Time passed slowly amid the purification.
The Light of Chaos from the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus poured down ceaselessly, stripping away and purifying the baleful energy in the Blood Pool layer by layer.
Nourished by the Light of Chaos, the blood cocoons grew increasingly solid and bright.
Within the three largest blood cocoons-Sun, Taiyin, and Ziwei-human silhouettes were already faintly visible. The other blood cocoons were also developing rapidly.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches stood beside the Blood Pool, holding their breath and focusing on the scene.
Zhu Rong lowered his voice. "Brother Pan Xuan, how much longer will this take?"
"Soon," Pan Xuan said. "The blood cocoons have already taken shape, and the baleful energy has nearly all been purified. All that remains is to wait for them to emerge."
He had barely finished speaking when a crisp cracking sound suddenly came from the Blood Pool.
Crack-
One of the three largest blood cocoons, the one radiating purple-gold light, was the first to split.
The sound was quiet, yet it reached everyone present with perfect clarity.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches instantly focused their gazes on that purple-gold blood cocoon.
It was the blood cocoon infused with the Ziwei Emperor Star Origin, the product of that Origin merging with Pan Xuan's purple-gold blood essence.
Of all the blood cocoons, its light was the most regal, its aura the most powerful.
Cracks spread down from the top of the blood cocoon like a spiderweb.
Purple-gold light streamed through the cracks, illuminating the entire Blood Pool as brightly as day. A vast imperial aura surged from the blood cocoon, carrying the majesty to command all things and making even the surrounding air congeal.
Pan Xuan gazed at the blood cocoon, a flicker of anticipation in his eyes.
*The Ziwei Emperor Star Origin, combined