From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 984 - 566: Clearing the Horned Demon World

A Star Realm Merchant Ship navigates through the Chaos Sea.

Star Realm navigation is inherently a dangerous endeavor, with many unforeseen accidents that may occur.

Over millennia, the Star Realm Merchant Civilization has accumulated experience and paid many prices to overcome these challenges.

Azik follows the star maps to explore worlds suitable for the growth of the Golden Tree.

These worlds are places the Star Realm Merchants have visited before, with detailed records of their environments, ecology, species, and other data.

Azik arrives at these worlds, conducts simple surveys to determine the extent of environmental changes, and then searches for suitable locations to sow the Golden Tree Seeds.

To these worlds, the Golden Tree is an alien species that will affect the original ecosystem.

In a few years, the world's ecology might achieve a new balance, or it could completely lose balance, leading to unforeseen consequences.

Overall, the Golden Tree's impact on the ecology is mostly positive, so the possibility of completely destroying the ecosystem is low.

After sowing the Golden Tree Seeds, he deploys nano machine factories to cultivate the Golden Tree and modify the world's environment.

Afterward, Azik sets sail to the next world.

The journey is lonely, but every few days, he receives Star Realm information from the Civilization Ecological Ball, learning about the progress of the Fluorescent Vine experiment, moving step by step towards success.

Thus, he advances with hope, filled with passion despite the loneliness.

In the near future, they will end their millennia-long Star Realm wandering, choosing a world he passed through to settle and build a new home.

Whenever he feels lonely, he holds onto his amulet, silently reciting the Prophet's name, hoping the Prophet who led the Star Realm Merchants into wandering will hear his prayers.

It is also during this journey that he profoundly understands the true meaning of the continuation of civilization.

Perhaps one day, future descendants of the civilization will remember his name, much like they commemorate the Gremavi Prophet.

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After passing through seven worlds suitable for planting the Golden Tree, his journey enters the latter half, where he needs to inspect worlds frequented by the Horned Demon Clan.

He is searching for the lair of the Horned Demon God Moragorong.

Moragorong has already been executed, and to eliminate the root, he must naturally find the Horned Demon's lair.

Using this Demon God's wealth to further strengthen the civilization.

This time luck is on his side, finding the target at the second Horned Demon World—the main world of Moragorong.

He places the Star Realm beacon in this world, then deploys nano machine factories and sends the information back.

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Lu Heng receives Azik's information while tracking the Summoning Law in the Chaos Sea.

Though able to track the Summoning Law, the process is not easy.

Lu Heng has been tracking for several days but still hasn't found the location of the Naru Ascension Civilization.

Upon receiving Azik's message, the countdown to summoning still had three days remaining.

After reaching the Divine Rank, he possesses the ability to refuse the summoning teleportation.

This means participation in this summoning is now optional.

With more lucrative tasks at hand, clearing the Horned Demon World comes first.

After confirming the Star Realm beacon's location, Lu Heng directly teleports there to meet Azik.

After brief communication, they confirm the action and proceed immediately.

Lu Heng opens the Star Gate to assemble the Sword Holder Alliance's forces.

The Seven Great Civilizations' troops pass through the Star Gate, reaching the Horned Demon World.

This time, Lu Heng descends with Divine Rank force, easily dealing with a world that has lost its Demon God guard.

The attack begins, crushing all opposition, as missiles and magic fly relentlessly, mingled with the cries of bodies and wails.

Millions of Horned Demons fall, turning into energy that boosts the Sword Holder Alliance warriors' Source Energy levels.

This advance by the Sword Holder team is much faster than in the Winged Demon World.

Lu Heng activates his Divine Rank vision, surveys the area, and brandishes his sword to strike, beheading all Demigod Level demons in the Horned Demon World.

The remaining Horned Demons were left defenseless.

Under the relentless bombardment of Ze Wei'er missiles, the entire Horned Demon World was half-cleared in just three days.

High-rank Horned Demons retreat to the Horned Demon Ancestral Court.

This attack on the Ancestral Court is different from the Winged Demon World.

During the previous assault on the Winged Demon Ancestral Court, much time was wasted.

Now, Lu Heng, stepping into Divine Rank, cleaves through the Horned Demon's Law Layer with one strike, enters within, and splits the Horned Demon Divine Servant guarding the Ancestral Court in half.

Crash!

At that moment, dark clouds filled the sky.

A demonic aura appears.

Lu Heng turns and charges into the sky, crossing the space barrier, entering outer space, ready to see which Demon God was coming to their doom.

In the chaotic void, an eye opens, glancing at the Horned Demon World before closing slowly again.

Subsequently, the previous raging thunder extinguished, as if nothing had happened.

This Demon God merely glanced once, then did not reappear.

Lu Heng felt slightly disappointed.

Evidently, the Demon God summoned by the Abyss discovered the Divine Rank presence attacking the Horned Demon World and chose to retreat.

According to the Dark Scale, this is the correct way for encounters between Demon Gods.

Generally, Demon God level beings unleash their vision, assessing the situation, and upon discovering their opponent is also a Divine Rank entity wielding Law Power, they simply turn away.

