Further west of the ruins is a huge mountain range that stretches for who knows how many thousands of kilometers. From what Xifeng Rixia had talked to the indigenous people, she learned that the environment behind the mountains is not as harsh as the Hellfire Plains, and there are still some remaining indigenous survivors there.
However, Xifeng Rixia did not cross the mountain range, so he was not very clear about the specific situation there.
After checking the map, there aren't many options. You can only go west to see the undead of Sha'tar, or go over the mountains and into the depths of this world.
With the map, we have the correct direction. We just go straight ahead and sweep all the way across.
Seven days later, Lin Xiao, who was sitting on his mount, saw other colors finally appearing on the red earth in the distance. A touch of gray and black was smeared on the red. The number of demons here was gradually decreasing. As he continued to move forward, a faint gray mist floated in the air. When he looked closely, he could vaguely see some skeletons swaying and wandering on the gray and black land.
The team stopped at the edge to rest, and the stalker Darkmoon continued to move forward. After a while, he brought him a surprising news. The relationship between him and the undead on this land was neutral, not as cold as the sunset breeze and the sun.
He soon realized that it was probably because he had killed too many demons in the past few years, so his initial relationship was higher than Xifeng Rixia.
This was good news. He ordered the team to continue moving forward. Soon they encountered the first undead. Sure enough, the name displayed was not red, which represented the enemy, but yellow, which represented neutrality. As long as he did not actively attack, these undead would not attack him.
And even if he takes the initiative to attack, only those attacked will fight back, and he will not enter a hostile state with other undead.
Of course, if you actively attack, your reputation will drop, and it will drop very quickly. If you want to use this method to kill the undead, it is easy to enter the hostile situation again.
After entering the territory of the undead, I haven't seen any demons. I only see demons spawning occasionally. The undead from a long distance away rush forward to besiege me as if they were injected with chicken blood.
When he saw a huge broken stone portal hundreds of meters high in the distance, Lin Xiao knew that he had arrived at the ruins of Shatar.
An elite undead knight riding a skeleton warhorse came on patrol with a group of undead soldiers. There was a golden exclamation mark above his head, which meant that he was available to receive missions.
Lin Xiao asked his men to stop and stepped forward himself. The Undead Knight reined in his horse and spoke in a deep voice:
"Stranger, I see the demonic curse wrapped around you. Your killing of the demon will earn you our friendship!"
"The sin of destroying the world will be judged. I will always be the enemy of the devil forever!"
He speaks the truth to people and lies to ghosts. These undead souls hate demons, so naturally he also hates demons.
The effect of these words was very obvious. The Undead Knight talked to him very gently for a while, not only directly opening the reputation system of the Shattar Ruins, but also giving him a token and guiding him to the depths of the Shattar Ruins.
After bidding farewell to the Undead Knight, he passed through the Gate of Sha'tar and entered the ruins of Sha'tar.
From what I saw and heard along the way, it seemed that the undead here had established a kingdom composed of the undead. Some undead who still retained a certain degree of intelligence gathered together to control the undead to form a kingdom and fight against the devil.
Lin Xiao has not yet decided whether to stay here, nor has he decided whether to build a fortress here. He has to first see the strength of the Sha'tar Undead and whether there are sufficient resources around.
We arrived at the center of the Shattar ruins without any obstructions and saw a rebuilt undead city and the leader of the undead. The undead kingdom was ruled by the Undead Council, which consisted of a lord template lich of level 82 and seven leader template undeads of level 80 or above.
To be honest, this strength is pretty good, but it's still far behind the demons. It's also because the demons' focus is not here now, otherwise it would be too difficult for this kingdom of the undead to survive.
Then Lin Xiao explored the situation near the Shattar ruins and took on some reputation tasks while exploring. To be honest, after seeing the reputation items exchanged by the Shattar quartermaster in the center of the ruins, some of them really attracted his attention.
The most valuable of them is the only orange legendary accessory called Will of the Undead. It has only one attribute, but it is quite powerful and can make the wearer immune to fear, charm and deformation.
Demons are best at intimidating and charming mortals, and with this direct immunity, they can be said to be extremely strong.
To redeem this unique legendary accessory, you must have Sha'tar exalted reputation and complete the destruction of a demon city near the Sha'tar ruins to obtain it.
It is not difficult to gain respect, it just takes time and effort.
But that is destroying a demon city.
Let's put it this way, this demon city is the biggest enemy of the Sha'tar Undead, and the Sha'tar Undead have been unable to do anything about it for such a long time. With Lin Xiao's current strength, it can only be done if all the leaders and lords' subordinates are upgraded to level 80. But now they are only around level 72 or 73, and their strength is far from enough.
