Essence Devouring Art

The Boundless Ancestral Land!

In Xingyu, a baleful, bloody light streaked like a rainbow, throwing Qiankun and all creation into disarray.

From the great earth, one could look up to the Nine Heavens.

There, a crimson, egg-like object filled the azure sky. A myriad of veins pulsed across its surface, and its vast shadow covered the ten directions and eight poles as it incessantly expanded and contracted.

It resembled an Ancient Fierce Beast on the verge of being born.

Bound by a Heaven and Earth Net, its aura swelled and shrank, unable to fully radiate across the worlds in all ten directions.

WHOOSH~

At the very source of the bloody light.

The last Infinite Saint Master, resurrected after tens of millions of years, seemed as if his Divine Soul had not yet fully awakened. His gaze was hazy as he surveyed the unfamiliar world.

His entire body, like glazed jade, radiated an immortal golden brilliance, as eternal as the heavens and earth. The patterns of the Great Dao crisscrossed his skin, and the meridians within him were like dormant World Dragon Veins reawakening.

The boundless Power emanating from him was an abyss of worldly might pressing down within Xingyu. An ocean of peerless, tyrannical aura from a desolate age surged, severing the boundless flow of energy!

The Horizontal Refining Twelfth Gate Undying Body!

Also known as the Qiankun Supreme Body!

A Horizontal Refiner at this stage possesses a body as heavy as a world, their meridians transformed into Mother Qi Dragon Veins that consume and expel Creation Mother Qi.

Once their physique was unleashed,

their vitality could burst the very heavens and earth. Their flesh and bone, like immortal, self-repairing Divine Gold, possessed incredible might. They could tear a world apart with their bare hands—a combat prowess worthy of a supreme expert of the same realm!

More importantly,

after reaching the Twelve Dao Gates,

a Horizontal Refiner’s tenacity and immortality reached a ridiculously perverse level. They could live as long as the world itself; the sun and moon could decay, but their vitality would not!

Without external interference,

in a sense, the Horizontal Refining Twelfth Gate Undying Body had already achieved the eternal life that mortals could only dream of. Their lifespan was simply unimaginable.

”A great dream of ten million years, and the mortal world has weathered countless changes...”

Amidst the ancient, weathered whisper,

the blood-red rainbow that pierced Xingyu dissipated.

The Infinite Saint Master’s ancient eyes swept over the deadly formation sealing the Ancestral Hall. He then looked at the distant Wu Dao, whose baleful aura was restrained yet deep as an abyss, and sighed with a frown.

”Leave, junior. The Boundless Ancestral Hall is not fated for you. You cannot hunt this old man, and this old man does not wish to slaughter the Human Race.”

Tens of millions of years ago,

he had led the Boundless Sacred Land in a bloody war against the Mountain Sea Wilderness Clan, protecting countless lives in the Chaotic Star Heaven. He fought to the last man with no regrets.

Even now, resurrected and returned,

that conviction to protect all life under heaven remained unchanged. He could easily tell that Wu Dao was no benevolent figure; the heritage of the Boundless lineage could not fall into wicked hands.

Not fated?

Does hunting require fate?

Heh...

Hearing this, Wu Dao’s eyes narrowed. Like a Primordial Fierce Beast locking onto its prey, he bared a set of savage fangs and offered the Infinite Saint Master a customary greeting, ”Hello.”

Hm?

The moment Wu Dao’s voice fell,

the Infinite Saint Master’s gaze turned sharp and cold!

WHIRRRR—BOOM!!!

One after another, the World Heavy Artifacts finished charging.

They swiveled and fired, the blast shaking the ten directions and eight poles.

An incandescent brilliance, brighter than a hundred million suns, erupted and blurred the entire Boundless Ancestral Land. For a moment, the explosive divine light blinded countless eyes.

ROAR—

The full Mighty Power of the Heavy Artifacts was unleashed. Pulses of destructive energy, like the breath of dragons, lit up behind Wu Dao and from all eight directions around the Infinite Ancestral Hall.

Carrying the ultimate Power of Destruction and entwined with countless strands of Law Order, they converged and blasted toward the Infinite Saint Master in less than the time it took to form a thought.

”You old bastard, drop the damn act! We’re gonna blast you to bits!”

The frenzied, savage roars of Zhao Jianji and the other Primordial Demons erupted at the same time. Pushing the twenty-odd World Heavy Artifacts to their limit, they intended to deliver a beautiful, fatal blow.

RUMBLE!!

The Mighty Power of twenty World Heavy Artifacts was world-shattering and immeasurable.

The moment of impact.

The majestic and holy Ancestral Hall shook violently. The heavens in the ten directions completely exploded. The target, the Infinite Saint Master, was instantly engulfed in an endless light of destructive order!

But then...

CLANG CLANG CLANG!!!

The thundering clash of Divine Iron, far beyond the limits of perception, shook the very souls of all sentient and tangible beings in the Ancestral Land.

