Devouring the Stars: Blood Sea Demon Lord

Chapter 272: Peak Skills
For more than a decade after entering the Vast Continent, the Underworld Sea and the Black Curtain King cooperated to continuously lure powerful alien races into the Blood Realm Passage, enslaving their souls with the Blood Sea's consciousness, thus adding seven more Limit-Sealing King soul slaves.

With so many Limit-Sealing King Soul Slaves, their strength has greatly increased.

However, true strength lies in one's own power, and cultivation is the most important thing.

Deep within a vast river, millions of kilometers wide and hundreds of billions of kilometers long, the Underworld Sea, mimicking its method of orbiting star clusters in the Second Battlefield, used the river water to block the perception of powerful outsiders and dug deep pits at the bottom of the river to build temporary dwellings.

The vast continent is teeming with powerful individuals, and there is no shortage of worthy opponents to hone one's skills.

After cultivating for a period of time, I would go out to find enemies and fight for a while, and then continue cultivating. I could do both without delay.

Time passed slowly.

About thirty years after entering the vast continent.

At the bottom of the great river, hundreds of thousands of kilometers deep, lies a vast space hundreds of kilometers long, high, and wide.

The bald, black-armored Minghai sat cross-legged, gazing at the 'Divine Speed ​​Boots' before him, which were interwoven with gold and silver and exuded a profound and mysterious aura. He delved into the secret patterns inside the boots, carefully sensing their profound mysteries.

Suddenly, Ming withdrew the thoughts he had spent years comprehending the 'Swift Boots', looked up at the top of the cave, his eyes vacant, and was immersed in some inexplicable enlightenment.

"That's it, that's it!"

After a long while, Minghai smiled and murmured to himself, saying with delight.

The mind logs into the virtual universe and is transported to the secret space.

'Roar'

A monster nearly a thousand kilometers long, with a single black horn on its head, covered in blade-like black scales, and mysterious golden markings all over its body, its dark golden eyes radiating coldness, savagery, and ferocity, lunged towards the Nether Sea.

Golden-horned behemoth!

The 1000th enemy in the Arcane Space!
'boom'

Huge hooves, blotting out the sky, descended swiftly and relentlessly.

brush!
A dazzling sword light flashed, and Minghai narrowly escaped the area covered by the hooves and claws, turning around and slashing out with his sword.

‘Boom boom boom’

The fierce battle lasted for a long time.

Finally, during a moment of close combat, the Nether Sea Sword slashed the neck of the Golden Horned Beast, severing its enormous head, which was hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Then, it unleashed millions of sword strikes in succession, tearing the Golden Horned Beast to pieces and destroying its life core along with it.

victory!

"Hahahaha!"

Watching the golden-horned behemoth's corpse vanish in a speck of light, Minghai couldn't contain his joy and burst into laughter.

The golden-horned behemoth that had plagued him for decades was finally killed by him.

After defeating the 1000th enemy, the secret technique representing the Underworld Sea has finally reached its peak and can be called an ultimate skill!
"This move focuses on movement and maximizes evasion; let's call it 'Not a Leaf Touches the Body'!"

Minghai named the first ultimate technique he created.

'Insignificant,' 'ordinary,' and 'top-tier' secret techniques are not considered ultimate skills and do not deserve to have names.

Only the most supreme and unique skills are qualified to be named!
"Ok?"

After naming his newly created unique skill, Minghai suddenly had an inspiration. He closed his eyes and carefully comprehended it.

After a while, Minghai opened his eyes and smiled slightly.

Just now, he comprehended one of the three major branches of the laws of space: 'teleportation'!
We are only one branch away from mastering all the laws of space: 'strangulation'.

Exiting the virtual universe, Minghai took out the Blood Ink Sword, a sword with a blood-red blade but an inky black spine, exuding a sharp and fierce aura.

"It's time to inscribe the secret technique!"

Staring at the 'sword prototype', Minghai sighed.

Having possessed the Blood Ink Sword for nearly a century, he had never inscribed any secret techniques into it, not because he didn't want to, but because he lacked the ability.

The Blood Ink Sword is almost a powerful offensive weapon on its own, and even top-tier secret techniques have no effect on it.

