The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 653 - 617 The Six God Statuses_1

Chapter 653: Chapter 617 The Six God Statuses_1

Long Xiao had operated the Dragon Cave for tens of thousands of years and buried countless secrets within it.

Once this true dragon returned to the Dragon Cave, he could, like Pu Zhaotian’s integration with the "Heaven Forbidden" or the Old Black Turtle stationed in the Panshi Fragment Land, experience a certain degree of enhancement in combat strength.

The injuries He sustained would recover in a short time through the accumulation of His efforts, and the Thunder Divine Power He had exhausted would also be replenished.

In desperation, He could even drain the Spiritual Power veins from beneath the earth at the cost of shattering the Saint Spirit Continent, and He could snatch demon energy from the bodies of many powerful beings of the Demon Race to aid His battle.

Pu Zhaotian, who prided himself as the Shield of Purgatory, would never want to see a whole continent crumble because of his battle with the Old Dragon.

Having just ascended to the True God Realm and just merged with the "Heaven Forbidden" of Purgatory, his understanding of "Heaven Forbidden" was deepening.

His power was advancing by leaps and bounds as time went by.

Give him some more time, and once he comprehends the mysteries of "Heaven Forbidden," he would inevitably be the strongest among the True Gods.

By then, killing the Old Dragon would be much easier.

With each day he delayed, the greater his chances of winning against Long Xiao in their next battle, and the smaller the price he would have to pay.

"Eh!"

Just as he was about to step out of the Second Realm, he felt a surge of fate descending from the skies.

This fate, drawn out of the "Heaven Forbidden," transformed into a crystalline glow and fell toward the Firm Wind layer of the Second Realm.

The Firm Wind zone, lying between the dome of the Third Realm and the bottom layer of the Second Realm, was a place where many Soul Wandering Realm Great Cultivators refined their souls.

At this stage, that area of Firm Wind saw few people linger.

The sudden fall of this fate immediately caught his attention, and he hurried over to investigate with curiosity.

In the time it took to brew a cup of tea, he descended into the region where the Firm Wind was fierce.

He saw a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a calm demeanor, dressed in a green-black robe, sitting on an old altar.

In the middle of the man’s forehead was an embedded eye that contained numerous shifting soul threads.

"Wu Yuan of the Demon Sect."

Pu Zhaotian frowned.

He didn’t approach rashly but scrutinized carefully from above the Firm Wind layer.

His Divine Consciousness turned into invisible swords, probing thousands of miles around Wu Yuan’s altar, and to his astonishment, no Great Cultivators from the Demon Sect were seen protecting Wu Yuan.

"Immortal Realm, Spiritual Soul filled with rich Divine Consciousness, his Spiritual Soul has been re-refined, becoming like Pang Jian at that time."

"Who expended so much Divine Consciousness to create him? When he returned from the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land, his Spiritual Soul was on par with Qi Qingsong and Miss Zhuang."

"Hemo Tian? Or... the Original Demon?"

Pu Zhaotian stroked his chubby chin in thought.

He observed for a while and was sure that Wu Yuan, who was currently absorbing a piece of fate into his Spirit Sea of Consciousness and merging it with his Spiritual Soul, still retained his self-awareness.

He believed that at this moment, there were no wills from the Outer World Demon Gods meddling that did not belong to Wu Yuan.

However, just because there were none now did not mean that there would never be interference from the Outer World Great Demon Gods in the form of will corruption or Demon Soul possession.

"Should I erase him now, eliminating a future threat, or..."

Pu Zhaotian hesitated slightly.

When the entire force of the Demon Sect was sinking below this world, and nearly all demon cultivators were willing to fall to the Demon Tao, it was really remarkable that Wu Yuan had maintained his own consciousness and spiritual intelligence to this day.

Xiang Shengwei was possessed by Hemo Tian, and other Immortal Realm Elders voluntarily pledged their allegiance to the Outer World Demon Gods, each one willingly corrupting themselves.

