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

Chapter 411 Immortal Stele
Using the connection between the Nether Chain and the Blood Demon Avatar, Chu Xiu extended his divine sense along the Blood Demon Avatar, carefully exploring the bottomless void with the help of the Blood Demon Avatar's detection skills.

In reality, the radius of this void was only about a hundred meters, which would be enormous for an ordinary person, but at Chu Xiu's level, it already seemed "narrow".

The craters he created with his burst of spiritual power were hundreds of meters long.

However, Chu Xiu quickly discovered the reason.

This is the central area of ​​the entire Star Leap Ship, and its protective capabilities are naturally incomparable to other places. It is impossible to use ordinary steel here. Even the super-large one-piece steel used to forge the Star Leap Ship is already an inconceivable strength for Blue Star technology, but it is as fragile as a wooden board in front of a powerhouse above the level of [Demigod].

The central area was clearly made of some special material. Chu Xiu figured that even with his Chiwen sword energy, creating a hole a hundred meters wide would be the limit.

At this moment, the Blood Demon Avatar had already penetrated more than ten miles deep, yet still showed no end in sight. Moreover, the cave walls were smooth and flat, indicating that there was still no energy leakage, which made Chu Xiu secretly marvel.

After descending several hundred meters, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.

The hole was still the same hole, but the walls had changed from the original alloy material at the center of the Starship to a strange "stone material".

It's strange because the material looks like stone, but for some reason it gives people a peculiar feeling of "flesh and blood".

"This is... a living corpse?"

Chu Xiu looked around in disbelief.

This strange stone is far less effective at hindering detection skills than high-strength solid steel. Even the Blood Demon's detection methods, enhanced by the Nether Chains, can penetrate for tens of miles.

However, this area of ​​several miles was filled with this special kind of stone!
If this is indeed a living skeleton, then the size of this living skeleton is far too large.

Soon, Chu Xiu realized his naiveté.

Because the Blood Demon incarnation had descended for thousands of miles, yet it still hadn't reached the end of the pit!

"What exactly is this thing?"

Because of the great distance, Chu Xiu had to descend into the cavern in his true form and scan the surrounding stone materials with his divine sense at close range.

He quickly realized that these were living remains!
However, this living skeleton was not only incredibly large, but its energy density was also far beyond that of ordinary living skeletons! Therefore, it exhibited a strange fleshy texture!
"My Lord, although size doesn't mean much, due to the limitations of physical laws, those creatures with enormous size usually possess extremely powerful strength."

Chu Xiu nodded. It was like a colossal ghost he had encountered in the Hundred Ghosts Furnace. Although it was only a King-level being, the energy it contained was so strong that even a hundred Heroic Spirits combined couldn't compare! Jiang Miaoyin even stated that even if three Heroic Spirits joined forces, they would only have a small chance of defeating it without risking their lives!

"Then...wouldn't this be a god-level being?" Chu Xiu asked.

"Your Majesty, there is another possibility."

"what?"

"That is actually the true form of this deity!"

"A deity... in its true form?" Chu Xiu was taken aback.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the true forms of gods are usually enormous, and they usually act through incarnations."

"Especially those true gods, because they have refined the origin of the rules, they naturally have to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the rules. Their incarnations are all over the universe. The blood pool you see is just one of their incarnations."

These words made Chu Xiu realize something. He had been wondering before that, judging from the civilization envoys matched by the King-level trial, Blue Star should be within the Heavenly Evolution Divine Domain, while the blood law of this blood pool seemed to be from the Life Law Domain. So how could he have encountered it?

Not to mention, how did the awakened beings on Earth obtain so many miscellaneous divine sequences?

So that's what happened.

Rasputin continued, "This deity is definitely not a 'true god.' A god possessing the origin of rules would not be killed in this way."

"As for other demigods, when faced with a life-or-death situation, they will transform their entire true form into a living corpse and supply all their power to the [core] in order to escape pursuit."

"It's like when some star gods die, even the entire planet withers away, huh?"

"My Lord! I think I've reached the bottom!"

Just as Chu Xiu was still processing Rasputin's words, new information suddenly came to the other party's mind.

Chu Xiu's expression hardened, and he quickly focused his divine sense on Rasputin.

Instantly, a scene flashed into his mind.

At the end of this hundred-meter-wide passage, there is a sphere with a radius of over a thousand meters. The material supporting this sphere is unknown, but it is incredibly sturdy. Rasputin tried to test it, but even with his demigod power, he couldn't leave a single mark.

Its surface is as smooth as jade, and even after countless millennia, it has not left any trace of the erosion of time.

"My Lord, this thing seems to have some [anti-magic] properties. I felt my energy being suppressed just by getting close to it."

Chu Xiu was first surprised that after such a long period of time, it still retained extraordinary characteristics. Then he became excited. Needless to say, he knew that although he didn't know exactly what this thing was, it must be a good thing!
However, Chu Xiu was not in a hurry, and instead had the Blood Demon avatar continue exploring.

