Essence Devouring Art

Qingyuan County.

As Wu Dao’s foot came down, it was as if war drums had sounded, signaling an army of ten thousand to attack.

The entire city was instantly flooded with a sea of brutal Slaughter Qi.

"Recognize their clothes and cut them down! The Four Seas Gang are all devil spawn who deserve to die!"

At the west city gate.

Lv Tiezhu, blood-soaked and crazed, swung his millstone-sized Copper Hammer and smashed a Four Seas Gang City Guard on the wall into mush.

"Overlord Whale Alliance, how dare you!"

"The Alliance Leader said we can plunder the whole city after it falls! A reward for all our brothers! Kill!"

"You sons of bitches, die!"

Excited roars, the fierce clang of battle, and agonized curses echoed ceaselessly from the four main city gates.

The Overlord Whale Alliance’s forces attacking Qingyuan City were all elites at the Firmness and Flexibility realm or higher. The ones leading the charge at the four gates were all Hall Masters, experts who had undergone the First Rebirth.

As for the few Squad Leaders and elders who had undergone the Second Rebirth, Wu Dao had assigned them to command the front lines at the various Four Seas Gang branch halls.

The four Guardians and the Second Elder of the alliance—in other words, the five who had undergone the Third Rebirth—were assigned to the three Demon Breeding Lands of the Four Seas Gang.

With the intelligence provided by Lv Yutao, the defensive strengths of each location were crystal clear.

Wu Dao only needed to arrange his forces according to the map.

Not long after the battle began, the four main gates of Qingyuan City had already fallen.

The members of the Overlord Whale Alliance, ferocious as wolves and tigers, advanced irresistibly. They even brought down the city walls, slaughtering over a thousand in a short time, yet they met almost no effective resistance.

The main reason was that Wu Dao’s timing was perfect.

It was the day of the Four Seas Gang’s autumn meeting.

Most of the gang’s experts were gathered in the main hall of the headquarters.

When a human-shaped nuclear bomb like him crashed down, the casualties were catastrophic, leaving them with no strength to fight their way out and resist.

This was the illogical nature of large-scale warfare in the Extraordinary World—numbers never mattered, only top-tier combat power.

So what if you have an army of a million?

If your top-tier combatants can’t keep up, I can just turn into a human nuclear bomb, fly into the middle of your army, and detonate continuously. I can chase down your forces and keep exploding, and the ’nuke’ itself won’t even be damaged.

How are you supposed to fight that?

Even if a Hidden Dragon and Phoenix Chick were alive today, they could only tell their wives to come watch them meet God.

For all these reasons, although Qingyuan City was the headquarters of the Four Seas Gang, with defenses comparable to a military garrison of several thousand men, the absence of a ’great general’ to hold the line meant that no matter how many defenders they had, they were just living targets. It was no different from slaughtering chickens and dogs; they couldn’t stop the elites of the Overlord Whale Alliance.

It was a matter of soldiers against soldiers, and generals against generals.

While the battle raged at the city gates, within the ruins of the Four Seas Gang headquarters, the appearance of the Unihorned Flood Dragon Python from Willow Immortal Hall meant the great battle between the leaders was about to erupt.

"You idiot! Since we’ve been exposed, why are you wasting time talking to him? If you want to live, then fight for your life! ROAR!!"

The Unihorned Flood Dragon Python spoke in human tongue, then threw its head back and roared. Its Demon Qi surged to the heavens, and the soundwave rolled like a tsunami, blasting apart the curtains of rain in all directions. Countless people in the city felt their ears ring and their heads pound, nearly fainting from the shock.

"Kill!!"

A frigid Demon Qi billowed as the Unihorned Flood Dragon Python twisted its enormous body, crushing the Gangfeng Qi Flow in its path as it charged ferociously toward Wu Dao.

KRA-KRA-KRA~

As it tore through the air, the ancient horn on its forehead glowed brightly, like a Divine Artifact in the hands of an Ice God. It released a brutal, cold air that froze the water vapor in its path into frost, which then shattered into pieces.

Its might and momentum were truly like a Black Dragon emerging from the abyss, its presence shaking all living things. The surging, violent Spiritual Gang it carried was far more concentrated and pure than that of the Three-tailed Red Fox from before.

Grandmasters have their own varying levels of strength.

The same is true for Great Demons with 1,500 years of cultivation.

Fifteen hundred years was just a watershed, the standard for classifying a Great Demon. It didn’t mean every member of the Demon Race at this level was of the same caliber.

The Unihorned Flood Dragon Python had been cultivating and had awakened far earlier than the Three-tailed Red Fox. Supported by the Four Seas Gang, its power had almost returned to its peak.

In a one-on-one fight, it had no fear of a Military Dao Grandmaster on the level of Shi Kui!

