Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 144 The Silent Abyss
Soon, Fatty reported, "Master, if the target has not cultivated any secret techniques for concealing its aura, the Po Jun spaceship's detectors can detect life signs within a radius of more than eight million kilometers."

As he spoke, Fatty projected a virtual screen in front of Lu Jin.

In the center of the screen, there is a small green dot, representing the location of the Po Jun spaceship.

Surrounding the green dot are numerous red dots, each representing a domain lord-level abyssal demon.

"Excellent! Plan the route, maintain the speed of the Po Jun spaceship at 20,000 kilometers per second, and begin the hunt!"

Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction and gave the instructions.

"Yes, Master!"

After Fatty responded, the power module of the Po Jun spaceship started working, and the entire spaceship rose into the air like a giant sword, quickly heading towards the location of the nearest Domain Lord-level Abyss Demon.

"Kakaka-"

On the desolate, dark earth, a burly demon with a blue face and fangs was devouring a demon corpse.

Suddenly, the blue-faced, fanged demon's expression hardened. He picked up the blood-red broadsword beside him and stared solemnly at the northwest sky.

According to his perception, an object in the sky to the northwest was rapidly approaching him at a speed exceeding the limits of an ordinary demon count.

"A sword?"

Looking into the distance, the blue-faced, fanged demon saw a large object resembling a battle sword flying rapidly towards it.

The native demons were ignorant and didn't recognize a spaceship.

"call out!"

Just then, a streak of blue-gold light appeared and rapidly magnified in the blue-faced, fanged demon's vision.

"Oh!"

With a crashing sound, the fifth level of the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon, 'Space Shattering,' pierced straight through the chest of the demon count.

Then, the terrifying power carried by the blue-gold ice cone formed by the 'shattered space' directly shattered the life core of this peak ninth-tier domain lord abyss demon, along with its entire body, into a handful of ice crystal powder, killing it instantly.

The corpses of high-ranking demons or superior demons whose non-living genes surpass those of ordinary life cannot be decomposed into bloodline source crystals. They only possess entry-level lower-ranking law beads and domain lord-level life source crystals. Lu Jin doesn't care whether he can leave behind a corpse or not.

"call out!"

The blue-gold ice cone traced an arc in mid-air before flying back into Lu Jin's hand.

At the same time, after killing the peak ninth-tier Abyss Demon, Lu Jin felt a strong and special aura emanating from his body.

This peculiar aura had also appeared before in the City of Wols when they killed the three-headed Domain Lord-level Demon Earl and the four-headed Cosmic Ninth-Order Peak Demon Viscount.

However, compared to the last time, the special aura obtained this time is much stronger.

As his consciousness sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Jin saw black lines condense and then form a simple black demon head pattern.

Moreover, not only the main body's sea of ​​consciousness contained the black demon pattern, but also the sea of ​​consciousness of the Water Qilin clone in the World Ring, and the Netherworld Blood Sea clone in the Great Luo Heaven, also contained this black demon pattern mark.

'This is the Black Iron-grade Abyss Blessing Mark?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

After a long period of experimentation, Lu Jin finally figured out the effects of the Black Iron-level Abyss Blessing Mark.

It wasn't particularly effective, but it wasn't entirely useless either.

After all, in terms of comprehension alone, although he is not bad, he is not that good either, far inferior to his physical cultivation talent, which is better than nothing.

However, Lu Jin didn't mind, as what he had obtained so far was only the lowest-level Black Iron Abyss Blessing Mark.

There are also Bronze, Silver, and Gold Abyss Blessing Marks, whose effects are definitely not comparable to those of the Iron Abyss Blessing Marks.

Moreover, while the improvement may not be significant for a single body, he has tens of thousands of bodies.

Even if a single improvement is only a tiny bit, when the coefficient increases to tens of thousands, it can amount to tens of thousands of tiny bits.

Having learned about the changes brought about by the Black Iron-level Abyss Blessing Mark, Lu Jin continued to ride the Broken Army spaceship, quickly and accurately hunting down Domain Lord-level Abyss Demons.

The Water Kirin clone and a small number of Blood God Child incarnations comprehended the "Falling Snow Secret Manual," while the Netherworld Blood Sea clone and most of the Blood God Child incarnations comprehended the "Floating Blood Secret Manual."

