Living in the deep palace

[Origin: The Devouring Emperor]!
This title wasn't bestowed by Heaven, nor granted by the gods. Rather, it was an absolute reputation forged by Su Chen's colossal maw, devoured from the vast void of the universe!

Listening to the resounding chants of worship that echoed through the vast void, and gazing upon the primordial offerings that filled the starry sky.

Standing behind Su Chen, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Corpse Lord were so excited that their demonic blood boiled. They both knelt on the ground, roaring fervently, "Welcome to the Origin Devouring Emperor! The Supreme Ruler of All Realms!!!"

however.

Sitting on the throne, Su Chen's arrogant face did not show much joy in ruling the world.

He slowly stood up and walked to the very edge of the Divine Court.

Looking down at the countless world lords kneeling like ants from his high vantage point, Su Chen's eyes held a cold indifference that chilled the entire world.

"The Origin of the Devouring Emperor?"

Su Chen gently savored the title, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his lips.

"Do you think that by offering up these withered and sour world essences and bestowing upon me a mere empty title, I will take pity on you and spare your lives?"

Upon hearing this, the trillions of world lords in the Taixu Star Sea were so frightened that they were struck by lightning. Countless people collapsed on the spot, and some were even so frightened that their souls shattered!

He won't accept surrender?! Even offering the whole world wouldn't be enough to satisfy his appetite?!
"but……"

Just as the myriad realms were plunged into deathly silence and despair, Su Chen changed the subject.

"I have just eaten ten main dishes. If I were to stuff you skin and bones into my mouth now, it would only spoil the lingering flavor of the fine broth in my mouth."

Su Chen's voice, amplified by the Seventh Realm's Great Dao Laws, was like an unparalleled divine decree, clearly reaching the ears of every Realm Lord.

"I am not only a diner, but also a herdsman who knows how to run a business."

"Today, I will take in you lowly wretch!"

With a wave of his hand, Su Chen unfurled a purple-gold scroll encompassing half of the Great Void in the void behind him, imprinted with the domineering and incomparable origin totem of the Eternal Heaven!
"From this day forward, there will be no more Realm Lords or Heavenly Dao in the Great Void!"

"All these countless worlds of yours are merely breeding farms under the name of this [Eternal Heaven]!"

"You are all livestock and vegetables raised by me! Go back and nurture your Heavenly Dao properly, and frantically reproduce your blood and qi!"

A chillingly greedy red light shot from Su Chen's eyes, and his voice was like ancient demonic thunder!
"I've gained weight, and my blood and energy are flowing freely!"

"I, the true self, will take my sword and go to your world... to reap the [ingredients]!!!"

"If I were to discover that any world has become thin or weak..."

"I will throw that world, along with its billions of living beings, into a cesspool to rot!!!"

Cruel! Overbearing! Utterly unreasonable exploitation!
But to the kneeling realm lords, it was simply the most beautiful celestial music in the world!
I don't have to die immediately! As long as I desperately try to fatten up my world, I can survive! Although I've become this emperor's "buffet restaurant," it's still better than being swallowed whole right now!
"We kowtow in gratitude to the Devouring Emperor for sparing our lives!! We will certainly devote ourselves wholeheartedly to nourishing the creatures within this realm, so that the Emperor may enjoy them in the future!!!"

The Lord of the Trillion Realms wept bitterly and kowtowed frantically in the void to express his gratitude.

Watching the absurd yet grand ceremony of submission below, Su Chen returned to his throne, somewhat bored.

Although this pond in the void was larger than that in the lower realm, it was eventually emptied by him.

"The higher you climb, the colder it gets; days without meat to eat are truly as lonely as snow..."

Su Chen raised his head, his divine eyes piercing through the dome of the void, looking into the unknown void that was higher and deeper than all the heavens and myriad worlds.

After devouring the origins of the Ten Realms, his seventh-realm perfected physical body faintly sensed that there seemed to be an even more ancient and higher-dimensional "aura" above this void.

"Hun Tian, ​​clean up this mess."

Su Chen gently tapped the armrest of the throne with his bone knife, the gluttonous fire in his eyes stirring once more.

"We're tired of eating wild game from Taixu."

"Next, I must find out who planted this vegetable garden in the myriad realms of the Great Void..."

"I'll see if the legendary brain of the Creator can allow me... to step into that indescribable eighth realm!!!"

……

……

Time flies like an arrow, leaving no trace in the vast emptiness.

Countless years have passed since that "world-destroying banquet" that shocked the heavens and turned the ten top realms into a thick soup in a cauldron.

The current Taixu Star Sea presents an extremely bizarre mix of "prosperity" and "deathly stillness".

