Revenge

[Your instincts had overpowered your conscious mind. Before, you had at least retained control of your body, but now you could only think while your body acted ahead of your will.]

[You kept eating, though instinctive fear stopped you from approaching the heart of Dragon Valley. You devoured nearly everything edible there, leaving only one region you had never been willing to enter.]

[You roared and howled, wavering. In the end, you chose not to touch the Dragon God's remains.]

[In the 225th year of the Simulation, you bit through the barrier between Dragon Valley and Douluo Star and returned to the home you had left long ago. What greeted you was neither humans nor Soul Beasts, but countless Abyssal Creatures.]

[You didn't care. Food was food. You began sweeping up the Abyssal Creatures, but along the way, you happened upon a Ferocious Beast.]

[Xiong Jun challenged you. You swatted him dead and ate him.]

[No sooner had Xiong Jun died than Di Tian, the Scarlet King, Zi JI, Bi Ji, and the other Ferocious Beasts converged on you from every direction.]

["What sort of emperor are you? Why did you kill Xiong Jun? Have you forgotten our alliance?" Di Tian shouted, making his displeasure plain.]

[You chuckled with a strange, grinding sound. Looking at Di Tian, you found your will and instincts in rare agreement: kill him, and make him watch as you ate those close to him.]

[The Ferocious Beasts shuddered at your eerie laughter. All three of the Scarlet King's heads roared, and he attacked.]

[The Scarlet King's massive body cast you into shadow. You watched him with amusement, then roared. Your body swelled in an incomprehensible way. In moments, a single one of your claws was twice his size.]

["Ant! You dare look down on a god? Die!" No one understood your words. They sounded more like a monster's taunting roar than any language spoken in this age.]

[You seized the Scarlet King in one claw, then drew back and rose upright, like a behemoth that reached from earth to sky.]

[The Scarlet King struggled in your grip. His attacks struck you, only to be swallowed by the black mist seeping from your body.]

["Impossible! How can this be? What kind of monster are you? Beast God, save me!" The Scarlet King was terrified of you, gripped by fear of the unknown.]

[You pinched one of the Scarlet King's heads between two fingers, tore it off, and ate it like a snack.]

[Di Tian revealed his true form. Yet even as the Black-Eyed Golden Dragon King, he was no bigger than a house cat beside you.]

["Wretch! Die! Dragon God Claw!" Di Tian roared, bringing the Dragon God Claw down on you.]

[Greed flashed in your eyes at the sight of the Dragon God Claw. You swallowed the Scarlet King in one bite, then wrenched the Dragon God Claw Di Tian had unleashed out of the air and chewed it up. One of Di Tian's claws vanished with it.]

[Confusion, panic, and fear finally showed in Di Tian's eyes. This creature couldn't be an Abyss Emperor. None of them could possibly be this strong.]

[While Di Tian was still trying to make sense of it, the Heavenly Saint Rift-Piercing Halberd tore through the air toward the back of your head.]

[The Heavenly Saint Rift-Piercing Halberd pierced your head, but that was all. You were a monster driven almost entirely by instinct. Even if your brain were destroyed, only your consciousness would die, not your body.]

[You turned toward the Abyssal Sage King, smaller than an ant to you, and the silver-haired woman beside him. Suddenly, your mouth split into a terrifying grin.]

["Die!" you roared, swiping a claw at them. Under the force of your monstrous body, even space shattered.]

["Attack!" the Abyssal Sage King shouted. He and the Silver Dragon King, who held the Silver Dragon Spear, attacked you together.]

[Elemental attacks barely tickled you, and even mental attacks had no effect. Only the Heavenly Saint Rift-Piercing Halberd could inflict the slightest damage.]

["Damn it. Why did your planet give birth to a monster like this? I didn't believe it at first, but we all underestimated him." The Abyssal Sage King glared at you through gritted teeth, though there was little he could do.]

["Perhaps this is the world's consciousness making one last stand. Once we deal with him, you and I will truly control this world. Don't tell me you aren't tempted by the vast energy inside him." The Silver Dragon King kept attacking as she spoke, widening the distance between you.]

[You listened to them, then turned your gaze on the Ferocious Beasts. Your mouth split open, and a black hole appeared inside it. They had no power to resist; you devoured them all in an instant.]

["Damn it! We can't let him keep eating. The energy inside him is still growing!" The Silver Dragon King's face darkened.]

[The Abyssal Sage King understood. He had already begun ordering the Abyssal Creatures to retreat.]

[You looked at the Silver Dragon King, then turned and headed for the Lake of Life. Despite your immense size, you moved at a speed beyond comprehension.]

[You covered every meter at a hundred times the speed of sound, reaching the Lake of Life in the blink of an eye. You sensed no Gold of Life there, but from a space beneath it, you sensed the Emperor Auspicious Beast.]

["Hahahahaha! Wonderful, wonderful! The Emperor Auspicious Beast! How perfect!" you roared. You dropped down and thrust a claw through the spatial barrier toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.]

[As you did, the Silver Dragon King and the Abyssal Sage King arrived close behind.]

["You damned beast! Stop!" Seeing what you were doing, the Silver Dragon King shouted and rushed to stop you. It was far too little, far too late.]

[You dragged the Three-Eyed Golden Lion out and met her bewildered gaze. Without pity or hesitation, you ate her.]

[As far as you were concerned, you would do to the Silver Dragon King what she had done to Su Laowu.]

[The sight of the Silver Dragon King devastated and desperate to kill you on the spot lifted your spirits. Her anguished expression was, to your eyes, the most beautiful you had ever seen.]

[The Heavenly Saint Rift-Piercing Halberd broke through the back of your head and pierced your eyeball. Unfortunately for your attackers, the eye was only decoration. Inside your socket burned a mass of ghostly blue flame.]

[Your vision remained perfectly clear. You watched the two of them with amusement, as though you were playing cat and mouse.]