Thirty-Three Heavens Fierce Sha Treasure

Guiyuan's form shuttled through layers of void, heading deep into the Northern Continent.

As he traveled, he pondered the information gained from his earlier discourse with Kunpeng.

"Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin... the Three Clans are just established, the landscape not yet set." Guiyuan murmured to himself.

"This era is truly the calm after the Ferocious Beast Calamity, before the Dragon-Han Catastrophe begins."

They called it calm, but it was merely a brief respite before the storm.

For ordinary Innate Sacreds, a catastrophe was like a quagmire—once stepped in, karma entangled, and escape became difficult.

At best, their Dao would be damaged; at worst, they would perish, body and Dao extinguished.

But Guiyuan thought of this and smiled lightly. "Difficult to escape? That's for them."

His mind sank into that profound, mysterious insight, and the phantom of a vast, endless river flashed briefly in the depths of his consciousness.

"I have the Great Destiny Technique in hand. Though I cannot act recklessly, slipping free from calamity at a critical moment is no difficult task."

The crux of the matter was never whether he could escape, but... how much benefit he could reap once he entered the calamity!

"The Dragon-Han Catastrophe... the Three Clans slaughtering each other. How much blood essence and soul origin will that yield?"

A flicker of coldness and greed, honed through countless killings and plundering in the Eternal Life World, passed through the depths of Guiyuan's eyes.

In that world, to rise, one had to contend, to seize, to "devour"!

To consume all resources that could strengthen oneself.

This calamity, which ordinary Primordial World beings would avoid like the plague...

To him, an Immortal King who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, it was nothing less than a gluttonous feast!

"There are risks, but the rewards... are worth the gamble." His mind settled, and the urge to leap into action was almost uncontrollable.

As these thoughts churned, the spatial fluctuations around him calmed.

Guiyuan stepped forward, leaving the Northern Abyss Sea Region behind and officially setting foot on the coastal belt of the Primordial World's Northern Continent.

As far as the eye could see, desolation reigned.

A few scattered beings struggled to survive here, the highest cultivation no more than Mysterious Immortal. Their spiritual wisdom was chaotic, eking out an existence amidst thin spiritual energy and residual Sha Qi.

Guiyuan swept his Primordial Spirit sense over them and shook his head.

"Their blood energy is too weak, their soul force too thin. Not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

He knew the real prize lay deeper in the continent, at the central battlefield of that ancient war.

There, mountains of Ferocious Beast corpses piled high, and the chaotic Sha Qi was thick enough to choke on.

He did not linger. His form transformed into a streak of light, heading straight into the continent's interior.

The deeper he went, the more horrifying the scene became.

The earth was an ominous dark red, as if soaked through with blood.

From cracked abysses, black Sha Qi rose like smoke from signal fires.

Everywhere, bones as massive as mountains lay scattered, some still frozen in their final, ferocious postures. Even after countless eons of death, they exuded a heart-stopping aura of savage violence.

The dense Sha Qi had almost solidified, constantly trying to erode Guiyuan's protective divine light and burrow into his sea of consciousness.

"Good! What a fine place!" Instead of fear, Guiyuan's eyes blazed with excitement.

With a thought, his aura shifted.

"I was just lacking a suitable spirit treasure. These Ferocious Beast corpses and this boundless Sha Qi are perfect for refining a set of 'Thirty-Three Heavens Fierce Sha Treasures'!"

Ordinary refiners treated Sha Qi as poison, avoiding it at all costs, fearing it would taint their treasure's spirituality or disturb their own mind.

But Guiyuan was no ordinary refiner.

He formed hand seals and spoke softly:

"Great Treasure Refining Technique! Great Investiture Technique! Great Catastrophe Technique! Great Devouring Technique!"

Four great Dao laws activated simultaneously!

The Great Treasure Refining Technique served as the core, coordinating the whole.

The Great Investiture Technique drew in the broken law fragments within the Sha Qi, shaping and stabilizing them.

The Great Catastrophe Technique absorbed the intent of calamity, ruin, and decay, enhancing the treasures' fierce and baleful power.

