The calm before the final battle [Finale, part eight]

Inside the secret chamber, Xiao Yu sat cross-legged. With a gentle wave of his hands, a wisp of dark golden Chaos Flame burst forth from his fingertips. Soon, the dark golden Chaos Flame transformed into a fire cauldron.

A long-lost smile appeared on Xiao Yu's face. Since arriving in the Great Thousand World, Xiao Yu had never neglected his alchemy skills. He not only mastered all the alchemy techniques in the Alchemy Canon, but also combined the two volumes of the Alchemy Canon together.

Xiao Yu swept up all the sacred herbs and placed them into the fire cauldron. The Chaos Flame immediately refined the sacred herbs. Xiao Yu's speed in refining medicinal materials was extremely fast. If anyone else were watching, they would only be able to see the afterimage of Xiao Yu's hand.

Under Xiao Yu's terrifying mental control, the sacred medicine was gradually refined and then fused together. It could be seen that inside the fire cauldron, various pills with different medicinal properties were constantly churning.

Xiao Yu actually put different kinds of pills into one fire cauldron to refine them. You should know that the medicinal properties of each pill are different. If even one of the ingredients is wrong, all the ingredients will be wasted.

Even after the pills are formed, they can repel each other due to their different properties. However, the pills that Xiao Yu has refined are basically all of the Saint Grade Pill.

The Saint Grade Pill already possess some sentience; if not handled properly, they might cause the entire fire cauldron to explode!

Xiao Yu focused his mind and calmly controlled the various sacred medicines within the fire cauldron, allowing them to be continuously fused together. One by one, round pills appeared within the fire cauldron.

As the pill appeared, the entire cave trembled slightly, and terrifying spatial fluctuations erupted from the fire cauldron.

Throughout the entire Great Luo Heaven outside the cave, everyone felt an extreme sense of pressure, accompanied by a faint medicinal fragrance. Taking a gentle breath, they could immediately feel their Spiritual Energy circulating more smoothly.

Everyone's faces turned to horror as they looked towards Great Luo Mountain, for that was where Xiao Yu refined his pills.

Xun'er looked at the cave where Xiao Yu was in seclusion on Great Luo Mountain and said solemnly, "This medicinal fragrance must mean that Saint Grade Pill has been refined. I wonder what kind of extraordinary phenomena will occur after this Saint Grade Pill is refined!"

Yun Yun said, "Back in the Dou Qi Continent, just refining a single Emperor-grade Pill would drain all the Dou Qi energy within a radius of ten thousand miles. A massive energy rain even erupted between heaven and earth, and Lightning Tribulation added to the pill, causing it to transform into a human form with strength comparable to Nine Star Dou Sheng. Saint Grade Pill must have already transcended that realm!"

Cai Lin, standing to the side, nodded and said, "That's right. In the Great Thousand World, alchemists are divided into the Immortal Realm, Saint Realm, and Ancestral Realm above the Di Grade. Xiao Yu's current alchemy skills should be at the Saint Realm. If this pill were to take human form and be nurtured, his strength could probably reach the Earthly Sovereign Realm!"

Pills are ultimately just pills. Unlike cultivators, they cannot resonate with the Spiritual Energy of the Great Thousand World. Even if one can unleash the energy contained within the pill, comparable to an ordinary Earthly Sovereign, to be equal to a Heavenly Sovereign, one would probably only Ancestral Realm of the legendary Ancestor of Pills!

However, becoming a soul at the Ancestral Realm is no less difficult than breaking through to the Saint Grade Great Perfection in terms of one's own strength.

Inside the cave, one could see eight or nine perfectly round pills emanating terrifying fluctuations within the fire cauldron in front of Xiao Yu, which were being continuously refined by the Chaos Flame under Xiao Yu's abyss-like Soul Power.

And so, Xiao Yu maintained this balance, constantly refining the pills within the cauldron, as time slowly passed!

As Xiao Yu was refining pills, the fragrance of pills throughout the Great Luo Heaven grew stronger and stronger, and countless people sat cross-legged there, using the fragrance to begin their cultivation.

Even the women gathered outside the cave and began cultivating. The mere fragrance of the pills could accelerate one's cultivation, which was truly astonishing.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye. During these three months, many powerful figures from the Great Luo Heaven have broken through to the Supreme Realm. The number of experts at the Supreme Realm has doubled. Most of them were previously stuck at the Three Heavenly Realms, but now they have broken through to the Supreme Realm with the help of the Pill Fragrance!

