Man is devouring, waves are traveling through the universe

The interior space of the snow-capped mountain.

Ye Xingkong slowly opened his eyes, a flash of dark golden light appearing in them.

Under the detection of the "Eye of the Void," the Lord of Azure Edge is approaching at an extremely fast speed, less than a million kilometers away from this place.

For the Lord of the Universe, this distance is but a blink of an eye.

"Lord of Qingfeng..."

Information about this Lord of the Universe flashed through Ye Xingkong's mind.

The Lord of Azure Edge is a metallic life form belonging to the Nine Domains Alliance and is a great being of the Karom race.

He was extremely skilled in swordsmanship, with not only fierce attacks but also formidable defense, making him one of the more powerful among third-tier universe masters.

That makes sense; if one weren't strong enough, they probably wouldn't dare to compete for the Northern Nether Palace.

"coming."

Ye Xingkong silently recited the command in his heart, and his fighting spirit instantly surged to its peak.

boom!
Suddenly, his divine power erupted, and his divine body emitted terrifying power as he took a step forward.

Boom!

The continuous snow-capped mountains collapsed with a roar, revealing a majestic figure.

"Ok?"

The Lord of Qingfeng's expression changed slightly.

A burly, imposing figure with a calm and steady aura, wielding a giant axe, stepped forward.

"Is he the universe's ruler on the human side?"

The Lord of Qingfeng recognized Ye Xingkong and frowned.

He had actually noticed a powerful stranger on the human side a long time ago, but although he was puzzled, he didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, the human race is a top-tier race, one of the nine super powers in the universe.

Given the human race's resources, it's perfectly normal for them to deliberately hide a few universe masters or invite a lone universe master to come and help.

The only strange thing was that he had never seen this unfamiliar powerful figure before.

While the Lord of Qingfeng was pondering in secret, Ye Xingkong was also observing him.

The Lord of Azure Edge was covered in streamlined cyan metal armor, which was engraved with countless wind-blade-like secret patterns, exuding an incomparably sharp aura.

He held a strangely shaped longsword, its blade slender and seemingly made of countless sharp feathers stacked together. The tip of the sword trembled slightly, cutting through the space and emitting a soft "humming" sound.

"The Azure Edge Lord of the Nine Domains Alliance?"

Ye Xingkong spoke in a cold, indifferent voice.

"Who are you? Why have I never seen you before?"

A hint of displeasure flashed in the eyes of the Lord of Azure Edge. Although he was furious, he suppressed his anger and questioned her in an icy tone.

"who am I?"

Ye Xingkong smiled, making no attempt to conceal his identity, and directly declared, "I am the master of the Divine Axe!"

From the moment he chose to come and compete for the Northern Nether Palace, it was destined that his identity as the "Divine Axe Venerable" could not be hidden, so he might as well openly admit it now.

"Lord of the Divine Axe...you are the Venerable One of the Divine Axe?"

The Lord of Azure Edge was very surprised, and his eyes instantly turned serious. He said, "I didn't expect that the Divine Axe Venerable was actually a human powerhouse! But what surprised me even more was that you actually broke through to become a Universe Lord."

Becoming the master of the universe is not an easy feat.

Since the birth of the primordial universe, countless lives have been created, yet the number of powerful beings who are the masters of the universe is only so small.

"You are merely a newly ascended ruler of the universe. Even with the supreme treasure bestowed upon you by the human race, how much power can you possibly wield?"

"You dare block my way? Aren't you afraid of dying here today?"

The Lord of Qingfeng's eyes were filled with rage, and his voice was sharp and cold, like the scraping of metal.

Although he was not afraid of Ye Xingkong, he did not want to offend the human race, after all, the Lord of Chaos City was still in the Northern Nether Palace.

"Fallen? We'll only know after trying!"

Ye Xingkong said coldly.

He wielded a massive dragon-slaying axe, its blade pointing straight ahead. His powerful aura stirred the surrounding cold void, creating visible energy vortexes.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"You think that just because you can be on par with the Lord of Sirius, you're qualified to be my opponent?"

"Today I'll show you what a true powerhouse is!"

The master of Qingfeng laughed in extreme anger, clearly furious to the extreme.

How dare a mere newly appointed universe lord be so arrogant, completely disregarding him!
"Die!"

The Lord of Azure Edge roared and stopped holding back.

The strange longsword in his hand suddenly thrust out, instantly transforming into thousands of azure sword shadows. Each sword shadow was like a feather that was incredibly real and sharp to the extreme, containing a terrifying sharpness that could tear through the void.

Thousands of sword shadows formed a destructive sword storm, tearing through the void and attacking Ye Xingkong from all directions!

"Is this the signature move of the Lord of Azure Edge—Ten Thousand Swords Annihilation?"

"As expected, its power is truly terrifying!"

Ye Xingkong's expression instantly turned serious.

