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Dead Man's Mountain Expands Eastward: A Route Sweeping Across North America

Unlike the Sha Yuan army, which surged westward, the Dead Man Mountain's advance was aimed directly eastward!

Qiu Zhibai was still dressed in white, the hem of his clothes untouched by a speck of dust, fluttering amidst the deathly aura.

He stood at the very front of the Bone Knight Legion, his pale face expressionless, only his eyes held a chilling aura that shared the same origin as the undead.

Behind them were countless bone spirit knights, their hooves wreathed in pale blue soul fire.

The footsteps made a "thump-thump" sound on the ground, causing the earth to tremble slightly.

The largest number of headless knights were clad in bone armor that gleamed with a metallic sheen, with bone swords slung across their waists, their blades covered in fine ice crystals. When this army moved, it swept away like a black torrent.

The frozen lands of the Far East were the first to suffer. The scattered undead tribes had no time to react before being crushed into pieces by the charge of the Bone Knights.

The sounds of bones cracking echoed one after another, and the soul mist drifted in the wind, only to be forcibly absorbed into the bodies of the army.

Next came the peninsula, where the deathly aura withered instantly, and crops in the fields turned to black ash.

The local low-ranking undead and ghosts were terrified and scattered in all directions, but they could not escape the pursuit of the Bone Spirit Knight.

The undead forces in the Japanese archipelago were already fighting independently and were a disorganized mess, making them even more vulnerable to Qiu Zhibai's army.

Within just a few days, all the undead in the entire archipelago surrendered, and the territory of Dead Man Mountain expanded wildly to the east.

The army advanced all the way to the sea, where the salty sea breeze carried deathly air, colliding with the aura of the ocean spirits rising from the deep sea.

Without much talk, the two sides engaged in a brief confrontation in the nearshore waters.

The roars of the ocean undead and the howls of the bone knights mingled with the crashing of the waves, echoing throughout the entire sea.

The specifics of the battle remain unknown; all that is known is...

Ultimately, the Ocean Undead Empire, seeing that it could gain no advantage, reluctantly retreated to the deep sea.

Qiu Zhibai did not pursue, but ordered the army to rest for a while before crossing the strait and heading towards the North American continent.

The seawater in the strait was frozen by death energy, and the Bone Spirit Knight walked on the ice.

The ice surface made a "crackling" sound as it bore the weight, but it never cracked open.

Their first target was Canada.

In order to stabilize the expansion momentum, Qiu Zhibai openly released an emperor-level undead to oversee the expansion.

The original six pairs of winged angels at the sub-emperor level have undergone a tremendous transformation and have been promoted to eight-winged angels at the minor emperor level!

When the eight pairs of bone wings are spread out, they blot out the sky. Each bone feather gleams with a cold, dark golden luster, and the edges are surrounded by a deathly aura as solid as ink. With a gentle flap, they bring up a howling wind, dimming the light in the world.

The imperial aura emanating from him was as substantial as a mountain.

Simply by hovering in mid-air, it caused the space within a radius of a hundred miles to tremble slightly.

The scattered death energy that was originally diffused in the air was all drawn in and condensed by the dark golden aura around him, turning into coiling death energy dragons that let out low roars.

Wherever those eyes, formed from soul fire, swept across, both the undead and the living instinctively felt a tremor originating from their very souls.

This is the absolute power of an Emperor-level undead—without even lifting a finger, its mere aura is enough to crush most of any resistance.

Even more terrifying is his immense power; the bone feathers at the tips of his bone wings can transform into bone spikes imbued with the laws of death, capable of tearing through space with a mere wave of his hand.

A wisp of aura that was inadvertently leaked during his promotion earlier had directly crushed a nearby hill into dust.

This power has already reached the peak level of a minor emperor!

The most crucial point is that in previous assassinations and tests, it was already shown that the Archangel Gabriel, who has not yet returned, is an emperor whose very essence is light, and who is not restrained by ordinary light magic!

At the very least, even the most powerful light-based demon-slaying sword, a super-tier magic, was completely useless against it!

With a single move, he completely crushed the undead world of Maple Leaf Country.

The local undead in Maple Leaf Country were already weak in combat and not under each other's command. When they were suppressed by the aura of the Emperor-level undead, most of them were directly on the ground, without even the courage to resist.

Those previously arrogant local undead emperors (who called themselves), monarchs, chieftains, ...

Each of them considered themselves local overlords, but they couldn't even last three moves against the Emperor-level undead of Dead Man Mountain.

The bone hammer fell with a deafening roar, smashing the soul to pieces and reducing the bones to dust.

They didn't even qualify to force out the second Emperor-level undead from Dead Man's Mountain.

This scene drew curses from countless powerful figures who were secretly observing.

In the brightly lit secret chamber, several figures with concealed auras stared at the scene in the crystal ball, their faces ashen. A hoarse voice roared, "Useless!"

