Chapter 623: Chapter 400 Revived Insects_2

    At the exact moment the Holy Shield Technique took effect, a torrent of dark-energy-infused power gushed from the insect’s maw, crashing down upon Zi Liyuan.

    The sound of “zzz” erosion echoed incessantly in Zi Liyuan’s ears.

    Holy Light and Darkness.

    Golden light and eternal night.

    At that moment, they vied and clashed with each other.

    Sensing the protective eggshell around him, the Holy Light energy was rapidly depleting. Like cracks in a cobweb, it continually spread across the light shield.

    Zi Liyuan’s expression darkened.

    Especially as he sensed the torrent formed by dark energy showing no signs of depletion. This made his brow furrow slightly.

    “Bone Shield!”

    “Bone Armor!”

    “Dark Shield!”

    “Dark Barrier!”

    …

    In the blink of an eye, protective spells were conjured by Zi Liyuan, layering themselves in front of the Holy Shield Technique.

    Three floating Bone Shields, stacked piece by piece, blocked the torrent of darkness.

    Within three breaths, the three Bone Shields turned to bone dust, swallowed and pulverized to ash by the dark torrent.

    A circular Dark Shield, shattered by the impact of the dark torrent, still managed to consume a fair amount of the dark energy within the torrent.

    One by one, the protective spells were assaulted, dispersed, and worn down by the dark torrent.

    Despite breaking through method after method, the energy within the dark torrent showed no signs of waning, continuously pummeling the eggshell formed by the Holy Shield Technique.

    Just as the Holy Shield Technique was in a precariously weakened state, about to shatter into fragments,

    Zi Liyuan ceased his spellcasting, a slight smile playing on his lips.

    With a deafening “boom,” Old Iron descended from the sky, his steel-like legs directly kicking the insect boss’s head, pressing it downwards.

    The insect, initially raising its head to shoot the dark torrent, now blasted its energy pillar against itself.

    The furious dark energy bored a great hole into the ground, causing the insect, already struggling to remain upright, to plunge headfirst into it.

    With its head stuck in the hole, its balance remained lost; its rear involuntarily raised, pointed skyward in the cold wind. Its remaining pairs of legs flailed, seeking leverage to extract its embedded head.

    Unfortunately, with the erratic movements of its legs, the body could not be supported, let alone gaining leverage to pull out its head.

    The wildly waving legs and the insect’s elevated rear made this epic boss insect appear utterly ridiculous.

    And having just suffered a loss, Old Iron wouldn’t miss such a perfect opportunity to beat a dog while it’s down.

    He swiftly bypassed the insect’s abdomen, avoiding its flailing legs, and reached the other side of its back, where the sharp fist spikes and spider claws commenced their furious work.

    Amid the “zzz” sound, Old Iron gradually cut open the shell on the insect’s back and then began to stir the flesh protected by the armor!

    Piece by piece, the insect meat was cut away.

    Old Iron carved out a four-meter hole from the insect’s back, burrowing into its body to wreak further internal havoc!

    Countless chunks of insect meat were torn and discarded.

    “Strange, even though this insect resurrected, it is still in a corpse-like state, resembling a zombie yet differing from a stiff zombie, extremely agile.”

    Standing not far off, Zi Liyuan, observing Old Iron’s actions through Spirit, also peered through the opening created by Old Iron to survey the internal conditions of the insect’s body.

    This insect was lifeless, devoid of any life aura, and didn’t display any life origin on the map.

    Yet, the aura emanating from the insect was unmistakably from an epic boss.

    Not to mention the dark torrent spat from its maw earlier, which was terrifyingly powerful in terms of damage and persistence.

    It’s known that a fourth-tier Holy Shield Technique is reputed as the strongest protective spell of the same tier.

    Such an “eggshell” was nearly shattered to bits.

    Moreover, Zi had instantaneously cast over a dozen protective spells, consuming much of the dark torrent’s energy too.

    Despite all that, they nearly failed to withstand the insect boss’s wave of energy vomit, almost breaching the defenses.

