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

Chapter 293 Physical Overwhelming!

"How did this guy get stronger again?"

Staring at the terrifying figure in the sky, Ashura felt completely numb.

It's only been five days since we last met, and Chu Xiu's strength has already increased to another level! What kind of monster is he?!
Without any hesitation, Ashura, known for his brutal nature and love of battle, turned and ran!

The destructive energy, like a detonating engine, transformed into immense kinetic energy, and Asura instantly turned into a streak of blood-red light, fleeing into the distance!

"You're decisive enough," Chu Xiu chuckled.

Before the trial, the opponent escaped from my grasp by overwhelming me with speed.

Five days have passed, and the other party has grown again. Now, even if they fight against some weaker Heroic Spirits, they can probably barely hold their own. Their physique is at least 18,000!

Unfortunately, Chu Xiu's growth surpassed his!

With Garuda wings unfurled behind him, Chu Xiu burst forth with brilliant golden light in the next instant, his figure traversing space in a flash, much to Asura's astonishment!

"boom!"

The deafening sonic booms rang out almost simultaneously, and his speed accelerated to several times the speed of sound in less than a second!
But then, the golden wings burst forth with dazzling light, just like a golden shooting star!

This caused Ashura's expression to change, but he didn't know that he absolutely couldn't let Chu Xiu catch up at this moment. Finally, he gritted his teeth, blood light surged from his body, and he accelerated again!
This seemed to be a skill that consumed a great deal of energy. The blood vessels on Asura's body bulged visibly, and his face became ferocious. However, the effect was also obvious. With the blessing of the blood light, he quickly distanced himself from Chu Xiu again.

However, just as Ashura breathed a slight sigh of relief, he suddenly felt a terrifying power surging from Chu Xiu in the distance!

As someone who inherited the power of Asura, he possessed an extremely high, even godlike, rank. This rank granted him intuition far exceeding that of ordinary beings. At this moment, he could clearly sense that the power surging within Chu Xiu was far more advanced than his own! It was a superior power he had never seen before!
The power of gods and demons!

The next instant, an even more dazzling golden light erupted from Chu Xiu's body, and his speed instantly soared to another level! Like a fighter jet pushing its output power to the limit, he rapidly approached at an astonishing speed!
Almost in the blink of an eye, his speed exceeded ten times the speed of sound! Meanwhile, the spatial teleportation ability of the Garuda Wings continued to activate, significantly increasing both the distance and frequency of his teleportation! The combination of these two factors brought Chu Xiu's overall speed to a staggering twenty times the speed of sound!
Faced with this terrifying speed, the distance between the two rapidly narrowed. In just a few breaths, Chu Xiu's figure appeared in front of Ashura and threw a punch!
"boom!"

The terrifying force of the punch created a huge shockwave, as if a thousand-pound bomb had been detonated out of thin air! Ashura's figure flew backward. Although he managed to protect his chest with his arms in time, both of his arms were broken by the punch, and he coughed up blood!

"boom!"

His body crashed heavily into the mountainside, causing a large amount of rock beneath him to crumble. Ashura raised his head, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Before this, Chu Xiu could only suppress him with that strange supernatural power, but just now, he could clearly feel that the punch was not any supernatural power, but pure physical strength!
"What kind of monster are you?"

Ashura could no longer hide the look of horror on his face. His leveling speed was actually fast enough, but in front of Chu Xiu, it was like the difference between a rocket and a bicycle!
Chu Xiu didn't reply, but just stared at Ashura expressionlessly and raised his fist again.

The next moment, like a meteorite falling from the sky, it swung down heavily with tremendous kinetic energy!
"what!!!"

Asura roared, and two illusory arms appeared behind him. With a deafening roar, all six fists swung upwards at once!
Under Chu Xiu's pressure, he finally unleashed the secret technique he had used during the trial that day!
After that, Ashura, who was originally evenly matched with the Blood Demon Incarnation and the Nuclear Furnace Colonel, was defeated in almost a single exchange after it was used!

It can be said that Asura, who has manifested the true god, has experienced a leap in both power and speed!
However, when faced with the desperate Asura, Chu Xiu did not run away. Instead, a hint of excited fighting spirit flashed in his eyes!

What could be more exhilarating than encountering an evenly matched opponent right after finishing your training?
Without flinching, he charged straight at Asura, fist to fist! Leg to leg! Every move a direct, head-on clash!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A deafening explosion rang out in mid-air as two figures clashed repeatedly, each collision triggering a violent explosion! The dissipating energy fluctuations even affected trees hundreds of meters away!
"boom!"

A dozen seconds later, with their final collision, the winner was decided.

