Chapter 194 Ideas on Managing the Underworld

Returning to his room after ending the remote projection, Han Xiao opened his eyes, looked at the familiar scenery, and let out a breath.

"Mabrus has a lot of ideas about the Super-A Grade Association... No wonder. In his position, it would be negligent to have no ideas, and he needs some achievements just after taking office."

Han Xiao shook his head.

Sure enough, Ulan Riel was better. It was a pity that the musclehead was in power in the future, and he could only adapt.

The honeymoon period of several decades between the two sides was an important factor in the rise of the Black Star Army. In order to take care of all aspects, the Empire could not take it back. Even if Mabrus had ideas about him, he could only grit his teeth and accept the cooperation agreement signed by his predecessors. Therefore, Han Xiao didn't need to watch his face at all. Even if there were no other benefits in the future, these benefit agreements would be enough.

Anyway, you can't go back on your word, so let's continue to get along.

While pondering this question, Han Xiao left the office and came to the confidential area of the Black Star Palace, entering a highly authorized combat training room.

Clang clang clang—

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a tall mecha warrior fighting with a pair of virtual opponents. Every step he took caused the room to shake.

As soon as he saw Han Xiao, the mecha warrior stopped and stood respectfully with his hands down.

Han Xiao smiled and said, "You're quite hardworking. Come out and let me see what level you're at now."

The mecha split open from the center, revealing the user inside, the expressionless Rother.

Ever since the assassination of the Modo leader, Rother had been hidden by Han Xiao, burying himself in hard training. This mecha was a training aid specially made by Han Xiao for martial artists. It had no combat ability at all, but would instead impose extremely high loads on the user to enhance the training effect.

Almost ten years had passed, and Rother's strength had been steadily improving, becoming more and more profound. This was a great difference from those cadres who were stuck at the Calamity Grade and unable to make progress, showing that his potential had not been exhausted, and Han Xiao had high hopes for him.

Han Xiao raised his hand, golden arcs of electricity jumping on his fingertips, and pressed it on Rother's shoulder, a strong stimulating current pouring into Rother's body.

Rother's body shook, but he endured the discomfort and allowed Han Xiao to shock him.

After a while, Han Xiao withdrew his hand, looked at the triggered combat information, and smiled: "Your strength has improved again compared to the last test, but your Stamina is still a shortcoming that needs to be made up for..."

He rattled off a bunch of things, and Rother listened carefully, occasionally noting Han Xiao's suggestions on his training schedule.

This was an auxiliary training method that Han Xiao had created based on his own characteristics. By viewing the other party's attributes through the panel, he could then offer suggestions on the direction of training. Because the attributes were clear at a glance, he could often give constructive advice, which not only gave the other party a goal to move forward, but also allowed them to clearly see the degree of improvement in their strength over a period of time, giving positive feedback, which made them more motivated to train.

Through this method, he could help others grow. Han Xiao had already used it on some important cadres over the years. Rother had enjoyed the benefits and cherished Han Xiao's guidance.

After giving his advice, Han Xiao patted Rother on the shoulder and smiled, "Train hard, and maybe the next Super-A Grade in the army will be you. If you want to break away and establish your own force, I will support you."

Rother shook his head. "I am always your blade in the darkness."

Even if he could become a Super-A Grade, he could not do without Han Xiao's guidance. Rother was grateful for this. He was not an ungrateful person, otherwise he would not have joined the army to repay his gratitude.

"It's good that you have this heart."

Han Xiao was quite pleased. After giving a few instructions, he left the room.

Walking along the base passage to another room, Aurora was sitting cross-legged in the room, her body overflowing with life energy, training her Stamina. When she saw Han Xiao, she rushed over happily.

Pa!

Han Xiao reached out and pressed her head, blocking her at a distance, and said helplessly: "Be reserved. How old are you? On Aquamarine Star, you're old enough to be someone's grandma."

"Hmph, mind your own business. I'm...呸, I'm always eighteen!" Aurora was immediately unhappy. If we don't mention age, we're still good friends.

"Alright, let me see how you've developed... cough, grown?" Han Xiao twirled an arc of electricity with his fingers and poked it on Aurora's forehead.

The panel showed her combat attributes, and Han Xiao mainly looked at her Energy Level and Stamina, nodding secretly.

