CHAPTER 1152: CHAPTER 874: COSMIC DEVOURING

Gu Jinlai and Venerable Xuan Tian moved, and Yuan Huang, Ancient Desolation, and Firewood quickly surrounded them.

"Xuanhuang, how is it?"

Yuan Huang asked.

Firewood fixed his gaze on Gu Jinlai: "Primordial?"

"We need to make a trip to the Cosmic Core."

Venerable Xuan Tian stated directly.

"The Cosmic Core? Why go there?"

Ancient Desolation asked, staring at him.

"You can choose not to go."

Venerable Xuan Tian’s expression revealed no emotion.

Entrapped in emptiness, he seemed as though others’ gazes and Divine Senses, focused on him, would also be devoured by the emptiness he exudes.

Not able to discern anything further, Ancient Desolation refrained from offending further with his gaze, instead pondering slightly: "Is it that the balance of power is insufficient?"

Venerable Xuan Tian didn’t speak.

However, the three ancient Evil Gods weren’t surprised by this scenario, pondered slightly, and acquiesced to his demand.

For a moment, the ancient Evil Gods set out once more, and together with Gu Jinlai headed straight toward the source of all strong light and the Great Dao.

In this process, Gu Jinlai, as if persuaded by Xuanhuang, did not resist and followed the ancient Evil Gods, getting increasingly close to the area filled with the Three Thousand Great Dao.

If the periphery of the Heart of the Cosmic only manifests the Three Thousand Great Dao, interfering with cultivators, then in its depths, this interference has turned into substantial harm.

The highly condensed chaotic Great Dao has evolved from intangible changes into a tactile form, twisting the cultivators’ every understanding of the "Great Dao."

If slightly careless, it can completely subvert a cultivator’s perception and worldview, thereby impacting their Divine Sense, shattering their beliefs, causing their Divine Sense Ability to lose its body and disperse.

Without sufficiently strong Divine Sense Ability for control, no one needs to attack; the immortal body and undying form that make up the cultivator himself will crumble, destroying them.

Venturing further in...

The Three Thousand Great Dao not only inflicts direct damage but is also a blend of three thousand forces, as if smelted into a single entity under high pressure.

Anyone venturing into it faces continual assaults from the Three Thousand Great Dao.

This terrifying assault, so powerful, even the Evil Gods cannot fully dissolve it, and the Great Powers fare no better.

In less than just a few days of traversing, the speed of the few Evil Gods has noticeably slowed.

Like a blue giant star, the Evil God You Lan is exerting itself to compress its massive form, shrunk to less than a hundred miles in size; yet even so, under the intensely condensed impact of the Three Thousand Great Dao, their body still melts away rapidly like ice and snow exposed under the Fierce Sun.

The Great Dao is like a sword that at times even pierces through their Evil God body, injuring Gu Jinlai encapsulated within the Evil God body.

...

When the loss of the Evil God body amounts to the damage equivalent to several days of direct assault from a Supreme Powerhouse, Yuan Huang first urged: "Isn’t that enough? Are we not supposed to confront the authority of the Daoist Ancestors directly?"

Venerable Xuan Tian didn’t reply, instead turned his gaze to Gu Jinlai.

It seemed like he was reminding him if he was prepared.

But Gu Jinlai’s expression turned somewhat peculiar.

He looked towards the direction of the Cosmic Core, seemingly...

Lost in thought.

Since the time Gu Jinlai successfully broke through to the Silent Annihilation Realm years ago, he entered into a kind of dazed state.

That state...

In the original terminology, is called neither living nor dead.

Transforming from life to death, from death to life, continuously evolving.

However, Gu Jinlai thought, using another term would be more appropriate.

Chaos not yet opened.

And indeed in that wondrous state, his perception suddenly became immensely clear.

He telepathically sensed the one after another of himself constantly merging in "parallel space-times."

He sensed he had seemingly ventured into the core region of the Cosmic.

He saw clearly the majestic silhouettes, and, as he approached those figures, the overwhelming endless fear, and the destruction and void that transcended life and death.

However, strangely...

Within those fears, destruction, and void, something seemed to be calling to him, beckoning him to cast aside everything and make a daring gamble.

And presently, when he was on the brink of arriving at the depths of the Cosmic Core, this telepathy suddenly became immeasurably distinct.

Not only was that Power of Destruction within reach, that call too became extremely clear.

So clear that...

Even without using Qingguang, his perception still drifted outward, traversing the Void, the Three Thousand Great Dao, passing by one Daoist Ancestor after another, gazing toward the very core of the cosmic— it was...

The starry sky!

A mosaic of resplendent stars, an infinite expanse of the cosmic starry sky!

...

"Buzz buzz!"

The azure-blue light was suddenly torn apart.

The power of the Three Thousand Great Dao, condensed to the extreme, ripped through the body of the Evil God, radiating brilliantly upon Gu Jinlai, swiftly detaching him from that peculiar state.

Immediately after, he heard Ancient Desolation’s Divine Sense fluctuating: "We can’t proceed any further! Xuanhuang..."

At this, Gu Jinlai suddenly became alert.

And at that moment, the Venerable Xuan Tian, known as Xuanhuang, having witnessed Gu Jinlai awaken, knowing he could no longer hide it, had no choice but to say: "Then here it is, now..."

