Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 187 Slaying the Demon King, Let's Do Something Big!
"A treasure of the domain?!"

King Qianguang was shocked as he gazed at the blood-red river that seemed to fill the entire world.

Who would have thought that the Demon Slayer Marquis would possess such a heaven-defying treasure?

"not good!"

Suddenly, realizing that his immortal divine body was being rapidly eroded by the blood-red river, King Qian Guang's expression changed drastically.

This Demon Slayer Marquis's strength is strange!
Shocked, running away was the first thought in Qian Guangwang's mind.

Unfortunately, being within the range of the domain treasure's effect, escaping is just wishful thinking.

The greatest effect of domain-type treasures is restraint, which allows the user of the treasure to have absolute initiative in battle.

Other effects, such as attack, are either incidental or indicate that this domain treasure is not a proper domain treasure.

As for teleportation?

Even if he had comprehended spatial sealing, one of the three profound mysteries of space, he still wouldn't be able to teleport within the range of a domain treasure. At the very least, his incomplete understanding of spatial laws was far from sufficient.

At this moment, a hazy azure light appeared, and a blue-gold sword rainbow pierced through the blood-red river and struck Qian Guangwang's chest.

"puff!"

With a sound of shattering, Qian Guangwang's immortal divine body, at the peak of the King-level, was as if made of paper, and was directly cut in two by the blue-gold sword rainbow.

The next moment, the god, which had been cut in two, reunited.

"Impossible, how could you be so strong?"

As the divine body reassembled, Qian Guangwang realized that his divine body had lost more than 0.2%, and exclaimed in disbelief.

If one sword strike can destroy 0.2% of one's divine body, wouldn't it only take about two hundred sword strikes to wipe out oneself?

And that's not even the point.

This Demon Slayer Marquis—no, Demon Slayer King—isn't his life level only that of a Realm Lord?

How could the power of this sword be stronger than that of a king at the peak of his power after burning divine power?

What Qian Guangwang didn't know was that although Lu Jin's "Water and Sky in One Color" was an immortal-level peak technique, even with the amplification from the top-tier treasure Blood Sea Demon Sword, its power was still not this outrageous.

The reason for this is mainly due to the fact that the Blood River of Purgatory is a supreme treasure in this realm.

The Purgatory Blood River is not merely a domain treasure; it also possesses offensive power, and the resulting blood-red river water is adept at eroding divine bodies.

It appears that 0.2% of the immortal divine body was severed by a single sword strike, but in reality, this 0.2% loss was the combined damage from a peak immortal-level sword technique, along with the Purgatory Blood River, a domain treasure activated at full power.

"tumultuous--"

The next moment, a terrifying aura filled the air, and King Qian Guang directly burned his divine power, causing his strength to surge a thousandfold.

"You little bean sprout, let's see how long you can last."

Seeing his opponent unleash divine power and strike out with the Blood Sea Demon Sword once more, Lu Jin said disdainfully.

Compared to his physique, which can be transformed into the appearance of an ordinary person using supernatural powers, Qian Guangwang's ten-meter-tall divine body is indeed not small.

Compared to the many powerful enemies he had encountered in the past, especially the divine bodies of those beasts of the demon race, the ten-meter-tall Qian Guang King was just a small bean sprout.

'A Realm Lord-level Demon Slayer, whose strength has reached the King level, possesses at least a powerful sword and a domain-level treasure. Come quickly! Coordinates: xxxx'

While burning divine power to unleash a secret technique to offset some of the terrifying power of the blue-gold sword rainbow, a wisp of Qian Guangwang's consciousness sank into the communicator to request help.

The Demon Slayer King was too powerful; he was no match for him at all. If he didn't ask for help, he would surely perish.

Of course, even if a request for help is sent, reinforcements may not arrive in time.

After all, with the terrifying power of the Blue-Gold Sword Rainbow and the powerful erosion of the Blood River, he didn't have much time left.

"Puff puff!"

A hazy blue light frequently appeared, and the blue-gold sword rainbow slashed down one after another. Even though King Qian Guang kept using secret techniques to offset the power of the sword rainbow, even the residual power of the sword rainbow still caused great damage to his divine body.

In addition, the blood-red river water, which seemed to be highly poisonous, continued to erode him. In less than two minutes, Qian Guangwang, whose divine body was not particularly large, lost more than 50% of his divine body.

"Demon Slayer King, you will die, you will!"

