Chapter 475: Blood Demon Extreme Transformation, Beheading Curses in a Dream
In the air, the giant python's head was clamped in the golden dragon's jaws.
Qiming stood right upon the python's head, as if fused with the beast; his entire form was illusory, and he had suffered no actual damage.
This was the divine ability evolution of his Heaven-Stellar and Earth-Fiend Array, which allowed him to hide his true body within a special space created by his life-bound magic treasure. As long as the life-bound magic treasure remained unbroken, his true body would not suffer any harm.
Qiu Zian's life-burning strike had created a perfect opportunity. At this moment, the python's head was held fast in the golden dragon's mouth, and its remaining body tried to reconnect with the head, only to be interrupted by the thunder continuously falling from the sky.
Just as Qiming appeared to be losing ground, four "light swords" suddenly pierced into the golden dragon's body in quick succession!
It was four more tribes of the Northern Barbarians activating their guardian arrays.
With this, excluding the annihilated Dream Lion tribe, eleven of the remaining sixteen Northern Barbarian tribes had chosen to support Boerhu, activating their guardian arrays to jointly resist the invading Great Lan Dynasty's national destiny!
Taking advantage of the appearance of these four "light swords," Qiming immediately counterattacked. The python's head began to swell continuously within the golden dragon's mouth, with boundless resentment and vengeful spirits dancing within it. Monstrous curse power surged forth, as if the gates of hell had been opened inside the golden dragon's mouth!
Black patterns appeared upon the scales of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, then rapidly spread downward from the dragon's head.
Qiming had turned the tables and placed a curse upon the Great Lan Dynasty's national destiny!
This was the very foundation of his path to enlightenment; that he could now, under the suppression and damage of the national destiny, turn around and cast a curse, showed that his curse path had advanced a step further.
For him, this battle was both a crisis and an opportunity!
But even while infected by the curse power, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon did not loosen its grip, still biting down hard on the python's head, preventing it from reconnecting with its body.
Although Qiming's curse path had progressed, his life-bound magic treasure had also suffered heavy damage.
Had it not been for the interference of the Northern Barbarian national destiny, the national destiny golden dragon would have already shattered this life-bound magic treasure!
Now, it was a matter of which side would collapse first.
Would the national destiny golden dragon and the heavenly thunder punishment shatter Qiming's life-bound magic treasure, or would Qiming thoroughly infect the national destiny golden dragon with his curse power first?
From the perspective of the situation, the Great Lan Dynasty still held a certain advantage.
The only variable lay with the Northern Barbarians.
No one knew if any new tribes would come to help and activate their guardian arrays.
After Li Fei landed safely with Qiu Zian, he looked up at the national destiny golden dragon, which had been pierced by several more "swords," and a look of worry appeared on his face.
He suddenly thought of something. He first fed Qiu Zian a sacred healing pill to stabilize her injuries, then stopped casting "Azure God" and turned to cast a spell—Gate of the Dream Realm.
Although he no longer had the Dream-Like Decree, Li Fei, now in the True Spirit Realm, could roam the Dream Realm using his own power.
In a trance, he entered the Dream Realm once more.
He looked up and saw that in the distant sky, there were scenes far more magnificent and profound than in the real world:
A ten-thousand-foot-long golden dragon was tearing at a giant python; half the sky was golden, filled with scenes of the common people living in peace and joy.
The other half of the sky was dark and gloomy, with countless vengeful spirits wailing, forming a sea of ghosts.
Half human realm, half hell!
Beyond this, eleven giant beasts were continuously tearing at the flesh of the ten-thousand-foot golden dragon.
Among these giant beasts were a cyan phoenix, a crimson lion, and a dark golden three-legged crow.
Clearly, these giant beasts were the national destiny of the Northern Barbarians.
At the very top, there was also a golden sun, dropping thunder again and again.
It was that "As If I Am Present" golden tablet.
Li Fei's subconscious projection flew toward the sky, simultaneously using his True Power to connect with the golden tablet at the highest point, transmitting a thought:
"Give me national destiny!"
The Emperor had given him the golden tablet, and also the authority to temporarily mobilize national destiny, so when his thought connected with the golden tablet, he truly drew forth a strand of national destiny!
Neither the Emperor nor Xiang Yunshu tried to stop him; they had given Li Fei their full trust.
A golden rainbow descended from the sky, landing upon Li Fei's subconscious projection.
After obtaining the national destiny, Li Fei did not immediately use the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to refine it into power.
Previously, he was able to refine the national destiny into the Sun, Moon, and Star Armor and the Jiangshan Sheji Saber, possessing the combat power of a peak Foundation Establishment realm, because he had the support of a military formation at the time and already possessed the cultivation base of a Grandmaster.
