35: Chapter 35 Rapid Advancement: Jiuyou Ao Advances to the Peak of Venerable Realm

Wang Teng's massive wolf head suddenly opened, his blood-red maw, as if connected to the Nine Nether Hell, blocked directly in front of Princess Huo Linger.

He actually intended to use his physical body to forcibly sever the torrent of energy connecting the red sun heavenly coffin and Princess Huo Linger!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!"

The moment that torrent of Saint Emperors Dao Fruit rushed into Wang Teng's mouth.

Even the formidable physical body of a Ten Primordial Evils emitted a groan of being unable to bear the burden.

Pain! An indescribable, excruciating pain!

It was as if he had swallowed a sun that was in the middle of exploding.

That extremely rigid and extremely yang Saint Emperor divine power instantly erupted into the most violent conflict with the originally extremely yin and extremely evil Nine Nether death aura within the Nine-Nether Ao's body.

It was like pouring boiling molten iron into ten-thousand-year-old ice.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

The indestructible black-gold scales on Wang Teng's body burst open in large patches, dripping with blood.

In some places, his ghastly white bones were directly exposed, only to be charred black under the scorching power of the Saint Emperor.

"Husband! Don't..."

Although Princess Huo Linger was in pain, her consciousness remained. Seeing Wang Teng turn into such a tragic state to save her, her heart ached so much that tears streamed down her face.

"Shut up! Focus on refining that one-tenth of the power inside you! The rest... belongs to me!!"

The massive wolf eyes of the Nine-Nether Ao were filled with crazed bloodshot veins, and his voice rolled like thunder.

"You think a mere remnant power of a Saint Emperor can burst me to death?!"

"Nine Nether—Creation Furnace! Third Killing Array—grind it for me!!"

Wang Teng became ruthless. He no longer passively endured but actively activated all his trump cards within his body.

The Third Killing Array, which had just been inscribed into his body, played a crucial role at this moment.

Under Wang Teng's control, the killing array runes within his body spun crazily, transforming into countless fine chaotic blades.

They weakened, cut, and decomposed the violent Saint Emperor torrent layer by layer.

Following that, the Ten Heavenly Passages turned into ten massive black holes, like greedy giant beasts, and began to crazily devour the purified energy after it had been decomposed.

"Gulp... gulp..."

As large amounts of the Saint Emperors Dao Fruit were swallowed into his belly, Wang Teng's originally ruptured wounds actually began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only that. Under the fusion of the golden Saint Emperor blood and the black Nine Nether blood, the newly grown scales underwent an astonishing mutation!

The edges of the originally pure black black-gold scales had gained a ring of dark red gold. Flowing upon them were the righteous energy and Imperial Dao runes that only a human Saint Emperor possessed.

Nine-Nether Ao—mutated evolution!

Gathering extreme yin and extreme yang into one, fusing destruction and divinity into one body!

This was an unprecedented form, even in the Immortal Ancient Era. Never before had a Nine-Nether Ao been able to devour a human Saint Emperor's Dao Fruit and undergo such a mutation.

"Feels great!! Come again!!"

Wang Teng roared at the sky, his nine tails excitedly slapping the void, carving deep trenches into the hard divine gold floor.

He was like a bottomless pit that could never be filled, devouring like a whale and drinking like an ox, plundering the fortune that should have belonged to Princess Huo Linger.

One-tenth... two-tenths... five-tenths... eight-tenths! A full nine-tenths of the Saint Emperors Dao Fruit had been forcibly intercepted by this glutton, Wang Teng!

The remaining one-tenth, after being "filtered" and "buffered" by Wang Teng's body, had become incomparably gentle, exactly the limit of what Princess Huo Linger could bear.

The cracks on Princess Huo Linger's body began to heal, and her aura climbed steadily, finally stabilizing completely at the early stage of the Inscription Realm, with a foundation that was terrifyingly solid.

Finally. "Click." The red sun heavenly coffin let out one last soft sound, and the coffin lid closed again. The torrent of energy came to an abrupt halt.

The Saint Emperor projection in mid-air had now become extremely illusory, as if it would dissipate at any moment.

Those eyes of his, originally dignified, now carried an extremely complex, even somewhat "doubting his ghost life" emotion.

He stared blankly at the massive black monster in front of him. The fortune he had prepared for the descendants of the Fire Clan for endless years... just like that... was eaten by a wolf?

And after this wolf finished eating, it acted as if nothing had happened, even letting out a burp that carried golden light?

"Burp—"

Wang Teng hovered in mid-air, his massive body now emitting terrifying, suffocating fluctuations. Although his size hadn't increased, the sense of oppression had multiplied several times over.

Within the originally pitch-black Nine Nether Hell Mist, there were now streaks of crimson-gold lightning, appearing both divine and eerie.

Peak of the Array Formation Realm—Great Perfection!

"Burp—"

The burp carrying golden light had just finished, and Wang Teng originally thought this matter was over. But the next second, his pair of vertical wolf pupils suddenly constricted to the size of pinpoints.

