Douluo: Not enough blood? Use your brain

Xu Yuan didn't have high expectations for that thing, so there was no need to waste time on it.

Within the Abyss Passage, danger could arise at any moment. Before that danger appeared, he should use this unknown amount of safe time to complete the most important tasks.

As for whether the Devouring Heaven and Earth Grand Art or the reconstruction of the dream space would attract the attention of the Abyss?

With only thirty meters to the exit, Xu Yuan felt he still had the ability to protect himself.

Across such a distant spatial passage, could the Abyss Sage Monarch really launch a silent attack and instantly kill him?

"I'll try the Devouring Heaven and Earth Grand Art first."

This was the most effort Xu Yuan had put into any of his unique skills, and it was also the core method he intended to use to devour Abyss energy.

Soul power circulated.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit circulated.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit merged into one, dividing into the Five Elements, flowing within his body.

His internal organs vibrated, cooperating with the Five Elements power derived from Essence, Qi, and Spirit, rapidly changing.

At this moment, Xu Yuan's internal organs seemed to possess a grand consciousness, and Xu Yuan's body seemed to transform into a vast world.

In Xu Yuan's consciousness, a world existed within his body, his own consciousness dominating everything, with the Five Elements present between heaven and earth.

The Five Elements existed outside heaven and earth.

The space controlled by the Forbidden Art Seven Absolutes cracked open a small hole, allowing a portion of Abyss energy to pour in. Manipulating the power of heaven and earth in this space, Xu Yuan firmly controlled this portion of Abyss energy, allowing it to integrate into his body.

"Devouring Abyss energy doesn't mean that there are no future troubles after absorbing it. I've already forgotten how the Demon Empress in the original work became a vessel for the Abyss Lord, but it can't be ruled out that it was due to her absorbing Abyss energy."

Xu Yuan had naturally thought of this.

But so what?

Firstly, this so-called vessel and control ability absolutely couldn't be achieved by simply being exposed to it. It must be that over ninety percent of the Demon Empress's process of becoming a god relied on Abyss energy, and besides, the Abyss Sage Monarch must have made preparations in advance. If that's the case, then only a small portion of Abyss energy needs to be devoured and absorbed.

Secondly, Xu Yuan was only conducting research, devouring a small portion of Abyss energy to experience all the changes. Even if he didn't discover any abnormalities and continued to devour it, as long as he was strong enough, strong enough to counter the Abyss Sage Monarch, what if he became a vessel?

At the moment the Abyss Sage Monarch transferred his power, Xu Yuan only needed to regain control of his body.

In the original work, the Abyss Sage Monarch only descended after the Demon Empress died. Wasn't there any concern about this aspect?

"My greatest advantage is my outstanding mental strength, or rather, the strength of my soul. As long as before that, my mental strength can surpass the Abyss Sage Monarch—no, I don't need to surpass him, I just need to reach his level, and then have targeted methods. Completing this step isn't impossible."

Of course, Xu Yuan still couldn't give an answer as to what to do specifically, or which path to choose.

Abyss energy poured into his body, dividing into the Five Elements.

Everything was feasible.

As the Abyss energy was divided into the power of the Five Elements, Xu Yuan also began to digest these five types of energy.

Even with the attributes of the Five Elements, it still possessed the mark of the Abyss, and it was still Abyss energy.

However, with the Five Elements generating each other, the proportion of the five attributes in this portion of energy would become larger and larger.

Without the intentional control of the Abyss Sage Monarch, the master of this plane, in an unconscious state, this ball of energy was controlled by Xu Yuan, constantly undergoing mutual generation between the Five Elements, and the proportion occupied by the Five Elements attributes gradually grew to the point where it could affect the origin of the energy.

Perhaps it couldn't be eliminated, or even shaken in the slightest, but at least it had come into contact with this level.

Only then did Xu Yuan manipulate the power of the Five Elements to carry out the next step, gradually transforming and obliterating the origin belonging to the Abyss while the Five Elements generated each other.

While Xu Yuan was using the Five Elements to generate each other to obliterate the origin mark in this small ball of Abyss energy, in the Abyss, that terrifying existence was also awakened.

"What's going on?"

He ruled the Abyss, and everything in the Abyss was within his perception.

In reality, his mental strength wasn't sufficient to allow him to constantly pay attention to everything in the Abyss, or even to constantly pay attention to everything in his own layer. He could only briefly control everything in his layer in short bursts.

In most cases, he could only simply sense movements and then investigate.

Not only the Abyss Sage Monarch, but even the mental strength of a God King realm couldn't constantly observe every corner of a world and notice its changes.

However, the most fundamental aspect of the Abyss was its own energy.

Perhaps, being accustomed to the loss, he had become numb and his perception wasn't as sensitive anymore.

However, at this moment, the Abyss had never lost energy.

Even the slightest loss would trigger the perception of the Abyss Sage Monarch.

In just a moment, the Abyss Sage Monarch sensed the location.

"Douluo Plane?"

He wasn't alarmed because, from his perception, he knew that it was only a very small portion, even just a trace of energy wandering in the air, even less than the energy of the weakest Abyss creature.

"Have they made a breakthrough in devouring energy? Or do they have some special means?"

The Abyss Sage Monarch was very clear that methods capable of obliterating his Abyss mark weren't non-existent, but each one was extremely difficult to achieve.

"A divine artifact with innate devouring attributes containing laws?"

Containing laws innately, rather than borrowing the laws of heaven and earth.

Often, the value of a divine artifact that possesses its own laws to a certain extent is no less than that of a super divine artifact.

Of course, the value is debatable.

But without a doubt, its rarity is definitely no less rare than a super divine artifact.

The Abyss Sage Monarch didn't quite believe that the Douluo Plane would produce such a divine artifact at this time.

