Essence Devouring Art

The attacks were like layers of distorted scrolls wrapped around the surface of a great Sun. As the Primordial Magnetic True Gang rotated, they transformed into immense beams of rainbow light that were violently flung outward, locking onto their targets and smashing into the twenty First Transformation Divine Power Users!

Giving them a taste of their own medicine!

How terrifying was the Power of Slaughter, condensed and transformed from the Divine Power of thirty-five techniques?

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

There were no surprises.

High in the sky.

More than twenty First Transformation Divine Power Users.

Were annihilated without so much as a grunt.

The instant the rainbow shockwaves of the Divine Techniques struck, they exploded into a sky-filling mist of blood!

RUMBLE—

The scene was utterly horrifying.

The explosion of over twenty Divine Power Users was akin to twenty small suns detonating simultaneously. As the shockwaves from the various fireballs of energy expanded,

everything within a radius of hundreds of miles—tangible and intangible, large and small—was ground into nothingness. The blazing light was thousands of times more brilliant than the sun itself, clearly visible from over a thousand miles away.

For an instant, it was as if heaven and earth had fallen silent.

In what seemed like a frozen moment in time,

wherever the shockwave passed, one Second Transformation Divine Power User after another was sent flying. Mountain ranges were annihilated, vanishing into nothingness as if a black hole had descended to devour all existence.

”AHHH! YOU ANIMAL!!!”

A heart-wrenching roar shattered the silence of the heavens.

Twenty Divine Power Users!

Wiped out with a flick of a finger!

The upper echelons of the Southern Alliance would go insane!

To say nothing of Mo Tai, who had witnessed it all with his own eyes!

Indescribable grief and indignation.

It was as if ten thousand volcanoes had erupted within his body, causing the corners of his eyes to tear and stream bloody tears!

”If you court death, then you deserve to die!”

From the center of the Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield,

a voice as cold and merciless as the judgment of a God or Demon rang out.

Countless fragments of mangled flesh and shattered bone rapidly converged.

They reformed into Wu Dao’s Nine-Foot Glorious Glass Divine Body, which seemed forged from Immortal Celestial Crystal.

The combined attack of thirty-five Divine Power Users!

The Mighty Power they unleashed was enough to threaten a Four-Change Divine Ability User!

Blocking their attacks with his Magnetic Field and then distorting them...

...was no easy task.

The immense pressure...

...had instantly crushed Wu Dao into countless fragments, as if he had undergone Celestial Demon Dissolution and suffered a backlash.

If it were anyone else,

even someone at the Great Success of the Horizontal Refining Eighth Gate,

such a catastrophic injury...

...would have left them gravely wounded, if not dead.

But to Wu Dao,

it didn’t even qualify as a warm-up!

’Do they have any idea what it means to train by having one’s body and soul pulverized into microscopic particles nearly one hundred thousand times a day?!’

An injury like this...

...barely even qualified as a flesh wound.

He didn’t even need the blink of an eye to recover.

”Monster! Form the Array! Kill this monster, no matter the cost!”

Mo Tai had assumed Wu Dao would pay a heavy price for forcibly redirecting their Divine Power, but he hadn’t expected him to recover in an instant. He was so terrified his limbs went cold as he shrieked, his voice cracking.

’A monster like this!’

’It completely subverts the worldview I’ve built over nearly a thousand years of Cultivation!’

’If he’s allowed to continue growing, it would be an apocalyptic disaster for all of Dali.’

’No matter the cost,’

’Wu Dao must be slain here today!’

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

Before the echoes of Mo Tai’s voice faded,

the remaining ten Second Transformation and four Third Transformation Divine Power Users reacted. Snapping out of their shock, they quickly closed ranks, forming an offensive Array with Mo Tai and another female Third Transformation Divine Power User at its core.

After their momentary carelessness...

...had cost them over twenty Divine Power Users,

they finally grasped the gravity of the situation. Daring not to hold back any longer, they even unleashed their Secret Techniques. As their physical bodies shriveled and withered, their Essence, Qi, and Spirit soared to new heights.

”Godslaying Saber, strike!”

SHIIING!

The moment the fifteen Divine Power Users formed the Array, their Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and their Divine Power all linked together, like a Celestial Blade unleashed from its gate.

The instant it shot forth,

the blade’s blinding light illuminated the Azure Abyss and Yellow Springs.

The magnificent Celestial Blade sundered the cosmos, appearing to possess a true edge capable of slaughtering gods and butchering demons. As the void around it continuously shattered, terrifying visions manifested—of immortals and demons bleeding to death, of the Yellow Springs itself breaking apart.

DONG! DONG! DONG!—

The Heart Lake Alarm Bell rang furiously!

The moment the Celestial Blade descended, Wu Dao instantly felt a Mighty Power that transcended the Third Transformation, causing his flesh and bones to tense and tremble.

In a flash of thought,

he understood everything.

This Godslaying Saber was a Slaughter Divine Technique formed from the combination of fifteen Little Divine Techniques.

Great Divine Power Users in this world...

