Proud Sword Soaring Clouds

Chapter 307: Chapter 246: Refining

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s immense power suddenly erupted!

BANG!

Under the dumbstruck gaze of the Clan Leader of the Ice Sea Secret Race, the massive stone platform before him suddenly exploded! Countless boulders were blasted into the air, then rained down all around.

This place, once like a Human Immortal Realm, was instantly reduced to a chaotic mess!

The Clan Leader of the Ice Sea Secret Race instinctively released his Protective True Qi. He stared, dumbstruck, at the scene unfolding before him, completely ignoring the panic of the clansmen who had been startled by the commotion.

’Hmph, this is nothing. The places humans inhabit are the truly magnificent ones!’ Though inwardly surprised, the old Clan Leader remained standing where he was, waiting patiently. After all, he had lived for over five hundred years. He was far too familiar with the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s immense Magical Power and simply couldn’t believe it would fail to deal with a single human.

The Urgently Cold Cauldron expanded like an inflating balloon! It had now become a colossus, over ten meters high and twenty meters wide!

In fact, the Urgently Cold Cauldron had expanded hundreds of times in a single instant! This was what had stretched the Divine Hall’s great stone platform to its breaking point, causing it to collapse and send the boulders flying as if in an explosion.

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter was finally enraged, but also incredibly anxious. It had used nearly all its strength, yet it still couldn’t escape this bizarre space. Suddenly, it saw a person standing at the very bottom. He had a solemn expression and was muttering something under his breath.

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter lunged down toward Ling Xiao, letting out a piercing shriek. "You are dead!"

Ling Xiao tilted his head back, and his eyes suddenly shot out two beams of electric light. At the same time, a dazzling crimson sword appeared in his hand. The sword radiated a peerlessly powerful aura as a bolt of blood-red light carved a graceful arc inside the cauldron, viciously slashing toward the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s illusory figure!

RIIIP!

The sound of tearing cloth rang out. The Sword Qi from the Demon Blood Red Lotus Sword swept across the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s nearly transparent shadow, instantly slicing it in two and eliciting a sharp, bloodcurdling howl.

After the Sword Qi faded, its body coalesced once more, only to become even more unstable. An enraged voice echoed, "Human, you will pay the price for this!" With that, its body vanished with a SWISH, reappearing the next instant before Ling Xiao and drilling straight into the space between his brows!

Within Ling Xiao’s Purple Mansion was a swirling, misty mass. Only upon reaching the Nascent Soul Stage could a cultivator condense a Nascent Soul—a miniature version of their true self—inside their Purple Mansion. For now, it contained only swirling Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and it was exceptionally dense!

Upon entering Ling Xiao’s Purple Mansion, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s first instinct was to surge toward his Sea of Consciousness. Its immense Spiritual Power flowed out, surrounding Ling Xiao’s Sea of Consciousness, then suddenly transformed into countless sharp, piercing needles that stabbed viciously at it!

At the same time, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s Spiritual Power formed a gigantic, blood-red maw, intending to swallow Ling Xiao’s entire Sea of Consciousness in a single gulp!

"Mind of Steel!"

A wall of bronze and iron immediately solidified around Ling Xiao’s Sea of Consciousness, blocking the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s immense Spiritual Power. At the same time, roiling heat waves suddenly appeared within the Urgently Cold Cauldron! It was the fire from Ling Xiao’s very heart, beginning to burn. His body seemed to merge with the Urgently Cold Cauldron; all his Spiritual Power fluctuations fell into sync with the cauldron’s every breath. Instantly, he borrowed the full might of the Urgently Cold Cauldron for his own use!

At this moment, the Cold Cauldron was Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao was the Cold Cauldron!

If the Deep Sea Demon Chapter wanted to devour Ling Xiao’s entire Sea of Consciousness, it would also have to refine the Urgently Cold Cauldron, which was forged from Cold Iron Essence! Though the creature could identify the Urgently Cold Cauldron and act dismissive, in reality, it had no way of refining this Cold Iron Essence—the coldest and hardest material in the world!

The raging flames within the cauldron stemmed from Ling Xiao’s unshakeably firm Daoxin. The fire enveloped his body, burning ever more fiercely within the cauldron. He was actually trying to refine himself!

Ling Xiao would never have dared such a mad act were it not for a treasure like the Urgently Cold Cauldron. The True Flame from his own body would backlash against him, and without the cauldron’s power to suppress it, it would have instantly annihilated his very soul!

As the flames burned their way to the Purple Mansion, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter began to howl madly. This flame was not from the Human World. Even for a Magical Beast of the ninth rank or higher, even for a being with a ten-thousand-year lifespan, there was no way to resist it!

The flames rapidly consumed the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s Spiritual Power. This all-destroying fire made the creature shudder with profound terror; this insignificant human now seemed utterly horrifying. It finally realized it had made a terrible mistake and picked a fight with the wrong person.

