"Pfft!"
The instant the Spirit Artifact Flying Sword was crushed apart with bare hands, Li Canghai seemed to have been struck by a sledgehammer. He sprayed out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
He slumped on the ground, both hands digging desperately into the rotten mud beneath him. The look in his eyes as he stared at Sun Yu no longer carried even a trace of the lofty authority of a sect's chief seat.
Only suffocating terror remained.
Crushing a spirit artifact with bare hands.
This simply was not a physical body a human could possess!
Sun Yu casually tossed the two pieces of scrap metal into the swamp and strode over to Li Canghai.
He did not immediately deliver the killing blow.
Sun Yu frowned slightly, his gaze suddenly falling upon the Broken Sword on the ground.
The immense spiritual energy sealed within the spirit artifact had completely lost its restraints now that the Sword Body had broken.
"Buzz!"
An incomparably pure yet violent surge of spiritual energy erupted from the Broken Sword and spread through the Devil Abyss in every direction!
Outside, leaking spiritual energy would at most whip up a fierce gale.
But in the Blood Sea Devil Abyss, this pure spiritual energy was like a spark thrown straight into a powder keg!
"Gurgle! Gurgle!"
The crimson swamp spanning dozens of miles began to boil violently without warning.
The Devil Abyss, once deathly still, was like some ancient beast awakened by the prick of a needle.
"Rumble!!!"
An extraordinarily muffled roar exploded from the depths of the swamp.
Li Canghai shuddered violently. Seeming to sense something, he abruptly turned to look deeper within.
At the end of his sight.
A terrifying tsunami dozens of zhang high, formed entirely from solidified crimson Sha Qi, was crashing toward their position with unstoppable force!
Ten thousand ghosts wailed!
The Sha Qi tsunami carried the resentful spirits of countless Devil Abyss aberrations that had died miserable deaths, releasing shrill, ear-piercing screams.
"Devil Abyss upheaval! Blood Sha Tide!"
Li Canghai was so terrified that his soul nearly fled his body.
Ignoring the grave wounds within him, he scrambled outward on all fours like a stray dog.
With a Blood Sha Tide of this level, let alone a Half-step Fetal Transformation Realm cultivator like him, even a true Fetal Transformation Realm powerhouse would instantly suffer qi deviation and turn into a puddle of pus and blood if swept into it!
"Why are you running?"
An utterly calm voice sounded above Li Canghai's head.
Sun Yu raised his right foot.
He aimed at the knee of Li Canghai's right leg, which was frantically kicking and struggling.
Then stomped down viciously.
"Kacha!"
The sound of shattering bone rang out with startling clarity.
Li Canghai's right knee was stomped directly into a pile of Meat Paste.
"Ah!!!"
Before his shrill scream had even faded, Sun Yu's left foot had already crushed his left knee.
Li Canghai collapsed completely into the rotten mud, both legs twisted backward at grotesque angles.
He stared despairingly at the Blood Sha tsunami so close at hand, clinging tightly to Sun Yu's calf with both hands as tears and snot streamed down his face. "Take me with you! Please, take me with you! I'll give you all of the Heavenly Sword Sect's secret arts!"
Sun Yu kicked him away.
He did not retreat.
Faced with the Blood Sha tsunami capable of devouring everything, Sun Yu not only did not flee—he instead strode forward to meet it.
He spread his arms.
His chest opened completely.
The next instant.
The violent Blood Sha tsunami crashed down, completely swallowing both of them!
"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"
The moment the Blood Sha touched Li Canghai's body, the astral qi of his Half-step Fetal Transformation Realm cultivation failed to hold for even a breath before instantly collapsing.
Incomparably dense Sha Qi burrowed madly into him through his Seven Apertures and pores.
"Save... save..."
Li Canghai's skin and flesh shriveled and blackened at a speed visible to the naked eye, before turning into flying ash.
In less than three breaths, the Heavenly Sword Sect's Chief of Punishment became a set of withered black bones, completely vanishing into the baleful aura.
Yet Sun Yu, standing beside him, met an entirely different fate.
Blood-red words flashed madly across his retina, glaringly bright:
[Supreme Dao Divine Ability advancement conditions met!] [Extreme baleful aura source detected. Forced absorption commencing!]
"Boom!"
Sun Yu's body shuddered violently.
He felt none of the pain of corrosion.
At that moment, the Yin Yang Qi Vortex within him stopped spinning. Replacing it was an incomparably terrifying devouring force!
Sun Yu himself became a bottomless black hole.
