Chapter 560: Refining the Sea of Blood into a Pill

Chapter 560: Chapter 560: Refining the Sea of Blood into a Pill

"No! Even in death, I will not allow a junior like you to defile my Dao Foundation! Filthy Sea True Origin, detonate! DETONATE! DETONATE!! I will take you down with me!!"

Extreme fear, overwhelming resentment, and the maddening despair of five wasted lifetimes completely devoured the last of the Blood Demon’s sanity.

Compressed to its absolute limit, the mass of filthy blood-light that was the Blood Demon’s very origin began to glow with an increasingly eerie and evil light. It suddenly flared with a heart-stopping dark crimson radiance, one that seemed to signal the end of all things and threatened to drag this land down into ruin.

An indescribable wave of destruction brewed and compressed frantically within.

Dao Foundation self-destruction.

Xu Yunfan’s pupils contracted slightly.

The Blood Demon was going to self-destruct.

He intended to detonate his Filthy Sea of Sinking and Muddy Evil Dao Foundation, the culmination of five lifetimes of cultivation, a power so profound it was breathtaking. Once it exploded, the defiling might and resentful aura from his Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation would utterly erupt, sufficient to pollute the land for thousands of miles around and turn it into a dead zone.

Even with the blockade of the vast Thunder Domain Array that Xu Yunfan had set up, he would likely drag all the disciples of Divine Sky Peak, and as many of the secretly watching lurkers as possible, down with him to the grave.

In that instant, all the Divine Senses secretly spying on the scene erupted with violent fluctuations!

From the direction of Cold Marrow Peak, a Divine Thought as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice abruptly intensified. Its Divine Sense fluctuated violently, and an Anomaly manifested in the world, as if an iceberg was about to shatter.

The Black Heart Monster of Soul Refining Peak let out a sharp, startled shriek with his Divine Thought.

"He’s insane! That Old Demon has gone completely mad!!"

For the first time, Daoist Master Bai Hua, Liuu Yunhua, felt her Divine Sense spiral out of her control, leaving only shock and helpless confusion.

’How could he dare to do such a thing?’

’Isn’t he afraid of attracting a True Monarch’s attention and being condemned to eternal damnation?’

The vast will of the Sect Leader, Celestial Derivation Daoist Master, suddenly focused. He rose to his feet from his prayer mat and took a step forward, as if to cross the void and intervene.

But in the next moment, as if having thought of something, he abruptly halted his movement.

A hint of a smile appeared on his face.

"Well, so be it."

On another peak, Li Wei’s expression changed drastically upon seeing this. The next second, an ecstatic light burst from his eyes. A thrill born from a love of chaos made his cheeks flush red.

"How many years has it been since the Primordial Sect was this lively? Excellent, excellent! The more chaotic, the better!"

On Divine Sky Peak, Bi Yuan and the other disciples were ashen-faced and cold all over, as if they were already standing at the edge of Purgatory.

Yet, on the face of the Thunder Venerable—part of the Purple Heaven Venerable Thunder Dharma Aspect that Xu Yunfan had conjured—there was no sign of panic. In fact, its eyes, forged from thousands of calamitous bolts of lightning, erupted with an even more blazing radiance.

"You self-destructive fool!"

Beneath the Ninefold Celestial Palace Five Elements Yin Yang Thunder Realm and the Eight Sceneries Refining Celestial Creation Cloud Qi, you don’t even have the right to die.

The Dharma Aspect’s majestic voice boomed like thunder from the ninth heaven, drowning out the Blood Demon’s crazed howls.

The hundred-zhang-tall Thunder Venerable giant thrust forward the Celestial Punishment Thunder Halberd held in its left hand. Using the halberd’s tip as a brush and the void as a Talisman, it drew upon the vast power of the entire Grand Array.

At the same time, its right hand made a grasping motion in the air toward the filthy origin that was about to explode, and the array built upon his Dao Foundation roared to life.

"Nine Heavens Lock Demon Mixed Element Thunder Talisman Array! Lock Heaven, Lock Earth, and Lock the Demon Source!"

HUMMM!

BOOM!!!

From within the Thunder Venerable Dharma Aspect, nine incredibly thick Divine Sky Thunder Chains, shimmering with an immortal violet-gold light, burst forth like awakening Ancient Giant Dragons.

