Brilliant! The Beast Emperor is truly an endless harvest of leeks!

"It's you!"

At these words—

That mass of Black Qi abruptly halted, appearing calm on the surface.

But the blood-red Eyes betrayed Shen Ni's inner turmoil.

At this moment.

Waves of shock surged within his heart.

He couldn't hold back and blurted it out directly.

Only his tone was filled with unwillingness, even somewhat gnashing his teeth.

"Heh, seems you still remember This One! Not bad memory!"

Lei Jun laughed.

In contrast, his tone was extremely relaxed.

But those words carried a hint of mockery.

A scheme spanning thousands of Eons!

Shattered just like that.

How could the impression not be deep? One could say—

Throughout the entire Primordial Wilderness, aside from the Heavenly Dao, The one Shen Ni most wanted to destroy was Lei Jun.

But now, as he looked at Lei Jun's state, he couldn't see through him at all.

His heart grew even more bitter.

And also deeply shocked.

"You... have Proven the Dao and become Hunyuan?"

"Hmph!"

"If This Seat hadn't misjudged you, could you have reached today?"

"You would have died a violent death yesterday!"

"You ought to thank This Seat for once sparing your Path of Life!"

Lei Jun glanced sidelong at Shen Ni.

Let out a light laugh.

"You misjudged me, that's true. But to say you once spared my Path of Life—that's overestimating yourself!"

As he finished, Lei Jun's gaze sharpened, his tone hardening.

At the same time.

In the void, a Purple-gold great hand suddenly reached out!

In the span of a single instant.

It seized Shen Ni's true form in its grip!

A great hand condensed from Purple-gold Profound Qi.

Could seal Space-time.

And carried a strange, transcendent power from a higher dimension, making it impossible for Shen Ni to escape.

Then, Lei Jun spoke again:

"You have lost!"

In a single thought, one great hand.

The Beast Emperor Shen Ni, possessed of peerless ferocious might, was subdued!

And no matter how he struggled, he could not break free.

Clearly.

The existence that imprisoned him was far above his level.

With another thought.

A rumbling roar echoed from within Lei Jun's body.

A phantom of a furnace.

Suddenly appeared between Heaven and Earth.

Looking closer—

It was as if Heaven and Earth themselves were inside the furnace!

The Heaven and Earth Furnace could refine Heaven and Earth itself!

"Get in!"

Without giving Shen Ni another chance to speak, the Purple-gold Giant Hand waved and tossed him straight into the furnace.

It wasn't that he feared Shen Ni doing anything, or that some mishap might arise.

Rather, Lei Jun simply couldn't be bothered with more nonsense from a "dead man."

Just refine him and be done with it!

Not only that.

A thought stirred in Lei Jun's mind, and another idea surfaced.

This idea was tied to the change that occurred when he fully refined the World-Destroying Grinding Disc.

He had gleaned some techniques from it.

The art of alchemy was one of them.

Lei Jun had a sudden whim.

He wanted to experiment.

Now, he had the technique, he had the furnace.

And he had the material.

So why not give it a try?

The Dan Dao was profoundly mysterious.

It was in no way inferior to any other path.

Among the Three Thousand Great Daos.

The Dan Dao was one of them.

At this moment, Lei Jun used the heavens and earth as his furnace to refine the Beast Emperor, Shen Ni!

Time passed in the blink of an eye.

One Eon, two Eons...

Seven Eons.

Forty-nine Eons arrived.

In an instant.

A wisp of Misty Treasure Qi shot up from the furnace, piercing the sky!

It was as if a Spirit Treasure had emerged.

At that moment...

The Treasure Pill was complete!

Lei Jun could hardly wait to open the Heaven and Earth Furnace and behold the true form of the Treasure Pill!

In an instant.

A Five-Colored Divine Light blazed forth.

Radiant and magnificent.

Endless Primordial Spiritual Qi seeped out from the furnace.

Swirling around a Dan Pill that seemed both tangible and intangible, as if it held the Origin of all things in heaven and earth!

"As expected of the Beast Emperor Shen Ni—this pill is uniquely blessed by heaven and earth, extraordinary beyond measure!"

"Truly exquisite!"

"With this Dan technique, my cultivation speed will leap forward by a huge margin!"

"This is a stroke of fortune!"

After comprehending everything, Lei Jun's heart grew even more enlightened.

Originally, he had prepared himself.

For his cultivation speed to slow down after breaking through to the late Qi Refining stage.

He never expected.

To find an opportunity to accelerate his cultivation speed from the Three Yuan Dan Technique!

All he could say was that the Dao Scripture was truly profound beyond measure.

Grasping even a fragment from it.

Was enough to benefit Lei Jun for a long time.

Whoosh!

Just then.

Where the Heaven and Earth Furnace dispersed, a tiny wisp of black qi.

Gradually rising.

It was precisely a strand of the Boundless Fierce Beast!

Hmm?

Is a Primal Chaos Fierce Beast being born here?

Lei Jun was momentarily stunned.

Then he understood at once.

His eyes brightened.

His expression turned strange as well.

This black qi...

Feels somewhat familiar!

Though there were subtle differences, overall it wasn't far off from the fierce shatter Lei Jun had just used to refine pills!

As for where this fierce shatter came from...

"Hahaha!"

"So what if you've Proven the Dao and become Primal Chaos?"

