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

Chapter 288 Six Fundamental Cultivation Methods
"boom!"

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the Blood Demon Core exploded in mid-air in a dazzling burst of fire.

At the same time, the flesh and blood of the colossal Blood Demon God, as large as a mountain, were turning into dark red powder and drifting into the air.

Meng Xuanshu stared blankly at the ball of fire, his expression constantly changing.

Near the base city, ecstatic cheers erupted!
"We win! We win!"

The survivors of the disaster wept with joy and embraced each other.

[Trial mission complete!]

A pleasant notification sound rang in Chu Xiu's ears. He looked at the collapsing Blood Demon Giant in the distance and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's done."

Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.

If Aurora fails to hold on, he will have to activate his illusory god mode again. Although Chu Xiu is still confident of victory, it will undoubtedly consume a large amount of his life energy, and he may even suffer severe damage to his soul, requiring more than half a year to recover.

This is assuming one is willing to spend resources to purchase items to repair their soul; otherwise, it wouldn't be unusual for someone to spend ten or twenty years on self-care specifically to repair their soul.

Fortunately, the girl withstood the pressure.

"To be able to hit the target so accurately even under the scorching heat, she truly deserves to be the holy maiden trusted by everyone here," Chu Xiu couldn't help but exclaim.

Although it was just a simulated character, he couldn't help but feel grateful.

With a swift movement, he arrived inside the Titan machine, but then his expression froze.

The boiling coolant in the condenser had quieted down, but on that throne sat only a completely carbonized body.

Chu Xiu scanned the body with his divine sense and found that there was no trace of life force remaining.

Near the carbonized body were scattered invisible particles, which Chu Xiu was very familiar with. They were the remnants of the dissipated soul, indicating that Aurora had not even left behind her soul.

Chu Xiu's expression was somewhat gloomy.

Just then, he suddenly heard a terrified scream from someone amidst the cheers outside.

Because they discovered that their bodies were disintegrating, starting from the soles of their feet, gradually turning into basic particles of powder.

In the panic and confusion, everyone's bodies vanished into nothingness.

The world seemed to fall silent all at once.

Chu Xiu looked at the battlefield, which had been filled with the roar of artillery fire just seconds before, now as silent as a graveyard. He fell silent for a moment, a strange emptiness welling up inside him.

"Is this what happens when you're swallowed by the abyss?"

Even after death, your body, your brain, your glory are nothing more than a simulation in someone else's trial.

The thought that if one day Earth were swallowed by the abyss, would his parents, his friends, and even himself become insignificant footnotes that another civilization could discard and use at any time during its trials?

"No, I will never allow that to happen. As long as I can keep getting stronger and have enough power, that's enough."

Chu Xiu clenched his fist, and in an instant, a force capable of shattering hundreds of tons of boulders surged forth, and this force continued to intensify!
Every cell in his body was jubilant, with new life energy surging from his core, which was transforming him from a cellular level to another level of biological transformation!

A few seconds later, when the change stopped, his aura had undergone a tremendous transformation, and his body was surging with a vast, ocean-like energy fluctuation.

Wang Jie!

[Name] Chu Xiu

[Rank] King Rank 1 (0/200)

Current Rank: Chief Outer Disciple of the Holy Sect (False Core Formation)

[Class Bonus: Energy recovery speed +1350.0/h, Qi Refining skill additional power bonus +420%, Qi Refining skill cultivation speed +550%, Foundation Establishment skills enjoy a quarter bonus, mental resistance to the influence of killing merits +2500%, talent "Divine Sense" strengthened.]

[The talent "Jade Elixir" has been removed, and a new talent "Fake Elixir" has been obtained.]

[Current cultivation speed bonus for killing merits: 792%]

[Constitution] 12304.76
[Mental State] 9874.09
[Energy Level] 34889.32
[Equipment Skills Traits, etc.] (omitted)
After advancing to the King rank, all of his attributes received a huge boost, with each attribute increasing by at least 40% to 50% on average.

Especially the energy level attribute, which has almost doubled!
Needless to say, this is definitely related to the new traits he acquired.

Chu Xiu looked down.

【Fake Elixir (S): Energy Level +19650, All Spell Cost -35%, Spell Power Increased by 100%, Spell Casting Speed ​​+25%】

The original Jade Liquid's properties were to increase Chu Xiu's energy and enhance the power of his spells, which can be considered a manifestation of his abilities after Foundation Establishment.

