Chapter 271: Breakthrough

Lu Tianyu chuckled: "Old thing, stop struggling. Being refined by me is a blessing you earned in your previous life."

"Refining you for my use doesn't mean you are dead; you will live on inside my body, which can be considered making the best use of everything."

"No need to struggle, just enjoy it to the fullest!"

The Big Eyeball was so angered it nearly exploded: "Ahhh!"

"You Demon Head, you great Demon Head, you old Demon Head!"

As a Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivator of the Blood Demon Race, he prided himself on being a Demon Head and was one of the progenitors of the Blood Demon Race.

Yet at this moment, he felt that Lu Tianyu was even more of a Demon Head than he was; Lu Tianyu was the true old Demon Head of the Blood Demon Race.

His tone was neither salty nor bland, carrying a bone-chilling flavor that left one with endless aftertaste.

"A great Demon Head? You actually call me that, hehe."

Lu Tianyu smiled, "That's right, from now on I shall be called the great Demon Head, the great Demon Head in the hearts of all your Demon Race people, the nightmare of all your Demon Race people!"

As he spoke, he began to refine the Big Eyeball.

Strands of blood-red mist were forcibly sucked out of the Big Eyeball and entered his eyes.

This time, Lu Tianyu intended to separate the Blood Pupil and the Double Pupil; with the Double Pupil in the left eye and the Blood Pupil in the right, both could be used simultaneously, and the power would naturally be formidable.

At this moment, Lu Tianyu's left eye was like a pitch-black Abyss, swirling in the wisps of gray-black airflow from his right eye.

His left eye was like a blood-colored bottomless Abyss vortex, sucking in the essence of blood energy flying out from the Big Eyeball, strand by strand.

If anyone who knew Lu Tianyu were here, they would certainly be shocked.

Lu Tianyu looked like a demon at this moment, his left eye a Double Pupil Demon Head and his right eye a Blood Demon Eye, terrifying beyond measure.

Who exactly was the Demon Head?

The Big Eyeball felt its blood essence being absorbed uncontrollably, including the essence the eyeball had gathered for many years, and was instantly terrified.

"Ahhh~"

"Great Demon Head! Great Demon Head!"

He roared frantically, but unfortunately, he could not move.

Staring at Lu Tianyu's two eyes, he felt an irresistible fear.

Lu Tianyu chuckled: "Keep screaming!"

"I haven't sealed your soul just so you can scream your heart out, so you can make your final struggle!"

"You killed so many people, letting them die in pain and despair; now, letting you experience the fear of pain and despair is only fair to those you cruelly murdered!"

"Sigh!" The Big Eyeball let out a long sigh, "Kid, I yield to you, I accept my fate!"

He looked at the Bahuang Heaven-Swallowing Tripod: "Everything you have must have been bestowed by this great tripod; can you tell me the origin of this tripod?"

At this moment, he had given up roaring, knowing it was useless.

Lu Tianyu smiled slightly: "It is called the Bahuang Heaven-Swallowing Tripod; it swallows the heavens and devours the earth, capable of anything!"

Once these words were spoken, a boom echoed in the Demon Head's Divine Sense Sea, and his calmed mood surged with great waves again, as if it were about to explode.

He shrieked hysterically: "This, this is that Heaven-Swallowing Tripod, that number one forbidden artifact of the ancient times!"

"It is it! It is truly it!"

"I never thought you kid actually obtained the Heaven-Swallowing Tripod; you have such great luck!"

However, he then laughed out loud: "You have mastered the Heaven-Swallowing Tripod; I am happy for you, and happy for my Demon Race!"

"You have refined my eyeball and absorbed my soul power, which means you are also a member of the Demon Race!"

"You will surely be a person of my Demon Race in the future!"

"I die, but it is worth it!"

He seemed to see the rise of a great Demon Head, slaughtering all human cultivators, and the Demon Race taking advantage of the momentum to rise and rule the three realms!

The Demon Race had always believed in the strong; even if hundreds of millions of their kin died to achieve a peerless great Demon Head, they would not hesitate to sacrifice their own lives.

"Hahaha!"

Lu Tianyu laughed: "You are wrong, I am not of the Demon Race, I am human!"

"However, in my concept, there is no distinction between the Demon Race and the human race; bad people are sometimes even more demonic than the Demon Race!"

"I am who I am, Lu Tianyu!"

The Big Eyeball was slightly stunned upon hearing this, then laughed: "That is even better!"

"With such a state of mind, you will surely achieve great things in the future; achieving you is equivalent to achieving a master of the three realms, it is worth it for me!"

At this moment, the Xue Ku suddenly began to shake.

Rumble!

A heaven-shaking thunderous sound came from above, passing directly through the Da Fu Sang Shu and into the cave.

A thunder dragon exploded above Lu Tianyu's head, bypassing him and striking toward the Demon Dog.

"Awoo—"

The Demon Dog let out an excited roar: "Come on, come on, I've been ready for a long time!"

"Split my flesh and blood open, I have so much blood, what is there to fear, awoo!"

Soon, five hours passed.

The Big Eyeball above his head had completely disappeared.

Lu Tianyu stood up, his left eye pitch-black as ink, his right eye blood-red, and two beams of light, one red and one black, blasted out.

Boom!

The blood energy burst, and two pitch-black cracks actually appeared in the air, which was terrifying.

"Husband, you can immediately refine the energy in the Blood Pool for your own use to increase your strength!"

"Your Five Elements Body Refining Technique has already been cultivated to perfection, and you need not worry about the Qi Refining realm; you can directly upgrade to the Nascent Soul realm!"

"With this Blood Pool and the Bahuang Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, the lightning tribulation cannot harm you; instead, it will perform lightning tempering on your body, bringing you immense benefits!"

"If the energy in the Blood Pool is sufficient, you can even reach the Out-of-Body Stage or the Spirit-Severing Stage!"

The leisurely voice of Qian Gu Nu Di came through: "Do not worry about having an unstable foundation; others might have issues with an unstable foundation, but you do not!"

Lu Tianyu was immediately overjoyed: "Good! I shall advance right now!"

Although his speed of advancement was not slow, he still felt somewhat inadequate when facing many high-level cultivators, and at critical moments, he still had to rely on the Demon Dog to take action.

Swoosh!

He sat cross-legged beneath the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron: "Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, absorb for me!"

"Convert!"

Hum, hum, hum!

The Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron began to spin rapidly, and streaks of pitch-black patterns flew out from it, shrouding the entire Xue Ku.

Woo, woo, woo~

A massive vortex centered on the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron began to swallow the blood Qi below like a whale.

One could see pillars of blood shooting into the sky, forming a massive torrent of blood that rushed toward the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron.

And Lu Tianyu was positioned at the center of the vortex.

At the center of the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, streams of pure energy were poured into his crown chakra as if through an initiation.

The aura on Lu Tianyu's body began to climb steadily.

Boom!

Lu Tianyu broke through to the Golden Core Stage, and his aura continued to rise steadily.

Golden Core mid-stage, Golden Core late-stage, Golden Core peak!

Boom!

The Golden Core shattered and began to condense into a Nascent Soul; the condensation was successful, and he entered the Nascent Soul Stage.

Nascent Soul early-stage, Nascent Soul mid-stage, Nascent Soul late-stage...

Lu Tianyu had practiced dual cultivation with Qian Gu Nu Di for one hundred thousand years; he was rich in experience and was as familiar as one could possibly be with every realm!

Two hours later, Lu Tianyu advanced from the Out-of-Body Stage to the Spirit-Severing Stage.

However, this had not yet stopped.