Chapter 314: Awakening of the Demon Abyss

The sky of the Jiuxuan Realm was like a polluted canvas, smeared with thick black and ominous blood‑red.

In Li Hu's tactical helmet, the alert sound for battlefield environment analysis had shifted from a rapid buzz to a continuous, unending shriek.

Warning! The concentration of the 'demon qi' field has exceeded the threshold; the energy shield law's deflection efficiency has dropped to 41%!

Warning! Unit K‑7 of Formation No. 3's battle armor is suffering unknown law erosion; the life‑support system logic is corrupted!

A rogue soldier's dark‑gold armor sprouted twisted blood‑colored nodules, each bearing a single eye full of venom and madness, staring fixedly at its master.

The soldier let out a muffled grunt and activated the armor's self‑destruct protocol; a sphere of pure white light purified him and the surrounding filth.

This was the seventh 'combat loss' since the battle began.

The zero‑casualty myth was shattered.

Li Hu's face was as black as a pot bottom.

These demon cultivators were not intelligent beings at all, but a swarm of virus‑controlled suicide bombs.

They were fearless of death; each individual would detonate itself at the brink of death, turning into a cloud of highly polluting demon qi that corroded the Lawbreaker Legion's 'Absolute Rationality' defense line.

The Legion's Law Rifle can erase them conceptually, but erasing one instantly summons ten to fill the gap.

Endless.

"Boss, the 'virus' here is more stubborn than we estimated."

Li Hu sent a briefing to Wang Zhize: "They possess self‑replication and high contagion, attempting to rewrite our underlying protocols. Request higher‑level 'format' command."

……

The newborn realm, the core of a newly formed nebular star.

Wang Zhitao's body, larger than a stellar system, shifted restlessly.

A freshly coalesced blue gaseous planet was snapped apart by his careless tail, turning into dazzling cosmic dust.

"Brother…"

His thought became thunder, rolling within Wang Zhize's sea of consciousness.

"Hungry…"

"So fragrant…"

"That broken place called 'Jiuxuan Realm', that black thing hidden at the bottom, smells… smells even better than that 'Father of the Void' bone broth from last time!"

His saliva turned into two silver rivers spanning the star‑sea, within which countless newborn worlds were being born and dying.

He felt every cell scream, every gene roar, urging him to devour that pure, ancient source brimming with the fragrance of destruction and decay.

Wang Zhize's will remained calm and untroubled.

His gaze pierced dimensions, landing on Li Hu's stalemate battlefield and further on the bottomless Demon Abyss Core of the Jiuxuan Realm.

"The primordial world's cancer, feeding on 'destruction' and governed by 'decay'… indeed a perfect tonic for Tao."

He did not hesitate.

The supreme will transformed into the most fundamental decree of the cosmos.

"I define: the source of the Jiuxuan Realm's Demon Abyss and all its derived laws, energies, and lifeforms shall be designated fuel for the 'Wang Zhitao Exclusive Digestion Furnace.'"

"Permission granted, commence consumption."

Boom!!!

Above the Jiuxuan Sect, the sky stained with demon qi split without warning.

It was not a tear but a black glass shattered by an irresistible force at its center, spider‑web cracks instantly spreading across the heavens.

Immediately, all fragments collapsed inward, forming a 'hole' deeper than night and purer than void.

A colossal head, immeasurable by sight, slowly emerged from the opposite side of the hole.

What was that?

The surviving disciples of the Jiuxuan Sect, including Sect Master Xuanqing True Immortal, were left with blank minds.

They saw incomprehensible geometric structures, scales composed of stars, and teeth larger than mountains.

A single breath from that creature raised a world‑shaking hurricane, tossing the tens of thousands of demon cultivator troops below.

The Blood Demon Ancestor's grim smile froze.

He could not sense the beast's cultivation level, could not gauge its realm.

He only felt a pressure from the very source of life… a predator's dominance.

It was not a superior looking down on the weak.

It was a diner appraising a dish.

