Essence Devouring Art

RUMBLE—

The snowy plains swayed, and a hundred mountains trembled.

With a simple upward pull from Wu Dao, the land within a hundred-li radius of the Sunset Cave was upended. The earth shook as if a dragon had turned over beneath it, blasting open massive fissures. Countless tons of snow shot into the sky like inverted ocean waves.

”Little bunny, little bunny, open the door!”

He grinned ferociously.

Wu Dao clenched the countless threads of the Magnetic Field in his hand. His right arm tensed, muscles rippling like dragons and tigers, and he yanked upward with all his might!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

In that instant, a perfectly circular fissure appeared at the edge of the hundred-li radius of snowy plains. From within the crack, a colossal cylinder of countless billion tons of mountains, forests, earth, and stone began to rise.

From a distance, it looked as if continental plates were colliding, squeezing, and swelling to form a cylindrical bulge. Accompanied by a deafening roar that echoed in all Ten Directions, it shattered the overcast sky and surged toward the heavens.

Finally, including the Sunset Cave itself, a hundred-li-wide, ten-thousand-meter-deep chunk of the heavy earth—countless tons of soil and stone, a thousand peaks and a hundred mountains—was lifted into the air by Wu Dao’s single hand. This was the true meaning of a man’s killing intent turning heaven and earth upside down!

RUMBLE—

With a cataclysmic crash, Wu Dao hurled the massive, seemingly endless cylinder in his hand into the distance. It slammed into a vast, frozen lake, artificially creating new land and triggering a devastating, world-engulfing flood.

GURGLE GURGLE~

With the landscape torn asunder, a sound like a surging tide arose from the bottom of the giant, dark Abyss—the dense, strange scraping of flesh against flesh.

In that profound darkness, points of crimson light appeared, scattered at first. But seconds later, they spread like wildfire, until the scarlet glow consumed nearly the entire subterranean Abyss.

Looking closely, one could see that the points of light, which had merged into a crimson ocean, were all individual eyeballs, blinking ceaselessly as they coldly surveyed all of creation.

Countless scarlet eyeballs swarmed together.

Within the dark, subterranean Abyss, they finally coalesced into a bloody crescent moon.

To be precise, it was a single eyeball.

The eye of a Fierce God, so enormous it resembled a moon hanging in the Abyss!

Anyone with megalophobia here would have pissed their pants in terror.

And trypophobia, too.

Because that scarlet crescent moon was composed of countless eyeballs, both large and small, constantly blinking and squirming. It was even more disgusting and surreal than the monster from Harvest Village.

WHOOSH~

At the Sky Dome Peak, Wu Dao, who was more minuscule than an ant or a speck of dust compared to the scarlet crescent moon, was bathed in a bloody light.

From a distance, he looked like a tiny human about to fall from the sky into the eye of an Ancient God—a truly terrifying and hopeless image.

SWISH SWISH SWISH—

The moment the Eye of the Gap appeared, the countless scarlet eyeballs that formed the crescent moon locked onto Wu Dao in unison. Apathetic and merciless, they all blinked as one.

’I am always watching you!’

’Everywhere, at all times.’

In that instant, Wu Dao felt countless prying eyes hiding in every gap and corner between heaven and earth.

Blinking in the darkness, they watched his every move. There was nowhere to hide. It made his very soul tremble, filled him with terror and unease, and drove him to the brink of madness.

SWISH SWISH SWISH—

The scarlet moon hung at the bottom of the Abyss.

Its countless eyeballs blinked incessantly.

It stared silently and mercilessly at Wu Dao, who was bathed in the ominous red light of the sky.

A cold and sinister Magnetic Field began to encroach upon him.

Visibly, eyeballs began to appear in the gaps of Wu Dao’s own body. They squirmed and blinked, rapidly corroding his flesh, seeking to possess his body and soul and make him fall completely into the red moon.

CRACKLE~

But just then, countless azure currents of Primordial Magnetism burst from Wu Dao’s pores. In an instant, they ground all the eyeballs on his body to dust.

HUM~

The Primordial Magnetic currents expanded into a Gang Shield.

As it expanded, it was like the meeting of fire and water.

