Essence Devouring Art

"Ancestral King, save me!"

"No! I’m still young! I’m an Emperor’s Son of the Di Race! How can I die here!"

"Fight them to the death... AARGH!"

The cries for help, the howls of indignation, the final roars of the dying—they were like daggers twisting in the hearts of the three Quasi-Emperors, driving them mad with a pain worse than death.

If this continued,

the Tuomu and Luo Fish Races would be completely wiped out, save for the three of them. They would suffer a generational gap in their mid-tier combat strength—an unbearable, catastrophic blow!

"KILL!!"

Fueled by boundless hatred,

another Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor took action, attempting to break the stalemate and tear Wu Dao and his Primordial Demons to shreds.

However!

"This King isn’t dead yet!!"

The Reincarnation Heavenly King’s eyes were frigid. His entire body shriveled, yet he had once again revived a fraction of the Mighty Power of his Emperor’s Weapon, the Netherworld Battle Armor!

BZZZT—BOOM!

In that instant,

a boundless, dusky yellow light burst forth as if a Grand Cosmos of the Yellow Springs had been unsealed. From the depths of the Reincarnation Battle Armor, a vague, colossal figure appeared. The moment it opened its eyes, it channeled the Power of the Reincarnation Path, completely sealing off any possibility for the other two Quasi-Emperors to act!

"Reincarnation Heavenly King, you’re courting death!"

The two obstructed Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors were driven mad with rage. They immediately unleashed all their fury upon the Reincarnation Heavenly King, battering him until his life force continuously dwindled.

"Kill as many as you can! I can’t hold on for much longer!"

But the Reincarnation Heavenly King was incredibly tenacious.

It seemed some Ultimate Skill of the Reincarnation Lineage was sustaining his life as he roared defiantly, using his very life to stall the two Quasi-Emperors and buy Wu Dao and the others time to continue their slaughter.

At this point,

it was safe to say that due to the anomaly that was Wu Dao, the Mountain and Sea offensive had completely failed!

The battle had simply dragged on for too long.

The Great Emperors from the other territories of the Six Celestial Passes were surely on their way!

Before they arrived,

they had to kill as many as they could.

A debt of blood must be paid in blood. An eye for an eye!

They could not allow the Tuomu and Luo Fish Races, who had butchered the Reincarnation Battlefield, to retreat unscathed!

RUMBLE!!

Above the front lines of Reincarnation Pass, the two torrents of power from the Peak Quasi-Emperors continued to clash and wrestle for dominance, nearly emptying Wu Dao’s entire arsenal!

THUD!

The Sun God Hammer erupted with Extreme Yang Power!

Like a behemoth rampaging through an anthill, Wu Dao frantically swung his Divine Hammer, blasting Great Venerables and entire swaths of the army to pieces, while the Seventy-Three Primordial Demons shredded the Venerables and Saint Masters.

As for the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s words,

Wu Dao had naturally heard them.

However,

he wasn’t thinking about all that.

In his eyes, these Tuomu and Luo Fish armies, these powerhouses, were all just walking Dao Sources. Naturally, he had to seize the time to slaughter them all!

The Merit Points accumulated in his Battle Merit Order,

had long since met the standard for being crowned a King even before he entered Reincarnation Pass!

Even if he relied on external power to slay Venerables, that was offset by the sheer number he had killed!

The Dao Celestial Stele’s judgment was clear!

Slaying a Mountain and Sea Venerable without external power could earn one the title of King. Relying on external power required slaying ten!

The number of Venerables who had died under Wu Dao’s hammer...

was far more than just ten.

He was about to pass one hundred Great Venerables!

If not for the strict requirement of being in the Great Venerable Realm to be crowned a Celestial King, Wu Dao would absolutely earn that title in this one battle alone!

Of course,

as for being a Sealed Marquis or a King,

Wu Dao couldn’t care less!

The number of Venerables slaughtered by any one of the Seventy-Three Primordial Demons was enough to be crowned a King!

With so many Merit Points,

once he exchanged them for Five Tribulations Dao Source,

the progress of his Initial Tribulation Primordial Magnetism Path would skyrocket. He might even be able to create all its branch paths in one fell swoop!

’It’s a shame the implications of using the Extreme Dao Bell are too great!’

As Wu Dao continued his frenzied slaughter, he glanced regretfully at the three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors and the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Weapon at the edge of spacetime.

If he could revive the full Mighty Power of the Extreme Dao Bell now and unleash Primordial Power, he wouldn’t have to worry about the risk of exposure!

He could just slaughter these three Quasi-Emperors!

And then plunder an Emperor’s Weapon!

He’d get rich in one go!

「Meanwhile!」

At the Demon Awakening Main Pass in the Sea of Death,

"GET LOST!!!"

the Tuomu Race’s Great Emperor had gone completely insane. He was even burning his Life Origin to furiously bombard the Demon Awakening Emperor, trying to break through his blockade and reinforce the Reincarnation Battlefield.