More importantly, he had the assistance of the Heaven-Mixing Luo Pan at that time.
But now, Xiang Yunshu could not be distracted to guide him, and he was currently only a Martial Arts Master and a True Person.
Even if he used the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to refine national destiny, it would be difficult to increase his combat power by much.
So Li Fei decided to change his approach.
He used the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to refine the national destiny into energy, then injected it into the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl!
After this high-intensity battle, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's current energy value was at Level 42, 68%, still a distance away from leveling up.
However, the quality of the national destiny's energy was not a bit inferior to Qiming's curse power from back then; it was even higher!
Although there would be a certain loss after refinement by the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's ability value still rose extremely quickly!
This process required a certain amount of time and could not be interrupted, which was why Li Fei had specifically entered the Dream Realm to avoid alerting Qiming.
One minute later, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy value reached 100%, leveling up once again!
Rising to Level 43, the exhausted Ten Thousand Blood Pearl was instantly "fully restored," and the total number of blood souls increased by 84, becoming 4,931.
After rising to Level 43, Li Fei still did not stop refining the national destiny, continuing to inject energy into the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl!
It was not that he was greedy for a bargain at this critical moment, but that the total number of blood souls in the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl was only a tiny bit away from breaking through the 5,000 mark.
Once all blood soul techniques had been strengthened once, it would be the turn of the transformation technique 【Blood Demon】 to be strengthened.
Now that all his blood soul techniques had been strengthened for the second time, to their limits, the next turn should be for 【Blood Demon】 to be strengthened again!
Previously, when the total number of blood souls in the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl exceeded 4,000, he had not obtained a new strengthening opportunity.
Then, it was highly probable that he would obtain a strengthening opportunity when breaking through the 5,000 mark!
As the national destiny was continuously refined into energy, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy value rose rapidly; this time, it took more than two minutes to reach 100% again.
The Ten Thousand Blood Pearl leveled up to 44, the total number of blood souls increased by 86, becoming 5,017.
After leveling up, just as Li Fei had expected, the transformation technique 【Blood Demon】 was strengthened again!
The first strengthening of 【Blood Demon】 had the effect of allowing him to enter the "Blood Demon State" at any time, without needing to wait until he was at half health.
Now it was the second strengthening, 【Blood Demon】—【Blood Demon】 (Extreme):
He could enter the "Blood Demon State" at any time; when the total number of blood souls was lower than 30%, he could perform a secondary transformation—"Blood Demon Extreme State"!
Entering the "Blood Demon Extreme State" consumed 100 blood souls per minute, and all non-passive blood soul techniques would have their restrictions broken.
A massive amount of information flooded into Li Fei's mind from the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, allowing him to immediately understand the changes after the second strengthening of 【Blood Demon】.
"Added a second-stage transformation?"
Li Fei was very happy.
His passive blood soul techniques were only 【Blood Breath】 and 【Blood Spring】; apart from these two, 【Blood Rage】, 【Blood Sha】, and 【Blood Might】 were all active blood soul techniques, and all had their upper limits.
The upper limit of 【Blood Rage】 was related to Li Fei's physical endurance.
After 【Blood Sha】 was strengthened to the limit, its upper limit, like 【Blood Might】, was 10% of the total blood soul quantity.
And now, as long as Li Fei activated the second-stage transformation and entered the "Blood Demon Extreme State," he could break the restrictions of these three blood soul techniques.
【Blood Rage】 could ignore physical endurance!
【Blood Sha】 and 【Blood Might】 would no longer be limited to 10% of the total blood volume, but could be as powerful as the number of blood souls he had!
Because the "Blood Demon Extreme State" could only be activated when the total blood soul quantity was below 30%, normally, the upper limit of the power of 【Blood Might】 and 【Blood Sha】 would at most be 30% of the total blood soul count, only three times higher than before the strengthening.
But Li Fei still had 【Blood Spring】 and extra blood souls he could consume, so in the "Blood Demon Extreme State," the upper limit of the power of 【Blood Sha】 and 【Blood Might】 would be far more than just three times higher!
【Blood Rage】 was the same!
After completing the upgrade, Li Fei did not exit the Dream Realm, but flew toward the giant python in the sky.
The reason he wanted to perform the strengthening in the Dream Realm, besides not wanting to alert Qiming, was that he also intended to directly attack Qiming's subconscious!
The founding ancestor of the Nightmare Sect could be called a genius, discovering the existence of the Dream Realm and creating the "Gate of the Dream Realm," as well as various spells for roaming the Dream Realm.
Another person's subconscious world was entirely their home field, and sneaking into it would be very dangerous.
But sneaking into the subconscious was mainly to steal secrets from the depths of someone's heart.
