Essence Devouring Art

However, the Mighty Power of the World Heavy Artifacts was not to be underestimated!

Although Wu Dao wielded the Furnace Abyss Gourd and the Chaos Thunder Hammer to block most of their power, and also had the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe to sever the World Law, the seven Daoist Children present, along with a crowd of Emperor’s Sons, controlled a full seven top-tier Emperor Grade World Heavy Artifacts!

When all of them were fully activated, the Power of Destruction filled every inch of space.

The slightest carelessness could get a part of one’s body erased by the world-refining power as if by an eraser. It was extremely dangerous!

Fortunately, after liberating Shen Wutian, Wu Dao had completely transformed into a perfect fighting machine, without any flaws or weaknesses. His defense was impenetrable.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Within the sealed space-time of the Ancestral Hall, Wu Dao continuously swung his Giant Axe, smacking the All Heavens’ Celestial Prides—who were as resilient as cockroaches, fighting on despite repeated defeats—against the Boundary Walls like ping-pong balls, wearing down their Creation Mother Qi.

The existence of the World Heavy Artifacts restricted his various techniques. It turned the allied Celestial Prides into hedgehogs covered in spines. He had to pull out the spines before he could eat the plump meat inside.

In truth, it didn’t have to be this troublesome.

He only needed Zhao Jianji and the others to activate their fifteen World Heavy Artifacts, and they could have quickly suppressed all these Celestial Prides until they couldn’t move, leaving them at his mercy.

But Wu Dao was constantly on guard against the dangerous presence in the Ancestral Hall that could emerge at any moment.

He had to ensure that the Primordial Demons controlling the World Heavy Artifacts remained in their peak condition.

As for his Incarnation, it was busy repairing the Magnetic Field and sealing the rift in the Boundless Ancestral Land, so it couldn’t break away. He could only personally use some ”tough love” to educate them.

RIIIP—

”Ah, damn you to hell!!!”

As his thoughts churned, a bloodcurdling scream rang out again. It was Wu Dao, who had split the Little Thunder King in two with a single swing of his axe from afar. Torrents of thunderous blood flooded the Ten Directions of the firmament.

The Great Divine Power of Heaven and Earth Creation was utterly unstoppable when empowered by the Giant Axe, capable of breaking through anything!

The Power of Law unleashed by the World Heavy Artifacts wielded by the All Heavens’ Daoists was like paper; it couldn’t block it at all.

Even if they went all out, bypassed his blockade, and managed to inflict a minor flesh wound on Wu Dao, he would recover in an instant. It was utterly hopeless.

”What in the world are you trying to do?!”

The Little Thunder King didn’t dare to advance again. He glared at Wu Dao, who stood in the center of the Qianyu with his axe, and roared fiercely, though he was terrified inside.

He and the other Daoist Children, along with their World Heavy Artifacts, huddled in a corner, trembling. Their faces were pale, all their previous domineering arrogance gone.

To be fair, the Monster Level Little Thunder King was not weak.

Three Paths and Twenty-four Heavens.

His individual strength far surpassed the other Daoist Children. Furthermore, he was the direct son of a Great Emperor from the Thunder Emperor Palace and had mastered an Emperor Scripture and numerous Great Divine Techniques.

Unfortunately... he had encountered a true King of Monsters!

He could only join the group attack in frustration.

He was being disciplined like a disobedient wild dog, cleaved in two again and again, until almost all his pride was beaten out of him.

What confused him even more was that Wu Dao, wielding the Giant Axe, clearly had the power to kill them, but he only disciplined them throughout the entire fight. There was no killing intent, as if he truly wanted to convert them.

This thought was somewhat absurd.

But it was also the reality of the situation.

”Be good. If you don’t misbehave, you won’t get hurt.”

Wu Dao looked lovingly at the group of Celestial Prides trembling in the corner.

Then, he brandished the ten-foot-tall Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in his hand and hacked at the Celestial Prides, one swing after another.

RUMBLE—

Under the successive flashes of the axe, the many already-battered World Heavy Artifacts shook violently, flickering in and out of existence like great suns about to fall from the sky.

SPURT! SPURT! SPURT!

Within the domain protected by the Heavy Artifacts, the Little Thunder King and the others, who were controlling the Heavy Artifacts with their Essence, Qi, and Spirit, once again experienced a ”father’s love” that felt like a collapsing mountain and a raging tsunami. Their souls and bodies endured the agony of a thousand cuts every second, an experience that hovered between ecstasy and death.

”AHHH!! I can’t take it anymore! I surrender! I surrender!!”

Finally, after the repeated ”lessons,” a Celestial Pride, whose body had exploded into a bloody mist, could no longer endure the Purgatory-like torture. He roared like a madman, severing his connection to his Heavy Artifact and giving up all resistance. In an instant, a huge gap appeared in their ”tortoise shell” defense.

”You... How could you be so spineless!”

The Little Thunder King, Yang Li, and the other Daoist Children instantly turned pale. They glared furiously at the surrendering Daoist Child, wishing they could swallow him whole.

”You all can act so high and mighty! We’re about to die! What’s the use of having a backbone then!”

