Chapter 1 Undead Mentor - Shepherd of Souls's Evil Spirit

[Transformed with celestial power through secret rites, now a non-human evil spirit]

[An evil ghost soul still haunted by countless curses]

[Direct consumption increases all-around soul resistance, strengthens soul power, and increases affinity with the dead to a certain extent]

[Spiritual tempering transforms it into an 'Enthrallment Shepherd' spirit attachment, affixed to all equipment and items]

[Forging with special techniques can create a 'Bewitchment - Soul Manipulation Spirit Thread' soul weapon]

[The Silent Lord's love is so vast and boundless, whether it be faith or blasphemy, loyalty or betrayal, even using His power to violate His teachings, He does not care, taking it all into His eyes]

[What kind of evil is needed to make Him even slightly glance over? Harboring such mad thoughts, the demon who sought to destroy all order did not know even in death]

"Uninteresting evil spirit, uninteresting monster."

As Su Zhou landed on the sea and pocketed this evil spirit, he offered only this evaluation: "The thought that similar beings, six of them, are breathing the same air as me on Earth, disgusts me."

[That's already good. The seven leaders of the Descending Spirit Society almost never appear directly in any place where they might be seen by others. Even if they do, they must have countless escape routes.]

Yan Sheng, having just recovered from his astonishment at the Shepherd of Souls' demise, said with some emotion, [The Shepherd of Souls was an old rival of the former National Security Bureau in the Nanyang region. They are not usually active, but when the time is right, they are bound to do something big.]

[But even we didn't expect that they would take advantage of the spiritual energy outbreak to commit such atrocities in major regions around the world.]

Su Zhou nodded, recalling the chaos he had seen on the screen.

Simultaneously attacking major global forces, the Descending Spirit Society, to say the least, is first-rate in its ability to attract hatred. With this move, at least the outer organizations will be wiped out. No matter how deeply hidden, they will be dug out by the furious multi-national forces working together.

"This is their advancement ritual. Their advancement method requires the extraordinary elements in those mutated bodies. If they don't want to spend time painstakingly honing themselves, they must create chaos time and time again, using human lives as the foundation for their advancement. Well, like the demonization of demons, they also use similar methods to transform into some more powerful extraordinary creatures."

Su Zhou thought for a moment and said, "The Shepherd of Souls was killed by me, but their other six leaders should have already advanced to the extraordinary level… In that case, if you use conventional force against them, it may not be of much use. Just like the Shepherd of Souls could ignore artillery fire for a short time, they must all have their own life-saving methods to evade the joint search by various countries."

[How do you know?]

Su Zhou's speculation was actually quite common. At least, Yan Sheng had already thought of it before he spoke, but the true abilities of the Descending Spirit Society leaders were a mystery to major global forces, and their advancement methods were even more mysterious. No one knew the process.

Some even speculated that it was not from this world, but from a heritage from another world.

"It's bloodline heritage! There is information in my bloodline heritage!"

Su Zhou replied seriously—anyway, he also knew that the Zheng Nation officials must have guessed that he might have his own heritage. Since that's the case, he might as well say it directly and use this as an excuse.

Don't ask, just bloodline heritage. Believe it or not, he believed it anyway.

[Is that so? The bloodline heritage of the demon race… I understand.]

Yan Sheng didn't say much. He simply said calmly, [The thunder magic you used just now, is that also your bloodline heritage? It seems to be at least a true dragon dragon king of the immortal god level, with the divine power to summon wind and rain… In that case, everything is easy to explain.]

[The helicopter to pick you up is almost here, Professor Su. If you go back now, you might still make it to the press conference. While the whole world is suffering from the chaos brought by the Descending Spirit Society, we alone have quickly stabilized the situation and killed their leader… This is truly big news.]

"Yes, I understand."

Su Zhou also smiled and nodded slightly. The reason he fought so fiercely was for this moment.

Afterwards, Su Zhou summoned the surrounding sea beasts and encouraged them for doing a good job—if it weren't for the carpet search of all suspicious cargo ships by the numerous sea beasts, he might not have been able to find the other party so quickly.

"So how am I going to reward them?" Patting the head of the wooden great white shark that discovered the Shepherd of Souls, causing it to wag its tail happily, Su Zhou asked Yara in his heart with some embarrassment: "I don't mind giving some of my blood, but every time I have to bite it open, it hurts a bit."

"You didn't say a word of pain when you and the National Teacher, the Demon Emperor, were baring your hearts to each other." The little red snake curled up. Yara really didn't want to answer such a low-tech question, so he perfunctorily said, "If that doesn't work, just pluck a strand of your hair and give it to them. The meaning is the same. Anyway, they are close to you because of the aura of your undying blood."

"Who said that! I shouted 'it hurts' many times!" Su Zhou replied very confidently: "What's more, fighting is fighting, and normal times are normal times. For example, you don't care when you eat ginger slices and ginger soup, but no one likes to eat ginger slices or ginger shreds when eating braised pork or noodles!"

"What kind of Zheng Nation people's analogy... In that case, I'll teach you a simple ritual that can plant your aura on these sea beasts."

