Chapter 357: This Wave Was Not a Loss

Netherworld.

The Spirit Fire formed by the Fire Family Ancestor's Primordial Spirit surged along with the surrounding Nether Yin Qi.

In just a few short breaths, this Return to Void-level Primordial Spirit was eroded away completely.

This was only because Su Ping's Primordial Spirit wanted to preserve the other party's memory fragments as much as possible.

There was no helping it, even though the Fire Family Ancestor was a Return to Void Great Ability.

He still could not compare to an entire Small World.

Especially since this Small World, due to the Nether Immortal Body, allowed power to be exerted toward a single point.

Not to mention the suppression of lower-level powers by the special force of Nether Yin Qi.

Five Elements World.

In the mountain city where most buildings had collapsed, the Fire Family Elders saw the ultimate technique unleashed by the Fire Family Ancestor.

Smiles appeared on their faces.

"The Old Ancestor's divine art is peerless!"

"I see the Spirit Fire has successfully invaded; this time we shall surely achieve great success!"

"Old Ancestor..."

The Fire Family Elders picked up various Spirit Treasures and gathered together, preparing to support the Fire Family Ancestor who was casting the spell, to prevent any powerful enemies from coming to the rescue.

They then saw the Fire Family Ancestor, who they thought had the upper hand, suddenly scream miserably toward the sky and spew out a large mouthful of scalding black blood.

Following that, the Fire Family Ancestor fell straight down from the sky.

Several of the Fire Family Ancestor's closest descendants hurriedly flew up to catch him.

Afterward, various Spirit Herbs were pressed onto the Fire Family Ancestor as if they were worthless, using his skin as an interface for him to absorb and digest them.

The Fire Family Ancestor caught his breath because of this and reopened his eyes.

But the moment his eyes opened, those close descendants and Elders all felt a jolt in their hearts, sensing that something was wrong.

The Fire Family Ancestor's eyes were gray and dim, revealing deep exhaustion and helplessness.

Such a look was something the Fire Family members had never seen before.

"Primordial Spirit... my Primordial Spirit!"

The Fire Family Ancestor coughed up a mouthful of black blood, and after looking at Su Ping, his gaze already revealed terror:

"Quickly return my Primordial Spirit to me!"

Su Ping looked at the seemingly frantic Fire Family Ancestor and shrugged:

"Return it to you? Sorry, my Small World has already eaten that Primordial Spirit."

"It tasted quite good, it was just too little."

"Do you have any techniques for cultivating a second or third Primordial Spirit?"

"You wouldn't mind continuing to offer them to my Small World to taste, would you?"

"You!"

The Fire Family Ancestor's face flushed red.

After the Spirit Fire entered the Netherworld, his main body was forced to disconnect.

And when the backlash occurred, a feeling of great terror surged from ahead.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The Fire Family Ancestor's coughing intensified continuously.

This was clearly abnormal for a Return to Void Great Ability.

However, as Su Ping's divine sense swept over the other party, he saw the reason.

With the Fire Family Ancestor having lost his Primordial Spirit.

The Evil Seed he had been suppressing at his dantian began to take root and sprout, and in a short time, its roots had covered the Fire Family Ancestor's entire body.

That Evil Seed undoubtedly came from an Evil God's child from the outside world.

And only the higher-ranked Evil God's children had the ability to split off a small portion of their main body to reduce it into an Evil Seed.

The function of this Evil Seed was to turn a Great Ability into an Evil Spirit in a very short time.

The Fire Family Ancestor having an Evil Seed in his body was clearly something he had allowed to be planted voluntarily.

Considering that these big shots were all old schemers, it was even possible that he had planted it himself.

As for the purpose, it was nothing more than finding an extra way out for himself.

When things were truly beyond saving, he could quickly turn himself into an Evil Spirit and then become part of the winning side.

Therefore, there were not many Cultivators who could possess such an Evil Seed.

