283: Undead monster!

“What’s the difference between these demons and Other World beasts?” Lin Chen murmured, gazing at the tens of thousands of demons charging at him.

The demons’ strength wasn’t very high; they were merely at the Nine-Step Emperor Realm.

After observing for a moment, he discovered that these demons, like the grotesqueries, seemed to lack self-awareness and only possessed the instinct to kill!

“I wonder if they can be refined into creation crystals.” Lin Chen thought to himself, then a terrifying true spirit shockwave spread out.

His true spirit realm was at the Half-step Great Emperor Realm mid-stage, allowing him to instantly kill Nine-Step Emperor Realm level opponents.

However, the next moment, Lin Chen froze; the true spirit attack was useless!

“How can this be? Do they, like the grotesqueries, lack a true spirit…?”

He instantly understood: these demons were not living beings in the true sense!

Seeing the demons getting closer, Lin Chen roared, his Physical Strength erupting as he threw a punch!

His Golden Body realm was at the Half-step Great Emperor Realm late-stage, with Physical Strength reaching a terrifying 64 units of power!

Boom—

Tens of thousands of demons were instantly pulverized by Lin Chen’s single punch!

Gazing at the empty space before him, Lin Chen felt a sense of unease.

Is it over?

He had a bad feeling that the demons, being part of the fifth-floor trial, were likely not that simple.

Sure enough, just as Lin Chen was wondering, patches of eerie black light appeared in the space ahead, bringing with them a terrifyingly bloody aura… And the tens of thousands of demons he had just killed with one punch began to emerge one by one from the eerie black light!

In just a moment, tens of thousands of demons once again charged rapidly towards him!

Lin Chen’s brow twitched wildly. Could these demons, like the grotesqueries, be unkillable by physical means?

The next moment, a long saber appeared, and he, wielding it, directly unleashed the newly mastered combat skill—Taiyi Gui Xu Slash!

How terrifying was a combat skill of the high-tier origin level? Before the saber light even arrived, tens of thousands of demons were enveloped by the residual shockwaves overflowing from this one slash, instantly turning into nothingness!

“They should be dead this time…” Lin Chen slowly put away his long saber and looked at the area ahead.

But in just a few breaths, he suddenly noticed large patches of eerie black light appearing in that space again!

Lin Chen couldn’t help but be horrified. Unkillable?

“What are these demons? They’re even more troublesome than the grotesqueries!”

Seeing the demons about to revive again, Lin Chen released his true spirit to observe how other trial-takers were dealing with them.

After some observation, he found that the same scene was playing out on the other nine continents as it was for him.

The demons were killed repeatedly by the trial-takers, but after a moment, they would revive in the eerie black light!

At this point, all trial-takers, including Lin Chen, realized the seriousness of the situation.

If they couldn’t find a way to eradicate the demons, as time passed, the incoming demons would surely grow stronger, and then there would be even less of a chance!

Even if Lin Chen could hide in the sixth-floor time space to temporarily avoid the early-stage demon attacks, he wasn’t sure if, as the demons grew stronger, some might also be able to enter the sixth-floor time space… In the time that followed, Lin Chen, like the nine other trial-takers, continuously used various methods to kill the demons, but these demons seemed to be immortal and unkillable, reviving in moments!

Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was the next day.

Buzz—

Another teleportation channel appeared in the sky, and thousands of demons descended!

Lin Chen noticed that this time, the demons’ strength had increased, directly reaching the Half-step Great Emperor Realm early-stage!

Thousands of Half-step Great Emperor Realm early-stage demons!

All the demons had blood-red eyes and charged madly at Lin Chen, their terrifying might shaking heaven and earth!

After a full day of continuously slaying demons, Lin Chen had also worked up a temper. He directly unleashed a saber slash, and the terrifying saber light instantly enveloped all the demons.

Boom—

With one slash, everything turned to nothingness!

Lin Chen exhaled slightly, but seeing the eerie black light reappear, his brows furrowed tightly.

“I refuse to believe it!”

Lin Chen released his true spirit power, enveloping the eerie black light. This time, he activated a combat skill—Myriad Manifestations Eye!

He had used this combat skill in the Grotesque World to investigate the grotesqueries.

The Myriad Manifestations Eye could see through all illusions and discern the essence of all things!

At this moment, with the help of this combat skill, Lin Chen finally discovered a subtle anomaly.

Within the patches of eerie black light, he found some incredibly tiny black dots, which emitted a faint, eerie glow.

“So these lights are emitted by the black dots.”

Lin Chen continued to observe these black dots. He noticed that they continuously emitted an eerie glow, which grew stronger as time passed.

When it strengthened to a certain critical point,

Buzz—

The demons began to revive!

In just a moment, tens of thousands of demons erupted with their aura and charged at him again!

Seeing this, Lin Chen directly took a step, entering the sixth-floor time space, and his aura instantly vanished!

After losing Lin Chen’s aura, these demons immediately stopped, wandering in place like walking corpses… In the sixth-floor time space, Lin Chen’s mind raced as he analyzed the scene he had just perceived with his true spirit.

“These demons can revive infinitely, seemingly because of those black dots…”

Lin Chen’s eyes lit up; he felt he was about to unravel the mystery of these demons’ immortality.

He just needed to figure out what those black dots were and by what principle they allowed the demons to revive.

Otherwise, if this continued, even he might not be able to withstand the constantly strengthening demons. He had to find their weakness!

“The Myriad Manifestations Eye’s level is still too low; I must upgrade it further.”

The Myriad Manifestations Eye, like the Chaos Creation Palm, was only a top-tier Dao-level combat skill, and specifically, an early-tier origin combat skill.

Lin Chen now had 42 million Energy Points, which he could use to upgrade it to the mid-tier origin level.

Then, with a thought, he activated the time wheel.

Lin Chen, now at the Half-step Great Emperor Realm mid-stage, could adjust the time wheel to 200,000 times time acceleration.

One hour in the outside world was 22 years within the time field!

After the system upgrade, the speed of deducing mid-tier origin combat skills was very fast.

Moreover, his true spirit was now at the Half-step Great Emperor Realm late-stage, and his comprehension was already terrifying. Lin Chen completed the deduction and fully mastered it!

The next moment, purple light flickered in Lin Chen’s eyes as he unleashed the mid-tier origin level Myriad Manifestations Eye.

With the upgraded Myriad Manifestations Eye’s enhancement, Lin Chen discovered that each demon had a black dot inside its body. This black dot was incredibly tiny, tens of millions of times smaller than the smallest particle!

The black dot was continuously magnified in his eyes, eventually transforming into a black ‘core’.

This ‘core’ was constantly emitting a black, eerie glow… Lin Chen instantly understood that this incredibly tiny ‘core’ must be the demon’s weakness!

To completely eradicate the demons, he had to destroy these ‘cores’!

“A test will tell.”

Then Lin Chen extended a hand, and an energy hand appeared, gripping a Nine-Step Emperor Realm level demon.

That demon was grabbed by Lin Chen into the sixth-floor time space without any resistance.