Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 228 Arrival! A Bloody Welcome Ceremony

"Our cosmic journey is complete; we are about to leave the dark universe."

"Your Highness Qin Mu, we have arrived."

Inside the spaceship's control room, the man in the black uniform with silver threads on his sleeves smiled.

"Um."

Qin Mu nodded and followed the man in black uniform as he flew out of the spaceship's hatch.

What appeared before Qin Mu was not an enormous continent, but a planet.

A giant planet with a diameter of over ten million kilometers.

Around the planet are enormous platforms for passing spaceships to dock.

At this moment, Qin Mu and his group came down from a platform.

"Your Highness, unlike other secret realms where you can directly reach them, we need to enter the planet first and then enter through the teleportation channel inside the planet."

The man in the black uniform pointed to a thousand-meter-tall, silver-white palace in front of him and said.

"You also came out of the secret realm by teleportation."

We need to register first and get a teleportation token.

The Abyss of Purgatory has countless layers, and once you are teleported in, we cannot guarantee which layer you will enter from.

You can use a teleportation token when you want to leave.

Activating the teleportation token takes three minutes; please ensure you are not attacked during this time.

The man in the black uniform led the way while explaining the situation.

Qin Mu nodded, indicating that he understood.

Over the past six months, he has collected a great deal of information about the Abyss of Purgatory. He has gained a general understanding of its entry and exit methods, internal environment, types of demons, their strength, and so on.

The teleportation token is a very important item, essential for entering and exiting the Abyss of Purgatory. Once lost, there is only one outcome.

That is to live forever in the abyss of purgatory.

"Your mission is to survive in the Abyss of Purgatory for three years. If you do not emerge within three years, the mission will be considered a failure."

The Abyss of Purgatory is extremely dangerous. If you feel you can't hold on any longer, you can choose to leave quickly; there's no shame in that.

In fact, very few can complete the survival mission; the vast majority of geniuses who enter the Abyss of Purgatory cannot survive the first three days!

The man in the black uniform seemed to be giving a warning or a reminder.

"Yes, I understand."

Qin Mu nodded; the man in the black uniform was right.

According to the data he collected, more than 90% of people cannot survive the first three days!

However, as long as they survive for three days and return alive, regardless of whether the mission succeeds or fails, the trainees' strength will often be greatly enhanced.

It is precisely for this reason that, despite the extremely high mortality rate in the Abyss of Purgatory, some people are still willing to come and participate in the trials.

As the two were talking, a large group of silver-clad figures flew out of the silver-white palace. These silver-clad figures were the silver-clad stewards of the Virtual Universe Company, who possessed extremely high privileges.

At the very front of the nearly one hundred silver-clad deacons, three men and women dressed in white robes bowed slightly.

"Your Highness Qin Mu!"

"Your Highness Qin Mu!"

Qin Mu nodded slightly in mid-air, and then, accompanied by three white-robed men and followed by a group of silver-clad stewards, flew towards the silver-white palace.

Qin Mu's identity as a direct disciple of the Chaos City Lord was public knowledge, so these people certainly dared not be negligent.

……

The third floor of the silver-white palace.

A young man in white handed Qin Mu a black token and said solemnly.

"Your Highness, you must protect this teleportation token. Activate it whenever you want to leave the Abyss of Purgatory."

If the teleportation token is lost, one will be permanently trapped in the Abyss of Purgatory.

Qin Mu nodded to indicate that he understood.

"Please follow me, we're going to the teleportation array now."

The young man in white reached out his hand.

After passing through a long corridor, the young man in white led Qin Mu into a closed hall.

The entire hall was bathed in a dreamlike golden light, and on the ground was a rune array with a diameter of about one kilometer.

Bathed in golden light, it seemed to be probing something, radiating a chilling pressure.

At the young man in white's direction, Qin Mu flew to the center of the rune array.

"Your Highness, I wish you success in completing your mission."

The young man in white bowed slightly and smiled.

Qin Mu nodded, and the thousand-meter-long rune array lit up. After a strong spatial fluctuation, his figure disappeared.

……

"Is this the teleportation portal?"

Amidst the endless spatial turbulence, there seemed to be a seven-colored light. The black token in Qin Mu's arms emitted a faint light, enveloping him within it.

His body darted through the passage at breakneck speed, and as he moved, he seemed to arrive in an incredibly chaotic area, where distorted rules appeared randomly in the void.

Qin Mu seemed to sense worlds one by one, the aura of layers of purgatory abysses. The aura was very vague, but he could roughly sense the aura of laws.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Space, Wind, Light, Lightning, Time...

This aura represents the characteristics of this layer of the abyss, but one can only perceive it; there is no right to choose it at all.

As his vision distorted, Qin Mu's body fell from the passage, feeling a sense of fainting, and the surrounding environment seemed to shatter like a mirror.

……

Shaking his head, when his vision returned to normal, Qin Mu found himself standing in a gray jungle.

