An invasion from the Abyss? I, a demonic cultivator, laughed.

Chapter 216 The Eight Legions

"Clap."

The leader of the hungry ghosts fell to the ground with a thud, his body severed in two. The entire Giant's Road fell into a deathly silence. Both humans and hungry ghosts stared at the leader's severed body, speechless with shock.

The next moment, a deafening cheer erupted in the camp.

The faces of the crowd were filled with the joy of surviving a disaster, and some people even couldn't hold back their tears.

However, Chu Xiu remained calm. He gently stroked the blade and said indifferently, "Stop pretending."

As soon as he finished speaking, a bizarre scene unfolded.

Between the severed bodies of the hungry ghost leader, a phantom rose up, while the body of the hungry ghost leader on the ground began to melt like a heated candle. At the same time, the phantom rapidly solidified as if absorbing the energy of the original body.

In the blink of an eye, a humanoid monster nearly five meters tall, with a ferocious face and a bluish-purple body, appeared in front of Chu Xiu.

This monster had wings, held a trident, had a long, thin tail, and its head was ablaze with eerie green flames. It shot upwards for several feet, like a huge bonfire lit during a sacrifice.

This sudden change caused Chu Xiu to raise an eyebrow slightly.

Even if a high-level creature's body is severed, it can still struggle for a while even if only its head remains. Therefore, Chu Xiu had expected that the Hungry Ghost Leader was still alive. However, he was somewhat surprised that the opponent actually had a second form.

At the same time, the monster's appearance reminded Chu Xiu of something.

"Yaksha?" He raised an eyebrow.

“Indeed,” the Yaksha’s deep voice rang out, “Since you know my true name, you must have received the grace of gods and Buddhas. Why then do you obstruct us now?”

Chu Xiu remained silent, merely observing the other person in quiet contemplation.

In Buddhist scriptures, yakshas are described as brave, fierce, and wicked, capable of devouring people. Later, they were transformed by the Buddha's teachings and became guardian deities, listed as one of the eight classes of celestial beings.

In Hinduism, he is a demigod who was born from the soles of Brahma's feet.

In mythology, there are many kinds of Yakshas, ​​such as earth-walking Yakshas, ​​sea-patrolling Yakshas, ​​and flying Yakshas, ​​each with different abilities. Although Yakshas have a fierce appearance, they mostly appear as servants of benevolent gods.

But the yaksha before him exuded an extremely eerie aura, an extreme resentment and venom, as if the creature before him was born from countless negative emotions. Chu Xiu could not sense any "goodness" in it.

While legends inevitably contain embellishments and inaccuracies, they shouldn't be this far off.

"Is it the influence of the abyss, or something else, or is this guy just similar to a Yaksha, but not actually a Yaksha?"

Suddenly, Chu Xiu's eyes flickered as he realized something. He discovered that this aura of resentment was extremely similar to the "Evil Eye Codex" he had obtained from killing the Calamity!
"Could it be that there is another Buddhist artifact here?"

"I previously speculated that the Buddhist supernatural powers of the calamity, as well as the method of creating a golden body to escape the nuclear explosion, all came from that heretical book. Could the mutations of the creatures here also be related to that Buddhist artifact?"

When Chu Xiu realized that the dungeon for this mission was called "Eight Heavenly Dragons," he immediately felt that his guess was not unfounded.

Of course, daydreaming is pointless here.

The simplest and most direct way is naturally—

Severe torture!

Once Chu Xiu has shattered the demon's physical body and imprisoned its soul, it will be no longer up to the demon to say what it wants or not.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, the Yaksha opposite him suddenly turned grim: "You ungrateful wretch! Do you really think I'm no match for you?"

The next instant, it flapped its wings, its massive body soared into the sky, and then mysteriously disappeared into the air!

At the same time, all the high-ranking evil spirits around, including those general-level and king-level hungry ghosts who had not yet made a move, let out deafening roars and rushed towards Chu Xiu!
"Oh? To be able to sense my killing intent so quickly, your perception ability seems to be superior to mine."

