Eternal Thief

"W-what in the demon's name is that?!" A demon admiral instated as a patrol fleet commander yelled in horror as he looked at the humongous four-headed body of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation gushing out from the jet-black clouds. 

Not only he but everyone caught in this heavenly punishment was gobsmacked with sheer horror as they felt the terrifying pressure emitting from that thing. 

However, at this moment, the demons notice something even more unbelievable: a tiny silhouette seems to be moving toward the humongous four-headed Heaven's Terminate Manifestation. 

The next moment, something magical happened: a dark blade started to form over the tiny silhouette and quickly reached a five-hundred-meter size. The aura emitting from that dark blade was even more mysterious than Heaven's Terminate Manifestation, and they could sense it all the way down there, just like the heavenly punishment! 

Like a lightning bolt, the dark blade slashed toward the humongous four heads of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation under everyone's disbelieving expression.

The four-headed Heaven's Terminate Manifestation had eight arms, and all of them were holding different weapons, releasing powerful intents. Seeing the incoming humongous blade to behead them, mighty thunder explodes, and a myriad of thunder attacks torrent upon the blade!

'Boommm…' 

A decisive clash between the heavenly thunder and darkness sword intent happened, and the blade made with just 11.2% darkness cut through the heavenly thunder before flashing through the four heads of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation!

This scene was straight out majestic as every demon present watched it with flabbergasted expression, and soon it changed into reverence and awe. 

Someone shouted with mirth, "It's Demon God! The Demon God is protecting our demon race!" 

No one knows who was the one who shouted this. Still, everyone started to quickly believe because Heaven's Terminate Manifestation was even suppressing the Law Awareness Realm cultivators, so whoever did this had to be a powerful being. 

Ace watched the rolling heads of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation, but he wasn't done because he knew cutting off heads of the Heaven's Terminate Manifestation would only slow it down. 

With a thought, the gigantic blade moved with lightning speed and started to dice the remaining body of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation, starting with its arms. 

The darkness was too powerful for this level of Heaven's Terminate Manifestation to handle, and Ace took full advantage of it as he didn't give it any chance to attack. 

As for the scattering heavenly thunder, it was all drawn towards him with the black hole made with the intent of Gluttony! 

His sword cores quickly absorbed the heavenly thunder while his comprehension of Despair, lightning, and heavenly thunder was skyrocketing at terrifying speed. 

But with all this, Ace didn't stop approaching the heavenly punishment clouds, and he was now only over a mile away from reaching the center where four-color thunder was being gathered. 

'Rumble…' 

The punishment clouds buzzed with booming sounds, but it was no longer as majestic after Heaven's Terminate Manifestation was butchered. 

Another head started to emerge, but it was very faint, and this time, Ace did something even more ridiculous. Page-09 appeared in his hand, and he directly shot it toward the eye of the vortex. 

Although he can absorb more with the intent of gluttony, he wants to unravel the mysteries of page-09 as well. Now that his sword cores have been filled, he lets page-09 absorb the rest.

Furthermore, he knew page-09 wouldn't let any heavenly thunder escape, so his route would be cleared. 

But something completely unexpected happened when page-09 touched Heaven's Terminate Manifestation, which had still not emerged entirely. 

It began to absorb it, and not just the heavenly thunder but the jet-black clouds started to enter page-09 as well! 

Ace was shocked as he didn't expect page-09 would be able to absorb not just heavenly thunder but heavenly punishment clouds as well. 

Furthermore, its speed was even faster than usual, and by the time Ace reached the heavenly punishment clouds, only ten percent of them remained. 

'Just what is this page!' Ace's eyes shimmered as he looked at the page absorbing the clouds, and at this moment, he saw something behind the last reaming heavenly punishment clouds, and his eyes widened. 

There was a rift behind the heavenly punishment clouds, and heavenly thunder was pouring out from it like a waterfall, and as if it senses his gaze, the rift instant closed! 

