Essence Devouring Art

BOOM!

The muffled thud of a body kneeling was like a clap of thunder!

The Ten Directions trembled, and the universe fell silent!

The Profound Yellow World, the Fuguang World, the Daluo World...

In the Qingming World, the pupils of one Great Power and ancestral patriarch after another—beings who had lived for thousands, even tens of thousands of years—constricted violently, their faces frozen in a stupor.

All of them stared blankly at the center of the world, at the mangled, bloody mess of flesh and bone prostrated beneath the crotch of that sky-propping figure.

No matter how they tried to reason with themselves,

they could not connect that gruesome, bloody mess with the Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable who sat enthroned in the Nine Heavens.

But...

no matter how much they refused to believe it,

the reality was—

Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable had not only been beaten into a nearly-dead dog by the cornered beast they had always looked down upon, but he was now kneeling to suffer the humiliation of being forced to his knees beneath his foe!

BAM!

Another thunderous crash!

Wu Dao’s smile was savage as he raised his foot and stomped down hard on Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable’s shattered half of a head.

’Kneeling and kowtowing isn’t enough!’

’I’ll utterly crush him under my foot in the ultimate insult!’

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

But in that fleeting instant,

from within the Red Gourd at Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable’s waist, there suddenly came the clangor of a thousand weapons clashing and rolling, the sound of divine edges being unleashed like a floodgate bursting open.

Gold, red, and black!

In the span of a thought, three beams of saber light illuminated the Great Era, chilling the very souls of all sentient beings and stirring the most ancient fear of death!

ROOOOAR—

The three-colored saber light, wreathed in an aura of supreme and ominous Slaughter Qi, manifested a terrifying vision: layer upon layer of Gods and Demons being decapitated as they howled in misery, Immortal Saints bleeding and begging for mercy, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the slaughter of all insubordinate and defiant beings in the world!

THUD—

Like a divine elephant stomping the earth, all eight directions trembled!

Wu Dao looked down at the shattered void where his foot had landed on empty air. The savage, ferocious smile remained on his face, his Black Abyss-like eyes gazing thousands of miles into the distance.

CRUNCH... CRACKLE...

Beneath the vision of the three-colored saber light that illuminated Qiankun Space-Time,

it was impossible to tell if the sound was the grinding of flesh and bone,

or the crazed laughter of a Killing God opening its eyes.

The shattered flesh and bone began to reassemble.

The bent spine gradually straightened.

The lowered head slowly rose.

Beneath a mane of disheveled black hair soaked through with blood, there was also a smile twisted like that of an Evil Ghost.

Killing intent!

Rage!

Strand by strand!

It was all real!

”Finally... you finally look like a person! Hahaha!!!”

The sound of his crazed, roaring laughter rumbled and shook the heavens.

Wu Dao, a Demon God like a humanoid Abyss of pure blackness, took a step. His Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel spun, charging with energy, as he bent his body and then erupted, shattering ten thousand miles of Qiankun Space-Time!

Across his physique, star-colored currents of Primordial Magnetism erupted like a dazzling spiderweb, connecting his body—inside and out—with the Earth and Heaven Magnetic Field, merging them into one!

100% Potential Release!

One hundred revolutions of Primordial Magnetic Power!

Having climbed to the peak in this life, Wu Dao was countless times stronger than he had been in his last.

His Life Magnetic Field had truly integrated with the greater Magnetic Field, forming a domain like that of a Fierce Monster. With every step, he moved like an electromagnetic wave, teleporting instantly with ease!

BZZZZ—

Like a radio wave, like a flash of starlight!

A distance of thousands of miles.

Crossed in the span of a thought!

BOOM!!

A world-shaking Divine Fist, unrivaled in its tyranny!

Tens of thousands of miles of space-time!

Once again, it trembled and shone because of one man. The supremely brilliant and scorching Divine Fist clove through Chaos, his infinitely vast and tyrannical physique bearing down to crush the slowly rising Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable!

