Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 145 Treasures of the Demon Abyss
Besides the unusually dense cosmic energy, Lu Jin also experienced firsthand the power of the Abyss Mist.

The abyss mist was a light blackish-gray, much like the thick fog on a winter morning. Even with the Blood God Child's cultivation level as a ninth-level Domain Lord, his visibility was only about a thousand meters, severely suppressed.

As for perception?

Once the distance exceeds 300 meters, Lu Jin can no longer perceive the specific situation.

Beyond a range of one kilometer, perception is completely blocked.

For a domain lord-level being, this range of perception is practically no different from that of an ordinary person with their eyes closed.

"Bloodthorn, how much of your perception range do you have left?"

Lu Jin asked the question, looking at the blood thorns that had turned into a blood-red mark on his wrist.

"Master, there are about 3,000 kilometers left."

Bloodthorn's voice reached Lu Jin's ears.

Lu Jin: "."

His Bloodthorn is a King-level advanced plant life form with ten times the genetic potential, yet its perception range is only a mere three thousand kilometers? What a trap!

However, if you really want to perform extreme maneuvers, Bloodthorn's perception range is not really limited to a circular area with a radius of three thousand kilometers.

For example, if the Bloodthorn's 108 main branches, each stretching for 100,000 kilometers, and countless branches on those branches are extended outwards, and the spacing between them is carefully controlled, even with the limitations of the Abyss Mist, the range of perception would still be considerable.

Of course, Lu Jin had no need to do that.

The center of the God's-eye view extends forward 500,000 kilometers, and then a special exploration mode is activated.

Suddenly, from God's perspective, within a million-kilometer-diameter exploration range, in the desolate abyss shrouded in black and gray abyssal mist, a dark red radiance and a magnificent golden pillar of light appeared.

'Good luck!'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

The dark red glow remained still, while the golden pillar of light shooting into the sky was moving rapidly.

Just as Lu Jin was about to switch his perspective to the golden pillar of light shooting into the sky, he saw that the golden pillar of light, which was moving rapidly into the depths of the Demon Abyss, had already left the Kunlun Mirror's real-time detection range.

Needless to say, this golden pillar of light represents an abyssal demon god.

Lu Jin didn't pay any attention and switched his perspective to the dark red light.

If it's the corpse of an Abyss Demon God, Lu Jin is interested in it.

But if it were a living Abyss Demon God, unless it was for a treasure, Lu Jin wouldn't rush up and have Blood Thorns destroy it as soon as he discovered one.

Soon, the item represented by the dark red light appeared in Lu Jin's sight.

On a desolate, barren land shrouded in a faint, dark gray abyss mist, lay a fist-sized, pitch-black, unidentified stone with red veins covering its surface.

'Shuh! '

The next second, using the Kunlun Mirror to travel through space, the Blood God Child appeared in the red-patterned black stone.

"Hmm? It's quite heavy?"

Picking up the red-veined black stone from the ground, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow.

Although only the size of a fist, this unnamed red-veined black stone would weigh over ten tons under standard cosmic gravity.

Immediately, Lu Jin stored the red-veined black stone into his external storage space.

The external space is amazing; not only can the main body and the two avatars use it, but even the 10081 Blood God Child incarnations can use it.

Aside from not being able to store living beings with souls, it can also be described as a vault shared by the original being and all its incarnations and avatars, and where any item can be freely stored and accessed.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin, who was inside the Purple Flame Demon Fortress, took out the red-patterned black stone from his external storage space.

"Fatty, scan it and check its value in the treasure vault."

Lu Jin pointed to the red-patterned black stone in his hand and gave instructions to Fatty.

"Yes, Master!"

Fatty responded, and a scanning beam swept across the red-veined black stone.

Soon, Fatty said, "Master, Fatty couldn't find its information in the treasure vault. Either I don't have enough permissions, or the treasure vault doesn't contain this kind of material."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin was taken aback.

The Abyss of Purgatory is a training world within the Primordial Secret Realm. Any item produced in the Abyss of Purgatory, as long as it has some value, will be recognized by the Treasure Vault Intelligent System, which is connected to the main system of the virtual universe.

