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

Chapter 414 The Power of the Poison
"What the hell is this thing?!"

Chu Xiu reacted extremely quickly. The instant the ink droplet soaked into him, he gathered all his consciousness into a single core point and then plunged it into the space!
The next instant, his physical body reappeared in the real world!
Before him stretched an endless starry sky. Even though he had only traveled experimentally in the higher-dimensional space for a short while, the scene in the present world was already vastly different.

He looked back and could still see the planet he had been on with the naked eye. It was still in the same star system, but the distance between them was probably hundreds of billions of kilometers.

"I think I'll be safe once I hide in the real world."

However, just as this thought arose, the space behind Chu Xiu suddenly fluctuated, and a large number of ink-like shadows overflowed from it!

An extremely large and strange thought surged out from it. Chu Xiu had never come into contact with such a thought before. It was as if his soul would be frozen if he were touched by it!

"Could this be a creature that lives in a multidimensional space?"

Just as Chu Xiu thought of this, a huge, invisible spirit burst out from the shadows and swept towards Chu Xiu at an extremely fast speed!

Chu Xiu's expression darkened, and without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed the [Ghost Cry] divine power, striking directly at Chu Xiu's face!
A silent scream seemed to echo in the still universe as the spirit was struck hard and rolled back into the "ink".

"Fortunately."

Chu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. In higher dimensions, consciousness is amplified, so Chu Xiu guessed that these higher-dimensional beings, after entering the mortal world, were also mainly in the form of souls, which happened to be countered by the Ghost Cry.

His guess was correct. Although this strange spirit was different from any ghost he had ever seen, it was ultimately a power centered on consciousness and did not have a physical form.

"Now that I have cultivated my primordial spirit, the power of my Ghost Cry Divine Ability has more than doubled, but this guy was only partially shattered by my attack, and his entire body retreated. It is hard to imagine how sturdy his soul body is."

"Never mind, it's good that it's deterred."

Chu Xiu thought to himself, but before he could completely relax, the ink that seemed to swallow everything into darkness reappeared in the void about 200,000 kilometers away from him!

In the blink of an eye, that creature traveled 200,000 kilometers using the help of higher-dimensional space!

What's even more terrifying is that this time no spirits appeared. Instead, the center of darkness began to rotate like a black hole. With this eerie rotation, an invisible gravitational force seemed to form around it, drawing all light and heat towards the center of darkness!
The gravitational pull grew larger and larger until it eventually encompassed all the stars in the entire galaxy!

To Chu Xiu's astonishment, the solar wind emanating from the distant star seemed to be drawn by some force, visibly deviating from its course. A large amount of light and heat accumulated towards the darkness, forming a thin, long tail behind the star!
Compared to the enormous size of a star, this tail is naturally insignificant, but from Chu Xiu's perspective, it is a colossal object with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers and a length of over 100,000 kilometers!

These multidimensional beings are able to absorb the sun's power and solidify into a physical form!

Without a second thought, Chu Xiu fled rapidly into the distance! In the vacuum, with no resistance, his speed easily reached a hundred times the speed of sound, and it was still increasing rapidly! But on the vast scale of a galaxy, this speed was like a snail crawling.

After a few breaths, the spirit creature, which had absorbed all the energy, had completely transformed into a blazing ball of light. Even with such a huge amount of energy and mass, it was still extremely agile. With a contraction of the "ink" beside it, its entire body disappeared into the universe. The next instant, a huge energy wave surged from Chu Xiu's side!
Chu Xiu was terrified. He unleashed his powerful spiritual energy without reservation, forming hundreds of layers of shields in front of him. However, the moment the shields were formed, a beam of light shot from tens of thousands of miles away, piercing through the hundreds of layers of shields one after another!
Chu Xiu let out a muffled groan as his body flew far away, one of his arms turning as black as if it had been burned in a raging fire.

Even after piercing through hundreds of layers of shields, the beam still possessed extremely high energy. What's most terrifying is that the higher-dimensional creature not only moved through higher-dimensional space, but could even launch attacks through it!

"The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second, which I naturally cannot compare to. However, since the opponent attacked from tens of thousands of miles away, and the path of the energy beam could not be changed, there was enough time for me to dodge."

But the attack just now appeared out of nowhere from the void!

Just as Chu Xiu was in shock, the ink from thousands of miles away surged again, and as space distorted, it all collapsed into a single point and disappeared!

