Essence Devouring Art

In the nick of time, the beautiful woman in red gauze appeared before Qi Canghai. With a coquettish smile, she effortlessly caught Wu Dao’s thunderous punch with her palm.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

It was a simple probing exchange between the two.

Yet the resulting destructive force was no less than that of a meteor striking the earth. Two deep craters instantly blew open in the ground, and the shockwave kicked up countless bricks and stones, forming a rapidly expanding curtain like a tidal wave.

The compressed and exploding Gangfeng Qi Flow was like a Level 10 typhoon, instantly shredding the surrounding buildings and leveling the peak, turning it into a vacuum where not even rain could fall.

Fang Tianxiong took a slash from Shi Kui head-on. Even with his Spiritual Gang for protection, a fine cut was left on his right fist, making him extremely wary. "Junior, don’t delude yourself," he warned angrily. "You can’t protect him alone!"

A Soldier Cultivator!

Acknowledged as the undisputed masters of combat among the three Daos of the Human Race!

The way of the soldier is the way of carnage!

Since ancient times, they have represented war, slaughter, blood, and death!

A Soldier Cultivator with a Yellow Court Soldier Embryo...

...could use their Soldier Embryo to directly command the baleful, killing, sharp, hostile, death, and malevolent qi that had accumulated between heaven and earth since time immemorial—all forms of purely ferocious and baleful energies!

They weren’t limited to just one type.

In comparison...

...the fundamentally upright and gentle Primordial Qi of a Martial Artist and the Spiritual Qi of the Immortal Dao were naturally a step weaker in terms of sheer killing power.

A Grandmaster of the Sword Dao whose Soldier Qi had already condensed into a Gang.

In a one-on-one fight...

...and without considering other factors, they could completely suppress and dominate a practitioner of the Martial Dao or Immortal Dao at the same level!

It was this very fact that made him wary.

Fang Tianxiong was unwilling to fight Shi Kui to the death.

True, they had two ’Grandmasters’ on their side.

And neither was a simple foe; one had reached Great Success in the Horizontal Refining Third Gate, while the other was a member of the Demon Race, stronger than those of the Human Dao at the same realm.

But if Shi Kui truly lost it and went berserk...

...he could absolutely take one of them down with him, even if it meant mutual destruction!

As for Wu Dao...

...although he was a ’Celestial Treasure Master’...

...he clearly hadn’t matured into his full power yet.

Fang Tianxiong had never taken him seriously and even felt that Qi Canghai was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Shi Kui’s face was as indifferent as cold iron. He stood firm in the gale, holding his six-foot Black Blade, the dense black Fierce Qi churning on its surface like an emotionless killing machine. "Once the money is in my pocket, there’s no backing out. Are you questioning my professionalism? Besides, this might not be a two-on-one fight."

"What do you mean?"

Fang Tianxiong’s brow furrowed. He shot a sharp glance at Wu Dao, who was retreating after trading a punch with the beautiful woman in red gauze. Inexplicably, the Heart Lake Alarm Bell began to ring.

RUMBLE!!

In that very instant.

The void distorted, boiling with scorching heat!

A hundred-meter-tall column of Crimson Gold blood and qi, as thick as a rainbow, shot toward the sky before pouring back down!

Even from outside the city, one could clearly see a crimson Celestial Pillar erupting from the ground. The entirety of Whale Leaping Peak was engulfed in raging Blood Flame, turning the gloomy sky a brilliant red.

"You old slut! You love to smile, don’t you? I’ll rip both your filthy mouths apart!"

Amidst the furious roar...

...Wu Dao instantly unleashed his Dragon Whale Dominating Body. The muscles all over his body writhed and coiled like thousands of Crimson Gold pythons, a physique built for ultimate violence. Raging Blood Flame burned from his countless pores.

His magnificent physique towered over eight meters tall, like a Heaven-Supporting Demon Lord looking down on all creation. His might was as vast as the Abyss, his presence as heavy as a mountain. He exuded a tyrannical, oppressive aura like a roaring tsunami that crushed everyone present, making their chests tighten and their hair stand on end!

THOOM!!

The Dragon Whale took a step, and the heavens and earth trembled.

The Heaven-Supporting Fierce Demon, bearing the sky-piercing pillar of rainbow energy, took a single step forward. It was like a meteor strike, causing mountains to collapse and the earth to crack as if dragons and serpents were rising from the land!

RUMBLE—

Boundless Power poured into the earth. The entire upper half of the thousand-meter-tall Jingyue Mountain was instantly blown apart, sending earth, stone, and vegetation shooting out in all directions as countless fragments!

"Die!!!"

Before the beautiful woman in red gauze’s shocked eyes...

In a tenth of the time it takes to snap a finger!

Before the mountain had even begun to collapse!

SCREECH!

