79: Chapter 79 Slaying Ferocious Beasts, Ascetic Cultivation in the Underworld Sea

Inside the silent cave, Hun Tiandi stared intently, his gaze fixed firmly upon the ten thousand soul banner amidst the flames.

Boom!

With a violent tremor, Hun Tiandi retracted the Yellow Spirit Fire, and the ten thousand soul banner erupted with a brilliant black-purple radiance, with thin threads spreading across its surface.

Blood-colored runes flickered incessantly, wriggling as if alive, spreading across the entire banner surface and trailing down the banner pole.

The ten thousand soul banner exuded a terrifying aura, as if an unrivaled Nether Demon Lord had descended, causing the common people to bleed, leaving bones scattered everywhere, and stirring up monstrous waves in a sea of blood.

"What is happening? Could it be advancing to the Profound Tier?"

Hun Tiandi gazed at the changing ten thousand soul banner, his expression grave; he had endured so many hardships to refine the ten thousand soul banner, and he prayed that nothing would go wrong at this critical moment.

He quickly recalled the changes that occurred when the ten thousand soul banner advanced.

He could not intervene and could only watch helplessly, but as if it had heard Hun Tiandi's inner thoughts, no further negative changes occurred.

"Pop..."

With a shattering sound, the layer of black-purple light shrouding the ten thousand soul banner dissipated, revealing the transformed ten thousand soul banner before his eyes.

The surface of the banner was branded with eerie and terrifying patterns, with black circles rotating counter-clockwise, and in the center, two purple-black fish spun ceaselessly, forming an ancient purple character for 'Soul'.

Surrounding the 'Soul' character were three eerie runes made of black energy rotating clockwise; the entire banner surface appeared black-purple, with black-purple ribbons fluttering on both sides.

The banner pole was four feet and nine inches long, entirely purple-white, with faint blue patterns branded within it that moved like electric arcs.

The bottom end was slender and sharp like a spear tip, and the top was also a sharp spear point; six inches from the side, a crystalline purple-white dragon head was fused into it, complete with a pair of perfectly refined purple-white dragon horns.

A pair of purple, jade-like dragon eyes exuded the soul-stirring majesty of an Ancient Dragon.

The ten thousand soul banner before him was shrouded in black-purple energy, making the demonic artifact even more sinister and terrifying.

"Hehehe, this is the true ten thousand soul banner!"

Hun Tiandi let out an eerie and hoarse laugh, stood up, and grasped the purple-white banner pole with his right hand, feeling a texture as smooth and warm as jade.

There was even a connection of blood between Hun Tiandi and the ten thousand soul banner.

With a thought, his Dou Qi flowed through his meridians and poured into the ten thousand soul banner through his right hand, causing it to instantly erupt with a terrifying aura.

Afterward, Hun Tiandi did not test just how terrifying the transformed ten thousand soul banner was.

Because if he used the ten thousand soul banner and broke the stone wall, he feared he might bury himself, and self-preservation was paramount; secondly, the cave still contained the rare treasures of ten-thousand-year stone milk and one-hundred-thousand-year stone milk.

They absolutely could not be destroyed.

"The soul banner has successfully advanced; it is now a Profound Tier intermediate demonic artifact."

In truth, because the second batch of materials was excellent, the ten thousand soul banner had broken through the shackles of the Yellow Tier peak, successfully advancing to a Profound Tier intermediate demonic artifact.

Next, it was time to crazily collect souls to fill the empty space within the ten thousand soul banner.

Hun Tiandi took a deep breath and put away the ten thousand soul banner.

"Eh, what is this?"

When he lowered his head and turned to the side, he discovered a crystalline scale emitting a purple light on the ground, the size of a washbasin; Hun Tiandi stepped over, crouched down, and slowly picked up the purple scale.

"Could it be... the legendary Ancient Dragon reverse scale?"

Legend had it that at a dragon's throat, there was a dragon scale that grew in reverse, known as the reverse scale.

The patterns on the reverse scale were very strange, emitting a crystalline purple light; once it converged, it gained a sense of heaviness and lost some of its luster, as if it had been washed by the passage of time.

Suddenly, as if Hun Tiandi had thought of something, a bold idea arose in his mind.

"A demonic core? Could it be hidden within the reverse scale..."