Not to mention Menghuai Mountain was also here!

A Martial Arts Grandmaster with a Half-Demon Body, his strength far surpassed others in the same realm.

’So what if he’s reached the Horizontal Refining Fourth Gate?’

’He just stepped into it.’

With the two of them joining forces, it dared to fight even a Half-Step Land Immortal whose Spiritual Gang was beginning to liquefy and form rivers!

"Two generations of the Four Seas Gang’s foundation, destroyed by a beast like you!!"

Decades of hard work, all ruined in a single day!

The rage in Menghuai Mountain’s heart threatened to burn down the heavens. As he roared, he was like an oceanic abyss, swallowing the Primordial Qi from all directions as his physique expanded at a terrifying rate!

ROAR!

In less than the blink of an eye, Menghuai Mountain released his Demon Seed and transformed into a two-zhang-tall monster. Its body was composed of countless intertwined black pythons, its muscles writhing and twisting like a nest of snakes. It dripped a viscous fluid that corroded the ground, a truly disgusting sight.

"Fierce Dragon Heaven-Piercing Fist! Kill!!"

DONG!

Menghuai Mountain’s monstrous legs bent slightly as thick streams of Qi and Blood Essence Qi erupted from his body. He stomped, shattering the ground, and gathered all his Power into his right arm. As he struck, it was like a wild dragon bursting from its cave, blasting through layers of the void amidst continuous peals of thunder.

ROAR!!

As he threw the punch, Primordial Qi from all directions surged, compressed, and condensed, forming a hundred-meter-long black Jiaomang made of Primordial Spirit.

Before the fist even arrived, the roaring Gang Qi Jiaomang, carrying the terrifying destructive force of landslides and cracking earth, had already plowed through the deep layers of the ground.

RUMBLE—

Moreover, the Gang Qi Jiaomang spun at high speed like a drill, gathering Power and shredding the air in its path. It generated a series of intense sonic booms as it carried a surging wave of pulverized earth and rock toward Wu Dao.

This Fierce Dragon Heaven-Piercing Fist was derived from the Four Seas Gang’s Spiritual Snake Fist.

After many years of arduous cultivation, Menghuai Mountain had surpassed his masters.

Although he had not yet touched upon the True Boxing Dao, his use of Primordial Spirit was exquisite. By forming the Jiaomang and making it drill at super high speeds, its destructive power was relentless. It could completely pulverize a mountain, representing the pinnacle of Menghuai Mountain’s Martial Dao.

ROAR! ROAR—

The twin jiaomang roared at the heavens, shaking the mountains and the earth.

From a distance, one real and one illusory, one high and one low, one in front and one behind—the two black, prehistoric-looking jiaomang attacked simultaneously!

They carried infinite Mighty Power, their surging Energy churning the surrounding world into a blurry Chaos. Holding nothing back, they sought to kill Wu Dao in a single, decisive blow!

"Hahaha! You two old, weak, sick, and crippled fools think you’re worthy of fighting me to the death?"

Facing the two jiaomang that tore through the void like a passing Black Dragon, Wu Dao laughed like thunder. He didn’t dodge or evade. Spreading his feet, he stomped, shattering the earth, and formed a Fist Seal.

BZZZZ~

The instant he began Condensing Strength, within his mountain-like Dragon Whale body, under the command of his vast Spiritual Thoughts, billions of Immortal Cells began to vibrate wildly.

CRACKLE—

A massive amount of fine electric arcs writhed like snakes, rotating the Magnetic Field as his Life Magnetic Power surged to its current limit.

’I don’t even need the Divine Ghost Heaven to deal with these two.’

RAWR! RAWR! RAWR~

As the Magnetic Field rotated, the Qi and Blood Essence Qi within Wu Dao’s body surged like oil thrown on a raging fire. It was so vigorous that it manifested as great dragons emerging from his spine, burning away large patches of the void—a terrifying sight.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—

As Wu Dao drew back his fist, the Crimson Gold Fierce Dragon Flesh all over his body ran at full power like a fully charged mechanical engine. They bulged out, and his Dragon Fist, gathering Power, was completely engulfed in dazzling electric light!

DONG!!

He threw the punch!

It was like the beating of a celestial drum, a booming peal of thunder, muffled yet immense, echoing through heaven and earth and clearly audible from a great distance.

The next moment!

CLANG—

An even more explosive clang of metal on metal rang out, and brilliant sparks flooded a vast expanse of the world.

The hundred-meter-long evil jiaomang, spiraling through the air with the force to overturn rivers and shatter mountains, seemed like a mud worm crashing against a wall of bronze and iron.

CRACK!

The sound of shattering was heard!

An unimaginably vast Power thundered from Wu Dao’s dragon-headed fist and poured into the jiaomang’s body!

