The Beast Emperor Blocks My Path? Then Watch Me Bite!

Crack!

The instant his enormous jaws closed on the surface of the severed finger, Lu Yuan felt unprecedented resistance.

Hard!

It was far too hard!

Before this, whether ordinary rock, innate divine metal, or the flesh of fierce beasts, none had posed much of an obstacle to his teeth.

But this Chaos Demon God flesh, long since devoid of life, was unimaginably hard.

As soon as Lu Yuan bit down, a distinct ache spread through his teeth.

The sensation even reminded him of when he had first awakened, with that pack of fierce beasts lying on top of him and gnawing at him.

Back then, he had thought those fellows rather foolish.

And now look at him.

He had run into something hard himself.

Even so, Lu Yuan refused to let go.

He could clearly feel wisps of Chaotic Essence beginning to seep out where his teeth met the severed finger.

That energy flowed continuously into his body through his mouth, then transformed into a vast quantity of Life Essence.

Though the amount was limited,

its quality was astonishingly high.

The Qi and Blood in Lu Yuan's body, which had begun to level off, once again showed a noticeable increase.

More importantly,

a tiny crack had indeed appeared in the weathered flesh on the finger's surface.

He could bite through it!

He just needed to put in more effort.

Lu Yuan's heart leaped with delight.

He clenched his jaws tighter, his enormous head slowly exerting more force.

Crk...

An extremely faint scraping sound came from the surface of the severed finger.

Shen Ni saw it clearly.

His face instantly darkened.

This fellow actually dared to bite it!

And he had actually bitten into it a little!

"Lu Yuan, let go!"

Shen Ni gave a low shout. The Beast Emperor Dharma Form thrust out a giant claw and viciously grabbed at Lu Yuan's head.

Boom!

Dense Blood Principle condensed into a sharp claw-shaped slash.

This time, Shen Ni had clearly put more force behind the blow.

When the claw slash landed, several scales on the side of Lu Yuan's face that had yet to fully recover shattered again.

Golden-red blood quickly seeped out.

Intense pain shot through him.

Yet Lu Yuan kept his jaws clamped firmly around the severed finger.

He knew full well

that if he let go now, Shen Ni would immediately shield the finger again.

It wouldn't be so easy to get close to it next time.

Besides,

the weathered outermost layer of the finger had already begun to loosen.

If he truly held on a little longer, he might be able to tear off a piece.

At that thought, Lu Yuan forcibly suppressed the pain.

He bit down again!

Crack!

A small patch of gray-black flesh on the finger's surface finally developed a visible crack.

A denser stream of Chaos Origin escaped from the crack.

Without hesitation, Lu Yuan sucked it straight into his mouth.

Boom!

A great quantity of high-level energy surged into his body.

His bleeding wounds were quickly nourished.

At the same time, however, a pronounced burning sensation spread through his mouth and throat.

The Chaos Demon God's Origin was far too overbearing.

Even though Lu Yuan had the ability to convert all kinds of energy, he still had to let his flesh withstand it bit by bit.

He did not continue sucking it in frantically.

He merely maintained the current rate,

letting the power in his body convert it while slowly healing his injuries.

Seeing this, the coldness in Shen Ni's eyes turned entirely grave.

If he let Lu Yuan keep biting,

sooner or later that weathered outer layer would be torn completely open.

And what made matters more troublesome was that

Lu Yuan was using the Chaos Origin escaping from the finger to recover.

The injuries Shen Ni inflicted with each attack were constantly being repaired by that energy.

If this continued, it might be the Imperial Court's resources that ended up suffering the loss.

With a thought from Shen Ni,

the Beast Emperor Dharma Form suddenly dispersed.

The enormous phantom, originally tens of thousands of li tall, rapidly contracted, finally becoming countless fine blood-colored markings that gathered around Shen Ni's true body.

The fierce beasts watching from afar were startled by the sight.