Only the ultimate martial arts techniques can enhance the power of the Blood Ink Sword, allowing this 'sword embryo' to truly possess the power of a powerful offensive weapon. Concentrating his mind and using his mental energy, he engraved the spiritual imprint of his newly created ultimate technique, 'Not a Leaf Sticks to the Body,' onto the blank space, forming a golden secret rune.

After engraving the secret technique, holding the Blood Ink Sword again felt completely different.

It's as if the arm is an extension, in harmony with one's own mind. When drawing the sword, the person and the sword become one, blending seamlessly without any separation.

"Although it can't be considered a top-tier offensive weapon yet, in my hands, it's already comparable to a low-tier offensive weapon!"

After silently sensing for a while, Minghai revealed a smile and muttered to himself.

"Let's go out and try to find powerful alien warriors!"

With the new mastery of his ultimate technique, the Blood Ink Sword has become much more powerful, and the Nether Sea is stirring with unease.

'whoosh'

Without activating the 'Swift Boots' rune, he teleported for the first time on his own, appearing a light-year away.

A month later, Minghai, though somewhat weak, returned to his temporary abode at the bottom of the great river in excellent spirits.

"Although it created a pinnacle technique and the power of the Blood Ink Sword is comparable to a low-grade attack treasure, it is still far inferior to those veteran limit-sealing kings!"

Back at his temporary lodging, he recalled the great battle that had taken place not long ago, and the Dark Sea Passage.

Somewhere on the vast continent, he encountered a peerless king from the demon race, 'King Weishe'. Although he easily escaped, he was still suppressed and completely at a disadvantage throughout the battle.

'King Weishe' was of average strength in the Ultimate King Sealing, with about twice the genes of an ordinary life form and three times the amplitude of divine power, and created a peak ultimate technique.

Its strength is much lower than that of the Black Curtain King and the Cangjian King, who do not possess powerful offensive treasures, but it is still above the Underworld Sea.

In terms of sheer power, the 'King Weishe,' possessing 600,000 times the power of a peak world lord, is six times stronger than the Nether Sea.

Secret techniques and ultimate skills also reside in the Underworld Sea.

The "Not a Leaf Sticks to the Body" technique of the Underworld Sea is only in its initial stage, and is a secret technique mainly based on movement. Its destructive power is far inferior to the "King Weishe's" peak technique, which has been established and perfected many times over many years.

It was only because the Blood Ink Sword was incredibly powerful, coupled with the 'Swift Boots' movement technique and the 'Black Curtain Armor' that he was able to fight 'King Weishe' for so long. Although he was at a disadvantage, he was never truly defeated.

"I am now at the true limit of King-level strength, but I am still far from being invincible near King-level. When facing powerful figures like King Black Curtain or King Cangjian, I can only protect myself!"

Standing quietly, I repeatedly recalled this battle and pondered its shortcomings.

"call!"

After a long while, Minghai let out a long breath, opened his eyes again, and his eyes shone brightly.

"Although this ultimate technique is only in its initial stages, it has broken through the bottleneck in the cultivation of secret methods. Next, we need to continue our efforts to perfect it!"

In the time that followed, Minghai stopped going out and stayed in his temporary residence at the bottom of the river to cultivate in seclusion.

They either study the secret runes on the 'Shadow Armor' and 'Swift Boots', enter the secret space to fight, or take out the 'Spatial Ring' to comprehend the origin of space.

Occasionally, they would invite Cangjian Wang to spar and fight in the virtual universe.

Time passed slowly.

After the bottleneck was broken, Minghai's cultivation speed once again entered the fast lane.

Five years later, he created the second ultimate technique, "Surging Waves," which focuses on speed, greatly increasing his sword-wielding speed and movement speed in battle.

Enter the secret space, defeat more than a hundred enemies in succession, and advance to level 1108.

Eleven years later, he created the third ultimate technique, "Raging Waves Shattering the Star River," which focuses on destructive power and has increased its destructive power exponentially.

Defeat over a hundred enemies in the arcane space again to reach level 1214.

Nineteen years later, he absorbed the continuous killing intent into his ultimate technique and created the fourth ultimate technique, "Endless Waves".

Defeat over 130 enemies in the Arcane Space to reach level 1347.

The four ultimate techniques were engraved into the Blood Ink Sword, instantly elevating the sword's grade to that of a top-tier primary attack weapon.

In Minghai's hands, the power he displayed was no less than that of the Black Curtain King's medium-level attack treasure, the Jade Amber Blade.

(End of this chapter)