2: Chapter 2 Counterattack! Starting by Plundering the Undead Civilization

"Beep... Forcing connection to the Divine Kingdom channel."

"Warning, high-level civilization invasion detected. Energy Rank: Silver. Current Divine Kingdom energy Rank: Initial. Connection success rate: 99%. Divine Kingdom collapse risk: 98%."

The cold System prompt echoed through the public channel of the assessment arena, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

This signified the beginning of a divine war.

And even more, it represented a bloody Civilization Plunder.

"It's started, it's started! Young Master Li has made his move!"

"Three minutes, I bet three minutes, and the Divine Kingdom of that piece of trash named Jiang Xun will be torn to shreds."

"Three minutes? You think too highly of him. One hundred Undead Vanguard, even if they are just the lowest-ranked Skeleton Soldier, are not something his few unweaned initial believers can touch. One minute, at most!"

The crowd let out an undisguised burst of laughter.

The light screen hanging above the assessment arena split into two.

On the left was Li Ang's land of the undead, radiating gray Death Qi. On the black earth stood a dense crowd of one hundred Skeleton Soldier, holding bone blades, their eye sockets burning with eerie green flames.

On the right was Jiang Xun's pitifully barren initial Divine Kingdom. It was a patch of cracked yellow earth sparsely scattered with a few bare rocks, where thirty sallow-faced Mortal believers, lacking even complete sets of clothing, huddled together shivering, their faces filled with despair.

The stark contrast made the outcome of this divine war seem like a foregone conclusion to everyone.

Even the Proctor standing to the side, responsible for supervision, yawned out of boredom.

In his eyes, this was nothing more than another boring game of bullying the weak by a scion of a noble family.

Li Ang crossed his arms, chin slightly raised, enjoying the compliments and awe coming from those around him.

He didn't even bother to descend his consciousness to command.

Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?

"Jiang Xun, watch carefully."

"Watch how your believers turn into a pile of meaningless minced meat before my great Undead Legion!"

He muttered to himself, a cruel smile playing on his lips.

However, he did not see it.

Beside him, the ever-calm Jiang Xun had a flicker of indifferent, unruffled calm deep within his eyes behind his lenses.

Inside the Divine Kingdom.

"Oh God! Monsters, they are monsters!"

"Save us! Great God, please descend your miracle!"

The thirty Mortal believers huddled under the only dirt hill in the Divine Kingdom, watching the Skeleton Soldier pouring out from the spatial channel, letting out terrified wails.

They were just the most ordinary Mortal, so weak and frail that they couldn't even get enough to eat due to the barren resources of the Divine Kingdom.

Across from them was the Undead Legion, wielding sharp blades, knowing no pain, and feeling no fear.

Fear spread among them like a plague.

Just then, a gentle yet undeniably majestic voice resonated in all of their minds.

"My believers, do not panic."

It is God!

Their God has descended!

The faces of all the believers were instantly replaced by fanaticism.

They looked up at the sky, as if seeing the dawn of salvation.

Jiang Xun's consciousness hovered over the Divine Kingdom.

He glanced at the panicked believers below, then at the Skeleton Legion that had finished assembling and was approaching with neat steps.

There was no expression on his face.

In his past life, he had studied the war history of countless ancient civilizations.

From the Macedonian phalanx to the guerrilla tactics of the Mongol cavalry.

The group charge of these low-level undead before him, in his eyes, was full of flaws and ridiculously naive.

"Listen to my divine oracle."

Jiang Xun's voice rang out again, carrying a power that calmed the heart.

"Groups of ten, go to the top of the hill and push those rolling stones down."

"The other twenty, gather dry grass, ignite it, and throw it into the valley from both sides."

"Remember, execute my will, and victory will belong to us."

The divine oracle was unquestionable.

Although the believers didn't understand why they had to do this, their fanatical faith in God made them act without hesitation.

Soon, the simple trap was set up.

And the one hundred Skeleton Soldier had already entered the narrow valley.

They had no intelligence, knowing only how to execute the simplest charge orders.

"Now."

Jiang Xun's consciousness stirred.

Boom!

At the top of the dirt hill, several huge rolling stones were violently pushed down, carrying immense force, smashing fiercely into the huddled formation of the skeleton army.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of bones shattering was crisp and piercing.

