People are devoured and become Luo Feng's golden finger

Chapter 274 High-Grade Treasure: The Banner of Billions of Souls

"Aside from the six demon lords I captured and refined, there are now twenty-six demon lords remaining in the Abyss of Purgatory."

Bai Chen pondered in his heart.

The reason it's in the open is because no one knows whether the ancient Abyss, which has existed for so long, hides some ancient being.

However ancient or powerful, it is absolutely impossible to become the master of the universe, or even a top-tier cosmic overlord.

Such a domineering entity as Virtual Universe Corporation would not allow such a powerful hostile alien race to appear in its core lair.

"It's time to make a move." Bai Chen made up his mind.

The plan to capture them all in one fell swoop is now in action!

Boom!

Roar!
A red demon, three hundred kilometers tall, with six hooves and twelve wings, crashed violently into the majestic sacred mountain, breaking it in half with a deafening explosion.

Before the strange beast-like demon could even finish its last breath, bolts of lightning sword energy, like a torrential downpour, bombarded the area where the beast-like demon had fallen.

The painful cries rang out again, then gradually faded.

Ultimate Technique: Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison Sword, Second Form: Chain Flash!

With a flash of sword light, it can transform into an endless storm of thunderous sword energy to hunt down enemies locked onto by consciousness.

The thunderous sword energy only subsided after the wailing completely disappeared.

Bai Chen's figure also appeared in the air, but there was no joy on his face. He just looked coldly at the abyss below, which was shrouded in smoke and gravel.

This place was originally a sacred mountain thousands of miles high, but it was forcibly blasted into a bottomless abyss by endless thunder and sword energy storms.

Swish!
A red light silently concealed its presence deep underground and burrowed away.

"A concealment-type talent technique, trying to use it as an excuse to escape?" Bai Chen shook his head; this trick wouldn't work on him.

Under the scanning effect of the golden finger, nothing can hide.

In the next instant, Bai Chen transformed into a lightning sword light, directly piercing through and melting the earth. The high-grade treasure, the Purple-Green Immortal Sword, in his hand slashed at an extremely weak red-light beast shadow once again.

The moment the sword light was unleashed, it split into eighty-one sword energies, which, like a sword energy prison, cut and shredded the beast shadow within the red light into pieces.

When the Beast Shadow Divine Body re-condensed, its aura was less than one percent of its peak strength, and even its reactions were much slower.

A swift bolt of lightning flashed by.

The beast shadow divine body, which was already close to slumber, was partially annihilated again, forcing it into a deep sleep, where it collapsed to the ground and could not get up.

Bai Chen took out the billions of Soul Banners from his body and put them into his body for refinement.

With his divine power poured in at any cost, this powerful beast-type demon lord, whose strength was that of a high-level cosmic venerable, was refined alive into the main soul of the Soul Banner.

The number of Universe Venerable-level main souls increased by 1.
If one enters the billions of Soul Banners, one will see that the Soul Banners themselves form the Three Realms.

In the upper realm, twenty-six blood-red demonic figures, their imposing auras like pillars, stood asleep, while strands of refined soul power around them were merging into their bodies, strengthening their demonic soul forms.

In the middle realm, over 130,000 immortal demon souls sat cross-legged, also absorbing and exhaling refined soul power to strengthen their own power.

In the lower realm, nearly seven billion realm master demon souls were engaged in a frenzied battle. One by one, the soul bodies of realm master demon souls shattered in the battle, leaving only a trace of core spiritual light.

The victorious demonic souls greedily absorbed the soul essence of the defeated demonic souls, strengthening themselves, comprehending the laws, and rapidly advancing their power towards the peak of the Realm Lord realm, and towards becoming immortal gods. The core spiritual light of the defeated gathered in a spiritual pool in a corner, absorbing the massive amount of soul power within to reshape their bodies, and then rejoined the battlefield.

Only a demonic soul that dies more than ten times will have its core aura shatter, transforming into a purer soul essence to supply the victor, and it will never be able to be resurrected.

As for the foundation that constitutes the soul power of the Spirit Pool, it is precisely those billions of weak demon souls.

Flesh and blood forge the soul banner, white bones forge the banner's structure, and the soul forges the demonic soul.

Everything the devil has has been exploited.

"Continue." Bai Chen withdrew his immortal divine power, glanced at the billions of Soul Banners whose aura had increased once again, and smiled with satisfaction.

Then, with a flash, he disappeared to find his next target.

Even if these demon lords of the Abyss are slow to realize, they have now come to the realization that an extremely powerful outsider is hunting them.

Unfortunately, being cunning by nature, they did not initially unite to fight against Bai Chen.

Instead, they remained in their meticulously built lair, holding fast to it with their most powerful forces.

Some demon lords simply chose to abandon everything in their territory and hide in the shadows, attempting to evade the hunt of outsiders.

The former, without a doubt, was confronted by Bai Chen, who raided his entire hideout.

The latter, although more troublesome, still managed to find some thanks to the golden finger scanning ability. The fate of those found is self-evident: they all gathered inside the Venerable Soul Banner.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky and landed on a cliff, revealing a figure—it was Bai Chen.

"The remaining three demon lords are truly cunning." Bai Chen shook his head and sighed slightly.

Within a month of the last hunt down of twenty-six demon lords, Bai Chen added three more to his list of kills. However, even after expending a lot of energy and expanding the detection range of his cheat ability, he still couldn't find any trace of the last three demon lords.

Previously, Bai Chen had lamented that the number of demons nurtured in the Abyss of Purgatory, which spanned tens of millions of light-years, was truly astounding. Every time one wave was killed, another would grow back, making it impossible to eradicate them completely.

Now, Bai Chen felt somewhat helpless about the vastness of the Purgatory Abyss.

"Fortunately, the Billion Soul Banner successfully upgraded to a high-grade treasure. Otherwise, it would have been frustrating if it had fallen just short." Bai Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

He took out the black soul banner, examined it closely, and a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.

Twenty-nine Universe Venerable-level Demon Souls, 190,000 Immortal-level Demon Souls, and 13 billion World Lord-level Demon Souls.

Such a terrifying number, once fused into the form of a Demon Lord, would likely be enough to threaten even the most powerful cosmic overlords, or even the most elite cosmic overlords.

Soul defense treasures are extremely rare, even rarer and more precious than palace-type treasures and domain-type treasures.

Universe overlords typically possess only one or two ordinary treasures, and ordinary soul defense treasures are even rarer and more valuable than many high-level attack treasures, making them naturally difficult to obtain.

Similarly, while top cosmic overlords generally possess one or even two high-level treasures, they may not all have ordinary soul defense treasures.

Attack-based treasures and material defense treasures are generally the types of treasures that can maximize strength and survivability, and they are also the cheapest and most common types of treasures.

Therefore, most super-strong individuals will spend a lot of resources on these two aspects.

Only those with the resources will begin to upgrade the grade and level of other types of treasures.

(End of this chapter)