The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 573 - 541: A Body Full of Rare Treasures_1

Chapter 573: Chapter 541: A Body Full of Rare Treasures_1

The Star Devourer’s flesh was not of ordinary blood and muscle; instead, it was a combination akin to metal and jade, both sturdy and pliable.

Pang Jian exerted the power of the Great Tao he had comprehended to bombard and tear at a limb of the Star Devourer repeatedly, managing to create only some fissures.

To the Star Devourer, these were mere scratches, failing to cause any real structural damage.

As he saw another eight limbs fly out from that gray-yellow star, Pang Jian silently racked his brain.

"If I had the Origin Demon Sword, the Heart of Winter, and that Thunder Pond..."

He unconsciously thought of those handy implements.

The material of the Origin Demon Sword was unrivaled in sharpness; under his control, channeling even higher-tiered powers for hacking, it would likely sever the Star Devourer’s limbs.

Unfortunately, he had come in a hurry this time and had not been able to bring the Divine Artifact with him.

Seeing the new limbs of the Star Devourer approaching ever closer, he considered that he might need to shrink his Immortal Primordial Spirit down to the size and form of a normal human to fight.

A smaller stature would clearly offer more advantages in responding to the Star Devourer’s next wave of attacks.

Just then, from the glowing effusion spurting from the fissures in the limbs, a strand fell upon his Immortal Primordial Spirit.

A glint of divine light sparked in Pang Jian’s eyes, suddenly feeling a wonderful sensation as if he had swallowed a divine nectar.

The light was murky, like a liquid river of light, concealing exceedingly refined essence of energy.

Within that profoundly dense energy, there were strands of thunder and lightning, like the icy chill of Panshi Fragment Land, thunder-veined, akin to the Star Veins and Moon Vein of Star Moon Valley.

The beams of light that entered Pang Jian’s body merged directly with the bones branded with various Great Tao laws, unexpectedly supplementing the missing imprints of the Tao.

On the frost-white bones emblematic of the secrets of extreme cold, the bright beams arriving fused with the existing electric patterns of the Tao, providing Pang Jian with a new understanding of the Rules of Extreme Cold.

The bones representing the stars, earth, and plants also received similar wondrous beams, which made Pang Jian marvel.

The exotic light spilt from a limb of the Star Devourer, akin to bloodshed and loaded with dense energy, could also enhance his missed Tao mysteries?

This creature was simply a composite of Strange Treasures!

No wonder Fan Di had said that the gods of the Outer Domain Galaxy most longed to capture Exotic Spirits, to forge them into convenient Divine Artifacts for their conquest of the endless void.

"The limbs of the Star Devourer are highly beneficial to my Immortal Primordial Spirit. This is also the first substance I’ve discovered that can enhance the Immortal Primordial Spirit. I must seize this opportunity."

Thinking this, Pang Jian, wrapping around a limb of the Star Devourer, suddenly exerted force to pull away.

His towering divine form appeared as if dragging a colossal serpent thousands of miles long, moving away from that gray-yellow star.

"HOWL!"

Within the star, the Star Devourer let out a strange shriek.

"CRACK, CRACK, CRACK!"

From the gaping deep fissures, more limbs of the Star Devourer emerged, twisting and biting like dragons and snakes on the surface of the star, stirring up a world-destroying turbulence.

Above the star, there were crudely constructed palaces built by Alien Gods from Outer Space, resting atop some mountain peaks.

The fierce howl of the Star Devourer formed a terrifying tide spreading outwards, demolishing all the palaces and grinding the mountains above the star into flatland.

In a rage, the Star Devourer flattened the star, wildly permeating its vast soul energy.

Those eight elongated limbs, like Divine Weapon Sharp Blades or cold Star River battleships, accelerated toward Pang Jian.

Within their non-metallic, non-crystalline bodies, countless peculiar patterns lit up, as if they were its unique blood-vein channels.

The rich energy that It had painstakingly devoured and refined, stored within its limbs, was now fully ignited, determined to kill Pang Jian, the pilferer, and reclaim Its severed limb.

Under the dome of the Dark Prison, the gray-yellow star grew dim, but the eight projecting limbs became increasingly luminous.

"WHOOSH! WHOOSH WHOOSH!"

Eight dazzling, meteoric beams of light illuminated the lands below so brightly it was as if day.

The eternally gloomy Dark Prison became brightly lit at this moment, and all creatures living in the Dark Prison, no matter what they were doing, rushed out to gaze at the starry sky.

This was a spectacle for the ages!

In their lives, whether long or short, they had never seen the Dark Prison so bright, nor had they ever seen the nightmare-like Star Devourer in such a fury.

Then, even those of the Alien Tribes with lesser bloodlines saw Pang Jian.

They watched him embracing a limb of the Star Devourer, fleeting through the void of the Dark Prison, hurtling toward a Boundary Wall.

"He still can’t prevail against the Star Devourer."

The High Priest of the Dark Spirit Clan took flight from his shuttle-shaped vessel.

His heart also hung heavy with worry, fearing that Pang Jian would be overtaken by those eight limbs of the Star Devourer.

"Faster! Just a bit faster! FASTER!"

The High Priest internally roared.

He knew the limbs of the Star Devourer had a certain distance limitation from the core body; if the limbs were too far from the main body, the transmission of energy would be hindered.

Without the support of the main body’s energy, the deterrence of Its limbs could not be maximized, potentially allowing Pang Jian to wound them again.

