The Era of Gods-Chapter 723 - 723 Encounter with Nightmare’s Will Again, The Ascension of the Nightmare Monarch

Chapter 723: Chapter 723: Encounter with Nightmare’s Will Again, The Ascension of the Nightmare Monarch Chapter 723 -723: Encounter with Nightmare’s Will Again, The Ascension of the Nightmare Monarch “`

“Food!”

Decades after its last meal devouring a small Crystal Wall System, Lin Xiao once again heard the familiar feasting sound of the World Devourer.

His consciousness followed the sound and saw a massive shadowy presence, faint and indistinct, in the depths of the Chaos Sea of Void, in the direction the World Devourer was headed.

Based on their experience devouring many small worlds along the way, this Crystal Wall System seemed quite large and should provide a hearty meal.

Especially since some larger Crystal Wall Systems might develop their own origins, devouring them would be extremely satisfying.

Lin Xiao felt a tinge of anticipation.

The distance seemed short, but in the Chaos Sea of Void, distance was the most unreliable thing.

It took them about twelve years to reach the vicinity of that world.

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This was a Crystal Wall Universe floating in the Chaos Sea of Void, its surface covered with countless cracks and a pale red hue.

Only upon approaching did Lin Xiao realize that although this Crystal Wall Universe looked small, it emitted an extremely high energy intensity, indicating it was one of those smaller but higher-level Crystal Wall Universes.

However, that was not the main point.

The main point was that after Lin Xiao approached this Crystal Wall Universe, he felt a very strong presence of an Other Races’ Divine Realm civilization.

It was a Crystal Wall Universe either already occupied by or currently being assaulted by the Nightmare World.

No sooner had they approached than energy on the surface of the World Crystal Wall concentrated and quickly solidified into an immense warped face that gazed at them.

An aura stronger than his own and no less formidable than the World Devourer’s assaulted them; the Chaos Energy within tens of millions of kilometers was pushed aside by this aura, revealing a clear expanse of Void tens of millions of kilometers wide.

“The Great Dominator takes personal interest, this Crystal Wall Universe is out of the ordinary!”

While Lin Xiao was thinking about communicating with the World Devourer, the creature seemed to completely ignore the warning from the Nightmare Sovereign and charged forward.

Its body, larger even than the Primordials, carried an infinite Tide of Chaos towards the world.

The immense face of the Nightmare Sovereign let out an angry roar, only to be shattered by the impact of the World Devourer, which slammed violently against the World Crystal Wall.

The sound of a ‘crack’ could be heard clearly even from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away as a piece of the World Crystal Wall was violently bitten off.

The next second, a soul-piercing scream emanated from the depths of the world, the scream filled with extreme fury and agony, as well as a strong sense of unwilling resentment.

Through the gap in the world, Lin Xiao saw the core of the entire Crystal Wall, where a figure merging with the World Origin was slowly detaching from some profound state.

Infinite World Origin Force, now out of control, leaked out, causing the entire world to shake violently in chaos.

Lin Xiao’s mouth hung open slightly, his mind shaken.

If he wasn’t mistaken, this was a top-tier Nightmare Monarch attempting to merge with the origin of this powerful Crystal Wall System, aspiring to ascend to the status of Great Dominator.

But, coincidentally, the World Devourer took a bite out of the world just in time, causing the entire world to tremble and thus thwarting the monarch’s ascension.

Lin Xiao didn’t know whether to cry or laugh as he inadvertently interrupted the ascension of a Nightmare Monarch.

For the Human Main World, this was good news; one less formidable enemy.

But for him, it was not so fortunate.

In any world, severing another’s path was an undeclared but certain enmity, and this Nightmare Monarch was clearly not a loner.

Most likely, he was related to some Great Nightmare Sovereign.

Lin Xiao wasn’t sure if the World Devourer felt it, but he had a premonition of great disaster fast approaching.

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Of course, this was not to say that this Nightmare Monarch would have definitely succeeded in the ascension.

Even if a Crystal Wall System could support a great divine power, success was by no means guaranteed.

In the vast Chaos Sea of Void, there were countless worlds, and while powerful Crystal Wall Universes were not common, there were enough to make a considerable number.

If success was certain, great divine powers would have been overflowing by now.

Indeed, even the civilizations of various Divine Realms did not have many such exalted beings, clearly indicating that the success rate wasn’t one hundred percent.

Achieving great divine power was a level completely different from True God.

In many worlds, such beings were known as the Supreme Deity, the King of All Gods, or the God Above Gods.

Such existents were beginning to transcend, like ancient cultivators in China’s legends who needed to overcome various heavenly tribulations, man-made disasters, and inner demons to ascend to immortality.

Ascending to great divine power also entailed facing these predestined tribulations.

Clearly, they could be considered the human calamity of this Nightmare Monarch, coincidentally disrupting his critical moment of ascension.

This disruption would have significant repercussions.

The Nightmare Monarch would be unable to attempt ascension for a long time, as his True Body already bore the Branding of this Crystal Wall Universe’s origin.

He could no longer use this method to ascend to the status of Great Dominator and was effectively cut off from one path of ascension, having to seek another way.

In turn, they would have to face the wrath of this Nightmare Monarch and the impending Nightmare Sovereign.

