Essence Devouring Art

A colossal Grotto Heaven Level mothership.

Traveling at full speed, it was no slower than a Cave Heavens Realm expert traversing the void.

The Giant Axe Sacred Land was vast.

It was once a Great Thousand World.

But now, it was decayed and dilapidated. In less than a day, the two parties had already approached the Giant Axe Sacred Land’s Ancestral Land.

However, the closer they got, the graver the expressions on both sides became.

Before them, in the center of the Great World, a gigantic ocean eye seemed to be churning, drawing in endless Tribulation Qi from the forbidden area and compressing it into a miniature Sea of Chaos.

Even from millions of miles away, it could be clearly seen and heard.

Inside, tempests of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind raged ceaselessly. Multicolored Tribulation Thunder flashed and exploded, pulling shattered lesser worlds to collide and annihilate one another, emitting terrifying, world-shattering rumbles.

"GULP~"

The sound of gulping rippled across the deck.

All the Dharma Phase Practitioners turned deathly pale.

The greed in their hearts had turned to fear.

Even from millions of miles away, they could still feel the Purgatory-like Power of Destruction radiating from the Chaos.

’Not strong enough!’

’Getting any closer means certain annihilation!’

’This place is way more intense than the Thunder Pool.’

Wu Dao, on the other hand, gazed at the Tribulation Chaos Sea enveloping the Giant Axe Ancestral Land. He felt the Magnetic Field Power that made his cells sing with joy, and his ’lust’ for it surged. He wished he could just jump in and immerse himself.

’However, my Main Body has already found a Thunder Pool, so I won’t need to move for the time being. But after I finish absorbing it, this place is definitely worth considering.’

*SIGH...*

At the front of the deck, the Daylight Saint Child observed the Tribulation Chaos Sea from a distance. His expression was also grave as he turned to his followers and commanded:

"Those below the Tenth Layer of the Emperor Grade Dharma Aspect, disperse and search the other regions. Those at the Tenth Layer and above, follow me to explore the Ancestral Land."

After speaking, he sent a voice transmission to Wu Dao as a reminder, "The Profound Yin Saint Child has likely brought a top-tier Saint Grade Celestial Soldier with him. Once we enter the forbidden area, Heaven-Reaching, you must be extra careful."

"Thank you for the reminder, Saint Child."

Wu Dao nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over to the deck of the not-too-distant Profound Yin Ship. There stood the Profound Yin Saint Child, his features sinisterly handsome and his aura incomparably grim.

Coincidentally, the man glanced back at him coldly, as if looking at a corpse.

’A Celestial Soldier...’

Wu Dao calmly retracted his gaze, a sense of caution rising in his heart.

Among Artifacts, a Celestial Soldier’s offensive and defensive Mighty Power corresponded to the Human Dao Cave Heaven Realm.

’A top-tier Celestial Soldier at the Saint Grade level.’

’In other words, unleashing its full Mighty Power would be comparable to a Ninth-Layer Saint Grade Grotto Heaven cultivator.’

’Even if the Profound Yin Saint Child’s own strength is limited and he can’t unleash the Celestial Soldier’s full Mighty Power, his strength will still skyrocket several levels once he wields it. I have to be on guard.’

On the deck of the Profound Yin Ship, after casting a frigid glance at Wu Dao, the Profound Yin Saint Child licked his crimson lips and said to the Daylight Saint Child with a humorless smile:

"Well, Brother Tongguang, I told you that you wouldn’t be able to break in alone. I wasn’t wrong, was I?"

"Cut the crap. I hope you don’t bring ruin upon yourself."

The Daylight Saint Child snorted a cold warning.

Then, without wasting any more words on the Profound Yin Saint Child, he led his people off the warship and was the first to head toward the forbidden area.

The Profound Yin Saint Child wasn’t wrong.

The Daylight Saint Child truly couldn’t break into the forbidden area enveloping the Giant Axe Ancestral Land by himself. Forcing his way in would be life-threatening.

Therefore, no matter how unwilling he was, the Daylight Saint Child could only suppress his disgust for the time being and cooperate with the Profound Yin Saint Child.

"Heh heh, boy, you can run, but you can’t hide forever!"

At the back of the group, Wu Dao suddenly received a frigid voice transmission from the Profound Yin Saint Child, one filled with killing intent, like a viper hissing in the dark.

