Devouring the Stars: Blood Sea Demon Lord

Chapter 276 The Final Battle, A Grand Strike

Later.

The tavern has spacious private rooms on the second floor.

In the Underworld, King Cangjian and King Jinghong clinked glasses and chatted as they drank.

Compared to powerful figures like King Cangjian and King Jinghong, who have been famous for countless years, Minghai has cultivated for far too little time and has limited knowledge of the world. He spends most of his time listening and occasionally says a few words.

"King Jinghong, have any suitable cosmic secret realms appeared recently that we could explore?"

During the conversation, King Cangjian asked.

"no!"

King Jinghong shook his head and said:
"In the last tens of thousands of epochs, I haven't heard of any new secret realms being discovered. It's not that there haven't been any at all, but they're all high-level secret realms. If your strength isn't at the level of a Universe Venerable, you simply can't go there!"

"What, you want to explore the secret realm? Weren't you adventuring in the Azure Continent of the outer battlefield?"

After saying that, King Jinghong looked at King Cangjian and asked.

"That's the idea!"

King Cangjian nodded and said:

"I want to venture into some highly dangerous secret realms to try and find a breakthrough opportunity. The Azure Continent is not suitable for me!"

"Too!"

Upon hearing this, King Jinghong nodded and said:

"With your strength, you'll hardly encounter any danger while venturing into the Azure Continent. Without a sense of life-or-death crisis, it's very difficult for you to get an opportunity for advancement!"

He paused, then sighed:
"It's too difficult to advance to the level of a Universe Venerable. You and I have been comprehending the laws of space for countless years, but we still haven't found the opportunity to integrate all the laws of space into one, master the complete laws of space, and advance to the level of a Universe Venerable!"

After saying that, he looked quite wistful.

King Cangjian sighed, his expression somewhat desolate.

Minghai, standing to the side, silently drank his wine without saying a word.

For him, becoming a Universal Venerable is as easy as playing a game; he can do it anytime.

After all, his life essence is that of a master of the universe. Although he is not as naturally born as the Beast God who was born in the early days of the primordial universe, he is not much different.

There are no bottlenecks to advancing to the level of a Universe Venerable, or even becoming the Lord of the Universe; there is absolutely no need for any so-called advancement opportunity.

However, primordial cosmic beings like King Cangjian and King Jinghong are different. Each time they advance in their realm, it is a sublimation of life, a leap in life level, and a breakthrough of their own limits, which is extremely difficult.

"King Cangjian, if you don't want to wander around the Qing'e Continent anymore, why don't you go and have some fun in the Eighth Battlefield!"

After a moment of sadness, King Jinghong suddenly laughed:
"A great battle, which occurs once every 1000 epochs, is about to begin there. Perhaps witnessing the death of billions of lives will touch your soul and allow you to ascend to the level of a cosmic venerable?"

"Oh?"

King Cangjian asked with some surprise:

"Is the time for the decisive battle on the Eighth Battlefield approaching? Which Venerable One will preside over this one? Have the ten commanders been chosen?"

"Ok?"

Hearing the conversation between the two, Minghai, who was silently drinking to the side, had a sudden thought.

"The final battle? The death of billions of lives?"

With a flicker in his eyes, Minghai's interest was piqued.

"I heard that Venerable Haoyan will be in charge, but the commander-in-chief hasn't been fully determined yet; there are still one or two missing!"

King Jinghong took a sip of wine and laughed:

"If you are interested, you can go to Venerable Haoyan to register. It should still be in time!"

"It's boring!"

King Cangjian shook his head and said:
"This kind of decisive battle is only meant to deplete the potential of the four top races' divine kingdoms and those world lords, domain lords, and universe-level beings in the secret realms. It's meaningless to us!"

"hehe!"

King Jinghong smiled and nodded, saying:
"Indeed, this kind of war, which is purely for the purpose of depleting the population, happens every 1000 epochs. After seeing it so many times, it gets boring and tedious!"

Then, the two changed the subject and talked about other things. Minghai's eyebrows were lowered, and his eyes flickered uncertainly.

"A war purely for the purpose of depleting population? Interesting!"

