To the west of the ruins was a huge mountain range that spanned thousands of kilometers. According to Sunset Breeze's conversation with the natives, the environment behind the mountain range was not as bad as the Hellfire Plains, and there were still some natives there.
However, Sunset Breeze had not crossed the mountain range, so he was not very clear about the situation there.
After looking at the map, there were not many options. He could only go west and see the Undead of Shatar, or go over the mountain range and enter the depths of this world.
With the map, he had the correct direction. He followed the path forward and swept his way through.
Seven days later, Lin Xiao, who was sitting on his mount, saw other colors finally appear on the crimson land in the distance. There was a smear of grayish-black in the crimson land. The number of Evil Demons gradually decreased. As they continued forward, a faint gray fog floated in the air. Looking from afar, they could vaguely see some skeletons swaying and wandering on the grayish-black land.
The team stopped at the edge of the forest to take a break. The Lurker used Dark Moon Stealth to continue forward. After a while, he received a piece of shocking news. The relationship between him and the undead on this land was actually neutral. It was not as cold as the sunset breeze.
He quickly realized that it was probably because he had killed so many demons in the past few years that his relationship with them was higher than Sunset Breeze's.
This was good news. He ordered the party to continue forward, and soon they met the first Undead. The name displayed was not red, but yellow. As long as he did not take the initiative to attack, the Undead would not attack him.
Moreover, even if he took the initiative to attack, he would only be attacked and would not enter a hostile state with the other Undead.
Of course, if he took the initiative to attack, he would lose Reputation very quickly. If he wanted to rely on this method to kill the Undead, it would be easy for him to enter a hostile state.
After entering the Undead's territory, there were no more demons. Occasionally, one would respawn, and the Undead in the distance would swarm up and attack as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Lin Xiao saw a broken stone gate in the distance that was over a hundred meters tall. He knew that he had arrived at the Shatar Ruins.
An elite Undead Knight on a skeletal warhorse was patrolling with a group of Undead soldiers. There was a golden exclamation mark above his head, indicating that he could accept a quest.
Lin Xiao ordered his subordinates to stop and personally stepped forward. The Undead Knight reined in his horse and spoke in a low voice.
"Outlander, I can see the demon's curse on your body. Your slaughter of the demons will earn you our friendship!"
"The evil that destroyed the world will be judged. I will always be the enemy of the demons, forever!"
Since these undead hated demons, he naturally had to hate demons as well.
The Undead Knight warmly conversed with him for a while. Not only did he activate the reputation system of the Shatar Ruins, he even gave him a token and guided him to the depths of the Shatar Ruins.
After bidding farewell to the Undead Knight, they passed through the Shatar Gate and entered the Shatar Ruins.
From what he saw and heard along the way, the Undead here seemed to have established a kingdom of the Undead. Some of the Undead who still retained a certain level of intelligence gathered together to control the Undead to form a kingdom to fight against the Demons.
Lin Xiao wasn't sure if he should stay here or if he should build a stronghold here. He wanted to see the strength of the Shatar Undead first and see if there were enough resources around.
Without any hindrance, Nie Yan arrived at the center of the Shatar Ruins and saw a rebuilt Undead City. He also saw the leader of the Undead. The Undead Council was made up of a Level 82 Lord-ranked Lich and seven Level 80 Commander-ranked Undead. They ruled this Undead Kingdom.
To be honest, their strength wasn't bad, but it was still far from being comparable to the Demons. Fortunately, the Demons' main focus wasn't here. Otherwise, it would be too difficult for this Undead Kingdom to survive.
Lin Xiao continued to explore the Shatar Ruins. While doing so, he accepted a few Reputation Quests to complete. To be honest, there were a few items that caught his attention after looking at the Shatar's Quartermaster's Reputation Quests in the middle of the ruins.
The most valuable of them all was an orange legendary accessory called Undead Will. It only had one attribute, but it was quite overbearing. It made the wearer immune to fear, charm, and transformation.
Demons were the best at scaring and charming mortals. With this immunity, it could be said that the wearer was very strong.
To exchange for this legendary accessory, one needed Shatar's Worship Reputation and had to destroy a Demon City near the Shatar Ruins.
It wasn't difficult to gain a Worshipful Reputation. It was just a matter of time.
But destroying a Demon City ….
Let's put it this way. This Demon City was the Shatar Undead's greatest enemy. With Lin Xiao's current strength, he wouldn't be able to do anything unless all of his subordinates reached lvl80. But right now, they were only lvl72 or lvl73. Their strength was far from enough.
