Essence Devouring Art

"Hahaha, how arrogant! This Emperor shall weigh you today and see how much you’ve truly learned from that madman!"

The Great Emperor of the Tuomu Emperor Clan was not angered, but laughed instead.

His feathers vibrated, and countless plumes shot out multicolored divine light like vast seas of stars. His three heads and six tails bloomed with Dao Patterns, accumulating a devastating and ferocious aura.

"Arrogance stems from strength, and I happen to have that strength. You are not worthy of weighing me!"

The Demon Awakening Emperor’s gaze was as deep as a demonic abyss, his aura rapidly climbing. The friction and collision of their Dao Essences instantly annihilated a portion of the Sea of Death the size of a Grand Cosmos, reducing it to Chaos.

"My sons, kill!!"

"At All Heavens Pass, we fight to the death with no retreat!"

BOOM!!

The two Great Emperors had just let out their killing cries!

Chaos flooded everything.

A battle between Great Emperors was too far beyond ordinary rules.

It was impossible to observe unless one was in the Emperor Realm!

All that could be seen was a nine-colored baleful light clashing with a pitch-black demonic light, like two great torrents of the Great Dao wildly colliding. Every single drop of energy they scattered could instantly evaporate a Quasi-Emperor!

"Devour them!!"

The Reincarnation Battlefield!

It had become the main front for the Mountain and Sea’s attack!

Elite armies of the Luo Fish Race roared and howled, piloting all kinds of Great Killing Artifacts as they charged toward one Garrison City after another!

Annihilate the Reincarnation Battlefield.

Sweep through the Sea of Death and capture the Sixth Celestial Pass!

The plan was a series of interlocking steps.

And it had to be completed in an extremely short time. It had to be a blitzkrieg, with no room for delay.

Otherwise, even if Mountain and Sea had spies within Hongyuan, they couldn’t risk exposure by delaying for too long. Once reinforcements arrived, all their plotting would be for naught.

The Reincarnation Battlefield!

It was the first stumbling block!

To quickly break through this stumbling block, the Mountain and Sea side had not only paid a huge price to resist the power of the Primordial Path and send in a Great Emperor from a Di Race to tie down the Demon Awakening Emperor, they had also brought an Emperor’s Weapon!

Furthermore, the invading army was no longer led by the Luo Fish Race, but by the even more terrifying army of the Tuomu Emperor Clan!

Venerables and Great Venerables were everywhere!

They had even forced several Quasi-Emperors through!

With such a lineup, a tiny little Reincarnation Battlefield! Without the Demon Awakening Emperor to intervene, with the Emperor’s Weapon suppressed, and with no external reinforcements, taking it would be a piece of cake!

"Kill!"

"Let’s all die together!"

"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, you overestimate your own strength!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Flames and blood filled the sky, and the Sea of Death raged!

The sounds of desperate fighting, furious roars, the clash of Law Weapons...

The moment the battle began, the Reincarnation Battlefield transformed into a gigantic meat grinder. Soldier against soldier, general against general, Killing Artifact against Killing Artifact. Vast oceans of blood erupted, making it seem like an Asura Purgatory, brutal to the extreme!

But!

No matter how ferocious the Battle Intent of the Reincarnation Battlefield’s soldiers was, the fundamental gap between the two sides could not be erased!

The army of the Tuomu Emperor Clan was, on average, Monster Level!

Only the monstrous armies of Hongyuan, truly tempered in the Asura Battlefields of the Seventh and Eighth Celestial Passes, could hope to contend with them!

The armies of the Fifth Celestial Pass... the gap was simply too large.

It was no different from Scouts fighting special forces—a completely one-sided slaughter!

"KILL!!"

「Outside the Reincarnation City Main City!」

The strongest expert of the Reincarnation Battlefield, the Reincarnation Heavenly King, had a slender figure and a wickedly handsome face. He wore a suit of dim-yellow battle armor that seemed forged from Netherworld Water, and from it gushed an endless torrent of the same.

With his Great Venerable Realm cultivation!

He alone fought three Quasi-Emperors of the Tuomu Race!

This was incredible.

But the battle armor he wore gave him the confidence to cross realms and strike down powerful foes. Its entire surface was covered in Emperor Dao Patterns, and it gushed forth Netherworld Water that could wash away all things. He was like a young Great Emperor on the warpath!

"The Netherworld Battle Armor... So it’s that Emperor’s Artifact. To think it wasn’t destroyed in the Five Tribulations. You’re quite lucky."

Among the three Quasi-Emperors of the Tuomu Race, an ancient Quasi-Emperor recognized the origin of the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s armor. But his expression was not the least bit surprised, because they had long known about the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s trump card and had prepared for it.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The waters of the Yellow Springs River were vast and endless.

