Five Emperor Sha Demon Divine Ability

Deep in the canyon, where the thickest concentration of Sha Qi and blood stench gathered, beneath a section of rock wall collapsed by a tremendous impact, a warm and substantial yellow light faintly shone through.

The glow was not dazzling, yet it carried a steady, bearing-all-things resonance that soothed the earth veins, utterly incompatible with the raging Sha Qi and vengeful spirits around it.

Ming Xin's Karma Life-Death Eyes stirred slightly.

He clearly "saw" the source of the light—a fist-sized, perfectly round pearl, its color condensed like the core of the earth, its surface naturally etched with strange mountain and river patterns.

What emanated from it was the purest and most majestic Innate Wutu Essence Qi!

"An Innate Wutu Spirit Pearl?" Ming Xin's heart stirred. Though not a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, this object was a rare treasure containing the origin Qi of Innate Wutu.

For those cultivating the Earth Element Great Dao, it was a supreme treasure, capable of stabilizing earth veins and calming mountains and rivers.

Just as he was about to step forward and claim it—

"ROAR!!!"

A violent, ferocious roar exploded like thunder from the other end of the canyon!

With the roar, a scorching, savage demonic wind, filled with an endless desire to devour, swept through, instantly dispersing a large number of vengeful spirits and Sha Qi in the canyon!

As the demonic wind scattered, a colossal creature was revealed. Its form resembled a lion, but it bore nine ferocious heads.

Eighteen crimson eyes burned with greedy flames, its body covered in dark red scales, from the gaps of which molten, viscous liquid constantly dripped.

Wherever it passed, the earth turned scorched black, and the air warped! The demonic power fluctuations it emitted had reached the mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal peak, its ferocious might overwhelming!

"Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng?" Ming Xin's gaze sharpened as he recognized this Ancient Fierce Beast, infamous even in the Primordial World.

This beast was born with extraordinary talent; each of its nine heads possessed unique divine abilities, excelling especially in devouring. Cruel and greedy by nature, it often lurked in battlefields, scavenging the remains of powerful beings.

It would even ambush injured great cultivators. He hadn't expected to encounter one here today.

The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's eighteen eyes instantly locked onto the Innate Wutu Spirit Pearl, its greed nearly materializing!

It clearly sensed that this object would greatly benefit it; if it could devour it, its earth-element divine abilities would vastly increase, perhaps even allowing it to break through to the late Zenith Heaven stage!

"Aoo!" One of its heads let out an excited howl, opening a massive maw. A terrifying suction force instantly erupted, like a black hole, sweeping toward the Wutu Spirit Pearl, attempting to devour it from a distance!

However, the Wutu Spirit Pearl, as an innate rare treasure, possessed its own spirituality. Sensing the filthy, devouring demonic power, it flared with intense yellow light.

The heavy, mountain-like Wutu Essence Qi erupted, temporarily resisting the suction and firmly anchoring itself in place!

"Hmph? Still daring to resist?!"

The other eight heads of the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng simultaneously roared in fury. One head spewed poison fire, another shot petrifying demon light, a third summoned bone-eroding yin wind...

All nine heads unleashed their divine abilities at once, attempting to forcibly suppress and seize the spirit pearl!

Just then, a calm yet icy voice abruptly rang out in the canyon:

"This object is fated with me."

The voice was not loud, yet it clearly overpowered the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's roars and the thunder of its divine abilities!

The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's eighteen eyes snapped around, its ferocious gaze instantly locking onto the gray figure that had somehow appeared beside the Wutu Spirit Pearl. It hadn't even noticed this person's presence at all!

"Ant! Dare to steal the ancestor's treasure?! You seek death!" The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng sensed Ming Xin's early Quasi-Saint cultivation and felt a trace of wariness, but its ferocity overrode everything.

Especially the other's calm, indifferent attitude—it thoroughly enraged it!

Three of its heads abruptly turned, and poison fire, demon light, and yin wind—three divine abilities mixed with vast demonic power—formed a torrent of destruction.

They blasted directly at Ming Xin! The sheer force was enough to severely wound or even kill an ordinary Zenith Heaven perfection cultivator!

Facing this world-destroying attack, Ming Xin's gaze remained as still as an ancient well.

He didn't even look at the attack. Instead, he slowly raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and gently pressed forward toward the surging torrent of divine abilities.

It wasn't some earth-shattering divine ability—just the simplest application of the Five Elements, yet it carried the supreme authority of an emperor!

"Central Wuji, Bearing All Virtues. Suppress!" Hum—! A condensed, dark yellow pillar of light burst forth from his palm!

Within the pillar, countless phantoms of mountains, rivers, and earth rose and sank, carrying the most primal heaviness, bearing, and suppression of the Primordial World!

The violent torrent of poison fire, demon light, and yin wind crashed against this seemingly simple dark yellow pillar, like raging waves striking an eternal divine mountain!

