Chu Tian saw the monstrous catfish mouth, now mere inches away.
He quickly communicated with Ya Ya in his mind.
"Ya Ya, control the Tree of Life! Don't let it release any more life force!" Chu Tian said urgently.
"But... Brother..." Ya Ya's voice was also filled with anxiety.
She only got halfway through before Chu Tian interrupted.
"Ya Ya, be good... Hurry, or it'll be too late..."
Chu Tian could already smell the foul stench emanating from the opponent's catfish mouth.
The Five-Colored Supreme Bone would only automatically trigger to protect its master when he was in extreme danger.
The life energy Ya Ya continuously replenished for him had maintained his life balance.
The Five-Colored Supreme Bone, like a lazy worker, remained inactive.
"Alright..." Ya Ya replied.
As expected, in the next second, the Tree of Life behaved as if a valve had been closed.
At that very instant, a tremendous devouring force
was about to rip Chu Tian's remaining life essence from his body.
It was known that once his life essence was completely expelled, Chu Tian would be reduced to dust, becoming a handful of earth.
*Boom...*
Chu Tian gritted his teeth, enduring the pain.
His entire body was drenched in sweat.
Just as his last trace of life essence was about to depart,
he suddenly felt his body jolt.
Following that, a circle of five-colored light erupted from his body!
It instantly blocked the devouring force from entering.
Simultaneously... a piece of information was transmitted into Chu Tian's mind.
"Hoo... finally out!"
Chu Tian let out a long sigh, his gaze shifting.
With the emergence of the five-colored light, the energy that could devour anything was rendered useless against this thin layer of light.
"Hmm? Come here and get sucked in..."
The Devouring Dragon also noticed the anomaly, its foul catfish mouth opening wider.
The powerful suction force even caused the little golden dragon, which was unaffected by it in the sky, to sway.
This little fellow quickly wagged its tail and fled further away.
However, its pair of intelligent eyes revealed a cunning look.
Its lips curled up, as if it were smiling.
The devouring force was now useless against Chu Tian.
"Hmph..." No matter how hard the Devouring Dragon tried,
it realized that the man emitting the five-colored light could indeed counteract its innate divine ability.
A snort came from the giant catfish mouth.
With a shake of its body, a man in black appeared before Chu Tian.
"Indeed a rare treasure. Since it can negate my innate divine ability, I shall shatter it and study its bones..."
The man in black, transformed from the Sun Clan's dragon, swung a fist towards Chu Tian as he spoke.
"Yue Yue..."
Seeing the opponent's movement, Chu Tian's lips twitched slightly.
With a reach of his hand, the Moon God's Wrath appeared in his grasp.
"Tai Yi Qing Mu Guang..."
*Buzz...*
Holding the Moon God's Wrath, he casually swung it.
A streak of azure light, following Chu Tian's arm, appeared as a pattern on the Moon God's Wrath.
It instantly extended to the tip of the spear.
"Open..."
Holding the Moon God's Wrath, he flicked it upwards.
*Bang...*
The fist shadow the Devouring Dragon had hurled exploded.
"Huh?" The Devouring Dragon uttered a question.
It knew that its current cultivation was incredibly high, while Chu Tian, the Bodhisattva, possessed no cultivation power whatsoever.
In its eyes, he was just an ordinary person, as easily crushed as an ant.
Yet, this ant in its eyes had casually dispersed its attack.
"I'm not playing with you... Die!"
Chu Tian's expression became animated upon witnessing this.
He twirled the Moon God's Wrath in his hand.
"Tai Bai Rui Jin Guang... Pfft..." Chu Tian spat out a mouthful of blood.
Golden light permeated, and a pattern, side-by-side with the azure light, extended on the Moon God's Wrath.
"Tai Hua Ruo Shui Guang... Pfft..."
"Tai Xu Li Huo Guang... Pfft..."
"Tai Yue Hou Tu Guang... Pfft..."
At this moment, the Moon God's Wrath had turned five-colored.
With each appearance of a new light, Chu Tian would spew a mouthful of blood.
After he uttered all five phrases, corresponding to azure, yellow, crimson, black, and white respectively,
they matched the colors of the Five-Colored Supreme Bone within Chu Tian's body.
But all this was not over.
Under the astonished gaze of the Devouring Dragon, Chu Tian wiped the blood from his lips.
He grinned, his teeth stained crimson.
The sight was somewhat eerie!
"Five-Colored Divine Light Manifest... All within the Five Elements are mine to command, absorb..."
Chu Tian flicked the spear tip, and the Moon God's Wrath drew a circle in the void.
*Pfft pfft pfft...*
He spat out three more mouthfuls of blood.
And at this precise moment,
the circle he drew instantly transformed into a vortex.
In the blink of an eye, the vortex became immensely large, almost covering the entire island.
The five-colored brilliance on the Moon God's Wrath surged into the vortex.
A frantic suction force directly enveloped the stunned Devouring Dragon.
"Ah...? Ahhh..." The creature seemed rooted in place.
First, it cried out in shock, then it was pulled, moving towards the five-colored vortex.
As the Devouring Dragon struggled, streaks of dark golden aura rose from its body.
Like thick smoke, they were sucked into the vortex.
After a moment, it could no longer maintain its human form.
It reverted back to that disgusting, giant catfish.
"No... Impossible... Innate divine ability... Devour... Give it back... Suck it back!"
This dragon opened its massive catfish mouth.
A vortex formed within its maw as well.
The moment it opened its giant maw, it did indeed offset a sliver of the five-colored vortex's suction force.
But it was like a drop in the ocean.
Because of its immense size, the dark golden aura rising from its entire body was even more voluminous.
"No... Don't... Please spare me!"
The Devouring Dragon had lost all its backbone now.
Its arrogant demeanor was completely gone.
"Spare you? What's in it for me?" Chu Tian's gaze remained unwavering.
He asked this question casually.
"If you spare me, I am willing to become your subordinate. If I merge with the Dragon of Fortune... I will be the true Ancestral Dragon...
You will possess its fortune and my devouring ability combined, and you can wield my innate divine ability at will!"
The Devouring Dragon was truly terrified.
It could clearly feel that if it were sucked into this five-colored vortex,
it would likely not even have a chance to reincarnate.
"Tsk... What use is your innate divine ability to me? I have this Five-Colored Divine Light, and that's enough!"
Chu Tian sneered, spitting out blood.
"It's different, it's different..." the Devouring Dragon quickly replied.
"I can sense that you cannot use this Five-Colored Divine Light freely, and its devouring capacity will dissipate into the world.
However, with my innate divine ability, you can absorb others' cultivation and improve yourself..."
"Shut up... I would never use such an evil ability, I..." Chu Tian interrupted, having heard enough from yesterday.
But as he was about to speak, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind, also interrupting him.
"Whether a cultivation technique's ability is evil depends on the user's true heart. A dragon like you truly cannot be killed!
You are still an important link in your future confrontation with (him)... also a fortunate encounter for you.
Otherwise, why do you think the Dragon of Fortune brought you here?"
This voice originated from Dao Tian.
It stunned Chu Tian.
To be honest, he really didn't want the Devouring Dragon's ability.
Mainly because Chu Tian had a bit of a洁癖 (cleanliness obsession).
The thought of absorbing messy, miscellaneous things into his body made him uncomfortable.