Yellow Springs Clone

Ji Tian's heart stirred, feeling as though he had fallen into an endless mire.

"Heh heh, this is the grave prepared for you, die!"

Boundless yellow mud flowed down from the sky, the mud clods condensing into a mountain peak tens of thousands of feet high, smashing down towards Ji Tian.

Seeing a mountain-like yellow earth block gradually falling from above, the Demonic Dragon roared and swept its tail towards it.

A gigantic dragon tail, scales shimmering, directly struck the mountain peak.

With a "rumbling" sound, the yellow earth fragments flew apart, but the dragon's tail also bled profusely. The Demonic Dragon was directly smashed into the ground by the immense force, creating a vast pit tens of thousands of feet deep. The pit was immediately filled with the falling yellow earth clods, turning into a muddy swamp. The yellow mud surged, continuously engulfing the Demonic Dragon that had fallen into it.

"Ooooh"

With a dragon's cry, the Demonic Dragon sprang its head from the mud-filled pit, but its entire body was trapped in the yellow mud. Yellow corpse water continuously corroded its body.

The Demonic Dragon expelled its Primordial Spirit power, enveloping its entire body to protect itself from harm.

Ji Tian floated in the air, waved his arm, and a phantom hand yanked the Demonic Dragon out of the mud.

The Demonic Dragon furiously spat out a stream of true water. Water Control was one of the Demonic Dragon's innate spells from its life. Due to the addition of Yin Energy, a chilling aura permeated the water. This true water containing Yin Energy froze upon contact with anything, having an ice-locking effect.

The entire roaring mud swamp instantly froze, forming a layer of ice. The Demonic Dragon raised its sharp dragon claws and struck the frozen layer.

"Crack!" The entire ice and earth shattered like glass. Cracks appeared centered on the point of impact from the dragon claws. The Demonic Dragon channeled its Primordial Spirit, spitting out a stream of Primordial Spirit power, shattering it into pieces. Countless ice shards were propelled into the sky by this pressure.

Along with the shattering of the yellow mud, a muddy yellow sword slashed towards Ji Tian in the air.

Ji Tian's form shifted, merging with the heavens and earth. This was a characteristic of the Void Transformation Stage, a divine ability.

"I didn't expect you to be at the Void Transformation Stage. It seems I underestimated you," the figure in the air said mockingly as it revealed itself.

Ji Tian condensed a black longsword in his hand and slashed at the figure.

The figure, holding a yellow longsword, also slashed at Ji Tian.

The two sword energies collided in the air, exploding into intense shockwaves. The ground cracked, mountains broke apart, and debris filled the sky.

Ji Tian flicked the dust off his body, stirred his Sea of Consciousness, and extended a finger. A fluctuation of Spiritual Power formed a black vortex.

"Death Spirit Technique..."

The black figure laughed heartily, "This is a petty technique. Letting you succeed once was enough. There's no novelty."

The black figure moved, pulling a mass of death qi from its body and swallowing it.

"That time you took advantage of my carelessness, I am the embodiment of death itself."

Ji Tian said coldly, "Then I'll let you taste death." With that, he swung his sword and charged at the black figure, unleashing nine consecutive strikes.

Waves of killing qi condensed together, forming a power of Sky Opening, its killing intent reaching the heavens.

"Kill!"

The black figure scoffed, "Is that all you've got? Not worth watching. If you could fuse eighty-one strands of killing qi, then it would be somewhat interesting. Hahaha."

"Ten Directions Absolute Kill!"

Ji Tian's arm trembled as he slashed out waves of killing qi along a strange trajectory. The speed of his arm movements gradually increased. By the time he unleashed the last few strikes, his arm's movement trajectory could no longer be seen, only a blur remained.

The killing qi filling the sky condensed into small swords, attacking the black figure from all directions. Sword qi whistled, killing qi was sharp and biting. The sky was enveloped in a chilling power, like the end of the world. The entire sky was obscured by the small black swords.

The Demonic Clouds filling the sky were ruthlessly churned, completely merging into this killing qi.

The black figure watched the incoming killing qi with a grave expression. "Interesting. It seems you used this move against the Raging Ape as well, and the power seems to have increased. But it's not a threat." The black figure flickered, and eighty yellow giants instantly appeared in the air, each holding a yellow greatsword.

"One force overcomes ten abilities!" The eighty giants simultaneously unleashed a sword strike. The eighty sword energies merged together, like a giant throwing a greatsword that cleaved a lake in half from the middle. The invisible ripples instantly shredded the sword qi unleashed by Ji Tian.

Although the black figure withstood this ultimate strike, several of its clones were destroyed by the sword qi.

The black figure roared and gathered the shattered spiritual senses into its main body.

"Gathering Yin Demonic Array!"

Eighty figures instantly appeared in the sky, streams of yellow qi rushing out from within them. This yellow qi condensed in the air, forming a great array. Yellow qi permeated the area, filled with Yin Energy and Killing Qi. A mysterious power generated from within the array gathered the boundless demonic qi of the Netherworld, instantly enveloping Ji Tian.