After a series of earth-shattering explosions, it couldn't shake the pillar in the slightest. Instead, it was forcibly suppressed, dissolved, and annihilated by the heavy Wutu Essence Qi!

"What?!" The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's eighteen eyes bulged simultaneously, filled with disbelief! Its combined strike from three heads had been so effortlessly neutralized?!

"Earth-element divine ability? Hmph! Let's see how many times you can block!"

Another head roared, spewing a torrential flood—Innate Kui Water Essence, carrying the power to corrode all things and devour spirituality, attempting to overcome earth with water!

Yet another head spat out billions of Geng Metal Divine Needles, incredibly sharp, specializing in breaking defenses! A further head summoned boundless Yi Wood Azure Qi, forming giant vines to entangle and drain energy!

It, too, had mastered several of the Five Elements divine abilities, though not as pure as Ming Xin's. But relying on its formidable cultivation, it unleashed them all at once, their might terrifying!

Seeing this, a trace of the faintest... interest finally flickered in Ming Xin's eyes. "Five Elements mutual generation and restraint? Mere form without substance."

He no longer defended solely. With a thought, the Five-Colored Divine Light suddenly flared behind him!

The White Emperor Metal Emperor Talisman flashed, and the billions of Geng Metal Divine Needles instantly froze, as if meeting their sovereign, then reversed course, shooting back at the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng!

The Black Emperor Water Emperor Talisman spun, and the towering Kui Water flood was swallowed by an invisible maw, vanishing without a trace, instead transforming into pure water spirit power to replenish Ming Xin's consumption!

The Azure Emperor Wood Emperor Talisman swept past, and the boundless Yi Wood giant vines instantly withered and died, their spiritual energy plundered clean!

Using the absolute purity of the Five Elements' origin imperial power, he reversed the flow and plundered the opponent's Five Elements divine abilities!

"Pfft!" The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's divine ability was broken, and the backlash of qi struck. One of his heads violently spat out a mouthful of foul blood, and for the first time, terror flickered in his eyes!

"You... who exactly are you?!"

"Your killer." Ming Xin no longer held back. He took a step forward, his figure ghosting through space like a specter, appearing directly before one of the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's heads!

His right hand formed fingers like a sword, the Five Elements cycling at his fingertips, ultimately condensing into the ultimate White Emperor Gold Emperor killing aura, mixed with the icy Killing Law. He pointed out a finger! "God Slaying Finger!"

Puchi! The brow of that ferocious head was instantly pierced! Before even a scream could escape, the Primordial Spirit and Life Force within the head were utterly annihilated by that terrifying killing and slaughter power!

The massive head drooped lifelessly, all luster gone!

"Roar!! It pains me!" The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's remaining eight heads let out miserable, agonized roars, thrashing wildly as they hurled every innate divine ability they had at Ming Xin, who was right in front of them!

Ming Xin's figure moved like smoke, weaving through the storm of attacks. With each flash, he pointed his fingers like a sword!

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!

Finger forces imbued with different Five Elements mutual generation and restraint changes and the True Meaning of Slaughter precisely struck the brows, inverse scales, demonic cores, and other vital points of the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's heads!

Water overcomes Fire! One finger annihilated the fire-breathing head! Fire overcomes Metal! One finger melted the metal-spitting head! Wood overcomes Earth! One finger drained the earth-controlling head! ...

The mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements became the deadliest art of slaughter in his hands!

No matter how powerful the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's physical body was or how vast his divine abilities, before absolute Dao suppression and the edge of slaughter, he was like a lamb to the slaughter, utterly powerless to fight back!

In the blink of an eye, eight heads were all destroyed! Only the last main head let out a desperate, terrified wail, turning to flee!

"Karma binds you; you should enter reincarnation." Ming Xin's icy voice sounded like a final judgment.

He did not strike again. He simply opened his Karma Life-Death Eyes and cast an indifferent final glance at the fleeing Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng.

"Ugh--!!"

The Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's massive body suddenly stiffened. In terror, he "saw" the thick, inescapable crimson karma death threads that bound him, born from devouring countless beings.

Under the other's indifferent gaze, they suddenly tightened and snapped! The terrifying backlash force and the flaws in his own cultivation exploded instantly!

His demonic body swelled like an inflating balloon, chaotic Five Elements energy and foul blood spraying from the gaps in his scales! Boom--!!!

Amid a roar of unwilling despair, this ancient fierce beast that had dominated a region was literally burst apart from within by his own chaotic power, exploding into a mist of blood and shattered Five Elements essence!

Ming Xin raised his hand and beckoned. A demonic core containing part of the Nine-Headed Yuan Sheng's origin essence and a few materials fell into his grasp.

At the same time, the Innate Wutu Spirit Pearl obediently flew before him, emitting a warm, affectionate glow.

He put away the spirit pearl and materials, didn't even glance at the spreading blood mist, and vanished from the canyon with a flicker of his figure.

After this battle, he gained a deeper understanding of the application of Five Elements mutual generation and restraint to slaughter.