In the past ten years, Aurora had been harvesting the leeks of the Holy Light Seeds, constantly accumulating energy. Having no bottlenecks was a terrifying trait. Her strength was steadily increasing.

Aurora didn't even need to develop her own abilities much, because the information left in the abilities by the previous generation of sisters was equivalent to a skill tree that had already been developed, which she directly inherited.

'What do you call cheating? This is what you call cheating!'

Han Xiao was sour.

He hadn't been doing nothing all this time. He had been coveting life energy and had already used an opportunity to use \[Energy Analysis] on Aurora.

As he had expected, he could control this special energy for the duration of the character card, but lost the ability after the time passed. However, he had retained a partial understanding of the essence of life energy in his mind, which would help him with his own research.

The \[Perfect Energy Affinity Physique] from Gode played a role in this, greatly increasing Han Xiao's efficiency in analyzing life energy. Although it was still extremely difficult to create life energy by mechanical means, he already had a direction for his research.

However, Han Xiao's current research focus was still on the Jess Technology Treasure. This was the most cost-effective research project. Before squeezing out the essence of Jess, he would not spend too much time researching anything else.

The thought flashed through his mind, and Han Xiao retracted his hand and smiled, "You've been working hard recently too, not much worse than your sister."

Hearing this, Aurora immediately beamed with joy. She liked to hear Hela, Dragon Emperor, or Han Xiao praise her the most.

At this moment, Aurora suddenly remembered something, "Oh, right, my sister told me a few hours ago to call you to the Underworld Dimension. It seems like something's up. Go and take a look."

"Then why are you only telling me now?" Han Xiao glared.

"My sister told me to. She said if you were busy, tell you later. It's not urgent anyway," Aurora muttered in a low voice, pointing her fingers together.

"I see. I guess she's itching for a beating. Alright, I'm going to beat her up now. This is none of your business."

Han Xiao waved his hand and activated Emperor's Descent, disappearing suddenly.

His vision blurred, and the next moment he was already in the Underworld Dimension.

Compared to the last time he came, the area of the Underworld seemed to have expanded a lot.

"Where is she?"

Han Xiao looked around and didn't see Hela, so he raised his foot and stomped on the ground.

"Come out, Grandma Earth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Oniseu's figure drilled out from the ground, looking helpless.

She didn't know what Han Xiao meant by the words, but it didn't stop her from understanding Han Xiao's meaning. She was powerless to complain about Han Xiao's bad taste.

"You're finally here. Hela has been waiting for you."

"Where is she? Let's fight quickly. I've brought all my tools. Let's finish the battle as soon as possible. I have something to do back home." Han Xiao took out a lot of deadly weapons and looked around.

Oniseu said helplessly, "She's not looking for you to fight. The Underworld was completely restored yesterday. Hela plans to awaken all the heroic spirits and is worried that something might happen, so she asked you to witness it together."

"Oh, so that's what it is."

Han Xiao's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand to put away his weapons, secretly calculating that with Hela's charging speed, it would take almost ten years to repair the Underworld.

He still remembered that he had a mission called \[Underworld Inheritor]. As long as he restored the Underworld to its full glory, he would get the reward \[Underworld Imprint], which could mobilize the power of the Underworld to a certain extent and send the dead into the Underworld.

"The heroic spirits are all sleeping in my Source Energy Core. Hela is already waiting there. Hold my hand, and I'll send you over too," Oniseu raised her arm.

Han Xiao grabbed Oniseu, and the next second he felt a force of spatial distortion erupting around him. Then his vision blurred, and he came to a space similar to an underground cave.

In the center of the cave was an energy sphere emitting a hazy white light, its surface covered with dark red patterns, like blood vessels, still wriggling slightly.

This was the Source Energy Core of the Underworld. Only the Dimensional Consciousness Body could easily enter it. The external Underworld was like Oniseu's skin, and only when he got here did he enter her body.

This was Han Xiao's first time in here, but Hela had been in and out countless times. She was sitting next to the Source Energy Core, resting with her eyes closed. When Han Xiao arrived, she sensed it and opened her eyes to greet him.

"Shall we start right away?"

They were so familiar that Hela didn't have any intention of exchanging pleasantries and went straight to the point.

Seeing Han Xiao nod, Hela's palm surged with dark red death energy, pouring into the Source Energy Core. Oniseu also controlled the Underworld to cooperate.

