Essence Devouring Art

RUMBLE!

CLANG CLANG—

The main front of the Reincarnation Battlefield!

Emperor’s Might surged as Chaos churned!

The Demon Awakening Emperor fought two opponents at once. While his Demon Awakening Main City battled the Tuomu Race’s Ancestral King (a Great Emperor), his Emperor’s Artifact, the Black Dragon Saber, confronted the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Weapon, the Trident!

The result was astonishing!

The Demon Awakening Emperor’s combat strength exceeded everyone’s expectations. Not only did he pin the Tuomu Race’s Great Emperor within the Demon Awakening Main City, preventing its escape, but his Emperor’s Weapon also suppressed the Luo Fish Race’s Trident, stopping it from advancing even an inch!

But even so,

no one could be happy.

Because the Reincarnation Battlefield, the primary target of the two races’ main forces, couldn’t hold. The power on both sides was unequal, and they had been at a complete disadvantage from the very start of the fight!

”Reincarnation Heavenly King, you are indeed powerful. You have the flair of the Reincarnation Lineage from its heyday. But to think you can stop us with just your Great Venerable cultivation? You’re dreaming!”

In the Reincarnation Main Gate City!

Nine-colored divine light slammed into the Netherworld Battle Armor!

Under the siege of three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors, the Reincarnation Heavenly King was in dire peril. He was completely unable to counterattack and could only desperately defend the Dao Celestial Stele!

It was true he had the Emperor’s Weapon, the Yellow Springs Armor.

But as the three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors had said, his Great Venerable cultivation was insufficient. He was simply unable to revive the Emperor’s Weapon to its peak state—only a Quasi-Emperor who had forged a Proto-Cosmos was qualified to do so!

Not to mention,

the three Quasi-Emperors were also protected by the life-bound Di Yu gifted by the Tuomu Great Emperor, allowing them to completely ignore the attacks from the Netherworld Battle Armor, which had only revived a fraction of its Mighty Power!

It was foreseeable that,

if nothing unexpected happened,

the three Quasi-Emperors would soon break through the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s Emperor’s Weapon defenses and completely destroy the Dao Celestial Stele within the Reincarnation Pass!

”I’ll return those same words to you! As long as I live, your ambitions are nothing but a foolish fantasy!”

The Reincarnation Heavenly King was exceptionally unyielding!

He pushed the Netherworld Battle Armor to its Limit, reviving it to envelop the entire Reincarnation Pass City. The seated silhouette within wavered, covered in massive cracks!

But even so,

his expression remained unchanged. His voice was chilling, devoid of any hint of fear or retreat.

He didn’t dare retreat!

The Dao Celestial Stele of the Reincarnation Pass!

It was the nerve center of the entire Reincarnation Battlefield!

Once it was destroyed,

the repulsive force of the Great Dao in the Reincarnation Battlefield would drop significantly. The Mountain and Sea would have no problem sending in another Great Emperor.

At that point,

forget him!

Even the Demon Awakening Emperor wouldn’t be able to hold off a siege by three Great Emperors from the Mountain and Sea. The Sea of Death would fall, more of the Mountain and Sea’s top combatants would descend, and the Six Celestial Passes would suffer a devastating blow!

”Heh, a cornered beast’s last stand!”

A Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor sneered coldly.

It thought the Reincarnation Heavenly King’s ideas were too naive.

’So what if it’s a stalemate?’

’Even if you can’t break through the Reincarnation Pass City in the short term, what about the Venerable Pass City, the Saint Master Pass, and the Great Saint Pass City behind it?’

’Those Garrison Cities don’t have an Emperor’s Weapon!’

’There’s no way they can block the assault of our two races’ main armies!’

’Destroying the other Dao Celestial Steles...’

’...will have the same effect!’

However... why was it taking so long?

The three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors felt something was strange. Their two races’ main forces should have been advancing with crushing momentum, like a torrent, destroying the Dao Celestial Steles behind the front line.

But the reality was,

the battle had been going on for a while,

but the suppressive, repulsive power of the Primordial Path had only weakened slightly.

They could still clearly feel the shackles of the Great Dao binding them, constantly trying to repel and eject them from the Six Celestial Passes.

This was not normal!

”What?!”

Suddenly,

one of the Quasi-Emperors of the Crow’s eyes flew wide with fury!

It sensed the young kinsmen of its race in the Reincarnation Battlefield being reaped like chives, crop after crop, by an unknown power!

The Great Saint Pass!

The Saint Master Pass!

It was like a boundless darkness, eroding its way back toward the Reincarnation Pass. Along the way, the soldiers of the Tuomu Race, be they Saint Masters or Venerables!

