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The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord had a vague sense of foreboding.

He couldn't explain what happened, but Jin Chi was clearly not such an unreliable person; he knew how to conduct himself properly.

What insurmountable problem have you encountered?

Or perhaps they are trapped and unable to send messages?

Or is it...?

Is my perception being interfered with?

None of this is good news. If things continue like this, they might as well be sitting and waiting for their demise. As a remnant of Mount Luofu, she must have many tricks up her sleeve and Trump Card, but she's not using any of them right now, just slowly grinding herself down...

This feeling is almost like deliberately wasting time here to buy time for the people behind you.

The fact that Jin Chi is still alive might also be part of 'buying time'.

With this in mind, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord decided not to delay any longer.

With a wave of his hands, his black robe suddenly burst open!

The fur underneath was exposed.

Its fur was pure black, with indistinct runes on it, and it faintly carried a kind of gravitational pull that absorbed light.

But his ever-changing humanoid face was distorted and turned into a black void, with no trace of 'face' left.

A divine image unfolded behind him; it was a purplish-red star.

A tremendous gravitational force surged forth! All surrounding matter uncontrollably plummeted towards this star!

However, even though it was hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of extraterrestrial debris, when it fell onto that star, it was quickly flattened by the immense pressure, its volume rapidly shrinking, from hundreds of thousands of cubic meters to the size of a fist, and it quickly lost its original properties, transforming into a strange form, the same form as that star.

This seems like a transformation, but it's more like a 'promotion'.

Ordinary matter was 'promoted' into this new kind of matter.

Moreover, with the movement of the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, the entire world cluster trembled under the influence of some unknown force.

Countless worlds shifted a few inches toward the 'outside' that the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord pointed to.

A few inches is nothing to the world itself, but when the entire world cluster moves outward and extends a few inches, the commotion becomes quite significant.

This appears to be some kind of action at a distance, some strange force that breaks through the constraints of distance, thus breaking the upper limit of the speed of information transmission.

In an instant, this world cluster, spanning hundreds of light-years, began to ripple, as if its calm surface had been broken.

It even seems to have reversed the law of cause and effect, allowing the 'effect' to appear before the 'cause'.

Even though the power hadn't traveled that far yet, those worlds had already begun to fluctuate. Only after they finished fluctuating did the power leisurely fall upon those worlds.

But regardless, it did happen.

Just like... the Nexus of All Realms.

The Nexus of All Realms have a similar effect, and can even transcend the delay between cosmic light, allowing people in places with different time flows to communicate naturally.

In the Sacred Flame Realm, Li Qi suddenly sensed that the terminal signal of the Nexus of All Realms had been interrupted for a while, and some force was affecting the 'signals' around him.

Here it comes, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord is getting serious now. The Green Mountain God's long period of being out of contact must have made him nervous.

This was part of Li Qi's plan. The sixth-grade Sacred King was a martial artist, most skilled in close combat, Green Mountain God was a divine being, weaker in close combat. If even the sixth-grade Sacred King couldn't get him to taint demonic blood...

At that point, Li Qi would have to go himself, which increased the risk, but there was no other way.

Fortunately, it was successful, so the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's nervousness was understandable.

Before Li Qi could speak, Shen Shuibi had already reacted.

The Dharma image unfolded behind her, but it was not in human form; it was also a star.

A moonlit star.

The Moon Star suddenly generated a repulsive force, attempting to pin itself to the spot. At the same time, Shen Shuibi Hand Seals and silently chanted a divine incantation, and the Moon Star suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light.

The Golden Elixir of the Stars.

My golden elixir is the celestial pole.

As the center of the universe, the celestial pole will never move. The celestial pole is 0 on the coordinate axis. All movement must be centered on the celestial pole, and no force can act on the celestial pole.

Therefore, the suction stopped immediately.

Instead, the platinum-colored moon emitted a tremendous suction force, drawing the purplish-red star toward itself!

Motion is relative. Since the suction force in the middle is still there, if the pole of the celestial body is not moving, then only the source of the suction force is moving.

However, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord didn't care at all; it didn't matter who got close to whom! He just wanted to be closer to Shen Shuibi so that it would be easier for him to unleash his power!

As they advanced, the Technique Method that Shen Shuibi had set up in advance were triggered, and countless traps were set up, numbering in the thousands!

Each trap can easily kill a seventh-rank official, and they work together to form a formation that poses a considerable threat to fifth-rank officials as well.

But it doesn't matter!

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was unstoppable! The purplish-red star dharma image behind him surged forward, like a tank facing a bunch of bear traps, ruthlessly crushing all the traps, while remaining completely unharmed!

Shen Shuibi had already unleashed all of Fang Xiang Spirit Qi. Logically, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord should have been greatly disturbed at this moment. However, in front of that purplish-red star, all of her divine energy was rendered ineffective.

