Chapter 930: Heaven Devouring
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“I am the ruler of the mountains, the rivers, and forests, Lin Shoucheng…”
Lin Shoucheng was standing on top of the altar, his True Dragon Qi growing rapidly.
As he spoke, it seemed like the heavens and the earth understood him, releasing a huge amount of energy at once.
This was the exclusive privilege that the True Dragon and Son of Heaven enjoyed.
The five-colored cloud turned into a magic domain that was nearly enough to change complexions of the Golden Immortals.
Of course, this was only during the time of his worship.
Lin Shoucheng’s True Dragon Qi can only suppress Heaven Immortals. However, a human emperor’s Dao is gathering people. The unique power of a Son of Heaven reaches the peak during his ascension. With the agglomeration of the power of heaven, earth, and man, the Heavenly Dao will draw its curtains, while Golden Immortals have to stand down. From a certain perspective, at the pinnacle of his power, he could even make a Zenith Heaven look sideways!
A Zenith Heaven, like a Demon God, possessed the power of a Great Dao.
However, how could the power of a Great Dao compare to the Heavenly Dao?
The Son of Heaven was Celestial Thearch’s son, and the Celestial Thearch was the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao. No matter how much weaker he was, he was still as strong as a tenth of the Heavenly Dao.
This was more than enough to make a Demon God look sideways.
Of course, this power was something only the founder of the unified realm, the Son of Heaven, possessed during his first worship to the heavens. This power was also something that the Lord of the Void had been coveting.
Since it was the Heavenly Dao’s power, it was even more useful for breaking through the seals and restrictions.
Lin Shoucheng was wearing his imperial attire. All of a sudden, he took a deep breath, and many thoughts came to mind.
He was in the heat of the moment now. The pain and confusion from his youth suddenly resurfaced. He could not help shouting, “In the past, the Celestial Thearch was tyrannical, killing the young and the weak. This was an atrocity! The old rule must end! A new dynasty must be established! Today, I ascend the throne and worship the Heavens so that the Heavens will abolish the Celestial Thearch and turn to Excellency Mount Mang. The Heavens know all. I beseech Your decree!”
Kaboom!
Heaven and earth suddenly changed. Clouds covered the sky, and purple lightning danced.
The human realm’s sovereign worshipped the heavens to change people’s belief in the Celestial Thearch. This was an important matter that changed his foundations and was a huge blow to the Heavenly Court.
Of course, the Heavenly Court had fallen long ago. However, the Celestial Thearch was still around!
In fact, this worship was specially done to target the former Celestial Thearch!
Seeing this, Fang Yuan rubbed his chin and smiled. The Celestial Thearch went crazy and betrayed the Spiritual Realm. He is destined to be abandoned by the Heavenly Dao. Once this emperor goes, the only one left is Excellency Mount Mang. Other than him, there isn’t any other anyone else who can take on the responsibility of being the Celestial Thearch! I saw this when I was on the Mental Demon Battlefield.
Since the Celestial Thearch had lost favor, his decline would come sooner or later. Lin Shoucheng was merely speeding the process up. It was not very dangerous.
Even though the worship done for the ascension of the human realm’s emperor was a minor matter, it was the final piece that broke the balance of the power struggle in the Mental Demon Battlefield!
“Pass down my commands!” Lin Shoucheng stood up and ordered his officials. “From now on, all rituals to the fallen Heavenly Court will stop, and Excellency Mount Mang’s title will change to Celestial Thearch Mount Mang!”
“At Your Imperial Majesty’s command!”
With a thousand Heaven Immortals behind their backs, and three hundred imperial guards ready at any time. Other than those stubborn officials that had died long ago, the remaining civil and military officials knelt.
The heavens and the earth trembled as though a considerable change had taken place.
…
Outside the Heavenly Court, Mental Demon Battlefield.
Metal chains hung loose in the air. It reflected the remnants of a fierce battle while sealing the entire Mental Demon Battlefield.
Inside, numerous bundles of light with the power of a Great Dao collided, whittling and consuming one another.
Kaboom!
A strong vibration arrived, causing most metal chains to shatter.
In the middle of the chains, there was a large black bundle of light. Suddenly, there was a loud grunt.
Most of the black Dao Marks shattered. It caused the other three Great Dao light bundles to expand as their magical powers strengthened instantaneously.
“Damn! The Celestial Thearch’s authority and power have suddenly been stripped. Even the foundations of the Divine Dao has weakened!”
Supremacy Carefree and Supremacy Numinous Treasure’s voices rang out. “Fellow Daoist Mount Mang is appointed the new Celestial Thearch!”
“I can’t believe that a Son of Heaven has emerged in the human realm. He even worshiped me…”
Excellency Mount Mang was also shocked.
Even though the former Celestial Thearch had lost favor—and he had taken the opportunity to seize the blessing of heaven and earth—to take his position, it required the agglomeration of heaven, earth, and man before it would be truly successful.
Currently, Excellency Mount Mang had yet to obtain all the pieces he required.
Otherwise, he would not be fighting over the position of top combat strength in the Spiritual Realm. The Dark Thearch and Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment would not have been able to seal him for such a long time either. On top of that, his Great Dao was weakening.
In the stalemate between the seven bundles of light, the strongest one was the demonic energy that pulled three bundles of light. “As I expected, the human realm’s situation has changed. Doing this will only force the Celestial Thearch to descend further into the darkness. My plan is falling into place!”
“Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment!” Excellency Mount Mang retorted fearlessly, “The human realm has already begun to acknowledge us. I am now in favor with the Heavenly Dao. Your plans will not succeed.”
