Chapter 559: Heaven and Earth as a Furnace

Chapter 559: Chapter 559: Heaven and Earth as a Furnace

With his right palm facing up, he channeled the dense Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi accumulated by the Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture. It erupted from his palm in a torrential flood, as if the Celestial River itself had burst its banks.

"Furnace of Heaven and Earth, refine!"

Xu Yunfan’s Divine Thought transformed into the grand voice of a Dharma Aspect, echoing throughout heaven and earth.

The erupting Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi instantly filled the entire space within the Ninefold Celestial Palace Five Elements Yin Yang Thunder Domain Array.

This Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi was not merely the soft, multicolored clouds it appeared to be on the surface, but a terrifying torrent of cloud-seals containing the mighty power of "Refining Heaven and Creation."

Every wisp of Cloud Qi formed its own aspect, encompassed the phenomena of the Eight Sceneries, and carried a domineering refining technique capable of remaking all of creation.

The Blood Demon watched, his expression one of utter shock. He truly had not expected that after Xu Yunfan connected with the Grand Array, his aura of power would faintly approach the Great Daoist Master Format of Foundation Establishment Perfection.

’Have I been a bit too reckless?’

The thought couldn’t help but flash through the Blood Demon’s mind.

He had assumed that with only a single lifetime of accumulation, even at Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment, Xu Yunfan would be easy to crush. How could he possibly contend with his own formidable Blood Sea Dao Foundation, built over five lifetimes?

But now, the situation had clearly spiraled far beyond his expectations.

The sky was obscured by the colossal diagram of the Five Elements Yin and Yang Thunder Realm array.

The earth, with its activated Five Elements Earth Veins and ancient Earth Evil power, formed the thick bottom of the furnace.

All around, the vast Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi drawn in by the Grand Array became the furnace’s fire and bellows.

And the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi now filling every inch of space within the array was the most terrifying quintessence of ten thousand fires, the ultimate alchemical catalyst.

Xu Yunfan was going to use an Artifact Refining technique to refine this Old Demon to death!

At this very moment, the summit of Divine Sky Peak had transformed into a colossal furnace of heaven and earth, constructed from the combined Array Power and the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi.

And the Blood Demon, along with his filthy Sea of Blood, was the great pill forcibly trapped inside this furnace, waiting to be refined.

The Blood Demon’s savage grin froze, replaced by a scream of utter, horrified despair.

"Impossible! What is this array?! You whelp! How dare you!"

His boundless Filthy Sea, the product of five lifetimes and powerful enough to corrode the very foundation of a Spiritual Treasure, now plunged into this Furnace of Heaven and Earth. The reaction was like hot oil being poured into molten lead.

SSSSSZZZZZTT!!

A sound of dissolution and purification, a million times harsher and more intense than before, erupted in that instant.

Great Sun Glaze World Purifying Fire Thunder, Nine Nether Cold Ice Demon Suppressing Yin Thunder, Primordial Wu Earth Sealing Absolute Divine Thunder, Taibai Golden Splitting Law-breaking Gang Thunder, Green Wood Life and Death Rejuvenation Divine Thunder, Gui Water Abyssal Demonic Destruction Thunder, Taixu Yin Yang Annihilation Divine Thunder, and the Majestic Heavenly Gang Divine Sky Evil Breaking Righteous Thunder!

Using the Purple Heaven Venerable Thunder Dharma Aspect—manifested from his Purple Heaven All-Heaven Ten Thousand Transformations Thunder Mansion Dao Foundation via the Grand Array—as the nexus, and his boundless Divine Thought as a guide, Xu Yunfan unleashed all the profound mysteries of the heavenly Divine Thunders contained within the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture.

This was no longer the singular Divine Sky Purple Thunder from before. Instead, ten thousand thunderbolts, each with its own divine might, struck at once. They worked in perfect concert with the refining power of the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi and the circulating Five Elements Yin and Yang power of the Grand Array.

Countless Divine Thunders, each with a different attribute and unparalleled power, descended like billions of Divine Weapons from the Thunder Department. At the command of a divine sovereign, they swung their halberds and viciously hacked into the boiling, churning, boundless Filthy Sea.

A thought stirred in Xu Yunfan’s mind. With a single wave of his hand, he brought out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which he hadn’t used in a long time, and placed it within the array to be tempered.

"Sect Leader, pay attention!"

