Deep within Pangu Hall.
Within the blood cocoon, Zhou Ming's figure had long since solidified. He sat cross-legged, his mind completely immersed in cultivation.
Refine the fiendish energy and strengthen the Primordial Spirit!
Comprehend the Law of Strength and strengthen himself!
This had become the sole melody of his long years.
Zhou Ming cultivated methodically, unaware of how many kalpas had passed.
As he painstakingly cultivated day after day and year after year, his Primordial Spirit grew increasingly solid, radiating Immortal Radiance.
At the same time, his comprehension of the Law of Strength left behind by Father God Pangu gradually progressed from initial confusion to a basic understanding. He had truly crossed the threshold.
One day, Zhou Ming was guiding the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to absorb and release energy from the blood pool while refining the fiendish energy that had invaded his Primordial Spirit.
Suddenly.
Buzz—!
A strange feeling surged into his heart. It was as if, somewhere beyond perception, a certain shackle had been broken.
His Primordial Spirit was clear and transparent, more complete than ever before.
Within his physical body, his blood Qi surged like a dragon, and the power he had accumulated had reached a critical point.
A strange feeling surged into his heart, as if an unseen voice were telling him: The time has come!
"Am I about to undergo form transformation?" Zhou Ming's heart stirred as he circulated all the power accumulated within his body.
Rumble!
The blood cocoon around him began to tremble!
Countless profound patterns appeared across its surface. They were the Brand of Pangu's Bloodline—the Nascent Manifestation of the Law of Strength!
Crack—
A crisp shattering sound rang out, exceptionally clear in the silent depths of Pangu Hall.
Crack! Crack-crack!
Crisp shattering sounds rang out as fine cracks appeared across the blood cocoon's surface and rapidly spread.
Surging Blood Qi Power, mixed with an incomparably powerful physical pressure, erupted violently from the cracks!
"Open... for me!"
Zhou Ming growled inwardly. The power he had accumulated over countless years erupted completely at this moment!
Boom!!!
A deafening explosion!
The enormous blood cocoon that had enveloped him for endless years exploded with a thunderous roar!
Countless blood-colored fragments flew in all directions before rapidly melting into the churning blood pool.
A figure slowly rose to his feet from the center of the shattered blood cocoon.
He was not the towering giant one might have imagined, but a young man who appeared to be around twenty years old.
He was handsome, with flawless features. Compared to his appearance in his previous life, he was incomparably more attractive, and his bearing had also undergone a complete transformation.
This was him—Zhou Ming, in his newly born form in the Primordial World!
He lowered his head and looked at his hands, then moved his body, feeling the terrifying power contained within the physical body created from Pangu's essence blood.
"This is... an Ancestral Witch Body?"
His Primordial Spirit and physical body fit together perfectly, and an unprecedented sense of power arose naturally.
"This is... the power of an Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal?" Zhou Ming clenched his fists, sensing the force within him that was enough to shake mountains.
He also sensed the Dao Rhythm of laws flowing through his Primordial Spirit and muttered softly.
He had possessed the cultivation of an Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal the moment he completed his form transformation!
"As expected of Father God Pangu's heart essence blood. This bloodline is simply heaven-defying!" Zhou Ming sighed inwardly.
Of course, he also knew that this was not solely due to Pangu's essence blood. It was also because he had refined the Heaven-Opening Fiendish Energy and condensed his Primordial Spirit.
Moreover, the Dao Origin Divine Pearl, an Innate Supreme Treasure, suppressed his Destiny/Fortune and aided his cultivation, while that wisp of comprehension of the Law of Strength had laid a solid foundation.
The accumulation of all these heaven-defying factors had created his achievements today.
Although he felt the surging power within him, Zhou Ming did not feel the slightest bit complacent.
"Phew..." Zhou Ming exhaled slowly, adapting to his new body and power.
His gaze swept over the other twelve blood cocoons that remained dormant in the blood pool, and his eyes grew gentle yet resolute.
