Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 208 The Demon Clan Venerable's Interception (Part 1)

Tell him why right away.
Naturally, it was through the higher-level divine status that they were able to enter the ranks of cosmic venerables.

The speed at which Hong'er and the other seven comprehend the laws is far slower than his, so it's fine for them to take the path of refining the laws and gaining a godhood.

Moreover, the divine sparks of higher-level laws are absolutely sufficient to forcibly break through their original core constraints.

Furthermore, after mastering time or space, one can enter the realm of cosmic sages.

Although they possess top-tier cosmic overlord divine bodies and are novices in terms of arcane arts, and lack suitable treasures, they can still quickly acquire powerful strength by relying on their insectoid legions.

After all, cultivating Zerg warriors at the level of Cosmic Venerables only requires certain resource consumption and the level of the Queen and the Hive.

What we don't know is that later, when Hong'er and her avatars, whose diameter was billions of kilometers, directly skipped the Immortal level and entered the Universe Venerable level.

Will it become a supreme-level divine body with a diameter of tens of billions of kilometers, or an immortal divine body that has not been completely transformed?
Of course, even if they fail to fully transform into Venerable-level divine bodies by then, Lu Jin will not use the divine source liquid produced by the Immortal Transformation Pool to supply them for transforming their divine bodies, let alone supply them for expanding their divine bodies.

The divine bodies are simply too large; even a gold mine couldn't support them. It would be better to let them absorb divine power and expand themselves.

On the other side, the Mystic Realm of Ancestors.

In a void, numerous massive, fragmented islands are scattered, with turbulent waters flowing between them.

This place is called 'Luan Shi Jian', which is also an adventure and treasure hunting place in the mysterious realm of Zumi, but it is relatively less dangerous.

"Shh!"

In the void outside the Rocky Ravine, five figures of different races, all belonging to the demon race, appeared out of thin air.

The five figures varied in size, with the largest being a silver-scaled serpent that was twenty kilometers long.

The smallest is only a little over ten meters long, covered in dark green scales, with a triangular head and three scaled tails, known as the Mohu Beast.

"Chaotic Rocky Ravine".

"We've arrived at the Rocky Ravine."

Gazing at the islands and waterways scattered in the distant void, the eyes of the five powerful demons were filled with anticipation.

"Wow, so fast! We arrived at Luanshi Ravine in less than an hour."

"Thanks to the spatial teleportation of Venerable Rift Sky, which took us hundreds or even thousands of light-years each time, allowing us to directly bypass the dangerous areas along the way."

“If it weren’t for Venerable Lietian, we definitely wouldn’t have arrived at the Chaotic Rock Ravine so quickly, and we might even have encountered danger along the way.”

"Yes, yes, it's all thanks to Venerable Rift Heaven."

Including the Snow White Wolf, the four powerful demons all flattered 'Lietian,' a newly promoted Venerable from the Golden Falcon clan of the demon race, whose wingspan was over a thousand meters and whose body was covered with golden feathers.

The Heavenly Venerable, covered in golden feathers, grinned with his bird-like beak and said with a humble smile, "Benyue, you're too kind. We're all demons, and it's only right that we do what we can to help each other when we've come together to search for treasure. Besides, we're all good friends."

good friend?
That was true before, but things are different now; he, the King of Rift, has become the Venerable of Rift.

Although he is only a newly promoted Cosmic Venerable, his strength is far beyond what it used to be; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he is two dimensions higher.

However, precisely because he had just advanced, he lacked most of the conditions that ordinary Universe Venerables could possess due to his weak foundation, which is why he came to the Chaotic Rock Ravine, which was not considered particularly dangerous, to search for treasure.

Putting everything else aside, this time, in addition to the most ordinary treasures bestowed upon him by his clan—the double claws and the armor—he needs to accumulate enough wealth to raise his life genes to 10 times that of ordinary universe venerables, right?
As for why he brought his four old buddies on the adventure, well, some cannon fodder were definitely needed for scouting.

The four demons who flew to the moon were unaware of their 'good brother's' thoughts. While they were flattering him, they were filled with envy and even jealousy.

We're both at the limit of the King-level realm, so why did you 'Ripple the Sky' and take off to become a Universe Venerable, while we're still just little Karami at the limit of the King-level realm?

"I'm not afraid of my brothers' hardships, I'm afraid of my brothers driving Land Rovers." This is absolutely a true reflection of the four demons of the Moon King.

