Chapter 426: Hate Fire Like the Sun, Birth Mother

The fire of hatred is inextinguishable, it must burn everything to ash! However, the origin of this Formless Birth Mother is also quite extraordinary; it is a source of life and spiritual essence from a star realm, a portion of it!

The Life-Source Star Realm, its name is Life-Source, and it is clearly especially prominent in terms of vitality.

Even though it was downgraded significantly because its spiritual veins and spiritual Qi were intercepted, and even though this Formless Birth Mother only contains a portion of that life source, because it was mixed with extra factors like the Fluorite Disease, it is fully capable of rivaling, or even exceeding, the endless life force on Du En's side.

In this way, by relying on mass proliferation and breeding, the Formless Birth Mother is actually able to successfully suppress the continuous burning of that fire of hatred for the moment.

However, before it could even catch its breath or relax, it gave a violent jolt, experiencing a manifestation of painful stress that had just been received and was still continuing.

It looked up in disbelief; though its eyes had already been gouged out, it possessed other senses and other eyes, and it saw densely packed, red-burning, hate-filled Sacred Refining artifacts arranging themselves in an orderly formation.

This is going too far!

It was shocked and furious on the spot, emitting a silent roar that transmitted into Du En's ears as if countless people were saying these four words. Suddenly, its own spiritual body origin began to churn, and its Nascent Soul and mental state swayed violently!

From body to mind to cultivation, it can realize interference in both tangible and intangible ways, and when facing the weak, it can even achieve complete control—this is its divine ability, the Three Phases of the Living! Fortunately, by a twist of fate, the hatred of the Divine Venerable had severely wounded it first; otherwise, facing its display in a perfect state, Du En would not have held on so easily.

Even so, it is truly a very hard bone to chew right now; it is worthy of the innate title of Formless Birth Mother, truly an abnormally grotesque existence...

Amidst the precariousness of the three phases of body and mind, Du En's emotions remained steady and calm. The more dangerous it was, the calmer he became. Steering the small boat named "Self," he was not affected in the slightest, meticulously driving his Dao techniques.

His sword finger landed before him. He had not formed seals and channeled techniques like this for a long time, naturally because he had to go all out. At this moment, the radiance reappeared, as if unfolding a world of light, and there were densely packed burning swords circling, like a corona outside a heart of light.

The Formless Birth Mother was not just shouting without action; the claws extending from its back erupted, transforming from intangible to tangible, completely tearing apart the exhausted True Flame Fire Phoenix, and stretching out wantonly.

That was actually a pair of wings!

Blood-stained crystals, infinite life sources, and countless bloodlines gathered and condensed the blood of the living beings that this star and this star realm had ever nurtured since history began, and used this to infect and manipulate the Fluorite Disease, even gnawing on the blood source of that supreme physical body to transform it into its own power!

This is the origin of the controllable Fluorite Disease. Since one person's bloodline and one person's spiritual body simply cannot withstand such tyranny and such supremacy, then use the blood and bloodlines of countless living beings to withstand and manipulate it!

An Shen had experimented many times for this, and only by a twist of fate did she finally create this Formless Birth Mother, thereby realizing the controllable Fluorite Disease.

But conversely, this terrifying individual was not that controllable, which is why it was left here alone.

Of course, that was only one of the reasons.

And right now, facing the offensive from Du En's side, having received terrible pain, and with the fire of hatred still burning inside its body—which is far more terrifying than the Fluorite Disease—the Formless Birth Mother did not slack off in the slightest, wantonly spreading its Ten Thousand Spirit Blood Wings.

The Radiant Light Instrument Wheel could not crush or grind the opened blood wings. Arcs of light and flowing blood plasma treated the air and space as a wall to be smeared at will, emitting a terrifying stench of blood from within, and dark red crystal clusters seemed to connect to another interface.

These situations sound long, but the brewing and counterattacks between them were actually only a fleeting moment; Du En was just a tiny bit faster.

The light wheel was magnificent, the fire burning fiercely! The blood wings were arrogant, the bloodthirst monstrous! This deep space was now cut into two parts, filled with two types of power and two portions of majesty!

Then, they collided together.

A silent impact erupted in this space deep within the inner layer.

This kind of cultivation holy land, a prototype of a blessed land, instantly became twisted, bloated, and swollen.

"... Explode!"

The next moment, in the faintness, a calm voice seemed to ring out.

Then, the space deep within the inner layer began to shrink abruptly, and it did not shrink toward one point, but toward countless points, as if countless black holes had appeared out of thin air inside, each pulling and dragging, causing the space itself to emit unbearable, tearing cries of sorrow.

Looking from the outside with a unique perspective, it looked like this, but in reality, Du En's current perception was that nothing had changed!

Only the Sacred God looked up at the outside in suspicion and uncertainty.

