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A standoff has begun, but nothing has happened so far.

Qin San and his group passed through the Gate of the Abyss and arrived at the other side, the World of the Dead, a...5...a beautiful place with birds singing and flowers blooming.

There aren't even any skeletons, let alone undead.

"Something's not right. Back when the Abyss Gate appeared on Mount Everest, the undead calamity was falling like diarrhea, but now there aren't a single one left. Where did they all go?"

Just as Qin Shan was racking his brains trying to figure it out, Lexington suddenly said, "Admiral, the reconnaissance plane has spotted the undead."

“I’ve found it here too,” Saratoga said.

The two shared the footage from the reconnaissance plane with Qin Shan, who then saw a vast army of undead.

The most numerous are skeletons and ghouls. The former are armed with bone swords, shields, and spears, while the latter are armed with sharp claws and teeth, as well as various dangerous bacteria and viruses on their bodies. They are like petri dishes for obtaining microorganisms.

Aside from these cannon fodder who didn't even reach the extraordinary level, the rest are considered elite units among the undead, such as necromancers.

These necromancers are also the backbone of the undead legion, responsible for many ranged attacks. This class also has the largest level range in the undead legion, ranging from first-tier transcendents to high-tier transcendents. However, in this huge undead legion, there are no beings above the sixth tier, and the highest level is a fifth-tier necromancer.

Judging from the other party's status, he was already a key figure in this legion. He was in the core of the central army. On both sides, one could see huge abominations pieced together from corpses. However, these stitched monsters did not have a rotting smell. They should be created by supernatural forces, similar to biological warriors. They were just a bit strange-looking, but not disgusting enough to make people nauseous.

After all, a necromancer's five senses are also human-standard, so it's impossible for them to deliberately disgust themselves. If they wanted to disgust the enemy, they could simply place such disgusting combat units further away instead of keeping them close by to disgust them.

The Abominations are all fourth-order standard extraordinary individuals, numbering seven, which is not many. They seem to be rare items handcrafted.

Overall, this is an enemy that appears troublesome on the surface, but if a serious encirclement and suppression were carried out, modern human firepower could completely annihilate them. Unfortunately, one of their opponents is India.

In Qin Shan's memories of his previous life, the soldiers of this religious country were so terrified upon seeing these things that they dared not fire. They abandoned their positions in no time and completely disregarded the civilians during their retreat. The undead legion, unable to gain any advantage from the Celestial Empire and suffering a one-sided beating, broke through the enemy lines from the Indian side. And when they charged down the Himalayas, wow, there was material everywhere! They were rich!

As a result, the opponent cultivated a three-digit number of sixth-order superhumans simply by relying on death sacrifices and gathering the despairing spiritual power of the dead.

Third Brother really messed things up on this issue!

But now, times have changed. Qin Shan pointed: "Leave that necromancer alone, and kill the rest!"

Chapter 84: The Necromancer Rongbuqiu (Guest Appearance by a Group Member)

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There are many bizarre names in this world, and Rongbuqiu is one of them.

However, this is a faithful, expressive, and elegant translation using Chinese; in the world's language system, this means "millet".

The fact that his name is Xiaomi proves that Rongbuqiu's background is not noble, but it is not so low as to be a slave. After all, a person's life depends not only on his own efforts, but also on the course of history. He was swept up by the tide of history in his ordinary life and his magical talent was discovered by a nobleman who happened to pass by. It was a necromantic magical talent. And coincidentally, that person had a certain status in the Dark Moon Empire. He was the current Dark Moon Empire's eldest princess.

Because he was chosen by a benefactor, Rongbuqiu's life began to rise steadily. In addition, his talent was indeed outstanding, and he managed to complete a course that others could complete in just three years in fifty years.

