Swallowing the Stars, Hu Yanbo's Pre-Godhood

The voice was icy cold, containing unquestionable majesty and overwhelming killing intent. Like a tangible shockwave, it shook the entire Dark Erosion Cave!

Just as the Marquis of Panshi was preparing to fight to the death, he was suddenly stunned, and his movements of burning divine power paused.

The Bloodfang King's giant claw, which was slamming down, suddenly stopped. Its cruel vertical pupils contracted sharply as it looked at the large hole in the dome with suspicion and uncertainty.

Suddenly, a figure shrouded in black flames descended!

The laws of space flowed naturally around him, as if he had merged with this chaotic space. His earth-shattering sudden entry had not caused much of a spatial ripple, demonstrating his extremely exquisite control over space.

The newcomer's face was slightly blurred in the flowing flames, but the undisguised, powerful aura of an immortal king seemed to be about to reverse the situation in the arena!

"A human who has reached the King level?!" Bloodfang King was shocked. Judging from the strength of the other party's aura, it was definitely not as simple as just entering the King level. It even gave it a faint sense of pressure!

The interior of the Dark Erosion Cave is extremely strange, with chaotic energy flows and peculiar mineral structures severely disrupting the stability of the space.

Even a powerful king who has mastered teleportation would find it difficult to precisely synchronize their consciousness with spatial fluctuations at an exact coordinate point deep within the grotto to teleport.

Of course, a powerful expert who knows spatial sealing can use this to seal off a large area of ​​space more quickly.

Therefore, when Huyanbo approached the final distance, he charged straight at near-light speed!

This also meant that Bloodfang King did not see the teleportation immediately, but only saw the opponent forcefully break in with an extremely oppressive posture!

Marquis Pan Shi, in dire straits, stared wide-eyed at the black figure in disbelief.

Although the aura was countless times stronger than I remembered, the essence of that soul fluctuation...

"Huyan...Bo?!" She almost cried out the name, then shook her head violently. "No...impossible! How could he possibly be a king?!"

In her mind, Hu Yanbo was a lone wolf who was only barely at the level of a marquis when they last parted. How could he have become a king after ten thousand years, and even become a powerful being who could intimidate the demon race?

Could it be... reinforcements he summoned?

But that aura was clearly his own!

While the two were deep in thought, Hu Yanbo had no intention of wasting words.

Rescue efforts are like fighting a fire; delay could lead to unforeseen consequences!

"cut!"

He let out a low shout, giving Blood Fang King no time to react, and pointed his fingers like a sword at Blood Fang King from afar!

call out!call out!call out!

In an instant, nine silver spatial blades, condensed to the extreme and as thin as cicada wings, appeared out of thin air. They seemed to have completely merged into space itself, their trajectories were unpredictable and strange, and they instantly crossed a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, cutting towards the Blood Fang King's huge body from all sorts of incredible angles!

Nine Universe Void Blade!

Hu Yanbo created a secret killing technique by combining his insights from the "Nine Universes Chaos Stele"!

Fast! Accurate! Ruthless!

laugh!laugh!laugh!

The sharp blade precisely sliced ​​into the Bloodfang King's divine body, instantly leaving several deep, bone-revealing wounds, from which golden divine blood spurted out!

"Roar! Get out of my way! Don't get in my way!" Bloodfang King roared in pain, his momentum momentarily halting.

However, the next moment, blood surged on its body, and those terrifying wounds and the cut scales and muscles began to wriggle and heal rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In the blink of an eye, its divine body was restored to its original state, as if it had never been injured!

Immortality!

Unless the divine power is completely annihilated or the soul is severely damaged, this level of physical damage can be recovered quickly!

At least a high-level King-rank physical attack cannot annihilate a low-level King-rank.

"Hahaha! Human!" Upon seeing this, the Bloodfang King let out a wild, savage laugh. The surprise and doubt in his vertical pupils faded, replaced by an even more brutal killing intent. "Even if you are stronger than me, you can't do anything to me!"

It roared again, unleashing an even more surging crimson aura, its massive body tearing through space as it pounced even more fiercely!

It concluded that Huyanbo's attack posed no real threat to it!

Therefore, as long as we deal with the Rock Marquis in front of us, we can still escape after obtaining the treasure!

But at this moment, looking at the Blood Fang King who had recovered instantly, Hu Yanbo felt not only no frustration, but also a strange feeling welled up inside him.

Once upon a time, when he walked through the vast universe, he took every step with extreme caution, as if walking on thin ice, fearing that a wrong step would lead to eternal damnation.

That was the caution and helplessness of a lone wolf struggling to survive in the vast universe.

But now?

Feel the divine power surging within me, far surpassing anything I've ever felt before, and the hope of becoming stronger in the future!

