Essence Devouring Art

RUMBLE!

The Star Sea plunged, and Evil Dragons brought annihilation!

This Great Realm within the Qingming World trembled and shook. Countless distant factions were alarmed, gazing toward the corner of the Star Sea being obliterated in the cosmos!

”A Great Power! A Great Power is making a move!”

”The Dragon-breaking Skill! The Immortal Binding Rope! It’s the people from the Dragon Hunting Tower on a hunt! Dammit, those bastards are out causing trouble again!”

”Quickly, report this to the Imperial Influences!”

Terror swept through the eight corners of the Great Realm. Saint Level Great Powers were known as cosmic behemoths, capable of obliterating an entire starfield with a single slap. If allowed to rampage unchecked, this entire Great Realm would be destroyed!

BZZZZ—

But before they could even react.

That annihilated section of the Star Sea transformed into an abstract, distorted vortex like a painted scroll. It spun at high speed around a blurry figure at its core, unleashing an endless, colorful electromagnetic discharge!

’How is this possible...’

Inside the black hole passage.

The pupils of the Great Power from the Dragon Hunting Tower, who had just attacked, shrank in horror. The ”dragon” he thought he could kill with a single slap had suddenly, as if possessed by a god, manifested a terrifying aura that made his scalp tingle!

What was even more terrifying!

The Dragon Refining Hand Seal he had unleashed with his full power, a blow potent enough to shatter Three Thousand Worlds in an instant!

It couldn’t even harm his prey in the slightest!

Instead, it revolved around the target at high speed, grinding against it and transforming into nourishing Power for it!

’What kind of monster is this?!’

All Things Arise from the Three; the root system of the Ten Thousand Techniques!

The Dragon-breaking Skill, a Great Divine Technique!

It had long since become one of the root branches of Wu Dao’s Primordial Magnetism. When a being with a smaller Life Magnetic Field attacked him with this Divine Technique, it was no different from feeding his root system Nutrient Liquid.

The same principle applied to techniques that weren’t part of his root system.

The three fundamental Extraordinary Dao Sources!

All the Ten Thousand Techniques, Ten Thousand Scriptures, and Ten Thousand Divine Techniques of the All Heavens!

None could escape the domain of Essence, Qi, and Spirit. He didn’t even need to activate Immune to All Laws; they would automatically be converted into his, Wu Dao’s, Magnetic Field Energy!

One could say...

From the moment he entered the third stage of the Essence Devouring Art and created the Primordial Magnetic Tree Diagram, Wu Dao had embarked on a path of true invincibility!

”You gave me a palm, so I’ll give you a fist. Fair and square!”

Wu Dao grinned, rotating the vast Magnetic Field turbine. Countless colorful Evil Dragons, crackling with lightning, crazily orbited him as he reached out, formed a fist, and explosively contracted the turbine!

BZZZT!

In that instant!

It was as if countless stars throughout the universe flickered!

All the light in the world converged into Wu Dao’s fist. The brilliance of this single punch illuminated the endless, dark void!

”AHH!!”

”My eyes!!”

”Who?! Who is throwing that punch?!”

The Chaos Color light, flashing at an extremely high frequency, radiated across hundreds of millions of Star Seas. It was as if the entire universe was scintillating!

Countless beings had their eyes flash-burned and their Divine Souls blanked out. They could only feel innumerable fields of rule-based veins converging, forming a destructive power on a World-Ending Level!

Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist!

BOOM!

Like the Great Dao itself being forged, giving rise to all veins of creation!

A divine Magnetic Field light, billions of times more Transcendent than before, erupted. In a ten-millionth of a second, it swept across the Ten Directions and eight poles, illuminating the vast starry sky!

”AHHH!!!”

Amidst a silent scream.

A magnificent and spectacular scene was born!

The cosmic space where the Dragon Hunting Tower’s hunter was located!

