Han Shuo's consciousness and all of his energy were transferred into the demon infant. His physical body, sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemed to have aged decades in just a few seconds. It became limp and lost its colour.
Injecting the demon general energy into the demon infant was similar to increasing the strength of his demonic body with the energy. However, since the demon infant and the demon general were similar life forms, the demon infant could utilise and release the energy of the demon general much better than the demonic body.
The Myriad Demon Transformation that Han Shuo used was a very risky Demonic Technique. Before reaching the Skybreaking Realm, the demon infant would be injured if it was forced to absorb the energy of the demon general. And even if you reached the Skybreak Realm but did not have a stable realm state, there was a chance that you might not be able to purge the demon generals from the Demon Infant, which would result in severe damage to the Demon Infant.
Furthermore, when the technique was used, his consciousness, vitality, and every last bit of energy would be separated from his physical body, leaving him completely vulnerable.
Had Han Shuo not been trapped under the more than one hundred layers of barriers and with a terrifying dark vortex falling upon him, Han Shuo would not have used this powerful but risky demonic technique.
"ROAR!!!...." Han Shuo's deafening roar pulsed through the entire City of Gorging Clouds. Many of the below-average gods living in the Broadhurst Residence were instantly killed. Even those living near the Residence suffered ruptured eardrums, internal bleeding, or soul damage.
Yarus, Wallace and the others just outside the barriers were the first to be hit. However, as most of them were of Highgod strength, Han Shuo's destructive roar did not harm them. However, it did shake their souls to the core.
"What the hell was that?" yelled Hofs after his face was jolted. His attention was taken away.
Ralph, Wallace, Darkwater, Darkstone and the others were also taken by surprise. They felt the terrifying aura of the immaterial demon hovering beneath the barriers.
Of the group, only Yarus had remained calm. He remarked, "Whatever it is, we need not care. Just concentrate on channeling your energy into the black hole and this thing will be destroyed.
Yarus' calm seemed to be contagious. After hearing his words, the group panicked out of their futile discussion and continued to inject their dark energy into the vortex of darkness.
As the group injected their dark divine energy into the black hole, the accretion disk around the black hole grew more massive and spun faster and faster. The black hole also began to slowly descend.
After a long and destructive roar, the massive, floating Han Shuo, somewhere between material and immaterial, landed on the floor behind where his physical body sat. He made a rumbling sound that shook the entire Broadhurst Residence.
Yarus thought that the massive Han Shuo was just a hallucination created by Han Shuo and would pose no threat. However, when he felt the tremor, he realised that the colossal Han Shuo was very real, and he became a little worried.
After landing on the ground, Han Shuo crouched slightly before leaping violently into the sky with his fist raised.
An aura of pure berserk power erupted. The punch was so powerful that Yarus and the party felt frightened despite being separated by more than a hundred boundaries from Han Shuo.
<i >Booom!…
Of the one hundred and twenty boundaries and seals jointly deployed by Yarus, Darkwater, Darkstone, and the others, more than several dozens were destroyed by that punch containing power that could topple the mountains.
More than one-third of the boundaries trapping Han Shuo was undone in just one punch. Han Shuo, who had landed on the ground again, smiled nastily before he threw another punch.
<i >Boom!...
More barriers were destroyed!
"This is bad! Inject all the energy you can. I must bring down the black hole immediately!" said Yarus, his face shaking. He knew that if Han Shuo was given the chance to throw another punch, all the remaining barriers trapping him would crumble. If Han Shuo did not remain trapped in the area, the Black Hole might not land on him precisely to inflict maximum damage.
Darkwater, Darkstone, Wallace and the others were shocked. Upon hearing Yarus' scream, they immediately went into overdrive, sending all the dark energy they could towards the black hole. Suddenly, the slowly descending black hole crashed down on Han Shuo as if the sky was collapsing.
Han Shuo was now more than several tens of metres tall and massive, but the black hole that Yarus and the others were powering together was even more massive. Its size was larger than the inside of the boundaries and there was no way for Han Shuo to avoid it.