A month later.

In the dimly lit abyss battlefield, two figures streaked across the air one after the other at breakneck speed, enacting a life-or-death chase.

Ahead, fleeing for their lives, was a dark gold demonic figure clad in dark gold armor and wielding a pair of golden claw-shaped demonic weapons.

This ninth-tier peak Abyss Demon was quite burly, over five meters tall, with bulging muscles, four crystalline golden horns on its head, and its body covered in mysterious dark gold demonic patterns.

The pair of demonic wings extending from its back, seemingly cast in gold, could vibrate at speeds of tens of thousands of kilometers per second.

Behind him, Lu Jin, carrying the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon and riding the Water Cloud Shuttle, was rapidly approaching.

He noticed that Lu Jin, a viscount-level figure behind him, was moving much faster than his maximum speed.

The Dark Gold Demon, about to be driven to a dead end, took out a black sphere emanating a violent aura from his world ring and roared at Lu Jin without turning his head: "Outsider, don't force me!"

Seeing this, Lu Jin, who was chasing from behind, raised his eyebrows.

A hellish abyss version of a 'homemade bomb'?
Immediately, Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, and the water unicorn clone that had transformed into human form appeared within the world ring.

'Shuh! '

The next moment, the Water Kirin clone activated its innate secret technique: Mastering Space, and instantly teleported in front of the Dark Gold Demon who was fleeing for its life.

Immediately afterwards, the Water Kirin clone's expression hardened, and an invisible psychic cone shot out, instantly penetrating the Dark Gold Demon's sea of ​​consciousness.

'puff! '

In an instant, before the Dark Gold Demon could react, the psychic spike that had seeped into his consciousness annihilated his soul.

"If I hadn't been thinking of leaving you a whole corpse, do you really think you could have escaped?"

The water unicorn clone curled its lip and stepped forward to put the corpse of the dark gold demon into its external storage space.

In the month since entering the Abyss Battlefield, Lu Jin has killed over ten thousand Domain Lord-level Abyss Demons, leaving only two Abyss Demons with intact corpses. Now, he is killing the third.

For no other reason than that the dark golden abyss demon at the ninth level of the domain lord is an extremely rare high-level demon in the Purgatory Abyss, possessing six times the life genes.

The first two abyssal demons that left their corpses intact, while not high-ranking demons, were still superior demons, possessing three times the life genes.

Of course, while he was said to have been left with a complete corpse, his final fate was actually worse than that of the abyss demon, who was blasted into ice crystal fragments by him with the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon.

Sure enough, after entering the cheat space, the dark gold demon corpse was taken out by the Netherworld Blood Sea clone in the Great Luo Heaven and stuffed into the Demon Refining Pot.

In the blink of an eye, the Demon Refining Pot contained an entry-level Metal Origin Law Bead, an entry-level Space Origin Law Bead, a six-times life gene-level bloodline source crystal, and more than three thousand domain lord-level life source crystals.

He himself doesn't need the Bloodline Source Crystal, but as the Heavenly Court grows stronger in the future, his subordinates will eventually need it.

Without going into too much detail, this six-times life gene-level bloodline source crystal alone is worth as much as a very ordinary treasure.

"Whoosh!"

After retracting his Water Kirin clone, Lu Jin piloted the Water Cloud Shuttle back to the Po Jun spaceship, which was still behind him.

Not long after, Lu Jin used the spaceship's detector to locate and kill an eighth-tier Abyss Demon, and a special aura emanating from his body surged violently.

As his consciousness sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Jin saw a silver demon head pattern shimmering with a hazy golden light.

In the blink of an eye, the hazy golden light dissipated, and the original silver demon head pattern not only became more mysterious and complex, but its color also changed to pure gold.

Thus, after a month, the original body, at the peak of the ninth rank of the universe, finally obtained the gold-level Abyss Grace Mark after hunting down more than 10,000 domain lord-level abyssal demons.

After concentrating and sensing for a while, Lu Jin felt that his comprehension had been significantly improved once again.

Before entering the Abyss Battlefield, his comprehension was at most comparable to that of a Star Zone-level genius.

Now that he has obtained the Gold-level Abyss Blessing Mark, his comprehension is even above that of ordinary race-level geniuses.

