Primordial World's Demonic Path

Jieyin smiled and agreed. The three of them then discussed the Dao for over a month, until Lu Tian had finished his recuperation.

As Lu Tian stepped into the Blood Sea Grand Hall, a system prompt suddenly rang out:

[Arrived at the blessed land of the Blood Sea, reward obtained: Moon Washing Blade]

"Greetings, Master, greetings, Senior." Lu Tian bowed respectfully.

Styx glanced at him, "The rules are simple—you are responsible for your own life and death during the trial. You can kill as many as you want. Take any treasures they possess if you have the ability."

"But if you force me to intervene, the trial will end immediately."

Lu Tian rejoiced inwardly. In the perilous Primordial World, such an opportunity with a powerful protector was truly rare.

"Inform me when you are ready," Styx said, stepping aside to give the master and disciple space to talk.

Zhunti nodded slightly at Styx, then opened a small world with a flip of his hand and stepped into it with Lu Tian.

"Disciple, your inheritance of the Demonic Path within your body should not be leaked for now."

"The Dao Ancestor now rules the Three Realms. If Luohu's inheritance appears, it will surely bring disaster."

Zhunti admonished him sternly.

"I will cast a spell to conceal it for you, which will allow you to use the Vajra Body and the Devouring Secret Art without issue. As for other Demonic Path divine abilities, unless they are too ostentatious, even Styx will have difficulty seeing through them."

Before he finished speaking, streams of pure light flowed from Zhunti's palm and entered Lu Tian's meridians.

Lu Tian immediately sat down to recuperate, allowing the immortal energy to circulate throughout his body.

In a short while, the spell was complete. The young man tentatively activated the Vajra Body—instantly transforming into a hundred-zhang tall being with two heads and four arms. His demonic physique, with its blue face and fangs, remained the same, but pure Mystic Gate energy now flowed around him.

"Master, your great kindness is unforgettable."

Lu Tian kowtowed gratefully. These two elders had truly taught him everything they knew. Aside from things like devouring origin for him, all their plans were meticulously laid out.

"It's nothing. Your Uncle-Master Jieyin has made quite a sacrifice this time," Zhunti said playfully. "You should absorb all these Asura Race members clean." With that, the two returned to the edge of the Blood Sea.

"Please, Daoist friend, proceed," Zhunti said, cupping his hands with a smile.

Styx indifferently agreed. As his robes billowed, an overwhelming pressure emanated from him! The violent air currents actually made Lu Tian stagger as if about to fall, but Zhunti protected him with a wave of his sleeve, allowing him to stand firm.

Styx formed seals in the air, and the Blood Sea roared like thunder!

In an instant, a vast continent emerged, its boundless edges impossible to gauge. Measured by Lu Tian's previous life, the longest stretch of this crimson territory reached 680 million li, and the narrowest was still 497 million li—vastly larger than Earth, by hundreds of millions of times!

One hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred blood-red rainbows shot out from the sea's surface, plunging into the continent like rain falling on a jade plate. Zhunti gently pushed Lu Tian's back, and the young man immediately turned into a stream of light and entered it. Once everyone had settled, Styx changed his hand seals, and the crimson sky screen closed with a roar.

Styx casually conjured a bloody sun and a blood moon that alternated rising, then paid them no further mind.

Jieyin and Zhunti remained calm throughout.

A mere continent was nothing to them.

Saints could reshape the elements with a wave of their hands, and creating worlds was not difficult.

A single leap through space could span the universe; flying on clouds, they could traverse tens of thousands of light-years in an instant.

If they were to act, this crimson continent would be annihilated in moments.

Even for a peak Quasi-Saint like Styx, this was merely a trivial trick.

On the crimson continent.

Lu Tian streaked across like a beam of light, his divine sense covering a radius of ten thousand li.

His spiritual consciousness covered an extremely wide area, allowing him to perceive the slightest movement within a hundred thousand li.

However, deploying his divine sense over such a vast range consumed enormous energy and reduced its precision.

Someone of the same cultivation level, or even slightly weaker, could hide their form and escape detection.

Therefore, Lu Tian contracted his divine sense, maintaining perception only within a ten-thousand-li range.

