Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao
Chapter 628 - 064 The Untainted Body

Chapter 628: Chapter 064 The Untainted Body

Pitch-black snowflakes fell continuously, dancing amidst the shattered void.

Deep within the void, it was as if one could glimpse the other shore of the starry sky.

The Heavenly Heart Secret Realm was slowly disappearing.

It was like a decrepit, ailing patient presenting a scene of desolate twilight over the western hills.

Various anomalies appeared from time to time. The pitch-black snowflakes fluttered majestically, clashing abruptly against the atmosphere of agonizing struggle.

Zhou Yan found himself amidst this transformation, as lengths of blood-red hair, over a foot long, continuously emerged from his body uncontrollably, as if undergoing a mysterious and aberrant change.

Zhou Yan continuously conjured Purple Flame, incinerating the wildly growing blood-red hair on his body, but more and denser hair relentlessly rose.

At the same time, Zhou Yan felt his eyes gradually turn blood red, an unprovoked, ominous, cold, and violent strangeness welling up in his heart.

He appeared to be undergoing some horrific transformation, a change beyond his control.

"What’s happening, what’s happening? Why is this change occurring? Could it be that I’ll follow in the footsteps of that blood-haired monster and become such a creature?"

Zhou Yan was greatly startled in his heart. He was already in his peak state, yet he hadn’t expected that the refining of the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm would lead to such an accident!

The method to refine the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm couldn’t possibly be wrong—it originated from the Yuan Ci Secret Realm’s inheritance. The grade of the Yuan Ci Secret Realm was far superior to that of the broken Heavenly Heart Secret Realm. There should be no accidents in consuming and refining it!

Now, faced with this change, Zhou Yan speculated that something must have catalyzed his bloodline, causing issues that should have emerged in the future to present themselves prematurely!

Having calculated this possibility, Zhou Yan’s heart gradually calmed down. He continued to burn away the hair with the Purple Flame, all the while attentively observing the changes within his body.

Because of this distraction, Zhou Yan’s body was soon enveloped in blood-red hair.

At that moment, Zhou Yan felt that once the blood-red hair covered his entire body, he would completely lose himself and become as lifeless as a walking dead.

It was an inexplicable notion, but this thought was fervent and clear. Zhou Yan believed that if nothing changed, that would be his fate.

"If there’s truly no solution, then... I must abandon the soul, forsake this physical body. Extracting all the bloodline and condensing the flesh anew is nothing but a bit more troublesome."

Zhou Yan’s gaze grew more profound, radiating with complex and indiscernible light.

Whenever he engaged in comprehensive calculation, his eyes would shine with such light. At those moments, his Nine Orifice Exquisite Heart would open fully, propelling his calculating abilities to a terrifying extent.

This time, facing the unknown transformation, Zhou Yan once again showcased his formidable capabilities.

During such calculations, Zhou Yan’s eyes suddenly brightened, a resolute conviction lighting them up.

The next moment, Zhou Yan retracted all the Purple Flame, allowing the blood-red hair to grow wildly, while he himself gradually succumbed to the blood-red, violent, cold, and ominous aura, completely sinking into it.

In that instant, the Xuanyuan Sword Fragment within his soul’s Dantian, as if prepared all along, burst forth with endless golden light at the exact moment when the boundless blood sea energy fantastically surged in.

Golden light appeared, Blood Sea Reincarnation unfolded.

The endless blood sea, as if evaporated by sunlight, vanished in an instant, turning into crimson Blood Qi, which gradually faded away into the void, before disappearing.

On Zhou Yan’s body, the dense blood-red hair, nearly a meter long, completely transformed into a light red, pale red, and eventually transparent energy, gradually absorbing into Zhou Yan’s body.

Zhou Yan reverted to his original appearance, his body devoid of a single hair, smooth and glossy like jade, translucent and lustrous.

"Pure Body."

"Perfect Physical Body."

"Is this the purity and perfection of the body?"

Zhou Yan murmured to himself before a set of top-level Soul Artifact Battle Armor appeared on his bare body as a pitch-black War Armor Robe with just a thought.

The void, the endless black snow, disappeared over an unidentifiable period.

The entire environment of the Heavenly Punishment Forest vanished as well.

Zhou Yan stood directly in the starry sky, surrounded by emptiness.