At the top of that sphere, there was also a hole, which had been pierced by the previous attack.

As the Blood Demon avatar entered the sphere, a chilling aura instantly enveloped it. Rasputin trembled, and Chu Xiu, whose consciousness was connected to Rasputin's, also felt the overwhelming oppression.

In the center of the sphere, a blue giant, hundreds of meters tall, lay half-reclined, its appearance exactly the same as the corpse of the god that Chu Xiu had seen before!
However, the expression on his face was much richer. The giant clenched his teeth, as if trying to climb up with all his might, and his humanoid features were filled with resentment and unwillingness.

A large hole was ripped in His chest. This hole seemed to be more than just physical damage. Behind the blue giant were several tubes that connected to the golden sphere and then to the entire true form of the god.

However, it seemed that He had exhausted all the power of His divine form and was still unable to get up from the ground. In the end, He could only slowly fall down with a face full of resentment.

"This"

Chu Xiu felt a chill run down his spine. He had now fully realized the insurmountable gap between gods and demigods, yet at this moment, such a powerful god was being killed so easily without any resistance.

He could picture the scene: the god hiding beneath the starship, as if carrying a giant shield, trying to withstand the incoming attack, only to be killed by a beam of light casually bestowed by some unknown being high above.

The Blood Demon avatar approached and examined the body. The god's corpse was beyond dead, completely transformed into a "living skeleton," and had no value whatsoever.

This surprised the Blood Demon Avatar: "I have heard that the death of a god is like a whale fall, which will nourish a huge ecosystem, like the source of my birth, or even just the remains left behind by the blood pool that became a god."

"How did this god become like this?"

Chu Xiu naturally didn't know the answer either, but a strange feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

Isn't this incredibly domineering method of stripping away all life energy exactly the same as "Calamity"?

After a moment's thought, Chu Xiu suddenly moved and his true form plummeted down.

He now understands that the divine corpse that attacked them earlier was probably just an existence created by the tribulation lightning incarnation using the "rule of imitation". That is why it cannot leave the central area, because the template created by it is dead, and the imitation cannot stray too far from the corpse.

Now that the tribulation lightning incarnation is dead, this god, whose life energy has been completely stripped away, should be out of danger.

The Blood Demon's detection skills were rather crude, so Chu Xiu still wanted to get down and scan it himself with his divine sense.

His prediction was correct; they were not attacked until they reached the bottom of the cave.

Looking at the blue giant before him, a sense of awe arose from the bottom of his heart. He took a deep breath, scanned it carefully with his divine sense, and then his eyes showed disappointment.

The deity's corpse had indeed been completely drained and was no longer usable. Without the deity's energy, it was uncertain when the nebula in his dantian would regain sufficient power.

The outer shell appears to have been specially forged by the gods to protect their core. Although it still retains extremely powerful physical properties, it is so powerful that even Chu Xiu himself could not separate it.

He estimated that even if he regained his strength, a full-force attack from Chiwen would at most leave a small dent of a few centimeters.

This spherical shell is twenty or thirty meters thick, and with his current strength, it is completely unusable for him.

This made Chu Xiu frown. It was one thing to not be able to use the round shell, at most he would miss an opportunity, but without enough energy, he would be completely trapped here.

But just then, Chu Xiu suddenly let out a soft exclamation, as if he had discovered something.

Right there in the god's dantian, even though there was nothing there when his divine sense swept over it, Chu Xiu felt a strange attraction. This feeling was like the special sensitivity to "tribulations" that one has after possessing a body that has undergone tribulations.

After a moment's thought, he raised his hand, and a large hand of spiritual energy formed behind him. In the next instant, it shone brightly and smashed down on the god's body!

"boom!"

Amidst the deafening roar, large swathes of rocks shattered. The god's body, now transformed into a living corpse, no longer possessed any extraordinary characteristics, and Chu Xiu blasted a hole straight through it to his dantian.

The moment Chu Xiu saw the scene in his dantian, he was slightly taken aback, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

He never expected to see such a scene!

In the center of that dantian, a stone tablet stands quietly.

The aura emanating from that stone tablet was remarkably similar to that of the Inheritance Immortal Tablet in the Hundred Ghosts Furnace!
After a slight hesitation, Chu Xiu simply took out the Inheritance Immortal Tablet from the Hundred Ghosts Furnace and carefully compared it. Soon, he also verified his conjecture.

Although there are some differences in appearance, this stone tablet is more square, like a stone code from ancient Rome, but Chu Xiu would never mistake its identical aura and feeling!

Just as people have different levels of beauty and ugliness, a person is still a person, and it is impossible to mistake a person for a dog.

"But this."

Why is there a "Heirloom Stele" inside the corpse of this god?
Chu Xiu's mind was momentarily overloaded. Could this place actually be connected to the world of the Hundred Ghosts Furnace?
Come to think of it, wasn't the Hundred Demons Forge also born from the corpses of gods?