During the Journey to the West era, Sun Wukong, a Taiyi Golden Immortal, could travel 108,000 li with a single Somersault Cloud.

Although that monkey was an elite among Taiyi Golden Immortals, this speed was indicative of their power.

If he activated a spatial portal, his speed could increase tenfold.

If he didn't significantly expand his divine sense range, he wouldn't have time to track his opponent's movements.

What if he only covered a thousand li?

He might not even realize an attack was coming before it hit!

Of course.

The difference between a Golden Immortal and a Taiyi Golden Immortal was like night and day.

Even the most ordinary Taiyi Golden Immortal could easily crush hundreds of Golden Immortals; the gap between them was immeasurable!

With the same Somersault Cloud, a Golden Immortal could at most travel ten thousand li, which was already difficult.

Lu Tian's divine sense was top-tier among Golden Immortals.

After all, having been tempered by both the Three Worlds Maha Immeasurable Sutra and the Demon Heart Swallowing Heaven Scripture, and bearing two peerless inheritances, his divine sense was naturally extraordinary.

This Blood Sea continent is far too vast. I've been flying for three days straight and haven't encountered a single member of the Asura race.

My current speed is ** six to eight thousand li per breath, which is considered mid-tier among Golden Immortals.

Even though I wasn't flying at full speed the entire time, I've covered tens of millions of li in three days, and still nothing?

Lu Tian shook his head with a wry smile.

He wasn't flying in a straight line but was searching everywhere. However, the area he had explored was likely less than one-thousandth of the continent, so finding nothing was normal.

It was just that the efficiency was too low.

After a moment of thought, the aura around Lu Tian suddenly changed. He transformed into the appearance of an Asura, his body surging with blood-sha energy, as if he had just stepped out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, sending shivers down one's spine.

After changing his appearance, Lu Tian casually picked a direction. Blood energy surged around him like a tide, instantly covering a vast territory of ten thousand li, and he charged straight ahead.

When the Blood Sea continent first opened, the Asura race would undoubtedly be extremely cautious. After all, the survival rate was only one in 1,296,000. But Lu Tian was unconcerned and decided to use himself as bait to lure out powerful Asura!

More than ten days later.

Somewhere on the Blood Sea continent, three Asura Golden Immortals were patrolling together.

Twenty days have passed since the trial began, and we've only encountered two Golden Immortals. At this rate, when will the final selection begin?

What's the rush? The Blood Sea trial has always lasted for a thousand years; it's only just begun.

That's true. In the end, only one person can survive anyway.

As the three Asura chatted, the blood-colored mist churned beneath their feet. They came from the same tribe and gathered together after descending. The three of them had comparable cultivation bases, all at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, so they decided to join forces to deal with enemies and decide the victor in the final moments. Such alliances were common in previous trials.

Even if we encounter a Law Golden Immortal, the three of us combined will be enough to escape.

But right now, we can't even find a single person… Wait!

The young Asura with two horns suddenly stopped, his divine sense spreading out like a tide. In an instant, every ripple within eighty thousand li was under his control.

There's a lone Golden Immortal forty thousand li to the northwest!

He's moving northwest at a speed of six thousand li per breath. We can catch up!

This person's divine sense is weak; he hasn't noticed he's being spied on yet.

Blood-red light flashed in the young Asura's eyes, and his two companions immediately understood. Three streaks of blood-colored escape light suddenly erupted, covering ten thousand li in an instant, rapidly closing the distance to their target!

Although Golden Immortals can create spatial portals to arrive instantly, doing so can easily cause spatial fluctuations and alert the enemy. Currently, the three of them had completely concealed their auras, and even their escape lights were wrapped in stealth techniques. Even if their opponent was only an early-stage Golden Immortal, they still treated him as a formidable foe—the Asura race was born for slaughter, how could they be careless?

The lone figure ahead continued to fly at a steady pace, completely unaware that the killing intent had arrived. Three blood-colored scimitars materialized simultaneously, their cold glints aimed directly at the Golden Immortal's head!

At this very moment, the Golden Immortal suddenly awoke!

His body exploded, dissipating into a sky full of spiritual light!

