Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes Evolve, Magic Core and Essence Blood

Once the sky-filling lightning dispersed, the entire mountain forest had been devastated beyond recognition.

A massive crater a hundred meters in diameter had been blasted into the ground, littered with shattered stones. A charred corpse lay within it, wisps of black smoke rising from its body.

Still, this fellow's vitality was truly tenacious. Even reduced to such a state, it still clung to a final breath.

But that was for the best. If it had truly died, the pupil power of its Double Pupils might have dissipated as well.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yang ruthlessly gouged out its pair of Double Pupils and pressed the two eyeballs into his own sockets.

An invisible, peculiar suction force surged from the Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes. In mere moments, the pair of originally golden, strange pupils in Xiao Yang's hand turned grayish-white, and he casually tossed them aside.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yang's originally blood-red eyes underwent an unusual transformation. Hundreds of hair-thin, nearly imperceptible golden runes formed a ring. Like countless stars in the night sky, they slowly revolved along an inscrutable trajectory, both bewitching and magnificent.

Then, Xiao Yang gripped Tensa Zangetsu in reverse and drove it straight down, ending his opponent's life. Under the system's influence, its soul transformed into a soul ring and was devoured by Zangetsu, granting the skill "Crescent Sky Impact" a spatial attribute.

The most direct result was that "Crescent Sky Impact" was no longer a move that could be blocked by purely physical defenses.

It pierced through space, ignored defenses, and dealt true damage.

Furthermore, the sharpness and offensive power of "Crescent Sky Impact" itself had increased drastically, enough to slice through space.

And this was merely the power transformed from the remnant soul of this White-Gold Giant Eagle. The vast majority of its true power was concentrated within its Magic Core.

The power remaining in this soul, which Xiao Yang had already severely wounded, was less than one percent.

Yet even so, the soul ring formed from its remnant soul was still of the hundred-thousand-year grade.

Clearly, after being tempered by that lightning tribulation, although it had failed to survive the tribulation and complete its transformation from Rank 6 to Rank 7, ultimately dying at Xiao Yang's hands, this White-Gold Giant Eagle with the Double Bright Bird Bloodline had undoubtedly already stepped halfway into the Dou Zong level, surpassing ordinary peak Rank 6 Magical Beasts.

Xiao Yang clenched his hand toward the White-Gold Giant Eagle's body, and a powerful suction force burst forth, slowly lifting it into the air until it floated before him.

Glancing at the enormous corpse before him, Xiao Yang slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. His hand seal changed, and strange golden-black flames blazed to life, engulfing the White-Gold Giant Eagle's corpse. Terrifying heat surged up in an instant!

Under the refinement of the Yin-Yang Dual Flame, the White-Gold Giant Eagle's originally enormous corpse rapidly shrank. Its feathers and flesh gradually turned pale before finally becoming ashes that drifted down.

Watching the corpse rapidly shrink beneath the flames, Xiao Yang remained unmoved. Instead, he raised the temperature. What he needed was the essence blood within this White-Gold Giant Eagle that contained the power of the Double Bright Bird Bloodline. Such essence blood would only emerge after refinement and burning...

As the temperature of the Yin-Yang Dual Flame continued rising, the White-Gold Giant Eagle's corpse grew smaller and smaller. In the end, it was barely half a zhang in size. At that point, the original White-Gold Giant Eagle had become a sphere composed entirely of flesh and blood, continuously burned within the golden-black flames.

Xiao Yang controlled the temperature of the flames. A moment later, he flicked his finger, and a crack immediately split open in the blood-red sphere of flesh. A white-gold spherical crystal shot out and flew toward Xiao Yang.

He clenched his hand and caught the crystal, roughly twenty centimeters in diameter. Feeling the vast and violent energy within, a trace of delight flickered through Xiao Yang's eyes.

Judging purely by the quantity of energy, the energy contained within this Magic Core was not much inferior to that of an ordinary Rank 7 Magic Core.

Clearly, the White-Gold Giant Eagle had enough energy to advance into a Rank 7 Magical Beast. Yet it had kept suppressing itself and refused to advance because it lacked absolute confidence in surviving the life-or-death Transformation Lightning Tribulation.

Unfortunately, it could dodge the first day but not the fifteenth. In the end, it still perished beneath this Transformation Lightning Tribulation.

Honestly, if it had been more decisive and undergone the tribulation earlier to become a Rank 7 Magical Beast, perhaps it would not have died at Xiao Yang's hands today.

Even if Xiao Yang possessed Heaven-Tier Fighting Skills, with its terrifying speed, escaping from Xiao Yang would not have been a problem.

Nor would it have drawn down the lightning tribulation and given Xiao Yang an opportunity to exploit.

Xiao Yang gently rubbed the crystal core with his palm, then stored it in his Sumeru Ring.

Next came the essence blood containing the Double Bright Bird Bloodline.

Once this essence blood was fused into the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Wings, it would not only completely wash away the Heavenly Demon Phoenix aura, but also further strengthen them and greatly increase their speed.

Moreover, once the Heavenly Demon Phoenix aura on this pair of wings was removed, it meant that even if Xiao Yang went to the Central Continent in the future, he could still use the Flight Dou Technique without restraint, without needing to worry about attracting the pursuit of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.

After all, wings looked almost identical on the vast majority of flying Magical Beasts.

What truly distinguished them was the aura of their bloodlines.

Xiao Yang lightly clenched his hand, and the Yin-Yang Dual Flame surrounding the blood-red sphere of flesh immediately began spinning at high speed, as though it had turned into a black hole, fiercely compressing the sphere.

As the flames spun violently, the blood-red sphere trembled intensely and began rotating without pause. Under this rotation, drops of bright yellow blood slowly dripped out from within the sphere...

Seeing this, a smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Yang's lips. He maintained this tearing force and gradually squeezed all the pure essence blood from within the sphere.

As more and more essence blood dripped into the jade bottle below, the blood-red sphere gradually took on a pale grayish-white color...

This paleness was utterly lifeless. Essence blood was the source of a Magical Beast's life; once it was extracted, its vitality was completely exhausted as well.

The pale color gradually spread under the flames' rapid rotation. After roughly ten minutes, the final trace of red on the sphere quietly vanished as well.

The instant the final wisp of blood-red turned ash-gray, the half-zhang-wide sphere of flesh violently trembled and burst apart, turning into countless pale ashes that drifted down.

Looking at the shattered sphere, Xiao Yang let out a breath of relief and turned his gaze toward the flames. There floated a head-sized mass of bright yellow blood that gave off specks of silver light.

Even from far away, Xiao Yang could sense the powerful energy fluctuations spreading from that blood.