Chapter 923 - 407: Living Corpse_3

Chu Xiu was taken aback for a moment: "Are you talking about those statues below? They’re called ’Living Corpses’."

Rasputin paused, then said: "This is a widely-known technique among the Gods, used for those divine envoys whose lifespan is about to end and whose talent is not worth extending by the Gods. The Gods make them into [Living Corpses], creatures capable of storing energy tens of times that of their living form, ready to replenish the Gods in critical times."

Hearing Rasputin’s words, Chu Xiu couldn’t help but click his tongue; working oneself to death for the Gods only to be drained dry afterwards—who is the real Demon Cultivator here?

As if sensing Chu Xiu’s thoughts, Rasputin chuckled: "Venerable Lord, you’re not aware, but most Gods are devoid of emotion."

"It’s not just that they’re without emotions; dignity, morality, the rules and laws that bind humans—these are nonexistent to them."

"Venerable Lord, perhaps you don’t know, but the Gods favor the [Living Corpses] most when they are ’descendants’ with their bloodline. This power from a common source is absorbed more efficiently."

Rasputin seemed to have thought of something and mused: "After all, they live for too long, often tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years... In such vast times, nothing is important anymore; what remains of them is probably certain instincts to expand, responsibilities to their own rules, and some peculiar obsessions."

"So, I often tell others, in fact, the Gods are more like animals!"

Chu Xiu: "... No wonder you were torn apart by the Blood Pool."

This big mouth really dares to speak.

But then, Chu Xiu suddenly realized something: "By the way, Rasputin, a divine envoy from the Blood Pool once told me you ranked first in the sequence as the Blood Demon?"

"Venerable Lord, those are matters of the past. Now, I’m merely your most loyal servant."

Chu Xiu chuckled: "No need to say that to me... Didn’t that mean you were very close to all the pieces of Law then?"

At this, Rasputin fell silent for a moment before speaking, "Heh, not to hide from you, Venerable Lord, at that time there were only three Blood Demons left, but... everyone didn’t want to fight anymore."

Rasputin’s reaction made Chu Xiu show a thoughtful expression; after a brief consideration, he directly asked the question he wanted to ask: "Even if all the Law fragments are gathered, is it impossible to become a God?"

Rasputin again fell silent, after a long while he chuckled, "That depends on whether you consider some creatures as Gods, Venerable Lord. In the billions of years of life for True Gods, they always discover some unique ’paths to divinity.’"

Chu Xiu understood, what Zhu Jiu and the others provided was the "Righteous Dao" for cultivation, so naturally, where there’s "Righteous Dao," there must be "Evil Paths" as well.

At this point, Rasputin suddenly added: "Venerable Lord, don’t you think that from the Blood Pool Relic, the Blood Demon emerging is the best ’Living Corpse’ material?"

After saying this, he fell silent again, but Chu Xiu fully understood his meaning.

Indeed, there’s no such simple path to becoming a God, it now seems the Blood Pool was merely deceiving me with a gap in information.

If the path to divinity was indeed so simple, why would the Outer Realm Demons bother with attacking Blue Star? Wouldn’t they have long since scrambled for the Corpse Demon World? Why would the Blood Pool be so kind to give me this massive opportunity for free?

"As Rasputin said, emotions, morals, and laws are all garbage to the Gods..."

Previously, Chu Xiu thought the Gods were lofty beings, that such beings must have high esteem and bottom lines, unlikely to mess with someone as small as him.

But now he felt the Gods are more like a "capitalist monster" inflated to the extreme.

Would those big corporations let you go just because you’re small fish?

No, when the wheel of capital turns, it only crushes all obstacles ahead, swallowing up any resources no matter how small.

Sighing in relief that he didn’t choose the shortcut before, Chu Xiu took a deep breath, expanded his Divine Sense, and used the Nether Chain to significantly enhance the Blood Demon Incarnation, raising his reconnaissance skill to the [Demigod] level, then focused on searching.

The search lasted a full day.

Chu Xiu carefully searched a corner; the nearby [Living Corpses] were unchanged from when he left, but the body of the God was nowhere to be seen.

Now there was only a small area he hadn’t searched yet...

Chu Xiu looked down, and beneath him, at the bottom of the cavity created by the God’s body, lay a dark hole.

This was originally the breach on the Star Jumping Ship, back when Zhu Jiu speculated that a Divine Level being had struck through this Star Jumping Ship in one blow.

Looking down, the inside of the hole was pitch black, even Chu Xiu’s Divine Sense couldn’t probe to the bottom.

With a thought, the Blood Demon Incarnation condensed dozens of blood-colored shields in front of him, then cautiously proceeded towards the depth of the hole.