Chapter 769
Overwhelming
This is the boundary between the starry sky and the ruins of the ancient gods.
That translucent fleshy membrane, tens of thousands of miles high—the [Wall of Sighs]—is currently emitting a chilling red light.
Outside the wall, the desolate scene of the past was no longer present.
In the void, tens of thousands of enormous warships were densely packed together. Banners blotted out the sun, and divine light soared into the sky.
The top powers from the Azure Sky Star Sea had sensed the dramatic changes inside the ruins months ago and had all descended upon this place.
The million heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly Court stood in neat square formations, their golden armor dazzling, and were personally overseen by the "Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King".
The various demon saints of the [Ten Thousand Demons Alliance] manifested their enormous forms, their demonic aura billowing and obscuring the starlight. The supreme elders of ancient sects such as the [Starry Sky Sect] and the [Supreme Dao] sat cross-legged deep in the void, their eyes greedily fixed on the wall.
They are all waiting.
They wait for the legendary "Emperor God's Decree" to be born, or for the intruder named Su Chen to die inside, so that they can go in and divide up the ancient god's corpse.
"Judging by the time, the noise inside has stopped."
An old man dressed in thunder armor, surrounded by purple electric snakes—the Thunder Spirit Ancestor—held a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, the "Thunder Hammer," and spoke somewhat impatiently.
"Hmph, that Su Chen is just a country bumpkin who ascended from the lower realm. Although he has some brute strength, once he enters a forbidden area like the Divine Palace, he will definitely die."
Beside her, a beautiful woman in palace attire, standing on a lotus flower and exuding a cool and aloof aura—the Queen Mother of the West (projected)—speaks softly.
"I sense that the last vestige of the ancient god's life force has been extinguished. It must be that Su Chen triggered some kind of restriction, causing him to perish together with the ancient god's lingering will."
"Wouldn't that be perfect?"
The nine-headed golden lion of the Ten Thousand Demon Alliance let out a thunderous laugh.
"No one's guarding the gate anymore! This corpse of a sixth-realm expert is our greatest opportunity!"
"Its flesh belongs to my demon race!"
"Its bones are for your Heavenly Court to refine weapons!"
"As for that brain... hehe, it's an unparalleled soul-soothing elixir. Everyone's on their own merits!"
Upon hearing this, the powerful figures' eyes gleamed with greed.
In their eyes, the ancient god was already dead, and Su Chen inside was surely dead too. This enormous corpse was now nothing more than an unattended mountain of gold!
"Do it!!"
"Break through the Wall of Sighs! Seize the God's Corpse!!"
The Thunder Spirit Ancestor, being the most impatient, took the lead. He slammed down his Thunder Hammer, drawing upon countless bolts of divine lightning from the heavens, which transformed into a thunderous azure dragon, roaring as it charged toward the Wall of Sighs.
Other powerful individuals were not to be outdone, and they all unleashed their signature weapons.
In an instant, the void trembled, and dazzling divine light engulfed the entire starry sea.
however.
Just a moment before the barrage of attacks was about to touch the Wailing Wall.
"Rip—!!!"
A piercingly sharp sound of tearing brocade suddenly rang out.
The sound was so loud that it drowned out the thunder, causing countless low-level cultivators to have their eardrums ruptured and blood to flow from their seven orifices.
Immediately afterwards, to the utter astonishment of all the powerful figures...
That Wailing Wall, which has stood for billions of years and is said to be difficult even for the peak of the fifth realm to break through...
It was torn open from the inside by bare hands!
It's not breaking, it's tearing apart!
It's like tearing open a fragile wrapper!
Two large, white hands, as white as jade yet gleaming with a noble purple-gold luster, reached out from the crack and grasped each side of it.
Then, with a sudden yank!
"Boom!!!"
The Wall of Sighs has shattered completely.
Blood and flesh fragments rained down like a torrential downpour.
An indescribable aura of terror, like a volcano erupting after millions of years of accumulation, surged out from the crack!
The thunderous azure dragon unleashed by the Thunder Spirit Ancestor was instantly blown away into nothingness sparks before it could even let out a scream under the impact of this aura.
"Wh...what is that?!"
The Thunder Spirit Ancestor was greatly alarmed and retreated a thousand miles.
The entire room fell silent.
The million cultivators held their breath, staring intently into the depths of the crack.
Amidst the billowing dust, a figure slowly emerged.
He wore a simple blue robe, his black hair cascading over his shoulders, his hands in his pockets, and his expression languid. Behind him followed the Demon Lord of Chaos, the White Bone Ghost Emperor (Skeleton Lord), and a menacing demon army equipped with weapons forged from ancient god organs.
