Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Giant of Light

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However, there are countless paths to enlightenment, and as long as one advances to the Gold or even Legendary level before completely losing their sanity, there's no need to worry about maintaining rationality.

Complete loss of intelligence is a problem only for lower-level demons. Higher-level demons are not less intelligent, nor are they inferior to professionals; they are simply more susceptible to negative emotions.

In pursuit of power, professionals don't mind becoming demons; in fact, this career path has greater potential than many other career paths.

However, those who embark on this path will almost always transform into demons when they reach advanced professions.

In the current Abyss, some of the higher demons are actually beings from the main world who were transformed from there.

Besides, there are also beings who are half-human and half-demon, but no one has yet succeeded in becoming a complete demon; the strongest among them is only at the level of a demigod.

Moreover, the Abyss is not a dumping ground, nor can just any trash become a demon god; one still needs qualifications. It's just that the Abyss accepts all comers.

Even after undergoing a heart transplant and being hypnotized, the younger brother's face showed pain, clearly indicating that he had endured immense torment.

Moreover, with each beat of the demon's heart, a part of the human's body gradually transformed into the demon's appearance.

If one's consciousness completely loses its rationality, or one's body completely transforms into a demonic form, then the advancement will fail. The requirements for a person's willpower and physical fitness are not low.

Clearly, this younger brother failed to meet either of the requirements.

Fortunately, Lu Yunhe didn't have any hope for it. After drinking a bottle of recovery potion, the power of dreams completely stimulated the latter's soul essence.

With the combined assistance of the two forces, the younger brother's deformed body gradually returned to normal, the wound on his chest healed, and only a demonic arm remained on his deformed body.

At the same time, the human heart on the other side also dried up instantly, and the little demon died along with it.

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Chapter 806 Hellfire Demon

"Owner…"

After the wound on his chest healed, the half-demon henchman slowly got up from the ground, his eyes were a little blurry, and there was still some drool in his mouth.

However, after shouting twice, he gradually returned to normal, leaving only a demonized arm that still proclaimed his professional identity.

"Not bad!"

Lu Yunhe nodded slightly as he watched his younger brother successfully advance. Now that he had become a professional, he was finally able to be of some use.

With his assistance, even low-level professions would not be able to fail.

Although he is a despised half-demon, he is still a professional, and because his consciousness was exchanged with Dream Butterfly, the possibility of him completely becoming a demon has been greatly reduced.

Half-demons are quite powerful within the same class system, especially compared to the professionals in the lower city, where they have a significant advantage in strength.

Although they are only half-demons, the Abyss is not stingy with its gifts, and many lesser demons' talents will be inherited by them.

As your job level increases, you will gradually awaken your demonic talents.

Naturally, they are much better than those who possess extraordinary power, but they have to trade their rationality for it.

This little brother has only just advanced to the level of a half-demon, but if they were to fight head-on, even the veteran boss Jia might not be a match for him.

Of course, Lu Yunhe didn't think much of this kind of strength, and his purpose in helping him advance was not for this little bit of power.

We're almost at the abyss rift; we need to find some human sacrifices or experimental subjects.

Just then, Boss Jia and his group of four came to his door, saving Lu Yunhe the time of going to catch the experimental subjects.

When dealing with the abyss and demons, how can one not bring some sacrifices?

And the offerings of professionals are naturally far greater than those of ordinary people.

"Owner!"

Seeing someone just like themselves suddenly become a top professional, the other two underlings also looked at Lu Yunhe with longing eyes.

Although half-demons have many flaws, ordinary people in the Lower City are already living in constant fear, so as long as they can gain power, they can accept a small price to pay.

"Don't worry, we have them all!"

Lu Yunhe deliberately spared the lives of the three lesser demons, precisely to prepare for these three underlings.

Having gained practical experience from the manual operation, Lu Yunhe skillfully performed the demon heart transplant ceremony for his other two underlings.

The essence of this demonic ritual is to gain the recognition of his identity from the power of the abyss through a heart transplant, thereby acquiring demonic power.

As everyone knows, Abyss, as the most generous client, has absolutely no conditions; it's practically free, as long as you can handle it yourself.

If the person cannot withstand the ordeal, the ritual will also fail, because the recipient of the heart transplant will also be transformed into a demon.

After all three younger brothers successfully advanced, they were all beaming with joy and couldn't wait to put their strength to the test.

However, they all have slightly different focuses. One retains a demon arm, another has an extra tail, and yet another has purple eyes, seemingly having awakened a spiritual talent.

Although both were transplanted with the hearts of lesser demons, after fusing with humans, it seems that a portion of the demon's genetic fragments were also activated, thus awakening their talents.

For half-demons, the lower the degree of demonization, the better their aptitude; however, the higher the degree of demonization, the greater the risk of falling into the abyss.

“From now on, you will only have code names: B, C, and D!” Lu Yunhe and the other two half-demons were given code names, representing three different experimental models.

"Thank you Master for the name!"

The three half-demons, Yi, Bing, and Ding, knelt on the ground as if they were seeing their direct superiors.

Half-demons, or demons, have a minor but significant flaw.

