Chapter 115 Red Lotus

The massive tentacled monster, Baiqi Gui, had a hundred eyes filled with struggle and madness. Its extremely long tentacles twisted erratically, its mind trapped within the illusion, unable to regain consciousness for the time being.

Xu Jingming, seeing the three Abyss Lords make their move from afar, directly used the Heart Realm teleportation to arrive instantly. He first targeted the strongest, Baiqi Gui, causing it to fall into the illusion.

The illusion ‘Void Abyss’ placed an enormous burden on Xu Jingming's mind. He could only maintain two Void Abyss illusions at the same time!

Trapping Baiqi Gui had already consumed nearly half of Xu Jingming's mental strength. Whoosh! Xu Jingming materialized, intending to collect the enormous Clear Spirit Ice Mountain.

"Outsider!"

"This is ours!"

The other two Abyss Lords attacked simultaneously. A short Abyss Lord stirred up the surging water in the black river, attacking Xu Jingming, while another Abyss Lord in red robes transformed into a bloody mist, enveloping Xu Jingming!

"Kill!" Three illusory Xu Jingmings appeared out of nowhere, each wielding an illusory Heart Realm spear.

"Careful!" Both Abyss Lords sensed the threat, but the Heart Realm weapons were too fast to dodge. Three rising suns pierced through the bodies of the three Lords.

Maintaining a massive illusion ‘Void Abyss’ and simultaneously having three clones execute the third stance of *Jin Ge*, 'Rising Sun,' pushed Xu Jingming's mental burden close to the limit.

However, his current strength was much greater than when he first arrived in the Abyss. Especially with the transformation of his body, his lifeform was much stronger, and the power of his spearmanship, combining body and weapon, was also significantly stronger than before.

"No!"

"Impossible!"

The two weaker Abyss Lords were both in pain and horror as the two Rising Suns pierced their bodies. The power of this Heart Realm weapon was too terrifying. Their clone bodies couldn't resist it at all. Their mental consciousness was completely destroyed, leaving only two corpses.

On the other hand, Baiqi Gui, trapped in the illusion, merely roared in pain even when attacked by Xu Jingming's Heart Realm weapon.

"This Baiqi Gui has such a strong lifeform! Even if it's trapped in an illusion and can't resist, I estimate I'd have to use Rising Sun dozens of times with all my strength to completely destroy the mental consciousness within its body." Xu Jingming knew how powerful his opponent was after just one attempt.

"Collect."

One clone maintained the illusion, three clones wielded Heart Realm weapons, and another clone focused on collecting the Clear Spirit Ice Mountain.

The Clear Spirit Ice Mountain was enormous and majestic. Collecting it while it floated on the Nightmare River was slightly troublesome, but with Xu Jingming's strength, he collected the entire Clear Spirit Ice Mountain in an instant without any interference.

At the same time, Xu Jingming also collected the corpses of the two dead Abyss Lord clones!

The smaller Abyss Lord corpse held a Nightmare Scimitar that shook the soul! This made Xu Jingming overjoyed. "This should be a Third Realm weapon, an unexpected harvest!"

"Wu Ming, return my weapon to me." An urgent voice came from afar. It was another clone of the short Abyss Lord.

Losing a clone was a small matter, but losing a Third Realm weapon truly alarmed him.

"50 drops of Abyss Motherblood to sell it to you." Xu Jingming replied mentally. By forming such a karmic connection, he could instantly determine that this short Abyss Lord had a full five more clones, scattered in distant, different regions.

It was already very difficult for him to kill a clone head-on. The attacks transmitted through karma couldn't threaten the other clones of the Abyss Lord at all.

The massive Baiqi Gui suddenly let out an angry roar. It had completely broken free from the illusion and looked at Xu Jingming in shock and anger.

"It broke free from the illusion pretty quickly." Xu Jingming was surprised.

"This outsider dares to come to our layer of the Abyss and act so presumptuously."

"He came to our layer of the Abyss and snatched a lot of treasures."

"Outsider, leave the treasures behind!"

The commotion of this battle attracted the attention of many Abyss Lords in this layer of the Abyss! An entire Clear Spirit Ice Mountain, the corpses of two Abyss Lord clones, and the weapons and treasures they carried added up to a great fortune! It was enough to make many Abyss Lords envious.

