Chapter 265: The Heavenly Flame of Nothingness
The black and red light completely enveloped Yao Yan. The vast power continuously surged in, seemingly ready to forcefully elevate Yao Yan's strength to the Dou Sheng level. The power expanding within him even gave the illusion that it could crush the heavens and earth. A large amount of negative emotions flooded into his soul, attempting to taint it completely.
A terrifying aura swept across the entire Dead Silence Plain, and this aura seemed to surpass even the Dou Zun level, sending shivers through everyone!
At this moment, within the consciousness space, a black figure appeared. It resembled Yao Yan, having about seventy to eighty percent similarity in appearance, and also bore a vertical pupil on its brow. However, unlike Yao Yan's dark eyes, this figure's eyes were blood-red, filled with an indescribable malice and a hint of allure, as it conveyed a message to Yao Yan.
"Release your body and mind, fully accept this power. It seems that as long as you accept, you can step into the Dou Sheng realm and even ascend to the peak, ruling over the Dou Qi continent and becoming a true emperor!" the black figure spoke in a seductive tone.
"Why resist? This power was always meant for you. Let go of your body and mind, and accept it. You should understand that this power far exceeds Dou Qi. Once you possess it, you can do anything you want. Those you hate and don't want, you can destroy them at will!" the black figure continued.
Yao Yan furrowed his brows and asked, "Who are you?"
"Me? I am you. Why resist yourself? Can't you feel it? We are one and the same. I am the part of you that you refuse to accept!" The black figure smiled wickedly as it spoke slowly.
"You mean, I've split personalities?" Yao Yan pondered for a moment, then his furrowed brows relaxed, and he spoke softly.
"Split personalities?" The black figure seemed to be puzzled by the term.
"It seems you are not me. If you were me, you wouldn't be so arrogant. This power is indeed remarkable, but to say it transcends the Dou Qi continent is laughable. If it could, then why was the Hun Devouring Clan exterminated and enslaved by the Hun Clan..." Yao Yan's gaze remained clear, using five types of heavenly flames to protect his mind. He calmly looked at the figure in front of him.
If he had truly split personalities, the other side should share his memories, but this one clearly hadn't achieved that!
Enslaved?!
The term seemed to have triggered something in the black figure, and its sanity instantly collapsed. The urge to convince Yao Yan to become one of his people vanished, and it became mad. Its body suddenly swelled, turning into a nearly hundred-foot-tall, multi-armed giant, exuding dark, ink-like evil energy. It roared, "Shut up! You lowly race, how dare your kind enslave mine!"
Killing intent and madness surged from it, and the crimson energy mixed with evil intent rushed toward Yao Yan's Hun core.
The roar shook the entire consciousness space.
"Chiss!"
Purple-blue flames surrounded Yao Yan, burning away the approaching evil energy. He looked at the figure and said, "Lowly race? You seem to only have a mouth left... But your race is indeed resilient. Even after being reduced to this existence, you can still revive in this form. Incredible."
Yao Yan was serious when he said this. The Hun Devouring Clan blood he had merged with since childhood should have been purified, but as it grew, the foreign evil energy from their system naturally awakened. This time, it had directly awakened a "personality," a bizarre resurrection property that was simply absurd!
Yao Yan wasn't sure if this "resurrection" was related to his Hun Devouring bloodline, or if it was caused by consuming the power that didn't belong to him.
He still retained partial control over his body, suppressing the continuously incoming evil energy.
The rush of power didn't cloud his mind. He had always kept in mind the words of Hun Venerable: The power that belongs to you and that you can control is the true power. Power that is too inflated and uncontrollable, no matter how strong, is not worth accepting!
Moreover, this power wasn't invincible, and whether it could make him a true Dou Sheng was still uncertain.
His future wasn't limited to this, and thus he wasn't going to be consumed by it. His mind remained exceptionally calm. In fact, this was a deliberate test to see the consequences of overinflated evil energy, and the "consequence" before him was still manageable.
He wanted to resolve these troubles before reaching the Dou Sheng level. Otherwise, as his strength grew, this problem would only become more troublesome.
