randomly chose a direction and flew for an hour across the vast underworld. Feeling that he had gone far enough, he first released a large amount of corpse energy before creating a large amount of heavenly lightning in his hands.

"Zizzizi!"

The excessively concentrated lightning quickly turned from blue-white to cyan-black, and under the overwhelming pressure of the corpse energy, it kept jumping in the palm of the hand, and collided with the corpse energy to produce a slight explosion.

Fortunately, his body was tough enough and he had extremely high resistance to lightning. The lightning that exploded in his palm did not cause him any damage at all, and his skin color did not even change.

"Snapped!"

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Chengyi noticed that a lot of flowing electric currents were being attracted to the air in the underworld, which was filled with a large amount of yin energy. Moreover, with the pulsation of high-intensity heavenly lightning, the number of tiny electric currents in the surrounding air increased.

Heavenly lightning possesses a coalescing property; weak and fragmented pieces of heavenly lightning will instinctively converge towards a stronger and more complete one.

He realized this and recalled the scene when he was struck by lightning, and the heavenly lightning inside his body escaped and merged with the lightning tribulation outside.

[If I had increased the quality and quantity of the heavenly lightning within me back then, would I have swallowed the tribulation lightning instead?]

Chapter 272 Success...?

"Om~"

After the heavenly lightning gathered to a certain extent, it suddenly exploded, trying to dispel the surrounding corpse energy. However, it was squeezed back by the corpse energy and re-contracted and vibrated. Amidst the buzzing, a strange distortion appeared above Zhang Chengyi's palm.

"Boom!"

"boom!"

Once the heavenly lightning exceeded a certain limit, the corpse energy could no longer be contained. After the violent explosion, the surrounding corpse energy scattered in all directions, along with the nearby yin energy.

Zhang Chengyi stopped trying to use the corpse energy to gather the heavenly lightning. At its current scale, the heavenly lightning would no longer disperse on its own, so he only needed to continue to increase the intensity.

Without any explosions to weaken or disperse them, the lightning in the sky accumulated more and more, frantically circling around this peerless zombie, almost as if a lightning tribulation had been artificially created.

Without a sound, Zhang Chengyi noticed that a spot where heavenly lightning had gathered suddenly had a gap, which quickly expanded into a crack, about 20 or 30 centimeters long and less than 5 centimeters in diameter, with a very irregular shape. Surging seawater poured out from the crack.

The dense lightning created extremely high temperatures, and Zhang Chengyi's zombie body was slightly red. The seawater rushed out and quickly evaporated into water vapor. A large number of impurities were pierced by the lightning and turned into countless small crystals that fell down with a crackling sound.

It looked like an irregular rain of crystals, refracting the lightning and displaying a rainbow of colors. Just imagining it from below must be incredibly beautiful.

Especially when compared to the dark and gloomy underworld environment, the contrast is even stronger.

Humans would likely be crushed to death by the overwhelming shower of colorful crystals, ghosts dare not approach the heavenly lightning, and those with spiritual cultivation are even less willing to take the risk.

Even Zhang Chengyi, the instigator, was unable to witness the beautiful scene he created because he was chased by Lei Yun wherever he went.

However, he had no time to think about whether the crystal rain was pretty or not, because the crack squeezed out by the lightning was rapidly spreading toward his body, swallowing half of his arm in the blink of an eye. It was a direct cut and shred, not at all like falling into the mortal world on the other side of the crack.

He quickly reduced the Heavenly Thunder within his body to the lowest level and used the Corpse Qi to stimulate his body's activity. His arm did regenerate, but the Heavenly Thunder was also stimulated by the Corpse Qi to become more active and irritable.

"boom!"

After the explosion, the crevice split into more than a dozen cracks, cutting Zhang Chengyi's body into pieces. Some of the fragments, being the right size, fell through the crevice into the mortal realm. The corpse energy that filled the crevice attracted heavenly lightning into it, and the thundercloud that had gathered quickly lost its mass, causing the crevice to close up again.

