Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 146 Say Goodbye to the Venerable One

"Yes, Master!"

Under the terrifying pressure of his consciousness, the ram-headed demon god, Paimon, trembled and knelt down in response.

"roll!"

With a shout, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow waved its hand and drove the Ram-Headed Demon God Paimon out of the temple.

With a mix of trepidation and excitement, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow had its intelligent life form compose and send an email. Then, its offline true form left the divine kingdom and teleported to the outside of the Silent Demon Abyss.

Gazing for a long time at the desolate abyss shrouded in mist, and recalling his master's warning, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow ultimately dared not set foot there.

The Deadly Abyss is a death trap for the strong.

Moreover, the stronger one is, the more desperate the situation becomes.

Because the higher one's life level, the greater the probability of encountering the Deathly Wind when venturing into the Abyss of Deathly Silence. Moreover, the Deathly Wind is faster and more powerful, and hiding in the World Ring or the Inner World is useless.

You asked him how he knew?
Long ago, he encountered the Silent Wind in the Silent Abyss, a place that restricted both the speed of the strong and spatial teleportation.

Needless to say, he struggled for a few seconds in the deathly wind before perishing.

Fortunately, he had already become the master's subordinate at that time, and was later resurrected by a great being who reversed time and space; otherwise, he would have been dead.

'Damn Paimon, how could he make such a huge blunder!'

The Crimson Scale Demon Shadow cursed inwardly.

At this moment, all he could do was pray to that unknown enemy.

They did not directly take the Blood Lake Treasure that was about to complete its gestation, nor did they discover the function of the 'Space Bead,' and instead threw it far away.

Because that 'space bead' was condensed by its owner using a spatial secret technique, it can not only stabilize the surrounding space, preventing spatial shifts in the area where the Blood Lake treasure is located, but also serve as a tracking and locating device.

If the opponent throws the 'Space Bead' far away, and the area where the Blood Lake treasure is located also experiences spatial shifting.

So unless a great being who controls time and space descends, no one will be able to sense, under the restriction of the abyss mist, where the Blood Lake treasure will be located, or where the Silent Abyss will be moved to.

Of course, if there is no spatial transfer, then things will be much easier.

The virtual universe is everywhere, and the Dead Abyss is no exception.

The area where the Blood Lake treasure is located was once visited by demons who logged into the virtual universe.

With the high-level virtual universe permissions granted by his master, he and Paimon and other demons could locate the Blood Lake treasure area through the virtual universe without worrying about getting lost after entering the Silent Abyss.

"Shh!"

Just then, a terrifying figure suddenly appeared.

The newcomer also appeared to be a demon, standing over nine meters tall.

This demonic figure had a pair of curved black demonic horns on its head, demonic wings with fire patterns on its back, dark red demonic patterns on its face, and wore black battle armor. The spatial laws around it fluctuated, radiating a faint black flame. Its aura far surpassed that of the Crimson Scale Demonic Shadow.

"Your subordinate, Chi Yan, greets your master!"

Upon seeing the Black Flame Demon Shadow descend, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow hurriedly bowed respectfully.

The Black Flame Demon Shadow stared intently at the desolate Demon Abyss ahead and said in a deep voice, "Crimson Flame, the Space Bead has disappeared."

Upon hearing the sound, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow was startled.

Without hesitation, the Crimson Scale Demon Shadow knelt in mid-air and said, "Your subordinate failed in his duty of guarding the place, please punish me, Master! I hope that Master will allow me to enter the Dead Silence Demon Abyss to retrieve the treasures from the Blood Lake."

"Can we send someone to check if the treasure is still there?"

"Master, I immediately dispatched servants to the Demon Abyss to ascertain the details."

The Black Flame Demon waved its hand and said, "Then let's wait a bit."

The Dead Abyss poses a great threat to the Universe Venerable. Although he can persuade the Lord of the Universe to take action, the price of resurrecting the Universe Venerable is something even he cannot easily bear. It is better to send the immortal-level cannon fodder to investigate the situation first.

In any case, immortal-level abyss demons are not worth much. As the true ruler of the purgatory abyss world, his 'multi-layered soul enslavement network' contains many abyss demon servants.