Its powerful Protective Gang Qi shattered instantly. Its pride and joy, the awl-like horn that could control frost, snapped and went flying on the spot as shards of ice shot through the air.

Its massive serpentine head twisted, contorted, and collapsed into a mass of mangled flesh and bone, smashing into its own neck.

The very next instant!

BANG! BANG! BANG—

A tidal wave of Power shockwaves swept over the jiaomang’s body from head to tail, forcibly straightening its coiled body into a long, black rod shooting toward the sky.

Wherever the Power passed, the sound of its flesh and bones exploding from within rose and fell continuously. In the blink of an eye, it went from being as majestic as a dragon to a long strip of bloody pulp.

BOOM—

The sonic boom and gale-force winds created by the Dragon Fist’s high-speed impact and compressed air only now exploded outward, surging and blasting in all directions.

Within a thousand-meter radius, the billowing white steam, the torrential rain pouring from the heavens, and the pools of muddy water were all swept away, transformed into a rapidly expanding tidal wave that left nothing behind!

And that wasn’t all!!

"ROAR!!"

The flesh and bone on Wu Dao’s back suddenly split open. His muscles twisted into the shape of a dragon’s mouth, gathering all the supreme Yang Qi and blood from his body, and let out a thick, rainbow-like True Dragon Breath.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM—

The brilliant Crimson Gold shockwave, powerful enough to incinerate the heavens and boil the seas, crushed Menghuai Mountain’s pride, the Wild Dragon Fist Gang, with unstoppable force. Its momentum undiminished, the roaring torrent surged onward, threatening to kill Menghuai Mountain on the spot!

’How can someone at the Horizontal Refining Fourth Gate have this kind of physical strength...’

The instant the True Dragon Breath shattered his Wild Dragon Fist Gang, Menghuai Mountain’s grotesque pupils shrank to their limit, his heart filled with disbelief.

’My full-power strike as a Grandmaster Great Success with a Half-Demon Body was incinerated by a single roar from Wu Dao, who didn’t even turn his head?’

What was even more terrifying was the Immortal Family he worshipped!

A Jiaomang variant from the Snake Race!

Its strength was unrivaled in its entire clan, and at full power, its might was no less than that of a Horizontal Refiner who had just entered the Fourth Daoist Sect.

That horn on its forehead was the manifestation of its innate Demon Technique, capable of gathering the world’s frigid qi for attacks. An ordinary Grandmaster would be frozen into a block of ice with a single hit.

But... such a terrifying Great Demon couldn’t even block a single punch from Wu Dao!

The so-called frigid qi that could freeze a Grandmaster wasn’t even worthy of cooling Wu Dao off. It didn’t make a single ripple!

And its body, which was said to rival that of someone at the Horizontal Refining Fourth Gate, was blown into pulp on the spot!

’What kind of joke is this!’

’How can the Fourth Daoist Sect be this strong? There has to be a limit to how ridiculous things can get!’

Of course, he could never imagine that Wu Dao had only entered the Horizontal Refining Fourth Gate after unlocking his body’s potential and stepping into the realm of Magnetic Field rotation.

The sheer density of his Qi and blood, empowered by Life Primordial Magnetism, made him like a young True Dragon. He was the literal embodiment of "Qi and Blood like a Dragon," with a quality far beyond anyone in the same realm. He couldn’t be measured by common sense!

ROAR!

In a flash of lightning, the True Dragon Breath, carrying a Yang Flame that could incinerate all creation, pierced the void and rushed toward him.

Menghuai Mountain had no time for shock. He squeezed his Dantian and Demon Seed dry, and his surging Primordial Spirit and Demon Qi formed a thick, high-speed rotating shield around him.

RUMBLE—

The next instant, it was like a high-pressure water jet hitting a stone. Rings of Crimson Gold Qi and blood shockwaves exploded outward with a deafening rumble, flooding a vast area of land.

The thousands of scattered droplets of Qi and blood were like a goddess scattering flowers, but the moment they landed, they burned the earth and stone into magma. One could only imagine how terrifying the temperature of this Dragon Breath was.

CRACK!!

The High-Frequency Gang Qi Shield that Menghuai Mountain had deployed with all his might barely held for an instant before it shattered. The Supreme Yang and Firm True Dragon Breath slammed into him head-on.

"AHHH!!!"

A bloodcurdling scream shook heaven and earth.

The moment the Dragon Breath struck him, Menghuai Mountain felt as if he had fallen into a Divine Sun. The ultimate Yang Fire instantly burned the thousands of pythons that made up his Half-Demon Body to charcoal.

’I’m finished!!’

BOOM—

The True Dragon Breath was relentless, its impact unbelievably terrifying. It blasted the large, charred nest of snakes that was once him into the air, causing vast patches of the void to implode upon impact.