Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Fortunately, this time his luck was good. He didn’t pass through too much folded space and successfully returned to the gunboat.

Seeing that the gunboat was about to move out of his sight range again, he immediately stimulated his spiritual power, locking onto the position of the four Awakened ones to transmit information!

”Delay!”

A simple word sounded beside the four people’s ears. The voice was very small, and if the four of them weren’t all having astonishing perception abilities at the King Tier, they wouldn’t have heard it at all.

”...?”

”You all...”

The four frowned simultaneously, looking at each other, wanting to speak but stopping, no one dared to confirm whether it was the noise from air fluctuation or indeed someone speaking.

At this moment, another voice sounded, but this time it clearly carried some impatience.

”Delay!”

Everyone was startled, finally realizing that it was not an illusion or noise, but someone was indeed conveying a thought to them!

But the bizarre thing is, the previous voice’s source was in front of them, but now it came from behind, as if there was an invisible person standing in the void along the path the gunboat traversed.

”Who’s the senior?” Xi Ya looked around and asked.

However, there was no reply.

This made the four of them look at each other in confusion, and after a long time, Xi Ya said, ”We don’t know if the one transmitting sound is friend or foe, nor do we know their intent.”

”But anyway, we should proceed as planned.”

The others also nodded one after another.

This made Chu Xiu roll his eyes, wanting to shout a few more words but after thinking about it, he decided to first delve into the method of controlling spiritual power or wait for an opportune moment when a gunboat stops.

Otherwise, shouting one or two words intermittently would be of no use.

”Let’s go through the Inheritance Hall one more time, I remember there are quite a few layouts for teleportation arrays inside.”

”Using high-dimensional space in a similar way might be insightful...”

With this thought, Chu Xiu stopped chasing and continued to delve into research.

...

”Boom!”

An armor-piercing shell fell from the sky, directly penetrating several meters of rock layers, blasting a giant hunt lizard.

[Killed a Warrior Tier Level 8 prey, Hunting Points +71]

A line of information appeared before Xi Ya’s eyes.

It’s not only by hunting humans that one can acquire Hunting Points, it’s merely that under the same level, humans’ points are four to five times more than beasts’.

Xi Ya isn’t entirely Holy Mother-like, strictly speaking, she’s more like a racial absolutist, because she firmly believes that as long as creatures need to eat, this world is one of eating and being eaten.

If one seeks to save all intelligent life indiscriminately, it inevitably leads to irresolvable self-contradiction.

So, from start to finish, she is absolutely above the Human Race, willing to slaughter other races to save humanity.

”Gaining Hunting Points is quite essential, it’s related to weakening that Divine Envoy...”

Now half an hour has passed since the ceremony officially began. Within this half hour, Xi Ya has been collecting human prey, while utilizing the gunboat’s high concentration central tower to hunt nearby beasts for points.

Under the terrifying detection capabilities of advanced technology, no beast can hide, even those hiding under ten meters of rock layers were hunted down one by one by Xi Ya.

This scene made the eyes of the other two King Tier members reveal a tinge of envy. No wonder the gunboat has become a standard for Royal Family members, no wonder this single treasure could raise the clearance rate above seventy percent.

It’s not that the direct combat power is overwhelmingly strong, but the multitude of integrated functionalities can aptly handle various situations conveniently.

”With so many Hunting Points, it should suffice to suppress that Divine Envoy’s power.”

”Besides, there’s also the sacred enhancement brought by the hunting rules.”

Omond said happily.

At this moment, there was a faint halo behind Xi Ya, which was the energy boost given to her after killing prey.

This energy can be converted into personal energy, thereby giving skills a considerable boost.

It can be said to further improve the winning rate.

However, there wasn’t much joy on Xi Ya’s face.

”Not enough.” She shook her head.

”Not enough?”

”That’s right, although the hunting ceremony’s range is vast, there aren’t many High Tier beasts, what the God of the hunt truly wants to see is the slaughter among kin.”

”We’ve almost wiped out the beasts hiding in the shallow layers in one round, and efficiency in searching will significantly decrease from now on.”

