Essence Devouring Art

A one-hit kill on a Creation Realm expert!

That wasn’t just brutal.

It was absolutely savage!

At fifty-five All Heavens.

Wu Dao could already clash head-on with an Infinite Saint Master at the First Layer of the Undying Body. Even though he’d cleverly used a Heavy Artifact to suppress his foe, it was still more than enough to prove how monstrous his combat power was.

The Creation Realm.

Each level was a world of difference!

But now, Wu Dao was at 340 All Heaven Perfection!

And he had unleashed his limits in the state of Mixed Lotus Divine Nothingness 45th Grade!

How could that be considered just one qualitative leap?

Killing those in the First or Second Layer in a single blow?

That was a complete non-issue—

absolutely no problem!

The only one putting up any resistance...

...was probably the Incarnation of the Taiqing Empress protecting Mo Chen. One could only say she was worthy of being one of the All Heavens Great Emperors.

Even a mere Incarnation formed from a single thought...

...possessed combat power that transcended her realm.

She could face two Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers alone and still hold her ground without retreating!

But it didn’t matter.

’I’m very experienced when it comes to dealing with these aloof, otherworldly broads!’

BUZZ!

With a single thought.

Wu Dao plucked another strand of the Primordial Magnetism thread. Just this simple flick showed signs of causing his Divine Chaos Lotus to disintegrate.

In this state...

...his every thought and move did indeed leverage the momentum of the entire cosmic magnetic field to his aid. However, the backlash was also exceptionally strong, so he couldn’t unleash his power without restraint.

But did it matter?

It didn’t!

After gently plucking the thread to start a snowball effect, it became an unstoppable force that crushed everything in its path!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The instant Wu Dao plucked the Primordial Magnetism thread, the Taiqing Empress, dressed in white purer than snow and exuding an ethereal majesty, suddenly felt a sense of foreboding rise in her Heart Lake!

WHOOSH!!

Before she could even react...

...an endless, boundless sea of mortal suffering, filled with ultimate misery and sorrow, appeared within her senses. Its churning waves surged endlessly, rushing to drown her.

’The Endless Sea of Suff— Not good!’

For the first time, the Taiqing Empress’s mind was truly shocked!

Before the thought could even fully form...

...her consciousness plunged into the Endless Sea of Suffering, falling into one bleak, lightless, and utterly miserable mortal world after another.

”An Empress? Go to Hell, Your Majesty!”

Wu Dao grinned playfully. His thoughts transformed into countless forms of suffering and great evil, arranging a series of ultimate humiliations for the Taiqing Empress!

The true form of the Endless Sea of Suffering...

...like the Eighteen Netherworlds, was also a supreme Dao Artifact!

Back then in the Divine Wilderness...

...the Slaughter Emperor had manifested a projection of the Endless Sea of Suffering. He had most likely seen its true form once and obtained a trace of its Dao Essence.

After crossing the Sea of Suffering...

...that trace of Dao Essence became the Bitter Sea Punishment Phase of Wu Dao’s Three-Phase Divine Punishment!

With the blessing of this supreme Dao Essence...

...once a person’s consciousness was ensnared by the Bitter Sea Punishment Phase...

...let alone the Dao heart of one of the All Heavens Great Emperors...

...even a Mixed Yuan Tao Emperor could be tormented until their defenses broke, affecting the Dao heart of their true body. It was simply the ultimate weapon against the Incarnations of Great Powers!

That Empress from the Thunder Emperor Palace back then...

...was rumored to still be in seclusion, cleansing her Dao heart that had been tainted by the Sea of Suffering. She refused to speak a word about what she had experienced in the Divine Wilderness.

”Master!!”

On the Venerable Enlightenment Platform.

Mo Chen’s eyes were splitting with rage as he stared at his master beneath the Celestial Blade, blood bursting from the corners of his eyes!

His master, who was originally dressed in white purer than snow, peerlessly proud, and inviolably majestic...

...her expression suddenly began to shift rapidly.

It went from calm and unperturbed to flushed with anger, then to shame and despair, and finally to pale with terror...

In just a single instant...

...it was as if she had been afflicted by the Celestial Demon Chaotic Heart countless times!

Mo Chen didn’t even dare to imagine what his master could have possibly experienced in that instant to lose her composure so completely.

After all...

...the Taiqing Empress had attained the Dao through Pure Qi!

She was born unafraid of evil and corruption.

After she became an Empress, those who could disrupt her state of mind were few and far between.

But now...

And in that very instant!