"It also possesses some kind of concealment technique, and its basic attributes have also improved significantly compared to before. Its physique should be over eight thousand."

"Indeed, this is the kind of difficulty the End should have!"

Chu Xiu licked his lips, his eyes showing no fear, but rather a surge of fighting spirit!
With the Heaven-Reaching Blood Vine around, he didn't need to worry about his life. All he needed to do was use all his skills and have a good fight!
With a tap of the spirit flesh storage pouch, five unused refined corpses appeared on the scene!

With the blessing of the Heavenly Blood Vine, these five refined corpses were covered with a thick layer of bloody light. Although they were only general-level refined corpses, their combat power was already approaching that of king-level!
"Woo——"

The horn of Oubres sounded in the arena. With the enhancement of this legendary equipment, a dark golden light appeared on the linked ghost, and its basic attributes were directly improved. At the same time, three hundred Oubres' standard weapons took shape and descended, directly granting the user powerful combat skills!
Simultaneously, [Command - Charge]! [Command - Hold the Line]! [Command - Recuperation]!
Chu Xiu immediately emptied most of his internal magic power and unleashed three powerful general commands!
"Roar!!!"

All the ghosts roared with fighting spirit, like berserkers with bloodshot eyes, and launched a fierce attack on the hungry ghosts opposite them!
The two massive "armies" collided, instantly splattering blood and flesh everywhere, and limbs flying off!

"kill!"

Chu Xiu also shouted loudly, his figure soaring into the sky, chasing after the location where the Yaksha had disappeared, while his subordinates, who were refining corpses, blocked the other high-ranking hungry ghosts.

King against king, general against general!
For a moment, the entire Giant's Causeway trembled. The aftershocks of the battle between the two legions continued to crumble the surrounding rocks, and countless pebbles fell down, revealing the hard steel walls behind them.

"It turns out that the core of this passage was made of steel."

Chu Xiu glanced at it, then stopped paying attention, his eyes flashing with a faint golden light as he searched for the Yaksha's whereabouts.

No creature dared to approach within two hundred meters of him; Chu Xiu's field of vision was completely empty.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a transparent figure rushing past, but it was too fast. Chu Xiu only saw a momentary spatial fluctuation before losing sight of the figure again.

Chu Xiu released his divine sense and found that even with the exquisite nature of his divine sense, he could only occasionally catch traces left behind before quickly losing his lock.

"This is interesting. It's not just physical invisibility, but more like some kind of supernatural ability to escape into the void, which even my divine sense cannot detect."

"Although divine sense is a top-tier talent, its level of ferocity is still too low."

Chu Xiu thought to himself, not taking the initiative to attack, but simply holding the Judgment Demon Blade horizontally in front of his chest, quietly waiting for the other party to make a move.

Before long, a sharp, piercing sound suddenly came from behind without warning!

Chu Xiu was startled and quickly swung his sword back. The surrounding space was locked by the Judgment Demon Blade, but a huge energy fluctuation broke through this restraint!

"clang!!!"

With a deafening roar, Chu Xiu felt a tremendous force on the longsword in his hand. In the next instant, he felt his tiger's mouth tremble violently, and he almost lost his grip on the demonic blade.

If it weren't for the Golden Muscle and Nether Bone providing a lot of defense, his tiger's mouth would have been directly shattered by this attack!

Even though the demonic blade didn't leave his hand, under the enormous impact, Chu Xiu plummeted from the sky and crashed heavily into the ground, creating a crater with a radius of five meters!

The figure of the Yaksha emerged from the void, its emerald eyes filled with a mocking smile, before disappearing back into the void. Before Chu Xiu could stand up again, he suddenly sensed a figure rapidly approaching him!
Without a second thought, he hurriedly swung his sword in front of him, and a dense barrage of blades covered the entire airspace within a hundred-meter radius. However, the wide-range attack formed by dispersing the destructive energy was no match for the Yaksha's surprise attack. The Yaksha's enormous figure emerged from the barrage of blades, and his trident, carrying immense force, pierced down from the sky!

"clang!!!"

As the blades clashed, Chu Xiu was slammed into the ground by the immense force, and even the True Demon Blade of Judgment in his hand cracked!

