"Good!"
Seeing Jiang Yun agree, Xiang Liu immediately burst into laughter.
Then he suddenly struck out, savagely tearing at the void!
Riiip—!
Space split open in response, revealing a pitch-black, deep, continuously swirling entrance to a secret realm!
"Go on! I'll wait for you outside!"
Jiang Yun nodded, took a deep breath, and stepped into the secret realm!
The moment he entered the secret realm.
Boom—!
A terrifying baleful aura that nearly suffocated him rushed straight at him!
Jiang Yun focused his gaze and could not help drawing in a sharp breath!
"What terrifying baleful aura!"
This secret realm was actually entirely crimson!
The mountains were red, the water was red, even the rocks were red!
All of it had clearly been tainted by the boundless resentment and baleful aura emitted from Xingtian's head!
Above, rolling baleful aura had gathered into clouds that churned endlessly, creating an incomparably horrifying sight!
"Before Xingtian died... he must have broken through to the Quasi-Sage Realm!"
Jiang Yun guessed in shock.
But immediately afterward, endless wild joy burst forth from his eyes!
"This... this is simply a treasure land made for me!"
"Such pure baleful aura is the best possible resource for refining my nine Profound Yin Banners!"
Back then, those nine Profound Yin Banners had belonged to Chiyou, a Great Witch of the Witch Race.
They had been damaged during the Battle of Zhuolu, their power diminished.
Now, nourished by Xingtian's Quasi-Sage-level baleful aura, they would surely be restored—and might even become more powerful than before!
Jiang Yun no longer hesitated and immediately sat down cross-legged.
"Lunar Dark-Baleful Grand Array, rise!"
He set up the grand array, activated the nine Profound Yin Banners, and began madly absorbing the baleful aura within the secret realm!
Rumble—!
The rolling baleful aura seemed to have found an outlet, transforming into nine black dragons that surged crazily into the Profound Yin Banners!
But at that very moment!
"Roar!"
A blood-red figure suddenly charged out from the baleful aura!
Its cultivation had astonishingly reached the Mysterious Immortal realm!
"Courting death!"
Jiang Yun snorted coldly and flicked a finger!
"Purple Sun True Fire!"
A violet-gold flame shot out, instantly burning the blood shadow into nothingness!
Jiang Yun rose to his feet, his expression solemn.
"Changyang Mountain was originally an immortal mountain stretching millions of li, yet Xingtian's resentment has forcefully turned it into a land of calamity!"
"The living creatures that originally inhabited it have probably all become fiends that know only slaughter!"
"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"
As if to confirm his guess, the baleful aura rolled as more blood-shadow fiends continuously charged out from every direction!
There were tens of thousands of them! Fearless of death!
They came in all shapes and forms!
Some were humanoid!
Some were beast-like!
Many were so twisted that their original forms could no longer be recognized!
Seven hands, eight legs, and all manner of grotesque shapes!
"Excellent!"
Jiang Yun remained calm and composed at the sight!
"Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Firecloud Formation, rise!"
Eighty-one Fire Cloud Banners shot into the sky, instantly enveloping an area of a thousand li!
Jiang Yun sat in the center of the formation, drawing endless blood shadows into it and using the formation's power to begin a mad slaughter!
The Primordial World did not count years, and cultivation knew no passage of time.
Within this crimson secret realm, time seemed to have lost all meaning.
Jiang Yun sat cross-legged at the center of the grand array, his eyes tightly shut. He activated both formations with all his strength, absorbing baleful aura on one side while slaughtering fiends on the other.
Three years passed in a flash!
On this day, when the final blood-shadow fiend was burned to ashes by the Purple Sun True Fire within the Fire Cloud Formation, the entire secret realm was cleansed at once!
Jiang Yun slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath of stale air.
"The blood-shadow fiends in this secret realm have finally all been slaughtered!"
A full three years!
Jiang Yun had slaughtered several hundred thousand blood-shadow fiends!
The weakest of these fiends possessed Earth Immortal cultivation, while the strongest had even reached the terrifying realm of Taiyi Golden Immortals!
At this moment, the corpses of those hundreds of thousands of fiends lay piled like mountains within his grand array!
Among them were no fewer than eighty-one Golden Immortal-level corpses!
