destruction

"What?!"

"This power... No—!"

The moment the light pillar reached them, the sinister smiles on the faces of Qing Hai and Blood Rage instantly turned into boundless shock and fear!

From that Chaos light pillar, they felt a terrifying power that completely surpassed the Dou Zun level and nearly touched the "Saint" Domain!

They frantically activated the power they had just gained from devouring Souls, instantly laying down layers of defense with the Deep Blue Ice Realm and the surging sea of blood.

At the same time, they tried to tear through space to escape.

However, all their struggles appeared pale and powerless before this full-force strike from the king destroyer celestial disk, which gathered all of Shen Wen's trump cards!

"Crack... Crackle!"

The Ice Realm shattered, and the sea of blood evaporated!

The Chaos light pillar crushed their proud defenses like dust, instantly destroying and annihilating them!

"No!!"

Blood Rage only had time to let out half a shrill, desperate roar.

His entire body, like a snowman under the scorching sun, rapidly melted and decomposed within the Chaos light pillar, turning into basic energy particles along with his Soul and completely dissipating between heaven and earth.

Qing Hai, beside him, met the same fate; the terror in his eyes was frozen forever as his form turned to ash and smoke.

Two Dou Zun experts who had dominated the Northwest Continent's Hall of Souls branch hall for years were actually destroyed in body and spirit within an instant!

The Chaos light pillar slowly dissipated, and the king destroyer celestial disk dimmed, emitting a faint hum before rapidly shrinking and flying back into the space between Shen Wen's eyebrows.

Shen Wen's face suddenly turned pale, and his body swayed imperceptibly. He felt waves of hollow, sharp pain from the Meridians within his body; his majestic Dou Qi had been nearly drained by that single strike!

Fortunately, he had previously mastered the second level of the Great Origin Technique and opened a second Dou Qi source, giving him a foundation far exceeding those of the same rank.

At this moment, the second Origin operated automatically, continuously feeding back pure Dou Qi, preventing him from collapsing from exhaustion on the spot and allowing him to barely maintain his standing posture.

Where Qing Hai and Blood Rage had been destroyed, it was not empty; there were two clusters of Origin Soul Power, dozens of times more pure and majestic than ordinary Souls.

Because they had lost their hosts, they began to slowly dissipate, mixed with some of the essence energy from their lifelong Cultivation.

Just then, deep within Shen Wen's Dantian, the devouring ancestral talisman began to operate on its own like a shark scenting blood, without needing any deliberate activation.

An invisible, irresistible devouring force spread out with Shen Wen as the center, precisely enveloping those two clusters of high-quality "sustenance" that were about to dissipate.

"Whoosh—!"

Like a whale inhaling water.

The two clusters of energy and Soul Power containing the Dou Zun Origin were forcibly pulled, turning into two solid grayish-black air currents that instantly entered Shen Wen's body.

The power of the devouring ancestral talisman acted like the most efficient millstone, rapidly crushing, purifying, and transforming these mixed but majestic energies.

Shen Wen's originally pale face regained a hint of color at a speed visible to the naked eye.

New, even purer Dou Qi began to form and flow through his empty Meridians, bringing a comfortable sense of nourishment even to his Soul.

The effects of Dou Zun-level "supplements" were immediate.

But he had no intention of pausing to enjoy these spoils of war.

His cold gaze swept toward the remaining Soul Hall Protectors below, who were Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering from the instant death of their leaders and were about to flee in all directions.

Want to escape?

With a thought from Shen Wen, the power of the space ancestral talisman spread out once more.

This time it was not used for defense or attack, but instead transformed into an invisible yet incredibly tough net, silently enveloping the area for several miles around.

Space was slightly solidified and folded, forming invisible barriers and circular mazes.

Those panicked Soul Hall Protectors, who were shooting off in different directions, were horrified to find their speed plummeting, even though they were clearly flying toward the ravine's exit.

After a few flickers, they seemed to have returned to the vicinity of their original positions or were bounced back after hitting invisible walls.

The entire area was like a massive transparent cage, blocking all their escape routes.

And Shen Wen was the only hunter in this cage.

His figure became blurred where he stood.

In the next instant, he appeared like a ghost behind a Four-Star Dou Zong who was desperately attacking the space barrier.