An unprecedented sense of exhilaration and pride suddenly swept away the caution accumulated over tens of millions of years!

millennium!

A thousand-year transformation!

He could be considered a powerful figure in his own universe!

"Immortality? Rapid recovery?" Hu Yanbo's lips curled into a cold, mocking smile as he watched the Blood Fang King charge again. "Then let's see if you can recover even the essence of your soul!"

In that instant when his mind was clear and his fighting spirit was at its peak!

All the past confusion about soul attacks, the understanding of the profound mysteries of the soul in the "Seal of the Abyss", and even the strong desire to "completely destroy" the immortal body in the face of it all converged at once, like a volcano that had been accumulating to its peak, and suddenly erupted!

When inspiration strikes, everything falls into place!

The top-tier soul attack technique that he originally intended to create in seclusion in Chaos City naturally took shape completely in his sea of ​​consciousness!

Its exquisiteness and the destructive intent it contains far exceed his original conception!

The original concept was derived from the soul defense secret technique "Void Tower", attempting to use it for both offense and defense - to suppress the soul with the tower and to crush the enemy's soul with the tower.

But at that moment, a flash of inspiration struck my mind like lightning!

What is a tower?

The tower, a crucial stronghold! A fortified stronghold! A powerful suppressive force! Its square shape, its steadfast intent, and its imposing presence make it an unparalleled weapon for securing the four directions and protecting oneself!

While attacks derived from this are certainly powerful, it always feels like... something is missing.

It's like forcibly sharpening the most solid shield to a point to slash; while it can injure the enemy, it never fully utilizes the potential of its material and loses some of the ultimate sharpness and destructive power that should be present in an attack!

Offense and defense, their core concepts should be completely different!

To defend requires the strength of a rock, the depth of an abyss, and the immovable sacred mountain, encompassing and resolving conflicts, enduring through the ages.

Attack!

Then it should be like thunder, like divine punishment, like a raging fire that burns the world!

What we pursue is the ultimate explosion, the complete annihilation, the resolute act of tearing apart, disintegrating, and turning all obstacles into nothingness!

"Towers... are not good at attacking! At least they are not my ideal form of attack!" This thought resounded like a great bell in Huyanbo's mind.

He was not a god-king like the Mountain Guest, who could create the Star Tower with supreme power, seal the tower body, and destroy the tower tip, achieving a perfect combination of offense and defense, reaching the pinnacle of perfection.

In his understanding and perception, the core meaning of the "tower" ultimately lies in "suppressing" and "guarding".

Even when attacking an enemy from the top of the tower, it mostly relies on its unparalleled weight and sturdiness to crush and crush, or to restrain and wear down the enemy with its suppressive power.

Then, what can bear this intention of annihilation, and unleash this ultimate attack?

Almost simultaneously, another image naturally emerged: the offensive methods he had consistently used before—

莲！

A single thought can bring about a complete transformation!

Lotus of the Void!

The lotus, born from mud and blooming in the void, is pure yet eerie, beautiful yet deadly.

The petals unfold layer by layer, representing the ultimate splendor of life, but also the swallowing maw of reincarnation!

Its form can be both soft and strong, and its meaning can be both still and dynamic!

With the power of ethereal divinity as its roots and petals, and the mysteries of space as its veins, when it blooms, it is both the opening of the void and the return of all things to stillness!

This is a form born specifically for attack and annihilation!

Lotus in the Void!

A myriad of thoughts, in fact, all flowed through his powerful soul in the blink of an eye!

To others, all they saw was that the moment after Hu Yanbo finished his material attack, the spatial fluctuations around him suddenly became incredibly ethereal, and an invisible yet chilling aura that made one's soul tremble suddenly spread out!

He pointed his fingers together again!

The nine silver spatial blades transformed into nine strange petal buds that flowed with a dark silver luster, while their edges shimmered with an illusory black light!

The immense, ethereal divine power surged into the nine nascent petals like rivers flowing into the sea, instantly solidifying and filling them with a fullness. The petals intertwined and surrounded each other, forming in an instant a black lotus flower in bud, existing between reality and illusion!

The lotus flower appeared at just the right moment, blocking the path between Bloodfang King's claws and Rock Marquis!

It floats quietly, its petals seemingly naturally engraved with countless intricate and complex spatial patterns.

They circulated rapidly, causing the space around the lotus to twist and collapse violently, emitting an aura of annihilation powerful enough to freeze even immortal souls!

They started later, but arrived first!

Bloodfang King's vertical pupils, filled with greed and killing intent, suddenly contracted!

It pounced with incredible speed, but the appearance of that black lotus seemed to transcend the limitations of time, blocking its inevitable path out of thin air!

