Garidos watched Li Xi busy slicing and Cameron and the green dragon Hathaway nervously hovering in the sky. "I only have seventy percent of my original strength now, only at the early stage of level seven."
Cameron knew his old friend's meaning. Only by knowing oneself and the enemy could they have a chance of winning. "Hathaway and I are not much different from you, but Hathaway is severely suppressed, and her movements will be very sluggish." Hathaway nodded in agreement. In this undead plane, the pervasive aura allowed her to exert only half of her strength.
After speaking, they both looked at Li Xi, who was almost finished dissecting everything, not even leaving the bones. Li Xi pondered for a moment. "I'm fine. My cultivation system is different from yours. I can still exert more than ninety percent of my strength."
In fact, the undead plane suppressed Li Xi very little because his chakra was not from external sources but generated internally. Even if he was at the Jonin level now, the chakra he used was still from Matatabi, the Two-Tails, and now also from Isobu, the Three-Tails.
With the tailed beasts providing super-endurance and endless chakra for power generation, who would still use their own chakra, which was like a small battery with limited output?
"Then, how is Brother Li Xi's magic here?"
Garidos and Cameron never expected that their strength would be compressed to only seventy to eighty percent of their original, yet Li Xi's strength only dropped slightly. The flame of hope was instantly ignited by Li Xi, like a ship sailing in the night seeing a lighthouse illuminating the darkness. They were about to face the despair-inducing undead army, and area-of-effect magic was always more advantageous than manual single-target kills.
"It's fine. Releasing it is not a problem."
Li Xi's confident words were like a shot of adrenaline to Cameron and the other two. Their previously certain mindset of imminent death immediately relaxed. This was the best news they had heard since arriving here.
Before they could say more, the ground began to shake, like waves rolling on the sea.
"Prepare."
Garidos glanced at Hermes, who was still chanting a rapid incantation, his words like exploding beans, so fast that no one could hear what he was saying, indicating that Hermes was casting the spell at his fastest speed.
In countless skulls, wisps of red soul fire were ignited. The originally dead bones began to shake, sway, and rise.
Smooth skulls, flexible vertebrae, broken ribs, empty chests, arms hanging from shoulders, and finger bones that refused to fall, leg bones that defied anatomical logic, soles of feet that crunched on other bones, bone swords and bone spears pulled from the ground, and even some undead found bone shields and placed them in front of them.
What was once a dead plane was instantly transformed into an endless ocean of resurrected undead. In the empty eye sockets of all the undead, only soul fire burned, but everyone could clearly feel that these undead were looking at them through their hollow eye sockets.
Li Xi seemed to hear the chattering of Hathaway's teeth, like the sound of a mouse gnawing on a sweet potato in the quiet night.
No wonder Hathaway, a level six dragon, trembled at the sight. Even Li Xi, who had received vast amounts of information from his previous life in an era of information explosion, secretly swallowed his saliva upon seeing this scene.
Who said that the undead were a race that relied on accumulating low-level numbers? Who said that the undead were all bone sticks that shattered with a single blow? Who said that the undead had low combat power?
Li Xi wished he could drag the person who said that over to show them. There wasn't a single level one or level two here. All he could see were level threes as the starting point, level fours and fives everywhere, and level sixes were as common as chickens in a flock.
Li Xi didn't dare to imagine the number of undead before him.
When the vampires massacred cities and performed blood sacrifices, Li Xi didn't dare to confront the sky-obscuring numbers directly, choosing to hide until he could sneak attack. But now, the number of vampires back then was like a drop in the ocean compared to this. This was a red ocean, and every drop of water was an undead.
As expected of an ancient being who had lived since ancient times, even a small fraction of its power was enough to make Li Xi and the others struggle to survive.
Yes, the countless undead before them were merely a small fraction of what Gagaros had casually unleashed.
Garidos's body flickered unstably as his two sharp curved blades shattered all the resurrected undead around Hermes.
Unfortunately, after each undead was shattered, its soul fire did not extinguish. Instead, it projected onto the ground formed by the sea of bones, and immediately, a complete undead appeared beside Hermes. One or two undead were as insignificant as a drop of water in this vast ocean. They had resurrected thousands of their own crushed skeletons, so why would they care about the few that Garidos killed?
The bone swords were not sharp, but they were very sturdy. The flexibility of the undead was not high, but their bones were also formidable. Even after Garidos slashed through a hundred undead, his hands became numb.
Under Cameron's command, Hathaway opened her mouth and inhaled like a storm. After her chest expanded to its limit, the deep green dragon's breath descended around Hermes.
Under the green breath, countless undead had their bone structures dissolved, and their soul fire, originally vibrant, became dim and lusterless. Some even had their already weak soul fire completely extinguished, disappearing into the air. Dragon breath had a certain destructive effect on souls.
The tactic was set. The goal was not to kill, but to protect Hermes and break through the spatial barrier.
Before the undead in the distance could make a move, the undead resurrected in front of them were enough to keep the few busy.
Finally, the widespread undead seemed to awaken, smelling the scent of living people. Their soul fires flickered violently. If they could have expressions, these undead would have laughed wildly, thinking it was a good day to feast on the flesh and blood of the living.
