Chapter 384: Eleven-fold Ascension Saint Body

Upon hearing the Red Emperor's words, a smile appeared on Chu Yang's face.

He was not surprised by this answer; his value had already been demonstrated. Since the Great Thousand Palace existed to resist the Outer Evil Tribe, as long as those in power were not fools, they would not be stingy about tilting resources toward him.

What's more...

He was a young man who had just arrived in the Great Thousand World from a lower plane, yet he was fighting tooth and nail for the western border. If the Great Thousand Palace did not show some attitude, wouldn't that chill the hearts of all the Demon Slayer Kings in the world? "However, this matter might delay you for some time, little friend..." the Red Emperor said, stopping short.

Chu Yang waved his hand and said, "It is no matter. This junior has just broken through to the Earthly Sovereign realm and also needs some time to stabilize my cultivation."

The people present were all slightly stunned, only then suddenly remembering that this young monster before them, who could sit on equal footing with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, was only at the Lower Rank Earthly Sovereign realm.

Moreover, he had previously been only at the peak of the Ninth Grade Sovereign realm; it seemed he had just broken through before the battle began! This was truly a blow to one's confidence, as in terms of cultivation alone, almost everyone present was stronger than Chu Yang.

Yet, when it came to strength, no one could surpass him!

The Cloud Emperor looked at his granddaughter, saying with a kind face, "Ya'er, has the place for Little Friend Chu's seclusion been prepared?"

Cheng Ya nodded hurriedly, "It has been arranged properly. Elder Chu... please follow me!"

As a Demon Slayer King, even if Chu Yang was not an official member of the Great Thousand Palace, he held the status of a core elder.

After Chu Yang bid farewell to everyone, he followed Cheng Ya downstairs.

On the way, Cheng Ya would steal glances at him from time to time. Chu Yang could not help but shake his head and laugh, "Miss Cheng, is there... something amiss with my face?"

Cheng Ya's face flushed red, and she hurriedly waved her hands, "No, no, no..."

After a brief moment of panic, she recovered her demeanor as a young lady of a prominent family and said with a soft laugh, "I was just curious. Since Elder Chu has such strength, why do you need to enter the Senluo Domain to obtain Demon Slayer Points like ordinary Demon Slayer Kings?"

Chu Yang shrugged, "I only come from a lower plane and have no major power to rely on. Naturally, I must strive for cultivation resources myself."

Cheng Ya pursed her lips and said again, "Elder Chu is new to the Great Thousand World and is unfamiliar with the place. Why don't I accompany you to the Saint Abyss Continent to act as your guide? How about it?"

A hint of amusement flashed in Chu Yang's eyes. How could he not see that the Red and Cloud Emperors intended for their granddaughter to get close to him, or even deepen their relationship?

But clearly, Cheng Ya was smarter; she did not try to seduce him with beauty, but instead took the initiative to offer to be his guide.

In this way, as long as Cheng Ya did not do anything foolish, they could naturally become friends while traveling together.

"That would be fine. Then I shall trouble Miss Cheng!" Chu Yang nodded with a smile.

Leaving the pavilion, they had not walked many steps before they saw several familiar figures.

"Brother Mu!" Chu Yang waved with a smile.

Those people looked over upon hearing the voice, and then their entire bodies shook. They hurriedly walked up close and bowed one after another, "Chu... Chu..."

But after stammering for a long time, they did not know how to address Chu Yang.

These people were naturally members of the Mu Lei squad, but they dared not treat Chu Yang as a brother as they had before, much less call him by his name.

After all, this was a powerhouse who could sit on equal footing with the Western Heaven Battle Emperor. Given their status and position, how could they dare to rashly climb the social ladder?

Yet, Chu Yang was extremely young, so they could not call him a senior, and they did not know his actual status within the Great Thousand Palace, so they were in a dilemma for a moment.

Chu Yang waved his hand, "We are brothers who have shared hardships, after all. There is no need to be reserved; just be as you were before!"

"This..." everyone looked at each other.

Chu Yang changed the subject and asked, "I see two people missing from the squad. Could it be that they were on the battlefield earlier..."

Mu Lei hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "Brother Chu... those two brothers were seriously injured, but thanks to the pills you left behind, their lives are not in danger, and they will be able to recover from their injuries after some time!"

In the end, he could not bring himself to call out "Little Brother Chu." Even calling Chu Yang "brother" took a great deal of courage.

Chu Yang raised his eyebrows and flicked his hand, tossing out a few jade bottles, "Take these pills so you don't suffer from hidden injuries."

"This..." Mu Lei was stunned.

Chu Yang did not say anything more. After giving Cheng Ya a look, she led him toward the other side of the street.

Watching their backs, Mu Lei took a deep breath, bowed deeply with a solemn expression, then turned to look at the team members beside him and grinned:

"Heh... being able to call the Demon Slayer King brother is enough for me to brag about for a lifetime!"