What exactly is An Shen doing? She had already sensed the anomaly in this space, but now, the key was still before her eyes.

Even though Du En had just used the self-detonation tactic quite decisively to increase his output, the Formless Birth Mother had not been eliminated; only those two Ten Thousand Spirit Blood Wings had been blown into several segments. At the broken ends, tangible and intangible blood was expanding, attempting to flow back and reconnect.

Du En had gone to great lengths to fight to a mutual destruction and blow off its wings; how could he let it recover?

Immediately, there was a clear cry, and several tiny fire phoenixes suddenly appeared, pouncing on these broken wings, intensifying the firepower, using artifact-refining techniques to perform an initial refining on the spot, and placing restrictions on them to bind them.

Then, he slapped the entrance of the blessed land, Kongsang Mountain, intending to collect them inside.

"Ah!!!"

A shrill cry appeared; it was the Formless Birth Mother, which had landed here, attempting to stop him and pouncing over.

The fire phoenixes aggregated, suddenly becoming fierce, and crashed into it.

Although it quickly slapped them to pieces, its own Ten Thousand Spirit Blood Wings were already lost! Furious and distraught, it was about to charge at the culprit, but at this moment, the terrible fire of hatred it had barely suppressed earlier emerged from the broken ends of the blood wings, immediately causing it to scream, collapse to the ground, and roll continuously.

"Li!!!"

The suddenly erupting fierce phoenix screech occurred as it was forced to endure the pain to stop the rolling, once again barely suppressing the fire of hatred, and looking up in horror.

The Phoenix Blood Spear was being gripped by Du En, thrusting over!

Or rather, he was currently like someone being dragged along, because the Phoenix Remnant Hatred was so surging and terrifying that it temporarily ignored Du En, this fellow who was also going to be burned.

Because the Formless Birth Mother was too special, it was practically a repository aggregate of the living beings of a realm. That scale, from this perspective, would occupy the entire field of vision the moment it appeared. Its level of concern was only below that of the Grudge-Evil and the Supreme, and it must be burned to ashes immediately!

The crazy hatred left behind by the Divine Venerable dragged along Du En, who actually didn't have much strength left, making him appear helpless, as if he were a kite hanging on an airplane.

He himself didn't mind at all and was in the midst of intensive preparations to recover his state.

The light wheel of the Five Undying appeared dim, and his Nascent Soul also looked flickering and unstable. However, with the Sacred God's purifying light and healing light, there was no need to take pills or use divine abilities for now.

Once he had a little spare strength, he would immediately brew a move, appearing sneaky. However, the Formless Birth Mother had no energy to care about this side now. Upon seeing the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, it immediately acted as if facing a natural enemy, extremely grave. Even though this remnant hatred, which used the Phoenix Blood Spear as a manifestation port, was actually just like that—very prominent among the Fifth-Rank Deity Transformation stage, but not enough to suppress everything.

If it were in a perfect state, with both its head and blood wings present, the Formless Birth Mother could even occupy a slight upper hand, but it couldn't now.

Therefore, severely wounded as it was, it chose to dodge at the first opportunity, not daring to take it head-on at all; otherwise, under the combined attack from inside and outside, it might face the danger of falling!

One side chased crazily, the other side dodged wildly.

The Formless Birth Mother emitted various noisy screams, but they were all covered by the shrill screech of the Phoenix Remnant Hatred and could not spread out at all; there were various counteractions and cancellations in the intangible.

Its divine ability, the Three Phases of the Living, had just been displayed to its heart's content.

But unfortunately, the Phoenix Remnant Hatred was the remnant hatred of the dead and was not within the influence range of this divine ability at all. Therefore, no matter how wonderful this divine ability was, being able to display interference, and even control, over the three phases of the living, it was impossible to have even a tiny bit of influence on this Divine Venerable remnant hatred.

Excessive focus on a single strength sometimes leads to facing such situations.

"Li!!!"

Seeing that it could not be caught after a long chase, the Phoenix Remnant Hatred became even crazier. The fierce fire phoenix that had been simulated suddenly opened its single eye wide, within which was infinite hatred.

Accompanied by this mutation, the layer of blood covering the ground in this special space deep inside was finally ignited by the friction of sparks.

This move could no longer be suppressed, and it spread with raging aggression.

Phoenix Yuhen stopped chasing, standing tall in the air, its wings stretching out forcefully as its firepower continued to intensify; it seemed to transform into a scorching sun, flickering in the dim light, and began to expand because Du En was no longer restraining it.

"... Is that so? Alright then, I'll go secure the retreat path."

Sheng Shen met Du En's gaze and immediately understood his intention; after a moment of hesitation, she still responded, dashed through the raging Yuhen phoenix fire, and vanished in a flash, heading into that passageway.