Although King Jinghong and King Cangjian only exchanged a few words, Minghai roughly understood what the so-called final battle in the extraterritorial battlefield was all about, based on his understanding of the book "Swallowing the Stars".

Just as King Jinghong said, it was a war purely aimed at depleting the population!

the reason is simple.

Ordinary life forms reproduce too quickly, and over the long years, all races have accumulated a large population, especially those born in divine kingdoms and cosmic secret realms, who need to be 'destroyed' periodically.

Taking the human race as an example, there are 100,000 powerful King-level Immortals who are qualified to join the Hong Alliance, and at least several million to tens of millions of ordinary King-level Immortals.

There are countless immortal titles bestowed upon marquises and immortal titles for ordinary military commanders.

In the divine kingdoms of most immortal gods, there are hundreds of billions or trillions of humans!
One can imagine how many humans there are in all the divine kingdoms.

These humans, born from divine kingdoms, have limited potential and almost no hope of becoming immortals, let alone becoming cosmic venerables or cosmic masters; their numbers are meaningless.

The same applies to humans, demons, insectoids, and mechanical races; each race contains a large number of divine beings with limited potential.

Although their potential is limited and achieving immortality is difficult, they are still members of our clan, and we cannot completely deny them a chance.

Thus, a great decisive battle in the 1000th era was born, a war model that 'destroyed' excess population and used brutal warfare and extremely high mortality rates to foster potential geniuses.

"Instead of wasting it like this, we might as well...!"

Raising his glass, Minghai slowly drank a cup of wine.

……

"King Cangjian, what exactly happened in the final battle?"

After parting ways with King Jinghong, Minghai quietly asked.

"You are interested in?"

King Cangjian glanced at Minghai in surprise, then laughed:

"That's true. You're still young, unlike an old fogey like me. I've seen too many great battles that happen every 1000 epochs, and I've long since lost interest!"

Seeing that Minghai was interested, King Cangjian gave him a detailed account of the great battle that occurred once every 1000 epochs.

As mentioned earlier, the purpose of this great battle is simple: to deplete the excess population within the four top races, especially those born from divine kingdoms and secret realms.

There is also another goal: to use cruel death to bring forth a genius who breaks through the bottleneck of talent.

Every 1000 epochs, each race mobilizes billions of universe-level beings, trillions of domain lords, billions of world lords, and hundreds of thousands of immortals to form a super army group to conduct large-scale battles on the outer battlefield.

Eleven battlefields outside the region, each of which will hold such a decisive battle.

However, the timing is different; they are rarely held simultaneously, but rather once every 1000 epochs for each battlefield.

This time, it's the eighth battlefield.

Each race's super army group is commanded by a supreme cosmic being, with ten commanders under their command. Only those who have reached the pinnacle of immortality and become kings are qualified to serve as commanders, and each commander leads an army group.

Each army group has ten legion commanders, all of whom are top-ranking immortals.

The legion consists of ten King-level Immortals, one hundred Marquis-level Immortals, one thousand Army Lord-level Immortals, hundreds of millions of Realm Lords, hundreds of billions of Domain Lords, and trillions of Universe-level Warriors!

Each King-level Immortal leads a large army, under whose command are ten Marquis-level Immortals, one hundred Army Lord Immortals, tens of millions of Realm Lords, hundreds of billions of Domain Lords, and tens of trillions of Universe-level Immortals.

By analogy, a Marquis-level Immortal can command ten Military Lord Immortals, a million Realm Lords, a billion Domain Lords, and a trillion Universe-level Immortals.

An immortal military lord leads 100,000 realm lords, 100 million domain lords, and 100 billion universe-level beings.

The soldiers in the army, except for a few high-ranking officers, are all beings from the divine kingdom and the secret realm.

"It really is a massive battle between a super army composed of hundreds of billions of people, terrifying!"

Even though Minghai was cold-hearted and viewed living beings as food, he was still moved after hearing Cangjianwang's description.

The four dominant races launch such a massive decisive battle every 1000 epochs—no, eleven times—to 'destroy' the surplus population. The scale of this operation is so enormous that even he is somewhat alarmed.

(End of this chapter)