C2111 The Secular Bird That Does Not Want to Retreat
Ji Ningshuang and her companions were escorted to the Primal Blood Continent via the Dragon Slaying Stage, while Yu Yuan remained at the original site. He continued to use his Solar Spirit Body to seal the rift between the two worlds, halting the encroachment and spread of darkness. His concern lingered over the peculiar mass of flesh and blood, fearing its potential to unleash a terrifying force and overwhelm all with its might.
Once he had completely sealed the fissure in the crystalline wall, a shimmering icy sheen emerged on his back, revealing the many mysteries of cold he had mastered, now branded within him. The thick ice energy concentrated in the area began to rush toward his back, converging upon his form.
The fissure, etched out by the Dark Anima inhabiting Tan Xiaotian, was being mended by the force of his Solar Spirit Body, the gathering ice energy, and the solidifying ice crystals. These translucent ice crystals, the condensed essence of the ice energy, served as the material to repair the crystalline wall.
Within Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit Body coursed the bloodline of the frost wyrm, along with the ice energy powers derived from various ice-cold alien beasts and intelligent species of the Origin Realm, all of which had adapted to the frigid environment. The ice energy secrets amassed by the ice spirit were also partly gleaned from the bloodlines of the frost wyrm, the alien beasts, and the intelligent species.
His mastery of ice energy, though not as complete, naturally fell short of the depth of understanding that Ji Ningshuang had awakened to. While the ice spirit, possessing Ji Ningshuang, conjured the River of Swords, Yu Yuan kept a vigilant eye on her, driven by his concern for her safety. In the process, he further unraveled numerous arcane secrets of extreme cold, integrating them into his own essence.
After Zhong Chichen, Loong Jie, Ji Ningshuang, and the others were transported to the Primal Blood Continent by the Dragon Slaying Stage and entered the world within the blood-colored wall, Yu Yuan allowed himself to relax and experiment. He aspired to accomplish what Ji Ningshuang and the ice spirit had left unfinished, aiming to reseal the realms once more.
Suddenly, he pivoted, turning his back to the Dark Realm and facing the vast expanse of darkness. Astonishment flickered in his eyes as he discovered that Chen Qinghuang's combat prowess far surpassed his expectations. The Dark Anima, possessing Tan Xiaotian, found itself retreating under Chen Qinghuang's relentless assault.
Above Chen Qinghuang's head, a greenish-gray Divine Bird circled, while her exquisite form dissipated various powers into the silent, murky depths of the dark sea.
In addition to the death force, Chen Qinghuang was also covertly converting her energy into two other forms: destruction and poison.
These two divine powers she wielded, intertwined with the dark sea, formed two nests that enveloped her.
Yet, neither her corporeal body nor the greenish-gray Divine Bird, transformed through the Solar Spirit, showed any signs of life.
Among the cosmic giant beast race, she was known as the secular bird.
To be called immortal signified her power of endless rebirth.
Her most innate ability, her core theurgy, was the power of phoenix-like regeneration.
As long as her life force endured, she could transform her vital energy toward rebirth from death and destruction.
In such a form, no matter the caliber of her opponent, as long as a spark of life remained, she could ignite the Life Seed within the Rebirth Nest using her theurgy.
Whether centuries or millennia later, the Life Seed would eventually burst forth with life, resurrecting her.
Rebirth was always the secular bird's central power.
Yet now, she had forsaken her core power, choosing instead to fight with the powers of destruction, death, and poison she had gained from consuming other giant beasts.
The power of destruction was derived from the Behemoth of Ruin, the mysteries of death from the Deathwings, and the poison from the Chaos Serpent.
In this state, she had effectively cut off her own means of retreat.
Should Chen Qinghuang fall in this dark realm, there would be no possibility of rebirth; she was risking everything in battle!
She was risking it all for Yu Yuan!
As Yu Yuan watched her, he was deeply touched yet filled with concern for her well-being.
Whoosh!
The gray Divine Bird soaring above Chen Qinghuang shed clusters of deathly flames from its ashen wings.
The flames, brimming with the power to extinguish all life, instilled such dread in the deity inhabiting Tan Xiaotian that he was compelled to retract the Heaven's Dais, which had been fostering beings of darkness.
The meditation mat belonging to Tan Xiaotian, transformed into a dark canopy, intercepted the deadly fire.
The Secular Bird Queen, who had forsaken her own life and left herself no escape, unleashed a power that was headache-inducing.
