The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 758 - 720: Split and Reunion_1

Chapter 758: Chapter 720: Split and Reunion_1

He silently observed Pang Jian for a long time.

The tiny stones that filled Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit and body were the refined essence of His power, the true meaning of the Great Tao that He had comprehended, and also His countless eyes.

He had almost finished observing the communication between Pang Jian and his true body, the abnormal state of his mind, and the numerous law crystals within his body.

The uniqueness of Pang Jian’s Primordial Spirit astonished Him as well.

However, with His exceptional insight, He saw that Pang Jian’s understanding of himself was far from sufficient, not at all aware of the wonders his body possessed.

"Your Divine Sense, those powers inside you, cannot break my stones," He said.

The Stone Eater hummed, saying, "Since they can’t be forcibly broken, we must think of other methods and not stubbornly try to solve this by force."

With that, He stopped speaking.

At this moment, Pang Jian had realized that all the methods he usually relied on were rendered ineffective after his body and mind were filled with the stones of the Stone Eater.

The Original Demon Fusion Spell, Milky Way Fission, Chaotic Sky Curtain, Star River of the Five Elements, Soul Capture, Soul Forbidden, Ghost River.

The Divine Skills of the Ghost Clan from Youkui, the demon path truths branded by the Source Demon, and the many mysterious secret skills he had comprehended from the Chaos Sea couldn’t be smoothly deployed when the transmission of his Divine Sense and Divine Power was obstructed by the stones.

He also couldn’t freely transform, couldn’t instantly travel vast distances, nor return to his normal form.

As the Stone Eater had said, brute force was not the way to escape the restrictions.

So, he began to calm down and ponder other methods.

"How is a being like me defined in the outside world?" the Stone Eater suddenly asked.

"Such beings, referred to as Exotic Spirits, are those without flesh and blood but with a soul, and are mostly of a rather massive size," Pang Jian’s mind immediately produced this thought.

This thought wasn’t even coherent, and he couldn’t express it in words.

In his mind, where his thoughts and consciousness were like streams of light, were now impeded due to the numerous stones, preventing those spontaneously moving streams of consciousness from flowing.

"Correct, creatures without a body of flesh and blood, but with an intelligent soul, are called Exotic Spirits," the Stone Eater reiterated Pang Jian’s definition of Exotic Spirits that had emerged in his mind and then continued, "When your body was first forged, it did not have flesh and organs, just various pure energies."

"Even now, the organs inside you were not refined from your own flesh and blood."

"I am not clear about the state of your true body, but from my perspective, this body of yours resembles the Exotic Spirits like me. At least at the beginning of its creation, you were a unique kind of Exotic Spirit," the Stone Eater cautiously stated.

Pang Jian’s heart trembled slightly.

He remembered that when he forged the Immortal Primordial Spirit in Hongdu City, it was primarily composed of his Spiritual Soul, Fate, and nature’s spiritual energy, plus various powers extracted from the dantian and integrated one by one.

After the Primordial Spirit solidified, it indeed was of a material neither crystal nor jade, unlike a flesh and blood body.

Even now, the outer skin and flesh of this Primordial Spirit Body was still not of flesh and blood.

The organs in the chest cavity existed in the form of five halos of light.

But those organs surrounded by the five halos were not natural.

They were derived from refining the Water God Naga and the vast Qi and Blood of the Dark Bat, along with the Five Elements laws converging within the body.

At this moment, the Stone Eater’s statement that he was an Exotic Spirit of another form seemed to have no issue.

"Exotic Spirits, since they are not of flesh and blood, then their energy can be disassembled," said the Stone Eater.

"Like myself."

Crack!

The Stone Eater’s form, that of a stone figure, suddenly shattered into hundreds of small stones in front of Pang Jian, and then those stones turned into dust.

He actually became a pile of stone powder!

A wind suddenly blew, dispersing the stone powder in the air above the Fragment Land, turning it into a cloud of smoke.

"All things are made of energy; they can become dust or stone powder, and they can also gather again," the Stone Eater’s voice came from the cloud of smoke, as a large patch of smoke suddenly contracted towards the center, with a paste-like substance acting to connect and bond them.

In the blink of an eye, the Stone Eater, who had turned into dust and a cloud of smoke, reformed into the original shape of the Stoneman.

Truly an artful display.

"You can do it too," He said as he settled in front of Pang Jian once more, as if He had never moved, never displayed His marvel, and spoke, "Demon Gods at the level of a Great Demon God can disperse their Demon Soul into thousands of pieces and then reunite as one, but we can do even more wondrous things."

Pang Jian listened attentively, already attempting it secretly.

In his Immortal Primordial Spirit brain, his Divine Consciousness and thoughts formed a sea of gathering light, but now the sea was full of stones.

Previously, he tried to shatter those stones with his Divine Consciousness, hoping to send it through to the chest cavity, gather more power to crush more stones.

But now, he let his Divine Consciousness overflow.

After an unknown amount of time, his Divine Consciousness wrapped in thoughts and memories turned into streams of murky golden light, starting to seep out from his eyes first.

Eventually, it became a sea of golden light above his Primordial Spirit’s head.

This sea of flowing light seemed to be his initial Spiritual Soul.

Before he combined with Fate and cast an actualized Primordial Spirit Body, his Spiritual Soul was just like this.

"Huh!"