Cough cough cough, it's okay, this is just the growing pains of history. As the saying goes, getting fat early doesn't mean you're fat, but getting fat later will collapse the bed. Although his progress was a little slower than the tortoise (tortoise: Don't talk nonsense, I crawl faster than him), Rongbuqiu's progress was faster than Biden's rapid decline. He became a great mage, a necromancer, and one step further and he would be the legendary Sorcerer Saint.

Many of those who mocked him in the past haven't even reached the threshold of becoming a great magician. It's clear who the real protagonist is.

If things followed the original script, Rong Buqiu would then complete his comeback, marry into the royal family, and become the husband of the princess as a great magician, creating a legendary tale.

Unfortunately, he was a late bloomer when he became a superhuman. When he had his breakthrough, he was 47 years old, the princess was 44, and by the time he achieved fame and success, he was already 90 years old. The princess died when he was 77.

Although the royal family values ​​him highly, and the 114-year-old emperor is willing to marry his most beautiful great-granddaughter to him, Rongbuqiu, who has someone else in his heart, has not accepted the little girl who is a whole 80 years younger than him. He remains chaste for his beloved princess. Not only is he a great magician in position, but he is also a great magician in body and spirit.

Perhaps because of the regrets in his emotions, even God felt it was unfair, so He gave him a lot of compensation. Rongbuqiu was a pillar of the empire in necromancy, and even creatively developed the necromancy druid magic system.

This was a conjecture that came to him by chance. Although the undead appear to be dead, they are actually a form of life, so strictly speaking, they should be classified under the life magic system. Druids' nature magic also belongs to this system, so could the two be combined?

And then he succeeded, with remarkable results. The extremists among the nature druids launched an unrestricted assassination attempt against him, determined to kill this guy who had defiled the sacred nature faith.

As is well known, Castro was assassinated 634 times in his lifetime, while Jungbuchut took this to an even higher level.

To date, he has been assassinated 27 times more times than Castro, a total of 27 times.

Even today, Rongbuqiu is still alive and kicking, which fully demonstrates his own strength and luck. Moreover, the assassination attempt on him by the Druids of Nature's extreme faction objectively helped him accelerate his research on the necromancer magic system.

Because during the assassination, the Druid extremists would inevitably fail and be captured, and those people would become excellent experimental subjects. Rongbuqiu would naturally not be polite to these assassins. He would use their bodies to put his ideas into practice. Even if he captured a beautiful Druid girl, he would treat them all the same. He achieved gender equality in human experimentation, which was at least at least at the European Middle Ages ahead of the current world version.

Ultimately, to the astonishment of mages from all over the continent of Augu, Rongbuqiu achieved the fusion of necromancy and druid magic, creating a unique necromancy-druid magic system. Oh, that's the abbreviation in Chinese; locally it's called the "Kabewen Magic System." "Kabewen" is a transliteration, meaning "incredible." The Kabewen Magic System is indeed an incredible magic system.

After that, the magical world of the entire Augu Continent entered an era of great fusion. Magicians wanted to try fusing all kinds of magic. Most of these attempts ended in disastrous failure, but there were also some successes and the discovery of special magical properties. Rongbuqiu also became the founder of the "Fusion School" in this wave, becoming a patriarch-level figure.

So what is this ancestor doing, leading so many undead?

Of course, they should join the war. The Dark Moon Empire and the Holy Empire are sworn enemies. Light and darkness are naturally prone to conflict. Moreover, even if we disregard the factor of faith, their struggle for the rich lands of the Augu Continent is enough to ignite a war between the empires. As the only two superpowers on this continent, they naturally want to determine who is superior.

The last war was fifty years ago, when Rongbuqiu was just a nobody. But today, I will strike in my most awesome form. I, Rongbuqiu, stand tall on the earth!

“My princess, the battlefield is not far away. I will bring victory back to Dark Moon.”

Rongbuqiu held the pendant of the eldest princess in his hand. She was his benefactor and his first love, and now, with the passage of time, she had become a belief that only he could truly understand.

If all goes well, they should be able to reach the battlefield after another seven days of travel.

