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Chapter 658: Chapter658-A Hunting Trap — All of Them Were Nothing but Nourishment
Buzz—!
At the very instant the Starry Sky Sage, who had rushed out in front, reached the edge of the pillar of light and was just about to touch that leaf—
the entire Star Sea seemed to freeze in a single moment.
Everyone’s movements slowed, as though they had sunk into a mire.
Rumble—!
The pillar of light tore through the cosmic dome, which then completely collapsed.
The Fate River suddenly broke apart, transforming into boundless darkness that blotted out everything.
The living beings of the Star Sea also found their vision swallowed by pitch-black night. No one could see anything anymore.
And then, at that very moment—
a gigantic hand that covered the heavens suddenly descended and instantly seized the Starry Sky Sage.
That supremely divine, supremely holy aura filled the Starry Sky Sage with endless terror. He tried to flee, yet he could not break free at all.
"Run—!"
The Starry Sky Sage let out a despairing roar toward the experts of the Primordial Race.
That single cry instantly shook the entire Truth Universe region.
No one had the leisure to think about what had happened. In that instant, everyone turned and fled.
The Primordial Elder’s expression hardened. Using supreme means, he concealed the traces of his clansmen and helped them escape.
Rumble—!
At the edges of other rivers of stars, the domes began collapsing one after another.
One heaven-covering giant hand after another pierced through the walls of the universe and stretched out.
One of those giant hands seized the Primogenitor of Melda, then impaled him upon a spike like a tree root.
That spike pierced through his sacred body like a bloodsucking vine, continuously draining the blood of a quasi-Eternal Sage from him.
"Ah... my power!"
The Primogenitor of Melda let out a cry of utter despair.
"Ahhh—!"
"No!!"
One quasi-Eternal Sage after another was captured, strung together, and nailed onto those tree-root-like spikes.
"Run! Run, quickly...!"
When the countless experts who had charged into the Truth Universe region saw this scene, their hearts turned cold.
This was not an opportunity.
It was a carefully prepared trap!
They fled in mad panic.
Yet once they were locked onto, no matter where they fled, those giant heaven-covering hands could still reach them.
Then, as though crushing ants, the hands would squeeze them in their grasp and skewer them upon those root-like spikes.
Endless sacred blood dyed the roots a sinister crimson, making them look like densely packed blood vessels.
The Star River Sovereign fled in terror.
A gigantic hand descended and enveloped him.
"Wait—!"
"Spare my life!"
Boom!
The heaven-covering hand seized him instantly, leaving him no room even to struggle.
Just then, one blurry figure after another emerged from within the pillar of light.
They seemed capable of locking onto everything. After capturing the quasi-Eternal Sages, they began capturing Supreme Sages, quasi-Supreme Sages, Sage Masters...
It was as though they were harvesting crops, then mercilessly nailing them onto the roots.
Some figures captured experts and shut them into one cage after another.
Other figures strung powerful beings onto the roots as though threading meat onto skewers.
Despairing screams echoed throughout the Truth Universe.
Boom!
In the Apocalypse Universe beyond the Endless Starlight Isle—
Bang!
The barrier of the universe was violently shattered.
The heaven-covering giant hands crushed countless living beings and seized Supreme Sages, quasi-Eternal Sages, Sage Masters, and more.
Blood instantly dyed the entire universe red.
The walls of the universe were torn into fragments, and living beings sank amid cries of agony.
"What is happening?!"
"What are these things?!"
"Damn it, where did these heaven-covering hands come from?!"
"How is this possible? They’re slaughtering quasi-Eternal Sages—they’re slaughtering Supreme Sages... what level of power is this?!"
As they watched those experts skewered in strings, the taboo beings who had been preparing to charge in were stricken with horror.
They stared at the figures hanging one after another on those roots. The sight was like food being hung up...
The First Forbidden Lord, Artharion, the Lord of Oblivion, the Heavenly-Eyed Seer...
Those were all famous powers of the Star Sea!
They fled like mad.
Experts from every universe were fleeing toward the farthest ends of the endless Star Sea, desperately trying to hide.
"This is... harvesting?!"
The two old men on the Arcane Godsea were terrified beyond measure and instantly retreated into the Mirror of Omniscience.
That mirror then plunged into the endless deep sea, thoroughly concealing every trace of their aura.
Beneath the dome of the Truth Universe, within the abyss of the Beginningless Land, at the far end of the Primordial River Cosmos...
the same bloody harvest was unfolding across countless star domains.
Those mighty beings who had once made all worlds tremble were now like livestock raised in captivity, trapped within cages forged by heaven and earth, awaiting their turn to be hung upon those eerie crimson roots.
Those roots spread like living creatures, greedily sucking the flesh, blood, and origin essence of their captives, gradually transforming into throbbing blood vessels that dyed the universe a shocking scarlet.
From afar, it looked as though the entire Star Sea were bleeding.
Other than those hazy black shadows, no one knew where the ends of those roots led, much less what they truly were.
Even the Primordial Elder had fled with his clansmen into that forbidden land deep within the Star Sea, a place no one had ever set foot in.
Only he could truly sense the terror of those black shadows.
"How many have we collected?"
A black shadow stepped slowly out from the pillar of light.
Another black shadow sensed the experts trapped inside the cages and replied indifferently, "Roughly one to two billion."
"Continue. The more nourishment, the better."
The descended black shadow glanced at the quasi-Eternal Sages, Supreme Sages, quasi-Supreme Sages, and Sage Masters trapped inside the cages. Its tone was as casual as if it were speaking of crops in a field—without the slightest concealment, and with no fear of being overheard.
As the imprisoned experts listened to those words, despair seeped into their bones.
Nourishment.
What a humiliating word!
These existences who had once stood at the summit of the Star Sea were now being treated as nourishment, meant to feed those hideous roots.
What had they been reduced to?
Nourishment!?
And yet they had no power to resist at all.
As they watched the ancient taboo beings skewered upon the roots—such as the Primogenitor of Melda and the First Forbidden Lord—howling in agony, their own hearts wailed in silent despair as well.
They had been born across endless ages, tempered through era after era, and had finally climbed to the very pinnacle of the Star Sea universe.
Yet in the end, they had merely become garments for others to wear, reduced to nourishment!
The unwillingness in their hearts was beyond measure.
"Let’s head over there. I sensed quite a few powerful auras."
One black shadow looked in the direction of the Endless Starlight Isle.
For a time, countless black shadows stepped into the Fate River and crossed the star domains.
...
North of the Endless Starlight Isle, in the Standarin Universe.
Alvin, Suggwoth, the Dragon Emperor, the Crusader Goddess, and the others hurried back with anxious expressions, gathering outside the Blade Sea Sanctum.
During this period of time, Aurek had consumed an enormous amount of Emperor Points. By sheer force, his strength had broken through the barrier of the Eternal Sage rank and stepped into an unprecedentedly powerful realm—
a level that likely already surpassed Eternal Sage itself!
As for what exact level he had reached, even Aurek himself could not say.
After all, he had extracted Emperor Points from ten billion Supreme Sages and several million quasi-Eternal Sages.
If he were to exhaust all of those points, he would surely ascend yet another level!
What consuming Emperor Points enhanced was pure power, unrestricted by rank. So long as he had enough points, his power could rise without limit.
Although in terms of state of mind and comprehension he was, for the moment, only approaching the Eternal Sage rank, his actual strength had long since broken through that invisible ceiling.
Over the past few days, several more billions of Supreme Sage legions had been incubated, along with several more billions of quasi-Eternal Sages.
The battle power of the imperial army had climbed to yet another level!