Chapter 472: Forceful Annihilation

【Xiao Yan: This time, the group owner personally stepped forward to confront the Heart Demon Lord—those mighty beings in the Nuwa faction must be completely stunned!】

【Pang Bo: Not just the Nuwa faction—even the Source Elder and the Wujian faction’s elites must be utterly baffled right now!】

【Han Li: This is truly unreasonable! They’d never imagine the group owner came here at Beishan’s invitation to aid the Nuwa faction!】

【Ye Chen: Of course not! The mighty ones of the Three Realms aren’t fools, but they’ve never encountered a group like this—they simply can’t fathom the group owner’s true intent.】

【Xiao Yan: Who do you think is stronger—the group owner or the Heart Demon Lord?】

【Pang Bo: Obviously the group owner!】

【Han Li: I agree! The group owner never fights without preparation! Remember the Star-Annihilating Grand Master? To us back then, his power was terrifying—yet he still fell to the group owner’s hands.】

【Han Li: Our cultivation bases have grown significantly over these years, and the group owner’s power must have surged even further—defeating the Heart Demon Lord should be easy.】

Watching the group’s casual chatter, Lu Qingshan felt a deep sense of reflection.

In fact, since joining the group, his cultivation base had risen dramatically—even faster than most others in the group.

But this rapid growth was entirely due to the enormous time-flow disparity between the Consuming Star World and the group.

After joining the group, Lu Qingshan had already cultivated for hundreds of billions of eons.

This span of time far exceeded the combined cultivation time of everyone else in the group.

Of course, this situation also stemmed largely from the unique cultivation system of the Consuming Star World.

After all, even Luo Feng—the prodigy of the original novel—who slew the Jieshou and then cultivated for over sixty trillion eons, while constantly observing the Jieshou King’s use of “Great Annihilation,” progressed at a painfully slow pace.

Luo Feng truly revealed his terrifying cultivation speed only after arriving on the Origin Continent.

On the Origin Continent, even beyond the Source World, Luo Feng encountered almost no obstacles and naturally reached the Hunyuan Lord realm—using the path of brute force to shatter laws, a feat unmatched among all Lords in the cultivation camp.

Meanwhile, as the group members chatted idly…

In the boundless void of the Manghuang Ji World.

Sensing Lu Qingshan’s terrifying aura, the Heart Demon Lord immediately turned toward him and coldly asked: “Lord of All Worlds, who are you? Why are you serving the Nuwa faction so zealously?”

“Hahaha!”

Lu Qingshan burst into laughter: “I’m not serving anyone—I merely wish to witness your Heart Demon Dao!”

“Of course, if your power is too weak, you’ll perish in my hands!”

“You dare!”

Upon hearing Lu Qingshan’s words, the Heart Demon Lord flew into a rage.

He was the supreme king of the Wujian Chaos Universe—when Nuwa once ascended to the World God realm, he never bowed.

Now that his power had surged, his earlier willingness to negotiate with Lu Qingshan was merely to avoid unnecessary trouble—not because he feared him.

So upon hearing such arrogance, the Heart Demon Lord erupted in fury, unleashing his divine power and manifesting six raging rivers in the surrounding void.

Boom! Boom! Boom…

The six raging rivers surged toward Lu Qingshan, their power making every observer tremble.

At that moment, Lu Qingshan swung his longsword, unleashing six brilliant sword beams.

The six sword beams exploded simultaneously, slicing directly toward the six rivers.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With deep, thunderous roars, the six surging rivers clashed violently with the six brilliant sword beams.

A terrifying shockwave erupted in all directions; many ordinary Dao Ancestors could only survive by relying on massive arrays.

“This power…”

Feeling the terrifying might within the sword beams, the Heart Demon Lord’s expression shifted slightly.

Each of the six rivers he conjured could easily suppress top-tier Ancestral Gods; together, their power was overwhelming.

Yet this Lord of All Worlds had merely slashed six sword beams to block his full assault—how could the Heart Demon Lord, who had believed himself capable of sweeping all opponents, accept this?

As the Heart Demon Lord’s mind raced with thoughts, Lu Qingshan, far away, already charged toward him, sword in hand.

“Damn Lord of All Worlds!”

The Heart Demon Lord growled, transforming into six rivers once more, charging straight at Lu Qingshan.

“The Heart Demon Lord’s power is indeed formidable!”

Lu Qingshan countered his attacks while silently thinking: “In terms of understanding Dao—or even laws—he surpasses me!”

“I’m only holding him off because he hails from an ordinary chaos world and lacks any powerful cultivation methods.”

After all, cultivation methods in the Three Realms are extremely crude in the Manghuang Ji World.

Even the best Qi Refining method in the Three Realms can only produce a third-rank Golden Core, meaning Pure Yang True Immortals’ magic power barely matches that of first-rank Celestial Immortals from the chaos realms;

The Divine-Mortal cultivation methods are somewhat better, yet they lack mastery of powerful divine arts, leaving them far inferior to other chaos races.

For example, in the original novel, even Ji Ning—who slew the Source Elder in the final battle—had no greater understanding of Dao than the Three Pure Ones or Buddha Sakyamuni; his near-World God power came from two factors: first, reaching the Ancestral God realm; second, mastering the powerful divine art “Tao Wu Eighteen Divine Demons,” fusing all his avatars into one, granting him divine power far exceeding other Ancestral Gods, enabling him to slay the Source Elder.

As for understanding Dao, the Heart Demon Lord—who had now broken free from the Heavenly Dao—is unquestionably the strongest in the Three Realms.

On the other side, seeing the Heart Demon Lord entirely held back by Lu Qingshan alone, Feng Mo quickly developed an intention to retreat.

After all, the Wujian faction’s overall strength was far weaker than Nuwa’s; he had expected the Heart Demon Lord’s surge in power to annihilate Nuwa’s top leaders—but now he was being held by the Lord of All Worlds.

That’s why Feng Mo now wanted to retreat.

Since everyone was distracted by the battle between Lu Qingshan and the Heart Demon Lord, Feng Mo swiftly began gathering the Wujian faction’s elites.

The Nuwa faction’s elites soon noticed this.

“Feng Mo is preparing to flee with the Wujian faction’s forces!”

Sanqing, who managed the Nuwa’s Heaven-Mending Array, immediately whispered to Nuwa’s high-ranking members: “Should we stop them?”

“I think we should wait and observe.”

Sui Ren Shi, the foremost of the Three Sovereigns of Humanity, replied: “Feng Mo’s speed is unmatched—even Nuwa herself failed to kill him. Even if we stop him from rescuing his people, we’d only kill a few more—and make him even more hostile toward us!”

“Besides, our greatest threat right now is still the Heart Demon Lord! Though he’s currently held by the Lord of All Worlds, who knows what the latter truly intends?”

“So I believe we should preserve our strength, observe quietly, and prepare for any crisis that may come.”

“Agreed!”

“I support Sui Ren Shi’s view!”

After hearing his whisper, Nuwa’s mighty beings all nodded in agreement.

On the other side…

Noticing Feng Mo’s actions, the Heart Demon Lord immediately whispered to him: “Feng Mo, what are you doing?”

“Heart Demon!”

Feng Mo whispered back: “I won’t dwell on your role in this catastrophe—but now that you’re held by the Lord of All Worlds, our side can’t match Nuwa’s!”

“We’ve already lost. We must retreat. Hold him off a little longer—I’ll gather all our forces, then take you with me.”

“What a joke!”

The Heart Demon Lord coldly replied: “Feng Mo, we already retreated once during the Great Annihilation—now we retreat again?”

“And do you truly believe I can’t defeat this Lord of All Worlds?”