He had originally intended to reach the summit while taking his revenge. Now he could only accomplish one of those goals.
Chi Menghong's strength had surged, giving him the confidence to look down upon the world once more.
On the battle platform, clouds of blood exploded one after another. Within a short time, only a small fraction of the contestants remained.
They were all beings of the Emperor Clans or supreme experts of the King Clans. The unaffiliated cultivators whose bloodlines came from below the Supreme Realm were all gone.
The gulf was simply too vast.
How could the son of a Supreme contend with the offspring of an Immortal?
No one could think of a way!
Their divine abilities and primary scriptures were not even on the same level.
Yu Yu, Wu Kun, Qing Kun, Suo Gu, and Mo Kun each stood in a different part of the battlefield.
There were also Ming Si and two unfamiliar Emperor Clan beings in this Fourth Arena.
Only these Emperor Clan beings and King Clan experts remained.
"Fight! Each of us chooses an opponent. The victors fight another round, until a single king emerges!" Ming Si let out a long howl, his arrogance surging to the heavens. He had just blasted a King Clan prodigy to death before him-a Great Strength Six-Armed Divine Elephant whose ancestral bloodline had awakened.
He had slaughtered him with ease.
Ming Si lunged alone at Chi Menghong!
"You dare!" Chi Menghong flew into a rage. His aura was exceedingly strange. He was completely different now, his entire body flowing with a hazy bloody radiance and giving off an aura that would move even a Supreme.
He met the attack head-on.
Meanwhile, Heavenly Blade fixed his gaze on one of the two unfamiliar Emperor Clan beings, because his opponent also wielded a blade.
Without a doubt, Heavenly Blade had also been tempered by his clan since emerging into the world. His blade's edge was terrifying now, like the Great Dao's executioner blade bearing the might of heaven.
Almost all the Emperor Clan beings present chose their opponents in an instant.
They tacitly agreed to determine the ultimate victor through one battle after another.
Yu Yu faced Wu Kun, while Suo Gu faced Mo Kun.
Only He Xian, Qing Kun, and the last unfamiliar Emperor Clan being had yet to make a move.
As for the remaining King Clan prodigies, they were all dumbstruck.
Life-and-death battles between Emperor Clans were rarely seen throughout the ages.
"Aaargh!"
Some of the spectating King Clan prodigies screamed. They were too close. The shock waves made blood stream from all seven orifices, and they retreated swiftly in utter terror.
The combat prowess of the Emperor Clan beings exceeded their imagination. What would happen if those beings actually attacked them?
Their eyes dimmed, and their desire to vie for supremacy was extinguished.
Was this what an Emperor Clan was? It truly made it difficult to summon any will to resist.
At that moment, He Xian finally awoke. He opened his eyes, and two streaks of silver light shot out in an instant.
Someone had attacked him.
Qing Kun let out a strange cry and revealed part of his true form. "Blood food! Finest-quality blood food!"
The Heaven Devourer Emperor Clan Lineage.
Rumble!
This lineage was exceedingly terrifying, sweeping aside all opposition. In ancient times, they had once devoured an entire great world, annihilating all its living beings!
With a low roar, the void twisted, and Qing Kun arrived. He manifested part of his true form: a bird's head and beating black wings that shattered heaven and earth. Although his torso remained human, his avian traits had emerged.
In particular, as he let out a long cry and flew over on beating wings, everything around him collapsed.
This black demonic bird resembled a vast black sun spanning the heavens. As he opened his mouth, his beak devoured the sky, sucking in even some of the Great Dao's laws and swallowing them.
The sight was horrifying. In the outside world, he could have sucked the moon straight into his mouth!
He could swallow and release the sun and moon, refining heaven and earth.
Wherever he passed, the sky blurred as he ate it away.
Qing Kun attacked He Xian. His beak refined laws, the Great Dao, and more into immense quantities of vital essence. Even the void was swallowed and melted down as he unleashed the power of all things in heaven and earth.
However much he devoured, he could release just as much!
Boom!
