In the next instant, the split soul of the ancient devil opened its mouth wide and let out a piercing devilish roar. The sound was sharp enough to shatter gold and stone!

That roar seemed to echo directly within everyone’s heart, shaking their primordial spirits. Ordinary methods were useless against it.

After devouring Devil Qingzhu, the split soul of the ancient devil threw his head back and howled toward the heavens.

He stood suspended in the air, arms spread wide, hair wildly flying, like a devilish monster.

At the sound of the devilish roar, the young man and woman screamed miserably and collapsed to the ground.

The protective barrier laid down by their grandmaster failed to shield them. Fortunately, the roar wasn’t aimed directly at them, and they only suffered from its aftershock. Otherwise, they would have died on the spot.

Even so, their condition was terrible. Blood flowed from all seven orifices, and they were gravely wounded.

Qin Sang’s primordial spirit shone with golden light, revealing the form of a golden Buddha.

When the roar struck, it triggered the reaction of the Jade Buddha, which shielded Qin Sang from harm.

However, seeing the miserable state of the two juniors, Qin Sang immediately threw himself to the ground, intentionally severing a few of his meridians and making it appear as though blood was flowing from his orifices as well.

He wore an expression of horror and shut his eyes tightly, feigning panic and injury.

No one noticed that, at that moment, Qin Sang was gripping a devilish banner in his hand. Wisps of the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells were wrapped by his spiritual consciousness and guided into his body, gathering within his upper dantian.

Even now, he was cultivating the Fire Seed Golden Lotus!

Because the lotus seed he had obtained still carried Old Devil Mou’s residual imprint that couldn’t be erased, Qin Sang had no choice but to abandon it and rely solely on his own strength to cultivate by force.

Normally, the lotus seed’s purpose was to serve as a vessel for the spiritual fire, reducing the damage it inflicted on the cultivator and preventing the primordial spirit from being burned to ashes.

Qin Sang, however, possessed the Jade Buddha’s protection and didn’t need to depend on it.

Had Old Devil Mou seen this scene, he would have been dumbfounded and cursed Qin Sang as a madman.

When he himself had refined the Dongming Cold Flame, he had exercised the utmost caution every time. He failed countless attempts and came close to freezing his primordial spirit to death several times before finally condensing the fire seed.

But the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells were something even Old Devil Mou dared not provoke lightly. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Yet Qin Sang dared to refine them into his fire seed on his first attempt!

If not for the Jade Buddha’s protection, Qin Sang would have burned himself alive. Even so, he endured excruciating pain. His upper dantian felt as though it were boiling, violently stirred by the raging devilish flames.

The flames were fierce and untamed. It was unrealistic to expect that he could master the Fire Seed Golden Lotus in a short time.

However, Qin Sang’s goal was to subdue just one thread of the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells and condense the initial form of the fire seed.

Following the secret technique of the Fire Seed Golden Lotus, his primordial spirit embraced the devilish flames. With the Jade Buddha’s protection, he ignored the burning agony and focused entirely on guiding the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells. Gradually, the embryonic shape of the fire seed began to emerge.

Unexpectedly, the split soul of the ancient devil suddenly made his move, turning the situation upside down.

The aura within his body surged violently. Along with another roar, invisible waves rippled through the air. At once, Lingzhuzi and the others felt a dreadful premonition and were horrified.

Before them, in the air, a transparent blade of essence appeared without warning. A moment later, an unbearable pain split through their minds. Caught off guard, everyone screamed, their bodies convulsing uncontrollably before they all collapsed to the ground.

Agonized cries filled the air. They clutched their heads, their faces contorted in unbearable torment, enduring pain beyond imagination.

Their Dao Techniques and astras all failed to sustain under the assault. What the ancient devil’s split soul had unleashed was the Spirit Slice. Its effect was astonishing.

All the gathered experts, not one of them could resist even a single blow. In an instant, they were grievously injured and completely lost their fighting strength.