Chu Xiu felt a chill run down his spine, alarm bells blaring in his mind. Almost instinctively, he channeled all his spiritual power to form layers of protection. Just as the shield was formed, a blazing ball of light exploded beside Chu Xiu!

"boom!"

All the shields shattered instantly, and Chu Xiu's burning figure was sent flying backward!

That power was terrifying. The energy released in a second by stellar fusion was hundreds of billions of times greater than the entire nuclear arsenal of the entire planet Blue Star in Chu Xiu's previous life! Even if that spirit only absorbed one trillionth of that power, it was still far beyond what Chu Xiu could resist!
Excruciating pain shot through his entire body, while the opposing spirit erupted with dazzling light once more, signaling the imminent arrival of the next wave of attacks!
"Am I going to get my 'Freediving Dial' activated here?"

A fierce glint flashed in Chu Xiu's eyes. He flicked his finger and sent a small black ball shooting towards the spirit in the distance!

It's a case of stealing poison!

He knew that the energy levels of the two were vastly different, and that the other party was constantly drawing power from the star, making conventional methods ineffective; he could only rely on the power of Zed.

Chu Xiu originally only wanted to observe the power of the poison. If it was effective against this spirit, he would take a gamble; if it was ineffective, he would simply hand over the [Free Deep Dive Scroll] without wasting any effort.

But to his surprise, the incredibly powerful spirit, upon seeing the Calamity Poison, acted as if it had encountered something extremely terrifying. Without the slightest hesitation, it immediately fled into a higher dimension and never reappeared.

This left Chu Xiu momentarily stunned.

Is it really that exaggerated?

He stared at the poison in his hand.

The Myriad Filth Returning to Origin Bag is a magic treasure at the Nascent Soul level. Even if it is mixed with the death energy of calamity, which is a very rare and powerful "poisonous gas", it can at most refine a deadly poison that is stronger than a Nascent Soul but far from reaching the Divine Transformation level.

This is the power of a fully realized demigod.

Therefore, Chu Xiu's assessment was that it might be possible to directly kill an ordinary demigod, but since it was not easy to hit directly, it could only be used as a surprise attack.

In his initial plan, he only intended to use all fourteen poisons at once, which might cause some trouble for Astrid.

After all, even though the poison is very powerful, the opponent isn't going to just stand there and let you hit them.

However, after this trial, Chu Xiu discovered that he had estimated it based on his own situation, but for some reason, the tribulation seemed to have an abnormal suppressive effect on high-level awakened individuals!
Those powerful heroic spirits, when faced with the calamity, had their bodies easily destroyed, just like a king!

Right now, even the terrifying creatures in this multidimensional space have been forced back by a single poison!

Of course, this does not mean that stealing the poison will kill this multidimensional creature.

The other party may have simply sensed danger and retreated in advance.

But this still reveals a lot. "Could this poison really have the power to severely injure a divine messenger like Astrid?"

Chu Xiu stroked his chin, waved his hand to put away the poison, and then sighed softly.

"We can't even go back now, what's the point of thinking about this?"

Chu Xiu looked at the huge star in front of him. He had been running away for so long, but the star seemed to have remained unchanged. Even though he had god-like power in the eyes of ordinary people, he was so insignificant on the scale of the universe.
After standing there in a daze for a while, Chu Xiu finally decided to explore the multidimensional world again.

He was unaware that others also lacked a means of rapid movement other than relying on the Abyss Teleportation, simply assuming that he had not yet discovered the key to it.

This time, he did not enter directly, but first used some of his divine sense to explore. After gaining a certain understanding of multidimensional space, he was able to do so.

After confirming that the multidimensional being had disappeared, Chu Xiu returned.

The first thing he did upon arriving in the multidimensional space was to light the [Xi Huang Search Lamp] to check his surroundings.

After searching for a while, Chu Xiu successfully located the multidimensional creature that had just attacked him, which was about 0.012 meters away.

Even under the light of a searchlight, it remained a viscous blob of ink, and Chu Xiu was still unable to discern the creature's specific appearance, or perhaps it simply did not possess a "form" in the conventional sense.

What surprised Chu Xiu even more was its speed. From the moment he made up his mind to the moment he re-entered the multidimensional space, only about twenty seconds had passed. In such a short time, it had covered a distance of 0.19 meters. Moreover, it seemed to be leisurely swimming around, much slower than when it attacked him before.

"If we could tame one of these creatures, exploring the abyss would be so much easier."

Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind before being dismissed by Chu Xiu's self-deprecating laughter.

