432: S-rank Crimson Monster! The Fifth Guard!

Chapter 424: S-Class Deep Crimson Monster! Fifth Guard Regiment!

“Sir, yes, it’s right there…”

No sooner had Old Master Feng finished speaking than he felt a gentle starlight envelop him, and he floated like a feather towards a hillside several miles away.

The moment he landed, the world suddenly changed color.

Endless purple starlight surged from Lu Xuan’s body, dyeing the entire world.

Purple light emanated from the cracks in the fractured earth, and the heavy clouds were edged with a magnificent glow.

Amidst this brilliant Divine Might, a pair of gigantic Star Eyes, covering the sky, slowly opened, looking down indifferently at the tiny existence below.

The Crimson Monsters guarding the red giant egg immediately fell into panic.

The ten-horned deer was the first to sense the danger. Its ten twisted antlers erupted with dazzling red light, attempting to resist the ubiquitous purple glow.

However, its struggle only made the process of annihilation slower—the antlers began to turn into specks of light dust from their tips, followed by the head, then the torso, and finally, its entire massive body collapsed and dissipated like a sandcastle.

The monstrous bird in the sky let out a mournful shriek, frantically flapping its scale-covered bone wings, trying to escape this air space enveloped by the deep crimson purple glow.

But every scale peeled off in the purple starlight, every bone disintegrated in the breeze, like moths thrown into a raging fire, turning into a wisp of smoke in the brilliant purple light.

The mutated earthworm underground violently twisted its body, which was over two meters in diameter, trying to burrow deeper into the earth.

But even the ground where it hid had been permeated by the purple starlight. Amidst the sizzling sound of evaporating mucus, this behemoth rapidly dissolved, leaving not a trace.

The fiercest sawtooth cat-like monster roared at the sky, its mouth full of fangs wildly biting at the invisible starlight, its sharp claws tearing through the air with an ear-splitting sound.

But all its resistance was futile—its sharp claws were the first to dissipate, followed by its ferocious head, and finally, its entire body turned into scattered points of light.

Hundreds of lower-tier monsters on the periphery didn’t even have time to wail before they evaporated in this all-purifying starlight.

Their twisted figures contorted and faded in the purple light, ultimately returning to nothingness.

The entire annihilation process was eerily silent.

At this moment, the red giant egg trembled violently amidst the sky-filling purple glow, its surface blood-vessel-like patterns pulsating madly, emitting dazzling blood-red light, forming a red Domain within a hundred-meter radius that resisted the purple starlight.

“Crack—”

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding cracking sound, countless fissures suddenly appeared on the surface of the red giant egg, and viscous red liquid surged out like a bursting flood.

Wherever these liquids passed, the earth emitted a “sizzling” corrosive sound, and even rocks rapidly dissolved.

Old Master Feng, whom Lu Xuan had sent to the distant hillside, gasped, watching the blood-red torrent finally stop just three meters away from him.

The surface of the turbid liquid was still bubbling, and the pungent smell it emitted made Old Master Feng almost vomit.

“Boom!”

The huge eggshell completely shattered, and fragments crashed to the ground, kicking up dust everywhere.

Amidst this chaos, a scarlet giant hand covered in sharp bone spurs suddenly stretched out, its five fingers deeply embedded in the ground like blades.

Each finger was three meters long, with barbed bone spurs growing at the joints, and the back of the hand was covered with constantly wriggling flesh and blood tissue.

This terrifying arm merely pressed down gently, and the surrounding earth once again trembled violently.

Immediately after, a gigantic leg, sculpted like red crystal, stepped out of the eggshell. It resembled a cow’s hoof but was even more ferocious, with a circle of sharp spikes around its hoof.

When this Crimson Monster fully appeared, Old Master Feng’s breathing almost stopped—

It stood three hundred meters tall, its ox-head densely covered with twisted antlers, its four crimson eyes like burning charcoal, and its wide-open mouth filled with dagger-like teeth.

Its entire body was covered in crystalline ruby-like bone armor, with terrifying bone spurs growing at its joints, like an ox-shaped Demonic Beast that had crawled out of the depths of Hell.

The next moment, this Crimson Monster let out a deafening roar towards the sky, the sound waves transforming into a tangible shockwave that spread in all directions. Even Old Master Feng, far away on the hillside, had to cover his ears.

The instant this terrifying ox-shaped Demonic Beast fully appeared, its four crimson eyes immediately locked onto Lu Xuan in mid-air.

As its giant mouth, filled with sharp teeth, opened and closed, it surprisingly let out a low, hoarse human voice: “Damned human, I’ll eat you!”

Old Master Feng listened from afar, his hair standing on end—this monster was not only terrifyingly huge, but it could also speak human language.

He had lived most of his life, and this was the first time he had seen a talking Crimson Monster.

