Essence Devouring Art

The Yong Bird’s body was as large as a star.

Even after it was dismembered to refine its essence,

the choicest parts nearly filled Wu Dao’s six All Heaven worlds, feeling incredibly heavy and scorching hot.

This was why Wu Dao moved so slowly.

In a way,

he was carrying a great sun of appalling density and temperature on his back as he advanced.

Over the next few days, Wu Dao relentlessly used his Primordial Magnetic Power to break down the flesh, bones, organs, and blood of the Desolate God, the Yong Bird.

His only goal was to purify the most refined, Chaos-colored primordial substance within it—the so-called essence blood.

His progress was very pleasing.

After a few days, he had purified about thirty percent. He would certainly be able to finish the process before reaching the Gate of Hell.

The Yong Bird had been at the King Grade, Eighth Step.

The purified primordial substance would be enough for Wu Dao to quickly enter the Second Step of the Ten Yang Gods and construct a two-layered, Emperor-Grade Dharma Aspect.

...

「Two days later.」

Wu Dao finally arrived at the core of the Star Ruins Forbidden Area—the Eye of Hell!

RUMBLE—

In the center of the dark forbidden area,

an Abyss with a diameter of untold hundreds of millions of li acted like a black hole, pulling on the boundless Magnetic Field of the forbidden area, devouring and decomposing all things.

Even the distant stars of the forbidden area could not escape. They were shattered and disintegrated by the Magnetic Field’s pull, transforming into spectacular, slow-moving streams of light that plunged toward the Abyss.

VMM!

Within the spiral arm of stars at the Abyss’s edge,

Wu Dao unleashed his Primordial Magnetic Power. Like a stubborn rock in a raging torrent, he stood firm and unmoving amidst the terrifying storm, his gaze fixed on the eye-shaped Magnetic Field Abyss below.

It was less an Abyss

and more a series of overlapping, Chaos-colored, super-giant magnetic turbines.

As they spun,

it was as if a Heaven Stealer were in Cultivation; the sheer volume of the Magnetic Field it devoured in an instant was simply unimaginable.

"Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!!"

Wu Dao clapped his hands in endless admiration, his gaze filled with a ravenous hunger. He was like a man starved for countless years laying eyes on a peerless beauty, wanting nothing more than to shove every cell of his body inside her.

The magnetic energy between each layer of the Abyss’s turbines spun like a world-ending grindstone. The deeper one went, the more savage and extreme the Power of Annihilation became, and the more it could drive one to ecstatic bliss.

Compared to this, those little spitfires from the Divine Wilderness...

...were like comparing a country hag to the Ten Thousand Border Iron Blood Queen. They couldn’t hold a candle to it.

"Don’t you worry, my little treasure. Just be patient for a moment. We’ll be intimately acquainted very soon."

After pulling back his gaze,

Wu Dao suppressed the itching, ravenous hunger of his physical body. Calming his mind, he opened his attribute panel—

[Physique: Sacred Spirit]

[Extraordinary: Essence Devouring·Opening the Sky (9/12)+]

...

[Holy Spirit Divine Techniques: One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations - Dharma Aspect 0/33]

...

Divine Format: Primordial·Lower True God 1/33+

...

[Teleportation Points: 15,000,000]

(To avoid accusations of padding the word count, I’ll only show the full panel during major breakthroughs from now on.)

After his consciousness swept over his various Cultivation paths,

Wu Dao’s focus settled on One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations and the Primordial Divine Format.

These two Cultivation paths

were a crucial part of his future Cultivation plan.

The Great Divine Technique, One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations,

was born from the Five Great Sacred Spirit Divine Techniques. Its backbone was the Black Tortoise’s Dao of ’External Incarnation’; it was both a Clone Divine Technique and a Dharma Aspect.

After it reached the Emperor Grade,

if used as an Incarnation divine technique,

Wu Dao could create five Dharma Level Incarnations, each one tier lower than himself.

If he created Pseudo Dharma Aspects,

that number could be doubled.

Anything below a Pseudo Dharma Aspect,

and the number he could create would be truly countless.

One could say it was an absurdly powerful technique.

But it still wasn’t enough.

Wu Dao’s plan was to create a number of Dharma Aspect Incarnations equal to his number of Heaven-Opening Techniques. He would then use Divine Fire to establish Faith Channels, effectively outsourcing his Cultivation and exploiting his own labor.

If he succeeded,

his Cultivation would be divided into three parts:

his Main Body, his clones, and the Primordial Dao Wheels.

Each clone would be equipped with a Primordial Dao Wheel. They would all undergo arduous Cultivation and comprehension in extreme environments, excavating the All Heaven potential of his Dao Body.

His Cultivation speed would be...

It would be more than just using a cheat.

It would *be* cheating.

And this was no fool’s dream.

On the contrary,

he had already gathered all the necessary materials, and his prototypes had proven the plan’s feasibility. All that remained was mass assembly.

HUU~

His stray thoughts scattered.

Wu Dao no longer hesitated. He pressed the plus sign on his Primordial Divine Format, then on One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations, upgrading both Cultivation paths simultaneously.