The one hundred and twenty layers of boundaries were made with the dark divine energy of Yarus, Darkwater, Darkstone, and the others - the same type of energy that formed the black hole. Therefore, when the black hole made contact with the boundaries, not only did they not hinder the black hole, but the darkness energy on the boundaries flowed into the black hole, increasing its power and making it even more destructive.
Before Han Shuo could throw his third punch, the gigantic black hole crashed down on him and enveloped Han Shuo, who was in his demonic infant form. The spinning vortex containing the dark divine energy of Yarus and the others immediately began to crush Han Shuo.
The massive amount of dark energy swarmed into Han Shuo's immaterial demon infant, filling every demon general in his colossal body. In an instant, Han Shuo's massive body was shredded into a million pieces and became part of the accretion disc of the black hole.
Under the tremendous force, even space-time collapsed. Strange iridescent rays began to shoot around the region. You could even see the cold infinity of stars.
The black hole used by Yarus could not only damage physical objects, but also disembodied things like souls. Han Shuo's consciousness and the demonic infant had been shredded into pieces before being torn into even smaller pieces.
The black hole disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. An instant after the immaterial Han Shuo was shattered and his consciousness pulverised, the black hole emitted a flash and disappeared into the iridescent space-time rift.
All barriers vanished and the colourful radiances faded. There was nothing left in the area.
All that remained was Han Shuo's physical body sitting motionlessly on the ground. Without the demonic infant, consciousness, and energy, the lifeless body was pale and wrinkled.
All of the energy from the black hole had been used to pulverise Han Shuo's immaterial demonic infant, leaving his physical body unharmed.
Yarus heaved a sigh of relief. With a relaxed smile, he said, "That was close. This guy is really formidable. If he had broken through the barriers, our black hole attack would have been ineffective. And if he managed to escape, he would cause us no end of trouble."
"Brother, what about his body? It is still intact," Larikson asked as he pointed to Han Shuo's physical body.
"It has no energy and no soul. It is as good as destroyed," Yarus replied before shaking his head regretfully and lamenting, "What a shame. If this mighty youth were to serve me, our Darkness Dominion would take a great leap forward in strength. Sigh... "
"I will destroy his body for good," Wallace said after wiping the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeves. Then he began to cautiously approach Han Shuo's physical body. It seemed that of all the people in the group, Wallace wanted Han Shuo dead the most. He wouldn't even leave his corpse unharmed.
"Don't worry, this guy is completely destroyed. The black hole shreds everything, both material and immaterial objects. His divine soul has been shattered into a million pieces," Yarus said after laughing at Wallace. He found Wallace's precautions against a soulless corpse rather absurd.
Forcing an embarrassed smile, Wallace replied, "It's always better to be cautious when dealing with that boy."
With the group watching, Wallace walked step by step towards Han Shuo's body. When he was less than a hundred metres away and considering whether to launch a ranged attack, a wild, cold wind blew out of nowhere.
All of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of grey, ghostly strands rapidly regathered. The demon general energy that had scattered everywhere gushed back to where it was in an instant. The immaterial Han Shuo that had vanished without a trace reappeared in just a moment.
"Surprise!!!!!, motherfucker!" the incorporeal Han Shuo laughed out loud. His massive hand that was as fast as lightning shot out and grabbed the startled Wallace. <i >Squish! Han Shuo clenched his hand, crushing every bone and organ in Wallace's body and squeezed his blood out.
Against Yarus' black hole attack, even Salas and Wasir who possessed overgod divine souls would stand no chance and they would be shredded into pieces. Han Shuo's miraculous consciousness, however, can be split into hundreds of thousands of strands. Even if it was shredded into a million pieces, it can still reassemble and come out unharmed.
Not just Han Shuo's consciousness, but even the thousands of demon generals were unharmed. The instant that he was enveloped by the black hole, Han Shuo split his consciousness into thousands of strands and mixed them in the souls of the demon generals before immediately scattering them, thus escaping the black hole's attack.
The Myriad Demon Transformation was basically formed by hundreds upon thousands of strands of the consciousness and a great number of demon generals. Therefore, using the black hole to shred his soul was like hitting water. It was completely ineffective and a wasted effort.