Those Cultivators who had not reached the Return to Void or Transformation Realm, even if they wanted one, the Evil God's children would not be willing to give them one.

When the Fire Family Ancestor was guarding the outside world, he had come into contact with the consciousness of an Evil God's child.

And after repeatedly checking that this Evil Seed was controllable, he had planted the Evil Seed in his body himself.

This Evil Seed had also been under control, appearing harmless to humans and animals.

Until now, after the Fire Family Ancestor lost his Primordial Spirit and his mind was severely damaged.

The Evil Seed seemed to have triggered some key condition.

At this moment, it suddenly erupted!

And in the blink of an eye, it spread throughout the Fire Family Ancestor's entire body.

Leaving the Fire Family Ancestor with no way back.

The Fire Family Ancestor also felt the changes in his body, and then, in a flash of lightning, he hardened his heart.

Instead of delaying, he completely let go and allowed his body to fuse with the Evil Seed.

Furthermore, he did not let the close disciples and Elders beside him retreat.

He already had the intention to devour them all.

Seeing that the mysterious existence in the sky seemed to have discovered something and was raising a hand to smash down,

the Fire Family Ancestor no longer waited and directly recited the Secret Curse that only the true head of the Fire Family possesses.

In an instant, the hundreds of Fire Family disciples beside him all shuddered, and with a *whoosh*, their entire bodies actually ignited!

A few Elders, relying on their Life-Bound Spirit Treasure to barely hold on, cried out: "Old Ancestor, spare us, no!"

The Fire Family Ancestor, however, closed his eyes and whispered:

"The Fire Family has raised you for so long, letting you use the family name to act tyrannically and do so many things."

"Now, it is time for you to repay your debts!"

"Blood Sacrifice to the Spirit Fire, use fire to control the spirits!"

The Fire Family Ancestor roared, and a ring of fire emerged from his body.

Wherever the fire ring passed, as long as they were Fire Family bloodline disciples, they immediately self-ignited and turned to ash, while at the same time, rays of fire were born from within their bodies and merged into the Fire Family Ancestor.

Su Ping frowned slightly and did not watch this ring of fire spread across the entire volcano.

Just as the fire ring began, he had already unleashed the Five-Colored Divine Light and the Divine Ability Giant Hand to block it.

He did not have a good impression of the Fire Family members.

In his heart, he had already decided that he would not leave a single one of these sinister high-level figures alive.

But Su Ping was clearly unwilling to see all the Cultivators and mortals die indiscriminately.

His Small World was still quite lacking in Cultivators and mortals to serve as labor.

Thus, the merciful Su Ping sighed softly and chose to invoke one-third of the power of the Heaven-Turning Seal.

He caused the Heaven-Turning Seal to instantly grow to the size of Mount Tai.

The Fire Family Ancestor widened his eyes as he watched the transformation of the Heaven-Turning Seal, feeling the death threat right before him.

Roar!

The Fire Family Ancestor no longer waited for the fire ring to sacrifice the surrounding clansmen.

His eyes turned red, and his entire body transformed into a pitch-black, scale-covered, thousand-meter-tall giant Evil Spirit.

At the same time, a chain formed of flames circled his body, which the thousand-meter giant gripped in his hand.

This was the Fire Spirit Lock, forged over thousands of years as generations of Fire Family ancestors sacrificed themselves to the Spirit Pool before death, and finally, at the last moment, sacrificed countless clansmen.

It could be considered the historical foundation that only the head of such a top-tier family could activate.

A foundation capable of exerting enough power to make other top-tier Great Abilities wary, thereby tolerating the continued existence of such a family.

With such a foundation combined with his body that had turned into an Evil Spirit,

the Fire Family Ancestor suddenly felt that even if he temporarily lacked a Primordial Spirit,

he might be able to block the opponent's heaven-shaking strike and find an opportunity to escape?

As for a counter-kill, the Fire Family Ancestor no longer had such thoughts.

He only wanted to take the opportunity to flee, and then, as a child of the Evil God, bring them back to take revenge.

