Task completed: 25/1000. Today’s gains were pretty good, leveling up twice in a row. Now at level nine—at level ten, I’ll be able to learn the Weakening Curse. It took two minutes to defeat the Demon Guard. Andrew Bennett didn’t dare linger, and took three millennium golden corpses to take out another millennium golden corpse and swapped it out.

Ding! That wasn’t a level up—could it be a skill upgrade? Andrew Bennett opened the skill panel and saw that Resurrection had advanced to Intermediate, now able to revive five corpses, with the duration extended to five minutes and the cooldown reduced to five seconds.

Excited, Andrew Bennett revived a fifth millennium golden corpse. With five millennium golden corpses, he began to challenge the highest-level monsters in the Immortal-Slaying Killing Realm: the level seventy ten-thousand-year golden corpses. When the third millennium golden corpse died, one ten-thousand-year golden corpse was chopped down. Once one fell, it meant four more couldn’t escape.

While killing these high-level monsters, Andrew Bennett also reaped rich rewards, even getting a spatial Qiankun Ring with forty slots. Andrew Bennett found he couldn’t wear any more rings, so he swapped out his twenty-slot Qiankun Ring. Now he had eighty slots in total. He also got a level fifteen Voodoo Skill Book. No more worries about level fifteen skills.

While others were still struggling with level ten monsters, Andrew Bennett was already dancing among level seventy monsters. Five ten-thousand-year golden corpses cleared the way ahead, and when they encountered Demon Guards, it was a total sweep. Watching his experience soar, Andrew Bennett was very pleased, finally breaking through to level ten and learning the Weakening Curse.

System: You have learned the movement skill Shadow Phantom Drift, grade: Supreme.

Shadow Phantom Drift: Each level increases speed by 2.07.

You have entered the expert rankings.

Finally, he had learned a movement skill—and a supreme one at that. He had been waiting for this for a long time. As for making it onto the expert rankings, Andrew Bennett wasn’t surprised, since he had once reached the top ten in Tianxia. Although he later dropped down, he still maintained a ranking above one hundred. Out of ten billion people worldwide, 7.9 billion had entered Honghuang, and the number was still rising—far more impressive than Tianxia’s one billion. So Andrew Bennett didn’t have high hopes for the expert rankings. He didn’t expect to actually make it in.

Andrew Bennett checked the rankings—he was at 509. He searched for David Grant, who was ranked 317—not bad. The top-ranked player was Brian King, level 16. Still quite a gap. But at this rate, catching up to Brian King wasn’t impossible.

Because a ten-thousand-year golden corpse gives hundreds of times more experience than an ordinary level ten monster. You can imagine how fast Andrew Bennett was leveling up. Originally, his ranking was probably in the tens of millions, but he shot up to the hundreds. If people heard about this speed, they’d be scared to death.

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Chapter 13: The Ten-Thousand-Year Corpse King

Andrew Bennett didn’t know how long he’d been killing monsters like this. Only when the system announced the time did he realize it had been a full six days. He had killed 975 Demon Guards—just one more squad and he could leave the Immortal-Slaying Killing Realm. But Andrew Bennett didn’t want to leave, because he had discovered a mysterious place: the Corpse King Hall.

Should he go in and take a look? Andrew Bennett hesitated. The Immortal-Slaying Killing Realm quest was already complete, and if something went wrong inside, it might not be worth it. But if he didn’t check it out, he’d feel regret. Andrew Bennett looked at the five ten-thousand-year golden corpses he had just summoned. At worst, if they couldn’t handle it, he could just run out himself. It should be fine. Resolving himself, Andrew Bennett stepped into the Corpse King Hall.

As soon as he entered, a massive figure appeared beside Andrew Bennett, lunging at him.

In that instant, Andrew Bennett unleashed his sorcery—Weakening Curse! The figure slowed for a moment, and Andrew Bennett leapt back—Psychic Lash! The figure flailed around like a headless fly. Andrew Bennett broke out in a cold sweat—so close! If he’d been a second slower, he’d have died on the spot.

The five ten-thousand-year golden corpses also entered the Corpse King Hall, surrounding the massive figure.

With the crisis averted, Andrew Bennett breathed a sigh of relief and carefully observed his surroundings. It was a vast temple, with countless towering stone pillars densely arranged, stretching into the distance. Ancient runes were carved into the pillars, as if telling the story of their long history.

Andrew Bennett looked at the monster that had nearly killed him in an instant. It was an eighty-level Ten-Thousand-Year Corpse King Guard, a head taller than the other ten-thousand-year golden corpses. Clad in golden armor, tall and imposing, it wielded a massive golden battle axe.

Bang! One ten-thousand-year golden corpse was sent flying.

Andrew Bennett was shocked. What kind of monster was this? Even such a huge ten-thousand-year golden corpse was knocked away.

Fortunately, the ten-thousand-year golden corpse wasn’t dead, just slowly getting back up.

Bang! Another ten-thousand-year golden corpse was sent flying. Andrew Bennett started to understand—this Corpse King Guard probably had a knockback skill.

Weakening Curse!

Andrew Bennett cast another Weakening Curse on the Corpse King Guard. Its speed immediately slowed considerably. Because the Corpse King Guard’s level was so high, Andrew Bennett’s Weakening Curse wasn’t very effective. But even a little effect was enough.

The five ten-thousand-year golden corpses surrounded the Corpse King Guard again.

Psychic Lash! The fear effect from Andrew Bennett’s Psychic Lash made the Corpse King Guard flustered.