144: I'll devour the Imperial Seal alive! This punch of mine is called Shattering the Vacuum!

"Arrogant barbarian! Be suppressed by this Young Lord!"

Surpassing the Barbarians Saint let out a sharp shriek, his originally gentle eyes now filled with five-colored divine light. Facing Gu Yang's hammer, which was heavier than a star, he knew well that ordinary defensive measures were no different from thin paper before this barbarian.

He suddenly slapped his chest and sacrificed a small bronze tower that was entirely wreathed in Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi.

"Pseudo-Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure — Five Elements God-Sealing Tower!"

The small tower expanded upon meeting the wind, transforming into a hundred-zhang-tall giant in the blink of an eye. Five distinct pillars of Law erupted from its base: the sharpness of Gold, the resilience of Wood, the surging of Water, the explosion of Fire, and the heaviness of Earth. The Five Elements generated and countered each other, instantly constructing a gravity millstone that solidified space in the center of the altar.

"Smash it for me!"

Gu Yang didn't even look at that damn tower.

The Divine Demon bloodline within his body was boiling like lava. The sound of his heart beating after fusing with the "Extreme Dao Heart-Protecting Mirror fragment" could not be suppressed even by the heavy Five Elements Laws, emitting thunderous drumbeats of "Dong! Dong! Dong!"

Dang——!!!

The myriad poison star shattering hammer and the Five Elements God-Sealing Tower collided head-on in mid-air.

In the instant of that collision, all sound in the hall seemed to be forcibly erased. Immediately following, a visible physical shockwave spread frantically in a ring toward the surroundings.

Those Saints and Prodigies who were originally hiding in the distance felt as if their chests had been struck by a heavy hammer. Many groaned on the spot, their protective divine light shattered by this hammer strike as they slid back dozens of zhang in a mess, leaving deep gouges on the black bone surface... "How is this possible?! He actually used his physical strength... to shake a Pseudo-Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure?!"

The Tai consider Saint, Tai Yi, stared fixedly at the center of the battlefield. He could clearly see that the God-Sealing Tower, which claimed to suppress the Five Elements and possess peerless defense, was actually emitting bursts of overwhelmed creaking under Gu Yang's hammer strike. The Mysterious Yellow Mother Qi on the tower's body was shaken into scattering by that overbearing physical force field.

"Old man, your tower... isn't quite up to snuff!"

The muscles on Gu Yang's arms suddenly bulged, and the Dark gold battle patterns beneath his skin erupted with eye-piercing light.

He suddenly retracted his hammer, then unified his waist and hips, swinging the hammer in a full circle once more.

"Extreme Dao — Folding of Strength!"

The power of the perfected Divine Demon Golden Body Second Turn within Gu Yang's body was forcibly compressed onto that single point on the hammer head at this moment. Because that area of space could not withstand such terrifying mass, an extremely minute black spot actually appeared.

Kacha!

A crisp sound of cracking.

Under Surpassing the Barbarians Saint's horrified gaze, the thick Law barrier of the Five Elements God-Sealing Tower was actually smashed with a thumb-sized crack by Gu Yang's hammer... "Pfft—!"

With his soul-linked Magic Treasure damaged, Surpassing the Barbarians Saint sprayed out a mouthful of fresh blood on the spot.

"You... what kind of monster are you?! A Spell Cultivator could never possess this kind of power!"

"Didn't I tell you? I'm Tie Niu of the Great Strength Sect!"

Gu Yang grinned savagely, his foot suddenly kicking off the black bone surface.

Boom!!

His entire being turned into a bolt of dark gold lightning, directly piercing through the blockade of the five-colored divine light and rushing toward that bronze fragment that was still slightly trembling, attempting to release Imperial Might to counterattack.

That fragment sensed the extremely similar yet even more savage Extreme Dao aura on Gu Yang's body, and it actually erupted with a gravity tide sufficient to instantly obliterate a Void Refinement Stage Cultivator.

Buzz—!

The gravity within a hundred-zhang radius instantly climbed to a hundred thousand times normal at this moment!

... "Watch out!" Saintess Feng Ni screamed out in the distance.

Under this level of gravity, even light could not escape. Those three top Saints even had to retreat again, fearing they would be sucked into this gravity tide and turned into meat paste.

However, Gu Yang was laughing.

"Hahahaha! Satisfying! This massage intensity is what I call satisfying!"

In the center of that hundred-thousand-fold gravity, the bones all over Gu Yang's body were creaking. That pressure, which seemed as if it wanted to crush his every particle, was Hell for others, but for him, it was the best "catalyst."

The "Five Elements Great Millstone" within his body reached its speed limit in an instant. The Divine Demon Golden Body's Bottleneck, which had been stuck at the Perfection Realm, finally produced a hint of loosening under the suppression of this terrifying external force.

[Divine Demon Golden Body Third Turn Analysis Progress: 75%... 82%... 90%!]

Gu Yang walked step by step toward that Extreme Dao Imperial Seal fragment against the gravity that was crushing the Void Realm. His skin turned dark red due to blood congestion, but beneath that red light, a layer of black flowing light was faintly forming.

That was... the prototype of the **[Vacuum Physique]**... "This barbarian wants to seize the Imperial Seal?!"

Tai Yi and Ao Xue exchanged a glance, their eyes both filled with ruthlessness. This kind of Opportunity was something they would never allow this unknown wild Body Cultivator to snatch away, even if they couldn't get it themselves.

