Chapter 1626: Ancestral God Spell Battle Law God Crown, Technique Dog Great Meal Heavenly Eye

"Bang bang!"

The star-patterned robe was torn, and the beaded crown shattered.

Torrential demonic energy erupted from Cuiyin Ranming, distorting the very space around him. His already gloomy complexion was now devoid of any otherworldly or sacred aura.

It was as if a sheepskin had been ripped away, revealing the wolf beneath.

Now, with the power of the Demon-Splitting Axe, drawing on endless demonic energy and transforming into "Demonic Cuiyin Ranming," even the Star River Divine Court could no longer recognize its master.

"Click, click, click––"

As his demonic nature was exposed, the surrounding Star River Divine Court, unable to withstand such extreme power, began to collapse.

The black hole plunged downwards.

The "space" that had lost the black hole's filling completely lost the concept of "space" itself, turning into a swirling chaos that was neither gas nor liquid.

Starlight shattered into dust.

The beautiful Star River that once shone in this divine court instantly plummeted from heaven to hell, returning to its hideous, "empty" true form, like someone who is outwardly beautiful but inwardly rotten, laughing maniacally as they tear open their own entrails for all to see.

All beauty was swallowed!

Nothing remained!

The black hole, the starlight, and even the divine court...

Everything was like a reflection in a mirror, a flower in water; after shedding its opulent facade, it stripped away to reveal a monstrous maw filled with fangs, its origin unknown.

The thirty-six Divine Punishment Pillars that had stretched out from the cosmos, originally solemn pillars adorned with ancient murals, astonishingly transformed into towering, grasping, black-purple tentacles.

"Drip, drop..."

A crisp sound, unnoticed until now, had begun to rise from the background.

When noticed in such an ugly environment, it not only failed to alleviate the shock but added a few more layers of dread.

Looking around, one could only see drops of corrosive black-purple liquid dripping from those tentacles and the monstrous maw into the nameless void...

They corroded chaos and corrupted Dao principles.

And when even the very source of the world, the formless principles, were being corroded, a foul, soul-sickening, and libido-disrupting stench assailed one's spiritual consciousness, contaminating one's thoughts.

"Hiss ah ah ah––"

Xu Xiaoshou suddenly thrashed his head, screaming uncontrollably.

His "Spiritual Awakening" instantly triggered, and his consciousness had already returned to calm.

But his body, under such an assault of sights, sounds, smells, and sensations, was completely disoriented, leaving him only able to scream.

He didn't even know what he was screaming; he just wanted to scream while clutching his head.

"Ya ah ah ah––"

Dao Qiongcang was even more frantic, banging his head against his rear, knees hitting his ribs and back, his entire body twisted and folded, rolling, thrashing, and folding over like a ball, utterly devoid of any grace.

"Wuwuwu..."

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

Sounds of tormented souls emerged.

On the thirty-six Divine Punishment Pillars... no, on the tentacles, from the soul bodies that were almost drained of power, sounds suddenly began to emanate.

As discarded entities, they no longer needed to maintain the power of the divine court, and were randomly flung out by divine decree, arranging and combining in a "chaotic" manner.

If anyone with a clear mind were to look, they might vaguely discern half of Elder Sang's soul-face embedded in the humerus of a Drowned Ghost, and Cen Qiaofu's soul-hand plunged tightly into Yue Gongli's throat...

Hands grew on buttocks.

Toes lined up in a row, redefining eyebrows.

Arm hair, leg hair, head hair, and some unknown type of hair, haphazardly clumped together, grew out from between the soul-mouths of some unfortunate souls.

"Forbidden Disorderly Maw."

"Forbidden Unflourishing Tentacle."

"Forbidden Corrupted Primal Realm!"

When Cuiyin Xieshen raised the Demon-Splitting Axe, unleashing his demonic nature to invade Ranming Daoying.

This world completely went mad!

"What... what am I seeing..."

Witnessing this scene through his spiritual perception, Xu Xiaoshou felt his pure mind had been severely polluted.

He couldn't imagine what Cuiyin Xieshen had seen or experienced to construct such a world that truly deserved to be called "corrupted."

Is this art?

If chaos is beauty, ugliness is good, if partiality defines completeness, if relativity rewrites absolutes...

Xu Xiaoshou felt that Cuiyin Xieshen was incredibly artistic!

He saw, he understood, he affirmed "Cuiyin-style art," but this didn't mean he could fully accept such art from the bottom of his heart.

"Break free!"

"I must break free!"

"But how do I break free?"

The information bar seemed to have gone mad too, with each piece of information adding only one passive point, but in the same second, thousands of different attack-type messages appeared.

Xu Xiaoshou even wondered if that broken system, evolved from a broken dial, would explode from the inside out due to this corrupt art.

