24: New entry: Long live the Emperor!

The time for harvest...

Has arrived!

Grinding monsters with all his effort was for this very moment!

Come on, new entry!

Lu Chen anticipated as he opened his status panel:

[Name]: Lu Chen

[Race]: Skeleton Lord

[Rank]: Tier 2, Stage 0

[Strength]: 18,675

[agility]: 17,339

[Physique]: 21,662

[spirit]: 3,106

[racial value]: 12,177/5,000

[vitality]: 0

[Racial Talents]: Bone Blade, Undead Pressure

[Talents: Spirit Pattern, Armor Piercing...]

(Armor Piercing: 3% of your attacks can ignore armor and deal damage)

[Skills: Heart-Shattering Claw, Multiple Slashes... Blazing Critical Hit]

(Multiple Slashes: You can launch slashes in all directions simultaneously)

[Exclusive Talent]: Infinite Gold Entry (Current Gold Entries: 3)

[Entry Bank]: Infinite Plunder, Ultimate Evolution, Longevity Without Bounds

(Longevity Without Bounds: When you kill any living being, you will absorb a portion of their Soul and convert it into stored vitality. By consuming vitality, you can heal any injury of any living being.)

(Note: 1 point of vitality can restore an ordinary adult from the brink of death to their peak state.)

His various attributes had nearly increased sevenfold!

His Physique attribute had even broken twenty thousand!

Powerful!

As expected, killing Tier 3 Secret Realm monsters yielded massive gains!

Thousands of Tier 3 Secret Realm monsters had brought fifty thousand attribute points, as well as dozens of new skills and several new talents.

The new entry—Longevity Without Bounds!

Absorbing the opponent's Soul to convert into stored vitality and healing any injury!

It didn't boost attack power much, but for sustainability, it was a leap-like improvement!

As long as he accumulated enough vitality!

Then he, Lu Chen,

Would be immortal!

Lethal poisons, curses, fate, Karma, and even the passage of lifespan—all such methods would be ineffective against him!

Likewise!

He could also bestow immortality upon others!

From another perspective, Lu Chen, who possessed Longevity Without Bounds, was a god!

Good!

Very good!

Lu Chen was ecstatic in his heart!

The combination of Infinite Plunder + Ultimate Evolution + Longevity Without Bounds was set to push him toward the throne of a god!

Infinite Plunder leaned toward endlessly strengthening offensive means!

Ultimate Evolution leaned toward endlessly strengthening defensive capabilities!

Longevity Without Bounds ensured that he would not fall before reaching the throne of a god!

And that he would enjoy his authority forever!

After Lu Chen carefully analyzed his own abilities, he couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

Infinite Plunder plundered the attributes, skills, and talents of the Souls under his blade.

Ultimate Evolution wouldn't even let go of the life essence of those Souls; before they departed, it would grab them and strip away their life essence, converting it into Lu Chen's evolution energy.

Now, it was even better!

The newly appeared Longevity Without Bounds didn't even plan to let go of the Soul itself!

The Soul could leave, but now it had to leave a portion behind to be converted into Lu Chen's stored vitality!

Truly, even in death, they had to do a massive job for Lu Chen!

A capitalist would weep upon seeing this!

Thinking of it this way...

The small crimson flames in Lu Chen's eye sockets burned with a bit of embarrassment.

This guy!

He really caught one sheep and intended to shear it to death!

While he was thinking...

A massive Secret Realm monster with a bull's head and a horse's body spawned in front of Lu Chen.

Lu Chen lightly swung his Bone Blade.

This Tier 3, Stage 7 Tyrannical Ox-Horse turned into blue smoke and returned to the Secret Realm itself.

[Strength +70]

[racial value +16]

After waiting for a long time...

Lu Chen did not hear the increase in vitality as he had hoped.

He thought about it.

Secret Realm monsters were originally created by the Secret Realm using Origin energy.

They had no Souls at all.

Where would a Soul come from for Lu Chen to convert into vitality?

Lu Chen shook his skeleton head.

He didn't mind.

He glanced at the racial value.

[racial value]: 12,193/5,000

"Evolve!"