With extraordinary comprehension and perfect genes, he possesses the most outstanding physical cultivation talent in the universe.

It's no exaggeration to say that he can no longer be described as a genius who appeared in the XX era.

However, the Abyss's Blessing Mark has an expiration period.

By carefully examining the gold-level Abyss Blessing mark within his sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Jin couldn't help but discover that if he didn't replenish that special killing aura by killing Abyss demons of a level no lower than his own, he would be at risk of losing his special killing aura.

So, a hundred years from now, the Gold-level Abyss Blessing Mark will be downgraded to the Silver-level Abyss Blessing Mark.

Two hundred years later, it drops to Bronze level; three hundred years later, it drops to Iron level; and four hundred years later, the Abyss's Blessing Mark disappears.

To maintain the existence of the Abyss's Blessing Mark, it is necessary to replenish it with one percent of the special killing aura of that level of mark every hundred years.

In other words, killing a million Abyss Demons of the same level will grant you a Gold-level Abyss Blessing Mark.

The maintenance cost for subsequent Gold-level Abyss Blessing Marks is as high as 10,000 Abyss Demons of the same level every hundred years.

The massive number of kills and high maintenance costs are manageable at lower levels, but at higher levels, the size of the Infernal Abyss world becomes insufficient.

After all, the higher the level, the fewer life forms there are.

The number of high-level Abyss Demons is limited, and the effects of the Gold-level Abyss Blessing Mark are not too overpowered.

It is precisely because of these two factors that the Abyss, despite having the Abyss Blessing Mark as a "small cheat," still could not escape the fate of becoming a "human genius training dungeon" and a "high-level servant birth factory."

"Fatty, leave the Abyss Battlefield and head towards the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss."

Once inside the control room of the Po Jun spaceship, Lu Jin gave instructions to Fatty.

"Yes, Master!"

Fatty responded.

Immediately, the Po Jun spaceship's speed increased dramatically, flying forward at near the speed of light.

The Gold-level Abyss Blessing Mark has been obtained and will not be downgraded within a hundred years.

Later, he could drop a Kunlun Token into the Abyss of Purgatory. If needed a hundred years later, he could use the Kunlun Mirror to travel through space and hunt down high-level Abyss demons. Next, Lu Jin was going to explore the forbidden zone in the eighteenth level of the Abyss of Purgatory that his soul servant, Odok, had mentioned.

This continues until one has made significant gains within the forbidden zone, or has thoroughly comprehended the mysteries of all the fundamental laws of space and water, and subsequently breaks through to the level of a true being and then a domain lord.

Whether it was due to choosing the wrong direction or the sheer size of the Abyss Battlefield, the Po Jun spaceship, traveling at 0.9 times the speed of light, took nearly three days to pass through the sky-covering black light curtain and leave the Abyss Battlefield.

However, compared to leaving the Abyss Battlefield, traveling from the first level of the Purgatory Abyss to the eighteenth level is much faster.

After leaving the Abyss Battlefield, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone used the Kunlun Mirror to teleport the Cloud-Piercing Vine, Star-Eating Grass, and the Shenzhou spaceship into the World Ring carried by the main body.

Donning the Moyun Battle Armor, she stowed away the Pojun spaceship, boarded the Shenzhou spaceship disguised as an evil dragon, and activated the spaceship's probes to investigate the location of the abyss passage.

In just over half a day, the Shenzhou spacecraft passed through seventeen abyss passages and arrived at the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss.

"Such dense cosmic energy! It's even denser than the territory of Wu Chen Spacetime!"

Inside the Shenzhou spaceship, Lu Jin released his mental energy and sensed the concentration of cosmic energy within the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss, which surprised him somewhat.

With a sigh, Lu Jin instructed Fatty, "Fatty, search for the nearest Lord-level Abyss Demon."

The soul servant Odok didn't know much about the 'Desperate Zone' located in the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss; he had only heard rumors about it. Naturally, Lu Jin didn't have a map of that Desperate Zone.

Fortunately, this matter is simple. Since even Odork of the first level of the Abyss of Purgatory has heard of the rumors about the Jedi, then the local demon duke of the eighteenth level of the Abyss of Purgatory must know even more.

Capture them, implant exorcism talismans, and make them soul slaves; this will likely reveal the location and general condition of the forbidden zone.