What a bunch of useless trash!

The stone table beneath his palm was smashed to pieces.

"It's one thing for a cowardly army to be a bunch of cowards! Those so-called undead emperors are even more useless trash!" another figure gritted his teeth.

His tone was full of disappointment and frustration, "You were defeated before you could even force them to reveal their second trump card!"

Now that Dead Man's Mountain has taken root in North America, trying to control it will be incredibly difficult!

Despite the constant stream of criticism, nothing could change the established facts.

Meanwhile, the army of Dead Man's Mountain continued its southward conquest, completely rewriting the undead landscape of North America.

As for Qiu Zhibai's necromancy-based survival abilities, they were noticed by all parties during this expansion.

The Necromancer's unique Death Link talent can directly transfer fatal damage to the summoned undead.

It's like having countless lives to take his place; no one can easily kill him!

The spirits of the dead never perish, and Zhi Bai will never die!

This statement, this assessment, resonated throughout the world once again in a short period of time.

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The restraint of the undead army: a deeper consideration of not attacking humanity.

It is worth mentioning that both the undead legion rushing westward from Sha Yuan and the bone spirit cavalry sweeping eastward from Dead Man Mountain are bound by an ironclad rule—strictly controlling their undead and never taking the initiative to attack human society.

Passive counterattacks don't count!

This is not because the undead army is soft-hearted, but rather because it is exercising the most conscious restraint.

It is important to understand that human society is like a treasure trove containing endless death energy.

If the restrictions are lifted and the undead are allowed to slaughter humans indiscriminately, the consequences will be disastrous—the number of undead could increase at least tenfold from the current level!

Human vital signs and the death aura of the dead are inherently interdependent and mutually destructive.

Every human death releases a large amount of life energy before death.

Under the catalysis of dense death energy, this energy will be rapidly transformed into nourishment for the undead.

It can not only allow existing undead to advance quickly, but also allow the bodies of dead humans, and even scattered skeletons, to be tainted by death energy in a short period of time, transforming them into new undead of all kinds.

At that time, the entire continent will be completely submerged by the tide of the undead.

At that point, we'll truly be "enemies of the whole world"!

The current world situation is like water about to boil, but it hasn't reached the boiling point yet. All the forbidden spells and emperors that could make the water even hotter are hiding on the sidelines, waiting to see who will be the first to step forward!

Even the rulers of the undead army may not be able to control or make good use of this out-of-control power, and may instead be devoured by this surging torrent of undead.

This is vividly demonstrated in the Bone Grave Wasteland controlled by Qiu Zhibai.

Success or failure both stem from the same source!

Qiu Zhibai's talent lies in his strongest control over bone-type undead, but when it comes to other types... he has to reluctantly give them up!

Qiu Zhibai's army of the dead is all related to skeletons!

Skeleton soldiers, skeleton swordsmen and shieldmen, skeleton archers, headless knights, skeleton mages, bone dragons...

That desolate wasteland, completely soaked in deathly aura, was filled with nothing but pale, lifeless skeletons.

Layer upon layer, piled up into a mountain, the deathly aura permeating the air so thick it was almost condensed into liquid.

Take the most basic servant-level skeleton soldiers in the wasteland, for example; their combat power is weak.

They are often the first to fall in battle.

Even so, after these skeleton soldiers die in battle, the remaining broken skeletons will not truly "disappear".

Enveloped in the dense, impenetrable death aura of the Bone Grave Wasteland, these scattered skull fragments slowly wriggle and piece themselves together. The originally dull bones regain their grayish luster, and faint, eerie green soul fire gradually condenses in their eye sockets.

In less than half an hour, they can be transformed back into complete servant-level skeleton soldiers and rejoin the battle ranks.

What's even more terrifying is that the undead that kills this skeleton soldier can gain power from the battle and killing, even if it's just a tiny bit, but the undead are endless!

Even more terrifying is that this regeneration is not limited to the original skeleton soldiers' remains.

If the death energy is dense enough, even the bones of humans, livestock, or other demons can be forcibly transformed into undead.

On the edge of the Bone Grave Wasteland, a wild deer that had wandered in was killed by skeleton soldiers. Before its body had even cooled, its bones began to be corroded by death energy. In the short time it takes for an incense stick to burn, it transformed into a bone deer spirit, following behind the skeleton soldiers with its bone hooves.

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The advantage is on our side!

Stable development, no recklessness!

Whether it was the undead rulers of Sha Yuan controlled by Chu Ming, or undead leaders like Qiu Zhibai, they all tacitly issued a restraining order.

The undead's conquests are strictly limited to the Land of the Dead and the No Man's Land, avoiding human-inhabited cities and large settlements as much as possible.

What they want is orderly expansion, the integration and control of the undead forces.

Rather than an out-of-control, all-destroying catastrophe of the dead—at least until the situation is completely under control, the "bomb" of human society must not be detonated.