Chapter 520: Chapter 469: Chaos in the Holy City (Two-in-One Chapter)
The murals grew more glaring as they progressed.
The war was escalating.
From the starry skies to dimensional spatial realms and alternate dimensions, the fires of war spread to various life planets.
Ordinary life planets could not withstand battles of the Holy TierāTang Yu saw the earth split open to form hundreds of kilometers wide gorges, tsunamis hundreds of meters high that destroyed innumerable buildings, and spaces that were split open and took a long time to close.
Gradually,
the Origin Star was defeated.
The āDevil Raceā commanded innumerable alien forces, much stronger than all the major planets under the control of the Origin Star, and they plundered countless living organisms for their genes, creating warfare weapons known as āAlien Speciesā that possessed limitless numbers.
This āAlien Species,ā Tang Yu noticed, was just the commonly seen Demonized Beasts outside!
They looked slightly differentāthis was only a version difference. However, their fearlessness in the face of death and endless numbers were exactly the same.
Ordinary Demonized Beasts were just at the Awakening Tier; the advanced versions, such as Catastrophe-Level Demonized Beasts, were comparable to the Pseudo Transcendents.
Demonized Beasts lacked intelligence, were unable to practice cultivation, and were malformed life-forms that couldnāt truly break through to transcendenceā¦ yet more terrifying Demonized Beasts existed.
On the mural, Tang Yu saw huge, nearly sky-blocking Super Demonized Beasts.
What was referred to as Catastrophe-Level was just a younger brother in front of such Demonized Beasts.
With just a slight lifting of a hand or a stomp of a foot from a Super Demonized Beast, destructive damage could be inflicted on a city, and its true power was immeasurable.
Even Saints would struggle to slay it.
As the frontlines retreated, the life planets occupied by the āDevil Raceā became silent one by one, unable to nurture any more life, with their Source Power exhausted.
The murals rarely featured text explanations.
Devouring!
The āDevil Raceā was devouring the planetās Origin.
This was the true purpose of the red mist and the Demonized Beasts!
However, each life planet had its own world barriers that resisted outsiders like the āDevil Raceā and Demonized Beasts; the planets themselves were also resisting.
The Devil Race and its minions were powerful, capable of easily massacring indigenous life on planets, yet devouring a planetās Origin had to be a gradual process.
It was only then that Tang Yu understood why the aliens didnāt seem so intent on annihilating humanity. Even if large-scale Sanctuaries were occasionally destroyed, many survivors often managed to escape.
It was similar to raising pigs.
You couldnāt slaughter them all at once; you bred and then slaughtered in cycles.
The Qi Fortune of native life-forms was connected to the Origin of life planets. Keeping some of the planetsā native humans allowed the speed of devouring the Origin to remain high, but it couldnāt exceed the ultimate limit.
Yet, slaying a Worldās Son with S-rank talent could break such limits and severely damage the planetās Origin.
āThis was the result derived by the Saints from analyzing other life planets long ago.
āNo wonder, previously the members of the Ghost Hand Clan and White Bone Clan looked at me rather oddly.ā
āOrdinary large Sanctuaries, the Alien Races might not care about, but a well-known one like Green Shadow, cough, looks like the brightest star in the night sky!ā
Tang Yu felt helpless.
He knew he was only a novice with an initial talent of grade Eāirrelevant to Nancy and the Origin Star.
But others definitely didnāt see it that way, and he couldnāt tell them.
āHowever, not all Alien Species are united; they might even be distinctly separate.ā
He pondered, āFor instance, the area around Tiannan Province was originally under the domain of the Ghost Hand Clan, while East Sea Province was under the White Bone Clanā¦ The Alien Species attacking Beiting were only from the Evil Dragon Clan and Blood Wing Clanā¦ There seems to be a clear separation among Alien Species, and they likely do not communicate.ā
After the Ghost Hand and White Bone clans were obliterated, the territory was free from disturbances by Alien Species for a long time.
āOn the other hand, the world barriers of the Origin Star are much stronger than those of ordinary life planets. Alien Species cannot invade en masse, which is limited in power and might be why the situation has remained stable thus far.ā
The mural stopped abruptly when the Origin Star was finally discovered by the Devil Race much later.
The time span was very long.
However, how extensive the Devil Raceās territory actually was, and the number of their powerful beings, were unclear!
Whether the Sages did not know or just did not record it, Tang Yu was unsure; he only saw from the mural that the disparity between the two sides was not as balanced as āZhenā had mentionedāthey were not originally evenly matched.
What happened to the people in the Holy City at the end?
Did they sacrifice themselves, or did they escape? Tang Yu was unclear.
The people who lived in the Holy City back then likely owned space equipment with large capacities, making packing up quite simpleā¦ Whether this place had traces of being packed up and evacuated was hard to determine due to the passage of time, even with the āInsight Eye.ā
ā¦
Middle of the Sky-reaching Tower.
Semi-destroyed area.
More than twenty Senior Transcendents had joined the battle group for the Holy Body, and behind each one, there were two to three, even up to seven or eight ordinary Transcendents.
At a stalemate.
Someone proposed a new suggestionāto observe and comprehend the Tao Rhythm together and whoever dared to absorb it stealthily, the rest would join forces and bombard the rule-breaker.
The suggestion was quickly agreed upon.
No one had the power to override others and secure possession of the Holy Body.
Even āPurcell IIā Gulete, who possessed two Senior Transcendent helpers and exceptional combat power himself, had to nod in agreement slowly.
The Transcendents guarded each other and approached the Holy Body cautiously.
Within a few hundred meters, their complexions subtly changed, their internal Source Power circulated sluggishly, but no one backed down and they continued to approach slowly.