The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 595 - 563: Boundless Hatred_1

Chapter 595: Chapter 563: Boundless Hatred_1

Stars fractured, countless meteors fell like rain.

However, not a single meteor, not a streak of light like a shooting star, landed on those six intact lands.

For within the exploding meteor’s core, a sword light persisted.

The sword light guided the meteors’ paths, causing them to fall through the gaps between the lands, sinking towards the darkness below.

The creatures of the dark prison thereby remained unharmed.

"Pang Jian..."

Atop the "Extreme Cold Ghost Mountain," the Goddess of Cold Crystal murmured softly.

Her heart, cold for ten million years, felt an absent warmth in this sword strike.

As her long eyelashes fluttered, tiny ice crystals shattered and splashed outward.

She herself did not know when she had cried.

The little girl in the nine radiant light rivers was her in her youth, a figment of her divine skill, not flesh and blood reality.

The tears of the little girl should not reflect upon her current body, yet there were teardrops at the corners of her eyes.

The moment the teardrops appeared, they were instantly frozen by the extreme cold power, uniting with her eyelashes.

Only when the stars shattered, when her created "Extreme Cold God Domain" was unsealed, did her soft call break the ice crystals.

In truth, what also shattered was her heart of extreme cold.

Pursing her lips, she looked up at the colossal figure, tall as an ancient god supporting the heavens, with a seven-colored divine body, whispering softly, "You still drew your sword."

"Swoosh!"

Ying Yue, riding the moonlight, arrived.

She also landed on the summit of the "Extreme Cold Ghost Mountain," standing shoulder to shoulder with Han Yi, gazing together at Pang Jian’s Immortal Primordial Spirit.

As occupants of two alien bodies, they both stood at the height of ordinary people, small as ants compared to Pang Jian’s divine body.

In their eyes, Pang Jian indeed towered like a divine mountain, majestic, solemn, his presence enveloping heaven and earth.

The dazzling star river unique to Pang Jian hung above his head, and below his feet, the "Heart of Winter" was an extreme cold star, with the black-gold Divine Sword exuding an air of superiority over all beings.

The two goddesses from beyond the heavens, looking at such Pang Jian, had a somewhat dazed look in their eyes.

"I have to admit, your judgment was correct. This newly risen Sword God of the Human Race, among the low-rank gods we know of, is truly outstanding."

Ying Yue gathered her thoughts, mindful of the purpose of her descent, and spoke, "The Star Devourer is likely to die in the Dark Prison, and we both need to be ready. The difficulties you face could only be solved with significant gains."

"I understand," Han Yi nodded lightly.

"Crack! Crunch!"

The gray-yellow stars continued to fracture.

More meteors transformed into shooting stars, still meticulously avoiding the lands below, plummeting down to the very bottom of the Dark Prison.

Initially, the Star Devourer guided those meteorites to destroy important cities and ancient temples on the lands as a show of threat to the beings of the Dark Prison.

This time, Pang Jian, with his Divine Sense and Sword Intent, nudged the meteors to fall while avoiding the lands.

"Great, extraterrestrial God Spirit!"

"Thank you for your rescue!"

"The heavens have eyes; our Dark Prison is finally going to be saved!"

"..."

Beings on the lands watched as the gray-yellow star continued to break apart, yet not a single meteor fell upon them, and they once again extolled Pang Jian’s virtues.

Many knelt for a long time, bowing towards the seven-colored divine figure in the sky, praying that the miracle would continue.

They prayed that Pang Jian would defeat the Star Devourer, eradicating the evil tumor that had tormented the Dark Prison for years.

Gradually, more and more meteors flew away, and the Star Devourer was forced to reveal itself.

"The reputation of the Star Devourers in the Outer Star River isn’t actually good. They feed on stars, exterminating the beings beyond the heavens, and cutting off the roots of the gods."

"Thus, for the Alien God Spirits to hunt such Exotic Spirits is also understandable."

The prince of the Ghost Demon Clan, in the form of the Source Demon, spoke with Pang Jian in the world of his sword.

He informed Pang Jian of the characteristics of the Star Devourer, urging Pang Jian not to have the slightest bit of mercy.

Pang Jian listened silently to the Source Demon’s words, his cold eyes turning to the revealed Star Devourer, indeed resembling a gigantic net.

This vast net, each line tens of thousands of feet long, resembled dragons and giant serpents.

The lines were its limbs, covered with strange patterns on the surface and containing astonishing energy within.

"Hiss!"

The remaining sword lights, like black and goldfish, continued to shuttle between those limbs.

The sharp sword light could cut through most limbs, leaving long and narrow cuts on the Star Devourer’s body, creating slender gaps.

The Sword Intent belonging to Pang Jian, from within those gaps, could sense the Alien Power contained inside.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—these five elemental forces that construct a world, were almost all found within the Star Devourer’s limbs.

Those limbs imbued with the Alien Power of Fine Gold, the leftover sword lights, could not carve openings.

Only then, as he focused his Divine Sense, could he perceive that inside such limbs surged a divine luster of many rare metals, a fusion of them.

Rust, Fine Gold, Mithril, Origin Copper.

All sorts of rare metals, like flowing sand or broken crystals, mixed within those limbs.

This also made the limbs, like the material of the Origin Demon Sword itself, full of the characteristics of items of gold—sturdy and sharp.

Such limbs could themselves be forged into unbreakable sharp weapons after being cut down.