The Five Elements are not isolated. When the principle of mutual generation and restraint is pushed to its extreme, it itself becomes the most terrifying weapon of slaughter.

He continued his travels, seeking stronger opponents and more perilous environments to temper himself.

He once ventured deep into the North Sea Ice Ocean, battling a late Great Luo Mystic Turtle that controlled extreme cold mystic ice. He melted its ten-thousand-year mystic ice armor with the Red Emperor Fire Emperor divine ability and ultimately broke its Primordial Spirit with the Golden Emperor Karma Slaying Sword.

He once broke into the Earth Lung Fire Vein, absorbing innate fire essence to hone his fire-element divine abilities. He was surrounded by Fire Spirits and annihilated them all by countering them with the Black Emperor Water Emperor divine ability.

He once entered Thunder Marsh, drawing the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation to refine his body, comprehending the subtleties of Metal generating Water and Water generating Thunder, and created the "Five Elements Thunder Prison" divine ability.

His combat style grew increasingly diverse. The Five Elements Great Dao came to him as naturally as breathing, perfectly fused with Slaughter and Annihilation.

Often, before an enemy could even grasp his origins, they would fall to his endless, perfectly countering Five Elements killing moves, their body and Dao destroyed.

The titles "Gray-Clad Killing Buddha" and "Five Elements Demon Lord" began to spread quietly among the upper echelons of the Primordial World, striking fear into all who heard them.

One day, he arrived at an Ancient Battlefield near the Buzhou Mountain Remains. The Sha Qi here was so thick it had nearly turned solid. Within the blood-colored mist, countless powerful battle souls could be faintly seen howling and roaring.

Some had even condensed into Sha Spirit Kings comparable to Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.

The moment Ming Xin stepped into this place, he was surrounded by several Sha Spirit Kings formed from the residual souls of Great Witches and Demon Saints mixed with Sha Qi. They had no intelligence, only an endless desire for slaughter and destruction.

Ming Xin was about to clean them up as usual when his mind stirred. "The Sha Qi here... is an excellent place to temper the path of slaughter and hone the mind.

Why not use this... to try combining the Five Elements power with Sha Qi?"

A bold idea surfaced. He actually took the initiative to loosen his defenses slightly, guiding the overwhelming Sha Qi into his body!

Instantly, the icy, violent, destruction-craving Sha Qi surged into his meridians like a bursting dam! It tried to erode his Primordial Spirit and corrupt his Magic Power!

"Hmph! Mere masterless Sha Qi dares to act recklessly?" "Five Emperors Cycle, Demon Refining Sha Qi!"

Ming Xin snorted coldly. The five Emperor talismans within his body spun wildly! The Azure Emperor Wood Emperor Qi absorbed the deathly stillness within the Sha Qi and transformed it into Life Force;

The Red Emperor Fire Emperor Qi directly used the Sha Qi as fuel to burn and refine it; The Yellow Emperor Earth Emperor Qi, heavy and stabilizing, bore the impact of the Sha Qi;

The White Emperor Gold Emperor Qi, sharp and cutting, separated the impurities in the Sha Qi; The Black Emperor Water Emperor Qi, supremely soft and devouring, absorbed and transformed it!

The Five Elements cycled like five massive millstones, forcibly crushing, purifying, and refining the ferocious Sha Qi that surged into his body!

In the end, it transformed into an extremely pure, dark-red energy carrying an icy killing aura, which merged into his Killing Origin!

Under the tempering of this endless Sha Qi, his path of slaughter began to slowly but steadily advance toward the threshold of fifty percent!

The killing intent radiating from his body grew more condensed, more pure, enough to make one's heart tremble!

He even began to attempt combining the refined Sha Qi with his Five Elements divine abilities.

A single punch was no longer pure Earth Element Qi, but the "Sha Earth Demon Fist" wrapped in surging Sha Qi—its power skyrocketed!

A single sword strike sent Sword Qi laced with crimson Sha threads, specifically targeting the Primordial Spirit and eroding the Dao Foundation! "The Five Elements Sha Demon Divine Ability... doesn't seem bad either."

He sat cross-legged at the core of this Ancient Battlefield, like a bottomless pit, frantically absorbing and refining the endless Sha Qi around him.

Behind him, the five Emperor Phantoms materialized once more, but now faint Sha Qi coiled around their bodies as well, adding a touch of demonic nature and majesty!

Time passed, no one knew how long. When nearly half of the Sha Qi in this Ancient Battlefield had been absorbed and refined by him, his entire aura suddenly trembled!

A purer, icier killing intent—one that could freeze the Primordial Spirit and sever all Life Force—shot into the sky!

The Great Dao of Killing—fifty percent! Achieved!

At that very moment, the Chaos Five Elements Pagoda deep within his Primordial Spirit trembled slightly, and the chaotic light at its peak, having absorbed vast amounts of pure Sha Qi and killing intent, grew even more profound...