If one did not intend to steal secrets, but instead directly attacked the other person's subconscious projection, this was actually a superior form of mental attack technique!
And it was very covert and difficult to guard against.
In the sky, the national destiny golden dragon was still biting down hard on the giant python's head.
From the perspective of the scene, the Great Lan Dynasty side still held the upper hand.
In the past few minutes, no new tribes of the Northern Barbarians had activated their guardian arrays, and no new beast shadows had appeared in the Dream Realm.
Li Fei did not hesitate and flew toward the giant python in the sky.
Across ten thousand meters, he felt a pressure as vast as a mountain and as deep as the sea!
The closer he got, the greater the attraction the sea of ghosts, composed of countless vengeful spirits, exerted on him, trying to forcibly suck him into it to sink forever!
Li Fei had no choice but to consume blood souls, using the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to convert them into mental power, in order to strengthen his subconscious projection so he wouldn't be forcibly sucked over.
Battles between peak powerhouses were very dangerous even just to watch!
When he was only one thousand meters away from the giant python, Li Fei voluntarily stopped.
The intuition brought by "Danger Perception" told him that if he went any further, he might be detected by Qiming.
Although the other party did not know about the Dream Realm, the perception ability of a powerhouse could still detect hostility coming from the subconscious.
Li Fei began to frantically consume blood souls, using the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to convert them all into mental power!
His subconscious projection began to continuously grow larger and stronger.
Soon, 3,512 blood souls within the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl were refined and converted into mental power.
Li Fei's subconscious projection in the Dream Realm was already one thousand meters tall, which could be considered a "One-Thousand-Meter Dharma Image"!
With the total blood soul quantity below 30%, Li Fei first entered the "Blood Demon State," then entered the "Blood Demon Extreme State."
He consumed all the remaining 1,503 blood souls to cast 【Blood Might】!
The limit of the original 【Blood Might】 should have been 501, but there were no restrictions in the "Blood Demon Extreme State."
And the "Blood Demon State" could still double the power of 【Blood Might】, which was equivalent to casting 【Blood Might】 by consuming 3,000 blood souls!
And this was not the end.
Li Fei integrated the mental power he had refined from 3,512 blood souls into this 【Blood Might】.
In the Dream Realm, his "One-Thousand-Meter Dharma Image" first had a blood sphere with a diameter of over three hundred meters appear in its hand.
Then this blood sphere was elongated, finally turning into a blood-colored saber with a total length of eight hundred meters!
Li Fei's "One-Thousand-Meter Dharma Image," holding the eight-hundred-meter saber, slashed toward the giant python's head held in the golden dragon's mouth.
This was an unprecedented 【Blood Might God】!
In the Dream Realm, this 【Blood Might God】 was concretized by Li Fei into a saber.
He was casting a mental attack technique, but it was also a saber technique.
It possessed both the saber intent of the Heaven-Earth Single Saber and the saber intent of Qiu Zian's nation-protecting saber from just a moment ago!
Inside the giant python's head was a pitch-black figure; that was Qiming's subconscious projection in the Dream Realm.
His true body in the real world was hidden in a special space by his life-bound magic treasure, but his subconscious projection had still manifested in the Dream Realm.
This meant Li Fei could attack him directly!
When the blood-colored saber drew near, that figure suddenly looked toward Li Fei.
Qiming had finally detected the danger!
Whoosh—
The sea of ghosts surged toward the blood-colored saber, countless vengeful spirits rushing toward the blade, only to be annihilated one after another.
Xiang Yunshu also detected the movement on Li Fei's side, seizing the opportunity to erupt in a wave, forcibly restraining Qiming!
The blood-colored blade slashed through the sea of ghosts, while the golden dragon happened to turn its head, causing the python's head in its mouth to face the incoming blade.
The mental power converted from 3,500 blood souls plus the 【Blood Might】 equivalent to 3,000 blood souls—this was the strongest 【Blood Might God】 Li Fei had ever unleashed!
The blade slashed through the giant python's head, striking that pitch-black figure.
In the real world, Qiming, standing on the python's head, was struck as if by lightning, suddenly spitting out a mouthful of blood!
Although Li Fei's 【Blood Might God】 was powerful, it was not enough to cause heavy damage to him in the True One Realm.
It was only because he was currently battling Xiang Yunshu and wrestling with the Great Lan Dynasty's national destiny, and was already at a disadvantage, that he suffered heavy damage after being severely interfered with!
Boom—
A golden thunderbolt struck the python's head at the perfect moment.
Immediately after, the golden dragon let out a heaven-shaking roar and bit the python's head to pieces in one gulp!
Qiming's life-bound magic treasure had finally been shattered!
