The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 363 - 342 Condensing Essence Blood_1

Chapter 363: Chapter 342 Condensing Essence Blood_1

A fragment land surrounded by ice fog roared incessantly.

Among the ruins of the city.

"Wu Yuan, once we return to Purgatory, if people from the Demon Sect ask..."

Qi Qingsong munched on the ferocious beast meat he had collected from Fang Boxuan under the Blood Moon, sustaining his Spiritual Soul with qi and blood, and said sideways, "Chen Lushi’s death was by your hand."

"Do you not trust me?" Wu Yuan frowned.

Qi Qingsong smiled, "A little bit."

"I have no sense of belonging to the sect, I’m only seeking Divine Enthronement," Wu Yuan said expressionlessly, like a soulless statue, "The Demon Sect is merely willing to spend resources to cultivate me, providing various suitable demon techniques and secret skills."

"I’ve always wanted to leave, and even more so now."

He glanced at the glaciers in the distance.

"Pang Jian..."

"Is already ahead of all of us. You have the time to test me, better to work hard and cultivate. Strive not to be left too far behind by him."

This Demon Sect genius, after this brutal trial, set Pang Jian as the target for pursuit in his heart.

"He is just at the Spirit Condensation Realm, he just has two more strange items..." Zhao Yuanqi muttered.

Wu Yuan shook his head silently.

Zhuang Yuyan couldn’t help but smile wryly, "You’re still too naive, little junior sister. Our little junior brother let us collect divinity from those stone statues, wood carvings, appearing not so concerned, which only implies one thing."

"What does it suggest?"

"It suggests that his Divine Sense has reached the pinnacle of the Hollow Profound Realm!"

Zhuang Yuyan exclaimed, her eyes shining brightly, "I have always been curious, curious about how much Divine Sense he has condensed in the Hollow Profound Realm."

"At most a few hundred?" Qi Qingsong guessed.

Zhuang Yuyan expressed disbelief, "He won’t tell, it will always be a secret."

...

In the cold ice cave, he cultivated Refined Blood tirelessly, continuously tempering his physical body.

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon’s offer, and the offerings from the Ice Tribe people, the beast blood and flesh from the alien tribes of the Outer Realm, became his daily ration, which he would take out to eat when idle.

Drops of his own fresh blood were refined in the "Creation Divine Pool," repeatedly tempered into Refined Blood.

The same drop of blood, after being condensed in the "Creation Divine Pool," would surge up a hundred times in Blood and Flesh Essence Energy.

"Gurgling!"

He circulated the refined blood to his left arm and immediately felt his blood boiling, pumping out extraordinary strength.

"Bang!"

He swung his arm to smash the adjacent rock wall, and the iron-hard rocks suddenly exploded.

Using the same arm, without summoning extra power, he swung his right arm at the rock wall, which didn’t shatter from the violent impact.

"Blood, running through every part of the human body’s limbs, is always the first to flow out from any torn part of the body."

"Blood is the force that can be mobilized the easiest and can also explode with power the easiest."

Pang Jian buried himself in strenuous cultivation.

The Refined Blood Realm was a process of dripping water wearing away stone; every drop of blood needed to be tempered in the "Creation Divine Pool," and this couldn’t be shortcut; it could only be achieved through day and night of hard work.

Monster flesh was consumed by him piece by piece, and the amount of Refined Blood in his body increased more and more.

As the Refined Blood circulated through his body, he felt a tremendous increase in physical strength, confident that with his flesh and blood alone, he could fight fierce beasts of the same level up close.

"In ancient times, the strong among the Human Race viewed the tempering of the physical body as of utmost importance, capable of tearing apart fierce beasts of the same level with their bare hands."

"Since a new era has come, those old techniques that have been buried in the long river of time are bound to shine anew."

Pang Jian sighed inwardly.

That day.

He once again let his Spiritual Soul enter the Thunder Pond, intending to comprehend the mysteries of Thunder through a Dao Mark, when he suddenly detected an object through the Thunder Pond.

This object was also deep within the vast Mysterious Fog, at an extremely distant location from him.

Through the Thunder Pond, he couldn’t see this object’s appearance and state but sensed an extremely terrifying concentration of thunder energy.

The ferocity and violence of that thunder exceeded the Lei Meng Beast God at that time, making this strange Thunder Pond aware of the anomaly.

"Could it be another Thunder God?"

He had a hunch and sent a Bee Insect to the source of that terrifying energy.

Due to his breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm, and the special nature of his Spiritual Soul, his range of perception with the Bee King and each Bee Insect in the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land also increased tenfold.

The images transmitted by Bee Insects released at great distances would become blurry and disjointed until gradually losing contact with him.

Now, this situation rarely occurred.

As the Bee Insect sped away, he secretly judged that it wouldn’t reach the strange object’s location anytime soon and continued to refine Refined Blood with the "Creation Divine Pool."

Time passed without knowing how long.

Finally, the Bee Insect that flew across the endless Misty Sea reached the domain sensed by the Thunder Pond.

Pang Jian was thunderstruck.

"Swoosh!"

He summoned the Firm Cover, crossed the boundless void, and instantly teleported to this world.

A terrifying being, only a majestic golden skeleton with a pair of massive wings remained, stood in the thick Mysterious Fog.

He stared ahead with hollow eye sockets devoid of eyeballs.

He looked like a lion or tiger, a God Spirit of some world, proficient in the Thunder Tao.

He was also a Thunder God!

Only when facing Him directly did Pang Jian realize He was as massive as the Fire God, like a golden bone mountain tens of thousands of feet tall.

