Chapter 224: Chapter 102: Family Letter, Supreme Solitude, Fragrance and Incense as a Path

The capital is in chaos, carriages and horses speed by.

Red light pierces the sky, panic boils over.

Li Xuan rubbed his forehead as he walked out of the abandoned hut.

He felt as if his brain had just been boiled, filled with chaotic and manic joy, anger, sadness, and happiness, all stemming from those dreams.

Though the events within the dreams had become vague, fragments of memories, sometimes indistinguishable between real and unreal, surged forth, some even etched deeply into his mind.

His rational mind told him "it’s all fake," but his emotions still treated the scenes in the dreams as real, making him indulge uncontrollably.

He even had the urge to seek out the dream versions of his parents, wife, and friends, questioning himself: "What if it isn’t fake? What if this is the dream?"

These thoughts even overshadowed the current images of his parents, wife, and friends in his mind.

Li Xuan took several deep breaths, trying to calm his emotions and suppress those chaotic thoughts filled with his joy, anger, sadness, and happiness.

Soon, hurried footsteps came from the deep black alley beside him, and two strong men with sinister expressions rushed over, knelt before Li Xuan, and respectfully said, "Master."

Li Xuan glanced at them, and tried hard to recall.

He remembered.

These were the evil spirits he had created in the Disaster Realm a few days ago.

In life, they were elite scouts in the army, rather proficient in their skills, and thus it was not surprising they could find him in the city.

Li Xuan nodded and asked, "Do you know what has happened?"

The two evil spirits exchanged a look, and one of them dutifully recounted what he had seen and heard.

Originally four spirits traveled together; upon seeing Li Xuan, they split into two groups. Two spirits took Li Xuan outside, trying to awaken their master; the other two dared not approach, hanging back to prevent any mishaps.

Indeed, the two spirits that took Li Xuan outside vanished directly due to the Drought Demon’s approach, while the remaining two witnessed quite a lot.

Thus, these two evil spirits described the scenario after Li Xuan’s fainting in considerable detail.

Listening to this information, Li Xuan quickly grounded himself from "a world like a castle in the air" and, combining it with his own experience and speculation, roughly pieced together the entirety of events.

He indeed confronted the Drought Demon, then fell asleep, and his evil spirits saved him, only to be killed by the Drought Demon.

Yet, the Drought Demon could do nothing to him and had now left.

Li Xuan pondered while gazing afar.

To the east of the capital, many places were already ablaze, smoke rising furiously everywhere.

The eastern part was deathly still, while the further west, the noisier it became.

That noise arose from the frenzied townsfolk trying to escape, trampling one another, shouting loudly.

Li Xuan snapped back to reality, remembering what he should do now.

His gaze swept over a certain place. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

It seemed to be the backyard of a large tavern, where cattle and sheep had been deboned, leaving just skeletal frames, swaying on hooks with a "creak creak" noise.

Li Xuan’s thoughts churned, murmuring to himself: ’Far is better, start with the distant. I shall test the Drought Demon.’

Monsters are treacherous, one must not underestimate them.

Thinking this, he switched from the demon blood "Misshapen Monkey" to "Skull Flower."

Turning corpses into evil spirits takes time, but white bones are instantly effective.

’Bone control.’

Li Xuan’s fingers twitched slightly.

The skeleton frames scattered in the deserted courtyard were suddenly imbued with mysterious power.

Click...

Click click click...

The skeletal cattle and sheep made noises, then struggled on the hooks like living animals, soon with a "thud," they fell to the ground, stood up, glanced around, and swiftly ran out the door as if commanded.

Through these White Bone Demons, Li Xuan could see and hear, even when his own vision and hearing couldn’t reach.

As long as he could see the bones, he could directly command them.

After his Spirit was enhanced, this command extended to "corpses."

However, he could only control the bones within the corpses, not the corpses themselves.

In other words, this kind of "resurrection of the dead" was purely superficial; the skeletons he "awakened" were far inferior to their former selves. Even more so, if the bones’ strength was insufficient, they couldn’t even support the weight of the flesh and blood, lying flat helplessly.

Shortly...

Thud...

A house near the tavern was rammed open by the skeletal cattle, inside a man’s corpse had nearly become a mummy.

In the next instant, the man’s body moved mechanically, emitting "clicking" sounds inside, then rose effortlessly from the ground.

Fortunately, most of the moisture was gone, reducing the majority of weight; otherwise, the skeleton might not have supported such weight.

By coincidence...

The mummy stood up, wandered around, continuing Li Xuan’s investigation.

As Li Xuan’s sources of information increased, the number of bones he could command grew exponentially.

While these bones were extremely weak, no matter if they numbered in the tens of thousands, they could be inexplicably scattered by a thousand armored human cavalry.

However... the terrifying aspect of these bones is that unless smashed into fragments or Li Xuan’s spellcasting is interrupted, they rise indefinitely, endlessly.

At this moment, Li Xuan glanced at himself: root-like tendrils, a crocodilian tail, rough skin, he looked hardly better than the Drought Demon.

The two evil spirits had also retrieved a litter, tilted at one side of the street.

The woman inside had turned to a mummy, joining Li Xuan’s "White Bone Army" in patrol.

Li Xuan lifted the curtain, sat inside.

The evil spirits took up the litter, carrying their master, wandering through the capital.