Chapter 594: The Nine Seas Become One

At this moment, Zhang Nuo had his eyes tightly closed, his body entwined by the branches of the "Pure Nether Divine Tree," with the gurgling power of the origin of life continuously being transmitted into his body.

On his two shoulders were the heads of Xuan Jin and Qiong Qi respectively; the two transformed Spirit Beasts, just like Zhang Nuo, had their four eyes tightly shut, their faces revealing expressions of strain!

Just at this moment, a loud explosion erupted from within Zhang Nuo's body, followed immediately by a mouthful of fresh blood spraying from his mouth; he changed his hand seals several times in succession, only then preventing a second mouthful of blood from spraying out!

In an instant, Zhang Nuo's complexion turned as pale as paper, and deep within his pupils, the light of the past was gone, replaced by a chaotic color! Just a moment ago, he had detonated one of the Divine Seas within his body! This was the most important step in merging the Nine Divine Seas: breaking before establishing! Only by shattering the current Divine Seas could a new Divine Sea be gestated!

For the past hundred years, Zhang Nuo had been laying the groundwork for this step, but when the deed was truly done, he still felt it was somewhat strenuous!

"Qiong Qi! Xuan Jin! I am about to detonate the second Divine Sea. If I cannot hold on and lose consciousness, you must help me detonate the remaining Divine Seas! Remember, there must be no mistakes! I will temporarily cut off the mental connection between you and me; at the same time, you will no longer feel the pain I am experiencing!"

Xuan Jin slowly opened his eyes and nodded heavily, not saying anything more!

"Boom!"

A second loud explosion came, and Zhang Nuo only felt as if his body had been dismantled; his head buzzed, and blood flowed out from his seven orifices!

"Master!"

Xuan Jin cried out in distress. Ever since entering the Spirit Severing Stage, Zhang Nuo had never suffered such heavy injuries. Even though his physical body far exceeded that of existences at the same level, it still could not withstand the self-detonation of the Divine Seas within his body! This was only the second Divine Sea; if he were to detonate all nine Divine Seas in succession, the consequences would be unimaginable!

"I am fine! It is fortunate that I fused eight of the nine divine objects into the Divine Seas beforehand; otherwise, detonating just one Divine Sea would have been enough to destroy me!"

Reaching out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, Zhang Nuo said through gritted teeth.

"Get ready, the third one!"

No sooner had Zhang Nuo's words fallen than another loud explosion was heard from within his body!

The rumbling sound traveled far throughout the entire Underground Palace! The Great Prophet, who had been meditating, opened his eyes at this moment, glanced toward where Zhang Nuo was, and muttered to himself:

"Has it begun? Is it not a bit too early?"

Lowering his head to ponder for a moment, the Great Prophet ultimately closed his eyes again! Even if he thought more about it now, he could not help Zhang Nuo with anything; everything had to depend on himself!

When the sixth Divine Sea was detonated, Zhang Nuo was covered in blood, and many cracks had appeared on the surface of his skin; it was from these numerous fissures that the blood was flowing out!

On Zhang Nuo's forehead, through the cracks in his skin, one could even see the stark white skull, and around his body, a layer of red insect corpses had covered the surrounding ground!

These "Hidden Wing Blood-Eating Insects" had originally been fused with Zhang Nuo, but after the successive detonation of six Divine Seas, some finally could not withstand this power and died directly!

Zhang Nuo did not feel sorry for them; only the Spirit Insects that had been baptized and remained were the most excellent of the population! As for those that died, it was only natural for them to be eliminated!

With his hands hanging slightly and blood foam spraying from his mouth, the current Zhang Nuo did not even have the strength to speak; his gaze looked toward Xuan Jin on one shoulder, his chaotic eyes seeming to tell him something!

Because the mental connection had been severed, Xuan Jin could not feel Zhang Nuo's pain at all, but facing such a scene, he still knew that the current Zhang Nuo was almost on the verge of collapse!

Nodding heavily, Xuan Jin understood; Zhang Nuo no longer had the strength to detonate the remaining three Divine Seas! The matters that followed would have to be left to him and Qiong Qi!

"Master! Please endure a little longer; we will finish it as quickly as possible!"

At this time, Zhang Nuo could no longer say a single word and could only manage to blink his eyelids!

Xuan Jin's form grew significantly from Zhang Nuo's shoulder until half of his body had emerged, and only then did he stop! He folded his hand seals! A low shout came from his mouth!

"Boom!"

Following his low shout, the seventh Divine Sea within Zhang Nuo's body also burst open. At this very instant, Zhang Nuo's body trembled slightly, then he threw his head back toward the sky, and a pillar of blood broke through the roof, turning into a sky full of blood rain that scattered around the room!

Within this blood was immense power; as soon as it hit the ground, the square bricks paved on the surrounding floor immediately emitted a series of cracking sounds!

"Boom!"

The eighth Divine Sea exploded. This time, Zhang Nuo did not even have the strength to spit blood; his body was like a marionette, the bones in his limbs breaking inch by inch, his ruptured skin revealing layers of flesh turned outward, his appearance extremely terrifying—even someone tortured in hell could not be worse than this!