BOOM!

A long-absent, indescribably vast Energy erupted like a volcano within his Sea of Origin. It baptized his Trillion Yuan Magnet Crystal Particles and crashed against the All Heaven Barrier within the Sea.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH~

Within the already established Primordial Heavenly Cycle,

the Lord of the All Heaven who reigned over the Thirty-Three Layers of Divine Realm was a Primordial Celestial Demon. He carried the Primordial Dao Wheel on his back, and his sacred, majestic, violet-gold Divine Fire was tinged with a faint, pitch-black Demon Nature.

As the boundless energy from the upgrade struck,

it was as if Jadescent Nectar had been poured upon him. The Divine Fire on the Primordial Celestial Demon’s body blazed up as if doused in fuel.

Accompanied by the demonic, whispered praise of countless beings in the Thirty-Three Layers of Divine Realm, the Second Layer of the Divine Realm lit up. The smile on the Primordial Celestial Demon’s lips grew even more wicked.

VMM VMM VMM!

After the Second Layer of the Divine Realm was lit,

the progress in excavating the potential of his Primordial Magnetic Dao Body jumped. His Crystal Grain Body transformed once more, and his Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel spun wildly, adding another two hundred rotations to his Primordial Magnetic Power.

His Essence Devouring Primordial Magnetic Power

had reached nine hundred rotations!

Opening an All Heaven world was fifty rotations.

The First Step was one hundred rotations.

The Second Step was two hundred rotations.

Of course,

after an upgrade, the overall primordial magnetic quality of the Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel’s rotations also increased.

It wasn’t as if

the quality and Mighty Power of the Magnetic Field Power at one hundred rotations were the same as at one rotation. What kind of breakthrough would that be? It would be a completely pointless upgrade.

CLANG—BOOM!

The sound of Heaven and Earth Creation rang out once more!

A One Yuan Wanhua Circulation!

Opened!

A sea of potential erupted from the new All Heaven world, pouring into the Trillion Yuan Magnet Crystal Particles and enhancing Wu Dao’s Magnetic Field Power.

To Wu Dao’s slight surprise,

after opening one All Heaven world, One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations still had plenty of power left and actually carved out a second one!

One technique had "stolen" two All Heaven worlds!

The moment they opened, they fed back one hundred rotations of Primordial Magnetic Power!

Such a thing...

In all of Wu Dao’s deductions after achieving his Dao Body, only an Emperor Scripture-level Cultivation Technique, one that had truly produced an Emperor, possessed the potential to do this.

In other words,

this Holy Spirit Divine Technique, One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations,

was guaranteed to produce an Emperor as long as one continued to cultivate it!

’If One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations can steal two Heavens from the Dao Body, then couldn’t the stronger Transverse Cultivation and Soul Refining Technique reach the three-Heaven Dao Level?’

Wu Dao’s mind surged with excitement.

He felt a flicker of anticipation.

As for the Primordial Magnetic Divine Techniques,

they all shared the same root in the Primordial Magnetic Dao. The seven techniques were, in essence, one. One technique opening seven Heavens—their future limit was unimaginable.

"ROAR ROAR ROAR—"

After the two One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations All Heaven worlds opened, Sacred Spirits roared from within the primordial chaos. They swiftly suppressed the elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind, stabilizing the new All Heaven Small Worlds.

Then,

all the Sacred Spirits gathered at the center of the All Heaven worlds to form a Dao Foundation. They transformed into two majestic Gods and Demons wreathed in Chaos Qi, their forms constantly shifting to reflect all living things. With straight spines, they held up the Thirty-Three Heavens, which likewise began to generate the phenomena of all existence.

Pushed by the torrent of upgrade energy that followed, the Thirty-Three Heavens within both One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations Minor Circulations lit up and solidified their First Heaven, just as expected.

The Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel spun and surged once more.

In the end,

the opening of the two One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations All Heaven worlds,

by merely lighting up their First Heaven, had increased Wu Dao’s Primordial Magnetic Power by three hundred rotations, bringing his Magnetic Field vortex to a total of one thousand two hundred rotations!

Power as vast as the Abyss surged relentlessly within him, filling his heart with an unprecedented sense of might.

Wu Dao was confident.

Now,

he could achieve King Grade, Ninth-Step combat power without borrowing the power of the greater Magnetic Field. He could crush the combined forces of the eight parties from the previous hunting ground, even if they had the Yong Bird on their side.

HUU~

Suppressing the frenzied thoughts that surged within him,

Wu Dao took a moment to settle his mind.

His consciousness then turned to the crowd of believers within his Celestial Prison Cage All Heaven world, all waiting to be enlightened by him.

Everything was ready; he only needed to take the next step.

The main event was next.

He was going to mass-produce Primordial Dao Wheels!

VMM~

With a single thought,

the densely packed, colorful, humanoid cocoons of all sizes within his Celestial Prison Cage All Heaven world were all transferred into the solidified First Layer of the Divine Realm inside his Primordial Heavenly Cycle.

