The Headless Devil Body Devours an Orthodox God
Rumble!
The 30,000-foot-thick underground rock layer was forcefully pierced by the Pure Yang immortal lightning surrounding Chen Changqing.
The pungent smell of sulfur and the eerie wind unique to the Senluo Deathland rushed towards us.
Chen Changqing carried Zhong Cheng, whose bones were broken seven or eight times, in his left hand, and his feet landed heavily on the black, scorched earth on the Dragon-Severing River.
Three hundred feet ahead, the ancient interdimensional Ancient Teleportation Array, built with countless rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures, was emitting a faint silvery-white light.
"We've arrived, Brother Chen. Quickly fill the array core with top-grade immortal crystals. Once we activate the spatial teleportation, even if the judge from the Underworld chases after us, he won't be able to cross the barrier between the two realms to capture us."
Zhong Cheng coughed up blood, his right hand pointing intently at the white jade array platform in front of him.
Without wasting words, Chen Changqing used the "Drunken Immortal Moon-Gazing Step" to propel himself across three hundred feet of void, landing directly at the central eye of the interdimensional teleportation array.
He casually placed Zhong Cheng next to the Array Patterns groove, and with a flick of his right hand, he grabbed a handful of top-grade immortal crystals shimmering with rich Principle fluctuations from the Storage Ring of the Netherworld Palace Ming Jiutian, preparing to inject them into the eight spatial array pillars around him.
"Ahhh--!"
From 30,000 feet underground, a shrill and desperate scream suddenly erupted.
The voice was no longer majestic and ancient; instead, it was filled with extreme fear and disbelief. It was none other than the arrogant Seven Tribulations Nether Bureau Orthodox God, the Judge of the Underworld.
Zhong Cheng trembled with fright. He didn't bother to wipe the blood from his chin and leaned over the edge of the platform to look into the bottomless pit behind him.
"The judge is screaming in agony? What other ghostly things are lurking underground?"
Click! Click!
The dull sound of bones being chewed traveled up the vertical tunnel to the ground, and even from a distance of 30,000 feet, it still made one's eardrums ache.
Immediately afterwards, the thousand-foot-tall bronze Ghost Gate Pass to the underworld, which had originally stood at the bottom of the Earth Abyss, emitted a deafening, metallic, twisting explosion, and was instantly torn in two by some terrifying brute force deep underground.
"Roar--!"
A deep, muffled roar rose into the sky from the core of the 90,000-mile- Earth Abyss.
The entire turbulent Dragon-Severing River stopped flowing with this roar, and countless abysses, each ten feet wide, split open at the bottom of the riverbed, from which scalding ancient demonic nectar mixed with golden divine blood gushed out.
Chen Changqing stopped embedding the immortal crystals, turned around, and sent his vast Divine Sense, spanning fifty thousand miles, probing downwards through the hole in the ground.
At the very bottom of that long-dried-up ten-thousand-foot-deep Blood Pool, the Upper Realm, immortal demonic body that had been nailed to death for ten thousand years by the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor with nine Tokens was now standing on the ruins of the shattered Ghost Gate Pass.
This demonic body did not die completely despite the main soul being sacrificed by Ming Jiutian.
On the contrary, the half of Xiaoqian's Nine Netherworlds Pure Yin Immortal Physique essence that was forcibly extracted by the Ten Thousand Ghost Array, combined with the essence of the Blood Pool gathered by Ming Jiutian crushing the twenty-two Tribulation Immortals, and the few drops of pure golden divine blood that dripped from the wrist of the Underworld Judge at the last moment, became the strongest catalysts for awakening this Primordial Demon Body.
After breaking free from the suppression of the nine Heaven-Stepping Tokens, the Undying Demon Body fully awakened its Slaughter that had been dormant for 100,000 years, and a second, even more ferocious and tyrannical demon soul was conceived deep within its spinal marrow.
At this very moment, the headless demon body, which was a thousand feet tall, was gripping the hundred-foot-tall judge of the Underworld with both hands.
The Nether Bureau Orthodox God, who held sway over life and death in the Nine Netherworlds and possessed the strength of Seven-Tribulation Ghost Emperor, was utterly powerless against the absolute power of the Primordial Undying Demon Body. His dark purple embroidered gold official robe had long since been reduced to tattered rags.
Sizzle!
The headless demon body suddenly split its arms to the sides, tearing the hundred-foot-tall body of the Underworld Judge in two on the spot.
Golden divine blood and shattered Nether Bureau divine Principle rained down, all of which were swallowed up like a bottomless pit by the severed neck of the headless demon body.
