Technological advancement begins with devouring.

Chapter 320 The Fiery God Clan, Annihilated!

The dwarf mage unleashed another barrage of attacks, weakening the Flame Emperor's divine body to below 30%.

The Dark Archon unleashed his full power to disrupt Emperor Yan's consciousness.

The next moment, the Warden of the Underworld swung out a huge chain.

One end of the chain plunged directly into Yan Di's body, and mysterious patterns lit up on the entire chain, making it taut and straight.

Emperor Yan's eyes widened.

He clearly sensed that his soul was being 'hooked' by this strange weapon.

A terrifying force came, as if it wanted to separate his soul from his divine body.

Upon reaching the Immortal level, the soul of a powerful individual will completely merge with their divine power and cells, achieving an Immortal Divine Body.

But these chains with sharp barbs were actually trying to separate Yan Di's soul and body cells again!

Emperor Yan desperately urged the 'Original Soul' within his soul, attempting to stabilize it.

At the same time, he disregarded the future and devoted a sliver of energy to activating the divine power within his body, intending to self-destruct.

What would happen if one's soul were taken away? Emperor Yan didn't know, but he definitely didn't want to experience it for himself!

However, what terrified Yan Di was that the connection between his consciousness, soul, and divine body was completely severed.

The 'Original Soul' still exudes a powerful force, protecting his soul.

However, without the impetus of the Flame Emperor's own consciousness, relying solely on the instinct of the treasure is insufficient to resist the opponent's tearing.

The remaining divine power within the god's body was completely beyond his control, showing no signs of being activated whatsoever.

One end of the Eternal Blade pierced through the Flame Emperor's chest, frantically devouring his divine power.

If the sole purpose was to kill the Yan Emperor, Jiang Chen could have come alone with his army.

Bringing along the Netherworld Warden and the God of Destruction was their purpose in plundering the Yan Emperor's soul and devouring his divine body.

The former, through the [soul stripping] of the Netherworld Warden, can enable the Earthlings to give birth to a new Lord of the Universe in a very short time.

The latter, through the absorption and transformation of the Eternal Blade, can be converted into the power of a God of Destruction, further enhancing the God of Destruction's strength.

Among all mechanical overlords, the God of Destruction, who can devour the divine bodies of enemies to nourish himself and increase his level, is also the one whose strength increases the fastest and whose level is the highest.

In the tens of thousands of years since breaking through to become the Lord of the Universe, the God of Destruction's level has risen from the eighth rank, level one to the eighth rank, level seven, only three ranks away from the ninth rank.

By absorbing part of the Flame Emperor's divine body, there might be a chance to advance to the eighth rank and eighth level.

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Within Emperor Yan's body, his soul was being pulled apart at one end by the Netherworld Warden, and at the other end protected by the instincts of Emperor Yan's own divine body and his soul treasure, the 'Original Soul'.

However, Emperor Yan's own consciousness was completely severed by the Dark Ruler.

If it were the Yan Emperor at his peak, the Dark Rulers would naturally not be able to do this, not even if more than ten thousand Dark Rulers joined forces.

However, the current Yan Emperor is severely injured, and it is still possible to sever the connection between his consciousness, divine body, and soul in a short period of time.

Without the control of consciousness, relying solely on instinct is utterly ineffective against the Netherworld Warden's [Soul Chains].

After a brief standoff, a transparent phantom, dragged by soul chains, detached from the Yan Emperor's divine body.

Upon closer inspection, one could still discern the appearance and expression of the Yan Emperor within the illusory figure.

"Roar~!"

The Netherworld Warden let out a roar, opened his mouth, and swallowed the Flame Emperor's soul whole, imprisoning it in the soul cage within his body.

Having lost his soul, the Flame Emperor's divine body became even more difficult to maintain, and was being decomposed and devoured by the Eternal Blade of the God of Destruction at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A stream of pure primordial energy flowed into the God of Destruction through the Eternal Blade, slightly boosting his aura.

On the system panel, the number in the "Level" column of the God of Destruction became blurry, and then became clear again, changing to 'Eighth Tier Eighth Tier'.

The soul is imprisoned, and the divine body is devoured.

Only a few treasures remained on the spot, among which the most eye-catching was a long halberd.

The ultimate weapon of all time - the Flame God Halberd!

One of the pinnacle works of Zuoshanke in this universe.

Although it is far inferior to treasures of the Star Tower level, it can still be considered one of the most precious treasures in the primordial universe.

The difference between the two ultimate treasures is also significant.