With those words, his body, which had always been the smallest, suddenly expanded, its diameter of a hundred miles rapidly ballooning under the impact of the Three Thousand Great Dao...

A thousand miles!

Ten thousand miles!

One hundred thousand miles!

Venerable Xuan Tian’s body bloated to thirty thousand miles, eventually, because the power was too dispersed, it couldn’t withstand the impact of the Three Thousand Great Dao, swiftly destroyed and refined.

Ancient Desolation, Yuan Huang, and Firewood were somewhat confused.

But Venerable Xuan Tian calmly said to Gu Jinlai: "You go."

In the next moment, his massive body, expanded to thirty thousand miles, suddenly swept up Ancient Desolation, Yuan Huang, and Firewood, pulling them down directly towards the Cosmic Core.

"Xuanhuang! What are you doing!?"

"You want to challenge the authority of the Daoist Ancestors!? Don’t involve us!"

Yuan Huang, Firewood’s will were filled with rage.

"Venerable Xuan Tian!"

Gu Jinlai stared at the blue light ball that swept across the three Evil Gods...

At this moment, he seemed to think of a planet carrying the gravitational field with three other planets, crashing toward the Sun.

He...

No longer wished to revolve around the Sun day after day, year after year.

He wanted to destroy the Sun!

Or perhaps...

Be devoured by the Sun!

"Xuanhuang! What exactly are you doing!?"

Yuan Huang roared, anger flooding his voice.

"Can’t you see? He’s already gone mad! Or... he no longer seeks the path of the Primordial Trinity Three Saints Realm! He... just wants to face the Dao Ancestor with us together!"

Firewood Tao said.

"Tear Him apart."

Ancient Desolation decisively began to expand its body rapidly, blue light spilling from it, quickly bursting and tearing apart the body of Xuanhuang, causing its Evil God body to begin collapsing on a large scale.

Venerable Xuan Tian seemed to be unaware of his body being torn apart by the erupting three Evil Gods bit by bit.

He looked at Gu Jinlai, very calm.

"Go."

Gu Jinlai hesitated no more, turning and fleeing from the Cosmic Core at the fastest speed.

"Xuanhuang! We were wrong about you..."

Yuan Huang was both shocked and furious.

"He has already been devoured by emptiness, lost his sanity, forget about Him, tear Him apart, seize the Primordial Reincarnation Body!"

Ancient Desolation remained extremely calm.

Even though in the environment of the Heart of the Cosmic Core, when they rapidly expanded themselves, it meant that the attacks they endured would be more numerous and denser, but now...

They could no longer care about that.

The powerful Evil God bodies stretched freely, a blue giant star like the Sun once again illuminated the star sky.

The eerie blue light once overshadowed the ultimate condensed powers of the Three Thousand Great Dao.

"Buzz buzz!"

As Venerable Xuan Tian’s Evil God body was quickly burst open, he was like a broken rag doll, torn apart piece by piece.

The torn pieces faced the ultimate condensed Three Thousand Great Dao in the challenging environment of the Cosmic Core, inexorably transforming into nothingness.

"Truly courting death."

Yuan Huang snorted coldly.

"Go intercept the Primordial Reincarnation Body!"

Ancient Desolation said.

At once, he and Firewood moved their massive bodies, enduring the harsh environment of the Cosmic Core, rapidly chasing after Gu Jinlai.

This pursuit lasted for a good while, and as they reached their usual area of activity, over a dozen vast auras cleaved through the void, arriving with the power of riding the wind and breaking the waves.

Among them, a ray of Immortal Light almost eclipsed the eerie blue emitted by the Evil God bodies, piercing through the Evil God bodies of Ancient Desolation and Firewood from countless miles away.

"Human Clan Great Powerhouses!"

"Creation!"

Feeling these auras and powers, the emotions of Ancient Desolation and Firewood finally fluctuated.

Faint anger emerged.

"Do you want to start a war?"

Their response was the unwavering confrontation of the Human Clan Great Powerhouses.

"It is you who want to start a war!"

...

Venerable Xuan Tian could no longer sense any of the changes here.

He couldn’t be bothered to care anymore.

At this time, he maneuvered his somewhat tattered Evil God body, enduring the forces around that almost calcined him completely, moving forward, forward...

Continuously forward!

Finally...

The Three Thousand Tao Ancestors, once only visible at a distance, were close!

Even closer!

Still closer!

Venerable Xuan Tian slightly widened his eyes.

He seemed to want to clearly see what everything truly was.

The Three Thousand Tao Ancestors!

This universe!

And...

More things...

Vaguely, he seemed to have touched some authority that belonged only to the Tao Ancestors.

Then...

A Tao Ancestor seemed to cast a gaze over from the very center of the Cosmic Core.

At the moment his gaze was cast, Venerable Xuan Tian clearly sensed his Evil God body dissolving at a speed thousands, tens of thousands of times faster than when being burst and torn by Yuan Huang, Ancient Desolation, and Firewood.

Dissolving along with it were his thoughts, his consciousness, and...

His concept of "existence".

Everything was dissipating.

And before everything completely dissipated, he finally saw clearly something.

The Cosmic!

Their Cosmic was connected to another Cosmic!

A Cosmic more magnificent, splendid, vast and infinite than theirs.

And...

Devouring!

Their Cosmic was frenziedly devouring another Cosmic!