Within the raging tribulation flames, Baili Du's Spiritual Nature struggled and howled, seemingly in unbearable agony.
Biluo's physical body had already completely transformed into a Calamity Ash Immortal, and his Spiritual Nature had likewise turned to calamity ash and been ignited by the tribulation flames. Once a Calamity Ash Immortal was set ablaze by tribulation fire, it was nearly impossible to extinguish, and it would burn until it became ashes!
A Spiritual Nature was merely spirit and would soon burn away, but a Calamity Ash Immortal formed from a physical body would not be burned through so quickly. The stronger one's cultivation had been in life, the longer one would burn after death.
Most terrifying of all, when one's physical body was ignited by tribulation fire, one would feel pain beyond horror, beyond intensity. However long it burned, that long one would endure the agony.
Biluo was already feeling this pain, but when he saw Baili Du's Spiritual Nature also struggling amid the tribulation flames, he could finally set his mind at ease and let the pain wash over him as the flames burned.
"Your Majesty, this old minister can no longer continue down this road with you."
He heard the sound of his own Spiritual Nature cracking apart as it burned, like old firewood snapping in a bonfire, yet his heart was utterly tranquil.
He could have broken through long ago and cultivated to the ninth level of the Dao Realm, but he was too old. He had realized that the higher his cultivation, the faster he would turn into calamity ash, so he had desperately suppressed his realm, hoping to delay his own death.
Had he not fought Baili Du to the death, he would never have allowed himself to break through to the ninth level of the