All Chapters of The Devourer of Gods: Chapter 51
- Chapter 60
123 chapters
Epilogue (The Infinite Plate)
Chapter 51: The grass beneath Austin’s boots was emerald green, smelling of fresh morning dew and crisp, unwritten mountain air. NEW CORE CONSTRUCTION: SUCCESSFUL. REALITY FILE INITIALIZED: 'THE INFINITE PLATE' (SECTOR 1 - THE MORNING VALE). CURRENT REGISTRY POPULATION: 1 (ADMINISTRATOR STATUS). Austin stood on the peak of a towering cliff overlooking a sprawling, majestic valley filled with silver rivers, floating jade islands, and distant, ancient stone cities he had hand-carved using the refined code arrays of the Prime Weavers. The black Master of the Pen halo had completely dissolved into his skin, his absolute, universe-shattering Creator-Devourer energy perfectly sealed beneath his chest, compressing his aura until he registered to the local atmosphere as a completely baseline, level-one human novice. "It’s beautiful, Austin," Vespera whispered, stepping up to the edge of the cliff beside him. Her
The Recruit's Trial
Chapter 52: Young Master Lin’s palm struck Austin’s shoulder with the full force of a Foundation-tier martial strike, expecting the sharp crack of breaking bone and the satisfying thud of a beggar tumbling into the dirt.Instead, the blue qi shattered on impact like glass slammed against an anvil.Lin gasped, his knuckles vibrating with a sudden, numbing agony that rushed up his arm and locked his elbow in place. Austin hadn't used defensive qi; he had simply allowed the raw, absolute density of a fourteen-multiverse core to absorb the kinetic energy. To Lin's qi-sensors, it felt like punching the bedrock of a dying star."Is that the gate-stone test?" Austin asked quietly, taking a single, casual step forward.The movement forced Lin backward three paces, his embroidered boots dragging through the dust as he clutched his trembling right wrist. The dozen surrounding initiates went dead quiet, their eyes wide with disbelief as they looked from the unboth
The Weight of a Pebble
Chapter 53: The grand timber doors of the Iron Leaf Sect inner hall slammed open with a deafening bang. Three figures clad in sweeping obsidian-and-gold robes shot out like streak-lighting, landing atop the marble stairwell with their Foundation Peak and Core Formation auras flaring to maximum capacity.Elder Zhao, a withered man with an iron-gray beard and eyes like sharp daggers, swept his gaze over the scene. His jaw tightened as he spotted Young Master Lin—the son of the primary financial patron of the sect—writhing in the mud near the shattered granite registration stone."Insolent cur!" Elder Zhao’s voice boomed, imbued with core-infused sonic qi that rattled the roof tiles of the surrounding pavilions. "You dare assault a line-disciple and desecrate our sacred testing stone on the day of the spring intake? Guards, activate the Four-Fold Boundless Net Array! Pin him down!"The two gate-guards hesitated for only a fraction of a second before thrusting t
The Elder's Examination
Chapter 54: The grand courtyard of the Iron Leaf Sect went deathly quiet as the temperature plunged from scorching to sub-zero in a heartbeat.Grand Elder Huyan’s face paled as he tried to channel another burst of Core-Formation qi to protect himself. But the moment he flexed his meridians, he felt an irresistible, terrifying gravity originating from the grey-robed wanderer standing five paces away. His spiritual sea didn't just leak—it was violently drawn outward through his pores like water pulled into a massive siphon."M-My cultivate... my spiritual root!" Huyan shrieked, his arrogant posture collapsing as he fell to his hands and knees. His crimson robes flapped wildly in an invisible gale as his gold-tier qi flooded straight across the stone floor and dissolved harmlessly into the hem of Austin’s gray cloak.BZZZZT.ACTIVATE PRIVILEGE: MERIDIAN DRAIN.SKILL UNLOCKED: CULTIVATION SIPHON.Austin didn't even look down at the groaning elder.
