Shi Yan possessed seven hundred and twenty acupoints, each one a brand-new world, a vast expanse where only the sky existed, no ground, the firmament littered with countless swirling vortices, spinning madly!
At this moment, within the worlds of his acupoints, innumerable vortices spun at extreme speed, unleashing astonishing energy fluctuations.
These acupoints served as the springs of the Devouring Mystery, the very crucible where that consumption was transformed, profoundly arcane.
The acupoints absorbed various scattered energies from the outside, purifying them within through countless vortices to form a pure, mysterious exotic force. This force could directly integrate into his divine power ancient tree, tempering his physical form and strengthening his bones, sinews, and veins.
It was a process of ingress and egress.
Incoming was the muddled, turbulent power; purified by the vortices, the outgoing exotic force could be directly absorbed to hone his flesh and body.
However, this purification process also generated residue—dross surging forth as despair, fear, resentment, malevolence, and all manner of negative emotions and impurities.
That power was too heterogeneous to be absorbed or merged, so it remained within his acupoints. When engaging in battle, that power could be triggered via the berserk aspect of the Mystery, transforming into a torrential flood of savage force, slamming against the opponent’s Sea of Consciousness, causing their soul to falter.
In this Devouring, not a single shred of power was wasted: power that could be purified was integrated to enhance him; power that could not be purified, when released at a critical juncture, instantly skyrocketed his strength, delivering a devastating blow to the enemy's soul with negative forces.
It was impregnable.
The Devouring Mystery, universally acknowledged as the most profound and miraculous, was deemed the ultimate evil in the cosmos—a self-serving mechanism that benefited the self at the cost of extinguishing living beings, marking it as the foremost evil mystery.
Now, the power that emerged from the demise of ten thousand Divine Race warriors flooded entirely into his acupoints. The vortices within those acupoints spun frantically, causing a terrifying, distending pain that instilled in him a panic as if he were about to burst apart, to die violently.
His heart and spirit were utterly aghast. While evading Videsson’s pursuit, he simultaneously observed the changes occurring in his flesh and blood.
Inside the acupoints, the purified negative power residue settled down, accumulating heavily in those vast worlds. Each of those sprawling worlds seemed on the verge of collapse under the strain, causing the purification speed of the vortices to gradually slow, threatening near stagnation.
It was like a massive, precision instrument operating beyond its limit, on the verge of breaking down.
This realization filled him with dread. He decisively halted any further absorption of power, concentrating his essence, spirit, and mind into one. His soul consciousness retracted inward, instantly splitting into seven hundred and twenty strands, each falling toward one of the boundless acupoint worlds. Simultaneously, he quietly activated his altar, secretly urging forth his Primal Realm.
He held a vague feeling that the Primal Realm would be the key to resolving the strange crisis afflicting his physical body!
He recalled his previous battle against Heg. In that fight, he had erupted with the accumulated negative power from his acupoints, causing the Primal Realm to manifest and drawing in the black hole, granting the black hole the mysterious characteristic of swallowing Heg’s own Primal Realm planet. Back then, the demand for negative power had nearly drained his acupoints bare.
The reason his acupoints were now sluggish and stalled was precisely the over-accumulation of negative power. Although this negative power could serve a massive purpose at critical moments, exceeding the acupoint’s containment limit would inevitably slow down its purification process.
The influx of power from the ten thousand Divine Race warriors had massively surpassed his capacity for purification and absorption.
To reverse this disadvantage, there were only two paths: either release some of that negative power, or enhance the containment limit of his acupoints, expanding the domain of the worlds within them!
Sensing the bizarre transformation within his body, an intuition of impending danger grew stronger. After pondering for a while, he made a swift decision. Suddenly, he activated his altar, secretly employing the true essence of the Devouring Mystery, guiding the Devouring Black Hole from his Soul Altar directly into his Primal Realm.
Instantly, the negative power within his acupoints flowed rapidly away, all pouring into the Primal Realm, which shone like a stellar river.
Suddenly, a marvelous enlightenment dawned in his mind; his expression shifted, taking on a look of sudden, profound clarity!
His seven hundred and twenty acupoints, at this very moment, seemed to merge with his Primal Realm, becoming a part of it!
An utterly mysterious and magical sensation!
He was momentarily lost in a trance, feeling as if a giant god’s soul enveloped heaven and earth, reigning supreme in his own Primal Realm. His realm possessed stars and spatial territories, like a microcosm of the universe. But now, with the Primal Realm connected and fused with his entire network of acupoints, he had a distinct feeling...
He felt as if his own universe had gained seven hundred and twenty new star fields!
The worlds inside those acupoints were like star fields, except those fields lacked suns and moons, lacked living flora and fauna, possessing only vortices—like the remnants of annihilated galaxies...
This marvelous feeling flashed into his heart, and he miraculously discovered that the vast, empty worlds inside his acupoints were extending at an incredible speed, like a balloon being rapidly inflated, swelling instantly. The structure and territory of those worlds seemed to expand several times over in a single moment!
The seven hundred and twenty strands of divine consciousness that had descended into the acupoints simultaneously experienced this wondrous sensation. He immediately realized that the worlds within his acupoints were truly being expanded!
The containment limit had been enhanced!