’So unlucky!’ Ten thousand years ago, as an overlord of the deep sea, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter had accidentally stumbled into a strange dimension and encountered countless powerful humans. It was overjoyed, realizing that devouring them would allow its power to grow immensely. Thus, it began to hunt those humans with abandon, since most of them were solitary and weaker than it was.

After devouring several powerful human experts, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter’s strength increased significantly. This made it fall in love with that place. From the memories of those it had devoured, it learned that the dimension was called the Holy Sanctuary, and the humans it had consumed were the lowest-ranking experts there. Yet on their home soil, these humans possessed a rather resonant title—Sword Saint!

Finally, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter encountered a truly powerful being. In just a few moves—before the creature even had a chance to self-destruct—that person pulverized it. Its soul barely managed to escape, finding the same fissure it had entered through and fleeing in terror. Afterward, someone repaired the spatial rift, and the Deep Sea Demon Chapter, now without a body, lost its chance to ever return to that wondrous place.

Therefore, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter despised all powerful humans! It was determined to find a suitable human body for its soul to inhabit. After a complete fusion, it would possess power surpassing that of a Sword Saint. It could then enter the Holy Sanctuary again as a human, bide its time devouring the weaker inhabitants, and one day... it, the Great God of the Deep Sea Demon Chapter, would stand at the pinnacle of the Holy Sanctuary and look down upon all of humanity!

Ambition is a thing that can swell rapidly, and the Deep Sea Demon Chapter was no exception. To this end, it had even taken control of the Ice Sea Secret Race! Using its unique abilities, it created this small pocket dimension, making these Ice Sea Secret Clan People live here like parasites.

And the very thing preventing this dimension from collapsing was the power of faith generated by these powerful Ice Sea Secret Clan People! In other words, the Deep Sea Demon Chapter had given nothing and received nothing material in return, yet it had obtained the loyalty of a mysterious race from the Polar Ice Sea.

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter was a cunning creature by nature—innately suspicious, sensitive, and cautious. For many years, it had been searching for a suitable human to possess. Many Adventurers who ventured into the Polar Ice Sea became its victims, lured in by the Ice Sea Secret Clan People only to mysteriously disappear. But the Deep Sea Demon Chapter had never once succeeded. Those Adventurers were either too weak for it to deign to notice, or their minds would immediately collapse upon invasion, even if their Spiritual Power was strong.

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter had no desire to turn its new host into a drooling imbecile. Therefore, finding someone who not only had strong Spiritual Power but had also trained in its use was incredibly difficult.

Experts stronger than the Sword Sect level rarely set foot in the Polar Ice Sea. A desolate place like this simply had nothing to attract such peerless masters.

It had waited and waited. After ten thousand years, it had finally encountered such a perfect human vessel. But it never expected to first be trapped in this bizarre space made of Cold Iron Essence, and then to discover that this human was unimaginably tenacious. Even when it used all its strength to try to destroy him, it failed. It wanted to devour his Sea of Consciousness, only to find that his Spiritual Power was completely fused with the space itself!

Moreover, this flame that could so easily burn away its Spiritual Power made the Deep Sea Demon Chapter feel fear. In its eyes, this human gradually began to overlap with the expert from the Holy Sanctuary ten thousand years ago. Although their power levels were vastly different, their reckless, life-or-death aura was remarkably similar!

"ROOOAAAR!"

The Deep Sea Demon Chapter roared in pain several times. Then, its incomparably pure power thrashed about, trying to escape from Ling Xiao’s Purple Mansion. ’If I can’t beat him, can’t I at least run away?’ In just this short time, twenty to thirty percent of the incomparably pure energy it had accumulated over ten thousand years had been burned away. If this kept up, its soul would likely be incinerated completely before long!

Tears of blood streamed from Ling Xiao’s eyes, while more blood trickled from his nose and ears. He kept his lips pursed in a tight line, his features contorted in agony. The flame was burning his body, and despite the Urgently Cold Cauldron’s suppression, the damage to him was still immense.

In other words, for Ling Xiao, whose strength hadn’t even reached the Mid-Heartbeat Stage, trying to command the Urgently Cold Treasure Cauldron to refine something was asking the impossible. There was no way to use this treasured cauldron without paying an enormous price!

And now the Deep Sea Demon Chapter was trying to flee. If he let it escape, the loss would far outweigh the gain. Not only would his own strength be severely damaged, but a recovered Deep Sea Demon Chapter would never make the mistake of underestimating him again. At that point, without the protection of the Urgently Cold Treasure Cauldron, Ling Xiao would face certain death!

Therefore, he would rather die here and now in this desperate struggle!

Ling Xiao would never meekly wait for the Deep Sea Demon Chapter to recover, only to have his body possessed, his memories erased, and his consciousness annihilated! (To be continued. To find out what happens next, please visit www.qidian.com for more Chapters. Support the author and support genuine reading!)

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