Essence Devouring Art

The Dead Sea Territory.

Beacons of war rose in every direction. It was a mountain of corpses in a sea of blood!

"Hahaha! Sons of the Mountain and Sea, charge with all your might! They can’t stop you!"

The battle had just begun.

The Tuomu Emperor Clan, leading the Luo Fish Royal Family, had gathered a boundless army. They surged out from the Space-Time Node like a ferocious tide, drowning one Garrison City after another.

It was a completely one-sided slaughter!

The Reincarnation Main City!

Its strongest protector, the Reincarnation Heavenly King, was besieged by three Quasi-Emperors from the Tuomu Race. He and a group of Great Venerables could only make a desperate stand to defend the Dao Celestial Stele at Reincarnation Pass, utterly powerless to stop the army charging toward the rear!

"Defend the Dao Celestial Stele to the death!"

On the Venerable Line!

The Sealed Title War Kings contracted their forces and activated one Grand Array after another, gritting their teeth to protect the Dao Celestial Steles within the Garrison Cities.

But this was merely drinking poison to quench a thirst.

The disparity between the two sides, in terms of both troop numbers and individual combat strength, was simply too vast!

They couldn’t even think about covering the rear!

Once the Grand Arrays were completely torn apart, they would all die on the spot. All they could do was their utmost to hold the line and stop the main force of the Mountain and Sea.

However!

They couldn’t hold them back at all!

The Tuomu and Luo Fish Races had dispatched far too many Venerables this time. Worse, all of them were equipped with various Big Killing Artifacts, allowing them to easily tear through the blockade and charge toward the rear!

In an extremely short amount of time—

"The Saint Lord Line has fallen!"

The Great Saint Realm line, where Primordial Pass was located.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

In numerous Garrison Cities.

The alarm bells of the Dao Celestial Steles rang out ceaselessly.

The final, unwilling roars of the Messenger Soldiers from the front lines echoed through the air. An army so vast it stretched beyond the horizon was bearing down on them, and an aura of despairing darkness shrouded everyone’s hearts.

Great Saints fighting Venerables?

And a whole group of Monster Level Venerables at that!

How could they fight? What could they possibly use to stop them?

On the Saint Realm line in the rear.

SHLICK!

Wuchen, bathed in blood, led the soldiers of Nether God Pass in a charge against the Luo Fish Race’s army. Within a few exchanges, he had torn a Saint Realm Luo Fish expert apart with his bare hands, appearing momentarily unstoppable.

"Kid, we need to scram! There’s no shame in it!"

The Big Black Wolf’s grave voice rang out.

Wuchen might seem courageous now.

But once the Great Saint Line ahead also fell, they would have no chance of resisting the main Mountain and Sea forces!

As long as there’s life, there’s hope.

There was no need for a meaningless sacrifice.

"If I can just hold them back... just for a little while..."

Wuchen gritted his teeth.

Three years of tempering at Shanhai Pass.

He had fully embraced the honor and conviction of a soldier.

A deserter.

It was undoubtedly the greatest shame!

Besides.

This was a war between civilizations, a life-or-death struggle.

Every man had a duty to his people!

Once the Reincarnation Battlefield fell and the Mountain and Sea took the opportunity to capture the Six Celestial Passes, Hongyuan would absolutely be at a disadvantage!

But no matter how unwilling or frustrated he felt.

When you were weaker than your enemy, what could you do but lament?

It was true he had an ace up his sleeve: the Yuan Tu Blade.

But it was a Primordial Emperor Artifact. A Saint Realm cultivator had no right to wield it; only a Great Saint might have a chance!

The Big Black Wolf could probably activate it.

But the Yuan Tu Blade was connected to the Eighteen Netherworlds and the Reincarnation Emperor. The Big Black Wolf would not easily use it and reveal its existence. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be urging him to leave.

’What a pity...’

As man and wolf wrestled with their decision.

Inside Heaven-Seizing Pass.