No longer coiling around the core of the Thunder Pill, they instantly pierced through the clouds, connecting heaven and earth.

Of the nine Thunder Chains, eight plunged violently into the eight cardinal nodes of the Ninefold Celestial Palace Five Elements Yin Yang Thunder Domain Array, completely anchoring and stabilizing the entire Grand Array.

The centermost, thickest chain, like a world-cleaving spear imbued with the purest True Intent of Destruction and suppression, ignored the distance of space and directly pierced the core of the Blood Demon’s frantically compressing filthy origin.

"URGH!!"

The Blood Demon’s final, crazed roar was pinned in his throat.

The instant the core Thunder Chain pierced through, the power he was burning from his filthy origin, his intent to detonate his Dao Foundation, and the Blood Sea Dao Foundation he had condensed over five lifetimes were all forcibly shattered and disintegrated by a supreme, tyrannical will of thunderous Destruction.

Like a red-hot brand plunged into a vat of boiling oil, all the rampaging energy was instantly snuffed out.

"Heaven and Earth as the furnace, the Eight Sceneries as the fire, ten thousand thunders as the catalyst, Divine Sky forges the Pill! Refine!"

This final spell, the word "Refine," seemed to drain the endless Essence from heaven and earth.

The body of the Purple Heaven Venerable Thunder Dharma Aspect suddenly grew somewhat illusory, but the Earth Vein of Divine Sky Peak’s main summit wailed as it output a massive amount of Spiritual Mechanism. In the sky, the Five Elements Yin and Yang array diagram spun madly, devouring the Primordial Qi from all directions.

The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi that filled the sky burned to its absolute limit, transforming into a translucent, liquid Divine Fire that flowed with countless, intricate Celestial Refining Cloud Seals.

The myriad Divine Thunders no longer struck sporadically. Instead, they transformed into billions of hammers made of pure Divine Sky lightning, imbued with Xu Yunfan’s will and the power of the entire Grand Array. From all directions, they began to madly forge and temper the filthy origin pinned by the Nine Heavens Lock Demon Thunder Chains.

Every strike of thunderous forging was accompanied by a mournful whimper from the Sea of Blood’s origin. This was the sound of the Blood Demon’s entire Blood Sea Dao Foundation, along with his Magical Power’s Origin, being forcibly purified.

And with every searing of the cloud-flame, a large swathe of blackish-red, filthy impurities—carrying venomous curses and a will of sinking despair—was forcibly evaporated and refined away.

Under the immense force and the purifying calcination of the Eight Sceneries Divine Fire, the core mass of filthy blood-light was like stubborn iron thrown into the Eight Trigrams Brazier of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad; its volume shrank rapidly.

Its color rapidly faded from a grotesque, viscous blood-red to a deep, reserved, dark crimson hue—a color that seemed capable of containing all filth, yet faintly emanated an immortal aura.

The Blood Demon’s consciousness had long been utterly annihilated by the refining. All that remained was the essence of his Dao Foundation, which had been forcibly shattered, refined, and purified. Now, under the power of the Grand Array, the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi, the myriad Divine Sky thunders, and the instinctual pull of the Filthy Sea of Sinking and Muddy Evil Dao Foundation fragments themselves, this essence slowly began to coalesce.

Time seemed to stretch on endlessly in this moment.

One breath, a hundred breaths... half an Hour.

Atop Divine Sky Peak, the endless roar of thunderbolts and the howl of the cloud-flames gradually weakened.

The grand array diagram that had enveloped the land for miles around slowly faded. The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi that had filled the space receded like a tide, flowing back into the illusory body of the Thunder Venerable Dharma Aspect.

The light of the hundred-zhang-tall Thunder Venerable Dharma Aspect had also dimmed by eighty to ninety percent, and it finally dissipated into the void like a phantom.

Only the solitary figure of Xu Yunfan remained, standing alone. His face was as pale as paper, and the aura around him fluctuated unstably—a clear sign of immense exertion.

And before him, in the very spot where the Blood Demon had tried to self-destruct, all traces of filthy fiend energy, resentful thoughts, and evil aura had vanished completely.

Not even a whiff of blood remained.

There was only a single, round Pill, the size of a longan fruit, hovering silently in midair. Its entire body shone with a deep, dark-gold luster, and its surface was naturally marked with nine violet-gold lines that wrapped around it like chains.