Aberration, the Transformation Plan!

On the open ground of the immortal island, Taotie's massive body lay quietly prone.

After a thousand years of suppression by the dual-layer lotus platform restriction, coupled with several washes of World-Cleansing Divine Light just now, it had long since lost its former savage and violent demeanor.

The illusory lotus-leaf restrictions, woven from the powers of creation and heaven-opening, firmly locked down its limbs, meridians, and soul. No matter how the residual ferocious instincts within its body surged, they could not stir the slightest wave.

At this moment, Taotie could neither move nor roar. It lay lifelessly upon the ground, no different from a dead beast utterly incapable of resistance.

Now, let's see the results of my thousand years of comprehension.

With a thought from Li Changsheng, the luminous white World-Cleansing Dao aura surrounding him instantly gathered. Pure and flawless World-Cleansing power condensed into a vast holy radiance that descended from the sky, steadily enveloping Taotie's enormous body.

The holy light was gentle yet tyrannical, carrying the innate laws of purification. The instant it fell upon Taotie's surface, its effects were immediate.

The pitch-black Heaven-Opening baleful aura that had coiled around Taotie's flesh for countless years was like lingering winter snow beneath a blazing sun, instantly dissolving with a hiss!

The overwhelming ferocity visibly receded, while its dark, murky flesh gradually revealed the luster of blood and flesh that a living being ought to possess.

The violent aura raging through the surroundings rapidly dispersed. Even the air throughout the region became clear and pure, suffused with a faint World-Cleansing Dao aura.

"It works! It really works!"

A sharp gleam flashed in Li Changsheng's eyes, and irrepressible delight surged within him.

Previously, relying solely on the power of creation had been like a drop in the ocean against such dense baleful aura, leaving him helpless. But now that he had cultivated the World-Cleansing Great Dao and condensed his own divine light, its suppression of Heaven-Opening baleful aura was utterly overwhelming!

This also meant that he had taken another crucial step toward resolving the Monstrous Beast Calamity and saving the countless living beings of the Primordial World.

Yet Li Changsheng knew clearly that cleansing the external baleful aura was merely the most basic first step.

His true goal was to find Taotie's innate true spirit, which had been wrapped layer upon layer in endless baleful aura and completely concealed!

As long as he could find, preserve, and purify a monstrous beast's true spirit, he could thoroughly prove his hypothesis: monstrous beasts were not evil by nature, but had merely been corrupted and controlled by Heaven-Opening baleful aura and the resentment of fiendgods!

If so, the Monstrous Beast Calamity sweeping across the Primordial World would no longer be an unsolvable dead end!

Having made up his mind, Li Changsheng hesitated no longer.

His primordial spirit slowly left his body, enveloped in a dense layer of pure white World-Cleansing power. It transformed into a streak of light and carefully probed into Taotie's body.

Wherever the primordial spirit passed, all black baleful aura dissolved and broke apart. Not the slightest trace of fierce energy could approach it.

The World-Cleansing power was like the sharpest blade, forcibly carving out a clear passage through Taotie's meridians and flesh, which were filled with baleful aura, and driving straight toward the core of its soul.

As the baleful aura within its body was continuously purified and stripped away, Taotie's originally violent and powerful aura steadily declined.

Its formidable cultivation, once comparable to the late stage of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, slowly fell away. As the false combat strength piled up by baleful aura faded, the foundational essence of an innate lifeform gradually emerged.

Everything progressed smoothly and methodically.

Li Changsheng focused his senses and continued sending his primordial spirit deeper. He drew ever closer to the core of Taotie's soul, where its true spirit lay hidden.

But at that very moment, an abrupt change erupted without warning!

Bzzz—!

The baleful aura within Taotie's body, which had been docilely dispersing, suddenly erupted in complete upheaval!

The ferocious power that had been suppressed by the World-Cleansing Divine Light and was slowly dissolving abruptly surged dozens of times stronger, becoming incomparably frenzied, violent, and strange.

This baleful aura was no longer merely the resentment of Heaven-Opening fiendgods. Mixed within it was an extremely unfamiliar, cold, obscure, unknown force that suddenly emerged and swept through every one of Taotie's meridians and its soul!

A sense of danger instantly rose in his heart!

Something's wrong! This is far too wrong!

Alarm bells blared in Li Changsheng's mind. Before he could think further, he decisively controlled his primordial spirit to withdraw at high speed, instantly leaving Taotie's body and returning steadily to his sea of consciousness.

His brows were tightly furrowed, his expression grave to the extreme.

He had thoroughly studied the Pangu Inheritance and understood the secrets of heaven-opening. He was incomparably familiar with the aura of Heaven-Opening baleful energy and fiendgod resentment.

Yet the force that had suddenly emerged just now was inscrutable, cold, and eerie. It did not belong to Taotie itself at all—it was an entirely new power that had appeared out of nowhere!

What exactly was this thing?

Was it some unknown baleful seed nurtured by heaven and earth? Or was it a hidden method planted in the origins of countless monstrous beasts by Shen Ni, the lord of monstrous beasts?

