145: Chapter 145 Top-Tier Physique Clone

The Floating Corpse Land was located within the territory of the Corpse Demon Clan, ranked nineteenth among the Thirty-Six Upper Demon Races.

This place gathered endless unrotting and indestructible corpses, shrouded year-round by dense corpse poison gas. The demonic energy was murky and life was extinguished; ordinary immortal beings who stepped inside would have their souls eroded by the corpse energy, ending in their demise.

Lu Hu arrived here and set up layers of isolation arrays to cut off outside perception. His eyes were slightly closed, and the aura around him suddenly became incredibly sharp. After a long time, Lu Hu's tiger-like eyes snapped open.

His body exploded, turning into clusters of crystalline light.

A sharp cutting energy slashed straight through, passing through the light clusters Lu Hu had transformed into.

A wisp of pitch-black source power was forcibly stripped away, while the other light clusters faded in color and returned to Lu Hu's original form.

"The source of the Poison Spirit Body!"

The Poison Spirit Body was the first physique Lu Hu had ever cultivated.

At this moment, Lu Hu separated all the source power of this physique.

"Sunder!"

A low shout came from Lu Hu's mouth. In the unseen realm, a blade plunged into Lu Hu's soul, forcibly cutting off a wisp of his soul source.

Afterward, Lu Hu merged this soul source wisp into the Poison Spirit Body source, infused it with insights and imprints of the Poison Dao, and activated the Great Avatar Technique with all his strength to refine it.

In less than half a day, a tiger completely black with green eyes, surrounded by a faint poisonous mist, took shape.

Seeing this, Lu Hu gave an instruction.

"Your name is Du Hu. Cultivate here from now on."

"As you command."

Du Hu nodded indifferently and closed his eyes, beginning to cultivate using the corpse poison gas of the Floating Corpse Land.

Lu Hu nodded slightly. Those avatars among the Thirty-Six Upper Demon Races and Seventy-Two Lower Demon Races ultimately had shallow foundations and would find it hard to achieve much.

To truly bring out the effect of the Great Avatar Technique, one needed top-grade physique sources like the Poison Spirit Body. The avatars refined from them would not be inferior to him in terms of aptitude.

These were the true core avatars.

The only trouble was that this avatar was not of the Demon Immortal Clan and would be exposed immediately upon meeting a Demon Immortal being.

However, in this Floating Corpse Land, Lu Hu also had a Demon Immortal Clan avatar named Shi Hu, who had gained a reputation as a potential genius within the Corpse Demon Clan.

With Shi Hu providing cover, Du Hu's cultivation should not be easily exposed.

Du Hu had no self-awareness; he was created by Lu Hu for the purpose of cultivation.

Now that he had just formed, the laws of the Poison Dao operated on their own. The dense corpse energy and heaven-and-earth demonic energy around him were devoured crazily, transforming into his own cultivation. He stepped into the Immortal Realm in seven days and broke through directly to the True Immortal Realm within a month. His cultivation progressed rapidly without any bottlenecks or shackles, and his cultivation speed far exceeded all previous Demon Immortal avatars.

Lu Hu nodded frequently over the past few days; this was the posture a top-grade physique should have.

After witnessing Du Hu's cultivation speed, Lu Hu continued to activate the Great Avatar Technique.

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—Five Elements Sources, come forth!"

Radiance flickered around Lu Hu, revealing five source powers corresponding to the five elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

The Five Elements Physique was also a physique Lu Hu had gradually acquired as a natural result of his accumulation.

The Five Elements sources were the most basic and core Great Dao sources in the world. Avatars refined with such sources would not be inferior to the Poison Spirit Body.

After refining five avatars in succession, Lu Hu placed the Metal avatar in the Gold Demon Clan's territory and sent the Wood avatar to the Wood Demon Clan. The Water, Fire, and Earth avatars respectively infiltrated the territories of the Water Demon, Fire Demon, and Earth Demon Clans.