This scene instantly silenced the soldiers who had been cheering.

The Buddha, the savior of the world, was actually suppressed by that monster!
"boom!"

Another loud bang, and Chu Xiu's figure was sent flying far away. When the dust settled, a fist-sized bloody hole had appeared on his left shoulder!
This left all the soldiers bewildered, and fear returned to their faces.

The figure of the Yaksha slowly emerged, its face now showing less fear of Chu Xiu and more of a relaxed smile.

"I have to admit, your supernatural abilities are indeed quite interesting. It seems you must have received a special inheritance from gods and Buddhas."

"But it seems that my rank is above yours now." He said with a rather smug smile, his expression not like that of a superior being who had lived for a long time, but rather like that of a small person who had accidentally gained great power.

However, just as Yaksha was about to step forward, Chu Xiu stood up.

His face showed no suppressed unease or panic; his dark eyes remained as calm as still water, and the wound on his left shoulder healed rapidly under his powerful life force.

"Your rank is above mine?"

Chu Xiu smiled slightly, and a faint golden light rose from his pupils, emanating an extremely imposing aura.

At first, the Yaksha didn't care, but soon it felt an immense pressure suddenly descend upon it! It was as if a massive boulder weighing tens of thousands of tons had been placed on it in that instant!
"Crack!"

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the rocks beneath its feet, its feet sank into the soil, and all its joints were making a "crackling" sound!
What terrified it even more was the oppressive aura emanating from Chu Xiu's superior, emanating from the golden light in his eyes! It was like a mouse seeing a massive Siberian tiger!
"But how is that possible?!"

Before Yaksha could figure out what was going on, he suddenly felt a bright light rise in front of him, and the next moment, he felt a sharp pain all over his body at the same time!
Suddenly, a flame erupted from the Yaksha's body, engulfing it completely!

The yaksha let out a shrill scream and tried to escape into the void, but the flames clung to it like maggots, making it impossible for it to hide its form!
"If you don't show yourself and say something irrelevant, my Blood-Burning Golden Eyes really won't be able to lock onto you easily."

The majestic golden light made Chu Xiu look like a god, but there was a hint of a smile in his eyes. He felt more and more that the monster opposite him was too shallow. It opened champagne halfway after hitting him once. It really looked like an ordinary person who suddenly gained power and became complacent.

However, even if the other party did not show up on their own initiative, Chu Xiu had a way to deal with it, it would just require more effort.

Shaking his head, Chu Xiu swung his sword, and the massive blade instantly severed the Yaksha in half at the waist.

"You, what on earth are you?"

“I am ranked third among the Eight Legions, with only the Celestials and Dragons above me. Although strength and ranking among the legions are not absolutely related, how could you possibly suppress me based on rank?”

Yaksha's emerald green eyes widened in disbelief.

Chu Xiu was too lazy to say anything more. He slashed down with his sword, severing the Yaksha's head in the process. However, at that moment, a phantom figure rushed out from the head and fled into the distance at high speed.

Chu Xiu did not move. He had no intention of taking Yaksha's life immediately. He only decisively cut off his head after realizing that the other party had another core member. What he wanted to do was to play the long game and catch a big fish.

A blood-red figure rushed out from behind him and chased after the Yaksha, while he himself turned around and turned his gaze to the remaining hungry ghosts.

Without the protection of the Yakshas, ​​no matter how many hungry ghosts there are, they are nothing more than lambs to the slaughter.

As the blade flashed, the vast passageway was completely transformed into a bloody killing field.

Three minutes later, less than a tenth of the once mighty horde of hungry ghosts fled in disarray back to the various caves of Paradise Lost.

[Task Contribution +3789.4]

【获得道具：定位锚点＊7、完美级剥夺之手＊11、B级升级火种＊6、完美级定向深潜卷＊16、旧日骸影*4、职业·收割者（A）、职业·萨满狂战士（A）、职业·毒弓手（B）.】

The panel notification that appeared before his eyes brought a slight smile to Chu Xiu's face.

