Chapter 809: Blood Demon Extreme Transformation, Slashing Curses in a Dream

In the air, the giant python's head was clamped in the jaws of the golden dragon.

Qiming stood right upon the python's head, appearing as if he had merged into one with the beast; his entire form was illusory, and he had suffered no actual harm.

This was an evolution of the divine abilities possessed by his Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Array, allowing him to hide his physical body within a special space created by his natal magic treasure; as long as the natal magic treasure remained unbroken, his physical body would suffer no injury.

Qiu Zi'an's life-burning strike had created a prime opportunity; at this moment, the python's head was held in the golden dragon's mouth, and while its remaining body attempted to reconnect with the head, it was interrupted by the lightning falling in succession 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 protective arrays.

Thus, apart from the annihilated Dream Lion tribe, eleven of the remaining sixteen Northern Barbarian tribes had chosen to support Bo'erhu, activating their protective arrays to jointly resist the invading fortune of the Great Lan Dynasty!

Taking advantage of the appearance of these four "light swords," Qiming immediately counterattacked; the python's head swelled continuously within the golden dragon's mouth, infinite resentment and wandering spirits dancing within it, and monstrous curse power surged forth, as if a gate to hell had been opened inside the golden dragon's maw!

Black patterns appeared one after another upon the scales of the five-clawed golden dragon, then began to spread rapidly downward from the dragon's head.

Qiming was, in turn, casting a curse upon the national fortune of the Great Lan Dynasty!

This was the very foundation of his path to enlightenment; that he could now, under the suppression and damage of the national fortune, 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!

Yet, 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 natal magic treasure had also suffered heavy damage.

Had it not been for the interference of the Northern Barbarian fortune, the national fortune golden dragon would have already shattered this natal magic treasure!

Now, it was a matter of which side would hold out longer.

Would the national fortune golden dragon and the heavenly lightning punishment shatter Qiming's natal magic treasure first, or would Qiming use his curse power to completely infect the national fortune golden dragon 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 help and activate their protective arrays next.

After Li Fei landed safely with Qiu Zi'an, he looked up at the national fortune golden dragon, which had been pierced by a few more "swords," and a look of worry appeared on his face.

Suddenly thinking of something, he first fed Qiu Zi'an a holy healing pill to stabilize her injuries, then stopped casting "Green God" and turned to cast a spell—the Gate of the Dream Realm.

Although he no longer had the Dream-Summoning Order, 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 to see a scene in the distant sky far more grand and mysterious than that of the real world:

A golden dragon ten thousand zhang long was tearing at a giant python; half the sky was golden, filled with the imagery of the common people living in peace and joy.

The other half of the sky was dark and gloomy, with countless wandering 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-zhang golden dragon.

Among these giant beasts were green phoenixes, crimson lions, and dark golden golden crows.

Clearly, these giant beasts were the fortune of the Northern Barbarians.

At the very top, there was also a golden sun, raining down lightning time and again.

It was that "As If I Were Personally Present" gold medal.

Li Fei's subconscious projection flew toward the sky, simultaneously connecting his true power to the gold medal at the highest point, transmitting a thought:

"Give me national fortune!"

The Emperor had given him the gold medal, and with it the authority to temporarily mobilize national fortune, so when his intent connected with the gold medal, he truly summoned a surge of national fortune!

Neither the Emperor nor Xiang Yunshu stopped him, granting Li Fei their full trust.

A golden rainbow descended from the sky, landing upon Li Fei's subconscious projection.

After obtaining the national fortune, Li Fei did not immediately use the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to refine it into power.

Previously, he could refine national fortune into the Sun-Moon-Star Armor and the Rivers and Mountains Sheji Blade, possessing the combat power of a peak Dao-Establishing Realm expert, because he had the support of a military formation and already possessed the realm of a Grandmaster.

More importantly, he had the assistance of the Heaven-Mixing Compass 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 the national fortune, it would be difficult to increase his combat power significantly.

