Essence Devouring Art

But...

It was a Celestial-level Fierce Monster, after all.

Even after taking a direct hit from Ten Directions Divine Slaughter, it wasn’t dead. The bloody mist instantly dissipated, and its figure reappeared in another location.

"Hahaha, I’ve found you!"

But before the Luotou God could fully manifest, Wu Dao’s voice, like the crazed laughter of an evil ghost, once again thundered across the heavens and earth.

BOOM!

Along with Wu Dao’s roar.

His entire body seemed to die in an instant, all signs of life vanishing as a new soul began to emerge from within.

Endless dark-crimson flames and electric currents erupted from his pores, shrouding his body and causing vast swathes of the void to collapse from the heat.

His eyes, once god-like and holy, were now consumed by infinite darkness. He looked like a murderous incarnation from the Abyss, descended upon the world.

The Acquired Self vanished!

The Innate True Self awakened!

An ultimate will for slaughter and battle flooded his Divine Soul and consciousness!

Divine Heavenless State—unleashed!

His body’s functions were released to three hundred percent of their capacity!

Battle power of the Celestial Human Fifth Floor!

"Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist—DIE!!"

VMMMM—

The instant that crazed roar, like that of an Abyssal evil ghost, exploded, the Magnetic Field Power of all things and all beings across the entire battlefield, from the heavens above to the earth below, fell into chaos. Like rivers flowing to the sea in a holy pilgrimage, it all surged toward Wu Dao’s fist.

’My power... How is this possible!’

’Alliance Leader Wu, stop!’

’Madman!!’

In that instant, time and space seemed to freeze. On the battlefield, everyone from both the Corpse God Palace and the Bai Ze Bureau, with the exceptions of Fang Lie and Yin Wuchang, was horrified. They felt as if their own power had completely betrayed them, surging toward Wu Dao.

VMMMMMM—

Visible to the naked eye,

Wu Dao’s Dragon Fist, bolstered by the converging magnetic fields of all things in heaven and earth, transformed into a miniature sun constructed from countless rapidly swimming, multicolored threads!

At the moment of impact,

the miniature, rainbow-hued sun brilliantly illuminated a vast expanse of the world, dyeing the surrounding twenty to thirty li in a thousand different colors. Carrying an ultimate and tyrannical destructive power, it ruthlessly slammed into the Luotou God’s chest!

Fierce Monsters are all mutated Celestial Treasures!

Only by finding their core can one kill them in a single strike!

But the Luotou God’s core was too well-hidden!

Only after using Ten Directions Divine Slaughter and infusing the Luotou God’s entire body, down to its macro and micro structures, with Primordial Magnetic currents did Wu Dao finally pinpoint the core’s location.

Only then did he dare to use the Divine Heavenless State. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The Divine Heavenless State was a pure combat and slaughter persona that didn’t distinguish between friend or foe.

If he used it without knowing the core’s location, even though he had already reached the Human Extreme, he couldn’t guarantee that he wouldn’t fight himself to exhaustion in a reckless assault, leaving his life hanging by a thread.

When it came to life and death, he wouldn’t trust anyone but himself!

BOOM—

In less than the blink of an eye!

One could even say that the shocked thoughts of those on the battlefield had only just begun to surface.

The frozen world began to move again.

Shen Wu Dao’s Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist, which had gathered the Magnetic Field Power of all things in the universe, had already slammed into the very center of the Luotou God’s chest, just as its form had reappeared.

DOOOM!!!

An indescribable explosion instantly silenced the heavens and earth and drained all color from creation!

Within everyone’s Divine Soul perception, there was only a magnetic pulse, like an exploding sun, rapidly engulfing the universe as a Chaos-colored light shone in all six directions and eight corners of the world.

CRACK—!

In the silent, colorless, and desolate world, the sound of shattering earth and stone was exceptionally clear.

Just as a terrified thought surfaced in the Luotou God’s mind, an unstoppable destructive power slammed into the human-sized clay statue inside its chest, which it hadn’t had time to move.

The Luotou People, the Luotou God.

First came the legend, then came the god.

A six-foot clay statue as its true form, a spirit born after a thousand years of gestation.

Before it could know the true Creation of the universe, its sun had already set in the west.

CRACK!

The head of the long-necked, god-like clay statue shattered.

Its multicolored world was completely engulfed by darkness.

RUMBLE—

Sound returned to the silent world.

It cried like furious thunder and roared like the ocean tide!

After the Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist crushed the true spirit in the Luotou God’s core head, the subsequent mighty power violently exploded outward!

The Luotou God’s mountain-sized physique was instantly shattered into countless microscopic particles, which then completely dissipated in all directions amidst the violent shockwave.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!—

The nuclear-like explosions continued to detonate.

With Wu Dao’s fist as the epicenter, a conical shockwave displaced the atmosphere, tore apart the land, mountains, rivers, and vegetation, and annihilated all matter in the heavens and on the earth.

Amidst the violent sonic booms, the earth was rapidly plowed open, forming an inverted triangular grand canyon hundreds of meters deep, its width constantly expanding as it stretched for nearly thirty li!