There were even nine Taiyi Golden Immortal-level corpses!
Meanwhile, the baleful aura that had once been so dense it seemed impossible to disperse had been more than half absorbed by him, and was beginning to thin.
Buzz—!
The nine Profound Yin Banners floated before Jiang Yun. They were pitch-black from end to end and emitted terrifying fluctuations that made one's heart tremble.
After three years of refinement, this set of Witch Race treasure banners had finally been completely repaired. They were also now linked to Jiang Yun's will, as easy to command as his own arms and fingers!
At that moment, an incomparably profound notification sound thundered through Jiang Yun's mind!
[You engaged in bloodthirsty slaughter within Changyang Mountain and refined the Profound Yin Banners!] [You perceived the terrifying power of baleful aura. It is the nemesis of cultivators: it can taint magical treasures and erode Primordial Spirits!] [You began attempting to utilize baleful aura...] [Drawing upon the foundation of your own "Grand Mystery Boundless Immortal Art," you created the supreme Body Tempering divine ability—the Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body!]
Boom!
Jiang Yun's entire body shook. Before he could even revel in his ecstasy, the notification sounded again!
[Through comprehending baleful aura, you gradually understood its essence. Baleful means ferocious and violent!] [All the malice in the world can become baleful aura!] [As you looked at the fiend corpses piled like mountains within the grand array, inspiration struck!] [You created the supreme method—the Heavenly Baleful Corpse Refining Method!]
It was done!
Two more supreme methods!
Jiang Yun was overjoyed as he began sorting through the profound information that had appeared in his mind.
[Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body]
This was a supreme Body Tempering divine ability! It drew the world's dark-baleful aura into the body, forming Protective Baleful Aura!
This baleful aura was tyrannical beyond compare. Not only could it taint others' magical treasures, it could also erode their Primordial Spirits!
If cultivated to its peak, one could transform into a walking heavenly calamity, with one's words becoming law and severing others' Fortune!
"Good! Good! Good! This was practically made for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity!"
Jiang Yun was immensely excited.
In the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, the most terrifying things were the unavoidable Karma killing calamities and the struggle for Fortune!
With this [Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body], whoever dared become his enemy in the future—
He could use this divine ability to weaken their Fortune and sever their immortal path!
The other method, [Heavenly Baleful Corpse Refining Method], had even more limitless uses!
Jiang Yun looked at the hundreds of thousands of fiend corpses. They had once been troublesome refuse, but now they had become priceless treasures!
This method could use baleful aura to refine corpses, turning these fiend corpses into fearless "Baleful Corpses"!
Using these "Baleful Corpses" as the foundation of a formation would increase the formation's power by far more than tenfold!
"Time waits for no one! Continue cultivating!"
Jiang Yun immediately continued absorbing baleful aura to cultivate the [Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body]!
At the same time, he activated his mana, drew in baleful aura, and began refining the hundreds of thousands of fiend corpses!
And so, another two years passed!
Rumble—!
On this day, Jiang Yun abruptly rose to his feet as a terrifying dark-baleful aura erupted explosively from within his body!
[Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body], minor accomplishment!
Once he activated it, baleful aura churned around him. Whether divine abilities or magical treasures, anything that came close would be continuously weakened by this Protective Baleful Aura, even directly eroded away!
Before him stood ninety terrifying figures!
They were precisely the nine Taiyi Golden Immortal corpses and eighty-one Golden Immortal corpses!
After two years of refinement, they had already been turned into Baleful Corpses!
Nine Mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal Baleful Corpses!
Eighty-one Late-stage Golden Immortal Baleful Corpses!
"My strength now... has increased by far more than several times!"
Feeling the surging mana within his body and this army of Baleful Corpses, Jiang Yun's heart swelled with lofty ambition!
Whoosh—!
At that moment, the final wisp of baleful aura within the Changyang Mountain Secret Realm was absorbed and used!
The entire secret realm was instantly cleared!
"Roaaar—!!!"
But at that very moment, an earth-shaking roar suddenly rang out from the center of the secret realm!
A terrifying fiend, ten thousand zhang tall, with nine heads and over a hundred arms, crushed mountains and rivers beneath its feet as it charged over in a frenzy!
The aura emitted by that twisted fiendish body was unmistakably—
Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
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