At this moment, Xuan Jin's body also suffered a significant impact; his body leaned forward, his hands hung down, appearing powerless. After detonating two Divine Seas, Xuan Jin was also exhausted, using the last bit of his strength to turn his head toward Qiong Qi's side!

With a slight twitch of the corner of his mouth, he could not utter a single word!

"I understand!"

Qiong Qi, who was the least injured, spat out these four words, then suddenly threw his head back and let out a long howl, detonating the very last Divine Sea!

A rumbling sound erupted from Zhang Nuo's body; in an instant, his entire person seemed to have been completely torn apart, with skin and flesh blown away in large amounts by the force of the final Divine Sea!

Swish! Swish!

Two black shadows flashed out from Zhang Nuo's body; they were the two Buddha-Demons!

After the Buddha-Demons appeared, they opened their four hands and set up a powerful Restriction around Zhang Nuo's body, which finally stopped his body from being dismembered!

After maintaining this for about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, Zhang Nuo finally slowly raised his head. With a movement of his Divine Sense, the Buddha-Demons returned to his body! Although the power of these two Buddha-Demons was not small, the Divine Sense consumed by using them for a long time was also a huge burden!

The current Zhang Nuo could even less afford to waste Divine Sense! Therefore, after stabilizing his body, he immediately retracted the Buddha-Demons! The next moment, a tender green branch slowly extended in front of him, and on the branch hung a golden, shimmering Golden Core Fruit!

Zhang Nuo did not even have the strength to reach out and take the Golden Core Fruit, so he could only let the Divine Tree send it directly into his mouth! The first Golden Core Fruit was swallowed! The power contained within the fruit dissolved, and combined with the continuous source of life force, it began to repair Zhang Nuo's damaged body!

Before long, the power of this Golden Core Fruit was completely consumed, and immediately after, a second Golden Core Fruit was sent over by the Divine Tree. Just like this, until all the Golden Core Fruits produced by the Pure Nether Divine Tree were swallowed, did Zhang Nuo finally show some improvement; he lifted his hands with great effort and grabbed at the two Yuan Ying Fruits hanging on the Divine Tree in the void!

Immediately, the two fruits were taken into his hands! He stuffed them into his mouth almost simultaneously! The power of the Yuan Ying Fruit was much greater than that of the Golden Core Fruit; after swallowing two of them, the skin on Zhang Nuo's body began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye! However, it did not last for very long.

The power of the two Yuan Ying Fruits was also exhausted! Seeing this, Zhang Nuo frantically devoured the Yuan Ying Fruits. Finally, after eating dozens of Yuan Ying Fruits, his body seemed to have been rebuilt, radiating vigorous vitality!

At this time, Xuan Jin and Qiong Qi on Zhang Nuo's shoulders slowly submerged back into his body! The two Spirit Beasts had helped him greatly at the final moment, but precisely because of this, they also suffered non-trivial internal injuries and must spend time recovering!

"Leave the rest to me! Thank you both!"

Zhang Nuo looked at the two Spirit Beasts with pity; if it were not for them being there, he feared that his fusion of the Divine Seas this time would have ended in failure!

Looking inward, he saw that his dantian had been ruined beyond recognition by the power of the Nine Divine Seas' self-detonation, with countless white rays of light swirling within! These were all the essence left behind by the Nine Divine Seas; only by gathering them together would a new Divine Sea be formed!

Operating his internal cultivation technique, Zhang Nuo continuously gathered the light in his dantian, slowly turning it into a large Divine Sea! Several years later, a Divine Sea several times larger than the original was finally given a rudimentary form by Zhang Nuo!

With a slight joy on his face, Zhang Nuo suddenly flipped one hand, and the Jade Box containing the "Rebirth Grass" appeared in his palm. Opening the lid, the emerald green, dripping grass appeared so intimate!

Zhang Nuo held the "Rebirth Grass" in his palm; all the suffering he had endured before was for this final gamble! He placed the Rebirth Grass on his heart and rubbed it hard!

In an instant, the spirit grass turned into countless starlike green lights, and with a flash, they drilled into Zhang Nuo's mouth!

Within his dantian, dots of green light appeared and slowly descended toward the rudimentary form of the fused Divine Sea! Gradually, all the green light of the Rebirth Grass disappeared into the Divine Sea!

Zhang Nuo closed his eyes slightly, folded his hand seals, and operated his cultivation power to begin rebuilding this new Divine Sea he had dreamed of!

Everything before had been done; all Zhang Nuo needed now was time, time for the new Divine Sea to be born!

During this period, Zhang Nuo also took some time to repair the destroyed meridians in his body. At the same time, he discovered a problem: his body, destroyed by the self-detonation of the Nine Divine Seas, seemed to be even stronger than his previous physical body after being repaired by the combined efforts of countless Golden Core Fruits and dozens of Yuan Ying Fruits!

Even the Eight Extremes Demon Veins, which had long lacked progress, were now within reach! If things continued like this, as soon as the new Divine Sea was formed, he could immediately cultivate. As for his cultivation level? It could at least be raised to the early Refining Void Stage!

To be able to leap straight to the Refining Void Stage all at once, this was something Zhang Nuo had never even dared to imagine before!