“Even brothers should keep clear accounts. Venerable Rift Heaven, you can’t sacrifice your own interests just to take care of us.”

The King of Benyue spoke with righteous indignation.

'Do you even need to tell me?'

While inwardly grumbling, Venerable Rift Heaven said with a cheerful smile, "Don't worry, everyone, everything will proceed as agreed. I hope we can all make a fortune this time, hmm?"

As they were talking, a hint of surprise flashed in the dark golden eyes of the Heavenly Rift Venerable when he sensed a faint spatial fluctuation coming from hundreds of billions of kilometers away.

This spatial fluctuation coming from afar was very weak, far less than the spatial fluctuation that would occur when a peak-level or higher Immortal King on the spatial side uses the profound mystery of teleportation.

However, if it is a Space Venerable, because the Space Venerable has mastered the complete laws of space, teleportation will not cause any spatial changes.

Turning his head to look in the direction from which the spatial fluctuations came, the gaze of the Sky-Splitting Venerable traversed space, and then his expression froze for a moment before he was overjoyed.

Seeing this, King Benyue asked, "Lord Lietian, have you made any discoveries?"

"Hahaha~"

The Heavenly Venerable laughed a few times and said, "Guess who I discovered?"

"who is it?"

The smallest of the divine beings, 'Azure Phosphor King' from the Mohu Beast clan, asked.

The Heavenly Venerable asked in return, "Who in the Ancestral God Sect has the most famous reputation recently?"

"Sigh~"

King Benyue gasped and hurriedly asked, "Could it be the King of the Underworld?"

"The King of the Underworld? He actually dares to leave Purple Thorn Island?"

"Perhaps this King of the Underworld thinks that after joining the Ancestral God Cult, no one will dare to kill him?"

"You possess at least four supreme treasures, Lord Rift Heaven Venerable, we will all obey you!"

The four demon kings, including the Moon King, all looked at the Heavenly Venerable.

Although the Sky-Splitting Venerable is only a newly promoted Cosmic Venerable, his divine body has a wingspan of over a thousand meters, far surpassing the five-meter-tall dwarf mule of the Underworld King.

With these four at the pinnacle of their power as support, even with the Netherworld King's numerous treasures, there's still a chance to kill him.

"Hmph~, the Ancestral God Sect is strong, but my demon race is not weak either."

As long as we kill that Netherworld King and obtain his treasure, we can return directly to our clan. At worst, we can simply stop coming to the Ancestral God Cult.

Surely the powerful figures of the Ancestral God Sect cannot forcibly trespass into the heart of my demon race's territory?

"The Heavenly Rift Venerable said disdainfully."

Those are at least four priceless treasures!

After pulling off this heist, I'll probably never have to worry about anything for the rest of my life!
The next moment, Venerable Rift Heaven waved his hand, and with the four demon kings of the Moon-Bounding King, he used teleportation to chase after the Netherworld King, who had already teleported away from his original location.

However, the Sky-Splitter Venerable was not worried about losing the Underworld King. If the Universe Venerable sensed in a single direction, he could sense spatial fluctuations within a distance of thousands of light-years.

In his perception, the Netherworld King, who had not mastered the complete laws of space, seemed to leave a very obvious spatial hole wherever he teleported.

As long as the interval isn't too long, there's no need to worry about losing track of them.

However, what the Rift Heaven Venerable, who was teleporting with the four demons of the Moon King, did not notice was that a wisp of the Moon King's consciousness had already logged into the Glory World through the receiving sensor and found the Universe Venerable, who was also from the Sirius Clan.

The Moon King had gathered a great deal of information about the Underworld King.

As a special life form, the Netherworld King was able to open the treasure of the third peak of the treasure land. Previously, the Thunder Beast God had also descended to bestow treasures, so his life gene multiplier was probably not low. He was very likely to be an invincible king with heaven-defying strength, such as the Barking Mirror King or the Insect Chasing King.

Furthermore, given the numerous treasures possessed by the Netherworld King, if a real fight were to break out, you, Lietian, as a newly promoted Venerable with ordinary life genes and not even possessing peak secret techniques, might not necessarily be able to defeat the Netherworld King!
To be on the safe side, the Moon King sought out the Cosmic Venerable, who was also from the Sirius Clan.

It's true that he couldn't possibly have a share of the treasures on the King of the Underworld.

But since they were both from the Sirius clan, even a tiny portion of the spoils from that lord would be more than enough to fill him up.