Roar——!!!

Wang Zhitao let out a joyous roar.

He opened his mouth.

That mouth seemed ready to swallow the entire world.

A terrifying suction erupted; the 'Ten Thousand Demons Devouring Immortals Array', a blood‑colored array that once blocked the sky, could not even hold for a second before it, along with the tens of thousands of demon cultivators below, was drawn in as a thick black torrent into Wang Zhitao's massive maw.

No chewing.

No screams.

Those demon lords that had driven Xuanqing True Immortal to despair for a millennium were, the instant they were sucked in, disintegrated and digested on the plane of existence, becoming purest energy.

Wang Zhitao's body visibly swelled a layer; on the star‑scale armor, strange blood‑colored demon patterns flickered, only to be immediately consumed and assimilated by deeper darkness.

He let out a satisfied belch.

The entire Jiuxuan Realm trembled violently.

And at that moment,

The world's demon qi boiled.

From the deep earth of the Nine Xuan Realm, an ancient, evil, terrifying will that dwarfs the Blood Demon Ancestor by billions of times has awakened.

"Who... has awakened me..."

The ground split, and what surged out was not magma but pure liquid darkness.

A colossal, sky‑piercing demon shadow rose slowly from the depths of the Earth Vein.

The Blood Demon Ancestor saw the demon shadow and first exclaimed ecstatically, "We warmly welcome the Demon God's arrival!"

But the next second, when the demon shadow's gaze swept over him, he felt his demon soul being frozen and crushed.

He understood instantly.

He was not a great demon cultivator at all; he was merely a speck of skin that fell from the true Demon God's body while it slept, accidentally gaining consciousness.

Ecstasy turned into boundless despair.

The towering demon shadow gradually coalesced into a vague yet imposing figure.

It is the very "Pathology" of this world—the Lord of the Demon Abyss.

"Outsider..."

The Lord of the Demon Abyss's voice rang directly in the souls of all living beings, bearing ancient, unchallengeable demonic laws.

"You have eaten my... food."

It extended a massive claw formed of pure destruction law and gently swiped toward Wang Zhitao.

A jet‑black demon light tore through space, charging straight at Wang Zhitao.

Where the demon light passed, time, space, light, law… everything Withered, decayed, and turned to void.

This is the law of the End!

Li Hu and his companions' battle armor went into frantic alarm; merely brushed by the demon light's aura, their Law Correctors began spewing massive garbled code.

Yet Wang Zhitao did not dodge; instead, he let out an even more exhilarated roar.

He surged forward, allowing the demon light to hammer his massive body.

Sizzle—

The area struck by the demon light saw its starry scales rapidly decay, flesh rotting, even sprouting wailing pus blisters and twisted limbs.

This is the Lord of the Demon Abyss's Assimilation law, aiming to turn Wang Zhitao into part of itself!

But Wang Zhitao's Devouring Primordial Overlord Body is utterly domineering!

The tainted flesh twisted for only an instant before it began to devour in reverse!

Those wailing pus blisters snapped open, becoming rows of massive mouths bristling with teeth, frantically tearing and devouring the End law contained in the demon light!

The rotting flesh healed anew, forming even sturdier armor that shimmered with dim demon light!

Wang Zhitao's power did not diminish but increased!

He treated the deadly poison as a potent tonic!

Newborn Realm.

In Wang Zhize's consciousness, a ripple of amusement surfaced.

"Interesting, it's not mere energy but a living law possessing 'Infection' and 'Assimilation' traits..."

"It seems this Nine Xuan Realm is more than just fertile ground."

"It itself is a massive, living 'Super Patch Pack'."

Above the battlefield, Li Hu watched the terrifying beast wrestling with the Demon God and growing stronger, and silently withdrew his just‑drafted Requested Tactical Nuclear Strike application.

He suddenly felt that his proud Lawbreaker Legion, before these two masters, might… truly be just a Demolition Engineering Team.

And the real battle has only just begun.