Chapter 580: The Cultivation Technique from Hundred Desires Peak is Amazing

Chapter 580: Chapter 580: The Cultivation Technique from Hundred Desires Peak is Amazing

"Tell me, and I’ll grant you a swift death, sparing you the agony of Soul Searching and Refinement. I might even consider letting you live."

The Celestial Empress’s Sea of Consciousness had suffered a grievous blow and was now under violent assault. Her entire body trembled violently, the pain and fury in her eyes practically condensing into physical flames.

She clenched her jaw, more blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, but she refused to utter a single word.

As the Mother of the Celestial Court, she knew that the Hidden Dao Fruit was this realm’s last spark of hope. Even if she were to perish, her soul devoured by a thousand demons, she would never reveal its secret.

Furthermore, the Heavenly Dao Will was issuing a silent, screeching warning within her fading consciousness.

Outer Realm Evil Demons like him were here for the sole purpose of devouring this realm.

Xu Yunfan was not surprised by this. Prying a core secret concerning the survival of an entire realm directly from someone of her stature was exceedingly difficult.

He was just about to speak when a despairing roar echoed from the distant celestial dome, shaking the entire Celestial Realm and causing the very Laws of the world to tremble and keen in sorrow.

It was the Celestial Emperor’s voice.

It was followed by a decree from True Monarch Pu Du—a voice, detached and ancient, yet filled with supreme authority.

"Suppress."

BOOM!!

A flash of light, as if all the stars in the firmament had shattered at once, bloomed across the celestial dome.

Under the combined might of True Monarch Qing Yuan’s Judgement Giant Sword, the Grotto Void True Monarch’s Formless Sword Qi, and the crushing pressure of True Monarch Pu Du’s Dao Realm projection, the brilliant, clear light that symbolized the Celestial Emperor’s existence utterly exploded.

Illusory images of shattering Law Chains filled the heavens and the earth.

The Celestial Dao itself let out a sharp, mournful wail at the fall of a True Monarch.

The heavens wept!

The Celestial Emperor had fallen!

The aftershocks swept across the entire world. Even here, by the remote banks of the Celestial River, the violent tremors could be felt. The number of fine spacetime rifts on the Star Sand shoals suddenly increased.

The Celestial Empress’s body convulsed. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of golden blood mixed with Origin Law Fragments. The last glimmer of light in her eyes was utterly extinguished with the Celestial Emperor’s fall, leaving only ashen, dead silence.

Her Destiny was inextricably linked with the Celestial Emperor’s. At this moment, she truly and deeply felt the shared grief of death.

Xu Yunfan’s gaze, however, suddenly sharpened like a hawk’s, his eyes filled with nothing but excitement.

’Good riddance!’

But then, Xu Yunfan slapped his thigh in frustration.

With the Celestial Emperor dead, the True Monarchs would soon turn their attention to the Western Buddha Head and start thoroughly plundering this realm.

The concealment of the Hidden Dao Fruit would be greatly diminished as a result.

Time was truly of the essence.

There wasn’t a hint of pity for the beautiful woman in his eyes, only the ingrained ruthlessness of a Primordial Sect Cultivator who would stop at nothing for the sake of the Great Dao.

The cold smile on Xu Yunfan’s face instantly widened, tinged with an almost evil mockery. His voice was low, like a devil’s whisper.

"Excellent! Stubbornly defiant. I do like a fiery spirit. It seems Your Majesty, despite being the Empress of the Celestial Realm, can only see as far as your grief over the Celestial Emperor’s death. Is that it? In that case..."

His fingers, clamped around the Celestial Empress’s wrist, tightened, digging into her soft skin. He raised his other hand, as if to tear away the tattered remains of her Rainbow Palace Attire.

"Then allow Your Majesty to experience the power of my Primordial Sect’s Hundred Desires Peak’s Heaven and Earth Interchange Yin Yang Separation and Reunion Scripture.

Have a taste of what it’s like to have your divine body defiled by an Outer Realm Evil Demon, to have your Divine Soul Origin drained, until you’re wrung dry and turned into a fine Furnace Cauldron! I imagine Your Majesty never experienced anything like this with that prim and proper Celestial Emperor.

Right now, I shall fulfill your wish to be a real woman for once."