In other words, this red-veined black stone, which is clearly a material for refining treasures, is of an extraordinary grade, so high that even he, a member of the original secret realm, does not have the authority to query it.

However, compared to items whose value can be determined, items whose value cannot be determined are the truly precious treasures.

Great news! Excellent news!

It's okay if you can't find the value yourself. As long as the item has some value, the virtual universe company's acquisition department will buy it.

Moreover, if it is a rare item that is not easy to buy outside, the acquisition department can purchase it with points, at most the price will be cheaper.

Of course, before selling it to Virtual Universe Company, Lu Jin would definitely ask Teacher Tian Shuang for her opinion, so as not to sell the treasure for a pittance.

But there's no rush. The treasure hunt has only just begun. We'll likely find other treasures that Fatty can't find the prices for. We can just ask Teacher Tian Shuang to take a look once we leave the Abyss of Purgatory.

If he's lucky, he might be able to accumulate enough points to buy all the Zerg Queens in the treasure vault after this treasure hunt.

Suppressing his joy at acquiring treasures, he continued to immerse himself in the cultivation of analyzing the profound mysteries of the fundamental laws of water.

At the same time, the Blood God Child avatar within the Great Luo Heaven World Ring continued to activate the Kunlun Mirror, extending its observational perspective one million kilometers into the depths of the Silent Demon Abyss.

In terms of the probability of finding treasures, the probability in the depths of the Dead Abyss is definitely higher than in the peripheral areas.

However, this time, Lu Jin was not so lucky. No abnormalities were found within the one million-kilometer-diameter exploration range.

It's not that there's absolutely nothing of value in this area, but rather that the way treasure hunting is done by Kunkun, the spirit of the Kunlun Mirror, is different from the way ordinary powerful people hunt for treasure.

Can Kun Kun manifest an anomaly from God's perspective, simply by observing the energy fluctuations emitted by the treasure, and whether they differ from the surrounding environment?

If the treasure's energy is contained within, Kun Kun won't be able to sense it.

Moreover, Lu Jin did not allow Kun Kun to display the energy fluctuations, which were of low quality, from God's perspective.

He's here to find treasure, not to pick up trash; he won't take anything worthless.

This is like the Lord of the Universe seeing F-grade and G-grade immortal divine weapons and not even bothering to glance at them, let alone take them into his possession.

Three years later.

In a certain part of the desolate abyss, the corpse of an abyss demon god, over ten meters tall, with a bull's head and a human body, black curved horns on his head, purple demonic patterns on his face, wearing black and purple armor, and wielding a black and purple warhammer, exuding a strong aura, lay quietly on the wasteland shrouded in the abyss mist.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, a figure with blood-red armor and hair appeared; it was the Blood God Child's incarnation who had traveled through space via the Kunlun Mirror.

Then, Lu Jin easily stepped forward and put the corpse of the Abyss Demon God and the purple warhammer into his external storage space.

Immediately afterwards, another Blood God Child avatar within the Great Luo Heaven World Ring took the Abyss Demon God's corpse avatar out of the external space, stripped it of its black-purple armor and world ring, and casually stuffed it into the Demon Refining Pot.

Soon, the corpse of the Abyss Demon God disappeared, transforming into a lightning law godhead, an entry-level time law bead, a bloodline source crystal with three times the life gene level, and numerous immortal-level life source crystals.

"Not bad, a high-level Abyss Demon God at the peak of the Immortal Army Lord level."

Looking at the extra resources inside the Demon Refining Pot, Lu Jin nodded slightly.

After three years of searching for treasure in the Dead Abyss, the Minotaur's corpse before him is the 239th Abyss Demon God corpse that Lu Jin has discovered.

Among them, there are 47 high-level abyssal demons with six times the life gene bloodline, and if we include this one, the number of high-level abyssal demons with three times the life gene bloodline reaches 86.

The remaining 106 are lower-level and mid-level Abyss Demons with ordinary life gene bloodlines.

One thing is a bit strange: all the high-level law beads dropped from the 239 corpses of the Abyss Demon Gods were only entry-level.

In other words, these abyssal demons were all immortal military lords in their previous lives, yet they were not even granted the title of marquis, let alone king.