Moreover, unless the person who steals the treasure is the ruler of the universe, it is impossible for him to leave the Abyss of Purgatory with that domain treasure without his knowledge.

After all, in the Dead Abyss, although the World Ring can be used and the World Lord's inner world can store items and living beings, the opening of the Divine Kingdom passage is restricted.

On the other side, the goat-headed demon god Paimon, along with his servants and their servants, totaling over a hundred abyss demon gods, dispersed from different directions into the Silent Abyss, heading towards the area where the Blood Lake treasure was located, guided by the auxiliary intelligence.

The reason for entering the Dead Abyss from different directions is mainly to increase the chances of survival.

For countless years, the demons in the abyss of purgatory, though they have not been able to figure out exactly where the Deathly Wind came from, have at least managed to understand some of its characteristics.

The higher the life level of the one who steps into it, the more frequently the Deathly Wind will appear, and the faster and more powerful it will be.

If an Immortal Demon God and a Realm Lord Demon travel together, the probability of encountering the Deathly Wind is double that of an Immortal Demon God entering alone, and the power is also calculated based on the strength required to kill an Immortal Demon God.

If everyone travels together in a group, a sudden gust of wind can wipe them all out.

Of course, Paimon, the goat-headed demon god who was the core of these hundred-plus abyss demon gods, did not rely entirely on luck to break into the Silent Demon Abyss.

Scattered around him in the distance were ten scout-level demons, each equipped with a sub-intelligence of Paimon's auxiliary intelligence and possessing the ability to locate their virtual universe position in the real world.

Once the deathly wind appears, the first to suffer will be these distant realm lord demons, giving them some time to react and avoid the approaching deathly wind.

Moreover, as long as the distance between them is controlled, these scouts will not increase the probability of him encountering the Dead Wind.

A week later.

The desolate abyss, beside a blood-red lake.

"call out!"

"boom!"

The blood-red branches covered with sharp thorns resembled a heaven-piercing spear. Under the terrifying attack of the blood thorns, a peak-level Abyss Demon God of the Immortal Army Lord was pierced through the chest, its divine body was directly damaged by more than half, and its consciousness collapsed and it perished.

Immediately afterwards, the demon god's corpse was rapidly retracted by the blood-red branches, then taken into the external space by the Blood God Child's avatar, and subsequently stuffed into the Demon Refining Pot, where it was decomposed into a lower-level law godhead, an entry-level upper-level law bead, and an immortal-level life source crystal.

The Immortal Army Lord's peak divine body, which wasn't particularly large, simply couldn't withstand the attack of the ten-times gene-captured high-level Blood Thorn. Originally, a single normal attack would have left him without even ashes.

However, an immortal divine corpse can at least represent a lower-level law godhood, so Lu Jin naturally wouldn't waste it. He specifically instructed Blood Thorn to restrain its power to avoid directly destroying the opponent's divine body.

Lu Jin glanced at the Blood Lake Treasure beside him and fell into deep thought.

This Immortal Army Lord Peak Demon God was the third Abyss Demon God he had slaughtered beside the Crimson Lake.

Needless to say, this treasure of the Blood Lake Domain must have been discovered by some powerful figure long ago.

However, because the treasure of the Blood Lake had not yet fully matured, it was not taken away directly.

In addition, the other party must also have the ability to accurately locate within the Dead Silence Abyss, otherwise these three Abyss Demons would not have been able to come knocking on our door so quickly.

'Virtual universe?'

Lu Jin thought of the virtual universe.

Except for a few extremely special regions, the virtual universe covers the entire original universe.

If one had advanced access to the virtual universe, locating a corresponding location in reality through the virtual universe would not be difficult; it would be possible as long as a living being had logged into the virtual universe at that location.

The first thing Lu Jin thought of was the owner of the 'Evil Flame Palace' outside the Abyss of Purgatory.

After all, the only one who meets the criteria is a powerful individual with advanced access to the virtual universe and who is also in the Abyss of Purgatory.

'Should we take the treasure now, or challenge that venerable one?'

Gazing at the Blood Lake Treasure, which was still in the process of being conceived, Lu Jin felt rather conflicted.

The safest course of action right now is to take this treasure from the Blood Lake directly.

