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

Chapter 273 Two Great SS Blessings
The phantom images of the four gods flickered incessantly, seemingly engaged in a fierce argument.

This scene made Chu Xiu vaguely realize something.

The communication between the gods was swift, and before long, the four phantoms stabilized again.

At this moment, the idea of ​​the boundless blood pool entered Chu Xiu's mind simply and directly.

"They believe that the Blood Demon Incarnation does not belong to your own power, and is considered cheating."

Chu Xiu nodded, thinking that his guess was correct.

The doubts of other gods are also reasonable, after all, the Blood Demon incarnation was an opportunity forcibly created for him by the boundless blood pool.

In theory, it can allow an awakened being of the Fierce rank, or even just the Warrior rank, to possess power close to that of a Heroic Spirit!

What's the point of gambling then? These gods could easily grant a mortal the power of a hero or even a demigod in a short period of time if they wanted to.

Of course, there are also theories about the Boundless Blood Pool, namely that the Blood Demon Incarnation was an opportunity that Chu Xiu earned himself, and that he had it long ago, not something he specifically prepared for this competition.

"So, sir, what was the final result?"

"The three gods want you to disable the Blood Demon Avatar. As compensation, they will increase the rank of the final reward."

"Of course, you can also choose to cancel, and the competition will be called off."

The sound of an empty, boundless blood pool echoed in Chu Xiu's mind.

After a moment's thought, he smiled and said, "No need, I accept the offer."

As he finished speaking, the bodies of the other three gods began to twist again.

They seemed surprised that Chu Xiu actually agreed. Could it be that even though he was already this strong, he still had a trump card up his sleeve?

Then they would lose big time.

However, his inner curiosity prevailed; it had been a long time since he had encountered such low-level entertainment as Chu Xiu.

Controlling heroic gladiators to compete every day, and occasionally having a low-level duel is also nice.

Immediately, the expectant gazes of the four gods were all focused on Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu made no move, but simply raised his hand and waved it, causing the Blood Demon Avatar and the Blood Sea Domain to quickly collapse, and the Holy Son of the Nether Scythe Clan regained his freedom.

The other party was overjoyed and quickly changed direction, but his rapidly moving body soon came to a halt.

Because he discovered that Chu Xiu had also disappeared!

Yes, while increasing the distance can maintain a safe distance, it also reduces the ability to detect the other party!
However, the Holy Son of the Youlian Clan did not panic. Instead, his eyes emitted a faint glow as he scanned the surroundings.

As a top gladiator, one naturally has detection methods, otherwise it would be easy to be targeted by special enemies.

However, after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find any trace of the other person.

He didn't lose heart, but continued his search slowly.

Finally, when Chu Xiu approached within three kilometers of him, he was detected by his detection skills.

Without hesitation, the Holy Son of the Ghost Scythe Clan swiftly flapped his wings and prepared to shift his position, but at that moment, he saw the enemy in the distance point at him with a slight gesture.

Before he could react, a green light pierced through his body, and in the next moment, all his flesh and blood were drained, turning into the essence that nourished the Soul Banner.

He was defeated in one move!
Even the four gods, who were used to grand scenes, were momentarily shocked by this sight.

No, how come even though the opponent's ultimate skill is disabled, they still get instantly killed?
What they didn't know was that Chu Xiu's raw strength was simply too outrageous. After passing through the Hundred Ghosts Furnace World, the massive ghost army had raised the power of this skill to an extremely terrifying level. With a casual flick of his finger, he could unleash power comparable to that of a heroic spirit!
Even if his Spirit-Slaying Demon Finger remains restricted, he can still unleash a legion of ghosts to search in all directions. Even if it is restricted again, the Judgment Demon Blade still possesses terrifying power, enough to easily kill enemies.

With the death of the Holy Son of the Youlian Clan, a bell rang to announce the end of the competition.

Chu Xiu's vision blurred for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he was back in the magnificent and empty arena.

Of the four deities, only the one with the boundless blood pool still flickers; the statues of the other three have dimmed.

The boundless blood pool seemed very pleased, and one after another, bursts of blood-red light gushed out from the pool and merged into Chu Xiu's body.

【Points earned: 1423124】

[Item Obtained: Ancient Blood *789]

[Item Obtained: 170000 Causality Points]

The reward before him brought a smile to Chu Xiu's face.

Just as he expected, over 1.4 million points were enough to exchange for two SS-level general-rank blessings!

The rewards for Ancient Blood are also very generous; so much Ancient Blood is more than enough to exchange for three or four Legendary General-level heroes.

As for the reward of causal points, even if it's just a bonus, giving 170,000 at once is still quite generous.

