Chapter 330

The earth-traversing divine beast of the Demon-Suppressing Hall is called 【Earth Armor Carp】.

This creature has a huge body, boundless strength, can carry mountains while walking, also possesses earth-traversing divine abilities, excels at searching earth veins, can penetrate deep into the earth's organs, and seek out secluded wonders. The Demon-Suppressing Hall extensively breeds Earth Armor Carp, mainly to attack the various underground strongholds of the Fuxi Divine Kingdom.

The Earth Armor Carp has a peculiar trait: despite being such a huge beast, it is a social creature.

Moreover, they share a miraculous psychic link; if one Earth Armor Carp is killed, all Earth Armor Carp within tens of thousands of li can instantly sense it.

Wu Tie swallowed an Earth Armor Carp whole; his body, desperately needing external energy, instantly crushed and dissolved the beast into pure energy for absorption. Even an Earth Armor Carp over ten zhang long only relieved a thousandth of his cellular needs temporarily.

An invisible strange wave spread outward.

The Earth Armor Carp nearby searching all let out a dull roar simultaneously, causing violent tremors in the surrounding earth veins.

On the ground, one could see mountain after mountain of ten-thousand-zheight rising and falling, the mountains cracking, vast amounts of earth Qi spewing out, the land within a radius of ten thousand li undulating like water waves, a momentum shockingly grand.

Before the orders from the Demon-Suppressing Hall's high command could reach the underground soldiers, hundreds of Earth Armor Carp had already turned and rushed with all their might toward Wu Tie's location.

Ranging from over ten zhang to over a hundred zhang, with the largest nearly five or six hundred zhang in size, the Earth Armor Carp let out low growls; their huge eyes sprayed two beams of yellow light, and wherever the light passed, rock and soil became as insubstantial as air.

Their massive bodies moved through the rock layers with ease, their speed more than ten times faster than their previous leisurely search.

The cavern Wu Tie had opened was not large, about seven or eight zhang in radius.

Suddenly the cavern shuddered, with a boom, it expanded to several hundred zhang in size; several pointed heads of Earth Armor Carp poked out from the rock walls, their eyes spraying yellow light fixed tightly on Wu Tie's position.

Wu Tie protected his whole body with the Rebirth Tower, then entered a state of half-life, half-death, neither alive nor dead.

These Earth Armor Carp possess only brute strength and divine abilities; all of it is merely the gift of their ancestors' bloodline, they themselves do not comprehend the Dao, and are utterly ignorant of its workings.

They could sense that their kin had just died here, and the killer of their kin was in Wu Tie's direction. Yet they could not see Wu Tie, nor sense him. No matter how their eyes sprayed yellow light, they could never lock onto Wu Tie's form.

The Earth Armor Carp roared angrily, and groups of three to five Demon-Suppressing Army soldiers shot out from their huge mouths.

Wu Tie suddenly opened his eyes.

The Rebirth Tower released a black ripple, instantly sweeping over the cavern expanded by the Earth Armor Carp's divine ability; dozens of Demon-Suppressing Army soldiers died instantly, and Wu Tie flipped his right hand, crushing them to powder.

He opened his mouth and drew a deep breath; the armor, weapons, storage treasures left by those soldiers, as well as the various spirit pills and other resources inside those treasures, all vanished into Wu Tie's mouth in an instant, instantly ground to dust by his immense internal pressure, turning into vast streams of energy that flowed into his whole body.

More than ten Earth Armor Carp roared in unison; before they could launch an attack, Wu Tie opened his mouth and sucked hard again.

More than ten Earth Armor Carp, each up to thirty-odd zhang long, struggled wildly, being involuntarily pulled by Wu Tie from the hard rock strata and gulped into his huge mouth while howling.

Their scales shattered, flesh vanished; the Earth Armor Carp directly turned into streams of majestic energy, which Wu Tie's rapidly evolving body instantly devoured.

"Not enough, not enough, more, more!" Wu Tie's eyes glowed green; hunger, an indescribable emptiness, spread from every cell. The essence of Wu Qu Star power continued to merge into his body, and his body underwent rapid evolution, rapid mutation, rapid strengthening.

No strength comes overnight.

Any strength requires vast resources.

Just as a tiny fertilized egg grows into a giant whale.

Just as a tiny seed grows into a thousand-zhang tall giant tree.

Sunlight, rain, soil, fertilizer… ultimately, strength demands vast resources.

Wu Tie's body trembled slightly; he produced all his hoarded Giant Divine Weapon fragments, opened his mouth and sucked hard, and the fragments turned into streams of light that flowed into his body.

A massive heat surge arose in his bones, then was swiftly devoured by his withered flesh cells; Wu Tie's body felt roughly 'full' for a breath, then quickly fell back into a state of hunger.

Wu Tie's eyes glowed even greener; he stared hard at the Rebirth Tower, finally using sheer willpower to stop himself from looking at it.

This is a treasure, cannot be swallowed.