Moreover, they were all Lords of the same layer of the Abyss, old acquaintances! They could fight among themselves, but it was a disgrace to them to let an outsider come in and eat their meat!

"Leave the treasures behind."

"Die."

"Kill him."

In an instant, more than twenty Abyss Lords unleashed attacks from afar. Xu Jingming sensed the various attacks through karma, and his expression changed drastically. He immediately transformed his body into an illusion and entered the Heart Realm.

"Gone!" Xu Jingming, carrying the treasures, quickly teleported through the Heart Realm, escaping layer after layer of the Abyss, fleeing hundreds of layers of the Abyss away in the blink of an eye.

Even so, multiple attacks still forcefully entered the Heart Realm along the karmic connection, landing on Xu Jingming's many clones.

"Hmph!!!"

Xu Jingming's body trembled slightly. Nightmare, curses, poison, disease… various forces landed on his body, trying to penetrate and erode him, but after Xu Jingming's breakthrough in the Void Abyss, he possessed the Void Abyss Body, and his defense ability greatly increased, making it much easier to resist.

"Using karma to transmit power, the power has already greatly decreased. And it still has to penetrate the Heart Realm? The power is less than one-tenth of what it was." Xu Jingming easily withstood it.

"If I stayed in that layer of the Abyss, I would have been beaten to death by the mob." Xu Jingming knew this very well. If he foolishly stayed in place and resisted, he would definitely be killed by the mob. Because in the first wave, more than twenty Abyss Lords attacked, and after surviving the first wave, the second wave would probably be a hundred Abyss Lords.

But if he focused on escaping, as a Heart Realm lineage half-step Third Realm expert, with the two major lineages complementing each other, it would be difficult for the Abyss Lords to kill him.

In fact, at the half-step Third Realm level, the ability to preserve one's life was very strong.

Even ordinary Abyss Lords generally had multiple clones. For example, they had clones in Featherfire City, clones in the Abyss, and clones in some other territories. The distances between them were so vast… Even if a Heart Realm lineage expert chased them, it might take months to travel from one place to another using Heart Realm teleportation.

So, it was extremely difficult to completely annihilate an Abyss Lord.

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"I'm back." Xu Jingming traveled at the fastest speed, returning to Myriad Star Island in just five days.

The harvest this time was too great, so he had to bring the spoils back!

If he wandered around the Abyss with the spoils and was snatched away by a strong enemy, it would be too late to regret it.

"Rumble~~~" Inside the treasure vault of Myriad Star Island, Xu Jingming walked in and placed the large number of items he had harvested in the Abyss over the years in the treasure vault. Of course, these were all items for public use by the human race.

Like Third Realm weapons and Clear Spirit Ice Mountains, Xu Jingming would definitely carry them himself. He still needed to accumulate treasures to buy a Third Realm Heart Realm spear.

"Jingming, you plundered so many treasures from the Abyss?" The Dean, Tower Master, Island Master, and Chi Meng all sensed the opening of the treasure vault and rushed over. All five of them had the authority to open the race's treasure vault.

"I wandered around the Abyss and casually collected some items. They're not of much use to us, but they're of great use to low-dimensional lifeforms." Xu Jingming said with a smile, and then threw out a large number of corpses.

Whether he used illusions to kill enemies or Heart Realm weapons, the corpses were intact.

On the other hand, most of the Abyss demons who were burned to death by the Black Lotus Fire were turned to ashes, with very few remnants.

"What are these?"

The Dean, Tower Master, Island Master, and Chi Meng looked at the corpses in astonishment. Hundreds of Abyss demon corpses were piled up in the treasure vault, and the aura of two of the corpses was particularly terrifying. The remaining aura made the Dean and the others tremble.

"I've been in the Abyss for over a hundred years, wandering through who knows how many Abyss spaces." Xu Jingming explained, "Many demons have long been corrupted and driven mad by the Abyss. They took the initiative to attack, so I could only take action to eliminate them."

"The weaker ones can be eliminated by the Black Lotus Fire. These are the ones with extremely strong bodies that the Black Lotus Fire can't burn to death, so I can only destroy their minds and leave their bodies behind," Xu Jingming said.