Even the thirty-six chains of the Nine Netherworlds Heaven and Earth Laws surrounding the judge of the Underworld, and the projection of the Yin-Yang Book of Life and Death in the air, which had been cleaved open by Chen Changqing, shattered inch by inch under this domineering devouring power, turning into a torrent of black gold that entered the demon's body.
"They... they ate the judge of the Underworld alive?!"
Zhong Cheng, on the teleportation platform, saw the scene below through the hole in the ground. His jaw clenched uncontrollably, and his face looked worse than that of a dead man.
Deep underground, the headless demonic body that had devoured the entire Seven Tribulations Nether Bureau Orthodox God swelled violently.
At the smooth break in its neck, purplish-black fleshy buds and golden divine bone spurs grew wildly, intertwining and growing. In just two breaths, a ferocious head regrown, with the left half covered in dark demonic scales and the right half flowing with pure gold divine patterns.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Thick, black-gold halos of Heavenly Tribulation light, a fusion of the ancient demonic path and the Nether Bureau path of the Nine Netherworlds Upper Realm, emerged one after another from behind the head of this demonic body.
One, two, five, seven...
Finally, eight solidified black-gold Tribulation Rings, each so dense they caused the entire 90,000-mile -Earth Abyss space to collapse, hovered steadily behind its head.
A supreme being who transcends the limits of the Seven Tribulations and reigns supreme over all living beings in the Nine Netherworlds Realm — the Eight-Tribulation Half-God Devil Emperor!
Boom!
The demigod's head, half-demon, deep underground, suddenly rose up, its two enormous eyes, one gold and one black, piercing through 30,000 feet of rock and locking onto Chen Changqing on the interdimensional teleportation platform on the ground.
"The successor of the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor... and my pure Yin demonic fetus, leave them all behind!"
A hoarse, powerful voice echoed between heaven and earth.
The next moment, the Eight-Tribulation Half-God Devil Emperor underground did not even take a step into the air. Instead, he slowly raised his right index finger, which was wrapped with thirty-six chains of the Heaven and Earth Laws, and gently touched the interdimensional teleportation array above him, even though it was separated by a 30,000-foot abyss.
Laugh!
A thin, black-gold finger beam pierced through the ground, ignoring spatial distance, and precisely struck the central Formation Disk of the interdimensional teleportation array.
Chen Changqing's expression changed drastically. He grabbed Zhong Cheng from the ground and stomped his feet, retreating a hundred feet backward.
At the very moment the two left the platform.
Boom--!
The ancient interdimensional Ancient Teleportation Array, capable of withstanding the full-force attack of Six-Tribulation Ghost Immortal, couldn't even withstand half a breath under the casual finger of Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor. The eight spatial array pillars, along with the entire white jade array platform, were instantly blasted into countless fine crystal dust.
The violent Spatial Turbulence spread outwards, scraping away three feet of ground thousands of feet around it.
"It's over... the interdimensional teleportation array is destroyed, we can't go back."
Zhong Cheng looked at the site of the teleportation platform, now a deep crater, his voice filled with despair.
That's not all.
As the teleportation array shattered, a black-gold demonic pillar, tens of thousands of feet thick, shot into the sky from the underground cave behind it, piercing the leaden-gray Firmament of the Senluo Deathland.
Splash!
Thirty-six demonized chains of the Nine Netherworlds Heaven and Earth Laws crisscrossed above the clouds, instantly transforming into an inverted black-gold giant bowl that completely sealed off the Senluo Deathland spanning 100,000 li.
The surrounding spatial barriers became a hundred times harder than those of Immortal Artifact; not only could one not tear through the void to escape, but even a wisp of wind from the outside could not get in.
The desolate land of ten thousand miles has been completely turned into the private hunting ground of the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor.
Thump!
The earth trembled violently.
A burly figure, about ten feet tall and wreathed in black and gold lightning, slowly emerged from the 30,000-foot-deep cave and hovered above the Dragon-Severing River.
In order to condense his power to its ultimate limit, this Eight-Tribulation Half-God Devil Emperor voluntarily shrunk his thousand-foot-tall demonic body.
Even so, the pressure of the Eight Tribulation naturally emanating from him still caused the dried-up riverbed below to collapse inch by inch, and the air became as heavy as if it were filled with mercury.
The eight black-gold Tribulation Rings behind his head rotated gently, each flash accompanied by the shattering and reorganization of a large area of the surrounding space.
"Run! Weren't you quite the hero when you severed the judge's wrist?"
The Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor looked down at Chen Changqing, who was a hundred feet away, his face, half-god and half-demon, was full of cruel mockery.