"This Emperor has said it. Today, you will die!"

BOOM!!

The Demon Awakening Emperor’s eyes were as deep as an abyss. His voice boomed like the clang of a killing blade as he reached out and clenched his fist, seeming to grasp entire dark Grand Universes in his hand.

He battered the Tuomu Race’s Ancestral King, who couldn’t keep up and fell completely on the defensive, having long lost the arrogant invincibility he had upon his arrival.

He had wanted to test the measure of the Demon Awakening Emperor.

Before the battle, he had even arrogantly called the Slaughter Emperor a madman.

He had condescendingly wanted to see just how much of the Slaughter Emperor’s true teachings the Demon Awakening Emperor had inherited.

Now he knew!

The Demon Awakening Emperor truly had the strength to look down on him with contempt. All by himself, he was suppressing both him and the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Weapon without being at any disadvantage. His combat power was comparable to an Ancestor King Emperor of the Four Great Primordial Races!

At this moment, the Tuomu Ancestral King’s hatred was not only for the Demon Awakening Emperor, but also for the Hongyuan Commander Elder Council!

’Those bastards!’

’Useless in external conflicts, but rampant with internal strife!’

’How long has it been since the Five Tribulations?’

’They’re still suppressing the remnants of the Slaughter Emperor’s faction, keeping the Demon Awakening Emperor on the sidelines. It led to Mountain and Sea’s intelligence being flawed, causing us to underestimate his strength!’

’And that vicious army!’

’They held back the main forces of our two clans and slaughtered our elite troops—the ones we spent countless resources cultivating—as if they were chickens!’

’The true culprits!’

The Tuomu Race’s Great Emperor memorized the information on Wu Dao and each of the Primordial Demons. If he ever got the chance in the future, he would rip out their souls and refine them, one by one!

Hm?

’Such immense resentment!’

Wu Dao, who was rampaging through the Reincarnation Battlefield, felt an immense malice coming from the distant Demon Awakening City to envelop him.

He didn’t need a brain to figure it out.

That Tuomu Race Ancestral King had carved his name onto a kill list. He was probably gnashing his teeth in hatred at this very moment.

But Wu Dao couldn’t care less!

He dared to challenge even Primordial Giants!

Did a single Great Emperor think he could intimidate him?

’What a joke!’

"It’s ruined! You vile spawn have ruined everything!"

Below the Reincarnation Pass City,

the Peak Quasi-Emperor from the Tuomu Race who was fighting could only watch helplessly as his clansmen were slaughtered under the torrent of attacks from the Star Mother-controlled Killing Artifact. He was so enraged he broke into a crazed laugh.

"Hahaha! Did you really think we could do nothing to you? Die!!"

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

In that split second,

Wu Dao’s Heart Lake Alarm Bell rang wildly!

Through the changes in the Dao Particles,

he sensed an aura no weaker than the Tuomu Race’s Ancestral King, carrying an ancient and vast killing intent, surging from the edge of spacetime and blotting out the sky!

’An Ancestral King!’

’Definitely an Ancestral King on par with a Great Emperor!’

’Mountain and Sea can actually send another Ancestral King to the Six Celestial Passes? Are they insane? The repulsive force of the Great Dao is no joke!’

But Wu Dao had no time to dwell on it!

BZZZZ—

Within the blurry Chaos at the edge of spacetime,

six pairs of cold eyes that looked down on all creation suddenly opened. Within them, six Grand Universes rumbled and turned. The terrifying pressure shook the entire Sea of Death, its influence even reaching beyond the region!

An Ancestral King!

A Sixth Heaven Ancestor King!

His power completely surpassed the tolerance limit of the Five Celestial Passes. Even the strongest expert in the Sea of Death, the Demon Awakening Emperor, was only at the Fourth Heaven!

At this moment,

even in the distant Fengdu City,

one could see a colossal spacetime rift tear open in the Sea of Death on the Border Wilderness of the Five Celestial Passes. Within the blurry Chaos stood the towering shadow of a Desolate God whose ferocious might overwhelmed the Celestial Gate!

"A Sixth Heaven Ancestor King!"

"The Tuomu Race has gone mad!"

"Not good, the Sea of Death!"

The expressions of those in many territories changed in horror!

The Great Emperors rushing to reinforce the Sea of Death began to traverse spacetime with reckless, life-risking abandon!

A Sixth Heaven Ancestor King!

The Five Celestial Passes had no power capable of contending with such a being, let alone the Sea of Death. The Demon Awakening Emperor alone could not possibly stop him!

Even with the repulsive force of the Great Dao,

a single strike—

just a single strike—

even if it were weakened to its absolute limit,

could detonate the entire Sea of Death!

If he wasn’t intercepted in time, the incident in the Daluo Heaven from three years ago could repeat itself in the Five Celestial Passes!

The Six Celestial Passes, the Seven Days Pass...

could not provide immediate support. This was because the Mountain and Sea Realm’s attack on the Five Celestial Passes was premeditated; the main forces in the Celestial Gates further ahead had already been tied down!