With a mournful roar, knowing that no reinforcements would arrive, King Qianguang exuded a chilling aura.

"Bam—"

The next moment, a muffled roar resounded from the endless blood-red river, and the blood-red ocean covering tens of millions of kilometers in the starry sky suddenly trembled, with countless blood-red waters surging violently.

With his divine body damaged by more than 50%, King Qianguang did not hesitate to self-destruct.

King Qian Guang was born into the Starlight Clan, an energy-type life form, and did not possess a soul.

But the fact that he can't be enslaved after falling into a deep sleep doesn't mean there's no way to control him.

It's like keeping him in a deep sleep, in a state of half-death, he might as well be dead.

The Star Clan is one of the important subordinate races of the Zerg. As a peak-level King, he is qualified to be included in the Zerg Alliance's resurrection list.

Although he will be resurrected later, he will embark on a long journey of working to pay off his debts.

But working to pay off debts is better than being a prisoner for life, isn't it?

At least with his endless lifespan, he will have a day to pay off his debts, but as for being a prisoner, that's really hard to say.

With all opponents wiped out, Lu Jin's mind shifted, and the Purgatory Blood River that had spread out transformed back into a ribbon-like stream of water.

The power of the world surged forth, gathering nearly a hundred sets of immortal divine weapons from the battlefield, as well as several immortals with souls who were now in slumber. Lu Jin then transformed into a beam of blood-red light and accelerated, traversing into the dark universe.

After leaving the battlefield, Lu Jin's Blood God Child avatar was teleported back to the Time Palace, merged into the Netherworld Blood Sea, and then condensed into 10079 Blood God Child avatars, each doing their own thing.

The Blood God Child's incarnation isn't someone who can't afford to die, and Lu Jin doesn't care whether the Blood God Child will die recklessly on the battlefield outside the domain.

But I, Lu Jin, have always been the one to bully children because of my strength. I can't stand others bullying him like a child because of their strength.

Who am I? Who are you? Do you think you're worthy of being treated like me, disregarding martial ethics?
Of course, Lu Jin's deployment of his strongest Blood God Child avatar was also intended to draw even greater hatred.

I, the Demon Slayer, killed a peak-level King with the status of a Realm Lord. Can your demon race sit idly by?

Aren't you afraid that I will kill the Venerable One with my immortal body in the future, and kill the Lord of the Universe with the Venerable One's body?

The Blood God Child, a being without a soul, dared to draw his sword even when facing Zhenjiao and Mengcha. He was not afraid of the enemy's retaliation at all, and even hoped that the enemy's retaliation would be as severe as possible.

The path to becoming a strongman must be paved with the corpses of countless enemies.

Moreover, the way the Blood God Child appeared in the outside world was entirely by using the Kunlun Mirror to travel through space and suddenly appear.

Even if a true god-level expert were to travel back through time and space and trace the origin of the Blood God Child's incarnation through images, they would only be able to see that the Blood God Child's incarnation appeared out of thin air, and they would not be able to find his true self at all.

Apart from King Lingxiao and King Youming, no outsider could see the connection between his various bodies.

Because the Demon Slayer King is a genius realm master, while the Soaring Sky King and the Netherworld King are immortal gods, and the Radiant King is even immortal in the law of light.

Furthermore, to outsiders, a Demon Slayer King at the Realm Lord level must have an extremely high level of life genes, given his immense strength.

With such a high level of genetic diversity, it must be a unique life form found nowhere else in the original universe.

Furthermore, due to its extremely high level of life genes, it is destined to be unable to be conceived into clones by the clone technique.

As for the Demon Slayer King, the Sky Soaring King, and the Netherworld King, they all embody the Water-Void Fusion Law.

Few human powerhouses follow the path of beast gods, but looking at the entire primordial universe, there are quite a few beings who follow the path of beast gods.

In addition to real-world battles, Lu Jindu used his pseudo-physical abilities to simulate different levels of the Beast God's Dao, so this loophole did not exist.

It can be said that, in the entire universe, apart from Zi Ni Chang, the only person who knows that the Demon Slayer King is him is his teacher, the Heavenly Frost King, since the Heavenly Frost King recognizes the pinnacle sword technique he created.

A few minutes after Lu Jin left the battlefield, a ripple appeared, and a figure exuding a terrifying aura of consciousness appeared in the starry sky.

This figure belongs to the powerful race of the Ba Yi Clan in the universe. It is about three meters tall, its whole body is covered with black keratin, and there are eight soft black tentacles on its face. Its eyes gleam with a cold, eerie light.