In the senses of the Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor,

they were truly like stars withering and collapsing, unable to resist in the slightest before being devoured by the great, unknown darkness!

”Elder! We’ve been amb—”

”Quasi-Emperor Weapons! Every one of those monsters has a Quasi-Emperor... AHH!”

”They’re dead, they’re all dead!”

By the time the darkness eroded its way to the Venerable Line!

a message finally came through, but it was fleeting. Not even a single complete message could get through before its sender was crushed to dust!

’Quasi-Emperor Weapons?’

’And a whole group of them?’

’What kind of joke is this?!’

Hearing this, the three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors were instantly shocked and enraged!

The intelligence was false!

To think the Reincarnation Battlefield was hiding such a terrifying force, and they knew nothing about it!

”Demon Awakening, you’ve done well!!”

At that very moment,

from within the Chaos outside the Dead Sea Main City, the Tuomu Race Great Emperor, who was locked in a life-or-death battle with the Demon Awakening Emperor, also let out a roar of absolute fury!

Apparently,

he, too, had learned that the massive army of the Tuomu Emperor Clan had been ambushed and ruthlessly slaughtered in the Reincarnation Battlefield.

Subconsciously,

he assumed it was a hidden move by the Demon Awakening Emperor and wished he could tear the man to shreds on the spot!

To take the Reincarnation Pass as quickly as possible,

the army sent by the Tuomu Emperor Clan was commanded by the absolute elite of the elite. They were forces that could rampage through the Seventh and Eighth Celestial Passes without issue, yet now they were being slaughtered like chives. It made his heart bleed!

But what he didn’t know was,

the Demon Awakening Emperor was no less surprised than he was.

It was just a fleeting glimpse,

but when he saw the Demon Gods in the Reincarnation Battlefield forming a moving dam and pushing forward, he too was puzzled about the origin of this ferocious Demon Army.

However,

now was not the time for deep thought.

He was fighting a Di Race Great Emperor and an Imperial Race’s Emperor’s Weapon all by himself; the danger was immense at every moment, and he couldn’t afford to be distracted.

However,

the Demon Awakening Emperor knew.

’With that unknown, ferocious army here, as long as I can hold the Reincarnation Battlefield for a little longer, once the Great Emperors from other territories arrive, the Mountain and Sea will have no choice but to flee in defeat!’

Before that,

he had to stop both the Tuomu Great Emperor and the Luo Fish Race’s Emperor’s Weapon. If either one got away, the Sea of Death and the Reincarnation Battlefield would fall in an instant!

THUD THUD THUD—

In the Reincarnation Battlefield.

At the end of the final Great Venerable line!

Under the furious, wide-eyed gaze of the three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors, the heavy sound of footsteps, like Little Cosmoses crashing down, shook space and time, kicking up billions of waves in the Sea of Death!

”AHH!!”

THUD—

Another bloodcurdling scream rang out!

An incomparably blazing light of the Sun erupted with infinite Extreme Yang Power. Vaguely, a towering figure could be seen swinging a Divine Hammer, beating a Great Venerable of the Tuomu Race to death within a Space-Time Node!

THUD!!

The next instant!

The Sea of Death looked as if it was about to be stomped upside down. At the spatio-temporal junction between the Great Venerable line and the Venerable line, a vast and magnificent dam appeared!

Seventy-four Demon Gods!

As majestic as Divine Mountains, as tall as the Nine Heavens!

Their Magnetic Fields were linked together. They held Quasi-Emperor Divine Weapons, and behind their heads, vast vortexes of stars spun, firing world-ending beams of light like cannons, ushering in darkness and fear!

Wherever they passed,

darkness devoured all, armies were turned to ash, and even the strongest Great Venerables were instantly sacrificed and refined into dust upon contact with the continuously reviving Quasi-Emperor Weapons!

BOOM—

A vicious aura, gushing forth as if the floodgates of the Abyss had opened.

The moment Wu Dao led the Seventy-Three Primordial Demons charging into the Great Venerable battle zone, it roared and galloped, flooding the entire area.

In the darkness,

Abyssal Demon Gods stood tall one after another.

An absolute sense of oppression!

”RUN!!”

It instantly terrified the armies of the Mountain and Sea Races in the Great Venerable battle zone, making them retreat in fear, unable to muster even a sliver of resistance.

Resistance?

How could they possibly resist?

This was just insane!

A Quasi-Emperor Weapon for every person!

And all of them revived to their peak state!

Below the rank of Quasi-Emperor,

there was no one who could last a single exchange!

”Emperor’s Weapons, Quasi-Emperors...”

The moment Wu Dao stepped onto the Great Venerable line where the Reincarnation Pass City was located, his gaze immediately locked onto the two Emperor’s Weapons clashing in the Chaos at the far end.