Oppressive, deathly, cold, withered. These were the attributes of the Gathering Yin Demonic Array. It represented the aura of death. It utilized the demonic qi condensed from heaven and earth, forming corpse water that corroded the physical body, death qi that devoured life force, and death qi that could condense images of death, plunging the opponent into fear and dividing their soul. Malevolent Qi would confuse the opponent's mind, achieving the refinement of the soul. Killing Qi would become the demonic path of death, harvesting the opponent's life.

Ji Tian carefully examined the array before him, feeling a sense of familiarity. He walked within it, discerning it carefully.

Isolating Spiritual Power? How can the death qi within this array harm me?

Ji Tian vibrated his black killing qi sword and roared, "So that's how it is. Your array is incomplete. If the main body had set it up, it would truly be an ultimate array. But now, it's not difficult to break."

"Don't just boast, break it first."

Ji Tian threw down the longsword in his hand, and it instantly transformed into a black sword mountain, standing tall within the great array. Boundless killing qi condensed and converged towards the sword mountain. The sword mountain continuously grew, its speed of absorbing killing qi increasing. It constantly refined the killing qi, forming the power of slaughter and integrating it into Ji Tian's Primordial Spirit.

The sword mountain madly absorbed the boundless killing qi. The black figure, seeing this, quickly manipulated the array to prevent the flow of killing qi.

Ji Tian shook his head and said, "It's useless. Do you know what the true body of this sword mountain is? It is the spirit of slaughter condensed from heaven and earth. All killing qi is its nourishment."

"Then I will use other demonic qi to refine you!" The array shifted, and a fierce aura materialized out of thin air within the formation.

Ji Tian sneered and threw down another sword mountain emitting a fierce aura.

"How is this possible? How can you possess the ability to manipulate this demonic qi?"

"Why not? What about the death qi in your great array? I happen to be lacking it."

The entire grand formation swirled and flew towards the horizon. It was too terrifying; the other party actually possessed a method to absorb this Yin-attribute demonic qi. It was precisely helping him increase his cultivation. This fellow was truly terrifying. It was better to wait until its main body had fully gestated before dealing with it.

Ji Tian looked helplessly at the gradually dissipating demonic qi and said faintly, "Was I scared away by myself?"

This grand formation originally had a strengthening effect on undead beings. Using it against himself was a mistake from the start. Furthermore, due to the lack of a Spiritual Sense to operate it, its execution was not smooth. Otherwise, his Sword of Slaughter wouldn't have had the opportunity to absorb the formation's killing qi for its own use.

If that guy had attacked him with Death Qi, it might have had some effect, but it insisted on using Malevolent Qi and killing qi.

All of this wasn't because the grand formation was too weak, but because it coincidentally encountered its bane.

The Demonic Dragon hid in a cave, secretly rejoicing. Fortunately, this guy didn't immediately use this sinister grand formation. Otherwise, all the flesh and blood it had painstakingly condensed would have been destroyed within it.

Ji Tian pondered how to condense a Spirit of Death Qi, which would then allow him to refine the Death Qi in the Netherworld. He could refine Malevolent Qi because he had coincidentally condensed a divine being under fortuitous circumstances, which merged with his resentment. His killing intent had fused with the divine being, granting him the ability to refine killing qi.

What is Death Qi?

The Demonic Dragon roared at the constantly dissolving demonic qi and spat out a mouthful of true water.

Ji Tian now wished he could beat this ignorant Demonic Dragon soundly. It was roaring and shouting while he was deep in thought.

A thought flickered through his mind; perhaps he should go to the deep pool.

Ji Tian gazed at the pool, which shimmered with a faint black light, appearing to be a perpetually still, deep black body of water. He felt wisps of coldness emanating from the pool, so chilling it seeped into his bones.

He sent a Spiritual Sense towards the deep pool, saying, "Fellow Daoist, I've come to see you again."

After a long while, a Spiritual Sense replied, "You've finally come. That evil remnant soul, I can barely suppress it anymore."

Ji Tian was stunned for a moment, then understood. After all, this was a remnant soul of Pangu, and a useless one at that.

"It just so happens that I'll help you subdue it." As he spoke, a Spiritual Sense merged into the pool. The remnant soul was thrashing about, bound by four silver chains, which were Restriction chains transformed from four small silver fish.

"Alright, I'll help you."

"Soul Restraining Technique!" Ji Tian's Spiritual Sense transformed into two black chains that shot towards the remnant soul's sea of consciousness. A strange power was transmitted to the remnant soul.

Ji Tian waved his hands, and a phantom divine altar appeared before him. A blurry figure appeared on the altar, quickly casting a series of Restrictions. These powers were transmitted along the chains.

"Bind!" A mass of black mist condensed above the divine altar, entwined with chains.

Ji Tian's Primordial Spirit moved, pulling the shadowy figure into his sea of consciousness. The golden sea of consciousness immediately engulfed the shadowy figure.

Ji Tian probed to discover what kind of distracting thoughts had caused this shadowy figure to condense a Death Qi body.