The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 504 - 479 Apocalypse Disaster_1

Chapter 504: Chapter 479 Apocalypse Disaster_1

The dome of the sky was dark green and black, the earth silent and serene.

The mountainous purple Demon Stone continued to release dark green and black Demon Light, growing denser and more profound.

Underneath the Demon Stone, engulfed in the Demon Light, Pang Jian felt as though he was submerged in an endless deep ocean.

He had been staring intently at the Demon Stone, not daring to make any sudden moves, when he suddenly noticed that the Demon Element Power emanating from it began to drift away like smoke and clouds.

The thick Demon Element Power seemed to merge into the Firm Cover that obscured the Demon Abyss, and appeared to pass through the barrier to the outside world.

A chill surged through his heart.

That Demon Element Power, capable of twisting minds and enticing evil deeds, had always been confined within the deep pit created by the fall of the Demon Stone, preventing it from affecting the creatures of the Demon Abyss Continent.

Only those who prepared themselves and believed in the resilience of their hearts were permitted to enter the Demon Abyss for cultivation.

Even so, cultivators who fell into this dark Demon Abyss would still kill each other and be swayed by the evil and wicked thoughts in their hearts.

And such individuals were often skilled at controlling their inner selves.

If the Demon Element Power were to spread across the Continent outside the Demon Abyss, affecting the cultivators from smaller Sect powers and the ordinary mortals within the great cities, what kind of serious consequences would ensue?

Would it not be equivalent to a surge of Filth Alien Power?

At this thought, Pang Jian’s mind suddenly filled with vivid images, and he feared that chaos had already erupted on the lands above.

As he hesitated over how to awaken Wu Yuan and seek out the Source Demon within the black gold Longsword, the towering purple Demon Stone suddenly trembled.

"Boom!"

In an instant, the purple Demon Stone transformed into a purple abyss that devoured the souls of the living!

It unleashed an indescribable, soul-targeting force of terrifying suction!

Pang Jian’s enormous golden Spiritual Soul, suspended in his Sea of Consciousness, was immediately influenced by the pull of the Demon Stone.

His golden Spiritual Soul uncontrollably attempted to rush out of his Sea of Consciousness and enter the Demon Stone.

Overwhelmed with terror, Pang Jian knew that once his Spiritual Soul left his body, he would become like Dazzling Shadow and Wu Yuan, reduced to a fleshly shell without a soul.

"Stabilize!"

Thus, he poured all his strength in an instant, stirring the Spiritual Sea within his dantian, causing the seas of blood in the "Creation Divine Pool" to boil.

With layers upon layers of Firm Cover’s Alien Power, he solidly enveloped his body, relying on his firm will to desperately hold on.

Facing the Demon Stone that seemed to harbor endless evil, his struggle was incredibly difficult.

His golden Spiritual Soul, as if being tugged by countless invisible threads, roared in his Sea of Consciousness, striving to break free from the God Land he could control.

His spirit, his vitality, all his attention was focused above the golden Spiritual Soul.

In his heart, he visualized that his will and spirit together imagined the golden Spiritual Soul as a towering Divine Mountain thousands of feet high, rooted deep within his Sea of Consciousness.

"Whoosh!"

The Spiritual Soul instantly became a golden Divine Mountain, emitting three thousand blinding golden divine glows.

Each golden divine glow contained vigorous divinity, as if corresponding to the various heavenly laws and principles, imprinting a kind of mystical Secret Skill.

His appearance grew strained with bulging veins, he groaned in agony, and blood poured from all seven orifices.

Trails of blood, like earthworms or thin snakes, covered his face, sliding down to his visibly veined neck.

The ghastly mix of dragon-serpent-worm marks made his countenance extremely terrifying and fierce at that moment.

"Ying Yue, even the Divine Consciousness that the Moon Goddess infused into that body has been sucked away!"

Pang Jian exhausted all his strength, focusing all the power he could muster, refining his will and spirit, still struggling to resist the pull from the Demon Stone.

After what seemed an eternity, just as he felt he could no longer hold on, that his will was about to burn out, the soul-devouring force emanating from the Demon Stone suddenly weakened.

"Huff! Huff, huff, huff!"

He gasped for air, blood mixed with spit choking him, causing him to cough repeatedly.

He coughed up blood but also swallowed it back down.

Struggling to calm his heart, he carelessly wiped the blood from his face and hastily took out a Soul Nurturing Pill and a Big Blood Essence Pill from the Storage Ring and swallowed them.

Rubbing his eyes, dissolving the blood at the corners, he fixed his gaze back on the massive Demon Stone.

He saw several Spiritual Souls and some incomplete spirits flying into the Demon Stone, which had stood towering over the Continent for who knows how many years, like birds returning to their nest.

Like him, the cultivators scattered far away from the Demon Stone in the Demon Abyss were also robbed of their souls by this vibration!

Inside the Demon Abyss now, there should be many bodies sitting dry and motionless like Dazzling Shadow and Wu Yuan.

With their spirits detached, the Sea of Consciousness lay empty, they were as good as the living dead.

At this moment, Pang Jian also suddenly realized that people like Dazzling Shadow and Wu Yuan must have lost their souls during similar vibrations of the Demon Stone, leaving only their bodies below it.

Those few had suffered the first wave of soul-snatching, and not one had withstood it.

The one just now might have been the second wave, which had spread throughout the entire Demon Abyss, causing those who had entered to temper their hearts to lose their souls in an instant.

With the first wave, followed by a second, could there be a third wave?