The Flame God Halberd, the Primal Soul, and the Calamity Armor, among other treasures crafted by the Mountain-Sitting Guest, are undoubtedly among the most precious of the pinnacle treasures, approaching the level of the strongest treasures.

"Unfortunately, this thing belongs to the Mountain Dweller." Jiang Chen shook his head and put away the Flame God Halberd.

The Mountain-Sitting Guest might not care if he killed the Flame Emperor. But he would definitely take back this treasure.

Luo Feng had discussed this with Jiang Chen.

It's not just the Flame God Halberd.

After the Netherworld Warden strips away the Yan Emperor's memories and completely kills him, the 'original soul' within his soul must also be returned to the Mountain-Sitting Guest.

While the two supreme treasures were indeed valuable, they were not enough to make Jiang Chen and Zuo Shan Ke turn against each other.

After all, the latter was once a god-king; who knows how many tricks he has up his sleeve?

If the Mountain-Sitting Guest is provoked, there may be few forces in the Universe Sea that can withstand his retaliation.

It's not worth taking this risk for just two precious items.

However, besides the Flame God Halberd and the Primal Soul, the Flame Emperor still possesses several other supreme treasures.

A top-tier treasure armor is quite valuable, but the rest are probably his gains from the original star over the years. They are not too valuable for a universe lord level, but they are a good choice to fill the clan's treasury.

After putting away the treasures, Jiang Chen did not linger and left the Primitive Star directly via the shortest route, returning to the human race.

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On the other side, in the secret realm of the Yan God Clan.

The battle is over.

The Chaos City Lord's advance arrangements helped Jiang Chen withstand the support from the Nine Domains Alliance.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Yan Di himself has a selfish and ruthless personality, which makes him have few friends. Even his allies in the same camp do not wholeheartedly help him. They are all in the attitude of completing the task and will not fight desperately when blocked.

Without the support of the Lord of the Universe, the Flame God Clan naturally could not withstand the attack of four mechanical commanders.

All members of the Yan Shen clan, except for a very few who self-destructed, were captured alive as long as they were still within the clan; not a single one was spared.

Once the battle on the original star ended, Jiang Chen used his mechanical clone here as a coordinate to cast [Divine Descent] and descend into the secret realm of the Yan God Clan.

A massive spatial passage opened in the void.

It was clearly a passage leading to the universe within Jiang Chen's body.

The distorted spatial vortex has a terrifying diameter of more than ten light-years.

Under Jiang Chen's control, the spatial vortex expanded to its limit, becoming like a giant mouth that swallowed up a continent of the Yan God Clan.

This process was not instantaneous, but it did not take long either, just over a minute, and the continent with a diameter of more than two light-years disappeared from this void.

Following that, Jiang Chen swallowed up two more continents, and then the enormous palace located between the three continents, surrounded by countless flames and stars.

It took Jiang Chen a few minutes to swallow the entire lair of the Yan God Clan into his inner universe.

"You may also enter my inner universe," Jiang Chen instructed. "Clean up the lair of the Yan God Clan and gather all the valuable treasures together."

In order to end the battle as quickly as possible, there was no time to loot the Yan God Clan's treasury; all the energy was focused on capturing the Yan God Clan's powerful members alive.

As for looting treasures, they can simply pack up and take away the Flame God Clan's lair. They can do it slowly after the war without worrying about being disturbed.

Several mechanical commanders immediately responded and led their mechanical legions into the huge vortex passage in the void.

After the last mechanical unit entered the vortex passage, Jiang Chen controlled his mechanical clone to also enter the vortex passage and return to his inner universe. Then, he closed the vortex passage from within his inner universe.

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The universe within the body.

In the vast starry sky, three enormous cosmic continents suddenly appeared.

The largest of the three continents has a diameter exceeding two light-years.

The smallest one has a diameter of nearly one light-year.

It is important to know that every celestial body in the universe represents a significant accumulation of primordial energy.

Only by relying on the primordial energy deposited within them can life, or various precious treasures, minerals, and so on, be born in these celestial bodies.

The scale of primordial energy contained within these three cosmic continents is astonishing.

Of course, compared to the accumulated wealth of the Yan God Clan over many years, it's nothing.

From the perspective of 'original energy' alone, the Yan God Clan can be mainly divided into three parts.

First, the three cosmic continents themselves contain an enormous amount of primordial energy.

However, compared to the total amount of primordial energy within the Yan God Clan, the three cosmic continents only account for a very small portion, roughly a little over 10%.