The blood-colored blade swept past, only causing ripples in the spiritual energy, having no other effect.

This was precisely the Spirit Body Transformation Technique Lu Tian had used!

The three Asura Golden Immortals looked shocked and immediately began scanning with their divine senses to find Lu Tian's whereabouts.

Suddenly, all three of them simultaneously sensed the sky darkening.

Looking up, they saw a colossal Vajra giant hundreds of feet tall blocking the blood-red sunlight.

Four giant arms simultaneously reached out, firmly grasping the three of them in their palms!

Alarm bells rang in the hearts of the three.

The techniques this young man used were all unheard of, yet his strength was terrifyingly powerful. They were no match for him even when fighting together!

Boom!

A deafening slapping sound erupted.

The four arms merged together in pairs, and the Asura in their palms were instantly crushed into bloody paste!

Strangely, the flesh and blood in their palms gradually dissolved, leaving no trace behind.

The Vajra opened its palms. There wasn't even a speck of dust left, let alone any bloodstains.

This baiting tactic yielded unexpected benefits. The origins of two Golden Immortals have been replenished somewhat.

So that's how it is… No wonder I couldn't find any other Asura…

Lu Tian did not completely devour the origins of the three.

If the origins were completely refined, the opponent's immortal power and memories would be transformed into pure energy.

He deliberately left one person behind. After completely devouring him, he finally glimpsed the secrets of the Asura race.

Who would have thought that this race dwelling in the Blood Sea had nurtured such a glorious civilization!

Through the devoured memories, Lu Tian understood the ** of the trial.

This slaughter feast, which had lasted for an eternity, was actually a ritual for Styx to select his close guards. Only the strongest could enter the legendary Asura Hall.

In the hearts of the Asura race, that sacred hall symbolized the highest glory.

There were only two paths to enter the sacred hall:

Either cultivate bitterly to the Grand Unity realm, or carve a path through the Blood Sea trials. Whoever wins the trials, Styx will spare no resource to help them break through to Grand Unity.

Having traveled the Primordial World for a long time, Lu Tian increasingly felt the terror of this world.

In the current Primordial World, the Witch and Demon races stand in opposition, at the height of their power.

Although the Asura race is considered a top-tier force, compared to the two overlords, they are merely hundreds of billions of beings struggling to survive in the Blood Sea.

Through harsh survival laws and fierce competition, the Asura race has cultivated several Quasi-Saint level experts and commands over a thousand Grand Unity powerhouses, accumulating considerable capital for Old Ancestor Styx.

Although the Blood Sea trials adopt a "raising Gu" model, they are far more complex than ordinary Gu battles. This scarlet continent is vast and boundless. After multiple trials, fixed rules have been established, dividing it into six major strategic zones. The four top Asura tribes, with their absolute advantage, each occupy one zone, while the remaining hundreds of stronger tribes have jointly formed two other war zones.

In the early stages of the trial, the six war zones will prioritize eliminating scattered members of smaller tribes. Once the weak are completely eliminated, the major war zones will engage in their final confrontations. This group combat can efficiently complete the selection process and accelerate the trial's progress.

The three Golden Immortals Lu Tian encountered came from the same small tribe, representing their entire participating force. The survival strategy of such weak tribes is to hide and lie in wait, ambushing lone individuals when the opportunity arises. Because of this, Lu Tian had not encountered any other Asura until now—the weak hide their tracks, the strong gather into armies, and he had not yet entered the main war zones.

The main forces are all concentrated in the war zones... Lu Tian's lips curved slightly. This actually made things easier; finding a war zone meant encountering tens of thousands of targets.

Although he swallowed one less origin, the intelligence gained far exceeded expectations. As his thoughts raced, he transformed into the Asura form: crimson skin, two horns on his head, and blood energy swirling around his body. This transformation secret art, derived from the Origin Devouring Technique, though created casually, surpassed most transformation divine abilities because it directly targeted the essence.

After completing his transformation, Lu Tian followed the direction in his memory and sped towards a war zone somewhere on the continent. This area was jointly defended by over a hundred tribes, who were continuously absorbing scattered forces to jointly resist the four top tribes.