The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 353 - 332 Sharing the Spoils_1

Chapter 353: Chapter 332 Sharing the Spoils_1

Lu Jie could not tell who was right and who was wrong.

Fu Wangchen, with his eyebrows knitted tightly, seemed to be deep in thought about something.

All of a sudden.

"Whoosh! Whooosh!"

Streams of light surged into everyone’s Sea of Consciousness.

As memories started to flood back, the survivors, who were wrapped in mucus on the tongue of the Ice Armor Eel Dragon, gradually began to recall their past.

The scenes they had glimpsed through their hazy consciousness started to grow clearer.

Not long ago, the sight of Pang Jian, with the "Heart of Winter" above his head, encircled by nine majestic glaciers and fighting against an Alien God in a silvery-white pool, also became the most vivid.

"Pang Jian..."

Chen Lushi murmured softly.

The brightness in her eyes grew bit by bit, and in her line of sight, the figure of Pang Jian slowly became taller.

Until he seemed unattainably high, making her feel unworthy, igniting an endless sense of remorse within her.

"Splash!"

All the living were spat out by the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and fell to the bottom of the pit.

The people, who thought they were surely doomed, scrambled towards the edge of the pit as soon as they saw daylight, using their hands and feet to climb out as fast as they could.

They feared that the Ice Armor Eel Dragon might change its mind and swallow them again, fearing to endure more torment on its dark, stinking tongue.

However, the Ice Armor Eel Dragon remained motionless, merely lifting its head to look into the sky, completely ignoring them.

"I must return to the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land, I have sustained heavy injuries, and I need to heal," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon growled uneasily.

Observing Pang Jian hovering in mid-air, it understood that he, who controlled Cold Ice Divine Objects and could summon nine terrifying glaciers, was extremely terrifying in this merged world.

Therefore, it added, "When you were being chased, I even saved you..."

Pang Jian paused.

"That golden Roc, that ship!"

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon growled a reminder.

Pang Jian nodded slightly and said, "There was such an incident."

He glanced at Fu Wangchen and frowned, sensing a strange aura growing stronger deep within Fu Wangchen’s mind.

"I have something for you!"

"Splash!"

Broken stone statues, wooden carvings, odd shells made of bones, and incomplete altars were all regurgitated by the Ice Armor Eel Dragon: "These strange objects harbor a peculiar force I do not understand and cannot absorb or refine. Inside them, the malicious consciousness that tried to corrupt my soul, I have erased."

"It’s all yours now, I give it all to you!"

"I have seen your people scrambling for these items, they might be of use to you," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon clamored urgently.

Pang Jian’s eyes lit up: "These..."

Qi Qingsong, Dong Tianze, and others, who had flown from The Frozen Land and stopped mid-air, also instantly became excited.

They, too, recognized that within the stone statues, wooden carvings, and broken altars, only pure Divine Consciousness remained.

The consciousness of those Alien Gods from the Outer Realms had been wiped out by the Ice Armor Eel Dragon.

Lu Jie of the Desolated Terrains, witnessing the sudden emergence of the very Divine Objects they had desperately sought and entered the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land to find, her eyes also burst with fervent light.

The items they had earnestly pursued, now spat out like trash by the Ice Armor Eel Dragon, lay at the bottom of the pit where they abruptly escaped.

Yet, they dared not turn back to retrieve them.

"Qi! Zhou! Dong Tianze!"

Pang Jian called out crisply.

"Here!"

The three responded simultaneously with excitement.

"Collect them."

Pang Jian instructed.

With a slight movement of his mind, he manipulated one of the shrunken glaciers, still three thousand feet high, using the "Heart of Winter."

"Kid! I’ve said so much, and given you everything, do you still not intend to let me go?"

"We have no grudges or enmity, and I even saved you! Don’t repay kindness with ingratitude," the Ice Armor Eel Dragon bellowed.

Its murmurs suddenly turned into howls, "Despicable villain! You..."

Just as it was about to spew venomous curses, it noticed that one of the floating glaciers, located beside Pang Jian, had locked onto a target from a distance.

"Swoosh!"

A bright blade-like streak of icy light vanished in a flash.

An Individual Cultivator, one of those spat out and lying motionless in the pit in a low-key attempt to play dead, was first pierced through the chest by the glacier and then frozen by the Extreme Cold Alien Power.

"He is Ling He."

Pang Jian glanced at Dong Tianze.

Dong Tianze, who was busy moving the Alien God puppet bodies, shuddered and quickly moved toward the frozen body of the Individual Cultivator Ling He, revealing the magnificent Phoenix Seal on his own forehead.

"Whoosh!"

Following Ling He’s death, another radiant Phoenix Seal emerged from the brow of his corpse.

Without any effort, Dong Tianze successfully integrated the seal into himself, his internal aura wildly surged, and his heart thumped non-stop.

The death of the other Divine Guard, who made him feel oppressed and constantly vigilant, had finally come to an abrupt end.

The one who helped him achieve this was Pang Jian, once regarded as his Hall Master.

Dong Tianze’s expression turned complex as he looked toward Pang Jian, who now seemed like a changed person in this space, and said, "I need to begin Spirit Condensation immediately."

Pang Jian nodded.

"I..."

Feeling slightly embarrassed, Dong Tianze averted his gaze from Pang Jian, looked at the stone statues and wooden carvings containing pure divinity, and added, "I want to melt more Divine Essence."

"Certainly."

Pang Jian nodded again.

Pointing casually at Qi Qingsong and Zhou Qingchen, he said, "Qi, Zhou, the two of you will distribute the divine items."

"Him, her, her, and... him."

Pang Jian pointed at Dong Tianze, Zhuang Yuyan, Zhao Yuanqi, and after hesitating for a moment, also indicated Wu Yuan from the Demon Sect, saying, "You all qualify to obtain them."