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It must be said that the Red and Cloud Emperors and Cheng Ya were very attentive regarding Chu Yang's place of seclusion, deliberately clearing out an area for him in the Demon-Suppressing Fortress.

One must know that as a border fortress and the only city on the Demon-Suppressing Continent, it was usually bustling with people.

Coupled with the fact that the Great Thousand Palace had been accumulating strength recently, it was overcrowded. Being able to clear out a quiet area was enough to show how much the Great Thousand Palace valued him.

For the next half month, Chu Yang had been in seclusion in a small courtyard in the center of this area.

Although he claimed to the outside world that it was to stabilize his cultivation, in reality, he was digesting the faith power he had obtained.

After that battle, the faith power accumulated in the Ascension Amulet was enough to support him in completing his eighth ascension.

Subsequently, the Demon Slayer Lists of various branches of the Great Thousand Palace were updated. It took only three days for the news of the newly promoted Demon Slayer King to spread throughout the entire Great Thousand Gold!

This caused the faith power in the Ascension Amulet to soar again, and Chu Yang completed two more consecutive ascensions!

This was not the end. As the news of the Demon-Suppressing Continent spread, the faith power increased significantly once more, but it did not reach Chu Yang's expectations, only supporting him in completing his eleventh ascension.

However, after thinking about it, he understood where the problem lay...

Information regarding the Outer Evil Tribe and the border battlefield was only accessible to some super powers.

It was that old saying: blocking news to a certain extent was to avoid creating panic.

And those people in super powers or families already had extremely high horizons; wanting to obtain their faith power was not an easy thing.

However, Chu Yang was not disappointed by this, because he knew very well that the more news about him accumulated now,

the more shocking the impact and the greater the gains in faith power would be when he was completely exposed to all living beings in the Great Thousand World!

The eleventh ascension also brought him an extremely intuitive improvement in strength.

The Eleven-fold Ascension Saint Body increased all his abilities by about 205.85 percent.

Compared to the 156.5 percent of the Seven-fold Ascension Saint Body, it was an increase of nearly 50 percent! Now, Chu Yang, even without using the fusion power of the Zanpakuto and the Ultimate Gene, as well as the Heavenly Demon Force, was enough to fight against a peak Spiritual Product Tian Zhizun powerhouse.

If he exploded with full force, he could even compete with the Nine Profound Heavenly Demon Emperor in his prime state! Four consecutive ascensions were not in vain after all his painstaking efforts. Digesting the faith power did not take much time. Chu Yang had been in seclusion for half a month because he had left seclusion and exchanged for a large number of rare treasures in the Great Thousand Palace's treasury using Demon Slayer Points.

It is worth mentioning that after the core elders of the Great Thousand Palace learned about Chu Yang's situation, they directly gave him a more favorable discount; for any treasure Chu Yang exchanged for, he only needed to pay half the Demon Slayer Points! As a result, Chu Yang spent all his Demon Slayer Points in one go, allowing the Four Saint True Spirits to complete two evolutions in succession in just half a month! The Spirit Ascension Art entered the fourth fold. Although the progress bars of the Four Saint True Spirits only stayed at 10 percent of the fourth evolution, they all reached the level of the early stage of the Spiritual Product Tian Zhizun.

In particular, Ao and the Fire Spirit both possess intelligence, and they have each inherited a portion of the characteristics of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and the Emperor Flame, respectively; their actual combat power is comparable to that of a mid-stage Spiritual Product Tian Zhizun.

In order to launch a counterattack against the Outer Evil Tribe, the Great Thousand Palace sent a core elder of the Saint Product realm this time.

That core elder even said that as long as Chu Yang needed it, he could pick some treasures from the Great Thousand Palace's treasury even without Demon Slayer Points.

To this, Chu Yang naturally refused.

In the end, his relationship with the Great Thousand Palace was only one of cooperation. If he accepted the other party's favor, it would inevitably lead to some trouble.

Moreover, once he entered the Saint Abyss, or even the hinterland of the Outer Realm, it would not be difficult to obtain Demon Slayer Points.

And Chu Yang had other considerations for the subsequent evolution of the Four Saint True Spirits...

First was the intelligence problem of the Divine Turtle Spirit and the Qilin True Spirit. Second, compared to rare treasures, letting the Four Saint True Spirits absorb the power of the continent would undoubtedly push the progress bar more intuitively.

However, the power of the continent only existed on continents where some Tian Zhizun powerhouses were stationed, and it was extremely precious.

Chu Yang wanting to obtain a large amount of the power of the continent was equivalent to cutting the flesh from the hearts of those Tian Zhizun; this matter still needed to be carefully planned.

He did not want to make the whole world his enemy, as that would run counter to his original intention of collecting faith power.

