Baleful energy coiled through the air, ghostly qi churned, and from time to time, tsunami-like waves of ghostly qi rolled across the sky. Thunderous booms rang without end. Just as the ferocious ghostly tide was about to spread, vast Buddhist power descended to suppress it. As the two forces transformed between one another, terrifying heavenly phenomena erupted.
Beneath that terrifying spectacle stood a man and a woman. A terrifying, dazzling pillar of light held Lü Qingning in place. Buddhist power and ghostly power burst forth within it as she sat quietly in meditation, two streams of clear tears sliding down her face.
As Bai Yu's hand seals shifted without pause, Lü Qingning endured the cleansing scour of Buddhist power every moment for half an hour.
Under such scouring, every drop of Lü Qingning's flesh and blood, her bones, and her divine soul seemed to be repeatedly destroyed and reforged. The terrifying energies continuously fused through this cycle until they finally became one, only to be destroyed once more, refined in every detail, and fused again.
Such refinement was even more agonizing than death by a thousand cuts. An ordinary cultivator's will would likely have long since been torn into fragments and vanished between heaven and earth. The energies constantly colliding and merging would likewise disperse completely with the death of their consciousness.
But Lü Qingning was different. She had originally been the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother, a heavenly ghost born to devour. Her foundation came from the same lineage as the Buddha Infant transformed from the Great Heaven-Devouring Buddha.
Because of the Calamity Blood Evil Emperor, Lü Qingning's consciousness had already reached the brink of collapse. It could be said that her original consciousness had long died. Becoming the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother was another kind of reconstruction of consciousness.