Finally, the Great Devouring Technique madly consumed the surrounding Sha Qi and the essence within the Ferocious Beast corpses, using them as the fundamental resources for refinement!

In an instant, a massive vortex of Sha Qi formed around Guiyuan.

One by one, Ferocious Beast corpses at the Taiyi level or higher were thrown into the vortex's center. Under the smelting of the four great Dao laws, they emitted unwilling, roaring remnants of will.

Ultimately, they were forcibly shattered, refined, and transformed into the skeletal prototypes of fierce Sha treasures.

Blades, spears, swords, halberds, bells, pagodas, mirrors, banners... thirty-three phantoms in total, floating and sinking within the Sha Qi, radiating an aura of calamity that chilled the soul.

As for the Ferocious Beast corpses below the Taiyi level and the scattered essence energy, Guiyuan sorted them by type and refined them into three kinds of pills:

The flesh and blood essence was refined into "Essence Qi Pills" to replenish blood and qi, strengthening the physical body.

The Chaos Sha Qi, mixed with remnant souls, was refined into "Fierce Sha Pills," which could be used to taint enemies or assist in cultivating certain special divine abilities.

Those thin fragments of laws originating from the Chaos Devil Gods were refined into "Chaos Dao Pills." Though impure, they could help one comprehend the Chaos Great Dao—profound and extraordinary.

Guiyuan briefly sensed the Chaos Great Dao; unlike the Primordial World's Great Dao of order, it was instead filled with chaos.

"I suspect some Innate Beings became Ferocious Beasts precisely because they immersed themselves in the Chaos Great Dao."

Guiyuan casually crushed a Chaos Dao Pill.

He was still pondering—could those dead Chaos Devil Gods really have produced so many Ferocious Beasts?

As it stood now, this was not merely the transformation of Chaos Sha; it seemed some Innate Beings had also been tainted by the Chaos Great Dao.

Guiyuan moved like the most efficient scavenger—wherever he passed, Sha Qi was devoured clean, and the carcasses of Ferocious Beasts were swept away.

Before leaving, he would even cast the "Great Regression Technique"!

The profound rhythm of regression permeated the mountains and rivers, which had been ravaged and ruined by Sha Qi and battle.

As if time were flowing backward, they painstakingly restored their former appearance. Though spiritual energy could not fully revive at once, a foundation for renewed vitality had been laid.

With his cleansing and restoration, strands and wisps of mysterious, yellow-tinged Qi of Merit

began to gather from all directions, silently merging into his fortune. Though not vast, it was unceasing.

Guiyuan felt these strands of merit and was quite delighted.

After all, merit was a universal remedy—whether for refining treasures, enhancing cultivation, or protecting oneself, it was excellent.

"Cleaning up Sha Qi isn't hard at all!"

At the same time, the vast Sha Qi he had forcibly drawn into his body, though mostly used to refine the Fiendish Treasures, still had a portion that soaked into his flesh.

Guiyuan did not reject it; instead, he raised an eyebrow.

"Hmm? This Sha Qi... seems able to resonate with the 'Mysterious Turtle Supporting the Heavens' inheritance?"

He moved his mind, activating that mediocre innate inheritance.

Indeed, his body's tolerance for Sha Qi greatly increased. However, cultivating this method required a sea of blood and qi to suppress and harmonize the Sha Qi, or backlash was inevitable.

"Perfect!" Guiyuan smiled. Within the refined Thirty-Three Fiendish Treasures, the Heavenly Sha Pagoda stored the Essence Qi Pills he had refined.

The next moment, tens of thousands of Essence Qi Pills dissolved.

Vast blood and qi spread out, grinding and blending with the Sha Qi invading his flesh.

A faint, dark luster spread across his skin, and his physical strength slowly but steadily increased in this strange balance.

"Turning waste into use—an unexpected delight."

He refined treasures, concocted pills, cultivated his body, and accumulated merit all at once, pushing deeper into the Northern Continent.

He did not know how long he walked, nor how many barren, lifeless mountain ranges he crossed.

Just as he finished clearing the Sha Qi from a basin—

"ROAR—!!!"