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Throughout the entire observation process, the entity on the other side will not even appear.

This is exactly the current situation.

Lu Heng doesn't even know which entity those open eyes belong to, only that a Demon God glanced here, and then nothing more happened.

Seeing the Demon God summoned by the Abyss retreat.

Lu Heng returned to the Horned Demon World to continue clearing out the Horned Demon Clan.

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At this moment, there is only half a day left in the summon countdown.

Lu Heng walked into the Horned Demon Ancestral Court and sat on Moragorong's throne.

Fiona brought in a Horned Demon and said, "This is the Great Wizard of the Horned Demon Clan, probably the one who knows the most secrets besides the Demon Gods."

Lu Heng glanced at him and asked, "What is Moragorong's precious treasure?"

The Horned Demon Great Wizard shivered as he replied, "It is the Space Giant Blade, that's the Divine Rank Weapon of the Master."

There's no need to look for it, because the Space Giant Blade is already in Lu Heng's hand.

Lu Heng continued to ask, "Have you heard of the Naru Ascension Civilization?"

The Horned Demon Great Wizard slowly shook his head, "No..."

Lu Heng's gaze turned cold, raising his hand as he commanded, "Then what's the point of keeping you? Take him out and execute him."

Fiona grabbed the Horned Demon Great Wizard by his horns and dragged him out.

The Horned Demon Great Wizard hurriedly pleaded, "No... please... I know... I know a secret, the Master Moragorong was working on something before he lost contact."

Lu Heng finally got interested and asked, "What was he doing?"

The Horned Demon Great Wizard quickly bargained, "I will tell this secret, and you let me leave safely."

Lu Heng wasn't interested in bargaining with him and waved his hand, "Use Spiritual Magic."

A Sea Demon Clan wizard stepped forward and directly used Spiritual Magic to extract all the secrets from the Horned Demon Great Wizard, speaking on his behalf:

"The Demon God Moragorong of the Horned Demon Clan had been searching for a special world, a world not invaded by the Abyss."

A world not invaded by the Abyss?

Does such a world exist?

Lu Heng thought carefully, and it seemed that up until now, all worlds the Abyss had wanted to invade could not avoid it.

For example, the Zero Civilization, a demigod civilization, was similarly affected by abyssal contamination.

The Zero Civilization, in order to cleanse the abyssal contamination, could only choose to reset the entire world and start from the beginning.

And then there's the Dark Scale.

The entire Dark World is the Dark Scale's entity, a world with only one Demon God, yet it also suffers from abyssal contamination.

To cleanse abyssal contamination, the Dark Scale had to abandon part of its body and expel it along with the Abyss Pollution Source.

Whether demigod civilizations or true Demon Gods, none can prevent the Abyss's erosion.

In the Void of Myriad Worlds, is there truly a world that can avoid abyssal contamination?

Lu Heng had a feeling that finding this world might open the door to purifying the Abyss.

"What kind of world is it?" Lu Heng continued to ask.

This time there was no definite answer, because the Horned Demon Great Wizard didn't know the answer either.

Moragorong is already dead, taking this secret with him.

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The Sword Holder team tallied the treasures of the Horned Demon Ancestral Court, finding enough Divine Attribute Material to promote two demigods.

After discussion, these two demigod opportunities were assigned to the Black Iron Dwarves and the Star Realm Merchants.

The Black Iron Dwarves possess a Demigod Forging Furnace, and if a demigod emerges, they might forge a Divine Rank Weapon in the future.

The Star Realm Merchant Civilization is looking for a habitable world and needs a demigod to guard their new home.

After distributing the treasures of the Horned Demon Ancestral Court, there were still six hours left on the summon countdown.

When the summon appeared, the Human United Council had already released information confirming that only Lu Heng's team of four was summoned, with no other humans being summoned.

Likewise, the other six civilizations in the Sword Holder Alliance were not summoned.

The core members of the Sword Holder Alliance sat down, and Lu Heng informed them about the summoning.

Being summoned as a Divine Rank entity was a first for all the Sword Holder members present.

Orelana pondered and asked, "Have you found that world's location?"

Lu Heng shook his head, "I tracked the Summoning Law all the way into the depths of the Chaos Sea and can basically confirm that the world is within the Chaos Sea."

"But the Chaos Sea is vast and boundless, and finding a world there is not easy."

Su Muyu had been considering this matter and asked, "Should we still accept the summon, or just let it go?"

Having reached the Divine Rank, one can resist the Transmission Law of the summon, not only refusing their own teleportation but also blocking it for their teammates.

Therefore, if Lu Heng doesn't want to enter the Abyss Battlefield, he can choose not to go.

The Naru Ascension Civilization was never heard of before.

It is a civilization with no connection and no friendship.

This civilization was not summoned to assist other civilizations or helped them resist the Abyss.

So, Lu Heng has no obligation to help this civilization.

Of course, Lu Heng remains curious about this world.

What kind of catastrophe has befallen a world that requires the summoning of a True God for assistance?