Jiang Han, however, sighed with regret. He was preparing to use the chaos to leave Shanhai Pass, because at Shanhai Pass, there were only soldiers who died in battle; there was no room for deserters.

As someone who was a thorough egoist.

He lived by the principle of "better you die than me."

He naturally felt no sentiment for self-sacrifice or dying a glorious death on the battlefield.

Hm?

But just as he was about to leave.

Jiang Han was astonished to discover something.

The Great Saint Line seemed to be...

...holding back the main Mountain and Sea forces!

Surprised, he acted.

Jiang Han couldn’t help but activate his Divine Pupil, piercing through layers of space-time to gaze far ahead at the Great Saint Line.

The Reincarnation Battlefield.

Starting from the Reincarnation Main City.

The overall structure of its space-time was a triangular cone. The further back one went, the wider the angle became, and the more Garrison Cities there were on the spatio-temporal lines.

The Great Saint Line.

It was located in the middle section of this giant cone. In front of it were only the Venerable and Great Venerable lines, while behind it were the four lines of Saint Realm, Creation, Grotto Heaven, and Dharma Aspect.

One could say that.

As long as the Great Saint Line was breached.

The lower-level Garrison Cities in the rear could be flattened without resistance. If even a single Great Saint Desolate God slipped through, the blow would be cataclysmic!

But at this moment.

The Great Saint Line seemed to have transformed into an impassable chasm!

Forget Great Saints; not even a single soldier from the main Mountain and Sea army had slipped through the cracks!

’What power is holding back the main force?’

VMM~

The light of his Innate Divine Pupil pierced through the Slaughter Qi.

"That is—!"

When Jiang Han saw the scene on the Great Saint Line, his pupils suddenly contracted as if he were witnessing something unbelievable.

In fact.

It was truly unbelievable.

He actually saw, outside one of the Garrison Cities, a single person who had transformed into a magnificent, humanoid fortress, holding back a boundless army of the Mountain and Sea!

And at the other Great Saint Passes!!

The same scene was repeating!

It was as if Ancient Demon Gods were standing before each Garrison City!

Their majestic bodies, spanning untold light-years, erupted with waterfalls of Primordial Dao Light, linking together to form a dam that sealed off the Space-Time Nodes leading to the rear!

HISS!

Suddenly!

Jiang Han’s eyes stung, and his Divine Soul felt as if it were about to fall into an Abyss. Utterly horrified, he retracted his Innate Divine Pupil.

’They can’t be looked at directly! They can’t be observed!’

Each of those Demon Gods seemed to be a primordial singularity. Even a mere wisp of his pupil technique’s power, projected across the vastness of space-time, was being disintegrated and devoured by their Great Dao force fields!

"Ah! My eyes!"

Outside Nether God Pass.

The Big Black Wolf also let out a strange cry, as if it had seen some unspeakable, great terror. Blood spurted from both of its wolf eyes.

"What’s wrong?"

Wuchen quickly asked. He didn’t cultivate any heaven-defying Pupil Techniques, so he was merely astonished, not knowing what had just happened at the front.

"I think I saw the beginning and end of everything, and it was a group of..."

The Big Black Wolf was still shaken.

Then, recalling the scene it had just glimpsed, it suddenly grinned. "Kid, heheh, we don’t have to run anymore!"

"What do you mean?"

Wuchen didn’t understand.

"It’s that group of monsters we met at the Dao Stone Mine on the Taiyi Emperor Star. It’s them, I’m absolutely sure. I never expected them to be this terrifying now."

The Big Black Wolf said, both shocked and delighted.

’That group of monsters...’

Wuchen’s expression froze. He immediately thought of Zhao Jianji and the other members of the Overlord Whale Alliance he had met on the Taiyi Emperor Star.

That group of people.

They were indeed monsters.

And they were that person’s minions!

’After this battle is over, I can’t stay in the Reincarnation Battlefield.’

