The sudden sound didn't alert Li Shan to any problem, and he continued excitedly, "Right, Wang Long, you think too—"

His voice abruptly stopped because he noticed that Wang Long in front of him hadn't opened his mouth. Instead, Wang Long was staring in horror at something behind him.

"Pfft."

With a soft sound, a sharp Bone Spear pierced through Li Shan's chest.

He looked down in disbelief at the spear tip protruding from his chest.

Opposite him, Wang Long's face was full of terror, but before he could make any noise, a grotesque ghostly face emerged from behind him.

The next moment, Wang Long's body was directly sliced into pieces by two Sharp Claws, his organs spilling all over the ground, leaving only a head that fell to the ground, its lips moving weakly like a dying fish.

"You, you..."

Li Shan's mouth made a muddled sound, immediately drowned by the blood gushing out.

"Clatter."

As Chu Xiu pulled out the Bone Spear, Li Shan's body fell limply to the ground.

His eyes were wide open, seemingly unable to accept the fact that he was about to die. His left hand desperately clawed at the ground, struggling to move, while his mouth desperately made "ha ha" sounds for help.

Chu Xiu strode forward and stabbed the spear through his head.

"Boom."

With a soft sound, a large number of items appeared out of thin air, falling from the void with the death of the two, as their Storage Spaces released all their contents.

Looking at the two dead bodies and the pile of items, a mocking smile appeared on Chu Xiu's face.

In fact, upon realizing that Li Shan and Wang Long were plotting against him, he had consistently sent out Yin Ghosts to follow them, waiting for the right moment to strike.

However, since these two never left the team, Chu Xiu couldn't find an opportunity.

Of course, Chu Xiu wasn't the type to sit around and wait. If these two stayed in the base permanently, he would figure out a way to draw them out to kill them.

Because his intuition told him that the final day of the trial wouldn't end so easily, and the blood moon above was growing increasingly glaring, making it highly likely that something unexpected would happen.

He needed to eliminate as many variables as possible before the blood moon reached completion.

But if the lure failed, Chu Xiu wouldn't forcefully kill the two; he wasn't willing to start a war with everyone at the base over these insignificant characters.

In other words—

If these two hadn't voluntarily left the team to plot against Chu Xiu, they likely would have survived the Awakening Trial unscathed.

It must be said, this was a huge irony.

"This is a contradictory world."

"When you choose to be a good person, you inevitably fall prey to those who don't follow the rules: scum, extreme egoists, and bullies."

"But if you choose to be a bad person, you must embark on the endless path of survival of the fittest, where the winner takes all."

"To live stably, you can only choose one of two paths: either fight your way through to become the worst of all the bad people, or band together with other good people to create a stable society. The stricter the rule enforcement, the less room there is for evil to thrive. Of course, history has already proven that exploitation is inevitable, but at least you'll have a place to survive."

Chu Xiu looked with some pity at the gradually cooling bodies on the ground, shaking his head, "As sheep, they should not overestimate themselves by stepping onto a path of slaughter surrounded by wolves."

Upon killing someone for the first time, Chu Xiu didn't feel much resistance. He even found a certain beauty in the moment when the blood bloomed.

At the same time, he felt an icy, violent, hateful, and ungraspable invisible force, filled with negative emotions, wrap around him.

"Could this be the killing karma?" Chu Xiu frowned slightly.

In the beginning, when he first killed Abyssal creatures, he also felt an invisible force merge into his body.

However, that force was entirely different from now; it was a bright, righteous, warm aura.

"The invisible force birthed by killing Li Shan and Wang Long aligns with the records in the Demonic Scripture. It must be killing karma."

"So, what did I gain from killing Abyssal creatures before? Merits?"

Chu Xiu couldn't help but chuckle. Him, a Demon Cultivator, engulfed in merits now?

The merits he amassed from the numerous Abyssal creatures he killed in recent days far surpassed his killing karma. He could distinctly feel that any impact the killing karma had on his Divine Wisdom was completely offset by the merits.

Yet oddly, the advancement of the Infinite Reincarnation Technique wasn't hindered by the killing karma!