At the focal point where the twenty pulses of world-destroying energy converged, brilliant sparks erupted, enough to engulf Qianyu. It was as if a volley of rapidly fired Nails were striking a wall of bronze and iron!

Through the haze, indistinctly,

the Infinite Saint Master’s physique had swelled to become even more majestic, as if he had donned a suit of indestructible golden heavy armor.

He actually...

...tanked the assault of twenty World Heavy Artifacts with his physical body. It was utterly unbelievable.

The Infinite Golden Body!!

Wu Dao watched the immortal golden heavy armor at the center of the destructive pulse, which had formed a perfect spherical defense, a hint of admiration in his eyes.

The World Heavy Artifact.

Strictly speaking, only those in the Creation Realm could unleash its full Mighty Power.

If its power were divided into ten settings,

those below the Creation Realm, no matter how they pushed their limits, could only unleash the first setting’s worth of world power.

However,

even if it was only the first setting’s worth of world power,

an attack from twenty Heavy Artifacts combined...

...was absolutely not something a First Layer Undying Body could withstand. Not even an Emperor Grade one!

But the Transverse Refining Technique of the Boundless Sacred Land...

...was simply perverse!

The Nine-Turns Infinite Golden Body!

Melted Soldiers and Cast Body, Refining Body into Soldier!

At each stage, the human body was fused with a massive amount of cosmic treasures, transforming its macro and micro structures. It refined the body into an existence even harder than a Celestial Weapon!

The first-generation Saint Master of the Boundless Sacred Land,

at the time of the Four Tribulations, had perfected the Nine-Turns Infinite Golden Body and had even clashed with an Emperor’s Weapon bare-handed using his Sacred Body!

This one before him—

the second life of a Saint Master from some unknown generation.

Although his strength had not fully recovered after his resurrection, leaving him at only the First Layer of the Undying Body, his physique was as strong as an Emperor Grade Heavy Artifact!

Not to mention,

the Undying Body was itself peerless among those of the same level in the Creation Realm.

The Mighty Power of a World Heavy Artifact at its first setting...

...could, at best, suppress him to a certain degree.

It would be very difficult to break through his Golden Body!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The twenty World Heavy Artifacts continued to bombard the Infinite Saint Master’s Golden Body with a world-ending torrent, seemingly suppressing him completely.

”You insolent little Demon... You are truly courting death!”

But as an icy killing intent, cold as ancient frost, filled the air, the suppressed Infinite Saint Master slowly straightened his back like a god holding up the sky.

His crimson eyes, brimming with the carnage of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, locked onto Wu Dao. A terrifying killing intent from an ancient behemoth crushed the heavens in the ten directions!

”Star Mother, release Primordial Heaven.”

Wu Dao’s abyssal gaze was chilling as he communicated with the Primordial Star Mother, his expression more serious than ever before.

’To take down the Infinite Saint Master, I must attack from both inside and out—a two-pronged assault!’

’If someone is providing suppressive support, then someone has to charge in and wear him down!’

”As you command, Father God!”

VMMM—

Upon receiving the order, the Primordial Star Mother caused the galactic vortex that had been hovering behind Wu Dao to begin to spin.

Myriad threads of starlit Primordial Magnetism burrowed into Wu Dao’s flesh and soul. The two began to merge seamlessly, becoming one.

Primordial Heaven.

This was the fourth ”heaven” of the Essence Devouring Art that Wu Dao had developed during his recent seclusion. It involved merging with the Primordial Dao Wheel, which was two levels higher than him, to amplify his combat power.

In other words,

after entering the Primordial Heaven state,

his foundational strength would rise by two steps, reaching the twenty-eighth layer of the Emperor Grade Cave Heaven!

And on that Foundation,

if he were to then unleash the Primordial Gods and Ghosts and Primordial Godlessness states...

his strength would absolutely explode with tyrannical Power!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The sound of Divine Gold assembling and fusing rang out.

The release of Primordial Heaven took but an instant.

Wu Dao and the Star Mother merged completely. His aura erupted like a hundred million volcanoes, piercing the heavens, becoming vastly more majestic and terrifying.

WHOOSH~

He exhaled a Primordial Magnetic Torrent.

It tore a black hole through spacetime for hundreds of millions of miles.

Wu Dao’s appearance had completely transformed.

It was similar to a low-spec Divine Image Heaven.

His two-zhang-tall physique was formed by coiling rings of colorful Primordial Magnetic threads, from the inside out. His facial features twisted like a spinning vortex!

His four limbs were as sinuous as Ancient Cyan Dragons. Twenty-eight Dragon Veins weaved endlessly inside and outside his body, bringing him world-overturning might.

His body’s Magnetic Field was like a black hole; the surrounding vast world revolved around him in a state of great destruction. It was terrifying to the extreme!

The previous fight?

To call it child’s play would not be an exaggeration.

Because if Wu Dao had used Primordial Heaven against Su Chen, he could have pulverized him into Basic Particles with a single punch!