After leaving seclusion, Chu Yang found Cheng Ya directly, only informed the Red and Cloud Emperors, and left the Demon-Suppressing Continent quietly without alarming anyone else.

In the center of the Demon-Suppressing Fortress, on the top floor of the black pavilion.

"Mr. Lu, Chu Yang has already left." The Red Emperor bowed politely to the middle-aged man opposite him.

Mr. Lu smiled and said, "This little guy, it seems he is unwilling to have too many ties with the Great Thousand Palace."

"But he is quite upright, better than those villains who take everything and retreat when they encounter danger..."

"You have a good granddaughter. If Cheng Ya can connect with him, it would be a good thing for the Great Thousand Palace!"

The Red Emperor was stunned for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Mr. Lu, do you think... he can return alive from the Saint Abyss?"

Mr. Lu smiled meaningfully, "Who can say for sure about the future?"

"We have tried to win him over in every way, and even gave him a large amount of resources for nothing, isn't it just to bet on that glimmer of hope?"

"If he can retreat unscathed, he will become the leader of the entire Great Thousand World in the future!"

The Red Emperor nodded, "Sir's words are very true!"

Mr. Lu frowned and said helplessly, "Elder Cheng, you are my elder. Every time we meet, you are like this; it really makes me feel ashamed!"

The Red Emperor said with a serious face, "If it weren't for Sir's intervention back then, the Cheng family would probably only have me left as a lonely person."

"The lives of Cheng Ya and my old woman were both saved by Sir. This kindness, the Cheng family will never forget!"

Mr. Lu sighed and said no more.

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The Western Heaven Continent is located in the west of the Great Thousand World, at a distance from the border of the Far West.

At the same time, this is also the location of the Western Heaven Battle Hall, where the Western Heaven Battle Emperor holds supreme status.

It is precisely because the Western Heaven Battle Emperor is stationed here that if the Demon-Suppressing Continent had fallen that day, the Western Heaven Continent would have become the third line of defense for the western border.

As for the second line of defense?

Naturally, it is the Saint Abyss Continent!

However, according to what Chu Yang knows, a few hundred years later, the Saint Abyss Continent will be the western border of the Great Thousand World.

Clearly, many things happened in these few hundred years, leading to the fall of the Demon-Suppressing Continent and a large area of the Great Thousand World's territory, which was occupied by the Outer Evil Tribe.

In a huge teleportation array, Chu Yang and Cheng Ya walked out one after another.

Cheng Ya tentatively asked, "Elder Chu, we came to the Western Heaven Continent, is it to visit the Western Heaven Battle Emperor?"

The Saint Abyss Continent is located between the Western Heaven Continent and the Demon-Suppressing Continent. Chu Yang's destination is the Saint Abyss Continent, but he detoured to the Western Heaven Continent first, which really made her a bit puzzled.

Chu Yang shook his head, "I came here just to watch a good show."

"Watch a show?" Cheng Ya was stunned, then seemed to remember something and said softly, "Is it for that so-called Netherworld Army?"

She remembered that before setting off, Chu Yang had inquired about some intelligence through the Great Thousand Palace, and that intelligence was about this Netherworld Army.

Speaking of which, the Netherworld Army is indeed extraordinary. A few months ago, it suddenly became famous, and the battle intent it condensed was even comparable to some ancient battle armies!

The most important thing is that this army is large in scale, and the total amount of battle intent it condenses is quite astonishing.

Yet, the person controlling this army is just a young man who has just become a Battle Array Master, which directly made the Netherworld Army a hot potato.

Recently, many Battle Array Masters have heard the news and come, all with the intention of wanting to take it under their command.

Not only that, it seems that even the Western Heaven Battle Emperor has had some thoughts...

Only Chu Yang knows that the reason the Netherworld Army's battle intent is so strong is that when he was on the Douqi Continent, he had conducted special training for these people through dreams.

The person who controls the Netherworld Army is naturally Yaofeng.

Under Chu Yang's deliberate arrangement, he had directly teleported Yaofeng and the Netherworld Army to the Western Heaven Continent.

Perhaps simply wanting to cultivate a Battle Array Master, the Western Heaven Continent is not the best choice, but what Chu Yang values is the Western Heaven Battle Emperor's Battle Spirit Art!

If Yaofeng can obtain this cultivation technique, his future achievements will be limitless, and in cooperation with the Netherworld Army, he might even surpass the Western Heaven Battle Emperor! But right now...

If he cannot pass this hurdle, then everything will be just empty talk!

Chu Yang also wants to see how Yaofeng, who is clever and exquisite, will break the situation in this situation?

After all, in the Great Thousand World, there is no one to back him up, and no power to rely on. From any angle, he is like a little lamb surrounded by wolves!

But then again, if Yaofeng can pass this hurdle, Chu Yang would not mind doing him a favor and helping Yaofeng ask for the Battle Spirit Art from the Western Heaven Battle Emperor!

(End of chapter)