Looking at the helpless victims strewn across the ground, the split soul of the ancient devil burst into wild laughter.

Although he had paid a heavy price to perform Spirit Slice, weakening his aura and strength, he was still far better off than Lingzhuzi and the others.

Swoosh! With a flash, the ancient devil’s split soul moved first toward the Nine-Life Black Tortoise.

The Black Tortoise’s body convulsed from the lingering pain, utterly defenseless. He could only watch helplessly as the split soul closed in. Then his body tightened as if bound by an invisible force, rendering him immobile.

"Ah!" The Black Tortoise roared, revealing his true form and struggling desperately, but the split soul’s fist punched straight through its abdomen. Blood splattered as he let out one final miserable cry.

The enormous tortoise body was nothing more than a plaything in the hands of the ancient devil’s split soul, crushed and torn at will. His flesh and bones were shattered beyond recognition.

Following in the Jiao King’s footsteps, the Black Tortoise’s essence soul and flesh were refined into pure essence through secret techniques and fed into the blood coffin.

With the Black Tortoise’s vitality infused, the Blood River Array grew even stronger. The blood coffin’s crimson glow brightened once again, and the blood color on the sword qi became even thicker and darker.

In an instant, the Black Tortoise met a tragic end. The survivors watched with grief and despair.

Two of the mightiest beings of their respective clans, figures who once stirred the world outside, had now both perished here, reduced to mere sacrifices for the rebirth of the ancient devil.

"Hm?" Just as the split soul crushed the tortoise’s remains and turned toward his next victim, Fairy Nangui, who was the nearest, suddenly sensed a strange fluctuation.

The split soul snapped his head around toward a corner of the blood-red crystalline wall. There, a Withered-Leaf Cicada the size of a fist clung motionless to the wall. It was Old Devil Fang.

Compared to a human body, the Withered-Leaf Cicada was small and unremarkable, easily overlooked.

However, the strength Old Devil Fang had previously displayed was in no way inferior to the others and had caused the ancient devil considerable trouble.

Old Devil Fang, too, had been targeted by the ancient devil’s split soul and was not spared. Moreover, since he possessed an insect gu body, his primordial spirit seemed even more fragile than the rest. His aura flickered faintly, hovering on the brink of death.

Then, an unexpected scene unfolded before everyone’s eyes. The Withered-Leaf Cicada clung tightly to the blood-red wall. Suddenly, a crack split open across its abdomen, and from within crawled a spiritual cicada no larger than an adult’s thumb.

The cicada’s entire body was as translucent as jade, its thin wings shimmering with specks of starlight.

The sight was so astonishing that even the ancient devil’s split soul was momentarily taken aback.

"Starwing Cicada! Twin Gu?" The grand witch priest cried out in shock.

She belonged to the witch race, yet she had never known that Old Devil Fang not only fused with the Withered-Leaf Cicada but had also concealed another life-bound insect gu within himself.

And the two gu possessed entirely different bloodlines. One was of the Withered-Leaf Cicada bloodline, endowed with a soundwave supernatural ability that struck by surprise and was nearly impossible to defend against. The other was the Starwing Cicada, famed for its extraordinary evasion technique.

Both were supernatural insects, exceedingly rare in the world and impossible to cultivate artificially.

Back on the Witch God Continent, Qin Sang had once encountered a witch cultivator who possessed twin gu, and that was the sect leader of Five-Insect Sect, Cui Xuanzi. However, one of Cui Xuanzi’s life-bound insect gu had stagnated after reaching a certain stage, unable to progress any further.

Old Devil Fang’s twin gu, however, seemed different from Cui Xuanzi’s.

When the Starwing Cicada emerged, the Withered-Leaf Cicada withered rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. It shriveled like a sheet of paper peeling away from the Starwing Cicada’s body, as though all of its vitality had been drained and absorbed.

The Starwing Cicada still appeared frail, yet half of its body had already fused into the blood-red wall.