The heavens were filled with various visions: fierce winds, torrential rain, startling thunder, hellfire, lush wood, and nether earth—almost all the fundamental elements of a world.
Of course, there were also phantom visions of the undead.
Swarms of skeletons knelt on the ground, holding embryos high. Bone dragons circled in the high sky, letting out bursts of dragon roars. Necrotic knights and abominations lined both sides, watching the embryos.
This was the only embryo that manifested racial visions.
This was normal, as the Undead Dao Court was not a world with a long history, nor was it even a complete world.
Visions were a manifestation of a world's blessing.
Visions of divine beasts like true dragons and phoenixes, or the Four Sacred Beasts like the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger, were all powerful races that had once existed within a world.
The Undead Dao Court had never nurtured those exotic beasts; it had only nurtured the undead.
Therefore, most of the visions were based on the world's fundamental elements, with only one lucky individual receiving the blessing of the undead.
The visions of the undead filling the sky suddenly vanished, all flowing into the body of this particular Nephalem.
The infant floated up from the cradle Chen Xu had woven using the Dao principles of the Undead Dao Court.
His naturally powerful soul allowed him to use mental strength to float in the air from the moment he was born.
The energy from the visions had not yet dissipated, and eerie light continuously shot out from the infant's eyes.
Chen Xu raised his hand, releasing mental strength to gently guide the child into his arms.
The infant grabbed Chen Xu's hand, acting very affectionately.
"It wasn't in vain that I spent so much effort and even used the world's Dao principles to nurture them."
Judging by the strength coming from his fingers, the Nephalem's strength at birth was comparable to a Transcendent-tier Martial Artist.
Although this was the first generation and would be significantly stronger, the strength of future generations likely wouldn't diminish too much.
Moreover, this was the power he possessed before even awakening the bloodline within his body. Once awakened, the power of a demon was not to be underestimated.
Chen Xu gently stroked the infant in his arms. Out of the ten Nephalem, this was the first to be born and to finish absorbing the visions.
Given that it was an undead vision, he was practically the heaven-decreed crown prince, destined to inherit Chen Xu's legacy.
"Chen Xing—the revival of the undead. Little guy, that is your name."
"Chen Xing? Chen Xing!"
Chen Xing repeated his name over and over, looking very excited.
While other mammalian infants spit up milk, the Nephalem race spit up the overflowing energy from their visions.
In his excitement, the abundant necrotic energy within him sprayed out from his mouth along with his words. As it hit the ground, skeletons crawled out from the earth one after another, huddling around him.
Holding Chen Xing, Chen Xu approached Kunpeng, who was currently pecking at demons.
He raised his hand and plucked two of the Great Roc's feathers.
Kunpeng had just torn off a piece of flesh; it turned its head and gave Chen Xu a bewildered look.
Chen Xu ignored it and instead took Chen Xing to the Land of the Undead, flying up into the sky.
"Wow!"
Watching the moon grow brighter and brighter, Chen Xing waved his arms in excitement.
Chen Xu gathered lunar essence from Taiyin and solar essence from Shengyang, combining them with Kunpeng's feathers to craft a set of clothes for Chen Xing.
【Sun and Moon Feather Robes】
【Item Level: Mythic】
【Equipment Type: Robe】
【Equipment Ownership: No Restrictions】
【Equipment Traits: Crafted from the solar essence of the Eternal-tier Sun Star Lord, the lunar frost of the Mythic-tier Moon Star Lord, and the feathers of the Eternal-tier variant Golden-Winged Great Roc.
The craftsmanship is extremely crude, showing no skill whatsoever; it is a pure stacking of materials and an ultimate waste.
Producer: ***】
Well, Chen Xu had been unable to resist using the Appraisal technique shared by the Blue Star World Will on the clothes he had made.
What level was that shabby World Will anyway? It had never seen good things before, so its evaluations were all nonsense—practically the ramblings of a self-proclaimed 'expert.'
Chen Xing was clearly very happy wearing them, constantly touching the clothing that had suddenly appeared on his body.
On the other side, the visions for the remaining children were also coming to an end, gradually descending into the embryos.
