Zombie King Babysits the Reborn Empress

Over here, Ji Ruxue is under the Bodhi Tree, enduring the baptism of its treasured light, her cultivation finally reaching its peak at the eighth tier. The next step is to ascend to the ninth tier.

Meanwhile, Lu Chuan, left behind by Ji Ruxue, has also quickly returned to Base City, leading his army of Corpse Puppets.

Upon his return, Lu Chuan carried out a series of arrangements: patrolling where necessary, hunting where needed.

Everywhere, Lu Chuan deployed a large number of Corpse Puppets to patrol within the Lijiang City area to prevent any Insect Race or other foreign race from entering Li River City unnoticed.

Apart from that, Lu Chuan allocated some manpower for hunting.

Before leaving, he had swept clean all the zombie breeding bases, and now upon his return, these zombie breeding bases had to be reestablished.

The most important thing for zombie breeding bases is an ample supply of flesh and blood; only through large-scale hunting can the pigpens at the zombie breeding bases be restored.

Afterward, Lu Chuan quickly returned to the villa, skillfully putting some items aside.

Without rushing to inventory the supplies or settle things in, Lu Chuan immediately grabbed the bag containing Crystal Cores and returned to his room.

Then Lu Chuan took out four eighth-tier Crystal Cores from the bag, glanced at them intensely, full of anticipation.

Currently, with no shortage of eighth-tier Crystal Cores, swallowing these four eighth-tier Crystal Cores would surely allow him to breakthrough to the ninth tier, achieving the peak of this world.

By that time, having the ninth-tier cultivation as a foundation, he could go anywhere in the world, and furthermore, Lu Chuan would be able to mass-produce ninth-tier Corpse Puppets.

As the Zombie King, if Lu Chuan cannot reach the ninth tier, his Corpse Puppets naturally wouldn’t either.

However, wanting a batch of ninth-tier Corpse Puppets isn’t so easy.

Eighth-tier Crystal Cores are indeed too rare. Trying to gather enough for a batch of ninth-tier Corpse Puppets is nearly an insurmountable task in Lu Chuan’s eyes.

The quantity of eighth-tier Crystal Cores is already too scarce; for one or two ninth-tier Corpse Puppets it’s still manageable by swallowing, and Crystal Cores can be squeezed out as much as possible.

But if the quantity increases, that’s not feasible; where could he find so many eighth-tier Fierce Beasts and zombies?

Perhaps the sea has enough eighth-tier Fierce Beasts, but the ocean is vast and deep, making hunting eighth-tier Sea Beasts difficult to an extreme degree.

Nonetheless, Lu Chuan had long devised a plan. Since the route of hunting eighth-tier Fierce Beasts is impassable, he would instead carry out extensive massacres of foreign races and Insect Race, using their flesh for ascension resources.

As long as all the eighth-tier Corpse Puppets can consume enough Insect Race and foreign races, they will definitely accumulate sufficient energy to gradually ascend to the ninth tier.

However, this method requires quite a bit of time.

“Better to focus on ascending to the ninth tier first…”

Gradually calming down, Lu Chuan stopped overthinking, gazed at the Crystal Core in his palm, and the next moment, he directly placed the Crystal Core into his mouth, swallowing it down one by one.

Boom!

In an instant, the four Crystal Cores transformed into surging energy within Lu Chuan’s body, rushing wildly like the flowing water of a turbulent river, continuously impacting the meridians within him.

Feeling this immense energy, Lu Chuan didn’t dare to slacken in the slightest, quickly sitting down cross-legged, carefully mobilizing the Spiritual Essence in his body, and began continually refining this foreign energy.

As time passed, this overwhelming energy gradually was refined into strands of Spiritual Essence and quickly integrated into Lu Chuan’s original Spiritual Essence.

As the Spiritual Essence continued to grow, Lu Chuan’s cultivation level rose correspondingly, his aura becoming increasingly vigorous.

Already at the peak of the eighth tier, Lu Chuan, for the first time, sensed the solidity of the ninth tier barrier—it was like copper walls and iron barricades. He tried, but found that his current Spiritual Essence couldn’t move it at all.

For a moment, Lu Chuan’s expression was heavy, affected deeply.

But of course, Lu Chuan wouldn’t give up because of this; he reinvigorated himself, continued mobilizing the increasingly plentiful Spiritual Essence, and crashed fiercely towards the boundary barrier.

Boom!

Suddenly, Lu Chuan felt as if his head was hit with a heavy hammer, his whole body struck by lightning, the deafening roar echoed in his mind.

As the ringing faded, Lu Chuan felt dizzy, as if his head and body had separated.

To cope, Lu Chuan could only shake his head, trying to maintain alertness.

Yet, despite this, the barrier remained unmoved.

Lu Chuan gritted his teeth, unwilling to give up.

Rumbling~

With repeated impacts, Lu Chuan’s body kept shaking, his entire body feeling faintly painful.

Particularly the damage to the meridians, they were continually struck by the rampant Spiritual Essence; all meridians along the way suffered some damage, having slight scars.

Additionally, during the process of impacting the barrier, it seemed the surrounding energy was being drawn and slowly converged towards Lu Chuan.

Soon enough, this absorbed energy was also converted into Lu Chuan’s own Spiritual Essence, thereby increasing the pressure upon the meridians within him.

Regarding this, Lu Chuan presently had only one solution: ascending to the ninth tier as soon as possible. Once he breaks through the barrier, the rampant Spiritual Essence will flow unhindered, and the pressure on the meridians will vanish.

With this in mind, Lu Chuan bite his teeth tight, continuously mobilizing his Spiritual Essence, launching the final impact against the barrier.

Rumble~

The deafening rumble echoed in his mind, Lu Chuan’s entire body continuously trembled, his body beginning to bleed externally, the situation became quite serious.

Lu Chuan knew the wounds on his body were unavoidable, thus he bravely continued to impact the boundary barrier.

Before long, it was dusk.

Boom~

Suddenly, the boundary barrier gave slight tremors, Lu Chuan’s heart rejoiced, mobilizing Spiritual Essence again to launch an impact.

With each subsequent crash, the boundary barrier was shaken until it gradually began to dissolve.

Boom!

The next moment, the boundary barrier was finally blasted apart by Spiritual Essence, like a collapsing dam.

Spiritual Essence flowed unimpeded, rapidly circulating within the meridians, even the surface wounds on the meridians gradually healed with the operation of Spiritual Essence.

And at the instant Lu Chuan broke through to the ninth tier, the sky changed dramatically, immense energy began to flood back into him, causing the amount of Spiritual Essence within him to soar at a visibly appreciable rate.

Simultaneously, a terrifying ninth-tier aura erupted from Lu Chuan’s body, sweeping across all directions, unstoppable.

“The ninth tier! Finally broke through to the ninth tier!”

Lu Chuan slowly opened his eyes, excitement gleamed in his gaze.