The location where the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm had been now appeared as a vacant Star Domain, without the Secret Realm or any planets remaining.

In the distance, the blood-red silhouette of Nirvana Ancestor Star was still faintly discernible.

"Heavenly Heart is the Demon Heart. It seems there was a vague thought like this. The refining of the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm is bound to stir up the Heart Demon. Moreover, the man in the Golden Armor within the Xuanyuan Sword Fragment saw that my five declinations of heaven and man were about to emerge, but he only helped me with suppression for three years.

However, before that, he did not truly suppress it; he merely hid that energy within my body.

Now, the growth of blood-red long hair signifies that the five declinations are descending, and ominous signs are appearing... If it were just me, I would indeed feel somewhat powerless to resist because my Combat Power far exceeds the rules, and the arrival of the five declinations would surely reduce me to ashes. But the man in the Golden Armor helped me with suppression for three years, so I allowed the signs of the five declinations to directly contact that suppression force with the utmost intensity—this is the only way, although perhaps due to miscalculation, I could be doomed forever.

But the facts have proven that this calculation is still correct," Zhou Yan thought to himself.

At this point, Zhou Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The greatest crisis—the five declinations of heaven and man—had indeed been suppressed once again. In the future, within three years, the five declinations will not occur, and the monstrous anomaly of blood-red long hair will not appear again.

Regarding these five declinations, Zhou Yan’s heart was actually filled with dread. The benchmark might refer not only to his abilities but could also involve other aspects; once triggered, it would be too terrifying.

For even the Silent Annihilation Purple Flame, a technique of manipulating Purple Flame inherently from Lei Yan King, could not suppress these omens of the five declinations.

Without the man in Golden Armor from the Xuanyuan Sword Fragment, Zhou Yan really didn’t know how he would face such a change.

It was these experiences that truly made Zhou Yan understand that reaching the Sword Tribulation Realm is not easy!

And to cross the five declinations of heaven and man nine times in the Sword Tribulation Realm, to successfully endure nine tribulations, is even more difficult.

Perhaps the same is true for Combat Power. Only after perfectly passing through the five declinations and enduring the Heavenly Tribulation will one’s Combat Power see a significant enhancement.

Only then will it be in line with the real rise of a Cultivator in the Sword Tribulation Realm.

"Below Sword Tribulation, there are no geniuses"—for the first time, Zhou Yan felt that this phrase was so profound.

Zhou Yan gathered his thoughts and condensed his Void Sword Body, stepping through the starry sky.

Ahead, in the location where the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm once was, the Yuan Ci Secret Realm appeared as a shimmering orb, faintly visible there.

Zhou Yan reached out his hand, and the orb flickered with misty light, shooting into Zhou Yan’s palm like a streak of light.

Like a crystal ball, the Yuan Ci Secret Realm in Zhou Yan’s palm revolved, appearing more like an enclosed world after being refined.

Zhou Yan gazed intently at the world within the Yuan Ci Secret Realm and couldn’t help but think—if there was also a world inside, and one day it developed into a star system with countless planets, and life existed on those planets... then what would the natives of this world mean to him?

At best, does it merely represent that they are a pile of fertilizer? A source of Origin Energy that Zhou Yan needs to condense during his cultivation?

For instance, if one day he needed a vast amount of Origin Energy for a battle, would he wipe out the endless lives inside with a single thought to provide himself with energy?

It was a mad and terrifying thought.

Yet after this idea took root, it was as if it were etched in his heart, impossible to erase.

"There is no end to cultivation, while white bones turn to ashes."

The murmur of the man in Golden Armor seemed to echo in Zhou Yan’s ears again.

Zhou Yan felt a moment of melancholy, letting out a sigh of sentiment.

But he didn’t allow himself to be disheartened; on the contrary, his faith was firmer, and his motivation was full.

"Yin Yang Mother Child Array Plate, first stabilize the life within the Yuan Ci Secret Realm, then head to Nine Origin Heavenly City. This time, having reached the Peak Realm of the Nine Changes of Sword Void, it is time to prepare for my future affairs," Zhou Yan murmured to himself, holding the crystal ball of the Yuan Ci Secret Realm.

Afterward, he shot out like a beam of light, unleashing the Yin Yang Mother Child Array Plate and, carrying the Yuan Ci Secret Realm, directly traversed through an Ancient Array in the starry sky.