Kindling Fire Burns Demonic Eye

In a side hall of the Imperial Medical Office, time froze on the brink of destruction.

Meng Tian's heavy sword, cloaked in dark light, slashed upwards with the resolve of mutual destruction, fiercely striking the descending Dark Gold Demonic Claw! The sword's path aimed directly at the weak point where the scales on the demonic claw's wrist overlapped! Hou Yi's bone bow was already fully drawn, its arrowhead, entwined with Savage Blood Qi, locked onto the demonic silhouette's head!

The shriek of the demonic claw tearing through the air mingled with Meng Tian's roar! The Dark Gold Demonic Qi coiling around the claw's tip had already touched Cheng Xi's chest!

At this critical moment--

Deep within Cheng Xi's brow, the gray chaotic light that had been furiously calculating amidst the dead, turbid evil suddenly erupted with unprecedented sharpness! The calculation was complete! The sole energy fissure, heavily obscured by filth and sealed by the turbid evil, was precisely locked onto! Beyond the fissure lay the contaminated golden torrent from the depths of the Earth Vein!

"Break--!!!"

A silent roar originating from the depths of his soul! That point of gray chaotic light, compressed to its absolute limit, carrying all the information from its deductions and its final primordial power, transformed into a condensed, nearly invisible gray thread. It ignored the rampant turbid evil and chaos within his body, piercing with unparalleled precision towards the fissure sealed at his Dantian!

Chh!

An almost imperceptible light sound! The gray thread, like the sharpest engraving tool, instantly penetrated the most fragile point of the turbid evil seal! There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a precise piercing at the level of law!

The seal had been breached by a hole finer than a strand of hair!

Beyond the hole was not freedom, but... the surging, churning golden torrent deep within the Earth Vein, now fiercely contaminated by dark gold filth!

Boom--!!!

Like an ant's nest breaching a dam! The violent, filthy Dragon Vein Earth Energy, carrying endless dark gold filth and chaotic demonic intent, followed this tiny passage forcibly opened by the gray chaotic light, like a volcano finding its vent, pouring in madly!

"Ughhhh--!!!" Cheng Xi's body instantly tensed into a drawn bow! Beneath his skin, veins interwoven with dark red and dark gold surged with light! The pouring turbid Dragon Vein Energy rampaged through his shattered meridians, bringing a tearing pain a hundred times more terrifying than before! But within this pain lay a sliver of hope--the invading power was, in a destructive manner, fiercely impacting and tearing at the thick turbid evil covering his Dao Foundation!

The turbid evil seal vibrated violently under the internal and external assault, groaning under the strain! The sealed Chaos Vortex, also impacted by this violent turbid Dragon Vein Energy, began a fierce and dangerous... tempering and fusion, like stubborn iron thrown into a furnace!

Deep within the Earth Vein, within the demonic eye's cold vertical pupil, was reflected that point of white-hot flame tearing through space, piercing directly towards it! The pure, purifying primordial power at the core of the flame made it feel a threat at the level of law, and... fear!

"Roar--!" The demonic eye let out a silent roar! Billions of fragments of resentment spun wildly, and more dark gold filth surged from all directions like a boiling tsunami, attempting to extinguish this tiny white rainbow!

Too late!

The power of the Earth Vein Spirit Eye, triggered by the Sacred Fire Returns to Origin, endowed this wisp of flame with unparalleled penetration and speed! It ignored the surging tide of filth, like a red-hot steel needle piercing oil, and under the demonic eye's horrified "gaze," it fiercely stabbed into its massive pupil, condensed from pure chaotic demonic energy!

Chh--!!!

No earth-shattering explosion, only a grating, law-level fierce annihilation and dissolution screech that made one's teeth ache! The white-hot purifying fire and the viscous Dark Gold Demonic Qi clashed and tore at each other madly! The demonic eye's massive form contorted and trembled violently! The billions of resentment fragments that formed the pupil let out silent wails, dissolving like ice and snow under the purifying fire! Large swathes of demonic energy at the edges of the vertical pupil were directly vaporized and purified!

"Roar-ah--!!!" A wave of painful and furious intent swept across the entire Earth Vein! The demonic eye contracted and expanded wildly, attempting to mobilize more polluting power to extinguish the flame embedded within its body! But the purifying fire was like a persistent ulcer, fueled by its most primordial demonic energy, burning ever brighter! The white-hot light rapidly spread within the dark gold pupil!

Yan Lingji sat cross-legged before the rock face, her body trembling violently, fine bloodstains seeping from her seven orifices. The Heart Lamp's orange-red flame flickered weakly, yet it steadfastly maintained its connection with the wisp of purifying fire deep within the Earth Vein. She clearly perceived the demonic eye's pain and anger, and also perceived the purifying fire burning its core! The call from Pangu Hall, imbued with compassion and encouragement, supported her wavering will.

"Burn... the filth!" she whispered hoarsely, pouring her last bit of mental power into it!