Everything calmed down, but the rain continued to fall.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The body parts falling to the ground were pieced together amidst the crackling rain of crystals. The effect of preserving life was incredibly powerful. Even though many parts of the body had been cut off from the inside out, the corpse energy in the body parts had not completely dissipated, indicating that the body still existed, the game was still going on, the status was still in effect, and life appeared out of thin air, with the destroyed parts growing back in an instant.

A few seconds later, apart from his torn paper clothes, he looked exactly the same as before.

"It was a success, but..."

Zhang Chengyi frowned as he pondered the experiment he had just conducted. It was indeed quite successful. A large amount of heavenly lightning had gathered, exceeding the required quality, and the illusory space had torn apart, creating a rift leading to the mortal realm. If he continued to replicate it, he might be able to open a door for himself to return to the mortal realm.

However, it also proved that no matter how tough he was, he couldn't withstand the tearing of space and the splitting of his body. It wasn't that his defenses were breached, but rather that as a three-dimensional being, his body simply couldn't escape space and maintain its integrity. When space was split, the different parts of his body that depended on space were theoretically located in different spaces.

To put it more abstractly, from the perspective outside the game, that is, from the perspective outside the body, his body is connected. But when the space heals, the newly extended part of the torn space does not contain his body, and the final result is that he is dismembered.

It sounds a bit convoluted, but even an ordinary human wouldn't die when torn apart by a spatial rift. Their head would be split into several pieces and they would still be conscious until the torn space finished expanding, at which point their body would be separated into different parts and they would die.

The difference between before and after is significant.

Let's get back to the experiment.

Judging from the changes before and after, in order to pass through the spatial rift, one must first be the right size. If the size is too large, the body will be directly 'cut' open when trying to enter a small rift, while a small one seems to have no major problem.

However, the excessive accumulation of heavenly lightning has already caused great damage to the body. Even after Zhang Chengyi's body was cut open, it could not withstand the ravages of the heavenly lightning. Those fragments that had finally returned to the mortal world were probably all turned to dust by the heavenly lightning that followed them.

To continue expanding the passage, more heavenly lightning would be needed. He didn't even need to try; he knew that if he wanted his body to pass through completely, he couldn't withstand that level of heavenly lightning.

Ultimately, it's because the intensity isn't enough.

Zhang Chengyi thought to himself, then waved his hand to gather a large number of crystals with his corpse energy, intending to take them back to give to the female ghosts.

Don't women generally like sparkly things? Surely a crystal formed from lightning would work too, right?

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"I want to see the King! I have done my part for the Ghost City!"

The old man shouted loudly, attracting the attention of many ghosts in the vicinity.

"Hmph!" The female ghost glared at him, and the old man's cheek swelled up from the slap, forcing him to shut his mouth. Only then did she say, "I'll take you to see the king now."

After saying that, she used telekinesis to lift the half-conscious old ghost into the air and flew towards the palace amidst the fearful gazes of the nearby ghosts.

Not only the ghosts of Ghost City, but throughout the entire underworld, very few ghosts are unaware of the Zombie King's female ghost guards. Each one is as strong as the weaker underworld gods of the past. Even the batch of ghost kings that emerged decades ago rarely had the ability to fight them.

They could easily crush the ghosts; even the famous old man of the ghost town was powerless to resist.

The female ghosts were obedient and gentle in front of Zhang Chengyi, but they were domineering and arrogant towards other ghosts, completely disregarding them as their own.

In the minds of the underworld and demons, the strong are meant to humiliate the weak!

The old man, who was being carried into the palace, was pretending to be dead while wondering what had happened and how to explain it. Suddenly, he sensed several familiar presences.

It seems like all the old guys I had a meeting with not long ago are here.

Startled, it decisively opened its eyes, looked up at Nie Xiaoqian sitting above, and said, "Your Majesty, I accuse them of plotting something sinister!"