Moreover, this treasure is too formidable; Wu Tie reckoned he currently lacks the ability to do anything to the Rebirth Tower.

He looked at the thick surrounding rock layers.

Speaking of it, whether rock or soil, their essence is also part of the Great Dao, part of the world's composition, and part of the primordial energy of heaven and earth—only the primordial energy stored in soil and rock is naturally not as pure and vast as that of primal and immortal herbs.

If it truly won't work, swallowing tens of thousands of mountain peaks would also be quite good.

Wu Tie was itching to try, wanting to swallow the rock layer above his head in one bite to see if it could temporarily meet his body's rapid consumption.

A low, rumbling howl came from all directions; hundreds of big and small earth-armored catfish roared as they burst out of the rock walls. Their eyes were bloodshot, two yellow beams shooting far away, fixed tightly on Wu Tie's position.

Nearly a thousand elite soldiers of the Demon-Suppressing Temple leapt from the mouths of the earth-armored catfish, one of them holding a cyan-glazed treasure mirror, from which a cyan light swept wildly around.

Wu Tie laughed, then let out a low, stern rebuke.

Without using the Tower of Reincarnation, Wu Tie's own comprehension of the mystery of life and death reincarnation let out a cry of 'Voice of Death,' instantly killing nearly a thousand elite Demon-Suppressing troops; Wu Tie still slapped them, annihilating their bodies, then swallowed all their equipment.

An earth-armored catfish a hundred zhang long surged out of the rock wall, opening its mouth to reveal an inner core the size of a water jar, its whole body wrapped in yellow light, emitting a low rumble like thunder as it shot toward Wu Tie like lightning.

This earth-armored catfish is at least a thousand years old; this inner core is the power core condensed by its bloodline secret technique.

Given its enormous size, the energy stored in this inner core, forged through a thousand years of arduous cultivation, is almost comparable to the total power contained in a thousand immortal herbs.

Wu Tie laughed 'haha,' opened his mouth, and swallowed the inner core that had come to him of its own accord in one gulp.

Pure power as vast as the Yangtze River surged through his body, circling from head to toe, then was completely devoured by the finest particles of his flesh.

His severely withered and hungry body felt temporary relief; Wu Tie grabbed at the empty air before him with both hands and roared, 'Come all!'

Hundreds of big and small earth-armored catfish howled as Wu Tie seized them all at once; they were forced to fly toward him, their bodies rapidly shrinking until, by the time they reached his mouth, each had become thumb-sized, which he swallowed in one gulp.

The surrounding rock walls shuddered violently, and the cavern Wu Tie had opened was expanded by a tremendous force to a radius of a thousand zhang.

Several hundred earth-armored catfish simultaneously poked their heads out of the rock walls; the three largest, each five to six hundred zhang long, spewed yellow smoke from their mouths, spat out hundreds of Demon-Suppressing Temple elites, then hurled three inner cores ten zhang in diameter at Wu Tie.

The elite Demon-Suppressing Temple troops held in the mouths of these three largest earth-armored catfish were all masters of the Life Pond realm, with the three leaders even being half a step into the Embryo Treasury realm.

Wu Tie let out a loud roar, raised his right fist, and struck the Tower of Reincarnation with all his might.

The mana crystals stored in the Life Pond instantly burned away, and all of Wu Tie's mana poured into the Tower of Reincarnation. The small tower, only a few cun tall, suddenly swelled to over a zhang in height; rings of black death ripples, carrying a terrifying sense of annihilation, swept instantly through the entire cavern.

Hundreds of earth-armored catfish had just opened their mouths, and varying numbers of Demon-Suppressing Temple elites rushed out.

The death ripples swept over, and these Demon-Suppressing Temple elites, together with the experts who had leapt from the mouths of the three largest earth-armored catfish, instantly lost their lives.

Wu Tie followed the same pattern to annihilate their bodies—he was still unable to swallow living people whole.

Likewise, hundreds of other earth-armored catfish died instantly under the Tower of Reincarnation's terrifying power; Wu Tie opened his mouth and swallowed the three inner cores that had come to him in one gulp, then all the equipment on the Demon-Suppressing Temple elites, and all the earth-armored catfish flew up, which he swallowed in one mouthful.

It seemed as if a hundred volcanoes were erupting simultaneously inside Wu Tie's body, and his physique faintly began to swell.

Giant silhouettes kept appearing behind Wu Tie, their movements myriad, their forms strange and varied, yet each emanated an awe-inspiring power. They seemed to have crossed time from the head of the ancient river of time, leaving their shadows in the torrent of qi and blood behind Wu Tie.

Countless strange insights into the Great Dao surged in Wu Tie's mind.

These Great Dao insights, when Wu Tie broke through to the Chonglou Realm, he had already fully 'recognition'!

But Wu Tie has not trained long; he lacks the time to individually comprehend and master these Great Dao mysteries.

But Wu Tie's blood boiled; each additional giant appearing behind him, from his constantly refined and strengthened blood, a rich Great Dao sensation was directly etched into his soul.

The Harvest Tree was busy beyond measure.