The Dragon Fist compressed the very air until it exploded, carrying the majestic, mountain-like force of the Overlord Whale Fist Intent—a power that roared at the Divine Soul—and smashed squarely down upon the beautiful woman’s head!

CLANG!!

The deafening clang of metal striking metal drowned out the rumbling of the collapsing mountain.

Brilliant sparks had just begun to fly...

...when the woman in red gauze felt as if she’d been struck by a Celestial Being’s hammer. Her mind and soul buzzed, her face contorted, and waves of flesh rippled from her head to her toes as the layered shockwaves of Power spread through her body.

The next instant.

BOOM!

Her red figure shot downward like a streaking meteor.

She broke the sound barrier, smashing through the thousands of airborne fragments of earth and stone before embedding herself deep within the mountainside, blasting out another huge crater.

The exchange was as swift as a falcon diving for its prey, a sudden eruption of thunderous violence!

It was all over in the blink of an eye!

"A hundred-meter-tall energy pillar... Horizontal Refining Third Gate Great Success... Is that the Giant Whale Dominating Body?!"

Amidst the thousands of falling rocks...

...Qi Canghai’s hair stood on end as he stared in utter shock at the ferocious, whale-and-dragon-like Fierce Demon descending from the sky.

"Impossible! It took me forty years to break through the limits of the Giant Whale Skill! How long has he even been practicing it?!"

Fang Tianxiong looked as if his entire worldview was collapsing. The Giant Whale Skill was his creation; he knew its limits better than anyone.

To break through that limit...

...he had spent forty long years!

And all he had to show for it was a "half-finished product."

But Wu Dao...

...according to Qi Canghai, he hadn’t been practicing the Giant Whale Skill for more than half a year!

Just half a year!

A hundred-meter energy pillar!

Horizontal Refining Third Gate Great Success!

More importantly...

...that transformed body, similar yet different, had clearly surpassed its origin. This dominating demonic physique had already broken through the limits of the Giant Whale Skill, completely surpassing him, its creator!

Half a lifetime of effort!

The fruits of his blood, sweat, and tears!

Effortlessly mastered and surpassed by someone else!

This feeling!

This humiliation...

"No... Impossible! Kill! I’ll kill you!!!"

Fang Tianxiong’s Dao heart was on the verge of collapsing. He looked like a mad demon, roaring insanely as his disheveled hair whipped about. His bloodshot eyes shot out ten-foot-long jets of Blood Flame laced with Demonic Qi!

BOOM!!

A black-and-red pillar of blood and flame shot toward the heavens, its hundred-meter column of energy pouring back down from the gloomy sky. Its power and presence were not the slightest bit weaker than Wu Dao’s!

SZZZ—

What was even more terrifying was that...

...wherever the black-and-red Blood Flame passed...

...earth and stone corroded, all life withered with a loud sizzle, and it was clear the flames carried an unimaginably potent poison!

"My Dao is the correct one! Demon Whale Dominating Body, kill!!"

Fang Tianxiong roared at the sky, transforming. His muscles bulged like venomous tumors as he became a twenty-foot-tall Demon Whale spewing raging, toxic fire. Bearing his own pillar of energy, he charged toward the descending Wu Dao.

"Accomplishment is the only truth. How can you speak of right and wrong?"

HUMMM!!

A Sword Gang split the heavens, its Fierce Qi overpowering the Demonic Qi!

WHOOSH~

Shi Kui was enveloped in black Fierce Qi that burned like a fire. His Yellow Court Blade Embryo trembled and his eyes turned pure black. With a single slash, he sent the airborne Fang Tianxiong flying backward!

BANG!

The next moment.

He kicked off a massive boulder, shattering it. With a flip of his wrist, he controlled his Gang mid-air, unleashing a dance of blades. A black Sword Gang dozens of meters long fell like a torrential storm, endlessly bombarding the berserk Fang Tianxiong.

"ROAR!!!"

Amidst the Sword Gang bombardment that sundered the very mountain, an earth-shattering Demon Beast’s roar suddenly drowned out the explosions. Red Demon Qi erupted from the deep crater like a volcano.

"So what if you’ve reached Great Success in the Third Gate? I’ll devour you all the same!!"

RUMBLE!!

Amidst the apocalyptic destruction!

A crimson Red Fox, roughly ten meters long and as large as a small hill, emerged like a Primordial Fierce Beast descending upon the world. Its three thick, long tails, trailing flames and embers, suddenly shot out. They smashed through the void like Evil Dragons bursting from their lairs, coiling toward Wu Dao!

"Eat me? HAHAHA!!"

Wu Dao’s laughter boomed like thunder. Instead of retreating, he advanced. Crouching low, he kicked off the ground, shattering thousands of tons of earth and rock. Amidst a deafening sonic boom, he neither dodged nor evaded, charging head-on to meet the three thick, dragon-like fox tails!