The white-hot flame erupted in the demonic eye's core! Like a tiny sun igniting in endless darkness!

Within the Imperial Medical Office, the frozen time shattered with a bang!

Clang--!!!!

A piercing metallic explosion, enough to tear eardrums, rang out! The dark light of the heavy sword fiercely chopped down on the wrist of the Dark Gold Demonic Claw! Sparks scattered like exploding fireworks!

The expected scene of broken bones did not materialize!

The dark gold scales covering the demonic claw's wrist were far sturdier than Meng Tian had imagined! The heavy sword's edge, though it sliced into the gaps between the scales, only split off a few scales, leaving a wound deep enough to see bone, and dark gold demonic blood spurted out! Yet, it failed to sever the limb! The sword body, unable to withstand the immense recoil, instantly bent into a breathtaking arc!

"Roar!" The demonic silhouette, in pain, let out a furious roar! The descending demonic claw merely paused slightly, its momentum increasing instead of decreasing! Its five fingers like hooks, carrying the ferocity of being heavily wounded, clamped down fiercely towards Cheng Xi's chest! Demonic Qi spewed from the claw's tip, on the verge of piercing flesh and seizing that tempting primordial chaos!

Whoosh--!

Just as the demonic claw was about to reach him! Hou Yi's bone arrow arrived!

This arrow contained all his spirit, energy, and essence! The Savage Blood Qi entwined around the arrow shaft was as solid as substance, and the arrowhead's single point of cold light locked onto the demonic silhouette's gaping maw, exposed in its rage! The timing was perfect!

Puchi!

The bone arrow shot with pinpoint accuracy deep into the demonic silhouette's mouth, which had opened in rage! The Savage Blood Qi erupted violently!

"Aooo--!!!" The demonic silhouette let out a world-shattering scream! Its entire head violently snapped backward! The demonic claw reaching for Cheng Xi was inevitably delayed once more!

These two brief delays, happening in the flash of an eye!

On the couch, the fusion of the pouring turbid Dragon Vein Energy and the Chaos Vortex within Cheng Xi's body was forcefully pushed to its peak by the stimulus of near-death!

Boom--!!!

A brand new, violent, and chaotic power erupted from the fissure in his Dantian! This power was no longer pure Chaos Sword Essence, but a new energy that fused the contaminated Dragon Vein Earth Energy, residual turbid evil, and primordial chaos--Chaos Earth Fiend! It was filled with destructive ferocity and chaos, yet also carried a wildness that broke free from all constraints!

Cheng Xi's tightly shut eyes suddenly snapped open! His left eye flowed with gray chaotic light, deep as an abyss, as if containing the weight and turbulence of the Earth Vein! His right eye shot out white-green sword light, incomparably sharp, carrying the will of Intercepting Heaven to cut through falsehood!

"Scram--!!!"

A hoarse roar burst from his throat! His right hand, filled with Chaos Earth Fiend, moved like lightning. His fingers, pressed together like a sword, did not strike the demonic claw, but instead stabbed fiercely towards his own chest—the spot targeted by the demonic claw's tip! At his fingertip, a point of condensed Chaos Earth Fiend sword energy, mixed with gray, gold, and green, suddenly lit up!

Poof!

The sword-finger, arriving later but striking first, precisely hit the center of the demonic claw's palm!

Chira--!!!

No loud noise, only a chilling sound of corrosive annihilation. The Dark Gold Demonic Qi concentrated at the claw's palm met its nemesis, instantly corroded and dissolved by the Chaos Earth Fiend sword energy! The hard scales covering the palm became gray, rotten, and peeled away at a visible rate! Revealing the writhing dark gold flesh beneath!

"Aow!!" The demonic silhouette let out another roar of pain and rage! It felt its demonic energy being corroded and dissolved by the opponent's chaotic and violent power in reverse! The descending demonic claw retracted violently as if electrocuted!

Cheng Xi repelled the demonic claw with a single strike, his body heavily crashing back onto the couch due to the immense recoil. Blood gushed from his mouth, and the newly born Chaos Earth Fiend rampaged within his body, his meridians feeling as if repeatedly plowed by countless red-hot iron plows! But in his eyes burned the madness of surviving a disaster and cold killing intent!

Meng Tian and Hou Yi seized this fleeting opportunity!

"Die!" Meng Tian discarded his bent heavy sword and lunged forward, his iron fist carrying the lingering Ancestor Dragon Army Fiend Qi, smashing fiercely towards the connection between the scaled armor on the demonic shadow's exposed chest and abdomen as it retracted its claws!

Hou Yi nocked his second bone arrow onto the bowstring, his blood qi entwining, locking onto the demonic shadow's gaping maw, contorted in agony!

Deep within the Earth Vein, the purification fire, transformed into a searing white sun, burned fiercely within the core of the Demonic Eye! The chaotic demonic qi forming the Demonic Eye was vaporized and purified in large swathes! The edges of the vertical pupil completely collapsed, turning into rolling dark gold smoke! The Demonic Eye writhed and contracted in pain, letting out a silent howl, its form becoming transparent and ethereal at a visible speed!

