Essence Devouring Art

In less than a fraction of an instant.

The Three-Colored Emperor Arrow had already transformed into a Judgment Divine Spear cast down by a Celestial God, piercing through the Chaos like a vast, resplendent Thunder Sea!

This arrow!

Long had its power been gathered!

Long Chen had unleashed the peak power of his Emperor’s Weapon!

Forget a Quasi-Emperor!

Long Chen was confident he could even slay an ordinary Great Emperor if they were caught off guard!

He refused to believe.

He refused to believe that Wu Dao, at a mere Great Venerable Perfection, could withstand it with just the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate!

However—

CLANG!!!

The instant the Three-Colored Emperor Arrow—fired from the Path-Breaking Bow—annihilated everything in its path and shot through the Chaos into Celestial Thunder City, a resounding clang of Divine Iron boomed, echoing throughout the ten directions of the cosmos!

Before Long Chen’s suddenly constricted pupils,

Wu Dao stood tall and unmoving, clad in the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate. The Three-Colored Divine Arrow, infused with Great Cosmic Power, shattered inch by inch against his chest, making him look like an Immortal Demon God that had just crawled out of Purgatory!

VMM!

From within the Emperor’s Armor, a pair of eyes as black as black holes snapped open. Filled with mocking savagery, they locked onto Long Chen, who had believed himself to be perfectly concealed!

CLANG—

An alarm bell sounded in his mind!

The moment those abyssal eyes locked onto him, even Long Chen’s iron will, forged through countless life-and-death battles, turned to ice for an instant. He knew, with absolute certainty, that he had fallen into a trap.

’Wu Dao isn’t a Great Venerable!’

’He’s been hiding his cultivation! A Great Venerable could never withstand that arrow. Only a Quasi-Emperor relying on the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate could possibly manage it!’

THOOM THOOM THOOM—

But in the very instant this realization struck,

the space-time in all ten directions began to tremble violently!

Countless Divine Chains of the Emperor Dao linked together, forming a heavenly net!

Figures clad in black materialized one after another. Their reaction speed was terrifying; they had already activated an Emperor’s Weapon to seal the area the moment things went wrong. This region of space-time was locked down so tightly that not even a Faith Channel could be opened!

The Death Warrior Guard of the Rising Dragon Celestial Dynasty!

Every single one of them was a Peak Quasi-Emperor!

And they wielded a Divine Chain Emperor’s Weapon!

Two Emperor’s Weapons!

Nearly a hundred Peak Quasi-Emperors!

And who knew if there were even stronger measures hidden in the shadows.

Such was the power of the world’s Common Lord; the mere tip of the iceberg was terrifying beyond measure!

”Heh.”

Clad in the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Armor, Wu Dao glanced at the region of space-time now completely sealed by the Emperor’s Weapon. His abyss-black gaze remained locked on Long Chen as he sneered,

”What’s this? The great Crown Prince of the Rising Dragon World, the famous Three Lives Army Master, the Dragon Army Master of Emperor’s List fame... you enjoy skulking in the shadows?”

’He recognized me?’

Long Chen breathed a small sigh of relief. He realized that Wu Dao had known of his presence from the very beginning and had felt the same repulsive killing intent that he had.

He didn’t know if Wu Dao knew the whole truth, and he didn’t want to know. More importantly, he wouldn’t be provoked by Wu Dao into brazenly revealing his true identity.

Therefore,

his response to Wu Dao

was to once again draw the Path-Breaking Bow to its limit—

”Kill!!”

CLANG—BOOM!!

RATTLE!!

The instant his cry to kill faded,

the Three-Colored Emperor Arrow once again ripped through the Chaos!

The numerous Death Warriors of the Rising Dragon World also activated their Divine Chain Emperor’s Weapon. Ominous black chains, each as thick as a divine dragon and imbued with the suppressing might of a Great Emperor, formed a Heaven and Earth Net as they surged toward Wu Dao!

Nearly a hundred Peak Quasi-Emperors were activating an Emperor’s Weapon!

