Your Talent is Mine - Chapter 1256

Chapter 1256: The Strength of the Devourer Race!

TL: Etude

On this day.

Palace Master Profound Tortoise from the Heavenly Emperor Palace sent a message to Blackwind Mountain, stating he had sensed the movement of a fragment of the Profound Tortoise Shell. This indicated that the universe it belonged to had already been devoured.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!

One after another, Half-Step Domain Ancestors moved out, and Ye Tian also joined them.

This time, Heavenly Emperor Palace and Blackwind Mountain dispatched a total of seven All-Things Half-Step Domain Ancestors. Counting Ye Tian, there were a full eight. It could be said they had mobilized their entire strength.

After all, the Heavenly Emperor Palace had only four All-Things Half-Step Domain Ancestors. The fact they had deployed all of them at once clearly showed how seriously they took this matter.

…

Somewhere within the chaotic void of the Dao Mountain Domain.

A member of the Devourer Race was currently shuttling through space. His name was Teng Feng. He had just devoured one universe and planned to devour a few more before returning home.

“The universe I just consumed seems to have contained something that’s hard to digest,” Teng Feng muttered to himself softly.

However, he didn’t find this surprising. Some universes naturally gave birth to extremely tough things, making them difficult to digest.

But for the Devourer Race, everything could eventually be digested—it simply required more time.

Thus, he didn’t worry about it much.

After flying for some time, Teng Feng suddenly felt the surrounding void freeze solid. Immediately afterward, multiple figures appeared around him.

“Half-Step Domain Ancestors!” Teng Feng’s expression drastically changed.

He was merely at the Invincible Dao Ancestor realm, still far from reaching Half-Step Domain Ancestor. Even if he managed to become one, his combat strength would only rank among the weakest of the Half-Step Domain Ancestors. How could he possibly stand against multiple opponents of this level?

Furthermore, the other members of the Devourer Race would certainly not come to his aid. The Devourer Race was inherently selfish—no one would risk their lives for another. They had no bloodline connections, nor were there master-disciple relationships. Why would anyone save him? He had to rely on himself.

Escape! Teng Feng tried to flee, but all his efforts were futile.

With eight All-Things Half-Step Domain Ancestors surrounding him, it would have been strange if he had escaped.

Boom!

Dao Ancestor Jinchen easily suppressed Teng Feng with a single hand.

“Let’s go, return immediately to the Profound Void Archaic Realm!” Dao Ancestor Jinchen said gravely.

The others wasted no time, quickly shuttling away, fearing the arrival of stronger members from the Devourer Race.

Without enough intelligence, none of them dared to engage the Devourer Race directly.

After a short while, everyone returned safely to the Profound Void Archaic Realm and finally breathed a sigh of relief. This was their real base of operations.

“Leave this Devourer to us Blackwind Mountain for interrogation. After we extract the information, we’ll share it with your Heavenly Emperor Palace. How does that sound?” Dao Ancestor Jinchen proposed.

“Sure, but after you interrogate him, if he’s still alive, hand him over to our Heavenly Emperor Palace. How does that sound?” said the Palace Master Thunder Tribulation.

“No problem!” Dao Ancestor Jinchen agreed.

Swish! Swish!!! The Dao Ancestors of Blackwind Mountain and those of the Heavenly Emperor Palace parted ways, and Ye Tian followed Dao Ancestor Jinchen back to Wind Mountain.

After that Devourer race member, Teng Feng, was brought to Wind Mountain, he was handed over to the Mountain Master Wind Mountain for interrogation.

In the blink of an eye, several days passed.

The Mountain Master Wind Mountain sent a message to everyone, announcing that he would personally convene a meeting at the Half-Step Domain Ancestor level. All were required to attend at the Dao Field, and Ye Tian earned the qualification to participate in the meeting as well.

….

Wind Mountain, the Conference Hall.

The Mountain Master Wind Mountain appeared, followed by Dao Ancestor Jinchen and the other Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the All-Things Realm.

This time, Ye Tian finally learned how many Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the All-Things Realm Wind Mountain had—a total of eight. Among them was the newly ascended Half-Step Domain Ancestor of the All-Things Realm, Dao Ancestor Wondrous Law.

