Awakening of the Demons

"Only by advancing through the divine system can one ultimately become a Sovereign?"

Pang Jian's true body sat cross-legged beneath the World Tree in Purgatory, eyes narrowed in deep thought.

While his Primordial Spirit communicated with Longdi, he too was paying close attention, intensely curious about the myriad mysteries between heaven and earth.

He looked inward, scrutinized his mind, and gazed at that gleaming divine spark.

Within his divine spark, he could clearly sense a powerful force that did not belong to him.

This force was the so-called foul essence, and also the so-called origin released by that Black Phoenix.

By releasing its origin and then reclaiming it strand by strand, the Black Phoenix could amplify its power even while in a deathly still state, stockpiling energy for its nirvanic rebirth.

Suddenly, Pang Jian recalled that in Purgatory, demon gods who had advanced using this foul essence, as well as foreign race experts who had become tenth-rank supreme beings, were all unable to leave this world.

Lie Yang, Sha Jia, and A Man had only succeeded in shattering the Heavenly Ban after Luo Hongyan stripped away the foul essence within them and led them toward the middle god rank.

The Heavenly Ban and the Boundary Wall both fell within the scope and authority of the world's will.

Purgatory's world will did not permit those carrying foul essence to leave. It was likely sealing away the Black Phoenix's power!

It allowed the Black Phoenix's remains to drift through the dark void of the Seventh Realm. It allowed the Black Phoenix to leak dense, foul aberrant power and create the Ancient Demon Race.

Yet it did not wish for the Black Phoenix's power to leave the world of Purgatory?

Pang Jian stroked his chin in thought, feeling that the circumstances of the