Phoenix Yuhen naturally noticed this and wanted to raise its claws to intercept, but Du En suddenly stood firm, gripping the already twisted and red-hot Phoenix Blood Spear, and moved with all his might to restrict its movements.

It immediately diverted some of its attention back to this hateful fellow who was always stopping it, always using it, and most importantly, could never be burned away.

Snap! The Phoenix Blood Spear began to show cracks; it was the ordinary port that had been transformed, beginning to fail under the strain, as the main body of Yuhen was accelerating its ascent.

Du En's expression did not change; he simply raised his hand to stroke it.

The embryonic form of Dao Might, which he had deliberately not used before, was now being utilized by him.

However, it was not to reinforce or enhance this Phoenix Blood Spear, otherwise, it would be easy to invite a god but hard to send one away, and it would be very easy to directly draw in the deep-level main body's edge through the embryonic Dao Might, then burn directly onto his primordial spirit.

Therefore, he was applying it to another dharma treasure, another transformation.

Eternal Freezing Ice Coffin!

The Phoenix Blood Spear, which had been twisted and limp and was about to melt away completely, immediately solidified and cooled within a layer of ice shell, and the previously magnificent and terrifying scorching sun also instantly dimmed.

Du En's hand gripping the spear was naturally also frozen and frostbitten by this extreme-limit ice coffin, and he felt as if ants were gnawing at him on the spot, even his spiritual body could not withstand it, but to him, this was just a minor matter, and he did not even frown.

"Sss!"

The Formless Birth Mother, while fleeing, also discovered the weakening of its great enemy; it stopped and turned back to look at the scorching sun in the distance, already thousands of miles away, and facing the hatred-fire that was still raging toward it, although it was still full of dread, it also understood that blindly running and hiding would not work.

Although this special space was vast and deep, it was not infinite in size; blindly running and hiding would only lead to it eventually perishing together with it! That's right, with the raging of Phoenix Yuhen, that layer of blood water and blood sea that never rose or fell had already been vaporizing and disappearing; that could be called the foundation of this place, and once it perished completely, this deep space would also be wiped out of existence! And it would also die! Therefore, although it was still dreading and hesitating, it ultimately decided to launch a counterattack.

So that's how it is...

Du En watched the Formless Birth Mother's movements, then looked at the blood sea that had been burned dry, and had clearly understood something.

And at this moment, the Formless Birth Mother, who was looking at him from afar with its Fire Eyes Golden Pupils and was about to launch a counterattack, could not help but feel a sense of dread!

The fire was cracked and the gold was shattered; the backlash it had suffered earlier had not recovered so quickly, but at this moment it was still shining brightly, and in its fractured state, it revealed an unusually profound quality, like some kind of one-of-a-kind, broken-state artifact created by a stroke of luck.

The most critical thing was that gaze, calm as water and serene as jade; it was not the inorganic quality of coldness and indifference, but a living, natural-born quality with warmth.

It should not have been eyes that would bring dread, but it felt dread nonetheless.

If one were to ask why, it was because of the unease and trepidation toward a normal-state life, both yearning and ashamed...

"Ah!!!"

The surging complex thoughts, the pain of internal burning and external injury, and the hatred-fire that had already raged to its front caused the Formless Birth Mother to let out a terrifying shriek.

Divine Ability, Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Manifestation! It was like a large blister, suddenly expanding and then exploding, bringing forth a torrential rain of blood; one by one, deformed combinations, mixed crystals and miscellaneous jades, living beings with concrete forms appeared in Du En's eyes.

From the most ordinary single-celled organisms to the great lives and great cultivators at the Perfection of Transformation to Divinity, they were dense and numerous, everything one could expect to find, numbering in the hundreds of millions; it was truly terrifying to the extreme! Du En, however, was not surprised, but glanced at the ground; the blood sea had already quietly disappeared, leaving only deep, dark gloom.

Three dimensions and six faces were all darkness.

With the disappearance of the blood sea, this deep space was also undergoing violent changes.

From Sheng Shen's perspective, this space, which had originally been collapsing toward countless points, had suddenly finished adjusting and began to merge and collapse along the central point, invisibly coiling something.

Creak, creak...

Du En stared ahead, his shattered Fire Eyes Golden Pupils operating to the limit; within the flames wrapping around him, as if penetrating Phoenix's Yuhen, three other points of light faintly emerged, and so, he saw, amidst the re-manifesting ten thousand spirits and ten thousand lives, the faintly visible threads that were entangled.

Threads of karma! One end was entangled in these sinful-blood living beings nurtured by the Formless Birth Mother's divine ability, while at the other end, it connected to something out of thin air, like a scroll being manipulated, coiling these threads up and rolling them into a ball.

What exactly does Anshen want to do? Du En frowned slightly.

(End of chapter)