Chapter 341: Dragon and Phoenix Clash, Spirit Severing Achieved (Ten-Thousand Character Chapter)

"Damn! The True Flame of a Phoenix? The embryonic form of the Five Virtues Divine Fire? What the hell is this, aren't you human?!"

From within that mass of True Flame, a black shadow rushed out with an angry roar, crashing hastily into the Blood Abyss, instantly detonating waves of blood; amidst it all, there was a faint, long sigh of relief.

"Aww!!!"

The next moment, a dragon's roar truly exploded; the Wicked Dragon, having already extinguished the True Flame with Dao blood, reappeared in its original form. Wary and guarded, it held nothing back, immediately steering the winds and waves of the Blood Abyss to meet the challenge with the full strength of its peak state.

Speaking of dragons and phoenixes, although in the mortal world they appear to have a primary and secondary relationship, with the dragon held in higher esteem, in reality, as one of the top ten races among the ancient myriad spirits, the phoenix relied on just a single sprout, a Divine Venerable, to carry the entire race to that position.

Or rather, only He was the true Phoenix.

In other words, if the five Great Dragon Venerables were to go up individually, they would only be easily suppressed; they simply could not defeat the Phoenix Divine Venerable!

Because one is merely a common Venerable, while the other is a Divine Venerable with a title and suffix! "Damn it, if it weren't for our race's Divine Venerable..."

The Wicked Dragon muttered in its heart, then saw the Phoenix Red True Flame strike again. A fire phoenix let out a clear, bright cry, its demeanor elegant yet terrifyingly formidable. This was precisely that secret technique being executed at full power; having reached the stage of mastery, it was comparable to a Profound-grade Dao technique!

Although limited by its cultivation realm and unable to fully manifest its power, the Wicked Dragon was not at the Spirit Severing stage either; the two were evenly matched. It could only immediately interrupt its stray thoughts and drive the blood waves to charge up.

After a wave of terrifying surges, the crowd, who had been overjoyed, suddenly turned pale again.

Because the True Flame had been doused!

"Hahaha! Even though our race's remaining heritage must divert ninety-nine point nine nine percent of its power to resist the Supreme's handiwork, I can still use this tiny remainder to suppress you, this fake phoenix and false human! It just happens to settle the ranking dispute from the time of the ancient myriad spirits!"

"Is that so? Then, what about the real thing?"

"Hmm?!"

"Screech!!!!!"

A crazed shriek suddenly exploded. The Wicked Dragon and the crowd only saw the ancient divine palace gates suddenly swing wide open. A sharp claw immediately reached out from within, directly burning away the Dao blood and grabbing onto the Wicked Dragon. With a fierce tear, it cleanly ripped off a large chunk of flesh and blood, and even more lingering, hateful crimson flames drilled in, impossible to extinguish.

"Oh, oh, oh! What, what is this?!"

The Wicked Dragon screamed in pain and violently retreated, using the Dragon King's Dao blood to pour over and cleanse itself repeatedly, only then extinguishing the fire of lingering hatred. Its eyes were filled with lingering fear; even such a twisted and deformed freak was terrified of that flame.

Because it was also one of the targets of hatred; the entire dragon race was a target of hatred. Not just the dragon race, but also the Supreme—ah! Supreme Luoyu!!!!! Although separated by the dim sky of the Dragon Palace's dome, the Phoenix Lingering Hatred could still perceive the existence of the Luoyu Heavenly Scar outside. Immediately after being released from the divine palace, it could not wait, directly shattering the shell of the Phoenix Blood Spear and crazily squeezing out from this incredibly narrow port.

Damn it! Damn it! Hateful! Hateful! Crack, crack, crack, crack!!!

The Phoenix Blood Spear instantly turned glowing red and transparent, and a cracking sound emerged from within.

The ferocious phoenix did not manifest in a physical form, yet everyone felt as if the sky were collapsing.

"It's over, it's over, the Phoenix Lingering Hatred can't be suppressed anymore!"

"Can we only perish together? Tsk, that's fine too."

Jiang Ying suddenly wailed, her supreme physical body having only one equally crazy impulse at this moment: to run, to run as far away as possible!

Nangong Sheng could only sigh softly at this, feeling some regret for himself and for Du En and the others that they could not continue on.

The others from Luoyu, along with the survivors from other immortal sects, saw the joy that had just appeared freeze once more.

"Phoenix Lingering Hatred?"

The Wicked Dragon caught this term and looked over at Du En. He was silently enduring the leaking flames of lingering hatred; it wouldn't be strange if the spear in his hand shattered on the spot. The dragon couldn't help but grin, its mouth curling upward uncontrollably.