Far away in the Taiqing Immortal Realm within the Profound Yellow World.

”Wretched creature!!”

The Taiqing Empress received the information about the change in her Emperor Star and also suffered the torment of the Sea of Suffering’s Dao Essence tracing back to its source. She let out a cry of humiliation, her defenses broken for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years!

”No, Mo Chen...”

A ray of Pure Qi shot up.

In an instant, it soared out of the Profound Yellow Heaven.

With One Step, her phantom streaked across the All Heavens, rushing toward the Chaotic Star Heaven at extreme speed!

BUZZ!!

Within the Heavenly Court Nine Heavens.

A cold gaze also turned toward the Chaotic Star Heaven, startling countless old monsters across the All Heavens.

Inside the Huanwu Killing Array!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

After the Taiqing Empress’s Incarnation was trapped in the Sea of Suffering, unable to escape, she was powerless to intercept the two Celestial Blades.

Even her snow-white robes were being stained with blood. The state of her perfect face was indescribable as the Pure Qi around her was ceaselessly corrupted. She couldn’t even fend for herself!

’Die!’

Wu Dao’s eyes turned sharp. Unobstructed, the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber, carrying immense killing intent, slashed toward the terrified and despairing Mo Chen!

”If you dare kill him, the Dragon Hunting Tower will be annihilated!”

In that instant between life and death...

...a Creation Realm expert making a last-ditch stand roared. He didn’t belong to any known power of the Emperor Stars; he was clearly a master secretly protecting Mo Chen.

A pity!

Wu Dao had accounted for all of Mo Chen’s trump cards and escape routes. He was intent on killing him, so why would he be afraid?

But just as the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber was about to fall, the expected accident finally occurred!

BUZZ!

The space-time where the despairing Mo Chen was located...

...suddenly twisted and spun!

Like a black hole connecting to an unknown place, it tried to swallow Mo Chen whole!

’A spatial turbulence?’

Turbulent flows that warped space-time did indeed erupt on the Emperor Stars from time to time, but in a place like the Cosmic Ancestral Land, suppressed by the massive magnetic field of Cosmic Mountain...

...in tens of millions of years!

...the number of times a spatial turbulence had appeared during its openings could be counted on one hand!

Such a low probability!

And it just had to happen now!

At this exact moment!

It was as if the heavens themselves didn’t want Mo Chen to die!

’Celestial Destiny and Fortune!’

’It really is more than just a nice-sounding name!’

But!

’Today, I’m going to prove that man can triumph over fate!’

”A mere spatial turbulence? Be suppressed!”

Wu Dao’s Divine Thought turned cold.

The Primordial Star Mother, who controlled the Star Sea Array, suddenly unleashed Shen Wutian, overloading and activating every Heavy Artifact to revive the array’s power to seal and suppress space-time to its absolute peak!

BUZZ!!

In an instant!

The originally shattered and chaotic space-time within Cosmic Mountain became harder than Divine Iron. It compressed and repelled, forcefully pacifying and extinguishing the spatial turbulence that had tried to ’save’ Mo Chen!

But one wave had yet to settle before another rose!

RUMBLE!!

Within the Star Sea.

An ancient forbidden zone suddenly erupted!

Endless Tribulation Evil Qi, as if taking perfect aim, pierced through space-time along its path and shot toward the Star Sea Array. Its target was Mo Chen, and it wanted to sweep him away!

”Get lost!!”

RUMBLE!!

At the Galaxy Center.

From the ’pond’ beneath the colorful Evil Lotus, a massive hand made of magnetic fields, large enough to blot out the starry sky, suddenly rose up. With unparalleled dominance, it slapped the surging, majestic Tribulation Evil Qi, causing it to explode in the void!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The Tribulation Evil Qi had just been blasted apart outside!

But Mo Chen’s Venerable Enlightenment Platform, illuminated by the light of the Bodhi Enlightenment Tree, revived. A great darkness that annihilated everything surged forth, blocking the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber!

Another coincidence!

The Strongest Divine Technique carried by the Enlightenment Platform beneath Mo Chen just so happened to be the Great Silence of All Heavens!

Triggered by the Enlightenment Tree that carried Mo Chen’s Taoist Technique, it revived and instantly acknowledged Mo Chen, wanting to protect him!

Wu Dao wasn’t surprised in the slightest. ’Celestial Destiny and Fortune... it’s no less than what a protagonist from a novel would have. It seems he’s impossible to kill before his destined fate arrives!’

But...

”You won’t let me kill him? Well, I’m going to kill him anyway!!”

