New Emperor Of Ghouls

The Stele showed the rewards to everyone around the world, meaning people from other continents are able to acquire the limited rewards.

Many speculated a legatee had bought the armour so their army could become stronger, causing a lot of legatees to suspect the others, even their allies.

Unknown to them, the person who caused the commotion was on inside his camp, preparing to cause havoc.

"General Hong, Take 200 Linthos along with 50 ghouls and sweep the north, east and west of the camp, soon we will have supplies coming from the village and this place needs to be as clear as possible." Commanded Zhong Yi.

He was unsure when the Lintho leader had become a general, but Zhong Yi saw the leadership skills he possessed and with his individual strength, he was most suitable for now.

"Yes, your majesty"

"General Cheng, you take 50 men with you and go to these locations, they are the dens that used to belong to the Lintho tribe, bring them back here"

With the dens, Zhong Yi would have a constant supply of Linthos to bolster the ghoul army.

"Yes your majesty!"

The lack of population was beginning to become a problem and Zhong Yi couldn't continue most of his plans without a bigger army, so he was using the Linthos to substitute for ghouls

Zhong Yi went to the entrance of the camp to watch the troops leave out to complete their tasks. It was like the times when he would watch from the city walls as his older brother would lead the army on another conquest, it was nostalgic.

Finally, having time to himself, He went to cultivate, he would have preferred to spar with Wu Lin because of his talent, But he was left in the human city with entire squad to collect information. He and the girl was fond of each other and Zhong Yi knew how to capitalise on an opportunity,

They were on good terms with the Hellfire guild thanks to the Jian siblings making access to information very easy.

Zhong Yi looked at his stats and noticed a very obvious problem,

[Name: Yan Zhong Yi

Age: 178

Grade: Middle Earth

Title: Royal Sacred Ghoul

Profession: none

Achievement Points: commoner (0/200)

Race: Sacred Ghoul (pure-blood), Angel (10%), Demon (10%)

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Cultivation stage: Stage 3-0

Cultivation technique: Royal Sacred Origin Scripture

Body: Stage 3-5

Skills: Kagune manipulation (innate)

Blood absorption (innate)

Kakuja stage 1 (incomplete)(10,000/10,000)

Equipment: magic beast leather trousers, magic beast leather shoes]

The problem was his skills and equipment. Even though he bought the palladium armour set blueprint, they didn't have the required metal for it. It required Quicksilver and a Moonstone. They had quicksilver in abundance thanks to Hong Hanjing, who knew that their dens rested on top of it.

Once they moved the den, they would have access to tonnes of Quicksilver deposits. Moonstone however, was a problem. They had no idea where they could get it and that's where Qi Long's squad comes in, they would be looking for information on where they could buy it, if not, they would just forcefully take it.

The other problem that annoyed Zhong Yi was the fact that his skills were non-existent, He didn't know that his skill from his past where there, but he would have to use it for them to be registered by the system.

Putting his thoughts to the side, Zhong Yi knew the bottleneck to the next stage was loose enough for him to simply go to the next level without any hassle, so he circulated the spirit energy within his body to the bottleneck in his dantian.

The feeling of breaking through was euphoric, like fighting was.

It was the feeling of boundless strength coursing through his veins and his skin. It was knowing that your strength getting closer to the top, knowing you could protect those closer to you with that strength.

He also noticed his body getting stronger bit by bit when he broke through. He concentrated on his body and noticed that the spirit energy within his body had halved in size and a stream of spirit energy would travel through his body decreasing in size from the cells in his body absorbing the energy, strengthening itself"

"At stage 3 in cultivation, The energy in my body should be potent enough to have an effect on my body, so my body would absorb the energy at this stage. Wouldn't that make my cultivation twice as long."

Zhong Yi didn't see it as a problem though. His Talent would make sure of it.

'Ghouls are such heaven-defying creatures' Thought Zhong Yi as he laughed loudly not caring who knew. 'When I get back, I need to have a long talk with those scholars'

Zhong Yi wanted to go and test his newfound strength against someone and realised that no one was close to his strength except for Hong Hanjing and General Cheng was catching up with the abundance of blood around for him to cultivate with.