Within the Primordial Heavenly Cycle,

the Primordial Celestial Demon cast a compassionate gaze upon the lost souls in the Divine Realm. And yet, his lips twisted into a sinister smile, revealing two rows of shark-like Evil Ghost teeth. He was the perfect fusion of God and Demon.

FWOOSH~

The transmuted, three-colored Divine Fire of violet, gold, and black erupted like a volcano, its blazing flames rapidly engulfing the Divine Realm.

He encountered no resistance.

These Dharma Aspect Divine Ability Users

had long ago been completely corrupted and synchronized by Wu Dao’s Life Magnetic Field. Aside from lacking a Faith Channel, they were already his fanatical zealots.

Under such circumstances,

they naturally would not resist the establishment of a Faith Channel. In their eyes, it was a gift from their Supreme God.

CRUNCH CRUNCH~

Once the Faith Channels were established,

’Whew, what a huge undertaking,’

Wu Dao thought, rolling his neck and letting out a soft sigh. He submerged his entire consciousness into the Divine Realm of his Primordial Heavenly Cycle and began to focus on "working the assembly line."

One for his Main Body.

Then one for each of his Daos, plus twenty for his Heaven-Opening Techniques.

In total, he needed to build thirty-one Primordial Dao Wheels—thirty-one Cultivation-accelerating aids.

As for his Divine Format,

it required faith and Divine Fire and couldn’t be improved through this method of Cultivation, so it was excluded.

「Half a month later.」

VMM~

Within the magnetic storm,

Wu Dao finally opened his eyes again. He activated One Origin, Ten Thousand Transformations, and the muscles on his back swelled into a sphere as he frantically poured in his Life Origin.

After reaching a certain threshold,

Wu Dao grew extremely weak, nearly drained dry. Like a queen ant laying eggs, human faces appeared on the membrane of the fleshy sphere on his back. They tore through the film and dropped to the ground, one after another, like a newborn litter.

After all the clones were born,

Wu Dao spun his Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel, devouring the wildly pure magnetic energy. His body instantly recovered, and his depleted Life Origin rapidly regenerated.

He looked up.

The thirty clones were physically identical; the only differences were in their auras and power levels.

One was like a descended Thunder God, another carried a Divine Sword on its back, a third was like an Ancient Fierce Beast, and another was wreathed in the aura of the Great Annihilation...

That was right.

The clones he had created this time were specialists.

Each clone represented one of Wu Dao’s Divine Technique Cultivations.

Each one was assigned to cultivate a single Cultivation Technique.

With the stimulus of extreme environments and the aid of the Primordial Dao Wheels, their Cultivation speed would be boosted as if by a hack.

Most importantly,

once the Primordial Dao Wheels established a synchronized Magnetic Field transmission channel, any strengthening of a clone’s magnetic origin would also strengthen his own.

Hm.

To put it bluntly,

it was like adding thirty miners to the mine of his body, who would excavate the mineral resources of his Dao Body day and night without rest.

VMM VMM VMM—

After birthing the clones,

the All Heaven worlds inside Wu Dao’s body vibrated once more. Thirty-one Primordial Dao Wheels flew out, each like a vortex in a Star Sea, whispering countless hymns of praise.

Thirty of them

floated behind the thirty clones. They extended a dense forest of Magnetic Field tentacles that bored into the clones’ bodies and souls, beginning the magnetic synchronization.

Each of these thirty Primordial Dao Wheels

had four Dharma Phase Practitioners at its core, three thousand nodes, an inner ring of top-tier Great Divine Power Users, and an outer ring composed entirely of Divine Ability Users.

The largest wheel,

the one exclusively for Wu Dao, had an even more powerful core: Lie Huang and Romer, two Saint Grade, Fourth-Step practitioners, and two King Grade, Sixth-Step practitioners.

Compared to before,

the quality upgrade was like going from a musket to a cannon.

Wu Dao had deduced

that the overall potential and lifespan of this batch of Primordial Dao Wheels’ Life Magnetic Fields would be enough to support all his Daos past the Fifth Step. They wouldn’t become obsolete for a very long time.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

After a short while,

the Primordial Dao Wheels and the thirty Incarnations finished synchronizing.

Wu Dao also opened the Primordial Magnetic Faith Channel, linking his own origin with those of the clones.

With a single thought,

the thirty Incarnations commanded the Magnetic Field and shot into the Eye of Hell. They bored through layer after layer of the vortex, searching for extreme magnetic environments suitable for cultivating their respective Divine Techniques.

’Little treasure, I’m coming inside now,’

he thought as his clones plunged into the Eye of Hell.

Wu Dao himself grinned with ravenous hunger. Carrying his own Primordial Dao Wheel on his back, he plunged headfirst into the layers of the berserk magnetic vortex within the Eye of Hell.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

The sound of his eardrums being pierced rang out ceaselessly.

In the blink of an eye,

Wu Dao pierced through more than a dozen layers of the vortex.

His body and soul constantly disintegrated under the lashing of the "Iron Blood Queen," until he finally entered a state of pure ecstasy. He exploded into countless, brilliant Primordial Magnetic Crystals and vanished into the depths.