Chapter 524 - 256: The Gray-Robed Army! At the Gates!

"Gray robes? They’re quite useful."

Ye Mingqiu watched the departing Gray Robe Army, a look of approval in his eyes.

These gray robes are not simple; they are special creations formed by Wu Geng’s divine power combined with understanding of faith, and a special application of divine power.

[Divine Power Diffusion]

With divine power as the foundational strength reaching an ultra-spec level of 2.8, it inherently possesses extremely terrifying potential. In the Feng Shen Ji World, Shi Xing, cursed by the Seal of the Dead, acquired the trait of Undying, and the people he rules also possess the trait of Undead. This is [Divine Power Diffusion].

Conversely, Wu Geng has faith in the Lord of Light and Shadow, thus he uses the gray robes to maximize the traits of [Divine Power Diffusion], making those who wear robes imbued with his divine power influenced by faith.

This is the application of [Divine Power Diffusion].

Similar applications are also possessed by Holy Power and Abyssal Power, but due to the higher strength of these abilities, the development difficulty is also higher.

The most obvious feature of Holy Power is that it can cause extremely high damage to Ancient Gods, Evil Gods, Demons, or their lower existences, and can also immunize against their type of attacks with terrifying effect.

As for Abyssal Power, it possesses traits like devouring, annihilating, and corrupting, displaying remarkable effects in domain building and energy devouring, and eliminating energy traces, with similarly extraordinary strength.

Unfortunately...

After leaving the Feng Shen Ji World, Ye Mingqiu no longer possesses divine power, otherwise, he would have learned the method of making these gray robes, a special creation based on faith and diffused by divine power, which is very suitable for quickly forming a powerful army of faith in a short time.

"Knock, knock!"

The crisp sound of knocking was heard, and then Adira pushed the door open and entered, looking at Ye Mingqiu standing by the window and smilingly said, "Lord Blood Erosion, we’ve already got the exact location of the treasury."

"Hmm."

....

Ten minutes later

--- Team channel ---

Short-tailed Cat: Hey, why are there so many basic materials in the team warehouse? And they’re free?

Short-tailed Cat: The leader wouldn’t have gone to some Spirit Realm place to rob indiscriminately, keeping the useful stuff for himself and throwing the useless stuff into the team warehouse?

Qing Yu: Probably.

Qing Yu: And I have another guess.

Short-tailed Cat: What guess?

Qing Yu: Based on my understanding of the leader, he probably isn’t the type to deliberately buy things and then throw them into the team warehouse for us to use.

Short-tailed Cat: What’s wrong?

Short-tailed Cat: Is there a problem with that?

Qing Yu: But every once in a while, the team warehouse receives a large supplement of living materials, and even the extremely rare Spirit Realm version of cosplay costumes, which are very hard to get.

Qing Yu: These cosplays, which can be stored in the Spirit Realm Storage Space, are quite popular in certain Spirit Realm circles, with some willing to pay high prices of twenty to three hundred thousand Spiritual Points for them, simply because their drop rate is too low, they are always in short supply.

Qing Yu: In this situation, I seriously suspect that these items are not bought but opened.

Short-tailed Cat: Opened?

Lu: Shh!

Lu: You shouldn’t say any more!

Other Shore: Eh hey?

Other Shore: @Divine Monarch, there’s an important power enhancement manual in the group, hurry and watch!

Broken Star: @Divine Monarch, there’s an important power enhancement manual in the group, hurry and watch!

Frost Moon: @Divine Monarch, there’s an important power enhancement manual in the group, hurry and watch!

Qing Yu: ?

Qing Yu: What are you guys?

[Note: Qing Yu has been muted for 24 hours]

Broken Star: Hehe.

Divine Monarch: Don’t forget, the team warehouse also has your contributions.

Broken Star: No hehe.

....

After closing the team channel, Ye Mingqiu followed the direction of the Gray Robe Army, and cloaked his form with the concealment ability of [Riddle Gauze], bestowing the [Indestructible] aura effect to the Gray Robe Army in the form of [Hidden Buff].

In theory, boosting a target with an aura easily makes them noticeable by the other party, but Ye Mingqiu possesses [Riddle Gauze] which can reduce his presence, even directly modifying personal data.

Thus, using an aura in combat without others knowing is possible, but the aura is so strong that those enhanced will certainly feel significantly stronger, yet not know why.

’Will they relate it to the Lord of Light and Shadow?’

Ye Mingqiu thought with a smile that if they associate in this direction, it might not be problematic to some extent, but also feels somewhat off.

No matter, as long as the army is strong enough to fight for him in all directions, it suffices. You, the presence behind the scenes, must appear soon.

.....

"Almost there."

Wu Geng opened the map in his hand, showing a slight smile; the previous location was in the Northern Border Edge, where people’s resistance will was relatively weak.

So, he thought this might be due to the region’s remoteness, making centralized control difficult and allowing the Lord’s arbitrary rule, turning people into obedient dogs.

If it were in a big city...

Would it be better?

Wu Geng thought so.

Thus, he led the Gray Robe Army across countless distances to [Iron Shield City].

Unlike the edge of the Northern Territory, this was a truly formidable city.

The towering city walls, like extensions of the mountains, are built with large blue stones, flashing with metal-like cold sheen in the sunlight.

On the walls, watchtowers lined up, ballistae engraved with defense runes faintly visible from behind the parapets. Outside the city walls is a spacious, regularly cleared open area, where well-equipped and disciplined patrol soldiers follow a set route, patrolling back and forth, the atmosphere solemn.