The indicated Wu Yuan looked somewhat flabbergasted and blankly stared in return.

"Wu Yuan!"

Chen Lushi, another survivor of the Demon Sect, who had regained her memory, had been watching Pang Jian with shining eyes full of admiration, until this moment when she finally noticed her talented fellow disciple.

She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly screamed, "Wu Yuan! You, you actually, actually..."

Her speech was incoherent.

"Why didn’t you take me with you when you escaped from the lake? If you knew something was amiss and you didn’t trust that Fu Wangchen, why didn’t you make it clear to me?"

Chen Lushi finally expressed her internal frustration and dissatisfaction clearly.

"Out of consideration for our fellow disciples, I mentioned it once, but you didn’t pay attention," Wu Yuan said with a slight frown, his tone indifferent. "And I will only say it once."

At his words, Chen Lushi seemed to collapse, her essence, energy, and spirit all diminished noticeably.

After that,

Zhuang Yuyan, Zhao Yuanqi, and Wu Yuan, who were selected to share in the spoils, also joined in moving the stone statues, wooden carvings, and the broken altars.

Fang Boxuan, who had ridden the Sword Boat with them but hesitated and failed to follow them in time, could only watch regretfully.

He wasn’t pointed out by Pang Jian and therefore lost the chance to share, becoming someone excluded from the small group.

And at this moment, Pang Jian turned to the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and said, "You’re free to go."

This fierce Spirit Beast, which had been abandoned in the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land years ago and had struggled to gain its current strength over many years, immediately gathered its power and soared into the sky.

"Pang Jian, be careful of that Flame Fragment Land. There are rampant Alien Tribes there and the presence of more Alien Gods from the Outer Realm."

Leaving this warning behind, it traversed the void, moving at a speed out of reach for the others, and quickly disappeared into the unprotected expanse of the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land.

It was determined to recover its strength as soon as possible with what it had hidden at the bottom of the lake.

"My lord!"

The people of the Ice Tribe, led by Ice Plain and Ice Surplus, only now approached Pang Jian and, with utmost respect, paid their tributes to him.

"I need items or materials that contain the essence of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the dense aura of plants and the thick flame."

"Bring me as many of these things as possible—I need to recover my condition," Pang Jian instructed straightforwardly.

"Yes! I have some!"

"My lord! I possess a golden iron stone imbued with the essence of the sun’s fire!"

The people of the Ice Tribe spoke one after another, hastening to present their treasures as if offering them.

"Find them and bring them to me quickly."

Pang Jian settled atop an icy peak, immediately sat cross-legged, and took out Spirit Jade to refine his strength.

"Understood!"

...

In the Flame Fragment Land,

the Spider God Yang Luo returned once more.

All of the Flame Clan people had been slain by invading groups from the Outer Realm, and the peculiar crystals that occasionally emerged in the fiery magma seas, along with the bright red berries that grew on trees, had also been picked clean by the various tribes.

"Yang Luo, did the Lei Meng Beast God slaughter that audacious Ice Armor Eel Dragon?"

Youkui had retreated into the Flame Fragment Land and was floating on the Ghost Clan’s ship, looking at the Ghost Clan warriors who worshipped him and were collecting Fire Crystals, berries, and Red Flame Divine Iron.

For these tribes, possessing such fire-attribute treasures was hugely profitable in the outside world.

"You guess," Yang Luo replied indifferently.

A few Alien Gods, who had injected their Divine Consciousness into puppets from the outer void, curiously looked over upon hearing this.

"Yang Luo, could there be some unforeseen incident?"

"That Lei Meng Beast God, who ascended in the Thunder Prison, coveted the relics of the Thunder God for tens of thousands of years and was said to have received the assistance of The Observer. It’s improbable he couldn’t kill an eighth-level Spirit Beast, right?"

"Whoosh!"

The massive Ice Armor Eel Dragon suddenly swept by near the Flame Fragment Land, coincidentally observed by these Alien Gods.

"Uh..."

The Alien God who was speaking had two curved horns on his head and resembled a giant blue deer.

He looked at the Ice Armor Eel Dragon flying past the Flame Fragment Land with surprise and said awkwardly, "Are even the Spirit Beasts from Purgatory so formidable?"

"Impossible!"

"Lei Meng Beast God obtained the relics of the Thunder God; he is nearly invincible on that patch of land! I knew this, which is why I refrained from seeking trouble there!"

"Me too!"

"It is too unreasonable if he was defeated!"

Several Alien Gods joined the conversation.

They all knew that once Lei Meng Beast God took control of the Thunder Pond, in that singular Forbidden Land of the Thunder God, these gods who could only bring a fraction of their power to bear stood no chance against Lei Meng Beast God.

— This was the reason they did not leave the Flame Fragment Land.

"In Purgatory, a human named Pang Jian acquired the Divine Object Heart of Winter, sealed by the Ice Demon in The Frozen Land. Holding the Heart of Winter, he merged The Frozen Land with the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God, combining the two Fragment Lands into one," Yang Luo said calmly, restraining the turmoil within her heart. "After the union of the lands, he, like a reborn Ice Demon, severed the specially crafted divine body of Lei Meng Beast God with a branch of the Nine Heavens Thunder God Tree."

"The existence of Lei Meng was obliterated in an instant."

"He was defeated, and the Ice Armor Eel Dragon escaped."

"Pang Jian now firmly controls both the Forbidden Land of the Thunder God and The Frozen Land, with both the Thunder Pond and the Heart of Winter in his possession."

"And you all..."

Yang Luo looked at the puppets harbored by those Alien Gods, then turned to the many Alien Tribes that worshipped the Alien Gods, and asked, "Do you wish to enter the fray?"

...