’Not enough!’

’The humiliation isn’t enough!’

’Screams!’

’I’ll crush every last shred of his pride!’

’I want to hear this arrogant, clueless dog-spawn,’

’truly,’

’let out the pathetic, powerless wail of the weak!’

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—BOOM!!

Beneath the crushing pressure of the Divine Fist!

Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable, his smile like that of a Killing God or an Evil Ghost, finally stood up completely. Behind him, in the shattered Chaos!

Two giant hands!

And a massive, scarlet mouth!

Suddenly shot out!

They seized and bit down on the three killing sabers!

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP—

As if unable to bear the majesty of the newcomer!

Or perhaps, it was a process of Heaven and Earth Creation!

Within the Chaos, the aura of a supreme Emperor suppressed the Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind, carving out and manifesting a terrifying firmament of Thirty-Three Heavens where mountains of corpses and seas of blood churned, and Gods and Demons fell while bathed in blood!

At the center of those Thirty-Three Heavens,

a Heavenly Lord, wearing an Emperor’s Crown and a blood-soaked Emperor’s Robe, held up the Thirty-Three Heavens with his spine. He wielded the three killing sabers, his scarlet eyes opening to gaze down upon the Gods and Demons of All Heavens, intent on slaying all who defied heaven!

’I’m finally seeing the Thirty-Three Heavens again!’

’The posture of one destined for Attainment Dao!’

’He’s even been forced to summon his Dharma Aspect. It seems Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable is truly enraged!’

Within the nearly frozen space-time,

the Great Powers of All Heavens stared at the Thirty-Three Heavens—built from bloody slaughter, propping up the firmament, and releasing the pressure of a supreme Emperor—and their Heart Lakes all trembled.

The Human Race has three paths.

No matter the method, the ultimate goal is the pursuit of the supreme Great Dao, and the further one progresses, the more the paths converge.

The Dharma Realm.

Above geniuses, there is the Top-Grade Three Phases!

The King Grade’s Nine Dragons Coiling a Pillar!

The Saint Grade’s Purple Qi Filling the Nine Heavens!

And the Emperor Grade’s Thirty-Three Heavens!

The different phenomena manifested when achieving a Dharma Aspect represent different heights of future growth.

Those with a King Grade aspect are capped at the stages just beyond the Dharma Realm.

Those of Saint Grade are qualified to become Saints.

As for Emperor Grade...

it also has its own tiers.

If all Thirty-Three Heavens are manifested,

that is the posture of one destined for supreme Attainment Dao!

Additionally,

the strength of a Dharma Aspect is also distinguished by the initial formation of the phenomenon versus its perfection.

For example, the King Grade’s Nine Dragons Coiling a Pillar.

When the Dharma Aspect first forms, only a single dragon will circle it.

The same principle applies to Saint and Emperor Grades.

Although the Divine Wilderness suppresses the upper limits of the Extraordinary,

Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable is a figure who achieved Thirty-Three Heavens Perfection long ago!

Even if he’s suppressed to a Pseudo Dharma Aspect!

He still possesses the combat power of the Thirty-Three Celestial Levels among Pseudo Dharma Aspects!

Furthermore, his Dharma Aspect wields three sabers—

God-Slaying! Life-Extinguishing! Technique-Annihilating!

It can sever the Divine Soul, the physical body, and all Divine Techniques and Taoist Techniques!

Those three blades of judgment and condemnation have hung over the heads of All Heavens for countless years, slaying an unknown number of Gods, Demons, and Immortal Saints. Their sharpness is in no way inferior to any of the Great All Heavens Divine Techniques!

This was the disparity between the cultivators of the two worlds!

The Divine Wilderness, having undergone Ten Tribulations, has an upper limit of the Pseudo Dharma Aspect.

They can’t form a complete Dharma Aspect at all, and their Pseudo Dharma Aspects are ungraded.

