56: Chapter 56 Eighth-Order Golden Flood Dragon, Yellow Spirit Fire

"Impressive!" Hun Tiandi complimented.

After a moment of contemplation, he flipped his hand and retrieved the yellow spirit crystal from his storage ring. Holding it in his hand, he said, "This is the treasure you wanted!"

"Thank you!" Yu Xiao gently stroked the warm, smooth yellow spirit crystal and whispered.

"Are you leaving?" Hun Tiandi suddenly asked.

Yu Xiao did not speak, but she nodded gently and slightly turned her head, as if she dared not meet Hun Tiandi's gaze.

"I wonder, could you give me the body of this Golden Snake King?"

Hun Tiandi's expression darkened as he changed the subject.

Upon hearing this, Yu Xiao looked at the delicate-featured youth and, as if possessed by some strange impulse, nodded. "You have helped me escape danger several times; consider this your reward!"

She flipped her hand, retrieved two scrolls from her storage ring, and placed them into Hun Tiandi's hands.

She whispered, "This is a low-tier Earth class cultivation method and a mid-tier Profound class Dou Technique. I hope you make good use of them!"

Hun Tiandi stood rooted to the spot like a statue, listening to what Yu Xiao had to say.

"If fate allows, we shall meet again..." Yu Xiao sighed softly, turned, and walked out of the cave. Her figure transformed into a streak of light, shot into the sky, and vanished in the blink of an eye.

"Sigh, it is better that she left. We were never meant to walk the same path anyway!"

Hun Tiandi put away the two scrolls and walked toward the Golden Snake King lying on the ground.

He picked up the unconscious Golden Snake King and placed it on a bluestone. He then sat cross-legged on the stone as well, flicked his right hand, and a flash of blood-red light landed before him.

The blood-red light dissipated, revealing a handsome, delicate-featured young master with long blood-red hair that cascaded like a waterfall, swaying even without wind.

His appearance was exactly the same as Hun Tiandi's, but strangely, there was a blood-red mark branded between his eyebrows, giving him an evil, charming aura.

Swish!

Hun Tiandi rapidly formed hand seals and flicked his finger. The Blood God Child before him suddenly accelerated like a streak of blood-red light, sharp as a sword.

It instantly submerged into the Golden Snake King's forehead.

In an instant, the Golden Snake King lying on the bluestone began to tremble violently, as if being torn apart by an invisible force.

The Golden Snake King's pupils suddenly widened, and the luster in its snake eyes was rapidly replaced by a blood-red glow.

Hum!

The Blood God Child invaded its sea of consciousness, much like pouring a bucket of ink into a vat of clear water.

The Golden Snake King's beast soul instinctively resisted.

"Hehehe, I will take this body of yours!"

How could the Blood God Child easily let it go? He gave an evil, charming smile and released strands of evil power, which, like sharp sword qi, viciously stabbed toward the snake king's beast soul.

Each attack caused the Golden Snake King's body to tremble, and the beast soul let out painful roars.

Inside the sea of consciousness, a life-and-death struggle was taking place.

The Blood God Child released evil power, intending to devour the beast soul, accept and fuse with its memories, and absorb it. The beast soul grew weaker and weaker.

The unconscious Golden Snake King's beast soul relied entirely on instinct to resist, like a candle in the wind, surrounded by layers of blood-red light.

The Blood God Child split into blood threads, coiled around the beast soul, and devoured it frantically.

Every bite was accompanied by a shrill wail as it devoured the memories.

"A thousand years of cultivation, it belongs to me now!"

The demonic voice exploded in the sea of consciousness. The Golden Snake King's final beast soul was also swallowed in one gulp. On the fair-skinned youth's gentle face, a ferocious expression spread, and an evil, charming smile appeared at the corners of his lips.

After devouring the memories, the Blood God Child's power turned into strands of blood that burrowed into every meridian, every inch of flesh, and every bone...

Finally, it refined the demonic core...

In an instant, the Golden Snake King's body glowed with blood-red light, flashing incessantly.

Three hours later, the Golden Snake King opened its snake eyes. The originally cold, shattered-gold pupils were now stained with blood-red.

A flash of blood-red light shone, and it transformed into its three-meter-long original Golden Snake King form. Its scales had all transformed into a golden-red color.