During these three months, the Great Thousand Palace united various forces to build a defensive line at the edge of the Great Thousand World Great Thousand World. In addition, various forces also formed hunting teams to clear out the Demon Realm rifts within the Great Thousand World.

Meanwhile, those Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign powerhouses began searching for the Heavenly Demon Emperor of the Outer Domain Evil Clan. One earth-shattering battle after another erupted in the Demon Realm. Unfortunately, the top powerhouses of the Outer Domain Evil Clan all began to lie low, rarely clashing head-on with the powerhouses of the Great Thousand World.

In the beginning, the Outer Domain Evil Clan would fight with the powerful beings of the Great Thousand World, but as time went by, the Outer Domain Evil Clan began to abandon the territory they originally occupied in the Great Thousand World.

This was quickly discovered by the people of the Great Thousand Palace, but they were not happy. Instead, their mood became increasingly heavy, because a temporary period of dormancy would inevitably lead to an even more fierce counterattack later.

At this time, a year had passed since Xiao Yu began his seclusion to refine pills.

The fragrance of pills was already very strong throughout the Great Luo Heaven. Mandala had returned once during this time and found that the number of strong people in the Great Luo Heaven had doubled. She then used the medicinal power of the pills to make some breakthroughs in her cultivation. Now, Mandala only needs an opportunity to break through to the Heavenly Supreme Realm as well!

Boom!

On this day, everyone in the Great Luo Heaven was still cultivating when suddenly the world changed color. An extreme pressure spread outwards from the Great Luo Heaven as its center. Many powerful cultivators were awakened. The terrifying pressure was too much for them to withstand, so they had no choice but to retreat out of the Great Luo Heaven.

Even with the Earthly Sovereign realm of Xun'er and the others, they could only barely remain in the Great Luo Heaven. The violent aura suppressed the Spiritual Energy within their bodies, making them seem frozen and extremely sluggish.

"Is it about to leave the seclusion? How can there be such terrifying pressure?" Xiao Yi Xian looked up at the Lei Yun that were gradually gathering in the sky.

Xun'er nodded slightly and said, "Such pressure has probably already surpassed that of Earthly Sovereign!"

"A pill with the power of Heavenly Sovereign? Could it be that my husband's Soul Power has already reached the Ancestral Realm?" Ya Fei asked, covering her mouth in surprise.

Boom!

A muffled thud was heard, and the gate to Xiao Yu's cave shattered. A stream of Spiritual Energy, now solidified, burst forth and crashed violently into the Lei Yun above.

Following behind the spirit pillar was Xiao Yu. Upon closer inspection, nine pills of various colors were found swirling atop the spirit pillar formed by the convergence of Spiritual Energy, each radiating terrifying fluctuations.

These nine pills all reached the Saint Grade level, and they swirled together, forming an array-like pattern.

Boom!

The Lei Yun, having been struck, immediately thundered, and countless bolts of lightning raged within Lei Yun. It seemed that the production of these pills had angered them, and soon, a thick bolt of lightning struck the pills fiercely.

Xiao Yu stood beneath the pill, carefully contemplating the insights gained during the alchemy process. Heaven and earth possess spirits, and all things possess spirits.

In the beginning of Spiritual Energy, all things were nourished by Spiritual Energy and embarked on the path of cultivation. To master the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth is to master the original path cultivated by billions of living beings.

This primordial Great Dao is the power possessed by this Great Thousand World, which Xiao Yu calls: the World Power!

Buzz!

At that moment, Xiao Yu realized that the power of all living beings is the power of the world, and controlling the world means controlling all living beings!

The terrifying Spiritual Energy within Xiao Yu's body began to surge violently, and in an instant, bursts of energy shot out from Xiao Yu body.

Metal Attribute Spiritual Energy, incredibly sharp, shot its earth-shattering edge into a pill in the sky.

Next comes the vibrant Wood Attribute Spiritual Energy, the boundless Water Attribute Spiritual Energy, the Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy that burns everything, the resolute and heavy Earth Attribute Spiritual Energy, the dark abyss-like Dark Attribute Spiritual Energy, the Ice Attribute Spiritual Energy that Freezing Miles, and the Wind Attribute Spiritual Energy that sweeps away clouds!

Eight terrifying elemental powers began to surge forth, rushing towards the eight pills, while the Lightning Tribulation above injected Lightning Attribute power into the last pill.

As the nine elemental Spiritual Energy were injected into the pills, the entire world seemed to freeze. But the next moment, this frozen space was suddenly opened up by a great force, the nine pills emitted nine rays of light, and the Lightning Tribulation in the sky slowly dissipated.

