Essence Devouring Art

"Mixed Lotus Extreme Path..."

Wielding his Celestial Blade, Wu Dao continued to clash with Su Chen, whose physical aura was constantly growing stronger. His gaze was locked on the first-grade lotus flower rooted in the Chaos.

A tenfold amplification of combat power at its limit!

If this Divine Technique were to reach Great Success... perhaps only the Divine Image Heaven could surpass it. And most importantly, it has no side effects!

For the first time, Wu Dao felt a strong desire for a Divine Technique.

’If I could master this Divine Technique... and then deduce how to merge it with the Essence Devouring Art... the two unleashed and stacked together...’

Wu Dao’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.

BZZMM—

In the instant his thoughts surged, the Mixed Lotus Flower rooted in Su Chen’s Chaos Dantian blossomed to the third grade. His eyes turned blood-red, and both his body and soul began to crack. He had clearly reached his limit!

A third-grade lotus bloom!

A threefold power amplification!

At this moment, Su Chen had completely transformed into a colossal beast of Chaos, a Fierce God on the verge of exploding and destroying all worlds. His unparalleled, world-dominating aura crushed the entire Star Sea, causing it to plummet, while vast swathes of the Ancestral Land below exploded into Chaos!

CLANG—BANG!

His cracked palm, wreathed in Chaos Qi, slowly closed. A power as vast as the abyss erupted, and the Formless Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber was actually crushed to pieces on the spot by Su Chen’s grip!

"Do you see now?"

Su Chen took a single step, and the distance of spacetime seemed to vanish. He appeared before Wu Dao, once again assuming a posture of looking down on him, and said indifferently:

"This is the gap between us. What will you use to take back..."

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

BOOM!!

Before his voice could fade, and as the Heart Lake Alarm Bell had only just begun to ring, Su Chen saw a ferocious grin, one that held both God and Ghost. A heavy fist, like the falling firmament of the eternal universe, slammed viciously into his chest!

BOOM—BANG!!

The Chaos was plowed through once more!

Su Chen had come quickly, but he was sent flying even faster. He crashed through billions of layers of chaotic waves and slammed hard against the Infinite Golden Stele, exploding into a pile of mush again!

KRAKAKA—

Even the third-grade Mixed Lotus, swaying gracefully while rooted in his Chaos Dantian, developed cracks, looking as if it might shatter into nothingness at any moment!

"A piece of trash who powers up is still a piece of trash!"

Having unleashed his Divine Ghost Heaven, Wu Dao cracked his neck and sneered ferociously. He stomped, shattering the Chaos, and with his palm as a blade, he unleashed another magnificently grand slash at Su Chen!

"This..."

On the outskirts of the battlefield, the Little Thunder King and the other Celestial Prides stared at Su Chen, who was like a bedbug on the Infinite Golden Stele, completely stunned numb.

The Mixed Lotus Extreme Path!

He’s reached the third-grade bloom in the Cave Heavens Realm!

A threefold combat power amplification against those in the same realm, and it was amplifying a Chaos Body!

But even so... Su Chen still couldn’t even take a single punch from that Fierce God. It was like watching someone beat up a baby!

In that instant, they clearly felt the Fierce God’s aura double. He had obviously used some kind of amplifying Secret Technique.

Thinking of this, everyone suddenly understood.

It was obvious. Su Chen’s foundation was simply no match for that Fierce God’s. His threefold amplification was weaker than the other’s twofold!

’Trash...’

It was truly irrefutable.

But something felt wrong.

If a heaven-defying talent like Su Chen was trash... then what were they?

"AHH!! Impossible! KILL!!!"

A hysterical roar echoed!

Atop the Infinite Golden Stele, with disheveled hair, Su Chen’s face was twisted like an Evil Ghost. The corners of his eyes split open, spraying blood!

He had gone completely berserk.

His Chaos Dantian ran dry, and all twenty-seven of his Emperor Grade Grotto Heaven Dragon Veins were instantly squeezed to the point of breaking!

He was actually disregarding the damage to his Dao Foundation and had forcibly sprouted a fourth Mixed Lotus!

Clearly, the successive, humiliating setbacks had driven him to a frenzied, extreme state where he would stop at nothing.

BOOM—!

The frenzied, roaring Su Chen met the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber head-on with his fist, which erupted with Chaos Divine Thunder. He had clearly unleashed another one of the Chaos Body’s Lifebound Killing Divine Techniques.

KRAK!!

The eternally-shining Chaos Divine Thunder was blindingly dangerous, gushing with the power of destruction and creation from before the heavens and earth were split. It transformed into countless Thunder Dragons that stretched across the Star Sea, coiling around the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber!

"He’s insane! Completely insane!"

"Forcing open a fourth-grade Mixed Lotus by draining his Dragon Vein Dao Foundation! Even if he wins, he’ll suffer irreversible Dao injuries!"

