443: Body Refinement Again

A thousand miles away, in the depths of a profound canyon eroded by an ancient underground river.

A disheveled figure crashed heavily to the ground like a broken sack, stirring up a sky full of grey mist mixed with demonic fiendish Qi and dust.

"Cough... cough, cough, cough! Pfft—!"

Hun Jiu huddled in a corner of the jagged, cold rocks, coughing violently.

Each heart-wrenching tremor was accompanied by large mouthfuls of thick, black, foul blood.

The blood even contained fragments of internal organs and wisps of unburnt black demonic flames.

The price of forcefully using the Soul Burning Blood Escape was frantically devouring his already precarious life!

His face was ashen, like a vengeful ghost that had just crawled out of the abyss of Hell. The wounds all over his body had reopened due to the intense spatial tearing.

The Dao injuries left by the Sword Intent were like countless bone-eating maggots gnawing and flowing between his Meridians and bones!

Even more terrifying was the annihilating True Essence originating from the self-detonation of Ling Xuzi's core.

Now, without full suppression, it raged wildly like a fire poison clinging to his bones!

His Realm... his Realm had actually directly fallen to the Nascent Soul Stage!

His Foundation was riddled with holes, on the verge of shattering!

"Duck Brother...!"

His hand trembled as he fumbled at his waist; only a few grains of black jade powder remained there.

Bone-deep hatred and heart-wrenching sorrow instantly engulfed him.

"Who is it?! Who exactly is this divine being?!" Blood and tears mingled in his eyes, like a poisoned viper.

Someone who could instantly kill Hun Ya, who wielded the soul devouring banner, must be at least a top Cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Realm!

Only then could they instantly kill Hun Ya before he fully activated the demon banner!

Fear, like ice water, extinguished his last spark of revenge. The Heavenly Demon Sect... he couldn't go back!

They had originally been ordered to infiltrate the Great Yan Dynasty to carry out a mission.

The soul devouring banner in their hands was exchanged at no small cost by the Sect, and it was their very Foundation!

For several months, they had carefully moved in secret, avoiding patrols by major Sects, slaughtering Mortal villages to gather Souls to nourish the demon banner.

Just as success seemed imminent, they attracted the pursuit of a Myriad Sword Valley Elder!

They had thought devouring this team of Myriad Sword Valley elites would be a snack before their success, but who knew... the snack turned into a death talisman that claimed the lives of him and his brother!

Now, with his life token shattered and the demon banner lost... returning to the Sect would only result in his Soul being extracted and refined, and his Soul lamp being lit for a hundred years!

Despair, like ten-thousand-year-old ice, froze his entire Divine Soul.

He suddenly looked up, his bloodshot emerald ghost eyes seemingly capable of piercing through the rock wall:

"Injuries... I must heal!"

"I absolutely cannot stay in Great Yan! That fiend god... who knows if he'll get a whim and track me down again!"

"Hegemonic Summer... yes! Go to Hegemonic Summer!" A ferocious name suddenly flashed through his chaotic mind—"Mad Extreme Demon Lord!"

This notorious and unpredictable great demon of the Void Refining Realm! If he could pledge allegiance to him... perhaps he could borrow his monstrous power to seek traces of the culprit who stole the demon banner and killed his Duck Brother!

"Blood debt... must be paid with blood!"

Hun Jiu let out a roar like a starving ghost grinding its teeth in Hell.

He struggled to grab a few demon cores emitting ominous black Qi from his In my arms and shoved them into his mouth.

Forcing out the last trace of Demonic Essence, his figure transformed into an extremely faint, almost Dissolve the canyon's shadows, bloody phantom.

He fled desperately towards the north—in the direction of the Ba Xia Dynasty! Even if his Foundation wailed and shattered inch by inch, he wouldn't care!

On the edge of the Demon Skeleton Mountain Range, within an inconspicuous ancient cave in a mountainside.

The cave entrance was obscured by several Restrictions imbued with the power of fiendish fire, casually laid by Yao Delong.

The faint red glow of the flowing lava inside the cave was distorted by the earth Qi into grotesque shadows, illuminating the figure sitting cross-legged in the center.

