Chapter 775: The True Use of the Sacrificial Fire

The immortal and indestructible nature of Heart Ancestor Yuanchu is entirely dependent upon his profound Dao foundation.

The condensed Dao origin is perfectly fused with his fleshly body, thus it can never be worn away.

Moreover, his overwhelmingly powerful Evil Emperor secret arts make it difficult for him to be completely eradicated.

Even if the Taiji Yin-Yang Great Formation condenses endless innate Yin-Yang divine light, it cannot dissect his origin, only reducing a portion of his cultivation.

However, the Heaven and Earth Furnace True Scripture is specifically designed to restrain such peerless powerhouses who have cultivated an immortal and indestructible true body.

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Within the Earth Emperor's Furnace, the illusory azure flames erode, and Heart Ancestor Yuanchu inside also feels intense pain.

The terrifying divine power of this flame shakes heaven and earth; even the countless secret art imprints covering his immortal Evil Emperor true body cannot withstand the azure flame, which instantly pierces through him, turning him into drifting blue smoke.

The illusory azure flame seems to connect with a profound Dao will hidden deep within the myriad realms of the void, pouring forth vast divine power that firmly suppresses Heart Ancestor Yuanchu's attempt to escape.

This vast Dao will draws in, causing the azure flame to gradually shift from illusion to substance.

The surging Dao will causes Heart Ancestor Yuanchu's pride—the immortal Evil Emperor true body—to be unable to endure, as his condensed origin Dao fruit is slowly refined by the azure flame.

Innumerable origin Dao patterns on his body surface, in the firelight, break, melt, and dissolve.

Heart Ancestor Yuanchu stands within the azure flame; though his Dao heart has already linked with the Dao will in the darkness, his face shows hardship, and he can only muster part of his spirit to construct various powerful origin defense secret arts.

Behind her, twelve pairs of nearly invisible cicada wings tremble slightly; the void echoes with a hissing sound, as strands of fierce purple qi are born from the void. Looking closely, countless terrifying origin strange insects flow out from within, seemingly able to devour the myriad heavens—even if the will of Heaven is present, a piece of flesh could be gnawed away.

These strange insects fly and rush, as if filling the depths of the Earth Emperor's Furnace.

They continue to cluster, combine, forming a shadow resembling a colossal strange insect crawling in chaos and the primordial depths, as if capable of devouring chaos and primordial power.

Yet beneath the azure illusory flame, they are still rapidly melting away.

Threads of blue smoke burst forth from within!

On the periphery, Zhang Jian's expression at this moment is somewhat strange.

As the azure sacrificial flames burn, he can 'witness' Heart Ancestor Yuanchu's various secret arts, flesh and blood, and even his origin Dao fruit gradually turning into drifting blue smoke. In the darkness, a vast divine power transforms from the depths of the Dao will and is received by his overwhelming peerless primordial spirit.

That pure primordial chaos origin is extraordinarily pure.

Zhang Jian has never before encountered such a strange transformation.

By using azure flames to refine others, can one actually sacrifice them to the Dao, transforming them into pure heavenly-earthly origin, chaos origin giving back to oneself?

This is the true purpose of this azure flame.

Rather than summoning azure flame to sacrifice others?

Did he previously get it completely backwards?

Zhang Jian's Dao heart deep within slightly ripples.

Faintly realizing, this is likely the true purpose of this azure flame!

His expression is like an ancient well with faint ripples, yet his actions grow increasingly ruthless; strands of vast divine power pour from his palm depths into the Earth Emperor's Furnace, accelerating the refinement of this Heart Yuanchu.

Yet the endless heavenly-earthly origin continually merging into his primordial spirit depths, he does not directly swallow or refine it, but instead pours it into his natal wood spirit, the Thirty-Six Leaves of Creation Azure Lotus.

Despite this tremendous boon falling from heaven, he still harbors doubts.

To ensure absolute safety, he will absorb and refine it only after thorough research.

He is no longer like when he first learned he could sacrifice ancestors to shear wool, already having more room for choice.

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At this moment, Heart Ancestor Yuanchu's body is entwined with purple light, continuously weakening. He has employed various means, yet cannot escape the azure flame; seeing his immortal Evil Emperor true body already being refined, his origin Dao fruit gradually revealed, he also feels the shadow of terrifying death.