As for the evil one, Venerable Lietian?
So what if we're enemies? How dare a mere ordinary demon race member from the Golden Falcon Clan, a low-level Universe Venerable, kill him, a King-level expert from the Heavenly Wolf Royal Clan?
If that's the case, then in order to maintain the status of the Sirius royal family among the demon race, the clan's venerables, and even the great Sirius Lord, will not let the Rift Heaven Venerable go.

"Shh!"

In the void, faint spatial fluctuations arose, and the Water Qilin clone, which had just left the Nine Nether Space-Time and was rushing back, teleported over.

But just as Lu Jin was about to teleport again, he suddenly realized that the surrounding space had been sealed off, and the strength of the seal was so great that he could no longer teleport.

'The Venerable One of Space?'

Lu Jin immediately realized the problem.

After activating the secret runes of the second pair of Azure Heaven Abyss Wings, the effects of the three spatial mysteries were greatly enhanced.

Unless the opponent also possesses a treasure that enhances the mysteries of space, only a Space Venerable who has mastered the complete laws of space can restrict him from teleporting within the space-sealed area.

Moreover, he could teleport here, but he couldn't teleport away, which shows that the other party either had been lying in ambush here all along, or had followed him here and used a spatial blockade.

In either of these two situations, the person coming is not friendly.

The next moment, five demon race figures flew rapidly from the distant void.

The Immortal-level Dreamscale Serpent, the Immortal-level Sky Wolf, the Immortal-level Ziqian Thousand Serpent, the Immortal-level Ink Jade Beast, and a Universe Venerable of the Golden Falcon Clan of the Demon Race.

Seeing this, Lu Jin raised his eyebrows.

Five demons, four immortals and one cosmic venerable, among whom he recognized the celestial wolf, the Moon King, whom he had listed as a must-kill target.

However, Lu Jin's gaze did not fall on the Moon-Benming King, but on the Venerable-level Golden Falcon.

As far as he knew, the Moon King was merely a Sirius at the limit of the King-level strength. Because he possessed no powerful treasures, he was not even close to being an invincible King.

While it wasn't quite at the point where he could easily slap it into dust, it was still just a small karami.

"Hehehe—, King of the Underworld, hand over the treasure, and I will spare your life."

The Heavenly Rift Venerable said with a strange laugh.

Whether or not the Underworld King is killed is not important; what is important is obtaining the treasures on his body.

If they cooperated obediently, he wouldn't mind sparing the Netherworld King's life. After all, without killing the Netherworld King, the Ancestral God Sect's pursuit would certainly be much less intense.

"You scraggly bird, I advise you to think carefully before you act."

Sensing that the life force of this demon race Golden Falcon Clan Universe Venerable wasn't particularly strong, Lu Jin curled his lip and said disdainfully.

Not to mention that he hid in the Frost Temple, a treasure of the palace, and even the overlord of the universe couldn't do anything to him.

The mere presence of the Venerable-level plant life, the Cloud-Moving Vine, which manifests as a pattern and is attached to his body, gave Lu Jin ample confidence.

At the same time, the main body inside the Time Palace communicated with the Kunlun Mirror to locate the Kunlun Token carried by the Water Qilin clone and activated the remote detection mode.

By comparing the colors of the powerful auras manifested from God's perspective, Lu Jin immediately determined the strength of the divine bodies of the five demon race members before him.

The Moon King and Dreamscale Serpent with six times the genetic power to become kings at their peak, the Ziqian Thousand Serpent with three times the genetic power to become kings at their peak, the Mohu Beast with ordinary genetic power to become kings at their peak, and the Golden Falcon with ordinary genetic power to become a Venerable.

Judging from the strength of their divine bodies, apart from the Moon King, who is confirmed to be at the limit of the King-level strength, the Dream Scale Serpent and the Ziqian Thousand Serpent are at most close to the invincible King-level strength, while the Ink Jade Beast is at most at the limit of the King-level strength.

But this Golden Falcon Clan's Cosmic Venerable isn't even a 10-fold life gene; he's just a poor guy who recently advanced.
"As expected, you are extremely arrogant! Die!"

With a sharp shout, the Heavenly Rift Venerable's claws shimmered with brilliant golden light, and his pair of golden wings flapped suddenly as he charged toward Lu Jin at top speed.

"Good words can't persuade the damn ghost!"

Lu Jin said coldly.