Wu Dao’s killing intent didn’t diminish in the slightest as he rapidly plucked the magnetic field threads!

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ—

The Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers, which had already slain the other Creation Realm experts, trembled and hummed before abruptly merging into one. Supremely magnificent and glorious, it continuously hacked away at the revived Great Silence of All Heavens Divine Technique from the Dao Platform, pressing down on Mo Chen!

BOOM!!

And at that very instant!

Wu Dao felt his mind get viciously struck by an indescribable existence. Endless malice surged like a tsunami from every inch of space, enveloping him from all directions!

”SLASH!!!”

But his expression didn’t change in the slightest!

The Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber continued to press down. The Divine No Evil Lotus even bloomed another grade as he himself degraded into a more microscopic existence!

The Celestial Blade continued its descent!

During this process...

...Wu Dao was assaulted by numerous other ”coincidences”!

A long-sealed killing blade suddenly revived on its own and shot out from the Star Sea—he smashed it with a single punch!

A hidden Creation Realm expert emerged from the void, claiming to have a fated connection with Mo Chen—he slapped him into ashes!

A terrifying Celestial Thunder Sea appeared without warning, covering the Galaxy Array and trying to split it open—he swallowed it whole!

The lingering obsession of a Four Tribulations Celestial Court War God revived from a forbidden zone, madly trying to charge the array—the Primordial Star Mother swallowed it whole!

There was...

It was like he had poked a hornet’s nest!

More and more ’coincidences’ erupted simultaneously like a torrential downpour!

They had only one goal!

To save Mo Chen!

”Is there no end to this? Get lost!!”

Wu Dao, enduring the indescribable and immense malice, summoned the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and the Infinite Ancestral Hall—two Saint Master Divine Weapons—and revived the Divine Power within them!

SHIIING!!

VMMMM—

Instantly!

The two Saint Master Divine Weapons hung high above the Star Sea. One shone with an immortal and indestructible golden light, while the other possessed a sharpness that could perform Heaven and Earth Creation. A perfect paradox of offense and defense, they worked together to block the swarming ’coincidences’!

”Wretched creature, die!!”

The Taiqing Empress’s Incarnation suddenly broke free from the Sea of Suffering. Unspeakable humiliation and conviction allowed her to erupt with power that was Transcendent of the Third Layer of the Creation Realm, and she slashed at the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber!

’Bitch, get lost!’

Wu Dao’s thoughts were incomparably cold and ruthless. He viciously pushed his power again, causing the flower to bloom another grade!

BUZZ!!

The blade’s light suddenly flared even brighter!

It shone with a brilliant, grim light!

It instantly sliced the Incarnation of the Taiqing Empress—who looked disheveled as if she had been ravaged countless times—into nothing but ashes!

”Master!!”

Mo Chen roared himself hoarse. Even though he knew it was only an Incarnation, he still felt a bone-deep, unforgettable grief!

But there was nothing he could do!

He himself was about to die!

Unwillingness, frustration, resentment, helplessness, despair...

In such a short time.

His life had plunged into endless darkness, nearly tearing his heart to shreds!

’Wuchen!’

’Dragon Hunting Tower!!’

’If I don’t die!’

’I will make you all...’

SCHRRRRIP!!

The sound of roots snapping rang out!

The Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber finally cleaved through the Great Silence of All Heavens. Its brilliant light flashed as it fell, splitting the Bodhi Enlightenment Tree—the final guardian—in two from top to bottom!

There was nothing to feel sorry about!

’An Enlightenment Tree?’

’It’s not even worthy of licking the Primordial Star Mother’s feet!’

VMMMM—!!

The Celestial Blade trembled. Before it had even fully descended, its light alone was enough to refine Mo Chen’s body, enhanced by his Celestial Soldier Armament, into ashes!

It was like peeling garlic!

The Daoist Magic and Divine Power Veins, the Yellow Court Dantian, one Venerable Cave Heaven after another, his Life Origin...

Under Wu Dao’s savage gaze...

...everything that was Mo Chen exploded into ashes in a process that felt both incredibly fast and agonizingly slow.

His final Divine Soul consciousness!

It too was irreversibly dissipating and shattering!

CLANG—!!

But just as the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber was about to annihilate the last wisp of Mo Chen’s Divine Soul, the sound of a collision that transcended all metals in the world rang out like a clap of thunder!

’That’s...’

Wu Dao’s senses instantly locked onto the object that had blocked his blade, and his eyes turned utterly frigid!