Chapter 579 11: Celestial Demon Ancient Star

Fang Cheng's divine soul entered the body of the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation, experiencing the profound nature of this Spiritual Mechanism Incarnation.

A short while later, a peculiar fluctuation reached him from across the void.

The Ancient Celestial Dragon he had released found a place where Celestial Demons had gathered.

His figure transformed into an ethereal, sharp streak of sword light. With a sudden flicker, it sliced through the void, streaked across the cosmos, and vanished.

「Half an incense stick later.」

A colossal celestial body appeared before Fang Cheng.

In the dark Outer Void, a Golden Ancient Star with a diameter exceeding ten thousand li emanated a majestic aura.

This was a massive Ancient Star constructed from the skeletons of nine giant dragons. On the star's surface, countless golden bones crisscrossed in every direction, resembling a large, hollow sphere.

Endless Celestial Demons converged around this Ancient Star, like thousands of massive black plumes of Demon Smoke, flowing in and out of the Ancient Star.

Fang Cheng gazed dispassionately at the Celestial Demon Ancient Star. Under the shroud of his Divine Sense, he clearly detected over forty Tier Five Celestial Demons within it.

There was even a profound and supreme demonic will among them, seemingly a dormant Tier Five Late Stage Celestial Demon.

The Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation began to emit a dark red Demonic Qi that enveloped its entire body. Its demonic will was vast and tyrannical, making it appear just like a Celestial Demon.

Then, the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation flew toward the Golden Ancient Star, passing straight through the crisscrossing dragon skeletons and entering the star's interior.

The space inside the Ancient Star was immense, filled with a boundless demonic will.

Over forty masses of Demonic Qi lay across the interior of the Ancient Star, where endless Celestial Demons thrived and multiplied.

Within each mass of Demonic Qi was a dense, dark swarm of demonic creatures clustered into a giant, writhing, roiling sphere.

Upon closer inspection, the Celestial Demons within were huge, bat-like monsters. Their bodies looked as if they had been flayed, exposing raw, crimson flesh.

At the center of that sphere was the Tier Five demonic will Fang Cheng had sensed earlier.

Fang Cheng casually pointed at the mass of creatures. A beam of incomparably sharp Sword Qi instantly flashed out, slicing the giant sphere in two.

Countless Blood Bat Celestial Demons scattered, their eyes glinting ferociously as they swarmed toward Fang Cheng.

A dense, dark red Demonic Qi roiled and surged from the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation, spreading outward.

The moment the incoming Blood Bat Celestial Demons touched the Taishi Demon Qi, they were instantly vaporized and disintegrated, turning into wisps of dark red Demonic Qi that merged with the whole.

The massive sphere in the distance broke apart. At its center, a thousand-zhang-wide Blood Bat, sliced clean in two, was clearly not going to survive.

The Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation flew over leisurely. Wherever it passed, the roiling dark red Demonic Qi spread out like an ocean, vaporizing and disintegrating countless Low-Tier Celestial Demons before engulfing the corpse of the Tier Five Blood Bat Celestial Demon.

SIZZLE! SIZZLE! SIZZLE!

The dark red Demonic Qi boiled, instantly steaming into a mountain-sized, flame-shaped Demon Fog.

The Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation stood within it, like a single shimmering speck of dust, yet it was devouring the endless Taishi Demon Qi like a whale swallowing the sea, absorbing it into its body.

'Not enough...'

Fang Cheng's gaze shifted to another mass of Demonic Qi not far away.

...

The "peace" within the Celestial Demon Ancient Star was shattered.

The tyrannical, faintly evil, dark red Demonic Qi started as an inconspicuous speck, but after devouring several groups of Celestial Demons, it gradually grew stronger.

The other Celestial Demons were alerted. Tens of millions of Blood Bat Celestial Demons, a vast and mighty tide, surged toward the dark red Demonic Qi to overwhelm it.

Within the Demonic Qi, sword light flashed several times. Amidst the tide of Celestial Demons, three Tier Five Blood Bat Celestial Demons had their life forces extinguished.

The other Low-Tier Celestial Demons madly poured into the dark red Demonic Qi. Like oil thrown on a raging fire, they were instantly annihilated, transforming into more clouds of Demonic Qi.

The dark red Demonic Qi continued to expand. More and more Tier Five Celestial Demons were alerted and appeared, attempting to drive it away or suppress it, but all were slain on the spot by the heaven-shaking Sword Qi from within the Demonic Qi.

