Chapter 553 538
Good news: The potential of the new Pupil Technique is limitless, and the power of the Demon Venerable's Aspect can infinitely grow by plundering lifespan.
When the Demon Venerable's Aspect grows to its later stages, it can even threaten a Divine King.
Bad news: His Demon Lotus Eye seems to have reached its end.
Li Cunxu's Twenty-Fourth Grade Demon Lotus Eye, moving a step further would become the unique Thirty-Sixth Grade Demon Lotus Eye.
The 'unique' level means that at the time, this was the only one of its kind in the world, and no second could exist.
And a Thirty-Sixth Grade Demon Lotus Eye has appeared in this world, on his grandfather Li Shiji.
For Li Cunxu's Twenty-Fourth Grade Demon Lotus Eye to evolve into a Thirty-Sixth Grade Demon Lotus Eye, either Li Shiji's Thirty-Sixth Grade Demon Lotus Eye must be destroyed or Li Shiji must perish.
To evolve the Demon Lotus Eye and kill his grandfather, Li Cunxu is not someone driven by such interests, and he never even considered it.
However, soon, Li Cunxu thought of a solution for this 'Demon Lotus Eye evolving into a unique level gift'.
Li Cunxu sat on the Chaos Gourd that was wildly absorbing the misty chaos, resting his chin on his hand, pondering.
"If I merge the powers of the Blood Lotus Eye and the Demon Lotus Eye, could they fuse into a mutated Demon Lotus Eye?"
"While a mutated Demon Lotus Eye is also a Demon Lotus Eye, in the definition of gifts, a mutated Demon Lotus Eye does not belong to the category of Demon Lotus Eye and is not restricted by the already existing unique-level Demon Lotus Eye."
This is similar to the relationship between the Holy Lotus Eye and the Demon Lotus Eye. The Demon Lotus Eye originated as a mutation from the Holy Lotus Eye; both gifts have very similar abilities, but each can evolve into a unique-level gift without affecting the other.
Unique-level Holy Lotus Eye and unique-level Demon Lotus Eye can coexist in the world.
Li Cunxu decided to act immediately, trying to blend the origin of the Blood Lotus Eye with the origin of the Demon Lotus Eye.
In this fusion, Li Cunxu was absorbed and lost track of time.
Ten days and nights later, Li Cunxu suddenly opened his eyes in surprise.
"It can be fused."
Even though they could fuse, the fusion efficiency of the two origins was particularly slow. According to the current progress, Li Cunxu estimated it would take over a hundred years to fully integrate the power of origin of both eyes.
Li Cunxu glanced around; the surroundings were full of colorful, extremely dangerous misty chaos.
"The chaos is not safe, I better continue cultivating in the Time House with Xiaoruan and them, this way the fusion of the origins can be hastened, and we can hide to avoid being discovered by the creatures in the chaos."
The most dangerous aspect of chaos is not the chaos itself, but the creatures that roam within it.
The creatures that survive in such harsh chaotic environments are extraordinary, each possessing at least god-level power.
Fortunately, the chaos is vast and the creatures within it are few. Moreover, the chaos is foggy, even gods can't see far, and Li Cunxu could stay in the chaos for a thousand years without encountering a single chaotic creature.
Li Cunxu entered the Time House, leaving behind only a Chaos Gourd constantly devouring the misty chaos.
If such a treasure as the Chaos Gourd were to be picked up by a passing chaos creature, Li Cunxu would suffer a great loss, so before entering the Time House, he commanded the Chaos Gourd to enter a mode of divine concealment.
Almost every imperial tool possesses the ability for divine concealment.
The Chaos Gourd transformed, blending into the chaos. The Chaos Gourd has a high affinity with chaos, so when performing divine concealment, it's like a drop of sugar water hiding in the sea; even if a Divine King level chaotic creature comes by, it won't be able to find the Chaos Gourd.
...
In the blink of an eye, ten years passed quietly.
Li Cunxu successfully fused the two origin powers, but the Demon Lotus Eye had yet to mutate, missing the critical last push.
