Essence Devouring Art

Lie Huang simply couldn’t imagine it.

That someone could actually cultivate a Holy Spirit Divine Technique into a Dharma Aspect-level Divine Technique!

In his experience, only a Desolate God with a true Ancestral Sacred Spirit bloodline possessed such an ability.

Like that Yong Bird, for instance.

It had used the advantage of its Innate Bloodline to cultivate its Lifebound Divine Technique, the Drought World Pupil, to the Dharma Phase Level.

"Who in the world are you?!"

Lie Huang suppressed the Karma Fire Heart Monkey within him and barked the question through gritted teeth. A terrifying figure like this couldn’t possibly be unknown.

"You will find out."

Wu Dao’s expression was indifferent, his voice devoid of any fluctuation. With a single thought, the Primordial Dao Wheel behind him activated Shen Wutian.

BZZZZ!!

CRACK—

The moment the Primordial Dao Wheel activated Shen Wutian, it went into extreme overload. The lifespan of the low-quality nodes on the outer ring rapidly depleted, and cracks soon appeared.

At the same time, the magnetic field of the million-mile hunting ground erupted completely, and endless energy poured into the Primordial Dao Wheel.

Even Wu Dao’s physique, which was in sync with the Dao Wheel’s magnetic field, couldn’t withstand this power and began to disintegrate. A dazzling, multicolored radiance spewed from his Black Abyss-like pupils.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

An aura of extreme danger instantly caused the Heart Lake Alarm Bell in everyone present to nearly shatter. They all felt the deathly aura of a Purgatory Demon God descending upon the world.

WHOOSH~

He exhaled a stream of countless magnetic threads.

Behind Wu Dao’s cracking, porcelain-like body, three towering Shadows of Gods and Demons slowly emerged from the darkness, their forms reaching into the Star Sea. An endless aura of calamity and punishment crushed down, filling the entire hunting ground.

External power was, after all, external power.

Using a small force to move a thousand catties for too long would result in a backlash. It was impossible for it to have no limits.

Therefore, he had to end this battle quickly.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

The moment the Three-Phase Divine Punishment Fist Stance appeared, layers upon layers of illusory Fist Phases surrounded the three calamity-and-punishment-wielding lords who wore Emperor’s Crowns, creating heavens and earths as they ascended straight to the Thirty-Three Heavens.

A majestic and vast Emperor Dao pressure, carrying an endless aura of calamity and punishment, descended like an ocean-deep abyss. It pressed down on everyone present until their expressions went slack and their minds went blank. They could only stand with mouths agape, unable to utter a single word.

Three great Fist Phases!

All of them at the Emperor Grade, Thirty-Three Heavens!

"Mon... Monster!!"

It was unknown who let out the first terrified scream.

Witnessing something that completely overturned their understanding of the world, their psychological defenses quickly crumbled. Uncontrollable terror and horror seized their minds and souls.

BZZZ—

The moment the Three-Phase Divine Punishment appeared, its might suppressed all living things, shattering gods and breaking souls.

Wu Dao showed no hint of arrogance or indulgence.

With a flicker of his will, the Three-Phase Divine Punishment’s three aspects opened their eyes simultaneously. The light of imperial punishment pierced the starry sky, suppressing the three Overlords.

A Thunder Sea of Celestial Punishment struck the Mother of the Void!

The Sea of Suffering submerged the Qianzai Alliance Leader!

Nirvana devoured Lie Huang’s Body Image!

CRACKLE! POP!

The Celestial Punishment Thunder was the ultimate counter to divinity and Divine Souls. Endless pale lightning bolts, like a torrential waterfall, submerged the star-sized black lotus.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

Layer after layer of lotus petals exploded madly.

The Dharma Aspect of the Vacuum Sect resisted with all its might, but it could only wail and scream amidst the Celestial Punishment Thunder.

The Vacuum World trembled incessantly.

Inside, the Mother of the Void’s divine robes shattered. Her sacred light flickered, and her divine body cracked. The shifting faces on her visage were all contorted in agony.

"AHH!!"

An utterly wretched roar exploded forth.

Lie Huang plunged into the Eighteen Netherworlds, where he suffered endless tortures and punishments of Purgatory.

The Fire of his Divine Soul Will flickered, and the starry sky of his Body Image collapsed. Great fissures split his physical body, spewing blood like a river of stars that flooded the million-mile ruins.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!— CRACK!!

