Desolate Devouring Art

The four astral domains lay clustered within the same region of the cosmos.

The Laman Astral Domain sat far from the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, while the Spirit Martial Astral Domain floated deep in the universe, home to many bizarre races that rarely interacted with either the Indigo Bamboo or the Laman Astral Domains.

The strangest relationship, however, existed between the Indigo Bamboo and the Blood Fiend Astral Domains. These two astral domains almost touched, separated only by several massive planets and the different races that ruled them.

Blood fiends and abyssal devils differed completely. The blood fiends descended from the Asura God and shared the same root as the rakshasa clan. In contrast, abyssal devils descended from the Primordial Demon Emperor and held a faint connection to the nether clan and the ghost clan.

Both could be labeled devils or demons, yet the gap between them was immense. Blood fiends were far more cruel, their entire bodies crimson, while ordinary abyssal devils were ink-black.

Blood fiends were savage by nature and reproduced at a terrifying rate, to the point that the Blood Fiend Astral Domain could no longer contain their numbers.

Rumor said the Asura God was a battle maniac who had expanded his territory from a single small planet into a vast astral domain in just a few million years. Over the ages, no one knew how many planets near the Blood Fiend Astral Domain the blood fiends had seized and turned into their own territory.

Since the two astral domains sat so close and no Astral Domain Sandstorm lay between them, the Indigo Bamboo and Blood Fiend Astral Domains almost connected directly.

By contrast, a heavenly river known as the Astral Domain Sandstorm divided the Laman and Indigo Bamboo Astral Domains.

That heavenly "river" consisted of countless asteroids colliding with one another, and the slightest carelessness there would see a traveler smashed into pieces. Anyone wishing to journey from the Laman Astral Domain to another astral domain could only rely on an interstellar teleportation array.

However, reaching the Blood Fiend Astral Domain required no interstellar teleportation array so long as one did not venture too deep into the central region. As long as one traveled on the edge of the Indigo Bamboo Astral Domain, they would be able to see the Blood Fiend Astral Domain with their own eyes.

Blood fiends reproduced at a terrifying rate, and, combined with the battle-craving etched into their bloodlines, humanity suffered a myriad of casualties over the years.