Sighing at his subordinates strength, he went back to cultivating, he also had the blood of a stage 3 eagle, who decided he was prey on the way back to the base camp. He would drink the blood in little sips and the traces of spirit energy would be absorbed into his dantian, assimilating with his energy and becoming more potent, while the other half would be absorbed into his body.

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*A Few Hours Later*

"Everyone to your battle station!!"

A shout interrupted the calm atmosphere of the camp.

Zhong Yi came out of his cultivation startled. When he entered a state of cultivation would block out everything else and everyone does that. So, the scholars had researched a technique that would allow someone's voice to bring people out of their cultivation on emergencies.

He ran outside his tent to see a scene of chaos. Others had been in their cultivation while the ones on patrol had long returned carried blood on themselves, from the smell. Zhong Yi could tell it wasn't theirs but humans.

The wall to the entrance opened slightly and three bloody figures ran through and collapsed on the floor. Zhong Yi ran to the down soldiers and turned them around, so he could see their faces.

His facial expression froze when he saw the face,

'F.u.c.k, what went wrong? How did this happen?' thought Zhong Yi with guilt eating away at him.

The bloody face of Wu Lin greeted him. His entire body was covered in blood, whether all of it was his was unknown. He only had one kagune on his back and wounds all over his body, varying in different degrees of how dangerous.

"Your majesty, we f-failed your t-t-task," Wu Lin's exhausted voice managed to reach Zhong Yi's ears.

Zhong Yi could hear it in his voice, Wu Lin spirit had been thoroughly crushed.

"Who did it?" his face had darkened to the point where his eyes were glowing. "WHO DID THIS TO YOU?"

"T-the human c-city l-lord." Wu Lin's voice had quieted a bit.

"Rest up, you will want to get revenge on your brothers." advised Zhong Yi while signalling to the medic behind him to take Wu Lin for treatment.

Wu Lin however, struggled with all the energy he had left to fight of the hold of the medics "They're still alive, I have to save them, I have to save Nan Nan"

Zhong Yi was surprised at the energy he managed to summon, but right now, it wasn't needed. So he approached Wu Lin and chopped at his neck to knock him unconscious.

"Your majesty, reports say the patrols picked up in the smell of blood. They followed it they found three ghouls being chased by a team of humans cavalry. The patrolling team ambushed the humans giving the ghouls enough time to get away before their captain made the call to retreat. They covered up all tracks that could lead to the camp but the death of the humans would definitely attract more of them." Zhong Yi recognised the voice.

The man speaking was General Cheng's protege and was in charge of the defence of the camp. He was 190 cm with the typical features of any ghoul. However, he was bald. The only other indications he was a ghoul was his scent, red eyes and white facial hair.

"Tell everyone to pack up, I want to intercept the supply caravan before the humans do, and we set up camp back on the mountain. You have an hour." As soon as he said that, he turned to address the ghouls who had crowded around. "You, you you and you. Go find Both Generals and tell them to cease all operations and retreat to point B."

Not waiting for an answer, he left to go back to his tent to suit up.

"I'm going to rip every one of his f.u.c.k.i.n.g limbs from his body, I will SLAUGHTER every human inside that city." Zhong Yi automatically grouped up all the humans with city lord and sentenced them to death.

In his anger, he flared his cultivation blowing masses of wind at the tent, flinging it off the pegs.

His kagune was turning a black colour at the roots. His purple eyes and the purple highlights in his hair glowed slightly, but the suns rays hid it from others eyes.

Zhong Yi looked at the small Lintho that approached him and was rubbing its small head against his shins.

The small Lintho hopped around, oblivious to the raging emotions inside him.

Without turning around, he spoke to the Lintho behind him with a calm voice. While holding the small Lintho in his hands. "I'm sure you've heard, we'll be leaving to the other camp we set up earlier. There's a natural portal connecting it to our region, your women and children will be safe and out of harm's way. You have an hour to pack up whatever you need."

He placed the Young Lintho on the head of the other bigger Lintho who replied "consider it done, your majesty"

The Lintho who approached Zhong Yi was General Hong's offspring and the small one was his grandchild.

Watching them walk away to the cave. Zhong Yi looked towards the direction of the city.

"Survive Qi Long. Survive long enough for me to rescue you!"