But according to the Tongliao Universe Unexpected Law, unsurprisingly, an accident occurred.

"what is that?"

Rongbuqiu noticed the flying machine in the sky, which made him frown.

It doesn't seem to belong to the Holy Empire; it must be some kind of machinery. Is it dwarven technology? When did they acquire this technology? I didn't sense any magical power. Could it be a purely mechanical structure? Being able to fly with such technology would be a huge reconnaissance advantage on the battlefield.

Magicians certainly have their own reconnaissance methods, such as Eagle Eye, but these are all based on climbing to a high place to see far and then using Eagle Eye. Of course, there are also magic methods that take the detection means into the air to detect, but they have extremely demanding requirements on the precision of the user's magic operation. Someone of Rongbuqiu's level can certainly do it, but other levels of magicians can only laugh it off. After all, you can't expect a college student to do the work of an academician.

After observing for a while, Rongbuqiu summoned his magical hand, preparing to try to grab the little thing in the sky and see if he could bring it down for the empire's engineers to study properly and make a similar one. If they couldn't make one, they could at least understand how well this thing performed.

Then, he encountered the most desperate and darkest super high school level event of his life.

"Leave the necromancer alone, and eliminate the rest!"

At the admiral's command, the wife and sister-in-law immediately unleashed their full firepower, showing no intention of holding back. In an instant, the entire world within Rong Buqiu's sight ignited, like Hiroshima in 1945. Firstly, in terms of design, the wife and sister-in-law's carrier-based aircraft were World War II models. However, due to the enhancement of their superhuman abilities, these combat units all started at the seventh tier of combat power, while the strongest mage units were only at the fifth tier. This disparity was like the People's Liberation Army of 1949 being equipped with equipment from 2024, while their opponent was the Nationalist Army of 2024.

Ah, the scene is so beautiful, it fills me with longing.

However, the enemy below is still highly organized. After all, necromancers have extremely strong control over undead units. These more than 30,000 undead units are a display of Rong Buqiu's personal achievements, but the most valuable ones are the elite units. The rest are just cannon fodder. The Darkmoon Empire has requirements for the corpses of the dead. They must be handed over to the state. However, the family members of the deceased can take some hair as a memento. At the same time, the Darkmoon Empire also regards the summoning of necromancers as the resurrection of the dead in another way, thus building up its own unique funeral customs, which makes ordinary people more willing to offer up the corpses of their relatives.

What? You're asking if those important figures receive the same treatment when they die?

Shut up! You talk too much. Master Huang was a pillar of the nation who served the country and its people during his lifetime. How can we let their sacred bodies be placed alongside the lowly? That would be blasphemy. Only a grand burial can truly honor their status and position.

So this is just another form of exploitation using religion and culture as a bond.

But none of that matters now. Under the bombing of carrier-based aircraft, all the undead below are just targets, targets that are not even qualified to face a direct attack. Just one round of bombing by dive bombers has left very few targets that can stand up. If Qin Shan hadn't asked to leave that necromancer behind, just one round of bombing would have wiped them out completely.

When Rongbuqiu rose from the smoke of battle, his army was gone. Only the dense shell craters, countless broken corpses, and weapons completely destroyed beyond repair proved that a large army had once stood there.

"This...this...this."

Rong Buqiu's worldview was overturned. In his more than ninety years of life, he had never encountered such an unreasonable and absolute crushing force. Although there were many predecessors in the past who he admired, their strength only aroused Rong Buqiu's competitive spirit, not like today, which left him with no power to fight back.

For a moment, Rongbuqiu even doubted that he was still sleeping and that this was just a nightmare.

Just as this veteran necromancer was questioning his existence, Qin Shan had already silently appeared behind him, and then unleashed more than a dozen binding supernatural skills.

After all, this was the first time facing a superhuman with a complete training system. The other party might have many backup plans. Based on the principle of just in case, Qin Shan gave the other party the utmost respect. If that skill had been replaced with bandages, Rong Buqiu would be a mummy by now, and a freshly buried one at that.