His voice wasn’t loud, but every word was like a poisoned dagger, stabbing deep into the Celestial Empress’s most vulnerable pride and fear.

"And while we’re at it..."

A cruel, playful smile on his face, Xu Yunfan suddenly yanked his hand. RRRIP! The already ruined Rainbow Palace Attire tore apart under the force, revealing skin beneath. It was stained with Dark Gold Divine Blood, yet smooth as polished jade, marred by jarring bruises and cuts.

Her exquisite, jade-like curves, set against the backdrop of shattered Star Sand and residual bloodstains, presented a tragic and breathtakingly fragile beauty.

"It seems Your Majesty is insistent on experiencing my Primordial Sect’s Hundred Desires Peak’s Heaven and Earth Interchange Yin Yang Separation and Reunion Scripture. Very well. Allow me to personally teach you what true Divine Power and Skillful Methods are. I certainly wouldn’t want to disappoint Your Majesty."

Before his words had even faded, Xu Yunfan unleashed his boundless Magical Power without reservation, brutally surging into the Celestial Empress’s shattered body.

The specifics of his method will not be detailed; consider ten thousand words omitted.

"Ugh!"

The Celestial Empress’s body arched as if struck by lightning, a broken whimper escaping her throat.

The Magical Power surging into her was not nourishing; it was suffused with the tyrannical, plundering intent of the Hundred Desires True Inheritance Secret Technique.

The Heaven and Earth Interchange Yin Yang Separation and Reunion Scripture was the Peak Guardian Manual of the Hundred Desires Peak, a branch of the Primordial Sect. It was not a technique that simply used lust to beguile others. Its core was to manipulate the transformations of Yin and Yang Separation and Reunion, forcefully reversing the flow of energy to incite the target’s Primordial Power and Divine Soul Power. It would then use these as sustenance, either seizing them by force or cultivating the target into a Furnace Cauldron to nurture oneself.

What Xu Yunfan was using at this moment was its cruelest application: the Demonic Soul Stealing Technique, meant for interrogation and torture.

Invisible Dao Patterns spread out from Xu Yunfan, instantly enveloping the Celestial Empress’s entire body.

As he engaged in the Dual Cultivation, Xu Yunfan pointed a finger at her body. She felt an intertwining sensation of icy cold and searing heat. An infinite pain, like a billion fine needles piercing her Divine Soul and countless whirlpools tearing at her organs, erupted simultaneously from her limbs, her marrow, and her Purple Mansion.

The agony far surpassed any Dao injury she had ever suffered, penetrating deep into her Divine Soul Origin, right down to her True Spirit Seal.

"AAARGH!!"

A bloodcurdling scream she could no longer suppress finally burst from the Celestial Empress’s lips. Her long, swan-like neck snapped back, veins bulging, her exquisitely beautiful face contorting in agony.

What was even more terrifying was that the bizarre Magical Power circulating within her was forcefully drawing upon her own Immortal Spirit Dao Foundation—which she had cultivated to Great Perfection and refined to incomparable purity—and her Power of Origin, which contained the Destiny of the Celestial Court. It was like plunging a red-hot brand into ice water.

The two forces collided violently, creating a tearing conflict. Yet, under the forced separation and reunion driven by the Yin Yang Dao Power, they transformed into a chaotic, raging, and uncontrollable torrent of energy that slammed back into her ravaged meridians and Sea of Consciousness, tormenting her soul twofold.

Her consciousness rose and fell in a boundless Sea of Suffering. Her last vestiges of cold, noble will, under the assault of this Supreme Demon Skill designed specifically to target the soul and its Origin, was like a candle in a storm, flickering on the verge of being extinguished.

Humiliation, pain, the fear of impending annihilation, and the despair of having the dignity that once looked down upon the Three Realms ground into the dirt—all of it instantly overwhelmed the remaining barriers of her sanity.

"Speak!"

Xu Yunfan’s voice was level, yet under the influence of the Heaven and Earth Interchange Yin Yang Separation and Reunion Scripture, it carried a demonic, soul-corroding quality that poured into her chaotic Sea of Consciousness. The final speck of clarity deep within her unfocused pupils completely shattered.

"How do I obtain the Hidden Dao Fruit? Where is the Taiyin Profound Mirror Dao Fruit hidden?"