Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast-Chapter 538: Defining Death, Blood God Akunus (I)

In the mythical world, Chen Chu slowly opened his eyes within the cavern. His gaze, dark as ink, was as deep and cold as an endless void, devoid of any trace of emotion.

Chen Chu's cold, indifferent gaze dropped to the translucent page before him.

[Ability]

Void Death Pupils(Divine)

- A maximum enhancement of the Double Void Pupils. When the double pupils unfold, the user’s sight pierces through the void and the world's essence, halting space within their gaze.

- Void Summon: Forms a dark veil over a certain range and allows the user to merge into the void, stripping enemies of their physical and spiritual perception. Its range and strength scale with the user’s own power.

- Void Collapse: Uses void energy to crush everything within the user’s locked gaze, dragging all matter and life into the void. The greater the expenditure, the stronger the power.

- Dimensional Exile: A dimensional rift tears open, exiling enemies into the twisted depths of the void and barring their return for eternity.

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- Death's Gaze: This skill defines the death of undying beings or inflicts irreparable wounds, destroying part of a powerful enemy's avatar or essence.

- Tip: Due to the current low cultivation level, the Void Death Pupils imposes a heavy toll on the body. Use it sparingly.

- Note 1: The user gains an extra sixteenfold power boost from the void’s principles.

- Note 2: This ability already bears the characteristics of both void and death; upon reaching the king level, it will evolve into a dual high-level law of void and death.

Compared to other soul abilities enhanced with divine transformation, the Double Void Pupil was far more potent. Not only had the original three skills grown stronger, but an additional ability, Death's Gaze, allowed Chen Chu to define death itself for others.

This was an immensely fearsome power. After reaching the Seventh Heavenly Realm, cultivators and mutated beasts not only grew stronger, but experienced changes in their life essence, extending their lifespan.

Creatures at level 9 could live hundreds of years. Those breaking through to king level extended their lifespans beyond a thousand years, capable of limb regeneration and bodily restoration from destruction.

This was the hallmark of mythical-level life force. Humanity had yet to see a king die of old age. Even the demon kings and mythical beasts encountered over the years hadn’t shown signs of aging.

A human king once studied his own cellular activity, calculating a lifespan of at least ten thousand years. This longevity alone was why king-level beings were often likened to deities, outlasting humanity's known history.

Yet now, Chen Chu’s eyes could impose death upon such kings and mythical beings.

Of course, with his current cultivation, he wasn’t yet capable of erasing a demon king. But when he reached the king level himself? One glance would be enough to obliterate a demon king, to make the Blood Moons of the Purgatory Demon Clan fall in waves, until no king-level entity dared to stand before him.

Even Chen Chu couldn’t help but marvel, "This Double Pupil is truly powerful."

Once only able to slightly influence spatial fluctuations, his ability had advanced to high-level, then top-level, and now divine transformation, finally revealing the true invincible might of the Double Pupil.

Through this abiliy's transformation, Chen Chu felt a significant shift in his physique, a blend of void and death energy coursing through him. As he carefully attuned himself to these changes, Chen Chu turned his gaze toward the cave’s entrance.

Around the edges of his black-gold vertical pupils, sixteen black rune-formed chains rotated slowly, with a gray vertical line at the center, linking him to death with a sense of majesty and coldness.

As he looked outside, the world faded in his eyes, turning black and white. In this monochrome realm, fleeting strands of red, blue, or gold occasionally flashed across the sky, leaving lingering traces.

Simultaneously, the invisible space appeared as a three-dimensional transparent structure before him. However, unlike the layered spatial planes of the Blue Planet, the mythical world's space existed as a single "layer." Behind its strong spatial barrier lay boundless darkness.

No, within that endless darkness, Chen Chu glimpsed hints of spatial existence. Or perhaps, space was everywhere, supporting all matter and immaterial things alike, a phenomenon that defied conventional life’s perception, which only grasped space’s surface.

Boom!