"Ahahaha! Phoenix Lingering Hatred? Lingering Hatred! Hahahaha!"

"That mangy bird was also killed by whichever Supreme it was, it really deserves it! It really died well!"

"What's with the moral posturing, talking about the Five Virtues Divine Venerable? It's all an act, hypocritical to the extreme, enough to make a dragon vomit. It truly died well, died well indeed! And only when death was imminent did it finally reveal its ugly face, leaving behind this so-called 'lingering hatred'."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! However, I have to admit, that level of purity is something I cannot match. It's impossible to even turn into a Wicked Transformation Obstacle; it is an extreme, ultimate hatred that is about to become a new principle, a new law. Ahahaha, no, no, thinking about this makes me want to laugh, it's laughing a dragon to death!"

The Wicked Dragon laughed until it wanted to roll on the ground, then suddenly lunged, carrying a rain of blood and a foul wind, waves rolling as if bringing a tsunami, and once again fiercely killed toward Du En.

"Die!"

If the Phoenix Lingering Hatred were allowed to break free from its shackles and vent its ferocity for a moment, the dragon itself would not have an easy time; it might even be affected by the Supreme's handiwork, which would then break free and target it again.

Therefore, it had to strike first. If that didn't work, it would have to knock that carrier out of the great hall, just in time for this ridiculous lingering hatred to fight the Heavenly Scar in the sky—it would be best if it opened a path to survival for the dragon!

Facing such aggressive ferocity, Du En swallowed something at this moment—it was the medicinal pill he had taken the opportunity to put in his mouth earlier when the situation was shifting back and forth, that entire bottle of Grade 5 precious pills—and then, he slightly raised his eyes to look.

Touching that pair of calm eyes, the Wicked Dragon's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Then it saw, from his forehead, on the emerging patterns of the Inexhaustible Azure Spirit Body, light spots flew out, looking like a heart, crimson on the outside and rapidly turning deep azure.

Life-bound Dharma Treasure, Azure Crimson Palace, the true body separating and rising! Du En actually had a trump card move; without using divine abilities, he could substitute with the precious pills to execute it.

Thus, the Phoenix Red True Flame reappeared, transforming into an outer layer of surrounding support, as if restrained by an invisible magnetic field; the Azure Crimson Palace instantly changed, fitting onto the Phoenix Blood Spear.

"Screech?"

Even as crazy as the Phoenix Lingering Hatred was, it couldn't help but pause in astonishment for a moment.

Because this change in the Dharma Treasure was beyond everyone's expectations.

Transformation, Phoenix Blood Spear! Or rather, a new carrier port!

The two artifacts' restrictions quietly connected, with the Phoenix Red True Flame circling outside; the three talents merged into one, jointly executed, breaking through the limitations of the grade and reaching the level of Grade 5! Grade 5, Spirit Severing...

Before the Wicked Dragon could finish its thought, before it could retreat, a wing suddenly flapped over. The crazy flames it brought directly evaporated several zhang of Dao blood, easily igniting even the Dragon King's corpse, and hit it directly, sending it flying back. It crashed diagonally into the body of a Dragon King corpse.

The flames burned crazily, and in the blink of an eye, it was burned until only a few zhang remained intact. Amidst the support of the Blood Abyss, it fell clumsily into the Dao blood that was heating and boiling, only then avoiding a "first-hit kill"!

Too strong! Terrifyingly formidable! The crowd looked up in terror, seeing only a ferocious fire phoenix several thousand zhang in size, depicted by rolling, crazed flames of lingering hatred. It was like a phantom yet real, with only an outline—or perhaps they felt they only saw an outline because they couldn't look at it clearly at all. Just looking at it made them feel painful, as if they were about to be burned and turned into a pile of charcoal.

And it, at this moment, tilted its head, seemingly still surprised.

But that was an illusion!

Located within the fire phoenix, Du En's body was burning fiercely, turning into charcoal in the blink of an eye, and then, pushed by the vigorous medicinal power, it withered and sprang back to life in an instant, returning to its original state, only to turn into charcoal again. The cycle repeated; relying solely on his own spirit body and magic power, he couldn't hold out at all, even though both were inexhaustible! To kill a thousand enemies, one suffers three thousand!

The pain doubled and doubled again, but he only frowned slightly and muttered to himself, "The Spirit Severing stage is indeed a watershed."

It seemed like only a one-grade increase, but the Phoenix Lingering Hatred could already squeeze out a considerable magnitude, and its quality was more prominent because it had finally broken through the underlying shallow framework and reached the Spirit Severing stage, where it could initially touch the deep level and experience the Dao! Therefore, even the Dragon King's corpse could be burned, and the dragon-nurturing Dao blood would boil and evaporate!