These clans were all among the Thirty-Six Upper Demon Races. With the Demon Immortal avatars Lu Hu had previously left behind to receive and look after them, they could both hide the non-demonic physiques of the Five Elements avatars and provide them with certain cultivation resources and protection.

After the Five Elements avatars were settled, their cultivation speed was not at all inferior to Du Hu's. The corresponding five elements spiritual energy in the world actively flooded into their bodies, and their realms rose rapidly like a rocket. In just a few dozen days, they all joined the ranks of True Immortals, and their combat power far exceeded that of Demon Immortals of the same level; even when facing peak Immortal Realm experts, they could handle them with ease.

Lu Hu's eyes grew increasingly fervent. These top-grade physiques were just appetizers; his true foundation went far beyond this!

After a brief rest, Lu Hu struck again, invisible blades slashing toward his soul.

"Creation Physique source, sunder!"

A glowing white source containing endless vitality, as if it could evolve all things, flew out.

The Creation Physique was a physique rewarded by the system; it was the most top-tier, heaven-defying physique in the world. Such a physique was Lu Hu's true foundation.

"A pity..."

When the Creation Physique avatar was successfully refined, Lu Hu felt a sense of pity.

For such a heaven-defying physique, the environment required for cultivation was extremely hard to find. It might be in the territory of the Twelve Eternal Demon Race, a place he currently could not reach.

Without a corresponding cultivation environment, the cultivation speed of the Creation Physique would inevitably be much slower.

But even so, the cultivation speed of the Creation Physique still crushed the Five Elements avatars, and its combat power surpassed all previous avatars. With a wave of its hand, it could evolve infinite creation, possessing boundless cosmic power.

"Strong, only thirty percent weaker than this king."

Lu Hu praised. Immediately after, disregarding the consumption of his own source, he continued to strip away his own physiques.

One avatar after another, each containing a supreme physique, took shape in succession.

The God-Slaying Physique possessed overwhelming killing intent, slaying all life.

The Illusion Immortal Physique was infinitely changeable, capable of bewildering the experts of the heavens.

The Heavenly Fire Physique controlled all fires, incinerating everything in the world.

The Demon Heart Physique was well-versed in the devious ways of demonic nature and could see through the thoughts of all living beings. Every avatar possessed heaven-defying talent, and their cultivation speeds were terrifyingly fast—entering the Immortal Realm in one day and the True Immortal Realm in two.

With each new day, they could easily kill their yesterday's selves. Before long, they would be Lu Hu's trump cards.

Continuously stripping his source and refining avatars also left Lu Hu's own aura listless, and his soul felt waves of stinging pain.

After refining at such a cost, even with Lu Hu's powerful physique, he inevitably felt a bit weakened.

But this bit of sacrifice was worth it. Now that so many physiques were cultivating together, he was no longer troubled by time, and their potential was fully unleashed.

"Time to go home."

Now that the physiques had been separated, Lu Hu considered the matter of returning to the Continent of Desolation.

Having been in the Upper Realm for nearly twenty years, he had traveled between the Seventy-Two Lower Demon Races and the Thirty-Six Upper Demon Races. The avatars he had planted formed a massive information network, allowing him not only to understand the entire layout of the Demon Immortal lineage but also to seize countless cultivation resources using his unique intelligence network advantage.

Besides ordinary immortal stones and demonic crystals, there were rare treasures containing complete Great Dao laws, such as Wind-Thunder Wood, Phoenix Blood Stone, Dao-Enlightenment Tea, and Wings of the Dark Night.

In Lu Hu's eyes, these law treasures could still be transformed into special physique avatars.

And such a vast amount of resources was enough for Lu Hu to consume for at least ten years.

He could cultivate anywhere; since he was bored with the Upper Realm, he might as well go back.

"Return."

Deciding to return, Lu Hu suppressed the feeling of weakness in his body, adjusted his aura to its optimal state, took out the cross-realm teleportation jade, drilled through the Upper Realm barrier, and hurried toward the Continent of Desolation.

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