Chapter 406: Swallowing Three Thousand Realms Alive, News of the Absolute Truth Discussion Conference

Chapter 406: Swallowing Three Thousand Worlds, News of the Ultimate Theory Dao Assembly

Within the void gap.

Endless darkness reigned, and even the stars illuminating the heavens could not cast their light here.

Ordinary cultivators, stepping into this place, would perish within a single breath.

Only myths that illuminate the heavens could barely traverse the void gap.

At this moment, a young male cultivator, with a gourd underfoot and a flying sword in hand, had features as delicate as a painting. His flying sword turned into a streak of light, plunging fiercely toward the phantom ahead.

Crack!

The flying sword clashed with the phantom. The phantom seemed to resist with all its might, but it could not withstand that blade; after a brief struggle, it perished outright.

A fish fell into the handsome man’s hands: “A good catch—a void fish.”

The handsome man was a mythical cultivator from the upper realm. His projection and his junior sister had entered the void gap together to gather resources.

“Senior brother is truly amazing, so admirable!” A female cultivator in cool attire spoke in a cooing voice, her eyes sparkling like stars.

The handsome man was quite taken by this. He generously tossed the fish: “This void fish is for you, junior sister.”

The young female cultivator caught the void fish and said joyfully, “Really? Senior brother is too kind! Xiaxia must be the happiest woman in the world!”

“There are many good things in the void gap, even more precious than void fish.

Of course, there may also be many terrifying monsters here.

Among them, one kind of monster is called the Blood Crystal Essence. It comes in various shapes and is enormous.

Its most striking feature is its body, blood-red all over, like actual blood.

This Blood Crystal Essence is suspected to be condensed from starlight.

It’s a fine treasure—for us myths who illuminate the heavens, it can enhance our illuminating radiance.

Not long ago, I went to great effort to slay an exceptionally massive Blood Crystal Essence!”

Speaking of this, the handsome man looked quite proud; slaying a Blood Crystal Essence was a notable achievement for him.

“Wow, senior brother is incredible! You can even defeat a Blood Crystal Essence!” The young female cultivator’s cooing voice came at just the right moment, much to the handsome man’s delight.

“See those things ahead with faint light swirling above them? Those are lower-realm continents. Junior sister, stay far away—they’re filthy. If they soil your precious body, senior brother would be very upset,” the handsome man said. Then, noticing his junior sister in a pink dress, he suddenly froze. “Oh dear, junior sister, how could you swallow the void fish in one gulp?”

The pink-dressed female cultivator’s eyes instantly welled up with tears: “Is senior brother disgusted that Xiaxia eats too much?”

“No!” The handsome man quickly comforted her. “It’s just that void fish shouldn’t be eaten all at once—it easily causes… gas and… water.”

By “gas,” he meant flatulence.

By “water,” he meant urination.

If one eats too much at once, even an ordinary myth cannot control their body.

Hearing this, the pink-dressed female cultivator looked shy.

Pfft.

“Ah, Xiaxia is going to die! I can’t go on! Wuwu… I have no face to see anyone!”

Seeing this, the handsome man grew anxious. He took a deep breath: “It smells sweet—a milky fart.”

How could he bear to let her suffer any grievance?

Just then, the once-shy pink-dressed female cultivator suddenly stiffened: “Scary! Such a huge Blood Crystal Essence!”

The handsome man instantly exuded an aura of dominance: “Where is the Blood Crystal Essence? How dare it frighten my junior sister!”

He raised his longsword, ready to slay the Blood Crystal Essence with one strike for daring to scare his precious junior sister.

“There… over there!” The pink-dressed female cultivator pointed, her cooing voice turning into a tremble.

The handsome man followed her finger and looked. His pupils contracted sharply, then dilated.

“This… this…”

In his line of sight, countless miles away, a blood-red colossus, its entire body clad in blood armor, was traversing the void gap.

Its body was too vast, too immense to describe. The handsome man had never seen such a terrifying giant before.

He could only glimpse a corner of it, yet it was… humanoid.

A colossal humanoid form, like an endless, fearsome deity, clad in blood armor.

The void gap itself was dyed red by its blood armor.