Xiao Yu looked at the nine pills in the sky, reached out his hand, and the nine pills obediently landed in his palm and floated there.

As the nine pills pulsed in Xiao Yu's palm, emanating waves of terrifying pressure, Xiao Yu turned to Xun'er women and said, "Come with me!"

The crowd nodded slightly and then followed Xiao Yu to the side of the Great Luo Golden Pool.

Xiao Yu looked at them and said, "The power contained within the Great Luo Golden Pool has been assimilated into Chaos Power by the Chaos Green Lotus, so it won't cause any problems for your cultivation. The upcoming seclusion will take place in the underground space of the Great Luo Golden Pool. Whether you can break through to the Saint Grade Great Perfection depends on whether we can successfully cultivate the Chaos Cultivation Source Method!"

They all knew that this was the last way to save the Great Thousand World. If no being could stand against the Heavenly Evil God was born in the Great Thousand World, then all living beings in the Great Thousand World would be slaughtered and enslaved by the Outer Domain Evil Clan!

Just then, a soaring dragon roar suddenly resounded throughout the entire Great Luo Heaven. Xiao Yu and the others were slightly taken aback, and then looked up into the void.

A colossal purple-gold dragon tore through the void and appeared. Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he smiled slightly, "It's Zi Yan!"

Sure enough, the enormous purple-gold dragon unleashed a burst of purple-gold light, and beneath the light, a tall and slender figure appeared—it was Zi Yan.

"I'm not too late, am I?" Zi Yan said with a smile, and in a leap, she appeared in front of the group of women.

Xun'er and the others were overjoyed to see Zi Yan. They were finally reunited. They had been separated when they first came to the Great Thousand World, but they had finally met again when the Great Thousand World was in danger. Perhaps this was destiny!

"You're finally back!" Xiao Yu said to Zi Yan with a smile.

Zi Yan chuckled and said, "I already heard about it from the Great Elder. You've been looking for me all over the world, haven't you?"

"It's not that I'm worried you'll get scammed, so I think it's better to find you as soon as possible!" Xiao Yu shrugged.

Zi Yan walked up to Xiao Yu, hugged Xiao Yu tightly, rested her head on Xiao Yu chest, and murmured, "I've wanted to come back for a long time, but I felt my cultivation was still too low, so I thought I'd stay in the True Dragon Clan to cultivate. When the time is right, I'll come find you!"

"It seems the True Dragon Emperor is truly willing to nurture you; your strength has already reached the Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection!" Xiao Yu chuckled.

Zi Yan raised her head as if to show off, and said, "Of course! Every elder of the True Dragon Clan says I have exceptional talent. In just a few short years, I've already broken through from Sovereign to the Earthly Sovereign Great Perfection!"

Seeing Zi Yan's rather proud expression, the girls all laughed. Xiao Yu couldn't help but shake his head and say, "Yes, yes, your talent is the best. Back then, everyone knew you were the leader of the Jia Nan Academy!"

Seeing Xiao Yu's teasing expression, Zi Yan pouted and said angrily, "It's been so long, and you're still making fun of me!"

"Alright, alright, that's enough. We should go into seclusion beneath the Great Luo Golden Pool!" Xiao Yu said.

The women all nodded and followed behind Xiao Yu, heading towards the depths of the Great Luo Golden Pool.

The moment everyone entered the Great Luo Golden Pool, a powerful Spiritual Energy suddenly emanated from a massive Spirit Array outside Great Luo Mountain, enveloping the entire Great Luo Mountain as the Spirit Array operated.

This is Time Array set up by Xiao Yu. The flow of time inside the array is ten times that outside, which means that Xiao Yu can have ten times more time to cultivate in the Great Luo Golden Pool!

At the bottom of the Great Luo Golden Pool.

Xiao Yu formed a hand seal, and a powerful Spiritual Energy created a hidden space, just large enough for everyone to sit cross-legged inside.

Xiao Yu sat in the center and looked at the women, saying, "The final volume of the Chaos Cultivation Source Method is Yin Yang Heaven and Earth, the convergence of Yin and Yang, the Dao of Qian Kun. Now, let's simultaneously circulate the Chaos Cultivation Source Method. I will open my mind, and you will see the final volume of the Chaos Cultivation Source Method!"

The women all nodded slightly as they looked at Xiao Yu, and then together they began to circulate the Chaos Cultivation Source Method.

At this moment, while Xiao Yu was circulating his magic, he formed hand seals and released his Soul Power, which had already reached the Saint Realm. The gentle Soul Power caressed the women, and a magical force connected them all together.