Because this lingering hatred could finally truly manifest a bit of the Phoenix Divine Venerable's former greatness!

"Roar!!!"

The Wicked Dragon roared violently, and the Blood Abyss began to boil.

It was also angry, both shocked and afraid, because it had almost been burned to death just now. So, at this moment, it didn't care about anything else; after all, if it continued to hesitate, it would really die! Therefore, it was very decisive, actively destroying the Dragon Palace's great hall, thus triggering a chain collapse, intending to let it continue to drag down the Supreme's handiwork, while it itself gathered all the power of the Blood Abyss—the nutrition that was originally meant to feed it until it was at least a True Dragon—and while breaking through, it charged back.

It twisted and swelled until it turned white, resembling a giant corpse; the Sinful Dragon roared ferociously, its momentum surging, already transcending the scope of the Nascent Soul stage and sprinting toward the Deity Transformation stage!

It could have broken through long ago, but out of concern for the supreme beings of the Immortal Sects in the outside world, it chose to suppress its cultivation, making itself appear more inconspicuous, as weak as the excrement of an ant!

But now it did not matter; either the dragon would die, or the phoenix would perish!

Boom...

The dragon and the phoenix suddenly collided; one was twisted with evil, the other extremely insane, and because the dome had collapsed and the Feather Fall Heavenly Scar had emerged, that insane lingering resentment erupted even more extremely.

"Screech!!!!!"

The fifth-tier port could no longer satisfy it; it wanted to squeeze out, to float up even more! Crack, crack, crack—the sound of this cracking made everyone shudder and the Sinful Dragon's liver tremble.

"If you want to go find the supreme beings for revenge, then go! Why settle the score with me?!"

It could not help but shout this, simultaneously wanting to wave its claws to cast spells, but the next moment, its half-mouth and dragon claw were torn off and burned away together by the phoenix claws.

"Screech!!!!!"

The Phoenix Lingering Resentment had no consciousness, only hatred; whoever stood in its way was a target of hatred, an object to be incinerated, and Du En was no exception! Damn it! Damn it all, this guy really wants to die with me to cover the others' retreat! Watching Du En being burned in the fire, his recovery clearly unable to keep up with the incineration, the Sinful Dragon's heart was furious; relying on the Blood Abyss to irrigate itself, its body recovered in the blink of an eye, and not daring to cast spells anymore, it could only clash head-on with the Phoenix Lingering Resentment, fighting like a beast while secretly accelerating its own breakthrough.

The water level of the Blood Abyss dropped rapidly, falling several zhang with every breath; at the same time, even the corpses of the Dragon Kings began to tilt, allowing the crowd, who were already scattering to flee, to see the change in the water level through the gaps, leaving them with nothing but a feeling of heart-wrenching bloodletting.

What a waste! Not much was actually given to the Sinful Dragon for its breakthrough; most of it was used to extinguish and intercept the attacks of the Phoenix Lingering Resentment!

But they did not dare to slow their pace at this moment, nor did they have any spare thoughts.

At this moment, as the dome of the great hall shattered, one could see that the Feather Fall Heavenly Scar had already spread to this side; clearly, after the methods of the four supreme beings appeared one after another, it had stimulated the expansion here.

Moreover, the Dragon Palace had been blown up by its own dragon, and the invisible pressure and the like had completely dissipated; Jiang Ying, Nangong Sheng, and the others immediately erupted with full strength and fled headlong.

That was no longer a battle they could participate in! If they didn't run, Du En's sacrifice would be in vain!

Jiang Ying was already filled with tears.

Du En, how could you die! If you die, how will I live afterwards!

I still have to rely on you to escape the bitter sea of the Northern Lands!

Seeing her so emotional, the people of Feather Fall, as well as those who had gathered together unknowingly—clearly thinking that no matter what, Du En would love the house and its crow and take better care of this side—could not help but feel a sense of shared misery, sighing and lamenting to one another.

What a good, excellent, decisive, and brave person; it is a pity that he is about to perish here!

"Roar!"

"Screech!!!"

The dragon and phoenix fighting behind them rapidly reached a white-hot intensity, the water level of the Blood Abyss slid down faster, and the medicinal power of the Precious Pill was consumed fiercely.

The Dragon King corpses tilted, and the already dead true dragons began to be affected.

Either they fell into the fire and turned to ash, leaving nothing behind.

Or they were wrapped in blood, eaten clean, with not even dregs left.

Seeing this, everyone felt both shocked and pained, lamenting the waste, and with frequent spatial shifts, they ran even faster, soon darting out of the great hall, only to stop miserably.