Carrying the might of an Emperor’s Weapon that could wash away everything in Reincarnation, the water scattered like flowers from a celestial maiden as it struck the three Quasi-Emperors. However, it only burst into brilliant showers of divine light on their bodies, which seemed impenetrable.

"Di Yu?"

The Reincarnation Heavenly King’s pupils shrank.

He saw the layer of Nine-Colored Feather Armor covering their entire bodies and sensed the terrifying aura of the Tuomu Emperor Clan’s Great Emperor from before.

"You have some sharp eyes."

A Quasi-Emperor of the Tuomu Race sneered, "We may not be able to send in too much Emperor Level Power, but a Great Emperor’s life-bound feathers are more than enough to block the might of an Emperor’s Weapon wielded by a mere Great Venerable like you."

"Why waste breath on him? Kill!"

A hot-tempered Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor let out a heaven-shattering killing cry. The eyes of his central head opened and closed, shooting out a death ray of annihilation as he charged up the Yellow Springs River toward the Reincarnation Heavenly King.

"Bastards!"

With his most powerful Netherworld Water rendered useless, the Reincarnation Heavenly King—already a realm lower in cultivation—wore an extremely grim expression and was instantly forced onto the defensive.

In a fleeting glance, his heart sank even further.

The Demon Awakening Emperor’s Emperor’s Weapon was being blocked by the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Weapon, and the hidden Quasi-Emperors in the Sea of Death were also being intercepted by the Tuomu Race near the Demon Awakening Main Pass. They definitely wouldn’t be able to reinforce the Reincarnation Battlefield!

The other nearby territories... their main forces had been transferred away!

It was impossible for them to provide support in time!

’How did the Tuomu Race know?’

The Reincarnation Heavenly King’s heart turned to ice.

The Reincarnation Battle Armor.

It was his strongest trump card, one he had never used before this battle. It had only been registered with the military department in the Sixth Celestial Pass’s Fengdu Main City!

The hidden Quasi-Emperors in the Sea of Death.

The same was true for them.

But the Tuomu Race somehow knew!

Not only did they know, but they had also dispatched corresponding forces to counter them. It would be impossible without a spy providing intelligence!

But this was no time to think about that.

Only by surviving was there a chance for the truth to come to light.

Once the Reincarnation Battlefield falls and the Dao Celestial Stele within it is shattered, the repulsive Power of the Great Dao against Mountain and Sea will drop to zero. The consequences would be unimaginable!

"At all costs, defend the Dao Celestial Stele to the death! Stall the main forces of the Tuomu Race before the Great Supreme Pass City!"

In a moment of life-and-death crisis, the Reincarnation Heavenly King activated his Celestial King Battle Merit Order, gritted his teeth, and issued a death order to every Guan Lord in every Garrison City of the Reincarnation Battlefield!

’The Tuomu Race wants a blitzkrieg! Because once they’re delayed until the Great Emperors from other territories arrive, all their efforts will be for nothing! We just have to hold them off! If we can hold on until reinforcements arrive, we win! If we don’t have the quality... then we’ll use quantity and our lives to block them!’

""As long as we live, the pass stands!!""

A resolute and unified reply rang out!

In the Reincarnation Battlefield, in the Garrison Cities of Venerable level and above, those who were lazy and shirked their duties, those who were greedy for life and feared death... simply couldn’t survive!

Those who remained were all battle-hardened veterans with unwavering beliefs. Even if the enemy was strong and they were weak, there was no thought of retreat!

’At all costs...’

「Back at the Primordial Pass.」

Within the deep sea.

Wu Dao’s Battle Merit Order also received the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s death order.

His vast perception swept across the battlefield.

Before the Primordial Pass, endless armies of the Tuomu Race and Luo Fish Race submerged the Black Sea. And even further ahead, he sensed the auras of Venerable Desolate Gods!

’So fat they’re dripping with oil!’

WENG~

The ocean of Primordial Magnetic Particles converged.

Wu Dao finally finished his Cultivation.

"Alliance Leader, fish, so many fish!"

Zhao Jianji’s excited voice also rang out.

「Outside.」

RUMBLE—

Before the many Garrison Cities on the Saint Realm front!

The iron-willed pressure of a countless-strong army pressing down stirred up monstrous waves, shattered spacetime, crushed the Sea of Death, and cast an endless shadow over everything.

The Seventy-Two Primordial Demons stood alone like Demon Gods, cracking their necks as they gazed at the endless army before them, revealing savage smiles.

"Don the Primordial Magnetic Armor and slaughter your way through!"

Wu Dao’s indifferent and domineering voice rang out in the mind of every Primordial Demon, instantly making their blood boil and causing a terrifying, baleful light to erupt from their eyes.

The Primordial Magnetic Armor!

The super Great Killing Artifact the Alliance Leader had bestowed upon them these past two days! They had been itching to use it, and they never expected their wish to be granted so soon!

It seemed this time... Mengzhu was finally going to get serious!