RUMBLE—

Farther away, a tsunami of earth and rock that connected the sky and ground continued to batter the Nine Yang Array’s energy shield. On the battlefield, the expressions of both warring parties were filled with shock and horror.

The power of a single punch?

So terrifying!

A Celestial Human Fourth Floor expert?

Even a Fifth Floor expert would have to think twice!

ROAR!

The roar of a God and Demon interrupted everyone’s shock.

After obliterating the Luotou God with one punch, Wu Dao opened his cavernous mouth and, in a single gulp, swallowed the human-sized, headless statue of the Luotou God before him.

"Teleportation Points +8,000."

A Celestial Human Fourth Floor Fierce Monster!

Eight thousand Teleportation Points!

Eight thousand!

An unprecedented haul from a single monster!

VMM~

After swallowing the Luotou God’s core, Wu Dao finally deactivated the Divine Heavenless State. Within his abyss-black eyes, golden, slitted pupils reappeared, now holding a trace of humanity.

The Innate True Self, with its ultimate desire for slaughter and destruction, reluctantly receded, and his Acquired Self once again took control.

HUFF... HUFF... HUFF~

After deactivating the Divine Heavenless State, the depletion of his body left Wu Dao panting slightly. He immediately activated his magnetic field, whale-swallowing the Heaven and Earth Energy to replenish himself, and quickly returned to his peak state.

’Such a powerful strike, and he’s completely unharmed?’

From a distance, the Corpse God Palace’s Grand Elder, Yin Wuchang, saw Wu Dao return to his peak state in just a few breaths, and his eyes nearly popped out of his head!

Wu Dao’s last attack had clearly been the result of using a trump card, a Secret Technique to forcibly enhance his strength.

He had assumed that after throwing that punch, Wu Dao would be, if not crippled, then at least severely injured and out of the fight.

But the reality was so goddamn ridiculous!

What kind of joke was this?

No side effects at all!

More importantly, there was the technique Wu Dao had just used to command the energy of all things in heaven and earth!

It was too terrifying!

Yin Wuchang had lived for several hundred years. Even having witnessed the Kunpeng Body Casting Technique, which could devour the Essence of All Things, he could never have imagined that someone in this world could indiscriminately, ignoring the limits of their Dantian, forcibly control and absorb all the energy between heaven and earth for their own use!

Even if you’re a Celestial Treasure Master, you shouldn’t be this absurd at this stage!

Escape, escape, escape!!

After the shock wore off, Yin Wuchang’s mind was instantly engulfed by infinite fear.

That monster, Wu Dao, had been unleashed.

The battle would no longer be a series of one-on-one duels!

A Celestial Human Fourth Floor expert who could unleash the power of the Fifth Floor—a terrifying opponent!

He could kill every member of the Corpse God Palace except for him!

And then...

And then he would definitely be ganged up on and beaten to death!

The instant the thought of retreat emerged, a ruthless look appeared in Yin Wuchang’s eyes. Enduring the pain in his Divine Soul, he frantically poured energy into his Corpse Puppet and then directly detonated the puppet he had spent centuries refining.

"Not good! That old bastard is getting desperate!"

Fang Lie’s heart skipped a beat. The moment he sensed the abnormal energy within the Corpse Puppet, he only had time to roar and erect a Fierce Sun Clear Qi Barrier in front of him.

The self-destruction of a Celestial Human Fourth Floor Level Corpse Puppet, plus the energy Yin Wuchang had infused into it!

The resulting mighty power far surpassed the Fourth Floor; even a Fifth Floor expert wouldn’t dare to face it head-on!

He hadn’t expected that Yin Wuchang would be so decisive and ruthless. The moment he sensed the tide turning, he immediately went all-out, leaving nothing to chance!

BOOM!!

Fang Lie’s roar had just sounded when a terrifying burst of energy, no less powerful than Wu Dao’s previous Celestial Essence Magnetic Burst Fist, erupted. A massive black fireball expanded in an instant, and a horrifying tide of Yin Sha Energy swept across the heavens and the earth.

At the core of the explosion, in a radius of several li, it was as if a black hole had appeared in the world.

Dust particles in the sky and the earth and stone on the ground were instantly annihilated. A nearby Corpse God Palace expert was like a smudge instantly erased by a rubber eraser, vanishing completely without even a scream.

The scene was too horrifying.

Even Wu Dao, who was seven or eight li away, didn’t dare to take the blast head-on.

The instant he sensed something was wrong with the Corpse Puppet, he flapped his Golden Roc Wings to speed far away, simultaneously activating his magnetic field at full power. Countless electric currents formed a Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield that enveloped him.

BOOM!!

The shockwave, which repelled and crushed all things, swept past.

Even with the protection of the Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield, Wu Dao felt a massive force strike him, sending him flying for several li before he could stabilize himself.

"Wu Dao, Fang Lie, this old man will remember you!"

The moment he detonated the Corpse Puppet, the skin-and-bones Yin, who looked like he was about to breathe his last, let out a venomous cry.