Yara could see that Su Zhou was quite serious about this. After thinking about it carefully, he was indeed the kind of person who would definitely repay others if they helped him, so he shook his head and smiled: "After obtaining your aura, the corresponding sea beast's intelligence will slowly increase, becoming more intimate with you, and at the same time, it will be nourished by your aura, becoming more inclined to the Path of the Dragon and Serpent."

"This is a ritual used to actively cultivate dependents, so it's best not to use it indiscriminately."

Saying this, he sent the detailed process of the ritual to Su Zhou, and Su Zhou did think for a while. It seemed that the words "cultivate dependents" still made him a little worried.

"Forget it, anyway, I'm already the Sea King. How can I do it without some shrimp soldiers and crab generals!"

But soon, not knowing whether it was self-abandonment, Su Zhou gave up thinking and began to arouse his aura, planting his aura on the wooden great white shark that had made great contributions this time: "You did a good job this time, keep up the good work next time! Remember not to attack humans and yachts in the future... unless I tell you to attack!"

"Roar!"

It could be seen that a small ball of cyan-purple spiritual light, under Su Zhou's control, entered the great white shark's body, and the other party also roared comfortably, and then began to tumble happily in the water.

It could be seen that its spirituality and intelligence had indeed become much stronger. At least, it could already make effective responses to Su Zhou's words.

Thump thump thump... Just right, the sound of a helicopter in the distance had already appeared.

Without waiting for the other party to lower the boarding rope ladder, Su Zhou flew up by himself and returned to the cabin in the almost admiring gazes of the special reaction force personnel.

And during this time back to the city, Su Zhou also vaguely learned about the current distribution of major extraordinary forces on Earth, as well as the general intelligence of major mysterious organizations.

The current international situation is essentially relatively calm. Since realizing the revival of spiritual energy, the major forces in various countries around the world have basically stopped conflicting with each other, but have comprehensively shrunk their forces to prepare for possible impacts. The result of the contraction is the formation of three central areas where transcendents gather.

The first central area is the southeastern area of the World Island centered on Zheng Nation, the second central area is the northwestern area of the World Island centered on the Europa Union, and the third central area is the North American area centered on the American Federation.

In these three regions, official extraordinary forces can effectively manage civilian transcendents, maintain social stability, and have enough materials to support 'national cultivation'. Not only will they not be affected by the revival of spiritual energy, but they can also use the power of the revival of spiritual energy to vigorously develop.

Outside of these three regions, the official forces are actually unable to control civilian transcendents, and cultivation naturally depends on individual abilities, and it is basically impossible to popularize it. The revival of spiritual energy is more harmful than beneficial to them. All kinds of demons, ghosts, and folk heroes emerge endlessly, greatly disrupting normal social production and work.

The headquarters of major mysterious organizations may be built around these central areas, but they are definitely separated from the central areas. The soil for their concealed growth is those uncontrolled civilian transcendents and the areas that have become chaotic due to the revival of spiritual energy.

[The Descending Spirit Society is the largest, most active, and most dangerous global mysterious organization on the surface. Their seven leaders all have bizarre and powerful abilities. Some even suspect that in the open world, they also have legitimate industries as the organization's economic pillar, and many national leaders secretly support them behind their backs in order to obtain the help of extraordinary powers. Their goal is simple: to develop a shadow country controlled by them from the bottom up, implementing their currently unknown plans, so they often develop forces in some war-torn, impoverished small countries or extremely remote areas, making it difficult to encircle and suppress them.]

[The Litany Society, although also a global force, their route is inclined to use 'eternal life' and 'power' to bewitch and corrupt high-level officials, holding various rituals to obtain wealth and knowledge from other worlds. They are very secretive, even more secretive than the Descending Spirit Society, because many of their members even live normal lives and only gather when needed.]

[Although it sounds like there is no major harm, in reality, every time the Litany Society takes action, it will create world-class troubles—the mysterious kidnapping case in Shan State that you were once involved in was caused by the Litany Society. The rituals they held almost prematurely triggered the global revival of spiritual energy. No one knows what kind of impact it would have had on this world if they had succeeded.]

The information provided by Yan Sheng is basically the information collected by Zheng Nation over the years. Although it is brief, it is extremely valuable. In addition to what is said on the surface, a series of wanted orders and lists were printed out and turned into documents and sent to Su Zhou.

[As for the New Dawn Society, it was not even a mysterious organization at first. It was just a local country astrology interest group. Their usual club task was to look at the stars and guess their fortunes. But forty-three years ago, the then president of the club summoned an 'alien monster' in the American Federation using unknown methods… As a result, the town called 'Twilight' was destroyed by the Federal military with nuclear bombs. To this day, that area is still under the highest level of martial law.]

[Logically speaking, in an era when spiritual energy had not yet revived, it was impossible for any transcendents to escape from a nuclear bombing, even alien monsters were the same. But the then president is said to have not died and is still active around the world, summoning sporadic mysterious monsters that we cannot classify in any way, causing multiple thorny mysterious events. And he is currently the number one dangerous transcendent wanted worldwide, codenamed 'Deep Space Caller'.]