Ashura's blood-soaked body flew backward and crashed to the ground again. He lay in the deep pit, panting heavily. His fists were torn to shreds, and many of his bones were broken.

Chu Xiu hovered silently in mid-air, only his fists stained with blood, his dazzling Xuan Sha Glazed Armor unbroken.

Despite Ashura's best efforts, he still couldn't budge Chu Xiu's body in the slightest.

He looked up and met Chu Xiu's still calm gaze, his eyes filled with intense fear and despair.

At that moment, he finally realized what kind of monster he was facing.

"You cough cough!"

He tried to say something, but coughed up a large amount of blood.

But Chu Xiu would no longer give him another chance.

He approached Asura, and dense demonic energy rose from behind him, ready to utterly annihilate this powerful creature.

But just as the demonic energy blades were about to pierce Ashura's body, he suddenly roared, "Wait!"

"I have become an Awakened One! You will gain nothing by killing me!"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Chu Xiu paused.

He originally planned to simply and cleanly kill this unstable factor with one punch, no matter what Ashura said, but his words really piqued his interest.

Even an Asura can become an Awakened One?
Just as he was in surprise, Ashura swiftly said, "I have obtained the Awakening Panel, as well as your talents and profession! I also know the identity of you Awakeners and the logic behind your operation!"

"I'm not an abyss monster anymore. Even if you kill me, you won't get anything out of me. There's no benefit at all!"

"Hmm," Chu Xiu pondered for a moment and said, "Awakened ones can't drop items, but they do have experience."

"More importantly, I have no reason to leave you behind and add instability to my civilization."

Seeing that Chu Xiu had relented, Ashura knew this was his best chance to save his life, and quickly said, "Wait! I'm willing to pay for my life!"

"You have the ability to transform corpses into summoned creatures, right? I've still kept Garuda's corpse!"

"Your mysterious power is strong, but it should be very precious. Currently, your weakness is still your movement speed, but if you can control Garuda, that won't be a problem!"

Ashura's words caused the killing intent in Chu Xiu's eyes to dissipate somewhat.

He had to admit he was quite tempted. Garuda, a god born for speed, had impressed Chu Xiu with his incredible speed during their battle. In terms of speed, Garuda was definitely at the level of a Heroic Spirit! Many Heroic Spirits couldn't even reach that speed!

After the flying corpse was destroyed, Chu Xiu had been trying to forge a new flying corpse as a mount, but he hadn't found a suitable one yet. Garuda's corpse was indeed the perfect fit.

“That corpse is too big and is not in my storage space. If you kill me, you will never get it again.”

"Spare my life, and I can still help you protect your civilization! It's been almost a year, and I haven't done anything to harm your civilization. I've even helped you eliminate many abyssal creatures. Isn't that enough to prove that I'm trustworthy?"

Seeing Ashura's constant explanations, Chu Xiu narrowed his eyes. After a long while, he slowly said, "Spare your life is not out of the question."

Ashura was overjoyed upon hearing this, but before he could be happy for long, Chu Xiu's voice rang out again: "However, you must first tell me your purpose in lurking near my civilization."

"Don't try to fool me with nonsense about how much safer it is. You only have one chance. If your answer doesn't satisfy me, I won't hold back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ashura's expression became uncertain.

But under Chu Xiu's increasingly hostile gaze, he wisely chose to follow his heart.

"Please come with me."

After saying that, he transformed into a streak of crimson light and shot off into the distance, while Chu Xiu flapped his Garuda wings and followed behind him at a leisurely pace.

With such absolute strength, Chu Xiu had no worries about Ashura playing any tricks.

Before long, the two arrived at a valley about forty kilometers south of their base. Ashura swung his arms and quickly smashed a pile of giant rocks, revealing the Garuda corpse hidden beneath them.

Even though almost ten months have passed, it is still as it was when it died, showing no signs of decay.

Chu Xiu raised his hand to put it away, and Ashura continued to lead the way. They traveled another fifty or sixty kilometers before finally arriving above a volcano.

Upon arriving here, Chu Xiu's expression shifted, his keen senses detecting a familiar aura.

"This is."

With a thought, Chu Xiu suddenly plunged downwards, crashing through the mountain like a cannonball!
"Boom!"

As a large amount of rock collapsed, Chu Xiu entered the volcano. Before him was a pool of fiery red lava, like a lake.

Something seemed to be churning within the magma. Although Chu Xiu's gaze could not penetrate the lava, his divine sense clearly told him that a colossal creature lurked beneath the magma! His spiritual perception also warned him that an extremely dangerous being existed beneath the magma!