His entire body had shriveled significantly. He seemed to have used some other secret treasure, as he was shrouded in a layer of black light that blocked the Corpse Puppet’s explosive energy as he flew toward the sky.

CRACK!

In the next instant, the dome of the Nine Yang Array was torn open by the force of the Corpse Puppet’s self-destruction, and Yin Wuchang, now a phantom-like shadow, vanished into the world beyond the rift.

RUMBLE!!

The world-destroying shockwave continued to spread.

The destructive power from the explosion of the Celestial Human Fourth Floor Corpse Puppet was abnormally terrifying. After the first shockwave passed, a gigantic crater nearly twenty li in diameter was blasted into the ground where it had been.

And this was from a detonation high in the sky.

If it had been on the ground...

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH~

A tempestuous gale, carrying countless particles of pulverized earth and stone, ravaged the landscape in all directions.

Protected by his Primordial Magnetic Gang Shield, Wu Dao didn’t take much of the impact. After the explosion, he immediately extended his Spiritual Thoughts to scan the battlefield.

"Cough, cough~"

In the sky, at the core of the explosion, Fang Lie let out a slightly weak cough. His expression was exceptionally grim, and the Fiery Sun Pure Qi in front of him, once as thick as a city wall, had thinned considerably.

Clearly, blocking that last attack had been a strain on him as well.

Fortunately, aside from one unlucky Corpse God Palace expert, Yin Wuchang’s desperate attack had only severely injured the other members of the Bai Ze Bureau, who were otherwise not in critical condition.

This was because they hadn’t been at the core of the explosion.

Fang Lie and Yin Wuchang were both masters at the Celestial Human Fifth Floor. When such experts clashed, it was natural for those below the Fifth Floor to stay as far away as possible.

Because of this, they managed to keep their lives.

As for the remaining members of the Corpse God Palace...

"Die!!"

Fang Lie roared in anger, locking onto the Corpse God Palace’s Second Elder, who was trying to flee in the chaos. From a distance, his Ring-Headed Saber cleaved through the air, unleashing a streak of Fiery Sun Saber Aura.

"More food!"

Wu Dao’s nose twitched. He instantly locked onto the Corpse God Palace’s Third Elder, who was controlling a Three-headed Corpse Puppet in another direction. His eyes lit up, and with a flap of his Great Peng Golden Wings, he appeared before the Third Elder in an instant.

"Yin Wuchang dared to risk his life, you think I don’t dare to do the same?!"

Seeing the monster Wu Dao charge at him, a ruthless look flashed in the Corpse God Palace’s Third Elder’s eyes. He activated his Three-headed Corpse Puppet, also intending to self-destruct and escape.

"Risk your grandpa’s ass! Primordial Magnetic Celestial Saber, sever!"

Wu Dao’s mountain-like body shot forward, creating a sonic boom that shook the sky. His right arm, constructed from thousands of Barbaric Dragons, rose up. He manipulated the Earth and Heaven Magnetic Field, transforming it into three Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers that slashed down. As his arm chopped downward, it instantly severed the various magnetic connections between the Third Elder and his Corpse Puppet.

Yin Wuchang was at the Celestial Human Fifth Floor. Wu Dao indeed couldn’t sever the magnetic connection between him and his Corpse Puppet.

But this Third Elder, who was only at the Celestial Human Fourth Floor, posed no difficulty at all.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!—

The sound of the magnetic field shattering rang out continuously as the Primordial Magnetic Celestial Sabers fell.

"AHHH!!!"

Within the Yin Corpse Palace Third Elder’s Divine Soul, the sensation was like being sliced by a thousand knives. The pain made him let out an inhuman scream.

Human and corpse as one.

This was no empty phrase.

Severing the connection between the two was no less than splitting his soul apart.

That kind of pain was simply impossible to describe with words.

"Primordial Magnetic Tribulation Finger!"

Before the Third Elder could recover from the pain, Wu Dao’s finger—like the claw of a Great Peng and thicker than an average person’s waist—tapped the Purple Mansion between his eyebrows.

The next moment.

VMM—

BANG!

An intensely condensed beam of dark Primordial Magnetic light pierced through the Third Elder’s head, his Purple Mansion, and his soul. The unstoppable destructive power instantly blasted him into flying ash.

"Too weak."

Wu Dao retracted his finger and shook his head, bored.

Both were at the Celestial Human Fourth Floor. The strength of the mutated Celestial Treasure, the Luotou God, had forced him to use his Divine Heavenless State.

But this Third Elder from the Corpse God Palace was killed in an instant.

The gap between them was anything but small.

"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!!"

After the Third Elder’s death, the three Corpse Puppets, all at the Celestial Human Third Floor, were still roaring in pain and rampaging. Their Spiritual Consciousness was shattered and chaotic, like Fierce Beasts that had lost control.

"There, there. The pain will be gone soon."

Wu Dao looked at the three Corpse Puppets, or rather, Corpse Demons, and grinned, revealing two rows of crimson, shark-like teeth. His eyes were filled with hunger.