Vandler was drenched in gore, his strikingly handsome face resembling a shattered watermelon, smeared with scarlet filth.

Pinpricks of starlight, like fireflies, circled the surface of his divine body, coalescing into a luminous membrane. The exploding palace, whose streams of starlight ribbons were interwoven, were now utterly pulverized. Great vortices roared forth, spewing out torrential divine power of the Wind.

The restraints imposed by Candice, the cage, cracked open, revealing the Enchantress utterly unharmed within.

Vandler shot Candice a glance, his heart hardening, though he didn't immediately betray it on his face. Ignoring his own wretched state, he tapped his brow, and hundreds of Star Cores flew out. These glittering cores had been arduously refined from the stellar essence of the Life Star, each one brimming with terrifying might after countless trials.

Arranged like a miniature sea of stars, the hundred Star Cores suddenly contracted, enveloping Vandler's divine body and transforming into a blinding armor of starlight.

At a glance, it seemed as if celestial bodies were revolving across Vandler's divine surface. Vast and mysterious stellar power rapidly gathered, forming a new stellar barrier meant to bind the Enchantress once more.

Due to Shi Yan's furious strike, the loosened bonds on the Enchantress immediately tightened again.

Activating the Primordial Body, Shi Yan instantly swelled into a colossal giant, standing in the ancestral grounds of the Phantasm Tribe like a massive peak piercing the boundless void. Many Phantasm Tribe members shrieked, fleeing with the utmost haste.

"All of you, perish!"

From the void came Shi Yan's beast-like howl. The transmission towers clashed wildly, driving back Candice's hurricane with a screeching roar, making it clear they could not hold for long.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

Serpentine lightning bolts, like immense dragons, writhed and twisted. Upon closer inspection, these bolts were formed from spatial rifts, capable of tearing everything apart!

These massive lightning bolts intertwined, shattering the sky of this world. It broke apart like a frozen lake instantly rent asunder, revealing countless terrifying fissures.

From the spatial rifts, whose destinations were unknown, came an air of infinite desolation and cold, as if eons had passed without a single trace of life or energy. Any who carelessly fell into them would suffer endless loneliness and emptiness, gradually losing all hope, until the day their power was completely exhausted, leading them down the path of self-destruction.

Every member of the Phantasm Tribe left standing watched the space shatter, overcome with deep terror and unease.

As those giant bolts of lightning slithered and twisted, exquisite palaces turned to dust, vanishing into the rifts. The Phantasm Tribe territory, once resembling a paradise, was now a chaotic wreck, rapidly becoming a terrifying purgatory.

Both Vandler and Candice were horrified; they never anticipated Shi Yan could be so ferocious. Having revealed the Primordial Body, he had become the most brutal demon, utterly unconcerned with the extinction of living beings.

In that moment, both of them suddenly recalled the catastrophe Shi Yan had inflicted upon the four great races—the Devourers, the Souls, the Ancient Demons, and the Dark Demons—when he entered their territories.

They finally understood the depth of the hatred that drove You Yu and the others to swear they would never rest until Shi Yan was dead.

"Stop! My people are innocent!"

As the frenzied Shi Yan unleashed his power, ready to start a massacre, the Enchantress, heedless of the concentric silver-bright stellar rings binding her, cried out towards Shi Yan in the void.

Many Phantasm Tribe members had initially been persuaded by Candice and Vandler, supporting their actions.

—Under the dual tactics of Candice and Vandler’s manipulation and deception, the majority of these individuals had gradually accepted their course of action.

However, seeing the Enchantress restrained yet still fighting desperately to protect her kin, the soft spot in the hearts of those Phantasm Tribe members was touched.

"The Enchantress is one of our own! Regardless, we must free her first!"

"Vandler! Release her!"

"Our people cannot engage in civil war, absolutely not..." Suddenly, all the Phantasm Tribe members began to shout, rallying to the Enchantress's defense.

Their loud calls echoed from every corner, awakening every member of the Phantasm Tribe. A considerable number, ignoring the obstruction from Vandler’s subordinates, surged toward Vandler, intending to use their own means to help break the restraints on the Enchantress.

This sudden shift turned Candice's face ashen and made Vandler secretly apprehensive.

They realized they had not truly won the allegiance of the people; within the Phantasm Tribe, they held no supreme position, nor could they maintain absolute authority indefinitely.

"Lord Enchantress! I have come to save you!"

A passionate young man of the Phantasm Tribe, merely at the Void God realm, charged forward fearlessly, ignoring the energy beams projected by Vandler's retainers.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"

Hundreds of sharp beams of light pierced the young man, riddling him like a wasp’s nest. His physical body instantly exploded.

"Don't come any closer! Anyone who dares approach will be slain without mercy!" A loyalist of Vandler, grinding his teeth, commanded hundreds of men to shout in unison, attempting to prevent Vandler from being influenced.

"Dord! How dare you strike your own kin! You will face the severe punishment of tribal law!"

"Kill him!"

"Make him pay the price!"

"Damn you, Dord! You dared to strike my brother, I will see you dead!"

