Chapter 547: Abyssal Battlefield, An Independent, Complete World (I)

Chen Chu's full-powered assault clash against Akunus' ability, which was rooted in the laws of existence, obliterated the land several dozen kilometers around them. Countless rock fragments floated in the void, a testament to the destructive aftermath.

Golden flames spread across the void like an inferno, transforming into golden fire dragons that covered a range of several kilometers. Their searing heat evaporated the foul-smelling blood into nothingness and melted countless stones and soil into lava.

Chen Chu decided to wrap things up.

Even though the earlier manifestation of the Blood Moon—a phenomenon born of colliding laws—confirmed Akunus’ complete demise, Chen Chu remained cautious.

After all, despite his cultivation level falling to the late stage of the Ninth Heavenly Realm, Akunus' essence was still that of a mythical-level entity. Such beings possessed an almost indestructible life force.

Had it not been for the Void Death Pupils, which defined death and forcibly obliterated his soul and will that were fused with the blood sea, this battle could have dragged on for days. Killing him completely would have required hundreds—if not thousands—of annihilations.

This resilience was precisely what had troubled the Federation for decades.

Over the years, Akunus’ blood sea had amassed an unimaginable quantity of fresh blood from countless lives. Among them were the blood of humans and colossal beasts that he had hunted in the mythical world.

The blood of several beginning-stage mythical-level beasts greatly enhanced his life force to a terrifying degree.

Akunus' menace was naturally relative to the cultivators of his realm. Against someone stronger, like a king-level powerhouse, he could still be suppressed and slain. Heavenly King Xuanwu had even previously shattered Akunus' blood god true form, severing much of his life.

Nevertheless, Akunus, who was now only at the Ninth Heavenly Realm, remained formidable even after such a blow. Without due caution, even peak Ninth Heavenly Realm cultivators would succumb to his relentless attrition in prolonged combat.

Unfortunately for him, he encountered Chen Chu.

Since absorbing Profound Yellow Qi and returning to the innate stage, Chen Chu had become an innate lifeform. While his realm seemed to have only advanced a little, his overall capabilities had grown by leaps and bounds.

His body and soul’s capacity and potential had expanded to unimaginable limits.

Every being normally had a natural limit when it came to the maximum energy their body could contain and the abilities and laws their soul could bear.

A cultivator at the First Heavenly Realm had a physical strength limit of three hundred kilograms. Beyond that, no amount of cultivation would bring significant gains.

The Second Heavenly Realm raised that limit to eight hundred kilograms, and the Third Heavenly Realm to two thousand kilograms.

After all, cultivation was the process of defying natural limits. Each breakthrough shattered biological constraints, allowing for further evolution.

By the Fourth Heavenly Realm, although physical strength was no longer used to measure realms, the internal reserves of one’s true power and its density was still limited.

That was why colossal beasts were massive.

Their size ensured their physical structure could endure their immense power, allowing them to wield stronger principles and laws.

In contrast, humans pursued the comprehension of laws, evolving into higher-dimensional beings who commanded the power of heaven and earth.

Now, Chen Chu was the embodiment of what cultivators longed to become—a higher-order lifeform.

Returning to the innate stage, Chen Chu’s inner world gradually formed a complete, independent system. He gained the unique trait of self-sufficiency, eliminating the need to rely on external sources.

In essence, Chen Chu’s past self was like a large machine that required constant energy input from the environment. He even had to absorb and transform vitality to recover from exertion.

This dependency explained why only a few advanced cultivators and kings existed on the Blue Planet. The stronger a cultivator, the greater their environmental demands.

In energy-sparse environments, even sustaining daily consumption could become challenging, let alone achieving breakthroughs.

However, Chen Chu had transcended such limitations. He could now draw energy directly from the void, generating his own vitality, energy, and spiritual will.

This transformation meant he could survive and grow stronger even in the vacuum of space or energy-deprived wastelands.

Self-sufficiency did not render external resources like transcendent energy, rare materials, and divine treasures useless. It simply reduced his reliance on them.

By absorbing vast amounts of transcendent energy from the mythical world, Chen Chu could still accelerate his cultivation.

Currently, he was only halfway to becoming a true innate lifeform, requiring further absorption of Profound Yellow Qi to complete his final transformation.

Nonetheless, even in his current state, Chen Chu could sustain his Battle Demon God form indefinitely, maintaining absolute peak combat power.

Without mastery over the law of death, Akunus was doomed to be annihilated—hundreds or even thousands of times, if necessary.

Before Chen Chu’s cold and detached gaze, all the blood in the void swiftly evaporated, completely erasing Akunus’ existence.

Holding the spatial ring—Akunus’ sole remnant—Chen Chu returned to the center of the void surrounded by Profound Yellow Qi. He sat cross-legged and looked at the crimson ring in his hand.

"Considering he was a deity, he likely left behind some decent treasures," Chen Chu muttered with faint anticipation as his spiritual will enveloped the spatial ring.

Boom!

The moment a strand of Chen Chu’s spiritual will attempted to penetrate the spatial ring, the spiritual mark that Akunus had left within shattered it. Within the ring, a vague image of a nine-headed blood python roared fiercely.

"How powerful!" Chen Chu exclaimed, though he remained calm and unaffected. After all, the spiritual mark in the spatial ring belonged to a king-level existence.

After a moment’s contemplation, he decided against using the rune of the Blade of Void to sever the spiritual mark. Instead, he engulfed it in a cluster of golden flames and slowly burned it.

He intended to refine the spiritual mark bit by bit, leaving Akunus no chance for revival.

Whoosh!

As the basin-sized golden flames burned, enveloping the spatial ring, Chen Chu once again fell into a deep slumber.

Combined with the cover that the Profound Yellow Qi provided, his fifty-meter-tall, three-faced, six-armed form resembled a true innate demon god, his breathing stirring immense shockwaves in the void.

As he continued to transform, the originally blurred visage on his right side gradually became more defined.

By the time he awakened again, he would likely have absorbed all the Profound Yellow Qi, fully becoming an innate demon god while breaking through to the Ninth Heavenly Realm.

At that point, his strength in all aspects would undergo a qualitative transformation.