They could undoubtedly awaken an Emperor’s Weapon to its peak state, making it no different from a Great Emperor striking personally!

In that moment!

Wu Dao felt a power of infinite magnitude pressing down on him. Before this vast Emperor’s Might, all of existence seemed as insignificant as dust, as if it would be annihilated in the next instant!

”Hahaha, you really think...”

But in that life-or-death moment, Wu Dao showed not the slightest trace of panic. He let out a wild laugh, like a Demon God looking down upon all creation, as an endless torrent of Asura baleful aura surged from the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate!

”...that I don’t have an Emperor’s Weapon of my own?!”

SWOOSH~

A battle flag unfurled, its killing intent boundless!

BOOM!!

The black baleful aura erupted like countless primordial volcanoes from the deepest hell, accompanied by the howls of innumerable, wicked Asuras!

The shadow of a ten-armed Asura, massive as a Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar, reappeared. It snapped open its murderous eyes, and the might of a Great Emperor erupted across the ten directions of the cosmos!

There was no Celestial Punishment at Shanhai Pass!

He didn’t need to hold back at all!

Without hesitation, Wu Dao activated the Asura Battle Banner. His numerous Quasi-Emperor Incarnations channeled their power from within his body, pushing the Mighty Power of this pinnacle Great Emperor Weapon—a weapon bordering on the level of the All Heavens Soldiers—to its absolute limit!

RUMBLE!

As the Emperor’s Weapons clashed, the cosmos was turned to ash!

The instant the three pinnacle Emperor’s Weapons clashed, the Chaos within the sealed-off space-time was obliterated into a vacuum. All that remained were dazzling, multi-colored divine lights locked in a furious, deadlocked collision!

If not for the sealing power, the entire collective of endless space-times within this interlayer of the Celestial Thunder Sea at the Thunder Sea Fortress would have been instantly destroyed by the Mighty Power of their clash!

’How is this possible?’

’Two Emperor’s Weapons are targeting him, and he’s blocking them all by himself!’

Long Chen could no longer hide the shock in his heart!

’Wu Dao’s hidden Emperor’s Weapon is indeed extraordinary. It seems to be related to the Five Tribulation Asura Clan, and its very essence has definitely reached the level of a Half-Step All Heavens Soldier.’

’But a powerful weapon doesn’t mean a powerful wielder!’

’By himself, it should be impossible for him to awaken this Half-Step All Heavens Soldier to such a degree!’

Concealed by the Bitter Dust Robe and the Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate, Long Chen naturally couldn’t see the legion of Quasi-Emperor Incarnations within Wu Dao’s body that were activating the Asura Battle Banner. This was also why Wu Dao had waited until reaching the Quasi-Emperor Third Layer to make his move.

His Incarnations were a full tier lower than him in all aspects.

This difference in tiers acted on their very essence, resulting in a three-layer gap.

Only when he reached the combat power of a Quasi-Emperor Third Layer could he create Incarnations with Quasi-Emperor-level combat power, effectively becoming a one-man army!

But that was the extent of it.

After all, these two Emperor’s Weapons from the Rising Dragon World were backed by the resources of a Common Lord Power; they, too, were pinnacle Emperor’s Weapons of the Thirty-Third Layer!

If not for the qualitatively superior Holy Spirit Emperor’s Plate, Wu Dao truly might not have been able to hold them off with the Asura Battle Banner alone!

...

”Kill!!”

The stalemate lasted but an instant. Commanding the ten-armed Asura Emperor Shadow, Wu Dao shattered the heavens with a single stomp. He manipulated the Magnetic Field and charged ferociously toward Long Chen, intent on the kill!

The Emperor’s Weapons were evenly matched!

With the external pressure neutralized,

he could fight without any reservations!

”Insolence!!”

Wielding the Path-Breaking Bow, Long Chen’s eyes flashed with killing light. His voice boomed like thunder, shaking the cosmos. He never imagined that Wu Dao would dare take the initiative and attack him!

