Essence Devouring Art

But what surprised the Taiqing Empress even more...

...was the people from the Dragon Hunting Tower.

They had somehow silently revived the All Heaven Stars Array of the Huanwu Ancestral Land, which had long been extinguished!

It had been steeped in Tribulation Qi for tens of millions of years!

The Star Sea Array was already unrecognizable, its structure completely different from the original. Even if its creator were resurrected, they wouldn’t be able to reactivate it!

In such a short amount of time!

’How on earth did they do it?’

More importantly...

The power of this group of Dragon Hunters!

It was truly outrageous!

The weakest one’s aura felt to the Taiqing Empress like it could contend with a Son of Revival who had three perfected Grotto Heavens!

And their leader!

That mysterious person whose Daoist Technique Aspect was so vast it seemed to embrace the Star River... Even with her vision, she couldn’t discern the slightest thing about his true nature!

This was rather strange.

The Taiyi Emperor Star was a top-tier Primordial Dao Artifact. Although the factions of the All Heavens had sneakily crossed over, their upper limit of power wouldn’t exceed the Third Layer of the Emperor Grade Creation Realm.

The Taiqing Empress was protecting Mo Chen.

The Celestial Court’s influence naturally allowed them to reach this limit; this incarnation of her thoughts was at the Third Layer of the Emperor Grade Creation Realm.

The upper limit was locked.

But that didn’t mean her vision was locked.

Yet, with her perspective as one of the All Heavens Great Emperors, she couldn’t see through that mysterious person’s power?

’Could it be an incarnation of a Primordial Dao Emperor from the Dragon Hunting Tower?’

’If that’s truly the case...’

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

Before the Taiqing Empress could ponder further,

The Heart Lake Alarm Bell rang!

The mysterious man whose form embraced the Galaxy suddenly opened his eyes. An immense, chilling killing intent pierced through the vast expanse of time and space, locking onto Mo Chen on the Enlightenment Platform!

To be precise!

It was locked on all the Creation Realm experts within Huanwu Mountain!

He intended to slay every Creation expert alone!

BUZZZ!!

The Star River fell into disarray, the Magnetic Field erupting in a frenzy!

Everything within her perception blurred and shattered!

It was as if a Divine Being residing high in the Nine Heavens had opened its eyes with murderous intent. A pressure like hundreds of millions of firmaments collapsing pressed down, causing everyone below the Creation Realm on Huanwu Mountain to turn pale, on the verge of suffocation!

Even the Creation Realm experts looked as though they were facing a formidable enemy!

”So strange...”

The Taiqing Empress’s expression was indifferent as she protected the stunned Mo Chen.

At this moment, even she could no longer perceive the scene outside the Star Sea. She only felt an immeasurable black hole churning, threatening to devour all existence in the world!

The reason she called it strange...

...was because the Taiqing Empress didn’t sense any World Law or even the power of a Grotto Heaven Dragon Vein gathering.

But that person...

The instant he unleashed his killing intent...

...had become the very core of the Universe!

All phenomena and all forces gathered around him, converging vast amounts of low-level Extraordinary Factors and the grand momentum of the world’s ley lines. He had forced a qualitative change, creating a threat to even Creation Realm experts!

BUZZZ BUZZZ BUZZZ!

At the apex of the rapidly spinning galactic vortex,

Wu Dao handed control of the Grand Array’s operation over to the Star Mother. He let out a soft breath as his impossibly vast physique rapidly collapsed and de-dimensionalized, liberating the Mixed Lotus Divine Wutian!

BOOM!

A wicked, abstract Mixed Lotus, seemingly constructed from countless colorful pixels, soared up from the center of the Galaxy and bloomed.

It was clearly visible from every corner of the Star Sea!

”What is that?”

”AHHH!!!”

”Hahaha... Kill, kill, kill...”

”A great omen of disaster! Don’t look, don’t look!”

Throughout the Star Sea,

within one Dao platform after another!

The instant the magnetic information-pulse hit, countless cultivators who witnessed the Divine Chaos Lotus bloom...

...felt their Divine Souls instantly plummet!

They were completely corrupted by Shen Wutian, succumbing to cultivation deviation and turning into slaughtering machines devoid of self.

The pixelated Divine Chaos Lotus continued to bloom, its waves of magnetic corruption growing stronger and stronger, sweeping through like a tsunami.

Chaos and madness!

In an instant, it engulfed the entire Star Sea!

”Kill, kill, kill... HISS!!”