In the void, the Fierce Monster’s Magnetic Field released by the Eye of the Gap came into contact with the Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield, producing a sharp, sizzling sound as if something were being deep-fried. The field dissolved into wisps of invisible black smoke and vanished.

”What’re you lookin’ at?”

Within the Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield that shone like a great sun, Wu Dao’s eyes narrowed. He was utterly unfazed, meeting the gaze of the Eye of the Gap in the Abyss from across the distance.

SWISH SWISH SWISH—

The Eye of the Gap remained impassive and devoid of emotion.

It continued to stare at Wu Dao with its omnipresent, prying gaze, showing neither surprise nor anger. It was like a Divine Spirit looking down upon an insect, indifferent to its every action.

”Tch~”

Wu Dao just clicked his tongue at this. Then, his narrowed eyes flew open, and his mouth split into a savage grin. ”You’re staring at me? Then I’ll stare right back. Let’s see who blinks first!”

BZZZT!!

As soon as the words left his mouth, Wu Dao’s eyes suddenly blazed with a dazzling light, as if they held two azure Divine Suns. Within these suns, the figures of a Kunpeng, a True Dragon, a Divine Whale, and a Black Tortoise arose, finally merging into the blurry, humanoid silhouette of a Sacred Spirit.

SWISH!

The Sacred Spirit opened its eyes!

The might of a supreme Primordial Creature instantly filled and crushed the heavens and the earth.

For the first time, it was clear that ripples of disturbance had appeared in the countless cold, merciless eyes of the Eye of the Gap within the Abyss.

At that very moment, the heat of his qi and blood and his Primordial Magnetic currents converged into his eyes like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea. An incredibly dangerous, destructive aura began to brew and hum furiously.

BOOM—!!

The next instant, it was as if ten thousand volcanoes had erupted at once!

All that Energy was then compressed together.

Two azure pulses, thousands of times more brilliant and dazzling than a Divine Sun, suddenly shot from Wu Dao’s eyes!

Layer after layer of void, the violent winds of the atmosphere—beneath these two azure pulses, they were like a thousand sheets of paper pierced by an arrow, leaving two pitch-black vacuum tunnels in their wake.

A mere thought later, the two Primordial Magnetic Qi Blood Pulses had pierced the sky and were slamming viciously toward the Eye of the Blood Moon in the Abyss.

HUMMM—

As the ultimate aura of destruction and explosion drew near, the countless eyeballs of the Eye of the Gap began to vibrate and glow in unison. They formed myriads of scarlet threads that intertwined and twisted, creating an eyelid that shielded the Abyss.

The eyelid closed.

Like a great silken cocoon, it enveloped and protected the scarlet crescent moon within.

RUMBLE—

The moment the Primordial Magnetic currents struck, it was like a stream crashing against a stubborn rock. It kicked up wave after wave of a bloody screen, sending sprays of Primordial Magnetic current and surges of ultimate yang azure qi and blood flying everywhere.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

The clash of spear and shield.

The resplendent Energy shockwaves it produced ravaged the Ten Directions and eight poles, even spreading beyond the Abyss.

The earth was annihilated, mountains exploded into nothingness. The slightest touch of the aftershocks could destroy an entire region, as if two Ancient Gods and Demons were battling.

RUMBLE—

The spear and shield continued to collide and wrestle for dominance!

The void in the Ten Directions and eight poles collapsed. All that existed was annihilated and swept away, and space quickly dissolved into a state of hazy Chaos.

After struggling for a moment, Wu Dao found that he couldn’t overcome the defensive cocoon-eyelid of the Eye of the Gap. The two sides seemed evenly matched; the spear could not break the shield.

But Wu Dao wasn’t disappointed in the slightest.

On the contrary, his appetite grew even stronger!

’The stronger the Eye of the Gap, the more meat it has. If I’d destroyed it in one move, that would have been a real disappointment.’

HUMMM—

In a flash of thought, high above in the hazy, chaotic world, two dazzling, azure Divine Suns suddenly appeared. Their light illuminated the great thousand worlds, dispelling all the darkness, evil, and ghosts of the world!

Undying Transformation, released!