Hehehe~

The female ghosts chuckled. Every time an old ghost was captured, the first thing they said was the same thing—it was utterly unoriginal.

Seeing that the old ghosts had all arrived, Nie Xiaoqian said expressionlessly, "You all wait here for the master to come and deal with you."

Updated tonight

I'm out running errands, I'll write more when I get back. One update before 10 PM, and another at 12 AM.

Chapter 273 Simple and Brutal

"These are for you."

Zhang Chengyi tossed the colorful crystals floating in the air to the female ghosts, then reached out to Nie Xiaoqian for some clothes before saying without looking up:

"Grab them all and stuff them into my stomach."

His second sentence completely baffled the old ghosts.

Without hesitation, the group of female ghosts took action, and half of the old ghosts were captured on the spot.

"Your Majesty, what is the reason?!"

The fleeing monk ghost shouted, "If we die, it will be a calamity for the underworld!"

"Spare me! Spare me!"

"I have a secret..."

"Your Majesty, I know of the loopholes left by the spirits of the past in the underworld, as long as..."

Zhang Chengyi remained unmoved throughout, not even glancing at the clothes. He was simply wearing the paper clothes that Nie Xiaoqian had conjured. After all, they were paper clothes, and even though they had been reinforced with corpse energy, he still had to be careful. If he exerted any force, they would definitely tear to shreds.

"What are you talking about? Just kill them all. He's not lacking in brains, he's just lacking in strength. He's already figured out a way to tear open the passage to the mortal realm. All that's left is to get stronger and fight against a bunch of old ghosts with their heads full of schemes. He doesn't have that much time to spare."

When he looked up, the female ghosts had already subdued the old ghost. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and the old ghosts were swallowed into his stomach by the corpse energy.

A flash of electricity streaked across the surface of her belly.

The ghost transformed into a mindless "聻," a formless, translucent entity.

interesting.

Zhang Chengyi had wanted to do this experiment for a long time. He used the lightning to repeatedly shock his stomach, and the creature, unable to escape the control of the modifier, screamed and died once again.

The ghost that dies is called Xi, which means that it cannot be heard or named. The ghost that becomes Xi continues to be electrocuted, but it just rolls around and can't make any sound.

The dead become barbarians. The term "barbarians" means that those who cannot be seen are called barbarians. When a ghost becomes a barbarian, it completely loses its form and sound. Even the corpse energy and heavenly lightning cannot detect it. If it weren't for the absolute detection of body information by the modifier, it would definitely be ignored.

It is invisible, colorless, and soundless; since it cannot be touched, it cannot be harmed.

Zhang Chengyi thought for a moment, then randomly selected one of the Yi tribes and deleted it.

"Boom!" A loud noise suddenly came from outside.

What is that?

He immediately pinpointed the direction from which the sound was traveling.

The underworld?

Zhang Chengyi led the way, flying out of the palace and heading straight there. Nie Xiaoqian followed behind with a group of female ghosts. Just as they flew out of the ghost city, a yaksha came running up, tumbling and crawling, loudly announcing:

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"That voice just now came from the Yama's Palace!"

Since the last Yama King passed away, no ghost has been able to enter the building where ghosts were judged in the past. Everyone is reincarnated randomly. Good people may be reincarnated as pigs or dogs, while bad people may be reincarnated as rich young masters or nobles. It's purely random. If you don't like it, you don't have to play.

There's nothing we can do; no one can control reincarnation. We all just jump into the cycle of reincarnation directly according to the process.

No one knows what's actually in the Yama's Palace, as long as it functions, that's fine. We shouldn't mess around with things; if we make a mistake and cause problems, it would be troublesome if everyone couldn't be reincarnated.

Suddenly, a loud noise rang out, and many yakshas and ghost messengers thought that the gods and Buddhas had returned, and they panicked.

Without giving it any further thought, Zhang Chengyi whispered, "If it really is the gods and Buddhas returning, Xiaoqian, you should take the female ghost and escape first."