Its prosperity stems from the unprecedented will to survive unleashed by the countless remaining small and medium-sized worlds, threatened with death by Su Chen's words, "Fatten them up before you eat them." The various realm lords not only ceased their wars and internal strife, but also desperately nurtured the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, frantically accelerating the growth of their realm's rare treasures and the life force of its inhabitants.

The entire Taixu is like a super pig farm, afraid that its owner will think it's not fat enough, with every "pig" desperately trying to fatten itself up.

It was deathly silent because within this vast void, there was no longer any voice daring to defy the Eternal Heaven or make a sound. Any movement that crossed the line would attract the overwhelming slaughter of the Eternal Heaven's demonic army, as well as the gaze of the Great Emperor sitting atop the vast void, a gaze capable of swallowing up galaxies.

"Ugh……"

A long, lonely sigh, filled with endless emptiness, slowly drifted down from the purple-gold divine court of the Eternal Heaven, which floated in the very center of the void.

This sigh, though not deliberately imbued with the laws of the Great Dao, still stirred up a chaotic storm in the vast void, causing all worlds to tremble. Countless world lords, upon hearing this sigh, were terrified, thinking that the Devouring Emperor was hungry again and was about to come to their world to "harvest."

Above the Divine Court.

Su Chen leaned lazily against the supreme throne, which was shaped from the spine of a god-king. His green robe was spotless, and his skin, which shimmered with the colors of the primordial void, exuded an absolute indifference that transcended birth and death and reigned supreme over all ages under the starlight of the void.

In his hand, he was idly playing with a "walnut" formed from the essence of more than a dozen small worlds, casually fiddling with it in his palm, making a muffled cracking sound.

"Boring. Absolutely tedious."

Su Chen casually crushed the primordial walnut into powder, letting it fall through his fingers. In his unfathomable eyes, a rare hint of boredom flickered across his face.

"I originally thought that this vast universe would allow my mouth to chew properly for several epochs." "Who would have thought that it was nothing but rotten meat that looked good but was useless. After eating those few barely edible dishes, even if these leftover scraps were stuffed into my mouth, I would find them too disgusting to eat."

Su Chen stuck out his tongue and licked his slightly dry lips. The [Nirvana Divine Heart] in his abdomen emitted an extremely faint rumble, representing hunger.

He was hungry.

However, this hunger is not a need to fill the void of qi and blood, but an instinctive rejection of the food in this low-dimensional universe after one's life level has reached the "Seventh Realm - Perfection of the Great Dao Venerable Position"!

This is like asking a gourmand who is used to eating dragon liver and phoenix marrow to eat tree bark and grass roots; it would be worse than killing him!

"This pond in the void is too shallow, and the fish are too small; they're not even enough to fill a tooth gap." Su Chen frowned slightly. The gluttonous fire that had been suppressed deep within him began to surge wildly within his body because it couldn't find an outlet.

"Lord..."

Just as Su Chen was feeling irritated, a very faint sound of bones grinding came from below the throne.

The Skeleton Lord, with his skeletal body sculpted from white jade, held a gray stone tablet that exuded an extremely ancient aura, even transcending the laws of this primordial void, and crawled forward tremblingly on his knees.

Ever since Su Chen stepped into the seventh realm, the "appetite" that he unconsciously exuded made even his trusted confidants, like the Skeleton Lord, feel a chill run down their spines, fearing that their master might not be able to resist and would treat them, his subordinates, like bones to be devoured.

"What is it?" Su Chen slightly raised his eyelids, his voice indifferent.

"Your Majesty! These past few days, I led my troops to clear an ancient ruin on the edge of the Great Void, a place said to have existed even before the Great Void was created. At the deepest part of the ruins, I unearthed this stone slab of unknown origin!"

The Skeleton Lord raised the gray stone slab high with both hands, the ghostly flames in his empty eye sockets flickering violently, and his voice carried a hint of barely concealed excitement.

"The material of this stone slab was so fine that even the most powerful demonic tribulation fire could not harm it in the slightest! What's even more bizarre is that it contains a legend about the end of this void, recorded in symbols even more ancient than innate Daoist script!"

"legend?"

Upon hearing this, a glimmer of light finally flashed in Su Chen's eyes. He reached out and grabbed the gray stone slab, which instantly fell into his palm.

The moment his fingers touched the stone slab.

"Buzz—!!!!"

The long-dormant [Purple-Gold Dragon Spine] within Su Chen's body suddenly emitted an unprecedentedly high-pitched dragon roar! His Origin Body, which had stagnated at the seventh realm of perfection and could no longer advance even an inch, actually felt a faint [hunger] from a higher dimension at this moment!
"interesting."

