Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

Star Ancient God fled outward.

However, no matter which direction he ran, he seemed to be moving within the range of the Nameless Mist.

Meanwhile, the giant fish was getting closer and closer to him!

Star Ancient God quickly calmed down. He knew he was now trapped in the chaotic influence of the Corrupted Breath and couldn’t identify the way out. The only solution now was to forcibly defeat the calamity demon within the Nameless Mist to earn a chance of survival.

He also understood that the calamity demon was the core of the Nameless Mist.

Based on previous experience, calamity demons had low intelligence and fought in straightforward ways. Whether he could defeat it was one thing, but escaping shouldn’t be a problem.

When the giant fish approached that moment.

Star Ancient God transformed into hundreds of Divine Kingdoms, and then these Divine Kingdoms fled in all directions.

According to past experience, calamity demons basically couldn’t distinguish which one was real, allowing him to escape smoothly.

Sure enough, he saw the massive calamity demon chasing after one of the Divine Kingdom illusions, completely failing to lock onto his position. Although that illusion wasn’t at a large angle from his direction, both heading east, once the distance increased, he could quickly shake off the calamity demon.

Little Cai had amusement in her eyes. Watching Star Ancient God’s scheming little act made her heart bloom with joy. Did he really think she was like those stupid calamities?

Her Nine Nether energy (Nameless Mist) could easily distinguish between illusions and the true body. She was deliberately chasing an illusion to close the distance with Star Ancient God.

When the moment came that she had significantly shortened the distance to Star Ancient God, she suddenly swung her tail and charged toward him.

This sudden turn startled Star Ancient God.

“What’s going on?”

Star Ancient God no longer hesitated and launched wave after wave of stellar attacks.

Little Cai curled her lips: “So you also use stellar rules, but compared to Master, you’re far inferior!”

Little Cai opened her huge mouth, and a powerful suction force erupted. Her giant mouth was like a bottomless pit, directly swallowing all of Star Ancient God’s attacks into her belly.

The formidable devouring power even enveloped the entire Divine Kingdom!

Star Ancient God snorted coldly and fully activated his Divine Kingdom’s power. When he mobilized the entire Divine Kingdom, its defensive capability rose to the Hunyuan Taiji Great Luo Golden Immortal level!

This was one of the Divine Kingdom’s ultimate characteristics—within their home territory, deities could exhibit power one level higher!

This was also why Star Ancient God brought his Divine Kingdom even when fleeing. The Divine Kingdom was a deity’s strongest weapon and war fortress!

The Divine Kingdom remained firmly fixed in place, not being sucked into Little Cai’s body by the devouring force.

This gave Star Ancient God some relief. The Divine Kingdom’s strength was undeniable, though the divine power consumed every moment was extremely massive.

Since his stored divine power was running low, he still needed to seize the time to escape.

Little Cai showed a flicker of surprise in her eyes, astonished by the Divine Kingdom’s defensive capability. But since she couldn’t absorb it, going over herself worked just as well!

So Star Ancient God watched in shock as the giant fish swam directly over and swallowed the Divine Kingdom—as large as a major world—whole into her belly!

This was a Divine Kingdom!

And she just swallowed it in one bite?

Star Ancient God hesitated for a moment, then allowed himself to be swallowed into the giant fish’s belly along with his Divine Kingdom. Once he lost his Divine Kingdom, his power would greatly diminish, making it even harder to escape this Nameless Mist!

He believed that with his control, the Divine Kingdom could break free from the fish’s belly. At worst… it could exit from another opening, as long as it wasn’t digested.

However, he had no idea that Little Cai’s true form was the Heaven-Devouring Fish, which devoured worlds and heavenly principles. Transformed by the Nine Nether Realm, this bloodline had achieved even higher-level enhancement, possessing heaven-defying digestive effects on food like worlds.

After the Divine Kingdom fell into Little Cai’s belly, strands of decomposition power permeated throughout the Divine Kingdom.

The chains of laws composing the Divine Kingdom were continuously dissolving under the effect of these decomposition forces. The spatial components of the Divine Kingdom were also being segmented, detached, and dismembered piece by piece!

“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Star Ancient God panicked in terror. He felt that after entering this belly region, the Divine Kingdom had come to a place that completely countered it. Everything here caused astonishing damage to the Divine Kingdom.

The originally stable Divine Kingdom, even with his strenuous support, only lasted three months before completely collapsing, digested into countless nutrients to supply Little Cai.

Star Ancient God fell into despair. After the Divine Kingdom disintegrated, he struggled for some time longer!

But once inside Little Cai’s stomach, causing trouble became extremely difficult.

This was a prison of space and time, isolating all external rules and laws. Here, only Little Cai’s rules could operate, like a manifestation of the Great Dao’s will, holding power of life and death over everything inside.

Thus, Star Ancient God perished. Under the endless decomposition forces, he was digested into countless energies and returned to Little Cai’s body.

Little Cai couldn’t help but let out a satisfied burp. This meal was very satisfying, and her power had increased significantly!

This was partly due to the nutrients supplied by the Divine Kingdom, and partly due to rewards from the Nine Nether Realm. She had killed a Rule Ancient God-level existence, which for the entire God Realm Sea represented the implementation of a calamity. The destruction process of the God Realm Sea had advanced significantly—this was tangible merit!

Little Cai’s realm consequently rose to the late-stage Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal!

This was an extremely terrifying progression.

With a few more rounds of snowballing, she might even break through to the Hunyuan Taiji Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!

Little Cai excitedly wagged her fish tail and swept toward another large plane.

After Little Cai disappeared.

Su Yuan also appeared at the location where Star Ancient God had fallen.

“He’s dead just like that?”

Su Yuan sighed with emotion.

Using his Fate Great Dao supernatural art, he had caused Star Ancient God’s demise. Little Cai passing by here wasn’t his instruction, and Star Ancient God choosing to find a Nameless Mist for cover was his own decision.

It seemed like everything was coincidence, but it was actually influenced by his Fate Compass that the other party fell into the trap.

Star Ancient God clearly sensed the fluctuations of fate law but still fell for it. This was truly outsmarting oneself!

If the other party had continued toward his original destination, dealing with Star Ancient God would have required considerable effort. But now, Little Cai had become a true great calamity, making it relatively easy to handle Rule Ancient Gods of the same realm.

Su Yuan waved his hand, and a Mental Avatar appeared on the spot.

This was Star Ancient God’s Mental Avatar, but it only inherited part of Star Ancient God’s power from before his death. It hadn’t even maintained Golden Immortal realm, as its cultivation had been completely devoured by Little Cai.

“Incredible, my Little Cai!” Su Yuan felt he could just lie back and relax.

He took a step and arrived outside a Spatial-Temporal Rift. This was originally Star Ancient God’s intended destination, and he was very curious about what the Spacetime Creatures inside were like.