The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 514 - 489: Sharpening the Sword with the Demon Fetus_1

Chapter 514: Chapter 489: Sharpening the Sword with the Demon Fetus_1

The murky and gloomy world within the sword, the handsome prince of the Ghost Demon Clan transformed into a rainbow light and fled from the Demon Fetus in terror.

He shrank into a corner of this world, secretly observing the momentarily revived Spiritual Intelligence of the Demon Fetus, fearing it would once again utter the Demon Sound.

Having experienced it once, he knew he was powerless to cope.

He silently felt everything, reflecting on his experiences within the demon nest and pondering this series of drastic changes.

"Pang Jian!" he suddenly exclaimed softly, "When I entered the demon nest, I saw something was wrong with him; he was weak and powerless. Because he and I share the same origin, I was able to take him away and bring him to this small heavenly realm inside the sword that I control."

"But still, I miscalculated!"

Source Demon spoke rapidly, "As soon as he awakens, as long as he truly wants to merge with me, I simply cannot resist him!"

"Fortunately, he is not at that piece of Demon Stone, not inside the demon nest! Otherwise, the Demon Element Power seeping out of the demon nest would have been integrated by him already, and he would have recovered by now!"

Source Demon guessed an approximation.

"Let me try to erase He!"

The golden Spiritual Soul belonging to Pang Jian howled through the dim small heavenly realm within the sword.

Blinding beams of golden radiance unexpectedly manifested in patterns resembling the Chaos Sea.

In the Dantian Fragment Land he had constructed, there were Gold Mountain, fierce Flame Pool, Ice Pool, Thunder Vortex, and the existence of stars, crescent moons, and the Fierce Sun within the Fragment Land.

All were within those beams of golden radiance!

The profound essence of the laws he had meticulously comprehended and penetrated was already imprinted within his Spiritual Soul; as the light of his Spiritual Soul emanated outward, he was now dispersing his unique Great Tao!

The Great Tao outwardly manifested through divine radiance, and the radiance itself contained the power to erode divinity; his Spiritual Soul was second to none in this world!

In the peculiar small heavenly realm inside the sword, riddled with the intricacies of six Secret Demonic Realms, Pang Jian was like an invading God Spirit from the Outer Realm, tainting this world with his Divine Power.

"He..."

The extraordinarily beautiful Source Demon sighed softly from his corner.

The Demon Fetus was the Original Demon, now in its weakest stage, unable to heal and recover using the Demon Element Power after a major plot had failed and having been taken away from the demon nest by Him.

And Pang Jian, with his fierce and unique Spiritual Soul, seemed to truly have the potential to eradicate the Original Demon.

However, He was a secondary soul separated by the Original Demon.

Based on the memories imprinted on his soul, if the Original Demon truly ceased to exist, secondary souls like Him would also perish in an instant.

By killing the Demon Fetus, Pang Jian would also be killing Him.

But if he did not kill the Demon Fetus and allowed it to grow stronger, the Demon Fetus would still assimilate Him and strangle Pang Jian after regaining its strength.

The Source Demon, with sorrow in his heart, felt like a pitiful creature, with his fate completely out of his control.

He wanted to plead, but he felt that the outcome of pleading might not necessarily be better, so he chose to remain silent.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The six Secret Demonic Realms, originally under His control, were seized by the Demon Fetus when it briefly regained consciousness, and the six Devil Sky Chaos Caves, transformed from illusion to reality, blocked the shooting golden light, as if pushed by numerous Demon Gods.

The sounds of the Great Tao colliding echoed throughout the small heavenly realm within the sword!

In the dark and unseen strange land, stars fell and burned, Fierce Suns erupted into fragments, and icy worlds along with Thunderous Lightning perished together.

Similarly,

Infinite waves of blue-black Demon Flame, intricate and mysterious demon patterns, and winding, crystal-clear Bloodline Crystal Chains also shattered into mist.

