The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 445 - 423 White Fox Demon King_1

Chapter 445: Chapter 423 White Fox Demon King_1

Daylight receded, and night fell.

Before the moon rose and the stars appeared, a gigantic Demon Heart hovered over the swamp.

Suddenly, the blood-scented Demon Heart lit up with flickering stars.

The living heart, because of those starry light spots, suddenly became dazzling.

Inside the Demon Heart, engulfed by starshine and golden light, was Pang Jian’s figure. He absorbed all the nutrients within the Demon Heart as if he were a sponge soaking up water, greedily sucking them in!

Blood and Flesh Essence Energy, the essence of stars, and the power of metal!

The force that a Level Eight Star Gold Armor Beast had accumulated over its lifetime flooded into Pang Jian’s body, completing the strengthening of his physical form.

"Hmm!"

Yuan Qi, whose figure was becoming increasingly enormous, turned his head and his Ice Blue Demon Pupils also showed a hint of surprise.

"Whoosh!"

His hands continued to move, the blade formed from the Heaven Phoenix Divine Bone piercing towards the fleeing Silver Scale Python.

As the blade broke through the air, a crack of cold light that could split the heavens and earth suddenly appeared, slicing through the air.

The mysteries ingrained in Yuan Qi’s Demon Heart from his ancestors’ contemplations, translated into lightning, flares of fire, and icy flames, were invoked by the Divine Power of the Heaven Phoenix Divine Bones.

Yuan Qi’s ape ancestors had mastered the essence of the bloodline not limited to the mystery of Cold Ice.

He was merely most proficient in this aspect and sought to promote it greatly, hoping to use it to challenge for a position among the Demon Gods in the future.

"Duo!"

The Divine Bone plunged into the depths of the lake, in the chaos below the lake’s surface, skewering the Level Eight Silver Scale Python.

The death of three Level Eight Great Demons caused all the lesser demons who accompanied them to quiver with fear, until Yuan Qi’s huge demonic body descended on the lake, extracting both the Heaven Phoenix Divine Bone and the Silver Scale Python together.

All the lesser demons had already fled in terror.

"The Silver Scale Python has bloodline properties very similar to mine; its Demon Heart will definitely provide me with more wonders."

Yuan Qi swallowed the fourth Demon Heart in one gulp.

In mid-air, the Star Gold Armor Beast’s Demon Heart suddenly began to shrink rapidly.

Meanwhile, Pang Jian within it used the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell" and the "Great Creation Sacred Body" together to refine the blood energy inside, reaping a bountiful harvest.

"Peng!"

The Demon Heart exploded.

Pang Jian reappeared with his skin emitting a golden glow, as if he had been coated in gold, giving off the impression of a human gilded in precious metal.

He said with a pleased expression, "Not a bad feeling at all."

In his dantian, dozens of new, shining stars had appeared, each as bright as diamonds.

Upon closer inspection, within those new stars, one could see hair-thin bloodline lightning, imprinted with delicately intricate mysteries related to the stars.

From the Demon Heart of the Level Eight Great Demon, his Chaos Sea had even managed to extract the Star Secret Skill contemplated by that demon!

Even the Golden Body Realm of his "Great Creation Sacred Body" was nourished by the pure metal power found in the essence blood of the Star Gold Armor Beast, making the skin layer even thicker and tougher.

Because there was nothing in his Chaos Sea that corresponded to the metal path, he wasn’t imprinted with mysteries related to that aspect.

But, had he encountered some good fortune with a mountain of metal in the Spiritual Sea of his dantian, he surmised that the essence blood of the Level Eight Star Gold Armor Beast would likely imprint upon it the secrets related to metal as well!

Apart from metal, the mysteries of the stars, along with the vast Blood and Flesh Essence Energy, also flowed into his "Creation Divine Pool."

In that aperture he used to store his Qi and Blood, the dense blood mist underwent a transformation due to the Qi and Blood of the Star Gold Armor Beast, turning into a small pool of blood water.