"The Entry Level chapter of the Great Sun Body Forging Art... the Perfection Realm of the Glazed Body! It will be today!"

Yao Delong cast aside all distracting thoughts, his heart sinking into his Dantian.

With a thought, the Origin of the Earth Core Blazing Flame Fire, which had long been dormant and refined within his limbs and bones, suddenly awakened!

Boom—!

A power far more violent than any previous time, like the eruption of a lava geyser, burst forth from every minute corner of his body!

Excruciating pain! Bone-deep, Soul-tearing agony, as if billions of steel needles pierced him simultaneously!

Yet, amidst this suffering, Yao Delong's Soul remained as clear as an icy lake!

Having endured two trials of Essence Fire refining his Origin, and with the Foundation of the Eight Desolations Prison Suppression Art's fiendish Qi tempering his physique,

his mastery over pain had long been ingrained in his instincts!

His mind was like bedrock, his will like a raging furnace!

"Glazed Body complete! Divine Treasury Realm open!"

A thunderous roar echoed in his heart! His incomparably powerful Divine Thought firmly controlled the raging torrent of flames.

Precisely forging every bone particle that had not yet reached Perfection!

His bones groaned, reorganizing! Countless imperceptible Impurities were mercilessly incinerated by the Earth Core Blazing Flame Fire, turning into green smoke!

On the surface of his originally warm and tough pale golden jade bones,

layers of clear, flowing, crimson flame patterns, seemingly containing the essence of the earth's lava, began to emerge!

Jade color and crimson intertwined, like peerless beautiful jade tempered in the heart of lava for ten thousand years.

Subtly emitting an immortal, weighty divine nature of endurance!

This was precisely the sign of the Great Sun Glazed Body moving towards complete Perfection!

As soon as the bone forging passed its peak, the will of the Earth Core Blazing Flame Fire surged like a tide, turning towards the Meridian network, which was attached to the bones.

This network was spread throughout the entire body and was more complex and intricate than ten-thousand-year-old spider silk!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

The myriad Meridians were like billions of red-hot branding irons piercing and spreading within his body!

The violent and overbearing Earth Fire Essence scoured the deepest parts of every Meridian!

That merciless power, capable of melting all metals in the world, was now a carving knife for unpolished jade!

The Meridians were forcefully expanded, purified, and reshaped!

Countless minute twists were instantly incinerated and corrected, the newly formed Meridians becoming tougher and wider!

It was like forcefully carving river channels for an impending torrential flow of a star river!

After each round of scorching, the newly formed channels faintly rippled with a faint starlight glow and crimson-gold lava stream shadows!

A surging potential, capable of carrying True Essence far beyond his current cultivation, was frantically accumulating and brewing... The raging torrent of fire did not stop, turning instead to his skin and flesh!

His skin cracked after being scorched by the crimson fire flow! It was instantly healed by the surging, boundless vitality within his body!

With each crack and healing, the color of his skin became a shade more translucent, and its texture a point denser!

The crimson-gold blood flowing beneath his skin was like scorching magma.

With each rush and scour through the fresh, plump muscle fibers, his flesh transformed at a microscopic level visible to the naked eye, becoming purer and tougher!

Infinite vitality, catalyzed by the Earth Fire, burned and regenerated at a terrifying speed!

It was as if his Mortal body was being refined into living divine material capable of carrying endless power!

Rumble—!!!

After an unknown period, a roar suddenly sounded deep within the cave, not from external physical vibration.

But from the resonance and transformation of countless particles within his body!

Yao Delong, sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes!

Crimson-gold flame currents flashed in his eyes, as if two molten suns were rising and falling within them!

He slowly stood up!

Without using a single trace of spiritual power!

Just the slight movement of his body stretching out caused the surrounding air to emit a groan of unbearable strain,

being forcibly pushed aside to form visible, viscous ripples!

The ancient rock layer beneath his feet, harder than gold and iron and imbued with fiendish Qi, silently cracked open.

The cracks spread all the way to the edge of the cave entrance, which was covered in Blazing Flame Restrictions!