Because the outer perimeter of the Dragon Palace had already collapsed to zero! Looking back, as the great hall collapsed, the dragon and phoenix fight was happening right before their eyes.

The two, thousands of zhang in size, collided, and wave after wave of aftermath ravaged the area, blowing the crowd into a disheveled and unstable state, but at the edge of that zero-point, it still could not stir up any ripples.

"It's over, it's over, we're dead, we're dead!"

"Du En's sacrifice... was in vain..."

Jiang Ying slumped to the ground, and Nangong Sheng murmured in a low voice.

The others were also filled with despair.

Seeing this, Du En couldn't help but feel a bit strange.

Isn't the road right there? Glancing at the deep, feather-shaped Heavenly Scar expanding above his head, he muttered to himself.

If they didn't think the Heavenly Scar was the exit, how were they planning to run? Could it be that they intended to hide at the edge, return to the original spot, and wait for the True Lord to pick them up?

If the True Lord could intervene, he would have been making all sorts of small moves long ago... No, something is wrong! Du En quickly sensed the change in his own thoughts and state of mind, or rather, a deeper distortion and tilt!

Something was quietly interfering with him, making his judgments—or rather, what he saw, knew, understood, and that shallow, mundane appearance—not entirely real!

What could it be?

Amidst the even more insanely crowding phoenix fire, Du En endured the pain, becoming clearer, and quickly used the tranquility of his nature to examine everything that had happened, forcibly grasping the key that should have been influenced and submerged.

The battle of the supreme beings...

He closed his eyes slightly, looking down, watching the rapidly drying Blood Abyss of the Dragon Womb and the four collapsed Dragon King corpse peaks.

It is about time.

Thinking this, Du En took advantage of the remaining medicinal power of the Precious Pill and immediately began to dissociate his own Life-Bound Dharma Treasure, while the Phoenix Red True Flame suddenly shifted its offensive, turning back to intercept and block the Phoenix Lingering Resentment that was crazily squeezing and cracking the port.

"Screech!!!"

It was naturally maddened and crazy, and it directly turned its guns, switching the small target it had only been targeting incidentally into its primary target for destruction, outputting with all its might.

"Hahaha! So you were afraid of death after all!"

The Sinful Dragon had been riddled with holes and in a miserable state from being burned by the Phoenix Lingering Resentment, and even its breakthrough seemed sluggish and difficult to achieve, so seeing this scene, it immediately chose to break away and descend, while revealing a malicious, mocking smile.

"I knew it, what kind of self-sacrificing spirit do normal people have? Especially you lot from the Immortal Sects, every one of you is rotten to the core; there isn't a single good thing among you!"

Its initial shock and anger faded rapidly; the look it gave Du En no longer held terror, because the person opposite was not the kind of freak it had imagined—someone who wasn't afraid of death and would sacrifice themselves to cover their sect-mates' retreat—but rather the kind of person within its own scope of understanding.

Then what was there to be afraid of?

When it came to evil, who could be as thick and filthy as it!

Thus, its gaze naturally shifted to the crowd outside the arena.

The crowd was instantly horrified, their hearts shaken, their expressions stiff, and various negative emotions surged in their minds like a tidal wave.

"Hehehe! That brat is still busy trying to contain the madness of the Phoenix Divine Venerable; none of you have anyone protecting you now, so if you want to hate someone, go hate him!"

The Sinful Dragon laughed strangely, preparing to turn and cast spells to unleash ruthless devastation.

It would not kill these remnants all at once, but would torture them severely, letting them vent their anger and resentment on Du En, while also taking the opportunity to liven up its own breakthrough and add some accompaniment.

As for Du En, when it rushed out of the Dragon Palace, it would grab him and throw him at that Heavenly Scar, letting the life he had managed to save by barely containing the resentment be smashed to pieces there, and letting the Phoenix Divine Venerable's Lingering Resentment, which he had been containing, pave the way for it! "It's just a pity I didn't get to taste that guy." Smacking its lips, the Sinful Dragon, which took pleasure in eating people, lost interest in the blink of an eye. "Forget it, for a half-baked person like this who is neither good nor thoroughly evil, the taste probably won't be good. Speaking of something tasty, it's still..."

That pair of maggot-like eyes immediately swayed and fixed onto the two people.

Jiang Ying, having eaten twice, finding it purer with each taste, was now smiling bitterly there; surely there would be a third, different kind of delicacy.

Jiang Ying, the human race's supreme physical body, quite rare, and it keenly sensed that beneath that exterior drenched in blood-barrier karmic debt, there actually remained a trace of pure, natural essence!

"Gagaga, what a delicious dessert!"