But this was just the beginning!

HAAA—

—INHALE—

With a breath that made the ruined world rise and fall,

Primordial Gods and Ghosts—unleashed!

Primordial Godlessness—unleashed!

BOOM!!

The surging Primordial Magnetic Power even transformed into a blazing, incandescent fire of starlit magnetic fields, burning down and flooding the World.

At the core of this torch, Wu Dao’s entire body was too dazzling to look at directly. He was connected to the magnetic field veins of all existence, having become the absolute magnetic core of this space-time!

VMMMM!!

The Abyss turned upside down, and the heavens toppled!

An indescribably vast pressure swept through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. The boundless sea of clouds was annihilated, and tens of millions of mountains exploded into abysses. It was as if a black hole had fallen into the Boundless Ancestral Land, and everything was plunged into dim, utter destruction!

”Such a monster!”

Under the suppression of the World Heavy Artifacts, the Infinite Saint Master’s pupils contracted sharply at the moment the tsunami-like Magnetic Field bore down on him.

The Wu Dao of this moment...

...his might and presence were not those of a junior or a little Demon from a later era, but the descent of a true Purgatory Demon God!

He had lived through Four Tribulations.

He had lived for who knows how many years.

In all his life, the Infinite Saint Master had never encountered anything so outrageous—

one moment, his opponent was an ant he could crush at will; the next, he had unbelievably grown into a sky-devouring Evil Beast!

Even the amplification from a tenth-grade Mixed Lotus Extreme Dao, born from mastering the Mixed Lotus Extreme Dao of the Ten Great Supreme Divine Techniques, couldn’t be this preposterous!

A monster!

Only that word could describe the Infinite Saint Master’s shock at this moment!

’Keep an eye on the Infinite Ancestral Hall!’

With all his states unleashed, Wu Dao’s body gushed boundless Primordial Magnetic Fire. He reminded the Star Mother once more, let out a soft breath, focused his mind, and stepped forward, clenching his fist!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The moment his five fingers closed,

all the magnetic field veins of Qiankun, the ten directions, and the firmament converged into his fist, forming a rapidly spinning ball of colorful threads!

”Let me show you whether we’re fated or not!!!”

His voice, as grand as a heavenly sound, shook the vast expanse.

Wu Dao’s fingers closed completely into a fist. He took a sudden step and hammered it down toward the suppressed Infinite Saint Master—

Celestial Essence Magnetic Storm Fist!

BOOM—!!!

A colossal boom that surpassed the limits of mortal perception shook the Nine Heavens. A radiance as brilliant as countless stars shining at once erupted into a magnetic storm torrent, its light illuminating the thousands of Pocket Worlds within the Boundless Ancestral Land!

CRACK—BANG!

Boundless might erupted first!

A spiderweb of cracks spread rapidly from the point of impact into the ten directional worlds. The void, like a shattered bronze mirror, roiled and exploded into countless fragments, becoming a black realm of vacuum!

Within the boundless black realm,

only a single, majestic magnetic storm torrent, stretching from beginning to end, pierced the brilliant darkness. In less than an instant, it slammed violently into the Infinite Saint Master’s Golden Body!

CLANG!!!

A collision of ultimate contradictions!

The resulting sound wave was like the heavens collapsing and the universe exploding.

Flying sparks and magnetic storm threads flooded the dark spacetime, churning all existence into Chaos before wiping it clean into an absolute vacuum!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—CRACK!

After a few moments of this contradictory clash,

the sound of shattering was heard!

The Infinite Saint Master’s Undying Body, which surpassed the strength of a first-tier Emperor Grade Heavy Artifact,

actually began to show cracks under the full-power blow of the Celestial Essence Magnetic Storm Fist, delivered after Wu Dao unleashed his Primordial God Wutian state!

He was striking across two great realms to damage an Undying Body!

An unbelievable, absurd event.

Was now playing out for real!

”The younger generation is to be feared. Truly, to be feared.”

His Undying Golden Body was damaged, but the Infinite Saint Master showed no sign of panic. He simply lamented the changing of eras, where the new surpasses the old.

Hm?

But Wu Dao, communing with the Earth and Heaven Magnetic Field, felt a stir in his heart. He noticed that the Infinite Saint Master’s damaged Golden Body had become pristine again in an instant.

The Undying Body!

Its life force was so strong as to be Pseudo-Immortal and Undying.

’An Undying Body forged from the Infinite Golden Body... as expected, it can’t be broken with just one or two moves.’

VMM~

In the span of a thought,

the Infinite Saint Master’s Undying Body seemed to be fully unsealed. It erupted with endless immortal golden light, and a heaven-storming tide of Ancestor Essence Qi flooded the skies in the ten directions.

Within his majestic physique, every cell seemed to be a piece of Divine Gold grinding against another, ringing with explosive clangs. Creation Dragon Veins weaved through his flesh and bone, unleashing the Mighty Power of World Law. A human-shaped Heavy Artifact was fully awakening!