Chaos Devourer System

A destructive ripple of energy emanated from their point of collision, space quivering repeatedly as fist and sword clashed. Yet even though Zeras could have been said to have taken the lightning figure by surprise, his fist came to a screeching halt, unable to gain any advantage against the lightning sword.

Still, he was unrelenting. As he clenched his left fist, silvery light oozed out from it, and he threw out a second punch.

KAABBOOOOOOOOM

A silent ripple of energy followed before space directly collapsed as the lightning figure also released one of its arms on the sword and smashed a punch at Zeras. Immediately, the punch collided, and they both retreated ten steps, each of their steps shaking space madly. As Zeras took the tenth step, he immediately shot forward once more...

BAAANG

BAAANG

BAAANG

Hundreds of exchanges rippled out continuously, with the grassland below charred by the ruinous lightning and the mountain reduced to rubble from their exchange.

The three grand elders were all absolutely blown away by the sight of a cultivator daring to fight against heavenly punishment, yet wasn't easily subdued at their first exchange, and still managing to fight back on equal ground.

"If I heard correctly, you said that he regressed from the Universe Origin Rank to the Early Cosmic Rank, no?" Grand Elder Swordworth asked, directing his gaze to Grand Elder Celestine, who had her gaze on Zeras.

"Yes..."

"Then why is his power level right now at the Early Galaxy Rank instead?" He asked her with a raised eyebrow as Grand Elder Celestine herself furrowed her eyebrows. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

A cultivator moving from the Early Cosmic Rank to the Early Galaxy Rank in two days!? That has never been heard before in the history of cultivation; not even the most special of physiques could allow for that...

"Maybe that is why he is being punished?" Grand Elder Celestine replied as the two elders turned to look at each other, but remained silent and focused back on the exchange.

"Still, he will lose. The lightning still seems full of energy, and he seems to be expending lots of energy..."

BAAANG

BAAANG

Two fists clashed together, locking in a powerful embrace, before Zeras swiftly rotated his body and slammed a kick directly on the lightning figure's neck, bending it to the ground. The lightning figure smashed its leg on the space below it and proceeded to forcefully raise Zeras's head back.

"Tch!!" Zeras snorted as he jumped upwards and smashed his second leg downwards.

CLAAAANG

The lightning figure was able to raise its sword to block the strike, yet the momentum pushed it downwards, smashing a gigantic hole in the ground.

"Nine Stars Fist Art, First Star Level: Fists of Hegemony," Zeras whispered. The instant the figure was sent downwards, the ring behind him began rotating the same for the star in his eyes.

It was like the purest of energy was suddenly sent into his body. As the rotating ring drew out a strange energy from the air with every rotation, sending it directly through Zeras, space and time came to a screeching halt. A gigantic phantom of a star fist emanated from Zeras's punches and slammed towards the pothole where the figure had collapsed into.

A gigantic pillar of lightning quickly flared out of the space where the figure was but was disrupted as the fist smashed into the lightning figure head-on, a ginormous mushroom of energy rippling into the sky before slowly settling.

With eyes that couldn't ooze more disdain, Zeras floated downwards towards the pothole, his silver hair blowing erratically in the air. He looked at the lightning figure whose lightning body had visibly dimmed, and Zeras seemed to float mere inches above its head.

"I am just wondering, how do you taste!?" Zeras asked with a grin. What he did next made the Grand Elders feel their hearts escape their control.

With disbelief, they watched as Zeras landed on the ground. Then he grabbed the lightning figure out of the pothole before opening his mouth wide and then...

CRRRRACKKK

BURSTTTTT

Lightning burst out of Zeras's mouth as he violently bit hard on the lightning figure's skull.

"Impossible! He is devouring heavenly lightning!!!" The Grand Elders all roared out in shock as they watched Zeras tear apart the lightning figure.

Even as it violently twisted to escape his grasp, Zeras pressed him down, ripping apart every body part before swallowing it down.

And less than a minute later, there was nothing on the ground anymore, as he took the last gulp of the lightning figure into his throat.

"Oddly satisfying..." Zeras mused out loud, before suddenly he slammed on all fours as he felt the tribulation energy he had devoured all move towards his spine.

"GRRRRRHHH..." A slight groan of pain and shock reverberated from his lips as he visibly felt the lightning that he devoured all gather into the Desolate Star Core.

A transformation quickly ensued, and soon, another star ring could be seen inside the gigantic ring behind Zeras.

A star ring of red.

Standing to his feet, white smoke puffed out of Zeras's mouth as he raised up his hands and then...

SPARKLE.

SPARKLE.

Red lightning flashed around his hands.

"Impossible! He devoured the red lightning to gain the power of tribulation lightning..."

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"I don't know how wise your heavens are, but you really shouldn't use the same move twice on your opponent," Zeras said as the ground beneath him disappeared. He shot forward and entered into the sea of lightning, quickly disappearing within.

"What is he doing!?" Grand Elder Lion Heart said, but none could give him the answer as they all looked at the lightning, which began shuddering crazily.

The thick crimson lightning increased more and more in intensity, and the dark clouds darkened even more...

"Just what the hell is he doing..."

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"Resisting me is futile. From now, you will forever be enslaved to me!!!" Zeras's eyes flashed with unbridled madness as his gigantic Desolate Star ring revolved with horrifying speed.

The red color in it sent out a shocking absorption force that forcefully absorbed the sea of lightning!