Li Xi took in the situation before him. This was just an appetizer. If he hadn't been there, the three of them would certainly not have survived.
He casually struck down the few undead around him, wasting no time. He formed hand seals.
"Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu."
"Bang bang bang."
Ten shadow clones appeared.
Seeing Li Xi make a move, Garidos and Cameron felt a slight sense of relief. Although they hadn't seen Li Xi in action before, the intelligence was unlikely to be wrong. As long as Li Xi could exert more than half of his reported strength, they still had a chance to escape today.
Ten shadow clones plus Li Xi's original body surrounded Hermes, forming hand seals, shouting in unison, and slamming their palms onto the ground.
"Earth Style: Earth Flow River Wall" x11
With a thunderous roar, if the commotion caused by the resurrection of the undead earlier was like the tide of the sea, then this was a tsunami.
The undead plane had not had the scent of soil for a very, very long time, as the ground was covered with an unknown thickness of bone layers.
But at this moment, under Li Xi's ninjutsu, the long-lost earth reappeared before them.
Pushing open the bone layer above the soil, two walls, one high and one low, formed by the Earth Flow River Wall protected Hermes.
The outermost Earth Flow River Wall was only ten meters high, while the inner wall was a full twenty meters high, with an astonishing thickness of five meters. Even if the undead didn't go over the top, it would take a considerable amount of time to break through the thick walls of the Earth Flow River Wall. This amount of time would be enough for Li Xi to create dozens more similar walls.
"Well done, Brother Li Xi." Their hearts, which had sunk to their tails, were instantly lifted by Li Xi's earth-shattering move. With these two walls, the pressure they faced would be reduced by ninety percent. The remaining ten percent, with their current suppressed strength, was manageable.
The intelligence had only mentioned Li Xi's water-style magic being so fast it was almost instantaneous. They never expected his earth-style magic to be such a constant source of pleasant surprises.
With the protection of the two walls, as long as one person stayed by Hermes's side, it would be enough to ensure his safety.
Garidos and Cameron exchanged glances. Garidos knew he would be the one to stay and protect Hermes. Dragon Knight Cameron's moves were all-encompassing and not suitable for maneuvering in tight spaces.
Undead had already begun forming human ladders, reaching the first wall in a few steps. But Li Xi had a little trick up his sleeve. The distance between the first and second walls was thirty meters. The current strength of the undead was not enough to jump directly to the first wall, so they could only jump to the middle ground between the two and then climb onto the first wall.
But Dragon Knight Cameron would not let the undead pass through smoothly. The thirty-meter distance was the extreme of his attack range.
Because other elemental magic energy was scarce here, Green Dragon Hathaway's dragon language magic had no place to be used. However, even the not-so-strong dragon body of the green dragon could cause crushing damage to these undead.
One person and one dragon charged back and forth between the two walls. The dragon lance swept across, and the dragon lance, which even the Flame Demon could not bend, was undoubtedly strong. Like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, it shattered the undead in its path into bone fragments.
Hathaway was not to be outdone. Her dragon tail, over seven meters long, struck out like a mace, creating a whistling sound. Every undead it hit was sent flying into the sky, becoming scattered bone fragments.
She opened her mouth, two to three meters wide, with astonishing bite force. A level five undead was easily crushed like a snack.
Her dragon wings flapped, and any undead that were slightly smaller would be fanned onto the wall by the wind generated by her wings.
Although the undead before them were all level three or above, their actual combat power was reduced by one level. This meant that a level three undead was actually equivalent to a level two professional. A level six undead was the same as a level five professional.
This was normal. Without memories of their lives, without bodies tempered through years of practice, only a skeleton remained. Without refinement, their strength would inevitably decline.
Level six Hathaway, level seven Cameron, and level seven Garidos could all achieve one-sided slaughter, of course, this was only while their stamina could support them. Once their stamina ran out, even an eighth-level expert would be drowned by these endless undead. This was clearly the undead's most skilled tactic.
The endless human wave tactic, which was tireless, didn't matter if they were weak. They could wear down any strong individual to death.
Li Xi did not deal with the undead within the walls. They were not his opponents. The ones outside were his target.
Wave after wave, endless streams of undead, like a locust plague, pressed fiercely against the walls formed by the Earth Flow River Wall.
Too many. These were not just the undead on the upper level, but continuous waves of undead continuously emerging from the depths of the earth.
They stepped on each other, pulled each other, and even broke off bones from other undead to attach to themselves.
The countless undead emerging from the lower levels were like demons escaping from hell. Their soul fires burned fiercely. After a long period of dormancy, they craved a thrilling battle, to pierce the bodies of the living with their bone swords, or to have their own skulls shattered by their enemies.
Li Xi took a deep breath. He was simply invincible. How could such a monstrous ability exist in this world? He was so envious.
The eleven people formed hand seals.
"Earth Style: Earth Flow River" x11
This was no time to hold back, so Li Xi unleashed the maximum power of the Two-Tails' chakra. Ten small and one large mud rivers surged out, pushing away, controlling, and engulfing all the undead below the walls.
From above, it looked like a flower with two layers blooming black petals.