Baleful Intent Devours the Wolf God

The blood-red pillar of light tore through the heavens, carrying a primordial aura that threatened to destroy everything as it descended upon Chen Qing's head in an instant! Below, eight Wolf God Guards rampaged through the military formation. Screams and furious roars intertwined, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's defensive line teetered on the brink of collapse!

Facing this fatal situation of attacks from above and below, Chen Qing showed not the slightest panic. Instead, a nearly crazed fervor flashed through his eyes.

"Good timing!"

With a long howl, he neither dodged nor evaded the blood-red pillar. The Fierce Tiger Domain extending five zhang around him suddenly contracted inward. No longer pursuing vast range, it concentrated all its slaughter and annihilation intent before him, forming a constantly rotating domain shield woven from dark red and deep blue!

At the same time, he split his mind in two. The power of his formidable soul shot out like invisible tentacles, instantly connecting to the Killing Intent of the military formation below!

"Military formation, rise!"

At his command, the Northern Expeditionary Army below, thrown into slight disorder by the Wolf God Guards' rampage, seemed to find its backbone. Every soldier felt a sudden blessing of insight and instinctively followed their usual drills, madly pouring their own blood and killing intent into the military formation!

Boom!

A mass of military Killing Intent, far more concentrated and majestic than before, surged into the sky. Though mixed and impure, it carried the unyielding will of fifty thousand hardened soldiers. Like an invisible colossal hammer, it smashed viciously into the eight Wolf God Guards running rampant!

Caught off guard, the eight Wolf God Guards were struck by the concentrated military Killing Intent, and their movements immediately faltered. Even their violent auras were suppressed by several degrees!

And in that flash of lightning!

The blood-red pillar in the sky had already slammed violently into the domain shield Chen Qing had condensed!

Screech—!!!

There was no explosion, only a teeth-grating sound of violent erosion, like cold water dripping into boiling oil! Blood-red radiance and dark-blue ghostly light collided and annihilated one another madly! The domain shield trembled violently, cracks spreading across its surface as though it could collapse at any moment!

Chen Qing's body shook violently, and blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, yet the light in his eyes only became more terrifying!

He was actually using the immense, pure primordial energy within that blood-red pillar to temper and assault his Fierce Tiger Domain, even... attempting to devour it!

"Devour... for me!"

He roared, driving the Fierce Tiger Iron Body to an unprecedented extreme. His mastery, refined to perfection, brought his control over Killing Intent to an entirely new height! At the center of the rotating domain shield, a powerful suction force abruptly emerged. It no longer defended, but actively dragged at and tore apart the blood-red pillar, forcibly drawing its primordial energy into the domain!

[Struck by a powerful energy impact, Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +1000!]

[Attempting to devour foreign energy. Fierce Tiger Domain violently trembles; domain structure optimizing...]

Pain! It felt as though his entire soul were being ripped apart! The blood-red energy was incomparably violent and filled with rejection, battering Chen Qing's domain and meridians without restraint!

Yet he held fast to his mind, using the domineering will of Black Tiger True Intent, which suppressed all directions, as his core to forcibly command this violent process! Under the impact and devouring of that blood-red energy, the Fierce Tiger Domain grew increasingly condensed. Its dark-red and deep-blue colors deepened further, and it even faintly gained a barely perceptible... dark-golden hue!

"What?! You actually dare..." The Wolf God Guard leader was both shocked and enraged. He could feel that the energy of the attack he and the Wolf God Totem had unleashed together was being devoured at a terrifying speed by his opponent! This was simply unheard of!

He wanted to withdraw the pillar of light, only to discover that a powerful suction force had firmly stuck to it, making it difficult for him to break free for the moment!

Below, the eight Wolf God Guards were temporarily suppressed by the military formation's Killing Intent. Though still fierce, they could no longer slaughter as wantonly as before. Old Niu, Sun Quezi, and the others seized the opportunity, leading the elites to entangle them tightly. The battle fell into a deadlock.