"Tai consider Lightning Summoning, All Laws Return to the Source!" "Dragon God's Wrath, Roaring Vast Sea!"

The two Saints struck at almost the same time. Two of their strongest killing moves, sufficient to heavily injure an Early Void Refinement Stage Cultivator, pierced through the gravity layer and aimed straight for Gu Yang's back.

"Get... away from me!!!"

Gu Yang did not turn around.

He simply thrust his chest forward, and an extremely violent physical wave carrying a will that shattered everything exploded from his back.

Bang! Bang!

When the two Holy Land-level killing moves touched the wave behind Gu Yang, they actually came to a bizarre standstill for a ten-thousandth of a second. Then, like paper kites hitting divine iron, they were forcibly shaken into scattering by the "Inertial Repulsion Force" generated by the extreme mass of matter!

... The entire scene fell into a suffocating silence once again.

Under the gaze of countless wide eyes, one of Gu Yang's large hands had already firmly pressed down on that Extreme Dao Imperial Seal fragment that was still struggling violently.

"My old man said that good things should be eaten while they're hot."

Gu Yang bared his teeth in a wide grin at the Imperial Seal fragment.

Inside his throat, the black hole vortex of the Five Elements Great Millstone had already emerged.

"You... what are you going to do?!" Surpassing the Barbarians Saint, ignoring his injuries, shouted in terror, "That is an Imperial Seal! It contains an Extreme Dao will! You dare to desecrate... wuwuwu!"

Before Surpassing the Barbarians Saint could finish speaking, his jaw was dislocated.

Because he saw that man covered in battle patterns actually lower his head without hesitation and swallow that Extreme Dao fragment, which was sufficient to suppress an entire world... whole!

... In the instant that fragment entered his throat, Gu Yang's entire aura instantly vanished.

Then.

Dong——!!!

An extremely muffled heartbeat transmitted from within Gu Yang's body.

This single heartbeat directly shattered the surrounding hundred-thousand-fold gravity field into nothingness.

The five-colored divine light that originally shrouded the altar fled frantically in all directions at that moment, as if it had met its nemesis.

Gu Yang stood quietly in place.

The Dark gold battle patterns on his skin were rapidly fading, replaced by a pure blackness similar to an abyss.

That blackness was not a color, but rather a visual distortion caused by the surrounding light and air being sucked toward him because his body density was too high.

[Divine Demon Golden Body: Due to the ingestion of the Extreme Dao Core Patch, the Third Turn — Shattered Void (Official Version) has been forcibly unlocked!] [Current Cultivation: Divine Demon Golden Body Third Turn (Early Stage)!] [Acquired Traits: Vacuum Domain, Gravity Control, Law Disregard (Elementary).]

... Gu Yang slowly raised his head.

His gaze had changed. The original smear of simple-minded disguise had been completely torn away, revealing an overbearing coldness that could span across the ages and view the gods and buddhas of the heavens as mere grass.

He lightly raised his right hand and threw a punch at the massive Five Elements God-Sealing Tower in front of him.

There was no fist wind, nor was there a sonic boom.

On the path that punch traveled, space was crumpled into a ball as if by an invisible giant hand. Then, at the location of that small bronze tower, a thumb-sized Black vacuum sphere appeared.

Kacha... Boom!!!

Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze.

That Pseudo-Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure-grade Five Elements God-Sealing Tower didn't even have a chance to resist under this punch. It instantly collapsed into a lump of twisted scrap metal, then turned into a sky full of copper filings and scattered across the ground... "I said it just now."

Gu Yang spoke, his voice as calm as if he were recounting a trivial matter, but as each word fell, dense cracks rippled through the Void Realm.

"Whoever stops me from eating, I'll grind them down first."

He turned his head and looked at the several Saints not far away who were already sitting paralyzed on the ground in fear.

"Now, I'm full."

"This place... I'm also tired of staying here. Open the door, I'm going out."

Gu Yang suddenly shot upward, his entire being like a black meteorite, slamming fiercely toward the solid boundary wall of the Five Elements Illusory Realm.

Rumble——!!!

The entire Ten-Thousand-Zhang Skeleton Secret Realm began to collapse completely under Gu Yang's collision.

And in the outside world.

The central altar of Five Elements City.

Several Void Refinement Perfection old monsters who were originally resting with their eyes closed, waiting for the sacrifice results, simultaneously opened their eyes in horror.

They saw a pitch-black spatial crack instantly bloom above the originally sacred and inviolable altar.

A man with a bare upper body, covered in Devilish patterns, and carrying a Young Lord who was already nearly scared witless in his hand, stepped out of the Void Realm.

"That's... Tie Niu?!"

"The aura of the Extreme Dao Imperial Seal has vanished?! Could it be..."

Gu Yang ignored the Divine Sense scans of those old monsters above. He casually tossed Surpassing the Barbarians Saint onto the altar and looked into the distance with a profound gaze.

There, he could sense that the decayed aura belonging to the "Endless Sea Abyss" was becoming increasingly clear because of his Breakthrough.

"The bones of this world are passable for chewing."

Gu Yang licked his lips, his eyes filled with greed.

"Next... it's time to go to the Abyss and see if that Opportunity for Immortal Ascension is enough to even get stuck between my teeth."