So, Li Fei decided to change his approach.

He used the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to refine the national fortune into energy, then injected it into the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl!

After this high-intensity battle, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's current energy level was at level 42, 68%, still some distance from leveling up.

However, the energy quality of the national fortune was in no way inferior to Qiming's original curse power, and was perhaps even higher!

Although there was a certain loss after refining through the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy level 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 level reached 100%, leveling up once again!

Rising to level 43, the drained Ten Thousand Blood Pearl was instantly "fully restored," and the total number of blood souls increased by 84, becoming 4, 31.

After rising to level 43, Li Fei still did not stop refining the national fortune, continuing to inject energy into the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl!

It was not that he was being greedy 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 the 5, 00 mark.

Once all blood soul skills had been strengthened once, it would be the turn of the transformation skill 【Blood Demon】 to be strengthened.

Now that all his blood soul skills had been strengthened a second time, to their limit, 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, 00, he had not gained a new strengthening opportunity.

Thus, it was highly probable that he would gain a strengthening opportunity upon breaking the 5, 00 mark!

As the national fortune was continuously refined into energy, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl's energy level rose rapidly; this time, it took over two minutes to reach 100% again.

The Ten Thousand Blood Pearl rose to level 44, and the total number of blood souls increased by 86, becoming 5, 17.

After the upgrade, just as Li Fei had expected, the transformation skill 【Blood Demon】 was strengthened once again!

The first strengthening of 【Blood Demon】 had the effect of allowing him to enter "Blood Demon State" at any time, without needing to be at half health.

Now was the second strengthening, 【Blood Demon】—【Blood Demon】 (Extreme):

He could enter "Blood Demon State" at any time, and when the total number of blood souls was below 30%, he could perform a secondary transformation—"Blood Demon Extreme State"!

Upon entering "Blood Demon Extreme State," he would consume 100 blood souls per minute, and all non-passive blood soul skills 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 overjoyed.

His passive blood soul skills were only 【Blood Breath】 and 【Blood Spring】; apart from these two, 【Blood Rage】, 【Blood Fiend】, and 【Blood Might】 were all active blood soul skills, and all had their upper limits.

The upper limit of 【Blood Rage】 was related to the endurance of Li Fei's body.

After 【Blood Fiend】 was strengthened to its limit, its upper limit, like 【Blood Might】, was 10% of the total blood soul quantity.

But now, as long as Li Fei activated the second-stage transformation and entered "Blood Demon Extreme State," he could break the restrictions on these three blood soul skills.

【Blood Rage】 could ignore physical endurance!

【Blood Fiend】 and 【Blood Might】 would no longer be limited to 10% of the total blood volume, but would have as much power as he had blood souls to spend!

Because "Blood Demon Extreme State" could only be activated when the total blood soul quantity was below 30%, normally, the power limit of 【Blood Might】 and 【Blood Fiend】 would at most be 30% of the total blood soul count, only three times higher than before the strengthening.

But Li Fei also had 【Blood Spring】 and extra blood souls he could consume, so under "Blood Demon Extreme State," the power limit of 【Blood Fiend】 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 instead flew toward the giant python in the sky.

The reason he had performed the strengthening in the dream realm, besides not wanting to alert Qiming, was that he also intended to attack Qiming's subconscious directly!

The founding ancestor of the Dream Nightmare Sect was truly a talent of heaven, having discovered the existence of the dream realm and created the "Gate of the Dream Realm," along with various spells for roaming the dream realm.

Another person's subconscious world was entirely their home turf; sneaking into it would be extremely dangerous.

But sneaking into the subconscious was mainly for stealing secrets hidden deep within one's heart.

If one did not intend to steal secrets but instead directly attacked the other person's subconscious projection, it was actually a superior form of mental attack art!

Moreover, it was very covert and difficult to guard against.

In the air, the national fortune golden dragon was still biting down hard on the 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 Northern Barbarian tribes had activated their protective 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.