With this, the outcome was decided.
In this battle, Qiu Zian had first brought the winning momentum to the Great Lan Dynasty.
If not for that saber strike of hers, perhaps Qiming would have gained the upper hand, and Li Fei's subsequent saber strike would have been far less effective.
But now, Li Fei had created an opportunity for the Emperor and Xiang Yunshu to secure the final victory!
Li Fei exited the Dream Realm and returned to the real world, immediately looking up at the sky.
He saw that the national destiny golden dragon's body was more than half polluted by Qiming's curse power, with dark green patterns mixed into the golden dragon scales.
Monstrous curse power suddenly exploded in the golden dragon's mouth, and a figure flew out from within—it was Qiming, who had been knocked out of the special space of his life-bound magic treasure.
Boom—
A golden thunderbolt struck this figure.
At this moment, although Qiming's life-bound magic treasure had been shattered, the Dao principles within it had not yet formally disintegrated, so he had not yet fallen in realm and still possessed the power of the True One Realm.
"Little Qi... why did we lose?"
In the sky, Qiming, struck by the thunder, spat out another mouthful of blood and smiled miserably.
The next second, he voluntarily disintegrated his own curse Dao principles!
This action was equivalent to self-detonating his life-bound magic treasure!
A pitch-black ball of light appeared out of thin air, emitting a terrifying aura, as if it were a forbidden zone from the deepest part of hell.
The wailing of ten million people resounded throughout the entire wilderness, as if the very heavens and earth were weeping for it!
As the Dao principles disintegrated, the heavens and earth mourned.
By disintegrating his curse Dao principles, Qiming generated the strongest curse of his life!
With this curse, he could shatter the portion of Dao principle power Xiang Yunshu had separated, as well as the golden tablet and the national destiny golden dragon in the sky!
But he did not do so.
The scene that followed was something no one had expected:
The pitch-black ball of light in the sky suddenly exploded into eleven parts, each crashing into one of the eleven "light swords" stuck inside the national destiny golden dragon's body!
These eleven "light swords," representing the Northern Barbarian national destiny, were instantly dyed black by the powerful curse power, and then completely disintegrated.
And the Northern Barbarian national destiny was inevitably contaminated by Qiming's curse power.
Trading his Dao principles for the strongest curse of his life, Qiming chose to curse the Northern Barbarian national destiny!
The Azure Phoenix tribe, the Wuri tribe, the Yanxin tribe—all the Northern Barbarian tribes that had chosen to activate their guardian arrays saw the beast shadows produced by their guardian arrays become stained with a layer of black curse power at this moment.
"Qiming!!!"
In the coalition camp, Boerhu let out a heaven-shaking roar.
This Northern Barbarian King had never been so composed.
"What does he want to do?"
Li Fei was stunned, immediately thinking that Qiming was up to some other scheme, and became tense again.
But Qiming, having completed this strike, did not change at all.
He had achieved enlightenment by cursing the Great Lan Dynasty; this did not mean that after falling in realm, he could change his curse target and immediately break through again to return to his peak.
The True One Realm was not so easily attained; his breakthrough back then had occupied the right time, place, and people, and he had prepared for a long time before succeeding.
Now, suddenly cursing the Northern Barbarians was just a curse.
Perhaps it was because the death of his close friend had left him disheartened.
Or perhaps it was because the failure of this battle had left him thoroughly desperate, unwilling to start over again.
In any case, he had made a choice that no one had expected.
"My life..."
After completing this curse, Qiming stood in the sky and looked up at the golden tablet at the highest point:
"... has been true to my heart; I need no one to judge me!"
The golden tablet in the sky did not hesitate because of Qiming's actions, dropping another thunderbolt.
But before this thunderbolt could strike Qiming, he took the initiative to self-detonate, his body exploding!
Boom—
The golden thunderbolt fell, and everything vanished into smoke.
Another peak powerhouse had fallen.
PS: Let's talk about Qiming; regarding this person, there will be explanations later.
Actually, I have written similar characters before, such as Feng Sanniang and Wen Ke.
I don't like writing absolute good or evil.
Even a villain will have good deeds.
Even a saint will have distracting thoughts and filthy ideas.
To the protagonist, Qiming is of course a bad person, but is his final curse choosing to curse the Northern Barbarians also a bad act?
And even if he did a great good deed, can he be considered a good person?
To the protagonist, the Emperor is of course a good person, treating the protagonist like his own son. But why doesn't the Emperor treat others this way, but treats the protagonist so well? Of course, it's because of the protagonist's talent and value.
But even if it's "ulterior motives," being good with a purpose, isn't it still good?
As for what kind of character he is, I'll leave it to everyone to judge.
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