7: Chapter 7 The Nine Nether Hound Devours the Fat Remnant and Opens Up Ten Grotto Heavens

Feiyi—folklore has it that when this beast appears, a great drought will plague the world.

Unexpectedly, Wang Teng encountered one in Baiduan Mountain.

"The essence and blood of a Nine-Nether Ao... that is rumored to be an immortal nectar capable of shedding one's mortal coil and transforming one's bones.

Although you are severely injured, your remaining flesh and blood are enough for me to advance further and push towards the pure-blood realm!"

Feiyi laughed mockingly. The reason it dared to appear was that it had witnessed the fierce battle between Wang Teng and Shi Hao with its own eyes.

In its view, Wang Teng was not only drained of vitality at this moment but had also suffered severe backlash, making him nothing more than a spent arrow.

Wang Teng slowly turned around; the blood-red hue in his double pupils had not dimmed despite his injuries.

Instead, due to extreme anger and hunger, a violent, wild nature ignited within him.

"A snake... or a gecko?"

Wang Teng rasped, a trickle of corrosive saliva dripping from his mouth.

He was fretting over where to find nourishment, and in his eyes, this flame-engulfed giant beast was simply a steaming plate of "teppanyaki squid."

"You're courting death!"

Feiyi was enraged by the way Wang Teng looked at it—as if it were food.

It suddenly opened its blood-stained maw, runes flickering deep within its throat, and spewed a mass of crimson flames capable of melting refined iron.

"Li Fire Burns the Heavens!"

The flames rolled forward, boiling the lake water along the way until it bubbled.

However, Wang Teng moved.

Even though he was severely injured, the combat instincts of the Nine-Nether Ao were still etched into his bones.

He did not choose to resist head-on; instead, he exerted force through his four limbs.

His battered body erupted with terrifying speed in an instant, leaping sideways to avoid the center of the flames.

"Roar!"

Wang Teng let out a roar, and the eight and a half tails behind him suddenly spread out.

Although damaged, the remaining eight beast heads opened their eyes at this moment, releasing a chilling aura of the netherworld.

"Even if I am severely injured, I am not something a mongrel snake like you can covet!"

Wang Teng's body was like a bolt of black lightning, passing directly through the sea of fire.

Feiyi was shocked; it had not expected that a Nine-Nether Ao suffering from such severe injuries could still maintain this level of explosive power.

It hurriedly waved its four sharp claws, trying to create distance, while its snake tail swept out like a divine whip.

"Too late!"

Wang Teng twisted his body in mid-air, and the eight tails behind him acted like eight black chains, instantly wrapping around Feiyi's long snake body.

The beast heads at the ends of the tails opened their maws and bit down fiercely into the gaps between Feiyi's scales.

"Squelch!"

Scalding snake blood splattered all over Wang Teng.

"Ah—! Let me go! My divine fire!"

Feiyi screamed.

It discovered in horror that this Nine-Nether Ao's tails were not just draining its blood, but were actually devouring the divine fire essence within its body!

That chilling, sinister power surged in through the tails, nearly freezing its soul.

Wang Teng had already closed in, his massive front claws slamming down onto Feiyi's vital point.

That pair of gray, bovine horns shimmered with a heart-stopping black light, thrusting fiercely into Feiyi's abdomen.

"Rip—"

As if tearing through rags, Feiyi's proud crimson scales were as brittle as paper before the brute force of the Nine-Nether Ao.

"Since you've come, become my energy!"

Wang Teng let out a primal roar.

He opened his massive, fang-filled maw and bit down fiercely onto Feiyi's neck.

The pleasure brought by devouring life essence instantly washed away the excruciating pain of his severed tail.

Feiyi's massive body twitched violently, the greed in its eyes long since turned into endless regret.

It had thought it was coming to pick up a bargain.

Yet it failed to realize that a starved camel is still larger than a horse, let alone that this was a Ten Primordial Evils from hell.

A moment later, only a massive snake skeleton, drained of all its essence, remained by the lakeside.

Wang Teng's aura was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The rich fire energy contained within Feiyi perfectly neutralized the nether chill within his body.

It caused his damaged scales to regain a luster like black gold.

"Hoo..."

Wang Teng exhaled a breath of turbid air, his eyes shining with spirit.

The mist on the lake surface was completely swept away by a sudden, overwhelming pressure.

After devouring Feiyi, Wang Teng's body was undergoing a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering transformation.

The originally damaged eight and a half tails were pulsating wildly at this moment, and the granulation tissue at the breakages squirmed, actually regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But what shocked Wang Teng the most was not the restoration of his physical body.

It was that the bloodline shackles from the deepest parts of this Ten Primordial Evils' shell had completely shattered under the impact of Feiyi's essence.

"Hum—!"

The void trembled violently, and the first black pit appeared behind Wang Teng.

It was not golden and brilliant like Shi Hao's, but deep like a black hole that devoured everything, with the winds of the Nine-Nether howling faintly inside.

Following that, the second, the third...

One after another, the "Heavenly Passages" exploded in the void, spinning wildly around Wang Teng's hideous body.

Within each Heavenly Passage, a blurred vision emerged:

Some Heavenly Passages contained giant bone trees, dripping down billions of strands of death aura;

Some contained flowing waters of the Yellow Springs, extinguishing all vitality;

And some contained the phantom of a Nine-Nether Ao coiled within, roaring at the firmament.

"The ninth one!"

Feeling the massive power within his body that was nearly bursting it apart, Wang Teng's double pupils had turned an extreme, pitch black.

In the cultivation system of "Perfect World," nine Heavenly Passages already indicated a peerless genius, enough to walk sideways in Baiduan Mountain.

However, this body of the Ten Primordial Evils seemed unsatisfied.

"Break... for me!!"

Wang Teng roared at the sky, his voice filled with an unyielding will.

He thought of that Bear Kid who had stolen his tail, and the pressure brought about by those nine Heavenly Passages.

Since he had transmigrated into a monster, he would become the most desperate taboo in this world!

"Rumble!!"

By this quiet lakeside, the spiritual energy within a radius of a hundred miles was instantly drained, forming a terrifying vortex of spiritual energy.

In the center of those nine black Heavenly Passages, the void was torn open by a pair of invisible hands.

The tenth Heavenly Passage, carrying an overbearing aura that transcended all living things and looked down upon the common people, descended with a boom!

"Awoo!"

The Ten Heavenly Passages connected in a circle, forming a divine ring as black as ink, its edges shimmering with blood-red divine light.

This was not just an improvement in cultivation, but a leap in the level of life.

At this moment, Wang Teng felt that with every gesture, he could stir the laws of this world.

The pleasure of being enemies with the whole world yet being invincible in the whole world made him unable to resist letting out a wild roar that shattered the clouds.

It is rumored that throughout history, only the most astonishing and talented supreme cubs could open Ten Heavenly Passages.

And as a Nine-Nether Ao, under the reinforcement of the Ten Heavenly Passages, each of the nine tails behind him grew thicker.

The beast heads at the ends had all opened their eyes at this moment, each head representing an ultimate destructive precious technique.

Wang Teng lowered his head, looking at his reflection in the lake, which had become whole again, and even more majestic and hideous.

On that pair of gray, bovine horns, runes were densely packed, faintly circulating with the aura of creating heaven and earth.

He gently waved a claw, and the void was actually slashed with five tiny, pitch-black cracks.

"Shi Hao... next time we meet, I won't let you run away so easily."