Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

”Could it be that I’m about to be knocked out here for the [Free Deep Dive Scroll]?”

A fierce light flashed in Chu Xiu’s eyes as he flicked his finger, sending a small black sphere shooting toward the distant spirit body!

It was the Tribulation Poison!

He knew the energy levels between the two were vastly different, and the opposing side constantly drew power from the star. Conventional methods were ineffective, so he could only rely on the power of the Tribulation.

Originally, Chu Xiu just wanted to observe the power of the Tribulation Poison. If it was effective against this spirit body, then it would be worth a try. If ineffective, then he wouldn’t waste time and would just hand over the [Free Deep Dive Scroll].

But to his surprise, that incredibly powerful spirit body, upon seeing the Tribulation Poison, reacted as if witnessing something terrifying, hesitated not for a moment and fled into high-dimensional space, never appearing again.

This left Chu Xiu standing there, stunned.

”Is it really... that exaggerated?”

He gazed intently at the Tribulation Poison in his hand.

The Myriad Filth Returning Origin Bag is a Nascent Soul-Level artifact. Even if mixed with the death qi of the Tribulation, deemed a highly rare and powerful ”toxin”, it could at best be refined to create a poison stronger than a Nascent Soul but far from Divinity Transformation level.

This was akin to the power of a Perfect Demigod.

Thus, Chu Xiu concluded that it might be able to directly kill a normal demigod but was hard to directly hit, making it more of a surprise tactic.

In his original plan, using fourteen Tribulation Poisons together might cause some trouble for Ashtar.

After all, despite the power of the Tribulation Poison, the opponent wouldn’t just stand there foolishly to be hit.

Yet after this trial, Chu Xiu realized he’d been estimating based on his situation, not understanding why the Tribulation seemed to have a suppressive effect on High Tier Awakened!

Those strong Heroic Spirit Civilization Envoys crumbled like a King Tier before the Tribulation!

And present, even the terrifying creatures in multi-dimensional space were forced back by a single Tribulation Poison!

Of course, this doesn’t mean the Tribulation Poison could kill the multi-dimensional creature.

The creature may simply have sensed danger and retreated early.

But this explains many things.

”Is it possible that this Tribulation Poison truly has the capacity to severely harm a Divine Envoy like Ashtar...”

Chu Xiu stroked his chin, waved to collect the Tribulation Poison, and sighed lightly.

”With no way to return even now, what’s the point in pondering such things?”

Chu Xiu looked toward the gigantic star before him. Just now, he had fled for so long, yet the star seemed unchanged. Even if in the eyes of ordinary people, he held God-like power, how insignificant it seemed on the scale of the cosmos?

After standing lost in thought for a while, Chu Xiu decided finally to explore the multi-dimensional world again.

He didn’t know others had no quick movement means except relying on Abyss transportation, only assuming he had yet to discover the secret.

This time, he didn’t enter directly, but first extended some divine thoughts to investigate. Having some understanding of multi-dimensional space, he could now do this.

Once he confirmed the multi-dimensional creature was gone, only then did Chu Xiu return.

Upon arriving in multi-dimensional space, his first action was to ignite the [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp] to check out his surroundings.

After some searching, Chu Xiu successfully found the multi-dimensional creature that had just attacked him about 0.012 distance away.

Even under the perspective of the Exploration Lamp, it remained a mass of viscous ink; Chu Xiu still couldn’t discern this creature’s true appearance, possibly because it didn’t have a ”form” in the conventional sense.

What further surprised Chu Xiu was its speed. From his decisive entry into multi-dimensional space, only about twenty seconds had passed, and it had covered 0.19, appearing leisurely, their speed much slower than when attacking him before.

”If I could tame a creature like this, maybe I could reach within the time limit...”

Of course, this thought was fleeting and was dismissed with a self-mocking laugh from Chu Xiu.

He struggled even with self-defense before it, so how could he think of taming it?