’Oh.’

Wu Dao’s only response was that single, indifferent thought. He didn’t even spare the man a glance; he had always been one for action, not words.

His dismissive attitude instantly caused the Profound Yin Saint Child’s face to darken even further.

’A damn dog-slave.’

’How dare he humiliate me again and again? He truly doesn’t know when to die!’

Wu Dao had no time to deal with the Profound Yin Saint Child, whose killing intent was soaring. His perception remained locked onto the Star God Hall fleet tailing them from behind.

Perhaps because they were nearing the forbidden area, the Star God Hall fleet had closed the distance significantly. It stopped far away, and one by one, male and female Celestial Prides with stunning, divine bearing emerged.

Using some unknown method, they concealed themselves within the void so effectively that not even the Daylight Saint Child or the Profound Yin Saint Child could detect them in the slightest.

However, this clumsy trick was like showing off an axe before the master carpenter Lu Ban to Wu Dao, who controlled the Magnetic Field.

He could even ’see’ the pleased, confident smile on the face of the leading Emperor’s Son from the Star God Hall.

He could also ’hear’ the communications between the various Star God Hall Celestial Prides.

Through this information, Wu Dao learned the strength of Meng Zheng, the most powerful among these "fishermen."

Emperor Grade Cave Heaven Second Layer.

If all other factors were disregarded, he alone could take on the Daylight Saint Child and the Profound Yin Saint Child combined as easily as if it were a game.

’After entering the Ancestral Land, I need to find a chance to slip away and watch the tigers fight from the mountain.’

After retracting his senses, Wu Dao already had a plan.

If it were only the Profound Yin Saint Child and the Daylight Saint Child, he could have used his information advantage to guide them into being his "locksmiths" and reap the fisherman’s profit.

But now, with the unstable factor of Meng Zheng, an Emperor Grade Second Layer expert, the situation was completely different.

Once both sides entered the Ancestral Land, they could break into a massive fight over Creation at any moment.

If he continued to follow the Daylight Saint Child, he would likely get caught in the crossfire and be exposed prematurely. The loss would far outweigh the gain.

RUMBLE—

Chaos thunder boomed as the Tribulation Qi swirled like a vortex.

The Daylight Saint Child and the Profound Yin Saint Child led the way.

The group soon arrived at the periphery of the Chaos vortex enveloping the Giant Axe Ancestral Land.

It was like standing at the mouth of the Purgatory Abyss.

Multicolored lights of tribulation filled every inch of space. As far as the senses could reach, there was only a scene of destruction, enough to make one’s heart pound in terror.

The Daylight Saint Child and the Profound Yin Saint Child stared at the Abyss of destruction before them, where all forms were blurred, their expressions graver than ever.

After exchanging a glance, the two took a deep breath and struck simultaneously.

"OPEN!!"

RUMBLE—

Along with their synchronized roar, the two men’s bodies rapidly grew, becoming as immense and majestic as Gods and Demons. The sun, moon, and stars seemed like mere dust particles beside them. Within the three heavy, rumbling Mixed Caves inside their bodies, their World Dragon Veins opened their eyes and awakened.

ROAR!!

Six Dragon Veins roared, shaking the heavens and the earth.

They spat out two-colored Light of Creation, one black and one gold, which fused into a beam of pulsed light that forcibly blasted a deep, safe passage through the Chaos.

"It won’t be stable for long! Go!"

After opening the passage, the Daylight Saint Child’s voice was like rolling thunder. With a single step, his majestic body erupted with the radiance of a Divine Sun, piercing through the primordial gloom. He led the group across and into the depths of the Chaos Forbidden Area.

’Without these two, I really couldn’t have gotten in so quickly.’

Wu Dao followed safely behind the path-clearing Daylight Saint Child, feeling the extremely chaotic Power of Destruction in the surrounding Magnetic Field. He acknowledged that this clone of his could not yet control it.

’The Cave Heavens Realm. After forging a World Dragon Vein, one begins to touch upon the fundamental principles of the world’s operation. By mastering the power of the world’s myriad veins, one can refine Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind to open a stable Grotto Heaven space-time in the outside world. For them, breaking through a Tribulation Qi Forbidden Area is a process of refining Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind. The passage is the Grotto Heaven’s domain, created and opened by them. Though my current state defies logic, destruction does not equal creation. The method of creating something from nothing, like opening a Grotto Heaven in the outside world, will require another transformation of my Primordial Magnetic Power. I’ll only be able to do it after I analyze and master the Great Dao’s Magnetic Field on a deeper level.’