Before the words were even finished, and before the Heavenly Rift Venerable could attack, a Cloud-Moving Vine, only a meter tall but exuding a powerful aura, appeared beside Lu Jin.

The next moment, the Moyun Vine God Body, which resembled a crystal-clear vine, expanded rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, a terrifying plant life form with a divine body radiating for millions of kilometers appeared in the void, directly encompassing the attacking Heavenly Venerable and the four demon kings of the Moon-Running King.

Of course, only the Rift Heaven Venerable was directly covered, while the four immortal-level Moon King demons were forcibly pulled in by the Moyun Vine using spatial power.

"What...what is this?!"

Staring at the plant life that filled his entire field of vision, which looked somewhat like the Immortal-level Cloud Vine but exuded a terrifying aura, Venerable Rift Sky was completely dumbfounded.

A Venerable-level special plant-type life form?
After all, a plant life form that can become a cosmic venerable must be a special life form.

"You scruffy bird, you're going to die!"

"Moyun, I'm entrusting this scruffy bird to you."

Lu Jin gave a stern rebuke and then mentally instructed Mo Yun Teng.

Although the opponent is a weakling, he is still a cosmic venerable, and his divine body is not too small. It is better to leave it to Moyun Teng to deal with.

The current Moyun Vine is not the same Moyun Vine that just broke the shackles of being the 'strongest'.

With the Time Palace's thousand-fold acceleration, Mo Yun Teng, possessing a hundred-fold increase in genetic power, had already mastered a hundred-fold increase in divine body amplitude.

In addition, Zi Nishang, a master craftswoman, also crafted a top-tier treasure in the shape of a vine that combines both attack and defense for it.

Although the secret techniques were somewhat lacking due to time constraints, and even the peak secret techniques that are standard for a Universe Venerable were still somewhat lacking, it was still enough to handle this weak Venerable of the Golden Falcon Clan of the Demon Race.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Without hesitation, Moyun Vine burned its divine power, and amidst the terrifying aura, a large number of main vines and branch vines swept towards Rift Heaven Venerable.

Centered on the Heavenly Venerable, a vast array of crystalline vines and leaves intertwined to form a tightly wrapped net.

At the same time, Lu Jin had a thought and injected the surging world power disguised as immortal divine power into the domain treasure, the Extreme Ice Frost Mirror.

'boom! ’

In an instant, boundless icy blue light burst forth, and from the center of the water unicorn clone, a chilling aura spread in all directions, instantly enveloping the void within a radius of tens of millions of kilometers.

At this moment, countless palm-sized ice crystals and snowflakes danced in the void spanning tens of millions of kilometers, transforming the entire world into an extreme ice realm.

As countless ice crystals and snowflakes danced in the air, an invisible, terrifying binding force descended.

Surrounded by a sea of ​​crystalline vines, the four demon kings, already terrified, were filled with despair.

"Whoosh!"

With a flap of his Azure Sky Wings, Lu Jin, transformed into a stream of dark blue light, flew to a spot not far in front of the Moon King.

"You lowly scum, why don't you hurry up and die?"

Lu Jin, who was rather vengeful, scolded the King of Benyue.

Little wolf demon, you've got to handle this!
'tumultuous--'

King Benyue remained silent, his pair of emerald green wolf eyes fixed on Lu Jin. He directly burned his divine power, attempting to break free from the powerful binding force imposed on him by the Extreme Ice World.

Unfortunately, the domain constraints formed by the domain treasure cannot be broken by a mere King-level limit, not even by burning divine power.

If it were King Wudi instead, his body wouldn't be completely restricted, but his speed and agility would definitely be greatly limited.

"Struggle, suffer, despair! You lowly wolf demon, I, Youming, sentence you to death!"

After saying that, Lu Jin raised his claw and pointed, and countless ice crystals and snowflakes gathered in the extreme ice world, enveloping the huge divine body of the Moon King, and then began to spin and cut at high speed.

Domain treasures often possess not only binding effects but can also be used as offensive treasures, although their offensive effects are generally not as strong as their binding effects.

However, as a top-tier ordinary domain treasure, the Extreme Ice Frost Mirror can at least function as an ordinary attack treasure.

"呲呲呲——"

As countless ice crystals and snowflakes spun and cut, as if subjected to a slow, agonizing death, accompanied by a dense series of cutting sounds, the massive, ten-kilometer-long divine body of the Moon King began to be rapidly worn down.

1% 3% 5% 10%
In less than half a minute, the enormous divine body of the Moon King was 10% obliterated, and the aura it emitted began to weaken.