"Next, I need to think about how to help these Twelve Younger Siblings."
Whenever he thought of their tragic fates in the future, his heart felt heavy.
He absolutely could not let the Twelve Ancestor Witches repeat the mistakes of history and become a group of brutes who knew nothing but fighting and killing.
To help them, the key still lay with the Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
This Innate Supreme Treasure refined by Father God Pangu was currently his only support.
With a thought, a treasure pearl, dark gold throughout and radiating a gentle Dao Rhythm, slowly emerged from between his brows and hovered before him.
It was precisely the Dao Origin Divine Pearl formed from the System Core.
"I need to completely refine it first." Zhou Ming examined the Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
The treasure pearl contained forty-nine Innate Restraining Spells, representing the pinnacle of an Innate Supreme Treasure.
With his current cultivation at the Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal level, completely refining it was simply impossible.
"I'll refine as much as I can."
Zhou Ming stopped hesitating. He immediately sat cross-legged, sank his Primordial Spirit into the Dao Origin Divine Pearl, and began refining the Restraining Spells within it with all his strength.
One, two, three...
The refining process was not easy. Every Restraining Spell contained the profound principles of the Great Dao, requiring an enormous amount of mental effort to comprehend, communicate with, and control.
Fortunately, the Dao Origin Divine Pearl had already fused with him and shared the same origin. Refining it was far easier than refining an ownerless spirit treasure.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, when Zhou Ming had refined the eighteenth Restraining Spell, he felt a clear resistance.
The power of his Primordial Spirit had been greatly depleted. He no longer had the strength to push forward.
"Are eighteen Restraining Spells the limit of an Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal?" Zhou Ming opened his eyes.
He sensed the closer connection with the Dao Origin Divine Pearl, as well as the additional profound information transmitted from within it.
Although he had refined less than half, he could already make preliminary use of part of the Dao Origin Divine Pearl's power.
He tried urging the Dao Origin Divine Pearl toward one of the Ancestral Witch Blood Cocoons.
Buzz!
The Dao Origin Divine Pearl trembled lightly and emitted a gentle suction force.
A wisp of the violent, chaotic fiendish energy inside the blood cocoon was immediately drawn out and slowly fused into the Dao Origin Divine Pearl.
The pearl rotated slightly as its radiance flowed. That wisp of fiendish energy was quickly broken down and purified, ultimately transforming into a stream of pure energy that was fed back out.
"It works!" Zhou Ming's eyes lit up.
The Dao Origin Divine Pearl could indeed absorb and refine fiendish energy!
However, before he could celebrate for long, his brows drew tightly together again.
He discovered that the Dao Origin Divine Pearl's efficiency in refining fiendish energy... was simply far too slow!
Compared to the vast, ocean-like total amount of fiendish energy within the blood cocoon, the wisp it had just absorbed and refined was no more than a drop in the bucket!
Moreover, this was while the Ancestral Witch within the blood cocoon had not yet developed consciousness and was only instinctively absorbing energy.
Once they awakened and began actively absorbing the energy of Pangu Hall and the Blood Pool Essence, the speed at which fiendish energy formed would absolutely far exceed the Dao Origin Divine Pearl's current refining speed!
"This efficiency... it can't keep up at all!" Zhou Ming's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.
Hoping to use the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to "vacuum" the fiendish energy out of his Twelve Younger Siblings one by one until they were clean was simply a pipe dream.
"Looks like directly using the Dao Origin Divine Pearl to absorb and refine it won't work." Zhou Ming stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.
"I have to find a more efficient method—preferably one that allows them to refine the fiendish energy themselves..."
His gaze once again fell upon the twelve blood cocoons, his eyes flickering.
"Pangu's bloodline... the Law of Strength... the Dao Origin Divine Pearl..."
One thought after another collided in his mind.
"Perhaps... I can start with a cultivation method?"