Secondly, it is the accumulation of the clan over a long period of time, including the private property of geniuses and strong individuals within the clan, such as cosmic crystals or other treasures containing a large amount of primordial energy.

This portion of primordial energy accounts for approximately 30% of all primordial energy of the Yan God Clan.

As for the third, there are the Realm Lords of the Yan God Clan, and the powerful beings above the Realm Lords, who have created the Realm Lord World and the Immortal God Kingdom.

A world ruled by a supreme being, an immortal divine kingdom, contains very little primordial energy.

However, the number of Immortals in the Yan God Clan may not be large, only tens of millions, of which only a few thousand have reached the King level.

This is due to the unique environment of the cosmic secret realm.

In the primordial universe, the probability of life forms in the secret realms of the universe cultivating to immortality is extremely low, much lower than the probability of life forms on normal life-bearing planets breaking through to immortality.

Ninety-nine percent of the immortals among the Yan God Clan were the same group that the Yan Emperor took with him when he betrayed the human race.

This is especially true for several cosmic venerables.

However, while it is difficult for beings in the secret realms of the universe to break through to immortality, they have another advantage: their cultivation progress before achieving immortality is extremely fast, and their probability of breaking through is extremely high.

Furthermore, the life level of the Yan God Clan is high enough that once they reach adulthood, they are at least Domain Lords.

With even slightly outstanding cultivation talent, one can reach the realm lord level.

In addition, although the lifespan of a Realm Lord is not endless, it is still ten million years. Therefore, the number of Realm Lords in the entire Yan God Clan is an exaggerated number.

The combined number of the Flame God Clan Realm Lords across the three continents is in the hundreds of billions.

The amount of primordial energy contained in a single World Lord is not much, but the amount of primordial energy contained in a World Lord world with hundreds of billions of World Lords is astounding.

These world-master realms, along with the immortal divine kingdoms, the divine kingdoms of cosmic venerables, and so on, contain more than half, nearly 60%, of the primordial energy of the entire Yan God Clan!

Even disregarding other wealth, this massive income of primordial energy alone is enough to bring Jiang Chen enormous benefits.

Even if Jiang Chen's internal universe cannot be expanded to its limit, the difference will not be too great.

When the time comes, the resources within the human race will be used to make up the difference, which will be enough to meet the requirements for advancement.

However, this matter will take some time.

Destroying the Yan God Clan is just the beginning.

Organizing the mechanical legion to plunder all three continents of the Yan God Clan, finding all valuable treasures, and sorting them into categories will take time.

The organization [Dark Archon] brainwashed the prisoners of the Yan God Clan one by one, especially those immortals and venerables. After brainwashing them, they moved their respective divine kingdoms to one place to make it easier for Jiang Chen to devour them. This process also took time.

After doing all this, the three void continents of the Yan God Clan were no longer 'useless' to Jiang Chen, who could then use the power of his inner universe to decompose and devour them.

Having waited this long, Jiang Chen had enough patience to wait a little longer.

It will only take a few years at most.

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Upon returning to his clan, Jiang Chen dismissed the others, leaving only the Netherworld Warden behind.

"How long will it take to strip away the soul memories of Emperor Yan?" Jiang Chen asked bluntly.

Yan Di was the first universe master captured alive by Jiang Chen, and also the first target valuable enough to make the Netherworld Warden use the [Soul Stripping] ability.

“He possesses a soul defense treasure, and it’s of a very high level. I must first torment his soul, weakening it to the extreme, before I can extract his memories. Otherwise, the chances of success are negligible.” The Netherworld Warden pondered for a moment before saying, “I cannot give you an exact timeframe right now. But to be conservative, it might take several thousand years.”

"It's okay to go a little slower, but you must ensure a high success rate, especially in memorizing the 'Law Comprehension' part. Make sure you succeed!" Jiang Chen reminded him.

If the secret technique or other memories fail to be extracted, then so be it; the impact won't be significant.

However, this part of the memory of comprehending the laws is related to whether the human race can give birth to a new master of the universe in a short period of time.

Moreover, this is a case of forcibly elevating a genius whose original cultivation talent was absolutely insufficient to reach the level of the Lord of the Universe to the level of the Lord of the Universe.

This is very important for Earthlings, and indeed for the entire human race.

“I understand.” The Warden of the Underworld nodded. “I won’t act unless I’m absolutely certain. Inside my Soul Cage, he can’t commit suicide even if he wants to; it will just take him a little longer.”