Su Chen.
He stood in the void, his eyes slightly narrowed, watching the grand "welcoming ceremony" before him.
"Oh."
Su Chen's lips curled into a playful smile.
"There are quite a lot of people."
"Did they know I just finished physical labor and specially deliver takeout to me?"
"You...you are Su Chen?!"
The Queen Mother of the West stared in disbelief at the young man who was completely unharmed and whose aura had become unfathomable.
"How could you still be alive?! Where is the Ancestor of Ruins? Where is the will of the Ancient God?!"
"The Ancestor of Ruins?"
Su Chen picked at his ear and flicked out a finger.
"have eaten."
"The will of an ancient god?"
Su Chen flicked out another finger.
"I ate it too."
These six simple words struck like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone hard in the heart.
have eaten?!
What kind of indecent language is this?!
"Arrogant!!"
Ancestor Lei Ling was furious. He was a powerful expert at the half-step fifth realm, who had roamed the starry sea for tens of thousands of years. How could he have been so looked down upon?
"You ignorant brat! You're spouting nonsense!"
"Hand over the Emperor's Decree! Otherwise, I, your ancestor, will annihilate your soul and spirit!!"
"Thunderous Might - World Destroyer Hammer!!"
Ancestor Lei Ling made his move again. This time, he burned his primordial blood essence, and the Thunder God Hammer transformed into a thunderous mountain, crashing down on Su Chen with earth-shattering pressure.
This attack caused space to collapse and stars to fall.
However, faced with this fatal blow...
Su Chen didn't even take his hands out of his pockets.
He merely raised his head slightly, and his [Sun and Moon Divine Eyes], now displaying a contrasting gold and silver hue, glanced indifferently at Ancestor Lei Ling.
"It's too bright."
"It's blinding."
Su Chen opened his mouth and gently... took a breath.
"call--"
This inhale was not an ordinary breath.
This is the divine power of Devouring Heaven's Breath, which is a fusion of the Breath of the Ancient God and the Law of Gluttony, after the [Divine Treasury of the Lungs] was opened!
"boom!!!"
Suddenly, a reverse hurricane swept across the land.
The thunderous mountain that crashed down suddenly stopped when it was still a hundred feet above Su Chen's head.
Then it began to twist, deform, and shrink.
"Wh...what?!"
Ancestor Lei Ling's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He felt his connection to his natal magic weapon being forcibly severed!
Come here!
Su Chen took a deep breath.
call out!
The Thunder God Mountain transformed into a purple streak of light and was swallowed whole by Su Chen.
"Gudu."
Su Chen's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed.
"Hmm...it's a bit numbing, and the texture is like popping candy."
Su Chen smacked his lips, looking like he wanted more.
Is there anything else?
"..."
Quiet.
A deathly silence.
The millions of cultivators who witnessed this scene were utterly dumbfounded, their minds completely blank.
That's a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure! It's the signature weapon of the Thunder Spirit Ancestor!
Just like that... he was eaten?
It even has popping candy?!
"puff--!!"
With his natal magic weapon destroyed and his mind injured, Ancestor Lei Ling spat out a mouthful of blood three zhang away.
"You...you monster!!"
"evildoer?"
Su Chen shook his head, his gaze falling on the still-smoking body of the Thunder Spirit Ancestor.
"I am a food connoisseur."
"Now that we've finished the candy, it's time for our main meal."
"Your true form is... a Thunder Spirit Orb that has cultivated into a spirit, right?"
Su Chen's eyes blazed with a bright green light, a terrifying gaze that seemed to see through the essence of the ingredients and directly point to their origin.
"A high-purity aggregate of lightning element... What a tonic!"
Swish!
Su Chen moved.
He did not use any movement techniques or supernatural abilities; it was merely an explosion of physical strength.
He left an afterimage in place, but his true form instantly traversed thousands of miles of void and appeared in front of Ancestor Lei Ling.
"No!! Help me!!"
The Thunder Spirit Ancestor screamed in terror and turned to flee.
But Su Chen's hand was already on the top of his head.
This hand looks fair and slender, but in the eyes of the Thunder Spirit Ancestor, it is like an unshakeable five-finger mountain.
"Origin Law - Definition: You are... a rice ball!"
"Gluttony and Plunder!!"
Om-! ! !
Su Chen's palm turned into a black hole.
"Ahhhh-"
The Thunder Spirit Ancestor let out a shrill scream. His physical body, magical power, and even his primordial spirit collapsed at this moment, transforming into the purest source of thunder, which surged wildly into Su Chen's arm.
In just three breaths.
