Blue Phoenix Chapter 18 - First Step Towards the Future

Seeing the interest in Deng Wu’s eyes, Hui Yue could not help but smirk a little. He understood how tempting it was to see someone who had found a way to control multiple corpses at once and at the same time not spend one’s focus on them. To make them tools for fighting without having to be there oneself would be incredibly useful. Currently, he relied on inscriptions. The skills locked within were always weaker than the actual skill used by the practitioner who had the elemental affinity with the said skill. This caused the caster to be at a disadvantage in direct battle. Although he was capable of inscribing any sort of skill, no matter the elemental affinity, they would always be weaker than the real attacks. This prompted the metal affinity experts almost always to have weaker attacks making them worse fighters than most cultivators.

Due to this, many who had the metal affinity were craftsmen. They created inscriptions that increased one’s strength, martial arts skills, or other abilities then forged them into weapons, armors, and other things. The few metal affinity users who focused on cultivation after unlocking their middle dantian would concentrate on either necromancy or inscriptions. The inscriptionists would have a multitude of different inscriptions to ensure that, despite them being weaker, they had quantity on their side. This was generally enough to overwhelm and defeat their opponents. Deng Wu, though, was both a necromancer and someone who specialized in inscriptions. He spent all his time working hard on either inscriptions or creating soul shadows.

Hui Yue could not help but snort a little as he saw Deng Wu’s eagerness. He knew that the older man was willing to do nearly anything to increase in strength so he could become much more dependable, and get closer to taking revenge for his family. Seeing this Hui Yue could only smile. If it were truly possible for a necromancer to move corpses in the way that presumably An He could, then Deng Wu would sooner or later certainly discover how it was done

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