Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast-Chapter 441: The Void Catastrophe, Chen Chu Severely Injured (I)

Slaughter desire.

When killing enemies in battle, one could absorb the invisible blood aura to temporarily enhance their battle will. The more blood aura absorbed, the more intense the amplification of battle will. Hence, the more lives taken, the stronger the effect.

This was a special ability of Chen Chu’s Hellblood Battle Will.

This battle will had no upper limit for stacking, but it was temporary. Once the battle will dissipated, the amplification from the condensed murderous aura would vanish as well.

For the past few days, Chen Chu maintained his battle will in an active state, gathering endless blood aura. He had since raised its amplification from a simple twofold increase to an astonishing thirty-one.

He also had the illusory domain of the Blood Sea Purgatory surrounding him, which originated from Blood Sea Purgatory. He had acquired it by enhancing the Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd to its absolute limit.

It fell under the category of slaughter-type abilities, which meant it could absorb and gather blood aura to make its user stronger. More importantly, it could be stacked with his Hellblood Battle Will.

Additionally, over the past few days, the Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor had been on a rampage, slaughtering mutated colossal beasts in the Arctic Ocean. It had grown so rapidly that its length reached one hundred ninety meters in just a few days.

With Chen Chu’s four basic attributes surging by more than 1,500 points each, he now had an astonishing 6,500 points in strength. Having reached the peak of his condition, he was now faintly touching the threshold of advanced battle will.

Yet, just like the time he condensed the Hellblood Battle Will, he felt as though he was still a crucial step away from opening that door.

Once the blood aura surrounding him dissipated, there was no telling when he would be able to gather such overwhelming blood aura again.

The ground within ten meters of Chen Chu’s feet shattered. With a loud boom, he charged deeper into the ruins.

He needed to fight someone as strong as he was—someone who could push him to the limits and even push him to the brink of death. Only then could he elevate his spirit and qi, transcend to the peak, and break through his shackles.

Of course, his target wasn't a level 9 contaminated void monster. Those creatures were far stronger than a Seventh Heavenly Realm cultivator.

Instead, he searched for peak level 8 void monsters. If he ever found one, he would not rely on the Double Voild Pupils or thunderbolt law fragments. Instead, he planned to unleash the explosive power of his Battle Dragon Emperor form.

With the twenty-fourfold true power amplification of the Battle Dragon Emperor form and his Hellblood Battle Will’s accumulated thirty-onefold amplification of the power of heaven and earth, he would stand a chance even against a peak level 8 void monster.

The transcendent energy in the depths of the ruins was thin, so his fifty-fivefold power of heaven and earth amplification would likely only be twenty or thirtyfold. Nevertheless, it was still more than enough.

"What is he trying to do?"

Outside the ruins, Xie Chen and Ji Yongning watched the golden light traveling at supersonic speed, swiftly penetrating over a thousand kilometers into the ruins. Their expressions grew serious.

"He’s been accumulating blood aura these past few days. He’s probably aiming for a breakthrough. Stay alert. If anything dangerous happens, don’t hesitate to pull him out immediately. Do not let anything happen to that child."

"Don’t worry, I understand."

"As long as he avoids those few level 9 contaminated creatures lurking on the outskirts, with his current strength, he should be able to retreat safely even when facing a peak level 8 monster."

The two exchanged worried glances.

Meanwhile, in the enormous Eye of the Sky, Chen Chu wielded his halberd. The phantom of the battle demon behind him swept the halberd through the transcendent energy, transforming it into a massive hundred-meter-long purple-red war halberd.

Sealing off a portion of the illusory Blood Sea Purgatory, he blew apart a beginning-stage level 8 colossal beast with one blow. The aftermath also shattered the ground in an overwhelming show of dominance.

With aura still surging around him, Chen Chu charged forward, recklessly delving 1,400 kilometers deeper into the ruins. Suddenly, he stopped, his blood-red, demonic eyes widening in surprise as he looked ahead.

On the bleak and desolate ground was a forest of what seemed to be peach blossoms. The trees covered the vast sea of flowers.

In the middle was a small hill tens of meters high, and atop it stood a white stone palace built with Western medieval architecture.

Standing on the steps in front of the palace was a four-meter-tall figure, dressed in a luxurious white robe. With its hands clasped behind its back, it admired the flourishing flowers.

The being was humanoid, but its face was covered in fine red scales. Its eyes, both the scleras and irises, were entirely white except for slitted, snake-like pupils. It also had another pair of eyes, which it kept closed..

Moreover, it had a lizard-like tail swaying gently behind it, revealing to Chen Chu that it was an alien race.

Whoosh!

As Chen Chu approached, his purple-black murderous aura eroded the blossoming flowers, causing them to wilt and the trees to wither. With each step, he expanded his two-meter-wide passage of death.

Upon reaching the base of the hill, his aura caused the white-robed alien to slightly turn its head. Although it was looking at him, it also seemed to be looking into some distant time and space.

A strange language, infused with spiritual thoughts, echoed.

"At the third moment of every star cycle, my homeland would bloom with red velvet flowers. The beautiful and enchanting sea of blossoms would stretch far beyond the horizon.

"But before the vengeful army of the nine races could even set out, your emperor destroyed my homeland. I never got to see the red velvet flowers bloom again.

"Those damned humans... They triggered the Void Catastrophe, trapping us here forever. Your kind deserves to die for dragging us to extinction alongside them.

"I want to go back so badly. I want to see the red velvet flowers bloom one last time. I promised her back then that after this battle, I would return and marry her.