However, although they are all Immortal Army Lords, there is not a single Elementary Immortal Army Lord. They are all High-Level Immortal Army Lords and Peak Immortal Army Lords, with the latter making up the majority.

If nothing unexpected happens, it's probably because most of these abyssal demons have received the mark of the abyss's grace.

Just as Lu Jin was preparing to press on, suddenly, the Blood God Child avatar within the Dead Silence Abyss sensed a spatial fluctuation around him.

The next second, the scenery in my field of vision became blurry and unreal.

Several seconds later, the surrounding blurry and illusory scenery finally became real and clear.

However, Lu Jin could see that the space around him had changed.

Previously, the surrounding terrain where he was located was a flat wasteland, but now, several hundred meters in front of him, there was a nearly vertical cliff.

'Ninth spatial transformation.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

The space within the Dead Silence Abyss is chaotic; even if one remains still, the surrounding environment may undergo irregular changes.

This marks the ninth time Lu Jin has encountered a sudden spatial shift during his three-year treasure hunt adventure.

Moreover, through the Kunlun Mirror's positioning, Lu Jin could see that this spatial shift, with the entire Silent Demon Abyss as the reference point, was not a spatial transfer of him, but rather a spatial transfer of the surrounding objects.

Without paying much attention, the Blood God Child avatar within the Great Luo Heaven World Ring switched to God's perspective and repositioned the Kunlun Token carried by the Blood God Child avatar within the Dead Silence Demon Abyss.

The next moment, the perspective shifts from God's point of view.

Instantly, from the switched God's-eye view, a dazzling ten-colored radiance appeared within the exploration area with a diameter of one million kilometers.

Lu Jin: "!!!"

Immediately, Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, and his perspective changed again, revealing the scene radiating ten-colored light.

"Kun Kun, clear the abyss fog from your view." The treasure seemed to be quite large, and due to the obstruction of the abyss fog, Lu Jin couldn't see its full appearance, so he instructed Kun Kun, the spirit of the Kunlun Mirror.

In an instant, the dark gray fog from God's perspective turned transparent, and the surrounding scenery came into view.

What appeared to be a massive 'lake' with a diameter of over 90,000 kilometers, was dark red in color, radiating a faint ten-colored halo and intense fluctuations of primordial laws.

Above the lake, countless cosmic energies converged, forming an energy tornado that stretched for millions of miles, continuously pouring into the dark red lake below.

Not far from the dark red lake, sat a peak ninth-tier Abyss Demon, a world lord, who was over three meters tall, with a pair of blue curved horns on his head, wearing blue scale armor, holding a pair of blue curved swords, with blue-patterned gray wings on his back, and a blue face and fangs.

Because the focus was only on the immortal-level abyssal demon god, the life aura emanating from this world lord-level abyssal demon did not manifest as a prominent beam of light in the previous God's-eye view.

'A lake-shaped treasure should be a domain-type treasure, right? Judging by the commotion, it's much larger than the Eight Directions Primordial Mirror from before. Is it a top-tier domain treasure, or even a supreme domain treasure?'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

As for the Lord-level Blue-Faced Demon guarding the dark red lake?
Natural treasures belong to the virtuous, and virtue is the virtue of martial arts!

The next second, Lu Jin's thoughts shifted, and the Blood God Child avatar, carrying the Kunlun Token and Blood Thorns, used the Kunlun Mirror to traverse space and appeared directly not far behind the Azure-Faced Abyss Demon.

The instant the spatial teleportation appeared, a crystal-red branch covered with sharp thorns shot out from the wrist of the Blood God Child's avatar.

Blood God Child's incarnation has ordinary life genes, so he can't use the Heavenly Frost Divine Weapon that he is good at.

Even with a hundredfold amplification, a cultivator at the peak of the ninth level of the Domain Lord realm might not be able to defeat this peak ninth-level Realm Lord blue-faced demon. It would be easier to let Blood Thorn handle it.

"call out!"

The crimson branches shot out at incredible speed, instantly striking the unsuspecting World Lord-level Blue-Faced Demon.

"Boom——"

A faint, almost imperceptible sound, like a bubble bursting, rang out. Under the terrifying attack of the Bloodthorn, the peak ninth-tier world lord, the blue-faced demon, vanished into nothingness, leaving only a fist-sized, transparent bead covered in silver patterns.

