Chapter 345

Chapter 345: I Want to Control Everything

The boundary of the Fourth Heaven in the Nine Heavens.

Lu Ye appeared, showing no signs of stopping, and in an instant, he rushed through the barrier and arrived at the outer realm.

The outer realm was also vast and empty, but compared to the vacuum of the Nine Heavens, it had an added hue of chaos, lacking the clarity of the Nine Heavens.

Once in the outer realm, Lu Ye could deeply feel that boundless sky and infinite earth sensation.

However, in just a moment, unease washed over him.

It felt like he had barely arrived in the outer realm when something terrifying had already fixed its gaze upon him.

At any moment, his life could vanish.

The time spent in the outer realm generally should not exceed a quarter of an hour.

Staying longer than that, or even for a shorter time, could lead to being reaped by a powerful and mysterious existence.

Lu Ye knew what was out there harvesting lives.

It was the Mother of Annihilation.

An extremely terrifying being, not human, but an evil existence born from chaos; the curse she cast wasn’t intentional, merely a curse formed naturally from the patterns that appeared around her since her birth, constantly reaping lives in the void.

Without Emperor Dao Hen, Lu Ye would have never been able to linger in the outer realm.

But now there was Emperor Dao Hen.

Emperor Dao Hen feared nothing, not even the effortless curses exuding from the Mother of Annihilation.

The Devouring Dao Beasts charged out.

One after another, the Devouring Dao Beasts surged forth, quickly transforming into a mist of blood as their peak Heaven and Earth Realm aura burst forth.

Promotion! Promotion! Promotion!

Amidst the continuous promotions, An Li issued the command, “Kill him!”

Emperor Dao Hen, hidden in the void, watched the scene with a cold smirk.

“Come on, give it a shot!”

However, the Devouring Dao Beasts kept rising and merging, quickly reaching the Void Realm, the Shattering Realm, the Great Dao Realm…

They were now incredibly close to Lu Ye, and at this proximity, the Devouring Dao Beasts had a million ways to wipe Lu Ye out.

“Do it already!” An Li barked.

“What’s the rush? After killing so many of my bodies, I want him to sink into boundless despair before I finish him off. Isn’t that way more entertaining?” the Devouring Dao Beast replied in rage.

“Are you out of your mind? Don’t you know that villains die because they talk too much?” An Li’s voice raised sharply.

“I’m not a villain, and I don’t need your permission. If you think I’m too slow, then go ahead and do it yourself!”

“Killing so many of my bodies, almost making me fall back in level, and you think I should just whack him without any effort? That’s too easy,” the Devouring Dao Beast bellowed, an overwhelming aura crashing down towards Lu Ye.

Lu Ye found himself unable to move under this immense pressure.

Yes, completely unable to move.

The power gap between them had reached a mind-boggling level.

The Devouring Dao Beast’s strength was still rising.

Royal Dao expert!

Continue rising!

An Li watched Lu Ye frozen in the void, never before had she felt so close to killing him.

Just one strike, just a simple gesture, and all it would take is for the Devouring Dao Beast to casually unleash a beam of light, and Lu Ye would utterly disappear from this world.

Although Lu Ye’s death would ache her heart, considering he had saved her from that pitch-black place, she truly didn’t want a peaceful life; all she desired was a life full of excitement!

The feeling of controlling everything right now was her absolute favorite.

Facing the utterly inactive Devouring Dao Beast, An Li was practically grinding her teeth in frustration.

“Hurry up and act! Don’t you understand the principle of ‘delay brings change’?” An Li yelled angrily.

Suddenly, the Devouring Dao Beast paused, its Quasi-Emperor aura exploding.

It became a Quasi-Emperor again.

“Do you understand this principle?”

An Li was taken aback, “What?”

“When begging someone, your attitude should be a bit nicer. Don’t act like a crazy woman, shouting and screaming!”

When the Devouring Dao Beast said this, An Li was stunned and alarmed.

A wave of immense unease surged within her.

In an instant, she wanted to withdraw from the Devouring Dao Beast’s body.

But now, she was facing a Quasi-Emperor-level Devouring Dao Beast!

The power belonging to the Quasi-Emperor erupted from within the Devouring Dao Beast.

Talents and abilities exploded.

The powers of the Darkness Origin she tried to withdraw were locked in an instant.

Meanwhile, Lu Ye, who had been completely immobilized under the Devouring Dao Beast’s aura, turned around, revealing a faint smile.

Yes, it was all a show.

A performance that was basically just fooling idiots.

While he was killing, it was true that he had considered himself an enemy of the Devouring Dao Beast, or at least, that was how he viewed it.

He was merciless in his slaughter, and the Devouring Dao Beast showed no mercy either, as they wreaked havoc, one person against countless beasts.

That was all real.

The problem arose when Lu Ye began to plunder energy from the Devouring Dao Beast.

He robustly absorbed its dying power.

But while absorbing, there was a sudden cutoff.

It was a complete breakdown, and Lu Ye couldn’t absorb a single shred of energy anymore.

But that situation disappeared in an instant, and he could once again absorb energy.

Lu Ye quickly understood: even if a part of the Devouring Dao Beast’s body was slain, that energy still belonged to the Devouring Dao Beast.

As long as the Devouring Dao Beast didn’t want him to absorb it, he wouldn’t be able to take a single bit.

But the Devouring Dao Beast allowed him to absorb it.

The Devouring Dao Beast even worried Lu Ye wouldn’t grasp what it meant, so it deliberately cut off the energy multiple times, making it seem like a contest over energy, but in reality, it was conveying its goodwill to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye understood.

He also heard the Devouring Dao Beast’s roar asking An Li for support amid the fierce battle.

Lu Ye now understood even more.

Yet despite the understanding, Lu Ye still wouldn’t put his life into the hands of the Devouring Dao Beast, so he continued to contact Emperor Dao Hen for rescue.

Lu Ye was completely prepared for the current actions of the Devouring Dao Beast.

“Ding! Preparation complete!”

“Beep, preparation complete!”

Two voices echoed in his mind simultaneously.

Emperor Dao Hen looked curiously at the Devouring Dao Beast, still unclear about what it was attempting, but it was evident that the Devouring Dao Beast had taken the right path and was steadily moving further down that path.

“Look at me!”

The Devouring Dao Beast roared.

Above its head, a brilliant light erupted, the radiance being the Great Dao it had devoured for countless years, now forming a net that completely enveloped a swirling black mist within.

That black mist vaguely revealed An Li’s face.

At that very moment.

Lu Ye issued the command.

“Start the attack!”

“Ding, received!”

“Beep, received!”

Utilizing the current black Darkness Origin as a catalyst, a terrifying mass of black thunder erupted toward the depths of the void.

“No!”

An Li screamed.

The next second, it was as if she herself had been struck by black thunder, and she began to scream wildly, thrashing about in a frenzy.