“Keke…” Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment cackled. “You’re nothing more than a small Celestial Thearch now. Just how I like it! The Divine Dao’s Celestial Thearch originates from the realm. You must have obtained a pseudo Heavenly Dao by now, right? As long as I devour you, I will be one step closer to the Netherheaven realm!”
“Have your demonic techniques reached this far?”
The two Zenith Heavens were astonished.
Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment possessed a technique that allowed him to devour Great Daos. They already knew this and were suffering from it.
However, they could never have imagined that his cultivation had already reached this stage. He could even devour the Heavenly Dao!
“Even though the Heavenly Dao contains all Great Daos, it is also a type of Dao. Why can’t I devour it? My Great Dao is the Dao of Heaven Devouring!” Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment said slowly. “Even though you, Celestial Thearch Mount Mang, alone might not be enough, if I devour the fallen Celestial Thearch, it should be sufficient. If that isn’t enough, aren’t there four more as well?”
“I see!” Excellency Mount Mang responded. “You were born from the fusion of Spirit and Demon. However, you haven’t obtained the Yin-Yang Great Dao, so it’ll be difficult to balance your power. Unless you plan on abandoning your sanity, you can’t just devour anything. If you want to devour me, you’d have to devour the fallen Celestial Thearch at the same time. Even with that, you might not be able to maintain the balance. To devour Carefree and Numinous Treasure, you’d have to swallow the Infinite Devourer and Demon God Myriad Thunder together…”
“Is my Great Dao something you can understand?” Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment sneered. “Since my Great Dao is named Heaven Devouring, its purpose is obviously to devour the Heavenly Dao and advance past Netherheaven Demon God. Therefore, both you and the Dark Thearch will fall to me…”
“Heaven Devouring Great Dao? Not technique?” Suddenly, a shocking message came from the sealed Demon God Myriad Thunder in a chained bundle of light. “We only had the Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique at the start! While consuming other Demon Gods’ Great Daos, you sublimated the technique into your own Great Dao?”
At the start, the Demon Gods infiltrated the Spiritual Realm with a grand plan in mind.
Of which, obtaining the reward from the Mental Demon Realm was just part of it. A high-level world with minimal restrictions that melded well with the Mental Demon Realm was not easy to find.
Furthermore, all of this was in preparation for devouring the Heavenly Dao.
Of course, they were not arrogant enough to devour the entire Heavenly Dao. They merely wanted to absorb a small part of it. This would strengthen their foundations and even pave the way to becoming a Netherheaven Demon God. They would be satisfied with that.
However, even though the Spiritual Realm had weak Demon Gods, they did not expect the Celestial Thearch to be so terrifyingly overwhelming. The Celestial Thearch’s strength was not inferior to Netherheaven. In an instant, he defeated and killed them, sealing them within the Mental Demon Battlefield.
The Demon Gods that died struggled as True Spirits. With their foundations in the Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique, they began to absorb Great Daos and turned into a new Demon God.
However, the Heaven Devouring Great Dao was still far too undeveloped.
Subsequently, after merging with Supremacy Wish Fulfillment, the Heaven Devouring Great Dao became complete. This was why Demon Supremacy Wish Fulfillment dared to challenge the Celestial Thearch.
It was merely the Celestial Thearch.
He understood clearly that his Great Dao was still very weak.
If he had risked devouring the Spiritual Realm’s Heavenly Dao, he would only have one outcome—being assimilated into the Heavenly Dao and turning into the same type of puppet as the Celestial Thearch.
“Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique? Devouring Great Daos?” Excellency Mount Mang and the two Zenith Heavens finally understood. “So that’s it… No wonder you became so wary of one another after being sealed. It’s because you were afraid of the other Demon Gods employing that technique and devouring your Dao path.”
Even they desired such a technique.
Of course, if they thought about it a little, they knew that these Demon Gods would not reveal anything about the Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique to them.
Not to mention them, even Fang Yuan did not know anything about it. He had only learned a little about it after he defeated the Lord of the Void.
It was just that the Lord of the Void and the Infinite Devourer came as outside help after the Mental Demon Battlefield opened the second time, so they were not very clear about the matters of the Demon Gods who had come before.
“As I thought, all Demon Gods must be eliminated!”
Excellency Mount Mang’s expression was solemn.
All of a sudden, a heavenly voice descended. The voice of Lin Shoucheng’s worship resounded. “The old rule must end, and a new dynasty must be established!”
The old rule ending referred to the Celestial Thearch.
A new dynasty represented Excellency Mount Mang.
The old rule must end! A new dynasty must be established! Together, it was a declaration of changing heaven by rising up against the old heaven.
“Heaven Insurrection!”
“Heaven Insurrection!”
…
Upon hearing the declaration, Excellency Mount Mang’s expression changed. He exclaimed, “Approved!”
With the Celestial Thearch’s approval, it was now the principle of the heavens and earth!
Roar! Roar!
On the altar in the human realm, a black True Dragon, which even mortals could see it, appeared.
The sky split open. “Approved!”
The black True Dragon roared and soared into the sky!
Kaboom!
Behind it, the barrier between heaven and mankind broke. A path leading toward the heavens emerged.
This was the Dao of Heaven Insurrection!
With both the new heaven’s command and the human realm’s wish, the Celestial Thearch and the Son of Heaven simultaneously ascended. This was the interactions between heaven and mankind.
The Heavenly Dao responded, and an impressive power descended.
Roar! Roar!
The black True Dragon soared to the Heavenly Court and swung its tail.
Crack!
The black Dao Marks in the sky shattered, instantly breaking the seal on Mental Demon Battlefield!