Shedding the Mortal Shell, Fetal Transformation Realm!

Deep within the Blood Sea Devil Abyss, scarlet poisonous miasma churned like boiling water.

Sun Yu sat cross-legged beneath the bleached ribs of an unknown colossal beast.

He held the Jade Slip emitting white light in his hand, his eyes slightly closed.

The circulation route of the Fetal Transformation Creation Art was ten times more intricate than any cultivation art he had practiced before.

This was neither tempering Skin and Flesh nor refining Bone Marrow.

It was to completely carve out an ocean within his body capable of containing the mighty power of heaven and earth, transforming all the blood and qi in his body into a higher-dimensional force—Innate True Essence!

Once True Essence was formed, the mortal shell would be shed.

Silver light rippled across his retina like water.

[Art: Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Not Initiated)]

Sun Yu had calculated the timing precisely.

His heartbeat was like a finely calibrated water clock, beating steadily within his chest.

"Thump."

Midnight.

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Initiated)]!

Deep within his Dantian, it was as though someone had torn open a massive rift with their bare hands.

Every muscle in Sun Yu's body abruptly tensed. Across his Cold White skin, the dark-red devilish markings instantly erupted with blinding bloody light.

The system's domineering empowerment mechanism forcibly activated.

Within the Blood Sea Devil Abyss, the wildly violent and impure spiritual energy drifting in the deepest reaches of the poisonous miasma surged into Sun Yu's body through all one hundred and eight thousand pores like sharks that had scented blood!

"Urgh!"

A muffled groan squeezed from Sun Yu's throat.

This spiritual energy was far too immense, charging directly into his Great Perfection Sword Marrow and Lead-Mercury Blood.

The two forces began an incomparably brutal battle and fusion within his Meridians.

His blood was forcibly purified.

Strands of pale-golden liquid, seemingly tangible, slowly condensed within that rift in his Dantian.

Innate True Essence!

The instant those few drops of True Essence took shape, they exuded a terrifying pressure that could suppress everything.

Along with the birth of True Essence, the skin across Sun Yu's body began to crack over large areas.

Like a dried-up riverbed, chunks of dead skin, mixed with the last traces of mortal impurities within his body, were forcibly expelled from him.

Pain.

Pain that tore at his soul.

Yet Sun Yu did not so much as blink. He held fast to the clarity of his mind, allowing this force to carry out a destructive remolding of his fleshly body.

A full hour passed.

The transformation stopped.

Sun Yu opened his eyes and exhaled a mouthful of black, turbid air reeking intensely of blood.

The foul air struck the beast bone before him and directly corroded a large hole through it.

"True Essence..."

Sun Yu clenched his fist.

The few drops of pale-golden True Essence in his Dantian could instantly travel throughout his entire body with a single thought.

His strength had surged once more.

But what followed close behind was a hunger ten times more violent than when his marrow had been replaced!

Shedding the mortal shell and remaking the bones required an enormous amount of energy to fill the deficit.

Sun Yu rose to his feet.

Dead skin rustled down from his body.

He did not search through the Pills in his Storage Bag.

The energy in Pills was too mild. What he needed now was flesh and blood!

Sun Yu stepped out of the beast-bone camp.

His figure instantly transformed into a dark-red afterimage, tearing through the poisonous miasma as he shot toward the deeper reaches of the devil abyss.

A hundred li away.

The swamp churned violently.

A colossal blood-spotted python over a hundred feet long, with five enormous heads, lay coiled atop a mountain of black stone.

Five-Headed Blood Python.

A Fifth-Order Great Demon! Its strength rivaled that of a human at the mid-stage Fetal Transformation Realm!

It was drawing in the yin-charged Earth Vein energy from the bottom of the Demonic Abyss.

Suddenly, all five snake heads rose at once, their ten Vertical Pupils fixed dead on the torn red miasma ahead.

A cold white figure came crashing straight toward it without slowing in the slightest.

"Hiss!"

The Five-Headed Blood Python let out a deafening shriek.

Five bloody maws opened at once.

Venom, frost, blazing fire, wind blades, blood baleful intent.

Five utterly lethal innate demon arts merged into a torrent of destruction and bombarded Sun Yu from all directions.

Sun Yu neither drew his blade nor dodged.

He raised his right arm.

The few drops of pale golden True Essence within his Dantian surged into his palm in an instant.

Asura Gang Qi erupted with a thunderous boom!

A mass of dark red Gang Qi directly formed into a massive shield before him.

"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"

The five demon arts smashed viciously against the Asura Gang Qi.

Dozens of deep craters were blasted into the mire.

The Gang Qi shield shook violently, yet it forcibly took every attack head-on.

Extreme Cold froze; extreme heat incinerated.

The torrent of demon arts did not so much as touch a single hair on Sun Yu's head.

"That's all you've got?"

Sun Yu sneered.