The Secret Demonic Realm derived from the supreme truth of the Demon Tao, the mysterious source of all demons from the beginning, flitted across this world in alternation.

"Original Demon Fusion Spell, originated from your interpretations of the true Demon Tao Spell. Your power is certainly not limited to this; it’s just a pity that you are too weak to fully display your power!"

Pang Jian stood in the void in his Spiritual Soul form.

With a pressing motion of his hands downward, two brilliantly golden worlds suddenly solidified; one resembled his Dantian Fragment Land, with the Flame Pool, Ice Pool, Thunder Vortex, and Gold Mountain.

The other world transformed into a river of light, sparkling with stars and celestial bodies.

He suddenly experienced a feeling of thrilling liberation!

It turned out that all the powers he had comprehended could be materialized in the Soul Battle!

His golden Spiritual Soul could manifest anything; his Soul Power could even metamorphose and materialize all things!

"Boom!"

The world formed from the Dantian Fragment Land slammed onto the two Devil Sky Chaos Caves, destroying towering Demon Palaces.

The Demon Gods and Great Demon Gods standing within those palaces, as if receiving worship from countless demons, turned to ash in an instant.

Others among the Demon Generals and Demon Women reveling in ecstasy were also ground into dust by this world’s power, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!"

The celestial river, with stars and moons floating within it, descended upon two other Devil Sky Chaos Caves, purifying the demonic realms piled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood as if they were sacred lands of the world of humans.

The bright and pure radiance of the stars and moons fell upon those filthy lands, evaporating all the evil within.

Clusters of malevolent human thoughts and the evil fruits of created beings’ Demon Hearts were all dissolved in the purifying light of this holy world.

"So this is what Soul Battle can be like."

Pang Jian grew more fervent as the battle raged on.

He did not specifically delve into any mysterious soul techniques, but he discovered that the way his spiritual soul manipulated the essence of the Chaos Sea was a soul technique unique to him!

In battle, he watched the demon fetus, which had regained its spiritual intelligence, employing the six Devil Sky Chaos Caves to fight and gained a deeper understanding of the "Original Demon Fusion Spell."

He took advantage of the demon fetus when it was at its weakest, further weakened by its failed pursuit of a grand scheme.

He also exploited the fact that the demon fetus wasn’t in the demon nest but had been taken out by the Source Demon; in this small sword world, it hadn’t managed to capture enough Demon Element Power.

The demon fetus became the whetstone for strengthening his self, the best teacher for him to comprehend the "Original Demon Fusion Spell!"

Inside the spatial dimension of the Origin Demon Sword, he fought a bitter battle with the weak demon fetus using his golden spiritual soul and the Spirit Spells and secret skills he had comprehended over the years.

The two sides fought to a stalemate.

And the dense Demon Element Power that shielded the Demon Abyss Continent was still crazily surging into his body, continuously entering his chest.

Within the Purgatory Gate, slightly ajar, amidst the thinning mist...

All the Demon Element Power entering from outside was refined at one spot, coalescing into a blue-black bead.

This bead was only the size of a thumb, a crystal essence condensed from the refining of the Demon Element Power.

As more Demon Element Power arrived, it was gradually absorbed and refined by the bead, which also slowly grew in size.

It was a solid crystal, the ultimate form of condensed Demon Element Power, looking like another piece of blue-black extraterrestrial Demon Stone, exuding an extraordinary depth and mystery.

"It’s almost there!"

Dong Shangqing’s eyes shone with delight.

In his view, the "Sky-covering Demon Array" had thinning Demon Element Power, especially in the area where Pang Jian stood.

Many Demon Element Powers that maintained the array, with their crystal networks now clearly visible, were becoming intermittent.

"The Demon Abyss Continent will soon be exposed beneath the sunlight, it won’t be long before we can effortlessly slip in without having to forcefully destroy the array!"