Ace squinted his eyes with astonishment, 'What is behind that rift?' This thought surfaced, but there was no answer, and page-09 was done absorbing the reaming heavenly punishment clouds. 

At least now, he knew about the origin of heavenly punishment, but it was still filled with mystery, and it only made him want to explore it more. 

'No worries, I'm still no done…' Ace's eyes shimmered coldly as he grabbed page-09 with Qi, and before he could look at the changes, the system voice rang. 

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[Congratulation, Host, for successfully crossing the sixth form of Heavenly Punishment!]

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[Martial and Soul breakthrough process has been started!] 

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Just as the system's voice trailed off, the surrounding air, containing the heavenly thunder aura, suddenly vibrated, and a massive amount of heavenly Qi poured into his martial and soul space. 

The breakthrough was starting, and Ace had no time to look at page-09. 

His dark soul suddenly jumped out of his martial space and appeared above his head, making the surrounding space churn heavily. 

The sky blackened as its size grew larger and larger before it was a hundred meters in height, and its ethereal dark body became more sublime and corporeal. 

An aura of different despair, lightning blooms from the dark soul, and dark lightning begins to swirl around it, which is the sign of the soul resonating with laws that Ace comprehended. His body explodes with boundless power, and martial space expands. 

This was the realm of law awareness where the soul would start to resonate with the cultivator's inner law. 

With this, Ace could comprehend and sense the laws around him even more efficiently and effectively. 

Thereby, the aura even more terrifying than heavenly punishment bloomed in the sky as he was hovering there like a deity looking down on mortals, and myriad demons watched this scene with awe. 

The dark soul hovered above Ace like a phantom before it started to fade, returning to his martial space. A dark blue chain shot from the dark void and pierced into the dark soul's hooded head and started to shimmer in a dark blue hue, and tiny dark blue symbols began to emerge over the dark figure, making Ace tremble with palpitations. 

An even more profound aura surrounds Ace. 

As for his soul space, pitch black soul core started to change color as it became more explicit, and whiteness bloomed within the darkness, illumining the entire soul space and white milky soul Qi released from the white soul core. 

At this moment, the white soul Qi was absorbed by the Eternal Thief Fate Compass, and the treasure aura became more ethereal as his new white soul core released a deeper soul Qi. 

Thereby, Ace's thief sense also started to grow and break into a hundred-mile radius and stopped at 150!

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[Congratulation, Host, on successfully entwining the Dark Soul with natural law!]

[Host has reached Stage-1 of Heavenly Dark Law Awareness Realm!]

[Reward: 50,000,000 Thief Point]

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[Congratulation, Host, on successfully creating the White Wind Soul Core]

[Host has reached Stage-1 of Heavenly White Wind Soul Core!]

[Reward: 50,000,000 Thief Point]

[Innate Soul Ability: Thief Shelter has been awakened.]

-Thief Shelter (Heavenly Soul Ability): The user can take shatter in the fabric of space as long as the soul Qi is being supplied! 

-Limitation: The user has to remain static, and no other ability can be used during thief shatter! Any movement or use of Qi, skill, or treasure will result in instant exposure. Cultivators with high attainment in space law will be able to sense you!

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[Nature's Ice Elemental Orb absorption has been completed!]

[Special Reward: Ice Qi [Martial & Soul]]

-Host can switch between Worldly Element(s):

1. Light [Soul & Martial] 

2. Earth [Soul & Martial]

3. Lightning [Soul & Martial]

4. Yang (Fire) [Soul & Martial]

5. Platinum (Metal) [Soul & Martial]

6. Ice (Water) [Soul & Martial

[Warning: Worldly Elements' and 'Heavenly Elements' cannot be used together]] 

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[Thief Point(s): 1,961,959,400]

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[Host status has been updated!]

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At this moment, Ace entered a whole new realm of power!

However, it was far from over as his eyes opened and dark lightning flashed past them. His lips rose as he commanded, "System, use the Qi stones and soul crystals to fill the EXP and SP, and then start the abortion of Wind Core!"