No one knew whether it had learned the language through observation, or if it had extracted fragments from the memories of the humans it had devoured.

The red ox-demon’s four scarlet eyes locked onto Lu Xuan, its front hooves stomping heavily, shaking the entire plain.

Its body glowed intensely with red light, and powerful energy fluctuations began to condense on its bone spurs, clearly indicating an imminent thunderous strike.

“Boom—!!!”

Dozens of scarlet blood-lights shot into the sky, instantly tearing through the clouds, carrying with them shattered cloud wisps, and charging towards Lu Xuan like torrents of blood-red Dragons.

Wherever they passed, space twisted, winds howled, and the entire world paled under this terrifying might.

Blood-red and deep crimson purple lights collided fiercely in the air, erupting in a deafening roar.

Energy shockwaves spread outwards from the collision point, scraping the ground three feet deep.

Red and purple colors intertwined and tore at each other in the air; sometimes the purple glow was brilliant, sometimes the blood light surged, becoming the only colors in this world.

Even though Old Master Feng was on a hillside several miles away, he was so shocked by this world-destroying scene that he repeatedly retreated.

Flying sand and rolling stones assailed him, and he had to stoop down, clutching a rock on the ground, barely managing not to be blown away by the terrifying shockwave.

Undoubtedly, this red ox-demon was an existence in the Star Domain Realm, which humans defined as an S-Class Deep Crimson Monster.

Lu Xuan’s lips curved slightly upwards, forming a meaningful arc.

He had originally thought that the rules of this world prevented S-Class Deep Crimson Monsters from truly descending.

He hadn’t expected that, during the years humans had retreated into the Security Zones, the outside world had already undergone earth-shattering changes.

“How ironic,” Lu Xuan murmured to himself.

Those high-and-mighty people in the Sun Moon Empire were still immersed in the false peace of the Security Zones, completely unaware of how dangerous the outside world had become.

Here, only a few thousand kilometers from the Ninth Security Zone, an S-Class Deep Crimson Monster had already appeared. So, in the deeper reaches of the more distant wasteland, were there even more terrifying existences awakening?

Thinking of this, the purple glow in Lu Xuan’s eyes became even more brilliant.

Excellent, this way he could unscrupulously harvest System points.

At this moment, the four giant eyes of the red ox-demon showed human-like confusion and astonishment.

A stormy wave surged in its originally violent consciousness—this human was unreasonably strong!

What made the red ox-demon even more frustrated was that, due to being forced to break out of its shell prematurely, the incubation process had been forcibly interrupted, and its current strength was reduced by a full third.

“I’m probably the weakest Star Domain Realm in history,” this thought uncontrollably surfaced in its chaotic mind.

Gazing at the figure wreathed in purple glow in the sky, the red ox-demon felt the urge to turn and flee for the first time.

Unfortunately, it no longer had the chance.

Deep crimson purple light emanated from Lu Xuan’s eyes, and specks of starlight began to swirl around him.

A vast illusory purple Star Sea unfolded behind him, as if transcending the boundaries of space and time, enveloping the entire world within it.

Above the firmament, those giant Star Eyes, gazing through eternity, opened again, erupting with a brilliant light that eclipsed the sun and moon.

In this sacred purple glow, the red ox-demon horrifyingly discovered that even lifting a finger had become incredibly difficult.

It could only roar deafeningly at the sky again, its four blood-red eyes showing fear for the first time.

The ubiquitous power of the Star Domain around it was like invisible shackles, firmly suppressing its massive hundreds-of-meters-tall body.

Seeing this, the red ox-demon could only struggle desperately. The ground beneath its feet constantly collapsed, and the originally surging blood-red torrent was forced to pour back into the earth’s fissures.

“Ah!!!!”

Under the increasingly intense pressure, the red ox-demon’s four blood-red eyes began to contract violently, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on their crystalline protective layer.

Its powerful muscles uncontrollably burst open, and dark red blood poured down like heavy rain, staining the surrounding earth a bizarre scarlet.

This newly born Star Domain Realm Crimson Monster was now like an ant held in a palm, finding even breathing incredibly difficult.

The red ox-demon felt every inch of its flesh and blood wailing, every bone groaning, as if it would completely disintegrate under this boundless Star Domain power in the next second.

In an instant, it was no longer able to resist the Star Domain power that permeated the world.

Under the crushing force of the deep crimson purple starlight, the red ox-demon’s ferocious head was the first to burst open, its incomparably sturdy horns breaking inch by inch, then turning into dust in mid-air.

Its massive body was gradually disintegrated by the purple starlight, and the dark red blood plasma within its body poured down, eventually converging into the bottomless cracks in the earth.

On the distant hillside, Old Master Feng watched, dumbfounded, as the blood-red torrent beneath his feet rapidly receded, revealing the scarlet-stained earth.