And this is far from over!

These are all basic rewards; Chu Xiu still hasn't claimed the rewards from the bet!

Furthermore, because he disabled the Blood Demon Avatar, the reward will be further upgraded due to the influence of the other three gods!
This made him very much looking forward to it.

Under Chu Xiu's expectant gaze, another beam of blood-red light shot out from the blood-spraying pool and landed in Chu Xiu's hand.

[Item Obtained: Blood Pool Hand-Painted Treasure Map]

[The Blood Pool Hand-Painted Treasure Map: Records the location of the Blood Pool remains.]

"Ok?"

This reward was unexpected for Chu Xiu, but after he realized it, he was pleasantly surprised and his eyes widened.

Blood Pool Remains!
Chu Xiu knew a little about the history of the Corpse Demon World. It was said that countless millions of years ago, after the Boundless Blood Pool achieved the position of a god, it left the Corpse Demon World and went to the vast starry sky. Its body, which was left behind after its transformation, remained in the depths of the Blood Sea.

Although that body was merely the body of a demigod, it was a demigod infinitely close to a god, and the power contained within it was completely incomparable to that of an ordinary demigod.

The original seventy-two Blood Demons were all born from that body.

Moreover, the sea area near that body became a special environment, nurturing and giving birth to countless powerful sea monsters.

Even the [Heavenly Blood Vine], a [Mythical] level item, states that as long as you go to the place where the Blood Pool was born and absorb the power of the Blood Pool, you can increase your rank!
The incredible effects of this [Mythical] item are self-evident; it has helped Chu Xiu overcome countless powerful enemies along the way. If its rank could be upgraded, it could become another trump card for Chu Xiu.

However, Chu Xiu had no clue about the birthplace of the Blood Pool, which delayed the process.

Unexpectedly, this is when we made a profit.

But in reality, Chu Xiu had an even bigger goal in mind.

"Is it possible to refine the lost body from the Blood Pool into a refined corpse?" This thought made Chu Xiu's heart pound. He couldn't imagine how powerful a refined corpse could be born from a body that was infinitely close to that of a god.

Of course, he knew that the idea was a bit far-fetched, so he just chuckled and put it aside after the thought flashed through his mind.

The priority now is to figure out how to handle the large number of newly acquired points.

Chu Xiu looked at them and realized that there were quite a few blessings that could increase movement speed, such as [Swift Wind Wings (S)] and [Ghostly Steps (S)]. However, just like the reason why the three gods did not bless that holy son, the S-rank blessing was too little of a help to Chu Xiu's level!
After some thought, Chu Xiu changed his approach and decisively spent 690,000 points to exchange for the [Mind Overwriting - Subconscious Disturbance] general rank.

His thinking was simple: since I can't catch up with you, I'll hide myself and launch an ambush! Once you're controlled by his demon army, even heroic spirits might not be able to escape!
As for the remaining points, he still chose to redeem an SS blessing.

That's the [Time Reflection (S)] that the opponent used in the previous battle against the Holy Son of the Nether Scythe Clan.

This skill is equivalent to having an extra life; it's an extremely powerful skill.

Of course, this blessing also has its flaws. First, it is only given once. Second, the stronger the life force and the more severe the injury, the shorter the time that can be reversed and the slower the reversal process.

If Chu Xiu uses it, and it causes full-body shattering damage, it might only be able to rewind to 0.1 seconds ago, and the rewind process would take more than five seconds. During this time, the enemy can still attack it, which makes it quite useless.

Therefore, Chu Xiu redeemed its upgraded version, 【Time-Space Save (SS)】.

Not only is the time that can be traced back significantly increased, but even the location can be traced back! Moreover, the time required for tracing back has been greatly reduced!
The only slight disappointment is that this is still a one-time blessing.

There was nothing he could do; after all, he was only a general.

As for the Ancient Blood, Chu Xiu spent a full 500 points to exchange for an item called [Evolution Blood].

Its effect is simple and brutal: it can make the life essence of organisms evolve. For Blood Demons, the "direct descendants" of the Blood Pool, the effect can be five or six times greater!
Of course, such a powerful thing also has its drawbacks. First, it is useless to beings whose life essence is already very high. Second, it needs time to be slowly absorbed and evolved.

Chu Xiu had already cultivated the [Divine Demon Foundation], so this kind of thing was naturally useless to him, but it was just right for the Blood Demon.

If there are enough of them, you could even pile them up into Heroic Spirits!
As for the remaining Ancient Blood, Chu Xiu kept it. It would be too wasteful to use it to exchange for legendary equipment. Its real use was to exchange for things that only gods could do.

