Shen Ni Fed Lu Yuan, Who Ate Thirty Thousand More Mouthfuls with Tears in His Eyes
Inside the Beast Emperor Palace.
Shen Ni raised a hand and waved it.
Boom!
The Sha clouds above the entire Imperial Court erupted at once.
Enormous Sha Veins hidden deep underground began to shake.
Normally, these Sha Veins supplied energy to the Beast Emperor Palace and the cultivation grounds of the nearby ferocious beast kings.
Now, at Shen Ni's command,
vast quantities of Sha Qi changed course.
All of it converged on the Myriad Sha Abyss.
The black-armored giant's expression changed slightly at the sight.
"Your Majesty, are you really going to keep pouring it in?"
Shen Ni gave it a cold look.
"Doesn't he want to eat?"
"Then let him eat."
The black-armored giant immediately shut up.
It could tell that Shen Ni was already in a very bad mood.
Qiongqi stood beside them, its expression growing stranger and stranger.
It had seen Lu Yuan's appetite for itself.
This time, Shen Ni clearly intended to stuff him to his limit with a massive amount of Sha Qi.
In theory, the method was indeed feasible.
There was a limit to how much energy any living being could absorb.
There were limits to what the body could withstand and how fast it could convert energy.
If too much power was poured in at once,
even the strongest bloodline could run into trouble.
Only...
Qiongqi remembered how Lu Yuan had swallowed its attacks one mouthful at a time.
It couldn't help feeling that things weren't so simple.
Inside the Myriad Sha Abyss.
Rumble!
Numerous Sha Vein channels suddenly opened.
The already dense black-red Sha Qi instantly came gushing out from every direction within the abyss.
The Heaven-Locking Sha Formation lit up again.
The chains that had just dimmed seemed to have been replenished.
Their black-red light surged.
Their binding force also recovered rapidly.
Lu Yuan's eyes lit up too.
There was more.
He opened his mouth again.
Suck!
The Sha Qi newly fed into the formation was drawn away by Lu Yuan again before it had even had time to fully take effect.
The two forces immediately clashed.
One side kept pouring it in.
The other devoured it like mad.
The Sha Qi around the Myriad Sha Abyss flowed at an increasingly staggering speed.
Even the ferocious beasts in the distance could see black streams stretching tens of thousands of li pouring in from different channels.
In the end, they all flowed into the Heaven-Locking Sha Formation.
Then...
they went into Lu Yuan's belly.
The Taiyi ferocious beast king watched, dumbstruck.
"This..."
Its mouth hung open for a long time.
It simply didn't know what to say.
The Golden Immortal ferocious beast beside it spoke in a trembling voice. "Is His Majesty the Beast Emperor planning to stuff him to death?"
"Probably."
"But why does he seem more spirited the more he eats?"
The Taiyi ferocious beast king's expression grew stranger too.
They could see it clearly.
When Lu Yuan first endured the immense energy, his scales had indeed turned noticeably red.
Rumbles had sounded incessantly from within his body.
Even the flesh in some places had begun to swell slightly.
He was clearly under considerable pressure.
But after it continued for a while,
those abnormalities gradually disappeared.
Lu Yuan's body seemed to have adapted to the rate of intake.
His devouring efficiency began to rise instead.
Lu Yuan himself had also gone through a period that was far from easy.
Shen Ni had suddenly poured in too much energy.
At first,
a huge amount of Sha Qi entered his body at once.
His conversion speed really couldn't quite keep up.
His flesh ached and swelled.
His internal organs also felt as though a scorching torrent were constantly washing over them.
Lu Yuan didn't try to tough it out and keep accelerating.
He slowed down a little.
He let his body adapt.
After completing his transformation at a hundred thousand li, the capacity of his flesh and his conversion speed had already increased enormously.
More importantly,
his passive absorption ability had been helping divert the energy all along.
The first half hour was indeed uncomfortable.
After an hour,
things began to improve.
After two hours,
Lu Yuan had gradually found his rhythm.
The more energy Shen Ni poured in,
the faster his body grew.
The larger his body became,
the more it could withstand.
It formed an utterly terrifying positive feedback loop.
A hundred thousand eight hundred li.
A hundred and one thousand li.
A hundred and one thousand five hundred li...
His body began to grow rapidly.
Lu Yuan had originally been a little displeased with Shen Ni for setting up a formation to trap him.
Now, as he kept eating,
that little bit of displeasure was almost gone.
Though the fellow had a forceful attitude,
he really did feed him a lot.
Inside the Beast Emperor Palace.
Shen Ni gradually realized something was wrong too.
At first,
he could clearly sense energy accumulating inside Lu Yuan.
That meant Lu Yuan was close to his conversion limit.
Shen Ni even felt that his judgment had been right.
Keep pouring it in.
Sooner or later, he would stuff Lu Yuan to the limit of what he could withstand.
But soon,
the accumulation disappeared.
Lu Yuan's absorption speed caught up again.
Then...
it surpassed the flow again.
Shen Ni's expression grew uglier and uglier.
"Add more."
The black-armored giant hesitated for a moment.
It still obeyed the order and increased the flow of Sha Qi.
Boom!
The second batch of large Sha Veins opened.
An even greater amount of ferocious Sha energy surged toward the Myriad Sha Abyss.
