Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 414: Chapter 414: Refining the Celestial Spirit and Capturing the Earth Evil

A thought crossed his mind, and his resolve firmed.

’It’s time to conquer this challenge!’

The Arctic Heavenly Gang Qi struggled in Xu Yunfan’s palm, each tremor causing the ice on the dome of the Ice Abyss to crack and crumble.

He paid it no mind and immediately sat cross-legged in the center of the ice cave.

The Arctic Heavenly Gang Qi roared and struggled in his palm. Each tremor sent showers of Starlight down from the dome of the Ice Abyss.

For three whole months, he was as motionless as an ancient monolith. Gradually, the Dharma Aspect of a coiled turtle and snake appeared around him. The patterns on the Profound Turtle’s shell aligned with the Stars of the Celestial Sphere, and the Power of Stars flowed through every line.

The Nether Snake’s scales shimmered with a lava-like Evil Qi, and as its pupils opened and closed, Earth Fire flared and died.

This continued until midnight three months later, when high in the sky, seven stars within the Beidou Star Realm suddenly formed a perfect line.

Seven streams of brilliant Starlight poured down like the Celestial River, solidifying into tangible, silvery-white chains that descended into the Ice Abyss. Each chain was entwined with ancient Star Runes.

These Starlight Chains precisely pierced Xu Yunfan’s seven major acupoints, dragging the struggling Arctic Heavenly Gang Qi inch by inch into the depths of his Dantian.

Under the glow of the Starlight, the Profound Ice of the Ice Abyss’s dome refracted a seven-colored halo. The white mist Xu Yunfan exhaled actually merged with the Starlight, condensing into a miniature Black Tortoise Star Map around his body.

When the seventy-ninth stream of Starlight entered his body, his spine suddenly erupted with a roar like a dragon’s cry. Section by section, his entire great dragon Golden Bone lit up with dark-gold True Martial Runes, as if an unseen giant’s hand was using the stars as a hammer, forging him into a human-shaped Divine Weapon.

「On the seventy-ninth day.」

Thunderclouds suddenly gathered above the Ice Abyss.

Xu Yunfan’s eyes snapped open, his pupils having transformed into the vertical slits of a Black Tortoise.

The wisp of Celestial Spirit Qi finally let out a mournful cry. Under the constant scouring and pressure of the True Martial Demon Suppression True Essence, it condensed between his chest and abdomen into the Demon Suppression Seal of the Black Tortoise Star Monarch.

Xu Yunfan slowly opened his eyes. Deep within his pupils, a turtle and snake seemed to be coiled.

He lightly raised his right palm, and a wisp of True Martial Celestial Spirit, profound black with gilded patterns, leaped from his fingertip. In an instant, the temperature of the entire Ice Abyss plummeted.

"HISS!"

Where the Gang Qi passed, the Ten Thousand Years Profound Ice silently dissolved, leaving behind a cross-section as smooth as a mirror.

An ice pillar three zhang away suddenly developed spiderweb-like cracks, then collapsed with a boom. Before the shattered ice could even hit the ground, the aftershock pulverized it into dust.

With a light flick of his finger, the wisp of Arctic Demon Vibration Qi transformed into a three-inch dagger.

Though the blade’s edge remained still, the surrounding air spontaneously condensed into Frost Blades, carving thousands of intersecting sword marks into the ice walls within a ten-pace radius. What was even more astonishing was that Starlight flowed from the sundered crevices, as if the Sword Qi itself was imbued with the killing intent of the Big Dipper.

"BOOM!"

Xu Yunfan suddenly formed a sword-hand and pressed down into the air.

A tremor like muffled thunder rumbled from the bottom of the Ice Abyss. The magma in the ninth layer of the Earth Vein Melting Hell was stirred from afar, forming a crimson vortex a hundred zhang in diameter beneath the ice.

The Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect emerged from behind him. The star patterns on its Turtle Shell and the Earth Fire below illuminated each other, causing the light throughout the entire Northern Profound Ice Abyss to flicker indeterminately.

’Interesting...’

The light in Xu Yunfan’s eyes suddenly flared. Deep within his pupils, Starlight seemed to swirl in the shape of a turtle and snake.

He could clearly feel the Arctic Demon Vibration Qi within him merging perfectly with the True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture, surging through his meridians like a great river.

’Back in the Land Immortal Realm, I was already comparable to someone at Qi Cultivation Great Perfection...’

He made a grasping motion, and the Profound Black Gang Qi erupting from his palm instantly froze and then shattered an ice pillar ten zhang away. ’Now that I’ve refined this True Martial Celestial Spirit, I wonder what new heights I’ve reached...’

’This power has increased by more than just a fewfold.’

