393: Demons are the fuel, and the soul is forged through the nine heavens.

In the Void Realm, two giant millstones formed from infinite Purple Cloud Divine Lightning were slowly rotating at a constant frequency.

At the center of the millstones, that once-arrogant Outer Realm Heart Demon was being ground down, stripped, and purified bit by bit.

"Aaaargh—!!!"

This Outer Realm Heart Demon was undergoing torture billions of times more terrifying than the total annihilation of its Divine Soul.

Its demonic nature, its malevolence, and its Laws were all beneath that extremely yang and rigid Purple Cloud Divine Lightning.

They were forcibly purified, turning into strands of pure, masterless Divine Soul energy without any imprint of will.

This energy, like wisps of pale golden smoke, drifted out from the gaps of the lightning millstones.

Shen Yuanmo sat cross-legged in the air, his expression as calm as an ancient well.

He was deaf to the Heart Demon's miserable wails, his mind completely immersed within his own Sea of Consciousness.

In the center of the Sea of Consciousness, a golden Divine Soul miniature, identical in appearance to him, sat cross-legged with its eyes tightly shut.

With a thought from Shen Yuanmo, a wisp of pale golden Soul Power smoke was carefully guided into the Sea of Consciousness.

Almost the instant the Soul Power entered his body, the golden Divine Soul miniature shuddered violently.

At this moment, the Cultivation Technique for the seventh revolution of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art began to circulate frantically on its own!

"Buzz—!"

The Divine Soul miniature opened its mouth and took a sudden, deep breath of that wisp of Soul Power!

Boom!

An indescribable sense of comfort exploded from the deepest depths of his Soul, sweeping through every inch of Shen Yuanmo's consciousness!

It was too pure!

This Soul Power was so pure it contained no Impurities, as if it were a tonic custom-made for the Divine Soul!

As a single wisp of Soul Power entered his body, Shen Yuanmo could clearly feel his Divine Soul strength surge by a fraction!

The barrier of the Sea of Consciousness, originally as solid as a golden rampart, became thicker and more substantial at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The golden divine scripts flowing upon it also grew increasingly bright!

"Exhilarating!"

Shen Yuanmo thought to himself.

This pleasure from the rapid sublimation of his Soul's essence was countless times more wonderful than the increase in Qi brought by any Medicinal Pill!

He no longer hesitated. With a pull of his Divine Thought, the continuously purified Soul Power from outside turned into a pale golden torrent, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, frantically surging into his Sea of Consciousness!

The golden Divine Soul miniature was like a Taotie, refusing nothing and swallowing this massive Soul Power in great gulps.

His Divine Soul aura began to climb steadily at an appalling speed!

The boundaries of the Sea of Consciousness were expanding frantically. Although the size of the Divine Soul miniature did not change...

...the golden light it emitted became increasingly radiant, like a blazing sun hanging high in the sky!

Beneath the lightning millstones, the Outer Realm Heart Demon's wails gradually turned from shrill to extreme terror.

It finally understood!

It finally understood exactly what this young devil was doing!

He wasn't torturing it!

He was treating it as a peerless great medicine, a supreme resource used to Breakthrough his Divine Soul Realm!

"No! Stop! You devil! You can't do this!"

The Heart Demon's Divine Thought fluctuations were filled with unprecedented horror and humility; it was completely terrified.

"Spare me! I am willing to submit to you! I will be your servant for all eternity! I know countless secrets of the myriad worlds; I can help you reach the Peak of the Great Dao! Just please, spare my life!"

To survive, this terrifying existence that had once looked down upon all living beings cast aside all dignity and began to make frantic promises.

However, what responded to it was only Shen Yuanmo's Divine Thought, cold and devoid of any emotion.

"Your value is to become the resource for my ascent to the Great Dao."

"Go in peace."

As his voice fell, Shen Yuanmo didn't stop; instead, he increased the speed of his devouring!

Rumble!

Within his Sea of Consciousness, monstrous waves rose!

The majestic Soul Power surged like a tsunami. The golden Divine Soul miniature sat at the center of the storm, as steady as a rock.

As the last sliver of the Heart Demon's Origin was refined and devoured, a brilliant light of ten thousand zhang suddenly erupted from around the golden Divine Soul miniature!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Seven dazzling golden divine rings emerged one after another from within the Divine Soul miniature, surrounding its body in layers!

Each divine ring contained vast and boundless Divine Soul power, imprinted with the profound runes of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art.

They resonated with each other, emitting an aura that suppressed the ages and was eternally immortal!

Shen Yuanmo suddenly opened his eyes, and two beams of golden light, almost substantial, flashed through his pupils.

They actually pierced directly through the Void Realm, leaving behind two spatial cracks that didn't dissipate for a long time!

"Whew..."

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

At this moment, he felt his Divine Sense had reached an unprecedented Peak!

With a thought, his Divine Sense spread out like an invisible tide, instantly covering the entire Myriad Thunder Return Ruins and continuing to spread frantically outward!

The Restrictions of the Divine Treasury, the violent lightning of the God Burying Thunder Sea, the Laws of the world outside... everything became incredibly clear under his Divine Sense, as if he were looking at the lines on his palm.