From ten thousand meters away, he could already sense a pressure as vast as mountains and seas!

The closer he got, the greater the attraction the sea of ghosts—composed of countless resentful spirits—exerted upon him, trying to forcibly suck him into it to sink forever!

Li Fei had to consume blood souls, using the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to convert them into mental power to strengthen his own subconscious projection, so as not to be forcibly pulled in.

When peak experts clashed, even just watching from the sidelines could be dangerous!

When he was only one thousand meters away from the giant python, Li Fei stopped of his own accord.

The intuition brought by "Danger Perception" told him that if he went any further, he might be detected by Qiming.

Although the opponent did not know about the dream realm, the sensory capabilities of a peak expert 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 grow larger and stronger.

Soon, 3, 12 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 a thousand meters tall, which could be considered a "Thousand-Meter Dharma Form"!

With the total blood soul quantity below 30%, Li Fei first entered "Blood Demon State," then entered "Blood Demon Extreme State."

He consumed all the remaining 1, 03 blood souls to unleash 【Blood Might】!

The limit of 【Blood Might】 should have been 501, but there is no limit under the "Blood Demon Ultimate State."

Moreover, the "Blood Demon State" can still double the power of 【Blood Might】, which is equivalent to 【Blood Might】 unleashed by consuming 3, 00 blood souls!

And this was not the end.

Li Fei infused the mental power he had refined from digesting 3, 12 blood souls into this strike of 【Blood Might】.

In the Dream Realm, a blood sphere with a diameter of over three hundred meters first appeared in the hands of his "thousand-meter Dharma form."

Then, this blood sphere was elongated, eventually turning into a blood-colored great saber with a total length of eight hundred meters!

Li Fei's "thousand-meter Dharma form" held the eight-hundred-meter great saber and slashed toward the giant python head held in the golden dragon's mouth.

This was an unprecedented 【Blood Might God】!

In the Dream Realm, this 【Blood Might God】 was manifested by Li Fei as a saber.

He was performing a mental attack technique, which was simultaneously a saber art.

It contained both the saber intent of the Heaven and Earth Single Slash and the saber intent of the Nation-Protecting Slash just used by Qiu Zi'an!

Inside the giant python's head was a pitch-black figure; that was Qiming's subconscious projection in the Dream Realm.

His physical body in the real world was hidden in a special space by his natal magic treasure, but his subconscious projection still manifested in the Dream Realm.

This meant Li Fei could attack him directly!

When the blood-colored great saber approached, that figure suddenly looked toward Li Fei.

Qiming had still sensed the danger!

Whoosh—

The Sea of Specters surged toward the blood-colored great saber, and countless vengeful spirits rushed toward the blade, only to be annihilated one after another.

Xiang Yunshu also sensed the movement on Li Fei's side and seized the opportunity to erupt, forcibly pinning Qiming down!

The blood-colored blade slashed through the Sea of Specters, and the golden dragon happened to turn its head, causing the giant python head in its mouth to face the incoming blade.

The mental power converted from 3, 00 blood souls plus 【Blood Might】 equivalent to 3, 00 blood souls—this was the strongest 【Blood Might God】 Li Fei had unleashed to date!

The blade slashed through the giant python's head and struck the pitch-black figure.

In the real world, Qiming, standing on the giant python's head, was struck as if by lightning and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!

Although Li Fei's 【Blood Might God】 was powerful, it was not enough to cause severe damage to him while he was in the True One Realm.

It was only because he was currently battling Xiang Yunshu and wrestling with the national destiny of the Great Lan Dynasty, and being already at a disadvantage, he was suddenly severely disrupted, which led to the heavy injury!

Rumble—

A golden thunderbolt struck the giant python's head at the perfect moment.

Immediately after, the golden dragon let out a heaven-shaking roar and bit the giant python head to pieces in one gulp!

Qiming's natal magic treasure was finally broken!

At this point, the outcome was decided.

