Global Awakening: I'm the Only One Ready

Without an ounce of hesitation, Lu Yuan took out Fuxi's Bagua Diagram and activated it with his blood essence.

However, he was not trying to find the Celestial Star this time. Instead, he was checking every nearby planet with life.

According to their calculations, that Extracosmic Heavenly Demon would definitely devour living beings again. It was very likely that Celestials were guiding it, which meant every planet with life was now shrouded in danger.

Fortunately, they only needed to investigate the Thunderflash Starfield. If it were the entire universe, things would be different. There were too many such planets. Even for them, finding them all would be impossible.

And even if they found them, they could not visit them all. There were simply too many.

Soon, under Lu Yuan's activation, stars lit up in succession on Fuxi's Bagua Diagram. Among them, the planets with life also appeared.

This was the function of the treasure. As long as the person activating it had a specific target, it could find all the relevant stars. Not only did this save time, it was also exceptionally precise.

"Around us, there are a total of thirteen planets with large numbers of living beings. We will check them all, from nearest to farthest. If nothing unexpected happens, we will definitely be able to find that Extracosmic Heavenly Demon."

Looking at the display on the Bagua Diagram, Lu Yuan already had a rough route in mind.

Beside him, Jiang Ningxian and the others had no objections and immediately nodded. They did not know what finding the Extracosmic Heavenly Demon would mean, nor did they know how powerful it truly was.

There was only one thought in their minds. They could not allow it to continue harming the beings of this world.

Lu Yuan then put away the Bagua Diagram and swept his hand out.

Rumble.

A void passage appeared.

On the other side of the passage was a planet, which was also the first target of this newly planned route.

Logically speaking, planets with life were usually separated by extremely vast distances.

Even an Immortal would need some time to arrive. But Lu Yuan was too powerful, and his methods were heaven-reaching. The passage he opened could let them cross an extremely distant span.

Everyone stopped hesitating and stepped into the passage.

Meanwhile, on a massive planet elsewhere in the Thunderflash Starfield, a huge black altar had already been constructed in a particular region.

It was surrounded by dozens of active volcanoes that constantly spewed magma upward.

Scorching heat filled this stretch of land.

Above it stood a Celestial. He stood in midair with bolts of thunder ravaging around him unceasingly. An extremely powerful aura poured out of him.

Below, countless beings were lined up around those active volcanoes. They were not human, but they were all beings of this planet.

They looked different from humans, but both species were beings of this universe. More importantly, these beings possessed no great power, much like the ordinary people on Earth.

"Quickly. All of you, enter the volcanoes. Otherwise, I will act personally."

Above them, the Celestial spoke, his voice exploding like thunder. Compared with those ordinary beings, he was overwhelmingly powerful, like a heavenly god.

Truth be told, the Celestials were the rulers of the Thunderflash Starfield. In the eyes of the other beings within this starfield, they were existences akin to gods.

As such, although these beings were afraid, they still obeyed the order in the end and threw themselves into the volcanoes one after another, trembling.

The scene was extremely terrifying. If this happened on Earth, it would be like someone forcing ordinary people to die. But those beings regarded the Celestials as gods, so they all leapt down without hesitation.

Some had indeed resisted, but they had already died long ago.

And such was the present scene on the planet.

Countless ordinary beings, driven by threat and fear, were gathered in one place. Then they stepped into the volcanoes themselves and became sacrifices.

This had already continued for some time, and the dead numbered in the hundreds of millions.

"Everything is ready now. I wonder when that lord will arrive," the Celestial muttered to himself and looked into the distance.

Ever since those lords had descended, the Celestials had already submitted.

When they heard that living beings needed to be sacrificed in blood so those lords could recover their strength, they complied without hesitation. That was because the Celestials had also gained many benefits from their descent.

More importantly, before this, the Ji Clan had also sent word.

Therefore, it was not only this planet. Across the entire Thunderflash Starfield, every planet with large numbers of living beings had been turned by the Celestials into a site for blood sacrifice.

Those with fewer beings were not worth their attention at all. Their numbers were too small, so they were not very useful.

Boom.

Just then, the void shook, and a black shadow suddenly appeared. His body was shrouded in mist, and a powerful aura radiated from him.

Perhaps because that power was too strange, the space around him distorted and rumbled continuously, as if this world itself rejected his arrival.

"My lord!"

When the Celestial saw him, he hurried over and said respectfully, "I have already sacrificed hundreds of millions of beings on this planet and accumulated enough powerful energy on the altar. It will definitely allow you to recover another portion of your strength.

"Also, the other planets are being prepared as well. Once we're done on this planet, you may head there."

Hearing this, the black figure nodded and said softly, "You have done well.

"Now, many experts have gathered on the Celestial Star. Those companions of mine can barely hold the situation, so I must continue accumulating strength and advance another step before going to the Celestial Star. When the time comes, the balance of victory will tilt. I hear there is even a Supreme Immortal there," the black figure said, the trace of anticipation in his voice evident.

It seemed he had planned everything long ago.

"Understood!" The Celestial beside him also had a gleam in his eyes after hearing this.

The black figure said nothing more. With a single step, he appeared atop the black altar.

Then he sat cross-legged and opened his mouth to inhale.

Immediately, endless life essence erupted from the dozens of surrounding volcanoes and all entered his body. That was the power formed after living beings were sacrificed, and now it was being treated as nourishment for this black figure.

As he absorbed more and more life essence, the black mist around him grew denser than before. The aura he emitted became even more terrifying.

It seemed an Extracosmic Heavenly Demon could only grow stronger by absorbing this life essence. This was terrifying, because ordinary cultivation and evolution involved absorbing the power of heaven, earth, and the universe.

Yet the black figure relied on absorbing the essence of living beings.