Back when Yun Wuji was still in the Primal Chaos, he destroyed the Southern Divine Region's King Realms and took their Inheritance Artifacts. He had the idea of devouring the artifacts' power to advance his cultivation, but at that time, his understanding of the Law of Nothingness was far from sufficient. By the time his comprehension reached the necessary level, the power contained within the artifact had already become insignificant to him.
It quickly became irrelevant, much like most female characters in harem novels.
With the level of comprehension he had reached now, he could strip anyone of their cultivation and take it for himself. But the number of cultivators in the Abyss was far too small compared to the Abyssal Beasts, so Yun Wuji never saw the need to do so. The only people who could push him to act in that way were the True Gods.
Especially the High Priests and Mo Su, whose cultivation was clearly far beyond that of the Divine Regents.
"Let go of me! Don't touch me!" Shenwu Yanye reacted more violently than a jade beauty being groped by a scummy young master. A deep black sword etched with red inscriptions appeared in her hand, and she thrust it straight toward his eyes. "How dare you touch me! Disgusting monkey!"
She might not be a jade beauty now, but she had once been, and she had never allowed anyone to touch even the corner of her clothes. The man she would have been willing to let do far more than just touch her had no interest in her.
"What's with the reaction? You should be thanking heaven and your ancestors that I, Yun Wuji, deigned to even grab you by the neck. Do you know how lucky you are? Billions of women would kill just for me to glance at them." Yun Wuji tilted his head back, effortlessly dodging her futile attack, and spoke with disdain at her overblown reaction. "Tsk, you sure are arrogant for an old hag."
"You!!!" Shenwu Yanye felt as if her heart had been stabbed by his every jab at once. It was true that this bastard was slightly better looking than other monkeys, but he was still a freaking man. How dare he speak to her like that?!
Swoosh! Swoosh!
Rumble! Rumble!
She struggled violently, recklessly unleashing her profound energy and slashing at him, aiming for his vital points. The space around them shuddered like a bubble on the verge of bursting. If even one of her attacks landed outside, it would obliterate the entire Kingdom.
'Who the fuck is this man? How… how could someone be this powerful?!!!' The more she struggled, the greater the shock in her heart grew. Everyone knew that the Divine Regents were far weaker than the High Priests, but even so, Shenwu Yanye felt that if she fought a High Priest, she would at least be able to cause some damage, not be suppressed so completely and utterly like a child.
From start to finish, this bastard had been toying with her so casually. It was as if she were some random mortal and he a High God, taking his time to play with her.
The most unbelievable thing was that this man was unknown. Everyone and their mothers knew that in the current universe, no one could reach the True God Realm through cultivation. The High Priests and the Abyssal Monarch were True Gods who had survived since the Era of Gods. Seeing someone with the power of a True God other than them standing before her was utterly unbelievable.
Yun Wuji felt he had entertained her enough. Seeing that she had no other options, and not wanting to risk wasting more time or letting her detonate her profound veins or burn her Divine Blood, he began extracting her Divine Power.
A greyish-silver light, slightly different from the color of the space around them, shone from Yun Wuji's hand and spread into Shenwu Yanye's body, starting from her neck. To her immediate horror, she felt her power completely suppressed and forced back into her profound veins.
"Stop! What are you doing?!!!! Stop!" Her horror deepened as she felt her power being slowly stripped away, as if some unknown force were cruelly tearing it from her.
"Shut up! Your voice is annoying!" Yun Wuji snorted coldly, and with a thought, he completely silenced her. The Divine Power of the Kingdoms of God was similar to the Indestructible Inheritance of the King Realms back in the Primal Chaos, but at a far higher level. It was said that the Abyssal Monarch, unwilling to see the Gods go extinct, had chosen a few who had performed great meteoric deeds for the Abyss and sealed their power inside six vessels before their deaths.
It was his way of preserving the existence of the True Gods in this world, as if he weren't the reason why no one could reach the True God Realm.