    Absurd!

    Had it not been for Old Iron cutting off this insect’s wings and legs, they might have been beaten into retreat by this insect.

    Yet, regardless, now the primary objective was to outright kill this insect as a start.

    Therefore, Zi once more summoned the Bone Spear.

    The spear of bone, with a fierce gust, again pierced into the insect’s body.

    It easily penetrated the insect’s shell protection, embedding into its tender flesh. Enormous Power of Death erupted within the insect’s body, ferociously corroding and damaging its internal structure.

    The blood-red damage numbers, this time reaching 500 million-plus, directly helped the insect boss empty its health bar once more.

    An instant kill with this skill really wasn’t difficult for Zi in his current state.

    Of course, primarily because this insect boss, though enhanced to the epic tier, had its health points and defense far below epic boss expectations, aside from its attack.

    “Old Iron, come help me scrape this insect’s brain into a smoothie.”

    Rattle your brains till you’re thoroughly scrambled, we don’t believe it can resurrect again!

    If it’s up for it, then receive another upgrade, turning this insect into a Legendary Boss!

    Through Spirit’s detection, Old Iron had already reached the insect’s head, his sharp fist spikes slicing through the proteins within the brain.

    Indeed, he blended its brains thoroughly!

    One minute, two minutes… ten minutes…

    “Confirmed, there won’t be any resurrection this time.”

    After having Old Iron exit the insect boss’s body, Zi Liyuan collected the insect’s corpse and stored it within the space column.

    At the instant he retrieved the insect’s body, his Spirit perceived an unusual spatial fluctuation all around.

    It was a faint fluctuation of rules; without touching the Rules of Death, he wouldn’t have noticed it at all.

    “Interesting, since that’s the case, let’s try another round.”

    With eyes slightly narrowed, Zi Liyuan fetched a hero boss’s corpse from his body storage bag and simultaneously pulled out a long blade.

    With a wave of his hand, shadowy remnants sliced forth.

    The blade’s edge directly severed the limbs of this hero boss’s corpse.

    Casually tossing the body onto the ground, he then gestured for Old Iron to step forward.

    At that moment the body hit the ground, that peculiar fluctuation of rules faintly reappeared.

    A wisp of dark energy infused into the limb-severed corpse.

    In the next moment, the corpse began to swell and expand.

    The once lifeless body suddenly opened its eyes, a roar emanating from its mouth.

    In merely two breaths, the hero boss corpse was strengthened and transformed into the Lord Boss tier!

    Old Iron stepped forward, grabbed the resurrected body, and directly pressed its face into the ground, sitting on its back itself.

    A Bone Spear followed closely, piercing into the resurrected boss’s neck.

    The blood-red damage emptied its health bar, slaying the resurrected boss once more.

    “10, 9… 1, 0!”

    In just ten counts, the previously dormant boss corpse underwent another transformation.

    Already expanded to over four meters tall, the corpse began to swell again, in almost the blink of an eye, becoming a colossal figure over ten meters tall.

    Simultaneously, having just assumed the Lord Boss template, the corpse was amplified to the epic boss template this time.

    “Indeed, the surface within the dimension of the underworld has a constraint of some sort by the Power of the Dark Rules, ensuring that if any living being arrives on the surface, if there are corpses nearby, they would be resurrected and enhanced!”

    Simply put, the dimension of the underworld doesn’t welcome any living being to the surface.

    Honestly, keep growing underground, and stepping on the surface spells your demise!

    “Tsk tsk, as long as you’re strong enough, isn’t this just a prime spot for farming materials?”

    What profession is a Necromancer concerned with?

    For a Death Lord, the corpses of epic bosses are top-level materials indeed!

    And isn’t the surface of the underworld just a prime location specifically for farming epic boss materials?

    At this moment, Zi Liyuan’s eyes shone brightly, with immeasurable wealth beckoning him!

    “Pity, though, it can’t generate Legendary Boss corpses.”

    What does it mean to reach for the stars from reachable peaks?

    Isn’t this exactly it?