Lu Yuan's body came under pressure again for a short time.
Shen Ni had just caught a glimpse of hope.
Half an hour later,
Lu Yuan adapted again.
"Add more."
The third batch.
Lu Yuan kept eating.
"Add more!"
The fourth batch.
Lu Yuan kept right on eating.
The concentration of ferocious Sha around the Beast Emperor Palace had already begun to drop noticeably.
Ferocious beast kings cultivating nearby emerged from their cultivation grounds one after another.
They looked suspiciously toward the direction in which the energy was flowing.
"What happened?"
"Why is the Imperial Court drawing on so much Sha Qi?"
"Could it be opening some great formation?"
More and more ferocious beasts raised their heads.
They could all see it.
High in the sky,
one long black river of Sha Qi after another was surging toward the Myriad Sha Abyss.
The sight was spectacular beyond compare.
It was even more staggering than the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi a Great Luo normally drew in and expelled while cultivating.
Inside the Beast Emperor Palace.
The black-armored giant finally couldn't hold back.
"Your Majesty!"
Shen Ni turned his head coldly.
The black-armored giant steeled itself and said, "If this continues, several of the nearby main Sha Veins will be affected."
Of course Shen Ni knew.
His face had already grown almost as black as the Myriad Sha Abyss.
He had originally intended to stuff Lu Yuan until he burst.
But now, it seemed
Lu Yuan was still a long way from bursting.
His own Sha Veins were close to giving out first.
What made Shen Ni even more miserable was...
Lu Yuan had grown again.
Inside the water mirror,
The enormous beast, originally just over a hundred thousand li long, was still expanding.
Every bit of that growth
Was plain for everyone in the Beast Emperor Palace to see.
Qiongqi stood to the side,
Saying nothing the whole time.
Qiongqi was afraid that if he opened his mouth, Shen Ni's anger would burn its way straight to him.
In the Myriad Sha Abyss,
Lu Yuan was eating with increasing ease.
The Heaven-Locking Sha Formation had originally been used to trap him.
Now, however, it was like a delivery channel designed specifically to bring Sha Qi from all over straight to his mouth.
It spared him the trouble of searching everywhere.
Lu Yuan barely even had to move.
All he had to do was open his mouth.
Such treatment was certainly comfortable.
"Shen Ni."
Lu Yuan couldn't resist speaking up.
Shen Ni's eyelid twitched in the Beast Emperor Palace.
"What is it?"
Lu Yuan spoke in a very sincere tone. "Is there any more?"
Black-armored giant: "..."
Qiongqi: "..."
The fierce beast giants in the hall all lowered their heads.
No one dared look at Shen Ni's face.
The veins on Shen Ni's forehead throbbed slightly.
Only after a long while
Did he squeeze out a word through clenched teeth.
"Continue."
The final batch of Sha Qi poured in once more.
Lu Yuan refused none of it.
A hundred and two thousand li.
A hundred and two thousand five hundred li.
A hundred and three thousand li!
Such growth was simply unimaginable for an ordinary living being.
For Lu Yuan,
It counted as a proper feast, too.
But the Heaven-Locking Sha Formation finally gave out first.
When the formation had been designed, no one had ever imagined that a living being would appear and frantically draw on its power from within.
The flow of Sha Qi grew increasingly violent.
The pressure on the formation patterns grew ever greater.
Cracks first appeared in one of the formation cores.
Crack!
The sound was faint,
But Lu Yuan heard it clearly.
The next moment,
A second crack appeared.
Then the cracks spread and joined together.
Inside the Beast Emperor Palace,
Shen Ni's expression changed abruptly.
"Stop!"
The order came a step too late.
Boom—!
In the Myriad Sha Abyss,
The first formation core exploded completely.
Pull one hair and the whole body moves.
Thousands of black-and-red chains shook violently at once.
Vast swathes of the formation patterns on their surfaces began to go dark.
Lu Yuan felt the binding force weaken in an instant.
He exerted a little strength.
Boom!
Hundreds of chains snapped on the spot.
The fierce beasts watching from afar were all dumbfounded.
The Taiyi fierce beast king even shot to his feet.
"The formation... broke?"
As the words left his mouth,
More chains snapped.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The sounds ran together.
Finally,
Boom!
The entire Heaven-Locking Sha Formation collapsed completely!
Countless black runes scattered across the sky.
Lu Yuan's enormous body finally stretched out freely again.
With a gentle sweep of his massive fin,
He sent great swathes of the remaining chains flying like broken ropes.
He stretched his body in comfort.
Feeling how much larger he had grown,
He was indeed in a good mood.
Lu Yuan raised his head.
"Shen Ni."
Inside the Beast Emperor Palace,
Shen Ni gave no response.
Lu Yuan didn't mind.
He looked at the Sha Qi around him, which was gradually thinning, and said softly, "Thanks. I ate my fill just now."
Crack!
On the armrest of the imperial throne,
A crack slowly appeared.
Not a single fierce beast in the hall dared speak.
Shen Ni slowly rose to his feet.
The black robe on his body stirred without wind.
A terrifying presence far surpassing Qiongqi's gradually awakened within him.
Qiongqi abruptly raised his head.
The black-armored giant also stood up straight in an instant.
Shen Ni had already vanished from before the imperial throne.