Then,

he looked toward the Reincarnation Pass City, protected by the Netherworld Battle Armor—or rather, at the three Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperors who looked like they wanted to swallow them alive.

”Hello, anymore?”

The voice was humble, neither loud nor soft.

Like a diner in a restaurant, not quite satisfied yet.

Very polite.

But...

”AHH, YOU ABOMINATION!!”

BOOM!!

It was like a nine-colored Little Cosmos going berserk!

Myriad worlds shattered, and space-time collapsed!

Driven by immense humiliation and rage, a Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor...

Its three heads and six tails erupted with endless Destruction Divine Light. A great hand, wreathed in the Dao Patterns of a nascent Great Dao torrent and wielding the power of a Little Cosmos, blasted through the Chaos and pressed down on Wu Dao and the Seventy-Three Primordial Demons!

A Peak Quasi-Emperor!

Only half a step away from forming a complete Inner Cosmos!

In that split second of thought,

Wu Dao confirmed the strength of this furious Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor, and his previously indifferent expression turned serious.

A Quasi-Emperor Weapon is a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.

A Quasi-Emperor is a Quasi-Emperor.

One shouldn’t think that controlling a Quasi-Emperor Weapon gives you the power to challenge a Quasi-Emperor. That is an incredibly naive and foolish idea!

A casual strike from a Quasi-Emperor is equivalent to the power unleashed by a lower-level being who has consumed vast amounts of energy to revive a Quasi-Emperor Weapon. The two are simply not comparable!

Not to mention,

this Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor

was a Peak Quasi-Emperor just half a step away from attaining emperorship. Furthermore, it was from a Di Race, meaning its combat power was terrifying even among its peers!

Moreover, all the Quasi-Emperor Weapons Wu Dao controlled had only just transformed; he could only counter with the disposable, Peak Quasi-Emperor level Big Killing Artifacts he had obtained from the Creation Lands in the Burial Realm.

’Stop it!’

The instant the Quasi-Emperor of the Crow erupted,

Wu Dao’s gaze sharpened, and he issued a command to the Star Mother.

Yes.

They could only stop it!

With the Heaven-Stealing Alliance’s current strength, unless they used the Extreme Dao Bell, there was absolutely no possibility of defeating a Peak Quasi-Emperor!

The Star Mother was constantly monitoring the battlefield.

The moment that furious, Peak Quasi-Emperor of the Tuomu Race attacked, the many Big Killing Artifacts being nurtured in the Nine-Colored Earth were instantly teleported to the battlefield.

VMMMM—BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Within the almost-frozen space-time,

divine lights of all colors intertwined and flashed.

Array Plates, Talismans, and disposable Big Killing Artifacts erupted like a volcano from the depths of the ’dam’.

Every single beam of divine light!

Contained the force of a Peak Quasi-Emperor’s strike!

Dao Patterns spread out like a rapid spiderweb, and a destructive aura blotted out the sky, forming a torrential Divine Wall that slammed head-on against the great hand struck out by the Quasi-Emperor of the Crow!

In the span of a single thought!

BOOM—THUD!

The sound of a great collision, an explosion Transcendent to the limits of mortal perception, rang out. A massive earthquake shook the Reincarnation Battlefield, and a vast portion of the boundless Sea of Death was instantly blasted into oblivion!

Within the Chaotic Qi Flow erupting from the clash!

Innumerable great worlds were born and destroyed. Faintly, one could even see Little Cosmoses in the depths frantically colliding with the nine-colored great hand, only to be rapidly extinguished and destroyed!

But!

It was stopped!

A massive number of disposable Peak Quasi-Emperor Big Killing Artifacts self-detonated. No matter how strong the Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor was, it could not tear through this blockade!

”DIE!!!”

The Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor roared madly!

It continuously rotated its Proto-Cosmos, grinding away the Big Killing Artifacts, but in the next instant, even more Killing Artifacts transformed into a torrent that slammed into it, holding it firmly in place!

It was utterly bewildered!

’Just where did this group of abominations come from? Not only does every one of them have a Quasi-Emperor Weapon, but they also have so many disposable Big Killing Artifacts!’

’It’s like they’re carrying the treasury of a Di Race into battle! They’re so outrageously rich they’ve become a prickly hedgehog that I can’t do anything about for the moment!’

”Bastard, you dare!!”

But before the Tuomu Race Quasi-Emperor could think any further, the next scene that unfolded made it so angry it almost spat blood.

After it was blocked,

Wu Dao and the Seventy-Three Primordial Demons once again launched a crushing slaughter against the armies of the Mountain and Sea Races—the Venerables and Great Venerables. The sound of their screams nearly shattered the Reincarnation Battlefield!