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

Chapter 412 Star Core
Chu Xiu looked at the spirit in front of him with a strange expression.

It had already opened its eyes, its azure pupils filled with unease, as if instinctively wanting to get closer to Chu Xiu, yet also fearing the Ghost Crying Stick beside him.

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Chu Xiu raised his hand and put away the Ghost Crying Stick beside him.

The azure spirit's eyes lit up immediately, and it eagerly extended its thoughts, cautiously trying to make contact with Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu was also scanning the other party further with his divine sense. He could feel that this blue spirit was indeed like a newborn baby, with a hazy and indistinct mind, without any distracting thoughts.

It should have been still in the process of development, but my arrival disrupted this process, causing it to awaken prematurely and instinctively regard me as a source of support.

"Mother."

"hungry"

A series of thoughts came from the spirit body. Chu Xiu rubbed his forehead speechlessly. After thinking for a moment, he flicked his finger, and a stream of yin energy surged out from the soul banner.

Since they are all spirits, this yin energy must be useful, right?

Unexpectedly, the yin energy only circled the spirit once before being directly decomposed, and at the same time, another thought was transmitted.

"Disgusting."

"You're quite picky," Chu Xiu said, amused.

However, he had nothing else to feed this guy; he couldn't find a high-level energy source himself.

Just eat some yin energy to keep warm and fed, why ask for so much?
Ignoring the little guy, Chu Xiu looked around to make sure there was nothing else inside the stone tablet before preparing to leave.

After hesitating for a moment, he still brought the little guy along. Although it seemed like a burden at the moment, it was born from the core area of ​​the gods, and no one knew what special features it had.

Upon returning to the mortal world, as soon as Chu Xiu opened his eyes, he felt the little guy constantly sending out terrified thoughts. He turned his head and saw that the little guy, who had been in human form in the stone tablet, had now shrunk into a ball of blue light, and his soul seemed to be uncontrollably disintegrating.

"It's just like an ordinary ghost."

Chu Xiu stroked his chin, reached out and tapped lightly. With the infusion of several streams of spiritual energy, the little guy's condition quickly stabilized, and he finally transformed into a small blue figure.

Once his soul body was stabilized, this guy stirred his spirit and rushed onto Chu Xiu's shoulder, clinging tightly to his neck with both hands.

Chu Xiu found it somewhat amusing, reached out and gently stroked it, asking in his mind, "What's your name?"

The little guy stared blankly at Chu Xiu, seemingly unable to comprehend the meaning of the word "name".

"Since you are entirely blue, I'll call you Blue Boy for now. We can change it when you grow up."

The boy nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Chu Xiu stopped dwelling on it. He had inexplicably gained a "child" this time, but the issue of energy remained unresolved.

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, he quickly made a decision: to begin a full-scale search for any remaining mutated creatures inside the Starship. If time truly ran out, then it could only be considered that his civilization's fate had run out.

"Astrid was already difficult to deal with, and now I have lost my Golden Core. Whether this trip will be a blessing or a curse is unpredictable. Being trapped here may have saved me from a disaster."

Chu Xiu comforted himself in this way.

With his mind made up, Chu Xiu's primordial spirit surged, and a vast amount of spiritual power erupted instantly, accelerating to more than fifty times the speed of sound in just a few breaths! He rushed out of the passage in no time.

Next, following his plan, he prepared to thoroughly search the Star Leap ship again, looking for any corners he hadn't visited before.

But just then, he suddenly let out a soft "hmm" and a strange expression appeared on his face.

However, a thin layer of "calamity" had gathered near the entrance of the passage. There weren't many of these calamities, but Chu Xiu clearly remembered that they weren't there before he came down, otherwise he wouldn't have let them go.

Feeling puzzled, he first absorbed these tribulations into his body, and then used his divine sense to investigate their origin.

Unexpectedly, as soon as it was unfolded, Chu Xiu showed a look of surprise and delight!

This was because, under his divine sense scan, a large number of mutated creatures had appeared inside the hull of the Star Leaper! They were now crawling rapidly on the surface of the Star Leaper, howling as if they were on stimulants as they charged towards him!

Chu Xiu realized what was going on in an instant!

Previously in the Hundred Ghosts Furnace, those beasts were also chasing Qingyunzi like madmen, forcing Qingyunzi to hide in the small world he created!

Chu Xiu guessed that both the god born from Qingyunzi and the current god were killed by the calamity. The calamity-transformed creatures born from the calamity also inherited the task of annihilating gods. Therefore, when life is born from the body of a god, these creatures are instinctively attracted to it!

"I never expected you to have such a use!" Chu Xiu patted Lan Hai'er's head with great joy.