The full power of the Horizontal Refining Eighth Gate was unleashed without reservation!

Wu Dao’s combat power instantly soared into the Two Transformations Domain!

He had put a lot of effort into this clone.

Its strength was even greater than during the battle at Mingquan Pass a month ago. In its normal state, it possessed the combat power of a peak First Transformation.

At its absolute peak output, it could even briefly contend with a Fourth Transformation!

RUMBLE—HISSSSSS!!

After releasing his Undying Transformation, the Primordial Magnetic Qi Blood Pulse erupting from Wu Dao’s eyes grew drastically stronger. It struck the Eye of the Gap’s eyelid like boiling oil, charring a large area and making it sizzle violently.

But it was only for an instant.

A moment later, the charred part of the Eye of the Gap’s eyelid was restored to perfection. No matter how the Primordial Magnetic pulses battered it, they couldn’t destroy even a fraction of it.

’Heh...’

Seeing this, Wu Dao was even more satisfied. A ferocious arc slowly spread across his lips.

BOOM!

The Primordial Magnetic pulse grew even more incandescent!

Divine, Ghostly, Celestial Release!

His combat power stepped into the Divine Power Three Transformations Domain!

BAM BAM BAM—

This time, the Eye of the Gap took a heavy blow. The great cocoon-eyelid shattered and collapsed across a radius of dozens of li, leaving only a thin membrane through which the scarlet crescent moon could be seen.

THUMP THUMP THUMP!!

Without any hesitation, Wu Dao pressed his advantage, voraciously devouring the Energy of the Earth and Heaven Magnetic Field to empower his Primordial Magnetic pulse.

The Primordial Magnetic pulse shooting from his abyss-like eyes instantly transformed into two massive Celestial Pillars, blazing across a radius of several hundred li as he sought to kill the Eye of the Gap in a single blow.

The strength of this Fierce Monster... After this brief probe, he already had a good measure of it.

All he could say was, it was truly worthy of being an old monster that had lived through countless eras.

Although, during those eras, the Eye of the Gap had been suppressed and had never managed to fully develop.

Even so, its accumulation over the long eons had still allowed the Eye of the Gap to become a being like a Fierce God.

At least in the Third Transformation Domain!

Without a doubt, it was the strongest Alien Species Wu Dao had encountered since coming to this World!

More importantly...

Faintly, Wu Dao sensed that the Eye of the Gap was concealing another Power, one that was possibly related to its ominous core.

But for some reason, even though he had been continuously suppressing it, the Eye of the Gap hadn’t used it.

’But it doesn’t matter. In the face of absolute Power, all schemes and plots are just paper tigers!’

BOOM—CR-CR-CRACK!

Like glass shattering from an impact, in his Divine Ghost Heaven State, with a full-power strike at the Peak of Three Transformations, the Eye of the Gap’s defensive cocoon-eyelid could no longer hold. It exploded violently, shattering into a sky full of severed, blood-red threads.

The Celestial Pillar-like Primordial Magnetic pulse continued with unstoppable momentum, its force undiminished, and slammed squarely into the main body of the Eye of the Gap.

’You dare look at me? Then I’ll stare you to death!’

However, even when faced with such a life-threatening blow, the countless eyes of the Eye of the Gap showed no trace of human panic. They continued to watch Wu Dao, their gaze Sen Leng, like a viper in the dark.

Then...

The moment the Primordial Magnetic pulse struck its body, an unbelievable change occurred.

The scarlet crescent moon formed by the Eye of the Gap suddenly began to roil and spin from the inside out. Like a maelstrom swallowing a clay ox, it rotated at extreme speed and actually devoured Wu Dao’s full-power attack whole!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!—

In a flash, the Heart Lake Alarm Bell rang wildly in Wu Dao’s Heart Lake. Without any hesitation, he immediately stopped his assault and cut off the Primordial Magnetic pulse.

’The Absorption Star Technique?’

In that moment, that was the only thought that appeared in his mind.

Because, in his perception, the Eye of the Gap seemed to have transformed into a black hole. It was voraciously swallowing all of his attack’s Energy, a bottomless pit that he could never hope to fill, no matter how hard he attacked.