In the next instant, he found that the vortices within his acupoints, which had been sluggish to the point of near stagnation, had become infinitely more numerous and were purifying the absorbed power at an even faster rate.
Almost simultaneously, the purified essence, refined from the heart of the vortices, flew out of the acupoints again—it was the mysterious, pristine power, capable of directly integrating into the divine power ancient tree and his flesh and body.
However, at this point, his divine power ancient tree was already saturated, and his bones, sinews, and veins were entirely enveloped by the pure energy; he had almost reached the limit of absorption.
With a thought, a subtle, marvelous expression appeared on his face, and then it was seen that from his entire network of acupoints, streams of crystalline brightness shot forth.
Like shimmering starlight, these lights fell respectively toward the Void Passages he had previously condensed, following those passages and vanishing.
Hexagonal Star Territory.
On board the battleships, every warrior bearing the blood-colored cloud mark between their brows, who had cultivated the mystery inherited from the Bloodthirsty lineage, was suddenly struck with a profound tremor, looking toward the surrounding Void Passages in disbelief.
They had already returned to the Hexagonal Star Territory through those very passages.
Now, crystalline, pure streams of starlight suddenly pierced through the passages, branching out like rivulets, injecting themselves into the forehead marks of those who cultivated the Bloodthirsty inherited mystery.
Benny, Blood Demon, Kato, and the others were the greatest beneficiaries, their faces alight with ecstatic joy.
This was not the first time they had received such benefits. They immediately recognized the power as a gift from the new Lord of Bloodthirsty and relaxed, focusing their entire attention on absorbing it.
Many warriors who cultivated the eight great mysteries but were unfamiliar with Shi Yan were momentarily stunned before snapping back to awareness, all displaying expressions of rapturous delight.
As the stream-like starlight entered the marks on their foreheads, a surge of pure power flowed directly into their divine power ancient trees, causing their ancient trees to grow robustly. They didn't need to contemplate what this implied.
Consequently, every one of them sat down cross-legged, willingly accepting the gift bestowed by Shi Yan.
Warriors who had not cultivated the eight great mysteries and did not comprehend the intricacies of Bloodthirsty looked bewildered, finding the phenomenon strange and inexplicable.
They could not fathom why these people dared to leave the critical area of their foreheads open, accepting the stream-like light without question.
Weren't they afraid of having their minds pierced, their altars shattered, leading to immediate annihilation?
They could not divine the profound mystery behind it.
However, far away on the Ancient Demon Continent, Ming Hao, Xuan He, and Phillett were profoundly shocked, staring dumbly at the Void Mirror condensed by Ming Hao.
The three leaders fell silent, their eyes flickering with an unreadable light as they gazed deeply at Shi Yan, at the starlight emanating from his acupoints...
They knew what those lights signified.
“I truly didn’t expect him to grasp the subtlety of the Devouring Mystery so quickly, to construct the ‘Bridge of Life and Death Rotation,’ drawing in the power of death to nurture the power of life, using himself as a bridge to benefit his subordinates. We all underestimated him. In the future, perhaps we should not view him merely as a puppet,” Phillett mumbled, shaking his head loosely.
Xuan He and Ming Hao exchanged a glance, recognizing each other’s astonishment. These two said little, merely nodding slightly.
They knew one thing for certain: Shi Yan, having truly grasped the essence of the Devouring Mystery, could single-handedly alter the future balance of power through the marvel of this ‘Bridge of Life and Death Rotation.’
They were figures who had emerged from that era; they clearly recalled a time when, gravely injured, they were effortlessly restored to their original state, even advancing in power and realm, by their Master utilizing the ‘Bridge of Life and Death Rotation.’
The Shi Yan before them now reminded them of those past days...
“Lao Luo did not choose the wrong person,” Ming Hao sighed softly after a long pause.
Xuan He and Phillett were also deeply moved internally.
“Videsson! Videsson! Wake up for me!”
At the same moment, Soton, Patriarch of the Brekel Family, roared loudly, his voice booming like thunder, striking around Videsson one by one like exploding bolts of lightning.
Yet, Videsson remained in his frenzied state, carrying a corrosive magnetic field that devoured all things, charging directly toward them.
Those first engulfed by the magnetic field simply vanished, not even a drop of blood remaining.
Now, the members of the Brekel and Austin families were gripped by terror of Videsson. Even Elder Starfire, who had reached the Pseudo-Immortal level, wore a grim expression, screaming in panic, “Retreat! Retreat quickly! Do not approach this individual! The corrosive poison erupting from him intensifies constantly—a poison that can dissolve even the Star of Life! I fear, I fear even I would struggle against it! Evade him by all means, find every way to wake him up—do not engage him directly, absolutely do not engage him!”
Starfire shrieked, issuing continuous commands, urging his clansmen to flee.
Just as the Divine Race was about to collapse into disarray, a towering young figure suddenly materialized in the center of the crowd—an aura of evil intermingled with the masses.
Videsson’s savage aura instantly fixed upon this spot, like a fierce beast smelling fresh meat, charging over heedlessly.
All the Divine Race members changed color, issuing hysterical shrieks, fleeing in disarray.
Even Starfire was among those retreating. Videsson, whose power had been unleashed, was virtually a scourge of world destruction; it seemed no one could withstand him in the Fire Rain Star Domain.
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