He rushed out of the Star Leap Ship and saw a massive number of mutated creatures moving rapidly on the ship. A rough estimate suggested there were tens of thousands of them!

This made Chu Xiu even happier!

"I never expected that so many mutated creatures were hidden inside this Star Leap Ship. If we refine them all, not only will we be able to form Star Cores, but we might even be able to fully restore the Ghost Legion, or even take it to a higher level!"

The mutated creatures themselves are king-level beings, and the flesh and souls of tens of thousands of king-level beings are an immense treasure!

Of course, this is on the premise that Chu Xiu can deal with all these calamity-transformed creatures.

In fact, tens of thousands of transformed beings were already a formidable force. Even a civilization envoy from a level ten civilization like Zhujiu would have to flee in disarray, or else be worn down to death!

After all, we were only dealing with a thousand of them back then; we shouldn't force them to use their destruction rules.

However, the true strength of the calamity-transformed creatures lies in their ability to restrain other creatures, especially those above the level of Heroic Spirits.

However, for Chu Xiu, after his body had been fully cultivated through tribulations, these tribulations that had not undergone special refinement could hardly cause him any harm.

This makes these transformed creatures seem to Chu Xiu to be even weaker than ordinary King-level beings!

Ordinary creatures that can become kings have more or less their own means of survival and combat, but the mutated creature in front of us only has the basic attributes of a king, and its combat ability is limited to beast-like instincts!

"The presence of such beings, no matter how many come, is nothing more than serving food."

Chu Xiu slapped the Soul Banner, and instantly two Ghost Kings roared as they charged out, their dense ghostly energy pouring out in all directions, turning the entire central area into a ghostly realm!

During the previous month of hunting, the ghost army had recovered to 60-70% of its peak strength. Now, it has come out in full force and is guarding the central area, like a huge mouth that can devour all living beings!
The mutated creatures that rushed in were scattered by the power of the domain as soon as they entered the Ghost Realm, and then intercepted and killed by the ghosts who formed a squad!

Of course, the ghosts were still quite wary of the calamity; Chu Xiu was merely using the Ghost Realm to eliminate any that had escaped.

He still had to be the main force! With a thought, his battle spirit was directly summoned from Chu Xiu's body and hovered above his head!
In an instant, a vast amount of spiritual energy surged around Chu Xiu like a boundless ocean, and countless spiritual energy spears quickly took shape, covering the entire sky in a flash!
"Buzz!"

In the next instant, tens of thousands of spears fell, instantly killing most of the approaching mutated creatures!

Such a wide-range destructive skill would be too much for an ordinary demigod to sustain even if they drained all their energy! Yet, the spiritual power within Chu Xiu's primordial spirit continued to pour out relentlessly, as if it were inexhaustible!

One after another, the spiritual spears were like swords of judgment falling from the heavens, constantly taking away the lives of the calamity-transformed creatures.

As expected, the one-sided massacre ended half an hour later.

"Sixty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-two."

"There are much more than I expected!"

As the last spiritual spear pierced the chest of the transformed creature, a satisfied smile appeared on Chu Xiu's face.

The only slight pity is that these mutated creatures do not generate causal points.

Seemingly realizing he had been too greedy, Chu Xiu shook his head with amusement.

Without wasting any time, he sat cross-legged in the center of the ghost realm. As his cultivation technique circulated, all the life energy and tribulations in the area converged towards him!

With such a massive energy supply, the nebula in Chu Xiu's dantian began to spin rapidly, as if it had taken a powerful tonic!

Three days later.

With the last bit of energy absorbed, the nebula in Chu Xiu's dantian had reached a state of complete "saturation"!
A large amount of energy dissipated in the vicinity, but it could no longer absorb even a fraction of it.

Its volume has also expanded to the point that if fully unfolded, it would probably have a diameter of over a hundred meters. Only because of the wonder of the Awakening Space can it still be stored in Chu Xiu's dantian.

At this point, the speed of the nebula had reached an unimaginable level!

Theoretically speaking, the faster the rotation speed, the faster the centrifugal force, and the more the matter in the nebula should be flung out.

But as the rotation speed increased, the nebula showed no signs of collapsing; instead, all energy and matter gathered inward!

Chu Xiu's face lit up with joy; it was about to succeed!
He knew that this was the most crucial step in the formation of the elixir, which was the collapse when matter and energy were gathered to their extreme!
Only by overcoming this step can this massive nebula be fused into a pill!

Chu Xiu immediately focused all his attention and began to promote the fusion of substances in the nebula of his dantian, following the method of the [Nebula Pill Formation Method] predicted by the senior of the demonic path.