Within the Star Sea,

the Big Black Wolf, fleeing with all its might, almost had its Divine Soul fall into darkness after the magnetic pulse swept over. It had to use the Abi Saber to protect itself and maintain its clarity.

’The Dragon Hunting Tower!’

’Just what kind of monstrosity have they raised?!’

The Big Black Wolf’s heart trembled in fear.

Not daring to glance back, it cut down one crazed cultivator after another as it sprinted wildly toward a Dao platform’s Star Hub.

「In the center of the Galaxy!」

The Divine Chaos Lotus continued to bloom!

After reaching the All Heaven Perfection of 340 cycles,

the intensity of Wu Dao’s Microscopic Magnetic Particles skyrocketed, his foundation climbing from the tenth grade to the fifteenth!

The Divine Ghost Mixed Lotus!

It bloomed to the thirtieth grade!

The Divine Chaos Lotus reached the forty-fifth grade!

Forty-five times the Limit’s shackles were released!

BOOM!

The moment the forty-fifth-grade Evil Lotus bloomed!

The entire Universe seemed to be crushed into oblivion by a behemoth. Myriad threads of Law Order wailed and snapped, and the Star Sea, under the baptism of the magnetic pulse storm, fell completely into a dark, great annihilation!

Within the ancient, silent darkness,

the only light...

...was that single, Transcendent stalk that dwarfed the Star Sea!

It was the variegated Evil Lotus, rooted in a ’pond’ of immortal golden light and endless starlight, swaying and writhing wantonly!

A feeling of unprecedented power!

At this moment, Wu Dao even had the illusion of being omnipotent!

But he knew it was just an illusion.

He steadied his mind,

and abruptly tugged a single thread of the Magnetic Field!

CRACKLE—BOOM!

Power exploded like a thunderclap, swelling like a raging tide!

With a single point of his finger,

the Magnetic Field was like a snowball rolling down from a mountaintop, instantly growing from a tiny mote into a world-ending avalanche, a cataclysmic tsunami!

RUMBLE!!

Within Huanwu Mountain,

the sensation was even clearer and more direct.

Under the cover of the layered, explosive pressure, no matter how brilliantly talented anyone below the Creation Realm was...

...they all felt as if they were carrying one Divine Mountain after another on their backs. Even twitching a muscle required their full effort!

After Wu Dao pointed his finger,

from the chaotic depths of the Star River came the sound of hundreds of millions of firmaments surging out of the Abyss, a rolling, rushing noise like a great tide!

SPURT!!

Those with weaker cultivation...

...couldn’t withstand this pressure at all.

They immediately spat out mouthfuls of blood, their Divine Souls went blank, and they were crushed like insects, fainting on the spot.

On the Venerable Enlightenment Platform,

the fierce ringing of the alarm bells and the crisis of life and death dragged Mo Chen back from the darkness of his ultimate humiliation. His face was ghastly pale, and he felt as if his life was being crushed in a giant hand!

If not for the Bodhi Enlightenment Tree...

...and the Taiqing Empress’s protection, he would never have been able to withstand this pressure. It made him feel as insignificant as an ant from every angle, bringing a suffocating despair with no light in sight!

What horrified him even more...

...was a lingering, ever-intensifying killing intent that remained fixed on him!

The Dragon Hunting Tower wasn’t trying to *hunt* him!

They wanted to *kill* him!!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

As everyone watched in horror and despair,

the rolling thunder of a hundred million firmaments reached its peak. The accumulated, vast Magnetic Field Power transformed into Reversed Dragons formed from countless Celestial Sabers, slashing toward the Creation Realm experts who stood out from the crowd!

Among them!

The only exception from the younger generation!

Was Mo Chen!

The Reversed Dragon slashing toward him was the most ferocious and domineering of them all!

’Celestial Mandate? With no road to heaven and no gate into the earth, let’s see if you can escape death!’

In the pond where the Mixed Lotus was rooted,

Wu Dao’s consciousness, having fully unleashed the Mixed Lotus, remained clear and unaffected by any backlash.

With a single thought,

the Reversed Dragons—disguised Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers whose power transcended the limits of a Grotto Heaven—suddenly chopped down!

’Since this is a blitzkrieg, there’s no room for back-and-forth!’

’Attack with full power!’

’Hold nothing back, just crush them flat. The sooner this ends, the better!’

’The Creation Realm experts in Huanwu Mountain are a full two ranks higher than me!’

’Subduing and converting them would be extremely troublesome and time-consuming. To be safe, I can only kill them all!’

Of course,

the primary target was still Mo Chen!

His trump card posed no danger to himself.

