447: A galaxy-like body, enveloping the sky.

Beneath his skin, one could faintly see the phantoms of stars in motion and the birth and destruction of Laws.

As he opened and closed his eyes, a strange status, one that surpassed a Supreme but did not yet reach that of a complete Avatar of a Supreme God, formed silently upon him.

At the same time, a figure that had been observing from above quietly retreated; it was none other than the Dark Monarch who had triggered all these causes.

This Old Thing had watched Lu Jiuyuan act, watched the Avatar of a Supreme God descend, watched them initiate the erasure, and watched them all meet with misfortune.

Knowing that he had caused a huge disaster, he wanted to slip away quietly.

"Fellow Daoist, isn't it a bit late to think about running now?" Lu Jiuyuan said with a light laugh, his hands clasped behind his back.

"I say this is a misunderstanding, what do you think?" the Dark Monarch asked slowly.

"What do you think?"

"I think this is just a misunderstanding!"

"I don't care what you think, I only care about what I think..." He spoke slowly, "No, it's not."

The moment his words fell, Lu Jiuyuan reached out his hand.

It was just a simple reach, his five fingers slightly curled, grasping gently toward a void direction.

The movement was as casual as picking a wild fruit by the roadside, as gentle as scooping up a handful of stream water, without a trace of worldly aura, and without the slightest leakage of power fluctuations.

However, in the Void Realm, the Dark Monarch—who had already fled countless miles from the plane battlefield, completely hidden within the "conceptual darkness" layer, and was almost in a state of "non-existence"—suddenly let out a short, sharp, and incredulous scream!

"Ugh—!!!"

He felt the very Foundation of his "existence" being gripped by an invisible hand, violently, precisely, and unquestionably!

The method he relied on to escape, derived from the vast authority bestowed by the Supreme God, was as thin as paper and meaningless in the face of this light grasp!

It was as if the entire Universe was cooperating with that hand, actively "spitting" him out from the state of "non-existence" and delivering him into the palm!

The next instant, the Dark Monarch's ever-changing figure appeared out of thin air in the Void Realm in front of Lu Jiuyuan, like a stone thrown into water!

It was not his own manifestation, but rather he was forcibly seized and dragged out from the conceptual level!

His elegant robes, massive shadows, and boundless darkness were all violently twisting and trembling at this moment.

"You... how is this possible..."

The Dark Monarch's voice changed pitch; all indifference had long since vanished, leaving only horror.

"Misunderstanding... it's all a misunderstanding!"

Lu Jiuyuan did not answer, only smiling as he watched the "struggling" Dark Monarch in his hand.

"Misunderstanding?" Lu Jiuyuan shook his head, "No, this is not a misunderstanding."

"Fellow Daoist... you smell so delicious."

He opened his mouth and casually inhaled toward the mass of twisting, struggling, terrifyingly fluctuating Origin of darkness in his hand.

"Huu—"

A slight sound of inhalation, as if savoring a clear spring.

That Dark Monarch, who held the authority of darkness, struck fear into countless planes, and could determine the life and death of billions of living beings with a single thought,

along with his vast Origin, the imprint of his authority, and the insights into Laws accumulated over endless years...

just like that, turned into a wisp of pure black Qi and was inhaled into Lu Jiuyuan's mouth!

As Lu Jiuyuan inhaled, that vast Origin of the Dark Monarch silently merged into his mouth and nose.

The Origin of the Dark Monarch was nothing much; compared to an Avatar of a Supreme God, it was worlds apart. The truly precious part lay in the Power Of Faith that the Dark Monarch had collected.

The value of their existence was to collect the Power Of Faith from the entire Universe for their own Supreme God.

Every ten thousand years, they had to hand it over. Although not much time had passed, for Lu Jiuyuan, the amount was quite sufficient!

It was enough to allow the aura on his body, which was already as deep as an abyss, to complete another qualitative change in subtle ways that others could not perceive.

The phantom of the sea of stars surging beneath his skin seemed to have a few newly born small stars suddenly light up and stabilize, and their faint glow made those twenty-six "main stars" representing different Laws appear even deeper.

"The more I eat, the hungrier I get; I'm becoming increasingly hungry."

His voice was not loud, but it seemed to carry a strange penetrating power, falling into every inch of the battlefield's void, and also into the ears of Du Tianyu and the eighty thousand Nirvana warriors who had long been shocked to the point of numbness.

Looking at that figure quietly standing in the center of the ruins of the giant palm print, shirtless, as if he had only done something trivial, an indescribable sense of awe, excitement, and pride surged from the depths of their Souls.

Senior Lu... no, Supreme Lu! He really did it! Even the Avatar of a Supreme God and the Dark Monarch had become food in his mouth!

The endless slaughter and despair of the past six months seemed to have found meaning at this moment.

Lu Jiuyuan slowly raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the fragmented heavens of this bloody battlefield plane, casting toward the further distance, toward the vast and boundless Primordial Continent connected to this battlefield.

That was one of the core territories in this Universe occupied by the Human Race, the largest and most ancient, but also being continuously eroded by endless demons.

He could "see" that on the land, the smoke of war was rising everywhere, countless Human Race cities were turned into scorched earth, and tens of millions of the Human Race were wailing and struggling under the claws and teeth of tens of billions of demons.

Only a few core areas, relying on the defensive lines laid down by the Supreme and experts of the Human Race, were struggling to hold on.

"This continent... is too tragic."

Lu Jiuyuan whispered to himself:

"The aura of demons has defiled the mountains and rivers. The blood and tears of the Human Race have soaked the earth."

He took a light step forward.

This step seemed ordinary.

However, the entire bloody battlefield plane, no, the entire space-time dimension related to the Primordial Continent, resonated with a low and grand sound following this step of his!

"Today, it is time... to clean things up."

The moment the words fell, Lu Jiuyuan's figure moved.

It was not disappearing, not flickering.

But... expanding!

Expanding at an inconceivable speed that transcended vision, transcended perception, and even transcended the concept of time and space!

His Physical Body seemed to have become a catalyst, an anchor point, a bridge connecting the 12.96 million internal worlds within his body to the great Universe outside!

"Dharma Body Manifestation!"

A calm yet supremely majestic Dao sound was uttered from his mouth, no longer echoing across the battlefield, but directly resounding in the deepest consciousness of all living beings on the Primordial Continent and countless surrounding planes!

Regardless of cultivation level, regardless of race, regardless of where they were, as long as they were living, conscious beings, they all "heard" these four words with absolute clarity at this moment!

Boom—!!!

An indescribably vast power erupted from the star-sea-like internal worlds within Lu Jiuyuan's body!

His figure began to grow larger at a speed that was visible to the naked eye yet completely contrary to common sense!

Ten zhang! A hundred zhang! A thousand zhang! Ten thousand zhang!

This was just the beginning!

His body seemed to have no boundaries, breaking through space, tearing apart dimensions!

A million zhang! Ten million zhang! A hundred million zhang!

Covering the sky and the sun, filling the entire Universe!

In the blink of an eye, Lu Jiuyuan's figure had grown so large that it covered the entire starry sky where the Primordial Continent was located!

Looking up from the surface of the Primordial Continent, one could only see a boundless dome of skin, seemingly composed of the purest energy and Laws!