The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 462 - 439 The Meddler_1

Chapter 462: Chapter 439 The Meddler_1

The breakthrough this time came without any warning.

Simply because his Spiritual Soul was in the beehive, being nourished and tempered by soul power like honey, Pang Jian’s dantian underwent a natural transformation.

First, waves arose in his Spiritual Sea, and then a giant whirlpool suddenly appeared in the central region of the Spiritual Sea.

The whirlpool twisted, refining the Spiritual Power in the sea over and over again as if it were purifying it repeatedly.

Until, a fist-sized green stone gradually condensed into being.

At this moment, Pang Jian suddenly gained an insight.

He seemed to see, within a complete land, the process of Spirit Veins slowly binding together to form Spirit Stones, Spirit Jade, and Spirit Crystals.

Spirit Veins gathered nature’s spiritual energy, refining and accumulating it through underground channels, and over time, gradually affected the surrounding rocks.

The rocks, because they were infused with abundant Spiritual Power, would turn into Spirit Stones, then into lustrous Spirit Jade, and finally into Spirit Crystals.

Right now, a similarly miraculous transformation was occurring in the Spiritual Sea of his dantian.

He clearly saw that as the whirlpool in the sea refined and turned, the sea-like Spiritual Power was purified several times and then solidified, undergoing a qualitative metamorphosis.

The liquid-like Spiritual Power of the sea became a solid green stone.

"At first, it was like the misty Spiritual Energy, then the liquid-like oceans, and now it actually becomes a solid stone. Gas, liquid, stone, these changes happen spontaneously with the advancement of one’s cultivation realm."

While thinking this, he took out a large amount of Spirit Jade and Spirit Stones from his bracelet and placed them next to his physical body.

As he absorbed nature’s spiritual energy through the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell," the rich Spiritual Power contained in those Spirit Jades and Spirit Stones was also seized by him.

Gradually, his Spiritual Sea began to shrink.

The whirlpool in the center of his Spiritual Sea, constantly twisting, was crazily devouring the sea-like Spiritual Power, causing the initially fist-sized green stone to grow bit by bit.

The sea was shrinking, and the stone was slowly growing.

He clearly felt that the Spiritual Power contained within that chunk of green stone was purer and more refined than before.

A strand of Spiritual Power within the green stone might be ten times, or even more, that of the previous Spiritual Power in his Spiritual Sea.

Soon, a green stone as large as a millstone grew out from the bottom of the whirlpool in the center of the Spiritual Sea.

As the whirlpool twisted, it continued to swallow and pull in more water, causing the green stone to keep growing.

"Hollow Profound Realm, Spirit Condensation Realm, Soul Wandering Realm, these three realms focus on tempering the soul. From the Extinction Realm onward, my dantian finally experiences astonishing changes again!"

Pang Jian, invigorated by this, then went to sense his own Spiritual Soul.

During the stage of breakthrough, he realized that his Spiritual Soul had been torn by Firm Wind, burned by flames, and then submerged in magma and fiery water.

These various sculptures targeting the soul also left impurities inside the soul and caused some hidden injuries to the soul.

The soul power from the "Ming Prison Soul Bee," like golden honey-like soul liquid, helped him remove all hidden dangers and cleansed the impurities within the soul.

During this process, he also felt a refreshing clarity, a brightness in his spiritual platform.

Even his wisdom seemed to have signs of enhancement.

"This breakthrough, though seemingly abrupt, was in fact a natural progression."

He realized it was because his divine soul gradually reached the Great Perfection of the Soul Wandering Realm that it naturally led to the novel transformation of his Spiritual Sea dantian, allowing him to advance toward the Extinction Realm.

Time passed, and his Spiritual Sea in the dantian had already shrunk by five times its original size.

A huge green stone, like a very small fragment of land, was floating in the center of the whirlpool in his Spiritual Sea.

Above that fragment of green land, the sun, moon, and stars hung in the sky, shining with dazzling and enchanting light.

Above the fragment, there appeared to be a real and complete outer starry sky.

In the still-whirlpool-feeding Spiritual Sea, there was a Flame Pool, Ice Pool, and a Thunder Pond wrapped in a Thunder Vortex, with another small piece of bluish-black land.

At a glance, his dantian was like an independent world.

"Thunder and Lightning, fire, Cold Ice, the sun and moon, the stars, the earth. If all the elements that constitute the foundation of the world could appear in my dantian. Aside from the absence of life, wouldn’t it seem like a world with a perfect set of principles has been opened up inside my dantian?"

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, currently lacking Water and Metal. The life-giving Alien Power of Wood could possibly be created through Pang Ling. After the Extinction Realm, I should start incorporating the peculiarities of Metal and Water, which seem to suit my Divine Tao."

"I want to try constructing a world within my dantian, complete with all the elemental laws of heaven and earth."

"..."

Pang Jian, who was condensing a piece of green fragment land in his dantian, had his mind buzzing with many innovative ideas and plans due to the sudden surge of wisdom.

Even with the new "Chaotic Sword Skill" secrets taught by Pu Zhaotian, he had gained new insights.

"Thunder and Lightning, fire, Cold Ice, the sun and moon, the earth, in addition to blending them to unleash chaotic sword techniques. They could also be combined to form obstacles of earth and Cold Ice in battle, or condense thunder and fire with the sun for a powerful offensive, alternatively using strong light to blind."