A powerful expert at the fifth level of the Star Sea, who was once a formidable figure, was transformed into a bead the size of a fist, radiating a dazzling purple light, right before everyone's eyes.
Su Chen picked up the beads, wiped them on his clothes, and then...
"Crack!"
I took a bite and cut it in half.
"Hmm, crunchy, but it gets stuck in your teeth a bit."
As Su Chen chewed, he turned around and looked at the powerful figures from various forces who were already pale with fright.
He held up the remaining half of the bead, and with a smile, asked like a hospitable host entertaining a guest:
"Gentlemen, you have come from afar."
"Who would want to... buy me candy?"
……
……
Fear. Spreading like a plague across the starry sky.
If they had previously regarded Su Chen as a lucky nouveau riche, now, after witnessing Lei Ling Ancestor being turned into a "rice ball" and eaten, everyone has come to their senses.
This is a monster!
An ancient ferocious beast disguised in human skin!
"Retreat!! Retreat quickly!!"
"This person is not to be trifled with!! His physical body has already attained sainthood!!"
The Supreme Elder of the Star Sect was the first to react, and he summoned a star map scroll, intending to lead his disciples to escape.
"escape?"
Su Chen swallowed the last of the Thunder Spirit Pearl and patted the residue off his hands.
"Since you're already here, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
"I'm the most hospitable person."
"Since you're here, let's leave them all behind... as food reserves!"
Su Chen's eyes suddenly changed.
His left eye transformed into a golden sun, and his right eye into a pitch-black abyss.
Origin Divine Eye: Space Lockdown!
Om-! ! !
Two beams of divine light shot out, intertwining to form a huge net of light that instantly enveloped the starry sky for tens of thousands of miles.
Those warships that had just activated the space jump array seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, and were all bounced back with a "boom boom boom" sound, exploding into fireballs.
"He...he sealed off space?! This is a technique only available at the Fifth Realm!!"
The Queen Mother of the West turned deathly pale, her beautiful face losing its color.
"Everyone! Stop hiding it!!"
The nine-headed golden lion roared, and all nine heads simultaneously spewed out flames.
"No matter how strong he is, he's just one person! We have millions of people! We have countless imperial weapons!!"
"Join forces!! Set up the 'Great Demon-Slaying Array'!! Kill him!! Otherwise, we'll all die!!"
Faced with the threat of death, the major powers finally set aside their prejudices and revealed their terrifying true strength.
"Heavenly Court's forces! Form the 'Heavenly Net Formation'!"
"The Alliance of Ten Thousand Demons! Form the 'Ten Thousand Demons Devouring God Formation'!"
"Star Sect! Draw upon the power of the celestial stars!"
Rumble—
The starry sky trembled.
Millions of cultivators simultaneously burned their magical power, and countless magical treasures converged to form a spiritual giant ten thousand feet tall. This giant wielded a giant axe, had a starry river above its head, and the pressure it exuded faintly touched the peak of the true fifth realm (divine bone realm)!
"Slay the demon!!!"
The spirit giant roared, and its giant axe, carrying the weight of the entire star sea, cleaved down towards Su Chen.
This single axe stroke is enough to cleave open a middle-thousand world!
"That's interesting."
Looking at the giant who was countless times larger than himself, Su Chen showed no fear in his eyes, but rather a hint of excitement.
"This is the real feast!"
"Energy aggregate? The purity is a bit low, but the quantity is large."
Su Chen slowly extended his right hand.
He did not transform and remained the size of a normal person.
But in that instant, the [Purple-Gold Spine Dragon] within him awakened.
An absolute gravity law originating from the spine of an ancient god, representing the "support of heaven and earth," gathered in his palm.
"Spinal Superpower: Covering the Sky with One Hand!!"
boom!!!
Although Su Chen's palm did not grow larger, in everyone's perception, that hand seemed to transform into the sky, into the lid of the universe.
A colossal hand, formed from purple-gold divine light, appeared out of thin air.
On this palm, the lines are clearly visible, each line a regular chain.
"boom!!!"
The giant hand lifted upwards and steadily caught the massive axe that was cleaving down from the sky.
"what?!"
The leaders of the various factions who were manipulating the formation all coughed up blood.
Did you catch it?
He caught a single blow from an array formed by millions of people?!
"Too light."
Su Chen shook his head, a hint of disappointment on his face.
"You think you can kill me with that little strength?"
"I'll show you... what true power is!"
Su Chen suddenly flipped his hand over.
With a flick of the wrist, one can create clouds; with a reverse flick, one can create rain!
The colossal hand that blotted out the sky instantly flipped, changing from a palm to a grab, and seized the 100,000-foot-tall spiritual giant.