Inside the banner, Zhang Ziyang dared not be careless. He understood that this tempering by thunder was a great opportunity. It might even allow him to truly transform into a Star Official of the Thunder Department. If that happened, his chosen Incense Fire God Path would finally have a glimmer of hope.

Zhang Ziyang immediately commanded the many malevolent souls and fierce spirits within the banner to plunge into a Thunder Pool that Xu Yunfan had specially cordoned off within the Grand Array, there to undergo a baptism of thunder.

The banner souls remaining in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner were the elite of the elite, the survivors of Xu Yunfan’s brutal culling process. When baptized by the majestic and righteous power of life and death from the overwhelming thunder, not many actually perished. As long as they could survive this baptism, their Evil Qi would be completely cleansed.

At that point, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner could truly be called the Ten Thousand Spirits Banner.

Seeing Zhang Ziyang strolling leisurely amidst the thunder, even actively drawing in thunderbolts of various attributes to be baptized, Xu Yunfan was relieved.

This Sect Leader’s talent was immense; if he were to perish here, Xu Yunfan would truly feel the loss.

After all, now that he was in the banner, he was one of Xu Yunfan’s own.

Focusing his attention again, he raised both arms.

Imperial Mystic Vault: Hell-Suppressing Earth-Fiend Thunder Skill!

In an instant, he mobilized the ancient Earth Evil power from beneath the Grand Array. It transformed into bolts of deep, dark Prison-Suppressing Divine Thunder wrapped in heavy chains. Like sky-propping pillars, they slammed down onto the core of the Sea of Blood, forcibly pinning its filthy Origin and stopping its chaotic churning.

Taiyi Qingyuan Demonic Purification Thunder Skill!

An utterly clear and pure cyan lightning descended like a sweet rain, yet it carried the purest destructive power. Wherever it passed, the filthy bloody light was purified into wisps of green smoke, and the wailing remnants of resentful souls were absolved and dissipated.

All Heaven Star Pivot Golden Gang Sword Qi!

This was the only Sword Technique in the Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture. A Thunder Attribute Sword Dao, it was truly extraordinary.

Countless bolts of Purple Gold Sword Qi Thunderbolt, shaped like Divine Swords, shot forth from the fingertips of the Dharma Aspect behind him. They contained a sharpness that could pierce stars and a domineering power that could tear the universe asunder. Forming an inescapable Sword Net Thunder Prison, they sliced, pierced, and shattered the Filthy Sea into isolated clumps of blood, greatly weakening its overall power.

The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, like molten crystal boiling in a furnace, enveloped every separate clump of the Sea of Blood’s essence that had been carved out by the Divine Thunder.

The fundamental nature of the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi was Artifact Refining. It excelled at turning heaven and earth into a furnace and executing refining techniques.

It was brutally extracting the pure residual Life Origin from the Blood Demon’s Sea of Blood, and even the Law fragments of Muddy Fiend imprinted on his five-lifetime Dao Foundation.

"AHHH!! Bastard! You bastard!!"

Witnessing Xu Yunfan employ such a horrifying technique, the Blood Demon let out a heart-wrenching scream. Within this furnace of heaven and earth, his body could no longer maintain its complete Daoist form. He had devolved into a mass of filthy Origin bloodlight, struggling frantically amidst the thunder and Cloud Qi as it continuously shrank, growing ever more pure and viscous.

He could clearly feel it: his pride and joy, the Filthy Sea of Sinking and Muddy Evil Dao Foundation he had spent five lifetimes accumulating, was being brutally disintegrated by the terrifying Grand Array and the Cloud Qi.

It was being forcibly decomposed by countless Divine Thunders.

His intimately connected Dao Foundation was collapsing. Deep underground, at some unknown distance and location, the connection to a filthy Dao Fruit of Muddy Fiend was being severed.

Countless resentful souls from his Sea of Blood were being mercilessly ground to dust by the thunder-fire. The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, as if performing Alchemy, extracted their purest Origin, forcibly stripping it away from his own Demon Soul and Origin Blood Core.

This was worse than death by a thousand cuts; this was the slow, living dismemberment of his Dao Foundation.

It was a million times more agonizing than any physical torture.

Xu Yunfan’s expression remained calm and indifferent, his eyes profound.

"Fellow Daoist Xue, I’m afraid I must borrow your Daoist Cultivation to help me ascend. In the future, if I achieve the Golden Core realm, I will be sure to pull you from the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation and lead you back to the Immortal Dao. Who knows, perhaps you might even reach a higher level one day."