“Master, more than 30 million kilometers to the northwest, there is a Demon City, and there is a sixth-level Abyss Demon Lord in the city.”

Fatty reported the test results of the spacecraft probe.

Lu Jin nodded: "Very good, northwest direction, forward!"

The Shenzhou spacecraft was very fast, and soon it arrived above the demon city that it had previously explored.

"Whoosh!"

A purple-scaled demonic figure soared into the sky and appeared in front of the Shenzhou spaceship, which was disguised as an evil dragon.

"What demon comes here? What business do you have in my Purple Flame Demon Realm City?"

Sensing a faint aura of danger, but unable to discern the true nature of this 'evil dragon,' the purple-scaled demon asked in a deep voice.

'Shuh! '

Lu Jin did not speak. His water unicorn clone, now in human form, left the World Ring and teleported to the front of the purple-scaled demon.

With the activation of the exorcism technique, a radiant talisman shot out and instantly entered the consciousness of the purple-scaled demon.

In a short while, the purple-scaled demon, a sixth-level Realm Lord, was unable to withstand the erosion of the exorcising talisman and became Lu Jin's soul slave.

Except for a very few geniuses, generally speaking, beings at the realm lord level have not cultivated the Amplification Secret Technique.

With perfect genes and a hundredfold amplification, the Water Kirin clone at the peak of the ninth rank of Domain Lord is a million times stronger than other life forms of the same rank, making it incredibly easy for it to enslave an ordinary Domain Lord life form.

Immediately afterwards, the Water Kirin clone, carrying the purple-scaled demon, teleported back to the Shenzhou spaceship's control room.

"Your subordinate, Vier, greets your master!"

The purple-scaled demon, regaining its senses, knelt before Lu Jin.

After putting away his water unicorn clone, Lu Jin asked, "Vier, I heard there's a forbidden zone on the eighteenth level of the abyss. Where is it located? What's the specific situation?"

Vier replied, “Master, in the center of this layer of the Abyss of Purgatory, there is a forbidden place called the ‘Deadly Abyss’.”

If measured on the Abyss Continent alone, the Silent Abyss is a roughly elliptical region with a diameter of hundreds of billions of kilometers.

But this is only the external size of the Dead Abyss; its internal space far exceeds this value, and no one knows its true size to this day.

If the master is going to explore the Dead Silence Abyss, there are two things to pay attention to.

First, the internal space of the Dead Silence Abyss is disordered; even if one remains still, the surrounding environment may undergo irregular changes.

In addition, the abyssal mist that permeates the entire area almost completely blocks perception and can only be seen with the naked eye makes it extremely easy to lose one's way.

Secondly, in the Dead Silence Abyss, deadly winds that annihilate souls will appear without any pattern.

Since perception was almost completely blocked by the mist of the abyss, the deathly wind appeared without any warning.

Once affected by the Deathly Wind, even the Abyss God cannot avoid perishing.

However, although the Dead Abyss is extremely dangerous, its demonic energy (cosmic energy) is incredibly dense, making it far more likely to contain treasures than the outer abyss continent. Even many high-ranking demon gods go there to search for treasures.

Lu Jin was somewhat surprised: "You've been there?"

I didn't realize you knew so much, little Karami!

Vier explained, "I have never been there. The reason I know the general situation of the Dead Abyss is mainly because I and His Majesty the Demon God who created the Demon Kingdom are both from the Eros family, and there are some relevant records within the family."

"You said many demons go to the Dead Abyss to search for treasure, aren't they afraid of dying?"

Lu Jin asked again.

Vier shook his head: "This subordinate does not know, but the changes of many demon kingdoms in the Abyss of Purgatory are mostly due to the demon gods who founded the demon kingdoms and perished while searching for treasures in the Silent Abyss."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow.

Are the Abyss Demons in the Purgatory Abyss really that brave?
The Dead Abyss is so dangerous, yet they insist on going there... Uh, could it be that these abyss demons are all high-level scouts and cannon fodder?
There is no doubt that dangerous places breed treasures.

Even if someone said that the Abyss of Purgatory could nurture treasures, Lu Jin would believe it.

After all, looking at the entire primordial universe, the primordial secret realm of the Virtual Universe Company is considered a cosmic secret realm of extremely high quality.