The Sinful Dragon couldn't help but cackle strangely; from its bloated body surface, strange mouths actually sprouted, tongues lolling, saliva flowing, all of them written over with greed.

Jiang Ying, being stared at, immediately shuddered, feeling a terrifying alarm surge from the bottom of her heart; she barely managed to suppress the instinctual impulse to jump behind the others and use them as a human shield.

"You, you bloated, ugly, crawling worm, don't think you can scare me!"

Her tone was tough, but her voice was wavering and trembling; it was a classic case of being fierce of face but faint of heart.

Then, she discovered that the space around her had suddenly emptied.

Everyone had retreated three hundred paces, clearly intending that if it wanted to eat, it should eat her first, causing her forced posture to collapse instantly. At the same time, they couldn't help but reveal expressions of resentment, resenting that Du En's side wasn't fighting with their lives on the line, choosing at such a juncture to contain the Phoenix Remnant Hatred! If they died, it was all his fault! Truly hateful!

All kinds of malice were breeding, and at this moment, no one suppressed it.

This made the Sinful Dragon even more satisfied.

"Hahaha, cry, scream, wail; offer up your final eulogies for my breakthrough and escape!"

The countless mouths on its body emitted countless inconsistent sounds, overlapping and soul-snatching, like leeches clinging to the Dao Heart, constantly sucking and burrowing, making one feel an inexplicable, great terror! Terrifying Heart-Sound! The name of this evil technique, now unleashed by it, was enough to rival a powerful Yellow-grade Dao technique, a means that none of the people present could have resisted even in their prime! Thus, everyone stood stupidly on the spot, opening their mouths, about to scream...

"You, hurry up, we're about to make fools of ourselves, uh..."

The words leaked out, and Jiang Ying, being the primary target, immediately reacted, hurriedly covering her own mouth, even wondering whether to tear out her vocal cords or something.

What a rotten mouth, always holding everyone back!

Hm?!

The Sinful Dragon was astonished, and then, finally noticed those Dharma treasures that had been quietly moving and acting sneakily after the Blood Abyss dried up—the ones previously treated as scrap metal and ignored.

"You... this..."

It was greatly alarmed and suddenly tried to turn its head; dense, packed eyeballs opened all over its body, as if covered in maggots, looking toward Du En, who was currently contending with the Phoenix Remnant Hatred and, although he had already separated eighty or ninety percent of his Natal Dharma Treasure, appeared to have no strength left.

It was true he had no strength left, which was why he could only move bit by bit just now.

However, because this Sinful Dragon was filthy to the core and careless, it had indeed given him this opportunity; thus, no longer hiding or hesitating, tens of thousands of Fourth-grade Dharma treasures that had just been soaking in Dao blood, already having suffered varying degrees of damage, suddenly lunged forward.

Very naturally, self-detonation!

"Oh oh oh oh!"

"Many ants can bite an elephant to death, but you cannot bite me to death, all your schemes are in vain!!!"

Too late to dodge, the Sinful Dragon, submerged by the self-detonating Dharma treasures, had its body constantly bursting with juices amidst the rumbling sounds and the shattered, chaotic surface space that looked like powder, but it suffered no substantial damage.

It could still speak, still vent malice, and still insisted on attacking the bystanders who were breathing a sigh of relief as the evil technique temporarily ended, making them experience what it meant to have hope and then lose it again!

In short, the more you don't want me to do something, the more I will do it for you to see!

Let you know your own powerlessness, your own incompetence, and then wail and cry!!!

The Sinful Dragon's emotions were turbulent, its malice swelling; Du En's gaze was calm, like still water.

Indeed, the self-detonation of Fourth-grade Dharma treasures, even top-quality ones, truly had no great effect on a Sinful Dragon of this caliber that was swallowing all remaining Dao blood and was on the verge of a breakthrough.

But, what about Fifth-grade ones?

The eight Fifth-grade low-grade Dharma treasures that had long been faked and hidden within the Fourth-grade ones now detonated quite stealthily, catching it off guard.

Mixed in with the other Fourth-grade Dharma treasure detonations, they were completely unremarkable!

Pop! Crack! Pfft~ "Ah..."

Amidst the strange sounds of self-detonation, under everyone's gaze, they only heard the Sinful Dragon's scream and saw the complete collapse and shattering of the surface space, which exploded into countless fine, powder-like fragments; looking closely, however, they were like tiny glass shards, each one an irregular polyhedron, each face reflecting the front and back of the surface space, with a part of the Sinful Dragon inside each one.

"It's spatial turbulence!"