It had lost! It had lost to that wisp of purification fire, which had ignited the origin of the Earth Vein Spirit Eye and condensed the protective will of the Kindling Fire inheritance!

Just as the Demonic Eye's form was about to completely dissipate—

Its last remaining core, a point of extremely condensed dark gold light, suddenly erupted with its final defiance and malice! This light point did not attack Yan Lingji, but instead followed its connection to the entire polluted Earth Vein network, transmitting a stream of polluted information containing its final will, the agony of its purification, and its boundless greed for that "Chaos Origin" to every node in the network!

Especially... towards the Demonic Ancient Locust Tree on the northern foothills of Mount Li, which was rooted in demonic blood and madly absorbing the power of pollution! And... deep within the roots of the ancient locust tree, that quietly budding Dark Gold Embryo!

Buzz—!

This final stream of polluted information was like a spark thrown into a barrel of oil! The entire polluted Earth Vein network instantly erupted! Countless dark gold patterns writhed wildly, emitting a frenzy before destruction! From deep beneath the main artery of Mount Li, a more painful and muffled dragon's roar echoed!

This violent tremor originating from the Earth Vein's core, mixed with the Demonic Eye's dying malicious impact, combined with the chaotic fluctuations of the Chaos Earth Fiend erupting within Cheng Xi's body, and the pure chaotic demonic qi of the demonic shadow Lu Buwei...

Several powerful forces, vastly different in nature yet all containing the "disruption" and "chaos" factors, collided, overlapped, and resonated thunderously within the narrow space of Xianyang Palace, at the seal's fractured node forcibly torn open by Mount Li's Earth Vein...

Rumble—!!!

An invisible ripple, a hundred times clearer and a thousand times grander than before, swept across the entire Primordial World centered on the Imperial Medical Office of Xianyang Palace! This time, it was no longer a subtle loosening, but a clear cracking sound... like shattering glass!

High in the Nine Heavens, within Zixiao Palace.

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound was clearly audible!

The cushion beneath the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, condensed from pure Heavenly Dao Rules, had its subtle crack on the edge suddenly expand and spread! It instantly became a ferocious rift that spanned a third of the cushion! Wisps of chaotic, misty aura escaped from it!

The Daoist silhouette on the cloud bed trembled violently! The cold, emotionless voice, for the first time, carried a hint of metallic scraping rage:

"Bastard!!!"

At the bottom of the Netherworld Blood Sea, that giant eye of filthy blood suddenly lit up, greedily "licking" the massive rift that pierced the three realms, letting out a silent, wild laugh!

Within the Fire Cloud Cave, the containment barrier fluctuated violently, and the remaining strings of the Fuxi Qin on the zither case snapped one after another with a "zing zing zing"! Fuxi's hand, which was playing the Qin, froze mid-air, his deep eyes piercing through the void, reflecting the massive Heavenly Dao Crack, and he murmured like thunder:

"Heaven cracks... appears! The great tribulation... begins!"

On the northern foothills of Mount Li, the desolate forest was dead silent.

The Demonic Ancient Locust Tree was undergoing a terrifying transformation. Dark gold patches had covered more than half of its trunk, like a giant pillar covered in verdigris. All its withered leaves had fallen, and its bare branches twisted like ghost claws, pointing towards the sky.

Deep within its roots, that Dark Gold Embryo, which had absorbed the Demonic Eye's final transmitted pollution information stream and a massive amount of polluted energy, was expanding and differentiating at an unprecedented speed!

Crack... crack...

Fine cracking sounds came from deep within the ancient locust tree's thickest roots. The hard, dark gold cuticle cracked, and a mass of viscous, gelatinous substance, shimmering with pure dark gold luster, slowly squeezed out. The gelatinous substance rapidly stretched and molded... finally, it formed a fist-sized, half-open... Dark Gold Vertical Eye!

This newborn vertical eye, though far smaller than the one destroyed deep within the Earth Vein, was more pure and condensed! Within its pupil, there were no fragments of billions of resentments, only the most primal desire for chaos and devouring! It greedily absorbed the nutrients the ancient locust tree's roots drew from the polluted Earth Vein, its cold gaze piercing through soil and rock, instantly locking onto two directions:

First, Cheng Xi in the Imperial Medical Office of Xianyang Palace, who had just repelled the demonic claw and was in a state of weak, chaotic aura! The newborn Chaos Earth Fiend within him was an excellent supplement!

Second, Yan Lingji, who was sitting cross-legged before the rock face of Mount Li's main peak, bleeding from her seven orifices, her mind and the purification fire connected to their limit! The pure Zhurong Bloodline and the orange-red Kindling Fire within her were the "light of order" it most loathed and most desperately wished to destroy!

The newborn Demonic Eye slowly, completely... opened!

A cold, greedy intent, locking onto its prey, like an invisible venomous thorn, instantly crossed space and fiercely stabbed towards its two targets!