The First Intruders
Chapter 55: Grand Elder Huyan’s crimson ceremonial robes violently billowed as the remaining reserves of his Core Formation spiritual sea were forcefully dragged outward through his palms.He didn't scream; his mouth simply fell wide open in absolute, catatonic horror as an invisible, irresistible vacuum line locked onto his meridians. The majestic, roaring fire-qi he had spent three hundred years cultivating was compressed into a thin, harmless thread of red light, sucked directly down into the sleeve of Austin’s gray maintenance jumpsuit with a quiet, devastating hiss.CRACK!Huyan collapsed to his knees on the cracked courtyard tiles, his body instantly aging a century as his hair turned chalk-white and his skin dried into brittle parchment. He stared up at the "beggar novice" with a trembling, shattered mind, completely unable to comprehend how his entire lifetime of power had just been drained like a drop of spilled water.Around the gantry, the tw
The Fleet in the Clouds
Chapter 56: Fleet Admiral Vexor’s hands trembled violently against the adamantine railing of his command bridge, his digital ocular implants flickering through millions of error codes per second."Target’s density... infinite!" a technician screamed from the lower deck, his hands flying across a burning console as alarms blared in deafening sync. "He absorbed twelve thousand gigatons of annihilation qi without a single rise in core temperature! Admiral, the hull’s structural integrity is dropping just from being near him!"Vexor didn't order a tactical retreat. He slammed his jagged resonance scepter into the steel floorboards, his faceplate contorting with hysterical, multi-versal pride. "Maximum power to the dreadnought engines! Ram him! Grind him into the void with the weight of the armada!"The remaining eleven executioner-blade dreadnoughts fired their primary plasma thrusters, their colossal iron hulls lurching forward through the clouds at supersonic
The Weight of an Empire
Chapter 57: Fleet Admiral Vexor did not have time to swing his resonance scepter a second time. Before the automated reload cycle on the remaining eleven void-dreadnoughts could complete, Austin took a single, effortless step forward through the thin stratosphere.ACTIVATE SYSTEM PRIVILEGE: OVERLORD RE-ROUTING.SKILL UNLOCKED: THE ARMADA DISH.He raised his bare left hand, and the Primordial Creator-Devourer aura behind his back expanded into a colossal, ten-thousand-armed phantom that completely blanketed the sun, casting a shadow of absolute non-existence over the entire Sector 5 fleet."Defensive barriers to maximum!" Vexor screamed into his tactical comms, his voice cracking with the raw panic of an officer who had just witnessed the laws of warfare get treated like a menu. "Activate the Void-Shatter shielding! Do not let his gravity pull touch the main hull engines!"The eleven iron-plated dreadnoughts violently sputtered, their engines flaring
Pulling the Plug
Chapter 58: The massive, towering holographic visage of the Sector 5 Overlord still flickered across the platinum-rimmed clouds of the Morning Vale, its roaring, mountain-crushing voice vibrating the upper layers of the atmosphere with the haughty arrogance of an apex entity who believed he controlled the calendar of reality.[COUNTDOWN LOCKED: 23:59:58...][PREPARATION PROTOCOL ACTIVE FOR ANOMALY EXTRACTION.][ESTIMATED ARRIVAL WINDOW: 24 HOURS UNTIL TERRITORIAL STRIPPING.]The Overlord expected compliance, or at least the frantic scrambling of a cornered animal. In the multi-dimensional hierarchy of the outer cosmos, when a higher sovereign announced a twenty-four-hour window of execution, lesser beings typically used that span to collapse their borders, pray to whatever residual laws remained in their core, or prepare a pathetic last stand. Time was the ultimate luxury, a buffer of space and velocity that allowed a conqueror to savor the anticipation of
The Drop
Chapter 59: The golden-armored form of the Sector 5 Overlord dominated the entire sky, blotting out the midday sun of the Morning Vale as it descended like a falling asteroid. Millions of tons of divine plating, hyper-condensed stellar alloy, and screaming sovereign authority compressed the local atmosphere until the surrounding hills of the Iron Leaf Sect groaned and turned to fine white powder."Initiate emergency stabilization!" The Overlord bellowed, his voice cracking with frantic desperation as he slammed his massive, star-forged gauntlets forward to arrest his descent. His divine eyes widened behind his golden visor, reflecting the small, unmoving figure of the gray-robed janitor waiting directly beneath his impact zone. "You cannot compress a sector sovereign! I am the law of my domain!"The air beneath the falling titan grew so dense that it warped into a visible, shimmering lens of absolute friction. Forests miles away snapped their trunks, and the sil
The Lowest Sweep
Chapter 60: The stone-paved lanes of the Morning Vale’s outer novice village bustled with the sharp, chaotic sounds of youthful ambition. Dozens of fresh initiates, hailing from distant farming hamlets and small, local trading posts that Austin had hand-carved into the fabric of the valley only days prior, crowded around the sprawling registration pavilion of the Verdant Spring Academy. Long, silk banners of jade-green and woven gold fluttered lazily from the high wooden eaves, while resident supervisors sat behind thick oak desks, barking administrative orders to sort the new arrivals into labor, menial service, or outer-disciple cultivation paths.Austin walked down the main cobblestone lane with the slow, unbroken cadence of a man who had entirely forgotten how to rush. His faded gray canvas maintenance jumpsuit was immaculately clean, brushed free of any trailing mountain dust, and utterly devoid of spiritual or magical fluctuation. The level-one rusted iron