Rust within the limbs, along with Fine Gold, Mithril, Origin Copper, and other strange metals and irons, served not only to perfect Pang Jian’s Immortal Primordial Spirit, making the Gold Mountain within him even more solid, but could also elevate the material of the Origin Demon Sword once again.

And yet, this was but a tiny fraction of the many limbs of the Star Devourer.

Some limbs were cold to the bone, surging with Extreme Cold Alien Power, and contained natural veins that, once severed, could be fashioned into Cold Ice Divine Artifacts.

Others glimmered with starlight, possessing the Alien Power of Star Cores captured by the Star Devourer, which could be forged into wondrous star treasures.

Indeed, to say the Star Devourer’s body was a treasure trove was not the slightest bit incorrect.

"This is truly a colossal treasury."

Pang Jian marveled in silence, feeling that his journey had been worthwhile.

At that moment, the Star Devourer’s screech rang out, originating from every limb that resembled a web of lines.

"Pang Jian!"

Its screech was filled with boundless fury and malice; its web-like body twisted, with numerous limbs swaying.

Pang Jian looked closely and noticed that it was wrapping a huge, crystal-clear orb with its web-like body.

Many tentacle-like, splendid lines extended from the crystal-clear orb, only to be entwined by its limbs, which were siphoning power.

The lines originating from the crystal-clear orb quickly withered and thinned, before dissipating like smoke.

In contrast, the limbs of the Star Devourer that entangled these lines gradually swelled, filled with Alien Power energy.

"Star’s Veins."

With just a glance, Pang Jian identified those splendid lines as akin to the Spirit Veins and veins of ore in the Purgatory World.

In the Outer, they were called Star’s Veins.

And the crystal-clear orb enveloped by the Star Devourer, like the "Heart of Winter," was the core—an active Star Core—of a living star.

If a star were likened to a living being, the Star Core would be the heart, the Star’s Veins the internal veins, the surface of the star the skin, and the mountains and rivers the flesh and limbs.

The Star Devourer would penetrate from the outside in, "binding" itself; first, it devoured the "flesh and energy" of the ashen-colored star.

As it delved deeper into the star, it would then extract the Star’s Veins, and finally the Star Core.

In such a manner, it slowly devoured a whole star, harvesting all the nutrients within.

As its segments integrated and refined the Star’s Veins, they also captured the purest powers, including the profound mysteries of the Great Tao imprinted within the star veins.

The Exotic Spirit known as the Star Devourer advanced by feeding on stars, slowly increasing its strength.

Once it reached a sufficient level of growth, it would appear in the Outer Domain Galaxy, starting in the remote Star Domains to hide its presence and secretly infiltrate a star.

It would quietly devour a living star from the inside out and then stealthily depart.

Afterward, it would target the next star.

And that was how a Star Devourer kept advancing.

The stars it devoured, having accumulated power for eons, would be drained empty; the veins would disappear, and the Star Core dissolved into its body.

A star that has had its "heart" and "veins" consumed is left merely with a shell, forever stripped of the power to draw energy from the vast Star River.

Such a star is called a dead star.

If there were beings of the Wisdom Race residing above, they would perish in the process of the Star Devourer’s feasting, and henceforth the dead star would no longer be able to nurture life and living beings.

The Exotic Spirit Star Devourer, feeding on stars of the Star River, grows more powerful as the very stars it consumes wither away one by one.

Therefore, the Star Devourer is also infamous as a destroyer.

Those higher-level Star Devourers even increase their ability to devour stars, and if they silently slip into an unguarded Galaxy without powerful Alien God Spirits.

Then, numerous stars within a Galaxy could quickly become dead, and with them, countless beings would perish.

Its entire being is a trove of precious treasures, desired by God Spirits.

It was born to feed on stars, and it possesses the power to annihilate worlds.

When it appears in the world of "Prison" or "Boundary," including galaxies made up of numerous stars, it becomes the nightmare of all living beings within those regions.

"I understand, I no longer have any mental burden."

Having grasped this, Pang Jian cleared his mind of distractions; he was no longer concerned about the disputes with the weak Star Devourer of his youth or the creatures of the Dark Prison.

He brandished his sword and attacked the Star Devourer.

As the Origin Demon Sword stirred, the six great Demon Realm Cave Heavens suddenly began to rumble thunderously, with countless roars and shrieks emanating from different Demon Realm Cave Heavens.

If one listened carefully, it was the weeping of children from the Dark Prison, the venomous curses of powerless women.

The sorrowful wails of the elderly mourning the loss of the younger generation.

The utmost despair and agony can give rise to the utmost malice.

The beings of this realm, in the eternal darkness of the Dark Prison, had been tortured and ravaged by the Star Devourer for hundreds of years.

In their hearts lurked hatred, endless hatred!

Such hatred cannot be filled by mountains or covered by seas!

Even if the Dark Prison was destroyed, even if all beings perished, this boundless hatred would coalesce into endless resentment, lingering in the Dark Prison for tens of thousands of years without dissipating.

And this was precisely the source of power that the Source Demon most craved!

To the Source Demon, Demon Element Power was like Spiritual Power, strengthening the physique.

Endless hatred and venomous resentment are the true forces that elevate the Source Demon, allowing it to undergo a fundamental transformation into a higher level of power.

All Heavenly Demons feed on the evil within human hearts.

As the beings of the Dark Prison were oppressed to the extreme, the towering hatred and malice that rose against the Star Devourer were boundless and vast, enough to make the Source Demon want to sing and laugh wildly.

Thus, the Source Demon was sublimated, and thus the six great Demon Realm Cave Heavens became infinitely powerful.

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