The Blood God Child's avatar was too weak to take the treasure, but the immortal Zi Ni Chang could.

Even if the grade of this Blood Lake Treasure is slightly reduced, it will not fall out of the ranks of treasures.

By making this choice, he can obtain a rare treasure from an ordinary realm.

But Lu Jin felt that he should be more radical.

The treasure of Blood Lake had already been discovered by the Venerable One who was in charge, but he did not send any of his servants to guard it.

This shows that the other party's venerable servants could not withstand the deathly wind, and even the venerable one who was in charge could not withstand it.

This gives us a considerable amount of room to maneuver.

Compared to ordinary treasures, Lu Jin felt that a superior law godhead was more important to him.

If she could use the Deathly Wind to kill a Venerable and obtain a High-Level Law Godhead, wouldn't Zi Ni Chang be able to become a Universe Venerable?

However, Zi Ni Chang's efficiency in studying the art of treasure refining, which led her to become a Universe Venerable, far surpasses her current peak Marquis level.

Perhaps by the time his true form breaks through to the realm master level, Zi Ni Chang will have already become a master treasure refiner, at which point he will be able to achieve true treasure freedom.

Moreover, once Venerable One has completed his mission, he only needs to make up for the shortcomings in secret techniques and treasures. With his perfect genes and Zi Ni Chang's hundredfold limit amplitude, he can become the fourth top cosmic overlord of the human race!
Damn it! Let's get this done!

Gritting his teeth, Lu Jin made up his mind.

We'll use this Blood Lake Treasure as bait to lure the Universe Venerable into our trap!

The Deadly Abyss is so dangerous, and so far, the Venerable One who oversees it has not descended directly, which shows that even someone as powerful as him dares not easily set foot in the Deadly Abyss.

Even if a Venerable One were to descend at that time, he would most likely be a servant of the Abyss Demon Lord who was under the Venerable One's command.

Abyssal demons are generally not large in size, and as servants, they have limited resources. Their divine body amplitude and life gene multiplication are generally not high, and they are not qualified to use high-level treasures. The probability that their strength is at the level of an ordinary early-stage Venerable is not small.

If the invincible king can do nothing to ordinary novice Venerables, then the Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass with a divine body spanning a million kilometers and ten times the length must also be difficult for ordinary novice Venerables to defeat, right?
After all, in terms of sheer resilience, the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass with ten times the genetic power, possessing a super-massive divine body spanning millions of kilometers, is definitely superior to the invincible kings like the True King.

If we drag this out for a while, and the winds of deathly silence come, wouldn't the higher-level divine titles be obtained?
Conversely, if he misses this opportunity, he will have virtually no hope of obtaining a superior law godhood before reaching the immortal level.

After all, defeating the Universe Venerable is one thing, but killing the Universe Venerable is another.

But to annihilate the soul of a Universe Venerable, or to knock a Universe Venerable into a deep sleep so as to obtain his corpse, is a completely different matter.

'Hoping to catch a big fish this time, but it wasn't a great white shark that took the bait.'

Lu Jin thought to himself. Then, Lu Jin teleported over two Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grasses with ten times the life gene and placed them in his world ring to act as ambushes.

Half a day later.

Beside the crimson lake, in the center of the blood-red thorns that radiate outwards for a radius of 100,000 kilometers, Lu Jin's Blood God Child incarnation sat quietly on the ground.

At this moment, with the help of the Kunlun Mirror, from God's perspective, an extremely dazzling golden beam of light appeared from the north, rapidly approaching the blood-red lake in the center at a speed of 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers per second.

'A low-ranking title of king?'

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow, quickly judging the opponent's divine body level by the brightness of the pillar of light as seen from God's perspective.

Switching perspectives to investigate, Lu Jin saw that it was a ram-headed demon at the initial stage of being granted the title of King.

Before long, as the opponent approached, just as Lu Jin was about to unleash the divine power of the Blood Thorns to blast the opponent away,

Suddenly, from God's perspective, Lu Jin spotted a red line appearing in the southern part of the exploration area, rapidly spreading towards the blood-red lake at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

Wherever the red line passed, all areas were rendered in red.

Immediately, Lu Jin abandoned the idea of ​​having Bloodthorn take action.

