Tens of millions of bodies, dead and brutally slain, the essence, blood energy, resentment, killing intent, and souls they generated, how overbearing and chilling they were, and how much power they contained!
Gathering above the grand formation, almost solidified, it gradually condensed into a blood-colored cloud pillar, hundreds of zhang thick, resembling a tornado.
The blood-colored cloud pillar spun rapidly, stirring up sharp, piercing wind currents and airflow, descending from mid-air and crashing towards the center of the grand formation.
And this grand formation, spread over an extremely wide area, was specifically designed to gather and absorb the essence, blood energy, resentment, killing intent, and souls emanating from these tens of millions of unjustly and brutally slain corpses!
Above this grand formation sat a bare-chested, immensely powerful, and formidable great demon, cross-legged.
He was meditating and cultivating with his eyes closed. It turned out this person was Han Qi, the Demon God of the Heavenly Demonic Sect.
The demonic spear above his head, holding up the descending blood-colored cloud pillar.
With a rise and fall, it absorbed and devoured the surging essence, blood energy, resentment, killing intent, and souls contained within the blood-colored cloud pillar, then refined and purified them.
Han Qi's bare torso was corded with muscles, his blood surged, his bones were prominent, brimming with explosive power, his posture like that of a majestic war god, exuding an indescribable aura of dominance.
Because this demonic spear was his Natal Spiritual Treasure, the more powerful the spear became, the more power it would feed back to himself.
Boundless darkness, like a raging tide of demonic energy, surged across heaven and earth, an immeasurable majesty pressing down on the entire world, giving one the illusion that the heavens were about to shatter!
Vast and boundless demonic energy erupted, straight into the heavens and earth, like a colossal pillar, immeasurable and boundless! Faintly, one could sense that terrifying aura that changed the color of heaven and earth.
Han Qi, also holding a Myriad Fiend Immortal Pill in his mouth, unexpectedly shattered his core and formed his infant soul, successfully advancing to the Nascent Soul stage after enduring the heavenly tribulation.
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In the "Five Elements Sect," the foremost righteous sect in the Nine Provinces, on a mountain peak with all five elements complete within the Ancestral Dragon Mountain Range of Yongzhou.
A person raised their arm, letting out a long roar to the heavens.
Instantly, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, dazzling white, verdant green, azure blue, crimson red, and earthy yellow, the five elements' power, five beams of light, clearly separated and intertwined in mid-air, the five elements merging as one, forming the Great Five Elements Reincarnation, manifesting the image of a great world.
The five elements' energies flowed around him, the sharpness of gold, the vitality of wood, the gentleness of water, the ferocity of fire, the steadfastness of earth, at this moment, like heavenly pillars of the five elements, they enveloped the entire mountain peak, shaking heaven and earth.
"The first place winner of the Myriad Sects Battle Competition, Kong Shentong, the foremost genius of the Nine Provinces, heir to the next Sect Master of the Five Elements Sect!"
"The Five Elements Bright Wheel, sunk for a hundred generations, invincible in the world."
As the five elements revolved, heaven and earth were bathed in mottled radiance, as if time flowed backward, or as if the world had been transformed. Streams of five elements' energies condensed, the five elements reincarnating, creating all things, evolving all beings.
The cycle of creation and destruction: Gold overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, fire overcomes wood.
The cycle of creation: Gold generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates gold.
All things and beings, all have spirits imbued with the five elements; wind and thunder are no exception. The so-called five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, are the fundamental basis of the universe, differentiating and proliferating to form the great world.
Five beams of light shot up to the heavens, and compared to others, Kong Shentong easily took advantage of the opportune time and favorable location, smoothly shattered his core and formed his infant soul, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
He possessed the Innate Five Elements Spiritual Physique and cultivated the Great Five Elements Reincarnation Art, which innately countered all five elements cultivation techniques.
It is said that since he began cultivating, over the past few hundred years, his renowned Natal Spiritual Treasure, the Five Elements Aurora Fan, had defeated many formidable enemies.
In the Myriad Sects Battle Competition, he had swept aside numerous exotic treasures, ancient treasures, and magical treasures, defeated many enemies, and ultimately snatched first place.
Many senior figures of the righteous path held high hopes for Kong Shentong's future, and among the over a hundred thousand disciples of the Five Elements Sect, his support rate was also very high.
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The foremost demonic sect in the Nine Provinces, the "Nine Nether Myriad Demons Sect"!
A dark palace was built atop the peak of Myriad Demons Mountain.
In the main hall of the palace sat Yi Zhenhong, a peerless demon lord clad in black robes. His face was resolute; he was the second-place winner of the previous Myriad Sects Battle Competition and the young master of the Nine Nether Myriad Demons Sect.
Yi Zhenhong held the God-Slaying Soul-Breaking Sword, a faint destructive energy filling heaven and earth, casting a shadow over the entire world.
With a draw, a thrust, and a swing of the sword, myriad sword energies were born, spanning the heavens. They rained down immense slaughter, their destructive power reflecting through the ages.
Tens of millions of sword lights materialized out of thin air, reveling in their killing intent, an aura that could slay the heavens and destroy everything, enveloping the entire world.
The strength of this aura, the ferocity of its killing intent, made even heaven and earth change color, stars dared not obscure its sharpness, heaven and earth dared not disturb its whim. With a single sword strike, all beings retreated, and even heaven bowed.
Following this, a black pillar of light shot straight into the clouds, and in the blink of an eye, it engulfed the sun, plunging the surroundings into darkness. Yi Zhenhong's primordial spirit emerged, weaving a demonic epic, painting a chapter of the demonic path, and conjuring various demonic beings, ghosts, and gods all appeared, their roars incessant.