When it lifted its foot, the void trembled.

When it waved its hand, the gap shattered.

“This…” The handsome man was terrified to the extreme. Then, he noticed something and his hair stood on end. “It… it’s actually!”

The terrifying colossus had opened its gaping maw.

Where that maw was aimed was none other than… a cultivation world!

That was a cultivation world!

Though distant, before that blood-red demon god, it looked no bigger than a steamed bun, but it was a real cultivation world.

No smaller than the world he inhabited!

His whole body trembled. Had he come to the void gap only to witness an “evil celestial venerable” devouring worlds?

The gaping maw opened, and the blood-red demon god swallowed a world whole.

That enormous world, in the hands of the blood-red demon god, had no power to resist—it was like a delicious snack.

Seeing this, the pink-dressed female cultivator turned deathly pale, clutching her senior brother’s robe, trembling with fear.

The handsome man quickly embraced her: “Junior sister, don’t be afraid. It’s far away from us. It’s fine.”

But at that moment, a voice like thunder from the nine heavens rang in their ears.

“Milky fart, my foot! It’s clearly a stinky fart!”

“In broad daylight, how disgusting!”

The handsome man’s face changed drastically, panic in his voice: “Who?”

The pink-dressed female cultivator also looked humiliated and angry, scanning around but seeing no one.

“I am the Blood Crystal Essence you spoke of.”

A thunderbolt struck the handsome man’s heart.

He quickly looked over. The terrifying demon god that had just swallowed a world was now turning its head to stare at him, its eyes carrying a hint of exasperation.

He instantly fell to his knees.

The pink-dressed junior sister was even worse; perhaps because she had eaten the void fish, she couldn’t hold her water and wet herself.

The distant, terrifying blood-red giant was even more speechless: “This time, it’s not milky urine, is it?”

Having said that, its massive body shifted, drifting through the void gap as if searching for another target.

As for the handsome man and the pink-dressed female cultivator, they clung to each other, frozen in utter terror.

"Wuwuwu..."

On the other side, within the gap of the void, the terrifying blood-colored demon god was naturally Qi Yuan.

After obtaining the coordinates of the three thousand worlds from the Great Calamity, he began to wander through the gaps of the void, devouring the three thousand worlds under the Great Calamity's dominion.

Now, he had already consumed over a thousand worlds.

With nearly two thousand more to go, he would have swallowed all the worlds.

"I'm a bit full."

Qi Yuan, drifting through the void gap, felt somewhat stuffed.

"I won't... burp milk, will I?"

Thinking of that pair of man and woman, Qi Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.

He shook off that train of thought and headed toward the next coordinate.

His vast, boundless form roamed through the void gap, like a whale swimming in the ocean, feeding continuously.

As for the scraps in the void gap, Qi Yuan naturally paid them no mind.

What he devoured was Blood Crystal Essence.

"Who would've thought that coming to eat the three thousand worlds would let me find so many snacks for my little wife."

Indeed, upon arriving in the void gap, Qi Yuan discovered this peculiar creation called Blood Crystal Essence.

It had no intelligence, no spirituality, and would indiscriminately attack any living being it encountered.

Qi Yuan took one look and realized it resembled the Blood Crystal he and Xiao Jia loved to eat, but it was of a higher grade.

[Blood Crystal Essence: a special creation condensed from the light of the stars across the heavens.]

This was the information Qi Yuan's eyes perceived.

Now, within his body, there was already a mountain of Blood Crystal Essence piled up.

"I wonder if Xiao Jia can evolve after finishing these snacks."

Ever since Xiao Jia appeared, she had been with him all along.

It could be said that the reason Qi Yuan was able to clear the game was largely thanks to Xiao Jia.

If he fed these snacks to Xiao Jia, perhaps she would grow much stronger.

He wondered when his wife Xiao Jia would grow jade-like hands and feet.

Of course, that was just a metaphor—if it came true and she really grew "jade" feet, that would be rather impolite. Qi Yuan mused idly.

In an instant, he arrived at another coordinate.

Then... he opened his massive mouth again and swallowed that world in one gulp.

The beings within that world had no idea what was happening; they only felt that at that moment, all the stars in the heavens went dark, the sky turned blood-red, and ten suns hung in the void.