This inexplicable azure flame is simply too powerful.

Even if his foundation is deep and his immortal Evil Emperor body is wondrous and unfathomable, capable of reversing life and death Dao rules, he still cannot resist it.

Any flesh, essence, qi, cultivation, or will burned by the azure flame will suffer direct and permanent loss.

The myriad heavenly-earthly origins accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, and even all his methods, are completely dissipated during the hundred-year refinement.

Even the foundation formed by the body of the supreme powerhouse is being refined and devoured by the azure flame.

He will die!

At this moment, Heart Ancestor Yuanchu experiences this terrifying thought for the first time.

This familiar feeling makes him seem to have returned to before he achieved Dao and took form.

Back then, he was merely a strange insect relying upon the great Dao laws of the myriad heavens' void, his foundation no different from ordinary innate deities, yet still facing the covetousness and pursuit of heterodox paths.

As the azure flame grows ever more vigorous, Heart Ancestor Yuanchu truly feels that he now has little capacity left to resist.

Perhaps in his prime, he could withstand this strange flame, but having been sealed beneath the Divine Tree of the Heavenly Realm for dozens of derivation eras, and still in a wounded state, he fundamentally lacks the power to turn the tide.

Deep between his brows, eight pairs of lines upon which eight pairs of purple eyes open, slightly hesitating, then he makes up his mind.

He forms an ancient seal in his hand.

Strands of purple divine light trace out a peculiar Dao totem.

It represents a powerful being.

One whom he once hated and feared immensely.

And also his arch-enemy.

But now, he has no choice but to seek aid from that being.

"Pangu Old Ancestor, I willingly submit!"

Amidst the painful wail, a cold, hate-filled female voice flows out from within.

As these words appear, they seem to link to the unknown depths of the void, to an unknown powerful being.

Outside, the Longevity Dao Sovereign and Zhang Jian, in that instant, change expression; their gazes sweep over, as a vast strange force actually pierces through the Heavenly Dao will defense of the Longevity True Realm in an instant. Under divine power, the divine tree domain formed by the Heavenly Realm Divine Tree is instantly torn apart.

Yet just as this power descends, the Longevity Dao Sovereign's eyes reveal a hint of coldness.

"Pangu Old Ancestor, this is the Longevity True Realm, not your Pangu Dao Palace's territory!"

The manifestation of this vast qi mechanism seems not to have exceeded his expectations.

His aura surged instantly, and layers of innate yin-yang divine light flowed and rushed out from the Tai Xuan Yin-Yang Spirit Vessel surrounding him, dispersing a vast and mighty force flowing from the depths of the void.

At the same time, his robes fluttered, and layers of Longevity Verdant Wood Divine Light gathered around him, stirring the true origin of the Longevity True Realm's heavenly Dao in the darkness, forming a magnificent and boundless divine tree of creation.

Endless Longevity Verdant Wood Divine Light, containing divine power capable of sweeping across all beings, surged across endless dimensions to strike a phantom upon the River of Fate.

Yet upon the River of Fate, a divine banner appeared, from which flowed vast slaughtering light, instantly erasing this terrifying divine power capable of piercing spacetime dimensions; the mighty force surged toward the Longevity True Realm, and with one blow pierced straight into its core depths.

"Longevity Dao Sovereign, your cultivation still falls short. If the Great Heavenly Sovereign himself acted, perhaps you could last a few rounds in my hands!"

As if billions of divine powers suddenly erupted in the heavenly Dao tree's sky.

In the depths of the origin space, Zhang Jian could feel the origin space instantly fissuring with countless cracks; above, the heavenly Dao tree's trunk on the celestial realm was mostly withered.

These withered trunks affected countless large and small immortal realms nurtured by them, as well as the mundane world.

This blow was truly earth-shattering.

"Ancestor Pan Wang!"

This thought flashed through Zhang Jian's mind.

His eyes grew unusually solemn.

This powerhouse was not unfamiliar to him at all.

The Pan Wang Dao Palace is the most promising existence among the heretical sects to become the Fifth Ancestor of the Heretical Path.