That Daoist Child’s cultivation was the weakest. His Divine Soul had long been thrown into chaos by the torment of the Giant Axe’s edge, and he roared madly at the Little Thunder King and the others.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

At that exact moment, more sounds of collapse rang out.

After losing the Mighty Power of one Heavy Artifact, the Giant Axe became even more unstoppable.

As if shaving off thorns, it continuously knocked away one World Heavy Artifact after another, revealing the Little Thunder King and the others, who were trembling like sheep inside.

”Heh, I am of a Great Emperor’s bloodline! You can kill me, but you will not dishonor my bloodline!”

The Little Thunder King was still defiant, truly worthy of being a Great Emperor’s direct son. Even at his wit’s end, he mustered his last bit of Power, gripped his Cang Lei Wedge, and prepared to die a spectacular death.

Unfortunately, after losing the protection of the World Heavy Artifacts, even dying was no longer an option for him.

HUMMM~

Infinite starlight rose from behind Wu Dao’s body, transforming into a Primordial Dao Wheel that resembled a galactic vortex.

Wisps of starlight connected to every pore on Wu Dao’s body, making him appear incomparably majestic and sacred, like a Divine Being descending to save all living things.

SWOOSH~

”Believe in the Primordial, and achieve eternal life!”

Wu Dao’s eyes were filled with benevolence. He spread his arms, suspended at the apex of the starry river, as if to embrace the world.

As the Dao Wheel turned, the Primordial Divine Fire blazed brilliantly, its radiance filling the entire World. Amidst countless whispered praises, star-colored tentacles emerged from his body, squirming and surging toward the Little Thunder King and the others.

CLINK~

The Cang Lei Wedge fell into the void.

”Oh, God, I have sinned...”

The Little Thunder King, who had been so defiant just a moment ago, now had tears welling in his eyes. He put his palms together and knelt down, trembling.

”Good!”

A smiling, glowing Wu Dao placed a hand on the Little Thunder King’s head. Even more star-colored Primordial Magnetic Arms squirmed out from his palm, and soon the Little Thunder King fell into a deep, baby-like sleep.

GULP... GULP... GULP...

Just as Wu Dao was subduing the Little Thunder King and the others, a loud sound of gulping down essence echoed from within the Boundless Ancestral Land, like a starving beast that had been thirsty for countless years was now feeding and reawakening.

’Is it finally coming out?’

Wu Dao looked back, his eyes narrowing slightly. He glanced at the completely dried-up Chaos Remnant Body at the base of the Infinite Golden Stele, then gathered the cocoon-wrapped Celestial Prides into his All Heaven.

Afterward, he swiftly erased the Spiritual Imprints on the ten Emperor Grade Heavy Artifacts and tossed them to the group of Primordial Demons, saying sternly:

”Don’t spare the Creation Mother Liquid! Fully reactivate all the Heavy Artifacts, aim them at the Ancestral Hall, and the moment anything shows its head, hit it with everything you’ve got!”

”As you command!”

Zhao Jianji and the other Primordial Demons heard the seriousness in Wu Dao’s voice. They all acknowledged the order with a sharp cry and prepared for battle.

The dangerous aura emanating from the Ancestral Hall!

A power that was definitively above the Grotto Heaven realm!

An existence like that...

Wu Dao took a deep breath, a hint of solemnity appearing in his eyes.

In the Dao, a single level higher is enough to crush someone!

If his realm were measured by the Hongyuan System, he was two major realms below the Creation Realm!

If he were at the second stage of All Heaven Perfection... No! Even if he had only completed half of it, he wouldn’t fear an ordinary Creation Realm expert.

But now...

Fifty-five All Heavens...

It was far from enough.

’I can only rely on the power of my artifacts.’

Thinking of this, Wu Dao looked at the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in his hand and communicated with the Star Mother, ”Star Mother, you will take control of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe in a moment.”

The being in the depths of the Ancestral Hall had countless ties to the Infinite Ancestral Hall, a Saint Master Divine Weapon.

Su Chen had clearly spent a long time comprehending the Dao on the Golden Stele, but despite his talent, he still failed to gain the Ancestral Hall’s recognition. It was most likely because of that unknown being.

In other words, that being had to be slain.

Only then could a new master be established and everything within the Infinite Ancestral Hall be taken completely!

If the Star Mother wielded the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe to deal with the Ancestral Hall, Wu Dao could focus entirely on the battle without being distracted.

”As you command, Father God.”

The Primordial Star Mother began to spin faster. After receiving permission from Wu Dao, wisps of Magnetic Field threads began to link with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, reawakening its Heaven and Earth Creation Mighty Power.

GULP... GULP... GULP...

The sound of ravenous gulping continued, sounding somewhat horrifying in the silent, starry sky.

From the depths of the Ancestral Hall, wisps of an overwhelming, ferocious aura began to spread, as if a Fierce Beast that had hibernated for tens of millions of years was reawakening. Its every breath caused the entire firmament to rise and fall.

A heavy pressure descended majestically from above the Nine Heavens.