He was a Quasi-Emperor of the Seventh Heaven!

Wu Dao, at best, had only entered the Quasi-Emperor Realm half a month ago. Wanting to fight him one-on-one was simply courting death!

If Wu Dao had relied on his two Emperor’s Weapons to flee, Long Chen admitted he would have been helpless.

If the stalemate dragged on, Mountain and Sea would notice.

Frankly, this operation had to be swift. By underestimating Wu Dao and failing to kill him in two strikes, their mission was already more than halfway to failure.

But Wu Dao had lost his mind!

He actually thought he, a First Layer Quasi-Emperor, could fight a Seventh Layer!

Did he really think he was an Emperor’s Weapon himself?!

RUMBLE!!

Faster than a thought!

Long Chen completely unsealed his physique. His Essence, Qi, and Spirit surged to their absolute limit as he released the full, unreserved power of his Quasi-Emperor Seventh Layer cultivation!

Amidst the blurry Chaos,

seven five-colored Little Cosmoses began to revolve!

His Dao Foundation, the Hua Zuo Cosmic Dragon Vein, went berserk!

A Five-Colored Divine Light, like a Celestial River Divine Waterfall, erupted from the purple talisman on his Heavenly Spirit Cover. It cast him in the image of a supreme Celestial Emperor descending to the mortal world to command the life and death of the Great Dao, immeasurably majestic and sacred!

The Immortal Dao, the Military Dao, the Divine Dao!

Transverse Cultivation and Soul Cultivation!

The five great Extraordinary paths that had emerged since the opening of the heavens!

Behind him, they formed a spiritual backbone propping up the heavens and the cosmos. Five immeasurably majestic Supreme Daoist Emperors manifested, the divine light from the Dao Wheels behind their heads pulsing out to pierce through the five Primordial Transcendent Paths!

A Three-Life Dantian, allowing him to cultivate three paths at once!

With Transverse and Soul Cultivation added, he advanced on five paths simultaneously!

He embodied the profound mysteries of the Primordial Path!

The cumulative effect of these achievements was far greater than the sum of its parts; his might and aura completely defied the boundaries of cultivation realms!

’During my time at the Seven Days Pass,’

’I’ve seen Celestial Prides from the Emperor’s List and Mountain Sea Quasi-Ancestor Kings fight before.’

’But to be honest, at the Quasi-Emperor Seventh Layer, no one I’ve seen can compare to Long Chen’s accomplishments!’

’No matter how strong those other Celestial Prides are, they can only cultivate their Main Path plus Soul and Transverse Cultivation—three paths in total. The only difference between them comes down to the number of powerful Divine Techniques they’ve mastered.’

’But this son of a bitch Long Chen...’

’...is cultivating five fundamental Great Daos at the same time!’

’That’s on a completely different level from just mastering more Divine Techniques. At the same realm, I bet even the current number one on the Emperor’s List, the Little Martial Ancestor, would be no match for him!’

’It’s a good thing that predecessor of his was devoured and split apart back then.’

’Otherwise, if that person had been allowed to mature fully...’

’...they would have become a super-monster beyond anything Hongyuan could imagine!’

But as far as Wu Dao was concerned?

One word—

Garbage!

”Five Emperors’ Desperate Dao Fist—kill!!”

THOOM!!

Long Chen’s battle armor clanged. With his magnificent physique, he transformed into a supreme Celestial Emperor who ruled over the five paths. The instant his killing cry boomed, the five emperors merged into one!

A brilliant, Infinite Divine Fist rose up!

It seemed to encompass all the profound mysteries of the Great Dao, shining with a light so brilliant it couldn’t be looked at directly as it unleashed an infinite torrent of the Great Dao’s power!

The Five Emperors’ Desperate Dao Fist!

This was the self-created Fist Dao that Long Chen took the most pride in. It fused the mysteries of the five paths into one, evolving the ultimate Great Dao. He was confident he could obliterate an ordinary Celestial Pride of the Ninth Heaven with a single punch!

And yet...