Essence Devouring Art

The Boundary-Breaking Shuttle was truly worthy of its name as a top-grade, cross-space Supreme Treasure.

With a single thought.

It carried Heavenly Dragon through the blockade, across the hunting ground to its very edge, and began to traverse the space beyond.

But before he could even heave a sigh of relief.

CLANG!!

As if a speeding vehicle had slammed into a wall of solid steel, the terrifying rebound force nearly blasted Heavenly Dragon apart in midair.

”Who is it? Get out here!”

”Another expert?”

”Hiding in the shadows? You’re courting death!”

At the same time, inside a hunting ground that had been on the verge of all-out war, cries of shock, suspicion, and fury erupted in all directions.

Lie Huang, Romer, the Vacuum Sect...

...all of them sensed that something was wrong. It felt as if they had been instantly dropped into a cage, an incredibly oppressive feeling washing over them.

RUMBLE!

The Vast Continent churned and crumbled, exploding without end.

Within the Abyss beneath the hunting ground.

The boundless ruins swelled and shattered as if a God and Demon were being born. A mocking, ferocious voice echoed from within. ”Fellow Daoists, our meeting is a matter of fate. Harmony breeds prosperity. There’s no need to be so hot-tempered.”

Before the voice had even faded...

...Wu Dao toppled the dominoes he had spent days setting up.

RUMBLE—

As the first ”domino” fell, a chain reaction began.

The entire hunting ground, spanning millions of miles, began to writhe and contort. The land swelled and then burst open, creating one abyss after another.

Streams of brilliant, colorful magnetic Energy erupted from the abysses like volcanoes, gushing upward to fill the entire starry sky. Upon reaching the apex, they spread across the dome.

In an instant, they wove together to form an inescapable cage of countless magnetic threads, sealing the entire hunting ground!

”This is bad! The fundamental energies of this restricted zone have been completely manipulated! A Celestial Master is at work!”

As the endless magnetic Energy surged and converged, a Dharma Phase Practitioner skilled in the Array Dao shrieked in utter terror.

A Celestial Master!

Only an Array Master at or above the Dharma Aspect realm is qualified to be called a Celestial Master. Those below are merely Earth Masters.

To manipulate the fundamental energies across millions of miles!

’Such mastery of the Array Dao...’

’This has to be an eighth-grade Celestial Master at the very least. Their offensive and defensive Power is comparable to an eighth-step King Grade Dharma Aspect!’

’A being of that caliber...’

’Once their death trap is fully formed...’

’...anyone below the eighth step...’

’...is completely at their mercy, to be toyed with as they please.’

’If they harbor ill intentions toward us...’

HISS!

Inside the hunting ground, the hearts of all the Dharma Phase Practitioners began to pound in their chests, their scalps tingling with dread.

But what they couldn’t understand was...

...why, from beginning to end...

...they had never detected any trace of a Grand Array. It was as if a Power had materialized from nothing to command the fundamental energies of the hunting ground—a silent, utterly horrifying prospect.

BOOM!

While everyone was still reeling in shock and suspicion...

...an abyss at the edge of the hunting ground burst open. From it emerged a towering figure—utterly unfamiliar, yet possessing an exceedingly bizarre and potent Demon Nature.

From all eight directions of the hunting ground...

...countless, densely packed colored threads...

...like a web spun from a spider’s spinnerets...

...connected to the imposing figure ascending into the sky, and to the terrifying stellar vortex-wheel behind it—a wheel constructed from three thousand rings of flesh, bone, and soul.

As the Shadow of God and Demon ascended...

...the wheel of flesh and bone ground and turned, and thousands of voices—men, women, old, and young—spoke as one:

”From chaos primordial, the Primordial is born. One breath of Creation opens the Great Dao. Boundless wonder, infinite origin. All beings, countless as the sands, are one with the Primordial...”

It was a fanatical, demonic whisper of worship.

The sound carried a maddening pollution of Demon Nature that infected the very souls of everyone in the hunting ground.

”The Primordial births the Great Dao, all beings return to the Primordial... Heh heh... Primordial... I am also Primordial... Heh heh...”

A Dharma Phase Practitioner with a weaker cultivation base...

...had just heard the demonic hymn when his gaze turned vacant. Mumbling senselessly, he began to drift unconsciously toward Wu Dao.

”Have you gone mad?!”

Fortunately, a companion yanked him back, steadying his mind. Only then, filled with lingering terror, did the first man shield his senses, not daring to look at Wu Dao at the apex of the starry sky again.

It was too terrifying.

The power of this bewitching corruption...

...left even Evil Gods in the dust!

VMMMM—

At the apex of the starry sky, Wu Dao stood with the Primordial Dao Wheel on his back. The pores of his body were connected to the countless colored magnetic threads converging from every direction.

He was like one of the Heavenly Demon Evil Gods descended upon the mortal realm. His perfect form released an endless, corrupting magnetic field. His Black Abyss-like eyes looked down upon all living beings as he grinned, spread his arms wide, and declared in a voice that boomed like the heavens:

”You have seen the Primordial. Why do you not bow?”