Heavenly Venerable's Residual Shadow Aids Artifact Refinement, Immortal Monarch Refines Pill to Command Demon Venerable

Jiuzhou World, Central Region of Cangzhou.

Aboard the million-li Penglai Hengxu-class Dharma Boat, Jiang Sheng sat cross-legged within the hall. Before him floated a golden dragon-patterned shell, endlessly scorched by four-colored Zhenhuo.

Azure, violet, crimson, and black flames gathered into a single mass, transforming into Jiang Sheng's unique Integration Realm Zhenhuo. Fueled by his vast, abyss-deep mana, it continuously branded layers of Laws-cloud restrictions and Daoist script spirit marks onto the dragon-patterned tortoise shell.

Four-colored sword auras flickered in and out around Jiang Sheng. Above his head, the Three Flowers rose high, supporting the stars; behind his head, a radiant four-colored halo shone brilliantly. His eyes were half-closed, while beneath him Azure Lotus swayed like a Lotus Sea.

Within the main hall of the Penglai Dharma Boat, Jiang Sheng had already been refining this magical treasure for some time.

After all, this was the shell of a Five Calamities Demon Lord—the Golden Ao Demon Lord, with over ten thousand years of cultivation. Refining it was far more difficult than refining an ordinary Five Calamities true treasure.

A Five Calamities True Lord's natal true treasure, no matter how extraordinary, was still only formed from an external object. But the Golden Ao Demon Lord's natal true treasure was his own tortoise shell, his flesh and bones, inseparably tied to him by blood and life.

It could be said that if the shell shattered, the Golden Ao Demon Lord's soul would scatter and perish.

Had Daoist Lord Chixiao not sent down a wisp of thought to aid Jiang Sheng, how could Jiang Sheng have swept away the Golden Ao Demon Lord's flesh, blood, soul, and spirit with a single sword strike, preserving this natal dragon-patterned shell that the Golden Ao Demon Lord had refined for over ten thousand years so perfectly?

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