155: Devour each other! Take a bath inside the monster's eyeballs!

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

When Gu Yang took this bite, he didn't taste the tender meat juice he imagined. Instead, it was like biting open a high-pressure canister filled with concentrated sulfuric acid.

A stream of grayish, chaotic airflow with extreme corrosive and assimilative properties erupted wildly from the gap he bit open, instantly flooding his mouth, and even burning down his esophagus into his stomach.

Pain!

That pain wasn't like flesh being cut, but like every single cell being forcibly disassembled and reorganized into another unknown substance.

Chaos Qi is the beginning of all things and also their end. It possesses the terrifying characteristic of reducing all orderly matter back into formless Chaos.

At this moment, half of Gu Yang's face instantly turned a ashen, stone-like color, then immediately transformed into a pool of writhing blood, only to be forcibly restored by the powerful recovery ability of the Divine Demon Golden Body.

"Strong enough! This flavor... it's a bit like drinking a mouthful of boiling iron water, with a dash of expired aged vinegar added."

Not only did Gu Yang not let go, but his eyes turned crimson, and he let out a beast-like roar from his throat.

He dug both hands firmly into the surface skin of the eyeball, unleashed the Extreme Dao Force Field to its maximum, and forcefully 'nailed' himself onto the eyeball's surface like a spike.

"Trying to assimilate me? You need to check whose stomach you're dealing with!"

"Five Elements Great Millstone—Turn for me!"

Rumble!

Thunderous sounds came from within Gu Yang's body. It was the Five Elements Origin operating frantically, resisting the invading Chaos Qi. Metal generates water, water generates wood... As the Five Elements circulated, they formed a perfect closed loop, grinding, stripping away, and then transforming the chaotic power attempting to disintegrate his Physical Body into the purest attribute-less nourishment... "Roar—!!!"

The Chaos Beast's eyeball felt an immense threat. It hadn't expected this tiny bug not only to fail to be digested but to actually start devouring its Origin instead.

Its massive sphere began to contract and expand violently, and the tentacles on its surface thrashed wildly against Gu Yang's back, each strike containing monstrous force capable of smashing a top-grade Spirit Treasure.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Gu Yang's back was battered until the skin split and dark golden bone fragments flew everywhere. But he was like an iron wire worm drilled into an apple, refusing to let go. Instead, using the pain as leverage, he plunged his head further inside.

Splash!

He actually forced his entire body through the gap he had bitten open and drilled into the interior of the eyeball!

...Inside the eyeball was a bizarre liquid world.

There was no up, down, left, or right, only a viscous, glue-like gray liquid—Chaos Origin Liquid.

As soon as he entered, Gu Yang felt his entire skin burning.

The pressure here was ten thousand times that of the outside, and the corrosiveness was outrageously strong. His newly changed black combat uniform instantly vaporized, leaving no residue.

His naked Physical Body was directly exposed to the Chaos Origin Liquid.

[Warning: Physical Body suffering Chaos Corrosion! Cell collapse rate: 15%... 20%...]

[Divine Demon Golden Body Responsive Reaction: Adaptive Evolution Activated!]

"So hot! This is like taking a bath in lava!"

Gu Yang clenched his jaw, but the excitement in his eyes grew stronger.

He could clearly feel that as the surface layer of skin was corroded away, the newly grown tender flesh actually carried faint gray patterns.

That was Chaos Resistance!

His Physical Body was adapting to this higher-dimensional energy!

"This is a huge tonic! If I missed this chance, I'd regret it for ten thousand years!"

Gu Yang moved his arms in the viscous liquid, like a greedy shark, heading straight for the golden light core at the very center of the eyeball.

Only by swallowing that core would this meal be considered complete!

...Meanwhile, outside.

Above Dragon Ridge Island.

"Rumble—"

The entire island began to shake violently, as if suffering a magnitude 12 earthquake.

The previously solid mountain ranges began to collapse, the ground split open into bottomless fissures, seawater poured in, and dust flew everywhere.

"What's happening?! Is the Earth Dragon turning over?!"

The Cultivators watching from the periphery of the mine pit were scared out of their wits and hastily urged their Magic Treasures into the sky.

"No! It's the mine pit! The mine pit is collapsing!"

Someone pointed at the basin sealed by the Formation and shouted in alarm.

The massive mine pit was now spewing terrifying pillars of gray light outwards. Wherever the light passed, even space was corroded, creating black holes.

"Is that... a Chaos Storm?!"

Sea-Breaker-Heaven, the leader of the Ten Thousand Islands Alliance, stood high in the sky, his face pale as paper.

He thought there was just a mine below, but it turned out to be a bomb!

"What about that Human Race member? Is that guy named Tie Niu still down there?!"

"He's definitely dead! With an energy burst like this, even someone in the Late Void Refining stage would turn to ash!"

An Island Master said, still shaken.

However, before his words faded.

"Thump!"

A muffled heartbeat sound, incredibly deep, suddenly came from the depths of the earth.

The sound wasn't loud, but it felt like it struck everyone's Primordial Spirit directly, causing all Cultivators below the Soul Transformation Stage to instantly spit out a mouthful of blood and fall from the sky.

Immediately following that.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The heartbeat grew more urgent and louder, as if an Ancient Giant was beating a drum underground.

Accompanying the heartbeat, the gray light pillar shooting into the sky began to retract strangely, as if being forcibly sucked back by something!

...Deep underground, at the eyeball core.

Gu Yang had already swum up to the golden core.

It was a ball of golden liquid, only the size of a fist, yet emitting a suffocating pressure that made Gu Yang gasp.

Chaos Essence (Divine Demon Grade)!

"It's you!"

Gu Yang completely ignored the danger of his body being about to explode, grabbed the liquid with both hands, opened his mouth wide, and began to gulp it down voraciously.

"Gulp gulp!"

As the essence entered his stomach, Gu Yang's body suddenly stiffened.

An indescribably vast amount of energy exploded within him, instantly breaking through the Bottleneck of the Divine Demon Third Turn Early Stage.

His blood began to boil, and his originally dark red blood actually showed traces of golden luster.

Every drop of blood seemed to possess independent life, capable of surviving for a long time even outside the body.

[Devoured Chaos Essence! Gained massive high-dimensional energy!]

[Current Cultivation: Divine Demon Golden Body Third Turn (Middle Stage) — Breakthrough!]

[Gained New Traits: Chaos Resistance (Elementary), Rebirth from a Drop of Blood (Prototype)!]

Although he hadn't truly reached the Rebirth from a Drop of Blood Realm of the Fourth Turn, the current Gu Yang could recover from any injury to his Physical Body in the time it takes to breathe, as long as his head wasn't crushed and his heart wasn't destroyed!

"Hiccup—"

Gu Yang let out a long burp, exhaling a puff of gray waste gas.

The surrounding Chaos Origin Liquid had become clear and transparent; its essence had been completely absorbed by him.

The giant eyeball now looked like a deflated balloon, collapsing limply.

"Fed up, time to check out..."

Gu Yang clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power within him that was enough to punch through the earth's crust.

He looked up at the thick layer of rock above him, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Alliance Leader Hai, I think I ate the foundation of your island..."

"But, you probably won't mind, right?"

Boom!

Gu Yang slightly bent his legs and pushed off forcefully.

The entire shriveled eyeball instantly exploded.

He transformed into a stream of gray-gold light, acting like a drill, forcefully shattering the ten-thousand-meter-thick rock layer and charging towards the surface!