Because this thing, which appears red in God's view, is none other than the Dead Wind, which terrifies all the abyssal demons who come to explore the Dead Silence Abyss.

"Why is the Dead Wind happening more and more frequently? It used to happen about once every Earth day, but lately it's been happening several times a day."

Lu Jin wondered to himself, puzzled.

"Whoosh!"

Meanwhile, within the abyss's mist, guided by the AI, a ram-headed demonic figure flew through the air and landed on the other side of the crimson lake.

"Phew~, thank goodness, the master's master's treasure is still here."

Looking at the still-present treasure of the crimson lake, the ram-headed demon god Paimon secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, the goat-headed demon god Paimon sent the message to his master that the Blood Lake treasure had not been lost.

With a weight lifted from his shoulders, Paimon, the ram-headed demon god, felt a surge of rage rise within him. He prepared to search the surrounding area to find the unknown enemy who had killed his Lord-level servant, Sirus.

It wasn't to avenge that Lord-level servant, nor was it to avenge the dozens of demon god servants who had already perished in the Deathly Wind.

Rather, if it weren't for this detestable enemy, why would a demon god at the King level risk his life to enter the Dead Abyss?

If I don't turn the other person into a soul slave and torment them day and night, I simply won't be able to vent my hatred!

Suddenly, the goat-headed demon Paimon realized that another of his soul servants had died.

Immediately afterward, the voice of the AI ​​assistant sounded in his mind: 'Master, a deathly wind has appeared more than three million kilometers directly ahead.'

Paimon, the Goat-Headed Demon God: "!!!"

"Whoosh!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Paimon, the ram-headed demon god, his face filled with fear, immediately unleashed his fastest speed and fled in the direction he had come from.

However, to his despair, for some reason, the speed of this deathly wind was much faster than he had expected.

Before long, the misty abyss behind them churned, and a 'grey tide' surged in rapidly.

"No!"

A desperate roar rang out, and the deathly wind engulfed the goat-headed demon Paimon.

In an instant, the soul of Paimon, the ram-headed demon god shrouded in the deathly wind, vanished, becoming one of the many immortal divine corpses within the Deathly Abyss.

At the same time, the soul servants of the goat-headed demon Paimon, and the soul servants of his soul servants, all suddenly perished.

One of the characteristics of the Soul Enslavement Secret Technique is that if the master dies, the soul servant also dies.

What the ram-headed demon Paimon never knew until his death was that this wave of deathly silence was not aimed at him.

It was not the Bloodthorn that was aimed at Lu Jin, but the two Star-Eating Grasses inside the World Ring. He just happened to be in front of the Deathly Wind and was unfortunately caught in the blast.

It was precisely because the Death Wind was targeting the lives of three plants that its speed far exceeded his expectations.

After all, the speed and power of the Death Wind are determined by the target's life level (excluding life genetic factors).

This wave of deathly wind was aimed at the Star-Eating Grass at the peak of the King-level cultivation, and he, a beginner King-level cultivator, naturally couldn't escape it.

Similarly, the reason why Lu Jin felt that the deadly wind had appeared too frequently recently was precisely because his location was where a high-level King-level life form and two peak King-level life forms had gathered.

This place is where the Blood God Child's incarnation, Blood Thorns, and two Star-Eating Grasses have gathered. The deathly wind that appears here is not only strong enough to annihilate the soul of a peak-level King, but also appears four times more frequently than a single peak-level King life form.

"Shh!"

The figure of the Blood God Child appeared at the place where the Ram-Headed Demon God fell.

Looking at the deathly still wind that filled his vision and the ram-headed demon's corpse with its soul extinguished before him, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

With this immortal divine corpse, it's as if he can gain another low-level, unranked king-level expert under his command.

Just as the Ram-Headed Demon God Paimeng died in the Silent Wind, outside the Silent Demon Abyss, the Crimson-Scaled Demon Shadow frowned.

"Master, Paimon, who sent back the message earlier, has fallen. He died in the Deathly Wind."

The Crimson Scale Demon Shadow spoke respectfully to the Black Flame Demon Shadow.

"As long as the treasure is still here, that's enough."

The Black Flame Demon waved its hand dismissively.

Then, the black flame demon shadow thought for a moment and disappeared outside the silent demon abyss.