For this crucial reason,

all of the Divine Wilderness’s Emperors, with the exception of that madman Zhou Prison, were crushed by the Tribulation Descenders from Hongyuan, only managing to inflict the slightest of wounds even when fighting with all their might!

Although this monster from the Divine Wilderness has a trump card,

and used it to instantly boost his combat power in an incomprehensible way, catching Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable off guard and utterly humiliating him.

But,

when a trump card is suppressed by an even deeper foundation...

’No, that’s not right!!’

In a flash of thought,

the Great Powers of All Heavens suddenly thought of something terrifying!

Throughout this entire battle!

Aside from that one finger attack just now,

Wu Dao has only used brute force!

Divine Techniques, a Dharma Aspect...

He hasn’t used any of them!!

BOOM—CLANG!!

The instant space-time moved again!

The Divine Fist, shimmering with Primordial Magnetic currents, struck the Thirty-Three Heavens with the force of Heaven Opening. The Emperor’s right hand brandished the Life-Taking Blade, its bloody light boundless, meeting the Divine Fist and unleashing scorching pulses that pierced through all existence.

But the stalemate lasted only for a single moment!

A moment later,

RUMBLE—

the Thirty-Three Heavens shook violently. The mountains of corpses and seas of blood collapsed, and the bleeding Gods and Demons were annihilated. Under the crushing, tyrannical Power, vast swathes of it began to shatter.

”What laughable arrogance!!”

Wu Dao’s smile was as savage as a demon’s.

His fist continued to press down.

In his Divine Ghost Heaven State, the countless cells in his body rolled and ground against each other like frenzied magnetic stars, boosting his Primordial Magnetic Vortex Wheel by two hundred percent, its every rotation bringing forth boundless Mighty Power!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

The friction of Divine Iron shot out world-ending sparks!

The Life-Taking Blade was indeed terrifying!

It was designed to dismantle the physical body’s structure from all angles.

But there are no absolute paradoxes in this world!

Wu Dao’s physique was simply too monstrous!

His cells had been destroyed and had their potential released countless times, reorganizing their microstructure to become stronger and tougher each time, and now they were further enhanced by his Half-step Yang God Realm!

This so-called Life-Taking Blade!

It only managed to grind away a layer of his skin,

which regenerated in an instant!

What he hadn’t expected was that, even at this stage, this dog-spawn before him still acted high and mighty, thinking a single broken saber could stop him?

Truly!

Utterly clueless!!

Then again, he had misjudged Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable.

Who the fuck could have expected him to be such a freak?

One moment, victory was all but assured.

The next, a brutal slap to the face!

However...

after suffering several major setbacks in a row,

Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable, amidst his fury, finally cast aside all his contempt!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

One gold, one black!

Two Judgment Killing Blades rose up at the same time!

Soul Destruction Technique!

The moment the three sabers became one!

The three-colored light merged into a single blast that illuminated All Heavens, halting the downward momentum of the Divine Fist. It launched an all-out assault aimed at annihilating his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and the trembling Thirty-Three Heavens stabilized once more!

”Hah!”

’You like playing with sabers?’

But Wu Dao showed not a hint of discouragement or surprise. His savage smile only grew colder as his physique suddenly blazed ten thousand times brighter!

BOOM!

Deep within his body, it was as if a divine gate had been opened!

An extremely dangerous and sharp aura began to awaken and surge forth!

SHIIING!

Between reality and illusion,

everyone seemed to hear a forbidden Divine Blade being unsheathed. It was formless and colorless, seeming both real and illusory, and the instant it was drawn and its light bloomed, the sound of countless things being sliced and severed echoed through the world!

Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber!

Slice!

BZZZZ—SHLICK! SHLICK! SHLICK!

The formless Celestial Blade was unleashed, cleaving vertically through heaven and earth. Transcendent, surpassing the sharpness of any divine edge in the world, it was colorless and formless. Wherever it passed, the magnetic connections between all things in existence were severed in one stroke!