Anyway, his brain was already fried, but he still hadn't found a perfect solution to the attacks from Cuiyin Ranming, who had burst out of his clothes.

"Hmm..."

In this bizarre madness, the only strand of consciousness in his spiritual platform that remained unaffected emitted a hum, as if unsure how to speak.

Xu Xiaoshou investigated and found that it was the newly contracted Shield Treasure!

Ah Dun, are you unaffected?

The Shattered Jun Shield was indeed as seen before: no matter how mad the world became, it remained unmoving and undisturbed.

The evil god's art filled the entire divine court, yet it had not shaken its unyielding mind, as hard as ancient stone.

At this moment, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly realized anew what "true absolute defense" meant – even an evil god couldn't break through it!

"Shield Treasure, help me!"

As he desperately cried out for help with his mind in that sliver of space, the Shattered Jun Shield shifted from passive to active, and Xu Xiaoshou shifted from active to passive.

He felt as if he were experiencing the Four Swords Heavenly Release from before; there was no need for further integration, no need to nurture the shield. The Shattered Jun dominated him, becoming the "Shield Heavenly Release," and he himself became merely the tool to unleash its power.

"Dong!"

The ultimate giant of corruption disappeared.

The silver, high-wall-like Shattered Jun Shield also vanished.

In its place, a brilliant silver world descended from the heavens, suppressing the shattered remnants of what was once the Star River Divine Court, now controlled by the Disorderly Maw and the Unflourishing Tentacle.

Great Imperial Formlessness!

Great Imperial Soundlessness!

There were no other dazzling special effects, just like the Shattered Jun Shield's silent-as-gold but immensely reassuring nature.

When silver replaced corruption, the chaotically mating soul fragments stopped their high-frequency, rhythmic twitching, and Dao Qiongcang, who had been banging his head against his rear, also ceased his unsightly self-folding.

The world had a brief moment of quiet and normalcy.

"Ho..."

A soft cry rang out.

Even Cuiyin Xieshen in his demonic state had a moment of clarity!

Just as he had angrily formed hand seals and struck at lightning speed earlier, as soon as the world became quiet, he moved.

He raised his right hand again, the pad of his index finger resting against the back of his middle finger, and lightly slid it down.

"Chi la..."

From the Corrupted Primal Realm, countless vengeful souls and resentful energies were instantly drawn out.

There was unwillingness, indignation, shame, curses, hatred, bloodlust, fear, sorrow...

Demonic Cuiyin Xieshen held the spell seal steady, then lightly pinched his middle finger and thumb together, slowly drawing his hand back over his shoulder.

Those countless negative forces, tainted with demonic essence, rapidly spun between his two fingers, finally forming a giant, black-sun-like, high-spinning thin slice, like a piece of paper.

"Forbidden Vengeful Slice."

As the sound settled, he flicked his fingertip.

That rapidly spinning, mournful slice pierced the silver world, tearing open a black mark, breaking through the absolute defense guarding this realm, and cut an elegant arc towards... the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor!

"Audacious!"

After the Shattered Jun Shield's Heavenly Release, most of its power was actually protecting its master, Xu Xiaoshou. Who would have thought that Cuiyin Xieshen's attack target would so quickly shift to the former master, the Heavenly Ancestor?

Xu Xiaoshou didn't know if it was his own shout, or if the will of the Shattered Jun Shield compelled him to shout.

Without thinking, he released the Shattered Jun Shield's full-defense Heavenly Release, concentrating its ultimate protection in front of the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor.

"You want to cut off my escape route?"

"Impossible!"

One leaf obstructs the view, hiding Cuiyin.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress a local snake, let alone the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor, who was merely a distant guest in this divine ruin?

It had no desire to fight.

Essentially, even if Cuiyin Xieshen was weakened, he now had Ranming Daoying as a parasite, allowing him to exert extraordinary combat power.

What about the Heavenly Ancestor?

It didn't even have a physical body.

Even this eye, which might have been dim with age, needed to borrow the Ancestral God's fate to solidify and manifest in this ruin.

To be honest, once the power of the "Forbidden Corrupted Primal Realm" was unleashed, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor, having been an enemy of Cuiyin before, was already wary.

But with careful calculation against carelessness, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor, having come with the help of the Ancestral God's fate, fundamentally stepped into the first trap set by Cuiyin.

A wisp of邪qi, originating from the Ancestral God's fate, spontaneously appeared inside its big eye at a crucial moment!

Normally, this wisp of邪qi would have been absorbed without effort.

But at this moment, like a drop of black ink accidentally falling into a pure white dye vat, the emotions, will, and thoughts of the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor...

Because of this first wisp of black, they were all affected by the Corrupted Primal Realm!

It paused for a moment.

