Essence Devouring Art

For an ordinary Celestial Pride, fully comprehending it would inevitably take a significant amount of time.

But for Wu Dao, who possessed the Primordial Star Mother, the scripture had only just entered his Sea of Consciousness when the Star Mother mobilized the Dao Wheel’s immense computational power to analyze and comprehend it completely.

He was like a bottomless pit.

No amount of scriptural knowledge could fill him; whatever was poured in was comprehended instantly. It all took but a few breaths.

An entire Emperor Scripture was absorbed.

’The Green Emperor’s Suffering Relief Scripture...’

Wu Dao sifted through the scriptural information in his Sea of Divine Soul. As expected, it was an Emperor Scripture that enhanced Life Force.

It contained both Taoist Techniques and Transverse Cultivation methods.

Cultivated to Great Success, one’s Life Force would be as tenacious as a Chaos Body’s. A single drop of blood could make all things flourish, relieve suffering, and sustain the countless beings of an entire universe.

’Not bad.’

After a brief review, Wu Dao nodded in appreciation. The Green Emperor’s Suffering Relief Scripture was one of the Scriptures of All Heavens’ Emperors, which was a good start.

After extracting the Emperor Scripture from the stele, Wu Dao didn’t linger. Sensing the changes in the Earth and Heaven Magnetic Field, he began searching for other Emperor Scripture Divine Techniques amid the vast, Chaos Qi-wreathed Cosmic Mountain.

WHOOSH—

After Wu Dao left,

Park Young and the other disciples from the Heaven Mending Sect reappeared on the Dao Platform. They stared in bewildered uncertainty at the Enlightenment Stele, which had lost its divine light, and wiped the cold sweat from their brows.

"My god, how long has it been? He already comprehended an Emperor Scripture? Good thing we didn’t attack!"

After they had left earlier,

the more Park Young thought about it, the angrier he got. He had realized, what was there to fear from a lone Wu Dao? On the Emperor Star, strength was what mattered!

He had been preparing to call his friends to gang up on Wu Dao.

But Wu Dao’s ability to comprehend an Emperor Scripture in just a few breaths had given him a huge scare. A genius of this caliber was definitely the apple of a Common Lord Power’s eye!

He feared that the moment they made a move,

several Guardians would pop out and slap them to death.

Because of their limited perspective,

they could never have imagined that Wu Dao’s backing was himself. He wasn’t some Son of Revival from a Common Lord Power at all.

The Cosmic Mountain was majestic and vast.

Even approaching the summit region, there was no sense of climbing a mountain. Instead, it felt like exploring a boundless continent.

The All Heavens Dao Lineage factions

had occupied the area below the summit, but it was far from overcrowded. In fact, many areas were completely empty.

Chaotic Qi Flow drifted like smoke and gossamer.

On the next leg of his journey,

Wu Dao barely encountered any Celestial Prides. Even when he did, he used his old trick: one glare was enough to send them scurrying away with their tails between their legs.

With no way to transmit information,

they couldn’t quickly determine which faction’s Great God Wu Dao was. Utterly terrified by the speed at which he comprehended Emperor Scriptures, they only knew he was not to be provoked. The trick worked every time.

Wu Dao was happy for the peace and quiet.

His Primordial Magnetism sense allowed him to perceive the Cosmic Mountain’s Magnetic Field patterns, easily locking onto the Dao Platforms for Emperor Scriptures and Divine Techniques whose own Magnetic Fields stood out from the rest.

With a press of his hand,

an Emperor Scripture or Divine Technique was his.

It was like collecting money in a sack. In just half a day, he had obtained more than ten Emperor Scriptures.

As for the seventy-two Great Divine Techniques,

he had currently collected fifty-seven of them. The ones he encountered now were all duplicates with no collection value.

But he wasn’t in a hurry.

Once the Grand Array took shape,

someone would naturally deliver the remaining Divine Techniques into his hands.

The All Heavens Dao Lineages and the Emperor’s Lineages were present.

There were even several Common Lord Powers.

Their inherited Divine Communication Techniques were ancient and profound, countless in number.

Combined with the brilliant Celestial Prides forged by the convergence of myriad opportunities and instances of Creation, if he caught them all in one fell swoop, he might even be able to gather the Ten Great Supreme Divine Techniques.

BUZZ—

While his Incarnation was searching for Emperor Scripture Divine Techniques,

「Outside the Cosmic Mountain.」

Here, within the oppressive domain of an Emperor’s Artifact, starlight glittered and a vast, chaotic Magnetic Field churned.

"Er Gou, take three men and three Heavy Artifacts, and assume control of this node."

Wu Dao God’s eyes gleamed as he concealed his aura and figure, continuously moving through the Ten Directions of space-time around the Cosmic Mountain. He locked onto one Magnetic Field node after another, assigning Primordial Demons and Incarnations to guard them.

The grand Magnetic Field of the Emperor’s Artifact was too vast and immense for him to leverage.

However, he could analyze and grasp the network of the Star Sea Array’s Magnetic Field, which was centered on the Cosmic Mountain and was continuously fading and disappearing.

Once the Array was activated, using a World Heavy Artifact as a power source and spreading a chain reaction through the Magnetic Field’s core, it would not be difficult to revive the Star Sea Array that sealed the Huanwu Ancestral Land.

Of course,

its range was limited to the Cosmic Mountain.

Anything beyond that was impossible, even if he burned through the Heaven-Stealing Alliance’s entire reserve of Creation Mother Liquid.

In fact,

even just reviving the Star Array that sealed the Cosmic Mountain was no simple task.

The energy source for the Star Array

was the massive amount of Tribulation Evil Qi accumulated and settled over an entire era before the Emperor Star had opened!

To support it with Creation Mother Liquid instead,

the amount of Mother Liquid burned in a single breath would make even a Holy Land weep.

Therefore,

once this hunt began,

it had to be a lightning war.

He had to capture all the prey on the mountain before the Mother Liquid was completely consumed!

...

「Time slowly passed.」

The struggles on Cosmic Mountain continued unabated.

As the Starlight Grand Array and the Emperor’s Artifact’s rules and order that sealed the summit gradually dissipated, more and more Celestial Prides from the All Heavens gathered in the region below the peak.

The great Daoist Lineage factions

could no longer maintain their blockade.

Those who could withstand the Emperor’s Artifact’s oppressive might to enter the summit area were, at minimum, from factions on the level of the All Heavens powers, and they didn’t dare offend so many factions at once.

Gradually,

the domain below the summit

transformed from its original silence and desolation into a clamorous and lively place, with bloodshed breaking out in many areas.

Furthermore,

as the suppressive force of the Cosmic Mountain gradually contracted to the summit, some of the Celestial Prides and factions from below the mountainside also began to boldly ascend.

The vast majority of people

were just there to join the excitement.

They were all aware that five Supreme Divine Techniques existed on the summit, and that the top factions and premier Celestial Prides of the All Heavens were about to clash.