So after hesitating for a long time, Lin Xiao gave up on the idea of grinding his reputation here and decided to leave for the time being. He would come back in the future when he was strong enough to do this quest.
It could be expected that their greatest enemy in the Outlands was the Demon Spawn. In other words, if the Nightmare Spawn was the same as them, the Demon Spawn would be even more of a threat. He would definitely challenge the strongest Demon Spawn in the future. At that time, he wouldn't be able to do so without enough equipment.
But although he couldn't do this legendary accessory quest right now, it didn't stop him from grinding his reputation to exchange for other good things. Before leaving the Shatar Ruins, Lin Xiao crazily accepted quests. Most of them were quests to kill Demons. This was his forte.
Reputation and leveling up couldn't be missed!
This continued for half a year. He didn't do any quests and relied on killing Demons to raise his reputation in the Shatar Ruins to the highest level, Worship. Then he destroyed three Demon Barracks and killed several famous Demon Warlords to exchange for a few rare items.
The most valuable item was a large magic airship. It was said that it was left behind before the destruction of the Shatar Ruins. It was about 50 meters long and could hold up to a hundred people.
This thing required mana or pure energy to move. Now that the Shatar Undead didn't have any pure energy, they could only rely on Mages to inject mana into it.
Lin Xiao had a few Mages under him, but it wasn't enough to support this thing for long periods of time. So …
"I'll exchange for it first. I'll think of a way later."
It didn't matter if he could use it or not, he would just exchange for the good stuff first.
The other good item was a very special purple staff called the Power Staff of the Forgotten One. Not only could it greatly increase the power and effect of shadow spells, it also had a very special passive effect and a powerful active effect.
The passive effect was that when a player equipped this staff, they would be in a neutral state no matter where they encountered Undead. In other words, as long as they didn't actively attack the Undead, they wouldn't be attacked.
The active effect was that after using it, the player could forcibly control an Undead to serve them. The stronger the Undead was, the shorter the duration. Because it went against the Undead's will, after the effect ended, the Undead would enter a hostile state.
This effect was very cool. As the name implied, it could control all Undead, including Lord Rank Undead to fight for you. In theory, it could directly control the Undead Lord of the Shatar Ruins.
However, this was only in theory. A purple staff couldn't have such a heaven-defying effect. Even if it could, the duration would be very short. Before they could do anything, they would have to face the wrath of an Undead Lord that was over level 80.
However, this didn't affect the power of this item. In certain special situations, it could be used to heaven-defying effect.
After exchanging these rare items and a few sets of T4 equipment, Lin Xiao led the rest of his subordinates out of the ruins of the Shatar Ruins. They followed an old map from the Shatar Ruins and arrived at the mountain range called the Hell's Wall. They entered an underground passage.
The Hell's Wall was a mountain range that towered into the clouds. A long time ago, it was possible to fly through it. However, after the ancient war, the space in the sky became chaotic and directly cut off any plans to fly through it. The Hell's Wall separated the inside and the outside world.
In fact, between the Shatar Ruins and the world on the other side of the mountain range was a canyon that passed through the Hell's Wall. However, the demon city stood in the middle of the canyon, so there was no way to pass through it.
According to the Undead Lord of the Shatar Ruins, this underground passage was part of the underworld of this world. It could lead to the other side of the Hell's Wall, and also to the underworld of this world.
This world had been destroyed, at least on the surface. Due to the complex environment, the demons couldn't invade the underworld on a large scale. For a time, it was the last refuge of the survivors. After losing the final battle, a large number of natives and remnants of the resistance army retreated underground to continue fighting against the demons.
However, something strange happened in the underworld. After the resistance army and the natives retreated underground, something terrible seemed to have happened. Many of the natives and resistance army were influenced by a powerful force, and their personalities changed drastically. The resistance army was divided into two factions and fought endlessly. As time passed, the connection between the underworld and the surface world was gradually cut off. There hadn't been any news for thousands of years now.
The map given by the Undead Lord had detailed markings on it. The path to the other side of the Hell's Wall was also marked with the path to the underworld.
Lin Xiao didn't want to complicate matters. The group entered the underground passage and followed the markings on the map to the other side of the Hell's Wall.
Perhaps it had been widened before, but the passage was quite large. Even if the Undead Lord's subordinates transformed into Naga, they could still pass through.
There were many undead creatures in the passage, all of them ancient survivors who had died in the passage. They didn't belong to the same system as the undead of the Shatar Ruins, so his reputation was useless here. He would still be attacked, so he could only clear his way through.
"Let's just treat it as farming some experience!"
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