The Fire Family Ancestor's plan was good.

Even if reality was cruel.

As Su Ping activated the Heaven-Turning Seal and smashed it down,

in just an instant, the Heaven-Turning Seal crossed a distance of tens of thousands of meters and smashed onto the protective barrier above the fire ring.

That barrier was easily shattered like an eggshell hitting a stone.

It did not provide the slightest bit of obstruction.

The scale-covered giant formed by the Fire Family Ancestor also grew twelve arms from his back.

Added to his original two hands, fourteen arms struck out toward the sky in unison.

Yet it was still completely meaningless.

The Heaven-Turning Seal fell directly.

The entire process had not the slightest ripple.

With a loud *boom*, the Fire Family Ancestor was turned into meat paste.

The volcano also finally began to crack and collapse.

The Spirit Pool hidden at the bottom of the volcano boiled, and countless wronged souls within it let out mournful cries.

Seeing that the surrounding collapse was about to affect this Spirit Pool,

Su Ping flashed to the side of the pool, his body radiating spiritual light, stopping the collapse of this space.

Watching this Spirit Pool, which could be considered a wonder of heaven and earth, being ruined by the Fire Family like this,

Su Ping shook his head slightly and sighed to himself: "Waste!"

As the Netherworld digested the memory fragments of the Fire Family Ancestor's Primordial Spirit,

and with the Fire Family Ancestor's physical body also wiped out,

only a sliver of the Primordial Spirit remained of the Return to Void Old Ancestor, but that Primordial Spirit was also suppressed by the Heaven-Turning Seal, unable to move.

This Huo Ling Chi finally had fewer restrictions and gained a little more autonomy.

The Fire Spirit hidden within it also transmitted relevant information to Su Ping.

Allowing Su Ping to know the history of this Huo Ling Chi within the Fire Family.

The Fire Family was originally named the Fire Spirit Sect, and its founding ancestor was the Great Cultivator who first discovered and utilized the Huo Ling Chi.

He turned the Huo Ling Chi into a family pool, and while using the pool water to assist his own cultivation, he discovered its mystery of birthing Fire Spirits, so he provided massive resources to allow the Fire Family to have a guardian Fire Spirit God.

However, the Fire Family was still not satisfied with this.

That founding Great Cultivator was also a ruthless person, after successfully nurturing a finished fire spirit.

In order to ensure the Huo Ling Chi was used by his own clan, he actually used an evil Secret Technique, blood sacrificing tens of thousands of his own bloodline descendants in one go.

He turned the Huo Ling Chi into a family Bloodline Spirit Pool.

Furthermore, starting from that Great Cultivator, he even made it so that Fire Family cultivators above the Golden Core stage would return to the vicinity of the Huo Ling Chi before death to self-sacrifice, in order to strengthen the family's bloodline foundation.

At the same time, every clansman, after being detected to have a Spirit Root, would also be arranged to participate in the grand sacrifice, dripping blood from their fingertips into the Huo Ling Chi to form a contract with it.

While receiving the protection of the Spirit Pool, they were also bound by the Bloodline Contract.

Unless one could break through to the Fanhui Jing, this restraint would remain rooted in the bloodline.

Once awakened, it could spontaneously ignite the Divine Soul and Dharma Power, causing the clansman to vanish into thin air in the blink of an eye.

Such an arrangement also ensured that every Patriarch could rely on the recognition of the family bloodline Mark to restrain the clansmen.

At the same time, when necessary, they could forcibly mobilize the massive energy accumulated in the Huo Ling Chi to resist external enemies, ensuring the family could last for a thousand generations.

It is just that after doing this.

The true function of the Huo Ling Chi—hatching fire spirits and enhancing the ability of cultivators practicing in the Spirit Pool to improve their fire-attribute talent—was suppressed to the minimum.

This is why the Fire Family, looking here and there, only had that one finished fire spirit.

Of course, the Fire Family had such trade-offs.