The surging Phantasm Tribe members rushed towards Dord, each unleashing their power. Above their heads, numerous brilliant Primeval Realms suddenly manifested in the sky—some resembling eerie ghost domains, others a continuous chain of volcanoes, and yet others an endless desert... corresponding to the profound truths they cultivated.

"Crack!"

A bolt of spatial lightning struck precisely upon the barrier condensed by Vandler's subordinates. The layers of the barrier were cleanly severed by the spatial blades, causing the contained energy to splatter outward.

The defense line naturally fractured!

"Vandler! Guard the Enchantress!"

Seeing the situation turn critical, Candice roared the command decisively. Her figure abruptly vanished. Where she stood, a terrifying whirlwind instantly coalesced, towering tens of thousands of feet high, connecting heaven and earth, covering a thousand miles, churning violently with exceptionally domineering internal currents.

Within the whirlwind, Candice's voice could faintly be heard: "Shi Yan, do you truly believe that you alone can run rampant in my Phantasm Tribe? I will show you the true power of the second level of the Domain Ancestor!"

The whirlwind, anchored above in the void and below to the earth, howled furiously as it swept toward Shi Yan's Primordial Body.

In an instant, dust and stones flew, lightning flashed in the void, spatial cracks twisted, and countless streams of light from beyond the domain pierced through—this apocalypse-like scene shook people to their cores, causing many low-level Phantasm Tribe members to tremble uncontrollably, despair and terror rising from the depths of their souls, unsure how to face this disaster.

"Pat, pat, pat!"

Suddenly, beams of crystalline, energetic blood-light shot out domineeringly from every acupoint on Shi Yan's body, like pillars of blood!

These blood pillars, condensed from negative energy, were saturated with tyrannical, destructive power. There were seven hundred and twenty such pillars, one from each acupoint, instantly transforming into seven hundred and twenty colossal blood dragons. Each dragon was ten thousand meters long, emitting a stench that choked the air, their killing intent terrifying.

The seven hundred and twenty blood dragons roared and furiously surged into the heart of the whirlwind.

"Rumble!"

The blood dragons thrashed about, violently attacking within the whirlwind, striking at Candice inside!

The already overburdened void and heavens were on the verge of complete destruction due to this fierce battle; even the faint lights in the sea of stars were being imperceptibly consumed.

Tens of thousands of feet deep in the void, Shi Yan’s eyes were like two blood-soaked planets, within his pupils, madness and agitation continued to brew.

He had been purifying power in that icy secret chamber, and at the most critical juncture, he was suddenly interrupted by Zhen Ru. He was forced to temporarily suppress the backlash of his power to fight Zhen Ru and Candice, and Candice's words further enraged him, truly pushing him into a state of deviation.

At this moment, while resisting Candice, he also had to divert attention to control the chaotic fluctuations of his divine body and soul altar, striving to maintain his sanity.

During this process, a vast amount of negative emotion rapidly spawned within the soul altar in his acupoints, akin to power dregs gaining sentience, seeking to tamper with his divine body and soul.

The Profound Truth Talisman Tower shot out a strange light. This light illuminated his domain realm and sea of consciousness, obliterating the two lifeforms created by Zhen Ru.

That light had not yet been absorbed by the Profound Truth Talisman Tower; it was still shining!

In his domain realm, a brand new species, based on his own blood and soul imprint, using the earthworm as its skeleton, was miraculously gestating under the illumination of the brilliant light.

The existence of a life species within his domain was one manifestation of his next breakthrough in realm, yet at this moment, those newly born species were being permeated by his negative energy and negative soul power, evolving towards an evil and destructive path!

This was all due to the instability of his realm!

He now drew the greater part of his consciousness inward, solely dedicated to curbing the transformation of those life forms into aspects beyond his control, aiming to set things right and guide their life evolution in the manner he desired.

Deep in the void, Shi Yan suddenly shuddered all over. He violently fixed his gaze upon the area of his Dantian Sea of Qi.

Currently, standing in the heavens in his Primordial Body, he was comparable to a giant mountain range. At his Dantian, a tiny pinpoint of light stabbed in like a needle!

That was Zhen Ru!

Zhen Ru had chosen this moment to attack, aiming to breach his Dantian and destroy the Divine Power Ancient Tree—the source of his power!

"Welcome!"

Shi Yan suddenly broke into a sinister grin. His massive body began to contract, and as it did, he expelled a devouring black hole from his mouth. The black hole shrank into a dark speck and vanished in a flash.

At the site of his Dantian, a small black dot flickered dimly, like a black chess piece consuming all sources of light.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Intense devouring power radiated from that black speck, like the bottomless maw of a savage demon intent on swallowing the heavens—utterly domineering and brutal.

Zhen Ru’s expression drastically changed. "He truly mastered the Profound Truth of Devouring! If you intend to swallow, then I will let you swallow!"

Seeds of several thousand explosive secret treasures transformed into numerous shadowy thunder-balls. With booming roars, they surged toward Shi Yan's devouring black hole. "This is the method Ega taught me!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Continuous waves of explosive energy emanated from within the black hole. The black hole was blasted to pieces, and Shi Yan’s soul felt a sharp pain, showing an expression of shock...—Today's chapter~~RQ