Apart from the eight Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the All-Things Realm, Blackwind Mountain also had twenty-three additional Half-Step Domain Ancestors. Such a number was already staggering, perhaps even surpassing the count of Half-Step Domain Ancestors in the Heavenly Emperor Palace.

At the meeting.

The Mountain Master Wind Mountain spoke, “I interrogated that Devourer race member we captured not long ago. The information I obtained from him is highly unfavorable to us.

Your previous investigations were correct. Before this cultivation civilization era in the Dao Mountain Domain, there existed another cultivation civilization era, but that era was annihilated by the Devourer race. In that era, the Devourer race gave rise to more than one Domain Ancestor. As for how many exactly… that Devourer clansman was too young to know.

However, based on what he did know, it seems the Domain Ancestors of the Devourer race ventured into the Dark Forbidden Domain in pursuit of a higher realm and have not returned since. This is probably the best news we could hope for! Of course, we can’t be certain they don’t still have a Domain Ancestor. What if one is hiding somewhere?”

The numerous Half-Step Domain Ancestors nodded in agreement with the Mountain Master Wind Mountain’s assessment.

Then, the Mountain Master Wind Mountain continued, “According to the intelligence, the Devourer race currently has roughly sixty clansmen. Among them are four Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the Unity Realm, twenty-two Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the All-Things Realm, seventy-three ordinary Half-Step Domain Ancestors, and the rest belong to realms below Half-Step Domain Ancestor!”

“So many Devourer clansmen!!!” Everyone was utterly shocked.

Four Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the Unity Realm—what did that mean? The Heavenly Emperor Palace currently had only one Half-Step Domain Ancestor of the Unity Realm, while the Mountain Master Wind Mountain of Blackwind Mountain counted as one as well. That made just two in total! Of course, the Profound Void Archaic Realm might conceal other Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the Unity Realm, but even then, they held no advantage over the Devourer race.

Most importantly, the Devourer race boasted twenty-one Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the All-Things Realm, whereas the combined total of such ancestors from Blackwind Mountain and the Heavenly Emperor Palace didn’t even reach twenty-one. The number of ordinary Half-Step Domain Ancestors also paled in comparison to the Devourer race.

Overall, the Devourer Race’s top-level combat power completely crushed that of Blackwind Mountain and Heavenly Emperor Palace.

“Mountain Master, is this intelligence reliable?” Dao Ancestor Jinchen asked.

“Absolutely!” Mountain Master Wind Mountain replied firmly.

“Mountain Master, if the Devourer Race launches a full-scale attack on our Profound Void Archaic Realm, I’m afraid we won’t be able to resist,” a Half-Step Domain Ancestor said with a frown.

“I suspect the Devourer Race has only just awakened. Perhaps they’re also waiting for the Profound Void Archaic Realm to grow further, such as by giving birth to more worlds like the Forbidden Void Realms. In that scenario, they’ll have plenty of worlds to devour. Otherwise, if there are no worlds left to consume, their awakening would lose much of its meaning!” Mountain Master Wind Mountain explained.

Everyone nodded, finding this logic very reasonable.

The Devourer Race’s true target was worlds. Only by producing more worlds could their growth speed accelerate. Otherwise, without new worlds to devour, internal conflicts would inevitably arise.

Moreover, the current All-Things Half-Step Domain Ancestors of the Devourer Race didn’t wish to start a war. Devouring just the Profound Void Archaic Realm alone wouldn’t guarantee their advancement into full Domain Ancestors.

However, if the Forbidden Void Realm advanced into an Ultimate Ancient Realm, or reached a level comparable to a Domain Realm or even a Forbidden Realm, they would undoubtedly launch an attack. Devouring this world to make a breakthrough to Domain Ancestor.

Simply put, the Devourer Race treated them as insects raised within a jar.

The Profound Void Archaic Realm’s only advantage lay in its hidden strength, which had not yet been revealed. Due to insufficient intelligence, the Devourer Race assumed the Profound Void Archaic Realm was far inferior to themselves, posing little threat. Thus, the Profound Void Archaic Realm still had plenty of time left.