He could barely protect himself in front of the other party, let alone subdue them.
To be honest, if that creature hadn't sensed the danger and moved away, what could Chu Xiu do even with the poison? It could have just kept attacking Chu Xiu from a distance using higher dimensions, and would have worn him down sooner or later.

Without further thought, Chu Xiu began to carefully examine the surrounding environment using the [Xi Huang Search Lamp].

The main reason was to prevent being attacked by similar creatures again. Only when he was sure that the surroundings were safe could he feel at ease exploring the way back.

However, upon closer inspection, he discovered quite a few interesting things.

Previously, a cursory glance was like glancing at a map, and one could only notice some large "unusual" structures. Now, by focusing one's attention and scanning carefully, one discovers that there are actually many small unusual structures in the abyss.

There were all sorts of strange and bizarre things, like bronze gates floating in the void, tumors soaking in strange jars, and points of light with incomprehensible meaning.

"These anomalies could be opportunities or dangers."

Chu Xiu once again felt the preciousness of the Xi Huang Lantern. In such an extreme environment, whether it was to avoid danger or seek opportunities, visibility was undoubtedly the most important thing!
Just as Chu Xiu was pondering this, he suddenly let out a soft exclamation, noticing something.

In a space about 0.54 meters away from him, a bright spot of light was suspended. There were about five or six of these spots of light in an area with a radius of 5. He had checked them before and found that in the real world corresponding to these spots of light, there were often life forms, and they had basically formed their own civilizations.

"No wonder Earth was targeted by extraterrestrial demons; it turns out that civilizations are so conspicuous in higher dimensions."

Of course, he felt that this was most likely due to his [Xi Huang Search Lamp] ability.

During a casual conversation with Ya Zi, the latter mentioned that in addition to detection distance, the light also has a concept of brightness; the closer to the detection edge, the lower the brightness.

The detection range of [Xi Huang Lantern] is 5, which does not mean that it is clearly visible within 5 and turns into darkness like a cliff outside 5. Rather, it is like a lamp, the brightness decreases as you get closer to the edge. Theoretically speaking, if a point of light is particularly bright, it means that Chu Xiu may be able to notice it at a distance of 10 or even more.

Therefore, in reality, the difference in detection capability between the [Xi Huang Search Lamp] and the basic search lamp with a range of 0.1 is not just 2,500 times in area, but much more!
This is why top-of-the-line searchlights are so precious.

"Ordinary abyssal creatures shouldn't have such strong detection capabilities, otherwise, would the civilizations in this abyss still be alive?"

"That creature was probably attracted by the fluctuations when I entered the space, which is why it came over."

In fact, Chu Xiu's guess was quite correct. This is the real value of the [Xi Huang Search Lamp]. With an ordinary search lamp, a deep-sea creature might be right next to you and you still wouldn't be able to spot it!
These dim points of light are invisible to ordinary lights unless they are very close.

This gave Chu Xiu a new idea: if he could use the [Xi Huang Lantern] to find a civilization, wouldn't he be able to obtain information about free deep-sea diving?

Unfortunately, the points of light he discovered were all extremely primitive; to call them civilization was an understatement—they were more like monkeys who had gathered together and learned to cooperate and divide tasks.

However, the newly discovered one is different; its original light spot was quite bright, reaching a brightness of four to five times that of the other light spots.

And just recently, its brightness suddenly increased several times over!
This immediately drew Chu Xiu's attention, who had been focused on the other side.

Chu Xiu, curious, focused his mind and "stabbed" towards the spot of light. Instantly, his consciousness broke through space and arrived in the present world.

He then witnessed a scene that astonished him.

Before us lies a vast primeval forest, and in the center of the forest stands a massive altar.

The altar was like a pyramid with its spire cut off, magnificent and spectacular. The altar was divided into thirteen layers from the bottom down, and each layer was guarded by a large number of guards holding fine iron spears. Each guard was watching over several prisoners.

These prisoners were completely naked, and their strength increased as they went up. At the very top, four prisoners were kneeling, and their strength had even reached the King rank!
But this was naturally not the reason for Chu Xiu's surprise. The King Rank was unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people, but to Chu Xiu now, it was just a piece of clay.

What truly surprised him were the two men and two women standing in the center of the altar.

These four were also at the King Rank, but their attire was clearly different from the others, and their equipment was extremely high-quality, with almost each of them possessing three or four legendary pieces of equipment.

They still retained faint spatial fluctuations, as if they had just arrived here.

This made Chu Xiu's heart stir.

Could this be...?
Advancement Trial?

(End of this chapter)