"Origin, Gluttony, Compression!!"
squeak - squeak -
The teeth-grinding squeezing sound echoed throughout the world.
Amidst the horrified gazes of countless people, the colossal spiritual energy giant, possessing immense power, began to shrink under Su Chen's enormous hand.
One hundred thousand feet... Fifty thousand feet... Ten thousand feet...
"No!! The formation is about to collapse!!"
"Hold on!! Quickly withdraw your magic!!"
"We can't get back! We're stuck!!"
"Ahhhh-"
Countless low-level cultivators had their magic power forcibly extracted, causing their bodies to shrivel up and turn into dried-up corpses.
"Give me... Condensate!!"
Su Chen suddenly clenched his five fingers together.
Boom!!!
After a deafening explosion.
The giant of spiritual energy vanished completely.
Instead, in Su Chen's palm was a pill, only the size of a longan, radiating a multicolored light.
【The Pill of Wishes for All Beings】.
This is a "divine pill" that Su Chen forcibly compressed and refined using the combined attack of a million people.
"smell good."
Su Chen took a sniff and looked completely captivated.
Then, he raised his head and looked at the powerful figures of various races who had completely collapsed and were severely injured by the backlash of their magical power.
"Reciprocity is key."
"You treated me to an axe."
"I'll also ask you... to take a slap."
Su Chen did not retract his raised right hand.
Instead, continue downwards and press gently.
"Spinal Superpower: Gravity Collapse!!"
Buzz——————
At that moment, the gravity within a radius of ten thousand miles increased five thousand times instantly!
This is the ultimate gravity that Su Chen comprehended at the top of his spine.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There is no suspense.
Those warships hovering in the air were instantly flattened by their own weight and blasted into iron discs.
Those cultivators below the Golden Immortal level didn't even have time to scream before they exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Even powerful beings like the Queen Mother of the West and the Nine-Headed Lion were forced to lie prone in the void, their bones shattered, blood flowing from their seven orifices, and unable to move.
a slap.
A million-strong army, reduced to ashes!
In the starry sky, only ruins and blood-red mist remained.
Su Chen stood above the blood mist, his robes untouched by dust.
He threw the [All Beings' Wish Power Pill] into his mouth and chewed it like a candy.
Then, he walked step by step to the nine-headed lion that could still move only its head.
"You just said the meat is yours?"
Su Chen crouched down, reached out, and gently patted the lion's enormous head.
"Perfect timing, I also think braised lion's head meatballs is a good dish."
"Are you going to get in the pot yourself, or should I help you?"
The nine-headed lion was terrified. Looking into Su Chen's emotionless eyes, he knew that this man was truly going to eat him.
"Waaaaah..."
This powerful demon saint, who was so feared that he cried.
"No...don't eat me..."
"I...I'm willing to be your mount!!"
"I am a nine-headed lion! An ancient and extraordinary species! Riding me is very cool!!"
Dignity is nothing compared to survival.
Su Chen stroked his chin, seemingly considering it seriously.
"Mount?"
"I have the Heavenly Realm."
"but……"
Su Chen glanced at the group of demons behind him, who, despite being well-equipped, were indeed lacking a means of transportation.
"alright."
"The death penalty may be waived, but punishment is inescapable."
"From now on, you'll be responsible for pulling my cart."
"If you dare to slack off..." A glint of green light flashed in Su Chen's eyes, "I'll braise one of your nine heads every day!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for sparing my life, Master!!" The nine-headed lion felt as if it had been granted a pardon, and immediately shrank its body, lying down and rubbing against Su Chen's trouser leg, more obedient than a dog.
Su Chen stood up and looked around.
Those powerful figures from various races who had managed to survive (most of whom hadn't had time to rush to the front) were now kneeling in the void, not daring to even breathe.
"Listen."
Su Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly resonated throughout the entire starry sea.
"From today onwards, this ancient god's ruins belong to the Su family."
"The things inside are vegetables from my backyard."
"Anyone who wants it can take it."
"I'd trade my life for it."
After saying that, Su Chen waved his sleeve.
"Hun Tian, clean up the battlefield!"
"Take those flattened warships back and smelt them for iron!"
"Don't waste those floating blood mists, collect them and make blood sausage!"
"Let's...go home!!"
"Yes, sir! May my lord be mighty!!"
The demon army soldiers erupted in a deafening cheer.
Under the gaze of countless eyes filled with awe and fear.
Riding a nine-headed golden lion, Su Chen led his army, laden with spoils, into the depths of the starry sea.
Behind him remained only a terrifying legend about the "God of Food," and a starry wasteland that was considered a forbidden zone for tens of thousands of years to come. (End of Chapter)