Although he has lost this trait, the fake pill he obtained is a fully enhanced version! Not only does it provide a significant increase in energy, but it also speeds up casting and reduces mana consumption.

The spell's power amplification has also increased from 50% to 100%!

With the added bonuses from his class and the improvement in his base attributes, Chu Xiu's Demonic Qi Condensation Weapon is now more than twice as powerful as it was before the upgrade.

He is now confident that he can defeat Meng Xuanshu head-on without relying on the False God Mode, simply by relying on his powerful demonic energy.

Of course, this is under the condition that the other party does not use that strange law of gravity. Even now, Chu Xiu feels that the power of the law is too strong, and he has not yet found a good way to deal with it.

"Top civilizations are still far ahead of me. There are still many unknowns about the Abyss. I must not let my guard down." Chu Xiu became vigilant and decided that he would definitely ask Meng Xuanshu about the Abyss later.

However, he has something more important to do now, which is to understand the new inheritance of the King Rank!
Chu Xiu focused his attention and probed, and a message appeared in his mind: [Congratulations on entering the King Rank. This stage will be crucial in determining your future path and choosing your development path.]

You will receive six fundamental cultivation techniques at the beginning. Aside from that, you will not gain any other supernatural abilities. Your only task is to advance towards the Golden Core realm.

The six fundamental cultivation methods can enhance your basic attributes and grant you unique and powerful traits. The special effect of the Boundless Reincarnation Technique allows you to continue accumulating "excess experience points" after reaching the maximum level at this stage. These "excess experience points" can improve your Core Formation grade.

This suggestion made Chu Xiu fall into deep thought.

Six fundamental cultivation methods? Can experience points be accumulated?
The latter is actually good news, because Chu Xiu's superior strength meant that his experience was wasted too much.

Although accumulating experience at the King rank is difficult, he is confident that he can quickly reach level nine. However, he cannot rashly participate in the trial as soon as he reaches the maximum level, because that would inevitably lead to a waste of a lot of experience, just like the previous four ranks. But now he doesn't have to worry about that.

But the fundamental cultivation method is
Chu Xiu immersed his consciousness, and suddenly he felt a blur before his eyes. When he came to his senses, his consciousness had already landed in a void!
At that moment, six figures were standing in front of him.

Before he could react, the dark figure on the far left stepped forward. In an instant, the world changed. Chu Xiu saw a figure as tall as a planet walking through the universe. With a single, light grab, the figure crushed a planet. The terrifying aura trembled in the galaxy, and all the life on the surrounding planets prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling with fear.

This is the true power of a god! Even knowing it was an illusion, Chu Xiu couldn't help but feel a great fear rising in his heart, feeling that he didn't even have the courage to face this creature.

Fortunately, the illusion dissipated at that moment, and the figure retreated back into the group of six.

Chu Xiu suddenly realized that after entering the King Rank, each inheritance split into two paths, further refining the cultivation direction.

Although the main cultivation technique remains the Boundless Reincarnation Technique, choosing different paths will lead to the acquisition of different supernatural powers in the future.

What I just demonstrated to him was the physical cultivation path of the Supreme Innate God and Demon lineage. When cultivated to the extreme, one can transform into an ancient god who is hundreds of millions of feet tall. With every gesture, one can possess the power to destroy planets. Moreover, one's physical body is immortal and can be reborn with a drop of blood!

At this moment, the second figure took another step forward, and the surroundings changed again. This time, a burning star appeared before Chu Xiu's eyes. At the center of that star, in the nuclear fusion temperature that was as high as millions of degrees Celsius, sat a phantom. His terrifying spiritual power extended outward, covering the entire star system!
"This is another path for innate gods and demons, which is to abandon the physical body and use it merely as a source of nourishment, while supplying all energy to the soul to cultivate an immortal and indestructible primordial spirit. It is also the ultimate evolution of the illusory god mode, a true god who can make a flower bloom with a thought, or be born and die with a thought."

Next, the remaining four roads appeared before Chu Xiu in turn.

The Supreme Demon Ancestor is divided into two paths: Soul Banner and Corpse Refining. These two paths are not only different in terms of summoned creatures, but also in the corresponding supernatural powers and techniques, and even in the cultivation of the physical body.

As for the Demon Lord Duobao, he was divided into two paths: magic weapons and formations.

At this moment, Chu Xiu also vaguely understood that although these six paths seemed different and vastly different, they were actually fundamentally divided into two cultivation paths: one that leaned towards the physical body and the other that leaned towards the spirit.