Under the torrent of the Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist, it instantly collapsed from a three-dimensional space into billions of stacked scrolls. Then, it exploded into countless Magnetic Field veins, continuously de-dimensionalizing toward primordial magnetic particles!

Within the supremely brilliant divine light.

More than ten Semi-Saints!

They were annihilated and exploded into basic magnetic particles without so much as a grunt. They were then assimilated by the Primordial Magnetic torrent, enhancing its Mighty Power as it surged toward the strongest hunter, the one at the Saint Level.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

But at that very moment.

Wu Dao suddenly sensed an indescribable, supreme source-stream aura permeating the black hole!

From an unknown, distant place.

It seemed an existence of ultimate, ominous terror had awakened and cast its will over!

An unnamable will!

It pierced through endless time and space, penetrated all Daos and veins, and brought with it the ancient, primal fear of life itself. It seemed to want to gaze beyond the very end of the Great Dao to lock onto Wu Dao’s true body!

Yes, fear!

It had nothing to do with one’s mental fortitude or willpower!

This was the great, instinctive terror of a lower life form facing an existence at the apex of the food chain—an uncontrollable, instinctual dread rooted in its very bloodline!

Within the Dragon Hunting Tower!

There was an ominous being that Transcended all worldly imagination!

In the final moment.

Wu Dao only saw that Saint Level expert disappear into a gushing torrent of Chaos Qi. He was reminded of the reason why the All Heavens’ siege on the Dragon Hunting Tower had failed last time.

BOOM!!

The sound of self-destruction echoed through the great cosmos!

Without any hesitation, Wu Dao immediately used the Divine Image Heaven to self-detonate his magnetic particles and assimilate with the Great Dao, severing all connections to his Main Body!

Because!

That unknown, terrifying being!

It was tracing the connection back to its source, attempting to lock onto his true body’s location. There was a very high probability that the Bitter Dust Robe wouldn’t be able to stop it!

Once exposed.

He dared not gamble on whether that being would instantly obliterate his true body, or even trace the connection back to destroy all of his contingency plans!

Ever since arriving in Hongyuan!

This was the first time Wu Dao had truly felt that death was a hair’s breadth away, an ultimate sense of powerlessness with no possibility of survival!

The fear from the Dao Root Source!

It was too immense!

When Emperor Hong Shi had made her move before.

The feeling Wu Dao got...

...was not even one-hundred-millionth as powerful as that unnamable aura!

BOOM BOOM BOOM—

After the Incarnation self-destructed.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Wu Dao’s other Incarnations wandering in different places, and even all of his Primordial Demons, also self-destructed and annihilated themselves in an instant.

Because.

He could feel it!

His other Incarnations and Primordial Demons in other locations had also been targeted by the Dragon Hunting Tower!

BZZZ~

After destroying all his root-system-like tentacles.

Wu Dao’s heart turned icy cold. His will became calm and placid as he pushed the Bitter Dust Robe to its limit, shielding himself from all karmic information connecting him to the outside world.

The Bitter Dust Robe was overloaded!

It was on the verge of cracking!

But thankfully...

That fear from the source, that will like a colossal beast locking onto its prey, finally dissipated. It seemed to have lost its target.

BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ—

Within his core.

The Extreme Dao Bell was also trembling!

It seemed to have sensed an extremely loathsome aura and wanted to awaken, trace it back to its source, strike out into that unknown place, and annihilate that existence.

Phew~

Wu Dao stabilized the Extreme Dao Bell.

Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.

He now had time to think about what that unnamable source-existence really was.

’A Dao Artifact? A Celestial Treasure? Or a living being?’

It was impossible to fathom!

It was a power that his current level of understanding was completely incapable of comprehending. It seemed that once it fully awakened, all things in existence would be devoured and buried!

’Why did the Extreme Dao Bell loathe it?’

Wu Dao observed the now-calm Extreme Dao Bell. ’Could it be that the Slaughter Emperor had also been hunted by the Dragon Hunting Tower back in his day?’