Chen Xu gathered more solar and lunar essence and returned to the Undead Dao Court, casually plucking another handful of feathers from Kunpeng.
Kunpeng turned its head again with a puzzled look, even going as far as to pluck a bunch of feathers from itself with its beak and toss them to Chen Xu.
However, Chen Xu felt that its beak was stained with demon blood and was unclean, so he didn't take them.
He wove nine more sets of clothes in succession. Refusing to give up, Chen Xu appraised them again, only to find the evaluation was exactly the same, without the slightest change.
"Fine, it looks like I'll have to find some time to improve my forging skills. Maybe I should head back to Blue Star and visit the Heavenly Crafts Academy to find some artisan skill books to learn."
The second vision to conclude was a never-ending fierce wind. As the vision descended, gusts of breeze blew in, lifting the infant up.
This infant was still sucking her thumb and hadn't opened her eyes. She seemed a bit lazy and quite clever, attempting to use a fake sleep to mask the fluctuations of her soul perception.
Chen Xu placed Chen Xing in the air, letting him float on his own, and then approached the second infant.
As he got close, Chen Xu felt gusts of cool wind blowing past; the wind of the Undead Dao Court was protecting this child.
"Wind can be humble when gentle, yet world-destroying when fierce—all within a single thought. I shall name you Chen Yinian."
Yinian wasn't as lively as Chen Xing and continued to suck her thumb, but the cool breeze constantly brushing against Chen Xu's face betrayed her mood.
The girl was reserved, which was understandable.
The other visions fell one after another: scorching hellfire erupting from the earth, thundering lightning filling the sky, trees full of natural vitality, towering waves surging up...
They were all parts of the world's natural elements.
This was merely the gift from the Undead Dao Court to these favored ones; it wasn't yet the inherent racial foundation of the Nephalem.
Their naturally powerful bodies and souls, and their ability to mimic and learn speech immediately upon birth—this kind of talent was the true racial advantage of the Nephalem.
However, Chen Xu soon found himself unable to sit still.
The ten high-energy Nephalem cubs turned the Undead Dao Court upside down.
The originally silent and tranquil Undead Dao Court became unprecedentedly lively, but it was far too lively.
The cubs were riding bone dragons for aerial combat above and riding bone nightmares for chaotic duels below.
They provoked skeletons on the left and bothered abominations on the right; even the ghosts hiding in the Bone Thicket weren't spared, being forcibly dragged out and toyed with at will.
With their 'nanny' Sindragosa backing them up, this group of cubs was reckless and unrestrained within the Undead Dao Court.
Even Kunpeng couldn't escape the Nephalem's clutches. As the largest creature under Chen Xu's command and a rare one capable of transformation, the Nephalem targeted Kunpeng after getting bored with ordinary undead.
At first, Kunpeng was quite happy to suddenly have so many people to play with.
But soon, even Kunpeng couldn't withstand the harassment of the ten Nephalem.
Born of heaven and earth, beloved by the world, and shaped by Chen Xu, the Lord of the Undead, using the Authority of Creation, the Nephalem race didn't require much sleep during their infancy.
Through natural play, they would rapidly learn and grow, their auras constantly rising. This was the reason Chen Xu allowed their behavior.
After Kunpeng could truly take it no longer, it transformed back into its Bone Kun form and dove headfirst into the Inverted Sea, attempting to shake off the ten cubs.
But the seawater couldn't stop the Nephalem. They didn't need to breathe; Chen Xu naturally hadn't included such an outdated design as a respiratory system.
Kunpeng was tormented repeatedly, and even the treasure boxes newly generated in the Secret Treasure Palace on the seabed were snatched away by the Nephalem.
Ultimately, Chen Xu couldn't bear to see the pleading look in Kunpeng's eyes. He had Yan Ruyu and Huangjinwu work emergency overtime to develop a new mode: 【Descent of the Demon Seed】.
The ten Nephalem were thrown by Chen Xu into the mage tower, becoming activity bosses that appeared randomly during a challenger's run.
In an instant, the name of the Demon Seed Nephalem echoed throughout the myriad worlds.
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