"What kind of grudge do these two have?"

Su Chen’s maddened, demonic actions made the expressions of all the spectators change drastically.

Dao injuries were the hardest to heal!

Once a Dragon Vein Dao Foundation was damaged, only a Heaven-Defying Dao Medicine, a rarity in this world, could possibly heal it!

They didn’t understand. What was Su Chen so stubborn about?

Things had already reached this point, yet he still wanted to defeat that Fierce God with pure power.

The two of them weren’t on the same level at all!

From that Fierce God, they sensed a truly invincible posture, one that could sweep through all opposition!

Even a young Great Emperor Celestial Venerable wouldn’t be worthy!

"I told you, you’re just a trash species who only knows how to pick up scraps!"

Facing the frenzied Su Chen, Wu Dao felt no ripples in his heart. The descending Celestial Blade’s edge flared with immense incandescence, severing the Chaos Thunder Dragons one by one.

BANG!

Then, he changed his slash into a swat.

He slapped the furiously charging Su Chen onto the Golden Stele, turning him into a blurry paste of flesh and blood. The surging Divine Demon Qi Blood completely stained the Golden Stele!

’Alliance Leader, just play with him a little longer to attract attention and buy some time. We’re almost done.’

At this very moment, Zhao Jianji sent a message through the Faith Channel.

He indicated that the Grand Array to seal off the Star Sea would soon be complete. When it was, not even a mosquito would be able to fly out.

At the same time, Wu Dao also checked on his Incarnation’s progress. The sealing of the crack in the Ancestral Land was also in its final stages.

Sensing the state of the Little Thunder King and the others, he clearly noticed an icy killing intent gradually appearing in their eyes.

It seemed they were waiting for Wu Dao to eliminate Su Chen, the second most powerful competitor, and then they would strike with lightning speed to kill him!

The World Heavy Artifacts in their hands gave them the confidence to ignore a monster like him.

’Before the Grand Array is complete... I can’t let this group erupt and realize something is wrong, disrupting my plan.’

Therefore...

’Hmm... I’ll play for a little while longer.’

"KILL!!"

As tenacious as a cockroach, Su Chen, mad as a demon, charged at Wu Dao once more. His Innate Chaos Body and soul were both disintegrating, yet he faintly condensed a fifth Mixed Lotus.

This time, he had revived a World Heavy Artifact!

CRACKLE-POP—

It was a Chaos Thunder Hammer!

As it bore down, a Thunder World opened its floodgates, spewing forth billions of layers of Chaos Thunderbolt that transformed into thunder dragons, drowning the vast starry universe. It roared with the immense Power of Law of the World’s thunder, annihilating and refining all of spacetime and creation!

BZZMM—

Countless Chaos Thunder Dragons pressed down, but Wu Dao’s expression remained calm. He patted the Furnace Abyss Gourd at his waist, and like a black hole abyss being unsealed, it devoured and refined all the thunder dragons in the sky!

CLANG—

And then, unsurprisingly, Su Chen was once again slapped into a bedbug by the blade!

His nearly withered body slammed hard against the Infinite Golden Stele, and the tide of exploding Chaos God-Demon Qi Blood was completely devoured by the Celestial Stele.

’It’s grown stronger again...’

Wu Dao narrowed his eyes, gazing into the depths of the Ancestral Hall upon the Infinite Golden Stele. He focused on the faint, dangerous aura he had sensed before.

After devouring a large amount of the Chaos Body’s essence blood, it was as if a dead man was reviving. It gradually gained a trace of Spirituality, seeming as if it could awaken at any moment.

When he had arrived at the Infinite Ancestral Hall, Wu Dao had discovered something.

Of all the Desolate God Essence Blood that the entire Ancestral Hall had devoured from the Star Sea, only a small amount remained in the treasure pits outside.

The rest of the Desolate God Essence was being concealed by the Ancestral Hall’s domain field and funneled into an unknown space deep within, supplying some unknown existence.

’Is it raising a corpse, or...’

As his thoughts surged, Wu Dao used his Magnetic Field to probe the details of that unknown existence, while simultaneously slapping the noisy Su Chen onto the Infinite Golden Stele with one slash after another.

The Chaos Body’s essence blood seemed to be able to awaken that unknown existence, causing it to leak more and more information through its magnetic field.

CLANG—BANG!

After another slap from his blade, Wu Dao finally detected all the information about that unknown space deep within the Ancestral Hall. A look of unprecedented hunger and thirst erupted in his eyes!

"Hahaha!!!"

Just then, a crazed laugh rang out. Su Chen, his body shriveled like an old man on the verge of death, stopped trying to get up and instead laughed like a madman:

"You don’t dare kill me! I am the Son of Revival from Chaos City!

What are you?