Do these two deities share some commonality? Or does every deity create a stone tablet upon death? Or is this some kind of "secret technique" or "supernatural power" passed down among the gods?
At this moment, another idea flashed through Chu Xiu's mind.

The previous Inheritance Immortal Stele contained a wealth of information, including mysterious techniques such as the Reversal of Yin and Yang Technique, which allowed the living dead to be resurrected by cultivating with death energy.

Could there be something recorded on this stone tablet?
"If there are also a lot of causal points in it, then we'll make a fortune."

With this thought in mind, Chu Xiu did not hesitate and immediately calmed his mind, extending his divine sense into the interior of the Immortal Stele.

The instant his divine sense came into contact with the Immortal Stele, a massive amount of complex and chaotic information surged into Chu Xiu's mind!

His expression hardened, and he let the flow of information flood into his mind. After a while, his expression shifted, and he withdrew his consciousness.

When Chu Xiu first came into contact with the Inheritance Immortal Stele in the Hundred Ghosts Furnace, he stood there stunned for several hours. He now knows that it was because his soul was not strong enough at that time, and he was overloaded by too much information.

At the same time, the excessive amount of information also served as a kind of "training" for his soul, which gave him that strange feeling of enlightenment.

Now that Chu Xiu has cultivated a fighting spirit, he can withstand the impact of that information. However, he discovered that the information was just turbulent flow and contained nothing of value.

"I don't know if this thing is just a simple protection mechanism, or if there is a 'decoding' method that I'm not familiar with."

Chu Xiu thought to himself that the importance of returning to the Hundred Ghosts Furnace world had been elevated to a whole new level.

He now has too many questions, and Chu Xiu believes that Qingyunzi can at least answer some of them for him.

He was also confident that his own speed of improvement was definitely faster than his opponent's.

"Let's go after we've cultivated our Golden Core."

Turning his gaze back to the stone tablet in front of him, Chu Xiu suddenly had a thought. He remembered that in the Hundred Ghosts Furnace, it was the strange stone bead that allowed him to break through the stone tablet's protection and enter.

"That stone bead is just a special form of 'calamity,' does that mean that calamity has a restraining effect on this immortal stele?"

With this in mind, Chu Xiu flipped his wrist, and a poison bead formed from condensed poison appeared in his hand.

Sure enough, the moment the poison appeared, the stone tablet opposite seemed to react and fluctuated violently!
He raised his hand and flicked it, and the poisonous bead slowly floated toward the stone tablet.

As the two collided, the defenses of the stone tablet in front of them vanished at a visible speed, like bubbles melting under the blazing sun. This made Chu Xiu even more astonished by the power of the Calamity, which seemed to have a restraining effect on everything, almost like—

"It's like a power specifically created to suppress everything in the world."

Putting aside his emotions, Chu Xiu focused his mind again, and this time he entered the stone tablet without any hindrance!

Just like the previous Inheritance Immortal Stele, this place is surrounded by chaos, except that it looks even more "primitive," almost exactly like the Awakening Space.

To Chu Xiu's disappointment, there was no causal point inside the stone tablet, only a vast expanse of nothingness.

Chu Xiu spread his divine sense and explored the surroundings. Suddenly, his expression changed, and he drifted towards a certain place.

A figure appeared "in front of him".

The figure was completely naked, radiating an inexplicable glow, and was curled up with its knees drawn up to its chest. Its face was exactly the same as that of the god's corpse, but it gave the impression of a newborn baby.

Even when Chu Xiu approached, the figure remained completely still, as if caught off guard.

Chu Xiu frowned and carefully scanned the spirit in front of him with his divine sense. He found that the spirit was not strong, and could even be described as very fragile.

"It's starting to resemble the world of Hundred Demons' Forge more and more."

Isn't this spirit just like Qingyunzi from the Hundred Ghosts Furnace?

However, it is still in the nurturing stage and has not yet developed enough spiritual consciousness.

This led Chu Xiu to a series of unfounded speculations: Were these spirits and stone tablets born naturally? Or were they a contingency plan left behind by the gods who knew they were about to die?
His mind was suddenly filled with a multitude of thoughts, various guesses and possibilities intertwining in his head.

What's so special about this spirit? Once it grows up, will it possess many memories of its past life like Qingyunzi? And how long will it take to grow up? It can't be a thousand or ten thousand years!

After a long while, Chu Xiu shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

Even if it contains a huge secret, it has nothing to do with solving the current predicament.

The crucial question now is where he can find the energy to cultivate the Golden Core.

Just as Chu Xiu was hesitating, considering whether to simply waste karma points to build up a force if all else failed, the spirit beside him suddenly opened its eyes without warning!
Chu Xiu's expression changed, and the Ghost Cry Staff instantly materialized beside him!
However, just as the Ghost Crying Stick was about to fall, a thought entered Chu Xiu's mind from the spirit.

"Mother."

Chu Xiu: ".?"

(End of this chapter)