Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 285 Sneak Attack, Complete Suppression

There are so many Beasts in the Realm that killing just a few is pointless.

Moreover, the Beasts of the Realm are mostly lazy and inactive, so Lu Jin didn't want to put pressure on them before he had overwhelming force.

To prevent external pressure from causing the Beasts to become involutionary, which would lead to the rapid emergence of high-level Beasts.

Let them continue being lazy and develop quietly on their own.

Once they're fully developed, enslave one of them, and then wipe out the entire Beast Nest in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, Lu Jin turned his head to look behind him.

In the far distance, three powerful figures, each with a faint phantom of a single eye behind their head, teleported to the void.

"The Star Lord, Azure Eye Lord, and Profound Ice Lord of the Divine Eye Clan are certainly making a big splash."

The Empress said softly.

Lu Jin shook his head and said, "No, there are definitely more than just these three."

If it were him, and only three people came, there would be at least two open and one hidden, or even one open and two hidden.

This allows for a surprise attack when the opponent is off guard, or even prevents the opponent from running away when they see that they have the upper hand.

The seven True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan are all seasoned veterans who have lived for countless years; surely they wouldn't be so lacking in common sense.

Nodding slightly, the Empress asked, "Which one should we deal with first?"

Lu Jin said, "Let's deal with Xuanbing Zhenzhu first. Right now, he hasn't manifested the palace-type supreme treasure 'Ice Cliff Fortress', and his strength is only at the top of the seventh rank, which is no different from most true gods who don't have supreme treasures."

Moreover, I will suppress Xuanbing first. With Ice Cliff Fortress gone, even if all seven True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan came today, I could still suppress them all.

Based on the known intelligence, the only one among the Divine Eye Clan capable of withstanding the sealing power of the Mountain and River Map is the Ice Cliff Fortress of the Seventh True Lord - Xuanbing.

However, the Divine Eye Clan's combined attack technique, 'Eternal True God,' is quite remarkable.

The First True God - Divine Eye was already a top-tier ninth-order True God, and with the secret technique of 'Eternal True God', his strength should be able to reach the tenth order.

This is something to be aware of after the war begins; it would be best to directly cripple their eternal true god.

'tumultuous!'

Then, Lu Jin activated his divine power: the second level of Three Heads and Six Arms. As his divine power surged, a terrifying aura spread out, and his robes transformed into a jet-black armor of world destruction, with three pairs of world-destroying divine wings unfurling behind him.

Immediately afterwards, the Mountain and River Map appeared in his left hand, and the God-Slaying Spear materialized in his right.

“I’ll take you behind Xuanbing and use soul illusion to interfere with you. Then I’ll take Xuanbing away directly.”

Lu Jin spoke to the Empress, who had also activated her three-headed, six-armed divine power.

"Ah."

The Empress nodded slightly.

Then, with a thought, Lu Jin's figure disappeared and was teleported back to the Netherworld God Kingdom, and then reappeared behind the Divine Eye Clan's Xuanbing True Lord.

'Return to the Ruins!'

The moment he appeared, Lu Jin summoned the Mountain and River Map in his left hand and thrust the God-Slaying Spear in his right hand forward. A dark spear light carrying a strong sense of annihilation shot out and pierced the back of the Xuanbing True Lord.

Just as he sensed the presence of two powerful figures behind him, before the three True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan could react, True Lord Xuanbing felt a terrifying attack upon him. Then, a fierce and malevolent aura pierced his brain, and a soul-tearing pain instantly swept over him.

'boom! ’

At the same time, the Empress unleashed her soul-binding secret technique, sending a surge of ethereal divine power into the body of the True Lord of Profound Ice, penetrating the heart of the True God.

The next moment, Xuanbing Zhenzhu felt the excruciating pain in his soul disappear, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

At this moment, the surrounding space and time changed, and snowflakes filled the sky. Xuanbing Zhenzhu found himself in a snowy world devoid of any life.

"This is."

Looking at the extremely unfamiliar scene before him, Xuanbing Zhenzhu was somewhat bewildered.

Soon, realizing that the icy world he was in was completely isolated from the outside world, Xuanbing Zhenzhu's expression changed drastically.

He remembered that he had been ambushed.

The moment the attack hits, an excruciating pain sweeps through the soul, causing the mind to lose control and fall into a spiritual illusion.

The reason I am in this icy world must be that the despicable attacker took advantage of the moment I was trapped in the illusion and put me into a treasure of the sealing type to suppress me.

As for who the despicable attacker was?

"Ling Xiao!"