The flames of the Nine Leaf Black Lotus Realm couldn't burn to death Abyss demons of the same level as 'Natto.'

So Xu Jingming was forced to use illusions or Heart Realm weapons.

"You killed so many powerful demons?" Chi Meng was stunned.

"Not many. On average, only a few Abyss demons a year." Xu Jingming said with a smile, "You don't know, the Abyss is infinitely vast, and these demons are countless."

"Are these two Abyss Lords?" The Dean pointed to the two Abyss Lord clones.

Xu Jingming nodded. "After more than a hundred years in the Abyss, I finally discovered a great treasure. It attracted a few Abyss Lords to fight with me, so I destroyed the clones of two of the Abyss Lords. Don't worry, they don't dare to come to our territory at all. As long as they dare to show their faces, my mind will sense it, and I'll destroy them every time they come."

The Dean, Tower Master, Island Master, and Chi Meng looked at each other. Their companion's strength was considered strong even among half-step Third Realm experts!

"The corpses aren't very useful. You can dismantle them as you see fit." Xu Jingming said, "Try to maximize their use."

"Hundreds of Eternal pinnacle great demons, and the corpses of two Abyss Lord clones, and you don't even care about them." The Tower Master shook his head. "Don't worry, leave the dismantling to me, and I will definitely maximize their use."

Xu Jingming then calculated his spoils: "After killing so many Abyss demons in more than a hundred years, the accumulated wealth is only thirty to fifty drops of Abyss Motherblood."

There was no way around it, most Abyss demons were very poor! The gains from the Abyss sacrifices were all used on themselves, and as for two or three Eternal weapons, their value was insignificant.

"It was still worth it to fight with the Abyss Lords this time. A Clear Spirit Ice Mountain and a Third Realm weapon are worth at least 150 drops of Abyss Motherblood." Xu Jingming was in a good mood. There was nothing he could do about it, he had always wanted to buy a Third Realm Heart Realm spear.

"By the way, didn't you say before that you would stay in the Abyss for three or four hundred years?" The Dean asked.

"I still have clones staying in the Abyss." Xu Jingming said. He had only brought some clones back with the treasures. He went to the Abyss, first to observe the Abyss to help him comprehend the 'Void Abyss' inheritance, and second, to watch the blooming of the Abyss Red Lotus.

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The Cosmic Human Race Alliance official website.

"Why are there so many Abyss-related treasures in this official credit exchange? The supply is ten times greater than last time." Many Origin lifeforms were stunned as they looked at the exchange list.

"Could it be that the human race has encountered another crisis and wants to cultivate Origin lifeforms on a large scale?" These Origin lifeforms speculated.

"Don't guess wildly. It's because Realm Lord is now traveling in the Abyss, so he conveniently collected massive resources in the Abyss." A cold and stern youth said. He was 'Scarlet Jade Sword Raven,' one of the fifteen Cosmic Legends of the contemporary human race.

"Realm Lord is traveling in the Abyss?" Many Origin lifeforms understood.

The human race now had four Supreme existences—the Dean, the Tower Master, the Island Master, and the Realm Lord.

The Realm Lord… was Wu Ming, the creator of 'Heart Realm World,' one of the four strongest forces. The Origin lifeforms no longer dared to call Xu Jingming's name directly.

After all, he was a half-step Third Realm existence, the strongest of the human race.

"I heard that the Abyss is full of countless dangers, but in front of such a great existence as Realm Lord, it's like his own backyard. He can casually stroll around and easily collect massive resources."

"I heard that Realm Lord can see the past and future, so he can foresee all dangers. What is traveling in the Abyss?" These Origin lifeforms chatted, all taking pride in Realm Lord.

Just like the Void race of the past, they took pride in Gu Mo.

The human race was the same, taking pride in the Heart Realm lineage half-step Third Realm Realm Lord 'Wu Ming.'

…

After that great harvest at the Clear Spirit Ice Mountain, there was no such good luck next. Xu Jingming continued to travel through layers of Abyss space, while also dispatching clones near the Abyss Red Lotus, hiding in the Heart Realm, and waiting patiently.

Finally, that Abyss Red Lotus matured. Xu Jingming's many clones had already gathered in advance, wanting to watch the blooming scene.