A stench of blood, as if countless corpses and remains had undergone a long fermentation, wafted through the armor formed by the Moyun Vine and into Qin Mu's nostrils.

"vomit--"

The smell was so pungent that Qin Mu was caught off guard and was agitated.

After quickly blocking out the smell, Qin Mu cautiously looked around, and the scene before him made him frown.

All around, hundreds of meters tall gray trees stand, twisted and ferocious, their rough bark exuding a bloody aura.

Black, python-like vines coiled among the trees, creating an eerie and terrifying sight.

Qin Mu's gaze gradually sharpened as he noticed that some vines seemed to be moving slowly.

They wriggled their bodies, exploring their surroundings, their posture no different from that of a venomous snake hunting its prey.

On the ground, a layer of dark brown, rotten soil came into view, emitting a foul stench.

The smell was pungent and unpleasant, almost unbearable.

Qin Mu suppressed his discomfort and looked down. He saw a viscous liquid slowly flowing in the soil, emitting a nauseating smell.

Everywhere you look, there are broken bones and fur of unknown monsters.

The remains were scattered all over the ground; some had already weathered away, while others still retained some flesh and blood.

Countless maggot-like worms burrowed and slithered among the corpses, seemingly feeding on them and constantly gnawing at the remains of these monsters.

"Buzzing—"

Qin Mu's sudden appearance startled a swarm of flies.

These flies, like black clouds, quickly gathered around Qin Mu, spinning around and emitting a piercing buzzing sound.

"snort--"

Qin Mu snorted coldly, and flames roared within a hundred-meter radius of him, burning all the flies and insects to ashes.

But it was as if a switch had been triggered.

More flies swarmed in from all directions, as if summoned by some force, rushing madly toward Qin Mu.

Not only flies and insects, but Qin Mu also sensed countless poisonous insects and snakes lurking and approaching in the viscous liquid underground, which resembled a swamp.

Further away, Qin Mu sensed auras rapidly approaching. The owners of these auras were at least at the Eternal Star level, and there were also a large number of Universe-level and even stronger Domain Lord-level beings among them!

"What a grand welcoming ceremony!"

Qin Mu's body hovered in mid-air, coldly observing the hostile environment around him.

He knew very well why.

Because of the breath!

He is not an abyssal creature and is out of place in his surroundings, which causes all abyssal creatures that sense his presence to attack him madly.

It's almost impossible to hide using secret methods; the only way is through killing!

Through constant killing, he imbued himself with the abyss's aura and integrated himself into the environment.

This is why over 90% of people who enter the Abyss of Purgatory don't survive more than three days.

whoosh-

With a whooshing sound, a creature with bat wings, nearly three meters tall, and covered in scales like an ape swooped down from the sky.

Behind Qin Mu, the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Wheel floated, and the Dragon Spear appeared in his hand.

One after another, flaming knives flew out from the wheel of fire, easily piercing through the brains of the ape-like creatures.

As he killed the ape-like creature, a peculiar aura surged into Qin Mu's body.

This aura carried a fiery power, coursing through Qin Mu's body, and bewitching him to kill and devour the flesh and blood of the ape monster.

Qin Mu remained unmoved as he sensed the aura within his body.

Because he knew that this aura was the aura of the abyss, and that by constantly killing, he could make the aura of the abyss in his body stronger and stronger until he was no different from an abyss demon.

That's right, the ape-like creature in front of you is a demon.

Inferior Demon!

Abyssal demons are also divided into ranks: lower-ranking demons, middle-ranking demons, upper-ranking demons, great demons, demon lords, and demon princes!

These correspond to the Eternal Star level, Universe level, Domain Lord level, World Lord level, Immortal level, and Universe Venerable level, respectively!

Adult demons are those below the rank of Eternal Star; below that are juvenile demons.

"roar--"

Roars echoed through the jungle, and the earth roared.

"They're here!"

The appearance of the ape demon was just the beginning.

A large swarm of flying demons filled the sky, their various hissing and roaring sounds creating a chaotic scene. Their enormous size and astonishing numbers resembled a dark cloud.

On the ground, the earth rumbled, and countless demons roared, emitting savage sounds.

These demons came in all shapes and sizes. At a glance, Qin Mu saw that some resembled monsters, some were humanoid, and some were a jumbled mess, like stitches together.

"The number has already exceeded 100,000! And it's still growing!"

There are more than ten high-ranking demons (domain lord level) and thousands of mid-ranking demons (cosmic level).

No wonder over 90% of the trial participants don't survive more than three days!

A bloodthirsty smile appeared on Qin Mu's lips.

"When it comes to numbers, insect swarms have never been afraid!"

"Hahaha, the swarm will wipe them all out!"

Amidst the maniacal laughter, the void behind Qin Mu twisted, and enormous insectoid creatures appeared—Golden Horn Insectoids, Flame Star Insectoids…

(End of this chapter)