Within the icy world of the Mountain and River Map, the powerless roar of the Divine Eye Clan's Xuanbing True Lord echoed.

In the outside world, time is pushed forward slightly.

"Xuan Bing!"

"Xuan Bing!"

The change happened too fast. By the time the Star Lord and the Azure-Eyed Lord, who were traveling with him, reacted, they only had time to let out a cry of surprise before the Profound Ice Lord was drawn into an unfolded landscape painting.

"Ling Xiao, you deserve to die!"

Enraged, the Azure-Eyed True Lord quickly created distance, and two beams of azure light, filled with endless sharpness, distorted space and time, shooting straight towards Lu Jin.

The Star Lord remained silent, but as his divine power burned, endless starlight spread, filling hundreds of light-years with countless brilliant stars.

'boom! ’

Two beams of azure light, seemingly capable of piercing the universe, struck directly at Lu Jin's divine body, only to be rendered immune by him.

The two beams of emerald light appeared to be extremely sharp, like physical attacks, but in reality they were soul attacks.

Without a high-grade soul treasure, one must be careful when facing a soul attack with power reaching the eighth rank.

However, Lu Jin has the supreme treasure of the soul type, the 'Purifying Lotus', guarding his soul.

Let alone an eighth-level Azure-Eyed True Lord, even if a former top-tier tenth-level Primordial Ancestor came, he would not be able to do anything to him with soul techniques.

"Don't embarrass yourself with such petty tricks."

Ignoring the soul attack of the Azure-Eyed True Lord, Lu Jin disdainfully activated the supreme treasure of the domain type, the 'Karmic Fire Lotus'.

"Wow!"

Endless mysterious light spread out, and black flames instantly filled the surroundings, forcefully opening up the Star Lord's Star Domain.

At the same time, a surge of purple flames rapidly spread from the Empress's body.

However, the Empress also activated the Karmic Fire Lotus.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor already possesses the Blood Sea Set, and in the future, every ten years in the Primordial Universe, the Qiankun Cauldron, under a ten-thousand-fold time acceleration, will be able to produce a Blood Sea Set to arm a Blood God Child avatar.

In view of this, Lu Jin gave the Empress the Karmic Fire Lotus and the World Annihilation Lotus, which he had initially reserved for the Blood God Child's incarnation.

Believe it or not, the Empress has now become a "big spender" in the world, possessing four different types of supreme treasures: the Empress Palace, the Pure Lotus, the Karmic Fire Lotus, and the World-Destroying Armor.

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

With the collision of the three domains, the Star Domain formed by the Star Lord was forced to retreat steadily under the combined attack of the Black Flame Domain and the Purple Flame Domain.

In the blink of an eye, the Star Domain fell into a complete disadvantage.

Although not completely suppressed, under the combined effect of the two flame domains, within a radius of hundreds of light-years, except for the area around the Star Lord himself, the remaining area was filled with black and purple flames.

‘Damn it! ’

The Star Lord cursed inwardly and immediately notified the other four Divine Eye Clan Lords within the World Ring.

On the other side, within the desolate region.

Lu Jin and the Queen were already fighting against the reinforcements from the Divine Eye Clan, and the Giant Axe naturally didn't just stand by and watch.

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

Divine power burned, secret techniques were activated, and the supreme treasure axe in his hand flew, with streaks of axe light slashing towards the Forbidden Hall.

As the supreme treasure of the peak palace was activated, it unleashed its power of absorption. With each strike of axe light from the giant axe, the Forbidden Palace within the black light domain was one step closer to being sealed.

"No!"

Before long, amidst the unwilling roar of the Five Chaos Lord, the Forbidden Palace was sealed by the giant axe with the supreme treasure of the palace.

Then, with a swing of his great axe, relying on the unique divine power of words becoming law, the speed of the giant axe increased dramatically, and it quickly rushed towards the outer reaches of the desolate domain at a million times the speed of light, to support Lu Jin and the Empress.

Beyond the desolate realm, in the void.

"boom!"

A loud explosion rang out, and a large amount of debris flew out. The four True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan—Divine Eye, True Spirit, Light and Darkness, and Starry Sky—broke through the World Ring of the Starry Sky True Lord and appeared on the battlefield.

"Good, good, good. I was worried that there weren't enough fish on the hook, but it turns out that all the fish have already come."

Seeing that all four other True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan had arrived, Lu Jin said with a smile.

"Ling Xiao, my Divine Eye Clan admits defeat. We will release the Xuanbing and give that supreme treasure that has been born to your human race."