'What kind of treasure is this?'

Yu Kong stepped forward and took the silver-patterned transparent bead into his hand for a careful examination, Lu Jin thought to himself.

It survived unscathed from an attack by Bloodthorns, which is ten times stronger than a King-level weapon, demonstrating that it is indeed a treasure.

After observing it for a while and still not being able to figure it out, Lu Jin casually put it into his external storage space, placing it together with other unknown treasures he had found in the past three years, and planned to have Teacher Tian Shuang examine it later.

Then, Lu Jin's gaze turned to the dark red lake.

After examining it for a long time, limited by his own abilities and perspective, he still couldn't determine the grade of this treasure or the time it took to be created.

After some thought, the Blood God Child avatar within the Great Luo Heaven World Ring switched his God's perspective to 'overall view' mode once again, keeping a close eye on the major events within a one million kilometer diameter detection range.

At the same time, the Netherworld Blood Sea clone transmitted a message to Zi Ni Chang.

"Shh!"

Before long, Zi Ni Chang, who was carrying a Kunlun Token, was teleported to the dark red lake in the Dead Silence Demon Abyss.

Lu Jin himself couldn't tell what grade this dark red treasure was or how long it would take to complete its formation, but Zi Nishang, as a master of treasure refining, should be able to determine it.

The Deadly Abyss is extremely dangerous, with deadly winds that obliterate souls appearing frequently.

Over the past three years, Lu Jin has encountered quite a few such situations.

For some reason, he was even quite 'favored' by the winds of deathly silence, appearing on almost every day of the Earth.

Fortunately, neither the Blood God Child incarnation nor the Blood Thorns had souls and were not afraid of this thing, otherwise they would have died thousands of times over.

However, the appearance of the deadly wind was not entirely without any disturbance.

Life forms shrouded in the misty abyss are unable to perceive movements at great distances due to severely impaired senses, which is why they are unaware of the approaching deathly winds.

By the time the deathly wind was noticed, it was already too late.

Others might not notice its appearance, but through the Kunlun Mirror, Lu Jin could see it the moment it appeared.

It can be said that unless the Deathly Wind happens to appear near the Crimson Lake, Lu Jindu will have time to teleport Zi Nishang back to the Great Luo Heaven.

"Ni Chang, take a look at this treasure. What is its grade? How long will it take to mature?"

Lu Jin pointed to the dark red lake in front of him and asked Zi Nishang.

Divine power seeped in, and after a moment of focused perception, Zi Nishang said, "If I'm not mistaken, this dark red lake is a domain-type treasure, at the top level of ordinary treasures, and it's about to complete its formation."

It may be completed in a few years, or it may take several hundred years, but it should not take more than a thousand years.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin nodded and then teleported Zi Ni Chang back to Da Luo Tian.

Unlike the Blood God Child's incarnation, Zi Ni Chang is not immune to the Deathly Wind and has no clone to protect her life. Therefore, she is not suitable to stay in the Deathly Abyss for long, lest she really suffer a great misfortune.

Then, Lu Jin instructed Bloodthorn: "Bloodthorn, manifest your divine form and kill anyone who gets close."

The next moment, the blood-red mark on the wrist of the Blood God Child's avatar twisted and manifested a meter-tall crystal-red thorn bush beside him.

Immediately afterwards, Bloodthorn's size expanded.

In the blink of an eye, an immortal plant life form with a divine body that radiates outwards over a radius of 100,000 kilometers appeared on the edge of the dark red lake.

Since this supreme treasure can be fully formed within a thousand years, Lu Jin will not choose to take it now, lest the treasure's power decrease due to taking it away prematurely.

The previous Eight Directions Primordial Mirror required an epoch-making period to complete its formation, but Lu Jin wouldn't wait.

After all, for him, ordinary treasures from ten thousand or even tens of thousands of years in the future are not as important as pseudo-treasures in the present.

But the dark red lake before him is not only of the highest grade, but also requires at most a thousand years to develop, which he can afford to wait for.

