On a distant hillside, a thick arm broke through the ground above, five fingers forming a claw, rushing out from the surface.
Just the portion of this arm exposed above ground was nearly three meters long, and that thick arm had pitch-black skin, emitting black gas.
"It's coming!" Chang Siyao appeared somewhat nervous. This was a commander-level necromancer!
Very quickly, this gigantic undead monster burst out from underground.
This was a towering monster twenty meters tall. Its body was horribly decayed, clothes in tatters. In some areas, its skin and muscles were entirely rotted, leaving only a skeletal frame. Within its sunken eye sockets, two clusters of red flames flickered.
In its hand, it held a massive staff, the head of the staff adorned with many skulls. Each skull's eye sockets glowed with green light.
That necromancer leaned forward toward Jiang Kai and Chang Siyao's direction, opened its pitch-black mouth wide, and let out an angry roar.
"Ugh ah!"
A stench rushed forth to assault their noses!
Immediately after, withered arms stretched out from the surrounding ground. Those corpses hanging from the branches nearby suddenly began twisting frantically, and before long, snapped the ropes around their necks. One by one, they dropped from the trees.
"Jiang Kai, don't let them get close. They can absorb energy—and carry corpse poison!"
Jiang Kai's attention was still locked on that commander-level necromancer.
That guy didn't personally launch an attack but continuously roared toward the ground—again and again, as if ordering the undead army to awaken quickly.
As long as it didn't act personally, Jiang Kai wouldn't need to worry about these undead corpses.
"Stay close to me!" Jiang Kai shouted in a low voice. In both hands, two throwing daggers had already appeared.
"Quenching fire!"
The two throwing knives burst into fierce flames!
Then, Jiang Kai fired Quenching Fire Tracking Deaths in all directions—ten throwing knives shot out instantly, leaving trails of fiery afterimages.
Each flaming Tracking Death pierced through the corpses' bodies, simultaneously igniting swathes of them.
In an instant, the surroundings were covered in roaring fire. A large number of corpses screamed and struggled in pain within the flames.
Ferocious tongues of fire surged repeatedly, wildly devouring the oncoming tide of corpses.
In the distance, several more enormous necromancers arrived. They too roared at the ground, and more and more corpses crawled out from deeper underground.
They had no awareness, knew nothing of dodging fire, only endlessly surged toward Jiang Kai and Chang Siyao.
There were simply too many corpses. Even if the fire occasionally landed critical hits, those ignited corpses didn't feel any pain. Even ablaze, they would still pounce at Jiang Kai and the others.
These undead corpses were not slow either. In such a situation, some burning corpses already broke through the fire defense line and charged forward.
"Divine Order of Light! Bounce!" Jiang Kai immediately swung out the Divine Order of Light, further expanding the encirclement outward.
At this moment, Jiang Kai's experience points were skyrocketing rapidly.
[Congratulations on killing the undead corpse of a commander-level necromancer. Gained 643 experience.]
[Congratulations on killing the undead corpse of a general-level necromancer. Gained 294 experience.]
[Congratulations on killing the undead corpse of a commander-level necromancer. Gained 707 experience.]
...
The experience refresh rate had already caused the system to stop reporting each kill one by one and instead report in batches.
Jiang Kai quickly recalled the Tracking Deaths and re-fired them, forming a new ring of flame defense. At the same time, the Divine Order of Light moved like a fish in water within the corpse tide, rapidly leaping around. Wherever it passed, irregular trails of fire were left behind, instantly igniting large groups!
Seeing countless corpses fall before they even got close, Chang Siyao turned her head in shock to look at Jiang Kai.
What kind of terrifying attack was this?
Under normal circumstances, even undead corpses had decent defense. It was difficult to kill them instantly. Combined with their lack of pain, they were extremely troublesome. Once time dragged on, more corpses would flood in, and there'd be no escaping.
So for them, necromancers were extremely problematic enemies.
However, these undead corpses in front of Jiang Kai all seemed like they were made of paper!
All instant kills?!
Even though Chang Siyao knew that since Jiang Kai could clear the third level of Endless Abyss, he must be extremely powerful, seeing him personally control the Nine Tribulation Tracking Deaths with such fluid and graceful movements, she couldn't help but marvel in her heart.
That pair of gloves of his must be for arsonists, right? Now it seemed the name was indeed well deserved. Jiang Kai had already turned the surroundings into a sea of fire!
So strong...
It had to be said—Jiang Kai's leveling speed now was not at all slower than the insect nest.
Although the experience from undead corpses was small, their quantity was high. They were smaller in size, more densely packed, and easier to kill.
By this calculation, Jiang Kai's leveling efficiency was even faster than the insect nest.
However, due to the high-intensity battle, Jiang Kai's consumption was also enormous. After twenty minutes, Jiang Kai's energy was nearly depleted.
"Divine Might Halo!"
A halo appeared above Chang Siyao's head, then enveloped her chest, expanding outward to form a circular light band.
Jiang Kai fired Tracking Deaths into the Divine Might Halo, then charged into the corpse tide himself.
In an instant, those corpses swarmed forward, tearing Jiang Kai to pieces...
"Jiang Kai!" Chang Siyao's eyes widened in horror, staring at this scene.
But a moment later, a figure appeared beside her.
"Substitute, return!" Jiang Kai recalled the substitute and quickly replenished his state, continuing to incinerate the corpses.
Chang Siyao stared wide-eyed at the man beside her. "Your substitute can absorb the enemy's attacks?"
Jiang Kai was busy controlling the Tracking Deaths and only nodded. "Yeah."
Chang Siyao recalled how she had just been worried about this guy. Yet he was completely unconcerned. Suddenly, a nameless anger surged up inside her and she cursed in a low voice, "Scumbag!"
"Scum... scumbag?" Jiang Kai turned his head blankly to look at Chang Siyao.
He couldn't even dream that using a substitute would somehow make him a scumbag?
Forty minutes later, that commander-level necromancer and four general-level necromancers were still roaring around nonstop.
However, no new undead corpses emerged around them anymore.
Chang Siyao was covered in black lines.
They always said to kill a necromancer, the key was to first kill the summoner to prevent more corpses from being summoned.
But look at Jiang Kai—he deliberately did the opposite.
He killed off all the summoned undead, leaving the necromancers with no "corpses" to call...
Jiang Kai waited a while. Seeing those guys still just roaring without new corpses appearing, he looked puzzled at Chang Siyao. "That's it?"
Chang Siyao weakly looked at Jiang Kai. "Look around. The graveyard's turned into a crematorium. You've burned it all. What else do you think they can summon?"
Jiang Kai frowned, shook his head. "Only leveled up three times. You're right—still too little experience."
Chang Siyao suppressed her internal injuries. The "too little experience" she mentioned was clearly not the same "too little experience" he meant!
"That commander doesn't have any other skills?"
Chang Siyao replied with a blank expression, "Originally, it had a revive-dead skill. But you've burned all the corpses—it can't revive anything."
She didn't know why, but suddenly Chang Siyao found herself unconsciously standing on the necromancer's side.
Summon corpses, revive corpses—such a terrifying skill combo. Yet when it came to Jiang Kai, it was just... gone...
"This summoner's too weak! Ah, such a pity." Jiang Kai sighed. "Missed a wave of experience!"
"Forget it. Wait here. I'll go finish them off."
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