The hundreds-of-meters-tall beast, which had been so awe-inspiring just moments ago, had now turned into sparkling dust covering the ground, glimmering with an eerie light under the illumination of the purple starlight.

“This power…” the old man mumbled, his wrinkled face filled with shock, “Only the Empire’s doomsday weapons could cause such destruction, I suppose.”

Lu Xuan’s Divine Sense swept across the entire wasteland. After confirming there were no more traces of Crimson Monsters, his figure transformed into a brilliant purple star-rainbow, disappearing into the sky in an instant.

Old Master Feng gazed at the fading light trail, his eyes filled with reverence and gratitude.

Not long after, he hurriedly took out an old communicator from his pocket and excitedly pressed the call button.

“Send someone to pick me up quickly! Coordinates are East XXX, North XXX—”

He paused, trembling slightly, and spoke with great excitement.

“Also, I have amazing news to tell you all!”

Host: Red Dust Immortal Lu Xuan (6th Incarnation)

Realm: Star Domain Realm (Minor Achievement)

Cultivation Technique: Zhou Tian Star Eyes (8/9) (Can be deduced)

Points: 1080001

Please confirm whether to consume 300,000 System points to deduce Zhou Tian Star Eyes.

The System prompt that appeared in his vision clearly recorded the harvest from this hunt—annihilating an S-Class Deep Crimson Monster earned Lu Xuan a full 1,000,000 System points!

“Deduce.”

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xuan immediately confirmed.

300,000 System points instantly evaporated, transforming into a magnificent torrent of insights that surged into his Sea of Consciousness.

Time flew by, and half a month passed in a flash.

On the wasteland about a hundred kilometers outside the Fifth Security Zone, a purple electric light tore through the sky, finally coalescing into a figure, hovering silently above the plain.

Host: Red Dust Immortal Lu Xuan (6th Incarnation)

Realm: Star Domain Realm (Major Achievement)

Cultivation Technique: Zhou Tian Star Eyes (9/9)

Points: 780001

Smoke filled the plain. Two women in Sun Moon battle robes, leading ten men in red military uniforms, were directing an elite force of over a thousand people to suppress the enemy with firepower.

In front of them, countless pangolin-like Crimson Monsters were continuously pouring out from the abyssal depths of the earth.

These Crimson Monsters had jet-black carapaces on their backs, heads full of sharp fangs, and crimson eyes glinting with madness.

They surged forward like an endless tide. Although the army’s firepower was dense, it was consistently unable to stop this terrifying torrent.

“Regimental Commander, someone is approaching in the air!” The beautiful Deputy Regimental Commander suddenly looked up, revealing a delicate and pretty face.

She was about thirty years old, and her graceful curves were not hidden by her Sun Moon battle robe. Her long legs, encased in white stockings, were particularly striking.

The middle-aged female Regimental Commander, who was in charge, turned around upon hearing this. When she saw the newcomer’s face, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: “Deputy Regimental Commander of the Ninth Guard Regiment, Lu Xuan? Why is he here?”

“Oh? It’s him, indeed.”

The female Deputy Regimental Commander with fiery red lips unconsciously pursed her lips, her wine-red long hair gently swaying in the wind.

She gazed up at the figure in the air, a hint of unconcealed surprise flashing in her beautiful eyes.

“Why would someone from the Ninth Guard Regiment leave their defense zone and come to our Fifth Guard Regiment’s jurisdiction?”

The name Lu Xuan was renowned throughout the entire Sun Moon Empire.

At only forty years old, he already had one foot in the Star Domain Realm, hailed as the super Genius most likely to Breakthrough to the Star Domain Realm before the age of fifty.

Such an achievement left countless peers far behind.

Thinking of this, the female Deputy Regimental Commander unconsciously clenched her hands.

She thought of herself, who had only just Broken Through to the Blazing Sun Realm less than two years ago at thirty-four. If she could even touch the threshold of Blazing Sun Realm Minor Achievement by forty, it would be considered a miracle.

This disparity was like an insurmountable chasm, filling her with admiration but also a hint of unwillingness.

As combat Guard Regiments of the Sun Moon Imperial Court, their Fifth Guard Regiment was originally on par with the Ninth Guard Regiment in strength, equally matched in all evaluations.

Until Lu Xuan emerged—he was parachuted into the position of Deputy Regimental Commander of the Ninth Guard Regiment with a Cultivation Base of Blazing Sun Realm Perfection, forcefully breaking the balance between the two Guard Regiments.

What was most frustrating was that this appointment was recognized by everyone in the Empire.

In the face of absolute strength, any doubts seemed pale and powerless.

After all, a strong practitioner with one foot in the Star Domain Realm was more than qualified to serve as a Regimental Commander, let alone a Deputy Regimental Commander.