...

The Upper Realm.

Within the Mountain of Ultimate Truth.

Nearly a hundred incarnations of Yang God Venerables gathered, exceptionally busy.

These Yang God Venerables were using their supreme divine power to forge a palace.

This palace was the Hall of Ultimate Truth.

On the Sixth Heaven, there was a loose organization known as the Ultimate Truth Society.

As the name implied, to become a formal member of the Ultimate Truth Society, one had to be a cultivator at the Ultimate Truth Realm.

It could be said that this loose organization gathered nearly all the Ultimate Truth Realm experts of the Sixth Heaven.

"Time waits for no one. After a hundred thousand years, the Ultimate Truth Discourse is being held once again.

Last time, I could only serve as a laborer to build the Hall of Ultimate Truth. I never imagined that a hundred thousand years later, I'd still be a palace builder." A Yang God Venerable sighed, his tone full of emotion.

At the Yang God Venerable level, breakthroughs were no longer tied to time.

Even if one went to a world with a vastly different time flow, if they couldn't break through, they still couldn't.

This was somewhat similar to the Yin Gods.

"I wonder who will break through to the Ultimate Truth Realm this time.

I wonder if that Buddha Lord from the Buddha Kingdom can achieve it." Another Yang God Venerable mused.

He hailed from the Third Heaven and held great reverence for the Buddha Kingdom of the Fifth Heaven.

"Since he is a Buddha Lord, he surely possesses the potential for the Great Ultimate Truth. Breaking through to the Ultimate Truth Realm should be no problem!" said the Futu Venerable from Futu Mountain, whose sect was located on the Second Heaven.

Now, they too had been conscripted by the Ultimate Truth Society to work for free.

"The Buddha Kingdom has a grudge with the Taihuang Palace. Heh, how could that one from the Taihuang Palace allow the Buddha Lord to step into the Great Ultimate Truth?" said a Mara clan Yang God Venerable at the Lesser Heavenly Position, his voice dripping with disdain.

The Mara clan was currently at war with the Buddha Kingdom, so his words were hardly surprising.

"Hmph, how many years has it been since our Immortal Realm produced a Great Ultimate Truth?

If the Buddha Lord truly has the potential for the Great Ultimate Truth, the Ultimate Truth Society will certainly not stand by and let that one from the Taihuang Palace make a move!" said a Yang God Venerable in a purple robe, who came from the Purple Mountain Alliance, a major power on the Sixth Heaven.

Hearing him speak, the Mara clan Yang God Venerable, though dissatisfied, dared not refute.

However, he quickly added, "Forget the Buddha Kingdom. That Ten Suns Venerable is nothing but a jumping clown.

The ten suns are indeed terrifying, but trying to contend with that one is simply seeking death.

If he truly had strength, why would he hide so much?

That one from the Taihuang Palace even sent an invitation, asking him to come to the Taihuang Palace for a discourse, yet he dared not show up.

I suspect he's just a Yang God Venerable with some lucky encounters.

Having gained such fortune, he's become insufferably arrogant!"

The Mara clan had always been lackeys of the Taihuang Palace, so his words did not surprise the other Yang God Venerables present.

"Being able to manifest ten suns, killing us would probably be a piece of cake," the Futu Venerable couldn't help but say.

"Futu, don't speak for me.

If that Ten Suns Venerable dares to come to our Mara territory, I'll make sure he never leaves!

A mere unorthodox Yang God, who hasn't even attained a seat or proven the Ultimate Truth, dares to be so arrogant!" said the Mara clan's Mokan Venerable, contempt flashing in his eyes.

He indeed had his own confidence.

That Ten Suns Venerable was indeed powerful.

But his greatest strength lay only in his potential.

Without a seat, and having not yet proven the Ultimate Truth, even with ten suns, his actual strength was likely only at the peak of the Great Heavenly Position, still below the Ultimate Truth.

Over the past hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, the Mara clan had indeed suppressed the Ten Suns Venerable.

If the Ten Suns Venerable entered Mara territory, the Mara clan's Ultimate Truth experts would all come out and kill him.