"He withdrew his Dharma Form?"

A Taiyi fierce beast king jerked his head up, his face full of confusion.

A Golden Immortal fierce beast beside him could not help saying, "Could His Majesty be preparing to stop?"

The fierce beast king immediately shook his head.

"Sense it carefully. The power of the Principle around His Majesty is even more condensed than before!"

As the words fell,

Shen Ni struck.

Rather than continuing to condense the enormous Dharma Form, he compressed the Fierce Beast Principle directly into his true body.

His entire presence rapidly drew inward.

The terrifying pressure that had filled heaven and earth became extremely concentrated in mere moments.

Though Lu Yuan did not raise his head, he still sensed the danger.

In the next instant,

Shen Ni's figure vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already near the giant fin on Lu Yuan's left side.

Boom!

A palm slammed down!

The Blood Principle pierced straight through the outer scales and viciously drove deep into the giant fin.

Lu Yuan felt a sudden stab of pain along his left side.

His entire giant fin trembled slightly under the blow.

Immediately afterward,

Shen Ni vanished again.

A second palm strike!

A third!

His speed was astonishing.

In just a few breaths, he had struck several of Lu Yuan's vital points in succession.

None of the attacks caused much commotion.

Yet when they landed, the injuries they inflicted were far more pronounced than those caused by the Dharma Form's earlier wide-range attacks.

Lu Yuan's body, which had remained steady while he bit down on the severed finger, finally began to sway slightly.

Seeing this, a cold light flashed in Shen Ni's eyes.

It worked, just as he had thought!

Though Lu Yuan's body was formidable, the reaction speed of individual parts of it still had its limits.

Now that Shen Ni had compressed his own power to a high degree and was using his vastly superior Movement Method and control over Principles to attack the weak points of Lu Yuan's body, he naturally achieved results.

By comparison,

although Lu Yuan's enormous body could cover vast stretches of space, it was difficult for him to precisely track an expert of Shen Ni's caliber.

"Let go!"

Shen Ni gave another low shout.

A blood-colored claw slash viciously raked toward Lu Yuan's lower jaw.

Rip!

Several scales were torn to pieces.

The intense pain made Lu Yuan's bite loosen for an instant.

Shen Ni's eyes lit up.

He was just about to seize the chance to force Lu Yuan all the way back.

But Lu Yuan did not retreat.

He merely shifted his gaze slowly.

Then the enormous tail fin that had remained stretched out behind him suddenly swept viciously toward Shen Ni!

Rumble!

A terrifying force covered tens of thousands of li in an instant!

Shen Ni's gaze sharpened slightly.

Naturally, he would not be knocked flying so easily by a wide-range attack like Qiongqi had been.

He quickly dodged to the side.

But at that very moment,

the force Lu Yuan had been using to suck in the Chaos Origin suddenly changed direction.

A tremendous suction abruptly enveloped the space in front of Shen Ni!

Whoosh—!

The surrounding space suddenly grew sluggish.

The movement Shen Ni had just begun to dodge was also slightly affected.

A flicker of surprise crossed his eyes.

"You can use them together now?"

Previously, Lu Yuan had mostly relied on his enormous body to sweep through everything.

Now he had begun consciously using his suction to interfere with his opponent's movements.

The method was hardly sophisticated.

But when used by a body over a hundred thousand li long, its effects were quite pronounced.

Shen Ni had no choice but to divert part of his strength to stabilize the surrounding space.

At the same time,

the enormous sweeping tail fin had already closed in.

Boom!

Shen Ni immediately raised a palm.

A surge of condensed Principle erupted toward it.

The two sides clashed head-on once more.

Shen Ni's body jolted slightly, and he retreated several thousand li.

Lu Yuan's enormous body also shook, and another heavy scraping sound came from the severed finger in his mouth.

Crack!

Under the pull of the two forces, another small section of the already cracked, weathered flesh tore outward.