BZZZZ—

The moment the Sixth Heaven Ancestor King appeared,

the Great Dao’s repulsive force in the Sea of Death skyrocketed. Within the Chaos at the edge of spacetime, the Ancestral King’s body was being suppressed and disintegrated!

Even deeper within,

the shadows of numerous Mountain and Sea Giants were also being suppressed by the Primordial Path. It seemed they were enduring a grievous price to resist it, fighting to create an opportunity for the Sixth Heaven Ancestor King to strike!

Before attacking the Sea of Death,

the West Mountain Military Department, to which the Tuomu Emperor Clan belonged, had issued a military pledge, vowing to break through the Sea of Death and conquer the Five Celestial Passes!

To this end,

the West Mountain Military Department had paid a heavy price.

Braving the repulsive force of the Great Dao in the Five Celestial Passes, they had dispatched a Fourth Heaven Great Emperor of the Di Race, a Fourth Heaven Emperor’s Weapon, as well as numerous Di Race Quasi-Emperors and a main army!

They had thought it was a foolproof plan!

Who would have thought,

that an anomaly like Wu Dao would appear!

All their efforts had gone down the drain. The mid-tier elite forces of the Tuomu and Luo Fish Races were being slaughtered to the last man. They had tried to steal a chicken, only to lose a billion grains of rice!

One can only imagine,

to what extent the Shanhai West Mountain Military Department hated Wu Dao, the root of all their problems!

Even the Giants had gone mad!

They had deployed the foundational power of West Mountain, bearing the cost of many Primordial Chaos beings suffering Dao injuries, to forcibly send over a Sixth Heaven Ancestor King!

Their goal was obvious!

If they couldn’t conquer it, they would simply destroy it!

By blowing up the entire Sea of Death and indirectly destroying the Five Celestial Passes, they could still inflict a heavy blow on Hongyuan and make up for their losses!

To put it bluntly,

they were like a cornered dog leaping over a wall—utterly desperate!

If their own leg was broken, they would forcefully bite off someone else’s!

All of this happened in a flash!

"Perish!"

At the edge of the chaotically raging spacetime,

the Tuomu Race’s Sixth Heaven Ancestor King’s gaze was frighteningly cold. His aura surged through endless spacetime. Even as his physical body and Divine Soul constantly crumbled, he struck out toward the Sea of Death with the forced determination of a suicide squad!

RUMBLE!

A torrent of the Great Dao, interwoven with nine colors, erupted!

A single strike from a Sixth Heaven Ancestor King!

Enough to shatter and annihilate six complete Grand Universes!

An incomparably heavy and majestic aura of destruction instantly filled the entire Sea of Death, shaking infinite spacetime and affecting numerous territories beyond the region!

"Hahaha, let’s all die together!"

In the Demon Awakening Main City,

the Tuomu Race’s Fourth Heaven Ancestor King also knew he was now a sacrificial pawn. He simply detonated his Inner Universe and lunged madly at the Demon Awakening Emperor!

But to his astonishment,

the Demon Awakening Emperor showed no signs of panic, let alone madness. All that greeted him were those deep eyes, as dark as the Black Abyss.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

「Reincarnation Battlefield.」

Even before the Sixth Heaven Ancestor King struck,

the danger signals from Wu Dao’s life instincts were on the verge of exploding, because the majority of that Ancestral King’s killing intent was locked onto him!

He would be the first to bear that wrath!

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ—

In a hundred-millionth of a second,

Wu Dao remained calm in the face of danger.

Within the Origin Space of the cosmic sea inside his Extreme Dao Bell, slabs of stone wreathed in visions of Sacred Spirits hummed and trembled, shimmering with sacred and resplendent Emperor Dao Patterns.

They were tangible but without substance—mere embryos!

They didn’t even possess an Inner Universe.

To be precise, they were a type of material!

The Holy Spirit Mother Gold used to forge top-tier Emperor’s Weapons!

A few years ago in the Burial Realm, he had emptied out the Emperor’s Temple that the Heaven-Burying Emperor had forged from Holy Spirit Mother Gold. He hadn’t even left behind a single floor tile!

After completing the Extreme Dao Bell,

he still had a lot left over.

After being refined in the Extreme Dao Bell’s Origin Space, if infused with Chaos Mother Liquid, they would gain a crude defensive function, and only a defensive one.

Wu Dao was not yet qualified to forge an Emperor’s Weapon.

Not even a Great Emperor Weapon.

However...

even as defense-only embryos made from top-tier Emperor’s Weapon-grade material, blocking this one strike shouldn’t be a major problem!

Hm?

But in the instant the nine-colored torrent struck,

a thought suddenly flashed through Wu Dao’s mind.

Because one of his myriad branch paths began to vibrate, sensing a familiar Magnetic Field appear within the Sea of Death!

Moreover,

the newcomer had already made a move!