That Dou Zong seemed to sense something and turned his head in horror, only to see a palm covered in faint purple-green Dragon scales and wreathed in subtle Chaos flames rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

Before he could even make a complete defensive move, that palm had lightly pressed onto the crown of his head.

"Pfft!"

There was no deafening explosion, only a faint muffled sound.

The Four-Star Dou Zong's body shuddered violently, the light in his eyes instantly extinguished, and streaks of black Qi were forcibly pulled from his seven orifices and pores all over his body.

They were sucked away by the invisible devouring vortex in Shen Wen's palm.

His shell, like a sandbag that had lost all support, fell powerlessly downward, turning into ash and dissipating while still in mid-air.

Shen Wen's figure disappeared again.

"Over here!" A Three-Star Dou Zong sensed a spatial fluctuation behind and to his side; terrified out of his wits, he swung back a patch of eerie bone spikes.

However, he only hit an afterimage that was slowly dissipating.

The real Shen Wen had appeared above him at some unknown time and flicked his finger.

A silver light, as thin as a hair yet containing extremely sharp Space Power, flashed and vanished, piercing through the Dou Zong's forehead.

The same black Qi dissipated and was devoured, and the shell turned to ash.

Fast! Too fast!

With the enhancement of the space ancestral talisman, Shen Wen's speed and movement patterns had completely surpassed the understanding of these ordinary Dou Zongs.

The Space Power they relied on for survival was restricted everywhere here, while Shen Wen was like a fish in water.

"Fight him to the death!"

Seeing no hope of escape, a Five-Star Dou Zong's eyes flashed with madness. He roared as he burned his essence blood, his aura surging as he brandished a huge Soul banner, summoning countless fierce Souls to pounce on the newly appeared Shen Wen.

Shen Wen just looked at him indifferently, a gray glint flashing deep in his eyes.

Desolate Demon Eye!

There was no grand energy impact, but the boiling blood Qi and the Soul banner's spiritual light around the Five-Star Dou Zong seemed to have all their vitality instantly drained, rapidly dimming and withering.

He himself felt an irresistible sense of extinction and aging invade his body; his Dou Qi flow became sluggish, and even his Soul seemed about to freeze.

His movements couldn't help but stiffen.

In that brief moment of stiffness, Shen Wen had closed in, his thunder-covered palm thrusting directly into the man's chest as devouring power erupted!

As if practiced a thousand times.

Shen Wen's figure flickered repeatedly within the spatial cage, and every appearance was accompanied by the fall and devouring of a Hall of Souls expert.

Whether they were Dou Zong or Dou Huang, almost none could withstand a single blow from him.

With the combination of spatial confinement, multiple ancestral talisman powers, and a powerful Physical Body, this was a completely one-sided massacre.

In the distance, Xiong Tao had already returned to human form and was standing guard at the edge of the cage with Cao Ying, alert for any possible external interference.

At the same time, he watched in shock as Shen Wen cleared out the Hall of Souls remnants like harvesting wheat.

The Azure Lotus Sky Phoenix controlled by Cao Ying had already dissipated, and her beautiful eyes were filled with constant wonder.

She was both captivated by Shen Wen's strength and amazed by the decisiveness and efficiency he displayed now.

In just a few breaths.

The last Hall of Souls Dou Huang, who was trying to hide in the shadows of the rubble, was snatched by Shen Wen from a distance.

He was pulled directly from the shadows by invisible Space Power and devoured as black mist amidst terrified screams.

The core area of the Heaven Burial Ravine suddenly became quiet.

The once Yin Qi-filled and black mist-shrouded Hall of Souls great hall was now dead silent, with no sign of life remaining.

In the open space before the hall, not even a single intact corpse was left behind.

Only the energy ripples in the air that had not yet fully subsided, along with the pure Souls and energy black mist being slowly inhaled into Shen Wen's body.

These bore witness to how thorough a purging had just taken place here.

Shen Wen stood in mid-air and slowly closed his eyes, operating the devouring ancestral talisman and the Great Origin Technique with all his might.

He was digesting the majestic energy brought by consecutively devouring two Dou Zuns and more than ten Dou Zongs and Dou Huangs.