In the end, the dark red Demonic Qi had already occupied half the space within the Celestial Demon Ancient Star, vast and mighty, its intensity like a raging fire.

Many Blood Bat Celestial Demons tried to flee outside the Ancient Star, but Fang Cheng paid them no mind. He simply urged the Taishi Demon Qi to close in on the deeper regions of the star's internal space.

Suddenly, a plume of Demonic Qi as black as beacon smoke emerged from the center of the Ancient Star. It stretched up and down, filling the star's space with a ferocious and immense demonic will that felt almost tangible.

The remaining nineteen Tier Five Blood Bat Celestial Demons, along with countless Tier Four and Tier Three Celestial Demons, surrounded this Demonic Qi, prostrating themselves in worship.

At the center of the Demonic Qi that connected heaven and earth was a great pillar of flesh and blood, over a hundred zhang in diameter and ten thousand zhang tall.

Upon the pillar of flesh, countless fleshy tendrils intertwined, forming all kinds of strange, ceaselessly writhing patterns.

The dense, beacon-like Demonic Qi was gushing out from this very pillar of flesh and blood.

The Tier Five Late Stage Celestial Demon that Fang Cheng had sensed earlier had finally appeared.

The vast, surging dark red Demonic Qi that filled the space immediately pressed down on it.

The nineteen Tier Five Blood Bat Celestial Demons guarding the pillar of flesh and blood all erupted with blinding Demonic Light and charged violently at the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation.

Endless starlight appeared above and below the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation, instantly forming two Star Arrays.

These two Grand Arrays, like two sky-blotting Star Grinding Wheels, trapped the nineteen Tier Five Blood Bat Celestial Demons in the center.

The Star Grinding Wheels turned slowly, and nineteen deafening explosions rang out.

The nineteen Tier Five Celestial Demons were all ground out of existence.

A faint roar echoed from the void.

Countless fleshy tendrils extended from the pillar of flesh and blood, twisting together to form a giant hand that slammed down toward the two Star Formations.

Countless streams of starlight, like crackling lightning and slithering drakes, surged downward, shaking the void and making the very cosmos hum.

The Star Grinding Wheel slowly turned, instantly grinding the giant, fleshy hand into nothingness.

The Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation hovered high above the Ancient Star's inner space, looking down upon the pillar of flesh and blood.

'It seems this Celestial Demon encountered some problems during its advancement...'

'Although it has reached the Tier Five Late Stage, subjugated over forty Tier Five Celestial Demons, and commands countless Low-Tier Celestial Demons, its true Original Divine Techniques and strength don't seem particularly impressive.'

The surging Taishi Demon Qi finally closed in, completely occupying the Ancient Star's internal space and trapping the pillar of flesh and blood within.

The pillar of flesh and blood went berserk. It suddenly shot up and frantically tried to retreat into the distance.

"You'd better stay!"

Fang Cheng smiled faintly. He activated the Taixu Sword Light, which streaked across the sky like a thunderclap and instantly struck the pillar of flesh and blood.

CRACK!

The pillar of flesh and blood was shattered by the sword strike. Then, endless sword light poured in, disintegrating it in an instant.

The next moment, the endless dark red Demonic Qi descended.

Viewed from the Outer Void, the colossal Golden Ancient Star hung silently. Through the hollows in the star's surface, formed by the skeletons of giant dragons, a surging, dark red Demonic Light flickered. Inside, all was deathly still.

A long time later, the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation finally flew out of the Celestial Demon Ancient Star.

Its aura was surging, but all the Taishi Demon Qi had vanished completely.

Fang Cheng looked at the Ancient Star, a thoughtful expression on his face.

This Ancient Star was refined from the skeletons of nine giant dragons. Each dragon was a thousand li long; their size was the greatest he had ever seen.

'The Celestial Demons in this Ancient Star must have discovered this place by chance while wandering the Outer Void, then occupied it as a nest to multiply.'

'They probably aren't True Spirit Remains... but they are much stronger than Tier Five Fierce Beast Remains.'

'I might as well take them back to my main body. If he refines them into the White Bone Relic, it might produce a Tier Five Top Grade Demon Bead!'

The Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation waved its great sleeve, and over a hundred Ancient Celestial Dragons, formed from the Supreme Nine Heavens Profound Light, flew out. They landed on the Celestial Demon Ancient Star, formed a Grand Array, and began to refine it.

In just a few days, the Ancient Star had been refined and shrunk countless times over, until it was only a thousand zhang in size.

After storing it away, the Celestial Venerable of Universal Transformation leisurely flew off into the depths of the void.

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