He ceaselessly drew massive energy from the void; part of it was to supply Wu Tie's rapidly transforming body, but Wu Tie's Life Pool and soul likewise roared madly, demanding more energy from the Harvest Tree.

Wu Tie's soul had become blindingly radiant; countless strands of Great Dao insight corresponding to the giants behind him turned into light dragons, speeding through his soul, constantly imprinting upon it his own Great Dao aura and Dao markings.

Wu Tie's cultivation realm advanced rapidly, his comprehension of various heavenly Dao mysteries continually deepening.

Mana crystals, like the Nine Heavens Galaxy pouring backward, continuously sprayed from Wu Tie's soul and fell into the Life Pool.

Consumption, consumption, enormous consumption.

The deeper Wu Tie's soul grasped the Heaven-Earth Great Dao, the more vast the worldly primordial energy needed to condense mana and inscribe Great Dao mysteries became.

Fortunately, as his cultivation deepened and his mana cultivation rose, the Harvest Tree's power gradually awakened and strengthened; its roots, stems, and branches strained to extend into the void's deepest depths, devouring and transforming worldly primordial energy at a speed at least dozens of times faster than before, barely keeping up with Wu Tie's consumption.

But gradually, Wu Tie's soul transmitted excruciating pain.

Wu Tie's perceptiveness, or rather his soul's spirituality, could no longer support such a terrifying 'insight speed'.

The Great Dao mysteries welling from Wu Tie's blood were like red-hot branding irons; each inscription inflicted immense pain upon his soul.

Wu Tie's perceptiveness had reached its limit; his speed of comprehending Great Dao mysteries could not be increased even a bit.

Yet the incessant surge of Great Dao mysteries struck his soul, causing countless ripples; his soul could shatter at any moment, becoming a living corpse.

Wu Tie unhesitatingly took out a vial of Literary Star Power Essence, tilted the bottle, and a stream of Literary Star Power Essence dripped onto his head accompanied by a clear celestial sound.

Wu Tie's soul suddenly emitted a brilliant light of myriad zhang, then rapidly contracted and condensed, swiftly transforming from a hazy misty state to a near-solid state.

Martial Star Power tempers the flesh; Literary Star Power elevates the soul.

Or rather, Martial Star Power represents the Dao of Power, while Literary Star Power represents the Dao of Wisdom.

Wu Tie's soul and body simultaneously underwent mutation; the Harvest Tree spasmed almost maniacally, its speed of devouring worldly primordial energy redoubled.

Wu Tie's flesh and soul both transmitted a terrifying 'hunger-thirst' sensation; the starvation emanating from the depths of his soul turned his pupils green, his intellect nearly utterly obliterated.

"Give them all to me, come over!"

Wu Tie sprang to his feet, thrusting both hands fiercely toward the sky.

The thousand-li-thick rock layers above shook violently, huge cracks continually appearing; thousands of Demon-Suppressing Hall elites using Earth Escape Divine Ability to rush toward Wu Tie's position cried out in unison, being pulled by a tremendous suction along those cracks to stand before him.

The weakest among them were at the advanced stage of the Life Pool Realm, while the strongest were six commanders who had just entered the Embryo Storage Realm.

Wu Tie laughed "haha", and behind him a phantom giant wielding a wooden staff surged from the qi-blood torrent, smashing its club into the six Embryo Storage Realm commanders.

Six Embryo Storage Realm!

Although not the ultimate strong ones, merely ordinary Embryo Storage Realm, after all they were six great Embryo Storage Realm!

Just one strike, and the six Embryo Storage Realm masters were shattered to pieces.

Wu Tie spat out a flame; their flesh and bone remnants were burned to clean ashes, then their armor, war skirts, boots, weapons, and even their storage treasures on them were swallowed clean by him in one gulp.

"And you!" Wu Tie's grim-green eyes locked fixedly on the thousands of Life Pool Realm Demon-Suppressing Army before him, dumbstruck.

"You…… how could you do that?" Wu Tie murmured: "You all deserve to die…… so many lives, condensed into soul crystals…… how could you do this?"

"You, all deserve to die!"

So, go die then.

Wu Tie's grasp of the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Dao mysteriously surged greatly, his mastery of the Rebirth Tower's sacrificial refinement mysteriously reached about thirty percent.

He lightly flicked his finger; a faint glow flashed on the Rebirth Tower's surface, the bodies of thousands of Life Pool Realm elites stiffened and simultaneously died.

Wu Tie opened his mouth and drew a deep breath; thousands of sets of equipment, thousands of storage treasures, together with the vast resources inside, were all swallowed by him in one gulp.

Inside his body, all bones moved in unison, continually emitting thunderous booms.

His soul shone even more brilliantly, faintly coated with a Liuli luster.

With a tremendous roar, the upper thousand-li-thick rock layers of the subterranean cavern shattered; a dozen-odd Barbarian God Giants, low growling, clad in heavy armor leapt down from high altitude and silently launched a frenzied assault on Wu Tie.