Boundless demonic energy erupted, surging like a colossal pillar.
The demonic energy was like colossal waves, one crashing after another, one higher than the last, eventually forming a sweeping force, capable of piercing the Nine Provinces and destroying the four seas.
Myriad demons merged, destroying heaven and earth.
Yi Zhenhong mastered the Great Dao of Destruction; he was inherently linked to destruction. His eyes were as black as night, eerie like a serpent's pupils, they were forbidden eyes.
He himself possessed the "Heavenly Demon Body," a rare constitution among ten thousand, the king of demons.
Shattering his core and forming his infant soul, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, was also an extremely easy matter for him.
In the demonic path, the strong ruled, and the weak were bandits. If Han Qi of the Heavenly Demonic Sect was a demon god, then Yi Zhenhong was the king of demon gods, the future leader of the demonic path.
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The Sea Eye of the East Sea.
Gao Zhen sat at the center of the Sea Eye, circulating his cultivation technique, using countless essences to temper himself. Water spiritual energy also began to be mobilized, constantly circulating around him.
He seemed like a deity in the ocean, walking within it, ruling over countless beings.
Countless viscous water-attribute spiritual energies were gradually absorbed by Gao Zhen, continuously strengthening the spiritual power within him. At this moment, he also held a Myriad Fiend Immortal Pill in his mouth.
Gao Zhen looked like a sea god dominating everything in the ocean; he seemed capable of transforming into a vast expanse of water at any moment, overturning heaven and earth.
His body emanated fluctuating auras, the four true waters standing side-by-side, forming four blue lotuses that converged.
He manifested the Great Dao of Water, vast and mighty, possessing immeasurable power!
Countless water dragons appeared, some flying, some leaping, some swimming, some moving, some lying down, some rolling, in myriad forms, changing endlessly, possessing an unfathomable divine aura.
It was as if they contained the sounds of the Great Dao; water transformed into dragons, ascending to the nine heavens.
Gao Zhen also shattered his core and formed his infant soul, breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.
At the same time, in various sects across the Nine Provinces and Four Seas, individuals began to shatter their cores and form infant souls, advancing to the Nascent Soul stage.
Especially the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the Iron Blood Battle Heaven Sect, the Myriad Corpses Desolate Heaven Sect, the Heavenly Demonic Sect, the Beast Taming Gate, the Cursing God's Hex Immortal Sect, the Blood God Transformed Heaven Sect, the Heavenly Demon Crown Prince Sect, the Poison God's Dead End Sect, the Evil Buddha Sect, the Earth Saber Evil Emperor Sect, the Pill Emperor Immortal Sect, the Nine Profound Heavenly Qin Sect, the True Unity Immortal Sect, the Puppet God Crystal Sect, the Heavenly Sword Divine Gate, the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Gate, the Talisman God Sect, the Great Bright Temple, and others...
The ten great righteous sects and ten great demonic sects of the Nine Provinces Continent all had young elders who broke through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage.
The Cold Water True Spirit Sect, the Water Sea God Profound Sect, the Myriad Immortals Arctic Alliance, and the South Sea Dragon King Sect, the four major powers dominating the overseas regions, also had individuals who broke through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage.
However, besides these twenty-four major ruling forces of the Nine Provinces and Four Seas, other sects and powers had a low probability of successfully breaking through from the Core Formation stage to the Nascent Soul stage. There were many factors involved.
The primary reason was the Myriad Fiend Immortal Pill.
And what exactly was this Myriad Fiend Immortal Pill?
Ordinary cultivators, if they encountered a bottleneck in their cultivation, would naturally try every means to break through. Among these, the most effective method was to consume pills.
Especially immortal pills containing pure spiritual energy.
After consuming such immortal pills, they often had unexpected miraculous effects, perhaps allowing you to break through a long-standing bottleneck in the next moment and directly enter the coveted higher realm.
And the Myriad Fiend Immortal Pill was such an immortal pill.
During every large-scale war between the immortal cultivation realms of the two regions, the spiritual energy on the battlefield would become unbelievably dense.
If one was lucky, they might be able to refine a dozen Myriad Fiend Immortal Pills after the war.
From the very beginning of their cultivation, cultivators absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, transforming it into their own spiritual power.
From this perspective, cultivators themselves were not entirely unlike pills.
After cultivators died, especially when tens of thousands of cultivators died in battle, large amounts of spiritual energy and malevolent energy would be produced.
If this spiritual energy and malevolent energy were collected and refined into pills, they would be supreme immortal medicines for cultivators.
Every time regional wars occurred, it was also the time when top-tier cultivators emerged.
It was laughable that the cultivators who died on the battlefield did not know until their deaths that their lives, fought with all their might, were not for the glorious future of their descendants, but merely for one or a few top-tier cultivators to break through as pills.
In this year, the chapter of the immortal cultivation era turned another page.
However, in every era, there would only be one protagonist; everyone else would ultimately only be a supporting character.
In this new era, there would inevitably be one life-and-death struggle after another between the protagonist and the supporting characters. Who could truly seize the opportunity and ascend to greatness?
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After listening to the conversations of these inner disciples for a while, Wu Tao chuckled wryly and shook his head. These matters had nothing to do with him. After thirty-odd years of qi cultivation and meditation, his past youthful impulsiveness had long since faded.
Besides, he had his own matters to attend to.
Thinking of this, Wu Tao sighed silently.
This year, Wu Tao was thirty-six years old.