When the Shattered Jun Shield integrated with its successor and was unleashed, it was awakened and its mind was restored.

But it was also at this moment...

The presbyopic eye opened, and before it was still a pitch-black expanse, and that black, was it swirling?

The black in front of him wasn't black at all; it was his old opponent's "Vengeful Slice"!

By the time the Spirit of the Heavenly Ancestor realized this, it was too late.

But it was also at this moment...

"Audacious!"

As the intention of destruction arose, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor finally experienced the feeling of being protected.

That Xu Xiaoshou had actually forcibly dispelled the Heavenly Release that purified and suppressed the evil of this realm, instead concentrating all defense at a single point.

He transformed into his Void Giant form, and in the nick of time, broke through space and Dao principles, sliding in with the shield.

"Boom––"

The rapidly rotating Vengeful Slice slammed heavily into the Shattered Jun Shield, which was not held frontally, but sliding in sideways.

Thus, the force was not in the same direction.

And in the face of absolute attack, even though the Shattered Jun Shield inherently possessed the ability to redirect, transform, and absorb force, it was ineffective in a short period.

With a "bang," the ultimate giant, whose elbow had passed but whose body hadn't, had his arm directly broken by the Vengeful Slice through the shield, even though he had activated the Immovable King at the crucial moment.

The Immovable King, moving like thunder.

As this golden light broke and the ultimate giant retreated, Demonic Cuiyin Xieshen also grunted.

However, the Vengeful Slice's momentum remained unchanged; it merely shifted position and forcibly twisted back from behind while still in motion––pointing directly at the ultimate giant's vulnerable back!

Lessons from the past, guidance for the future.

Cuiyin Xieshen was never lacking in cunning. Having already been struck once, how could he not be prepared for the Immovable King?

This feint...

From the very beginning, what he wanted to cut was not the Spirit of the Heavenly Ancestor, but Xu Xiaoshou!

What he wanted to strike was that momentary gap when Xu Xiaoshou, holding the shield, was forced to assist!

"Attacked, passive value, 1."

"Guided, passive value, 1."

"Framed, passive value, 1."

Not good!

The information bar popped up.

Without even looking, Xu Xiaoshou knew that Cuiyin's scheme was aimed at him.

Damn scoundrel, treacherous villain, evil rogue!

As the ultimate giant's arm broke, the Vengeful Slice had already wrapped around his back in a flash. Even though Xu Xiaoshou reacted extremely fast, he propped himself on the ground, hooked his foot, held the shield, and did an inverted hook kick to block diagonally backward with the shield.

His speed was still too slow.

That black, high-spinning thin slice, imbued with bitter resentment, trembled slightly, then, at an incredibly tricky angle, wrapped around from under the Shattered Jun Shield.

It was aimed precisely at the ultimate giant's head, which hadn't had time to right itself after inverting.

"Holy cow!"

Xu Xiaoshou's mentality instantly exploded.

Was this a premonition, or a coincidence?

If it were the Vanishing Art, if it were standing alone, the first to bear the brunt naturally wouldn't be himself, but his escape route — the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor!

No...

Calamity's Guidance!

Absolutely, absolutely, there was some circuitous way to guide his recent shield-kick block, so as to form the perfect attack trajectory he desired most.

Those who play with techniques, whether it's Heavenly Mystery Arts or anything else, truly have dirty hearts!

May they be sliced into a thousand pieces, you guiding dogs!

"Watch out!"

At the crucial moment, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor finally exerted its power.

Never before had it so fully affirmed its Heavenly Ancestor successor.

Even though this scoundrel had harmed it many times before, just for that selfless rush to assist just now, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor felt it had chosen the right successor!

Its angry eye opened wide, divine light descended from the heavens, preemptively striking Xu Xiaoshou, who was in his Void Giant form.

Xu Xiaoshou was still hesitating whether to abandon himself or his escape route.

A complex, gold-and-silver intertwined seal instantly formed in his mind. Without needing to understand, he instantly comprehended and assimilated it.

The Immortal's Guidance, Xu Xiaoshou opened his mouth, and a Heavenly Seal was exhaled:

"Heavenly Repulsion Seal Retreat!"

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

Om––

From the ultimate giant's mouth, a special character seal, unlike any known in the Shengshēn Continent, was exhaled.

As the complex pattern seal first appeared, it transformed into a solemn grand seal, pressing down on the oncoming Vengeful Slice.

A strange, soft sound immediately emerged.

The Heavenly Repulsion Seal directly disappeared, transforming into ancient void script, binding itself to the Vengeful Slice.

The Vengeful Slice, which was right in front of its face, was suddenly displaced tens of thousands of li outwards.

Though for the ultimate giant and the black-sun-like Vengeful Slice itself, this distance was negligible.