You’re just a filthy, lowly, mud-legged failure from the countryside! What right do you have to kill me? How dare you!!

Just you wait!

What happened back then will happen again! Everything you have will be ours! Hahaha!!"

Evidently, Su Chen had been so thoroughly abused that he’d lost his mind, but his extreme unwillingness to accept defeat still made him cling to a pathetic sense of superiority.

He even brought out his backer to taunt Wu Dao, believing Wu Dao wouldn’t dare kill him.

"What a pity..."

On the outskirts of the battlefield, the Little Thunder King and the other Celestial Prides watched Su Chen’s disgraceful display. While shaking their heads and sighing, they couldn’t deny his words.

The scale of Chaos City was too terrifying!

The Common Lord of an entire Celestial Domain!

If they learned their Son of Revival had been killed, they would absolutely scour the All Heavens to exact vengeance!

Although the Taiyi Emperor Star blocked all external communication, and life and death were determined by fate and individual skill... when it involved the Common Lord’s Son of Revival... no one had the power to guarantee a perfectly clean kill that left no future trouble.

"Tsk..."

At the pinnacle of the Chaos Star Sea, Wu Dao casually swung his Celestial Blade, a mocking expression on his face as he looked down at the hysterical Su Chen beneath it:

"Guess if I dare or not?"

’People who resort to threatening others with their backers when they can’t win are a special kind of stupid. The consequences are the same whether I kill him or not. So why wouldn’t I kill him?’

"You..."

The bone-chilling killing intent enveloped him in an instant, and Su Chen’s crazed consciousness regained a sliver of clarity.

’Mo Chen’ was right.

’The consequences are the same, so why wouldn’t he dare?’

Thinking this, an intense desire to survive erupted.

Su Chen roared madly towards the outskirts of the battlefield:

"Kill him! Someone kill him for me! Whoever kills him, I, Su Chen, will pass on my Strongest Divine Techniques and Emperor Scriptures! I swear on the Great Dao, I will never..."

SHLIIICK—

Su Chen’s crazed voice came to an abrupt halt.

Under the shocked gazes of everyone, the brilliant Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber sliced Su Chen in two like a hot knife through butter, leaving only a wisp of a remnant soul to be seized in Wu Dao’s palm.

Tsk.

’How arrogant.’

Wu Dao looked at Su Chen’s struggling Divine Soul in his palm. Surprisingly, he didn’t find any backup measures left by some old monster.

Apparently, his own powerful strength and background had given Su Chen an arrogant sense of self-importance.

He believed no one on the Emperor Star could contend with him, and no one would truly dare to kill him!

This point could be seen from the fact that he came to the Taiyi Emperor Star alone, without any attendants.

"Hahaha, go on, kill me! If you kill me, you won’t live either, and you’ll never get your Chaos Dantian back!"

Perhaps because he had nothing left to lose, Su Chen’s Divine Soul gave up struggling and taunted coldly, "If you want to get the Chaos Dantian back, only if I live..."

POW!

Wu Dao’s brow furrowed slightly. He slammed his large hand shut, crushing the chattering Su Chen into a ball, which let out a shrill scream.

Toying with the Soul Ball in his hand, Wu Dao spoke with an icy gaze:

"You clueless thing, quiet down. Don’t say any more of this rubbish that insults my intelligence!"

’The Chaos Dantian? What a piece of garbage! Even Zhao Jianji and the other Primordial Demons wouldn’t want it, let alone me, Wu Dao!’

BZZMM—

After Su Chen quieted down, Wu Dao directly threw him to the Primordial Celestial Demon to be converted and have his memories absorbed.

’The Mixed Lotus Extreme Path. And all of Chaos City’s Great All Heavens Divine Techniques and Emperor Scriptures... those are all miners for the second stage of the Essence Devouring Art! The twenty-seven layers of Emperor Grade Cave Heavens are also good fodder for the Primordial Star Mother. Naturally, I must make the best use of everything.’

*Huuu~*

After doing all this, Wu Dao clearly felt as if a stumbling block on his path ahead had been shattered.

A thread of karma had been resolved, making him feel inexplicably lighter and more at ease, from the inside out.

He and Su Chen, as well as those other little bastards who had plundered his predecessor’s Creation, shared an inseparable karmic connection.

Karmic threads guided things from the shadows. Even if he hadn’t encountered him today, sooner or later, for one reason or another, he would have run into those little bastards and they would have become his fated enemies.

’Although... it seems they’re completely unworthy of the title. But I can’t be complacent! If I can resolve it early... I should naturally cut the weeds and pull up the roots, leaving no chance for them to grow and change!’

’Alliance Leader, it’s done!’

In the instant he suppressed Su Chen, Zhao Jianji’s excited voice rang in Wu Dao’s mind. The corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl up into a kind smile.

’The dessert is finished. It’s time for the main course!’

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