"I was sealed in this dark and desolate place for 100,000 years by that old scoundrel Tatian. Today, not only have I been freed, but I've also gained a body of the Nether Bureau essence of the Orthodox Gods. I'll use your Pure Yang immortal blood to consecrate my flag."
Chen Changqing stood on the scorched earth, his right hand gripping the Immortal Execution Sword tightly, about to unleash the Pure Yang Origin of the Tribulation Immortal within him to meet the enemy.
Suddenly, the crimson-gold Pure Yang Tribulation Ring behind his head, which was forcibly propped up by the sacrifice of five Avatars and ten billion AFK Points, flickered violently twice.
Click!
A soft cracking sound rang out simultaneously within Chen Changqing's Sea of Consciousness and sea of qi.
The time limit for enduring the ultimate secret of the "Violence Formula" has arrived.
Whoosh--!
The pure Pure Yang power that had been roaring and surging within the nine Purple Mansion palaces receded and dissipated in an instant.
The crimson-gold Tribulation Ring behind Chen Changqing's head instantly shattered into specks of Golden Light, and his vast Divine Sense, which covered 50,000 miles, rapidly and uncontrollably retreated back to a range of 3,000 miles.
His overwhelming aura plummeted, causing him to fall directly from the First Tribulation level back to the Late Heavenly Monarch Stage.
Even more fatal was the terrifying Secret Method from the forced fusion of the five Avatars and the Essence Blood of dozens of Tribulation Immortals, which erupted in full force at this moment.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bulging purplish-gold veins on Chen Changqing's body burst one after another, and blood gushed out from every pore, instantly turning his naked bronze upper body into a blood-soaked mess.
The meridians in his body were broken inch by inch, the internal organs were displaced, and the nine Purple Mansion Worlds were covered with dense cracks.
"Puff--!"
Chen Changqing could no longer suppress the turmoil within his body. He opened his mouth and spat out a large pool of purplish-gold blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. His knees buckled, and he only managed to stay upright by the fact that the Immortal Execution Sword in his hand was stuck in the ground.
"Brother Chen! What's wrong?!"
Seeing Chen Changqing's rapidly deteriorating condition and blood spurting from his body, Zhong Cheng, who was standing nearby, was terrified and rushed over to support him.
High in the sky, the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor keenly sensed the change in Chen Changqing's aura. He was taken aback for a moment, then let out a deafening burst of maniacal laughter.
"So that's why Bandit Cultivator were forcibly boosting your cultivation level just now using a secret Secret Method! I really thought you, a junior from the Yang Realm, could defy the heavens and break through to a higher realm. Turns out, you're just a paper tiger with a strong exterior but a weak interior!"
When it rains, it pours.
Just as Chen Changqing was suffering a terrible backlash from the "Violence Formula" and could barely lift a finger,
The Heaven-Stepping Ring he wore on the index finger of his left hand suddenly began to vibrate violently and uncontrollably.
Within the spiritual spring of the Minor World inside the Heaven-Stepping Ring, Xiaoqian, who was originally in a deep coma, was strongly stimulated by the same source energy of the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor outside, and a strange and dazzling dark demonic light suddenly lit up between her eyebrows.
That was a trace of the original demonic seal that was deliberately left deep within Xiaoqian's soul core when the main soul of the Demon Lord of the Upper Realm was removed.
Although Chen Changqing obtained the method of separation from Ming Jiutian's memory orb, he was too busy dealing with the judge of the Underworld and escaping to use the technique to remove it.
At this moment, this lurking primordial demonic seal sensed the immortal demonic body outside advancing to the eighth tribulation, and immediately went berserk within the spiritual spring.
Countless dark threads of Devil Qi sprouted wildly from Xiaoqian's soul core, instantly binding the last remaining half of her Nine Netherworlds Pure Yin Immortal Physique's essence within her body.
Xiaoqian curled up in agony in the spiritual spring, black blood gushing from her seven orifices once more. Dense, destructive cracks appeared on the surface of her entire immortal body. The demonic seal was about to detonate Xiaoqian's body from the inside out, directly blasting through the spatial barrier of the Heaven-Stepping Ring to reunite with the Eight-Tribulation Devil Emperor outside.
Chen Changqing's face was ashen. Ignoring his broken meridians, he forcibly separated the remaining three thousand miles of Divine Sense in his Sea of Consciousness, transforming them into twelve crimson gold and star chains. These chains rushed into the Heaven-Stepping Ring to tightly bind Xiaoqian's body, desperately suppressing the pure yin essence that was about to explode.
Beset by internal and external troubles, they were simultaneously driven to a desperate situation.
"You're distracted by suppressing the demonic seal in your Storage Ring? In front of me, you still have the leisure to care about that girl's life or death?"