Chapter 5: Life Metal!

There were many aberrant creatures.

But Gune's Blood Sea was clearly faster at pulling them in.

In less than a minute, two to three hundred aberrant creatures had all been dragged into the Blood Sea.

The aberrant creatures at the entrance of the doorway had already been cleared out by Gune.

After entering the medium-sized void passage through the doorway, Gune closed the doorway to prevent any aberrant creatures from sneaking in.

Taking out the projection given by Murand, Gune opened it and carefully browsed through it.

Half a minute later, Gune had formulated a detailed cleaning route.

"Following this cleaning route, I can basically clean up over ninety-five percent of the main void passages. Those too narrow small and micro void passages generally won't have overly powerful aberrant creatures, and their numbers are also small, making them a waste of time."

"There's also no need to clean those outer areas. For one, the passages are unstable, and for another, there are aberrant creatures of Transcendent rank seven and above there. After all, the edge regions have no Transcendent rank restrictions. My current strength is not weak, but I'm only at the late stage of Transcendent rank six."

"If I encounter a powerful Transcendent rank seven master, I could still get hurt. Better to play it safe."

"Let the cleaning begin."

Following the planned route, Gune unleashed the Blood Sea and began large-scale cleaning of aberrant creatures.

Compared to others' method of killing and cleaning, Gune's Blood Sea devouring method, which didn't even leave corpses behind, was like uprooting the weeds, with excellent results.

Coupled with Gune's formidable strength, the cleaning process was as easy and fast as mowing grass in an invincible mode.

...

Five or six hours later.

At the edge of a huge passage, Gune was in a concealed state.

About two hundred meters ahead of Gune.

A massive mountain of flesh almost completely blocked the entire passage, which was over thirty meters in diameter.

It sat there like a wall of flesh and blood.

Its entire body was covered with arms, claws, feet, tentacles, and various large or small blood-red vertical pupils, golden vertical pupils, ordinary black pupils, and gray-white corpse pupils.

It also had many abominable, grotesque, and twisted faces that exuded evil and were unsettling.

Its aura had also expanded to the extreme peak of Transcendent rank six.

If not for the suppression of Transcendent ranks in this void passage, it would have long ascended to Transcendent rank seven with such a massive body.

This Flesh Devourer was larger than any aberrant creature Gune had encountered before.

The two Flesh Devourers Gune had dealt with earlier, one was fifteen or sixteen meters in diameter.

The other was just over twenty meters in diameter.

But compared to this enormous one, which was almost squeezed into the passage and of unknown length, they seemed insignificant.

More importantly, this Flesh Devourer gave Gune a strange feeling.

Its skin was not the dark red, almost crusted armor-like texture of the previous two Flesh Devourers.

Instead, it leaned toward a gray metallic quality, even with a slight matte metal feel.

At this moment, the Flesh Devourer was slowly crawling forward along the passage.

Gune was positioned at its tail.

After some thought, Gune took out the source force projector given by Murand, and after a moment, he turned it off again.

"There's a slight metallic texture, and this place is also close to that peculiar spot Professor Murand mentioned."

"My earlier guess that a meteorite might have fallen there could be true."

"Meteorites falling from the starry sky, scoured by the Transcendent starry sky, have very strong metal quality and Transcendent properties. After penetrating into the void space, these metals are devoured by these aberrant creatures, causing this aberrant creature's skin to have metallic properties. That's not surprising."

Then Gune set his gaze on the huge aberrant Flesh Devourer.

"Using the Great and Small Thunder Flame Curse, the penetrating power might kill this big guy, but it won't be easy for the Blood Sea to devour."

"So... it's more convenient to use the Demon Blade Curse to cut it apart." Gune squinted slightly and said softly.

With a thought.

Swish, swish, swish...

A torrent of demon blades and sinister curses, brimming with the essence of destruction, sliced toward the giant flesh-devourer.

Over the past six months, the demonic sub-soul had focused on cultivating the essence of destruction, ensuring that Gunei's progress in this domain was no slower than his mastery of darkness.

At this moment, the fifth-rank demon blade sinister curse, bolstered by Gunei's profound demonic source power, already rivaled high-rank incantations in might.

With the added enhancement of the essence of destruction,

its power naturally reached the level of a basic secret-pattern incantation.

Chi, chi, chi, chi...

The demon blade sinister curse effortlessly sliced through the metallic skin of the giant flesh-devourer.

Torrents of blood burst forth, while severed limbs and remains continuously tumbled down.

"Ooooh..."

"Heh heh..."

"Roar, roar..."

In an instant, a dense cacophony of bizarre howls, numbering in the hundreds and each imbued with source-power sound waves, erupted.

These sounds carried a massive soul impact.

An ordinary high-rank transcendent, lacking sufficiently powerful soul defenses, would indeed find it hard to withstand the wails of such a massive soul assault.

But Gunei's soul, under the influence of the "True·Nether Source Fruit," had already formed a sturdy soul defense layer.

Moreover, through cultivating the "Dusk Star Source Canon," Gunei's soul had transformed into numerous star souls, placed separately in various locations, and the defense of these extremely condensed star souls was further enhanced.

Faced with this colossal mountain of blood over thirty meters in size, Gunei simply ignored it.

As it howled, the giant flesh-devourer's tail, bearing over a hundred eyes of various shapes, all blazed with fury and focused on Gunei.

Gunei paid no heed to the gaze of those bizarre eyes.

He continued releasing the demon blade sinister curse to slice apart this behemoth.

At the same time, puppet secret threads were continuously released, and the surrounding sea of blood surged.

The severed limbs and remains, pulled over by the puppet secret threads, were swiftly devoured by the sea of blood.

This giant flesh-devourer, massive as it was, was far too clumsy.

Even if it had some ranged attack methods, they were utterly useless against Gunei.

Before Gunei, it was nothing more than a living target.

"Such a massive mountain of flesh—after absorbing it, my sea of blood can expand considerably."

While cutting and absorbing, Gunei mused lightly in his heart.

After a minute, the giant flesh-devourer, now a third cut away, finally recognized reality.

It was no match for this human caster.

So it began to scramble forward rapidly, but it couldn't escape; its speed was too slow.

Five or six minutes later,

this colossal giant flesh-devourer had been effortlessly sliced apart and devoured by Gunei.

The sea of blood churned continuously, digesting the remains of the giant flesh-devourer. Though only at transcendent rank six, its volume was enormous.

As the sea of blood digested,

Gunei's expression shifted slightly, and he halted his forward steps.

He flipped his hand.

A metal plate, about half a tabletop in size and a palm's thickness, made of gray material, appeared in Gunei's hand.

This metal plate had evidently been left behind after digesting the giant flesh-devourer's remains.

If it were an ordinary metal plate, it would be nothing.

But the problem was, this was no ordinary metal plate.

The entire plate was filled with the breath of life and rich transcendent traits, as if it were alive.

And in the entire transcendent world, that which could possess both traits simultaneously was—mechanical life!