A star completes this step naturally under the attraction of gravity. However, although the Nebula Pill Formation Method originates from the birth of a star, it cannot be completely imitated. Otherwise, what is cultivated is not the golden core of a cultivator, but a "bomb" compressed to the extreme and then exploding.

After all, which cultivator can withstand the power of nuclear fusion inside a star?

There are many ingenious techniques involved, and those predecessors in the demonic path only provided possibilities; no one has ever actually put them into practice.

The method Chu Xiu is currently using was proposed by a Nascent Soul cultivator and has been affirmed by many demonic giants. Theoretically speaking, this method has the highest success rate and is the most reliable. Its only drawback is that it requires the precise control of a Nascent Soul cultivator!
This would be a foolish and delusional method that ordinary cultivators would scoff at, but for Chu Xiu, who possesses the [Perfect Refinement], it is the most suitable method!

Realizing that he had reached a critical juncture, Chu Xiu no longer held back, burning a large number of causal points to aid in the formation of the pill!

Driven by the causal point, the rapidly spinning matter actually coalesced into a sphere at a speed visible to the naked eye!
At this point, there was no gap between any matter, and as the sphere rotated at high speed, its surface became more and more rounded and smooth, and the violent energy also subsided!
Sweat dripped from Chu Xiu's forehead. He had been in this state of complete concentration for half a day. Finally, after consuming nearly two million karma points, with a soft sound, the last gap in the sphere in Chu Xiu's dantian was filled, and no energy leaked out of it at all!

"It's finally done!"

Chu Xiu let out a long breath. Even with his strong soul, he felt a deep weariness wash over him.

Of course, besides being tired, Chu Xiu was mostly excited!

He actually succeeded in refining this legendary method of alchemy!
He immediately closed his eyes and eagerly began to examine the star pill in his abdomen.

After a thorough examination with his divine sense, Chu Xiu's expression became complicated.

There is good news, bad news, and neither good nor bad news.

The good news is that, worthy of the name "a pill that can be made in a hundred lifetimes," the energy contained in this Star Pill is at least six times that of his previous flawless Golden Pill!
Chu Xiu's Golden Core was already terrifyingly strong. In terms of energy alone, it was comparable to a perfect demigod. Now, it had increased sixfold. He felt that he was probably a divine messenger like Astrid, and even in terms of total energy, he couldn't compare to him!
The bad news is that he is completely unable to use such a massive amount of power!
"Forming the core is not just about refining magical power," Chu Xiu sighed softly.

The Golden Elixir is not merely the condensation of energy, but also the fusion of Dao foundation and divine sense!

This is why, in order to form a flawless golden core, one must not only cultivate magical power but also cultivate the soul!

Although Chu Xiu has successfully gathered the nebula in his dantian into a pill, he has neither integrated it into his own Dao foundation nor into his divine soul and will. It's like a computer with full configuration but no operating system or external mouse and keyboard control, so naturally it can't do anything.

"The sphere in my dantian right now cannot be called a star elixir; at most, it can only be called a star core."

To fully refine it, one must expend considerable effort, integrating the Dao foundation and intention, essentially re-forming the elixir using the star core as the core and following proper methods.

Of course, this news isn't entirely bad news.

Although it wasn't fully integrated and couldn't mobilize the energy within the star core, this power was still cultivated within Chu Xiu's body, and this immense power would still benefit Chu Xiu himself.

He felt that after cultivating the star core, his physique and spirit, which had begun to weaken due to the loss of the golden core, not only recovered but also increased.

His physical condition increased by more than 30%, and his mental strength increased by nearly two levels.

Don't underestimate the fact that it's only 20-30%; given Chu Xiu's body and soul, which have been further strengthened through the tribulation, the added value is already incredibly high.

More importantly, once Chu Xiu integrates his Dao Foundation and will, and fully cultivates the Star Core, its power will experience a surge! It wouldn't be surprising if it increased to ten times the power of a flawless Golden Core! That would truly be a hundred lifetimes to achieve the Star Core!

Chu Xiu dared not even imagine how much his power would grow by then! It would probably be no less than forcibly breaking through a major realm!

"As for the last piece of news, it was neither good nor bad."

This news was the way to escape that he cared about most.

To his delight, after successfully cultivating the star core, the awakening space did indeed stabilize as he had anticipated, and he could enter it smoothly.

The frustrating thing is that he can't use this to return directly to Earth!
Because both the escape and teleportation were done with the help of the Abyss, it was as if the Abyss had directly created an "official expressway" for Chu Xiu.

But now, after being de-digitized, he has lost all the help of the Abyss. Even if he can enter that magical space through the Awakening Space, where one step is equivalent to billions of kilometers in the present world, he still has to find his way back on his own.

That is to say——

Free dive!

(End of this chapter)