Essence Devouring Art

Holy Soldier Armament!

To be precise, it was the Celestial Soldier Armament Chapter from one of the Ten Great Supreme Divine Techniques, *Original Soldier Resolution*, combined with the Infinite Golden Body!

After the second stage.

The two supreme body-tempering Chapters had become part of the *Horizontal Refining of Infinite Primordial Scripture*—one of its Primordial Magnetic Branches—and had undergone an incredible transformation.

The most direct result was that Wu Dao could rely on the essence of his Undying Body and his Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles to cross the thirty-three steps and arm himself by fusing with a Holy Soldier!

Power is power, and realm is realm.

He had reached Saint-level combat power with his countless Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles, and although his Undying nature was heaven-defying, his microscopic essence was still just that of an Undying Body.

’Clash head-on with a Half-Saint Body?’

’That’s somewhat unrealistic.’

The difference in their life forms was equivalent to thirty-three qualitative transformations. It was impossible for his Primordial Magnetism to be the one true Dao while the Dao that had been cultivated in Hongyuan for eons was just garbage.

If there was a weakness, he would make up for it.

The Infinite Golden Body used Melted Soldiers and Cast Body, while the Celestial Soldier Armament turned weapons into armor. After they became a Primordial Magnetic Branch, the fusion of their microscopic structures surpassed the originals.

Before entering the Emperor’s Tomb, Wu Dao had extravagantly purchased and armed himself with a Four-Layered Holy Weapon. His physique was now no less durable than a Sacred Body, making a mere Half-Saint Body like Tao Chuan’s feel like an egg smashing against a stone!

Of course, Tao Chuan was incapable of understanding something so outrageously heaven-defying.

Let alone him, even Su Xiuqi, who had once been in the Great Saint Realm, couldn’t imagine why the body of a Creation Realm cultivator would be so monstrously powerful.

This was simply beyond the pale.

It was outside the bounds of their logic and understanding.

"Holy Soldier Armament... you bastard!"

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Wu Dao smirked and clenched his fist. The friction of electromagnetism within his physique created the sound of countless Divine Weapons assembling, as if a humanoid Ancient Fierce Weapon was awakening!

BOOM!

The heavens capsized and spacetime shattered!

The moment the seemingly ordinary fist came at him... DANG! DANG! DANG! The Heart Lake Alarm Bell in Tao Chuan’s mind nearly shattered. The sonic waves from the Fist Force, which surpassed the limits of his perception, rocked the vast Emperor’s Temple. It felt as if the weight of countless Worlds was crashing down on him!

The pressure was so unimaginable that his mind froze for an instant, leaving him unable to react!

CLANG—BANG!

The Body-Protecting Divine Light had only just appeared before it shattered into a billion streams of runic light.

The punch, moving like a hurtling ancient star, contained enough Energy to instantly blast Tao Chuan into a mist of golden blood, which was then scattered by the ensuing shockwave!

However, a Sacred Body was a Sacred Body for a reason. Even being just half a step there meant he had begun to acquire the trait of being indestructible through myriad tribulations. He wasn’t so easy to kill!

CRACKLE... POP...

Three thousand Supreme Yang Dragon Veins, like chains of a Magnetic Field, locked onto Tao Chuan’s scattered microscopic spiritual and physical structures. Devouring the Divine Power of the Emperor’s Temple, he regenerated amidst flashes of golden lightning in the distance.

"Kill!"

With a crazed roar, despite suffering such a crushing blow, Tao Chuan didn’t retreat. Instead, he became even more violent and ferocious, adjusting his condition and charging at Wu Dao once more.

DANG! DANG! DANG! This time, however, he was no longer rushing in mindlessly. He revealed his trump card: a suit of dazzling golden battle armor, interwoven with the dense patterns of a thousand mid-level rules, materialized around him!

It was a Great Saint Battle Armor!

In the Extraordinary Realm, it was never a case of realm being the only thing that mattered; external items were also a very important tool.

A Great Saint Battle Armor was enough to allow Tao Chuan’s combat power to break the shackles of his realm, letting him briefly reach his peak and even put up a fight against a Great Saint!

Of course, that was assuming his opponent was bare-handed!

"Fine. I’ll use you for some practice."

Wu Dao showed no fear. A slight smirk on his lips, he took out a pair of Wind Thunder Gloves, rolled his neck, and instead of retreating, he charged forward to meet Tao Chuan!

’A Great Saint Weapon?’

’If I sold the resources from my personal treasury, the entire Heaven-Burying Alliance wouldn’t be able to match even a tenth of it!’

Back on Cosmic Mountain, he had reaped all the Creation from the Celestial Prides of the All Heavens on the Emperor Star. Naturally, he didn’t lack Holy Soldiers; it was just that items at the Saint Master level or above were relatively rare.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! The Emperor’s Temple continued to shake as the two clashed in the Star Sea of the dome!

The sparks from the clashing Divine Iron were like the Celestial River pouring down, submerging vast swathes of spacetime. Stars forged from Divine Power exploded, and entire sections of the Star River were extinguished!

After just a few rounds of combat, a scream rang out. Tao Chuan was sent spilling blood across the Star River, cleaved in two by a single palm strike from Wu Dao. His surging, golden lifeblood was then completely absorbed by the Emperor’s Temple.

"What are you waiting for?! Are you just going to wait for him to kill us one by one?!"

As Tao Chuan regenerated in terror, he regained some of his senses and roared furiously at Su Xiuqi and the others in the temple!

It was true he had a Great Saint Weapon for armor. But the Nirvana True Lord also had the Great Saint Level Wind Thunder Gloves, which negated his advantage. He was being beaten like a dog the entire time; his Dragon Vein had almost been torn apart!