"You beings who are destined to be my clan's blood food, do you not know the greatness of my race!" The three-eyed, multi-armed monster roared, its dozen arms swiping at Yao Yan, sending terrifying power to crush Yao Yan's Hun body.
"Boom!"
Yao Yan stepped forward, and his Hun body rapidly expanded, soon becoming equal in size to the monster. Purple-blue flames surrounded him, and he threw a punch that collided with the monster, shaking the entire consciousness space, with energy ripples expanding outward.
"I'm curious. If I devour you, will anything change inside me?" Yao Yan blocked the monster's arm with his fist, and his Hun body's brow opened the vertical pupil. Eerie light flickered, and the punch turned into a palm that firmly grasped the monster's arm.
At the same time, an evil eye appeared in his palm, and an indescribable devouring force surged, beginning to consume the strength of the consciousness body in front of him.
"Impossible, how can you control the supreme power of my race!" The multi-armed monster's face changed as it felt its strength being drained. It roared at Yao Yan in shock and anger. It couldn't believe that Yao Yan could devour it. Given its position in the race, only someone from the royal family could have that power.
But this person was clearly a native of this realm, and his body only contained a trace of their clan's bloodline power. How could he possibly control the royal family's power?
Could it be that the beings from this realm are more suited to the royal power than they are?!
It refused to believe it!
It couldn't accept that a lower-dimensional race could have such a talent!
"How dare you try to devour me!" The multi-armed monster howled in fury, ripping off an arm and letting it be devoured by Yao Yan. It then lunged at Yao Yan, and its body began to form a massive mouth full of fangs, rushing toward Yao Yan to bite him.
Yao Yan said nothing. He devoured the arm completely. With five types of heavenly flames guarding his soul, especially the Fallen Heart Flame, which was incredibly restraining for Hun bodies, he had no fear of the monster's fragmented consciousness tainting him. As the arm was digested, he felt his vertical pupil in his brow becoming even more real, as if something was about to be birthed from it.
He didn't know what it was, but his instincts told him it would be beneficial!
Immediately, the two massive creatures began fighting in the consciousness space, devouring each other wildly. Their Hun power was constantly being torn away, and their violent struggle grew more insane. The multi-armed monster was on the brink of madness. It couldn't accept being devoured by Yao Yan. If it had just been killed, it would have been bearable, but being devoured using its own race's power was unacceptable to it!
Especially since it was supposed to be the one devouring the lower-dimensional beings!
It couldn't understand!
Yao Yan grew stronger with each battle. As he devoured the monster, his Hun body grew larger, and the vertical pupil in his brow grew even brighter. The purple-red light flickered, and the terrifying power inside it was swirling. After he tore off one of the monster's arms, his cold voice echoed throughout the entire consciousness space, "You lost!"
With his words, his enormous palm grasped the monster's head, and the terrifying devouring power exploded, sucking the entire unique Hun body into the evil eye. The indescribable force began to nourish the entire Hun body, making it more real.
"Ahhh!! You damned lowly creatures!!!"
The scream before death echoed throughout the entire consciousness space but could not change the outcome.
Yao Yan devoured the monster completely. The vertical pupil in his Hun body became even more eerie. As it rotated, it locked onto a space, and almost as soon as his vertical pupil focused on the space, a thread of black flame appeared. The ink-black flame churned like ink, with no energy fluctuations. It quickly turned into a figure.
The figure had no presence, its eyes coldly meeting Yao Yan's Hun body.
"You actually managed to control the power of the Hun Devouring Clan to this extent. Incredible." The black flame figure spoke slowly, with a hint of surprise in its voice, as if it was astonished by how far Yao Yan had fused the Hun Devouring Clan's bloodline.
"Who are you?" Yao Yan's heart stirred, and he immediately controlled his Hun body to shrink in size, respectfully asking.
"I am the Heavenly Flame of Nothingness," the black flame figure answered, its voice emotionless, stating a fact.
"Have you ever heard of it?" The black flame figure asked, though it already knew the answer.
(END CHAPTER)
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