"May the God Spirit watch over him."

Saintess Cui Ling also prayed in silence.

Each of the Star Devourer’s limbs possessed vision and also intelligence and wisdom. She and the High Priest were very cautious, lest they draw the attention of the Star Devourer’s limbs.

...

In the void, Pang Jian himself gradually became aware of the weaknesses in the limbs of the Star Devourer.

The eight limbs that were chasing him, along with the one he had wounded and taken away, were getting weaker in soul energy the further they were from the ashen-yellow star where the Star Devourer resided.

It was like when he used to control the Astonishing Spear, there was also a limit to the distance between the spear and his True Body.

Upon realizing this, he recklessly expended his internal power, speeding across the sky of the Dark Prison.

After all, the limb that he had severed, with its surging light and infinite uses, would certainly make up for the power he had used.

Some time passed like this.

Having abducted a limb of the Star Devourer, he saw the familiar shuttle-shaped starship below and knew he was nearing the Mysterious Fog where he had come from.

At that moment, the soul energy flowing within the limb he was embracing suddenly vanished completely.

The eight limbs that were coming at him like meteors chasing the moon were also slowing down continuously.

It seemed that they were not willing to follow him into the Mysterious Fog, or perhaps they had reached the limit of the distance between the limbs and the main body; in any case, those limbs of the Star Devourer stopped chasing him.

The Star Devourer had given up.

Pang Jian was in high spirits, as he held the gigantic strange limb and headed unhurriedly towards the Mysterious Fog and the Boundary Wall.

He plunged his arms into the crack of the limb, as if entering an ocean that encompassed vast energy.

The various energies inside were dense and pure. Although mixed together, they could be separated by his Immortal Primordial Spirit and then absorbed into his bones and chest cavity, one by one.

"It’s a pity that this limb doesn’t have any of the thunder and lightning, soul, or flesh energy that Fan Di needs," he murmured, getting closer and closer to the Mysterious Fog.

"You’d better not enter the Mysterious Fog. Just quietly refine the limb of the Star Devourer in a hidden place of this world," a familiar and chilly voice rose from a star in his chest, saying, "The strong corrosive power inside the Mysterious Fog will erode the precious energy essence within the limb. Refining it within the Mysterious Fog will result in a lot of energy loss, wastefully squandering the naturally raised Strange Treasure."

The voice was ethereal yet clear. Clearly, it was the Goddess of Cold Crystal.

Pang Jian’s face darkened as he responded, "You dare to spy on me?"

"Spy?"

The Goddess of Cold Crystal, in the Outer Domain Galaxy, let out a bitter smile, "To witness your every move, I have exhausted three drops of Divine Blood. To condense a drop of Divine Blood takes me decades."

"You unfeeling, ungrateful man, I was worried you’d be eaten by the Star Devourer. I wanted to give you accurate advice when your life hung by a thread."

"And you say I’m spying on you?"

The Goddess of Cold Crystal emitted a neurotic laugh.

Listening, it seemed a bit disappointed and choked up.

Pang Jian ignored her, planning to refine the Star Devourer’s limb first and then figure out how to deal with the star in his body that resonated with the Goddess of Cold Crystal.

He did not care about the three precious drops of Divine Blood that the Goddess of Cold Crystal had spent.

The thought of his whereabouts being constantly exposed to the eyes of a divine spirit from the Outer Realm was like a thorn in his back.

However, he still heeded the advice of the Goddess of Cold Crystal and did not drag the limb into the Mysterious Fog, but instead descended to the beneath of Dark Prison.

He kept descending until he was far enough from the ashen-yellow star and then he stopped.

Beneath him was the bottom of the Dark Prison’s Mysterious Fog.

Here, even if the Star Devourer left the star and propelled its True Body to find him, he could escape into the Mysterious Fog in an instant.

After that, he began to enjoy the delicacy that belonged to him with peace of mind.

...

Above the moon, in the Divine Temple.

"Is he dead?"

Ying Yue had changed into a long dress full of broken flowers, looking at the Goddess of Cold Crystal, whose skin was turning even paler and who was somewhat out of spirits. She frowned and said, "According to you, that Star Devourer is not weak, being a level ten among the Exotic Spirits. He has only recently constructed a strange divine body in the Purgatory World; can he truly threaten the Star Devourer?"

"He has drawn away one of the Star Devourer’s limbs," suddenly animated, the Goddess of Cold Crystal said, "Adding you and me, it certainly wouldn’t be hard to kill that Star Devourer."

"How do we get in?" Ying Yue asked.

"Incarnate," said the Goddess of Cold Crystal, who had a plan ready. "I’ve been watching and noticed that the world has beings that can accommodate our Divine Consciousness. If we build our Altar of Praying to God in our own way and select two suitable vessels, we can send a portion of our Divine Consciousness there and have considerable combat power."

"The Prison of Heaven and Earth only restricts flesh and soul, but not Divine Artifacts."

"Our Divine Artifacts can be sent over through the Altar of Praying to God. With two suitable bodies wielding our Divine Artifacts, we can exert up to thirty percent of our power in Dark Prison."

"Thirty percent of our combined power, along with him, would definitely be enough to kill the Star Devourer!" she declared her plan.

Ying Yue’s eyes brightened, and after a moment’s thought, she said, "It does sound feasible."

"There is a High God who has been bothering me for years; I must advance as soon as possible to stand fearless against his threat," sighed the Goddess of Cold Crystal. "Ying Yue, please, you must help me."

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