In fact, it also had to do with the fact that hatching fire spirits consumed a little too many resources.

Even for the Fire Family, it was difficult to balance hatching fire spirits while ensuring cultivation resources for talented clansmen.

Su Ping released the Sun Moon Star Chart.

First, he released strands of Innate Gang Qi from the chart to disperse the thousands of grievances in the Huo Ling Chi.

And as Su Ping swung out a Five-Colored Divine Light, he severed the last bit of connection between this Spirit Pool and the Fire Family.

Su Ping released his Divine Sense and asked the other party, whose consciousness was gradually clearing, if they wished to be restored to their original state.

Then, Su Ping received a satisfactory response, and subsequently began to exchange for Purification Potion.

He then poured bottle after bottle of Purification Potion into the Huo Ling Chi as if it cost nothing.

While the sizzling sound echoed at the bottom of this volcano.

This Huo Ling Chi, covering no more than a hundred square meters, began to change from black-red to vermilion.

And then it gradually became clear.

Wisps of pure Spirit Qi and a certain profound, scorching aura also spread out once again from the depths of the pool water.

Seeing this, Su Ping stopped the action of pouring the Purification Potion.

He looked at the consumption: one thousand bottles of Purification Potion.

Equivalent to consuming ten thousand Fishing Coins!

Fortunately, with this Huo Ling Chi, by borrowing the resources provided by the entire starry sky of his hometown, he could continuously produce various fire spirits.

And he had gained an additional cultivation treasure land related to the fire element.

Hmm... in any case, it wouldn't be a loss!

"Collect!"

Su Ping flew high into the sky, and with one roll of the Sun Moon Star Chart.

The entire mountain city where the Fire Family was located, and even the entire volcano.

As well as the underground ten thousand meters deep beneath the volcano.

Were actually all swallowed into the Sun Moon Star Chart.

Leaving behind only a deep pit, telling outsiders what had happened here.

Seeing this scene, the Emerald Heaven-Swallowing Tiger's eyelids twitched, and after silently remarking that it was impressive.

It looked toward the Mu Family Ancestor.

The Mu Family Ancestor's expression changed, and he immediately transformed into a streak of light to try and escape.

Yet, just as he had transformed into the streak of light.

The Emerald Heaven-Swallowing Tiger had already opened its large mouth and bit into the Void.

With a Great Divine Ability activated, it directly caused the Mu Family Ancestor to appear inside its large mouth.

And then the Mu Family Ancestor discovered that there was a large amount of high-concentration Nether Yin Qi inside this beast's mouth.

He was transferred to this place and was immediately enveloped by the Nether Yin Qi.

And under the Divine Ability, he felt pressure coming from all directions.

The life-saving Spirit Treasures on the Mu Family Ancestor's body were constantly shattering with spiritual light.

This forced the Mu Family Ancestor to lower his pride and beg for mercy.

The Emerald Heaven-Swallowing Tiger, however, shook its head slightly and sent a voice transmission:

"The Master has given the order: none of you ancestors shall be spared!"

"Go in peace."

"Based on this one's understanding of the Master."

"Your primordial spirit will be imprisoned and become an important component of some magic treasure."

"As for the others of the Mu Family... they should be able to survive in the Small World under the Master's command."

"Be grateful for the Master's mercy; the Mu Family bloodline will at least not be severed."

The Mu Family Ancestor trembled slightly, and in his despair, he exhausted all his trump cards to struggle desperately.

It was just that the Emerald Heaven-Swallowing Tiger was not inferior to the Mu Family Ancestor even before.

After following Su Ping, it had also obtained some potions to clear away hidden injuries on its body and Divine Soul.

Its strength had seen a small increase.

Then, having gained the added blessing of the power of the Netherworld, though not much, it was enough for an existence such as it to ponder various new killing moves.

After a few breaths.

The Azure Heaven-Swallowing Tiger opened its maw once more and spat out the emerald crystal that held the Seal of the Mu Family Ancestor's primordial spirit.