Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 532 - 465: Pure Yang Haomang

The moment the soul fragments were swallowed, Qi Xiu immediately let out a muffled groan. The mighty divine soul force surged within, transforming into thick black smoke that gushed forth from his seven orifices!

Frowning as he formed a spell with his fingers, Qi Xiu waved his sleeve, unleashing countless Cloud Seal Talismans, forming a talisman array around him as protection. Then, he sat cross-legged, channeling [Yama’s Golden Chapter] to begin digesting the burst of divine soul force from the fragments of the Karmic Dragon’s remaining soul.

Indeed, these are soul fragments at the Primordial Spirit Level.

Even after being shattered by the Dragon Lock Great Blade and worn down by endless time, the contained divine soul force remained so majestic and weighty.

If not for these prior events.

Refining these soul fragments would be pure folly.

Within his body, the divine soul force roared like a flood breaching a dam, transforming upon Qi Xiu’s skin into streams of black energy that flowed and wandered, circling up and down, as though they were tiny Karmic Dragons.

The Karmic Dragon’s soul fragment seemed like divine iron, forged and tempered through countless trials.

Even though Qi Xiu employed the supreme divine soul method from the Hell Dao, [Yama’s Golden Chapter] to attempt refining, the results were minimal.

"Within these soul fragments, linger the unwillingness, resentment, and madness of the Karmic Dragon before its death. These things are toxic to the soul.

Should you rashly absorb them, they would be more harmful than beneficial to the soul.

Moreover, these negative emotions accumulate within the soul fragments like barriers, severely interfering with my refinement of them."

The closed eyes subtly moved as Qi Xiu quickly became aware of the impediments and difficulties in refining the Karmic Dragon’s soul fragments.

Beings at the Primordial Spirit Level have their divine soul thoughts unified, and can even influence reality through sheer will.

Their dying tenacity and malice were so difficult to completely eradicate.

"Fortunately, it is not an unsolvable predicament."

Slowly opening a crack in his eyelid, Qi Xiu saw from his sleeve a pair of emerald green eyes illuminate. Cold and chilling black smoke rolled in as a Mo Jiao, already seventy percent resembling a dragon, slithered out, crawling along his arm and wrapping around his neck.

Once its form appeared, the Mo Jiao’s slender and fierce eyes first swept around, revealing a trace of comfort deep in its pupils.

Apparently, the aura of the torture ground made it feel very pleasant.

"Any issues?"

With eyes lowered, Qi Xiu gazed at the Mo Jiao and spoke softly.

The Mo Jiao slightly lifted its head, shook it, and then opened its large mouth. The suction akin to a dragon absorbing a whale erupted from deep in its throat, forcibly drawing out the Karmic Dragon’s resentment rampaging within Qi Xiu’s body, devouring it into its belly.

The Mo Jiao naturally feeds on filthy and dark energy, making it the absolute nemesis of resentment and malice.

Back in the Dragon Prison, it devoured all the wicked thoughts from Karmic Dragons that were forcibly slain by the Thousand Hands prison guards.

Not to mention the fragments of the Karmic Dragon’s soul killed by the Dragon Lock Great Blade.

With the Mo Jiao sucking away the residue of resentment from the Karmic Dragon’s soul fragments, the soul treasure bead swallowed by Qi Xiu became increasingly pure and translucent.

From its initially dark and somber appearance, it transformed into a crystal-like diamond brilliance.

Following that, the soul fragment melted like white snow, as strands of exquisitely pure, nectar-like divine soul force were absorbed by Qi Xiu, slowly flowing into the ancestral aperture between his brows.

The tightly furrowed brows relaxed, as the extremely pure divine soul force gave Qi Xiu a sense of unprecedented pleasure.

The soul felt light and unrestrained, even giving an illusion of breaking free from the body’s limits, ascending the path of immortality.

Yet Qi Xiu clearly knew this feeling was just a deception brought by the improvement of his divine soul cultivation.