Should the third wave erupt, could the power of the Demon Stone to pull at the souls of all living beings seep beyond the Demon Abyss and cover part of the Continent’s domain?

Pang Jian felt a chill run through his entire body.

With his special Spiritual Soul, hard to find a second one like it in the world, resisting the second wave of the Demon Stone’s disturbances, he had been left so disheveled that he almost couldn’t hold on any longer.

If it was like this for him, how many people could withstand such a suction and endure it smoothly?

"The changes in the Demon Abyss, the disturbances of the Demon Stone, are not something I can handle!"

He glanced at Wu Yuan’s corpse and the black-gold longsword that no longer contained the Source Demon, weighing his options anxiously.

"The Source Demon was once a Demon God; He might be able to break free from that Demon Stone. Now this sword is His Demon Body. If I take the sword away, He will have no body to use when He comes out."

"Wu Yuan, the one recognized by the Demon Stone, was exactly cultivating the Demon Stone Spell."

"They should be fine, they should be able to wake up at some moment, returning their souls to their bodies."

"..."

After hesitating for a moment, Pang Jian threw the sword scabbard he was holding next to the Origin Demon Sword, to indicate that he had been there.

Looking up, he gazed at the sky.

All those who descended into the Demon Abyss would start from the edge, moving step by step towards the Demon Stone, slowly experiencing the increasingly intense impact of the Demon Element Power.

For someone like him, no longer impacted by the Demon Element Power, leaving was much simpler.

"Huff!"

He summoned the Divine Object "Heart of Winter," standing on this treasure like a glimmering icy star as he flew straight up from the center of the Demon Abyss.

He smoothly crossed over the dark greenish-black light curtain at the center of the Demon Abyss and entered the world outside, only to be stunned.

The sky outside was very similar to that within the Demon Abyss!

In the heavens, where there should have been a brilliant sun or sparkling stars and moon, there appeared a huge greenish-black Demon Light sky curtain, which obscured everything!

The Demon Abyss Continent of the Second Realm was actually in a state of being completely sealed by the sky curtain!

Hovering in midair, he narrowed his eyes and used his Spiritual Soul to peer below, seeing the Demon Element Power continuously spreading out from the light curtain of the Demon Abyss.

Those diluted Demon Element Powers, though invisible and without form in the outside world, were silently infiltrating and assimilating nature’s spiritual energy.

Centered on this Demon Abyss, the spiritual energy of the nature within tens of thousands of miles had been transformed into Demon Element Power, which was still spreading outward and would eventually inundate the entire Continent.

If this trend continued, the Demon Element Power of the Demon Abyss Continent of the Second Realm would ultimately replace every trace of the world’s spiritual energy.

In its place, what would exist was the Demon Element Power normally found only in the Outer Demon Domain.

By that time, perhaps the Demon Abyss Continent would become as its name suggested, a true Demon Abyss, a world most suitable for the survival of the Demon Clan warriors.

Such a world, in the outer Star River, is known as the Demon Realm!

"Pang Jian!"

Li Jie’s strange cry rang out again.

Pang Jian, stunned by the unusual tremors from the Continent below, turned his head to the source of the sound and saw Li Jie controlling the Kylin Bell, followed by a group of powerful Cultivators.

Those people wore different clothes, clearly belonging to different Sects and families, and were mostly of the Extinction and Immortal Realms.

"This Continent has been sealed off. The spread of the evil Demon Power from within the Demon Abyss has led to widespread slaughter among all affected. That kind of brutal infighting has spread across the entire Continent, creating bloodshed and slaughter everywhere, everywhere the wails of the dying!"

"We can’t get out, and it seems those from the outside can’t get in either!"

"Pang Jian, I feel that the root cause of all the problems is the Demon Stone below!"

"I’ve gathered those strong ones who still maintain their Spiritual Intelligence, and I’ve brought them here, hoping that together, we could solve this terrifying calamity of the Demon Abyss!"

"This is Elder Duan Yun from Black Valley, mid-stage of the Immortal Realm."

"This is ..."

Li Jie called out strangely, quickly clarifying the situation before immediately introducing the identities of those people to Pang Jian.

The arrivals were mostly strong figures from Black Valley, followed by leaders from various smaller Sects, and also the true rulers of major families.

They numbered in the dozens.

"Sword Tower, Pang Jian!"

The newcomers gave Pang Jian a deep look, immediately inquiring about the specifics, asking what exactly had happened in the central Demon Abyss below.

"Why aren’t there people from the Demon Sect?" Pang Jian asked instead of answering.

The Demon Sect was the actual ruler of this Continent and also the Sect with the most powerful individuals.

During a doomsday catastrophe, it shouldn’t be someone like Elder Duan Yun from Black Valley taking the lead, but rather someone like Xiang Shengwei from the Demon Sect should be the one to turn the tide.

"The Demon Sect..."

Elder Duan Yun from Black Valley, disheveled and in disarray, bared his teeth and roared with anger: "The disaster on the Demon Abyss Continent, eight or nine out of ten, was caused by the Demon Sect! We have used all methods to communicate with Xiang Shengwei of the Demon Sect, and contacted every possible Immortal Realm Elder."

"No one responded!"

"Those strong figures from the Demon Sect, each one of them is like dead, none of them responded to us!"

Duan Yun glared at the location of the Demon Sect headquarters, a trace of fear and horror flashing in his eyes as he forced himself to calm down and reiterated: "I suspect that the cause of the disaster on this Continent is the Demon Sect!"

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