So after hesitating for a long time, Lin Xiao gave up the idea of gaining reputation here and decided to leave for the time being. He would come back to do this task when he was stronger in the future. He had to do it.
Because it can be predicted that their biggest enemy in this outside world is the Son of Nightmare and the demon. In other words, if the Son of Nightmare is the same as them, the threat of the demon will be even greater. He will definitely challenge the strong demons in the future, and at that time, without strong enough equipment, it will be impossible to challenge them.
However, although he cannot complete the quest for the legendary accessory now, it does not prevent him from increasing his reputation and exchanging it for other good things. Before leaving Sha'tar, Lin Xiao accepted quests crazily, which were basically quests to kill demons, which he was best at.
You can level up your reputation at the same time!
This process took another half a year. He refused to do any quests and just relied on killing demons to raise his reputation in the Ruins of Shattar to the highest level of worship, with some extra left over. Then he destroyed three demon barracks and killed several famous demon warlords, and exchanged them for some rare reputation items.
The most valuable of them is a large magic airship, which is said to be a relic from before the destruction of Sha'tar. It is about fifty meters long and can accommodate hundreds of people.
This thing requires mana or pure energy to be powered. Now the Sha'tar Undead no longer has pure energy in their hands, and can only rely on the mage to inject mana to keep flying.
Lin Xiao has several leader-level mages under his command, but they are not enough to support this thing to fly for a long time, so...
"Exchange it first, and find a way later."
It doesn't matter whether you need the things or not, just exchange the good ones first.
Another good thing is a very special purple staff called the Forsaken Staff of Power, which not only greatly increases the power and effect of shadow spells, but also has a very special passive effect and a powerful active effect.
The passive effect is that after the player equips this staff, he will be in a neutral state no matter where he encounters the undead. In other words, as long as he does not actively attack the undead, he will not be attacked by the undead.
The active effect is that after use, you can forcibly control an undead to serve you. The stronger the undead is, the shorter the duration. Because it goes against the will of the undead, you will enter a hostile state with the controlled undead after the effect ends.
This effect is quite cool. Just as its name suggests, it can control all undead, including undead with lord templates to fight for you. In theory, it can directly control the current Undead Lord in Sha'tar.
However, this is only in theory. A purple staff cannot have any incredible effects. Even if it can be controlled, the duration will definitely be very short. There will be no time to do anything, and then you will have to face the wrath of an Undead Lord who is over level 80.
But this does not diminish the power of this item, and it can play a miraculous role in certain special situations.
After exchanging these rare items and several sets of T4-level equipment, Lin Xiao led the remaining subordinates to leave the ruins of Shatar, followed an old map exchanged from Shatar, came to the mountain range called the Wall of Hell, and entered an underground passage.
This wall of hell is a mountain range that rises high into the clouds. Long ago, people could fly across it. However, as the world was shattered by the ancient war, the chaos in the sky directly blocked any attempt to fly across it. A wall of hell divided the inside and outside into two worlds.
In fact, there is a canyon that passes through the wall of hell between the ruins of Shattar and the world on the other side of the mountains, but the demon city stands in the middle of the canyon and there is no way to pass through it. The only way is to enter this underground passage that no one has been to for tens of thousands of years.
According to the Undead Overlord of Sha'tar, this underground passage is part of the underworld of this world, which means that one can pass through the Hellwall Mountains to the other side, or enter the underground world of this world.
This world has been destroyed, at least the surface has been destroyed. The underground world has become the last refuge for the survivors for a time, as the demons could not invade on a large scale due to the complex environment. After the failure of the decisive battle, a large number of indigenous survivors and the remaining resistance forces retreated underground to continue fighting against the demons.
But later, some unknown changes happened in the underground world. After the resistance forces and the indigenous people retreated underground, something terrible seemed to have happened. Many indigenous people and the resistance forces were influenced by another powerful force and their personalities changed drastically. The underground resistance forces were divided into two factions and fought endlessly. As time went by, the underground and ground worlds gradually lost contact, and no news has been heard for thousands of years.
The location given by the Overlord of the Undead has detailed markings on the road leading to the other side of the wall of Hell, as well as the road leading to the underworld.
Lin Xiao didn't want to cause any trouble, so the team entered the underground and walked towards the opposite side of the wall of hell along the map markings.
Maybe it had been widened in the past. This underground passage is quite large, and even several of the lord's men transformed into big Nagas can pass through.
There are many undead creatures in the passage, all of them are ancient survivors who died in the passage in the past. They do not belong to the same system as the undead of Sha'tar, so his reputation is of no use here. He will still be attacked and can only clear his way through.
"Just think of it as gaining some experience!"
(End of this chapter)