The devouring power of that single skill was actually stronger than the devouring power of her Sinful Blue Silver Grass itself.
The Original Sin Demon Puppet Martial Soul possessed so many abilities it was almost impossible to imagine.
Controlling emotions, eroding minds, extracting original sin, forging contracts—and now it had gained a nearly brute-force form of devouring.
Was he really still human? His Martial Soul defied heaven, his physical strength defied heaven, and even his output over the course of a week was astonishingly high. Day after day, night after night, he never stopped, wearing her down without end.
Long Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes at the sight. To be honest, even he knew little about the Soul Skills of his son's other Martial Soul, because Long Wushang rarely used them in public.
With his cultivation, he could naturally tell that this devouring power was of an extraordinarily high order.
If used on a Soul Master, it might forcibly strip away the Martial Soul of anyone whose cultivation was insufficient.
Even more alarming, the black vortex kept expanding. As though it had no limit, it dragged at great swathes of Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers.
Stems bent violently, and the soil around their roots cracked. The dozens of poisonous flowers at the outermost edge were the first to tear free of the ground, flying toward the vortex with masses of roots trailing behind them.
Then more Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers were ripped up by the roots.
Dense clouds of poison sprayed from their stamens in an attempt to resist the vortex's pull, but the moment the gas left their petals, it was swallowed by the darkness.
"Wushang, don't force yourself to devour them. Take only what you can handle. If we can't do it today, we can prepare and come back. It won't be too late."
Watching his son continuously devour that vast quantity of poison gas, Long Xiaoyao could hardly claim he wasn't worried.
With so much poison gas and so many poisonous plants gathered together, even an Ultimate Douluo couldn't withstand it, could he?
Long Wushang did not answer. He simply continued absorbing the remaining poisonous miasma.
Sweat had already beaded at his temples. Clearly, using this move was not without strain.
Swallow Heaven and Earth was powerful, but the skill was nowhere near as unstoppable as it appeared.
If it could truly devour without limit, wouldn't the Gluttony God have become invincible long ago?
He could have swallowed the entire Divine Realm, even the whole universe. With such a terrifying ability to devour, he would have been a supreme evil god. How could he have been merely a First-Level God?
The reason was simple: devouring was easy, but refining what he devoured was the truly deadly part.
The more disparate the powers, the fiercer the backlash. Poison, Soul Power, mental power, life force—any energy beyond what his body could bear would become a death warrant.
Long Wushang had learned that lesson when he first undertook the Gluttony Original Sin Divine Trial. He had been inexperienced then. Of the six rounds of divine trials, lust was the only one he passed on his first try; gluttony alone took him three attempts.
He still remembered his first attempt. He had devoured too much in his haste to finish the task, never expecting the chaotic energies to nearly burst him apart.
During his second attempt, the desire of gluttony still controlled him. Though he knew he could not refine what he swallowed, he refused to stop.
Only on the third attempt—whether the divine trial had gone easy on him or something else had happened—did he suddenly grasp the heart of gluttony's original sin and pass.
Gluttony God: I did not go easy on him. (Sighs, turns his head, spreads his hands.)
Gluttony was not about eating mindlessly. It was about always wanting to eat, never having enough. He had to understand what he could swallow and what he could only hold in his mouth for the time being.
So he had no intention of refining any of these poisons.
Refining them would take an enormous amount of effort, and who knew what other consequences it might bring?
He would be better off spending that time wolfing down a couple more Immortal Herbs in the yin-yang hotpot.
The poisonous miasma and Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers swallowed by the black vortex did not enter Long Wushang's meridians. Instead, they were all sent into the Original Sin Demon Puppet and temporarily sealed away by the Gluttony Divine Ring.
The method was closer to temporary storage.
It consumed a great deal of energy, but it kept the deadly poison from erupting inside his body.
Long Wushang guided the dark vortex slowly forward. Wherever it passed, the dense miasma shrouding the valley entrance was torn away and devoured as though it had met its natural predator.
Before long, the valley entrance, once hidden behind endless poisonous fog, gradually revealed its true appearance.
"What are you standing around for? Move, move! Get inside!"
With a low shout, Long Wushang turned into a streak of black light and charged toward a concealed stone cavern deep in the valley without the slightest hesitation.
Long Xiaoyao and Tang Ya did not dare delay. They hurried after him.
The moment the three passed through the miasma-shrouded area, Long Wushang stopped circulating his Soul Power and released all the terrifying poison gas he had drawn into the dark vortex.
In an instant, the miasma billowed through the space he had cleared. Like a natural barrier, it sealed off the valley entrance once more.
Only after finishing that did Long Wushang breathe a sigh of relief. They were finally inside. It seemed he really needed to find a way to improve his resistance to poison. Poison was something he had to be careful with.
He finally had the time and energy to look around. Before long, he noticed something unusual.
Not far ahead, currents of scorching heat and gentle warmth rose together from deep underground, as if some priceless treasure of heaven and earth were being nurtured below.
Joy flashed in Long Wushang's eyes at the sight.
"This is it!"
"The Icefire Yin Yang Well should be right below us."
With that, he did not linger. The three of them followed the underground passage, heading swiftly deeper with Long Xiaoyao.
As they descended, they soon felt how utterly different this place was from the world outside.
Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, so dense it was almost tangible, filled every corner of the valley.
An immense aura of life nourished the entire space, allowing countless rare plants to grow here that were seldom seen in the outside world.
Some of those plants had even developed a faint awareness after being nourished for countless years.
They instinctively guarded the land that had nurtured them, treating any intruder as an enemy.
As the three continued deeper, the surrounding rock walls suddenly shook violently.
The next moment, dozens of thick vines burst through the earth from every direction and lashed fiercely at them with sharp whistles through the air.
Each vine carried considerable force, but to Long Xiaoyao, an Ultimate Douluo who stood at the pinnacle of the Soul Master World, attacks of this level were nothing worth mentioning.
His expression remained calm. Without even releasing his Martial Soul, he merely raised his right hand and gave a gentle wave. An invisible, terrifying force swept out in an instant.
The charging vines shattered inch by inch the moment they touched that force, turning into fragments that scattered across the ground.
After dealing with the threats at the outer edge, the three pressed on.
When they passed through the final stretch of tunnel, they at last reached the true heart of the mysterious valley.
The sight before them made all three hold their breath.
It was a paradise seemingly forged from the essence of heaven and earth.
The valley was not particularly vast, yet countless rare plants grew within it. Brilliant flowers and exotic herbs of every color set each other off, radiating a rich aura of life.
As far as the eye could see, nearly every plant brimmed with extraordinary spiritual energy.
Some herbs glowed faintly, while some fruits were as clear and lustrous as gemstones, as though only countless years of nurture by heaven and earth could have brought them to their present form.
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