A flicker crossed Wuchen’s eyes as a boundless darkness seemed to press down on his heart.

The last time they met.

He had a vague premonition.

’I must never again have any karmic ties with that master. Otherwise, my future will be uncertain, my life and death unknown!’

「Meanwhile...」

At the Great Saint Line, Primordial Pass.

A massive army bore down, led by Venerables!

A boundless host of soldiers from the Tuomu Emperor Clan and the Luo Fish Royal Family poured ceaselessly out of the breach in the fallen Saint Master Pass ahead!

Like a sky-blotting tsunami, they surged forth!

Without any hesitation or wasted words, carrying an utterly brutal will to kill, they swept forward to drown the numerous Great Saint Pass Cities, which seemed as small and fragile as lighthouses in a stormy sea!

At the Reincarnation Main City.

Although numerous Celestial Kings and Military Kings were fighting with their lives on the line to hold back the Great Venerables of the Tuomu and Luo Fish Races, they were completely powerless against the Venerables!

They crushed everything in their path, an unstoppable force!

With just a single charge!

The Saint Lord Line had crumbled on first contact!

"A bunch of Great Saints think they can stop us? How absurd!"

The successive victories.

Had caused the confidence of the two races’ many Venerables to swell to its absolute peak. They didn’t even spare a glance for the Great Saint Pass Cities that were preparing to resist to the death.

What a joke!

Even the Saint Lord Line had shattered on contact!

A mere group of Great Saints?

Like a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot!

Even if you bundled them all together, it wouldn’t be enough for a single one of their Saint Masters to swallow in one gulp!

RUMBLE—

As the two races’ armies advanced at extreme speed, all of existence in space-time was utterly crushed into Chaos, which then rapidly surged to engulf the Sea of Death!

The endless, oppressive pressure!

Rendered the many Great Saint Pass Cities deathly silent. The Military Marquis and their soldiers couldn’t even muster their morale; they could only grit their teeth and tighten their grips on their icy blades.

Because they knew.

The moment the two sides clashed, they would die!

And if they deserted, they would also die!

They had no choice but to face their deaths!

"Hahaha, just as I thought, a bunch of cowards! They’ve actually abandoned the pass and fled!"

At the vanguard of the cone-shaped advancing army.

A group of Saint Master Emperor’s Sons from the Tuomu Race saw that Primordial Pass, which had appeared in their view, was completely empty. They couldn’t help but sneer loudly, accelerating their charge toward it.

An unobstructed path was even better!

After all, even killing people took time.

A distance of a hundred great chiliocosms!

Ten!

Five...

The two armies moved incredibly fast!

Riding their Realm-Breaking Battleships, they were practically blasting their way through space-time. Everywhere they passed was reduced to Chaos!

In the span of a few breaths.

Primordial Pass was right before their eyes!

VMM!

But in that very instant!

From beneath the deep sea.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

An extreme, ominous terror suddenly welled up from the depths of their souls. In an instant, it chilled every soldier in the vanguard to the bone, and the Heart Lake Alarm Bells in their minds nearly shattered!

The originally unremarkable Primordial Pass.

Now seemed to have become an abyssal Demon Cave that devoured all. An unimaginably Great Demon God lay dormant in the deep sea beneath it!

"Form up! Form up!!!"

Having cultivated to this stage.

No living being would doubt such a premonition of danger. The vanguard generals of the two races roared themselves hoarse as military arrays and Big Killing Artifacts were rapidly activated.

VMM!

The entire army was on high alert, watching with bated breath.

Under the gaze of countless eyes.

In the space above the Abyssal Death Sea outside Primordial Pass, a majestic, towering figure in a fluttering black robe silently stepped out.

Like a Divine Being residing high in the Nine Heavens!

Or a Demon Lord ruling over Purgatory!

When those eyes, which contained an endless, pitch-black Abyss, gazed down dispassionately, it was as if they were looking at a swarm of ants on the ground!

