Heaven Crocodile Emperor: I Was Eating Tiger Leg, Singing a Song, How Did I...
Zhou Huan naturally didn't know who the Emperor of the 108th Layer of the Abyss Plane was, because the Legend of the Dragon King didn't contain any specific descriptions of the Abyss Plane.
Aside from the Ten Abyss Emperors, there is one more Ba Huang, and one more, Mei Huang. The other Emperor are hardly mentioned.
However, none of this mattered to Zhou Huan.
After more than three months of swimming in the Abyss, Zhou Huan had a good understanding of the 108th Layer.
Why did he and Le Wuxue travel such a long distance, from south to east and then from north to west, to hunt Abyss creature?
Besides avoiding attention, it also served to avoid the location of the Emperor in the central region.
It wasn't that Zhou Huan was afraid of this so-called Emperor; the main problem was that he hadn't yet planned how to deal with this Abyss Emperor.
Because the Life of each Abyss Emperor is connected to the world of that level.
If the Emperor of a certain level dies without cause, that level of the Abyss Plane will collapse unless a new Emperor is born and takes over the plane.
Zhou Huan originally planned to find a way to become the Emperor of the 108th Layer. Even if he himself, as a human Soul Master, could not ultimately achieve it, the demon version of Le Wuxue should be able to.
If all else fails, then the only option is to fleece the creatures on the 108th floor. After all, the Abyss creature can reproduce endlessly, it's just that this method is a bit slow.
Or perhaps Zhou Huan also planned to absorb the energy from the 108th Layer before trying to sneak to the next floor.
By repeating this process, enough Abyss energy can eventually be absorbed.
However, after advancing to the Limit Douluo, the new function of the Floating Pagoda gave Zhou Huan a big surprise.
Therefore, Zhou Huan can now take Le Wuxue straight to the location of the central Emperor on the 108th Layer.
In the middle of the 108th Layer of the Abyss Plane, there is a giant valley filled with towering trees.
There is a huge cave here, over 100 meters high and over 800 meters long and wide. Or rather, calling it a cave is not quite right; it's more like a palace.
This palace, however, lacked any exquisite carvings or grandeur; it was far from magnificent. It was more primitive, for it was originally the dwelling place of "beasts," even if these "beasts" were the Emperor of this world.
Unlike human beings who indulge in luxury and entertainment, even as Emperor, Abyss creature do not create any technological civilization or culture.
Because their essence is to devour Life and grow stronger.
At this moment, the Emperor on the 108th Layer did the same.
In this dark palace, an Abyss creature from the abyss, about twenty meters long, resembling a crocodile but covered in brown scales and possessing two large, flat heads, was gnawing on a bloody, three-meter-long leg with relish.
The tiger-shaped Abyss creature whose thigh had been torn off was clearly not dead yet, but judging from its barely breathing state, it could only die in agony. Even before it died, it dared not put up any resistance, because the one who ate it was the Emperor, the Emperor of the 108th Layer, the Heaven Crocodile Emperor.
In the Abyss World, the Emperor is the supreme being. Only they are considered superior beings, enjoying the power of life and death. The other Abyss creature are considered middle or inferior beings. Even becoming food for the Emperor is an honor, let alone rebelling against it.
That's right, the levels in the Abyss are ridiculously high.
Medium and low-level Abyss creature may engage in endless killing in order to become stronger, but in the end, only the Abyss 108 Emperors actually benefit, because they are the fundamental pillars of the Abyss Plane.
Of course, the Emperor of each level are not unchanging. There will always be Emperor who grow old and Life are about to come to an end. This is when the Abyss creature of that level fight the most brutally, because everyone wants to become the next Emperor.
However, such periods of Emperor succession only occur once every few years.
Therefore, in normal times, other Abyss creature are simply objects of exploitation.
Just then, while the Heaven Crocodile Emperor was gnawing on someone else's thigh, its four dead fish eyes on its two large heads glanced at the tiger-like creature in the pool of blood, and actually spoke in human language, "What are you looking at? You don't like it?"
The tiger-like creature's pupils dilated instantly. Already on the verge of bleeding to death, it couldn't help but shiver, thinking to itself, "How dare I disobey? Aren't I being eaten by you right now?"
At this moment, all it wanted was to die quickly. This kind of slow death and torment was too much for a beast to bear. But it was facing Emperor, and it didn't even have the chance to beg for death.
There's nothing we can do about it; it's something we're born with.
If the animals in the zoo are domesticated, then for the Abyss creature, they are incapable of rebelling against the Emperor from the bloodline itself, not because of blood relations, but because of the rules of this plane.
Unlike other natural planes, the Abyss Plane is very special; otherwise, there wouldn't be instances of Emperor falling and the Abyss collapsing.
Just as the tiger-like creature glanced at the Heaven Crocodile Emperor, with a "ripping" sound, its other leg was forcibly torn off.
Alright, this time it's really time to die. The tiger-like creature even felt a sense of relief, hoping it wouldn't be reborn into the Abyss World in its next life, as being eaten alive was truly unbearable.
Just as the tiger-like creature closed its eyes in death, it seemed to see two small figures slowly emerging from the void. But what were they? Why had it never seen such Abyss creature before?
Was it a messenger sent by God to take it away?
Unfortunately, it lost consciousness before it could see clearly.
"You're quite cruel."
Suddenly, a faint voice appeared behind the Heaven Crocodile Emperor.
The Heaven Crocodile Emperor shuddered instantly, without uttering a word, and lashed out with its massive tail toward the source of the sound!
"Bang--!"
The sound was not loud, and there was no explosion or shattering sound.
The next second, the Heaven Crocodile Emperor let out a miserable scream.
It turned out that a pure white snow hand had forcefully pinched its tail down to a smaller size, breaking countless bones.
But that wasn't the end of it. Just as the Heaven Crocodile Emperor was about to continue its resistance, it found itself unable to move and surrounded by a snow-white world, where it seemed its voice could no longer be heard.
The next instant, the Heaven Crocodile Emperor realized that his entire body had been frozen.
Wait, how did I manage to see my entire body?
Oh, because my soul has been separated from my body.
"That's alright... Holy crap, what do you mean 'alright'? What's going on now?"
I was happily eating tiger legs at home, singing songs, and living a wonderful life. How could I suddenly be killed?
Doesn't he know that if I were killed like this, this entire world would collapse?
Who is it?
Then, the Heaven Crocodile Emperor saw a kind face. Was this... a human?
What the hell? How could humans possibly appear in the Abyss World?
It's normal for other lower-level Abyss creature not to know about humans, but how could it, as one of the 108 Emperors, not recognize the human species?
A hundred years ago, during a meeting, the Abyssal Sage King specifically mentioned this species.
But they shouldn't be here.
However, no matter how many questions the Heaven Crocodile Emperor had in its mind, it couldn't voice them at this moment, because it felt as if something was invading its soul, and it was completely powerless to resist.
The Heaven Crocodile Emperor could only watch helplessly as this terrifying human crushed its tail, froze its body, extracted its soul, and was now invading its soul. The expressions on its four dead fish eyes could only go from shock and doubt to fear, and finally to confusion.
In the instant before it felt lost, it seemed to have only heard two words: "Done."
The one who uttered those two words was, of course Zhou Huan, who had traveled day and night to get here.
Abyss Emperor like the Heaven Crocodile Emperor are actually quite easy to find. After all, as Emperor, it would never imagine that anyone would come to kill it in the Abyss Plane.
Seeing Zhou Huan first extract the soul, then invade it, and finally return it to the biological body, Le Wuxue couldn't help but swallow hard and say, "You still have the nerve to call others cruel."