A great torrent of gray-black chaotic Qi gushed from the opening.

Lu Yuan's eyes lit up at once.

"Almost there!"

The fierce beasts watching from afar were now staring slack-jawed.

A Golden Immortal fierce beast could not help saying, "He's actually enduring His Majesty's attacks while continuing to gnaw on the Demon God's remains?"

The shock on the Taiyi fierce beast king's face beside him was impossible to conceal.

"This fellow's nerve is far too great!"

"Those palm strikes from His Majesty just now would probably have injured an ordinary Great Luo, yet he's still clamping down on that remnant finger and refusing to let go!"

Another vicious beast drew a deep breath.

"Look at his wounds!"

Hearing that, the vicious beasts all looked over.

Near Lu Yuan's left giant fin and lower jaw, the damaged scales were slowly growing back.

Although they were regenerating far more slowly than when he had easily devoured ordinary Sha Qi before, the signs of recovery were unmistakable.

Even more astonishingly,

as the Chaos Origin continued to enter Lu Yuan's body, his Qi and Blood were still slowly growing stronger.

His life force was visibly more abundant than before.

At that,

even the Taiyi vicious beast king fell completely silent.

He had watched Lu Yuan suffer wound after wound under Shen Ni's attacks.

And he had watched those wounds heal.

He had also seen the enormous beast, over a hundred thousand li long, tearing bit by bit through the flesh on the surface of the Chaos Demon God's remnant finger.

Such a sight

was simply outrageous.

Inside the Beast Emperor Palace,

Qiongqi had already risen to his feet.

He stared fixedly at the water mirror, the shock in his eyes growing.

"This guy..."

Qiongqi couldn't help drawing a deep breath.

"He's really going to bite a piece off!"

The black-armored giant's expression was even uglier.

"His Majesty has personally intervened, yet he can still keep tearing at it!"

The skeletal giant said gravely, "The surface of the Chaos Demon God's remains has been eroded over countless years, and some of the weathered flesh on the outermost layer has indeed come loose. But actually tearing it off still takes a terrifying amount of strength."

"This Grand Void Sky Whale's teeth and bite force have probably reached an unimaginable level."

Qiongqi did not respond.

What worried him most now was no longer whether Lu Yuan could bite through it.

It was...

once he really bit a piece off,

how far would this struggle go?

Inside the Myriad Sha Abyss,

Shen Ni had evidently realized the problem as well.

He did not continue attacking Lu Yuan's body blindly.

Instead, he slowly raised his hand, gathering a still more concentrated strand of the Beast Emperor Principle at his fingertip.

The next moment,

Shen Ni jabbed a finger forward!

Boom!

A ray of blood-colored divine light pierced the void and shot straight toward the spot where Lu Yuan had clamped his jaws around the remnant finger.

Lu Yuan's gaze sharpened.

He could sense it.

The power concentrated in this strike was terrifying.

If he kept clamping down on the remnant finger, his entire lower jaw would probably suffer a grievous injury.

And the remnant finger was right beneath his teeth.

Shen Ni had clearly controlled this attack with precision.

As long as Lu Yuan let go, the divine light would sweep past his side.

If he kept biting down,

he would have to take it head-on.

Lu Yuan's thoughts raced.

The crack he had bitten open was only a final stretch away from breaking through completely.

If he let go, Shen Ni would surely seal it off again at once.

But taking the strike head-on would also come at no small cost.

Just as the blood-colored divine light was about to strike,

Lu Yuan suddenly clenched his jaws even harder.

Boom!

His immense body, over a hundred thousand li long, strained with all its strength at once!

From the weathered flesh, already riddled with cracks, came an even clearer sound of something breaking.

Crack—!

Vast patches of gray-black markings lit up at once.

A crack thousands of li long suddenly spread along the outer layer of the remnant finger!

Shen Ni's expression changed instantly at the sight.

"Stop!"