In an instant, countless strands of information exploded within Chen Chu’s mind. Chaotic, intricate, profound, and boundless, these pieces flooded his mind through his black-gold pupils.

For a moment, even Chen Chu felt his mind ache, straining to handle the deluge of information. Most of it was useless; much of it was incomprehensible, remnants of the universe's mysteries and traces of the power of laws.

Gritting his teeth, Chen Chu began to sift through it all, discarding irrelevant data, categorizing the useful fragments, and gradually acclimating to it. It was unclear how much time had passed, but as Chen Chu’s subconscious began filtering out the useless information, he finally felt relief and exhaled deeply.

"Sometimes, seeing too much and knowing too much isn’t a blessing," he murmured, rubbing his temples.

If it had been any other Eighth Heavenly Realm expert, their mind would have likely been instantly overwhelmed and driven to the brink of mental collapse by the flood of information from heaven and earth. This sensation was truly terrifying.

Chen Chu looked toward the distant horizon from the cave entrance. There, an ominous black forbidden zone, formed from the collapse and devouring of an entire world, stood like a crystal riddled with countless fractures in the gaze of his Void Death Pupils, radiating a chilling, dangerous aura.

Suddenly, at the edge of that shattered "crystal," a flash of white light gleamed, faintly exuding an aura of origin. Chen Chu froze momentarily.

He recognized it well; it was a trace of the world’s origin—a condensed thread of world origin.

While walking the complete path to divinity, Chen Chu had acquired twenty-four strands of world origin, enough to make a seamless breakthrough to the king-level once he reached the peak of the Ninth Heavenly Realm.

The world origin’s role was to connect a cultivator to heaven and earth and to transform their power into laws. Every law a cultivator harnessed originated from their power’s interaction with the laws governing the world.

Ordinarily, neither humans, mutated beasts, nor members of the Purgatory Clan could touch the intangible, yet very real, laws of heaven and earth. They required the extraction of the origin energy within transcendent energy as a bridge.

Ten strands of world origin allowed a cultivator to swiftly achieve a transformation into a law of nature, refining their body and elevating their soul.

However, for those rare talents who mastered multiple laws at the king level, even more origin energy was required. If the origin was insufficient, they could initially transform just one law.

This limitation explained why, after reaching king level, some experts chose to specialize in a single law, while others saw their progress slow to a crawl.

For Chen Chu, his current world origin reserves would allow him to complete two high-level laws in his transformation to king-level; the rest would require gradual effort.

As he pondered, another flicker of white light, equating to about a tenth of a strand of origin, appeared on the horizon, converging toward a certain location.

Chen Chu narrowed his eyes. "Is this fate calling to me?"

Just after advancing his Void Death Pupils, he now encountered this unusual phenomenon of world origin gathering, as if something in the unseen was drawing him.

Considering the allure of the world origin, Chen Chu, who had initially decided to avoid the forbidden zone, paused to contemplate.

Boom!

The cave crumbled, the ground split open, and with a flash, Chen Chu shot into the sky, soaring tens of thousands of meters to the clouds.

The fractured, twisted space of the forbidden zone, shrouded in void energy, was perilous for most cultivators, with death a constant possibility. For Chen Chu, however, who wielded the Void Death Pupils and could see the essence of the world, it posed no threat.

He crossed the near-thousand-kilometer distance swiftly, streaking into the black forbidden zone, where he was instantly met with a violent surge of concentrated transcendent energy.

Compared to the outside, the transcendent energy here was thicker, and it carried a feral touch of void energy.

His black-gold pupils, ringed with sixteen rotating black runes, swept across the forbidden zone, observing the dense network of impenetrable spatial rifts ahead. Chen Chu then gradually descended.

Thud!

His heavy step landed on the ground, causing a slight tremor.

From the outside, the forbidden zone appeared dark, but within, it was much like the outside world, filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

Yet, upon passing through the rift-riddled area he had seen kilometers away, the scenery transformed abruptly. The sky grew gloomy and oppressive, howling winds whipped through the land, and a deathly stillness blanketed the ground.