"Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!"
Blood Annihilation and the other Devil Emperor could clearly hear the sounds the black tentacles made after piercing the bodies of the humans below.
It was as though they were sucking something up!
But soon, they learned what it was.
One stream after another of something intangible was devoured by the black tentacles and absorbed into the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' body.
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' body grew visibly larger, while his cultivation, originally only at the Ninth Heaven of the Great Emperor Realm, climbed steadily.
In just a few breaths, it had risen from the Ninth Heaven of the Devil Emperor Realm to Lesser Perfection Peak Devil Emperor!
Sensing the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' Qi, the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor could not help gaping. "Is that... the evil thoughts in humans' hearts?!!"
"No! Not just evil thoughts!" The Soul-Devouring Devil Emperor was equally shocked. "Greed, anger, ignorance, desire... these are the negative emotions of all living beings. And now, they can all become nourishment for the emperor?"
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings was powerful because he was a corpse Devil Emperor.
Corpse devils were truly unique. One might not be born in a million years!
The Soul-Devouring Devil Emperor and the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor beside him could both devour humans to grow stronger, but there was a limit to how much they could devour.
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, as a corpse Devil Emperor, was different. There was almost no limit to how many living beings he could devour, and they did not need to be alive. Even corpses would do.
It was said that a corpse Devil Emperor had once appeared in the Black-Yellow Realm's history, and had nearly devoured every living being in the entire realm.
In the end, the Heavenly Dao itself had intervened and wiped out the corpse Devil Emperor!
But weren't corpse Devil Emperors only able to grow stronger by devouring the corpses of living beings? How could he even devour evil thoughts?
That no longer seemed to fall within the scope of a corpse devil's abilities!
"Fools! This is Lord Source of All Evil's ability. Every living being has evil thoughts in their heart. As long as there are evil thoughts, my lord can grow stronger." A sharp rebuke came from the ball of flesh the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings had become:
"Otherwise, how do you think I could have reached the Half-Immortal Realm within a sealed Realm Sea?"
"It was the evil thoughts of all us devils that awakened my lord in the depths of the Realm Sea. My lord bestowed this power upon me, giving me the strength of a Half-Immortal!"
As soon as the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings finished speaking, a black shadow slowly separated from his body.
Thump!
From the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor and his companion's perspective, it was an enormous black sphere filled with all manner of evil thoughts.
A thick, tube-like tentacle extended from the black sphere and connected it to the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings.
Then the black sphere abruptly swelled, and black spikes burst from its surface, making it look like a black sea urchin.
Hum!
The mass of evil thoughts constantly shifted between tangible and intangible forms. At last, it took the shape of a young man in black robes and black clothing, with black hair, black eyebrows, and black eyes without the slightest trace of white.
"My lord has shown himself, and you still don't kneel!!"
While the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor and his companion were still dazed, a devil chain of corpse Qi extended from the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings and lashed across their faces.
The skin was instantly stripped from both their faces, and in moments, nearly half of each face had corroded away.
"This lowly devil, Blood Annihilation, pays his respects to Lord Source of All Evil!"
"This lowly devil, Soul-Devouring, pays his respects to Lord Source of All Evil!"
The two dropped to their knees in the void with a thud, trembling all over.
They had never expected a Source of All Evil to be hidden within the Realm Sea.
Strictly speaking, the Source of All Evil, like a corpse Devil Emperor, was a being without an upper limit. But clearly, the Source of All Evil was more versatile in how he operated.
By now, the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor and his companion could already sense that the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings' Qi had returned to the Great Perfection Peak Devil Emperor level.
With the two of them at Lesser Perfection, the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings, and the even more mysterious Source of All Evil, even the Liu Imperial Clan would likely be utterly unable to resist them.
After all, the Source of All Evil could absorb an endless supply of evil thoughts along the way, so it was only a matter of time before the Devil Emperor of All Living Beings returned to the Half-Immortal Realm.
Could the Liu Imperial Clan possibly have a Half-Immortal expert?
Or could a true immortal like Su Chen suddenly appear among them, as one had in the Su Imperial Clan?
Impossible!
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings turned to the Source of All Evil, who had taken human form, and asked, "Evil! What do we do next?"
By his estimate, even if he devoured every living being in the Black-Yellow Realm, he could never break through to the realm of a true immortal.
But the Source of All Evil could.
So if he wanted to become an immortal, he still needed the Source of All Evil's help.
Hearing this, the Source of All Evil fell into thought, resting one hand beneath his chin, his gaze grave. "Things really have gone beyond my expectations. Someone this powerful could never have come from this tiny Black-Yellow Realm!"
"Someone like that would be no ordinary figure, even in the Immortal Realm!"
The Source of All Evil thought for a moment, then continued, "We'll go to the Liu Imperial Clan first. A quarter of my origin is with them. The Liu Imperial Clan is no ordinary clan either. Back then, their ancestor took advantage of my weakened state and cut away a quarter of my origin."
"It is hard to become an immortal in this realm. Even the Well of the Immortal Domain has been shattered."
"Once I reclaim my origin, I can take you through the world barrier to other small worlds. There, all of you will have a chance to become immortals!"
At that, the Blood Annihilation Devil Emperor and the Soul-Devouring Devil Emperor were thrilled. They asked excitedly, "Lord Source of All Evil, is that true? Can we really become immortals?"
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings was much calmer. Clearly, he knew more than the other two Devil Emperors, or perhaps he had known all along.
"Of course. I fell here from the Immortal Realm myself. Why would I lie?" the Source of All Evil said with a look of disdain.
"In the past, you two ants wouldn't even have been qualified to speak to me. But since you're the corpse Devil Emperor's lackeys, I don't mind taking you along!"
Though the corpse Devil Emperor's current cultivation was nothing remarkable, his potential was enough for the Source of All Evil to regard him as one of his own kind.
The Devil Emperor of All Living Beings said in a low voice, "Is it because of that fellow?"
"That's right! Even at my former peak, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been his match. I don't know where that old bastard came from! He's insanely strong!" The Source of All Evil looked past the Devil Emperors toward the rear, wary.
The Source of All Evil suddenly recalled the indescribable power he had sensed in the depths of the Realm Sea.
At the time, he had thought it was an illusion. Now it seemed that old bastard Su Chen's will had reached into the Realm Sea.
"Since he wants us to make these foolish humans pay the price, we'll do as he wishes. We'll need to recover on the way to the Liu Imperial Clan to reclaim the other quarter of my origin anyway."
"Once I have my origin, we'll leave at once and break free of his control completely! We must never place our lives in someone else's hands!"
"When that time comes, heaven and earth will be vast, and I shall roam free!"
That was what the Source of All Evil thought.
He suspected that Su Chen might be a powerful Immortal King who had seized someone else's body.
If he hadn't been so smug back then, drawing the ire of a giant of the Immortal Realm and getting cast down to the mortal realm, he might have become an Immortal King giant himself by now.
With that, the Source of All Evil merged back into the corpse Devil Emperor's body.
The three devils tore through the air toward the Liu Imperial Clan.
Below, many humans stared in terror at the enormous phantom in the sky. "What's that?"
"Why does it feel like the devil Qi described in the records?"
"This is bad... it really is the Devil Race!!"
"Weren't the Devil Race supposed to have been wiped out completely?"
"Alarm! Alarm!"
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