Monster
As you faded into obscurity across the continent, major factions also began to forget your existence, and their assassination attempts grew increasingly lax until, in the end, even the assassins stopped coming.
The soul power of Douluo Star was recovering—a piece of good news, and a piece of good news for numerous factions. Yet, for reasons unknown, soul power that had originally been growing slowly suddenly began to plummet once more, and the downward trend was almost vertical.
In just a few short decades, the very last concentration of soul power would also plunge to rock bottom, entering the end of dharma age completely.
You remained entirely oblivious to the outside world, simply sleeping and dreaming a very long dream. The dream contained countless memories, and you lived through them bit by bit, as though experiencing them all over again.
In the 160th year of simulation, the Emperor Auspicious Beast was born to the Soul Beast Clan, guarded by a crowd of ferocious beasts at the Lake of Life.
As soul power dried up across the continent, the Tang Sect was the first to rise. In an era where soul power reigned supreme, hidden weapons might only have been phased out due to the times, but this was now the end of dharma age. Under the end of dharma age, every bit of soul power anyone used was equivalent to spending their own life, and the advantage of hidden weapons was completely displayed at this moment. Soul tools, on the contrary, plummeted straight to rock bottom.
The decline of Douluo Star's soul power affected the Soul Beast Clan, but it did not affect the group of ferocious beasts at the Lake of Life. If there was anywhere on Douluo Star that still possessed soul power at present, it was bound to be the Lake of Life.
In the 170th year of simulation, the Silver Dragon King noticed the abnormality of Douluo Star. She was puzzled; given this situation and based on the knowledge she possessed, either Douluo Star had its soul power concentration forcibly extracted by something, or Douluo Star was currently nurturing some monster.
In the end, the Silver Dragon King chose to wait and see, making no interference.
In the 180th year of simulation, your entire body was already entangled by the vines of various medicinal herbs. They were draining your life as nourishment for themselves, but the life energy they absorbed was merely a drop in the ocean to you.
In the 190th year of simulation, you were still submerged in deep sleep, yet an energy signal orb drifted in from outside Douluo Star.
The Abyss Plane still harbored a demand for the withered Douluo Star. The exhaustion of soul power did not represent the exhaustion of the world itself; given enough time, the soul power of Douluo Star could still recover to its prime period.
And nowadays, Douluo Star, with its withered soul power and feeble strength, could be described as a tremendous tonic for the abyss.
With Douluo Star extremely feeble now, the abyss could dispatch wave after wave of abyssal emperors.
In the 195th year of simulation, humans and soul beasts possessed almost no ability to resist under the abyss's onslaught. It could be said that the abyss was currently slaughtering Douluo Star in a one-sided manner.
In the 200th year of simulation, the final defense line of the alliance between humans and soul beasts was breached, and only a small number of humans and soul beasts still lingered on in desperate straits across Douluo Star.
You woke up from your sleep, recalling many things. Over the span of sixty-three years, your foundation ushered in a leap once again; an 800% foundation brought you closer and closer to the level of gods.
Looking at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and then glancing at the numerous immortal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, you tore their vines apart, walked up to the Aromatic Silk Beauty, uprooted it, and produced a mutilated Mysterious Heaven Skill.
You only scanned the Mysterious Heaven Skill roughly before you filled in the remaining missing parts of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and mastered the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill.
You walked toward Ah Yin. Ah Yin had already been devoured piecemeal by the various immortal herbs by this time. You did not feel angry; with a mere lift of your hand, a dark cyan vortex appeared in the palm of your hand, and those immortal herbs, without exception, all became your nourishment.
You modified the Mysterious Heaven Skill, which should now be called the Heaven Devouring Demon Skill.
The Heaven Devouring Demon Skill was constructed from a combination of your own wind and evil qi, possessing only a single effect: transforming the gains from devouring into nourishment across four aspects: spirit, soul power, physique, and foundation.
You devoured the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well along with it, and your foundation gained a small-scale increase, reaching 813%.
You put away Ah Yin's residual seeds, then transformed into the wind and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The wind brought you the message that the world was about to overturn, but you did not care. The world held no meaning for you; you only wanted to become a god and then go take revenge.
You killed and killed and killed all the way. All the abyssal creatures possessed not a shred of resistance in front of you before being directly devoured. You did not need to worry about the consumption of soul power; the energy obtained from devouring these abyssal creatures could restore your soul power. Moreover, your soul power was not in an overflowing state, and your current total amount of soul power was equivalent to the total soul power of three Douluo Stars in their prime periods.
The span might be somewhat large, but that was indeed the case. Absorbing the self-produced soul power of Douluo Star from nearly the past two hundred years had only filled less than a third of your soul power.
You killed with exhilarating joy. Under the encirclement of those abyssal creatures, your black hair took on a trace of red, as though stained with fresh blood. You did not care; only slaughter could vent your pain of nearly two hundred years.
In the 201st year of simulation, you were regarded as the bugle call for the counterattack of humans and soul beasts, and then you personally slaughtered the few remaining living beings on Douluo Star. The sole survivors left on Douluo Star were only the few ferocious beasts of the Lake of Life, the Silver Dragon King, and some miscellaneous small fry.
You killed for a long time, so long that you yourself did not know what you were doing. Besides blood, nothing else remained in your brain except blood. Perhaps because the pronunciation of blood sounded similar to the character for snow, you thought of the Snow Empress, and facing those abyssal emperors who had come to kill you, you said, "Blood—snow—snow—! Why must the ones who die be them! And not you! All of you, just go and die!" You arrived behind the thirty-eighth-tier emperor, slapped the opponent into a blood mist with a single palm, and devoured them.
Seeing this, the remaining emperors felt that you were simply a madman, and intended to join forces to surround and kill you.
The corners of your mouth split open into two openings, your smile extending all the way to your ears: "Hahahahaha!! You actually do not fear me? Damn it!" You covered your face with both hands, your body trembling from extreme excitement.
You snapped the limbs of the seventy-second-tier emperor, then pressed down on the opponent's massive, cattle-like physique, successively pulling out their heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, and then ate these organs right in front of the opponent as though eating beef offal.
The seventy-second-tier emperor shrieked in agony, yet his shrieks failed to evoke any feelings of sympathy from the remaining emperors.
In their view, emperors would still revive after death. However, if they knew that the emperors killed and devoured by you would only become your nourishment and would not revive, with a high probability they would run faster than one another.
Watching these emperors who felt no fear toward you, you laughed even more frantically, the corners of your mouth splitting almost from your earlobes to the back of your head. Your appearance looked just like a monster draped in human skin.