To be honest, if that creature hadn’t sensed danger and voluntarily left, what could Chu Xiu do even with the Tribulation Poison? It could just strike him continually from afar using high-dimensional space, wearing him down eventually.

Without further thought, Chu Xiu began using the [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp] to carefully examine his surroundings.

The main goal was to prevent another sudden attack from similar creatures; only when safety around him was guaranteed could he peacefully explore a means of return.

Yet through careful examination, he found many interesting things.

A cursory glance was like glancing at a map, usually noticing only major ”special” structures, but concentrating attention and sweeping carefully revealed many small special structures in the Abyss.

Things like a floating bronze door in the void, a lump of flesh soaking in a bizarre jar, indistinct light spots, and more, curious and strange in all sorts of ways.

”These singularities might be opportunities—or dangers.”

Chu Xiu once again appreciated the preciousness of the [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp]—in such extreme environments, whether avoiding danger or seeking opportunity, undoubtedly, vision is most critical!

As Chu Xiu mused to himself, he suddenly gave a soft ”Oh,” noticing something new.

Floating in a space approximately 0.54 away from him was a bright light spot; there were five or six of these around him within a radius of 5, which he’d examined before. He found that in the corresponding real world of these light spots, life often existed, usually forming its own civilization.

”No wonder Blue Star is watched by Outer Realm Demons; civilization becomes so obvious in high-dimensional space.”

Though he guessed this was largely due to his [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp].

In previous talks with Vengeance, the other mentioned the lamp’s range wasn’t its only feature; it also involved a ”brightness” concept—the farther to the detection boundary, the weaker the brightness.

The [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp] detection range 5 didn’t mean everything within 5 was visible or beyond 5 turned black; rather, like a lamp, brightness dimmed toward the edges. Theoretically, if a light spot was exceptionally bright, it could be noticed from a range of 10 or even further.

”Ordinary Abyssal creatures likely lack such powerful detection abilities; otherwise, how would civilization in the Abyss survive?”

”That creature earlier could have been drawn merely by the waves from my space entry.”

In reality, Chu Xiu’s guess was quite accurate—this was the [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp]’s true value. Though an ordinary exploration lamp, even an Abyssal creature could practically be in one’s face without detection!

Those faint light spots can only be discovered with an ordinary lamp when extremely close.

This led Chu Xiu to ponder—if he could use the [Emperor Xi’s Exploration Lamp] to find a civilization, wouldn’t he be able to attain information about free deep diving!

But unfortunately, all the light spots he found turned out to be extremely primitive—calling them civilizations would exaggerate; more like monkeys learning division of labor through cooperation.

However, the newly discovered one was different; its light spot was already quite bright, reaching four or five times other spots’ brightness.

And just recently, its brightness suddenly surged several times over!

This instantly drew Chu Xiu’s attention back to it.

Curious, Chu Xiu concentrated his thought towards the light spot, and his consciousness pierced through space into the real world.

Instantly, he witnessed an astonishing scene.

A vast primordial forest stretched before him, in the forest’s center, a majestic altar stood.

This altar resembled a pyramid with its top sliced off, magnificent and grand. The altar descended in thirteen layers from the bottom, each with numerous iron spear-bearing guards watching over prisoners.

These prisoners were bare-bodied; their strength increased the higher they climbed, kneeling at the apex lay three prisoners whose power reached King Tier!

But that naturally wasn’t what shocked Chu Xiu; King Tier, while unreachable to ordinary people, was as strong as paper to Chu Xiu now.

The real surprise lay with the two men and two women standing at the altar’s center.

These four, though also possessing King Tier cultivation, were dressed distinctly different from others, equipped with exceptionally Fine Equipment, each owning three or four pieces of Legendary Equipment.

Spatial ripples lingered faintly around them as though they had just arrived.

This struck a chord in Chu Xiu’s mind.

Could this be...

A Trial for Ascension?