As they all activated the Chaos Cultivation Source Method, and Xiao Yu released his soul power, the surrounding Spiritual Energy surged wildly into the women's bodies as if boiling.

Gradually, the women's cultivation began to overlap with Xiao Yu's, and strange and mysterious powers began to surge from the women's bodies, eventually merging with Xiao Yu's Soul Power.

A golden light began to appear at the bottom of the Great Luo Golden Pool. The women, along with Xiao Yu, entered a mysterious state, and their Spiritual Energy began to surge wildly through their meridians.

The nine pills that Xiao Yu had refined appeared above everyone's heads, then released various types of power that flowed into their bodies.

Time slowly passed, and by this time, the clothes on everyone's bodies had long since disappeared. Golden holy light emerged from their bodies, making them look like gods. Xiao Yu's body in the center had already become transparent, and his bones and muscles had turned golden and were clearly visible.

While Xiao Yu and the women were in seclusion cultivating beneath the Great Luo Golden Pool, outside the Great Thousand World, the number of the Demon Realm being occupied by hunting teams was also increasing.

However, there are almost no Outer Domain Evil Clan left that can wage war against them; they have all retreated into the depths of this Demon Realm.

In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed quietly, and Xiao Yu in the Time Array has been in seclusion for a full century.

On a mountain peak in the Great Luo Heaven, stood two graceful figures, none other than Qing Yan Jing and Mandala, who were in charge of affairs in the Heavenly Court.

At this moment, Mandala exuded an aura as ordinary as an ordinary person, clearly indicating that she had stepped into the realm of Heavenly Sovereign. Moreover, with the help of the Chaos Power, she had completely merged with the Mandala flower. Her originally petite body had long since disappeared, replaced by a tall and slender young woman's figure.

A hint of worry flickered in Mandala's golden pupils as she said, "Ten years have passed, Great Thousand World is becoming increasingly unstable!"

Qing Yan Jing said helplessly, "The Heavenly Court has already sent out all the personnel it could. The Outer Domain Evil Clan is preserving its last strength; they want to swallow up the Great Thousand World in one last fell swoop!"

Boom!

Just then, a sound that shook the entire Great Thousand World suddenly came, and terrifying waves raged wildly Great Thousand World.

In a continent of the Great Thousand World, a huge black rift hundreds of thousands of feet long suddenly appeared in the void. From that rift, endless and terrifying Demonic Energy Demonic Energy surged out, almost instantly annihilating all living beings on that continent!

The terrifying commotion immediately attracted the attention of powerful figures in the Great Thousand World. Qin Tian, Undying Lord, and the Azure-Robed Sword Saint all turned cold in their eyes.

"The Outer Domain Evil Clan have launched a counterattack!"

With a flick of his sleeve, Qin Tian unleashed a resounding and ancient bell-like sound that echoed through the void, quickly reverberating throughout the entire Great Thousand World, ringing nine times in a row.

"The Outer Domain Evil Clan have launched a counterattack!"

The time for the final battle has come!

Countless powerful beings from the Great Thousand World had fury and a death wish in their eyes. They knew that this battle would either see them drive back the extraterrestrial Outer Domain Evil Clan Outer Domain Evil Clan become its slaves. And they chose to fight to the death!

This continent was just the first. In the next instant, Demonic Energy cracks began to appear all over the Great Thousand World, and countless Outer Domain Evil Clan flashed out from the cracks, attacking the living beings of the Great Thousand World.

The entire Great Thousand World was engulfed in this terrifying and desperate calamity.

"Hehehe, Qin Tian, do you dare to come out and fight!" Outside the Great Thousand Palace, the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor led two Heavenly Demon Emperor to this place, and dark Demonic Energy raged outside the Great Thousand Palace.

Call out!

A figure flashed by, and Qin Tian appeared in front of the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Behind Qin Tian were several elders from the Great Thousand Palace, most of whom were at the Heavenly Supreme Realm.

"You've finally stopped being cowards!" Qin Tian said coldly with mockery.

The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor shrugged, "A temporary retreat is merely a prelude to this momentary revelry. The end of the Great Thousand World has arrived. Now let us resolve some unnecessary troubles for the Evil God. Tremble, Qin Tian, Great Thousand World will ultimately grovel at the feet of my Outer Domain Evil Clan!"

"If you want to fight, then fight!" Qin Tian shouted coldly, and the Spiritual Energy within his body surged out wildly, instantly attacking the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor.

The earth-shattering Spiritual Energy and Demonic Energy raged, causing the surrounding space to collapse and shatter continuously. Even some lower planes were destroyed by this great battle!