Chapter 1574: Condense Killing Aura! Cosmic Apex!

Vera floated inside the ship's control room and smiled playfully at the words.

"Yes, Master~"

She lightly tapped the void with her slender, jade-like feet, and pink-purple mist spread from her body.

Charm Art!

Boom—!!

Vast spiritual force transformed into invisible ripples, spreading across the starry void at speeds exceeding light.

Those ripples seemed like living tentacles, silently drawing forth all the Cosmic-tier demons within 0.2 light-years.

Three hours later.

Outside the viewport, the once-silent stars suddenly erupted!

"Roar—!"

Roars drew nearer, shaking the ship's shields into ripples.

From the dark starfield, countless black shadows surged forward like locusts.

Demon energy churned, staining the entire star region dark purple.

Over a hundred demon tribe members!

Their forms varied, their auras distinct.

Among them, three horned demons stood over a hundred meters tall, their auras unmistakably reaching Cosmic Ninth Tier, charging ahead with blazing great axes!

"Forty-two Cosmic Seventh Tier, nineteen Cosmic Eighth Tier, Cosmic Ninth Tier… three of them!"

Lin Qianxue's pale golden eyes swept the battlefield, a rare look of shock appearing on her icy face:

"This entire horde was drawn here?"

No wonder at Fortress 102.

No wonder her junior brother's military merits skyrocketed so absurdly—he had this divine technique all along!

Then she felt a pang of guilt.

She had misunderstood her junior brother; he had merely used a succubus to lure the demon tribe.

"No wonder the frontline star regions produce such high-quality demons!"

Xu Jingming's eyes gleamed, lightning arcs crackling around him: "This is the true way to use Vera!

Sister, leave this wave of demons to me!"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Jingming's form shot out of the ship as a streak of black lightning.

"Purple Nightmare Demon Body!"

Boom—!

Purple demon energy erupted like a volcano, his body soaring to four point two meters tall.

His eyes turned deep violet-black, Doushen Shenlei coiled around him like serpentine dragons.

The royal bloodline's pressure swept across the stars, causing the leading demons to hesitate.

"It's the human mongrel who stole the bloodline! Kill him!"

The lead Cosmic Ninth Tier horned demon roared fiercely, his great axe shearing through space, wrapped in dark red demon flame!

Xu Jingming did not dodge or evade; he gripped the air with his right hand, and the Black-Gold Thunder Prison Spear materialized.

The spear trembled, infused with advanced spear intent, a single black dot coalescing at its tip.

"Die!"

His figure slipped sideways like a phantom.

The spear shot out like a venomous snake striking from its hole, piercing the life-core of a Cosmic Eighth Tier bone-armored demon with pinpoint accuracy.

With his Cosmic Eighth Tier's formidable spiritual force, he could lock onto an enemy's life-core even without activating the Soul-Eye.

Pfft—!

Doushen Shenlei erupted; the demon emitted no cry—its soul and vitality were instantly obliterated!

'Ding, slain Cosmic Eighth Tier bone-armored demon, Source Points +5.8 million!'

As the system notification sounded, Xu Jingming activated the Killing Art.

Instantly, a chilling, icy aura peeled from the demon's corpse, surging up the spear into his body.

It was killing aura!

Crimson-tinged streams subtly formed around him.

Intertwining with the black lightning already swirling about him, they radiated a terrifying, frost-laced murderous aura.

"Indeed, only killing can strengthen killing aura!"

Xu Jingming, wreathed in lightning, laughed as he charged into the demon horde.

Lin Qianxue stood at the ship's hatch, her pale golden eyes fixed unblinkingly on the battlefield.

Xu Jingming's combat posture was as agile as a dragon—each spear thrust was simple, lethal, devoid of any wasted motion.

The spear seemed alive in his hands, sometimes like a torrential downpour, sometimes like a venomous snake's tongue flicking out.

As a master of the spear herself, she naturally sensed a unique beauty within it.