Nangong Sheng was the first to dispel the factors interfering with his Dao Heart and calmly analyzed, secretly shocked, "It is a state of extreme spatial chaos that requires at least several Great Cultivators to strike to create; looking at this situation, he must have hidden at least five Fifth-grade Dharma treasures in there!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance toward Jiang Ying, who was covering her mouth, having an urge to ask what exactly they had done before and what kind of treasure vault they had looted to have so many Fifth-grade Dharma treasures.

Those were Fifth-grade Dharma treasures that might not even be forged from ten portions of spiritual materials! Even if Du En had dug up treasure in the Dragon Palace, even if he were a master refiner, even if he had Secret Method True Flame... well, with those conditions, as long as the materials were sufficient, it could indeed be forged.

He couldn't help but sullenly stop his train of thought.

And the others, those from other Immortal Sects, were all shocked beyond measure.

Although hiding trump cards was normal, why were the cards he hid either Fifth-grade Dharma treasures or the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, each one capable of transcending their current rank? Originally, they had been thinking of surrounding and killing him; now it seemed it was fortunate the Sinful Dragon had stirred up trouble, otherwise they would have been rushing to deliver their heads, letting Du En, who had revealed his trump cards, slaughter them like pigs!

However, this Sinful Dragon, it really would be best if it died sooner...

"You think you can kill me like this?!"

From the turbulent spatial zone, from those countless mirror-like spatial powder fragments, the Sinful Dragon's heavy, resonant voice rang out in unison, "Dream on!"

It actually wasn't dead yet!

Even though the Dragon-Nurturing Blood Abyss was gone, even though it should have been hit hard at the critical moment of its breakthrough when it couldn't afford to be injured, even though... everyone couldn't help but feel great terror, seeing chunks of fresh, red, and putrid flesh forcibly squeezing out from the mirror-like turbulence and rapidly merging together.

An inexplicable aura began to radiate; its breakthrough had not been interrupted, but had instead advanced a step further, and was about to succeed!

Too terrifying!

Truly a terrifying Sinful Dragon!

Du En looked down at its squeezing out and struck again.

Ice Soul Art! Crack! The flesh parts the Sinful Dragon squeezed out and merged were suddenly covered in unmelting Ice Soul Profound Ice.

He still had a backup, he still had a blocking move! The Sinful Dragon hadn't expected it, and the others hadn't expected it! Du En then shifted his gaze and saw that the Phoenix Remnant Hatred was likewise difficult to contain; the dissociation of his Natal Dharma Treasure was only one-tenth left, and no matter what, it could no longer continue to dissociate.

"Bad! He incorporated his Natal refining method, which was originally meant to facilitate the control and suppression of the Phoenix Blood Spear, but now it has been exploited by the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, binding and merging with the true Natal Dharma Treasure; it cannot be undone!"

Nangong Sheng couldn't help but tighten his expression as he watched; his mood had gone through many ups and downs, and at this moment, he couldn't help but blurt it out.

He viewed Du En as an opponent and naturally had observed and reviewed the other's various duels, having long ago noticed that the Phoenix Blood Spear was actually a semi-Natal weapon, so he naturally grasped the other's predicament quickly.

Du En, however, didn't care about this and just calmly proceeded to the next step.

He took out the storage bag he had been trying hard to protect, which had been tucked inside his flesh and thus had not been burned away.

He took out the pile of fourth-tier cultivation pills obtained from Lou Shuyue, smashed the bottles, and before the Phoenix Remnant Fire could subconsciously lash out, he swallowed the pills—not even counting how many there were—in one gulp.

"Infant-Nurturing Pill, Spirit-Strengthening Pill, Three Palaces Pill... these are all normal cultivation pills. What is he trying to do?"

Although Rui Yi was in a miserable state, because all her other incarnations had died, her state of mind was now strangely pure; thus, while the others were overwhelmed with mixed emotions, she was still able to name the pills Du En had swallowed in one go as if counting her own family treasures.

Hearing her words, the others also felt a shock in their hearts.

Even now, when things seem desperate, do you really still have trump cards up your sleeve?!

They could not help but look over; within the chunks of flesh on the side of the Wicked Dragon, maggots squeezed out from the shattered Ice Soul, each opening its eyes, and each bearing a mouth dense with fangs.

"Cultivating?"

"At a time like this, you want to cultivate?"

"Clutching at Buddha's feet at the last minute is not done like this!"

Though it said this, it dared not be careless again, struggling desperately to break through the ice and increase the speed of its breakthrough.

Because by now, no matter how arrogant it was, it should have realized that Du En's previous containment of the Phoenix Remnant Fire was not because he feared death, but because he felt the timing was ripe—it was a key step that had been premeditated! And then, using the self-destruction of his magic treasure to blast it at the critical moment of its breakthrough was not intended to interrupt its breakthrough, but to use the turbulent mirror surface to trap it temporarily!