The golden sea of light condensed, transforming into an illusory golden Pang Jian. This was his pure Spiritual Body form.

Beneath the Spiritual Soul, the seven-colored, splendid Primordial Spirit Body still had a connection with his Spiritual Soul.

With his current Spiritual Soul, he could still perceive the subtle changes of this body.

Because the disembodied Spiritual Soul was not hindered by those stones, it could think clearly.

"If the Spiritual Soul can leave the body and can reassemble after scattering, then the multitude of Divine Powers within should be able to do so as well."

As soon as this thought emerged, stars, sunlight, and moonlight began to disperse from his chest region, near his ethereal Spiritual Soul, and re-condenses.

Stars, sun, and moon were all refined one by one.

After that, extreme Cold Ice light, Thunder and Lightning, flame power, and the Power of Gold also left his body bit by bit, gathering again next to his Spiritual Soul.

Using the Qi and Blood that did not belong to him to create the organs remained in the chest, but the energy within was all extracted.

In the end, the Primordial Spirit became a mere seven-colored shell, filled with the Stone Eater’s stones on the inside.

At that moment, with a slight stir in Pang Jian’s mind, the seven-colored shell suddenly transformed into countless shimmering lights and flew away like millions of fireflies into the sky.

"Gather!"

Millions of exceedingly small seven-colored lights converged into a sea of light, enveloping Pang Jian’s Spiritual Soul, the gradually separated stars and sun and moon, as well as the forces of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Darkness, and Demon Element Power—all wrapped up together.

Then, the Immortal Primordial Spirit abruptly reappeared!

In his mind, the golden Divine Consciousness surged with thoughts like a sea rippling with waves.

Beneath the brain area, Darkness for Divine Bones, Demon Element Power for Divine Bones, Cold Ice and Thunder and Lightning also formed crystalline Divine Bones, supporting the Primordial Spirit’s chest cavity, while the stars and sun and moon twinkled as if they were acupoints.

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth took on the form of organs, still scattered throughout, yet without the thick Qi and Blood.

The heart was like a giant furnace of flames, pulsing with numerous scarlet flashes, containing the true essence of various flame Secret Skills.

Within the liver, there were layers of forests, brimming with vitality, radiating the fundamental truths of plants.

In the spleen, within the Fragment Land, many crystal networks were hidden, encompassing the laws of earth.

The lungs housed Gold Mountain, majestic and towering, with the laws within them turning into profound Dao Marks.

Inside the kidneys, there was a vast expanse of unbounded waters, where many crystalline glimmers performed the true essence of the power of water.

The shell of the Immortal Primordial Spirit was built of Fate, the brain realm provided residence for the Spiritual Soul, and the body bore all the Great Tao Laws that Pang Jian had comprehended, with Dao Marks and power as their crystal, manifesting into tangible objects.

The disintegration of the Primordial Spirit, and its reconstruction, gave him a whole new understanding of this body.

The first disintegration and reassembly seemed alien and sluggish due to those stones.

"Whoosh!"

His Spiritual Soul flew out, the inner stars and sun and moon were removed, the organs became pure energy and detached, and then the shell transformed into millions of seven-colored lights for the second convergence.

Shortly after, the Primordial Spirit reassembled after splitting apart.

"Still not right, it can be faster!"

In the face of the Stone Eater, he split his body time and time again, and then reunited it over and over.

After countless such experiences, he found that his Spiritual Soul, stars and moon, organs were able to merge into those millions of seven-colored lights after splitting.

So!

"Bang!"

While his Spiritual Soul was still within, the stars and moon still inside, and the organs not yet torn apart, he abruptly transformed into millions of seven-colored lights.

The soul had fragmented into thousands, dispersed within the flickering seven-colored lights, the stars and moon did the same, and the vital essence of the powers in the organs did the same.

At this moment, his Immortal Primordial Spirit had truly transcended entirely, not only able to freely change its size but also to freely split and reassemble!

Compared to before being constrained by the Stone Eater, the only difference in his Primordial Spirit was that he had abandoned the Blood and Flesh Essence Energy inside his body.

His organs still existed, but they were no longer refined by blood and flesh; instead, they were purely built with the energies of the Five Elements.

"The Human Race learns from the Nether Tribe, cultivating the path of the Spiritual Soul, step by step tempering the Spiritual Soul, all to free oneself from the shackles of the fleshly body." The Stone Eater looked at the transformed Pang Jian with some satisfaction but still rebuked, "Yet you insist on shoving that messy flesh and blood into this special body, making it misshapen and actually limiting yourself."

Pang Jian gave a bitter smile.

After shaping the Immortal Primordial Spirit, most of his time was spent drifting and wandering, appearing in different ’prison’ worlds and the Misty Sea.

As for how to tread the path ahead, no one had ever taught him; he figured it out all on his own.

Li Wang, Shifu Pu Zhaotian, and others were limited by the laws of Purgatory World and only cultivated up to the True God Realm.

They hadn’t broken through the "Heaven Forbidden" of Purgatory to leave, nor did they know the direction to take on the path ahead.

Given these circumstances, elevating the Immortal Primordial Spirit to this level was already extremely difficult for him.

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can you, without my sculpting, have any initiative in Netherworld Prison." The Stone Eater huffed and suddenly changed the subject, asking, "Now that the World Tree has been revived, has that Black Phoenix that lies dormant in the Seventh Realm of Purgatory started on its path of rebirth?"

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