He could feel that his merits and killing karma coexisted and both accelerated the cultivation of the Infinite Reincarnation Technique!

"Could this darn thing actually be the correct way to cultivate this technique?"

This Cultivation Technique intrinsically had no bias, but during the Cultivation Era, there was no particularly easy way to acquire merits, which led practitioners to walk a path of slaughter.

This thought left Chu Xiu momentarily nonplussed.

However, this was huge good news for him. At least he no longer had to worry about losing his mind due to the killing karma.

In an Abyss filled with so many creatures, Chu Xiu only needed not to go on a frenzied indiscriminate killing spree, and he wouldn't let his killing karma surpass his merits.

He shook his head, pushing these thoughts aside, and began searching for high-value items on Li Shan and Wang Long, while using the Perfect Refining talent to absorb their Essence Blood to cultivate the Bloodthirsty Heart Refining Technique.

As Perfect Refining activated, a surge of abundant Essence of Life poured into Chu Xiu's body, making him squint his eyes in comfort.

Sure enough, as he expected, the Essence of Life from the Awakened was incredibly plentiful!

The previous mass killings of Corpse Demons had already filled the energy needed for the Bloodthirsty Heart Refining Technique. What was lacking now was the Essence of Life!

Both, being Level 4 Awakened individuals and Combat Professions, had an Essence of Life richer than ordinary people by many times. Upon absorption, Chu Xiu's cultivation progress soared!

70%!

80%!

90%!

100%!!!

After completely absorbing Wang Long and Li Shan's bodies into dry corpses, Chu Xiu felt as if his heart underwent an earth-shaking transformation, as though he had broken through a certain bottleneck!

A powerful Power emerged from his beating heart, generating new and more vigorous blood, revitalizing all his organs, akin to fitting a Ferrari engine into a secondhand car!

Chu Xiu unleashed a punch at will, accompanied by a fierce whistle of wind. The Power and Speed of this punch were immeasurably faster than before!

Furthermore, he felt that his biggest improvement was in Endurance! An endless stream of Energy flowed from his heart, seemingly inexhaustible!

[Bloodthirsty Heart Refining Technique completed, Endurance +11, Power +6, Life Recovery Speed +3.5, Nervous Reaction Speed +2! (Integrated as Constitution +7.6)]

The prompt sounded in Chu Xiu's ears, bringing a look of joy to his face.

It should be known that after reaching Level 6, his Constitution was only 9 points. This news almost doubled his Constitution!

Chu Xiu lightly clenched his fist, strong confidence rising from his heart.

"With my current self, even when speaking solely of Constitution, I'm absolutely a match against any A Grade Combat Profession of the same level!"

This is the perverse advantage of being a Demon Cultivator, with a growth capability far surpassing any Profession!!!

Taking a deep breath, Chu Xiu calmed the excitement in his heart.

He had other loot waiting to be collected.

For instance, those Bone Armor pieces could be re-refined by Chu Xiu to upgrade his own Equipment.

Chu Xiu chose to further enhance his Bone Spear.

Armor consumed too many materials. After Chu Xiu's Constitution surged, a good weapon brought a greater enhancement to his combat ability.

Judging from past experience, the Restrictions became stronger the further it went.

He was very curious about what surprises would await once this weapon was strengthened to +10!

With a wave of his hand, Chu Xiu quickly began the Refinement of their Bone Armor, successfully strengthening the Bone Spear to +8 strength.

Additionally, there were a total of 27 Cause and Effect Points on them, as well as an Artifact of Standard Quality, [005 Corpse Demon Venom].

Li Shan intended to use this to trap Chu Xiu earlier.

It could be applied to weapons, lasting ten minutes, causing a toxic outbreak totaling 3.5 in thirty seconds when struck.

Chu Xiu had no particular concept of this number, but it seemed like it should be a potent Poison.

All in all, this trip turned out quite bountiful.

"Indeed, plundering is the quickest way to treasure," Chu Xiu couldn't help but sigh.

"Then for the next step—"

Chu Xiu took a deep breath and suddenly shouted, "Corpse Demon! A Corpse Demon has broken in!!!"

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