He glanced at the Queen and said in a deep voice.

"Chi~"

Lu Jin sneered, then said without any politeness, "You despicable scum of the Divine Eye Clan, I am very curious, where does your sense of superiority come from?"
Why should I, the Emperor, need you scum, to yield to me?

However, since your Divine Eye Clan has revealed all your strength, then today is the day of your extermination!

Having said that, Lu Jin thrust the God-Slaying Spear in his hand, and a ten-thousand-mile-long black spear light shot towards the Star True Lord, while the Mountain and River Map swept out at the same time.

'boom! ’

The Empress's divine power became ethereal, and she also activated a soul illusion technique towards the Star Lord.

Of the seven True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan, one has now been eliminated, having suppressed True Lord Xuanbing.

Among the remaining six True Lords, the Star True Lord, who possesses top-tier eighth-order strength, must be dealt with first, followed by the True Spirit True Lord, the Light and Darkness True Lord, and the Star Universe True Lord.

The most powerful beings, the Divine Eye True Lord and the Azure Eye True Lord, will be dealt with last.

The reason why the Star Lord and the True Spirit Lord were chosen as the first and second targets to be eliminated is mainly because both of them possess supreme treasures of the domain type.

If the two are not dealt with first, and the battlefield is not divided and their supreme domains are not completely suppressed, then the other four can also benefit from the assistance brought by their supreme domains.

The reason why the Divine Eye God and the Azure Eye God are placed last is because they possess the most powerful treasures of the soul type.

The Empress's powerful soul techniques, reaching the pinnacle of the tenth rank, were ineffective against the two, and the soul techniques that the two were skilled in were equally ineffective against themselves and the Empress, who possessed the Pure Lotus.

This kind of enemy can naturally be dealt with last, as long as we prevent them from running away when things go wrong.

As expected, the Star Lord 'enjoyed' the same treatment as the previous Profound Ice Lord.

First, the spear's edge struck him, its fierce power penetrating his mind. The supreme soul treasure that guarded his soul was rendered useless, and the excruciating pain that tore his soul apart swept over him. He lost his composure and his consciousness fell into the illusion cast by the Empress.

However, although the Star Lord's consciousness was trapped in an illusion and he was powerless to resist, he had an advantage that the Ice Lord, who was previously ambushed, did not possess.

'tumultuous!'

As the divine power of the Light and Darkness True Lord burned and his secret technique was activated, his supreme treasure weapon, the 'Light and Darkness Divine Mace,' was simultaneously unleashed. Two mace shadows, one black and one white, shot out, meeting the sweeping Mountain and River Map head-on. At the same time, the Starry Sky True Lord's supreme treasure weapon, the 'Starry Sky Divine Sword,' slashed out, its dazzling yet dangerous starlight sword light flashing.

The True Spirit Lord activated the supreme domain treasure 'True God Realm'. As endless divine light spread, a strange beast materialized within the divine light domain, then soared into the sky, also heading towards the Mountain and River Map.

"Rumble--"

The three true gods joined forces, unleashing the power of three secret techniques: mace shadow, sword light, and strange beast. Amidst a violent roar, they repelled the Mountain and River Map and temporarily resolved the crisis facing the Star Lord.

"Humph!"

The Divine Eye True Lord snorted coldly. As his pale, supreme treasure armor materialized, a pattern between his brows transformed into a gray eyeball covered in mysterious runes.

Amidst the overwhelming pressure of the supreme treasure, a beam of annihilation shot out from the gray eyeball, hurtling straight toward Lu Jin.

Knowing what kind of move this was, Lu Jin ignored it.

As the divine power controlled the Mountain and River Map to sweep across the land, the God-Slaying Spear in his hand thrust out repeatedly, with ten thousand miles of dark spear light frequently shooting towards the True Spirit Lord, the Light and Darkness Lord, and the Starry Sky Lord who were in the way.

"Pfft~"

Annihilation rays shot forth, a terrifying soul attack invading Lu Jin's divine body.

However, the Pure Lotus, which resided within the soul, merely trembled slightly, and amidst the dazzling white light, instantly vanished the soul attack.

"The most powerful and precious treasure of the soul type!"

After making a single move without achieving anything, the Divine Eye True Lord, realizing the key to the problem, gritted his teeth and quickly turned his attention to the Empress.

The Empress was not an unknown figure in the Cosmic Sea. In the impression of the Divine Eye True Lord, apart from the Empress's Nest, the most powerful and precious palace, the Empress was only at the top level of the seventh rank.

