78: Million Ghost Army

The divine statue took the Soul Fragment and was about to return to the Contract Space when Xu Le called out to it.

"How did you level up before?"

The divine statue looked blank, staring at Xu Le foolishly.

Little Silly Crow flew over and babbled for a long time, sometimes nodding and sometimes shaking its head, before finally summarizing.

"God, it says it doesn't know. However, I suspect it's tainted with a trace of divinity and uses faith to level up."

Xu Le looked at the divine statue's Talent 1. The Indestructible Astral Body seemed to be strengthened with faith, which made some sense.

"How do you get faith?"

Uh... Little Silly Crow looked at Xu Le in shock: Would a god not know how faith is obtained?

The next second, it gave itself three harsh slaps with its wings.

Would a god not know?

God is just testing me.

It quickly cleared its mind and said respectfully, "God, it just needs people to believe in it."

"Just"?

Xu Le felt like hitting someone after hearing that.

Who would do something for no benefit? Not to mention having to believe in a big idiot.

If someone asked him to believe in a big idiot, he would have to slap them across the face.

"Who do you think would believe in him?"

Being asked again, the excitement in Little Silly Crow's eyes almost overflowed.

Sure enough, God is testing me!

"God, I think many of the ghosts in your staff would work."

???

That's also an option???

Xu Le summoned the Ghost Red Carp, Ghostly Magic Ox, Ghostly Ghost Executioner, and Ghostly Tauren from the staff.

Under his command, all the ghosts began to worship the divine statue as a god.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

The divine statue leveled up four times in a row, reaching Rank 6.

Its Physique increased by 600 points, but nothing else changed.

Xu Le glanced at the Indestructible Astral Body, knowing that the faith wasn't enough to improve its Physical Body strength.

"God, these ghosts can pray day and night. They can contribute 4 Faith Points to the divine statue every day and still have four hours left for combat."

Xu Le: "..."

Truly worthy of those feathers!

He directly put Little Silly Crow in charge of this matter. Aside from being a bit silly when fighting, this guy was quite normal at other times... right?

Relying solely on exploiting ghosts to level up the divine statue wasn't the way to go. Especially since the experience points needed later were simply explosive.

He had to expand his ghost army... Eight days later.

District 11008, Unnamed Valley.

Also in the First Ring.

As soon as Xu Le approached, he heard a rustling sound. Looking from afar, dark brown Cockroaches covered the sky and the earth.

They were everywhere on the dense cliff walls; the original color of the cliffs couldn't be seen at all.

Nine Phoenix's body shook as she flew from one end of the valley to the other with her nine Clones, then returned from the other side.

The scorching temperature woke up the Cockroaches that had fallen into a deep sleep due to lack of food, and bright red numbers popped up on their bodies.

The Cockroaches were furious!

They were already bloodthirsty and berserk upon seeing living creatures, and being burned by the scorching heat made each one even more crazed.

"Eat, eat, eat, eat them!"

The swarm of Cockroaches flapped their wings desperately to catch up, but they were always a step behind.

Seeing that some Cockroaches were still asleep, Nine Phoenix, flying in front, occasionally threw a couple of "Flame Shockwaves." The violent explosions could attract more monsters.

After one lap, there were thousands of Cockroaches packed behind her, like an apocalypse.

"Humans, there are still humans at the valley entrance!"

The Cockroaches were even more excited, rubbing their little hands and imagining the taste of a feast.

Just as they were about to reach Xu Le, a divine statue landed. All the Cockroaches instinctively flew toward it and used their most terrifying attacks.

Pop, pop, pop... A large number of Cockroaches directly died from the damage reflection, falling to the ground like a reddish-brown rain.

[Experience +256]

[Experience +12188]

[Experience +342]

...The dense experience points grew wildly, but compared to the experience bar, it seemed barely enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

However, Xu Le wasn't looking at the experience points.

These Cockroaches were also incredibly weak; he would even consider them in the way if used as cannon fodder.

But that wasn't important. Who would want to use such an ugly ghost army anyway?

What he valued was their terrifying numbers.

Everything else is fleeting; only quantity reigns supreme.

One ghost Cockroach meant four points of faith.

Little Silly Crow and Nine Phoenix began their campaign again, using Xu Le's Mind Link as navigation to wipe out the remaining Cockroaches in the valley one by one.

Time passed.

In less than half an hour, nearly a hundred thousand Cockroaches in the valley were completely slaughtered.

Xu Le also gained over forty million experience points. With a flash, his Rank rose to 68 (658/120,000,000).

Now, every Rank required over a hundred million experience points, which was extremely difficult.

It was only because he had many contracted beasts and was good at group battles; for anyone else, leveling up would never be this fast.

He also felt he couldn't sustain this intensity of leveling.

Over these days.

Xu Le followed the river down from District 11001, spanning the entire First Ring, massacring... no, clearing out the river monsters.

Red Carp monsters, Silt Demonic Loaches, Demonic Kuruma Prawns, Green Demonic Fish, and a large number of aquatic monsters suffered.

Now, Xu Le had cleared the monsters along the way from the middle reaches downwards, making the entire river cleaner than ever.

Now, he had even stepped onto the shore to kill ordinary monsters.

With a wave of Xu Le's hand, his ghost army had already exceeded a million. As for their actual combat power, it could only be described as... complicated.

Unless they encountered monsters with pure physical output, if Xu Le dared to send them onto the battlefield, they would dare to die.

[Experience +3210]

As another monster fell, Xu Le heard a crisp "ding."

Looking down, he found the xiaoyao realm ring that he had almost forgotten; its body had now been completed.

"How did this thing suddenly finish being crafted?"

Xu Le checked the crafting log and found that killing monsters could earn merit points, which could be used to increase the body's crafting progress.

In other words... "Damn it, I've been killing monsters for so long, and not a single merit point is left."

"You're even worse than Brother Pony!"

Previously, to save merit points and exchange them for academic credits after returning to school, he had refused the merit points rewarded by the Guard Army.

He didn't expect to benefit Little Ma... the ring.

Taking a deep breath, he adjusted his state.

Xu Le spoke: "Enter Xiaoyao Realm!"

Since the deed was done, he prepared to experience the Xiaoyao Realm, after all, Hong Yuantai had strongly recommended it.

[Ding, you are currently in a Fallen Zone. Insufficient permissions, unable to enter Xiaoyao Realm.]

Xu Le: "..."

Ring, you have successfully caught my attention!

Releasing the soul of the black bird, Xu Le rushed directly toward the First City District... After submitting the mission, he only received the most basic 200 merit points.

Converted to academic credits, it was only 20 Credits.

However, if converted to Credits, the official exchange rate was 1:500,000, so he easily got ten million Credits.

Naturally, Xu Le wouldn't exchange them.

He still needed to use Credits to exchange for academic credits.

Now, on the Little Peach Tree, six immortal coils were spinning; taking any one out would be priceless.

"Should I sell one to get some inferior divine stones and Forbidden Curses back?"

Just as Xu Le was thinking, a message from Hong Yuantai flew over.

[Come to the Principal's Office immediately. — Hong Yuantai.]