The Pan Wang Dao Palace is also ranked fifth among the Ten Heretical Dao Palaces.

This heretical ancestor's cultivation is earth-shattering.

Regarding this Pan Wang Ancestor's attack, Zhang Jian was merely slightly surprised, but not greatly astonished.

As the ancestor who played with insect offspring, a headstrong chaotic insect worm willing to submit to him—he would not stand idly by even if it were exchanged for him.

But the Longevity Dao Sovereign also appeared to have long been prepared.

Only seen, layers of emerald divine light burst forth upon the heavenly Dao tree, a divine power of unity between heaven and earth, endless and unceasing, blossomed upon the heavenly Dao tree, regrowing new branches to drive back the terrifying gray qi ocean.

Moreover, a verdant divine axe appeared in the hand of the Longevity Dao Sovereign from the void above.

Above the firmament, billions of thunderbolts flashed into existence.

This is the instinctive reaction of the Longevity True Realm's heavenly Dao.

The Pan Wang Ancestor's strike that slaughtered billions of beings utterly enraged the Longevity True Realm's heavenly Dao; this terrifying heavenly Dao power ceased suppressing the Longevity Dao Sovereign and instead merged with him, the great axe raised and transformed into a divine light of heaven-splitting earth-opening, fiercely slashing toward the Pan Wang Ancestor upon the River of Fate.

This divine axe seems to be the Longevity Dao Sovereign's treasure of enlightenment; one swing of the axe seemed to collapse billions of spacetime dimensions, completely cleaved, its blade sweeping toward the Pan Wang Ancestor.

Its might was truly vast and mighty, as if the power to open heaven and earth from primordial chaos.

This power has already surpassed that of a Third Transformation Dao Sovereign by far!

The Pan Wang Ancestor manifested his true form upon the River of Fate; his true likeness was that of an ordinary old man with a full head of white hair, holding a coiling serpent staff in his hand, his eyes icy cold, like a venomous snake—ruthless and indifferent.

He could see that the Longevity Dao Sovereign was using its power to break free from the suppression of the Longevity True Realm's heavenly Dao and naturally obtain full support from the origin of the Longevity heavenly Dao.

This was because they saw he could not abandon his primordial ancestor, Yuan Chu.

But he indeed could not sever such a miraculously strange chaotic insect worm.

"My true self will make you know the consequences of scheming against me!"

His expression turned cold; with a mere wave of his hand, he raised the coiling serpent staff, lightly tapping to strike that terrifying heaven-opening blade from afar, instantly dispersing it; with the wave of his hand, boundless dim gray rivers appeared from all directions, enveloping the Longevity True Realm.

The dim gray river teemed with endless insect shadows.

This was far more vast and mighty than the purple qi river of the withered primordial ancestor.

Countless terrifying insect worms turned into a flood, rushing forward in succession, violently impacting the Longevity True Realm; in but an instant, they devoured more than half of the outer void legal realm of the Longevity True Realm.

That terrifying sight even caused Zhang Jian's Dao heart to tremble.

That void legal realm is the first layer of defense outside the Longevity True Realm, and the most resilient.

The ancient demon god Mo Shen summoned the Gui Xu demon realm and struck it for tens of thousands of years yet could not break it open!

Yet the Pan Wang Ancestor, with a wave of his hand, devoured more than half of the void legal realm.

Give him a little more time—would he not devour the entire Longevity True Realm!

However, Zhang Jian was not nervous; since the Longevity Dao Sovereign dared to provoke the Pan Wang Ancestor, he must have the ability to quell the incident.

Indeed, moments later, the terrifying gray river suddenly ceased.

Upon the River of Fate, several figures appeared out of thin air, nearly simultaneously, surrounding the Pan Wang Ancestor.

As these figures appeared, Zhang Jian immediately raised his head.

Because he recognized them—these were Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, the three human sovereigns?

It seems they are preparing to directly gang up on this Pan Wang Ancestor?

"Pan Wang, you have repeatedly harmed my human realm; your disciples act recklessly, extracting human essence to refine laws, crimes piled high, unbearable to record—today you shall still come with us three sovereigns!"

Xuanyuan's icy voice rang out from within.

The next moment, the several figures simultaneously vanished upon the River of Fate.