It was just like a hot knife through boiling oil!

It cut through everything like splitting bamboo, completely unimpeded!

It instantly sliced through the three divine sabers wielded by Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable’s Dharma Aspect!

BOOM!

The Celestial Blade fell!

The Divine Fist opened the heavens!

The Thirty-Three Heavens once again shook and began to collapse!

Layer after layer of the Celestial Domains were like a multi-layered cake stuck together. The moment the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber struck, the ’adhesive’ vanished, and each Celestial Domain was on the verge of disintegrating.

That majestic and sacred Emperor’s Dharma Aspect,

its physique developed countless cracks. From the inside out, all of its energy flows were severed, leaving it as precarious as a broken porcelain doll!

BMMMM—

At the critical moment!

The Qiankun Space-Time trembled in unison.

An endless aura of decay and destruction surged, flooding everything. It seemed as if the entire world was coming to an end; the stars were extinguished, the universe was collapsing, about to suffer a heat death and descend into eternal darkness!

CLANG!

For the first time!

The Alarm Bell in Wu Dao’s Heart Lake rang once.

His state of mind was infected.

Eroded by the endless aura of decay and silent extinction!

It was not because of Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable!

It was only because of the extremely terrifying Great Divine Technique he was now unleashing!

Infinitely lofty!

Endlessly vast!

It seemed to be the most ancient power of Creation, originating from the time of Heaven and Earth Creation, from the Taichu Primordial era.

It made his entire bloodline tremble!

”What is this?”

”The Ten Great Creation Divine Techniques!”

”The Celestial Court’s Great Silence of All Heavens!”

The Great Powers in all directions were shaken. Their gazes, filled with envy, dread, or greed, were fixed upon the lightless, giant hand that floated up within that world of silent extinction!

People have strengths and weaknesses; skills have high and low grades!

There are tens of thousands of Divine Techniques and Skills in the world.

But very few can truly withstand the test of time and tribulations to remain brilliant and unrivaled.

The one hundred and eight Great All Heavens Divine Techniques!

They are the kings among the thousands of Divine Techniques!

Mastering any one of them to the Absolute Peak allows one to dominate everything beneath the supreme level.

But compared to the Ten Great Creation Divine Techniques,

they are completely overshadowed!

To say nothing else,

let’s mention just the most crucial point!

The Ten Great Creation Divine Techniques.

Every single one of them can be used to achieve Attainment Dao!!

To achieve supreme Attainment Dao, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Great Dao!

This is the ultimate goal of countless Extraordinary beings!

Over countless years and through All Tribulations, who knows how many have died on this path? They abandoned everything, went mad and became demons, yet they had no regrets.

One can only imagine,

how high the status of a Creation Divine Technique capable of Attainment Dao is, and how terrifying its Mighty Power must be. At any stage, one could say it is the Dao itself taking action!

Within the Celestial Court,

rumor has it that there is at least one, if not more, Creation Divine Techniques!

The ’Great Silence of All Heavens’ that Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable was now using, which brought silent extinction to the entire universe, is one of the Ten Great Creation Divine Techniques!

At the Dharma Realm,

one cannot truly unleash it.

But a figure like Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable has his own methods to display a sliver of a Creation Divine Technique’s Mighty Power.

At the same time,

this was also Cyan Yu Celestial Venerable’s strongest trump card!

Thinking of this,

a solemn expression appeared in the eyes of all the onlookers, and they began to secretly brew the Power within their bodies.

No one had expected,

that a world that had endured Nine Tribulations,

a dilapidated and ruined world,

could still give birth to such a terrifying monster!

One that could force a Celestial Venerable to a dead end!

A monster like this!

Must never be allowed to escape the Divine Wilderness!

Otherwise,

a second, or even more terrifying, Slaughter Emperor would definitely appear in the future. They could only be at ease once they witnessed his death with their own eyes!