'Master, the Demon Slayer King has already left this place.'

The Ba Yi Clan's ultimate king, 'Skull Needle King,' reported to the Immortal Mother Queen within the World Ring's Mother Nest through consciousness communication.

"Left? What a pity~"

The Immortal Queen Nan Cheng, inside the Mother Nest, shook her head with a secret sense of regret.

That's a top-tier treasure in the domain!
If she can successfully acquire this treasure and sell it, not only will she be able to replace her entire body with ordinary treasures, but even her several top-tier servants under her command can each be given a treasure, greatly enhancing their strength.

Unfortunately, the other side ran too fast.

On that day, a message came from the Zerg camp, which caused an uproar among the countless immortal gods of the four races in the outer battlefield.

—【The unkillable world lord-level super genius 'Demon Slayer (Blood Demon)' has greatly improved his strength. With his treasured battle sword and domain treasure, his strength has reached the peak of the King-level.

In the first extraterrestrial battlefield, in the Ice Plains continent region, the sword slayed the Starlight Clan's King of the Insectoid faction, who had reached the pinnacle of immortality, Qian Guangwang.

Upon receiving this news, the demon faction updated the bounty.

The bounty for killing the Blood Demon King (Demon Slayer King) has been increased from one major treasure for non-demon faction immortals and two major treasures for demon faction immortals to one top-tier major treasure for non-demon faction immortals and two major treasures for demon faction immortals.

Just as Lu Jin had predicted, the eleven Venerables stationed in the eleven extraterritorial battlefields of the demon race were all having terrible headaches.

For no other reason than that, the Blood Demon King, whose strength has reached the peak of the King-level, whose personality is extremely bloodthirsty, who is not afraid of being enslaved, and who is also not afraid of death, is enough to cause considerable trouble for the demon race.

And most importantly, this 'peak king-level expert' is actually just a realm lord, which is outrageous!

It should be noted that from the Realm Lord to the peak of the King level, there is a potential for a 100,000-fold increase in basic strength alone.

With a power level 100,000 times higher than the peak of the King-level realm, not only would he be invincible at the King-level realm, but even ordinary Universe Venerables would be no match for him.

Extremely hostile to the demon race, impossible to kill by conventional means, and possessing strength surpassing ordinary universe venerables. Such an enemy poses a tremendous threat and must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Not to mention that the other party also bears the title of 'Demon Slayer,' which is extremely humiliating for the demon race.

In addition to the demon race, the human, insect, and mechanical races have also posted faction bounties for slaying the demon king.

However, the bounties offered by the three races were not as high as those offered by the demon race. Immortals from other races were rewarded with one ordinary treasure, while immortals from one's own race were rewarded with two ordinary treasures.

Although this time it was the peak king of the Zerg camp who fell, the cosmic lords of the Zerg camp who were stationed in the outer battlefield were not worried.

The opponent's title is 'Demon Slayer,' not something like 'Insect Exterminator.' Even if there's a headache, it's the demon race that should be troubled. If the demon race can't deal with this Demon Slayer Marquis even with all their might, then the insect race certainly won't be able to either.

Let the demon race try it out first; the sky won't fall anyway.

And even if the sky were to fall, Her Majesty the Queen would still be there to hold it up.

Three days later, at the Star Tower.

Within a forbidden space, Radiant Paradise transformed into a stream of platinum light and stepped forward to collect the corpse of a high-ranking demon king who had fallen victim to the combined attack of the Ghost King Insect Legion.

"Tsk~, this is not good. In three days, we only killed a dozen or so kings. This efficiency is too slow."

Inside the Radiant Paradise, Lu Jin, sitting on the throne of the Divine Court, couldn't help but say as he stuffed fresh corpses into his external storage space.

Hearing this, Zi'er, who was squatting in front of Lu Jin and massaging his legs, looked up and said, "Master, this efficiency is not slow. Even if you want to hunt down 100,000 kings, at this efficiency, it will only take a few decades."

Lan'er, who was massaging Lu Jin's shoulders, shook her head and said, "Theory is just theory; it's definitely impossible in reality."

The Star Tower only has hundreds of thousands of Kings among its various races. Let alone hunting down a hundred thousand Kings, even the loss of ten thousand would be a momentous event.

"Lan'er is right. It seems I need to think of a solution."

Lu Jin nodded in agreement.