The bloody baleful aura around him, enough to melt all things away, seemed to have received some irresistible summons. It formed a massive crimson vortex and wildly poured backward into his body through all one hundred and eight thousand pores!
The baleful aura entered his body and charged straight into his Great Perfection Sword Marrow.
The two utterly opposing Internal Breaths of Extreme Cold and Extreme Yang began to undergo an extraordinarily bizarre fusion under the forceful kneading of that extreme baleful aura.
"Urgh!"
Sun Yu clenched his teeth, letting out a muffled growl from his throat.
This transformation began at the most microscopic cellular level.
The vast bloody baleful aura, mixed with the dense vitality that had yet to disperse from the freshly dead Li Canghai and the thirty-six sword guards, was all forcibly dragged over.
Crimson energy continuously compressed and condensed around Sun Yu's body.
One layer, two layers, three layers.
In the brief span of half an incense stick's time, a gigantic blood cocoon, three zhang tall, dark red from head to toe and covered in strange demonic patterns, fully took shape amid the rotten mud of the Devil Abyss.
The blood cocoon resembled a gigantic heart.
"Thump! Thump!"
It emitted deep, heavy pulses filled with overwhelming pressure.
For an entire day and night, the mutant demon beasts around the outskirts of the Devil Abyss were all drawn over by this earthshaking baleful aura.
Yet they only dared to remain a hundred zhang away from the blood cocoon, trembling as they lay in the rotten mud, utterly unable to approach even an inch closer.
The aura emanating from that blood cocoon made them feel absolute suppression at the very level of life itself.
On the second day, at Zishi.
Late at night.
There were no stars or moon above the Blood Sea Devil Abyss.
"Kacha."
An exceedingly fine crack appeared on the surface of the massive blood cocoon.
Immediately after, the crack spread madly like a spiderweb, covering the entire cocoon.
"Rumble!!!"
A heaven-shaking, ear-splitting explosion rang out!
The incomparably hard dark-red blood cocoon exploded into pieces!
The violent shockwave instantly swept away the poisonous miasma within a hundred zhang, creating a region of absolute vacuum.
Blood-colored powder drifted down from the sky in a fluttering shower.
A slender, well-proportioned figure, yet one radiating endless destruction, slowly emerged from the shattered shell.
[Supreme Dao Divine Ability: Cold Iron Demonic Body successfully advanced!]
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[New Supreme Dao form acquired: Asura Undying Body (Not Initiated)!]
Sun Yu lowered his head and looked at this body of his, reborn anew.
His body grew two inches taller.
The dark gold skin membrane, once as cold as metal, had now completely faded away.
In its place was a texture as warm and lustrous as mutton-fat jade, yet carrying a solidity that made one's heart tremble.
His skin was no longer dark gold, but an exceedingly eerie cold white.
Beneath that cold white Skin and Flesh, strands of incomparably intricate blood-red demonic patterns, like ancient totems, slowly flowed beneath his skin with every breath.
Sun Yu clenched his fist.
There was no sound of air bursting.
Only an extraordinarily quiet, perfectly rounded sense of having his power entirely under control, down to the finest degree.
[Asura Undying Body] trait unlocked.
Sun Yu closed his eyes and carefully sensed the earth-shaking changes within his body.
First came his basic attributes.
On top of the Cold Iron Demonic Body and Marrow Transformation Perfection, his strength and defense had brutally surged threefold!
With the density of his flesh now, even if he stood still and let a Blood Washing Realm Peak expert hack at him with a spiritual weapon, they would not so much as graze his skin.
Next were his five viscera.
His five viscera were no longer mere furnaces.
Heart, liver, spleen, Lungs, and Kidneys resonated together, forming a self-sustaining internal circulation formation.
With every beat of his heart, the pale-gold Lead-Mercury Blood it pumped contained an unimaginably terrifying vitality.
The panel's prompt was exceptionally clear: rudimentary blood-drop rebirth.
So long as his heart remained intact, even if an arm were severed at the root, or even half his body were blown away, as long as he expended enough Blood Qi, he could regrow flesh and bone, regenerating severed limbs in an extremely short time!
This was an undying body in the truest sense!
Finally came the most crucial qualitative transformation.
Sun Yu spread open his right hand.
With a thought, his former Extreme Cold Internal Breath and Extreme Yang Blood Qi vanished completely.
In their place was a surge of Dark Red Gang Qi erupting from his palm!
This Gang Qi no longer distinguished between ice and fire. Instead, it perfectly fused absolute frost with the searing heat of ultimate destruction.
Asura Gang Qi.
It possessed the dual destructive properties of freezing space and incinerating all things—nothing could withstand it, nothing could resist its melting!