His beak blotted out the sky. All things in heaven and earth, the heavens and their seas of stars, manifested together at that moment, displaying his clan's unrivaled divine might.
One could imagine the majesty of his ancestor when he devoured an entire great world.
At the end of the Immortal Ancient era, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had been shattered in part because of this clan's ancient ancestor. He had attempted to swallow and refine them in a single gulp, but had been intercepted.
"Devour!" With an avian cry, the demonic bird Qing Kun had become unleashed Heaven Devourer and Earth, swallowing He Xian into his beak to refine him there.
"You're not qualified to devour me!"
He Xian strode like a dragon and a tiger, shattering the sky beneath his feet. Endless runes rose and swirled around him, while strands of Chaos Qi gushed from his pores amid dazzling golden light.
Having temporarily brought his injuries under control, he still had the strength to fight.
He Xian had endured several bloody battles and even slain an Emperor Clan cultivator of a higher realm. His aura was terrifying now, like that of an unparalleled emperor. His eyes were cold and piercing, carrying flames that seemed capable of burning away the heavens.
"Get lost!"
Without any flashy divine ability, He Xian simply swung his fist. Like stars across the universe collapsing and bursting into flame, it erupted with the most dazzling sacred light!
Thud! Like a comet striking the earth, his fist punched straight through the heaven-devouring beak, and he fought his way out.
Pff! Pff! Pff!
Qing Kun opened his mouth with the momentum and spat out vast quantities of Order Divine Chains. Like a hundred thousand divine spears, they descended in a sky-blotting barrage, revealing his wealth of battle experience.
He Xian blocked with his great hand, snapping all hundred thousand divine spears at once. His divine might defied the heavens.
Thump, thump, thump!
Qing Kun reeled backward and circled in the air, his expression grave. He had picked what he thought was a soft persimmon, only to find something that nearly broke his teeth. He was astonished by how frighteningly powerful his opponent's body was.
"You're the son of the Crane Ancestor who defeated Chi Menghong? Your strength is quite good," Qing Kun said quietly.
"Stop wasting time. Keep fighting," He Xian said with a frown. He was pressed for time; he could not suppress his Great Dao Origin Injury for long.
Naturally, Qing Kun saw this as a provocation.
"Very good! Die!"
Qing Kun roared. His enormous demonic avian body swallowed and released stars and moons. As he opened his mouth, he swallowed all the Great Dao's order, refining it into vital essence to replenish himself.
Pff!
The Great Dao's laws blossomed. Like a black sun, he was covered in runes, his pitch-black wings shimmering with dark light. At that moment, Qing Kun unleashed his strongest aura.
Whoosh!
As he howled, black runes spread, filling the space around He Xian. The area melted.
"Heaven Devourer Emperor Clan, Refining All Things!" Qing Kun shouted, unleashing a heaven-defying Ancestral Art.
This was the supreme art of the Heaven Devourer Emperor Clan Lineage. A single strike from afar could incinerate an opponent in the void.
Bang!
He Xian's entire body emitted a dazzling radiance, like a second blazing sun, dissolving the dark light around him.
"Be suppressed!" He Xian flashed behind Qing Kun like a phantom. Intent on ending the battle swiftly, he naturally attacked with all his strength. One foot descended, expanding without limit.
It was utterly terrifying. That foot spanned the sky and enveloped everything, splitting the heavens apart. Vast black fissures spread everywhere.
Rumble!
The enormous foot stomped down. Without the slightest suspense, Qing Kun's body was driven downward like a meteor. Blood splashed across the sky, and the area around the wings on his back caved in beneath the stomp.
More than half his body broke apart. Snow-white shards of bone and bloody flesh rained from the sky in a gruesome sight.
"Aaaaaargh! Son of the Crane Ancestor, you dare humiliate me like this!" As Qing Kun fell, his fury reached its peak. His eyes turned red, and his entire body seemed to burn.
"Inhale!" Qing Kun sucked a nearby King Clan prodigy straight into his mouth as blood nourishment, replenishing his vital essence.