He possesses something that can drive even a powerful king to madness; it's a priceless treasure.

Especially for the peak-level immortals who can be on the clan's resurrection list, even if they know there are pitfalls ahead, they dare to try.

If you win the gamble, you can get a great treasure; if you lose, you can simply resurrect and work to pay off your debts.

Using precious treasures as bait, there's no worry about not being able to catch a king and achieve immortality.

However, not only can the treasure lure immortals, but also cosmic venerables.

If ordinary Kings are small fish, and those at the peak of Kingship and above are Immortals, then Cosmic Venerables are Great White Sharks.

Moreover, if they were to carry out massacres (stuffing corpses into the Demon Refining Pot) and enslave the immortal kings, the cosmic venerables of various races would certainly not stand idly by.

If the commotion gets too big, it's not impossible for the Lord of the Universe to intervene.

For example, if 100,000 humans were crowned kings, and 10,000 were enslaved by the demon race, the two peak races would never stop fighting to the death unless a cosmic master of the demon race died as a sacrifice.

Ordinary death is different from death by being enslaved by a soul or being unable to be resurrected.

Moreover, unlike the Blood God Child's incarnation, the Time Dragon's clone is soulless. It can capture servants and collect corpses, but it must do so secretly.

Ideally, the opponent should fall or become a soul slave without any prior warning.

After thinking for a long time, Lu Jin suddenly had a good idea.

It's time to pull off something big!

Inside the Palace of Time in the Purple Rainbow Kingdom.

Lu Jin, who was cultivating the third volume of "Seven Transformations of Water and Space," temporarily stopped his cultivation and turned to look at Zi Ni Chang, who was sitting quietly beside him.

For the time being, she has enough top-tier treasures. Zi Nishang's journey of researching treasure-refining techniques has come to an end, and she is currently creating secret techniques in the virtual universe.

Right now, she only possesses peak-level secret techniques, which is hardly worthy of her top-tier cosmic overlord-level divine body.

Leaving aside the strongest secret technique, the ultimate secret technique, a standard requirement for the human race as the overlord of the universe, is indispensable.

The Time Palace's thousand-fold acceleration effect is also very useful for creating secret techniques in the virtual universe.

For top-tier cosmic overlords, even in the midst of fierce battles, extracting a portion of their consciousness is not a problem.

Most of their consciousness was engaged in the battle in the virtual universe, while a small portion remained in reality, enjoying the thousand-fold time acceleration of the Time Palace, carefully analyzing and reflecting, providing inspiration and creative directions for the majority of their consciousness in the battle.

Seeing Lu Jin looking at her, Zi Nishang asked, "What's wrong?"

How many valuable treasures do you still possess?

"If you include ordinary treasures, there are nearly a thousand items."

"So many? Give them all to me."

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow and said.

Zi Ni Chang nodded, erased the divine power mark from a world ring, and handed it to Lu Jin.

Afterwards, Lu Jin accepted the World Ring, infused it with the power of the world to recognize it as his own, left the Time Palace, and entered the Great Luo Heaven.

Before the Lingxiao Palace, Lu Jin flipped his hand, and a small glass sphere materialized, representing a certain heavenly realm that had not yet been activated.

With a thought, the glass sphere emitted a dazzling light and then disappeared into the origin of the universe.

Immediately afterwards, on the spacious white jade plaza in front of the Lingxiao Palace, another celestial passage appeared beside the two celestial passages leading to the Xuanhuang Heaven and the Shanhai Heaven.

Stepping into the new celestial realm, gazing at the desolate landscape before him, Lu Jin pondered for a moment and decided to limit the area of ​​this celestial realm to approximately 10 light-years in diameter.

Subsequently, Lu Jin began to carry out reforms using the authority of the Lord of the Heavenly Realm.

"Whoosh whoosh-"

In an instant, winds rose and clouds surged. In the celestial realm, where cosmic energy was extremely abundant, countless flowers, grasses, and trees sprouted on the endless wasteland.

At the same time, more than nine hundred different kinds of treasures, each exuding a terrifying aura, flew out from within the World Ring and randomly scattered throughout the New Celestial Realm, which has a diameter of 10 light-years.

After more than nine hundred unclaimed treasures landed, they manifested in sizes ranging from tens of kilometers to thousands of kilometers.

With a thought, Lu Jin mobilized his authority, unleashing over nine hundred ten-colored beams of light, each tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter and unbreakable, from the sky, enveloping the nine hundred-plus treasures.