It hissed toward the sky and suddenly darted out of the cave.

Rumble!

As the massive snake body appeared high in the sky, dark clouds gathered like ink. Thunderclouds churned in the sky, forming a vortex hundreds of feet wide, with bolts of lightning slithering through it incessantly.

Like a giant beast lying in wait, the snake body expanded wildly. The seven-hundred-meter-long snake body coiled, its golden-red scales shimmering with light.

Its head was wrapped in golden-red patterns, flicking its tongue, looking up at the firmament.

The Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation was reflected in its snake pupils, and the surging energy around its body boiled.

"Seizing the body of the Golden Snake King and reversing life and death requires a Lightning Tribulation trial. Pass, and you live; fail, and you die!"

Hun Tiandi stood with his hands behind his back on the mountain peak and said softly.

Boom...!

The first purple lightning bolt tore through the sky like a divine sword striking down. The massive snake body tensed, its scales standing up to temper itself against the lightning.

The purple lightning struck its scales, erupting with metallic clangs, and the Golden Snake King's body was blasted, plummeting rapidly.

Smoke rose from its body, and the air was filled with the scent of burning.

The thunderclouds churned without pause, and lightning fell incessantly. With a heaven-shaking roar, the massive snake body coiled, and it actually spat out its demonic core, suspending it above its head.

The demonic core bloomed with dazzling light, colliding with the lightning.

For a moment, the world was filled with blinding light. Taking the opportunity, it spat out a mouthful of golden-red essence blood. The demonic core, as if aided by a god, surged with light, resisting the impact of the Lightning Tribulation.

Boom!

While the Blood God Child was controlling the snake body to undergo the tribulation, Hun Tiandi, who was standing on the mountain peak, suddenly changed color. The Crystal Source power temporarily sealed within his body erupted once more.

His figure flickered, and he darted toward the cave.

He sat cross-legged, golden energy flashing on his body. Soul force surged from his sea of consciousness, sinking into his body and turning into a large net that enveloped the eruption of the Crystal Source power.

He opened a gap, following the path of his cultivation method, and frantically refined it. The golden energy mass trembled, and golden flames curled up.

He continuously refined the violent fire-element factors contained within the golden energy, then continuously released the golden energy, continuing the refinement.

The violent fire-element factors that were removed were wrapped by his soul force, their color gradually fading.

Who knows how much time had passed, but a ball of pale golden flame appeared within Hun Tiandi's body.

This time, the golden flame had become docile. Much of its violent power had been removed, and only now could he truly refine and absorb it.

Looking at the ball of pale golden flame, Hun Tiandi breathed a sigh of relief.

With a thought, the ball of pale golden flame flowed along his meridians and finally burrowed into his energy vortex.

Upon encountering the pale golden flame, the energy vortex's rotation speed increased. The two-palm-sized energy vortex began to expand in volume. Within the pale red vortex, a ball of pale golden flame spun continuously along with the vortex, and at the same time, wisps of pale golden flame were separated.

They turned into the most primal energy and submerged into the energy vortex.

The energy vortex expanded to the size of a washbasin. With a thought, his soul force surged out, frantically compressing the volume of the energy vortex, not letting it grow any further.

At the Dou Practitioner level, Hun Tiandi had already broken the extreme limit, advancing to a Ten-Star Dou Practitioner; he could advance no further.

Foundation is the most important thing. If he let the energy increase unchecked, in the long run, the disadvantages would outweigh the advantages.

The benefits of compressing the energy vortex were many. Although his strength did not increase, his foundation was extremely solid.

He withdrew his soul force. Waves of more vigorous and pure Dou Qi surged from the energy vortex, finally flowing through his meridians and circulating incessantly.

If one looked closely, Hun Tiandi's Dou Qi at this moment actually showed signs of condensing into liquid.

The Dou Qi of a Dou Practitioner is misty, while that of a Dou Master is condensed from mist into liquid.

Hun Tiandi's Dou Qi was somewhere in between, at a semi-condensed, liquid-forming level.

He began to organize the energy within his body. His body returned to normal, and his pained little face slowly calmed down.

However, as his Dou Qi circulated, wisps of pure energy fused into his flesh and bones, which absorbed it frantically like a parched sponge.

His physical strength was also gradually improving...