The dread of that annihilating aura, originating from the deepest part of its soul, caused it to let out an instinctive shriek!

It tried to change direction or stop, but the enormous inertia and the close proximity made it impossible for it to completely avoid the obstacle!

"Bloom".

Hu Yanbo's icy thoughts descended.

The black lotus bud suddenly unfurled its petals, blooming completely without a sound!

There was no dazzling light, no grand spectacle, only an extreme, ethereal silence.

The blooming lotus heart, like a miniature black hole, met the giant claw that the Bloodfang King slammed down!

snort~

A faint, yet strange sound that seemed to resonate directly at the level of the soul.

The giant claw that Bloodfang King struck did not disappear; its scales remained dark, and the divine light still flowed. From a material perspective, it seemed completely unharmed.

But the moment they made contact, Bloodfang King's massive body stiffened abruptly, and its forward momentum came to an abrupt halt!

An indescribable, unprecedented sense of absolute emptiness and tearing pain did not originate from the divine body, but directly from the very core of its soul, instantly sweeping over its entire consciousness like a cosmic cold wave!

Its enormous, immortal soul, which was intimately connected with every ounce of divine power in the divine body, was as if a huge chunk had been ripped away by an invisible, supreme blade specifically designed to target the very essence of the soul!

"Whoa—!!!"

The Bloodfang King let out an unprecedented, distorted, and agonizing scream! The pain contained in this scream far exceeded that of a divine body being injured; it was a primal fear of having the foundation of life shaken and eternal existence threatened!

It clearly felt that its powerful soul, cultivated through countless years of hard work, had been permanently and abruptly reduced by nearly 5% in that instant!

Its divine body remained intact, and its divine power was still immense, but the sudden loss of its soul made Blood Fang King's control over divine power instantly obscure, its perception of the laws seemed to be separated by a thick fog, and even its thoughts were momentarily scattered!

This kind of trauma, which originates from the source, brings an indescribable sense of 'incompleteness' and a deep-seated weakness!

Damn!

This human king is a master of the soul!

He is an extremely terrifying master of the soul!

Treasures? Rock Marquis? At this moment, they had lost all meaning in Bloodfang King's heart!

"If a single attack can cause 5% soul loss, then 20 attacks would be enough to kill me!"

"Besides, I've already burned a significant portion of my divine power; I'm afraid a dozen or so attacks would be enough to kill me!"

"By then, I'll only have a body, without a soul; that's utter death!"

Therefore, Bloodfang King's only thought at this moment was the purest, most instinctive fear and desire to escape!

It didn't even dare to look at Huyanbo again. Burning its already damaged divine power, it tore through the space behind it with all its might. Its huge body surged wildly backward, wanting to get away from this terrifying existence as quickly as possible!

Hu Yanbo watched Blood Fang King's retreating figure, which was almost scrambling and fleeing in a disheveled state, and felt the sudden weakening of the other's soul and the aura filled with extreme fear.

The exhilarating feeling of controlling power and the satisfaction brought by the power of "Lotus of the Void" reached their peak.

But he was not blinded by this pleasure; the caution he had cultivated over 60 million years was still in effect.

"Don't pursue a desperate enemy..." Hu Yanbo calmly looked in the direction where Blood Fang King had disappeared, his mind racing.

"Although the Blood Fang King was severely injured and fled, he is still an immortal king, and his foundation remains."

"If pushed too far, a cornered dog might resort to self-destruction at any cost... and its power would be extraordinary."

Hu Yanbo clearly recognized his own strengths and weaknesses.

In terms of attack, he has the newly comprehended "Lotus of the Void," which specializes in attacking the origin of the soul. His strength is enough to make him comparable to the peak of the King-level realm. In particular, when facing a King-level beginner who has a soul but lacks protective treasures, the threat is even greater than that of a peak King-level.

However, in terms of defense... his strongest physical defense is only a set of precious G-grade metal armor, which may be able to withstand the ordinary attacks of a beginner-level King, but it is absolutely no match for the ultimate blow of a King Immortal burning everything in a desperate situation, or even detonating his own massive divine body!

"Furthermore, precise teleportation is impossible inside the Dark Erosion Cave. If you don't want to burn your divine power, it's already very difficult to catch up!"

Once he made up his mind, Huyan Bo stopped paying attention to the fleeing Blood Fang King.

He turned around and looked at Marquis Panshi, who was still in a state of extreme shock.

"This place is no place to linger; quickly take me to find the Radiance!"

Marquis Panshi snapped out of his daze, looked at Huyan Bo before him with his profound aura and extraordinary abilities, and quickly suppressed the turmoil in his heart, nodding emphatically: "Alright! Follow me!"

The spatial fluctuations rippled once more, and the two figures quickly disappeared into the ravaged battlefield.