From a mist to a pool, the blood’s formation was a qualitative change in Qi and Blood!

The "Creation Divine Pool" seemed to only truly live up to its name after the Blood Pool was formed.

The substantial increase in his Qi and Blood was also vividly reflected in his Spirit Sea of Consciousness, making him feel full of energy and even causing his Spiritual Soul to feel lighter.

He had always known that, since his Spiritual Soul was filled with divinity, it was different from the souls of all Human Race Cultivators of this era.

The strength of Qi and Blood and the flesh could directly benefit his Spiritual Soul.

This time, through the Demon Heart of a Level Eight Star Gold Armor Beast, it became even clearer to him that once his flesh achieved a major breakthrough, his Spiritual Soul would become correspondingly stronger!

After another careful sensation, he happily said, "Inside the body of the Star Gold Armor Beast, there actually exists both gold and star Bloodline Alien Powers, all within the essence blood of the heart!"

"The bloodline of the Star Gold Armor Beast is as marvelous as the name of their clan," Yuan Qi, in his Giant Ape form, said with a grin.

His thickly furred mouth corners dripped with fresh, crimson blood, making him look extremely ferocious and savage.

"Like the deceased Ghost-faced Jackal, some of its ancestors had comprehended the Great Tao of Thunder and Lightning, while others had discerned the mysteries of flame, permanently imprinting them deep within the bloodline. The Thunder and Flame Bloodline Secret Skills would exist within the Ghost-faced Jackal’s descendants in the form of a Bloodline Crystal Chain."

"The Ghost-faced Jackal that was adept in the Way of Thunder and Lightning had ancestors who contemplated the mysteries of Thunder and Lightning at Level Eight, which would emerge when the Ghost-faced Jackal reached Level Eight. Another ancestor who had a profound understanding of the mystery of flames by Level Seven, meant that the Ghost-faced Jackal’s Demon Heart would exhibit the corresponding flame mysteries at Level Seven."

"Our Demon Race’s strength lies in inheriting our ancestors’ Bloodline Divine Skills, standing on the shoulders of giants to make progress."

"Unlike your Human Race, which must waste countless hours relearning the basic knowledge from scratch."

"It’s only at Level Nine that our Demon Race needs to contemplate deeper and more profound Bloodline Secret Skills based on our existing bloodline."

Yuan Qi casually explained.

Upon hearing this, Pang Jian was silently astonished, and suddenly, an image formed in his mind.

Even in their early stages when their Spiritual Intelligence had not yet awakened, as the Demon Race’s bloodline advanced, the Demon Hearts would naturally reveal the innate Divine Skills that should belong to that level of bloodline.

No need to learn, no need to consciously comprehend, once the Demon Heart bursts forth with strangeness, they naturally grasp it.

Starting from the ninth level, the bloodline secrets of the older generation within the clan all shone forth, with no new secret skills of profound mysteries appearing. At this time, the majority of the Demon Race had become Demon Kings, with a wisdom that was no inferior to that of any other race.

Only at this moment did they need to stand on the foundation of their predecessors and comprehend new bloodline mysteries anew.

The brand-new bloodline secret skills they perceived would also be imprinted in the blood of the next generation, allowing their descendants to take fewer detours.

"Your Demon Race is indeed blessed with unique advantages, as if you are the favored children of this world," Pang Jian sincerely marveled.

"But it seems that some power is limiting this greatest of our talents!"

A cold voice came quietly.

Pang Jian and Yuan Qi looked attentively and saw, in the muddy depths where the demon horde had retreated, a bald and dry tree branch upon which stood a silver-haired marten.

"Hu!"

As the two men looked, the Mountain Beaver suddenly solidified into a slender Human Race woman.

Draped in long silver-white hair that enshrouded most of her body, her exposed small face was exquisite, but her pitch-black Demon Pupils revealed a chilling and dangerous aura.

"White Fox Demon King!"

Yuan Qi’s Demon Pupils revealed a look of shock.

