Essence Devouring Art

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The might of the Emperor’s Weapon was boundless and infinite.

It was as if a Grand Cosmos had smashed into the Sea of Death!

The roiling Deadly Evil Qi stirred up monstrous waves that swept across the Ten Directions, shaking the various space-times and Garrison Cities of the Reincarnation Battlefield.

In another corner of the Reincarnation Battlefield, at Heaven-Seizing Pass, Jiang Han’s Red Sun Daoist Robe whipped about in the storm of Deadly Evil Qi kicked up by the Emperor’s Weapon. Behind him, within the Garrison City, Killing Arrays were rapidly reactivating one after another.

’A coincidence, or...?’

He gazed at the immeasurably brilliant Great Halberd.

Jiang Han’s eyes narrowed.

Having dealt with his fair share of schemes and conspiracies, he had become a bit paranoid.

The Mountain and Sea Realm had suddenly launched a fierce assault on the Six Celestial Passes. The main forces in the surrounding territories had just been transferred away, and now the Sea of Death was facing an enemy of this forbidden caliber!

Everything was unfolding as if it had been rehearsed.

It was simply too suspicious!

But before Jiang Han could ponder it further...

"Demon Awakening, come out and die!"

An immensely grand, ancient, and desolate killing cry!

It echoed from a torn Space-Time Node outside Demon Awakening City, the heart of the Sea of Death!

It looked down upon all creation, suppressing all of history!

Countless beings suffocated as a Great Emperor’s pressure pierced through the vastness of space-time, shaking the immense Sea of Death and stirring up hundreds of millions of thunderous roars in the void!

A Great Emperor!

Not an Emperor’s Weapon!

A true Emperor Level Desolate God had descended upon the Dead Sea Territory!

Its voice and presence shook the vast Sea of Death!

A torrent of ferocious, primordial Emperor Dao washed over and terrified endless living beings. Even Great Venerables and Quasi-Emperors felt like ants facing the sun, their hearts filled with infinite dread!

Its form was too enormous, too ferocious!

Claws that looked as if they were cast from Black Gold forcibly tore open the narrow Space-Time Channel!

Three heads, six tails, a human face, and a body of feathers!

Its true form appeared to be some kind of primordial vicious bird!

A physique powerful enough to burst a Grand Cosmos forced its way into the Sea of Death. The abyssal, ferocious aura coiling around it evaporated an immeasurable amount of the Sea of Death’s water, and its explosive roars blasted endless space-time into an abyss!

"A Great Emperor of the Tuomu Race?!?!"

「Across the battlefields of the Sea of Death.」

Celestial Kings felt a chill seep into their bones as they recognized the origin of the Emperor Realm Desolate God who had descended while resisting the rejection of the Great Dao.

The Tuomu Race!

A primordial vicious bird!

The West Mountain Imperial Family of the Mountain and Sea Realm!

Three heads and six tails!

It was said that each head and tail corresponded to a Mountain and Sea Great Divine Technique no weaker than the Hongyuan 72 Celestial Great Divine Powers!

Therefore, among the many Emperor Clans of the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Tuomu Race’s strength ranked among the very top!

A Great Emperor from the Tuomu Race, moreover, would have cultivated all nine of their Lifebound Divine Techniques to the Emperor Realm. An ordinary Great Emperor was no match for them at all!

An enemy of this caliber should be active in the Eight Celestial Passes.

Yet now, one had appeared at the Five Celestial Passes!

In that instant, the limbs of the many soldiers in the Dead Sea Territory turned cold as they felt layer upon layer of shadows blotting out the sky and enveloping them!

"Demon Awakening, die! I will endure the Great Dao itself to slay you!"

The Emperor’s domineering voice thundered and echoed across the Sea of Death.

It was deafening in every corner, like a heavenly hammer smashing into one’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Those with weaker cultivation instantly began to bleed from their mouths and noses, wishing they were dead!

Absolute power brought absolute confidence!

This Tuomu Race Great Emperor was incredibly tyrannical and arrogant. Not only did it look down on Demon Awakening Emperor, but it also proclaimed it would endure the Great Dao’s rejection to slay him!

But no one expected Demon Awakening Emperor to be even more arrogant than the Great Emperor of the Tuomu Race!

"A mongrel bird like you dares to act so fiercely?"

BUZZ!

Almost at the exact moment the Tuomu Race Great Emperor descended, the vast Demon Awakening City at the heart of the Dead Sea Territory seemed to transform into a dark Grand Cosmos!

Amidst an endless eruption of peerless demonic light, the silhouette of a Demon God with a tall and imposing figure, black hair draping over his shoulders, and abyssal eyes that looked down on all of history, stepped forward with a killing blade on his back.

His steps were neither heavy nor light, yet each one landed as if the heavens themselves were crashing to the earth!

They smashed the Tuomu Race Great Emperor’s pressure, causing it to disintegrate. His own might and presence were not the slightest bit weaker than the Tuomu Great Emperor’s!

’Demon Awakening Emperor...’

「Deep beneath the sea at Primordial Pass.」

Wu Dao gazed at the domineering figure emerging from the endless demonic light. He felt a peerless will from him, one that could sweep across All Heavens, just like the Slaughter Emperor!

He didn’t know much about Demon Awakening Emperor, this former follower of the Slaughter Emperor.

He only knew that the man had been suppressed by the Elder Council.

After attaining the Emperor Realm, he hadn’t been sent to the Eight Celestial Passes or Nine Heavens Pass to continue the fight. Instead, he was transferred to the Dead Sea Territory to guard the region, effectively benched.

Therefore, he had no idea how strong Demon Awakening Emperor had become after reaching the Emperor Realm. Not even Shanhai Pass had any battle records of him.

But... that madman, the Slaughter Emperor, never needed useless followers. One could only imagine what kind of monster a follower acknowledged by him would be!

Perhaps for this very reason, the Mountain and Sea Realm had paid a huge price to forcibly send a Great Emperor of an Emperor Clan into the Dead Sea Territory to deal with Demon Awakening Emperor!

Because they knew that an ordinary Great Emperor would be no match for Demon Awakening Emperor at all!

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Demon Awakening Emperor spoke again, his posture one of looking down on his foe:

"I need no weapon to slay you!"

CLANG—ROAR!!

The moment his voice fell, a dragon’s roar shook the Sea of Death!

The Emperor’s Weapon, the killing blade on Demon Awakening Emperor’s back, transformed into a black demonic dragon that spanned across space-time. With a flick of its tail that shattered the vast territory, it charged toward the Reincarnation Battlefield to confront the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Halberd!

""All hail the Great Emperor!!""

The soldiers of the All Heavens Pass roared, all of them infected by Demon Awakening Emperor’s supreme Battle Intent. The fear in their hearts was dispelled, and their blood began to boil!

A Great Emperor from a Mountain and Sea Emperor Clan!

The two words "Emperor Clan" alone were enough to make countless Primordial Creatures unable to breathe, to say nothing of a Great Emperor nurtured by one!

But Demon Awakening Emperor! His domineering will and confidence were boundless!

He declared he would slay the Tuomu Race Great Emperor without a weapon, and on top of that, he had even thrown his Emperor’s Artifact into the Reincarnation Battlefield!

An Emperor’s Weapon. The ultimate Killing Artifact short of a Dao Artifact!

In a sense, if brought to its peak state, the gap between it and a Great Emperor wasn’t large!

In other words, Demon Awakening Emperor intended to fight two Great Emperors at the same time. This was no longer just domineering; it was utter contempt!

All this took a long time to describe, but it happened in just a few moments.

Facing Demon Awakening Emperor’s contemptuous gaze.