As one side waned, the other waxed!

Not only did Chen Qing's aura not weaken during the process of devouring the blood-red energy, it instead rose at an astonishing speed! His newly attained early Aperture Opening Realm cultivation rapidly stabilized and steadily advanced toward the middle stage!

"Impossible! How can the Wolf God's power be profaned by the likes of you?!" The Wolf God Guard leader went completely mad. He abruptly bit through his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of essence blood into the air. The phantom of the blood-red giant wolf let out an earthshaking roar, its body swelling once more as the blood-red pillar's might abruptly doubled!

He would pay any price to blast Chen Qing to death!

Yet the more he increased his energy output, the faster Chen Qing devoured it! The Fierce Tiger Domain was like a bottomless abyss, crazily drawing in this "nourishment" delivered right to its door!

Crack... crack...

The domain shield before Chen Qing finally could not withstand the attacks from within and without, shattering completely! But the blood-red pillar also became thin and dim at the same time!

At the instant the domain shield shattered, a fierce glint shot from Chen Qing's eyes. The killing move he had kept hidden all this time launched once again!

He suddenly opened his mouth!

This time, there were no longer silent ripples.

A soundwave, condensed until nearly tangible and wrapped in threads of gold amid its dark red, erupted fiercely like a tiger's roar from the Nine Netherworlds!

Advanced version—Fierce Tiger Roar!

Roar—!

Where the soundwave passed, even space seemed frozen! The already thinned blood-red pillar was like fragile glass beneath this tiger roar infused with slaughter, annihilation, and a newly born devouring trait, shattering inch by inch and vanishing into nothingness!

The soundwave did not diminish. It blasted straight into the interior of the blood-red giant wolf phantom!

Awoo—!

The blood-red giant wolf released an incomparably miserable howl. Its enormous phantom twisted and blurred violently, as though it might collapse at any moment! The Wolf God Guard leader, whose aura was linked to it, suffered an even heavier blow. His face instantly turned as pale as paper, blood pouring from his seven orifices as if it cost nothing!

[Advanced 'Fierce Tiger Roar' unleashed, heavily injuring the Wolf God Totem. Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +1500! Mental power consumed: 30%!]

[Devoured a large amount of pure primordial energy. Cultivation increased, approaching the middle stage of the Aperture Opening Realm!]

Chen Qing pressed his advantage without mercy. He stepped through the void, his figure appearing like a ghost before the tottering Wolf God Guard leader. The five fingers of his right hand spread wide, dark-blue Annihilation Fiery Demon blazing fiercely like the claws of death as they viciously clawed toward the man's head!

"Wolf God... undying..." Despair and madness flashed through the leader's eyes as he tried to detonate the Wolf God bloodline within his body.

But Chen Qing was faster!

Squelch!

His five fingers, like red-hot branding irons, pierced the man's skull without obstruction. Annihilation Fiery Demon erupted instantly, freezing and annihilating all his vitality and soul!

[Wolf God Guard leader killed (middle-stage Aperture Opening Realm). Obtained massive amounts of blood vitality and pure primordial Killing Intent. Fierce Tiger Iron Body proficiency +3000! Cultivation breakthrough to the middle stage of the Aperture Opening Realm!]

[Fierce Tiger Domain quality increased. Range expanded to eight zhang; initially fused with the 'devouring' trait!]

Energy so immense it defied imagination flooded into his body in an instant! Chen Qing felt every aperture throughout his body hum and tremble. His cultivation broke through its barrier as naturally as water flowing into a channel, entering the middle stage of the Aperture Opening Realm! The Fierce Tiger Domain expanded once more, gaining a domineering trait that plundered and devoured external energy!

He slowly withdrew his hand. The Wolf God Guard leader's corpse fell from the sky like a ruined puppet.

He turned his head, his icy gaze falling upon the eight Wolf God Guards below, who had fallen into a stupor and suffered backlash from their leader's death and the collapse of the Wolf God Totem.

"Your turn."