Versatile Mage: Starting with the White Tiger Pendant-Chapter 220: Grand Scheme

Golden Source Apartment.

Seeing Mo Fan's anxious appearance, Lu Jun stretched his limbs, easing the fatigue from training in April, and calmly reassured him, saying, "Don't worry, what exactly happened?"

Mo Fan barely managed to calm his emotions, took a deep breath, and said, "Zhang Xiaohou has gone missing in the Ancient Capital. It's been over a month now, and recently a Dark Abyss has appeared dozens of kilometers outside the Ancient Capital, triggering an undead disaster."

"Coincidentally, the Dark Abyss emerged right at the six-village area Zhang Xiaohou was investigating, near Yangyang Village."

He found it hard to speak, suppressing his emotions as he said, "He might have fallen into the Dark Abyss."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jun had already anticipated it and sighed. Zhang Xiaohou had still gone to scout the Ancient Capital's forbidden zone.

There was no helping it, it was an assigned mission; once a military order was issued, it could not be disobeyed.

This was also the reason why Lu Jun was unwilling to join any major factions, even though they could provide abundant resources like the Star River Vein, it wasn't as free and carefree.

However, Lu Jun wasn't overly worried about Zhang Xiaohou. With the other's Wind and Earth dual-element magic, combined with the local gray garlic that could mask undead aura, escaping the range of the Dark Abyss should have been easy.

After all, the Dark Abyss was just dead matter. That Zhang Xiaohou still ended up missing probably meant he encountered the Black Vatican.

Fortunately, when Lu Jun last met Zhang Xiaohou, he had planted a Psychic Imprint, tainted with Cursed Material. Although the distance made the sensing blurry, once he arrived at the Ancient Capital, if Zhang Xiaohou was still alive, he would know.

Lu Jun asked, "So what do you plan to do?"

"Alive, I must see him; dead, I must see his body." Mo Fan said with steely determination, "I'll personally go to the Ancient Capital and find him."

After hearing this, Lu Jun shook his head with a sigh. Mo Fan truly valued his friends.

And unlike the original story, Mo Fan was already a High-tier Fire Mage, and knew quite a bit about the Dark Abyss he knew it was a great creation of the Ancient King, and that even Forbidden Spells would fall powerless inside.

Even so, he was still willing to try.

Of course, the world only knew the Dark Abyss was the Ancient King's creation, but did not know that the Ancient King's tomb was buried within it.

"Then you go ahead and book the ticket first. Allow me some time to prepare, and I'll follow after you."

Lu Jun said after a moment of contemplation. Setting aside the friendship with the Monkey, there were things he had been plotting in the Ancient Capital that were finally about to emerge.

The Ancient King's Armor Robe inside the tomb palace of the Dark Abyss! The supreme treasure of the Undead Element, sealing the complete essence of an Emperor-level being. If someone could refine and absorb it, they might be able to ascend to the Undead Monarch realm.

Although when the Ancient King was alive, he had only achieved five-element Forbidden mastery, and after becoming the Undead Monarch, he was merely a Low-tier Emperor, commonly known as a minor Emperor-level existence.

Even so, that strength was enough to run rampant across the world; even a dozen Forbidden Mages together wouldn't be able to match it, it was the very ceiling of human strength.

Much like Chief Hua, the Angels of the Holy City, and the five continental chairmen, whose individual limit was fighting an Emperor alone. To achieve the strength of a Middle-tier Emperor like the ancient Athena, no one alive today had reached that level.

In fact, counting throughout human history, only Athena of the Parthenon Temple and the Heavenly Father of the Holy City had ever reached Middle-tier Emperor strength.

That's why Lu Jun envied Ye Xinxia, wishing he could swap places with her. Damn it with her continuously growing power and the foundation of the Resurrection Soul, becoming a Middle Emperor was just a matter of time.

Thus, he had been painstakingly plotting for the Ancient King's Armor Robe.

Did Lu Jun not know this thing had hidden dangers? He believed the side effects could be controlled and eliminated.

The Ancient King's Armor Robe was one of the fastest paths to becoming a peerless powerhouse in the original story but it had to be distinguished clearly: one must dominate it, not be corrupted like Zhan Kong.

This was something he had repeatedly excavated from the depths of his original memories, ensuring he could control this wicked artifact before daring to attempt it.