"What is this?" Li Qi asked Shen Shuibi via text message.

"The Demon Star, formed from chaotic energy, disturbs all the stars. It's not the Heavenly Dog! It was just a disguise to conceal its true nature! Be careful, I can't maintain communications anymore," Shen Shuibi replied. After saying that, she stopped talking and even stopped paying attention to the communication array, quickly adjusting the Bagua compass to begin dealing with the situation.

Li Qi frowned slightly.

He had heard of the term before.

The Demon Star Five Elements Qi and the changes of the five planets. Each star appears in its own direction, signifying calamity and disaster. Each star is divinated by the five colors of its day, revealing the fortunes and misfortunes of various countries. When they appear in a country without virtue or a nation that has lost its manners, they are signs of war, famine, floods, droughts, and death. Although their shapes differ, the calamities they bring are the same.

I've only seen it in books, but I've never seen it in person.

Looking out through this communication array, the nature of this Demon Star and the celestial dog were extremely similar, both being symbols of disaster, and... Li Qi vaguely saw something even more terrifying.

Countless extraterrestrial substances were pulled toward the Demon Star by gravity and became part of it, turning into the same thing.

This posture, this extremely distorted Gravity Well, reminded Li Qi of something.

He recalled what the great shaman Mi Xin had explained to him: that the Demon Race had always been dedicated to turning everything into Demon Transformation, and that the Demon Race had once successfully Demonization a Void.

The crimson Demon Star before us is not the Ruins of Return, because the Ruins of Return are invisible, and all light and information are swallowed up there.

The star before him looked exactly like... to Li Qi.

Neutron Star!

What celestial dog? It's all a disguise. The true form of the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord is a neutron Neutron Star that has Demonization!

And now this Demon Star is using its Gravity Well to pull everything around it, then drawing these substances to its surface and completely integrating them into itself.

This is the true 'devouring the heavens'!

Even the world, or anything else, will all be transformed into the same food.

This is the true origin of the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord!

This disguise had already given him the upper hand. Shen Shuibi had used her initiative to unleash Fang Xiang Spirit Qi, but at this moment, Fang Xiang Spirit Qi was completely useless. By a slight miscalculation, Shen Shuibi had no choice but to confront the attacking Demon Star head-on!

This made Li Qi grit his teeth.

These fifth-rank officials were all incredibly secretive, and compared to them, Shen Shuibi was like a pure white lotus.

That makes sense, though. Rabbits aren't particularly cunning. They've spent years cultivating Daoism single-mindedly in Mount Luofu, making them much purer than these seasoned veterans who have been fighting in foreign lands for years.

But this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

She might not be as cunning as the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, so he used his disguise to gain the upper hand, forcing her into a head-on confrontation.

But--

Her single-minded focus on cultivating Daoism in Mount Luofu for many years demonstrates that she is very good at confronting challenges head-on!

If there were no fancy tricks and it was just a simple clash of cultivation and Technique Method, then Shen Shuibi wouldn't be afraid of any fifth-rank cultivator in the world!

The Taiyin suddenly exploded, Shen Shuibi no longer held back. She condensed her Dharma form and revealed the Chenji Golden Core.

Shen Shuibi's golden elixir was not formed by cultivating the Dao heart of the Primordial True One; that kind is the inner elixir.

The Inner Elixir Method emphasizes the completeness of essence, qi, and spirit, the condensation of the sacred embryo, and the seamless integration of the body's cultivation, physical body, and Primordial Spirit, resembling a golden elixir as a whole. Therefore, there is no golden bead inside the body, because the term 'golden elixir' is used to describe the entirety of the whole.

However, after her cultivation was completely destroyed and she started anew, she switched to Outer Elixir.

The Outer Elixir method involves actually ingesting a golden bead, which was refined by Shen Shuibi herself.

At this moment, the golden core appeared directly, bursting the Taiyin outside, and stood in place, like the celestial pole, waiting for that purple-red Demon Star to crash into it!

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord accelerated, Shen Shuibi was on high alert.

The battle quickly escalated to a fever pitch. The two sides abandoned all pretense of using formations and tactics, opting instead for close-quarters combat, with the outcome to be decided in a matter of moments!

But in the void, the Daoist rhyme resounded, and countless waves of energy surged one after another!

Before the two Dharma images collided, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord said, "True lead refines Jia Geng, Southern Crimson Phoenix Marrow, Northern Sea Black Turtle Essence, the cauldron chases the four seasons and the center unites, the medicine sends the three elements and the eight trigrams to move, it is truly a good pill. However, judging from its quality, it has not been refined for long. You are a new cultivator, so your cultivation must have flaws. Do you really dare to go head-to-head with me?"

Shen Shuibi didn't even bother to answer.