Hun Tiandi's eyes gleamed as he murmured to himself.

He was a man of action; with a wave of his large sleeve, the reverse scale flew into the air, and with a flick of his finger, a golden flame surged from his fingertip, instantly turning into a raging fire that relentlessly scorched it.

Under the calcination of the golden flame, the Ancient Dragon reverse scale remained completely undamaged, and the demonic core Hun Tiandi most anticipated did not appear.

At this point, Hun Tiandi began to understand; could it be that his method was wrong...

Pfft!

A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he spat a mouthful of his life essence blood onto the Ancient Dragon reverse scale; under the enhancement of the golden flame, Hun Tiandi's mouthful of essence blood was evaporated completely.

His expression darkened; his usually infallible blood refining method had actually failed this time against the Ancient Dragon reverse scale.

"My life essence blood is ineffective, then perhaps Ancient Dragon essence blood..."

After a brief moment of contemplation, he flipped his hand to take out a jade bottle, looking down at the precious purple essence blood inside.

For a moment, Hun Tiandi hesitated, looking up at the washbasin-sized Ancient Dragon reverse scale.

"I'll risk it; nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Hun Tiandi gritted his teeth, flicked his finger, and a drop of purple essence blood flew out from the jade bottle, hovering before him.

Looking at this drop of purple essence blood containing astonishingly violent power, the corners of Hun Tiandi's mouth twitched wildly; after refining all the flesh and blood.

The result was only eighty-one drops, and now he had to use one.

If it weren't for that damned demonic core, Hun Tiandi would never be so wasteful, even if it killed him.

If he wanted to obtain Ancient Dragon essence blood in the outside world, he would need to hunt a Void Ancient Dragon, one of the magical beast clans; the danger level would be off the charts, and once exposed, the Ancient Dragon clan would not hesitate to kill the hunter.

Swish!

With a flick of his finger, the purple essence blood flew out, turning into a purple sword that landed upon the reverse scale in the flames.

Immediately upon the essence blood landing, the reverse scale seemed to be violently shaken, wriggling like a spirit snake and rapidly expanding.

It was extremely fast; in the blink of an eye, the reverse scale began to emit astonishing energy fluctuations.

Seeing this change, a hint of joy appeared in Hun Tiandi's eyes; it was finally having an effect.

He immediately increased the output of the Yellow Spirit Fire, enveloping the purple dragon scale.

Wisps of purple mist seeped from the surface of the reverse scale, and within this thin purple mist, Hun Tiandi's keen spiritual power sensed a surging, terrifying energy.

Watching this scene, Hun Tiandi's eyes were even more excited as he increased the temperature of the flames.

The golden flames burned, and the purple mist seeping from the reverse scale became increasingly dense, until finally, it almost filled the entire cave.

The energy fluctuations grew stronger, and a terrifying pressure diffused from within the purple mist, causing Hun Tiandi's expression to change.

"What a terrifying energy fluctuation..."

Hun Tiandi gazed solemnly at the purple mist before him, pushing the Yellow Spirit Fire to its limit; the purple mist permeated further, condensing without dispersing, swirling in the air of the cave.

Roar!

There was even a faint, low dragon roar reverberating, and as it roared, Hun Tiandi's blood boiled slightly.

He hurriedly drove his Dou Qi to suppress it.

Boom!

Suddenly, the purple mist in the cave fluctuated, and in the center of the purple mist, a small purple vortex formed, causing the purple mist to slowly rotate as well.

Strands of surging, violent energy in the center of the vortex drilled into it, and the volume of the purple mist began to shrink.

As it was swallowed and absorbed by the vortex, he circulated his Dou Qi throughout his body, ready to respond to any danger.

A quarter of an hour later, when the last wisp of purple mist was absorbed by the vortex.

A blinding purple light erupted, and the powerful energy fluctuations dissipated in the blink of an eye.

Before Hun Tiandi's eyes was a demonic core the size of an infant's fist, emitting a purple light.

"A demonic core? No, it should be a Dragon Pearl!"

It hovered in mid-air, slowly spinning without stopping, and the space around the Dragon Pearl twisted like rippling water.

He stared with burning eyes at this bead, which contained extremely terrifying energy.

He murmured to himself: "Is this... the Dragon Pearl of a Void Ancient Dragon that has broken through to the eighth tier?"