The battle directly added over three thousand mission contribution points and a large number of items to his account!

You should know that in the previous trial in the casino, he only had a little over 8,000 contribution points when he settled the score, which already brought a lot of extra rewards.

"And I even spared one of the Yakshas without killing him immediately."

"Furthermore, the Yaksha is only one of the Eight Legions. If I kill all the other legions, I wonder how many more contribution points I can gain!"

Combined with the extremely high base rewards of the End difficulty, the rewards for completing the trial will be unbelievably high!

Furthermore, although the monsters in the trials do not drop equipment, but instead convert into quest contribution points, they will drop a number of special items in the final difficulty.

Chu Xiu had a great harvest this time. Although these props were not of much use to him, they were still quite valuable when added together.

In particular, the fixed anchor points that Ya Zi and others had been longing for were revealed in seven very easily.

It's worth mentioning that a new item has appeared that Chu Xiu has never seen before.

[Shadows of the Past]

This seems to be a drop exclusive to the Old Trials. Chu Xiu checked it and found only a simple description.

[Old Remains: When placed in the Old Altar, the Old Remains can be sent into the Old, buried in the abyss and inaccessible to anyone, to help find items lost within the Old.]

It sounds like a rather interesting prop, but Chu Xiu doesn't even know what the ancient altar or the buried ancient things are right now, so he can only put it into his storage space for now.

Without further hesitation, he turned around and returned to the military camp.

Upon his return, almost all the soldiers knelt down and shouted the names of the gods and Buddhas.

Ignoring the frenzied crowd, Chu Xiu went directly to Liang Zhan's location.

At this moment, Liang Zhan and a group of high-ranking generals were on the watchtower. They had just witnessed the entire battle and their admiration for Chu Xiu was even greater than that of the ordinary soldiers. Before he even approached, Liang Zhan and his generals knelt down and shouted, "Welcome to the world of gods and Buddhas! Thank you for saving us from dire straits! We were blind before, please punish us!"

The young man and woman who had been caught by Chu Xiu researching contraband were also kneeling among them, their eyes filled with reverence and fanaticism as they looked at Chu Xiu.

However, in the face of everyone kneeling in worship, Chu Xiu simply waved his hand and said, "I am not a Buddha."

Liang Zhan: ?
The crowd, who had been filled with admiration, were completely bewildered by this statement.

Chu Xiu didn't waste any time and went straight to the important points about the Awakened Ones and the Old Trials.

Liang Zhan and his group are intelligent people. It is pointless to try to fool them with religion. On the contrary, it may cause problems in small areas due to information gaps or lead to errors in the transmission of instructions. It is better to tell them the truth.

Chu Xiu had the same plan before, but at the time, most people were suspicious of him.

But that's different now.

I am invincible, why would I need to lie?

After revealing his absolute strength, even if Chu Xiu said he was a Trisolaran from Planet Alta, Liang Zhan and the others would believe him.

After hearing Chu Xiu's account, Liang Zhan and the others' shock only increased, and they even showed an undisguised joy compared to before.

"My lord, are you saying that you are just a powerful human, and that we may all one day possess the same power as you?"

Chu Xiu nodded.

In theory, Liang Zhan and the others could become Awakeners after returning to the Corpse Demon World, or more accurately, after coming into contact with the Abyss. They are all elites of this world, having been tempered by battles of all sizes. Both their temperament and talent are top-notch, and their future achievements should be considerable.

If Chu Xiu has the idea of ​​ruling the Corpse Demon World, they will become an important force.

Of course, someone will explain these things to them in detail later, and Chu Xiu has no interest in wasting any more breath.

He stated bluntly, "I want to take all the residents away from this place. Liang Zhan, I'm giving you and your men two tasks: first, gather all the scattered residents and soldiers back to the main city as quickly as possible; second, find out how to leave this place."

"Yes!" Liang Zhan replied without any hesitation.

He immediately looked up and asked, "And what about you, sir?"

"Me?" Chu Xiu looked in the direction the Yaksha had fled and smiled slightly.

"Then naturally we must nip it in the bud."

(End of this chapter)