If he truly yielded to this feeling and abandoned the physical body, it would mean discarding years of bodily cultivation for the path of a wandering spirit.

Resolutely firming his Dao Heart to suppress this illusion, Qi Xiu slowly guided his soul to absorb this Primordial Spirit Level divine soul force.

As the Karmic Dragon’s soul fragments gradually absorbed.

A faint trace of needle-like electric light emerged on Qi Xiu’s soul, surrounding and wandering on the surface, flickering yet real.

"Indeed, worthy of the Primordial Spirit Level soul fragments.

Just one piece has caused a transformation in my soul realm."

Detecting the anomaly on his soul, Qi Xiu’s lips slightly curved with a hint of a smile.

The flickering needle-like electric light was not real thunder but an anomaly produced by the soul transitioning from yin to yang, accumulating Pure Yang Qi.

This anomaly is also known as: Pure Yang Haomang!

It signifies the soul is approaching the next realm.

This layer of Pure Yang Haomang mirrors the Body-Protecting True Gang of the Initiate Realm.

With its protection, any pollution or evil can no longer freely approach the soul.

Once it comes near, it is immediately refined.

"When the soul steps into the Pure Yang Realm, it attracts the baptism of heavenly thunder, using the power of Heaven to reverse yin to yang.

This process is irreversible, irreplaceable, inescapable.

It must be endured!

Endure it successfully, and the soul advances to another realm, entering the Immaculate Pure Yang Realm. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

If failed, the soul scatters, leaving only an empty corpse, becoming a walking dead."

As an electric flash passed through his eyes, Qi Xiu stabilized his soul, silently pondering.

In a certain sense, soul cultivation starting from the Pure Yang Realm becomes very similar to physical cultivation.

Previous layers and stages were all about gradually condensing the soul.

Until the True Spirit Realm, where the soul transforms from illusory to tangible, growing flesh and blood.

The Pure Yang Realm resembles the Initiate Realm, where the soul begins to control and manifest divine marvels, possessing a protective Pure Yang Haomang.

From then on, the soul is no longer a weak and vulnerable entity but has the power to defend and resist.

Completely digesting the Karmic Dragon’s soul fragments, a brilliant light flickered in Qi Xiu’s eyes, shining with a terrifying brightness that gradually subsided after a while.

This was a manifestation of the significant increase in divine soul force.

"With the Karmic Dragon’s soul fragments as nourishment, achieving the Pure Yang Realm can be done in the blink of an eye.

However, within this True Dragon Ruins, the heavenly tribulation may not descend. Without enduring the baptism of the Heaven’s Thunder Tribulation, it is difficult to achieve a true Pure Yang Divine Soul body."

The Heaven’s Thunder Tribulation is both a test and a blessing.

And the true heavenly tribulation is indeed a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao’s power.

Even a Shenxiao Sect cultivator like Qi Xiu, who has placed his hopes on the Thunder Path and become a True Monarch of the Dao Body, must endure the baptism of heavenly tribulation like other Daoist inheritance cultivators, without receiving any preferential treatment.

"The matter of overcoming tribulation can wait until we leave the True Dragon Ruins.

Before that, I will refine and temper my divine soul to its utmost.

As long as I leave the True Dragon Ruins, I can immediately undergo the tribulation and achieve the Pure Yang Realm."

With this decision in mind, Qi Xiu sensed the scattered Tenacity Retention, searching for the roaming Karmic Dragon remnant souls within this execution ground.

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Buzz——

The void trembled slightly, and in the Punishment Hall, those imposing figures overlooking all heavens and everything gradually disappeared, along with the overwhelming pressure enveloping the entire hall, which also dissipated as the hall’s divine marvel weakened.

In the center of the hall, covered in terrifying cracks and with a pool of blood under his knees, Lord Wei suddenly brightened his eyes.

Boom!

With a thunderous roar, the Middle-Aged Demon Path True Monarch, who had been suppressed for an unknown length of time, suddenly stood up, the terrifying vigor of his energy and blood breaking free, transforming into layers of overpowering force sweeping outwards.