The aura He released made Pang Jian’s temples throb fiercely, exerting intense pressure on him.

"Boom! Crack!"

The vast golden sea of thunder and lightning stirred up from His wings, striking towards Pang Jian’s location as if forged by two worlds of thunder.

Pang Jian’s scalp tingled, and he subconsciously wanted to teleport back to the Ice-thunder Fragment Land.

However.

"Bang! Bang!"

The magnificent thunder and lightning sea roared towards him, yet it was completely blocked by an invisible "membrane," not a single thread of thunderous lightning could penetrate that "membrane."

Facing His divine body and feeling incredibly insignificant, Pang Jian suddenly realized something.

"Boundary Wall!"

Between him and the other, there was the boundary wall of the Purgatory World!

It was because of the boundary wall’s existence that this being, possibly on the same level as the Lei Meng Beast God, could not break through the boundary wall no matter how much force was exerted or how divine power was unleashed.

Pang Jian, who had been slightly reassured, took another close look and confirmed that the being on the other side could not see him at all.

The other seemed to have been lost in the Mysterious Fog for a long, long time and had only recently received a spatial coordinate, groping through the vast emptiness to reach this boundary wall that separated the Purgatory from them.

— He had not sensed the Thunder Pond.

"Since it was me who found you, then it’s the Thunder Pond that can sense you, and you cannot detect the Thunder Pond."

Pondering, Pang Jian moved the Thunder Pond out from the Spiritual Sea’s Thunder Vortex and placed it under his feet.

"Roar!"

The formidable presence on the other side of the boundary wall smelled the scent of the Thunder Pond only at that moment, becoming manically uncontrollable as it frantically clawed and flapped its wings against the boundary wall.

But, like mosquitoes and flies hitting a massive ice crystal, it could not shake the boundary wall in the slightest.

Its divine power was squandered wildly, and the thunder and lightning released from its hollow eye sockets gradually weakened.

After a long struggle, it exhausted itself but could not break through the boundary wall.

Once Pang Jian retrieved the Thunder Pond, It immediately became confused and lost, as if it had suddenly lost its pillar of faith.

It lingered nearby for a long time, groping and trying to break through in various places, but could not get past the boundary wall, eventually having to leave the Mysterious Fog area with the boundary wall.

"The boundary wall of Purgatory, untouchable by godly spirits, confines and protects all the beings of Purgatory."

Pang Jian muttered softly to himself.

Staying in place, he waited patiently, letting time slip by.

A being of the same caliber as the Lei Meng Beast God and the Old Thunder Dragon, like a lion or tiger, never reappeared and didn’t emerge from the depths of the Mysterious Fog up ahead.

At this moment.

"Realm God..."

Pang Jian extended his hand, attempting to touch a part of the boundary wall that enveloped the entire Purgatory.

At the moment his palm touched the boundary wall, it felt like touching a taut and bulging piece of beast skin.

The copper plaque named "Purgatory Gate" unexpectedly became incredibly hot against his chest, making him worry that his flesh might burn.

The feeling of touching the boundary wall then abruptly changed!

It was like plunging his hand into water, easily submerging into it.

"The Purgatory Gate can indeed enable me to cross the boundary wall and allows me to escape from Purgatory!"

"Possessing the power to break through boundaries, this is the power of the Realm God!"

Pang Jian felt surges of emotions.

The boundary wall, unattainable and impenetrable to the common creatures of Purgatory, he could traverse through it relying on the copper plaque!

This meant he did not need to attain Divine Enthronement or promotion to True God to have the power to leave Purgatory!

The Soul Bee from the Netherworld Prison, which appeared in Purgatory and in the depths of the Solitude Mountain Range, now had an explanation.

— It was someone wielding the power of Realm God with the copper plaque who had ventured into the Netherworld Realm and dragged a beehive capable of breeding Ming Prison Soul Bees into the Solitude Mountain Range!

"Should I go out and have a look?"

At the thought, Pang Jian’s heart began to race, and his body hair stood on end.

His eyes suddenly shone with captivating brilliance.

Staring into the Mysterious Fog Sea on the other side, he felt that crossing the boundary wall meant leaving Purgatory and there was hope to move about in the Mysterious Fog World beyond.

"Leaving through the boundary wall, it seems... it’s not the right path. Beyond the boundary wall, there are still the vast and boundless Mysterious Fog Sea. Only by breaking the Heaven Forbidden barrier with the cultivation of a True God and soaring into the depths of the starry sky, it seems like true freedom and ease."

"However..."

"Outside, there may be a siege by various deities."

After long deliberation, Pang Jian shook his head with a soft sigh, giving up the idea of venturing out to explore.

"At the moment I am too weak. If I cross the boundary wall to the Mysterious Fog World on the other side, I would face not alien tribes restricted by rules, but terrifying beings like that one."

"First, I shall return to Purgatory, solidify my cultivation foundation, enhance my combat power, and leave the other matters for another day."

Having figured things out, he returned to the Ice-thunder Fragment Land.

After a while, the Ice-thunder Fragment Land, which had floated for a long time, finally arrived at the location of the last golden bee insect.

Here, Pang Jian knew that it would not be long before they could break out of the Mysterious Fog and return to Purgatory.

Rising into the air, he stated with a clear voice, "Everyone, get ready, we’re about to leave the Misty Sea."

Qi Qingsong and the others, who had been pondering the Body Refining skill to strengthen their physiques and nourish their souls, perked up with excited expressions.

"Purgatory!"

"Back to Purgatory, our sect has complete Body Refining secret skills and pills to temper the body."

"Finally, we’re about to leave this cursed place."

They all sighed with relief.

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