149: Eating Earth Lion

Chapter 149: The Dirt-Eating Lion

Seeing Suanni emerge from the golden pyramid, all the undead creatures respectfully prostrated themselves on the ground.

Now, they were all wholeheartedly convinced.

They even took pride in following Chen Mo.

This giant lion before them was their king!

"Crow, this is for you."

Chen Mo casually tossed the "Golden Armor of Anubis" to the Ice Nether Crow.

This armor could only be equipped by undead creatures, and he had no use for it himself; keeping it would be a waste. So, Chen Mo decided to bestow it directly upon the Ice Nether Crow!

"Crow!" (Your Majesty, you… you wish to bestow it upon me?)

The Ice Nether Crow's voice trembled slightly.

In the previous projection, the Ice Nether Crow had witnessed the armor's effects firsthand.

Undoubtedly, this was a peerless treasure!

"Mm, your performance in the trial earlier was not bad."

Chen Mo nodded.

Only after receiving Suanni's affirmative answer did the Ice Nether Crow dare to gently touch the golden "stone" with its claws.

Instantly, the stone transformed into liquid metal, rapidly covering the Ice Nether Crow's body.

Aside from its skeleton being coated in a golden substance, countless golden feathers also grew between the Ice Nether Crow's wings.

At this moment, the Ice Nether Crow exuded a mysterious aura, as if it were a messenger from the underworld.

Seeing its feathers return, the Ice Nether Crow was overjoyed!

"Your Majesty, as long as you wish it, Crow will do its utmost to become the sharpest blade in your hand!"

The Ice Nether Crow's pale soul fire flickered intensely.

If undead creatures could cry, it would probably be sobbing out loud right now.

Seeing Chen Mo casually bestow the "Golden Armor" upon his subordinate,

the Ghost Jackal leader and the Undead Giant Snake leader both showed expressions of disbelief.

Did His Majesty not know the value of this golden armor?

One must know that such a piece of armor, even in the Underworld, was priceless, capable of buying a dozen absolutely loyal King-level undead servants!

Yet it was bestowed upon an undead creature whose extraordinary rank was merely High Lord?

This made them feel incredibly astonished.

At the same time, the hearts of these undead leaders burned with eagerness.

Now they were also His Majesty's dependents; if they performed well, would they also receive similar rewards?

Chen Mo was about to research how to use the Soil of the Styx and Water of the Styx when the voice of the Sphinx, the lion-bodied human, echoed in his mind:

"Congratulations, you have successfully passed the trial of Lord Anubis."

"If you wish to go to the Underworld, I can help you open a passage."

The giant beast's tone was friendly.

After Chen Mo became a God-Chosen and displayed terrifying strength in the trial, the Sphinx naturally no longer regarded him as a "junior."

To reach such a level on this planet, where spiritual energy had only just begun to recover and resources were almost nonexistent,

Suanni's strength would undoubtedly be greatly enhanced after becoming a God-Chosen!

The future achievements of this Suanni were immeasurable.

"Not yet."

Chen Mo nodded, his tone calm.

After the thought of going to the Underworld appeared in his mind, a strong sense of danger arose.

This premonition of danger was much stronger than the one before entering the Snow Domain's inner world!

"Alright."

The Sphinx was not in a hurry either.

"Indeed, you can take your time. The Underworld has many powerful beings; it's not too late to go after you advance to the Calamity Realm."

"Can you tell me about the situation in the Underworld?"

Chen Mo asked.

Chen Mo was eager to know more about other worlds.

"Alright! I'll give you a general overview of the history and current situation of the Underworld; you'll know all this sooner or later anyway."

"The Underworld was a dojo jointly established by Lord Anubis and three other gods tens of thousands of years ago."

"Originally, under the order established by Lord Anubis, both living and undead creatures in the Underworld were orderly."

"Approximately ten thousand years ago, a worm nest the size of a planet suddenly descended upon the Underworld."

"Countless bizarre worms ravaged the Underworld, frantically devouring the souls of living and undead creatures, bringing immense disaster to the Underworld."

"Within the worm nest, there were also divine-level existences."

"Anubis and the other three gods joined forces to fight it, but they couldn't completely kill it."

"Thus, a protracted war began."

The Sphinx slowly narrated:

"This war has lasted for nearly ten thousand years, during which both sides have suffered significant casualties, and even several gods have fallen."