Across tens of thousands of miles, the sea of clouds churned violently. All auras fluctuated and were extinguished as an ancient killing intent, capable of slaughtering all things, spread and brought fear with it!

Within the Ancestral Land, the various All Heavens’ Celestial Prides vying for Creation felt their scalps tingle. In an instant, they felt as insignificant as ants. Those with weaker cultivation even fell to their knees and prostrated themselves.

”What did the Little Thunder King and his group dig up?”

”I feel like a peerless monster from the ancient battlefields is about to be born, and it wants to slaughter every living thing!”

”*Gulp*... It couldn’t be a vicious corpse reviving inside the Infinite Ancestral Hall, could it?”

A terrifying guess spread like a plague across the Ten Directions of the Ancestral Land. The faces of the All Heavens’ Celestial Prides turned deathly pale, and they all fled from the universe where the Ancestral Hall was located.

The more timid ones even prepared to flee.

But when they returned to the exit, they were horrified to discover that the space-time rift in the Boundless Ancestral Land had been repaired and sealed!

Even if they deployed their World Heavy Artifacts, they couldn’t budge it in the slightest!

A sense of great panic and despair skyrocketed in an instant!

”It’s over! A great evil has emerged, the Ancestral Land is completely sealed, and we’re all doomed!”

All the Celestial Prides within the Ancestral Land felt as if their lives were being squeezed by a pair of massive, invisible hands.

An invisible darkness spread from the Nine Heavens, enveloping them completely. The ominous premonition of their inescapable doom drove them to madly bombard the rift.

Alas, it was destined to be a futile effort.

The Magnetic Field network of the Boundary Wall rift, repaired by nearly a hundred Incarnations working together, was only one level weaker than it had been before it was broken open.

It had taken the people from the Xing’e Imperial Dynasty and the Eternal Emperor Sect several months and a massive amount of Creation Mother Qi to chisel it open in the first place.

In such a short time, there was no way for them to escape!

BZZZZ—

As the Ancestral Land descended into chaos and madness, the pulsating of the Ancestral Hall in the center of the empty Star Sea above the Nine Heavens finally grew quiet. It was the calm before the storm!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—!!

The silence was broken in less than an instant.

As if a Fierce Demon from Purgatory were hammering at the walls of the mortal world, the Ancestral Hall shook and trembled. The sound of thunderous hammering vibrated throughout the entire Boundless Ancestral Land!

BOOM!!

Finally, a ferocious, ancient light, like a cosmic pulse, shot up from the depths of the Ancestral Hall. It pierced through the space-time of the universe, stirring and destroying the auras of the Ten Directions, and was clearly visible from every corner of the vast Ancestral Land.

’This aura...’

Wu Dao watched as a figure made of Glazed Stone slowly climbed out of a Sea of Ancestor Essence Blood at the base of the blood-red pulse. The figure’s entire body was interwoven with Dao Patterns and radiated an indestructible, golden light. Wu Dao’s eyes suddenly narrowed.

It wasn’t the Creation Realm.

It was... the Horizontal Refining Twelfth Gate Undying Body, which was peerless within the Creation Realm. It seemed to be a Stone Embryo Spirit.

But... its Spirituality clearly had the Magnetic Field aura of a Human Race Divine Soul.

’Star Mother, analyze the Magnetic Field.’

The moment the thought formed, Wu Dao communicated with the Primordial Star Mother.

The Primordial Star Mother, having been nurtured by him, had digested many of the All Heavens’ Supreme Scriptures and stored the universe’s mysteries. Her repository of knowledge and information far surpassed his own.

HUMMM~

After receiving the command, the Primordial Star Mother’s computational core churned through the countless pieces of knowledge in its database, establishing magnetic field models one by one to compare the information.

An instant later, the Primordial Star Mother found a match. A mechanical voice, interwoven with the voices of a billion Daoists, sounded in Wu Dao’s mind:

”Replying to Father God, the being is indeed from the Human Race, at the First Layer of the Horizontal Refining Twelve Dao Gates Undying Body. Its physical body is forged from a Glazed Destiny Stone.

A comparison of the Magnetic Field data shows a ninety percent similarity to the Infinite Saint Master at the time of the Four Tribulations. There is a high probability that he has been reborn through the stone.

The Glazed Destiny Stone. It is a supreme life-preserving Dao Treasure of the All Heavens, with a Dao Source grade even higher than a Dao Stone.

Even if the Main Body completely perishes, the Glazed Destiny Stone can lock onto a single thought stored within it, preventing it from falling into the cycle of life and death. It then uses the essence of heaven and earth to strengthen its Dao Source and nurture the remnant thought.

After ages have passed, it allows for rebirth.

This is equivalent to living a second life.”

’Complete death. And it can still lock onto a wisp of thought and prevent it from being extinguished?’

Wu Dao’s expression was one of astonishment.

The ”complete death” the Star Mother mentioned definitely referred to true, irreversible, and absolute death.

Under those circumstances, the Glazed Destiny Stone could still forcibly preserve a wisp of thought from being extinguished.

That Mighty Power was truly heaven-defying.