Sun Yu suddenly clenched his right hand.
The dark red Gang Qi in his palm instantly went out.
"So this is the Asura Undying Body..."
Sun Yu slowly exhaled. There was no expression on his cold white face.
Yet deep within his pupils, an incomparably violent desire to slaughter was being suppressed.
Just then, a hundred zhang away, a fourth-rank demonic beast the size of a small hill suddenly let out a roar.
It was a Devil Abyss Ironclad Rhinoceros. Having devoured blood Baleful Intent all year round, its physical body was comparable to that of a martial artist at the early Fetal Transformation Realm.
Seeing the blood cocoon shatter, it assumed some heaven-and-earth treasure had emerged. Greed overcame fear, and its four hooves crushed the rotten mud as it charged madly at Sun Yu like a heavy siege engine!
The stench of blood-laced wind hit him full in the face.
Thirty zhang.
Ten zhang.
Three Zhang!
The Ironclad Rhinoceros's horn, capable of piercing through city walls, was already aimed at Sun Yu's chest.
Sun Yu neither drew his saber nor used Swimming Dragon Steps to evade.
He did not even spare the colossal creature a proper glance.
He merely turned around with casual ease.
And raised his right hand.
In an instant, a layer of Dark Red Asura Gang Qi covered his palm.
No gathering force, no technique.
Facing the massive head of the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros charging at him, he swung a backhand slap.
"Smack!!!"
An extremely dull yet hair-raising explosive crack rang out.
That slap landed lightly upon the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros's refined iron skull, which could withstand the chopping blows of spirit weapons.
The next instant.
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros's enormous charging body abruptly stiffened.
Asura Gang Qi instantly pierced through its hide.
Extreme cold froze its bones, and extreme heat instantly burned the frozen, brittle bones into ash.
A terrifying monstrous strength three times that of the Blood Washing Realm Peak erupted with a boom!
"Bang!!!"
The fourth-rank demon beast's mountain-like massive body did not even have time to let out a scream beneath Sun Yu's slap.
It was directly slapped into an enormous cloud of intensely thick crimson blood mist in midair!
Not even a scrap of bone remained.
The blood mist drifted down into the rotten mud and was instantly devoured by the Devil Abyss.
One slap had instantly killed a fourth-rank great demon comparable to an early Fetal Transformation Realm cultivator!
Sun Yu withdrew his right hand and flicked away dust that did not exist.
He now had an extremely precise understanding of his current strength.
He walked to where Li Canghai's remains had vanished.
From the rotten mud, he picked out a Dark Gold Storage Bag that had not been corroded by blood balefulness.
This was what Li Canghai had left behind.
Sun Yu forced out a wisp of Asura Gang Qi from his fingertips and brutally erased the soul imprint on the Storage Bag.
His consciousness entered it.
The space inside was enormous.
Apart from mountain-like piles of Top-grade Spirit Stones and various Pills for healing wounds and detoxifying poisons.
In a corner lay a Jade Slip glowing faintly with a pearly white light.
Sun Yu took it out and pressed it to his brow.
A vast amount of information flooded into his mind.
Fetal Transformation Creation Art!
The Heavenly Sword Sect's core internal cultivation method.
Unlike the Marrow Exchange Realm, which tempered one's bones, this technique taught one how to draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, completely shed the mortal fleshly body, and condense true Innate True Essence within the Dantian!
This was the stepping stone into the third great realm of the Innate stage—the [Fetal Transformation Realm]!
Sun Yu opened his eyes, a cold smile curling across his lips.
He tucked the Jade Slip away close to his body.
Originally, he had merely come to this Devil Abyss to evade pursuit and, while at it, seek the Sha Qi needed to advance.
But now, it seemed that the Heavenly Sword Sect lot had simply come to deliver themselves to his doorstep.
"Chasing me?"
Sun Yu hung the Storage Bag at his waist, then turned his head. His gaze crossed the boundless Devil Abyss and fixed on the direction of Wind Snow Prefecture, thousands of miles away.
"You're chasing far too slowly."
Now that his Supreme Dao Divine Ability had advanced and he had obtained the brand-new Fetal Transformation Creation Art.
Within this Blood Sea Devil Abyss, where blood balefulness filled the air and great demons roamed rampant, he no longer needed to hide here and there.
"Once I grind this Fetal Transformation Creation Art to Great Perfection..."
Sun Yu rolled his wrist, and his cervical vertebrae let out a series of crisp crackles.
"That'll be when I return to the prefecture and tear down your Heavenly Sword Sect's Mountain Gate with my bare hands."
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