In a one-on-one fight, he was no match for this bizarre Nirvana True Lord. If this continued, death was the only outcome!

"Let’s join forces and kill him! The Heaven-Burying Stele must be on him!"

Su Xiuqi and the others knew they couldn’t afford to be picked off one by one. After exchanging a glance, they all summoned their treasures and charged into the battlefield on the dome!

"Haha, trying to gang up on me?"

Wu Dao grinned like a Demon Saint climbing out of Purgatory. Once again, instead of retreating, he advanced, smashing through the Star Sea and roaring, his voice shaking the Emperor’s Temple:

"You have no idea what you’re doing!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As Wu Dao charged forward, it was as if a Treasure Basin had opened its floodgates. Talismans and Killing Arrays flew out from his body...

...like a sky full of twinkling, malevolent stars!

The weakest among them were single-use, Great Saint Level consumables. Their destructive power erupted all at once, overwhelmingly flooding toward the Saints of the Heaven-Burying Alliance!

When you’re poor, you use precision strikes! When you’re rich, you use overwhelming firepower!

’He had money and firepower in spades. When you can just bury someone with money, why would you fight them head-on? Are you an idiot?’

"You monster! You have no Martial Virtue!!"

Su Xiuqi and the others were shocked by Wu Dao’s extravagance. The sky was filled with Big Killing Artifacts that twinkled like stars before unleashing heaven-rending beams of light. The entire Heaven-Burying Alliance, even at its peak, couldn’t have afforded so many!

’That animal!’

’Did he rob an entire Imperial Influence?’

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Wu Dao had thrown out too many Killing Artifacts!

It was as if a billion Worlds were exploding at once. Multi-colored Destruction Divine Light blasted out in all directions. The Star Sea on the dome completely shattered, and even the Dao Rules themselves manifested, only to collapse and break apart!

"Aargh! No!!"

An old coot from the Heaven-Burying Alliance shrieked in despair as he was vaporized!

He was too poor!

Without a top-tier Body-Protecting Divine Weapon, he was refined to death on the spot by the Big Killing Artifacts amidst the starry sky!

A Saint-level existence who had lived for over ten thousand years had died such an ignominious death, caught in the aftershock.

One had to admit, fate was a cruel mistress!

Even Su Xiuqi and the others were not faring well. Although they had various protective treasures, they were teetering on the verge of collapse as they struggled to withstand the stormy torrent of destruction!

What was even more terrifying was that Wu Dao, the one using all these Big Killing Artifacts, was still charging at them!

He was like an Ancient Cyan Dragon soaring from the abyss!

He plowed through the heavens and spacetime, instantly arriving in front of Tao Chuan!

"Infinite Magnetic Shock!"

A murderous light shot from Wu Dao’s eyes!

Without any nonsense, he spread his fingers wide. The countless Primordial Magnetic Crystal Particles in his body spun like turbines, and a billion thunderclaps rumbled in his palm as he slammed it down on Tao Chuan’s head!

A Saint was indestructible through myriad tribulations! Although Tao Chuan was only a Semi-Saint, his Horizontal Refining Mastery was astounding. He had also grasped a branch of the rules, allowing him to resurrect from the Primordial Rules even if his soul were to be utterly scattered!

Ordinary methods couldn’t kill him at all!

Only another Saint-level existence could deliver a fatal blow by annihilating his World Dragon Vein from the level of the fundamental rule field!

The Infinite Magnetic Shock, which annihilated the magnetic structural domain field layer by layer from the macroscopic to the microscopic, was undoubtedly the best killing technique for slaughtering a Saint from a lower realm!

"You’re just in the Creation Realm, and you want to kill me? Dream on!"

Tao Chuan roared in a frenzy. He fully unsealed his Half-Saint Body, about to step completely into the Sacred Body. Surrounded by streams of Body-Protecting Divine Light, he used world-ending air currents to block the tide of destruction and charged upward against the flow!

He was actually trying to clash head-on with Wu Dao!

’He has a Sacred Body! Indestructible, immortal, and imperishable! Only another Saint could kill him. Anyone below the Saint Realm, no matter how strong, was useless. There was no reason to be afraid!’

BOOM! In a ten-millionth of an instant, the two of them collided!

The explosive shockwave of divine light ravaged spacetime in the ten directions, mixed with electromagnetic flashes and thunder, as if a Star Sea had exploded, brilliantly illuminating the entire starry sky!

BANG! The instant they collided, the head of the iron-headed Tao Chuan was slapped into a bloody mist by Wu Dao, then ground down into Basic Particles!

’How could this be...?’

Tao Chuan was horrified beyond belief!

’That palm strike! It was too heavy, too strange!’

He was certain it contained no Power of Rule from the Saint Realm, yet it felt as if the contradictory force of countless rotating Worlds had smashed into him all at once!

The sheer mass and Energy it carried completely transcended his ability to endure!

’No! It wasn’t *like* that! It *was* that!!!’

The moment Tao Chuan perceived Wu Dao’s physique, he was so scared his souls nearly fled his body!

’How could that be a human body?’

It was constructed entirely from countless, dreamlike Myriad Phenomenon Crystal Grain Bodies. When its field unfolded, a Ganges Sand’s worth of Worlds turned into turbines, their friction rotating the grand universal field of heaven and earth and transforming it into killing power!

What was even more terrifying was that every single Crystal Grain Body seemed to carry a supreme Taoist Technique. Amidst the electromagnetic roar, they tugged on the root network of Hongyuan, manifesting the景象 of the Great Dao and all its myriad things!

’Is this a living being? How could a living being’s body carry ten thousand Daos? What a joke! It’s as if the Great Dao itself descended to the mortal world to practice Cultivation!’