Buzz buzz buzz—

A slight vibration spread out, and the Source Energy Core became more and more dazzling.

Until his vision was filled with strong light, an extremely thick pillar of light suddenly soared into the sky, pierced through the thick Underworld earth, and shot into the gray sky.

Han Xiao looked up at the pillar of light and, through his keen observation, found that a series of blurry figures were shooting into the sky with the pillar of light. In his perception, one mental wave after another appeared out of thin air.

The pillar of light continued to extend, hitting the inner wall of the Underworld Dimension, sliding in all directions, looking like a sky-high flashing fountain. One awakened heroic spirit after another turned into a rain of light and fell on the Underworld land.

This process lasted for more than ten minutes. Soon, the deserted Underworld became lively, and the originally uninhabited land was now full of heroic spirits.

The light on each heroic spirit slowly faded, and their appearance was no different from living beings. At this time, they were all confused, looking around, as if they had not yet recovered from their long sleep.

"The progress is going smoothly. Let's go and meet them."

Oniseu breathed a sigh of relief and flew up first, with Hela pulling Han Xiao close behind.

The three of them flew into the sky, and all the heroic spirits sensed it and looked up. Seeing the familiar Oniseu, almost everyone showed a look of remembrance.

Before long, seven unique heroic spirits soared into the sky and surrounded the three of them.

"Oniseu, has the Underworld been restored? Are Nigas and Eros back?!" One of the heroic spirits asked impatiently.

"Yes, it has been restored, but not by the two sisters. Let me introduce you. This is the new Death Overlord, Hela. She has inherited Nigas's power and is now the new owner of the Underworld."

Oniseu took the initiative to introduce each other, then pointed to the seven heroic spirits in front of her and said:

"These seven are the Seven Heroic Spirit Kings of the Underworld. They were all Super-A Grades in life and are the seven most powerful beings in the Underworld."

Hearing this, Han Xiao looked at the seven people in front of him, all of whom were pioneers who had left their names in history, and nodded secretly.

No wonder the Sanctum Revivalists said that few people in the Exploration Era were willing to provoke the Life and Death Sisters. When they fought, they could summon seven Super-A Grades, all of whom were immortal. Who could withstand that?

Even in modern times, such combat power was in the first echelon of the universe.

However, Oniseu's words were not finished yet. The following content made Han Xiao's heart jump.

"Although the Underworld is a free resting place for souls, there are too many heroic spirits. In the past, to facilitate management, we established an organizational structure, with the seven heroic spirit kings helping to manage it. Under their command, there are a total of 3,600 Calamity Grade heroic spirits, 108 million B Grade heroic spirits, and hundreds of billions of other heroic spirits. These are all the residents of the Underworld."

Han Xiao subconsciously gasped.

Wdnmd! So many souls?

Are you guys running a hell?

There were so many Supers. This was 3,600 Calamity Grades. Anywhere you put them, they would be a terrifying force capable of overturning the region! If there were no players, the Underworld would probably be the most terrifying undying army!

Just from this number, one could indirectly know how intense the wars in the Exploration Era were. Some of them were the dead collected by the two sisters themselves, and others were people who voluntarily entered the Underworld to obtain eternal life.

While he was secretly surprised, the seven heroic spirit kings were looking at Hela, sensing the death ability on her, and knew that Oniseu's words were true. Their faces suddenly turned cloudy and uncertain.

It was one thing for them to serve the two sisters, but now that they had a new master, they were not willing to accept it, but they had no choice and were quite conflicted.

However, they were willing to enter the Underworld for eternal life, which meant that they cared more about their own lives and did not care about serving others, so they did not struggle for too long and convinced themselves. Besides, Nigas and Eros's suicide had really screwed over the heroic spirits who believed in the two sisters, and they all harbored resentment in their hearts.

At this time, the seven heroic spirit kings turned to look at Han Xiao, revealing a look of doubt.

"Who is this guy? Could he be the new Life Overlord?"

"No, my name is Black Star. Actually, I..."

Han Xiao was interrupted by Hela before he could finish his self-introduction.

Hela said lightly:

"I am your boss, and Black Star is my boss. You can call him Old Boss. Now you are all his subordinates."

"What's wrong with you?" Han Xiao was surprised.