This whole affair was quite sinister.

Wu Dao searched through the history of All Tribulations and discovered that the Dragon Hunting Tower had appeared after the Second Tribulation and had been continuously hunting the Transverse Cultivation Celestial Prides of the All Heavens.

Many Great Emperors.

Before they had fully risen to power.

They had all been targeted and attacked by the Dragon Hunting Tower. This was because Great Emperors were overlords of their eras who cultivated all three paths, possessing astonishing Horizontal Refining Mastery.

Even...

The Dragon Hunting Tower had hunted Great Emperors!

By piecing together some ancient secret histories recorded in the Heaven-Burying Emperor’s Tomb, Wu Dao also found the reason why the Extreme Dao Bell loathed the Dragon Hunting Tower.

Back when the Slaughter Emperor initiated his tribulation and battled the All Heavens.

The reason he was defeated by the Luotian Sword Emperor...

...was due to various factors. One of them was the Dragon Hunting Tower suddenly appearing at a critical moment, heavily wounding the Slaughter Emperor in an attempt to hunt him!

Because.

At that time, the Slaughter Emperor...

...had already reached the unprecedented Peak Domain of the Chaos Body through the fourteen gates of Transverse Cultivation!

Before initiating his tribulation.

He had been targeted for hunting by the Dragon Hunting Tower on more than one occasion, his life hanging by a thread several times.

This was somewhat terrifying.

Although the Slaughter Emperor became the number one Dao practitioner within the Five Tribulations at the peak of his power when he initiated his tribulation, it didn’t mean he was weak before then!

A Mixed Yuan Tao Emperor!

The Dragon Hunting Tower even dared to target and hunt a being of that level!

They weren’t lunatics.

Which meant they possessed absolute confidence in their power!

Now.

Wu Dao, with only Saint Level combat power, being targeted by such a terrifying force meant that his future situation would be like walking on thin ice. He would know no peace.

”What I can confirm is that although the unknown existence in the Dragon Hunting Tower can ignore the iron laws of the Great Dao to some extent, it can’t truly break through the Bitter Dust Robe. It can only lock onto my Incarnations.”

Wu Dao’s thoughts rose and fell as he calmly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages on both sides.

Finally, he came to a conclusion.

Unless he stopped using his Incarnations and his Primordial Demons remained huddled inside him from now on, he would continue to be targeted by the Dragon Hunting Tower!

That was more or less impossible.

His Incarnations and Primordial Demons were his worker ants.

They were also his indispensable right and left arms for rapid advancement and evolution.

If he cut them off.

The impact on his future growth would be immense.

’I must make the Dragon Hunting Tower so busy that it can’t spare any effort for me!’

’So they have no extra energy to pay attention to a small ant like me!’

Wu Dao’s mind raced like lightning.

He quickly adjusted his plans for what came next.

’Those sons of bitches from the Dragon Hunting Tower.’

’I originally thought they might strike once or twice, but not a third time. But now they’ve thrown all pretenses aside. I’ve been targeted, and my very life is in danger.’

’What’s there to be afraid of anymore?’

’Then let’s throw caution to the wind!’

Other Celestial Domains.

It would be difficult to operate in them for the time being.

His plan to collect Emperor Scriptures would also have to be paused. It had to be said that the Dragon Hunting Tower’s sudden attack had disrupted Wu Dao’s original plans.

But the Burial Realm was different.

Inside, the Tribulation Qi interfered with the Great Dao. Outside, it had the attention of the behemoths from the Daluo Celestial Domain. The Dragon Hunting Tower wouldn’t dare to go crazy and act recklessly here.

”You brought this upon yourselves.”

Wu Dao’s thoughts turned to the Extreme Dao Bell. His gaze grew cold, and he prepared to use the situation to his advantage and deal a vicious blow to the Dragon Hunting Tower!

”Father God, the Magnetic Field reconstruction is complete.”