Countless thoughts flashed through Li Changsheng's mind, filling his heart with doubt.

As he pondered, the situation below completely spiraled out of control.

Driven by that unknown force, the baleful aura inside Taotie crazily crashed against and tore at the lotus-leaf restrictions around its body.

The illusory suppressive lotus leaves, which had remained stable and immovable for a thousand years, were instantly covered in dense cracks.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Sharp breaking sounds rang out in succession as the layered lotus-leaf barriers shattered and collapsed at tremendous speed.

In merely a few breaths, most of the suppressive restrictions had completely broken and failed. Only a thin layer of fragments remained, barely confining Taotie's body.

Boundless black baleful aura madly gushed out through the gaps in the shattered restrictions, instantly filling the entire open ground of Yingzhou. A terrifying aura of destruction once again blanketed the surroundings.

The situation was completely out of control!

Li Changsheng's gaze turned cold, and killing intent rose within him in an instant.

He had kept this Taotie alive to test the method of purification and unravel the mystery of the calamity.

But now that an unknown force had emerged and matters had completely escaped his control, keeping it alive could very well lead to disaster.

With killing intent aroused, a single thought was all it would take for him to activate the Heaven-Opening Mark and the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, crushing this rampaging monstrous beast to death and eliminating all future trouble!

Yet the thought had barely arisen before he forcibly suppressed it.

Li Changsheng was deeply conflicted.

At the dawn of the Primordial World, each of the Four Great Monstrous Beasts possessed an ultimate law. They were one-of-a-kind, supreme experimental specimens created by heaven and earth—rare beyond measure, an opportunity that came once in a thousand ages.

There was no second specimen this perfect anywhere in the entire Primordial World.

If he killed it now, he would never again have such an excellent chance to explore the origins of monstrous beasts and uncover the secrets of the calamity. It would be far too regrettable.

Kill it, and he was unwilling. Keep it, and danger lurked within!

In that brief instant, Li Changsheng weighed the pros and cons, but ultimately could not bear to discard this unique experimental material.

During his hesitation, the final layer of lotus-leaf restriction completely shattered!

Roar!

Freed from all suppression, Taotie regained its liberty completely and fully awakened beneath the empowerment of that unknown force.

The vicious gleam in its scarlet eyes surged. Baleful aura soared from its entire body, filled with a mad killing intent to destroy everything. Its limbs exerted force as it prepared to leap into the air and pounce upon Li Changsheng!

Watching Taotie charge toward him, Li Changsheng hesitated no longer. A cold glint flashed through his eyes.

Since purification had been obstructed and suppression had failed, he would first severely injure and subdue it, interrupting its ferocious nature!

His fingertips moved slightly, and the Chaos Thunder Seed that had lain dormant within his sea of consciousness instantly trembled.

A wisp of pitch-black, profound lightning power, containing the Dao aura of chaotic destruction, instantly gathered at his fingertips!

Sizzle!

Lightning flickered with terrifying might!

There was no earth-shattering roar—only an incomparably condensed arc of chaos lightning that instantly tore through the air and struck Taotie's massive body with perfect precision!

Boom!

Supreme destructive lightning exploded at once. Terrifying chaos thunderforce penetrated flesh and struck directly at the soul!

Taotie's enormous body shuddered violently, instantly turning charred black. More than half of the overwhelming baleful aura gushing from its surface was annihilated by the lightning, and its vigor immediately withered.

The roar in its throat abruptly ceased. Its mountain-like body could no longer hold itself up. It swayed heavily, crashed to the ground, and completely lost the strength to counterattack, able only to twitch faintly on the ground.

One thunder strike had completely crippled its rampaging ferocity!

Li Changsheng stepped forward slowly, his gaze dark as he stared at Taotie twitching upon the ground. His thoughts raced over the aberration from moments ago.

An unknown force was hidden within the origins of monstrous beasts. The path of purification was thoroughly blocked. Killing it outright would be too wasteful, while ordinary suppression had already failed.

Since conventional methods would not work, he would take a new path that no one had ever attempted before!

At that thought, an incomparably bold inspiration suddenly flashed in Li Changsheng's eyes!

If it could not be purified, killed, or suppressed... then he would transform it!

He raised a hand and grasped through the air. The Pure World White Lotus at the center of the spirit pool swayed gently, and a luminous, translucent lotus leaf overflowing with Dao aura slowly detached itself and flew into his palm.

This lotus leaf contained the purest World-Cleansing and purifying Dao aura, as well as the life-giving power of creation from the same source. It was one of the greatest treasures of purification and nourishment in heaven and earth.

Li Changsheng lightly supported the warm, sacred white lotus leaf on his fingertips, his eyes filled with intense curiosity and anticipation.

Since baleful aura could corrupt monstrous beasts, and power could control their origins—

Then today, I will use the dual powers of the Dao of creation and world-cleansing, along with the power of this white lotus leaf, to completely transform this Taotie monstrous beast!

Li Changsheng wanted to see whether he could reverse the origin of its ferocity, turn evil into auspiciousness, and transform this supreme monstrous beast of the Primordial World into a guardian force under his command!