Su Chen sat up straight, and his pair of ethereal Origin God Eyes instantly shot out divine light that pierced through eternity, piercing straight into the interior of the stone slab!
Under Su Chen's divine sense, which surpassed even the Heavenly Dao, the ancient symbols on the stone slab seemed to come alive, evolving into magnificent scenes that shook the era in the void!
In the painting.

There is no vast starry sea, nor are there countless worlds.

There is only one enormous, indescribable, pitch-black abyss!
That abyss hangs at the highest point of all space and time. At its bottom, the primordial essence of the Great Dao, in various colors, constantly spews forth. These essences intertwine and cool in the void, ultimately transforming into countless bubbles—these are the embryonic forms of the myriad worlds!

And in the deepest part of that abyss, faintly lurks an indescribable, terrifying will that transcends the laws of heaven and the gods! It is the source of all things, the creator of the rules!
At the very end of the stone slab, four large, blood-dripping characters were left in ancient runes—

【The Abyss of Creation!】

"The Abyss of Creation..."

Su Chen stared intently at those three words, his previously calm face contorting wildly with muscles. A fanatical and sinister smile, powerful enough to freeze the entire universe in an instant, erupted from the corner of his mouth like lightning tearing through the night!
"Gaga... Hahahaha!!!"

Su Chen laughed wildly, his laughter revealing an extreme gluttony that directly crushed the stone slab in his hand, which even the tribulation fire could not burn, into dust!
"What a magnificent Abyss of Creation!"

"I originally thought that the myriad realms of the Great Void were the end of this world, and that these great worlds were the most exquisite ingredients in this world!"

Su Chen suddenly stood up, his green robe fluttering without wind, and the dark golden [Gluttony Divine Ring] behind his head suddenly appeared, illuminating the entire Purple Gold Divine Court as if it were a hellish inferno!

"After all this, all the myriad realms and the vast void are nothing more than a pile of unwanted sunflower seed shells and scraps spat out from that so-called 'abyss'!"

"Those Heavenly Daos, those Realm Lords, are nothing more than weeds growing on the outer edge of that abyss!"

Su Chen's gaze was like two peerless, raging blades burning with raging karmic fire, piercing fiercely towards the top of the Void Star Sea—that absolute peak that is said to be where even time does not exist!
"The kitchen! That Abyss of Creation is definitely the [Ultimate Kitchen] of this multiverse!!!"

Su Chen stuck out his bright red tongue and greedily licked his lips, a terrifying swallowing sound like that of a wild beast emanating from his throat.

"The Creator hidden at the bottom of that abyss must be the most succulent and nourishing supreme elixir in the world!"

"The brain marrow that created all these heavens and myriad worlds... if I were to crack it open and absorb a mouthful, it would surely allow my stagnant physical body to completely break free of the shackles of dimensions and step into that indescribable eighth realm!!!"

"Hun Tian! Hai Zun!" Su Chen shouted, his voice like thunder from the heavens.

"Your subordinate is here!!!" The two demons knelt down, trembling.

"Issue my decree!"

"The army will remain here to guard this Taixu Vegetable Garden for me!"

Su Chen gripped the bone knife at his waist with his other hand, the blade pointing straight at the pinnacle of the void!
"Today, I will personally venture into the 'underground ice cellar' high above the nine heavens!"

"Let's go see what kind of cook is hiding in the kitchen preparing food!!!"

……

……

The vast emptiness is boundless, and the higher one goes, the colder it gets.

In the perception of all beings in the myriad realms, the Great Void Star Sea is the end of the universe. Above that lies absolute nothingness, where even laws, causality, and the concept of "existence" itself are completely erased.

That was a forbidden zone of death that even the Great Dao Supreme of the Seventh Realm dared not easily set foot in.

However, today, this forbidden zone, which has been silent for countless eras, has welcomed an ancient ferocious beast that is extremely hungry!
"Whoosh—!!!!"

A stream of light, displaying a chaotic, glassy luster, was like an unparalleled divine weapon that pierced through the heavens and ages, rushing straight upwards at a terrifying speed that disregarded any spatial laws!

Su Chen did not control the Eternal Heaven, nor did he bring a single soldier with him.

He was all alone, wearing a green robe and carrying a bone knife!

The higher they flew, the more violent the surrounding ethereal winds became. Eventually, these winds solidified into tangible [spacetime turbulence]. These turbulences contained countless fragments of destruction left behind from the collapse of countless eras. Even a single speck of dust hitting a sixth-realm True God could instantly pierce their divine body! (End of Chapter)