As a top-tier ninth-order True God skilled in soul magic, even if he couldn't kill the Empress in one move, he could still keep her from having any other worries and prevent her from using soul illusions to help the despicable Ling Xiao seal her own Divine Eye Clan True Lord.

'boom! ’

As divine power surged, the annihilation ray shot out from the gray eyeball between the eyebrows of the Divine Eye True Lord, rapidly traversing space and striking the Queen.

But the Empress ignored this as well, maintaining the soul illusion while also activating the secret technique of soul enslavement.

If successfully enslaved, a top-tier eighth-order Star Lord would undoubtedly be an excellent ox or horse.

"Another supreme treasure of the soul type?"

Seeing that his soul-secret technique was ineffective against the Empress, the Divine Eye True Lord was greatly alarmed.

The Cosmic Sea is not lacking in true gods who have obtained the most powerful treasures of the soul, but you two actually have both, isn't that a bit too much?
Immediately, the Divine Eye True Lord manifested a supreme treasure palace and took the Star True Lord into it.

At this moment, the consciousness of the Star Lord was trapped in an illusion, rendering him utterly powerless to resist. He could not remain on the battlefield, lest he be captured and suppressed by Ling Xiao's treasured artifact.

He would store it in the palace as a treasure, and if the Star Lord failed to hold on and was unfortunately enslaved by the Empress, it would reduce the number of powerful enemies.

"Everyone, the Eternal God!"

After collecting the Star Lord into the palace's treasures, the Divine Eye Lord roared.

With no other options available, the All-Seeing God had no choice but to resort to his trump card.

"Come!"

The True Spirit Lord roared, and under the suppression of the two layers of light and flame domains, the divine light domain that barely covered the surrounding tens of millions of kilometers shone with endless brilliance.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

The Light and Darkness True Lord's Light and Darkness Divine Mace, the Starry Sky True Lord's Starry Sky Divine Sword, and the Azure Eye True Lord's Azure Eye Light—these three supreme treasures—all flew rapidly toward the Divine Eye True Lord within the Divine Light Domain.

"Swish!" "Swish!"

Just then, two figures suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

Transforming into human form, clad in blue-gold battle armor formed from the World-Destroying Lotus, with sharp claws at the tips of its arms, the Water Qilin clone, manifested as the supreme and most powerful weapon, the Claw of Calamity, appeared directly in front of the Light and Darkness Divine Mace.

"boom!"

Activating the Guixu Secret Technique, he unleashed a claw strike, a terrifying black claw light bursting forth, blasting towards the Light and Dark Divine Mace.

Meanwhile, the Time Dragon clone, also in human form and clad in platinum armor, appeared in front of the Starry Sky Divine Sword.

However, unlike the Water Kirin clone which bombarded with secret techniques, the Time Dragon clone directly manifested the majestic Lingxiao Palace with its doors wide open.

"Whoosh!"

Before the Star Lord could react, the Starry Sky Divine Sword, filled with starlight, flew over the tall palace gate and into the Lingxiao Palace.

"Wow!"

The next moment, the Time Dragon's clone moved its mind, and the majestic Lingxiao Palace gate closed, directly locking the Starry Sky True Lord's supreme treasure, the 'Starry Sky Divine Sword,' inside the Lingxiao Palace.

"What?! Give me back my Starry Sky Divine Sword!"

Faced with this unexpected turn of events, the Star Lord's expression changed drastically, and he immediately exclaimed in surprise.

"Haha~, this is the funniest joke I've heard in this era."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

I'll return the supreme and most powerful weapon that I already possessed to you?

You probably wouldn't say something like that unless you're completely brain-dead.

"Who are you?"

Seeing two extraordinary guests suddenly arrive on the battlefield and the Starry Sky Divine Sword being suppressed, the Divine Eye True Lord angrily questioned them.

"You old dog with the Divine Eye, you don't even recognize me? Your Divine Eye Clan's intelligence gathering is still inadequate!"

"The Time Dragon's clone mocked."

"mean!"

Immediately realizing who these two unfamiliar powerful figures were, the Divine Eye True Lord roared in anger.

The change came too quickly, and with the two clones exuding terrifying auras, the Divine Eye True Lord subconsciously thought that two extremely powerful True Gods had arrived.

But upon hearing that tone, the Divine Eye Clan understood.

It turns out that the one who came was not a strange True God powerhouse, but two clones of Ling Xiao, the number one mortal enemy of the Divine Eye Clan.