From the very beginning, he had never pinned his hopes on the Phoenix Remnant Fire or the self-destruction of the magic treasure!

The geniuses, who also quickly realized this, all held their breath.

The scene fell silent; there were gazes watching from below, and gazes cast down from above.

Du En faintly sensed it now; his body, tattered from the self-destruction of the magic treasure and the burning of the Phoenix fire, was also emitting a glowing light from various cracks.

First it was an earthy yellow, which, combined with the lingering effects of the Withered Wood Meets Spring Treasure Pill, allowed his body to recover rapidly and resist the continued burning of the residual Phoenix fire; then it shifted to a deep cyan, translucent throughout, as if he were a towering evergreen tree.

The visualization phenomenon emerged quietly; lush grass covered the earth, and amidst the verdant green, a towering evergreen tree from time immemorial blotted out the sky—it was the sole protagonist! The Cyan-Yellow Canon had reached its limit! Crack, crack, crack, boom! The original body of the Phoenix Blood Spear he held in his hand shattered into dust, leaving only the one-tenth that was the spearhead, the part that had fused with his natal magic treasure, the Cyan Palace.

No, it should be said that the original Phoenix Blood Spear had already been burned away; this current part was originally transformed from the Cyan Palace.

According to Du En's plan, at this very moment, he would take advantage of the momentum to connect and change the carrier port!

Using the Cyan Palace to bear the Phoenix Remnant Fire! "Screech!!!!!"

The Phoenix Remnant Fire did not care about this; it only faintly sensed that it seemed to be about to be used by this guy who should have died long ago to strengthen himself, and it immediately became even more frantic. After this final push, it immediately broke through the previous blockage.

It spread its wings again, the raging fire of hatred burning intensely, and, locking onto Du En, it flew straight at him, intending to incinerate him completely! Thus, the group of geniuses could not help but be puzzled.

Why did it abandon what was near to seek what was far? Clearly Du En was right before its eyes, yet it flew toward that sky-covering green tree?

Could it be?!

"Almost there."

Under the reinforcement of the various cultivation pills, his cultivation accumulation was only a few points away, and it immediately surged to the limit; thus, it followed logically and naturally.

Breakthrough!

Spirit Severing Stage! Du En raised his eyes to look at this world, feeling that everything was completely different; in what he saw and heard, beyond the original surface appearance, there were deeper, more vast, and more infinitely profound inner principles hidden beneath!

The true meaning of the universe seemed within reach, just waiting for him to grasp it... This was the Spirit Severing Barrier! The greatest and final obstacle standing before all Nascent Soul stage cultivators who were attempting to break through, beginning to break through, or had already broken through! Though heaven and earth are vast and the universe is wide, a mere Spirit Severing cultivator can only grasp a grain of sand from the infinite; if one greedily desires too much, then taking even a tiny bit more will cause oneself to directly dissolve and dissipate, assimilated and swallowed by the infinitely vast heaven and earth!

This is Spirit Severing, and yet it is not Spirit Severing...

So Du En withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes, pausing.

The principle of Cyan-Yellow was not what he sought.

What he sought at this moment was only the true brilliance! The crowd and the Wicked Dragon thought he was hesitant, trapped before a mental barrier, but he suddenly raised his head to look at the sky, where the scorching light that burned the world, hissing and shrill, flew up, having already burned the grassland and ignited the tree trunks, finally pouncing upon the crown of the green tree!

Whoosh! The flames immediately spread, burning through in the blink of an eye; the cyan was covered by a raging crimson.

He—he actually wants to simultaneously switch his cultivation technique?!

Only now did the crowd and the Wicked Dragon see his intention, and they were all shocked and terrified.

A top-tier technique—is it so easy to cultivate? That is something that can lead directly to the Great Vehicle stage; in the ancient era, before the immortals appeared, it was the best and most difficult in the world. Even geniuses would have to ponder and struggle to gain even a slight understanding and successfully glimpse it; only the true proud sons of heaven could master it completely and stand at the peak of the human world! Is he not being too arrogant?

The crowd felt their mouths go dry, and the Wicked Dragon felt a great threat.

However, no matter what they were thinking at this moment, and no matter how the Wicked Dragon struggled, it was already too late.

When the green tree ignited and the Cyan-Yellow burned, the switch was already complete! At the beginning of time, what drove away the darkness? Fire!

The fire that burns wood—what does it reveal of the Dao? Light!

And what is light? That which shines brilliantly! The Radiant Brilliance Canon.

