Becoming a God

"Lord Chen Xu, could I examine this heart closely?"

"No problem."

Chen Xu tossed the heart, which was sealed in necrotic energy, upward.

Medusa caught the heart with one of her hundred heads and brought it before her main head.

She blew a soft breath, and half of the necrotic aura drifted away, revealing half of the heart.

"Thump-thump! Thump-thump!"

The powerful heartbeat echoed once more.

Medusa sniffed the scent wafting from the heart, confirming its origin was of a high level, comparable to the necrotic energy of the Land of the Undead.

Medusa controlled another head to stretch forward, spitting a blade of transparent light that sliced the heart and the crystal formed by the necrotic energy into two smooth halves.

"Thump-thump! Thump-thump!"

Even after being split in two, the heart continued to beat, unaffected.

Such a miraculous thing was certainly not something an ordinary person could create.

In the Myriad Worlds, those with accomplishments in the Path of Flesh were invariably connected to Hell.

Medusa had reason to believe that the Mother of Hell had reached a state of madness.

Ordinary worlds could no longer satisfy its desires; it was now trying to reach into the Land of the Undead, another special world.

With this suspicion, Medusa planned to verify it.

"Lord Chen Xu, I intend to take this heart to see the Immortal, Lord Alix. The position of the Lord of the Undead is vacant, and if Hell has truly gone mad and intends to bare its fangs at the Land of the Undead,"

"only an elder of the Land of the Undead like the Immortal can step forward to resist them."

"Alix? The legendary Primordial Black Knight?"

"Primordial Black Knight? A strange term. Is that from the inherited knowledge of the Lord of the Undead?"

Hearing Chen Xu's words, Medusa's hundred heads simultaneously revealed looks of confusion.

"While the Black Knight race was indeed created by that existence using Lord Alix as a template,"

"Lord Alix is fundamentally different from the Black Knights."

"Of course, the knowledge I possess is not necessarily absolute. If it differs from the inherited knowledge you received, Lord Chen Xu, then your inheritance should be the standard."

The Immortal Alix was rumored to be the first resident of the Land of the Undead who was neither a skeleton nor a soul-based entity.

According to the inherited records, Alix was clad in pitch-black armor, behind which lay endless chaos and malice.

Until the armor was broken, his true essence could not be observed or perceived.

Aside from his unique armor, Alix also wore a special gray-white belt tucked with various weapons.

Alix was one of the oldest Necrotic Archdukes in the history of the Land of the Undead.

He was also one of the most powerful. Some suspected he might not be eternal-tier, but unique-tier, which was the level of the Lord of the Undead.

However, this was only a legend and had never been confirmed; even the inherited knowledge of the Lord of the Undead did not affirm it.

After all, the Land of the Undead was never short of myths and legends.

Undead creatures did not have as many entertainment activities as the living; the pleasures of mating or the dopamine produced by exercise did not belong to the dead.

Only all sorts of outrageous rumors or legends could bring a ripple of excitement to the soul fires within their skulls.

Perhaps Chen Xu could open an internet cafe in the Land of the Undead and bring human games to this entertainment-starved land.

Medusa left with the heart. Alix's territory was located in the Everfrost Snow Mountains at the northernmost point of the Land of the Undead, and it would take considerable time to travel there.

"Aha! Patchwerk! Finished! Great!"

Patchwerk had already disassembled Old Cyclops' skull and spine.

As for the remaining parts, Chen Xu let Patchwerk pick a piece he liked before throwing the rest into the Undead Kingdom.

Patchwerk excitedly flipped Old Cyclops over, and his butcher knife sliced along the contour of the strange, large mouth on the creature's abdomen.

Before long, a massive, terrifying mouth filled with hideous, sharp teeth was carved out by Patchwerk.

Then, Patchwerk turned the blade on himself, cutting a huge gash in his own abdomen and stuffing the giant mouth inside.

On the other side, Chen Xu had already mounted Sindragosa and led the undead army to stake out his territory.

In the Land of the Undead, territory was divided simply by using one's unique necrotic aura to mark the boundaries.

It was somewhat similar to animals using urine to mark their turf, though undead creatures were a bit more refined, leaving behind a special necrotic breath instead.

Of course, as a candidate for the Lord of the Undead, Chen Xu would not use such primitive methods.

He unleashed his massive mental strength, and everywhere it reached became his domain.

If any dared to resist, the Black Knights would lead the Necrotic Archdukes to their doorstep in an instant and slaughter them all.

This was the first time since becoming a mythic-tier being that Chen Xu had completely released the shackles on his mental power and used it to its full extent.

It covered a full 600 million square kilometers, encompassing almost the entire southern tip of the Land of the Undead.

Furthermore, Chen Xu felt he still had energy to spare, but moving any further north would enter the territory of his competitors for the position of Lord of the Undead.

Chen Xu felt it was better to leave a buffer zone to avoid direct conflict.

After marking the boundaries, Xuan Chu and the others led the undead army to take over every undead settlement within the territory.

The Bone Forest, Wailing Lake, Ghoul Den, Bone Dragon Cliff, and so on.

Wherever they went, the original residents of the Land of the Undead welcomed them wholeheartedly, with not a single one resisting.

Especially the skeletons of the Bone Forest; seeing the tall skeleton soldiers under Chen Xu's command radiating Ultimate Cold Power, they were frozen in terror.

With the help of the Black Knights, Chen Xu accepted the skeletons' loyalty, and his talent's enhancement power surged into their bodies through the soul link.

Those skeletons also began to change, as Ultimate Cold Power flowed through their bones, bringing them into the same aesthetic style.

Riding Sindragosa, Chen Xu arrived at a flat stretch of land that had originally been a small graveyard inhabited by thousands of ghouls.

Sindragosa had kicked up a storm and leveled it to the ground.

"This is the spot. The environment and terrain are perfect."

Chen Xu landed and used his mental power to manipulate necrotic energy, crafting a Bone Throne using Old Cyclops' bones as a base before taking his seat.

Sindragosa shifted her size, shrinking to the size of a doll and standing majestically on the left side of the throne.

Kunpeng also shrank, arching its body and landing on the right side of the throne using its tail as feet.

In front of the throne, on the left, were the nine Black Knights who had hurried over, led by Xuan Chu, who held the reins of Invincible.

On the right were the skeleton heroes led by Bone Guard One, along with Flideng and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The rest of the undead army formed a circular formation around the throne, standing guard.

Then, Chen Xu began the Ascension Ceremony.

Hundreds of millions of threads of faith connected to Chen Xu's soul through the soul links.

The immense power of faith slowly lifted Chen Xu and the throne beneath him.

As more faith poured in, the skulls on the throne ignited with soul flames, radiating a divine aura.

The throne rose higher and higher until all the faith had been transferred.

Over a hundred million undead creatures simultaneously called out Chen Xu's name, resonating with the surrounding necrotic energy.

Pious voices echoed across the Land of the Undead, and suddenly, a massive amount of necrotic energy surged into Chen Xu's body.

The necrotic energy and the power of faith intermingled and fused into a Godhead core.

"The God of the Undead, Chen Xu!"

After the Godhead was born, an inexplicable ripple spread along the Dao rhyme of the Land of the Undead, and every undead creature heard the realm's proclamation.

A new god had been born, which meant that another competitor had officially joined the struggle.