"It's done."

Looking at the immobilized prisoners of war, Qin Shan nodded in satisfaction.

Section 85: Might makes right.

Rong Buqiu was beaten to his knees, it must be because...

Stop! It would be impolite to continue. Qin Shan isn't that hungry.

At the island base, Qin Shan was very interested in his newly acquired spoils.

However, this was not good news for Rong Buqiu. He had actually been captured by a magic saint and two beauties whose levels were impossible to discern. What did he do to deserve being captured alive by such a high-level team?

For a moment, Rong Buqiu even began to wonder if he had some legendary ancient bloodline, and if he could instantly unify Jiangsu by revealing his identity.

Wake up, daydreaming is bad for your health.

In the room created using supernatural abilities, Qin Shan, Lexington, and Saratoga were conducting a joint trial, while opposite them was the pitiful, weak, and helpless Rongbuqiu, who could no longer do anything even if he screamed his lungs out.

Rongbuqiu had considered resisting, but none of the magical items on his body reacted.

Either the opponent has already destroyed the magical items on my body, or the opponent has used sheer power to suppress my strength to the point of being powerless to resist. Either way, they are not people I can afford to provoke.

So what did I do to deserve this? I have no right to even encounter someone this awesome.

Forget about me, even those high-ranking Dharma Saints couldn't possibly encounter you. Since you're already a Dharma Saint, there's no need to go to such lengths to kidnap me. Can't we just talk things out?

Rongbuqiu even suspected that this was an old acquaintance of the Dark Moon Empire, such as someone from ancient times, of royal blood, or the Demon King D's revenge—anything more outrageous, since the most absurd thing was right before his eyes. Could anything be more outrageous?

"A fur coat, right?"

Qin Shan used the official language of the Dark Moon Empire, where Rong Buqiu lived, also known as the "Imperial Standard Common Language," which would be considered a standard form of official speech or elegant language in our society.

By analyzing the textual rules of the captured books (mages usually carry a lot of books with them, as well as many notes; those of Rongbuqiu's caliber have storage rings, and Qin Shan himself happens to be a space-type mage, so after forcibly deciphering the code, he could freely browse through the contents), he quickly established a complete language database. In Rongbuqiu's storage ring, there happened to be a book called "Complete Collection of Imperial Languages".

After all, many notes and knowledge among mages are encrypted using language and writing. Excellent mages are inevitably excellent scholars and are proficient in at least three languages. Rongbuqiu is proficient in nine languages ​​and 47 dialects, and the "Complete Collection of Imperial Languages" is an important book on language fundamentals, so it is normal for him to carry it with him.

Now all these things have benefited Qin Shan, and have also helped him quickly overcome the communication bottleneck in the other world.

There's a small problem: because no one taught him, the Dark Moon Empire's language he learned was strictly pronounced according to the standard pronunciation. This made Qin Shan's accent sound very serious and rigid. But the most standard Dark Moon Empire noble speech is just like that—serious and rigid, with a kind of class-based beauty.

Indeed, in environments with strong personal dependence relationships, language and pronunciation are important hierarchical distinctions.

Just like the Japanese who lost to the Tang Dynasty and then adopted Chinese as the official language of the upper class, the same filial sons exist in the Korean royal family. What they speak now is a degraded version of Chinese, which used to be considered vulgar language (not swear words, but language that was too low-class to be used by important people).

If it were anyone else, they would definitely think Qin Shan was an official of the Dark Moon Empire. As for his attire, the local people have a limited understanding of nobles. As long as someone dresses formally and speaks fluent Mandarin, they are considered to be from the upper class.

However, Rongbuqiu was a great mage with extensive knowledge. He immediately judged from Qin Shan and the others' clothing that they were not from the Dark Moon Empire, and might not even be from the Augu Continent, because no other race on the entire continent dressed like that.