"Hahaha... K-kill all the humans. You all deserve to die. My homeland... I can never return.

"Watch out! It's the void! They've triggered the Void Catastrophe. We can't escape! No... she’s waiting for me back home. I can't die here..."

As Chen Chu listened to the alien, who seemed to waver between nostalgia and savagery, he forcibly suppressed the destructive impulse in his heart, standing silently as the alien rambled on to itself.

Meanwhile, deep within Chen Chu's blood-red eyes, a pair of black-gold vertical pupils appeared.

Through the vision of the Double Void Pupils, he saw the truth: there was no vast sea of flowers or any magnificent alien architecture.

The ground ahead was cracked and desolate, and the hill was home to nothing more than ruins. Standing amid the rubble was a terrifying figure clad in black battle armor.

Everything before him was merely the lingering obsession of a powerful alien warrior, so intense that it manifested the vision of a sea of flowers in the surrounding area.

The strength this being must have had before its death was unimaginable.

The Void Catastrophe, the elite warriors of the nine races, and their destroyed homeland. As Chen Chu looked at the fragmented apparition muttering in confusion, he began to piece things together.

This was likely part of the truth about ancient civilization.

During their ancient expeditions, the top-tier human warriors annihilated the worlds of other races. In retaliation, the other races sent their elite forces to launch a sneak attack on the human rear.

With all the strongest warriors away, the forces left behind by the ancient civilization couldn't resist, ultimately triggering the so-called Void Catastrophe that obliterated everything, bringing mutual destruction.

Yet, in the end, humanity still preserved a remnant of their race, eventually repopulating, which led to the modern nations and the Federation of today.

However, there was a historical break between ancient civilization and modern civilization, with much of their knowledge and heritage lost.

It wasn't until the recent emergence of the mythical world, and the summoning of the void relics, that people discovered that an ancient civilization had existed tens of thousands of years ago.

Perhaps it wasn’t entirely a break in history. Some of the ancient myths and legends, as well as those stories about flying immortals, might have had some connection to ancient civilization.

But due to the absence of transcendent energy, the cultivators who had inherited a fraction of that legacy in ancient times couldn't break through the limits of life.

As for those original top-tier human warriors who had ventured into the unknown, it was unclear whether they had all perished in battle or were lost in some unknown space-time, never to return.

Of course, this was all Chen Chu's speculation based on the known information.

Other than repeatedly muttering those fragmented thoughts, this lingering obsession didn’t provide any useful information. Upon Reaching that realization, he allowed his murderous aura to explode completely.

Boom!

Endless blood-red light erupted, forming a gale of destructive winds. The beams of light shattered the flowers illusion and striking the figure that kept muttering about returning to its homeland.

As the obsession disappeared, the void monster that had stood for who knew how many years on the hill slowly opened its eyes, its white pupils filled with boundless rage.

Boom!

An overwhelming black force erupted, accompanied by the powerful aura of a peak level 8 void monster. The earth trembled, and the air seemed to explode.

A terrifying pressure shot into the sky, scattering the dense black clouds thousands of meters above and creating a circular void with a diameter of over a thousand meters.

Beyond the ring of clouds lay the boundless black void. Like an abyss that devoured everything, it filled one with an instinctive dread.

Crack! Crack!

The alien monster slowly moved, its joints creaking as it reached out to the six-meter-long rusted black sword stuck in the ground beside it.

It was incredibly strong. Chen Chu’s blood-red eyes glimmered with an intense desire for destruction.

"Die, humans!"

Accompanied by a violent roar, the alien monster swung its sword, and a hundred-meter-long black sword light tore through the sky and earth. It looked slow, but it reached Chen Chu’s head in no time at all.

Before the terrifying sword light fell, the sky was invisibly torn apart, forming a black vacuum hundreds of meters long. From afar, it looked like a giant sword slicing through the heavens.

The moment the sword descended, the Blood Sea Purgatory surrounding Chen Chu retracted and merged into the halberd in the hand of the Battle Demon Phantom. In an instant, the transcendent energy within a thousand meters was drawn in.

Boom!

A blood-red halberd, over one hundred fifty meters long, sealed an illusory Blood Sea Purgatory world, shot into the sky, and unleashed a flood of blood-red light and purple aura.

The sword light and the halberd clashed. After a brief stalemate, the black sword light shattered the halberd, and a dazzling golden and crimson light exploded.

Boom!

The world trembled as fearsome true dragon power erupted. The black sword light was obliterated, but its residual impact still carved a rift over three hundred meters long into the ground.

Dust rolled across the shattered earth as countless chunks of soil and rock flew in all directions. Even Chen Chu was blasted backward, propelled beyond the speed of sound. He soon slammed into a hill a kilometer away, the impact destroying it.

Even with the fourteenfold enhancement of the battle phantom and the thirty-onefold boost from Hellblood Battle Will, Chen Chu still failed to block even one attack from the peak-level warrior, who had begun to unify all its power.

Although his battle strength, boosted in all aspects, had barely reached the late stage of the Eighth Heavenly Realm, the thinness of the transcendent energy in this world meant that gathering energy from a thousand-meter radius only provided about a twentyfold boost.

Otherwise, with his current peak strength, he could have held his ground a bit longer.

The alien monster took a step forward and appeared above the ruined hill in an instant.

With another swing of its sword, it sent another hundred-meter-long arc of black sword light through the sky and collapsing hill.

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Boom!

The horrifying sword light obliterated the hill and shattered the ground. Mixed with annihilating sword qi, it formed a shockwave that swept across a thousand meters.