This feeling of controlling everything almost made him intoxicated.

"Late Void Returning Stage Peak... no, it's already infinitely close to Void Return Perfection Realm!"

Shen Yuanmo accurately judged his current Divine Soul Realm.

Just refining a portion of the Origin from a heavily injured Outer Realm Heart Demon had allowed his Divine Soul power to complete such a terrifying leap!

But he was not satisfied.

Because he could clearly feel that at the top of his current Realm, there lay an indestructible barrier.

It was a Glazed Chasm separating the seventh and eighth revolutions. It seemed transparent yet was so solid it made even him feel a trace of powerlessness.

No matter how he pushed his Soul Power to strike it, that barrier remained motionless.

"Still not enough..."

Shen Yuanmo frowned slightly.

He understood that this was no longer a question of the quantity of Soul Power.

The total amount of the Outer Realm Heart Demon's Soul Power was so vast that even if it were heavily injured, it would be enough to burst his Sea of Consciousness thousands of times.

This was a difference in quality!

Starting from the eighth revolution, the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art likely required a fundamental transformation!

"Deduce!"

Without hesitation, Shen Yuanmo gave the order directly within his Sea of Consciousness.

[Insight into Origin] activated!

[Perfect Deduction] activated!

Deep within the Sea of Consciousness, that vast Stellar Chessboard appeared once again.

Using the higher-level Soul Law model belonging to the Outer Realm Heart Demon that had just been analyzed by [Insight into Origin] as a foundation...

...and the Cultivation Techniques of the first seven revolutions of the Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art as the framework...

...he began to frantically deduce the mysteries of the eighth revolution!

Buzz, buzz, buzz—!

Upon the Stellar Chessboard, billions of Dao runes were born and extinguished at an unprecedented speed!

Countless possibilities and paths were simulated, overturned, and reorganized within his Sea of Consciousness!

The Divine Soul power consumed by this deduction far exceeded any previous time!

Even with his current Divine Soul, which was comparable to the Void Return Perfection Realm, he felt waves of dizziness!

He didn't know how much time had passed; it felt like an instant, yet also like ten thousand years.

When the last rune on the Stellar Chessboard returned to its place, Shen Yuanmo's whole body shook!

He understood!

The key to the eighth revolution lay in condensing the Divine Soul!

Using the Great Dao Laws he had comprehended as the fire and the Divine Soul as the gold, he would undergo a thorough tempering and reshaping!

He would condense the originally ethereal Divine Soul into a higher-level Law Divine Soul that contained his own Great Dao's true intent!

This was the only path to the eighth revolution!

"Using the Great Dao Laws to temper the Divine Soul..."

A glint of unprecedented madness and determination flashed in Shen Yuanmo's eyes!

If an ordinary Cultivator wanted to take this step, they could only carefully draw in a sliver of the world's Laws.

They would spend hundreds or thousands of years, using slow and steady effort to gradually temper it.

A slight mistake would result in the Dao fire consuming their body and the total annihilation of their Divine Soul!

"Since I'm going to refine it, I'll refine the strongest one!"

Shen Yuanmo's gaze became incredibly firm.

He wanted to use his own [Chaos Great Dao] as the fire to completely recast his Divine Soul!

This was an incredibly insane idea, even one that could be called seeking his own death!

The Chaos Great Dao reigned supreme over all other Daos; its overbearing and destructive nature...

...was far beyond what ordinary Laws could compare to. Using it to temper a fragile Divine Soul was extremely dangerous!

But Shen Yuanmo insisted on doing it!

Because within his Sea of Consciousness, he still stored an incredibly vast amount of pure Soul Power from the Outer Realm Heart Demon that he hadn't fully digested!

This power was the fuel that would support him in completing this grand gamble!

"Demon as fuel, Soul refining the Nine Heavens!"

Shen Yuanmo let out a low growl from the depths of his Divine Soul!

He no longer suppressed it and actively drew upon that majestic Heart Demon Soul Power in his Sea of Consciousness, turning it into raging fuel!

At the same time, he completely released his control over his own Chaos Myriad Dao Returning Origin Scripture!

Boom—!!!

A wisp of greyish Chaos current, as if from before the creation of heaven and earth, erupted from within his Divine Soul miniature!

Chaos as the fire, Soul Power as the fuel!

An unprecedented Soul tempering, enough to make any Cultivator's liver and gall split with fear, began resolutely within Shen Yuanmo's Sea of Consciousness!

"Ugh, ah—!"

Even though Shen Yuanmo's will was as firm as divine iron, at the moment the Chaos Dao fire ignited his Divine Soul, he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan!

It was an extreme pain originating from the very essence of his Soul—being torn apart, crushed, burned, and then reorganized!

Under the scorching of the Chaos Dao fire, his Divine Soul began to melt inch by inch, only to struggle to regroup under the support of the majestic Soul Power!

Living by facing death! No construction without destruction!

He was using his own life to gamble for a future that would reach the heavens!

If this grand gamble succeeded, his Divine Soul would undergo a true transformation and step into a completely new Domain!

But if it failed... then he would completely turn to ashes within this endless Chaos Dao fire, never to be reborn!