In this battle, Qiu Zi'an first brought the winning momentum to the Great Lan Dynasty.

If not for that slash of hers, perhaps Qiming would have gained the upper hand, and the effect of Li Fei's subsequent slash would have been greatly diminished.

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 golden dragon of national destiny had most of its body contaminated by Qiming's curse power, with dark green patterns intermingled among the golden dragon scales.

A monstrous amount of curse power suddenly exploded from 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 natal magic treasure.

Rumble—

A golden thunderbolt struck this figure.

At this moment, although Qiming's natal magic treasure was broken, the Dao laws within it had not yet formally disintegrated; he had not yet fallen from his realm and still possessed the power of the True One Realm.

"Little Qi... why did we lose?"

In the air, Qiming, struck by the thunderbolt, spat out another mouthful of blood and smiled miserably.

The next second, he voluntarily disintegrated his own curse Dao laws!

This act was equivalent to self-detonating his natal magic treasure!

A pitch-black sphere of light appeared out of thin air, emitting a terrifying aura, as if from the deepest forbidden zone of hell.

The wails of ten million people resounded throughout the entire Wilderness; it seemed as if this world itself was weeping for it!

The Dao laws disintegrated, and heaven and earth mourned.

By disintegrating his curse Dao laws, Qiming generated his strongest curse ever!

With this curse, he could shatter the portion of Dao law power Xiang Yunshu had separated, as well as the golden tablet in the sky and the golden dragon of national destiny!

But he did not do so.

The scene that followed was something no one had expected:

The pitch-black sphere of light in the sky suddenly exploded into eleven parts, each colliding with one of the eleven "light swords" stuck inside the golden dragon of national destiny!

These eleven "light swords," representing the destiny of the Northern Barbarians, were instantly dyed black by the powerful curse power and immediately disintegrated completely.

And the destiny of the Northern Barbarians was inevitably tainted by Qiming's curse power.

Disintegrating his Dao laws in exchange for the strongest curse of his life, Qiming chose to curse the destiny of the Northern Barbarians!

The Green Phoenix Tribe, the Sun Tribe, and the Flame Heart Tribe—all the Northern Barbarian tribes that had chosen to activate their guardian formations saw the beast shadows produced by their formations stained with a layer of black curse power at this moment.

"Qiming!!!"

In the allied camp, Bo'erhu let out a heaven-shaking roar.

This Northern Barbarian King had never lost his composure like this before!

"What is he trying to do?"

Li Fei was stunned, immediately thinking Qiming was up to some other conspiracy, and became tense again.

But Qiming, having completed this strike, showed no change.

He had attained the Dao by cursing the Great Lan Dynasty; this did not mean that after falling from his realm, he could immediately break through again and return to his peak by changing his target.

The True One Realm was not so easily attained; his initial breakthrough 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 completely desperate, unwilling to start over.

In any case, he had made a choice that no one had anticipated.

"My life..."

After completing this curse, Qiming stood in the air and looked up at the golden tablet at the highest point:

"... s clear of conscience; it needs no one to judge it!"

The golden tablet in the sky did not hesitate because of Qiming's actions and dropped another thunderbolt.

But before this thunderbolt could strike Qiming, he took the initiative to self-detonate, his body bursting apart!

Rumble—

The golden thunderbolt fell, and everything vanished into smoke.

Another peak powerhouse had fallen.

PS: A word about Qiming; there will be more explanations about this person 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 sordid ideas.

Qiming is, of course, a villain to the protagonist, but his final curse in this life was to curse the Northern Barbarians—is this act also evil?

And even if he did a great good deed, can he be considered a good person?

The Emperor is, of course, a good person to the protagonist, treating him like his own son. But why doesn't the Emperor treat others this way, and why is he so good to the protagonist? Of course, it is because of the protagonist's talent and value.

But even if it is "with ulterior motives," kindness with a purpose—is it not still kindness?

As for what kind of character he is, I will leave that for everyone to judge.

(End of chapter)