"This Seat was born from Wuliang Fierce Shatter, my Origin enduring countless kalpas without perishing!"

"Sha Qi is This Seat, This Seat is Sha Qi!"

"As long as Sha Qi remains undying, This Seat remains undying!"

"What you destroyed was merely one of This Seat's countless true bodies!"

At that moment.

A voice, arrogant and wild, suddenly rang out.

Between heaven and earth.

The Sha Qi visibly gathered once more.

Shen Ni, whom Lei Jun had refined in the furnace, had actually come back to life?

Then.

Shen Ni's True Body successfully condensed.

Though it still appeared somewhat illusory, and far less imposing than before.

Compared to earlier, it could be called negligible.

But Shen Ni's tone carried no hint of weakness whatsoever.

Clearly.

Having one true body destroyed didn't affect him much.

Even if all were wiped out, he could still re-condense them!

Just like now!

And after speaking, Shen Ni was somewhat smug.

At the same time, he wanted to see Lei Jun's deflated expression.

But Lei Jun's reaction.

Left Shen Ni utterly baffled.

Not only was there no deflation, but after he finished speaking, it seemed Lei Jun's eyes actually lit up?

Then.

A Dao Sound rang out.

Faintly, it seemed to carry a hint of joy.

Lei Jun spoke.

"You have many more true bodies?"

"Excellent, ahem~"

"I mean..."

"As cultivators, we ought to take it as our duty to eliminate evil and drive out malice!"

"Your true bodies, I shall destroy every last one!"

"Not a single one left!"

For a brief instant, Shen Ni even suspected he was hallucinating.

Or had misheard.

Marvelous?

This Seat has countless true bodies, impossible to kill.

Shouldn't you be utterly shocked, brow furrowed in confusion?

Why are you even happier?

What's so marvelous?

And if anyone should say "marvelous," it should be This Seat!

At this moment, Shen Ni's mind was full of confusion.

As for Lei Jun's subsequent words, he didn't really care about them.

After all, their positions were opposed.

Those words were only natural.

For a moment.

Shen Ni was utterly bewildered.

Completely unable to figure it out.

As for this.

Lei Jun naturally wouldn't explain, nor would he care what Shen Ni thought.

Anyway, Shen Ni wasn't dead.

But to him, this wasn't a bad thing at all.

On the contrary, it was a huge advantage!

Steady now!

Cultivation!

No more exhausting work collecting Sha Qi, or even refining it himself.

Just go straight for Shen Ni's true bodies, wouldn't that work?

If using the "leek" analogy.

Lei Jun doing it himself was like starting from tilling the land, planting the seeds, then carefully tending them before finally having a chance to harvest.

And the yield and quality weren't guaranteed.

Looking for Shen Ni's true bodies?

That was like walking into a fully grown leek field!

You could harvest directly!

Convenient, fast, and efficient!

And the quality wasn't bad either!

So which to choose? No need to think about it, right?

This wasn't a Fierce Beast's true body at all.

It was clearly a lush green leek!

No wonder he said "marvelous"!

At this moment.

The way Lei Jun looked at Shen Ni had changed.

So much so that Shen Ni felt something was off.

But he couldn't put his finger on it.

Clearly, this place was no longer fit to stay.

"Hmph! This Seat doesn't care what you're planning!"

"This Seat remembers this grudge!"

"One day, it will be repaid!"

With that.

That trace of Wuliang Fierce Shatter that had just manifested actually dissolved at lightning speed!

Shen Ni's aura vanished along with it.

Seeing this.

Lei Jun shook his head, not caring whether Shen Ni could still hear him.

His tone was regretful.

"Why bother?"

"Even if you didn't dissolve it, I wouldn't make a move right now."

"This is still just a leek seedling!"

"Hahaha!"

In that moment, Lei Jun had already worked out his plan.

Next step.

Just as he'd thought before.

Aside from purifying Sha Qi.

The main focus would be on finding Shen Ni's True Body.

But it had to be said.

Finding the True Body wasn't easy.

Although Lei Jun could sense Shen Ni's location and find him quickly.

That didn't mean the same applied to the True Body.

Lei Jun thought.

"When Shen Ni's True Body isn't manifested, it probably hides within heaven and earth in the form of Sha Qi."

"When he needs it, he can recondense!"

"Perhaps that's why, like a 'Sage,' as long as the Sha Qi is not extinguished, Shen Ni is not extinguished!"

"In a way, it's somewhat similar to Ming He's Blood God Son Divine Ability? But on a larger scale!"

"After all, Ming He is also said to be undying as long as the Blood Sea is not dry, and his Blood God Sons are hidden within the Blood Sea..."

Of course.

At present, Ming He had yet to take form.

If one looked deeper.

It could be said that Ming He's Divine Ability was similar to Shen Ni's Boundless True Body.

Perhaps it was even inspired by it!

Moreover.

Ming He was one of the few beings in the Primordial Wilderness who was hardly affected by Sha Qi.

Or rather, he had already been affected!

Even...

He had obtained part of Shen Ni's inheritance.

With that thought.

Lei Jun speculated inwardly.

"Maybe after Shen Ni disappeared, he hid within the Blood Sea?"

"Is that why I can't sense him?"

"Even if not, he must be connected to the Blood Sea!"

"And he must have tampered with it!"

"Then where to go next is clear."