Tai Xu Xuan Jue

Creating the new cultivation technique had gone exceptionally smoothly.

Perhaps it was thanks to Yao Wan's extraordinary talent, or perhaps Xiao Yan's timing in introducing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had been especially apt. Once the flame was introduced, its purifying power swiftly cleansed the demonic aura mixed within the formation's devouring power.

Yet as the wisps of foul demonic aura vanished beneath the milky-white flames, the remaining mysterious blackness did not disperse. Instead, it grew ever deeper and denser.

Xiao Yan could not help hesitating. The black vortex that had enveloped the two of them like a massive whirlpool did not fade away. On the contrary, it became increasingly dense and violent.

He immediately realized something. The force had originally fused with the devouring power, taking on an appearance remarkably similar to the Black Sun barrier Saint Li had opened within the Exotic Flame Space.

A fierce wind lashed at Xiao Yan's hair. He increased the output of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame once more, accelerating the purification of the remaining demonic aura within the ink-black expanse.

Yet even as the demonic aura grew thinner and thinner, that pitch-black, ink-like color never faded, nor was it assimilated by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

If that was the case, then perhaps the essence of this surging devouring power was this profound ink-blackness itself.

Beneath the Sacred Cangwu Tree, Xiao Yan's soul, now at the great completion of the Heavenly Soul realm, could keenly sense that after the black vortex had frantically gathered and he had purified all the demonic aura—eliminating the danger of Yao Wan turning into a demon from absorbing too much of it—something within her was undergoing a butterfly-like transformation, breaking free from its cocoon.

The source of those faint traces had already emerged, yet even the Purifying