"Bang! Bang!"

Just back on Blue Star, the successive sounds reached his ears.

Chu Xiu turned his head to look out the window, seeing fireworks rising into the sky at a distance, blooming into splendid displays.

Snowflakes began to drift down from the sky. Looking down from the high floors of the hotel, the streets were adorned with decorations, red lanterns hanging everywhere, filled with a festive atmosphere.

"It’s New Year." Chu Xiu murmured to himself.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and with a thought, he flew out of the hotel, his gaze immediately landing on an old residential building several kilometers away.

His parents were laughing and chatting with the Blood Demon followers disguised as him, smiles of genuine happiness on their faces.

Qingshan’s parents were also there, and even Chu Qin’s parents were present, with a small phone placed among them, Zhang Qingshan’s face vaguely visible on it.

For the soldiers fighting on Mars, even during the New Year, they could not return home, only receiving a rare chance to communicate with their families.

Chu Xiu thought for a moment, pulling out his communication bracelet, and sure enough, soon after connecting to the network, he received a message from Zhang Qingshan.

Only one, but it was a long message of over a thousand words, detailing his experiences and encounters over this period.

After joining the military, due to his S-Class profession, he was soon allowed to enter Mars.

However...

"Ah Chu, the environment on Mars is far worse than I imagined."

According to Qingshan, even those of them at Fierce Tier among the Awakened rely on life-support equipment to survive long-term on Mars. Its Giant Dragon even had a specially designed life-support system and protective armor created for it by the Department of Military Industry.

Survival is already so difficult, there’s no need to talk about living quality at all.

Not bathing for a month is commonplace, sometimes after battling Abyss creatures, the blood on the inner layer hasn’t even dried, and they have to rush to the next mission point.

Abyss creatures come in endless waves, no matter how many you kill, they never stop.

"You can’t imagine the scene, looking out you see a seamless black tide like the Qiantang River tide, nothing like the corpse tide of the Corpse Demon World. Here, using tactical nuclear weapons is routine, otherwise, there’s no way to stop them."

"Even so, you often hear news of neighboring bases falling..."

Though he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Zhang Qingshan’s description still made Chu Xiu secretly gasp.

Has the battle on Mars reached such an intense level? Why can’t people on Blue Star feel it at all?

And in such a high-intensity confrontation environment, Zhang Qingshan’s strength also advanced quickly.

Two months ago, he had already passed the General Tier trial, now he is a Level 7 Awakened at General Tier, even Chu Qin plans to start the General Tier trial soon.

Chu Xiu wasn’t surprised by his good brother’s rapid level-up speed, with so many Abyss creatures on the front line, all providing free Experience Points.

However, although the two don’t seem to have much difference in level, the actual strength gap keeps widening.

For the Demon Cultivator profession, level doesn’t mean much. His overflow Experience is enough to fully level up ten Generals and still have more than enough.

Inherited cultivation is what really matters!

Chu Xiu’s real strength is almost comparable to Heroic Spirits! 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Continuing to look downward, the rest were just trivial matters.

Worth mentioning is that due to the potentially lethal environment on Mars, Qingshan and Chu Qin married a month ago under the blessing of their comrades. In about two to three months, they will have a longer rest period and will return to Jiang City to hold another wedding.

"In the future, I can figure out a way to bring the Qingshan couple back to the Corpse Demon World to be my bodyguards, it’s too dangerous on the front line." Chu Xiu schemed in his heart.

After thinking about it, Chu Xiu also shared some of his recent situations and sent his blessings.

Having done all this, he settled down in the advanced hotel to cultivate.

Primarily refining the ghosts in the Soul Banner and helping to repair the body of the Blood Demon Incarnation.

These recent continuous hunts had accumulated a large amount of Soul Power in the Soul Banner, but without Chu Xiu’s Perfect Mastery to assist, relying solely on the ghost’s own cultivation was slow.

In the past, Demon Cultivators spent years refining the Soul Banner, which was common.

As for the Blood Demon Incarnation, after half a year of continual nurturing, it had recovered about half of its power.

The current transaction involved parts about Life Energy. Chu Xiu planned to fully restore the Blood Demon Incarnation’s power before entering the King Tier trial.

"Although my main body and the Ghostly Legion’s combat power have risen, and facing opponents head-on doesn’t require the Blood Demon Incarnation, its variety of skills can still provide much help."

Not to mention, at least it can slightly make up for the shortcoming in movement speed.

Chu Xiu thought of a previous hunt where his lagging movement speed almost allowed a King Tier ghost to escape.

It was thanks to Jiang Miaoyin stepping in that the ghost was killed.

Luckily, she didn’t suspect anything, merely thinking that Chu Xiu was too lazy to take action, letting her handle such a small matter.

Afterward, the two switched to an ambush hunting style, with Chu Xiu using Control Skills to restrain first, then attacking to eliminate.

Without further distraction, he focused on cultivating.

Half a month later, seven more Ghost Generals and one High-tier Ghost General were born.

Now Chu Xiu had a total of eleven High-tier Ghost Generals, seventy-four Ghost Generals, and more than five thousand Fierce Ghosts!