The dozen or so Skeleton Soldier charging at the front were instantly smashed into a pile of bone fragments, the Soul fire in their eye sockets completely extinguished.

Immediately after, dry grass carrying sparks fell from the sky.

The valley instantly turned into a sea of fire.

Fire had a natural restraining effect on these low-level undead.

The formation of the Undead Legion fell into complete chaos.

"Use your hands, use everything around you, to end them."

Jiang Xun issued the final order.

Watching the undead fall into chaos, the fear in the believers' hearts had long been replaced by the shock brought by the divine miracle.

They picked up the only stones and farm tools around them, or even went bare-handed, rushing towards the skeletons that were being burned by the fire and had their leg bones broken by the rolling stones.

Occupying a high position, waiting at ease for the exhausted enemy.

This was a one-sided massacre.

In less than ten minutes.

One hundred aggressive Undead Vanguard were completely wiped out by thirty unarmed Mortal believers.

[Divine War Victory!]

[Calculating...]

[Detected Host Talent: SSS-Rank Civilization Plunder!]

[Plunder Initiated!]

[Successfully plundered enemy civilization Law fragments... Bone Hardening (black iron rank)!]

[Detected conflict between Law and Host's believer race (Human Race), performing non-conflicting Fusion...]

[Fusion Successful!]

[Derived brand new Human Race Cultivation Technique... "Immortal Jade Bone Art" (black iron rank)!]

A series of mechanical sounds scrolled crazily in Jiang Xun's mind.

The next second.

Over the Divine Kingdom, thirty beams of soft white light descended, precisely enveloping every believer.

"Ah!"

"My body! It's so hot!"

The believers let out groans of pain and pleasure.

Their originally withered muscles were filling out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Beneath their sallow skin, their bones made cracking sounds, becoming tougher and whiter.

A moment later, the light dissipated.

The thirty formerly frail and sickly Mortal believers had all undergone a rebirth.

Their eyes shone with brilliance, and the Qi and blood within their bodies surged.

[Your thirty believers have all completed their Breakthrough from the mundane stage and become black iron rank Body Cultivator!]

"A miracle! This is a true miracle!"

"Praise you, great Dominator!"

All the believers knelt on the ground frantically, offering their most pious kowtows to Jiang Xun in the sky.

Jiang Xun ignored the believers' fanaticism.

His consciousness was immersed in the memory of the civilization that had been plundered.

Deep within the bones of those Skeleton Soldier, he saw some obscure runes.

The style of those runes was not something a Silver-Rank Undead Civilization could possess at all.

That was a military-standard brand, belonging to a higher-level Undead Legion.

Jiang Xun pushed up his glasses, a cold smile curling his lips.

Li Ang.

It seems your background is even dirtier than I imagined.

Meanwhile, outside the assessment arena.

Everyone was staring at the light screen that had become blurred due to energy shielding.

"What's going on? It's been five minutes, why hasn't that trash's Divine Kingdom collapsed yet?"

"I guess Young Master Li's Undead Legion is slaughtering the believers. Tsk tsk, the scene is too bloody, it's been blocked by the System."

"Must be! When the light screen clears up in a moment, we'll be able to see a pile of minced meat!"

Li Ang's expression, however, was somewhat ugly.

He could no longer sense the existence of his one hundred Undead Vanguard at all.

It was as if they had been completely erased from the world by an invisible force.

How is this possible?

Just as he was in doubt and uncertainty.

Zzz...!

After a violent flickering, the light screen overhead finally became clear again.

Everyone's gaze instantly converged on it.

The next second, the entire assessment arena fell into dead silence.

No rivers of blood.

No minced meat everywhere.

Only thirty upright, sharp-eyed warriors stood quietly in the chaotic valley.

At their feet lay mountains of pale bone fragments.

Everyone was stunned.

The smile on Li Ang's face completely froze.

Just at this moment.

Jiang Xun opened his eyes.

He ignored the ghost-seeing expressions around him and walked straight up to the petrified Li Ang.

He adjusted his glasses and revealed a kindly smile.

"Li Ang, your vanguard army tasted not bad."

"However, this appetizer is not enough."

"I want your entire Undead Civilization."