Time flew by, and another month passed. The continents under Yu Rumeng's command had been completely devoured.
Without lingering, Yang Kai set his sights directly on Red Flame's territory. Red Flame and Ancestral Anomaly were still trapped in the Void Rift—with such a massive piece of fat meat sitting right in front of him, how could Yang Kai remain indifferent?
In any case, according to his plan, the entire Demon Domain was to be devoured.
And after consuming Yu Rumeng's territory, Gun Gun underwent yet another transformation. Its body expanded to a size of ten thousand li—a truly colossal entity. Once released, it could completely devour a continent in just over a day.
Inside the Small Profound Realm, earth-shaking changes were also underway. Its territory was continuously expanding, and the laws of heaven and earth as well as the energy suffusing the world were growing increasingly dense. While the power of those laws hadn't yet reached the point where Dao Source Realm cultivators could be born within the Small Profound Realm, it was getting close.
Yang Kai estimated that devouring Red Flame's territory would be enough to meet that threshold.
Days passed one by one, with Gun Gun maintaining a pace of roughly one continent devoured every day or so. Though there were still a few Half-Saints stationed on various continents within Red Flame's territory, the forces at Yang Kai's side were now incredibly powerful—Half-Saints could not so much as stir a ripple. Every time they arrived at a continent, Yang Kai would first seal the World Gate, completely severing that continent's connection to the outside world, and then release Gun Gun.
If any Half-Saint came to obstruct them, Yu Rumeng, Beilimo, or Changtian would handle them, often subduing them in a single exchange before tossing them into the Small Profound Realm for imprisonment.
Red Flame had more than a dozen Half-Saints under his command. Excluding those lost under Emperor Mingyue previously and those sent to the Star Boundary, there were still six remaining in the Demon Domain. Every single one of these six Half-Saints had been stationed on their own continent—and every single one was swept clean by Yang Kai.
Trapped in the Void Rift, not only had they lost their territories, but so many of their Half-Saints had fallen as well. Who knew what expression Red Flame would wear upon learning of this, should he ever manage to escape.
Yang Kai understood clearly that the more havoc he wreaked on this side, the less pressure the Star Boundary would face. Naturally, he held nothing back.
However, he also knew that his operations here probably wouldn't last much longer. Half a year had passed since the plan to devour the Demon Domain began. Even if those Demon Saints were recuperating from their injuries, they should have realized what was happening by now. In the Demon Domain, aside from Yu Rumeng, Beilimo, and the two he had trapped, there were still eight more. Such a massive force—if not all of them gathered, but even just most of them mobilized—would be enough to force Yang Kai to call it quits.
But Yang Kai hadn't expected to grow fat in a single bite. Devouring the Demon Domain was a vast and long-term undertaking. Everything so far was merely an appetizer.
Another month later, Red Flame's territory had been devoured completely clean, with not a single continent left behind.
Yang Kai pressed on without pause. Accompanied by Changtian, he traveled directly to Ancestral Anomaly's territory, where he proceeded to wreak havoc once again.
But just as he had expected, his frenzied activities—one continent after another vanishing without a trace—finally drew a response from the Demon Saints of the Demon Domain. Half a month ago, Changtian had sensed the aura of a Demon Saint from a distance, though he could not determine exactly who it was, as the other party had no intention of approaching, merely observing from afar.
Unfortunately, by the time Yang Kai had fully sealed that continent's World Gate, the Demon Saint had already disappeared, robbing Yang Kai of any chance to use the same trick on them.
On this day, another continent had been devoured. Yang Kai and Changtian stood atop Gun Gun's back—compared to Gun Gun's immense and overwhelming form, the two of them were like grains of sand in a vast ocean, utterly insignificant.
Just as they were about to set off for the next continent, Yang Kai's expression suddenly shifted. He recalled Gun Gun and said with a frown, "Senior, please wait a moment."
Changtian halted and turned to look at him, only to see Yang Kai toss the Mysterious World Bead over. Changtian caught it, but Yang Kai had already flickered and vanished.
Changtian was momentarily stunned, but quickly realized that Yang Kai had entered the Small Profound Realm. He wondered what could have happened to make him rush inside so urgently, but figured it must have something to do with matters within.
Holding the Mysterious World Bead, Changtian examined it with evident interest, continuously rubbing and turning it in his hands. Though he knew that Gun Gun was transformed from this object and was aware of the Bead's miraculous properties, this was his first time handling it directly, so naturally he could not resist a bit of exploration.
However, despite his profound cultivation, he did not practice the Laws of Space—how could he hope to fathom the mysteries of the Mysterious World Bead?
Meanwhile, inside the Small Profound Realm, Yang Kai materialized directly in the Medicine Garden and asked the Dharma Body, "What happened?"
It was the Dharma Body's summons that had brought him here.
Since the devouring of Cloud Shadow Continent, the Dharma Body had been stationed in the Medicine Garden. The two Wood Spirits were perched on its shoulders at this moment, and upon seeing Yang Kai, Mu Lu urgently said, "Master, something terrible is happening—this world is about to be assimilated!"
Mu Zhu nodded vigorously beside her, her face etched with anxiety.
In truth, before she even spoke, Yang Kai had already sensed it the moment he asked.
The Small Profound Realm could, strictly speaking, be divided into three regions.
The first region was the Small Profound Realm's own original territory. This went without saying.
The second region was the territory expanded after he had devoured three Cultivation Stars in the Lower Realm Star Domain. It was in that Great Desolation Star Domain where Yang Kai had a flash of inspiration, using the Devouring Heaven Battle Art to activate the Mysterious World Bead, which resulted in the birth of Gun Gun.
The third region was the territory formed from devouring the various continents of the Demon Domain.
All along, Yang Kai had strictly separated these three regions from one another, keeping them entirely disconnected.
In terms of the density of heaven-and-earth laws and energy alone, the first region was unquestionably the strongest—the very region where the Medicine Garden was located. The laws of heaven and earth here were nearly equivalent to those of the Star Boundary.