"In this war, the creatures of the Underworld suffered heavy losses and needed replenishment from other worlds, so Lord Anubis constructed nine golden pyramids."

"Whenever a world with recovering spiritual energy appeared, the golden pyramid would descend upon it, absorbing excellent talents through trials."

"Compared to the Underworld, even though our world has begun to recover spiritual energy, the spiritual energy concentration should still be far inferior, right?"

Chen Mo asked with some confusion.

"Lord Anubis and the various masters need the elite of the elite!"

"On the Styx battlefield, let alone creatures below the King Realm, even existences in the Calamity Realm or even the Legendary Realm are merely like cannon fodder."

"Only those who advance to Totem and possess unrivaled combat power at the same level can play a role on the front lines."

"And in worlds where spiritual energy has just begun to recover, under great fortune, exceptionally talented creatures will rise."

"They possess extraordinary potential and have the opportunity to grow into Totems or even Gods, just like you."

"The reason Lord Anubis built the golden pyramids was to select these gifted individuals."

"Once they grow up, they can share the pressure of the Styx battlefield."

The Sphinx spoke truthfully.

Since Suanni had already become a God-Chosen of Lord Anubis, under subtle influence, it would eventually become Lord Anubis's most loyal follower.

Chen Mo processed the information revealed by the Sphinx.

So, worlds where spiritual energy had just begun to recover were more likely to produce powerful individuals!

This meant that with so many "secret realms" descending all over the world now, many of them were probably there to select "talents"!

Of course, the Ice Phoenix was an exception!

It had already died, and the descent of the Great Snow Mountain secret realm was to find "someone" to help it revive.

But how did these gods ensure that the extraordinary beings of Blue Star would willingly pledge allegiance to them and even go to their worlds?

After all, creatures favored by gods were all powerful beings on Blue Star, capable of reigning supreme on Blue Star, so many probably wouldn't want to go to dangerous other worlds.

Chen Mo did not ask such sensitive questions.

After the trial ended, he returned to the Lion King's Palace near the pyramid secret realm.

This palace had just been built recently.

Frost Lion Xiong Ba acted as the foreman, directing numerous undead creatures in construction.

Undead creatures could be said to be the best "work units."

They toiled tirelessly; a piece of rotting flesh was enough to make them work continuously for 24 hours!

With their efforts, this massive palace was erected in less than a month.

After Chen Mo sat down in the palace, he began to observe the Soil of the Styx and the Water of the Styx, hoping to find a way to use these two treasures.

After all, these were Calamity-level treasures, and the analysis of [Observation Lion] also required some time.

Chen Mo observed for a full half an hour before he understood their "opening method."

The Soil of the Styx needed to be combined with several other undead-type spiritual plants and minerals to create something akin to a "magic potion."

The creation process was very complex.

Moreover, the quality of these spiritual plants was basically Tier 3 (King-level) or even Tier 4 (Calamity-level), and they only existed in the Underworld.

Chen Mo couldn't find them at all right now.

However, besides being made into a "magic potion," there was also a very simple and crude alternative usage.

That was to eat it directly!

Under the effect of [Gluttonous Lion], the death origin energy contained in the Styx soil would gradually transform the original death energy within Chen Mo's body until it was all converted into death origin energy.

Although the effect would certainly not be as good as consuming it with other spiritual plants, as long as there was enough Soil of the Styx, theoretically, it could still support Chen Mo in completing his advancement.

So, Chen Mo transformed into his undead form and began to eat the dirt in large mouthfuls.

The Soil of the Styx looked like golden quicksand, but it tasted like jelly, melting in the mouth, though it had no flavor.

It tasted a little better than Chen Mo had imagined.

[Gluttonous Lion] endowed Chen Mo with extremely enhanced digestion. The Soil of the Styx was swallowed and instantly transformed into pure death origin energy, which then slowly integrated into Chen Mo's glowing skeleton.

This small wisp of dark gray death origin energy, compared to the death energy within Chen Mo's body, felt more "heavy" in texture and was darker in color.

The moment the two energies made contact, they began to assimilate each other.

Chen Mo manipulated the spiritual energy within his body to gradually "devour" the death origin and then turn it into his own use.

Approximately 100 ordinary death energies could successfully transform into 1 death origin.

Currently, Chen Mo possessed 99,999 strands of spiritual energy. If he could convert them all, he would be able to advance to the Calamity Realm!

