After resting for a few days in Beast Fighting City, Fang Zhou, now fully rejuvenated, visited the Adventurer Association again.

Unfortunately, no one had responded to the purchase request he had posted on the Adventurer Association’s bounty board.

Gently patting Vigus’s little head as she nestled in his arms, Fang Zhou felt somewhat disappointed.

Even resources that could help Black Iron Death Elves advance quickly were this difficult to obtain. It was easy to imagine how much rarer and more challenging it would be to acquire Bronze-level Undead Attribute Heavenly and Earthly Treasures. The difficulty was enough to make one despair.

With a soft sigh, Fang Zhou shook his head.

The only good news was that during this period, the Corpse Clone had made profound progress in his mastery of the Corpse Authority. This brought him a step closer to his goal of synthesizing Undead Attribute resources.

Returning to the hotel, Fang Zhou sat cross-legged in the Portable Meditation Array, slowly immersing his mind into another world.

「...」

「Wasteland of Strife, Corpse Tomb.」

For the past few months, the Corpse Clone had fully absorbed the gains from the last Blood Moon Tide.

The Undead Sky Screen Building, which he had invested a great deal of effort into researching, had also been materialized through significant resource consumption.

This Undead Sky Screen exuded a gray-white mist.

Any creature not belonging to Fang Zhou would lose its sense of direction upon entering the Undead Sky Screen’s range. It felt like a natural maze.

Under such circumstances, unless they stumbled in by accident or some powerful undead creatures could use magic to dispel the fog, discovering Fang Zhou’s Deep Sea Tomb was impossible.

After experimenting for some time, Fang Zhou was very satisfied with the effects of the Undead Sky Screen.

Looking at his dwindling Soul Power and Corpse Series resources, Fang Zhou contentedly gazed at his well-guarded Corpse Tomb and robust Undead Army.

[Authority] Corpse Tomb (Weak)

Core Building: [Lord’s Hall] *1

City Defense Buildings: [City Wall] *1, [Undead Sky Screen] *1, [Watchtower] *5

Resource Buildings: [Well of Souls] *5, [Blood and Flesh Mother Tree] *5, [Bone Quarry] *5

Unit Buildings: [Burial Ground] *5, [Corpse Pit] *5, [Advanced Corpse Tomb] *1, [Corpse Hero Transformation Pool] *5, [Corpse Warrior Pit] *1, [Corpse Rider’s Tomb] *1, [Hate Workshop] *1

Functional Buildings: [Token House] *1, [Personal Guard Camp] *1, [Corpse Transformation Altar] *1, [Undead Teleportation Array] *1, [Laboratory] *1

[Troops]

Corpse Guards *552 (Bronze Middle)

Corpse Commanders *552 (Bronze Middle)

Corpse Knights *500 (Bronze Lower)

Corrupt Hatred *200 (Bronze Lower)

Corpse Warriors *1,500 (Bronze Lower)

Corpse Warriors *53,000 (Black Iron Upper)

Fang Zhou thought for a moment, then decided to first upgrade the [Burial Ground], [Corpse Pit], and [Corpse Hero Transformation Pool].

Once the Burial Ground and Corpse Pit were upgraded, he could directly summon higher-level, more powerful Corpse Series undead. After upgrading the Corpse Hero Transformation Pool, ordinary skeletons and zombies could be transformed into Corpse Warriors.

Low-level undead in the Undead Realm possessed very little combat power. Especially newly born skeletons. Compared to the Corpse Warriors summoned directly from the Corpse Hero Transformation Pool, their combat abilities were worlds apart.

Fang Zhou planned to throw all the weak skeletons and zombies in his territory into the Corpse Hero Transformation Pool in the future, transforming them into the Corpse Tomb’s exclusive undead.

Not only would this further enhance his combat power, but it would also make it easier for Tidamia to command his forces effectively. Moreover, the synthesis and upgrading of troops also required Soul Power and Corpse resources. This approach would save a significant amount of resources that would otherwise be spent transforming and synthesizing low-level undead.

With that in mind, Fang Zhou immediately issued a comprehensive upgrade and transformation order.

Instantly, a group of Corpse Warriors transformed into diligent undead laborers, converting the Corpse Tomb into a bustling construction site.

After arranging the upgrade order for the buildings within his territory, Fang Zhou summoned Tidamia and Sain.

Unbeknownst to him, these two Corpse Guards had already grown into independent Undead Commanders.

Sain, the leader of the Corrupt Hatreds, took command of Fang Zhou’s 500-plus Corpse Knight Guard, formally becoming Fang Zhou’s Personal Guard Leader.

Meanwhile, Tidamia stepped down from the Corpse Guard ranks to become a Corpse Battle Group Commander, focusing solely on leading the army of over 50,000 undead under Fang Zhou’s command.

Through Tidamia and Sain, Fang Zhou knew every single thing that happened within his territory.

Just then, a piece of news reported by Tidamia piqued Fang Zhou’s interest.

As another Blood Moon Tide approached, the various Undead Territories in the Wasteland of Strife began to stir restlessly. Tidamia had dispatched patrol teams to scout the territory. Recently, under their watchful eyes, traces of Spirit Body creatures had appeared near the edge of the Corpse Tomb, at the border of the Undead Sky Screen’s range.

In the Undead Realm, the only Bronze-level undead creature with the Spirit Body attribute was the rare Ghost—the very thing Fang Zhou had been longing for.

Fang Zhou sat on the throne of the Lord’s Hall, his fingers rhythmically tapping on the armrest.

To search high and low for something, only to have it fall right into your lap.

The world rules of the Wasteland of Strife were quite different from those of the Corpse Hill. Here, most undead creatures gathered under Undead Lords of the same race, engaging in rounds of life-and-death battles driven by the Blood Moon Tide.

Since traces of a Ghost had been found at the edge of his territory, it proved that another Ghost Lord had expanded their territory to the vicinity of the Corpse Tomb.