Lu Yan sat cross-legged, using the Soul Banner to mobilize a massive amount of ghost mist to begin refining the Divine Soul of this Golden Core Corpse King.
Under normal circumstances, it would be nothing short of dreaming for Lu Yan, with his cultivation at the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment, to refine the Divine Soul of a Golden Core Corpse King.
However, at this moment, Lu Yan's Soul Banner had already gathered three great ghost gods and a thousand Yin Soldiers, completely capable of suppressing the Golden Core Divine Soul.
More importantly, within the Soul Banner, there was the Soul Continent, an ace that offered nearly absolute suppression over souls, increasing the possibility of Lu Yan successfully refining the Divine Soul.
The ghost mist engulfed the Golden Core Divine Soul, and as the refinement began, the Yin Soldiers gradually released the Soul Hook binding the Divine Soul.
The Soul Banner moved automatically in the void without wind, and the ghost mist transformed into wisps of threads hanging from the banner like a black waterfall, controlling every subtle change of the ghost mist.
Detached from the Soul Hook, the Golden Core Divine Soul struggled within the ghost mist, the golden spiritual light flickering, trying to break free from its constraints, but it proved futile.
Even the Golden Core Corpse King in its prime was refined by the grand array laid by the Soul Banner's ghost gods, let alone a mere Divine Soul?
The vast continent on the banner shimmered with a glow, and the infinite pressure from the Soul Continent descended. In the face of this mighty power capable of destroying the Golden Core Divine Soul, the fragile Divine Soul emitted a silent wail, its golden spiritual light gradually dimming.
The Divine Soul, being refined, began to actively devour the surrounding ghost mist and soul power. Chapters fırst released on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵•𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒•𝙣𝙚𝙩
Seeing this, Lu Yan immediately ordered, "Harvest the wandering souls!"
With the command given, a thousand Yin Soldiers wielding Soul Hooks began a sweeping operation across the entire small ruined city.
With no disturbances from the Space Corpse King, no one within the ruined city could resist the thousand Yin Soldiers.
Even the most formidable Early Stage Foundation Establishment Corpse King within the city couldn't withstand the siege of a hundred Late Stage Qi Cultivation Yin Soldiers, and was soon stripped of its Divine Soul and delivered to Lu Yan's side.
The successfully refined Golden Core Divine Soul surged with black mist, beginning to devour wandering souls and Divine Souls in large quantities, accepting almost anything brought near.
As the ghost mist surged, a strong aura of the Golden Core Stage began to awaken from within the mist.
This refinement lasted a full two days, during which, in the initial hours, the thousand Yin Soldiers slaughtered the entire small city of forty thousand zombies.
Half of the wandering souls were converted into ghost mist, boosting the cultivation of the thousand Yin Soldiers to the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation.
The other half of the zombie wandering souls were all fed to the nurturing Golden Core Divine Soul.
During this process, Lu Yan didn't let the Golden Core Divine Soul evolve completely on its own but extracted a Spiritual Energy Fission Battery to provide spiritual energy for a ghostly transformation.
The resilience of the Golden Core Divine Soul far surpassed that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Divine Souls, and had Lu Yan not aided the process with soul body transformation, it might not have been able to engrave the complex spiritual ability codes with ease.
With the final truth engraved into the innate nature of the Golden Core Divine Soul, this two-day-long refinement finally came to an end.
A majestic figure emerged from within the ghost mist.
Adorned in a dark black robe, the cuffs and hem embroidered with a flow of golden spiritual ability codes, accompanied by silver patterns that decorated the robe, each line containing the mysteries of space.
The face bore a semblance of human contours yet was tinged with a deathly pallor, and in the depths of the pupils swirled a silver spatial vortex.
His surroundings resonated with shattered space fragments, like countless mirrors suspended in the void, reflecting all scenes within miles. With a slight lift of his fingertip, the void silently cracked, revealing a deep darkness.
He stood in place, surrounded by the aura of the Golden Core Realm, and the ghost gods and Yin Soldiers around him instinctively bowed their heads, not daring to meet his gaze.
Yet when his gaze gathered on Lu Yan, that aura of majesty dispersed, and his pale face was full of reverence and piety.
"Greetings, my lord, from the Abyss God!"
With the fourth master soul, the Abyss God, now in place, the Soul Banner in Lu Yan's hand suddenly began to change.
A thousand Late Stage Qi Cultivation Yin Soldiers, three Foundation Establishment ghost gods, and one Golden Core ghost god returned, representing the Hundred Souls Banner, a top-grade magical artifact in Lu Yan's hand, now qualified for an upgrade.
The Soul Banner unfurled slowly in the void, with tiny statuettes representing four master soul ghost gods hanging from the corners, and black threads on the banner squirmed like living things, intertwining with countless ghostly lights to form a mysterious Soul Continent.
Lu Yan could clearly sense that as the Soul Banner began to upgrade, the connection between the Soul Continent and the Soul Banner grew increasingly tight, with a mighty ghost mist spreading across the whole Soul Continent.
Before, Lu Yan had mastered a very limited amount of ghost mist, but now, returning to the apocalypse version, he slaughtered forty thousand zombies right at the start.
While half of them were used as materials for refining the Abyss God, the remaining wandering souls refined two hundred Yin Soldiers and elevated all Yin Soldiers to the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation, still leaving plenty behind.
This portion of wandering souls converted into ghost mist, directly spreading over ten miles, fortifying Lu Yan's control over the Soul Continent.
Finally, as the changes from the Soul Banner's upgrade gradually subsided, the Hundred Souls Banner in Lu Yan's hand successfully upgraded to the Thousand Souls Banner of magical artifact quality.
This meant Lu Yan could more effortlessly control the Soul Continent, and the Soul Banner could house more powerful ghost gods and Yin Soldiers.
However, Lu Yan was well aware that for this journey to the apocalypse version, the upgrade to the Thousand Souls Banner was merely the beginning.