For example, to enhance the power of the ghosts within the Soul Banner, and to set up formations and arrays of tens of thousands of swords, one needs extremely strong mental power.

In terms of driving the refining of corpses and amplifying magical artifacts, one needs to have a massive amount of mana stored in the body.

Chu Xiu stroked his chin, pondering which path he should take.

His original intention was to repair all six roads, just like before.

However, according to the information in my mind, each of these six paths is a supreme path that leads directly to the Great Way, and the resources and energy required will reach an extremely terrifying number!

Chu Xiu might have been able to handle things at the lower levels, but now that he's about to complete his core cultivation, if he wants to cultivate all six paths, even the resources of eight Heavenly Kings might not be enough to support him!
"At present, even if one were to cultivate all three paths, it would be about the limit to choose one of the physical or spiritual aspects and cultivate all three paths. Cultivating all three paths would be too costly!"

Chu Xiu is not an unrealistic or overly ambitious person. If the difficulty is too high, he will not hesitate to abandon the path with lower priority.

After thinking for a while, he still couldn't make a decision, and instead decided to practice and experiment first before seeing how it went.

Once his mind was made up, all the illusions around him vanished. At the same time, the inheritance methods of all six paths were unlocked, allowing Chu Xiu to browse and cultivate them at any time.

Although the process of inheriting the King Rank seems very long, it is actually only a matter of a moment. When Chu Xiu returned to reality, he happened to see Meng Xuanshu descending from a distance.

"Congratulations, Brother Qin," Meng Xuanshu said with a smile, as if the conflict between the two of them had never happened.

Chu Xiu glanced at him coldly and said, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be going through such a difficult time."

“I also have my own mission to complete, so please understand, Brother Qin,” Meng Xuanshu said with a smile. “Besides, the Abyss is fair. Although I have caused you a lot of trouble, it will also increase your rewards in the later settlement.”

"Furthermore, the Abyss has always been hostile to geniuses. Even without me, envoys from other top civilizations would have descended."

"Oh." Meng Xuanshu's words made Chu Xiu raise an eyebrow. He originally thought that he was just unlucky to have encountered this envoy from a top civilization, but now that he thought about it, it was indeed a bit strange.

The opponent arrived on the very first day. Compared to my extremely bad luck, it's more likely that it was a deliberate arrangement by the Abyss.

Shaking his head, Chu Xiu stopped worrying and said, "You promised me before that if I win the bet, you will answer my questions."

Meng Xuanshu laughed and said, "Didn't we already break up the bet? However, geniuses like you and me will most likely meet again in the Abyss in the future. If Brother Qin is willing to put aside past grievances, I wouldn't mind sharing some information."

Chu Xiu understood the other party's implication. He was not a petty person, so he immediately said, "Please rest assured, Brother Meng, I am not unreasonable. Any grudges from the trial will remain within the trial itself."

Meng Xuanshu nodded and said, "That's good. May I ask what you wish to ask, Brother Qin? As long as it's not a secret of our civilization, I will tell you everything I know."

Chu Xiu thought for a moment and then said frankly, "Brother Meng, could you please introduce me to the civilization structure in the Abyss?"

These words startled Meng Xuanshu, who then asked with some disbelief, "Brother Qin, are you really a native of a low-level civilization who has never come into contact with any envoys from other civilizations?"

Chu Xiu knew that if he wanted to get something valuable out of him, this point would definitely not be hidden, so he did not intend to hide it from the beginning. He simply said calmly, "It's not that we've never had any contact, but it's definitely not as intimate as Brother Meng imagines."

Upon hearing this, Meng Xuanshu looked thoughtful and gave Chu Xiu another deep look.

"In that case, I'll just give you the complete information."

As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and gently tapped his hand, and a stream of information surged in the air, which was captured by Chu Xiu's divine sense, and a large amount of information flooded into his mind.

This made Chu Xiu once again marvel at the mystery and power of top-tier civilizations, which could be seen even from such a small matter. While their Blue Star's King-level beings could only achieve secret telepathic communication, Meng Xuan Shu could directly transmit information to the other's mind. Even when he was under control, he could communicate directly with Aurora from over ten miles away. These secret techniques were a testament to their profound knowledge and capabilities.

Without thinking further, Chu Xiu closed his eyes and carefully reviewed the information Meng Xuanshu had given him.

After a while, when he opened his eyes, he had a general understanding of the layout of the abyss.

(End of this chapter)