”But we must decide victory or defeat with that lizard at the moment it departs, otherwise, there will be no chance later.”

Xi Ya’s words made the previously relaxed expressions on others’ faces vanish.

”It seems you know a lot about this trial.” Omond said.

Xi Ya said, ”This isn’t any secret, you all should know the Empire has regulations for collecting trial content, and these trials are categorized according to reference value, specifically judged by the trial’s difficulty, whether it involves contact with High Tier life, or special civilizations.

”The central system of the gunboat stores all high-reference value trials from tens of thousands of years, more than twenty of which are directly related to this God of the hunt.”

Once these words were spoken, both Omond and Zaka couldn’t help but shake their heads.

”You royal family kids are really... too comfortable.”

Having a system that integrates such a vast collection of information, it’s hard to imagine the advantage it brings to the trial! For instance, Chu Xiu’s first two laps of trial could’ve been straightforwardly crushed if he had prior intelligence.

Xi Ya took a look at the two and said lightly, ”In any case, according to the general rules of the hunting ceremony, within the first hour, even if our Hunting Points are zero, the Divine Envoy could at most exert thirty percent of power.”

”Every hour after that, the maximum power that can be unlocked is 45%, 65%, 100%, and then it becomes possible to mobilize the Personal Guard for assistance.”

”Only thirty percent?” Omond’s eyes lit up, ”We’ve also accumulated a lot of Hunting Points from hunting beasts, wouldn’t that mean...”

”It’s not that simple,” Xi Ya shook her head, ”This so-called power limitation only applies to hunting, if it’s merely for self-preservation, there are no such rules.”

”Then there’s no difference.” Omond said.

”No,” Zaka shook his head and said: ”The difference is huge.”

Xi Ya nodded, ”Exactly, the limitation on hunting power isn’t just about the energy that can be mobilized, the Divine Envoy’s perception ability, reconnaissance ability, and reaction speed will all be weakened.”

”If we suddenly counterattack during our escape, even if he can respond in time and switch from hunting to self-preservation mode, the time left for him to mobilize power would be drastically reduced!”

”This is also why I say, we must determine victory or defeat at the very outset!”

”Then we...” Omond cast her a questioning look.

”We must enhance our power by any means as quickly as possible,” Xi Ya glanced down.

”Seems we have to take some risks.”

...

A minute later, Xi Ya and the four King Tier’s actively entered the dense forest to begin hunting human prey.

When these people were caught, in the face of an enormous disparity in power, they had no choice but to trust the four.

However, the four underestimated the difficulty of this mission, failing to realize that this was a civilization worshiping the hunt, and the humans here have been imbued with all sorts of hunting knowledge since childhood, preparing them for potentially being selected to participate in the hunting ceremony in the future.

This made each one of them masters of concealment, even with the gunboat, Xi Ya and her team couldn’t completely search out Fierce Tier and above prey.

”No wonder the ceremony lasts a whole day... Have these guys hidden in underground caverns?”

Omond ground his teeth, saying that performing an on-site excavation with a Fierce Tier Awakened’s power isn’t difficult at all.

Even with the powerful central system of the gunboat, detection ability would significantly weaken after penetrating thick rock layers.

After all, this is the Heroic Spirit Trial, even if the four choose the simple route of slaughtering kin, the odds of passing aren’t high, which is why Omond and Zaka initially opposed Xi Ya.

”No choice, we’ll have to split up and search.” Xi Ya said.

The four separated rapidly along different directions as if planned, and the gunboat hovered not far away, providing remote information support for the four.

Xi Ya fell into a dense forest, gently inserting her slender left arm into the soil, and instantly crimson blood threads spread around.

The Royal Family of the Blood Crystal Civilization, being directly descended from that Pseudo-God’s lineage, were specially modified, each possessing Blood Crystal Power within themselves.

This power, truly originating from the power of a God, endowed them with numerous incredible abilities.

As the blood threads spread around, all the energy fluctuations of life within a ten-mile radius converged into streams of information entering Xi Ya’s mind.

Suddenly, she slightly smiled as if she discovered something.

”Found it.”