Within the churning Sea of Suffering, the Qianzai Alliance Leader experienced one dark and miserable life after another. The protective saber light around him shattered and disintegrated. Despair gradually crept onto his face, his eyes grew dim and lightless, and he wished for nothing more than to end his own life immediately.

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!—

The sound of magnetic field lines snapping filled the air.

Wu Dao felt the power granted by the domain weakening as his own source energy faded. He could no longer maintain the connection, and the power flowed back into the domain.

Immediately, he hesitated no longer.

He shaped his palm into a blade.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!—

The Celestial Saber Circulation vibrated, opening its floodgates.

Three invisible Celestial Blades slashed through the starry sky, severing all magnetic field connections, and unhesitatingly chopped toward the three Overlords currently being suppressed by the Three-Phase Divine Punishment.

Taking a life is easy.

If he wanted to kill these two men and one god, the Three-Phase Divine Punishment would hold nothing back and could annihilate them completely in an instant.

But Wu Dao was not bloodthirsty.

He possessed a heart of great compassion.

From the very beginning, he had only wanted to convert and guide lost souls onto the correct path.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!—

The moment the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers fell, it was as if the Three Flowers above the Immortals’ heads and the Five Qi in their chests had been sliced away. The auras of the two men and one god plummeted as they lost connection to their own power, their resistance growing ever weaker.

"Suppress!!"

Wu Dao flicked his finger, and the countless strands of magnetic field energy within the hunting ground transformed into colorful threads. They rapidly bound the two men and one god, who had lost their ability to resist, like cocoons.

RUSTLE~

Primordial Magnetic chains, like tentacles, drilled into their spirits, flesh, and Divine Fires, sealing them completely and severing all their connections to the outside world.

"Annihilate!"

He spat out another word.

Wu Dao’s gaze turned cold. The tentacles that had burrowed into the Mother of the Void’s body grew savage teeth and tore apart, devouring the last remnants of her true divinity, which lay severely wounded within her Divine Fire.

"Pfft— No!!"

Within the black lotus, the Vacuum Sect Master, Jiaofangtong, suddenly spat blood and roared in despair. With the fall of his Faith God, his own Divine Soul suffered a grievous wound, leaving him on the verge of death.

What terrified him even more was that the Mother of the Void seemed to have died completely in an instant. The Faith and Willpower within the sect fell into chaos, unable to find a recipient.

As long as faith exists, a god cannot die!

How could any method possibly exist to completely kill a god? What kind of joke was this?!

"Teleportation Points +7,000,000..."

’Hm?’

’Gods count as Alien Species?’

A thought flashed through Wu Dao’s mind. He hadn’t expected the attribute panel to classify a Faith God as an Alien Species and completely annihilate it.

However, this was not the time to dwell on it.

WHOOSH~

With an inhale, he swiftly drew the three colored cocoons into his All Heaven.

Wu Dao then added several more layers of Primordial Magnetic Celestial Cages, isolating all magnetic field energy to prevent any possibility of Lie Huang and Romer recovering.

Two fourth-step Saint Grade practitioners.

This was equivalent to experts at the seventh step of the King Grade.

If they were to recover, it would just be more trouble.

After suppressing the three Overlords, Wu Dao’s Divine Thought swiftly swept across the entire hunting ground.

One hundred and twenty Dharma Phase Practitioners.

Most of them were gradeless or below the fifth step of the King Grade. A few were at the sixth step. At this moment, they were all being tortured by the Karma Fire Heart Monkey to the point of wishing for death.

Besides the Dharma Heads, within the fleets of the various factions, there were also tens of thousands of top-tier Great Divine Power Users.

’What a harvest.’

The corners of Wu Dao’s mouth curved up slightly. He flicked his finger again, and countless threads materialized from the universe, writhing as they wrapped around each and every Dharma Phase Practitioner and Divine Ability User.

’Hm?’

But just then, Wu Dao noticed an interesting fellow.

He was actually enduring the Karma Fire Heart Monkey while speeding toward a crack that had appeared in the wall of the cage as it gradually lost control.

"Monster... Celestial Demon... Faster... Faster!"

Heavenly Dragon’s entire body was like a black torch. The pain in his body and soul was so intense he was on the verge of collapse, trembling and muttering incoherently in terror.

But with his remaining willpower, he pushed the Boundary-Breaking Shuttle to cross millions of miles in an instant, rushing toward the crack in the wall.