His might and his presence!

Showed complete contempt for the army of hundreds of millions!

One person!

Just one person?

That immense sense of terror and crisis just now... came from a single person?

At this moment.

Countless Mountain and Sea Desolate Gods from the Tuomu Emperor Clan and the Luo Fish Royal Family were stunned and shocked, their expressions a mixture of alarm and fury.

"Kill him! KILL!!"

The vanguard general’s roar was like thunder!

The army’s killing intent, which had stagnated for a moment, instantly soared to its peak, compressing the vast expanse of space-time until it exploded into Chaos!

Whether he was putting on a show.

Or the real deal.

The bow had been drawn, and the arrow could not be taken back!

They had to break through the Reincarnation Battlefield as quickly as possible. Before reinforcements from the Six Celestial Passes arrived, they had to shatter all the battlefield’s Celestial Steles and welcome the true, powerful army and experts of the Mountain and Sea to descend and flatten the Six Celestial Passes!

"Ants..."

Wu Dao stood before Primordial Pass with his hands behind his back.

His magnificent physique was like a Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar. He gazed dispassionately at the sky-blotting Mountain and Sea army charging toward him, his eyes locked on the group of Mountain and Sea Venerables in the central army.

As for those below the Venerable realm.

Ants.

That was his highest praise for them.

Amid the crushing assault of the army’s iron-willed baleful qi, where the Destruction Divine Light from countless Big Killing Artifacts met, Wu Dao began to take a step.

VMMMM!!

He took one step!

Space-time roared, and a universal magnetic resonance occurred!

With the point where his foot landed as the epicenter.

Countless magnetic particles in the void, as if obeying the command of the Great Dao itself, spontaneously vibrated at a high frequency. The resulting field annihilated everything, tangible and intangible, creating a dark vacuum that then rapidly radiated forward!

"What the hell is this?!"

The moment Wu Dao took his step, the soldiers at the very front of the Mountain and Sea charge felt everything in their perception begin to vibrate at a high frequency. They couldn’t stop their own macro and micro structures from resonating in sync!

BZZZZZ—

But before they could even react.

The vacuum of darkness spreading from under Wu Dao’s foot silently annihilated all the divine light fired from the Killing Artifacts, shattered all obstacles, and then engulfed and devoured them!

That incomprehensible universal vibration.

Spread like a plague.

It rapidly chained to the soldiers behind them, forcing them into sympathetic resonance. Before they could even scream, they were degraded into microscopic particles and vanished from the world. It was horrifying to the extreme!

After achieving the Primordial Magnetism Path.

And gaining control of Dao Particles.

The authority of a Creator!

Creation and destruction, giving and taking.

For those weaker than him, it all happened in a single thought!

Infinite Magnetic Shock.

The Mighty Power of this Primordial Magnetic Divine Technique had reached an unbelievable level in Wu Dao’s hands.

Ants.

That truly was a compliment from him.

In fact.

From Wu Dao’s perspective, these soldiers of the Tuomu and Luo Fish races were merely constructs cobbled together from low-level magnetic particle fields.

He only needed to gently vibrate the Dao Particles.

To trigger a chain reaction.

And he could easily shatter the fields that composed them, from the microscopic to the Macroscopic!

In the eyes of other living beings.

Wu Dao had merely taken a single, soft step.

Yet the vanguard of the sky-blotting Mountain and Sea army, hundreds of millions of soldiers strong, had silently vanished into thin air, reduced to nothing!!

Fear stems from the unknown!

This completely incomprehensible Power!

One could only imagine how terrifying Wu Dao appeared in the eyes of the Mountain and Sea beings at this moment!

And this was with Wu Dao only wanting to kill his enemies.

If he had been in a playful mood.

With a single thought, he could have changed the life forms of those hundreds of millions of soldiers, turning them into ordinary catfish, pheasants, ants, or stones...

That would likely have been even more shocking and appalling.