Chapter 942 - 415: Floating Artillery Ship

At the same time outside the altar, in an uninhabited dense forest, a phantom resembling Chu Xiu was taking shape.

However, this phantom was very vague, as if it could be scattered by a breeze.

During these two hours, Chu Xiu never stopped his research into the Rule of Space.

His thoughts were simple: if Outer Realm Demons could use high-dimensional space to bestow Divine Power from afar, or even tear open a rift for an army to descend, then why couldn’t he?

Unfortunately, he soon discovered that even the powerful Outer Realm Demons and even stronger Gods needed to rely on external forces to cross space.

Typically, it was an Anchor Point that had the ability to open a teleportation channel.

For instance, the Outer Realm Demon who granted him the living Armor did so using an Artifact given to a murderer, while the Outer Realm Demon during Peng City needed the power of Forbidden Objects.

Similarly, the Outer Realm Demons here required an altar to descend ideas, Divine Power, or items.

Without such an Anchor Point, it was merely a matter of trying to use thoughts to control the "local" energy.

Chu Xiu found that by relying on the thoughts descended by the lantern, although it didn’t have the Ability to affect the current world, as long as enough thoughts were gathered, he could gather the Spiritual Power suspended between heaven and earth like the Fighting Spirit.

Of course, the amount he could control was negligible, far from usable in combat, and at most could transmit some simple messages.

"No wonder those legends say Outer Realm Demons always start by using mysterious whispers to seduce people’s hearts."

Without cooperation from the other side, attempting to project Power unilaterally from high-dimensional space remained too difficult.

In reality, merely transmitting some vague whispers was exceedingly challenging, typically only achievable by Upper Position beings who had lived tens of thousands of years; yet because Chu Xiu had completed the Spiritual Power stage of cultivation, his understanding and control over the Spiritual Power between heaven and earth reached a new realm. Additionally, his body was not far from the target, enabling him to accomplish this feat with such minuscule energy.

"Although I can only transmit some information, at least I can finally do something..."

Touching his chin, Chu Xiu pondered specific actions.

His theoretical goal was actually just one: to help at least one person pass the Trial.

And the simplest and most direct way was naturally—delay!

As long as he could delay until his original body arrived, any Trial would become trivial; even if the God of Hunting descended personally, he wouldn’t be afraid.

This God of Hunting felt weaker compared to the Outer Realm Demon in Peng City, and although Chu Xiu’s Energy was sealed, his Spirit became unprecedentedly strong after cultivating the Primordial Spirit, and his star core, which shared the same origin as his life, further enhanced his Spirit.

This caused the Nether Chain’s boost to more than double.

Moreover, he had previously killed so many Tribulation Transformation Creatures and stored a large amount of Divine Soul Energy, though Chu Xiu hadn’t completed the Refinement yet, the Ghostly Legion had recovered to half of its peak Power.

The Ghostly Legion alone was an extremely strong fighting force, and he estimated ordinary Perfect Demigods were no match.

Adding his Primordial Spirit Body and a great weapon like Tribulation Poison, Chu Xiu figured that even if he couldn’t win, he should have no problem protecting one or two people and retreating.

However.....

Chu Xiu’s gaze spread across the void, as Xi Ya proudly fired a shot and then drove the floating artillery vessel around to collect survivors.

She even used a loudspeaker to loop broadcast her rescue information.

"Bombarding the altar is meant to build confidence for the prey..."

After all, without that shot, who would dare board Xi Ya’s vessel? Who would be sure this wasn’t a method of inviting them into a trap?

"But this way, once the Divine Envoy can act, they will definitely launch a full-scale attack immediately in their anger."

Chu Xiu turned his gaze to the artillery vessel.

A quarter of an hour had passed since the official start of the Trial, but not many people had entered the vessel.

Evidently, most of the prey still harbored reservations.

Xi Ya was worried about this too.

Chu Xiu concentrated his thoughts to mobilize the surrounding Spiritual Qi, attempting to condense it into a Sound Transmission, but this was far more difficult than he anticipated, as the consciousness crossing through the lantern was simply too weak.

He managed to gather roughly a few words of information, but the floating artillery vessel had already whistled by.

Chu Xiu cursed silently and hurried to chase in the high-dimensional space, yet when he reentered the current world, the scenery suddenly changed dramatically.

This made Chu Xiu numb, as the trouble with high-dimensional space was that it wasn’t just an expansion of the current world; it was a "folded" version of the world. Sometimes "moving left" in high-dimensional space might turn into "moving right" in the current world.

Moreover, such directional changes often result from the position’s movement in a "folded" manner, which could cause a leap in spatial scale.

Like a tangled line, walking along the line means covering the distance traveled, but taking a different direction could lead anywhere.

This is also why Outer Realm beings are typically summoned by rituals or other methods for positioning, never heard of Outer Realm Demons finding their way here themselves.

Right now, a mere area of three hundred miles was causing Chu Xiu headaches, let alone the vast starry sky?

Chu Xiu searched back and forth for a long time before he finally discovered the now tiny spot of the floating artillery vessel a hundred miles behind him. He immediately returned to his original location, then circled around like navigating a maze.