"Such superb spear technique..."

She whispered softly, momentarily entranced.

On the battlefield, Xu Jingming grew wilder with every strike!

Three minutes later.

The final Cosmic Ninth Tier demon, screaming in despair, had its life-core pierced by the spear tip, its massive body reduced to ash in thunder.

The stars fell silent again.

More than a hundred demons, not one survived.

The demonic aura had not yet dissipated when it was wildly consumed by Xu Jingming's Purple Nightmare Demon Body, like a black hole.

The spoils—over a hundred space rings—floated toward him under Wei La's control, piling into a small mountain.

Xu Jingming sheathed his spear and stood still, carefully sensing.

The dark red killing aura around him had solidified into silk-like strands, its color deep red bordering on black, icy and piercing.

He could clearly feel that each wisp of killing aura originated from the demons he had just slain.

It was the very essence of slaughter, plundered and refined from their lifeblood!

"The stronger the demon, the purer the killing aura it provides..."

His eyes blazed with sharp light, "A single wisp of killing aura from a Cosmic Rank Nine demon equals that of ten Cosmic Rank Seven demons!"

"Hah! Excellent! The demon race is truly my best opponent!"

Source points, demonic aura, killing aura, military merit, spoils.

Kill one wave, gain fivefold rewards at once!

He had exploited the demon race from soul to flesh to the utmost!

Xu Jingming turned toward the spaceship and called out loudly:

"Sister, I'll handle the next wave of demons.

The killing aura generated from each kill, we split evenly!"

He could never let his sister have the source points gained from hunting demons.

But the killing aura was no problem.

"Good!"

Lin Qianxue's beautiful eyes gleamed faintly.

Having already received the Killing Art inheritance, she naturally understood the importance of killing aura.

With this, her Killing Art could rapidly reach breakthrough.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

At the edge of Purple Demon Star, two light-years out, within a meteor belt, battle had reached its fever pitch.

A Cosmic Peak demon, fifteen meters tall with six wings, roared to the heavens.

Blood-red demonic flames burned around it; each flap of its wings tore through space with chaotic energy currents!

"Human, die!"

It flared all six wings at once, hurtling forward as a streak of bloodlight, its speed nearly exceeding the Cosmic Rank limit!

Xu Jingming hovered in the void, expression calm.

Three months of slaughter had thickened his killing aura to solid form.

Dark red, nearly black, the aura clung to his body like armor, perfectly fused with black thunder.

Deep within his eyes, illusions of mountains of corpses and seas of blood swirled.

"It's time to end this."

He spoke softly, slowly raising his right hand.

Hum—!

Killing Domain, unfold!

In an instant, a hundred-kilometer radius centered on him became a blood-red world!

Illusions of mountains of corpses and seas of blood emerged; countless wailing souls pierced straight into the spirit!

The moment the Cosmic Peak demon entered the Killing Domain, its movement visibly slowed, its crimson vertical pupils flickering with confusion.

"Die." Xu Jingming clenched his fingers in the air.

Boom—!

In the void of space, a black lightning bolt over thirty meters in diameter coalesced out of nowhere, descending with apocalyptic power!

"No—!!!"

The Cosmic Peak demon barely managed a half-scream of despair before being utterly consumed by the lightning.

When the lightning faded, only a single, exquisitely pure strand of deep black killing aura remained in the void, sinking into Xu Jingming's body.

'Ding! Slain Cosmic Peak Six-Winged Demon: +9.5 million source points!'

"Not bad."

Xu Jingming showed a satisfied expression.

A month ago, he had used the system to raise himself to Cosmic Peak.

His strength had increased dramatically.

And recently, he had elevated his Killing Art to the Perfect Realm.

The Cosmic Peak demon he had just slain was roughly equivalent in power to a Nine-Star War General.

Yet after unfolding his Killing Domain, he needed only a single Annihilation Shenlei to kill it.

It was simply too easy.