Especially at this critical juncture.

"Currently, it can be basically determined that the Douluo God Realm has disappeared. Even if those gods really left behind plans, they would never expose them in such a small way at this time."

"So, has the plane itself generated a crisis and begun to drive a counterattack?"

Compared to a Devouring-attribute artifact nurturing its own laws, Abyss Saint Lord was more inclined to believe this was the Douluo Plane's counterattack.

Any plane, after nurturing numerous lives, would inherently possess its own instincts.

Planes also have life, but it's incredibly difficult for them to truly develop their own consciousness and possess intelligence. Currently, the Plane Masters known to Abyss Saint Lord, including himself, all achieved it through seizing bodies of living beings.

However, lacking intelligence and true consciousness doesn't mean lacking instincts.

Being invaded triggers a counterattack.

For the past six thousand years, the Douluo Plane had been counterattacking, but Abyss Saint Lord's control was precise, never truly touching the Douluo Plane's warning line.

Now, after six thousand years of slow slicing, it had touched the Douluo Plane's bottom line.

"Erase my Abyss's mark? Without being able to sense the origin mark, how can you confirm that the energy you're absorbing is completely cleansed?"

Abyss Saint Lord couldn't sense the exact situation on Xu Yuan's side across the passage.

He only knew that someone was gradually erasing the imprint within his strands of Abyss energy.

"Sense the Abyss's origin mark? This isn't a field that technology can touch, at least not the Soul Guidance technology of the current Douluo Plane."

Abyss Saint Lord shook his head, ceasing to pay attention.

If he truly focused his gaze, the commotion would be too great.

It was better to wait and see.

Continue waiting for a period.

If the other side was still groping, even causing a huge commotion exceeding a certain threshold in his mind, he would inevitably take action.

On one hand, to confirm that his Abyss energy imprint hadn't been completely erased, laying a new groundwork for the future, and on the other hand, to dispel the Douluo Plane's vigilance.

Setting a warning line, Abyss Saint Lord returned to slumber.

Xu Yuan didn't know his actions had alarmed Abyss Saint Lord.

Or rather, he inherently had this contingency plan.

But since there was no movement, it meant there was no danger.

The Five Elements generated each other, and after thoroughly transforming the Abyss energy, he integrated it into his body.

"I can't be certain if it's completely cleansed, but it can already be devoured and absorbed by me for cultivation."

The process seemed complex, but in reality, if continuously running it for cultivation, the overall efficiency was still faster than meditating on Douluo Star, and faster by more than just a level.

"This is good news, at least proving that my Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art wasn't a waste of effort," Xu Yuan exhaled.

He opened his eyes and found Jiang Wuyue staring at him with wide eyes.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yuan asked, puzzled.

Jiang Wuyue looked as if he had discovered a new continent, his eyes wide like copper bells.

"You absorbed all that energy just now?"

He was very certain that Xu Yuan had just integrated some Abyss energy into his body, and then the aura of that Abyss energy gradually dissipated, not returning to the outside world.

"Otherwise?" Xu Yuan chuckled, as if he had done something very normal, and said, "Isn't this what my research project is about?"

Jiang Wuyue fell silent.

No, big brother, your research project is this, but it doesn't mean your project will have results!

Throughout history, for six thousand years, countless people have researched this project without any progress.

How come you had it as soon as you came in?

Moreover, it didn't seem like you conducted substantial research, just tried it out!

Looking at it this way, Xu Yuan came here not to do research, but to verify his methods.

"I still have several ideas. I just verified one, and the result is acceptable, but there are also risks. I can't be sure if the Abyss energy I absorbed is completely cleansed," Xu Yuan didn't hide anything.

He looked at Jiang Wuyue and said, "You stay alert. I still have a lot of research to do, and I might be more focused later."

"Don't worry!"

Jiang Wuyue said in a deep voice.

Honestly, Jiang Wuyue didn't have any hope for Xu Yuan's research topic to yield results.

But after witnessing that scene just now, his thinking changed.

Xu Yuan closed his eyes again, letting in another strand of Abyss energy.

This time, he retracted the Heavenly Origin Five Elements Spear Martial Soul.

Instead, he activated the Brain Martial Soul.

Brain, activate!

Dreamscape, activate!

Transforming from reality to illusion.

As Xu Yuan activated his Soul Skill, this wisp of Abyss energy he had drawn in quickly became illusory and then disappeared.

Dreamscape.

Xu Yuan looked at this wisp of energy in front of him and sighed.

"As expected, it can be transformed from reality to illusion, contained within my Dreamscape, and there's even hope to bind it, preventing it from returning to the Abyss, but the Abyss imprint within it still exists."

At this moment, the power of the Five Elements was generating each other within this wisp of energy in front of him, but it hadn't eroded to a deeper level, only touching its imprint, proving that there was still an imprint inside.

Even the surface of the imprint hadn't been touched, let alone completely eradicated.

"However, my idea isn't impossible to try. Building a brand new Dreamscape to contain the Abyss energy can be considered a disguised weakening of the Abyss."

"Of course, such a result of harming others without benefiting oneself is still not satisfactory."

"The best result would be for the pure primal power of the stars, integrated with my will, to construct a primal Dreamscape that can truly assimilate the Abyss energy, returning the Abyss energy to its essence, tracing back to the Star Power stage."

In that case, the primal Dreamscape could be used as a transit point.

It's just that there are still many troubles in implementation.

"So, what effect can the Sand Demon Worm's juice have?"

With a thought, Xu Yuan conjured a mass of juice in the Dreamscape, precisely some juice he had extracted from the hundred-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm.

He dripped the juice onto this wisp of Abyss energy, observing the changes in the Abyss energy.

The change was obvious, the Abyss energy was dyed with a layer of attribute.