Yu Yuan also came to the sudden realization that there was a good reason why the secular bird ranked consistently among the top three of the many extraterrestrial giant beasts.
Her core talent was regeneration, and in past battles, she habitually kept a way out for herself.
She always maximized her life force, clinging to a flicker of hope for regeneration, never allowing it to be extinguished.
Yet, this very tendency had cost her the courage to fight to the bitter end.
It had, in fact, capped her potential, preventing her true strength from being fully realized.
Her battles with Zhiya often ended with her escape, triggering her regenerative powers.
But if she were to sever the possibility of regeneration, releasing the regenerative power she had reserved for herself and converting it all into combat strength,
then the outcome of her fight with Zhiya would become unpredictable.
Suddenly, she issued another phoenix cry.
The Divine Bird's wings scattered death and destruction. Chen Qinghuang, now in the form of a three-headed, six-armed Divine Visage, hurled the murky, dark sea that surrounded her, resembling a nest, at the Dark Anima possessing Tan Xiaotian.
The Shadowsky, refined and purified by Tan Xiaotian with the Dark Anima, couldn't prevent the seepage of the destructive forces.
The poisonous, murky sea also pocked the Shadowsky with numerous corrosive holes.
Demon Lord Tan Xiaotian was a prodigy from the Everlands, second only to Lin Daoke.
Yet, the quality of his Cursed Artifact seemed insufficient to withstand the onslaught of the current Secular Bird Queen, unable to halt the spread of destruction, death, and poison.
"Go!"
The Dark Anima, in a state of urgency, pointed.
The Shadowsky, transformed into a curtain, enveloped the Dark Stage from Yu Yuan and hurtled towards the Genesis Continent.
It no longer relied on material weapons to fend off the Secular Bird Queen.
It was aware that the Dark Stage, originating from Yu Yuan's Soul Altar, was a more fitting Divine Weapon for it.
After being refined by the Primal Soul, this item had merged with flesh and blood and the spirits of dark creatures, transforming it into a real and enigmatic world.
It had become its own world. The Dark Anima, concerned for the life within and fearing their death, felt constrained and helpless.
The Dark Anima also had to nurture this entity, so it had no choice but to send it away, lest it be tainted by the death, destruction, and toxic energy spread by Chen Qinghuang, which could lead to the extinction of the nascent dark creatures.
At this point, Yu Yuan felt a bit more at ease, as the Secular Bird Queen had surprisingly taken the advantage.
He turned his Solar Spirit to observe the other side.
Immersed halfway in darkness, the sensation was entirely different from his whole presence in the Dark Realm.
For he had glimpsed his real body!
Not with his eyes, but through the innate connection between them.
As long as they were in the same dimension, even in this darkened world, his real body and his Solar Spirit remained tightly linked.
The severed and missing connections between him and his real body were rapidly restored.
He understood the experiences of his real body, and in turn, his real body became aware of his trials in the Dark Realm.
His Solar Spirit, with a puzzled expression, gazed up at the sky in astonishment.
"You didn't intervene?"
Beneath the darkened heavens, Yu Yuan's real body, with the third eye on his forehead, continued to absorb the massive Life Seeds within the Wellspring of Creation.
After the initial shock subsided, he, standing at the edge of the Wellspring of Creation, regained his composure as swiftly as the waters themselves.
He chose not to meddle.
He took no action against the gradually settling mass of flesh and blood that had ceased to release its frenzied, destructive energy.
He simply allowed the enormous Life Seeds to be drawn into his Soul Altar.
"You can't unravel the bloodline mysteries within these Life Seeds, embedded in this mass of flesh and blood."
Yu Yuan had a moment of clarity.
The Life Seeds in the Wellspring of Creation originated from a world below that had been destroyed.
Within it, there were also remnants of another Primal Blood!
This other Primal Blood, having perished like Mother Earth, left behind the Secrets of Life, insights into bloodlines, all converging within that mass of flesh and blood, inside those very Life Seeds!
The Primal Soul that had taken over the Demonic Vessel in the Abyss, though it controlled the Wellspring of Creation and confined the mass of flesh and blood within the pool, was not the Primal Blood.
Its mastery of Soul Power was unparalleled, yet its grasp of the corporeal and life power was not as profound.
He was unable to harness his dominion to integrate the tumultuous bloodline mysteries of the other Primal Blood within the Wellspring of Creation into himself.
"That's correct, I truly cannot fathom it."
It acknowledged this fact with serenity.
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