"The soul should also be synchronized to form even more profound mysteries."

"..."

Pang Jian, absorbed in his own world with multitasking, paid little attention to external changes.

However, the awakened Bee King, through its bees that were still buzzing through the Mysterious Fog, watched the True God Fan Ao pursue the Five-clawed Golden Dragon.

The Bee King, who bore a six to seven-tenths resemblance to Pang Jian and had a pair of transparent wings, flapped its wings and flew up to the sky above the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land.

Within its golden eyes, if magnified millions of times, were seen myriad scenes unfolding.

——The scene is from the perspectives of all the bee insects.

"Eh!"

He lightly exclaimed above the Forbidden Land.

Through a golden bee insect, he saw a man clad in silver armor appear suddenly within the Mysterious Fog, his face covered by a mask of the same material.

The man, cloaked in armor and hiding his features, sensed the bee insect as soon as he entered the Mysterious Fog.

The bee insect died instantly.

At the Bee King’s location, only a brief image of the man appeared, and his subsequent actions were unknown.

"Another Human True God, with a concealed identity, quietly arriving at the Mysterious Fog."

The Bee King, with a slightly cold expression from the loss of a bee insect, immediately focused his attention on those bee insects that were close to Fan Ao and watching the pursuit battle.

He saw that after countless "Dragon Blood Escapes," the originally thousand-zhang-long colossal body of the Five-clawed Golden Dragon had shrunk tenfold.

Long Zhan had become a Five-clawed Golden Dragon only a hundred zhang in length.

Meanwhile, Fan Ao stood on a golden spiritual platform, still towering like a golden Sky God; his Divine Dharma Aspect showed no sign of exhaustion or shrinkage.

"Huff!"

When Fan Ao once again caught up, about to reach the Five-clawed Golden Dragon, Long Zhan, compared to his current size, was like a small golden serpent.

"Fan Ao! My clan’s Old Dragon will surely know it was you who killed me!"

"I die, but you won’t live much longer either!"

"Damn it! You only advanced to the status of a True God on the Divine Tao before me, you were never a match for me! If I had become a tenth-level Demon God, I could have killed you, Fan Ao, three times over!"

"The Great Tao is unjust, allowing you, Fan Ao, to monopolly occupy this Divine Tao for so long!"

The increasingly exhausted Long Zhan, knowing he couldn’t escape much longer, began to blame heaven and others, venting his defeat on the entire Purgatory World.

"That Thunder God’s Path, hasn’t that old fellow of your Dragon Race also monopolized it for ten thousand years? Compared to him, I have been divine-enthroned for merely three thousand years; what’s that by way of monopolizing?"

Fan Ao’s voice was devoid of sadness or joy, and the golden spiritual platform below him was like an expanse of gold, forming an entire world.

"Hiss Hiss!"

Nearly a hundred golden divine lights, like the incisive marks of a golden dao, flew out from the golden spiritual platform, turning into chains and a cage.

Fan Ao lightly commanded, "Gold, iron, copper, silver!"

The divine light suddenly transformed, becoming like veins of gold, iron, copper, and silver within the complete land of Purgatory, carrying the secrets of four metals, aiming to lock down the Five-clawed Golden Dragon as it tried to escape again.

"I will never accept my death at your hands, Fan Ao!"

The Five-clawed Golden Dragon roared furiously as its golden scales shattered one by one, and its Dragon Blood rained down like torrential downpour.

"Boom!"

A majestic man clad in silver armor suddenly appeared like a towering mountain, and with a divine aspect as grand, he caught and tore apart the golden-silver-copper-iron chains and the cage.

"True God!"

Long Zhan bellowed, frantically seizing the moment to trigger the "Dragon Blood Escape" secret skill, succeeding in escaping from the shattered cage.

Once free, it used "Dragon Blood Escape" several more times in rapid succession to get as far away from Fan Ao as possible.

He had no idea what had occurred outside that resulted in another Human True God, hiding both features and unique aura, coming to rescue him from Fan Ao’s pursuit.

But he knew he had to cling to this chance to survive.

As long as the newly arrived Human True God could block True God Fan Ao, preventing him from continually tracking him, he could use the blood escape several times and exit Fan Ao’s sensory range.

The Mysterious Fog was boundless; once he was beyond Fan Ao’s perception, being chased down would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

...

"I never expected that the one to block my pursuit of Long Zhan would be not the Old Dragon from the Dragon Cave but one of our own."

After the third pursuit was blocked, Fan Ao knew he could no longer track Long Zhan.

He looked at the man who had retracted his Divine Dharma Aspect and was quietly retreating without a word, asking, "Why?"

He knew the other was one of the True Gods.

True Gods, including himself, amounted to merely fifteen; he had met each one and frequently convened with them at the white jade pillars of the Observatory.

Yet, despite being obstructed several times, he could not determine the man’s identity.

The Divine Skill the man used, the breath of his Spiritual Soul revealed, and his Divine Power all felt unfamiliar to him.

——The other had deliberately obscured everything.

"Whoosh!"

The man clad in silver armor disappeared, leaving behind only a yellow paper in the mist.

Fan Ao suddenly contracted his Divine Dharma Aspect, and the golden spiritual platform, along with it, reverted to its original form. He shifted from standing to sitting as he took the yellow paper into his hand and looked down at it.

"The Dragon Cave wants to trade my fall for an alliance, to have Long Zhan achieve Divine Enthronement."

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