Switch!

"With my light, I illuminate the long road ahead."

Du En looked at the profound and infinite principles; under the firelight, they began to illuminate slightly—this was initial learning. Then, the edges of a small path appeared—this was glimpsing the road. Then, pieces combined to form a path leading directly to the mysterious—this was a familiar path.

He still did not feel satisfied, and the Phoenix Remnant Fire was likewise very dissatisfied.

Although their thoughts and actions were completely different, the direction was exactly the same.

The firelight was searing white, dazzling and eye-catching; in the light, in the new realm, Du En had already taken a step, entered the path, and was formally proceeding.

Thus, a small achievement! The eyes of the crowd were temporarily blinded, and the Wicked Dragon had already vanished into ashes in the light.

"Ahhh!"

"How could this be?!"

"How could it be so simple, so rapid, so powerful... I am not reconciled!!!!!"

Only such wails and screams echoed in their ears, but the crowd paid no heed, only staring blankly into the radiance. Within their blinded vision and divine sense, they suddenly saw the raging, burning giant tree, with the phoenix tossing and turning, erupting with fiery light; amidst the burning heaven and earth, there was a tiny Nascent Soul, now shattering into nothingness.

If one does not break through the realm, one must die!

But after Du En took this step, he achieved success as a matter of course.

Immediately after.

Using principles as the essay and laws as the ink, within the reflected mind, the crowd saw what looked like a painting drawn by heaven and earth—the mysterious and profound Primordial Spirit!

The brilliant crimson firelight, with its dark, incandescent destruction, illuminated the self amidst the boundless principles; with each stroke and drawing, it was a simple sketch—no need for embellishment, no need for extra strokes—it drew the outline of Du En's form.

His robes were simple, his face plain, yet he was like a god, looking down upon the mortal world.

This was the Primordial Spirit! Boom! As the gate of the Spirit Palace slammed shut, all phenomena were gathered within, and everything quietly returned to peace.

The crowd jolted violently, gradually coming to their senses, only to discover they were standing on broken, tilted architectural debris, surrounded by a massive whirlpool on the sea surface that looked as if a hole had been punched in the ocean floor, constantly filling with vast quantities of seawater.

They instinctively flew up, and the debris beneath their feet was immediately swallowed by the waves; they stared blankly toward the center of the vortex, catching only a final glimpse of the edge of the dragon corpse.

They did not know when it had happened, but they had actually already exited the space of the Dragon Palace and returned to the South Cang Sea.

The matter was actually quite simple: when the Sinful Dragon detonated the remaining foundation of the Dragon Palace, they had already semi-exited that layer of the Dragon Palace's space, arriving in the crevice between the surface reality and the inner grotto-heaven.

The reason they were unable to perceive this, and even felt despair thinking they could not escape, was the long-distance battle between the Supremes! —The Falling Feather Heavenly Scar suppressed them from above, and the handiwork of the four great Supremes entangled with one another, so the actions of the five Supremes, in an unexpectedly harmonious tacit understanding, ultimately ended in mutual destruction, completely canceling each other out.

The True Monarchs high in the sky looked toward the great vortex in the sea, and upon still being able to see the Dragon King's corpse and the True Dragon's remains falling into the deeper spatial annihilation fissure, they inevitably revealed expressions of heartache and regret.

Those were the corpses of a Dragon King and a True Dragon; even if they had been wastefully squandered, and even if their essence had already transformed into the Dragon-Breeding Blood Abyss and been ruined, they still retained a great deal of essence and possessed immense value.

Whether it was pulling tendons and peeling skin to refine artifacts, or doing something else, in short, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; once missed, such a situation would never happen again.

But none of them made a move, because faintly, it was as if five high and lofty gazes were looking down, the lingering aftertaste of their oversight still remaining.

The Supremes did not care about the radiance burst forth by the ants; it was only because the ants happened to push the sand and dust into a range they found acceptable that they did nothing more, maintaining a tacit understanding to let their projected handiwork perish together.

This lingering aftertaste of oversight did not finally dissipate until the sea waves calmed.

True Monarch Zhuding secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the other True Monarchs visibly relaxed their minds even more, especially True Monarch Taotie, who had been the most anxious, fearing that Supreme Falling Feather would still push some sort of scheme and pinch him back onto their chessboard.

Fortunately, that did not happen...

Right now, since the gazes of the Supremes had completely retreated, it was once again the moment for the True Monarchs to preside over the scene.

Thus, their gazes looked, by unspoken agreement, toward Du En, who was retracting his brilliant radiance, becoming silent and calm, and quietly comprehending the various changes.

That was the only bright spot and focus at the moment! (End of chapter)