Chu Xiu sensed a familiar aura emanating from him, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

"So this is why you've been lingering around here?"

"Do you, a mighty Asura, also intend to become a member of the Blood Demon by devouring its parts?"

That's right, the aura that Chu Xiu sensed was one of the Blood Demon's components!

Every Blood Demon possesses three key parts: the brain, the heart, and the core. Even if a Blood Demon dies, a new, powerful Blood Demon can be born from it.

The calamity that Chu Xiu killed was born from the [Core].

Chu Xiu also knew clearly that as long as he collected all the parts of the Blood Demon's main body, his Blood Demon avatar could automatically advance into a [Heroic Spirit]!
This [Heroic Spirit] is not the Heroic Spirit that was forcibly enhanced by the power of the abyss during the King-level Trial, but a genuine Heroic Spirit Blood Demon whose strength is no weaker than that of awakened beings of the same level!
"The Asura power within me is naturally incredibly powerful to ordinary people, but I have left Peach Blossom Spring, cutting off any possibility of further strengthening this power. I also know that the Asura power I inherited is merely a negligible trace of the true Asura."

"Now that we have left Peach Blossom Spring, we must naturally seek out a new power to rise to power."

"Anyway, I'm no longer human, so becoming a blood demon isn't such a bad choice," Asura said frankly.

Chu Xiu nodded, ignoring it, and began to carefully observe the "blood demon-like creatures" below.

After a scan with his divine sense, Chu Xiu had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

If he's not mistaken, the creatures beneath the magma should have originated from the [heart] component.

Different components have different characteristics. For example, the Blood Demon Core contains all the Blood Demon's traits and skills, while the Brain stores the original Blood Demon's memories and consciousness.

Of course, this is the usual situation; for high-ranking blood demons like Rasputin, the situation is much more complicated.

Generally speaking, the heart stores the life force of the Blood Demon.

Chu Xiu could sense that the creature below had an incredibly strong life force. It had actually grown a body in the magma and, with that abnormal life force, it had adapted to the high temperature of the magma and started to absorb its energy!

Chu Xiu's original plan was to wait until he was strong enough to reliably defeat the Heroic Spirits, and then help the Blood Demon Avatar absorb other Blood Demons, like a veteran guiding a newbie.

However, it would be even better if the Blood Demon Avatar could become a Heroic Spirit first, as it would bring great assistance to him!
"With the Blood Sea Domain at the Heroic Spirit level, combined with the Burning Blood Golden Eyes and the Soul Binding Technique of Bones, even that colossal ghost, as large as a mountain range, would not be able to escape easily," Chu Xiu thought to himself.

Furthermore, the flesh and blood of this creature, which contain immense vitality, can also serve as the best nourishment for corpse refining, enough for him to refine a brand new flying corpse in one go, completely making up for the shortcoming of insufficient movement speed.

"but."

Not long after, Chu Xiu frowned again.

Asura's decision to let the magma blood demon remain motionless for so long could not be due to his kindness. If there were even the slightest chance to kill it, he would not hesitate to do so, even if it meant sacrificing his own life essence and suffering severe injuries.

The only explanation is that Asura couldn't do it.

"It has been almost a year since the Blood Sea descended."

Such a long period of time has allowed the creature before us to grow into an existence far stronger than the Calamity in its previous prime!

With Chu Xiu's spiritual perception, it was even slightly stronger than that of the Blood Demon Incarnation.

More importantly, it has fully adapted to and evolved characteristics related to magma and high temperatures, making it no easy task, even for Chu Xiu, to kill it in its own territory.

"The temperature of ordinary flames is only a few hundred degrees Celsius, while magma under high pressure can reach thousands of degrees Celsius!"

If that were all, Chu Xiu wouldn't be afraid. His physical strength was more than enough to withstand temperatures of over a thousand degrees Celsius.

The problem is that Chu Xiu just scanned the surrounding terrain with his divine sense and discovered that this crater is quite rare, as it is directly connected to the mantle layer! There are only a few thin rock layers blocking the way, which could not possibly stop this creature.

In the mantle, temperatures can reach two thousand, three thousand, or even higher!
"The mantle temperature on Earth can reach up to 4500 degrees Celsius. The Corpse World is much larger than Earth, and its greater mass will bring greater pressure. I'm afraid the mantle temperature will be even higher!"

Even with Chu Xiu's current physical condition, he couldn't endure that kind of high temperature for long.

Not to mention, this creature also seems to possess the ability to heal injuries from high temperatures and move quickly through lava.

For example, right now, it has already begun to move towards the underground with alarm.

(End of this chapter)