Having confirmed that the source of this corruption might be a Hell Demon King, Chen Xu immediately took out the Covenant of Saint Light and sent a message to Heaven.
Though he felt that with his current strength, dealing with a solitary Hell Demon King would be more than manageable, the old saying held true: a lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit. An enemy of this level deserved proper respect.
It was safer to pull in all the allies he could.
Who knew what strange trump cards these Hell Demon Kings, who had lived for countless ages, might have hidden up their sleeves?
Knowledge and experience were the things Chen Xu lacked most at the moment.
【Chen Xu: You there?】
【Alifa: What is it? I’ve been busy with sequence assessments lately.】
【Chen Xu: I’ve got a big job. Want a piece of it?】
【Alifa: A big job? What kind?】
【Chen Xu: I’m planning to hunt a Hell Demon King. [Attachment]】
Chen Xu used his mental strength to seal the aura of corruption from Zhou Zitong and Yang Yanyan, then sent it to Alifa through the transmission function of the Covenant of Saint Light.
【Alifa: A Hell Demon King? Lord Chen Xu, this is no joking matter. If you’ve encountered a Hell Demon King, I suggest you retreat for now.】
【Alifa has received your attachment.】
【Alifa: This aura... it truly is a Hell Demon King. It belongs to Karl, the Demon King of Destruction.】
【Alifa: Strange. Why is there a trace of a living person's aura mixed in? Given the nature of the Demon King of Destruction, he shouldn't allow any creature tainted by his aura to survive.】
【Chen Xu: So, Lord Alifa, are you interested?】
【Alifa: Location.】
Alifa was decisive. Even if Heaven didn't intend to hunt a Hell Demon King, they at least needed to know its whereabouts to figure out what Hell was planning.
【Chen Xu: The same Astral Battlefield as before. The undead welcome Heaven’s arrival.】
【Alifa: The undead? Understood.】
Chen Xu's words led Alifa to believe this was a retaliatory strike by the Land of the Undead against Hell. If that was the case, Heaven couldn't sit idly by.
Nothing improved a friendship between allies more than a substantial joint operation.
【Alifa: In three days, I will lead a coalition force from Heaven to descend upon the Xufa World.】
“OK, that’s settled.”
“Huh? What’s settled? Chen Xu, are Yanyan and I... are we going to corrupt into fallen ones?”
Chen Xu’s sudden remark left Zhou Zitong and Yang Yanyan stunned.
He had just said the aura of corruption on them was extremely special—even more so than that of a Hell Archduke.
While Zhou Zitong didn't know the exact power level of a Hell Archduke, he had read plenty of Akhan historical records during his time abroad.
It was a Hell Archduke that had once nearly brought the Akhan Dynasty to its ruin.
Their already nervous hearts turned cold instantly. Now, Chen Xu’s sudden claim that things were 'settled' made them fear they were the ones about to be 'dealt with.'
“Hey, relax. It’s just a tiny bit of corruption. I could blow it away with a single breath.
However, you two shouldn't go back to the Akhan Dynasty for a while. Wait until everything is settled.
By the way, tell me about your time studying there. Did you come into contact with anyone strange? It might help us find the source of the corruption.”
“Strange people?”
Zhou Zitong and Yang Yanyan frowned, searching through their memories.
Suddenly, both of them snapped their heads up at the same time, looked at each other, and spoke a name in unison.
“Professor Aaron!”
“Professor Aaron?”
Chen Xu was slightly surprised to hear the name. His right hand, which had been reaching for a cola on the table, stopped in mid-air.
“The Professor Aaron you’re talking about... it couldn't be that Professor Aaron from the Balance School, could it?”
Zhou Zitong and Yang Yanyan nodded slightly.
“That’s the one. An Archmage of the Balance School and a councilor of the Akhan Dynasty.”
After receiving their confirmation, Chen Xu’s heart tightened. Was the power of calamity really this strong? With so many Archmages and councilors in the Akhan Dynasty, it had to pick the one he actually knew.
Professor Aaron was an Archmage of the Balance School, a senior teaching professor, and Zhang Jingping’s mentor.
Back when Chen Xu went to the Balance School to study, he had taken a side quest from Zhang Jingping to deliver an item to Professor Aaron.
As luck would have it, after Chen Xu passed the assessment and entered the Soul School, Professor Aaron wasn't at the school. He had gone to the fallen lands outside the dynasty, supposedly to explore some lost ruins.
Consequently, Chen Xu never met Professor Aaron in person, though he did hand over the item through Professor Cyntia.
The reason Chen Xu had such a deep impression of Professor Aaron was because of Zhang Jingping’s book, 《Soul Particle Evolution Theory》, which mentioned Aaron’s name multiple times.
As Zhang Jingping’s teacher, Professor Aaron’s research was somewhat similar to Zhang Jingping’s. His most famous work was 《Thousand Variations of Soul Nature》, an incredibly obscure and difficult book.
Chen Xu had borrowed it for a while back then but found it impossible to digest.
However, one sentence from it had stuck with him: 【The soul is the ladder to truth, and the body is the energy core that drives that ladder. As long as the true spirit is not lost, one need not care for the outward form.】
Thinking about it now, the powerful bodies unique to Hell were quite consistent with this Archmage’s philosophy.
If the demonic disaster in the Akhan Dynasty started from the upper echelons, then things might be very serious this time.
The difficulty level had jumped from merely dealing with one Hell Demon King to dealing with an entire corrupted mage civilization.
Chen Xu wasn't worried about himself; he was worried about Blue Star and Daxia.
The special rituals of the Akhan Dynasty were exceptionally good at amplifying large-scale spells. While the Akhan Dynasty hadn't invaded other worlds like the Eternal Heart civilization, the destructive power of their magic was no joke.
Combined with the power of corruption after falling, if they dropped some kind of Hell-version nuclear bomb on Blue Star, it would completely alter the planet's environment.
Chen Xu would be fine, but if the rest of humanity didn't want to become mutated fallen ones, they would have no choice but to find another world willing to take them in.
“You little brat, you finally came back.”
As Chen Xu was contemplating his strategy, Xia Qiming’s voice came from behind him.
In truth, he had sensed Xia Qiming’s arrival long ago. After all, a massive crowd of people was following closely behind the man.
These were all Daxia people who had studied in the Akhan Dynasty in recent years.
Chen Xu stood up and turned around. With a lift of his right hand, he used “Off-Duty” to draw over the devouring power of Kunpeng.
The devouring power activated, drawing all the corruption from the crowd and condensing it into a small, dark-red orb.
After wrapping the small orb in a thick layer of grayish-white necrotic aura, Chen Xu tossed it into the Undead Dao Court.
Once everything was done, Chen Xu looked at Xia Qiming and offered a warm greeting.
“It’s been a long time, Teacher Xia.”
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