However, the opponent's strength was overwhelmingly powerful. Out of respect for the strong, Rong Buqiu asked neither humbly nor arrogantly, "May I ask why you attacked the Dark Moon Empire's legion? I have never seen many of them before."

"You said those dead people belonged to an empire."

Qin Shan's expression suddenly turned very serious; this was intentional on his part.

Rongbuqiu, thinking he had misspoke, quickly asked, "Is there some misunderstanding here?"

Qin Shan said solemnly, “Our Shenzhou civilization has been to many worlds, including many tragic countries that have been destroyed by the undead calamity. Now there is a country that is using the dead as material to spread war and death. It seems that we need to nip this danger in the bud. Sir, please provide as much information as you can, so as not to make a mistake.”

Upon hearing Qin Shan's words, Rong Buqiu was completely distraught.

Are you kidding me? Judging from the fighting power these three have shown, the Dark Moon Empire might just become history on its last legs. No way!

"It's a misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! Although the Dark Moon Empire uses necromancy, we are not the world-destroying massacrers. On the contrary, it is the Holy Empire next door that, under the guise of the God of Light, does things that are worse than animals. Their country has more beasts than livestock. If we're talking about spreading war and death, they are the real culprits!"

Qin Shan sneered, "On one side is the Holy Empire of Light, and on the other is the Dark Moon Empire that commands the undead. Putting your two countries side by side, which one do you think is more convincing?"

"That's why you should be even more cautious, because a wolf disguised as a sheep can be very deceptive."

In reality, every country will have all sorts of problems. This has nothing to do with the system; it's an inevitable consequence of human nature. As for which is more righteous, if you put two feudal aristocratic empires in front of capital, the latter is undoubtedly more righteous and glorious.

“Mr. Rongbuqiu, our Shenzhou civilization has fought for thousands of years and has eliminated many undead natural disasters. We have also witnessed the despair and darkness brought by these dead. If you want to persuade us with words, then don’t waste your time. We will go to the Dark Moon Empire to investigate and collect evidence. However, before that, we need to confirm whether the necromancy you have mastered is really as safe as you say. We hope you can cooperate.”

"this.

“It’s fine if you don’t want to cooperate, we’ll investigate ourselves. That’s all for today’s questioning.” With that, Qin Shan began packing his things, and Lexington and Saratoga also began preparing.

Rongbuqiu panicked for a moment.

These three are a sorcerer and two others whom I cannot understand. If they were to harm the Dark Moon Empire, the military force they had previously displayed could have easily caused the Dark Moon Empire to collapse on the battlefield. Then, even if they did nothing, the Holy Empire could still step on the craters left by the explosions and crush the entire Dark Moon Empire bit by bit.

Just as the three were about to leave, Rong Buqiu shouted, "Please wait a moment, I'm willing to cooperate!"

The three men with their backs to Rongbuqiu smiled simultaneously; this was the result they had been hoping for.

Once the so-called "danger investigation" begins, Rong Buqiu can be asked to explain the function and purpose of this knowledge under the guise of knowledge verification. However, please note that all of this is based on the overwhelming power demonstrated by Qin Shan and his group. Without such power, things would be stalled from the very beginning.

Now, it's much simpler.

We will come to see you again tomorrow.

Even if Rong Buqiu gave in, Qin Shan couldn't show any impatience. He calmly led his men away, leaving the tense and anxious Rong Buqiu pacing in the confinement room. He believed that after letting him go for two days, the work would go much more smoothly.

Before that, there is still some work to be done, such as bringing back more books from the Fourth World, not just those from the Darkmoon Empire, but also some from the Holy Empire. Only by walking on two legs can we achieve a healthy balance.

While Qinshan was enjoying the joy of a bountiful harvest, some people were going crazy because reinforcements had not yet arrived.

"Has Master Rongbuqiu not arrived yet?"

"No."

"What about magical communication?"

"Can't get in touch."