Yet Wu Yuan, who was allowed to cultivate the "Demon Stone Spell" and groomed to be a future master of the Demon Sect, attempted to draw in fate and advance to the True God Realm with his independent self-consciousness.

There had to be an Outer World Demon God behind him.

Pu Zhaotian was convinced that Wu Yuan would be directly possessed by the Great Demon God Hemo Tian, or even the Original Demon, either before he became a god or at some point after his ascension.

Killing Wu Yuan and allowing the fate to return to "Heaven Forbidden" was definitely the wisest move.

However, Wu Yuan had not yet been truly tainted by the Demon Tao, his Spiritual Soul had not been corrupted by the Outer World Great Demon Gods, and he still retained a complete self-awareness.

Just because he would be corrupted and possessed by a Demon God at some point in the future, should he be preemptively killed?

If Wu Yuan had to be killed now for practicing the "Blood God Skill" without losing spiritual intelligence, should Dong Tianze be killed as well?

"Before I ascended to the True God Realm, before I fused with ’Heaven Forbidden,’ I dared to indulge Dong Tianze and even gave him the Bloodthirsty Blade."

"Now, should I fear a Sky Demon God who resides within Wu Yuan, or who may possess him?"

Pu Zhaotian laughed quietly to himself.

Without showing himself, and after confirming that Wu Yuan was still Wu Yuan from the shadows, he let go and left.

Only when his roaming Sword Intent finally dissipated completely did Wu Yuan, who was sitting upright above the altar, begin to sweat profusely from his forehead.

"Sword Tower, Pu Zhaotian."

Wu Yuan took a light breath, knowing he had narrowly escaped death.

...

In the outer void of the Holy Spirit Continent.

Su Wenrou, who had re-summoned the "Divine Dharma Aspect," surrounded by tens of thousands of deadly poisonous divine rainbows, watched the blinding sword light flying towards the First Realm and suddenly said, "Long Xiao’s plot has failed, let’s stop here."

Having said that, she looked at the Rock Bear, surrounded by several Fragment Lands floating nearby.

The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains, Aman, and the Heaven Clan’s Yu Xin had already received the news and descended to the Third Realm.

Old Rock Bear assembled the Fragment Lands and used a Meteorite Sea, still entangled in battle with the divine rainbow that Su Wenrou forged with her divine power and poison technique, but upon hearing the words he suddenly ceased the drumming of war.

"The Nine-Headed Bird is dead, and a new Demon God will be born."

"If the new Demon God makes a different choice from Elder Long, perhaps... there could still be room for easing tensions between the Demon Race and the Human Race."

Old Rock Bear muttered, unsure if Su Wenrou could understand.

He glanced at the departing sword light and thought about the scene where the green giant dragon had plummeted into the Dragon Cave after being grievously wounded, and his heart unexpectedly felt a sense of relief.

"He is gone."

With that, he returned to the Saint Spirit Continent.

"I’m not sure about the situation in the void outside the Eastern Lands as well," pondered Su Wenrou. After communicating with Pu Zhaotian through the "Heaven Forbidden," she headed for the North Ruins in the First Realm.

...

Outside the Eastern Lands.

In the void, six grand artifacts floated: a saber, a sword, a hammer, a spear, a mirror, and a banner.

These six artifacts, originally serving as the Array Eyes, placed upon six Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, now appeared as massive as mountains, distributed in a hexagonal shape.

Among the saber, sword, hammer, spear, mirror, and banner, a hazy and mystical region emerged.

There were three rice grain-sized points of light, which within the area encircled by the six objects, were frantically darting about like headless flies.

Jiang Fan of the Bright Heaven Divine Kingdom, wearing a sovereign’s crown and a gold dragon robe that spoke of inexpressible wealth, existed in a form known as "Divine Dharma Aspect" atop a divine mountain named "Bright Heaven."

"Bright Heaven" was forged from a seal, symbolizing the "Bright Heaven Mountain," which is where the sovereign’s fate resides.

