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Xue Dili now had to coax the Old Demon Emperor as if he were a child, to prevent him from dying suddenly from a heart attack here, or hot-headedly returning home to sacrifice himself.

When he got there, oh damn, there was a quasi-Tier Five wraith in the undead disaster.

That’s truly terrifying, the most frustrating thing about dealing with the undead is this: if your side loses one combat strength, the opposing side will have a comparable one added. If you don’t destroy the undead disaster in one blow, then you’re just waiting to be slowly cooked like a frog in warm water.

As Xue Dili contemplated this, he realized there wasn’t a good solution. There wasn’t much information about the Wraith Demon, and its corpse was destroyed beyond recognition by Earth’s microbes, while its soul dissipated, with various fragmented consciousnesses twisted and pieced together to form this Wraith Demon.

This creature had no intelligence or consciousness, let alone memory, and couldn’t even communicate. It was purely an undead.

This lack of information was the most troublesome.

Xue Dili planned to rely on his passive ability, actively controlling his dream to see if he could connect to the memory of the Wraith Demon.

Although contacting an undead’s memory carried significant risks, given Xue Dili’s current strength, it wasn’t too dangerous for a Tier Four Mage to delve into the memory chamber of a Tier Three Wraith Demon. Even if something went wrong, he could quickly extricate himself.

In the worst-case scenario, Xue Dili could unleash the twisted, trembling void creature within his soul’s Great Void, devouring everything completely.

Once he made a decision, Xue Dili shared his plan, and the Old Demon Emperor could only reluctantly agree. He had no better idea; he didn’t know how long he had been floating in Subspace after dying, maybe just a few years if he was lucky, or hundreds if not.

This Demon Emperor who wanted to create a peaceful world had no idea how his world had been ravaged or what kind of enemies he faced.

Xue Dili simply believed their sudden approach was reckless, akin to walking into an ambush, but this time it would be difficult to win by relying on traps. As for the Old Demon Emperor, his skill level was top-notch in ordinary battles, but it fell short in an Apostle face-off.

In the Apostle battlefield, a quasi-Tier Five might not be as useful as someone with a special ability, like a lieutenant’s zero-frame-space transmission, a mechanism monster exploiting information gaps.

And the Old Demon Emperor was precisely the type that relied purely on numerical strength, with little mechanism.

Despite having had no practical experience, Xue Dili feared Blood Magic’s effectiveness against the undead would be extremely unpalatable.

"You could also prepare for how to arrange the future of this world, and we’ll gather here," Xue Dili mused.

The Old Demon Emperor could only nod, even though he didn’t want to wait for another day. He understood Xue Dili’s point; his world’s problems were significant, panicking wouldn’t help. If panic could save the world, Xue Dili would have already been like an ant on a hot pan.

Right now, Xue Dili was trying to remain as rational as possible, preventing himself from being influenced by the mastermind behind the undead disaster.

In truth, he wanted to ask No. 10 for information related to this. Previously, he learned that the mastermind Apostle behind the undead disaster was Number 8 from the Mist Council, codenamed "Undying King".

Its favorite tactic was using the corpses of the world to create Witches, then letting events unfold independently. Since the Witches were made from the world’s corpses, it’s easy for World Consciousness to be fooled without thorough investigation.

If a Witch succeeds in converting every living being to one of the undead, It claims victory and absorbs all the corpses and souls. If the Witch fails, It doesn’t mind; it might wait until inspiration strikes again to create a stronger Witch.

This was the intelligence No. 10 gave Xue Dili. In broad terms, It was a somewhat passive presence among the Apostles, though It was also notorious for creating the undead disaster that shocked the Cosmos, infamous alongside the Heart Stealer of Apostle No. 4 and the swarm of No. 6 Apostle.

Xue Dili even thought that the Demon might be an "Artificial God" created by the local Hell civilization, which went out of control and turned to enslaving humans, eventually becoming the Demon. Otherwise, the Demon might even be the Apostle’s creation.

However, according to scarce intelligence, the Demon was indeed an Artificial God crafted as an imitation of the Apostles.

For now, this was the only intelligence available on Number 8. At the same time, Xue Dili didn’t know whether they would confront another Witch Demon King or directly face Number 8.

Xue Dili hoped for the former. If they directly faced Number 8, Xue Dili’s only chance of winning would be to completely unleash the void creature in the Great Void, devouring Number 8 before it could react.

Apart from this, he couldn’t think of any way to kill this Undying King.

Thinking of this, Xue Dili could only sigh. For everyone else, the most feared and considered as a ferocious beast— the void of the Great Void—turned out to be his ultimate trump card.

The origin of this Great Void, tracing back to the beginning, might have been due to his transformation into an undead. Once merging with Old Barak into the Skeleton Demon, he had already been turned into one of the undead.