But not long after, the Black Flame Demon Shadow reappeared, and with a wave of its hand, an F-class robot about twelve meters tall, wearing a World Ring, appeared and rushed into the Dead Silence Abyss.

"The initial level of the King-ranking conch shell flower should be enough to handle it, right?"

The Black Flame Demon Shadow thought to itself.

Just now, he returned to the Hall of Evil Flames and retrieved the plant life he had cultivated when he was weak.

Plant life is not afraid of the deathly wind. With the help of intelligent life, a robot was remotely controlled to take the Shocking Snail Flower, which has the strength of a beginner-level King, to the Blood Lake Treasure Land. This should be enough to kill the unknown enemy.

three days later.

"Huh? A moving treasure?"

Looking at the purple light that appeared within the Kunlun Mirror's million-kilometer diameter detection range from God's perspective, Lu Jin was stunned.

The perspective shifts, and a mechanical puppet, about twelve meters tall, entirely silver, carrying a heavy sword on its back, with wisps of electric snakes flowing across its body, made of F8-grade lightning metal Purple Iron Mother, comes into view.

Seeing this, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows.

After observing carefully for a moment, Lu Jin noticed that the mechanical puppet was wearing a silver world ring on its hand, and he guessed what the other party was planning.

This world ring likely contains an army of mechanical puppets that are unafraid of the deathly winds, or immortal-level plant life forms.

However, barring any unforeseen circumstances, this probing attack should be the last one the other side makes.

After all, once the Bloodthorn had annihilated the mechanical puppet army or the immortal plant life, the opponent, having exhausted all other options, would have no choice but to send a Venerable to the scene unless they were willing to give up this domain treasure.

Soon, the fast-moving mechanical puppet arrived at the shore of the crimson lake.

"call out!"

"Oh!"

A blood-red branch covered in sharp thorns pierced out, and the mechanical puppet, crafted from F8-grade Purple Iron Mother, instantly turned into countless metal fragments that scattered in all directions.

At the same time, the world ring carried by the mechanical puppet was destroyed, and an immortal-level Brahma Flower appeared, its divine body radiating outwards over a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, with numerous blood-red and bewitching flowers growing among its vines and leaves.

'The strongest conch shell flower?'

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow as he witnessed this scene from God's perspective.

The Shaluo Flower is a plant life form whose overall strength is no less than that of the Moyun Vine. The strongest Shaluo Flower is strong enough to rival a beginner-level King-level expert.

Furthermore, its enormous divine body was enough to make most newly appointed kings avoid it.

Otherwise, under the burning of divine power, those with smaller divine bodies, such as those at the initial stage of becoming kings, simply could not afford to endure it.

"Bloodthorn, unleash your divine power and blast it to pieces!"

Lu Jin said to Bloodthorn.

Despite Bloodthorn's divine body being much smaller than its opponent's, crushing this strongest Blazing Snail Flower was no difficult task for it.

'boom! ’

The next moment, the Bloodthorn's divine power ignited, its strength surged a thousandfold, and a terrifying aura permeated the air. The 108 main branches covered with sharp thorns and a large number of branch branches transformed into heaven-piercing spears and stabbed out.

"Puff puff!"

A series of piercing sounds rang out as the main trunk and numerous branches of the Bloodthorn pierced into the massive divine body of the Brahma Flower.

After the branches of the Bloodthorn pierced the body of the Snail Flower, the countless hollow thorns covering the branches quickly secreted a large amount of blood-red, highly corrosive blood poison.

Instantly, the blood poison spread, and countless hissing sounds of corrosion rang out.

The enormous, immortal divine body of the Shaluo Flower was riddled with holes.

Wherever the blood-red thorn branches pierced, the immortal divine body of the chameleon flower rapidly dissolved.

It's only because the divine body of the Shaluo Flower is large enough; otherwise, if it were a smaller, newly-level King-level being, this wave of attacks would have been enough to kill it.

'boom! ’

A terrifying aura of pressure appeared.

Suffering a fierce attack, the Shaluo Flower reacted immediately. After notifying its master outside the Silent Demon Abyss that it had encountered a powerful enemy, it also burned its divine power.

(End of this chapter)