First, the first one to acquire the Ancient King's Armor Robe was Fang Gu, who, due to weak willpower, was directly assimilated, and his combat power was so weak he was easily killed by the vampire Liu Ru.

Only later did Zhan Kong get fitted with the Ancient King's Armor Robe. His willpower was extraordinary, and he managed to reach a compromise with the Ancient King's remnant soul, fully unleashing Emperor-level might and commanding the undead.

The contrast between the two cases demonstrated one thing clearly the Ancient King's Armor Robe was essentially a vessel, storing the vast essence of the Ancient King, without inherently aggressive properties.

Connecting it with the Zu Family's [Curse Possession Technique], which relied on special magic artifacts to seal the souls of monsters and draw on their powers in battle and considering that the Zu Family's roots traced back to the royal family of the Qin Dynasty

Then was it possible that the [Ancient King's Armor Robe] was the ultimate magic artifact for the Curse Possession Technique, a treasure the Ancient King had left behind to suppress the fate of the human race?

As for the "Ancient King's residual soul," it was probably just the feral nature of a demon, much like how the Zu Family would be influenced by the monsters' instincts when using the Curse Possession Technique, leading to agitation and loss of control.

Willpower was the best weapon to resist the Ancient King's Armor Robe.

Lu Jun, with his dual-element cultivation of Psychic and Curse magic, and his peak-level Four Realms mental strength, believed his willpower and cultivation were no weaker than Zhan Kong's.

If he then used some external forces to seal the Ancient King's Armor Robe, adding several layers of protection, couldn't he achieve a "harmless containment" and gradually absorb and refine its origin power?

When the Ancient King's residual soul first awakened, it was very weak. As long as one wasn't corrupted by it, it could be perfectly withstood.

In a way, the Ancient King's Armor Robe, the Resurrection Soul, and the Heavenly Father's Magic Origin were all things left behind by ancient heroes to suppress the fate of the world.

Just thinking about it made Lu Jun's heart yearn:

"I pursue the supreme halls of magic, and I also seek immortality. If one day I fail and fall, what supreme treasure will I leave behind for the human race?"

As for willpower, that needed no further elaboration. Regarding external forces, Lu Jun had prepared two: one was Ding Yumian, and the other was the White Tiger Pendant.

The former was correct—an external plug-in. Lu Jun planned to have Ding Yumian forcibly solidify his humanity with Heart Gaze before he left.

Since the Soul Calamity could manipulate human emotions and minds, then using it for righteous purposes would also make it an extremely strong mind stabilizer.

Of course, to achieve this, you had to first give warmth to a Soul Calamity sufferer. Only when she felt true sincerity could she feed back positive energy.

Cough cough, Lu Jun didn't say much about the specific method—those who understood would understand. He admitted he had selfish motives and a grand plan, but standing up for Ding Yumian and daring to confront the Holy City was also real.

As for the latter, there was no need to explain—the White Tiger Pendant controlled feral spirits, suppressed the underworld, and was quite effective at countering the Undead King's origin sealed within the artifact.

Thus, Lu Jun had seventy to eighty percent confidence.

Honestly, that was already enough. Where in life could you ever have a one hundred percent plan? Seventy to eighty percent was already an incredible probability.

Inside the room, hearing Lu Jun's words, Mo Fan laughed and cursed: "Good brother, I knew you were loyal. When something happens to you one day, I'll bring people to rescue you."

"Get lost!"

Lu Jun's mouth twitched. Seeing that Mo Fan's emotions were stable, he kicked him out the door.

Outside the door, Mo Fan patted his butt and immediately dashed off to the airport to catch a flight.

That was just the kind of person he was—once he made a decision, he would act immediately, no hesitation, no delay.

Afterward, Lu Jun wasn't in a hurry to leave. He turned his thoughts inward and examined his spiritual world.

Two vast, winding Star Rivers, one cyan-blue and the other black-red, stretched across it. Four star Nebulas, fully grown to the extreme, encircled them, gleaming with platinum, transparency, pure silver, and crescent moon brilliance.

For a moment, the colors intertwined, radiating brilliance.

He nodded in satisfaction. After all this time accumulating strength, his cultivation had reached the ultimate limit. What came next was the moment of explosive breakthrough. Once the Star River's Veins were obtained, full-element Advanced Level was within reach.

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