438: Devouring stars!

"What about you? What's with that bloody, glowing halo behind your head?"

Chen Heng turned to look at Hui Che, who was sitting upright and chanting scriptures, his expression growing even stranger.

Was it an illusion?

He always felt that his 'attachments' were a bit abnormal.

One was a lecherous Daoist who unsealed his second brother, and another was a yellow-haired Demon Emperor who couldn't even control his own Bloodline Power.

And then there was this one, a Buddhist pervert with a bloody Buddhist aura.

"Could it be a feng shui problem?"

"Is the Root acting up again?"

Chen Heng didn't really believe in feng shui, so he blamed the Root for this.

"No, I need to blow up that damn Root as soon as possible."

Chen Heng sighed, glanced at the moonlight outside the window, and decided to do something he had been contemplating for a long time tonight.

That was to try and devour the power of a star.

Ever since he experienced the power of the Nuclear Explosion Fist and the continuous energy from nuclear Fusion, Chen Heng seemed to have become addicted.

"Alright, have a good night's fun. We'll set off tomorrow."

"The Yin Side of the World is not like Qiyang City; it will probably be very boring and monotonous."

Chen Heng raised his wine glass and took a big gulp.

"This trip to the Yin Side of the World concerns the survival of the Yang Aspect. I cannot guarantee that all of you will return unscathed."

"The only thing I can guarantee is that none of you will die before me."

"Cheers!"

The few of them looked at each other, raised their wine glasses, and clinked them together... Deep in the night, after punching a strange creature produced by the strange creature heart vein to death, Chen Heng looked up at the night sky.

Before leaving, Chen Heng still needed to arrange some forces to protect the Chen Family and the Xuan Alliance.

Although those guys in the Xuan Alliance were a bit unreliable, Chen Heng still considered them friends.

His consciousness sank, and Chen Heng arrived in the Sea of Blood Hell.

"Are you ready?"

Looking at the neatly arranged crowd in front of him, Chen Heng asked.

Among these people were Xuan Alliance Disciples who had died by his hand, and some miscellaneous characters he had long forgotten.

These people, who should have been thoroughly dead, would return to the world tonight in a different form.

"Cao Jihan, I shall bestow upon you the Physique of a Drought Demon. From today onwards, you will lead them to protect the Chen Family and the Xuan Alliance."

"Do you understand?"

Chen Heng looked down at Cao Jihan, who was kneeling on one knee, and asked.

"Yes, Master."

Cao Jihan was trembling with excitement; what he had pursued back then was to become a Drought Demon.

Although the process was somewhat arduous, the outcome was good.

"Not bad."

Chen Heng nodded in satisfaction, glanced at the vast crowd in the distance, and removed one of his arms.

The arm instantly exploded, and countless bits of flesh began to proliferate and divide.

Soon, one identical body after another stood up.

The leading body emitted a scorching aura; it was Cao Jihan's Drought Demon Physique.

"The moment you choose to fuse with this body, you will become truly immortal."

"Or rather, you are already dead; even if you die, I can bring you back to life."

"Alright, go."

Chen Heng waved his hand, and the crowd below immediately fused with the bodies Chen Heng had split off.

His consciousness returned to his body, and shadowy figures emerged from Chen Heng's shadow, dispersing.

They were silent... No, they didn't even breathe; they were just lumps of flesh controlled by Souls.

"Next..."

Chen Heng looked up at the night sky, then flashed away from the Chen Family Mansion...

In a desolate area of the Jade Fan Kingdom, Chen Heng transformed into an eight-armed Great Asura King, fully activating the engine in his legs.

A piercing sound of air tearing echoed, and Chen Heng instantly disappeared from the ground.

He accelerated madly, without any reservations, and in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he broke free from the shackles of gravity and entered the Universe.

Looking at the magnificent nebulae of various colors around him, Chen Heng rushed towards a star whose distance was unknown.

But after a while, Chen Heng frowned; his speed was still too slow.

At this current speed, it would take him at least half a month to fly to the star.

Since that was the case, then...

"Disintegrate!"

Chen Heng's body instantly exploded; he was as dead as could be.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Heng's body reassembled, his speed and strength doubled.

"Again!"

Even with double the speed, Chen Heng's desire for a quick round trip was still a luxury; he had to die a few more times to double his speed multiple times.

Not too many, five hundred and twelve times would suffice.

Through continuous disintegration and reassembly, Chen Heng got closer and closer to the star.

When his speed and strength had doubled five hundred and twelve times, he was only a short distance away from the star...

Half an hour later, an incredibly terrifying temperature and deadly radiation enveloped Chen Heng.

But what he had doubled was not just his strength and speed, but also his physical toughness.

This level of temperature and radiation felt like nothing to him.

Mentally prepared, Chen Heng opened his Mouth of Taotie.

Plunging into the star, Chen Heng continuously devoured the surrounding energy, heat, and radiation.

He was like a sponge without limits; no matter how much energy, heat, and radiation he devoured, it couldn't fill his body.

This feeling of continuously increasing physical toughness was truly wonderful; Chen Heng even became somewhat immersed in it.

Looking at the star's heavy element core, a crazy idea formed in Chen Heng's mind.

To swallow the entire core!

However, the temperature of the star's heavy element core was completely different from that of its outer layers.

As Chen Heng got closer, his body gradually became unable to withstand the extreme heat.

First, his hair turned to ash, then his skin, muscles, and bones.

After his entire being was burned to ash, Chen Heng instantly revived, his strength, speed, and physical toughness doubling once again.

One thousand and twenty-four times!

Unfortunately, this level of physical toughness still couldn't withstand such scorching heat.

Chen Heng's body was once again reduced to ashes, but it revived and doubled again.

Two thousand and forty-eight times!

'No!'

Suddenly, Chen Heng realized something: his density was a bit too high.

His own gravity could even rival that of the star in front of him; he was orbiting the star at an extremely fast speed.

'Binary star System?'

This was a relatively common star System, where two stars with similar gravity orbited a common center of mass normally.

In other words, Chen Heng's current mass and density were comparable to a star.

And as Chen Heng devoured more and more of the heavy element core, his body mass also increased.

If his body mass could increase by '1' for every bite he took.

Then, under the two thousand and forty-eight times amplification of the Great Asura King, it was equivalent to doubling again!

'No, I must stop!'

Chen Heng secretly thought it was bad; if his body density increased any further, it would eventually form a black hole that devoured everything.

Let alone the star in front of him, this entire galaxy would probably not escape this catastrophe!