Bam bam bam!

Without the support of divine marvel power, everything within the Punishment Hall was destroyed under the incredibly intense force, more scorching than ten thousand suns, thoroughly grinding everything to pieces.

Staring quietly at the ruined Punishment Hall, Lord Wei’s eyes turned into a golden ancient sea as he took a step forward, his figure swiftly transforming into a roaring storm, behind which a disastrous wind howled, revealing an abyss that seemed poised to bury all of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, gods and mortals included.

Forty thousand years of forging ahead, enduring the pain of fragmented soul and the difficulty of reincarnation.

Lord Wei had never thought that after his forty millennia of planning had succeeded, he would suffer such a humiliating indignity.

If this person does not perish, Lord Wei’s lifelong aspirations will never be fulfilled, let alone ascend to the Primordial Spirit Supreme Position.

Involved in a battle of great paths, Lord Wei extinguished the last trace of hesitation within his heart.

Today, only one person will walk out of this True Dragon Ruins.

Engulfed by the terrifying black wind that collapsed ancient space and time, burying all great worlds of the heavens, Lord Wei stepped onto the Eighth Layer of the Punishment Hall.

The boundless white plains stretched endlessly.

[Dark and Sunless Mysterious Shadow Technique]

Gazing coldly at the execution ground wilderness before him, Lord Wei raised his hands high, and the bottomless abyss behind him trembled abruptly, awakened into revival.

The fierce wind howled, and the attraction raged, as the world instantaneously turned dark, as if it too was to be swallowed into the abyss.

Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble——

Deafening booms echoed, enough to shatter mountains and rivers across ten thousand miles, with the black abyss standing over Lord Wei’s head, the world alternating light and dark, and boundless shadows rushing in all directions, shaking Qiankun, devouring infinity.

In one corner of the execution ground wilderness.

While suppressing and refining a large Karmic Dragon remnant soul into a soul bead with the Yama Divine Talisman, Qi Xiu suddenly turned to look behind him, purple light surging in his eyes, as if sensing something.

At the end of his gaze, a black hole-like abyss rose into the sky, gradually devouring the world with a slow yet terrifying momentum, watching as the surging darkness slowly occupied the range of his vision.

"So quickly caught up..."

Without much speculation, Qi Xiu knew in his heart that only the Middle-Aged Demon Path True Monarch, who had just suffered a major setback, could create such a terrifying spectacle.

"Looking at his posture, the fire is probably about to spew out of his throat."

With a silent laugh, Qi Xiu cast several Yama Divine Talismans in succession, suppressing the roaring, struggling, and thrashing Karmic Dragon remnant soul into a soul bead.

The Middle-Aged Demon Path True Monarch, who had lived for over ten thousand years and successfully reincarnated to live another life.

Judging by accomplishments alone, he could be considered the foremost person since ancient times.

Even if such a figure showed indifference outwardly, there was still a streak of pride deep within him, looking down upon the world.

Yet the ordeal in the Punishment Hall was like a hard strike across the face of this demonic hero.

Both loud and crisp!

Especially when it was witnessed so clearly by his opponent.

"For a cultivator with a less mature Dao Heart, such an experience would likely lead them to fall into deviation."

Putting away the soul bead, Qi Xiu turned and headed towards the southeast corner.

The way to the Ninth Layer had recently been discovered by the Tenacity Retention, and the only reason he hadn’t gone was to subdue more Karmic Dragon remnant souls, refining them into soul beads to prepare for elevating his Divine Soul Realm.

Now that Lord Wei had caught up, it wasn’t wise for him to linger any longer.

After all, at this moment, Lord Wei was akin to a rabid dog in the throes of madness, and choosing to confront him head-on was evidently not a wise move.

Moreover...

Sweeping a glance at the Mind Sensing Spirit Plaque, Qi Xiu faintly smiled.

Brother, your foundation has already been unearthed by me...

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