Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

"What exactly is this..."

The scene before her made Jiang Miaoyin freeze in place, and a deep shock surfaced in her eyes.

The darkness within the Soul Hall was a power that had accumulated and condensed over thousands of years, yet before the black aura released by Chu Xiu, it was utterly defenseless! As helpless as a newborn baby in swaddling!

The extreme evil contained within that black aura was unlike anything Jiang Miaoyin had ever witnessed, not even the Demon God Attendants she encountered during the King Tier trial could compare. It was as if that energy was the complete antithesis of life, capable of annihilating all vitality in an instant!

"Who exactly is this senior?"

Her curiosity toward Chu Xiu grew tremendously.

At this moment, she no longer had any doubts about him. Instantly obliterating twenty-seven King Tier warriors was a feat no King Tier Awakened could wield!

Even she herself, cultivated as the top-tier King Tier by her family with endless resources, could only barely possess such combat strength for a short period after liberating her strongest Curse Spirit.

However, Jiang Miaoyin wasn’t shocked for long. After all, as a genius cultivated by the Jiang Family, she had witnessed plenty of Heroic Spirits; even though Chu Xiu was strong, he was still within her realm of understanding.

Jiang Miaoyin was confident that once she advanced to Heroic Spirit, she would be stronger than Chu Xiu!

This was the confidence of a top-tier genius.

But if Jiang Miaoyin knew that Chu Xiu was merely at General Tier...

Her worldview would probably collapse.

Of course, Chu Xiu’s strength wasn’t quite as exaggerated as Jiang Miaoyin imagined.

He relied on the significant suppression of Demonic Qi against Ghosts to instantly annihilate twenty-seven Holy Spirits.

The Demonic Qi, capable of obliterating all vitality, had a multiplied erosive effect on intangible entities like the Soul Body.

The Divine Techniques of Demon Energy Transformation and Burning Blood Golden Eyes both had powerful suppression effects against Ghosts, which was why Chu Xiu had the confidence to enter the Level 6 world of the Hundred Ghosts Melting Furnace.

If it had been twenty-seven physical King Tier warriors, Chu Xiu would have been able to handle them but it would require some effort.

In reality, if it came to a deathmatch with Jiang Miaoyin, relying solely on his body, Chu Xiu wasn’t certain of victory. After all, this woman, as the top-tier genius of the Jiang Family’s younger generation, had fused with countless Curse Spirits unknown to the family, surely bearing terrifying trump cards.

No way around it, although advancing to General Tier had given Chu Xiu’s body a leap in strength, the gap between King Tier and Heroic Spirit was enormous; he still lacked the outright power to contend with Heroic Spirits on equal terms, while also possessing numerous shortcomings in mobility speed and detection perception abilities.

Specifically, his current combat strength should be slightly stronger than the Blood Demon Incarnation but not quite at the level of Heroic Spirit.

"But these weaknesses seem to be about to be remedied..."

Chu Xiu looked at the panel before him, a smile curling the corners of his lips.

[Slaughtered living beings, Professional Experience +46]

[Slaughtered living beings, Professional Experience +38]

[Slaughtered living beings, Professional Experience +...]

[Level Up! Current Level: General Tier Level 6!]

After killing twenty-seven King Tier warriors, Chu Xiu’s level soared by three stages!

In the later stages, the number of same-tier monsters needed to level up becomes greater, just like in the Mortal Tier, leveling from Level 8 to Level 9 may only require killing a few same-tier Abyss creatures, but at the King Tier, slaughtering hundreds might not guarantee leveling up!

Mortal Tier and Warrior Tier Awakened can readily reach Level 9, mostly stopped by the tier advancement trials, while into King Tier and General Tier, one faces both a steep rise in the experience needed to level up and a scarcity of High Tier monsters, which turns leveling into a major hurdle.

The majority of Awakened advance through the long years by steadily killing large numbers of Low Tier Abyss creatures.

After all, in any cultivation system, the later the stage, the more challenging the cultivation becomes.

Nonetheless, same-tier Awakened are typically much stronger than same-tier Abyss creatures; many Level 1 King Tier Awakened, as long as they have good Equipment and Talent, can hunt Level 9 ordinary monsters at King Tier! So by daring to take risks, one can accelerate the pace of leveling.

And it’s even more effortless for the scions of prestigious families, shielded by senior family members or special artifacts; leveling simply isn’t an issue.

The gap between ordinary Awakened and the offspring of prestigious families rapidly widens at General and King Tier.

Of course, this wasn’t a problem for Chu Xiu.

If those defending Holy Spirits had not just had their Soul Bodies destroyed, leaving their bodies unharmed, which greatly reduced the experience gained, the twenty-seven King Tier warriors could have instantly boosted Chu Xiu’s level massively.

But reaching Level 6 now was plenty, and Chu Xiu eagerly examined the new inheritance.

It’s notable that Duo Bao Demon Venerable disclosed a technique combining Four Symbols Yin Yang Furnace and Eight Desolates Nether Fire Array to significantly enhance the levels at which Equipment can be fortified and gain greater refining bonuses.

This serves as the foundation for refining Artifacts.

Even with Perfect Refining, if not for the technique integrating these two, it would be challenging to produce high-grade Artifacts.

What really caught Chu Xiu’s attention were the remaining two items!

[Soul Slaying Demon Finger (Supreme Demon Lord): A finger gathering Mana, able to inflict dual physical and mental strikes on the chosen target, directly extinguishing the target’s vitality, and using the extinguished vitality to nourish the Soul Banner, can extract power from Ghosts within the Soul Banner to significantly enhance power.]

[Golden Embryo Divine Forger (Innate Divine Demon): The fourth passage of Golden Embryo Nether Technique, using an extremely refined Golden Embryo Origin to refine the Divine Soul, substantially enhancing Mental Attributes, while strengthening Divine Sense Traits, reaction speed, and all mental attacks.]