As Lin Xiao was considering whether to flee, the World Devourer seemed to have tasted something delicious and took another bite.

The enraged Nightmare Monarch then marshaled the world’s power, and the thin surge of energy, like a tsunami, came pouring in, desperately blocking the World Devourer.

But the next second, the World Devourer opened its abyss-like maw and devoured a vast chunk of the infinite energy tide.

The remnants that reached Lin Xiao had weakened to mere waves by the time they brushed past him.

He did not devour them; a random bite in the Chaotic Void Sea would have been far more substantial.

With the power of an entire world’s origin force and a strength far surpassing that of ordinary super divine powers, this Nightmare Sovereign managed to exchange a few blows with the World Devourer whose might was comparable to that of the great divine powers.

But the difference in strength was still too vast.

As the World Devourer ‘crunch, crunch, crunch’ devoured the tenuous origin forces, the world’s energy was rapidly depleted.

Its power plummeted drastically, and only then did the Nightmare Sovereign seem to realize the gravity of the situation, swiftly consolidating strength to fend off the World Devourer’s engulfing force.

It couldn’t escape, just like back in that strange world where merging with the World Crystal Wall consciousness would confine it to that world, unable to leave—this Nightmare Sovereign was in the same plight.

After extreme wrath came boundless fear.

Emitting an angry roar, the Nightmare Sovereign struggled, but no matter how it thrashed, it couldn’t change the destiny of the world being gradually devoured.

The many bizarre and twisted creatures it had conquered in this world couldn’t help at all; they were either devoured in a single breath by the World Devourer or torn into mush in the chaotic turbulence.

Lin Xiao observed from afar, emotionally unswayed, and occasionally glanced around.

After all, this soon-to-be Great Dominator was a significant figure in the Nightmare World.

He couldn’t believe that the Nightmare’s Will would let it die just like that.

Perhaps it was because this place was too far from the Nightmare World.

The sliver of consciousness that the Nightmare World had left here had already been crushed by the World Devourer.

It would take time for its main body to respond, after all, who knew how far it was from the Nightmare Main World.

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Just as the thought crossed his mind, an immensely vast will suddenly descended, alighting directly upon the Nightmare Sovereign.

Then all the energy of the fractured world, including all life within it, was seized by an indescribable force, shattered and transformed into infinite energy, which coalesced into a towering Chaos Giant standing amidst the Chaos Sea of Void.

Two great beings clashed, and a world capable of conveying such transcendence was reduced to nothingness.

The Chaos Giant, be it the Nightmare Sovereign or the Nightmare’s Will, temporarily possessed the strength to contend with the World Devourer.

Even from tens of thousands of kilometers away, Lin Xiao could sense the terrifying power that could effortlessly crush him.

At that moment, the Chaos Giant opened its eyes, and the Chaotic Void, for billions of kilometers, suddenly brightened.

Then…

Its gaze bypassed the World Devourer and stared directly at Lin Xiao, who was tens of thousands of kilometers away.

An angry will resonated out of thin air within his mind:

“Blasphemer, you’re courting death!”

Lin Xiao instantly understood what the Nightmare’s Will meant by the angry term ‘blasphemer’, and his eyes bulged in shock:

“Fuck, you still remember that?”

That guy was referring to the incident when he had devoured a trace of the Nightmare’s Will in a certain strange world and apparently also from the Totem Crystal Wall Universe.

It had been long forgotten by him, yet the Nightmare’s Will still remembered, and its reaction was considerably intense.

“Could this have greatly impacted It?”

But no one could give him an answer.

For after withstanding a hit from the World Devourer without retaliating, the Chaos Giant headed straight for him.

Lin Xiao broke into cold sweat, turned tail, and ran.

With his current state, how could he possibly outrun the Chaos Giant?

In just two strides, it had crossed tens of thousands of kilometers of void to catch up.

A massive Great Chaos Hand capable of blotting out the sky reached for his black hole incarnation.

Its profound gravitational pull was utterly futile against it, and before the Great Chaos Hand could even touch him, an invisible force field had already destabilized his substantial black hole.

Luckily, a World Devourer was nearby.

Although it couldn’t fathom why this formidable adversary would make such an odd move, it seized upon the lapse to bite down into the Chaos Giant’s thigh, rapidly dissolving and splitting off the clamped section with its unique power.

The Chaos Giant, now missing a leg, did not hesitate before swinging its claw down fiercely.

Lin Xiao’s black hole incarnation collapsed instantly, the gravity field, which once twisted even time and space, dissipated, exposing the depth of his incarnation.

This was not the body he had coalesced in that destroyed strange world, but an ordinary human form identical to Lin Xiao’s true body.

Previously, this incarnation had grasped the essence of black holes; the black hole was him.

Now, the essential nature of this incarnation was a black hole, human form was merely the most familiar one from his memory.

If he wished, he could transform into any life form that he had ever devoured.

Looking up at the sky-obscuring Great Chaos Hand, the indescribable force solidified the void, leaving him unable to move at all.

Lin Xiao smiled wryly within his heart, ready to obliterate himself.

As a Supreme Dominator level being, once caught by It, It could definitely trace the connection between the incarnation and the true body directly back to his true body.

If prepared, It could forcibly extract his true body from Gaia Main World without any issue.

To avoid such a scenario, he could only resort to suicide, obliterating his own soul.