Chapter 133: Chapter 133: Ten Thousand Soul Banner!
In their own civilizations, they might be the most powerful beings!
But just as some voices have said,
The Chosen One ranking has been dominated by Shen Hao!
With the cheat of tripled points, along with such strength, it’s enough to erase any possibility of competition.
At least at this moment, the name “Shen Hao” has been remembered by all the Chosen Ones from nine civilizations!
However, the trial has just started its tenth day, and there are still twenty-three days left to obtain the ranking rewards. At this time, the ranking, apart from gaining some fame, doesn’t mean too much.
Besides, Shen Hao is not just aiming to seize the first place in the Chosen One ranking. He equally wishes to obtain first place in the civilization ranking.
This is the more challenging task.
Right now, their civilization’s ranking is only at third place.
Even though Shen Hao is making every effort to reduce the number of casualties, their current performance score is still gradually being caught up by the fourth place.
After all, this situation of mass death simply due to relocation is indeed down to poor luck.
If only the blizzard had appeared farther away from Japan, or if this country didn’t have so many people, or if there were more means of evacuation, such a situation wouldn’t have occurred.
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“There’s not enough time. The development of civilization itself still has clear deficiencies,” Shen Hao clearly recognized this point.
Industrialization is not yet comprehensive. Even if all forces are concentrated, just satisfying the production needed for large-scale construction is already very difficult, not to mention the ships required for such a massive migration, which simply cannot be met in a short time.
If everything depends on purchasing with points, it’s even further from enough.
Shen Hao continued to sweep through the Undead, while looking into the distance.
Hundreds of kilometers away, a large group of Cultivators was using various methods to freeze the sea, then spreading sand grains, metal sheets, and the like to increase friction, attempting to build a floating bridge over the sea using this method.
With the rapid drop in temperature at this moment, this method was indeed feasible.
However, the wind brought by the air currents was increasing the difficulty of construction.
No one could tell whether the environment would rapidly deteriorate, and this route could only be a fragile hope.
“The Undead are beginning to retreat, organize the migration quickly,” Shen Hao’s voice once again appeared in Kandai Ino’s mind.
He then entered the Undead World directly and launched a pursuit.
The number of Undead in this batch had already surpassed ten million!
And most of them were not of low level.
These were newly emerged Undead that had been scattered and grown, gathering in the areas Shen Hao had already cleared, and behind them, there were at least a few powerful “Ghost Kings.”
If he could completely conquer them, Shen Hao estimated that it would bring him at least over fifteen billion points!
Towards the five hundred billion points needed for Level 17 Mall, he would make a big leap forward!
However, these Undead fleeing in all directions, indeed brought Shen Hao certain troubles.
He had to maintain the Heavenly Eye and even used “Divine Descent” to scatter his will in various places, to hunt them down single-handedly with all his might!
And at this moment, as the number of Undead within Japan decreased, the massive migration was finally able to progress.
An endless stream of ships was rushing in from all over the world.
Even aircraft carriers had put down all their fighter jets, emptied all their armories, and become the main force for transportation, with other warships doing the same.
This unique scene was also captured by cameras and broadcast all over the world.
Weapons created for war in the past have now become the carriers of saving lives, symbolizing something extremely special for humanity.
At least, at this moment, human civilization was indeed united like never before!
And after Shen Hao took action, the efficiency of the great migration finally improved. In just one day, over ten million people were relocated from Japan to Mao Country. The increasingly cold climate took away quite a few people on the way, but these Undead did not bring further casualties. While Shen Hao pursued the batch of fleeing Undead, he also occasionally returned to reduce the threat of the Undead on this lifeline.
However, on the twelfth day after the trial had started,
Shen Hao was intently staring at an item in the mall.
It was the latest item refreshed in the VIP mall, a Blue Level 14 unlockable good.
——Ten Thousand Soul Banner!
“Good Lord!” Even Shen Hao couldn’t help but show a look of surprise at this time.
In the ordinary mall, it wasn’t that there were no items related to Undead or ghosts, but most were types used for suppression or extermination.
Even if there were types for controlling or sealing, they could not control on a large scale!
But this one was obviously different!
Without looking at the introduction, just the name alone made it clear that this item could control Undead en masse!
“There’s finally a powerful restraining item!” Shen Hao didn’t hesitate and immediately bought one.
He examined the item’s description closely.
[Name: Ten Thousand Soul Banner]
[Quality: Blue]
[Level: 14]
[An evil Demon Cultivator’s Magic Treasure, capable of controlling tens of thousands of souls, refining them into ghosts, with immense power, but at the cost of damaging the heavens and harmony.]