Knowing that no matter how fiercely one's anger burns, it cannot bring about an increase in strength; mere impotent rage is useless. The Divine Eye True Lord chanted: "Boundless divine light, forge my true form, encompass all things, and be eternal."

As the chanting continued, the supreme treasure of the soul, the Eye of Annihilation, located between the eyebrows of the Divine Eye True Lord, the supreme treasure armor, the Holy Demon Armor, and the supreme treasure of the soul, the Azure Eye Light, which shot towards him, all radiated boundless brilliance within their divine light domains.

"Eternity my ass!"

Before the Divine Eye True Lord could finish reciting, Lu Jin scolded him.

At the same time, a blue-gold flame domain and a platinum flame domain instantly spread out from the Water Kirin clone and the Time Dragon clone, respectively.

In an instant, two more supreme domains enveloped an area of ​​hundreds of light-years.

The next moment, the four domains of light and flame—black, purple, blue-gold, and white-gold—combined their power.

"Crack crack crack, bang—"

A sound like glass shattering inch by inch rang out. Under the combined suppression of the four supreme domains, the divine light domain condensed by the True Spirit Lord using the 'True God Realm' collapsed and dissipated.

The Divine Eye True Lord, who was activating the combined attack technique 'Eternal True God', was also forced to stop abruptly.

‘It’s over! ’

An emotion called despair welled up in God the Eye's heart.

The combined attack technique 'Eternal True God' is undoubtedly the hope for a comeback in the eyes of the Divine Eye True Lord.

Even though Xuanbing was suppressed at this moment, Xingchen's consciousness was trapped in an illusion from which he could not escape, and Xingyu's supreme treasure weapon was taken away.

But as long as the 'Eternal True God' can be activated, the Divine Eye True Lord is confident that he can fight his way out with the invincible power of the Eternal True God.

However, as the divine light domain manifested by the True Spirit Lord was completely suppressed, all hope was shattered.

The core of the Eternal True God's combined attack technique lies in the domain treasure and the soul treasure.

The domain treasures that condense form the body of the eternal true god, while the soul treasures that condense the soul of the eternal true god are indispensable.

As for other types of treasures, they enhance power, but are not essential.

"withdraw!"

The Divine Eye True Lord's thoughts raced, and after a moment, he roared at the four True Lords on the battlefield.

Since the Eternal God cannot be activated, there is definitely no hope of turning the tide. What we should do now is to minimize the losses.

Fleeing became the only option.

"Hmph~, you think you can get away!"

Lu Jin scoffed dismissively.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

The next second, eight majestic palaces emanated the powerful aura of supreme treasures.

"Wow!" "Wow!" "Wow!"

With a burst of brilliant colored light, eight magnificent palace treasures became the center, and eight more layers of colorful flames appeared, covering an area of ​​hundreds of light-years.

At this moment, all twelve of the Heavenly Court's supreme treasures of the domain category, the 'Red Lotus of Karmic Fire', appeared on the battlefield.

Those who traveled through space were none other than Zi Nishang and Hong'er.

Under the combined restriction of the twelve supreme domains, an extremely terrifying binding force was formed, and the five true masters of the Divine Eye Clan on the battlefield were directly and firmly imprisoned in place, unable to move.

If there is only one supreme domain, the binding force will be considerable for a true god, and the speed will be greatly reduced, but it will not restrict them too much.

After the Supreme Domain was stacked to four levels, the speed of the five True Gods of the Divine Eye Clan had become like that of a frail old man.

Once the supreme domain is stacked to the twelfth level, even moving a single step becomes a luxury.

"Tsk tsk~, the Divine Eye Clan, which claims to be the number one power in the Cosmic Sea, seems to be nothing special after all."

Looking at the five True Lords who were completely immobilized within the twelve layers of radiant flames, Lu Jin smiled and teased.

"Ling Xiao, what are you going to do?"

"God-Eye True Lord said in a somber tone."

"I am still lacking some soul servants with decent strength. Your Divine Eye Clan still has half a cycle of reincarnation time. You may consider joining my treasured artifact."

As he spoke, Lu Jin had a sudden thought and summoned the Mountain and River Map.

"Whoohoo-"

The terrifying suction power emanating from the Mountain and River Map enveloped the five True Lords of the Divine Eye Clan, as well as the supreme treasure palace of the Divine Eye True Lord, which contained the Star True Lord.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

Soon, with the assistance of the twelve supreme domains, following the initial successful sneak attack on the Xuanbing True Lord, the remaining six True Lords were all taken into the Mountain and River Map by Lu Jin and suppressed in seven different spaces.

(End of this chapter)