Dong Shangqing turned his head, looking at Li Wang whose expression was off: "Is managing the Demon Subduing Stone Niche inside giving you a hard time?"

Li Wang replied bitterly, "Indeed, it’s not going smoothly."

"No matter, at worst you lose only one spiritual soul, it won’t harm the foundation of your Great Tao," Dong Shangqing spoke with a relaxed and casual tone: "As long as we get in, the crisis of the Demon Abyss Continent will resolve itself! By then, could the Demon Subduing Stone Niche possibly escape?"

"Li Wang, you always tell us to sacrifice the lesser self for the greater self," Pu Zhaotian said with a cold sneer, pulling at the corners of his mouth: "Now, it’s your turn to sacrifice the lesser self to prevent the extinction of all beings in the Demon Abyss Continent."

Li Wang nodded: "When it’s my turn to sacrifice, I never shirk."

"That’s good," Pu Zhaotian grunted.

...

Inside the Demon Abyss Continent.

Li Jie, who had shrunk the Kirin Bell for carrying, stared at the Mo Sect Disciples flying back and forth in the distant sky, frantically concealing his aura and skulking cowardly through the dense forests.

He was still moving away from the Demon Abyss, still moving away from Demon Sect headquarters.

Xiang Shengwei, Chen Xuanfeng, Qu Long, Wu Yuan, these most dazzling and supreme figures of the Demon Sect, had either become the incarnations of the Great Demon God or turned into loyal devotees of those Demon Gods.

The most formidable power on this continent—Demon Sect—was now wielding its blade against other Human Race Great Cultivators, continually creating atrocious massacres.

The rampant spread of Demon Element Power magnified the evil thoughts in people’s hearts, causing weak cultivators and ordinary people to lose control one after another.

Many strong-willed cultivators with significant accomplishments withstood the invasion of evil thoughts wave after wave, stubbornly surviving.

Just as they saw Li Wang’s Demon Subduing Stone Niche emerge and the Star River suspended in the sky, preparing to coordinate with Li Wang to resolve the turmoil caused by the Demon Abyss, they were caught by a brutal counterattack from the powers of the Demon Sect.

This time, nearly all the deceased were Great Cultivators from the Soul Wandering Realm, Extinction Realm, and even a few from the Immortal Realm.

"The wounds of this continent might not recover for a thousand years. Black Valley and all those ancient families are likely to sink in this great calamity," Li Jie mused as he passed a valley gathered by people from the Lower Realm.

Within the valley, members of Star River Alliance and Blood Moon Gate who had previously been fighting incessantly were now many of them kneeling in pools of blood, weeping and apologizing to their fellow disciples who had died by their own hands.

Too bad the dead cannot be brought back to life, their crying was meaningless.

"Sigh."

Li Jie sighed lightly and continued on his way without pausing.

He had seen too many such scenes, his heart had long since become numb.

Now, he could only hope that the barrier obscuring the sky over the Demon Abyss would disappear soon; he was eager to see a ray of sunlight shining down.

"Whoosh!"

As if in response to him, a ray of sunlight stubbornly pierced through the barrier sealing the sky, piercing fiercely down onto the land of the Demon Abyss.

Seeing the sunlight, he also noticed that in the area no longer shrouded by the blue-black Demon Light, there seemed to be a person floating motionless.

That person, with every breath, had Demon Element Power surging around him, swallowing the waters of the Demon Sea like a black hole.

Li Jie used an artifact for closer inspection and discovered that the person was indeed Pang Jian.

"Where are you, boy?"

Also, when the sunlight hit the Demon Abyss, Li Jie heard his father’s voice and hurriedly shakily took out the jade pendant at his waist, wailing: "Old man, I’m still alive!"

"Pang Jian has fallen into the Demon Tao, yet he has unlocked the Sky-covering Demon Array!" Li Yuanli barked sharply, "You keep hiding and don’t stop until I find you!"

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