As an important area within the Primordial Secret Realm, it's normal for the Purgatory Abyss to produce treasures; at most, the treasures might not be of a very high quality.

The Dead Silence Abyss is dangerous, and it's uncertain whether there are any treasures there. It's not impossible that the mastermind behind it won't intervene but will instead enslave some 'cannon fodder' to search for them.

As for the insufficient number of slave laborers?

There's no need to worry; once soul servants learn the secret art of enslavement, they can also enslave other beings with souls.

You can enslave high-ranking servants yourself, and then send those high-ranking servants to serve as cannon fodder.

Having roughly understood the situation, and after asking Vier for a map to the Dead Silence Abyss, Lu Jin settled down in the Purple Flame Demon Castle in the Demon Realm City.

The main body and the water unicorn clone will no longer need to participate in the upcoming adventures; they can just focus on their cultivation.

The Deadly Abyss contains a deadly wind powerful enough to annihilate the souls of immortal experts. It is definitely not suitable for the main body and the two avatars to go there. Even with pseudo-treasures and top-level treasures protecting their souls, they may not be able to withstand it. However, the Blood God Child avatar is capable of doing so.

After all, the Blood God's incarnation has no soul and is not afraid of any attack that targets only the soul.

Similarly, plant life has no soul.

Sending a Blood God Child avatar with an Immortal-level Blood Thorn to explore and search for treasures in the Dead Silence Abyss is sufficient.

Since there are many Blood God Child incarnations, losing one or two won't affect the cultivation plan.

Furthermore, when using the Kunlun Mirror to obtain the Chaos Stele for free, it's not necessary to keep an eye on it all the time; glancing at it every now and then as a reference is enough.

It can also provide a very wide field of vision when the Blood God Child enters the Dead Silence Abyss to explore and search for treasure.

Inside the Lingxiao Palace in the Great Luo Heaven.

Inside the world ring of the Netherworld Blood Sea clone, a Blood God Child incarnate poured primal force into the Kunlun Mirror in his hand to locate the Kunlun Token carried by the main body.

Subsequently, Lu Jin compared the locations with the map contributed by Vieir.

After some calculations and adjustments to the perspective, the boundary of the Dead Abyss appeared from God's point of view.

'Kun Kun, when I explored the Dead Abyss, besides detecting immortal-level life forms, remember to also detect abnormal energy fluctuations and the location of immortal divine corpses.'

Lu Jin gave instructions to Kun Kun, the spirit of the Kunlun Mirror.

The appearance of abnormal energy fluctuations indicates the presence of a treasure at that location, or a treasure that is being nurtured.

As for the immortal god corpse, it must exist within the Dead Silence Abyss.

The death wind only destroys the soul, but not the divine body, and the corpses of immortal gods do not decay over time.

As long as it isn't picked up by a lucky person, the corpse of an immortal god will remain forever.

For Lu Jin, each immortal divine corpse represents at least one lower-level law godhead.

Moreover, unlike the corpses of ordinary immortal-level Zerg warriors, generally speaking, when a life enters immortality, it will have some understanding of the higher laws.

Especially in the world of Purgatory Abyss, where there is also the existence of minor cheats like the Abyss's Blessing Mark.

'Buzz~'

The Kunlun Mirror in his hand vibrated slightly, as if in response to Lu Jin's instructions.

next moment.

'Shuh! '

Somewhere on the edge of the desolate abyss of the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss, a figure appeared with long, blood-red hair cascading down his shoulders, wearing a blood-red mask, clad in blood-red armor, and carrying a blood-red longsword.

It was the Blood God Child incarnation who carried a Kunlun Token and an Immortal-level Blood Thorn.

"Whoosh!"

The Blood God Child transformed and flew into the desolate Demon Abyss ahead, shrouded in abyssal mist.

Upon entering the Silent Abyss, Lu Jin immediately sensed an unusually dense concentration of cosmic energy in the surrounding environment.

The cosmic energy within Wuchen's spatial territory is already quite concentrated, but it's only equivalent to an ordinary area of ​​the eighteenth level of the Purgatory Abyss. Compared to the Silent Demon Abyss, it's significantly weaker.

Even if it's not ten times, Lu Jin estimates it's definitely seven or eight times.

(End of this chapter)