For example, props to prolong the life of parents, etc.

After doing all this, Chu Xiu's face showed a satisfied expression.

"I think I've now reached the peak of my combat power."

Now that the preparations were complete, he didn't delay any longer and returned directly to the Awakening Space to initiate the trial!
Needless to say, the difficulty is at its maximum in the "End" mode!
As Chu Xiu activated the Ancient Proof, a brilliant spiritual light rose from its center.

[Preparing for the Advancement Trial]

[The activation of the Ancient Proof has been detected; the Ascension Trial has been replaced with the Ancient Trial.]

[Searching for the trial grounds]

During the preparation for the trial, Chu Xiu fed the Blood Demon Avatar with the Blood of Evolution and used [Perfect Refinement] to help it refine and absorb the power of this item.

Half a month later, the Blood of Evolution was perfectly absorbed, and Chu Xiu could feel that the Blood Demon Avatar's strength had increased significantly, now almost reaching the level of a Heroic Spirit.

However, what puzzled Chu Xiu was that the trial grounds still could not be found.

This is the first time the trial has taken so long to prepare.

After waiting for three more days, information finally emerged from the old evidence.

[A suitable trial site has been found; the trial quest is being generated.]

【Generation completed! 】

The kill mode selected this time is: Endless Frenzy.

【Endless Frenzy: Every day, an envoy from an alien civilization will descend upon the opposing faction as support. The first day will see one envoy, and the number will increase by one each day thereafter.

The Descendants possess the abilities of "long-range communication," "sensory sharing," and "assimilation and growth."

[Extreme Distance Communication: The Descendants can use the power of the rules to communicate over extremely long distances, both one-on-one and one-on-many, making information transmission extremely difficult to obstruct or intercept.]

[Sensory Sharing: Descendants can share their senses to enhance their teamwork.]

[Assimilation Growth: The longer a visitor stays in the trial world, the higher their assimilation level, and the more power boosts they will receive from the native world's creatures, reaching their maximum after seven days.]

[Note 1: Envoys of the descending civilization must not interfere with the mission, and must not intentionally kill the sparks of civilization.]

[Note 2: Upon completion of the mission, all supporting civilization envoys will receive a reward of five million Karma Points and ten additional legendary items/equipment, based on their contribution.]

Endless Frenzy Mode!

Chu Xiu read it carefully and quickly understood the meaning of the pattern.

In short, alien civilizations will continuously send reinforcements to the enemy, and the longer this continues, the more reinforcements the enemy will send each day, with the number of these people increasing as the time spent in the camp increases.

This so-called enhancement should be the phrase in the description of the End difficulty: "[Abyss strength increased by 200%]", which means that as long as you stay for seven days, you will have three times the strength of the original.

"Therefore, the strategy of this pattern is completely opposite to that of the previous pattern."

"Last time I tried to avoid fighting the enemy, but this time I need to take the initiative and kill the arriving civilization envoys as soon as possible. The less pressure I will face."

"Of course, one thing remains unchanged: the task needs to be completed as quickly as possible. If I can complete the task in just one day like last time, then this model is meaningless to me."

Thinking about this, Chu Xiu suddenly felt that this killing mode seemed to be much simpler than the last one.

Last time, if he had delayed even half a day longer, Chu Xiu would have been completely unable to deal with the alien civilization envoy who was 32 times stronger than him and still couldn't be killed. He would have been destined to fail the trial or have his trial level lowered.

Thinking of this, he felt a little relieved and began the trial without much further thought.

[Trial begins, currently in deep dive.]

[Deep dive complete, current depth: 1479]

As the notification ended, Chu Xiu found himself in front of an open space, with a row of tall city walls in the distance.

Chu Xiu looked around with some confusion. Not far from him was a large dense forest. With his superhuman senses, he could clearly perceive the birds and beasts flying in the forest, a scene full of vitality.

This is clearly the surface of the earth, yet a civilization could still survive on it?
"No, it's also possible that they were hiding in the shelter before, but then opened a passage to the surface," Chu Xiu thought.

But then he felt something was off, because if he opened a passage to the surface and established a connection with the Abyss World, the Abyss would surely have noticed. Before, when facing the Celestials, Chu Xiu wanted to take a few people out, but they were all very nervous.

Another point of suspicion is that the sky here is very blue, the grass is lush and green, and there is no trace of blood color, which is obviously not a world that has been polluted by the blood pool.

"Could it be that I've stumbled upon another 'paradise'? But what about the sky?"

Chu Xiu muttered to himself, then looked down at the mission description.

(End of this chapter)