Though his name included the character for ’ordinary’, Jiang Fan was anything but common; he was the one who single-handedly created the Bright Heaven Divine Kingdom and propelled it to become the strongest divine country in the Eastern Lands.

At this moment, Jiang Fan, looking at the three rice grain-sized points of light among the six artifacts, could not help but frown with concern.

"Whoosh!"

A streak of sword light arrived swiftly, transforming into Pu Zhaotian after stopping.

"Why haven’t they come out yet?" Pu Zhaotian wondered aloud.

Jiang Fan forced a smile, pointed to the three points of light, and said, "Take a look for yourself."

Pu Zhaotian narrowed his eyes to take a closer look, quickly noticing the three tiny points of light, which turned out to be Zhu Ji, Li Wang, and Ghost Mother, all in their "Divine Dharma Aspect" state.

Their "Divine Dharma Aspects" were each originally as imposing as a tall mountain, majestic at around ten thousand feet in height.

Despite having summoned their "Divine Dharma Aspects" and unleashing the mysteries of Divine Power, they were merely the size of flies in the hazy area and were clearly in a state of disorientation.

"On the saber, sword, hammer, spear, mirror, and banner, there are six kinds of profound Divine Auras that seem to correspond to His six major God Status Consciences," Jiang Fan remarked with a look of awe on his face and a solemn demeanor. "They are Light and Dark, Death and Life, Flame and Cold Ice."

"The six God Status Consciences, two in each opposing state, are both strange and terrifying."

"The most fearsome Divine Aura right now is that of death, which clings to that banner." Jiang Fan’s gaze fell upon the vast grey-brown banner above.

Just by looking at the banner, the vitality in Jiang Fan’s flesh and blood began to drain away, and he couldn’t suppress it with his Divine Power.

Not long ago, Luo Hongyan, as a pale-skinned woman in the Hongdu Fragment Land, drew upon a stream of fate and forged the Path of Death within a black stone coffin.

After her Divine Enthronement, the woman vanished into thin air, merging her God Spirit soul into Luo Hongyan.

Thus, one of His six God Status pathways, the one symbolizing death, was successfully created in Purgatory.

And now, He infused the Banner with the Aura of Death, using it as the lead, and attached the other five Divine Auras to the saber, sword, hammer, spear, and mirror, creating an inscrutable hazy otherworld.

Zhu Ji and Li Wang were initially trapped here.

The Ghost Mother arrived later, originally planning to delve deeper to lead Zhu Ji and Li Wang out but ended up facing the same fate as them.

Jiang Fan witnessed the Ghost Mother entering and then becoming one of the three points of light, aimlessly wavering just like Zhu Ji and Li Wang.

Not daring to enter himself, he could only wait outside, and now Pu Zhaotian had come.

"Can’t we just shatter the saber, sword, hammer, spear, mirror, and banner? They are the eyes of the Array; destroying them should immediately free Zhu Ji and the others, right?" Pu Zhaotian asked, puzzled.

Jiang Fan shook his head with a bitter smile and said, "The destruction of these six artifacts, which maintain a close connection with the Heavenly Tribulation Pillars of the Fifth Realm, might affect the continents of the Fifth Realm, causing them to break apart as well."

"Let them break; after all, it’s the land where the Alien Tribes of the Fifth Realm live. Why should we care?" Pu Zhaotian remarked, surprised.

Jiang Fan’s smile grew even more bitter as he said, "We really can’t let them break. Not a single one of the seven lands of the Fifth Realm can be shattered any further. The destruction of any piece might trigger an undesirable chain reaction."

"Creating the seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars to suppress the life in the Fifth Realm and to counterbalance the awakening of the Demon Race bloodline is only one of their functions."

"The existence of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillars is primarily to ensure the stability of those seven lands; not a single piece can be broken."

"Don’t ask me why; I don’t know the reason either. These were the demands made by the True Gods who left earlier to us True Gods of Purgatory."

"All seven lands of the fifth layer of Purgatory are very important and must be kept intact."

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