Hela turned to look at him, her tone slightly softer, "My power is your power, and these heroic spirits are also at your disposal."

"You say that, and I'm really touched, but..." Han Xiao pointed to the seven heroic spirit kings with unfriendly expressions and said helplessly, "Don't be so blunt, please consider their feelings."

These people were pioneers who had dominated the world. You're giving them to me like goods. Don't they have any dignity?

One of the hot-tempered heroic spirit kings immediately became annoyed and said in a deep voice: "New Underworld Overlord, it's true that we are under your control, but you have to respect us. Even your predecessors didn't dare to talk to us like this... We'll let it go this time, but don't do it again.

But we will never listen to the orders of others. You already have us, and you are invincible in the universe. You no longer need to serve anyone. If you want, we will immediately take down this Black Star and let you dispose of him!"

Han Xiao was immediately unhappy.

This bastard, he tried to provoke the relationship between himself and Hela as soon as he came out. If it weren't for the fact that you don't have a physical body, I would have beaten you on the spot until you couldn't take care of yourself and could only rely on a catheter to solve your eating problems for the rest of your life.

Hela frowned and said in a deep voice:

"Shut up. If you don't want to do it, you can get lost. At worst, I'll let you sleep again and never wake up."

The seven heroic spirit kings' expressions froze, and they looked at each other, astonished.

Even the former two sisters treated them with courtesy and would not offend them, because they controlled their bodies during battle. The two sisters could only temporarily revive them and could not control them to fight, so they could completely slack off.

But this new master was not polite at all, as if she didn't care about their power at all. Even if she offended them, she would stand up for her boss... You're a Super-A Grade with a surge in strength! Do you have to be such a simp?!

The seven people's suspicious eyes moved back and forth between the two of them. Suddenly, they thought of something, and their expressions became ambiguous.

Hey, we're well-informed. This situation is either because he owes her a favor or because they slept together, so she's so devoted.

At this time, Oniseu stepped in to smooth things over, saying: "You've been asleep for too long. Many eras have passed. This Black Star is one of the strongest people in the universe now. You may not be able to beat him even if you all go together... Moreover, now that the Underworld only has a Death Overlord, and the Life Overlord is still growing, you can't have a physical body and have no combat power."

Hearing this, the seven immediately dispelled the idea of fighting hard. A wise man knows when to submit. They pretended to laugh.

"Hahahaha... We were just joking with you."

"That's right, don't be so serious."

"This Black Star brother looks talented and has a bright future. It's our honor to serve him."

"That's right, that's right. If we could revive temporarily, we would immediately show off our talents!"

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and twitched the corner of his mouth.

Did they give up so easily?

What heroic spirit kings? They sound so grand, but they don't want any integrity in order not to continue sleeping. As expected, I shouldn't have had any expectations!

Although the personalities of these heroic spirit kings made him complain, he had to admit that the strength of the Underworld was very powerful. This was the biggest legacy left by the former two sisters, and the Life and Death abilities were more like keys to unlocking the legacy.

However, at present, Aurora had not yet reached the Super-A Grade. Although the power of the Underworld was terrifying, it could only be watched but not used, and revival also consumed Stamina and had a limited duration.

Compared with the Sanctuary Revival, the biggest feature of the Underworld was that it did not refuse anyone. The revival targets were not limited to Super-A Grades, and their strength was not weakened much.

But the disadvantage was also obvious. They could only rely on the Underworld Overlord forever, without freedom, sharing the same fate, and becoming retainers.

While the few of them were chatting, the countless heroic spirits on the ground had also come back to their senses and began to use the Source Energy to transform the Underworld.

On the originally barren black land, buildings rose from the ground, restoring the former scenery and quickly restoring the prosperity of the Underworld.

At this time, Han Xiao's panel moved.

\[【Underworld Inheritor】 is complete!]

\[You have gained 50 million experience, and Oniseu's Favorability +20]

\[You have obtained 【Character Summon Card - "Underworld" Oniseu】]

\[Character Summon Card - "Underworld" Oniseu: 【Ten Thousand Souls Source Flow】 - Immune to all mental attacks and absorbs them to replenish Stamina and Health. Maximum number of uses: 0/1]

\[You have completed the additional mission requirement]

\[Oniseu's Favorability +40]

\[You have obtained the new skill 【Underworld Imprint】!]