533: Chapter 533 The Oriole's End, Searching for Souls in the Heavenly Wall

In the Void Realm, only one person remained.

The Cultivators of the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion and Wanmo Cave, along with the Magic Treasures and demon banners they took pride in, had all been converted into the purest energy reserves for the Chaos Dao Palace.

This once noisy battlefield was now so quiet that only the faint sound of drifting meteorites remained.

The grey-robed old man at Mahayana Perfection Stage already had a Dao Heart riddled with cracks.

He had personally witnessed the entire process of what was nearly a one-sided slaughter.

From beginning to end, that mysterious grey palace hadn't even used any world-shaking Divine Abilities.

Merely by expanding its Domain and letting its will descend, it had uprooted two major forces.

This wasn't a battle on the same level at all.

This was a crushing defeat.

It was a dimensional strike from a god against a Mortal.

Forcing his tottering dao body to hold up, he bowed deeply toward the Chaos Dao Palace, lowering his posture into the very dust.

"Senior's Divine Might is peerless! This one was blind and has offended Senior!"

His voice carried an uncontrollable tremble, every word exhausting his entire strength.

"Junior Reverend Kumu is willing to offer my lifelong collection, as well as all the top-secret intelligence I know regarding the core regions of the Tian Yuan Star Domain!"

"I only beg Senior to show mercy and spare my dog's life!"

Reverend Kumu didn't dare to flee, because he knew that within the Domain covered by that grey halo, he could not escape.

His only chance at life was to demonstrate sufficient value.

Inside the Chaos Dao Palace, Shen Yuanmo sat upon his throne, his expression showing not a ripple of emotion.

Value?

Does the value of a dying man need to be measured by the man himself?

"Your things," an indifferent voice crossed the Void Realm, sounding directly within the old man's Sea of Consciousness.

"I will take them myself."

Before his voice had even faded...

The old man felt an indescribable and even more irresistible great power descend out of thin air, deathly locking onto his Divine Soul.

That power was overbearing, tyrannical, and followed no logic.

It directly ignored his Physical Body's defense, ignored his magic power shield, and reached straight into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

"No..."

The last trace of color drained from the old man's face, terrified to the extreme.

He wanted to resist, wanted to self-detonate his Divine Soul.

But under the suppression of a Half-Step Immortal Soul level will, the moment his thought arose, it was crushed to pieces.

He couldn't even move a single finger.

He could only watch helplessly as his Divine Soul was forcibly dragged out of his crown by an invisible giant hand.

Whoosh!

A streak of light flashed, and Reverend Kumu's Divine Soul was drawn into the central hall of the Chaos Dao Palace, suspended before Shen Yuanmo.

His dao body lost all vitality, like a sculpture, drifting quietly in the cold Universe.

With his Divine Soul separated from his body, Reverend Kumu faced Shen Yuanmo directly.

He saw those eyes.

What kind of eyes were those?

Deep, vast, ancient, and indifferent.

It was as if they weren't human eyes, but the Universe at the dawn of Chaos, the end of the origin of all Daos.

With just one look, Reverend Kumu's sturdy Divine Soul, formed through hundreds of thousands of years of bitter Cultivation...

...was like a popped balloon; all his will, all his pride, and all his schemes collapsed entirely at this moment.

He gave up all resistance.

Shen Yuanmo wasted no words.

The Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art quietly operated, and his terrifying Half-Step Immortal Soul level Divine Sense...

...like a mountain flood, like a tsunami, in the most direct manner, instantly smashed through all the defenses of Reverend Kumu's Sea of Consciousness.

This was an invasion with no suspense.

Reverend Kumu's hundreds of thousands of years of memories, from his ignorance when first entering Cultivation to the joy of Foundation Establishment and Golden Core...

...to his high spirits upon achieving Mahayana, and the sinister cunning of struggling to survive in the star sea...

Everything was like an ancient scroll forcibly unfurled, presented in minute detail within Shen Yuanmo's will.

Shen Yuanmo's Divine Sense turned into billions of tentacles, traveling at high speed through this vast ocean of memories.

Cultivation Techniques and secret arts, Divine Ability insights, star sea experiences, worldly wisdom, treasure locations, enemy information...

Countless pieces of miscellaneous information were quickly browsed, filtered, categorized, and absorbed.

Soon, Shen Yuanmo found what he needed most.

A latest version of the Tian Yuan Star Domain star map that was several times more detailed and accurate than the fragmented versions from the Heavenly Venerable of Nine Mysteries and the Blood Shark Pirate Group!

This star map not only marked the vast majority of life worlds, dangerous lands, and secret navigation routes within the Tian Yuan Star Domain...

...but also used different colored light points to mark the massive forces that truly had a say in this Star Domain.

Among them, two names made Shen Yuanmo's will pause slightly.

Tian Yuan Divine Hall.

Star Sea Merchant Alliance.

According to Reverend Kumu's memories, these two behemoths were the true Dominators behind the scenes of the Tian Yuan Star Domain.

They spanned dozens of worlds, controlling over eighty percent of the Cultivation resources and trade routes within the Star Domain.

Most importantly, both of these forces had true True Immortal Old Ancestors presiding over them.

Those were the existences at the very top of the pyramid in this remote Star Domain.

"So that's how it is. No wonder the Heavenly Venerable of Nine Mysteries chose to hide in a corner like the Canglan Realm. Once discovered by these local snakes, his fate as a heavily injured True Immortal would likely not be very good."

Shen Yuanmo understood clearly.

At the same time, he also understood why this place was so chaotic.

This Shattered Star Belt happened to be at the intersection of the jurisdictions of the Tian Yuan Divine Hall, the Star Sea Merchant Alliance, and several other second-tier forces.

It was a buffer zone that everyone managed, yet everyone was too lazy to manage.

Being under no one's control, it naturally became a paradise for bandits and outlaws.

This was a lawless land in every sense of the word.

And what made Shen Yuanmo's eyes narrow slightly was that he discovered from the latest fragments of Reverend Kumu's memory...

...that news regarding the wreckage of this True Immortal warship seemed to have already shown signs of leaking.

Reverend Kumu had also intercepted the intelligence by chance.

Only then did he rush over, wanting to reap the greatest benefits before other forces could react.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Unfortunately, more than one oriole has come."

The information digestion was complete.

Reverend Kumu's Divine Soul energy was also exhausted under Shen Yuanmo's overbearing soul search.

His illusory Divine Soul disintegrated inch by inch before Shen Yuanmo, like a weathered sand sculpture.

Ultimately, it turned into pure Soul Power light points and dissipated into nothingness.

With a thought from Shen Yuanmo...

...outside the palace, Reverend Kumu's Mahayana Perfection Stage dao body, along with the storage Magic Treasure on his finger, was drawn by an invisible force and cast into the furnace deep within the Chaos Dao Palace as a streak of light.

At this point, the three forces were completely annihilated.

In the entire battlefield, not a single living soul remained.

Shen Yuanmo slowly stood up from his throne, organizing the intelligence he had just acquired.

His gaze pierced through the barriers of the palace, looking toward the wreckage of the Immortal Ship drifting quietly in the Void Realm.

Now, everything on this ship belonged to him.

However, time waits for no one.

Since the news had already begun to leak, it likely wouldn't be long before those truly large forces sent people here.

He had to settle this quickly!

He stood up and took a step forward, his figure disappearing from the main hall.

In the next instant, he was already standing outside the Chaos Dao Palace, facing the wreckage of the Immortal Ship that had been silent for eons.