"The fishing spot is set up, now we're just waiting for the fish to bite!"

Looking at the more than nine hundred enormous, ten-colored pillars of light that shot into the sky, which were extremely eye-catching, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

At the same time, within the original core's inner world, the Netherworld Blood Sea's avatar moved its mind and consciousness, communicating with the Kunlun Mirror and generating an ancient Kunlun Token, which fell into the hands of a Blood God's incarnation.

Using his supernatural ability to create a false form, the Blood God Child's avatar twisted and transformed into a five-meter-tall mechanical immortal whose entire body resembled a silver metal casting.

The next moment, he transformed into the immortal Blood God Child avatar of the Mechanical Race, and his figure disappeared into his inner world.

"Shh!"

In the Fifth Extraterrestrial Battlefield, somewhere on the Twilight Continent with a maximum diameter exceeding 2.8 light-years, the Blood God Child, transformed into an immortal incarnation of the Mechanical Race, appeared.

'now!'

On the vast land under the starry sky, Lu Jin raised his hand and pointed, and a dazzling black light appeared in the air ahead.

In the blink of an eye, a colossal portal-like structure, tens of thousands of kilometers high, jet black in color, with countless monster reliefs covering its towering pillars and lintels, and a mysterious black light vortex at its center, appeared.

After materializing the disguised Western Heavenly Gate, the Blood God Child, who had transformed into an immortal member of the Mechanical Race, successfully withdrew and disappeared.

'boom--'

Just after the Blood God Child's avatar disappeared, the disguised Western Heaven Gate emitted an aura of ordinary supreme treasure level.

In an instant, all the immortal gods within a radius of hundreds of billions of kilometers sensed the terrifying pressure of this supreme treasure.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

Instantly, the immortal gods of the four races in the vicinity all transformed into streaks of light and rushed towards this place at lightning speed.

"Shh!"

Soon, a bald giant, three meters tall, wearing khaki armor, landed in front of the Western Heaven Gate.

Without hesitation, the human immortal god's power materialized and poured into the pitch-black, heaven-reaching portal.

"Ok?"

Realizing that his ethereal divine power had vanished without a trace, and that this treasure could not be recognized as his master, the bald man frowned deeply.

The disguised Western Heavenly Gate is an evolution of the Thirty-Six Heavens. To gain ownership of the Western Heavenly Gate, one must first acknowledge the Thirty-Six Heavens as their master.

However, the Thirty-Six Heavens had already been recognized as the master by Lu Jin. Not to mention immortals, even if a true god came, he still wouldn't be able to recognize the Western Heaven Gate as his master.

Even true gods cannot damage the Western Heavenly Gate in the slightest because it is essentially part of a special divine king's treasure.

Gazing at the mysterious black vortex that was clearly the entrance, the bald, burly man hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and chose to seek fortune in danger, resolutely transforming into a streak of light and flying over there.

However, just as the bald giant came into contact with the black light vortex, he felt an extremely powerful yet gentle repulsive force.

"call out!"

Like a super electromagnetic cannonball being fired, the bald, burly man was thrown away by the repulsive force formed by the mysterious black light vortex.

'What's going on? Can't I get in?'

After regaining his balance in mid-air, the bald, burly man wondered to himself.

Without a doubt, the bald, burly man guessed correctly.

The 'fishing ground' set up by Lu Jin is off-limits to humans; to be precise, it only allows beasts to enter.

After all, once there are enough fish in the fishing pond, the gate to the heavens will close, and all life inside will face certain death.

Moreover, anyone who could leave behind a corpse was stuffed into the Demon Refining Pot.

In this way, Lu Jin would not be able to allow the human race to become immortal.

It's not a big deal for him to kill a few human immortals, but he can't wipe out a large number of human immortals.

While immortals of other races are generally impossible to resurrect, human immortals can be resurrected. Therefore, the human race is destined to bear the blame for the mass extermination of its immortals.

Therefore, in order to eliminate this possibility, Lu Jin deliberately spared the Zerg and the Machine Race this time, allowing only beast life forms to enter, and only Immortal-level beasts.

Of course, the animal life referred to here also includes life forms with human souls and animal bodies.

If a human immortal who has possessed the life of a beast were to enter, Lu Jin would not hesitate to act without hesitation; he wouldn't bother to distinguish between them.

Anyway, such situations are unlikely to be frequent, and a few accidental killings are not a big deal.

(End of this chapter)