...were those who, within the Four Transformations Domain, condensed various Little Divine Techniques to empower their main one, transforming it into a far more powerful Great Divine Technique.

The Godslaying Saber formed by Mo Tai and the others’ combined strike already possessed the embryonic form of a Great Divine Technique, and with it, a sliver of its Mighty Power.

’This strike!’

’I can’t block it head-on!’

’In that case—’

’what’s the harm in letting you ”kill” me once?’

KRAANG!

An instant later,

the Godslaying Saber sundered the sky and void. It ripped through the layers of Magnetic Field blockades, carrying the Mighty Power to slaughter gods and exterminate demons. It shattered the Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield on the spot and carved Wu Dao into a sky-filling mist of blood.

”Haa... haa... Did we succeed?”

Mo Tai, who led the Array, gasped for breath, staring with uncertainty at the mass of crystalline blood mist at the center of a world that had been split in two.

Clearly, that last strike...

...had taken a terrifying toll on them.

...

DONG! DONG! DONG!—

Before a sliver of joy could even form in Mo Tai’s heart, the frantic ringing of his alarm bell detonated in his soul. An overwhelming sense of crisis crashed down upon him!

The next instant.

RUMBLE—

The various forms of magnetic Energy between heaven and earth began to surge like a tidal wave. It was as if a black hole was moving through the world, its terrifying Devouring Power making Mo Tai and the others feel as if their very souls were about to be pulled in.

At the core of this black hole-like vortex!

Before the incredulous eyes of Mo Tai and the others,

the crystalline blood mist rapidly condensed,

regenerating a human frame of flesh and bone, once again becoming Wu Dao’s towering figure.

’Immortal and Undying?’

Mo Tai was dumbstruck. His worldview was once again thrown to the ground and stomped into dust.

’Rebirth from blood mist... Immortal and Undying!’

’That’s a physical Divine Technique only possessed by those of the Horizontal Refining Ninth Gate!’

’But Wu Dao is only at the Eighth Daoist Sect!’

’How is this possible!’

’How could he possibly do it!’

Before Mo Tai and the others could process their horror,

the newly ’resurrected’ Wu Dao fixed his cold gaze on them, his eyes like abysses spewing thunder and fire:

”Congratulations. You actually hurt me.”

Before his voice had even faded,

Wu Dao extended a hand erupting with crystalline thunder and fire. Forming his fingers into a blade, he slashed at Mo Tai and the others from afar!

SHIIING!

The moment Wu Dao’s hand-blade fell,

everyone on the battlefield...

...saw an invisible Celestial Blade materialize behind him, rising as if drawn from a sheath. It seemed to harness the very momentum of the cosmos and connect to all the various fields of power.

HUMMM~

In that instant,

a horrifying change took place!

Including Mo Tai, all the Divine Power Users felt abandoned by heaven and earth, all their connections to the world severed.

They could no longer sense Primordial Qi, Spiritual Qi, or Soldier Qi. It was as if they had been cast into an endless, profound darkness, exiled to a land of eternal oblivion, each becoming an isolated island, forever forgotten.

’What kind of Divine Technique is this?!’

Mo Tai’s Heart Lake Alarm Bell shrieked as he struggled to resist, but he remained utterly unable to form the slightest connection with the outside world. He felt like a lost traveler in eternal darkness, his very True Self on the verge of fading away!

The Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber!

Not a Divine Technique, yet greater than any Divine Technique!

With a single strike!

All connections between an individual’s Magnetic Field and the magnetic fields of heaven, earth, and all of creation were severed!

DONG! DONG! DONG!—

As the group descended into panicked terror,

a frantic, soundless, and formless noise of shattering chains rang in their minds.

To their horror, they discovered...

...that the God Slaying Array, which had linked their Divine auras,

with Wu Dao’s single strike,

had shattered on its own!

Even more terrifying,

Mo Tai could feel that the Essence, Qi, and Spirit of the ten Divine Power Users below the Third Transformation had begun to rebel!

That’s right!

Rebellion!

The Power that originally belonged to them was, against all reason, swarming toward Wu Dao as if on a pilgrimage, as though he were its one true master!

’What kind of joke is this?!’

’He’d never even dreamed of something so absurd!’

’Is he even human...?’

For the first time,

the thought that Wu Dao was invincible entered Mo Tai’s mind, and a sliver of fear began to grow in his heart.

But in the next moment,

at Wu Dao’s next move,

that sliver of fear in his heart ignited, exploding into an inextinguishable wildfire!

”Get over here!”

The cold, domineering command rang out!

”Ah!”

”No!”

”My Power! How is this possible?!”

Shrill, incredulous screams erupted all around Mo Tai.

Before his utterly horrified eyes, the ten Second Transformation Divine Power Users were pulled toward Wu Dao at incredible speed, like pieces of iron drawn to a powerful magnet.

Then,

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!—

A series of booming impacts rang out!

It was as if a war machine was being assembled.

The ten Second Transformation Divine Power Users...

...became like living components. Their flesh, bones, and souls twisted, their faces contorted in agonizing wails as they were forcibly absorbed all over Wu Dao, forming a grotesque and bizarre humanoid monster!