The Boundary-Breaking Shuttle was a Supreme Treasure of the All Heavens Escape Path.

He had obtained this one by a fortunate coincidence. It was a top-tier Emperor Artifact. With his strength, pushing it to its absolute limit for an instant could cover nearly ten million miles.

Before a thought could even form, he arrived before the crack, a relieved smile of having survived a catastrophe already spreading across his face.

CLANG!!

But just as he was about to escape to safety, Heavenly Dragon felt himself crash into a divine wall. His soul nearly shattered into dust. He looked up and was so frightened his gallbladder almost burst.

Silently, the figure resembling a Purgatory Demon God blotted out the sky and light, blocking all escape routes. It flicked a finger, and countless dense, colored threads wound toward Heavenly Dragon.

"Wait!"

At the moment of life and death, Heavenly Dragon forced a smile uglier than a crying face. "Have you forgotten, Your Excellency? This humble one once showed you the way."

The countless colored threads paused slightly.

WHOOSH~

Just as Heavenly Dragon thought he had escaped his doom, Wu Dao’s gentle voice, tinged with a hint of gratitude, sounded once more:

"Yes, I remember. That’s why I’m prepared to give you a great Creation. No need to thank me. After all, a drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring."

"..."

Heavenly Dragon’s expression froze.

’Creation?’

’I fucking thank you for it!’

BZZZ—

But before Heavenly Dragon could resist, the countless colored threads had trapped him in a large cocoon, isolating him from heaven and earth, sealing all his power. He didn’t even have the strength to form a thought.

After catching the one that slipped through the net, all the Dharma Phase Practitioners and Divine Ability Users in the hunting ground had also been bound and bundled up.

Wu Dao spared none of them. He gathered them into his All Heaven, sealed them, and prepared to convert them all into Primordial Dao Wheels.

And just then,

BOOM—

a terrifying, crimson heatwave erupted from the center of the hunting ground, flashing at a high frequency and turning the entire area into a heaven-scorching Purgatory.

"YONG!!"

Accompanied by the cry of a Yong, the red giant star that the Yong Bird had transformed into split open. It spread its wings, spewing endless Divine Fire. It had regrown a pair of eyes, clearly having recovered most of its strength.

’Hmph!’

’A group of insects who don’t know the meaning of death.’

The Yong Bird’s Divine Soul swept across the empty hunting ground, and it sneered inwardly.

Focusing entirely on recovery, it had been unable to observe the outside world. Undisturbed, it assumed it had burned all the hunters to ash.

WHOOSH~

But just as the Yong Bird was about to spread its wings and flee this part of the starry sky, the domain above its head suddenly fluctuated.

A dangerous aura spread out, pressing down on it.

The Yong Bird abruptly raised its head, its two pale, star-sized eyes meeting a pair of demonic pupils darker than the Abyss.

"Hello."

Wu Dao met the Yong Bird’s gaze and gave a very polite nod.

Then...

BZZZ!

An utterly brilliant, dazzling divine light flashed, dyeing the entire universe in all Ten Directions.

BOOM!!!

It was as if the boundless heavens had collapsed.

Or as if hundreds of millions of sun-like stars had exploded.

Before terror could even rise in the Yong Bird’s eyes, its star-sized head, in the instant its face contorted, was struck by layers upon layers of majestic Power and disintegrated into countless fragments of flesh and blood.

"YONG!!"

Within the sun-like physique, the pocket-sized Yong Bird Nascent Soul shrieked shrilly. Before it could escape, it was entangled by countless threads and dragged into an endless Abyss.

’Teleportation Points +8,000,000.’

’A pity...’

After devouring the Yong Bird’s Dharma Aspect and Nascent Soul, Wu Dao searched its Divine Soul’s memories and discovered that a portion of them had been instantly erased by a great power, leaving him somewhat regretful.

For fifty years, Desolate Gods had been descending upon Hongyuan in search of an unknown existence.

Wu Dao’s guess was that they were looking for Yaya.

After all, even Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable valued Yaya so much that he couldn’t let her go. Her identity was surely not simple.

He had thought he could learn something from the Yong Bird, but it turned out he had been overthinking it.

But it didn’t matter.

No matter what her identity was, the final result would be the same.

WHOOSH~

After collecting his thoughts, Wu Dao’s gaze fell upon the Yong Bird’s sun-like corpse. After a slight frown, he chose to separate the wheat from the chaff, dismembering the body to take with him. He would refine its essence blood later.