Unfortunately, by simply "eating dirt," the conversion speed and efficiency of death energy were very "touching."

About 2 hours later, Chen Mo opened his eyes.

In the previous 2 hours, he had eaten a full 200kg of Soil of the Styx!

If there were a [Dirt-Eating Lion] self-discipline challenge, he would definitely complete it with ease!

About 5 death origins were contained in these 200kg of Soil of the Styx, but he only successfully converted 1 of them!

Total progress bar — one-thousandth.

He roughly estimated.

Given an ample supply of Soil of the Styx, even with non-stop 007 work, it would still take about 100 days to convert all the death energy in his body into death essence energy!

Next, Chen Mo also consumed high-quality Soil of the Styx and Water of the Styx.

Compared to ordinary Soil of the Styx, the effects of high-quality Soil of the Styx and Water of the Styx were much better.

Higher conversion efficiency, faster speed.

The conversion speed of high-quality Soil of the Styx was approximately double that of ordinary Soil of the Styx!

The effect of the Water of the Styx was even more powerful!

Chen Mo spent 4 hours converting all the death origin within the entire bottle of Water of the Styx.

A total of 50 strands were converted!

The progress bar instantly advanced to 5%!

"If only there were more Water of the Styx."

Chen Mo couldn't help but think.

"If I pass the ninth trial, I wonder what the reward will be?"

"If only there were 20 bottles of Water of the Styx."

"However, the Suanni combat method still has room for improvement, so I'll spar with the Valkyrie for a few more days first."

"And I also need to collect as much high-quality Soil of the Styx as possible."

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Early the next morning.

Chen Mo once again went to the Golden Pyramid and started the trial.

For the first six trials, Chen Mo still held nothing back, mercilessly suppressing with the Evil Suppressing Domain, and then collecting as much Soil of the Styx as possible.

As a result, the "golden statue" that had just been repaired once again became dilapidated, even more severely than last time!

Soon, the seventh trial began.

The statue of Thoth awakened from its slumber.

"Why is there another challenger? Didn't we just fight yesterday? Wait a minute... Could it be..."

The statue of Thoth's heart suddenly skipped a beat, thinking of a terrifying possibility.

Opening its eyes and seeing the familiar figure, it instantly felt that the entire statue was not well!

Indeed! It was that damned undead giant lion again!

This guy probably didn't pass the later trials, so he came to challenge again today.

First meeting: I want to play a little longer.

Second meeting: Get lost!

This undead giant lion possessed the power to nullify spells and could suppress the death ability and movement within its body.

It was simply too much of a counter to it!

"Wait! Don't attack yet! I'll do it myself!"

Thoth spoke.

It was ready to commit suicide directly.

Since it couldn't win anyway, compared to being abused, Thoth hoped Chen Mo could just skip its stage.

Why bother fighting and killing!

Chen Mo ignored the voice of the Thoth statue, completely pretending not to hear it, and went all out.

After all, he coveted the high-quality Soil of the Styx on Thoth's body.

Activating Ancient Revival and entering his strongest form, Chen Mo quickly shattered the Thoth statue and then collected a small portion of high-grade Soil of the Styx.

Soon, the eighth trial began again.

The statue of the warrior goddess Sekhmet slowly opened her eyes. Seeing Chen Mo's figure again, she was a bit surprised and couldn't help but ask:

"You didn't defeat that Anubis fellow?"

In her opinion, the Anubis statue was not as powerful as herself.

Since this Suanni could defeat her, and even had energy to spare, then it should also be able to defeat the Anubis statue.

"No, after I defeated you, I gave up continuing the trial. This way, I can come and challenge you every day."

Chen Mo replied calmly.

"So that's how it is!"

Upon hearing this, a hint of joy appeared in Sekhmet's eyes.

This way, she could not only awaken every day but also engage in exhilarating battles every day!

Just thinking about such a life made her feel incredibly good!

She found Chen Mo more and more pleasing to the eye!

The giant lion before her was indeed a battle-crazed lion!

As expected of the lion clan, the blood of battle flowed in their veins!

"Another fight?"

"Good! Let's fight!"

Sekhmet's tone was excited, and her eyes held undisguised battle intent.

This time, Chen Mo did not use Ancient Revival; he simply used the Suanni combat technique, fighting purely with the power of his physical body.

This time, after the Suanni combat method was fully integrated, the two gradually went from being evenly matched to Chen Mo gaining the upper hand.