The mire beneath his feet exploded.

Swimming Dragon Steps!

Sun Yu's figure instantly broke through the Sound Barrier. Braving the lingering shockwaves of the demon arts, he closed directly against the Five-Headed Blood Python's enormous body.

His right fist clenched.

Asura Gang Qi coiled around the Fist Edge like barbs.

An incomparably brutal uppercut smashed viciously into the underside of the central snake head's jaw.

"Bang!!!"

A dull explosion of bursting flesh rang through the surroundings.

That snake head, more than twice the size of a water vat, burst into a cloud of blood mist beneath that punch, like a watermelon struck by an iron hammer!

It did not even have time to scream.

The Five-Headed Blood Python's massive body writhed madly as its remaining four heads bit at Sun Yu like lunatics.

Sun Yu struck out with both hands.

His left hand clamped onto the upper jaw of one snake head, while his right hand gripped another snake head tightly by the vital point seven inches below its head.

The muscles in his arms bulged. Beneath his cold white Skin and Flesh, Dark Red Demonic Patterns flashed madly.

"Break for me!"

Sun Yu exerted force through his waist and abdomen, then violently tore his arms apart.

"Rip!"

A rain of blood sprayed across the sky.

He tore two snake heads clean off their necks by brute force!

Thick nerves and blood vessels lashed wildly through the air like severed steel cables.

Sun Yu flung away the severed heads and leaped into the air. His right leg came crashing down like a battle-axe, smashing viciously onto the fourth snake head's forehead.

"Kacha!"

Its skull shattered, and the snake head was forcibly stomped deep into the mire.

The last snake head was scared out of its wits and turned to flee.

Sun Yu grabbed its thick tail in one hand.

Terrifying monstrous strength, three times that of the Blood Washing Realm Peak, erupted with a thunderous boom!

He swung the thirty-meter-long Fifth-Order Great Demon like a whip, smashing it madly against the nearby black stone mountain!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The black stone mountain was battered into collapse and pulverized.

The Five-Headed Blood Python's bones shattered inch by inch, its skin and flesh turning to pulp.

It was completely dead.

Sun Yu casually tossed aside the mangled flesh in his hand.

With two fingers held together like a blade, he sliced open the blood python's belly and dug out a scalding demon core the size of a bowl, radiating five-colored light.

Without even looking at it, he stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it whole.

Then he tore open the snake skin with his bare hands and devoured the Fifth-Order Demon Beast's flesh in great mouthfuls, flesh that contained an incomparably vast amount of vital blood.

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The Five Viscera Furnace spun madly.

The immense energy turned into surging heat currents, replenishing the expenditure of shedding his mortal form and remaking his bones.

Over the next several days.

The depths of the Blood Sea Devil Abyss suffered the most horrifying calamity in history.

So long as they were demon beasts above the fifth order.

Every one of them became bloody food upon Sun Yu's platter.

Like a black hole that never knew satiation, he madly devoured every trace of life within the Devil Abyss.

On the second day at Zishi,

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Proficient)]

On the third day at Zishi,

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Mastered)]

On the fourth day at Zishi,

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Minor Accomplishment)]

On the fifth day at Zishi,

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Major Accomplishment)]

Every midnight.

A thick layer of old skin and blood scabs peeled from Sun Yu's body.

The pale golden True Essence within his Dantian grew from a few drops into a small pool, then finally gathered into a surging lake of True Essence.

His body had completely transcended the realm of mortals.

Until the late night of the sixth day.

Within a demon nest that Sun Yu had slaughtered clean.

Sun Yu sat cross-legged.

Beside him lay heaps of enormous, stark white skeletons.

"Clang."

Midnight arrived.

The panel appeared.

[Fetal Transformation Creation Art (Complete)]!

"Rumble!!!"

A roar like divine thunder from the Ninth Heavens erupted from within Sun Yu's body!

This time, it was neither the sword cry of his bones nor the rushing surge of his blood.

It was the lake of True Essence within his Dantian completely boiling over, breaking through the final thread of obstruction!

Incomparably vast pale golden True Essence, like a river bursting through its banks, instantly washed through every limb, bone, and extraordinary meridian in his body.

At this moment, the True Essence and the supreme foundation of the Asura Undying Body achieved absolute, perfect fusion!

"Kacha, kacha, kacha."

The final layer of hard skin that formed over Sun Yu's body, like a stone shell, cracked apart inch by inch.

Beneath the peeling stone shell was a body that could only be called perfect.

Cold White skin, smooth and lustrous as jade.

His muscles flowed in lines of utmost perfection, without a shred of excess flesh, yet containing terrifying explosive power capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Fetal Transformation Realm!

Casting off the mortal body, forging the innate!

Sun Yu slowly opened his eyes.

The icy blue and crimson were gone from his pupils.

There remained only an absolute darkness as deep as the starry sky.

