Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light!

"Is this a Cold Fiend Vein?"

Zhou Hao looked at the Cold Fiend Vein before him. It was more than ten zhang long, formed entirely from icy baleful energy, and deep beneath a thousand-zhang layer of ice, it resembled a crescent moon.

The gathered Cold Fiend glimmered with a pale, silvery light.

"The Mystic Yin Cold Sha Vein." Zhou Hao's face lit up with delight.

It was not only because the Mystic Yin Cold Sha Vein was of exceptionally high quality, but also because Mystic Yin was very close in nature to Taiyin. It was an especially good match for the Power of Taiyin he absorbed while cultivating the Chiming Nine Heavens Map, making it far easier to nurture in the future.

Even if he stopped absorbing Heavenly Water Cold Sha and only absorbed the Power of Taiyin, with enough time and effort—and once Zhou Hao grew stronger—he might even be able to raise it to the level of Lunar True Water.

At that point, even by relying solely on the divine abilities and secret arts formed through controlling this Lunar True Water, a Pure Yang True Immortal would have to flee in disarray upon encountering him.

Deep in the ice beneath the Sea Eye fissure, Zhou Hao first dug out a platform large enough for him to sit on.

The platform faced the Mystic Yin Cold Sha Vein. Zhou Hao then sat cross-legged and gently opened his mouth toward the Profound Yin Cold Baleful Intent before him.

Inhale~~~~

Wrapped in Origin Power, a wisp of the Profound Yin Cold Baleful Intent directly before him was immediately drawn into Zhou Hao's mouth.

"So cold."

As soon as the Cold Fiend entered his body, icy chill spread through him.

But Zhou Hao had just undergone the nurturing of Lunar True Water and forged a Purple Mansion Divine Body, so he naturally paid no heed to this bit of cold.

Some of the key instructions in the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light regarding the collection of Cold Fiend, Earth Fire, Wind Sha, and Light Sha surfaced in his mind. He then followed the art's instructions, guiding the Cold Fiend toward his Purple Mansion.

In truth, when collecting Cold Fiend, Earth Fire, and other baleful energies, the secret art of the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, created by Loose Immortal Hongchen, was no different from ordinary collection methods. The only difference lay in how to successfully plant the remaining four elements of baleful energy in the Purple Mansion after the first had taken root.

According to the ordinary methods, if a cultivator collected Cold Fiend and then tried to collect a seed of Earth Fire, water and fire would easily clash. At best, this would damage the foundation of their Purple Mansion, leaving them unable to make further progress. At worst, it would destroy their Purple Mansion and ruin their Qi Refining cultivation. In the most severe cases, they would explode like someone using a self-destructing secret art, their entire body bursting apart.

Now Zhou Hao was only collecting his first baleful energy, and it was the Mystic Yin Cold Sha that matched his cultivation art. Naturally, there were no obstacles or dangers.

The wisp of Cold Fiend he had drawn into his body soon appeared in the space of his Purple Mansion.

"Condense!"

At a thought from Zhou Hao, the Origin Sea in his Purple Mansion, already considerable in size, stirred with countless strands of Origin Power. They quickly gathered above the ocean of Origin Power into five small islands, crystal-clear and colorless, as if made of transparent crystal. Arranged according to the Five Elements, they floated on the surface of the ocean of Origin Power.

"The Ren and Gui waters lie in the north; let the Mystic Yin Cold Sha take its place!" An invisible thought rang out above the ocean of Origin Power, and the wisp of Mystic Yin Cold Sha flew toward the island in the north.

Whoosh!

Like a bird returning to its nest or a seedling taking root, the Cold Fiend burrowed directly into the island that represented the water element.

Soon, a wisp of black appeared across the entire crystal-clear island.

"It worked." A smile appeared on Zhou Hao's face.

The hardest and most dangerous part of collecting Cold Fiend was the initial step of drawing it into the Purple Mansion.

Now that the Cold Fiend seed had taken root and the island representing the northern water element had turned black, all that remained was to absorb more Cold Fiend into the Purple Mansion.

Once the island in the north turned completely black and the Mystic Yin Cold Sha was fully established in the Purple Mansion, the first step in cultivating the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light would be complete.

"Inhale."

Wisp after wisp of Cold Fiend flowed into Zhou Hao's mouth. As more and more entered the Origin Sea in his Purple Mansion, the island representing the water element grew denser and darker.

Meanwhile, the Mystic Yin Cold Sha Vein before Zhou Hao rapidly shrank from its original length of more than ten zhang, visibly diminishing before his eyes.

This place was beneath the seabed, under a layer of ice at the Sea Eye. With the Immortal Mansion Spirit, Ou Huang, watching over him, Zhou Hao had no need to worry about his safety.