None of those who dared to vie for the title of Universe Master of the Northern Nether Palace were weak; the weakest were at least at the third rank, and each had created the strongest secret technique for the Universe Master.

In particular, the Azure Edge Sword, the treasured longsword of the Azure Edge Lord, is a top-tier treasure. When combined with the secret technique "Ten Thousand Swords Annihilation," it can unleash extremely powerful destructive force.

"it is good!"

"You come and take my axe blow too."

Ye Xingkong let out a long roar, without any fancy techniques, just the simplest and most direct axe strike!
Boom!

Panwu's clone's arms were bulging with muscles, and the terrifying power brought by the ten-thousand-fold increase in life gene level suddenly erupted, drawing in all the vast divine power to pour into the Dragon-Slaying Axe.

"A spark illuminates the sky!"

Ye Xingkong roared.

The axe blade instantly burst forth with a dazzling light that could tear the heavens and the earth apart, transforming into a gigantic axe shadow that stretched across the sky, carrying pure and extreme destructive power as it cleaved down toward the Lord of the Azure Edge!

This axe strike was incredibly fast!
Its power was so great that it caused the surrounding space to ripple violently, as if it were about to be completely cleaved apart!

Rumble~
Attack against attack!

Neither of the two super-strong individuals chose to back down; instead, they unleashed their respective ultimate techniques in a head-on confrontation.

The Dragon-Slaying Axe struck the armor of the Azure Edge Lord, and Ye Xingkong also withstood all the sword light of the Azure Edge Sword.

"Ok?"

"This axe blow... actually annihilated three percent of my divine body!"

The Lord of Azure Edge's expression suddenly changed drastically as he felt waves of violent divine power penetrating his treasured armor, annihilating and eroding his divine body with overwhelming force.

"how is this possible?"

"The Lord of the Divine Axe actually possesses fourth-tier strength!"

The Lord of Qingfeng was filled with disbelief.

He has a top-tier treasure armor protecting him, and can annihilate three percent of his divine body with a single axe strike. This power has definitely reached the fourth level!

When the Lord of Qingfeng looked up again, he found that Ye Xingkong, who had withstood his strongest move, was still calm and his divine aura had not been weakened in the slightest.

"impossible!"

"I unleashed my full divine power. Although the power was not at the fourth level, it was still considered powerful even by a third-level universe lord."

"I struck with my sword, and the Divine Axe Master's divine body suffered no damage whatsoever?"

"With such defensive capabilities, he must possess a supreme treasure armor!" The Lord of Qingfeng was extremely shocked, a hint of doubt and solemnity flashing in his eyes.

This hardly seems like a newly crowned ruler of the universe.
Its power was so overwhelming that it even gave him the illusion of facing the "Founder of the Giant Axe," a powerful figure among the human race!

Of course, Ye Xingkong is far inferior to the founder of the Giant Axe; he only has some of his shadows.

"Could it be that the human race is about to give birth to another being like the Lord of Chaos City?"

The Lord of Qingfeng sighed inwardly.

"A third-tier universe lord is nothing more than this!"

Ye Xingkong, holding the giant axe, couldn't help but laugh.

Although his axe strike was merely the strongest secret technique of the Lord of the Universe, "Starfire Illuminates the Sky," it was not his strongest move.

However, Ye Xingkong's divine body is at the level of ten thousand times the life gene, and the Dragon Slayer Axe is also a top-level treasure. This move is fully capable of fourth-order power.

As for defense, he possesses the ultimate treasure armor "Mysterious Crimson Flame Armor," which can reduce the power of an opponent's attack to one ten-thousandth.

Facing the attack of the Lord of Azure Edge, he suffered almost no loss of divine body.

"Haha! Come again!"

Ye Xingkong pressed his advantage relentlessly, wielding his battle axe and stepping through the air, each step seemingly landing on a spatial node, his momentum escalating and putting immense pressure on the Lord of Qingfeng.

"Open the sky!"

Ye Xingkong roared.

The Dragon Slayer Axe let out a soul-shaking roar, and dark golden divine light soared into the sky, transforming into an incredibly solid and enormous axe shadow.

This axe strike seemed to contain the supreme will to create the world, domineering, resolute, and unstoppable!

"not good!"

The Lord of Qingfeng's expression changed drastically. He dared not be negligent in the slightest, much less take the attack head-on.

With a sharp shriek, his body burst forth with azure divine light, and the secret patterns on his wing-like armor instantly lit up, as if transforming into countless streams of azure wind.

boom!
With a single axe blow, the Lord of Azure Edge lost another three percent of his divine body!

"Lord of the Divine Axe, you are indeed no match for me!"

"Shall we call it quits for today?"

The Lord of Qingfeng calmed himself down and said with an icy expression.

As soon as the expert takes action, he will know if there is any!