The one in Taihuang Palace will surely reward the Demon Luo clan handsomely.

Just then, the Yang God Heavenly Venerable from Purple Mountain Alliance suddenly changed his expression, and he said, "If this Ten Sun Heavenly Venerable appears among your Demon Luo clan, it will likely be a calamity for them."

"Hmph, if he dares to show himself, he will learn the price of arrogance!" said Demon Kan Heavenly Venerable, his voice cold and stern.

But then the Heavenly Venerable from Purple Mountain Alliance spoke, his voice tinged with shock: "I have just received word that Taihuang Palace... its great tribulation has been destroyed, and its world has been devoured."

"What?"

Hearing this, the Yang God Heavenly Venerables present were all stunned.

They knew little of the great tribulation, but they understood it was almost the reverse scale of Taihuang Palace.

To annihilate the great tribulation and devour the world controlled by Taihuang Palace—

This... was undoubtedly a slap in the face!

Most importantly, how could the Yang God Heavenly Venerable Luo Bu of Taihuang Palace allow someone to slay one of his great tribulations and devour an entire world?

"Could this be the work of Ten Sun Heavenly Venerable? Hmph, he has some nerve, taking advantage of Taihuang Palace's unpreparedness to steal a great tribulation and destroy a realm!" Demon Kan Heavenly Venerable, stubborn as a dead duck, dismissed it lightly.

A great tribulation of a world, without Taihuang Palace's support, might at most match the combat power of a single Yang God.

Devouring a world sounded terrifying.

But if he were to manifest his dharma body, devouring one or two worlds would be no problem—any more, and it would be too much.

Thus, Ten Sun Heavenly Venerable's deed did not frighten him.

Yet the Yang God Heavenly Venerable from Purple Mountain Alliance spoke, his voice filled with profound shock: "The great tribulations destroyed in Taihuang Palace are not just one, and the worlds devoured are not just one either."

Demon Kan Heavenly Venerable, somewhat wary, pretended indifference and asked, "How many?"

"All... Taihuang Palace's three thousand great tribulations and three thousand worlds have all been devoured!"

"What!"

Demon Kan Heavenly Venerable's eyes widened, disbelief written on his face.

The other Yang God Heavenly Venerables were also stunned beyond measure.

"Three thousand worlds... all devoured—how is this possible!"

"What realm is he in, what power does he possess, and how does he not even have a venerable rank!"

The Yang God Heavenly Venerables present were utterly shaken.

Destroying a single world—they could do that too.

Destroying three thousand worlds without resistance—they could also manage.

But to annihilate Taihuang Palace's three thousand great tribulations and devour its three thousand worlds—none of them could accomplish that.

One great tribulation matched a Yang God.

Yet, three thousand tribulations fell, three thousand worlds were devoured, and Taihuang Palace received no news at all—that one in Taihuang Palace did not even intervene. Truly terrifying!

The Heavenly Venerable from Purple Mountain Alliance, seeing Demon Kan's expression, was quite pleased and spoke with schadenfreude: "Heh heh, if Ten Sun Heavenly Venerable were unleashed upon your Demon Luo clan, I wonder how many worlds you have... enough for him to devour."

...

In the Netherworld, Qi Yuan, clad in a blood-red robe, held Xiao Jia's cool sleeve and let out a sigh of relief.

"Finally finished eating... good thing I didn't burp like a baby!"

He deliberately stressed the word "baby."

Even he felt a bit disgusted after saying it.

Xiao Jia stood beside him; if she had eyes, they would surely be fixed on Qi Yuan.

No matter when, as long as Qi Yuan needed her, she would always be there for him.

"Eat quickly—these blood crystal essences should taste better than blood crystals."

Qi Yuan placed the blood crystal essence on Xiao Jia's sleeve.

The sleeve grasped the blood crystal essence, and a joyful wooden slip slid down.

The blood crystal essence vanished.

Qi Yuan studied Xiao Jia and noticed her form seemed more solid.

But aside from that, there was no other change.

A flicker of disappointment crossed his heart. He put his arm around her waist and said, his voice inexplicably forlorn: "Xiao Jia, Xiao Jia, when will I ever hear your voice?"

(End of this chapter)