RUMBLE—

Within the destructive Tribulation Qi Forbidden Area, the Daylight Saint Child and the Profound Yin Saint Child were like two Chaos God-Demons. Their Grotto Heavens hung high above their heads, Dragon Veins spewing the Light of Creation as they worked together, continuously tunneling downward as if digging a well.

Wu Dao reaped the benefits without lifting a finger.

He leisurely followed behind the two free "miners," while his perception remained warily fixed on Meng Zheng and the others from the Star God Hall behind them.

Fortunately, along the way, Meng Zheng and his group never revealed any trace of killing intent.

They clearly had some understanding of the Giant Axe Ancestral Land.

Before they reached the core treasures, they wouldn’t make a move to "kill the donkey after it’s done grinding the mill."

BOOM—CLANG!

It was unknown how long they had been tunneling. After the auras of the two "Saint Child miners" had weakened, a sound like a shovel striking ore suddenly exploded through the Chaos—the clang of metal on stone.

*VMMMM~*

In that instant, an ancient, primal, bone-chilling killing intent surged up violently from the primordial depths.

Like an Ancient Fierce Beast locking onto its prey, it made everyone’s hair stand on end as the Heart Lake Alarm Bell rang wildly in their minds.

’What in the world did they dig up?’

The moment that indescribably vicious aura locked onto them, Wu Dao’s eyelids began to twitch violently. He could barely suppress his survival instincts, which screamed at him to flee from danger.

"Not good!"

The two Saint Childs’ expressions also changed drastically.

Sensing an aura of death brewing and rising from below, they played their trump cards without a second thought.

BOOM!

Wooo—

Infinite Nether Light surged forth.

Amidst the wails of ghosts and the howls of gods, a three-legged, giant cauldron rose from within the Profound Yin Saint Child’s Grotto Heaven. It had four demonic head-shaped ears and resembled a black skull.

It emerged like a Purgatory Furnace, pressing down on everything.

Within the cauldron’s nine Netherworld Mixed Caves, countless beings seemed to be wailing and screaming in agony. It spewed out endless, pitch-black ghostly flames that enveloped and protected him and all his followers.

A top-tier Saint Grade Celestial Soldier—

the Netherworld Cauldron!

"CHIRP!!"

On the Daylight Saint Child’s side, he also summoned a Saint Grade Celestial Soldier.

It was a golden Treasure Wheel.

A fiery red Divine Sun hung at its center.

The moment it erupted, majestic and blazing, a Golden Crow appeared as if bathed in the sun’s light.

The Supreme Yang and Firm Great Sun’s fire illuminated the primordial world, burning and twisting everything in all Ten Directions into a shimmering golden expanse.

The Golden Crow Treasure Wheel!

It was also a top-tier Saint Grade Celestial Soldier.

It was said to have been forged by an elder from the Ten Thousand Laws Alliance, who spent a thousand years refining the Great Sun Essence Fire from a million mature great suns and fusing it with all sorts of Supreme Yang rare treasures from the Grand Cosmos.

In terms of Mighty Power, it was a cut above the Profound Yin Saint Child’s Netherworld Cauldron, as the Great Sun Essence Fire could suppress Netherworld yin qi.

CLANG!

Almost at the exact moment the two Saint Childs summoned their Sacred Artifacts, an extremely dark and ominous beam of vicious light shot up from the bottom of the deep, churning sea of Chaos Tribulation Qi.

It was like a black line on a white sheet of paper, or a crack in the World itself.

Wherever it passed, all the Tribulation Qi, and even the Grotto Heaven passage they had opened, was sliced in two like a hot knife through boiling oil, completely unstoppable.

"Dammit! The Ancestral Land’s World-Protecting Array has mutated!"

The moment the Daylight Saint Child saw the vicious light formed from countless black Dao Patterns, his face drained of all color. He unleashed the full power of the Golden Crow Treasure Wheel with all his might, not daring to hold anything back or be distracted for even a second.

But what he failed to notice was that Wu Dao, who had been following behind him all along, had taken advantage of the chaos to slip into the Magnetic Field and vanish without a trace.