"Awooo—, King of the Underworld, don't be happy, I'm waiting for you!"

Yangtian let out a wolf howl, and Benyue King roared with resentment and no longer hesitated. A chilling aura spread, and then he directly self-destructed his divine body.

Facing a dead end and with no hope of survival, the Moon King, who has no soul-related treasures to protect him, has no desire to become a soul slave of his great enemy, the Underworld King.

But what the Moon King didn't know was that Lu Jin, whose standards for soul servants were becoming increasingly discerning, no longer looked down on someone of his level.

"Bam—"

The immense immortal divine power transformed into terrifying energy and exploded, directly shattering the ice crystals and snowflakes that had been swirling and cutting around the Moon King's divine body.

However, this self-destruction impact failed to achieve its intended purpose. After spreading for over a hundred kilometers, it exhausted all its power and was suppressed by the terrifying suppressive force of the extreme ice world, turning it into a muffled firecracker.

"Why aren't you all on your way?"

After eliminating the Moon King, who was on the kill list, Lu Jin turned to look at the three Dream Scale Serpent demons, who were also bound in place and unable to move, struggling desperately.

"King of the Underworld, please don't!"

Before the dying Dreamscale Serpent could finish speaking, Lu Jin had a thought, and a chilling aura swept over it, freezing it into an ice serpent.

"呲呲呲——"

Immediately afterwards, countless ice crystals and snowflakes swept in, like countless cutting machines slicing ice. Lu Jin also gave this Dreamscale Snake a slow and agonizing death.

This effectively intimidated Ziqian Wanshe and Mohu Beast. Without further ado, the two demons logged into the Glory World, sent their coordinates to a demon venerable they knew, and stated that the Netherworld King, who possessed many supreme treasures, was in this location before directly self-destructing their divine bodies.

"Bang—" "Bang—"

Two more dull firecrackers exploded, and the Myriad Serpents and the Ink Jade Beast turned to ashes.

Soon, the Dreamscale Serpent, frozen in ice and enduring extreme torture, weakened to its limit. After losing more than 90% of its divine body, it fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Lu Jin raised an eyebrow, dispersed the countless ice crystals and snowflakes that had been cutting into the Dreamscale Serpent's body, and stored it in his world ring.

Lu Jin had seen the opponent's strength when he saw him struggling earlier.

With a divine body spanning twenty kilometers and possessing six times the life genes of a King, it's not too bad. Given a suitable treasure, it could be considered close to being invincible at the King level.

He has a discerning eye; he may not be interested in certain things, but that doesn't mean others are.

Keep them for now, and when the opportunity arises, I'll pack them all up, along with the other slumbering alien immortals I've acquired in the past, and sell them to a buyer.

Then, Lu Jin turned to look at the Golden Falcon Clan's Weak Chicken Venerable, who was struggling in the thick net of Moyun Vine's leaves in the distance.

'Wow—'

The Celestial Rift's divine body transformed into divine power, passing through the vast net of vines woven by the Cloud-Piercing Vine.

But before it could coalesce into a divine body, the dense vines of the Moyun Vine pierced through the air and annihilated much of the divine power of the Rift Heaven Venerable. Furthermore, a large number of main vines and branch vines came to surround and attack, re-weaving a heavy net.

'hateful! ’

The divine body reassembled, and the Heavenly Rift Venerable, feeling extremely frustrated, cursed inwardly. He had lost a great deal of divine power.

The Heavenly Venerable knew that the moment his divine body transformed into divine power to escape, he would suffer an attack that would annihilate even more of his divine power, but he had no choice but to do so.

His entire divine body was trapped by the opponent's incredibly tough vines. If he didn't use this method to temporarily resolve the situation, wouldn't he just become a punching bag that could only be beaten?

“King of the Underworld, my teacher is the overlord of the universe. If you let me go, I will never cause you any trouble again.”

Knowing that if things continued this way, he would surely perish today, the Heavenly Rift Venerable, whose divine body had already suffered more than 10% damage, shouted.

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin said disdainfully, "You scumbag, have you lost your mind? If you've got the guts, shake over your overlord-level teacher."

This place isn't far from the Nine Netherworld, and to the Lord of the Nine Netherworld, it's practically right under his nose.

If any demon race cosmic overlord were to descend upon him, especially if it were targeting him, he would likely be pulverized into ashes by the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds.

(End of this chapter)