Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 738: Chapter 338: Birth of the Ghost King

The ghost inheritance of the Supreme Demon Lord lineage is named the "Subduing Ghosts and Slaying Souls Yama Scripture."

This inheritance possesses three incredible powers, divided into:

[Subduing Ghosts] significantly enhances the suppression of ghosts.

[Soul Slaying] can devour souls, rapidly increasing the strength of one’s Divine Soul.

And lastly:

[Yama] transforms the present world into Hell, with one’s Divine Soul descending as Yama, holding the authority over life and death.

Among the Demon Dao inheritances, the three Divine Soul inheritances each have their focus.

The Innate Divine Demon lineage emphasizes the "quality" of the Divine Soul.

When cultivated to the extreme, the Divine Soul can advance into the Primordial Spirit ahead of time.

Moreover, this Primordial Spirit is not the one used by Divinity Transformation Cultivators for sensing the Heavenly Dao.

The Primordial Spirit is the root of a cultivator’s life, and except for a few cultivators who practice Divine Union Flying Swords and other divine techniques, it is rarely directly wielded for combat.

However, the God-Demon lineage inheritance, derived from ancient cultivators practicing the "Divine Dao," forms a Soul Body transcending the flesh, used exclusively for combat, with mighty, eternal, indestructible power!

Duo Bao Demon Venerable lineage emphasizes "quantity" of the Divine Soul!

In later stages of cultivation, it can divide into myriad thoughts, allowing one person to manipulate thousands of artifacts simultaneously against enemies, or single-handedly setting up a sword array spanning a million miles!

As for the Supreme Demon Lord’s cultivation path, it emphasizes the "fierceness" of the Divine Soul!

Similar to the Primordial Spirit cultivated by Innate Divine Demons, the Divine Soul itself possesses exceptionally strong combat abilities, but the distinction is that the Primordial Spirit of Innate Divine Demons primarily harnesses and manipulates heavenly spiritual power against foes, and can be seen as an ordinary cultivator with enhanced spiritual power perception and control.

Whereas the Divine Soul of the Supreme Demon Lord can directly transform into Yama and devour souls! The body itself is the fiercest evil ghost in the world!

Furthermore, it can unfold a domain and simultaneously strengthen the Ghostly Legion within the Soul Banner!

In terms of the strength of the Divine Soul and resistance to Divine Soul attacks, the Divine Soul of the Supreme Demon Lord is superior, even ordinary mental attacks would be directly countered by the Supreme Demon Lord’s fierceness!

In essence, even without considering the enhancement to the Ghostly Legion, given that Chu Xiu chooses to retain his body, he already has substantial physical combat power, making this lineage’s cultivation even more suited to him!

However, Chu Xiu was not in a hurry to cultivate.

Before that, there was one more thing he needed to do.

With a thought, the Soul Banner appeared in Chu Xiu’s hand.

Compared to twenty days ago, the Soul Banner had undergone earth-shattering changes.

If the previous Soul Banner was crystalline and exuded mystical qualities everywhere, now it was like it had been soaked in ink, with a dense aura of Fierce Evil Qi rushing towards him. Chu Xiu could clearly feel that countless powerful and fierce ghosts were howling within the Soul Banner, wanting to break through its confinement!

"The Soul Banner’s capacity is almost at its limit."

In these twenty days, although Chu Xiu had not dedicated himself to refining, given the current strength of his Divine Soul, just a wisp of mental effort activated [Perfect Refining], its effect was astonishing.

In twenty days, he had successfully digested more than half of the souls collected.

And merely consuming more than half of them had expanded Chu Xiu’s Ghostly Legion at least threefold! High-tier Ghost Generals reached a total of eighty-four! Ordinary Ghost Generals even exceeded five hundred!

However, the number of Fierce Ghosts fell a bit behind.

No choice, the quality of this batch of souls was too high, all of them were at least General Tier, with plenty even reaching King Tier and Heroic Spirit level!

And still, about forty percent remained unrefined!

"It’s time to refine the Ghost King."

This was already part of Chu Xiu’s plan, hence he did not hesitate in the slightest, directly investing a large number of Cause and Effect Points into the [Myriad Ghosts Gu Cultivation Method]!

This is the core inheritance of the Supreme Demon Lord lineage, though Chu Xiu hadn’t practiced it before.

Now, with a flood of Cause and Effect Points, countless knowledge and experiences surged rapidly into Chu Xiu’s mind!

[Consumed 687219 Cause and Effect Points, Myriad Ghosts Gu Cultivation Method perfected!]

Chu Xiu extended his hand again and struck, and from the Spirit and Flesh Storage Pouch at his waist, surged a large amount of Life Energy!

Twenty days of sacrificial refining had also advanced the progress of the Purgatory Demon Corpse by a big margin, although not completely refined yet, it was only a matter of time.

This time Chu Xiu collected a large number of corpses, apart from those reserved for the Purgatory Demon Corpse, the remaining flesh was entirely enough for refining the Ghost King!

With various techniques continuously executed from Chu Xiu’s hands, [Perfect Refining] was also activated, the ghosts within the Soul Banner acted as if on steroids, starting to become agitated, subsequently automatically dividing into different regions, engaging in mutual slaughter!

But this slaughter is not mere killing, rather it involves continual battle and injury, absorbing the nearly infinite Life Energy suffusing the entire Soul Banner, evolving towards higher tiers!

As the blood hue within the Soul Banner grew denser, powerful energies were rapidly arising!

"The [Myriad Ghosts Gu Cultivation Method] is an inheritance for refining Ghost Kings, though the birth of Ghost Kings is extremely difficult, theoretically even using a hundred high-tier Ghost Generals to cultivate Gu has the risk of failure!"

"However..."

"The ghosts in my Soul Banner have exceedingly high potential!"

Ordinary Demon Cultivators use large amounts of low-tier souls for sacrificial refining, gambling worthless trash for a tiny chance of transformation!

Extremely, they may directly destroy cities and nations, using the souls of millions of mortals to layer upon layer nurture Gu!

And Chu Xiu?

He just has freaking over ten Heroic Spirit level souls!

Bear in mind, the refined Ghost King is only at Heroic Spirit tier, you’ve already slain over ten of the same tier, why even bother refining a Ghost King?