[racial value -5,000]

[Race: Skeleton Lord → Skeleton Commander]

[All Attributes +500]

[Acquired Racial Talent: Seal of the Commander]

(Seal of the Commander: You can summon a seal exclusive to you, containing ten cubic meters of space, which can store inanimate objects or undead creatures.)

[racial value]: 7,193/20,000

Suddenly!

A surge of powerful and condensed energy was born from the void, instantly igniting Lu Chen's skeletal frame.

It seemed as if Lu Chen's entire skeleton had been thrown into a furnace and repeatedly tempered!

Even sparks flew between his bones.

Lu Chen, who was only a skeleton, wouldn't feel pain even if he were shattered into countless pieces.

This time, however, a slight stinging pain actually entered his consciousness.

It was truly miraculous!

A moment later.

The sparks flying between his bones vanished without a trace.

Every bone became increasingly solid.

The color of the bones hadn't changed, they just became a bit more translucent.

Lu Chen felt it and immediately discovered...

His defensive power had doubled again!

A single doubling was equivalent to his Physique attribute doubling!

Now he could possess the equivalent of 20,000+ Physique attribute!

It was essentially like adding 20,000 points of Physique out of thin air!

However!

Before Lu Chen could even be ecstatic...

He miraculously discovered that his stature had actually shrunk a bit.

In the eyes of others,

He currently looked even worse than a common skeleton summoned by an ordinary Necromancer.

Someone might even say: Brother, is your Little Skeleton malnourished?

Thinking of this, Lu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

With a casual summon...

A square, deathly white seal with a skull printed on the bottom abruptly appeared in the center of Lu Chen's hand bone.

Seal of the Commander!

Lu Chen's consciousness immersed itself into the seal.

In a daze, he entered a grayish-white open space, about two meters in length, width, and height; beyond that was a gray mist.

Lu Chen's consciousness drifted toward the gray mist.

Immediately, a needle-pricking sensation came; the further out he went, the more it hurt.

Helplessly...

Lu Chen had to give up.

Then.

Lu Chen had a thought.

The small grass by his feet disappeared and appeared inside the seal's space.

With another thought...

The small grass went from the seal's space to appearing back by Lu Chen's feet.

Fun.

Lu Chen repeated this dozens of times before he felt a very minute consumption of his spirit.

If Lu Chen's spirit hadn't been so sharp, he probably wouldn't have even noticed this tiny bit of consumption.

Oh.

So storing items requires consuming Mental Energy.

He looked at his lowest attribute, his spirit.

[spirit]: 3,606

Huh.

In the time it took to glance at the panel,

All the consumed spirit had automatically recovered.

Next.

Lu Chen glanced at the dozen or so pieces of Demonic Beast meat hanging on his skeleton, as well as the spirit crystals tied to ropes woven from grass vines.

There was no other way.

Lu Chen had slaughtered too many Secret Realm monsters.

Even though the vast majority were casually blasted into ashes by Lu Chen, occasionally some would leave behind a complete corpse and drop Demonic Beast meat and spirit crystals.

After all, the base number of slaughtered Secret Realm monsters was huge.

The dropped Demonic Beast meat and spirit crystals were naturally not few in number.

It wasn't just Lu Chen's skeleton that had meat and crystals hanging on it.

Even Ning Xiwei and Sun Feifei had meat and crystals hanging on them.

And this was after the three of them had been picky.

After all, they only had three pairs of hands, and they even used the skeleton on Lu Chen's body as a cargo rack!

They couldn't carry much loot!

Now, of course, it was different.

Hehe.

Lu Chen smiled.

His skeleton finally didn't have to serve as a rack to haul goods!

With a thought...

The Demonic Beast meat on Lu Chen's skeleton, as well as the strings of spirit crystals, were all sent into the Seal of the Commander.

Lu Chen turned around.

His entire skeletal frame was finally bare again.

At this time.

Sun Feifei snapped out of the bitterness of envying her Best Friend and had to fiddle with the string of spirit crystals around her neck to seek comfort.

Looking up, she saw Lu Chen was completely clean, leaving only a good skeletal frame.

She rubbed her eyes and subconsciously asked,

"Little Skeleton, where is the Demonic Beast meat and the spirit crystals on your body?"

Instantly, her heart felt a twinge of pain, and she hurriedly complained to Ning Xiwei,

"Xiwei, look at your family's spendthrift skeleton!"