According to Ou Huang, within ten li of the Immortal Mansion, even a Primordial Spirit Daoist would die if they came. The Five Elements Array that Loose Immortal Hongchen had left in the Immortal Mansion was no mere decoration.

It was only because the Immortal Mansion had no master that its reach extended no farther than this.

Teleportation, however, could cover the entire thousand-li sea shrouded in white mist. With the Signal Talisman, now refined by Zhou Hao after he became a Purple Mansion Cultivator, as its mark, it could send him back to the Immortal Mansion at any time, or transport him from the mansion to any location in the thousand-li sea.

As Zhou Hao drew in the Mystic Yin Cold Sha, he divided his attention to various odds and ends. Seeing that collecting the Cold Fiend would take several more hours at least, he pondered the cultivation method of the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light in his mind, preparing to begin cultivating it as soon as he finished collecting the Cold Fiend.

In essence, the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light was still a special application of Purple Mansion Origin Power. Adding the five natural forces of the Five Elements was simply a way to increase its power.

In the future, as he nurtured the Cold Fiend in his Purple Mansion and raised its grade, the power of the art would naturally multiply as well.

Aside from that, another factor was his level of comprehension of the Dao of the Five Elements.

The Five Elements Extinction Divine Light condensed through the secret art could be divided into the following forms, from shallow to profound, according to one's comprehension of the Dao:

The Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Beam. One needed to comprehend the True Meaning of the Dao for all five elements to cultivate it.

Once cultivated, a wave of the hand sent out thousands of beams, like thousands of flying swords launched at once, their gathering and dispersal governed entirely by one's will.

Once Zhou Hao successfully condensed the Mystic Yin Cold Sha, casting the art according to the cultivation method would produce the Mystic Yin Extinction Divine Light Beam. Its power was far below that of the complete version containing all five elements of baleful energy, but thanks to the Cold Fiend's enhancement, it still far surpassed ordinary spells and magical treasures.

When one's comprehension of the Dao reached the Domain Realm of the Dao, their control over the power of the Five Elements would grow even more refined. At that point, the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Beam would become the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Needle.

Not only was it even more powerful than the Divine Light Beam, it was also especially effective at breaking the protective divine abilities of those who cultivated the God-Devil Body Refining path.

According to the art left by Loose Immortal Hongchen, once struck, bones vanished where the beam hit, and the body was annihilated where it pierced. It was truly a powerful secret art for Qi Refining cultivators facing God-Devil Body Refining experts.

As for its most powerful form, that came when one fully comprehended the Dao. Only then could one unleash the true Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light.

When used, it shot out thousands of dazzling, seven-colored rays, brilliant beyond compare. And it was so fast that it was hailed as the greatest offensive art in the world—no one could evade it.

Even Loose Immortal Hongchen, who had created the art, only mastered its final form, the Divine Light Rays, after failing to cross the tribulation and becoming a Loose Immortal.

It was precisely thanks to this perfected, signature art that Loose Immortal Hongchen could safely survive the Loose Immortal tribulations for an astonishing nine hundred thousand years, even while living in seclusion in the Immortal Mansion and never venturing outside.

"Senior Hongchen said this art could still be improved. But he had already reached the limits of his own ability, and hoped that a successor in later generations would develop it into a peerless art that could shake the Three Realms."

Thinking of that peerless and extraordinary figure, whose brilliance had eclipsed his age, Zhou Hao could not help but sigh.

If he had survived the tribulation and become a Heavenly Immortal, Loose Immortal Hongchen would surely have become a peerless figure renowned throughout the Three Realms, no less famous than the legendary figures spoken of across the Three Realms.

"My first baleful energy is Cold Fiend, so according to the cultivation method, the second can only be either metal- or fire-element baleful energy," Zhou Hao thought. "What a headache. If Loose Immortal Hongchen had gathered all five kinds of baleful energy and left them for his successors to cultivate, it would've saved so much trouble."

Every kind of baleful energy that a Purple Mansion Cultivator could plant in their Origin Sea was a natural treasure, something one might never encounter in a lifetime. Finding even one was an immense stroke of fortune, no less than obtaining a powerful magical treasure or a secret art.

Since ancient times, how many times had fellow disciples turned against each other over a vein of baleful energy?

Zhou Hao not only had to find five veins of baleful energy corresponding to the five elements, but also had to absorb them into his Purple Mansion and plant them one by one in an order that followed either the Five Elements' cycle of generation or their cycle of overcoming. Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

"It looks like I'll have to carefully gather information about baleful energy from now on."

But this kind of supplementary method, which was as valuable to cultivators as a divine ability, was something no one who knew about it would ever tell others.

Sigh~~~~