[Price: 3.4 million points (4 million points)]
“A breach of Heaven’s harmony? No, it’s clearly an act of immeasurable merit!”
When Shen Hao took hold of the chilly Ten Thousand Soul Banner, he had already mastered its use.
With a wave of his hand, in an instant, the dozen or more wraiths that were frantically fleeing ahead were directly imprisoned within it.
He gained some points, but not as many as he would have by using the Sovereign’s control.
The reason was that this control wasn’t absolute.
During the last Blood Demon war, he had already used Blood Demons to test various rules for earning points.
Absolute control yielded the highest individual point values, in addition, varying degrees of control could also earn some points,, but they couldn’t stack up; instead, they were converted.
If he eliminated these wraiths at this moment, he could still gain points, just that the value would be somewhat reduced, the degree of which was determined by the points gained during the prior control.
But! There were loopholes in this!
If one took control of the wraiths and then awaited their further growth before executing absolute control or killing them, one could obtain more points!
However, this approach also carried great risks.
In the case of non-absolute control, enhancing the strength of wraiths could potentially allow them to break free from control, posing a huge threat.
This loophole was like fetching chestnuts from the fire.
But would Shen Hao be afraid?
Of course not!
He could simply rear them until the Ten Thousand Soul Banner could no longer suppress them, and then deal with them all at once, maximizing his point acquisition without increasing the death toll!
“After a 15% discount, I still need 3.4 million points, which is indeed a bit pricey, but I can easily make back the cost!” Shen Hao silently calculated within his heart, “Controlling the Ten Thousand Soul Banner requires at least a Second Stage Cultivator, which I don’t have now, but Divine Descent can solve this problem!”
Shen Hao’s Divine Descent involved more than just summoning thunder and lightning.
His “Emperor” profession allowed him to master all the Extraordinary Systems that the whole civilization possessed!
And that naturally included Cultivation.
So, in reality, he was also a Second Stage Cultivator!
He just needed to distribute this power through Divine Descent, even if it was not a lot,, but holding the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, he would absolutely be the nemesis of the wraiths!
Shen Hao could even bring some people into the Undead World to help him hunt wraiths!
“No wonder the wraiths are just auxiliary in trials, strong as they are, they can easily be restrained without too many deaths occurring.” Shen Hao had already perceived the limitations of the wraiths.
A mere calamity of wraiths merely required finding a way to counter them before their numbers spread out of control to stand a chance of resolving it.
But when paired with the Eternal Night Ice River, even a powerful civilization could face the risk of extinction.
For instance, this time, the storm’s tsunami would claim tens of millions of lives; if the ensuing wraith crisis wasn’t suppressed, human civilization might fall to the overwhelming numbers of wraiths before the true Eternal Night arrived!
“Dong Gong.” Having left the Undead World, Shen Hao immediately contacted Dong Gong, “I need a hundred powerful Cultivators for a combat mission!”
He spoke of the appearance of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
Dong Gong, too, was overjoyed.
“Yes! I will gather them right away!”
Currently, the world’s truly elite Cultivators had not yet been deployed into battle.
Because their Talent, including their spirit, was too exceptional.
They were among the very few humans standing at the absolute pinnacle of Cultivation Talent.
They were potentially the most promising Cultivators of this generation!
Unless a truly critical crisis arose, their task was to continuously strengthen themselves in Pocket World Blessed Lands!
And now, it was time to call them into action.
The order quickly reached all the Pocket World Blessed Lands, and without fully understanding the specifics of the mission, these people eagerly signed up.
After all, having them focus on Cultivation did not mean they were to be aloof; even within the Blessed Lands, they still stayed informed about the outside world’s changes, and their sense of mission was being cultivated without any shortcomings. Moreover, regardless of a Cultivator’s excellent potential, the true pinnacle of the Extraordinary Path still belonged to the Chosen Ones!
The arrogant, the disobedient, and the cowardly had already been weeded out in the continuous selection process.
Without resources, even the greatest Talent couldn’t keep up with the pace of the entire civilization’s progress!
Eventually, a hundred individuals were quickly selected.
Among them were old and young, males and females, all of which at this moment shared a new identity.
——Specially appointed combat personnel of the Chosen One Association.
“This is your Identity Card.”
The moment they left their respective Pocket World Blessed Lands, there were staff members from the Chosen One Association to meet them and handed over a tech-filled Identity Card.
They explained solemnly:
“The Special Combat Department of the Chosen One Association is a newly formed department by the association. All personnel are only accountable to one person! And that is the President of the Association!”
Just this statement alone made these top Cultivators, who had approached with a sense of trepidation, feel invigorated!