A kill-zone had been established once again!

Today, he would sever the karma between them!

”Hm?”

As the killing sabers descended,

Wu Dao’s thoughts stirred.

He sensed that one of his Incarnations, which was scooping up the spoils on the mountain, had encountered resistance.

After a detailed probe,

”Heh.”

Wu Dao smiled faintly and remarked with a touch of inexplicable emotion, ”You’ve grown up...”

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Within Huanwu Mountain, which felt as if it had been plunged into a vast, abyssal ocean!

The brilliant Celestial Sabers were like the sharp blades of the Great Dao’s judgment, severing the Law Order and pressing down on the Creation Realm experts with endless, suffocating despair!

”Dragon Hunting Tower, you are courting your own destruction!”

Kong Dongzi, the Creation Realm expert from the Infinite Daoist Palace, wore an extremely grim expression. He had never imagined the Dragon Hunting Tower would be this insane!

The powers currently within Huanwu Mountain were all Common Lords of their own worlds, uncrowned kings, and Overlord Daoist Lineages. Not even someone with the audacity of the heavens would dare to touch them!

But the Dragon Hunting Tower dared!

”What’s the point of wasting words in a situation like this? If you want to live, fight for your life! Kill!!”

The Creation Realm expert from the Star God Hall shone as brightly as the stars of the All Heavens. Billions of stars roiled in his Inner World as he roared, wielding a Heavy Artifact spear to attack an intangible saber-dragon slashing at him!

”Kill!!”

”You’re truly seeking death!”

”Arrogant fool! Break for me!”

Atop the mountain peak,

the Creation Realm experts who had snuck in did not hesitate. They activated their World Power with a rumble to meet the Celestial Sabers, and brilliant divine lights of every color instantly filled every inch of space!

”This saber strike...”

The Taiqing Empress, protecting Mo Chen, gazed at the two brilliant, intangible saber-dragons that slashed toward them, severing and reversing everything, her heart filled with doubt.

’The Dragon Hunting Tower. Everyone there cultivates the Reversed Dragon Dominating Body.’

’And they do have a Transverse Cultivation Ultimate Skill called the Reversed Dragon Saber that can supposedly sever Essence, Qi, and Spirit.’

’But it shouldn’t have this kind of might!’

’One slash! It severs more than just one’s own Essence, Qi, and Spirit!’

’The Ten Thousand Techniques are broken, and heaven and earth forsake you!’

’All connections to the world are snapping and receding, and one’s cultivation in Taoist Magic and Divine Techniques is also crumbling!’

’The Reversed Dragon Saber... has such terrifying power?’

’Or is that mysterious person truly a monster from the Dragon Hunting Tower, an incarnation of a cosmic magnate from the All Heavens whose Reversed Dragon Saber has reached a level beyond perfection?’

*Huuu~*

Her thoughts raced like lightning.

But the ’Reversed Dragon Saber’ that severed all things was already pressing down. The Taiqing Empress had no time for deep thought and formed a Sword Seal with her hand.

Pure Qi fanned out like a peacock’s tail.

She leveraged the World Law, transforming it into cascading rivers of sword-light that flowed like galaxies, aiming to shred the two incoming Reversed Dragon Sabers.

Third Layer of the Emperor Grade Creation Realm.

And an incarnation of a thought from an All Heavens Great Emperor, no less.

The Taiqing Empress’s strength was undoubtedly the greatest on Huanwu Mountain at present!

But...

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The moment the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers truly fell!

Their Mighty Power completely surpassed the limits of the Taiqing Empress’s expectations. The cascading galaxies of light were shattered by the Reversed Dragons as if they were dry weeds, unable to hinder them in the slightest!

SPLURT SPLURT SPLURT!!

”AHH!!”

The penetrating saber light...

...slashed Mo Chen until he resembled a shattered piece of porcelain, suffering the death of a thousand cuts from all directions!

His Celestial Soldier Armament cracked apart!

His Grotto Heaven Dragon Veins withered and snapped!

Even the Bodhi Enlightenment Tree was shaking violently and shedding its leaves, as if it were about to disintegrate!

”AHH! NO!!”

More screams echoed out!

The group of Creation Realm experts who had previously charged forward to meet the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers were like clay figures, split in two the moment they made contact with the blades!

Some of the weaker ones...

...were even cleaved in two by a single slash, their Inner Worlds split apart. The mountains, rivers, and great stars within shattered, and their World Dragon Veins died on the spot!

Their bodies and souls exploded into countless motes of fluorescent light and dissipated.

They couldn’t be more dead!