Moreover, with the strongest Bloodthorn guarding it with ten times the gene, and the ability to deploy two Immortal-grade Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grasses with ten times the gene at any time, with such a lineup, even without the intervention of a Cosmic Venerable, he is determined to have this domain treasure!

As for the Venerable One appearing?
nmmp~, let's talk about it when you dare to enter the Dead Abyss and find this place in the misty abyss.

The treasure had already been discovered, but there was no venerable figure overseeing it.

Lu Jin guessed that either the Abyss Demon at the Realm Lord level who discovered the treasure had no Venerable background, or even a Universe Venerable couldn't withstand the deathly winds within the Deathly Abyss.

Otherwise, if they knew that a common treasure of the domain type had been born here, even the overlord of the universe would come to keep an eye on it personally, lest they miss out on this treasure that could serve as their core equipment.

"Since there's a treasure being nurtured, the surrounding space shouldn't be affected, right? Or perhaps it will simply be moved along with the nurturing treasure?"

Looking at the blood-red lake ahead, Lu Jin thought to himself.

After thinking it over, to be on the safe side, Lu Jin buried a Kunlun Token in the ground on the lake shore, so as not to miss this treasure if he encountered another spatial transformation.

If we go back a little further in time, it was just when Lu Jin had Blood Thorn kill that peak ninth-level world lord green-faced demon with a single blow.

Inside a divine palace with a diameter of hundreds of millions of kilometers, a terrifying, burly abyss demon god with a goat's head opened his eyes.

"Sirus died suddenly?"

Upon noticing the death of his soul servant, the ram-headed demon frowned and then instructed his AI assistant: "Send an email to Sirus's AI assistant to inquire about the cause of Sirus's death."

"Yes, Master."

The AI ​​assistant replied.

There are only two possible causes of death in the Dead Abyss.

One way is to have their soul destroyed by a sudden, deathly wind; the other is to be killed by other powerful beings.

Within the Dead Abyss, one can log into the virtual universe. If the cause of death is the former, the Dead Wind, which only targets the soul, will not destroy the auxiliary intelligence. Even if the master perishes, sending an email to the auxiliary intelligence will still result in a reply.

If the cause of death is the latter, then that would be troublesome!

After waiting for a long time without receiving a reply from Sirus's AI assistant, the goat-headed demon realized that something was wrong and immediately used the AI ​​assistant to access the virtual universe.

"Shh!"

In a special dimension of the virtual universe, within a temple on an endless land, the figure of the ram-headed demon god appears.

"Whoosh!"

Flying out of the temple, the ram-headed demon god gazed reverently at the majestic temple floating in the sky, radiating black flames. Then, he transformed into a stream of light and flew towards one of the eight temples floating in mid-air.

Before long, the ram-headed demon landed in front of a temple in mid-air.

“Master, Paimon has important business to discuss with me.”

The ram-headed demon god addressed the people inside the hall with a respectful expression.

"Wow—"

The temple gates opened automatically.

Paimon, the goat-headed demon god, entered the hall and bowed to the crimson-scaled demon figure seated on the highest throne: "Paimon greets his master!"

Upon hearing the sound, the crimson demon figure on the throne opened its eyes.

The Crimson Scale Demon Shadow was not tall, only a little over three meters. It wore crimson-gold armor, had three crimson-gold horns on its head, long crimson hair draped over its shoulders, and its body was covered in crimson scales. Its pair of crimson-gold vertical eyes appeared exceptionally deep.

Even just sitting quietly on the throne, Paimon couldn't help but feel a sense of spatial disorientation.

"What's the matter?"

"The Crimson Scale Demon Shadow asked."

Paimon said in a deep voice, "Master, the demon guarding the Blood Lake treasure in the Dead Silence Abyss has unexpectedly perished. I cannot contact its auxiliary AI, so it is highly likely that it was killed by other demons."

"what?!"

The Crimson Scale Demon's cry of alarm echoed throughout the temple, and a terrifying pressure of consciousness emanated from it.

In shock and anger, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow immediately shouted, "Damn it! Paimon, immediately take all the demon gods under your command and rush to the Blood Lake treasure in the Dead Silence Demon Abyss."

If anything goes wrong with the Blood Lake treasure, you won't need to come back!

(End of this chapter)