In the Land of the Undead, Chen Xu stood atop one of Taiyin’s moons, issuing orders and commanding the one hundred and eight Star Lords to descend their starlight and condense it into towers.
“Heavenly Fierce Star, yes, you—move the Tower of Starlight you’re condensing three millimeters to the left.”
“Earthly Fiend Star, the height of your tower is wrong. It needs to be three centimeters higher.”
“And you, Heavenly Harm Star, is that tower even the right shape? Did you sneak off to steal some wine from the Whispering Tree again? I’ve given strict instructions time and again that drinking is forbidden during work hours, yet you refuse to listen. Reshape it for me immediately!”
“Stop, stop! Heavenly Fierce Star, what are you doing?! I told you to move left; why are you moving right? What? You say that is left? Damn it, I meant my left!”
Under Chen Xu’s micromanagement, the one hundred and eight Towers of Starlight were constantly adjusted in position, size, and shape.
As the Towers of Starlight shifted, a unique resonance began to ripple across the Land of the Undead.
Chen Xu sensed these fluctuations, continuously optimizing and adjusting the towers. Because the resonance between the starlight had a delay, the fluctuations didn't change the instant a tower was modified. It took time for the resonance to stabilize, which was why Chen Xu had spent so much time here.
The Towers of Starlight were condensed from the starlight of the one hundred and eight Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Fiend Star Lords, with each Star Lord responsible for one tower.
The shapes of these towers were very similar to the original statues of the Star Lords, but with slight differences.
The difference was that the undead elements had been increased, making them look more ghastly and eerie. Naturally, this allowed them to gain more resonance from the Land of the Undead and receive more offerings from the local undead.
Chen Xu created these Towers of Starlight to radiate the divine power of the Star Lords from the sky down to the earth, further amplifying their strength.
The reason he did this was that he had suddenly realized something.
The Lord of Heaven had previously proposed that the two special worlds—Heaven and the Land of the Undead—should invade Hell together to disrupt Hell’s balance and weaken the buffs the Mother of Hell received within her domain.
Chen Xu had previously fallen into a thinking trap, misled by the Lord of Heaven’s seemingly heroic and resolute spirit.
He had subconsciously assumed that once Heaven and the Land of the Undead invaded Hell, they would inevitably be destroyed, and the three special worlds would vanish together.
However, in reality, the most likely outcome was that the three special worlds would merge into a preliminary unified state, where their unique Dao principles would interfere with one another and become ineffective.
But the worlds themselves would not be directly destroyed or explode; instead, they would become a super, super, super-massive world.
If this super-massive world formed from the fusion of the three special worlds did not collapse after the battle, wouldn't that mean the victor could inherit this world?
These were three special worlds, containing multiple Dao principles pushed to their absolute limits and an incredibly vast amount of world power.
It was unimaginable what kind of supreme power one would gain by becoming the ruler of such a world.
Therefore, Chen Xu had been staying in the Land of the Undead during this period, beginning to set up arrangements for this desolate world.
When the time came, if world power could not be mobilized, the structures on the territory would become exceptionally important.
The Towers of Starlight were the first line of defense Chen Xu was building for the Land of the Undead.
They drew in the radiance of the Star Lords and gathered the faith of the undead, precipitating it into the Nether Soil below.
When the world’s Dao principles were interfered with and could not be mobilized, this pre-deposited starlight would serve as the most powerful and reliable source of energy.
Besides the Towers of Starlight, the second line of defense Chen Xu chose was the gargoyles produced by the special territory, the Gargoyle Bell Tower.
Initially, these gargoyles were intended for Chen Xu to use against the natural casters among the demons.
However, as the skeletons underwent Spiritual Liberation and evolved into skeleton heroes, Chen Xu’s undead army no longer needed the specific counter-abilities of the gargoyles.
A group of skeleton heroes with class bonuses and self-growth capabilities could find a thousand ways to break demon magic through class cooperation.
On the current frontlines, only the big three—the Necrotic Knights, abominations, and Undead Bone Dragons—remained active as the backbone forces.
Even the suicide squad that was once a staple of every opening—the Stygian Doll self-explosion team—had been phased out by the plagues from the Source of the Plague.
The gargoyles faced a similar situation; with a poor employment environment and fierce competition, they hadn't been deployed in a long time.
They had been idling in the Undead Dao Court with other undead, and if they were lucky, they would go to the Undead Heavenly Crafts to provide manual labor when there was a shortage.
Now, these gig workers had been summoned by Chen Xu to the Land of the Undead, and he had crafted special bases for them.
Mobilizing his authority, Chen Xu solidified ninety-nine special bases around each Tower of Starlight using necrotic aura.
When a gargoyle entered a base, it would be automatically encased, amplifying the gargoyle’s traits and radiating them outward.
Chen Xu called these gargoyles, merged with their bases, Mana-Sealing Statues.
Within the radiation range of a Mana-Sealing Statue, all energies except for the few types Chen Xu had pre-approved—such as corruption or holy light—would be suppressed to the maximum extent.
That’s right, holy light was also within Chen Xu’s considerations. More precisely, every configuration currently in the Land of the Undead was designed to deal with the Lord of Heaven and the holy light.
If the Lord of Heaven’s plan went smoothly and the two of them slew the Mother of Hell, then two people who were cooperating fully one moment might turn against each other the next.
For the sake of profit, anything could happen—especially when the stakes were this high. Chen Xu had to take precautions in advance.
Undead creatures within the range of the Mana-Sealing Statues would also gain a layer of rock skin, significantly increasing their physical and magical resistance to deal with paladins, whose melee capabilities were also formidable.
These abilities originated from the gargoyles’ Forbidden Stone Skin talent.
As for their other talent, Hero's Entrance, Chen Xu had modified and applied it as well.
The Mana-Sealing Statues could be launched like projectiles, and the ones responsible for the launch were the Towers of Starlight—or more accurately, the Star Lords corresponding to each tower—that were surrounded by the statues.
Defense was the first step; the second step was expansion.
One Tower of Starlight working in tandem with ninety-nine Mana-Sealing Statues was treated as a single formation core. The one hundred and eight Towers of Starlight and 10,692 Mana-Sealing Statues combined to form a massive array that enveloped the entire Land of the Undead.
Once the undead established a firm footing, they would push outward.
At that time, the Towers of Starlight would launch the Mana-Sealing Statues, and the array would expand accordingly.
The Towers of Starlight and Mana-Sealing Statues were only the first step in Chen Xu’s transformation of the Land of the Undead; more modifications were set to go online gradually.
Compared to Heaven, the Land of the Undead’s foundation and special buildings were still too few. Chen Xu had to race against time to narrow the gap between the two sides.
While Chen Xu continued his micromanagement to adjust the Towers of Starlight, his thoughts drifted to the Undead Dao Court, specifically to that gargantuan dragon egg.
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