Li Cunxu had a hunch about what this final step required.
Li Cunxu exited the Time House, returned to the chaos, retrieved the Chaos Gourd, and hid again in the Time House.
"Chaos Gourd, work hard to refine the Hidden Heaven-Splitting Robbery Wolf."
During these ten years, the Chaos Gourd was constantly refining the avatars of the Hidden Heaven-Splitting Robbery Wolf. Because too many avatars have been refined, the ability of the Hidden Heaven-Splitting Robbery Wolf to endlessly split avatars seemed to reach a critical limit, and the speed of division was getting slower and slower, now taking half a month to create one.
Under the refinement of the Chaos Gourd, the Hidden Heaven-Splitting Robbery Wolf was refined and killed, from which an unsettling grey-white aura floated.
"World-Ending Calamity Qi."
Before Li Cunxu could react, the World-Ending Calamity Qi found its new host.
Those eyes, where blood-red and black intertwined on a lotus, began to mutate. Upon successful mutation, they broke through the legendary restriction and evolved into a unique-level gift.
In a clean ice mirror, the reflection of an incredibly handsome young man appeared, his eyes glowing with a blood-red light. Apart from the glow, the eyes contained nothing else. The blood-red light emitted an eerie demonic aura, looking extremely sinister.
"If seen by the righteous people, they would undoubtedly believe I've become a World-Ending Evil God," Li Cunxu murmured to himself.
"However, this newly evolved unique-level Pupil Technique would indeed be mistaken for an evil god that aims to destroy the world."
The power of the new Pupil Technique is terrifyingly immense, even Li Cunxu doesn't dare to use it lightly.
The new Pupil Technique is named: Boundless Flame.
Its ability continues the style of the previously awakened Pupil Technique of the Demon Lotus Eye, burning lifespan. However, this time the target of the burning lifespan is extraordinarily complex—it burns the lifespan of worlds.
Boundless Flame will continuously burn the lifespan of a world until the world's lifespan reaches zero. If the world runs out of lifespan, there's only one result: the destruction of the world.
This method of world destruction is one of the most insidious among many ways to destroy a world. Comparing a person to a world, if a person is injured and about to die, medicine may save him. However, when a person dies of old age, what medicine can save them? Even if extraordinary worlds have rare medicines that can extend life, how long can they extend it?
In extraordinary worlds, life-extending medicines required by living beings are extremely precious and scarce, and those needed for worlds even more so—so rare that a Divine King searching through the chaos might not find a single plant capable of extending a world's lifespan even over eons.
Even should the effort yield such a divine herb, the added lifespan would quickly burn out under Boundless Flame.
Extinguish Boundless Flame to save the world?
Impossible.
Once unleashed, Boundless Flame cannot be extinguished, not even by a Divine King or Evil Divine King. This fire is a concept-level ability; as long as the universal space harbors the concepts of 'fire' and 'lifespan' in the past, present, or future, this fire cannot be put out.
Even Li Cunxu, the one who released Boundless Flame, cannot extinguish the fire, nor can it be retrieved.
This is an uncontrollable, extremely, extremely, extremely dangerous Pupil Technique.
"What name should I give these eyes?"
"Blood Demon Lotus Eye? Red Demon Lotus Eye? Red Light Eye? Eye of Destruction?"
"These names all sound terrible."
Xiaobai Spider nodded in agreement.
"Since there's no lotus in these eyes anymore, let's not include the word 'lotus' in the name," Li Cunxu mused aloud.
"Crimson Demon Eye? Boundless Fire Eye? Boundless Demon Eye?"
He thought of three more names, but was still not satisfied.
"Crimson World-Ending Demon Eye?"
"It fits somewhat, though it's a bit long. Never mind, I can't think of a better name right now, let's go with it—'Crimson World-Ending Demon Eye', or just call it 'Crimson Demon Eye' for short."
Li Cunxu, self-proclaimed as bad at naming, muttered to himself in frustration.