Chapter 439 - 224: Slaying Garuda
[Thousand Souls Banner]
[Description: Gains the abilities "King General", "Military Array", and "Personal Guard"]
[King General: The user can designate a High-tier Ghost General as the Leading Ghost General. The Leading Ghost General can absorb the army’s power, significantly enhancing its own attributes. Commands issued through the Leading Ghost General require reduced cost and have enhanced effects, with specific amplification depending on the tier of the Leading Ghost General.]
[Military Array: The Leading Ghost General serves as the core, ordinary Ghost Generals form the basic units, creating a military array. Within the array, all ghost entities have increased power, resistance, and energy recovery speed, and the damage received is shared among surrounding ghosts. The amplification degree depends on the tier of the Leading Ghost General.]
[Personal Guard: Each Ghost General can designate four Personal Guards, and the Leading Ghost General can designate an additional four. Personal Guards receive a 10% attribute boost from the Ghost General. Normally, they can share damage for the Ghost General and can sacrifice themselves to offset damage during lethal attacks, restoring a certain amount of life value to the Ghost General.]
[Evaluation: After advancing to the Thousand Souls Banner, you can select a Ghost General to lead the entire army, greatly enhancing the overall power of the ghosts, consolidating scattered forces, and further expanding the scale of the ghost entities.]
[Now, you can have up to hundreds of Ghost Generals and ten thousand Fierce Ghosts.]
[When you possess ten thousand Fierce Ghosts and a Ghost King, you can advance to the Myriad Souls Banner.]
[Note: The Ghost King is a ruler that can only be born in the Land of Extreme Yin, extremely difficult to refine artificially. The vast majority of Demon Cultivators cannot refine a soul banner into the Myriad Souls Banner in their lifetime.]
After absorbing the souls of a million Hungry Ghosts, the overall power of Chu Xiu’s ghost army soared once more!
Not only did a formidable King-tier ghost appear, but the new effects of the Thousand Souls Banner also allowed Chu Xiu’s ghosts to form a military array, causing their overall strength to reach new heights!
This made Chu Xiu marvel once again at the terror of the SSS-level talent [Perfect Refining]. If an ordinary Demon Cultivator tried this, with so many souls, it would take at least half a year to completely refine them.
The combination of the [Demon Cultivator] profession, [Perfect Refining] talent, and the unique power of Abyssal Datification enabled Chu Xiu’s unprecedented growth speed!
As his thoughts moved, the High-tier Ghost General, refined from the Divine Soul of the Kinnara, stepped forward and then pointed lightly at the Garuda.
Instantly, the powerful energies of over ten thousand ghost entities within the soul banner converged at its fingertip, and numerous withered arms extended from the void between it and the Garuda, firmly pulling down its speed!
[Soul-Binding Technique of the Dead]!
Chu Xiu’s skill level with this technique wasn’t high, but its power largely depended on the scale of the ghost entities rather than personal strength!
In the face of the powerful abilities of the Leading Ghost General gathering all the ghost entities, the issue of low skill level was greatly compensated for, slowing down the speed of the high-speed flying Garuda under the vast sea-like magic power of over ten thousand ghost entities!
"Boom!"
The Leading Ghost General charged forward, crashing head-on into Garuda’s massive body!
"Bang!"
The High-tier Ghost General was sent flying backward, its General Armor shattered completely.
The constitution of High-tier Ghost Generals was generally inferior to similarly ranked Corpse Refinements, let alone compared to the Colonel fused with a nuclear power reactor.
After being materialized, the constitution of the Leading Ghost General was just over five thousand, barely reaching eight thousand under the [King General] trait’s enhancement.
However, ghost entities are not inherently adept at frontal physical combat! Their true strength lies in magic!
Witnessing the Leading Ghost General’s body revert to a soul body, a large number of corpse-like figures, as if from Purgatory, climbed onto Garuda’s body, pulling it downwards!
[Earth Binding Technique]! [Life-taking Technique]!
Under the command of the Ghost Generals, countless spells converged, forming an extremely terrifying spell effect, rapidly draining Garuda’s life force!
Of course, Garuda was not going to sit idly by. This powerful avian creature let out an angry roar, swinging its body furiously, and the orb atop its head emitted a ghostly black spiritual light, unleashing a wave of destructive energy from its head!
In an instant, the widespread destructive attack obliterated a vast number of ghost entities.
As a mighty divine entity, Garuda certainly lacked no methods for mass attacks against ghost entities, but soon it was horrified to find that this sweeping strike inflicted minimal damage on the opposition!
This is the new ability [Military Array] of the Thousand Souls Banner!
Relying on the power of the military array, the damage received can be extensively shared, allowing those less significant Yin Ghosts and Fierce Ghosts to absorb the damage!
Garuda’s attack directly annihilated over a thousand Low-tier ghosts, but core Fierce Ghosts suffered virtually no losses!
At this moment, Chu Xiu cast another spell!
[Command: Charge]!
With the support of the powerful skill, the offensive desires of all ghost entities soared instantly! Numerous spells landed on Garuda, and even Fierce Ghosts pounced on its back, materializing to tear at its body!
An unusual look of panic flickered in Garuda’s golden eyes; it hadn’t anticipated that Chu Xiu would have another trump card!
However, fortunately, they also had their cards!
Two figures leaped down from behind Garuda’s wings; the one on the left, despite being of male appearance, had an enchantingly graceful figure, cradling a lyre.
Unexpectedly, this should be the last divine being, Qian Dapo.
Qian Dapo, the Celestial First Musician, feeds on fragrance.
With just a gentle sweep of the lyre strings, the surrounding ghost entities let out agonized screams, halting their actions; the ones nearest even suffered unstable soul forms, leading to immediate disintegration.