This fifth-grade golden elixir is formed by gathering the five elements, harmonizing the Four Symbols, returning the two energies to the Yellow Path, fire returning to its origin and water rising to the tide, Water and Fire complement each other each other as one, and then reversing the five elements, combining the seven treasures of the earth, and the Primordial Spirit borrowing from illusion to return to truth, thus giving birth to the great aperture of the golden elixir.

Only a bumpkin would think that the purest Outer Elixir method of Daoism is inferior.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was extremely fast, and the two sides collided with a loud crash in less than a quarter of an hour.

Both sides displayed their full cultivation!

The Demon Star shattered, unleashing five cruel punishments, and demons and traitors emerged.

The golden elixir was dazzling, with five-colored divine light that shimmered and intertwined.

The two were vastly different in size; the golden core was no bigger than a thumb and was held in the hand of Shen Shuibi's dharma form.

That purplish-red Demon Star was tens of thousands of miles long and wide. Although it was considered small among Dharma forms, it was extremely solid. The surrounding suction force distorted the light, so it looked like it was constantly changing.

A soft thud.

A crack appeared in the golden elixir.

The mysterious substance of the Crimson Demon Star, which was almost indestructible, was directly pierced through!

Both of them groaned softly.

Close-quarters combat is dangerous; the two sides suffered their worst injuries so far in the fight as soon as they started.

But neither side showed any intention of stopping.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's true form waved both hands, unleashing a miniature world within his human body. A powerful devouring intent enveloped the bright moon, and countless vortexes appeared in the void, like countless giant mouths, sucking in all the remaining air and matter from the surroundings, which then became part of the purplish-red Demon Star.

This move created a void vacuum in the surrounding area.

The fifth-rank cultivator can replenish their energy outside the realm by absorbing the energy of the void outside the realm, which is why they can fly for tens of thousands of years or fight for a long time without being exhausted.

Therefore, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord used his devouring power to forcibly create a Law Power vacuum around him!

Shen Shuibi couldn't recover her energy in this area and could only fight with the limited Law Power in her body, while the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord could receive a continuous supply of energy.

This is the move that the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord most often uses in close combat.

This single move is enough to gain a huge advantage in close combat, and can even leave most fifth-rank soldiers helpless.

However, Shen Shuibi remained completely calm. She swallowed the golden elixir, then Hand Seals and chanted. "Heaven and Earth, the source of all energies. Through countless eons of cultivation, I will attain Divine Ability. Within and beyond the Three Realms, I alone am supreme. My body is enveloped in golden light. May this golden light swiftly appear and protect the True Person!"

Golden Light Incantation!

The strongest protective technique among Daoist divine incantations.

Ten Thousand Paths golden light continued to expand, filling the entire body and spreading outwards through every pore.

"Golden Light Incantation, it's just a tortoise. It can't recover its energy. How long can your remaining Law Power last?" The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord continued to speak, while intensifying his devouring power. He not only wanted to prevent Shen Shuibi her energy, but also to tear and absorb the energy she was emitting, accelerating the loss of her Law Power!

He seems to really enjoy talking to others during battle.

However, Shen Shuibi still ignored him.

Rabbits are not talkative to begin with, and at this moment they have even less interest in talking to the enemy.

She simply activated the large formation that had been set up earlier when she had laid out a net around the area.

But then a cauldron appeared all around!

This is the Pill Furnace that envelops both Shen Shuibi and the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord.

As the saying goes, "The true yang is sufficient, the Reverted Pill is firm, the foundation is established, it is time to establish a new world and create a new cauldron."

This is the Pill Furnace she built using her own small world as a foundation!

The eight trigrams form the base of the dipper, and a cloth covers the four sides.

It has a huge mouth on top, and its name is the Wind King.

The Kun, Zhen, and Xun doors open, and the Kan and Zhen palaces throw fire, with fierce flames spreading in all directions. The fire rushes upwards, taking advantage of the wind king's power in the Xun door, and the fierce fire becomes very strong!

The heat has been applied sufficiently, the yin has been exhausted and the yang has been purified, and the impurities have been thoroughly refined!

Shen Shuibi set up the Pill Furnace, intending to refine everything within it into ashes!

That Golden Light Incantation wasn't used to defend against the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord at all, but rather to protect himself from being refined by the Pill Furnace.

There's absolutely no need to catch your breath.

Refining this Demon Star will naturally provide a great tonic!

Upon seeing this, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord immediately fell silent and said no more.

The Demon Star fades, its divine light receding.

Once we survive the first wave, we can then search for the flaws in this Pill Furnace. This Pill Furnace is based on the Eight Trigrams and the Five Elements. By following the traces of the Eight Trigrams, we will surely find a way out!

At the same time, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord also played another Trump Card besides his main body.

But then, from hundreds of millions of miles away, another fifth-rank ruler appeared!

This old silver coin! It even has an accomplice!

Seeing this from a distance, Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as I expected.

So he said, "Yang Ning, there's no need to hide anymore."