He rose to his feet.

He did not use the Swimming Dragon Steps.

With a mere thought, True Qi beneath his feet spontaneously lifted him.

His body floated lightly into the air, his feet three feet above the ground.

Walking through the air—the mark of the Fetal Transformation Realm!

Sun Yu raised his right hand.

Then casually waved it forward.

"Screech!"

A dark-red Asura Gang Qi over a hundred feet long shot from his hand like a gigantic blade cleaving open heaven and earth.

The Gang Qi silently sliced through the poisonous miasma ahead.

The hundred-foot black stone peak before him abruptly froze the instant the Gang Qi swept across it.

The next moment.

The mountain's upper half slowly slid down along an incomparably smooth cut.

"Rumble!"

Half the mountain crashed into the swamp, sending mud and water spraying into the sky.

One strike, and a mountain was severed!

And he had not even used his full strength.

Sun Yu withdrew his right hand and sensed the inexhaustible True Essence within his Dantian.

"This is the Fetal Transformation Realm."

He took out a set of loose black brocade robes from Li Canghai's Storage Bag and casually put them on.

He tied a Dark Gold sash around his waist.

His full head of black hair hung loosely behind him.

Now, he no longer needed to conceal himself or hide.

With the Asura Undying Body and the foundation of True Essence at the peak of the Fetal Transformation Realm.

His current combat power was already enough to sweep aside everything in Great Wind Snow State.

Sun Yu raised his head, his gaze piercing through the dense red miasma toward the exit of the Blood Sea Devil Abyss.

"It's time to go back."

His tone was calm, yet it carried a killing intent that made one's hair stand on end.

"It's also time to settle this score with the Heavenly Sword Sect."

Just as Sun Yu prepared to rise into the air and leave this land of death.

A piercing sound of something tearing through the sky suddenly came from the distant heavens above the devil abyss.

Sun Yu halted and looked up.

The red miasma was forcibly torn apart by an enormous external force.

Three massive flying ships, each dozens of yards long and forged entirely from Black Iron, charged brazenly into the skies above the Blood Sea Devil Abyss in a triangular formation.

A huge blood-red sword banner hung from the prow of each ship.

The Heavenly Sword Sect!

On the deck of the leading flying ship.

Stood an old man dressed in a Purple Gold Daoist Robe, his beard and hair entirely white.

The old man leaned both hands on a heavy broadsword. His eyes flashed like lightning, and a terrifying pressure of the late Fetal Transformation Realm radiated from his body.

Heavenly Sword Sect Grand Elder, Gu Jianhun!

Beside him stood over a dozen inner sect elders with deep, unfathomable auras, as well as more than a hundred elite True Disciples.

Gu Jianhun held a Tracking Compass more advanced than Li Canghai's in his hand.

The compass needle pointed unwaveringly at the mountain Ruins where Sun Yu stood.

"Grand Elder, the compass has reacted! That beast is down there!" An inner sect elder pointed below and shouted, his eyes brimming with venomous hatred.

"Chief Li's life plaque shattered several days ago. He must have encountered a great demon of the devil abyss."

Gu Jianhun's eyes were dark as still water as he looked down at the churning swamp below.

"The Sect Master has ordered it: dead or alive, we must find him! Even if he was eaten by a great demon, we'll cut open that beast's belly, bring his bones back to the sect, and grind them to ash!"

The flying ships slowly descended.

The immense pressure crushed the poisonous miasma below flat against the ground.

Gu Jianhun swept his gaze across the area.

In an instant, he locked onto the young man standing amid the ruins below, clad in black robes with long hair draped over his shoulders.

The moment the compass's glow pointed at that young man, it erupted in a blinding red light.

"Found him!"

Every Heavenly Sword Sect disciple aboard the flying vessels drew their Long Swords in unison, their killing intent soaring into the heavens.

Gu Jianhun stared fixedly at Sun Yu.

He realized that he could not see through this young man's cultivation at all.

The other stood there like an ordinary mortal without the slightest fluctuation of True Qi.

But could an ordinary mortal possibly survive in the depths of the Blood Sea Devil Abyss?

"You're Sun Yu?"

Gu Jianhun's voice was like muffled thunder, rolling down from the sky.

"Was it you who killed Li Canghai?"

On the ground.

Sun Yu did not answer.

He looked at the three flying vessels in the sky, packed with the Heavenly Sword Sect's elite.

The corners of his lips slowly curled into an incomparably cruel, incomparably excited sneer.

"I was just worried that the Heavenly Sword Sect was too far away."

Sun Yu lightly tapped the air with the tip of his foot.

His body shot up from the ground in an instant, striding through the air toward the three massive flying vessels.

His voice was not loud, yet it reached the ears of every person aboard the vessels with perfect clarity.

"How thoughtful of you—to deliver your heads right to my doorstep."

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