From the Rock Bear Demon King, he knew that this White Fox Demon King was a neighbor and the master of this lake marsh and mudflat.

— And was the being whom the Silver Scale Python, Star Gold Armor Beast, and Wind Eagle pledged their loyalty to.

"I’m glad you know me."

The human-shaped White Fox extended a hand hidden within her flowing silver-white hair.

In the palm of her hand appeared that blood-colored beast pupil.

"Yuan Min tasked me with killing the Sword Tower boy, then capturing you alive," she said squinting at Yuan Qi, then turned her gaze to Pang Jian, her voice cold, "Pu Zhaotian’s disciple is indeed impressive, actually able to extract the Bloodline Divine Power from the Demon Heart of the Great Demons under my command. Grey Ape, setting aside your killing of my subordinates for now, but this boy!"

"Chila!"

A flash of alien light in her Demon Pupils sparked, and her long silver-white hair suddenly burst into pale flames.

Her other bony and withered hand, previously concealed in her hair, suddenly stretched out and snatched at Pang Jian through the air.

A white-boned giant hand, burning with pale flames, suddenly appeared between heaven and earth, as if clutching the void where Pang Jian was suspended.

"Bang!"

The thick Spiritual Power Strong Shield Pang Jian swiftly conjured instantly shattered.

As his expression drastically changed, his pupils turned pure gold, trying to break through the White Fox’s Divine Skills and demon art with the power of his Spiritual Soul.

"What a coincidence, I specialize in this as well," the White Fox sneered, her pitch-black, obsidian-like Demon Pupils staring straight into his.

One of her pitch-black Demon Pupils suddenly turned white, and then within her pair of Demon Pupils, two eerie black and white worlds of space and time unfolded.

The pure black and white, which existed even before vibrant colors appeared in Purgatory, seemed to have existed from the beginning.

Two strands of bizarre spiritual evil forces, one black and one white, traveled straight into Pang Jian’s mind through the eye contact between their pupils.

"Boom! Boom!"

Pang Jian suddenly felt his life, his Sea of Consciousness, his Dan Tian, his body, and everything he saw, sensed, and thought, were reduced to nothing but black and white.

In the world around him, in his life, it seemed as though no other colors existed.

He saw blood flowing from his nostrils, and even that was black, he felt his Spiritual Soul become pale and strange, as if tainted with some color of death.

"Grey Ape, would you be willing to perform the Return to Ancients ritual for me?"

The giant white bone hand held onto Pang Jian’s body, drawing him away from Yuan Qi’s side.

Yuan Qi was furious.

He swung the blade tempered with his Heaven Phoenix Divine Bone, intending to sever the White Fox’s white boned hand, but the White Fox deflected him with a sweep of her hand still holding the blood-colored beast pupil.

With a flick of her hand, the back of it faced Yuan Qi.

Yuan Qi’s Giant Ape body, which exceeded two hundred zhang, as if struck head-on by an invisible heavy mountain, his Demon Bones making a "crack" sound, uncontrollably flew backwards through the air.

"Boom!"

His demon body heavily landed, creating a deep pit in the ground, causing countless rocks to explode.

"Pursuing my subordinates, and daring to chase all the way into my territory, you truly didn’t regard me highly," said the petite White Fox, her figure inconsistent with the physique of all the Great Demons, as she stood atop the distant dead tree.

After grabbing Pang Jian with one hand and blasting Yuan Qi with the other, she declared coldly, "As long as you swear an oath using the Ancient Demon Clans’ pledge, and agree to conduct the Return to Ancients ritual for me, I shall spare both you and this Sword Tower boy from death."

"Grey Ape, Elder Xiong is still a thousand miles away, he cannot come to rescue you in time!" the White Fox threatened.

"If you agree to one condition, I will perform the Return to Ancients ritual for you!" Yuan Qi howled, "As long as you are willing to support Elder Xiong’s ascension to Demon God and agree not to obey the Dragon Cave’s orders, I will unconditionally help your bloodline Return to Ancients!"

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