Although they had only clashed a few times, he already knew that he was no match for Ye Xingkong.

A fourth-order universe master can easily crush a third-order one.

If he were outside, he could hold on for a while longer, waiting for the support of the Universe Lord of the Nine Domains Alliance.

But this is the Northern Nether Palace, the interior of a supreme treasure of the sealing type, there is no way to escape!
Even if the Lord of Qingfeng was proud, he had no choice but to bow down to strength.

"Is that the end of it?"

"Where can you find such a good deal!"

Ye Xingkong sneered.

He had just broken through to the level of the Lord of the Universe and had finally found a suitable opponent to practice on. How could he let this opportunity slip by so easily?
"I have already created the fifth-order secret technique, the Five Elements Reincarnation Blade Technique. It will be much easier for me to deduce and create other fifth-order secret techniques."

Ye Xingkong thought to himself.

The Five Elements Reincarnation Blade Technique is ultimately a blade technique, more suitable for the Five Elements Clone, and not entirely compatible with the Panwu Clone.

What he needs to do now is to evolve "Starfire Shines in the Sky" into a fifth-order secret technique through repeated battles!

"Take another axe blow!"

Ye Xingkong shattered the void with a single step, and the surrounding divine power surged wildly as he swung his giant axe once more.

Rumble~
With each axe strike, a terrifying power was contained, and the Lord of the Azure Blade could only do his best to defend.

"Master of the Divine Axe, why must you be so unforgiving?"

As the Lord of Azure Edge felt his divine body weakening, his voice was filled with boundless rage.

He had already realized that Ye Xingkong was using him to hone his axe skills!

What's even more terrifying is that with each swing of the axe, Ye Xingkong's power actually increased.

Continuously improve, continuously become stronger...

"Is this still a human being?"

"How could there be such a freakish person in the universe!"

"In such a short period of time, he has been able to continuously improve his axe skills!"

The Lord of Qingfeng was horrified.

He wasn't worried about his own demise; this was just an avatar of his, and if he perished, he would only lose some precious treasures.

Although these treasures were accumulated over countless eras, especially the top-tier treasure "Azure Edge Sword," his strength would decrease significantly if he lost them!

boom! boom! boom!
Ye Xingkong was immersed in the creation of the secret technique, and each axe stroke contained extremely violent and terrifying power. The divine body of the Lord of the Azure Edge was also weakening at a visible speed.

"Ok?"

"This axe blow..."

Just then, the Lord of Qingfeng seemed to sense something, his expression changed drastically, his pupils suddenly contracted, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

Ye Xingkong's eyes were as deep as stars, and the dark golden blade of the Dragon Slayer Axe was shimmering with a cold light that could tear stars apart. Ancient dragon patterns engraved on the axe body lit up, and an aura of domineering destruction spread out.

This aura of destruction...

If the Lord of Sirius and Lord Fantian were present, they would surely be able to sense that this aura is exactly the same as the destructive aura emanating from the World-Destroying Crimson Lotus.

"I never imagined I would actually figure out this axe technique!"

"The first move of 'Starfire Illuminates the Sky' is called 'Opening the Heavens,' so let's call the second move 'Destroying the World'!"

Ye Xingkong was filled with joy.

Creation and destruction: one is creation, the other is destruction!

"die!"

Ye Xingkong looked at the Lord of Qingfeng and, without holding back, unleashed the strongest move he had just mastered.

This time, the axe blow finally possessed the true power of a fifth-tier weapon.

"Do not!!!"

The Lord of Qingfeng sensed the threat of death. He roared and burned his divine power without reservation, causing the supreme treasure "Qingfeng Sword" to shine brightly.

Rumble~
The dark golden axe light and the cyan sword shadow collided and annihilated each other!
The energy shockwave suddenly spread out in a ring, completely lifting, shattering, and turning the ice layer within a radius of millions of kilometers into dust!
Click!

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

The cyan sword shadow could no longer hold on and was instantly annihilated by the torrent of golden axe blades.

The Azure Edge Lord's divine body was torn apart like a thin sheet of paper by endless axe blades, and was eventually completely annihilated.

"This... is this fifth-tier power?"

Ye Xingkong stood holding his axe, looking around.

Although he had just finished a major battle, thanks to the constant replenishment from the Thousand Vine Star-Eating Grass, his divine body suffered no damage whatsoever.

"It's time to leave."

"The battle just now... seems to have attracted quite a few cosmic lords from the surrounding area!"

Ye Xingkong scanned the area with his Void Eye and discovered that at least six Universe Lords were moving in his direction.

Although he prided himself on having reached the fifth rank, he wouldn't be foolish enough to get surrounded.

The surrounding environment, ravaged by the great battle, is gradually recovering under the influence of the Northern Nether Palace, and it is estimated that it will be completely restored to its original state in a while. (End of Chapter)