That is, lower-level demons are directly affected by higher-level demons. If the level difference is too great, they will be like slaves, unable to resist the orders from their superiors.

This is probably because the essence of power originates from one place, leading to an extremely serious hierarchical relationship of control.

The leader of the gang, Jia, looked at his three underlings whose strength had increased dramatically and who had risen to prominence in one fell swoop, and a look of longing appeared in his eyes.

However, it's not that he desires to become a half-demon. Since his master was able to easily help his three underlings become professionals, perhaps he could also help him take it a step further.

"Not urgent!"

Lu Yunhe saw through Boss Jia's thoughts at a glance, but he didn't intend to make a move against him for the time being.

"Let's go, we're still some distance from the abyss rift."

Having helped his three underlings successfully advance, and now with three more professionals under his command, Lu Yunhe once again headed towards the abyss rift.

This time, there were four professionals and three half-demons who were very well-suited to the abyss environment, so their movements became much faster.

The minor demons they encountered along the way were no match for the four of them even when they joined forces.

Incidentally, Lu Yunhe also transmitted some battle tactics, combined attack formations, and so on to the four of them.

Along the way, they even encountered a lower-level demon comparable to a bronze-level demon. The four of them joined forces and eventually dismembered the lower-level demon.

In the abyss, lesser demons are the weakest demons, followed by lower, middle, and upper demons, which correspond to the bronze, silver, and gold levels, respectively.

Then there are legendary and mythical demons, who can have their own titles, while those at the demigod level are also known among demons as children of the abyss, demon princes, and so on...

The next level naturally corresponds to the Lord of the Abyss, the King of Demons, the Demon God…

However, given the strength of the abyss rifts here, even high-ranking demons can't squeeze in, otherwise the upper city wouldn't dare to build a city here.

After the three half-demons on the other side killed the lower-level demons, the demonic energy within their bodies became increasingly dense, and their emotions became much more volatile.

“It seems we still have to rely on faith to suppress them…” Lu Yunhe looked at his three underlings who seemed to be growing rebellious tendencies from the back of their heads.

Being a half-human, half-demon being, if faith is added to the mix, who knows if a mutation might occur.

After dealing with the lower-ranking demons, the journey became a little calmer.

The abyss is constantly riddled with rifts, and those that leap in or are born from the abyss's aura are mostly low-level demons; there are not many lower-level demons.

In addition, there were some native life forms along the way that were affected by the power of the abyss, which is equivalent to life forms that have been corrupted by demons.

After all, before the abyss rift appeared, this land was also very prosperous, with a lot of various kinds of life.

Many lives were corrupted by the power of the abyss and fell into depravity, attacking anything that approached them like demons.

There are even completely corrupted half-demons who look even more ferocious than demons.

It's also amazing that, seemingly because they contain both life and demonic power, these demons, which were corrupted from the life forms of the main world, are even stronger than the original demons.

Indeed, for life, mutation is the only way forward.

As they drew closer to the abyss rift, the abyssal aura around them grew stronger, as if they were already inside the abyss.

The number of minor demons encountered has also increased more and more frequently.

These are lesser demons, practically like cells of the abyss, endlessly spreading outwards.

If these lesser demons are not purified after being killed, their corpses will directly pollute a piece of land, gradually transforming it into an environment close to the abyss.

The entire Black Land can be said to have been gradually transformed from the corpses of lesser demons.

Its main structure is the abyssal aura, which will naturally erupt after it is killed, causing secondary damage to the world.

It is said that some high-level abyssal demons, when invading a small world, will immediately kill countless lesser demons to pollute the entire world and weaken the world's will to resist.

Along the way, the four people, A, B, C, and D, were extremely cautious, not daring to miss any movement.

Being so close to the abyss rift, four mere Black Iron-level professionals could be wiped out if they weren't careful.

Seeing the four people being so cautious, Lu Yunhe ignored them and instead used his soul power to carefully sense the surrounding environment.

Under the suppression of the power of the abyss, all senses were also suppressed to the extreme. However, relying on the power of the Demon God, Lu Yunhe was still able to see clearly in the abyss.

"This way!"

Lu Yunhe called out to the four of them, and they soon arrived at a small valley near the abyss rift.

Although their senses were suppressed, their vision was not blocked, and the scene before them quickly stunned the four of them.

Tens of thousands of lesser demons were seen circling around an altar in concentric circles.

Directly in front of the altar, a powerful demon made of rock with flames emanating from its crevices was leading a large number of lesser demons in some kind of complex ritual.

Numerous demons chanted the whispers of the abyss, echoing the distant abyssal rifts, as a massive amount of abyssal energy swept in and merged into the altar.

Every now and then, little demons would suddenly collapse during their chanting, their essence merging into the altar, while their corpses would merge into the black earth beneath their feet—the ultimate utilization of resources.

"It's actually a mid-level demon, and a famous one at that!"

Seeing this scene, Lu Yunhe also seemed to be deep in thought. This was the crisis that the Lower District was about to face.

Now that he had arrived in the Lower City and made it his first base, Lu Yunhe naturally wanted to investigate the most dangerous thing in the entire Lower City.