Slowly, an immensely powerful energy began seeping out of her body, gathering into Yun Wuji's palm and flowing into his own. The power was far denser and purer than anything he had ever seen. Suppressing his rising joy, he continued stripping her power away and stored it within the world inside his profound veins to refine it later.
"!!!" Shenwu Yanye continued to struggle helplessly, thrashing her hands and legs but achieving nothing. Even at her peak, she had been nothing more than a powerless child before Yun Wuji, and now that her strength was sealed and being stripped from her, her struggle looked like a complete joke.
Staring at this hateful man's cold and handsome face, Shenwu Yanye felt absolute terror for the first time in so many years. Her heart, wrapped and twisted beyond repair, turned cold, and her mummified body began to shiver uncontrollably.
The process of taking the Divine Power of a True God lasted more than four hours. When Yun Wuji finally released her neck, Shenwu Yanye collapsed to her knees, floating in the gray space. She stared at him with blank eyes. "It is gone! All gone! Give… give it back to me!" Reaching out with her withered hands, she grabbed his legs and screamed hoarsely.
"Why? Why are you doing this to me?! Why do men always try to hurt me?!!" She roared, her pupils turning blood red.
"What the fuck do you mean by men hurting you? Bitch, please! You've hurt more men than the grains of rice you've eaten your entire life!" Yun Wuji kicked her away, staring at her with pure disdain. "Just because some wimpy cunt broke your heart, you destroyed countless families, tortured countless men, and enslaved even more."
Yun Wuji stepped on her head and said with disdain, "Instead of wailing like a dying old hag, you should be thanking me for taking your Divine Power. At least without it, you can live a few more hundred years."
"Hahaha! Though I'm not sure you'll enjoy them."
Although he had stripped away her Divine Power, he did not take her original cultivation. She still retained the cultivation of the 8th level Divine Extinction Realm.
The requirements to inherit Divine Power were having at least 80% Divine Essence, a compatible bloodline, and cultivation at least at the Divine Extinction Realm.
Usually, people who inherited Divine Power did not live long. It was said that the longest-living Divine Regent had only reached 50,000 years. Since Shenwu Yanye had forcefully inherited the Divine Power with only 70% Divine Essence, the backlash was even greater. Her remaining lifespan was now only around 300 years.
"..." Shenwu Yanye's eyes glared at him, the coldness and hatred within them sharp enough to drill holes through the strongest metal.
Yun Wuji ignored her. She was far too weak for him to care about her feelings. Dispelling his domain, the two returned to the Divine Temple. Shenwu Youluan was there, waiting for him, along with a large group of women. They were all dressed in black, their eyes fixed on the woman beneath his feet.
All of them shared the same expression. Their bodies were rigid, their eyes so wide it seemed as if they might pop out, and their mouths hung open as if they had forgotten how to close them.
Each of these women had suffered from Shenwu Yanye's abuse at some point in their lives and continued to suffer even now. Seeing this terrifying, willful, crazy woman who had terrorized an entire Kingdom so powerless beneath the feet of a man, the gender she had once disdained and hated, was more unbelievable than seeing a man get pregnant.
"Yun Wuji!" Shenwu Youluan was the first to recover from her shock. She cautiously walked up to him, as if afraid Shenwu Yanye might suddenly lunge at her, and asked, "Are you alright? Do you have any injuries?"
"I am completely fine," Yun Wuji said with an easy, carefree smile while shaking his head. "It wasn't that hard to subdue her. She was surprisingly weak. I was looking forward to a real fight."
"..." Shenwu Yanye.
Removing his feet from her head, he walked over and touched Shenwu Youluan's shoulder. "Did you find your daughter?" he asked.
"Yes, she is safe now," Shenwu Youluan answered him, her eyes inevitably drawn to the powerless Shenwu Yanye. It was an unbelievable scene, so unbelievable that even seeing it with her own eyes, she struggled to believe it. Tearing her gaze away, she took a step back and knelt on the ground. "Thank you for helping me! Thank you for saving us!"
The other women present snapped back to reality. Following Shenwu Youluan's example, they knelt on the ground. "Supreme One, thank you for saving us! We will forever be grateful for your grace!"