A moment, yet eternity!

The ultimate giant was able to turn the tables, seizing this breathing room to scoop up the Shattered Jun Shield with its single arm, horizontally positioning it in the path of the Vengeful Slice's attack.

If it's a frontal defense...

Are you called Cuiyin?

If you can break my shield today, my Heavenly Ancestor's name will be written backward!

"Boom!"

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle––"

As expected, the black sun, slicing from the front, first blasted the ultimate giant backward, then could only rapidly grind against the Shattered Jun Shield, pushing the giant along.

Even through the shockwave, the ultimate giant's single arm cracked, its back exploded, and it became a bloody mess.

Death, but no retreat from defense!

"Passive Punch."

"Passive Punch."

"Passive Punch."

That's it?

Is this all? Is this all? Is this all?

What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!

Saved! The ultimate giant's eyes lit up, his aura shook the mountains and rivers, and he couldn't help but roar:

"Heavenly Ancestor, you are my god!"

"Wu"

Suddenly, the world darkened.

During the stalemate between the Shattered Jun Shield and the Vengeful Slice, behind the shattered Star River altar, Ranming Daoying's body had completely disintegrated.

As his flesh and blood body exploded, as the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor bestowed its aid, as the ultimate giant uttered the Heavenly Repulsion Seal...

Cuiyin had disappeared!

At the same time, above the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor, a shadowy area began to form, and strange things started to appear within it.

Amidst that ancient, evil, hazy, and awe-inspiring邪qi, a divine throne forcefully materialized, pressing down on the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor.

The black-purple, eerie divine throne oozed an unknown viscous liquid, flowing down into a sea of blood and mountain of corpses made of countless piled-up skulls. On the divine throne, a figure lay lazily.

Three heads and six arms, in a sleeping posture, eyes indifferent to all beings, gazing elsewhere; three hands formed fists, lightly pressed against its forehead, while the remaining three arms slowly rose.

When Dao Qiongcang below raised his gaze in shock, when the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor looked up in horror, when Xu Xiaoshou accidentally glanced over with his peripheral vision...

The three raised hands, symbolizing the true form of Cuiyin, simultaneously performed a gesture familiar to everyone:

Fingers together, index finger sliding down.

"Ten thousand Dao methods, the divine crown of methods..."

"Technique reaches ultimate meaning, meaning returns to simplicity..."

"One transforms into ten thousand, ten thousand obscure the Heavenly Eye..."

Three soft murmurs, overlapping, descended as deafening sounds while souls were disoriented.

Suddenly, the lips of the three Cuiyin heads, which had been resting with closed eyes, parted and closed, the overlapping echoes converging into the final phrase:

"Forbidden Technique Dog Feast!"

"Forbidden Technique Dog Feast!"

"Forbidden Technique Dog Feast!"

Three sounds resonated simultaneously.

The world rumbled and shook.

The Star River Divine Court, like Ranming Daoying, completely shattered, its true form gone.

Appearing in response...

The divine throne transformed from one to ten thousand, and ten thousand into infinity;

Cuiyin's grand dream of three thousand, bestowing techniques upon ten thousand realms.

Ten thousand realms and ten thousand methods created ten thousand Cuiyin, who performed the finger-pointing gesture, casting ten thousand kinds of immense power into the divine throne's Cuiyin true form above the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor.

From afar, one could vaguely see that in one of these ten thousand realms, there seemed to be countless Spirit Refiners in the Southern Domain of Shengshēn Continent who had cultivated evil techniques.

At this moment, all the evil cultivators of the Southern Domain had become Cuiyin's pawns, aiding his evil?

"Chì."

On the divine throne, Cuiyin chuckled softly.

The Forbidden Technique Dog Feast had clearly formed.

The previous technique, "Forbidden Disorderly Maw," rumbled with a surge of life, evolving a dog-like body below, its massive mouth aimed at the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor, then fiercely clamped shut.

"Boom––"

The Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor was swallowed in one bite.

The previous technique, "Forbidden Unflourishing Tentacle," twisted and retracted, also imbued with life, splitting into countless claws that plunged into the technique dog's belly, grabbing, pulling out, tearing apart, discarding... repeating endlessly!

"Chi chi chi chi chi!"

In the blink of an eye, just as the Shattered Jun Shield and the Vengeful Slice began their stalemate, the Eye of the Heavenly Ancestor above had already been devoured by the Technique Dog Feast.

What kind of technique was this?

Could such a technique truly exist in the world?

Technique Ancestor, what crime did you commit to give rise to such an evil creature...

After his momentary daze, Xu Xiaoshou was consumed by rage, his eyes splitting with fury:

"Stealing my crystal?"

"Cuiyin old thief, may you die a terrible death!!!"