Yang Jian moved far away from the core of the Returning Ruins and found a place to rest amid a deathly silent shattered starfield. He no longer suppressed the surging power within him, nor did he have the leisure to dwell on the tangled emotions of reuniting with Long Ji only to break with her again. His obsession with saving his mother burned like an undying flame, searing his soul. Under the tyrannical command of the Hunyuan Limitless True Demonic Technique, passed down by his master, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, it began a frenzied and perilous fusion and transformation with the murderous aura born from the Sky-Shattering Axe's Heaven-Opening destruction and the immortal foundation forged by the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
He abandoned the impartial serenity of the Yuqing Immortal Method and instead embraced the absolute self and supremacy of power originating from Qing Huan's lineage. The core of the Hunyuan Limitless True Demonic Technique was to turn oneself into a furnace, refining all energies. Whether pure immortal qi or foul killing intent, all could become nourishment and forge an indestructible true demonic body. At this moment, the hatred in his heart, his killing intent, his thirst for power, and even the inner demon quietly taking root all became the fiercest flames within that furnace.
Within his sea of consciousness, the "seed of the true demon," initially condensed from endless negative emotions and the will of destruction, throbbed violently, radiating a dark and profound glow. It forcibly sorted, compressed, and transformed the torrent of violent energy. The once-pure Yuqing Immortal Light was thoroughly shattered and reconstructed, merging with the properties of the true demonic seed. The glow around him became a unique dark-jade hue, retaining the toughness and immortality of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique while gaining the overbearing, inscrutable