While he was contemplating.

Star Mother’s voice rang out.

Wu Dao sent his consciousness into the Star Mother Database. The group of Primordial Demons who had self-destructed were rapidly regenerating their physical bodies under the reconstruction of countless fine threads of Primordial Magnetism.

Their consciousnesses and Divine Souls.

Were backed up to the Star Mother Database in real-time.

After their bodies were rebuilt.

Star Mother then accessed the previously recorded data, aggregated Magnetic Field Energy, and forged complete Divine Souls for the Primordial Demons, resurrecting them at full strength within a Primordial Realm.

BZZZ~

The Magnetic Field intertwined and converged.

Wu Dao condensed his consciousness into an Incarnation’s projection, which descended into this Primordial Realm.

”Your subordinates greet the Alliance Leader!”

After Zhao Jianji and the others were resurrected, they saw Wu Dao and immediately bowed in salute, even though they had just walked through the cycle of life and death a moment before.

”Greetings, Daoist Venerable!”

Nangong Li, who maintained the Primordial Magnetic Mother Tree, also arrived. She looked completely drained but still forced herself to muster some energy and bow.

”Mm.”

Wu Dao nodded indifferently, his gaze sweeping over the assembled Primordial Demons.

The Seventy-Two Primordial Demons.

Their Primordial Magnetic demon bodies had all reached the forty-fifth Grotto Heaven Perfection stage. They needed only one more transformation to step into the ranks of the Creation Realm.

With all three paths advancing in tandem.

A Creation Realm cultivator with forty-five Inner Worlds!

And they would still possess their Primordial Magnetic demon bodies!

It was no exaggeration to say that once they crossed this threshold, every single Primordial Demon would possess Primordial Unrivaled Half-Saint Level combat power!

The last one to join, Nangong Li.

Wasn’t far behind the Primordial Demons either.

Every day, she was either narrowly escaping death in the Black Abyss or constantly saving others from suffering. With her Primordial Magnetic demon body plus a Celestial Treasure, her advancement was incredibly fast.

After inspecting the Primordial Demons.

Wu Dao spoke again, his voice cold, ”Since the Dragon Hunting Tower has targeted us, we cannot just sit here and wait for death. Charge forward to the next stage with all your might. We’re going to send the Dragon Hunting Tower a grand gift!”

””We are willing to die for the Alliance Leader!””

Zhao Jianji and the other Primordial Demons were brimming with killing intent.

After roaming the All Heavens for so long.

This was the first time they had to escape by dying. Naturally, they were holding in a breath of frustration!

After ordering Star Mother to adjust the Magnetic Field in the Black Abyss to create a cultivation environment for the Primordial Demons, Wu Dao’s consciousness returned to his Main Body.

With a thought.

The attribute panel opened—

[Physique: Primordial Magnetic Dao Body]

[Extraordinary: Essence Devouring·Three Lives (2500/3000) +]

[Transverse Cultivation: Infinite Primordial Scripture·Undying Body Thirty-Two Layers (800/1000) +]

[Divine Cultivation: Juntian Creation Scripture·Creation Thirty-Two Layers (850/1000) +]

[Soul Cultivation: All Phenomena God Luo Scripture·Creation Thirty-Two Layers (850/1000) +]

[Divine Format: Primordial Perfect Divine King]

[Celestial Treasure: Bitter Dust Robe (Emperor’s Artifact 100%)

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It had been six or seven months since his last promotion and transformation.

Although Extraordinary evolution became more difficult the further one progressed.

With the assistance of the Primordial Dao Wheel and various High Tier Dao Sources, Wu Dao still maintained an ever-increasing pace of evolution.

In the Heaven-Burying Emperor’s Tomb.

After obtaining a super Dao Source essence like the Cosmic Divine Liquid.

And with the blessing of an even stronger 2.5 Dao Wheel.

His evolution speed shot up like a rocket!