"Thump!" A dull, extremely heavy sound, not coming from the outside world, but exploding directly within his chest. It was like a silent star... collapsing inside him!

"Damn it... that was reckless!"

A look of astonishment and distortion instantly appeared on Wang Teng's ferocious wolf face. He had underestimated the terrifying value of a Primordial Saint Emperor's lifelong Dao Fruit!

The nine-tenths of the energy torrent from just now had only been temporarily "swallowed" by his Ten Heavenly Passages and physical body. It was stored in his limbs and bones, not completely digested.

At this moment, as those energies began to truly touch his origin, that suppressed Imperial Dao divine power finally began its delayed and most violent counterattack!

"Rumble—!"

Wang Teng's massive, fifty-zhang-long body suddenly expanded a size, like a balloon!

The black-gold scales that were originally pressed tight against his body made crisp "clack, clack" sounds. Blinding crimson-gold divine flames sprayed from the gaps, burning the surrounding void until it sizzled.

"This... this is..." The Saint Emperor projection, which hadn't yet dissipated, twitched its eyelids wildly and subconsciously took a half-step back.

"Dao Fruit backlash?! This beast swallowed too much, is it going to explode?!"

However, Wang Teng's next action once again redefined this ancestor's cognitive limits.

"Want to burst me to death? Keep dreaming!!" "Break for me—!"

Wang Teng became ruthless. Since his body couldn't contain it, he would use all this power to break through! He would completely smash the "bottleneck" that restricted the size of the container!

The Third Killing Array inside his body roared into operation, no longer for defense, but transforming into the most violent drill, carrying the vast sea-like Saint Emperors Dao Fruit, and launched a desperate charge against that barrier of the realm known as "Venerable"!

"Crack!" There was no suspense at all. The barrier of the Venerable Realm, which in the eyes of countless cultivators in the lower realm was as difficult to cross as a heavenly chasm, was at this moment like a thin layer of window paper, instantly pierced through by that earth-shattering torrent!

Boom! A terrifying pressure that caused the heavens and earth to change color and all living things to submit erupted from within Wang Teng.

Venerable Realm—Early Stage!

But he didn't stop! The power of the Saint Emperors Dao Fruit was too vast; just breaking through to the early stage of the Venerable Realm consumed less than one-tenth of the energy!

"Not enough! Still not enough! My appetite is huge!!"

Wang Teng roared at the sky, his voice rolling, directly blowing off a corner of the Saint Emperor Palace roof. The aura inside his body began to soar wildly at a speed that made one's scalp tingle!

Venerable Realm—Mid Stage! It was only a single breath of time!

The surrounding chaotic energy began to swirl backward crazily, forming a massive funnel with a diameter of a thousand zhang, all pouring into the crown of Wang Teng's head.

The nine tails behind him underwent an astonishing transformation at this moment. The originally pitch-black dragon heads now had eyes that turned into burning crimson-gold.

Between opening their mouths, they could not only exhale Nine Nether Hell Mist, but also spew out Saint Emperor Dragon Flames that could burn the heavens and boil the seas! Yin and yang complemented each other, god and demon in one body!

Venerable Realm—Late Stage!

"Rumble—" The ground for a thousand miles around began to collapse, and countless magma surged out. And in the interweaving of that magma and black mist, that figure like a demon god continued to grow in momentum!

The pleasure of becoming stronger made Wang Teng unable to resist wanting to roar at the sky. He felt every cell in his body cheering, and every bone being recast.

In the previous Array Formation Realm, he used his body as an array. But now in the Venerable Realm, he was the supreme one!

Under the nourishment of that Saint Emperors Dao Fruit, the Third Killing Array within his body and the Nine-Nether Ao's bloodline completely merged into one, indistinguishable from each other.

Finally. When that vast torrent of energy was exhausted. When the last scale on Wang Teng's body completed its transformation, turning into perfect dark-gold divine armor.

"Hum—" A Great Dao vibration resounded throughout the entire Eight Regions of the Lower Realm. An invisible ripple centered on Wang Teng instantly swept across the entire Fire Kingdom, even spreading to neighboring territories.

At that moment, countless old monsters in deep cultivation opened their eyes in terror; countless Ancient Remains trembled and prostrated themselves on the ground.

Venerable Realm—Peak! And it was a—Limit Venerable—who had achieved sainthood through his physical body, possessed the Ten Fiends bloodline, and the Third Killing Array!

In this world of the lower realm where the laws were incomplete, this was already the limit of power, the true ceiling! One more step, and it would be lighting the divine fire and ascending to the divine throne!

"Hoo..." Wang Teng slowly exhaled a long breath. This breath, when exhaled, actually transformed into a golden sword of energy a hundred zhang long, directly piercing through the void in front, and did not dissipate for a long time.

He hovered in mid-air, his massive body emitting a suffocating sense of oppression. At this moment, even without using any precious techniques, just a single collision of his physical body would likely be enough to smash a Primordial Divine Mountain into powder.

"Is... is this the power of the peak of the Venerable Realm?"