If he was at the Half-Step Foundation Establishment stage before, now he had truly touched the threshold.

But then, Xu Yunfan’s brow furrowed slightly.

Although the Demon Suppression Seal in his Dantian had taken shape, he felt that something was missing.

It was like an unhoned Divine Weapon, possessing form but no True Intent.

’It’s still not quite ready... I’m still missing the Demon-Suppressing Earth Fiend. I’ll have to go search for it in the Nine-Layered Earth Vein Melting Hell...’

He murmured to himself, his gaze falling to the ice floor beneath his feet.

Celestial Spirits and Earthly Fiends are both exceedingly rare treasures. If it weren’t for the True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture’s innate link to both the True Martial Celestial Spirit and the Demon-Suppressing Earth Fiend, finding them on his own would be harder than ascending to the heavens.

This was also why True Scriptures born from Celestial Spirits and Earthly Fiends were so highly sought after.

"BOOM!"

Xu Yunfan’s figure suddenly exploded into a hundred black rainbows, plunging into the cracks in the ice like meteors striking the earth.

Wherever he passed, the Ten Thousand Years Profound Ice actually parted on its own.

The magma of the ninth layer of the Melting Hell parted automatically at his feet, revealing the boiling sea of fire and lava below.

Xu Yunfan swept his gaze around.

This was a Purgatory interwoven with crimson and dark gold. Viscous magma slithered slowly like the blood in a behemoth’s veins, its surface constantly erupting with fiery waves a zhang high.

As the fiery waves crashed, they condensed into countless hideous ghostly faces that let out silent roars before falling back into the sea of fire.

Deeper within, dark purple Earth Evil Qi churned like a giant python, tearing spiderweb-like cracks across the entire sea of fire.

’This place... I’m afraid it’s close to the Netherworld.’

Xu Yunfan’s brows knitted deeply, his gaze piercing through the churning magma to look into the depths of the fiery sea.

In the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm, all living things undergo Reincarnation; there is a high heaven and a Netherworld.

Beneath the boiling magma, one could faintly see dark purple Evil Qi slithering like giant pythons. Each surge brought with it countless twisted, resentful faces of souls.

’This ninth layer of the Melting Hell... I’m afraid it has already touched the edge of the Netherworld...’

His Martial Arts Celestial Eye opened and closed, golden light swirling within it, allowing him to clearly see the lost souls bound by the Earth Evil Qi.

He didn’t know how these lost souls had descended here to suffer the torments of Purgatory.

Xu Yunfan stood at the edge of the sea of fire and magma. The True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture circulated throughout his body, and the True Martial Celestial Spirit, with its profound black and gilded patterns, surged through his meridians, resonating with the boiling Earth Evil Qi beneath his feet.

As for how to obtain the Demon-Suppressing Earth Fiend, the True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture, with the help of the Attribute Panel, gave extremely clear instructions.

The method was to grant salvation to the lost souls, accumulate sufficient Merit, and then refine the incredibly impure Earth Evil from below.

He took a deep breath and formed a Two-Handed Seal. His ten fingers seemed to grasp the Celestial Spirits, and a strange radiance faintly flowed between his knuckles.

This was the True Martial Demon Suppression Seal. It could be used to suppress and kill, but also to grant salvation.

"True Martial Demon Subduing, grant salvation and rebirth!"

Following his low shout, the True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture inside Xu Yunfan erupted. A pillar of profound black light shot up from the crown of his head, transforming in the air into a Martial Dao Dharma Aspect.

Formed from the condensed Arctic Demon Vibration Qi, the coiled turtle and snake Dharma Aspect opened its mouth and spat out a beam of pure light. Like the Celestial River descending, it plunged straight into the sea of fire and magma.

"BOOM!"

The magma churned, and fiery waves exploded.

Under the illumination of the pure light, the ferocious, ghostly faces of the lost souls bound by the Earth Evil Qi gradually lost their hostility, and their twisted expressions returned to peace.

For a full day and night, Xu Yunfan still failed to refine even a single trace.

He wasn’t discouraged. He simply continued to channel his vast True Essence, performing the True Martial Demon Suppression Seal. He manifested the coiled turtle and snake, and with the Martial Dao Dharma Aspect he had trained using the Profound Celestial Treasure Talisman, the two forms intertwined to bring Universal Salvation to the lost souls.

「Half a month later.」

A patch of dark purple Evil Qi melted like ice and snow. Washed away by the True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture, all its impurities were removed, leaving only a single, pure wisp of Demon-Suppressing Earth Fiend Qi, which darted through the magma like a swimming snake.

Xu Yunfan’s gaze focused. The golden light in his Martial Arts Celestial Eye flared, locking onto that wisp of Demon-Suppressing Earth Fiend.

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