Forced Penetration! Brutal Purification

At the Life Lake in the very heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, thousands of miles away.

The emerald-green lake water, which had been tranquil for countless years, suddenly churned with vast clusters of bubbles rising continuously from below.

A bottomless vortex spun into existence at the center of the lake. The ten-thousand-year soul beasts that had been resting quietly nearby were so terrified that they flattened themselves against the ground, not even daring to raise their heads as they panted heavily.

In the deepest underground cavern, where no light could reach, a pair of silver vertical pupils opened.

Those pupils were as large as millstones, reflecting layer upon layer of intricate silver patterns. The surrounding space shook violently in response to those patterns, splitting open one narrow crack after another.

"Master!"

A streak of black light flashed past and transformed into a middle-aged man in black robes, whose knees slammed solidly into the ground.

It was none other than the current Beast God, Di Tian.

Cold sweat covered Di Tian's forehead as his voice trembled. "Master, what happened? Why was your slumber interrupted?"

"Di Tian, did you sense it?"

An ethereal female voice echoed through the vast underground space.

The silver radiance at the center of the cavern slowly gathered, forming a tall, humanoid phantom.

Her silver-white hair fell all the way to her ankles, and her pale violet eyes were crystalline and translucent. She was so beautiful that no one could look away, yet her exquisite face was filled with shock and uncertainty.

Di Tian raised his head, his gaze somewhat confused. "What does Master mean? This subordinate only sensed the earth veins in the north of the continent tremble just now. It seemed that Titled Douluo were fighting over in the Far North?"

"Titled Douluo?"

The silver-haired girl sneered, unable to conceal the irritation in her voice. "Fool! What are human Titled Douluo worth? Could they possibly cause the spatial origin of the entire Douluo Star to tremble? That level of destructive power directly erased a section of space itself!"

Di Tian's heart lurched, and cold sweat broke out across his back. "Erased space? Could those people from the God Realm have interfered? One of Tang San's little schemes in the God Realm?"

"Not the God Realm."

The silver-haired girl shook her head and waved her hand. A blurry screen of light appeared in midair.

Within the screen lay a vast expanse of white snowfields. At the heart of the snowfields, a pure-white dragon silhouette that seemed to stretch from heaven to earth stood proudly.

The girl's breathing quickened, and even rare panic surged within her violet eyes. "It is the Dragon Clan! An upper-tier Dragon Clan aura, pure to the extreme! But... this makes no sense. After the Dragon God's transformation in the God Realm, every true dragon bloodline in the world descended from the Dragon God's nine sons. How could such power exist?"

"What is wrong with that aura?" Di Tian could not help asking.

"Rank."

The silver-haired girl took a deep breath and spoke each word distinctly. "That white dragon's bloodline rank is actually above the Dragon God's!"

"What?!"

Di Tian froze in place, his eyes nearly bulging out. "That is impossible! Lord Dragon God was the only supreme God King before the war of the gods, ruler of all beasts. How could an existence surpassing the Dragon God possibly exist? Master, could your senses be mistaken?"

"You doubt me?" The silver-haired girl narrowed her eyes, and an invisible pressure instantly crushed Di Tian flat against the ground.

"This subordinate would not dare!" Di Tian hurriedly replied.

"I was formed from half of the Dragon God's body. I control elements and laws, and my perception of the Dragon Clan's origin is ten thousand times sharper than yours!"

The silver-haired girl stared fixedly at the phantom on the light screen and gritted her teeth. "That is not the power of any of the Dragon God's nine sons. It lacks the grace of the Light Dragon King and the Golden Dragon King's pure brute force. It is destruction and holiness from a higher dimension, like... a sovereign that descended from an entirely different world!"

Di Tian lay on the ground as a monstrous wave surged through his heart.

As the leader of savage beasts who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, he understood better than anyone what the words Dragon God represented in the world of soul beasts.

Now, his master had personally said that a mysterious giant dragon whose rank surpassed the Dragon God had appeared in the Far North. It shattered everything he thought he knew.

"Master, could it be that the Snow Empress or Ice Empress of the Far North broke through their limits?" Di Tian cautiously asked.

"Them? The Snow Empress is merely a spirit born from the ice and snow of heaven and earth, while the Ice Empress is a scorpion. Neither has the slightest connection to the Dragon Clan. How could they trigger such an aura that makes all dragons submit?"

The silver-haired girl withdrew her gaze and clenched both hands tightly into fists. "An earth-shattering change must have occurred in the Far North. If this bloodline is allowed to grow, it will either become the Dragon Clan's only hope of returning to the God Realm, or... the source of destruction that buries us completely."

Di Tian raised his head and said solemnly, "Master, this subordinate will personally head to the Far North to investigate!"

"You cannot go."

The silver-haired girl rejected him outright. "The black dragon aura on you is too strong. You are too conspicuous. Tang San's eyes in the God Realm have always been watching Douluo Continent. Once you leave the Star Dou Great Forest, the God Realm's gaze will follow you. If that draws the attention of the Asura God Sword, it will only ruin everything."

"Then who should this subordinate send?"

"Have Bi Ji or Scarlet King secretly travel to the outskirts of the Far North. Do not alert anyone. First, find out exactly which person or soul beast triggered this phenomenon."

The silver-haired girl's gaze became incomparably deep as she coldly ordered, "Di Tian, send someone to the Far North! No matter who it is, find out the source of that power!"

Meanwhile, within the ruins of Ice Valley in the Far North.

Yu Chen was clutching Ma Xiaotao's snow-white neck with one hand, lightning flickering from his palm as he prepared to use a harsher remedy.

Ma Xiaotao was lifted into the air by Yu Chen's grip around her neck, her feet kicking wildly as beastlike growls continuously escaped her mouth.

Most of her clothing had long since been burned away, leaving large patches of snow-white skin exposed to the air. Her entire body was scorching hot, like a branding iron freshly pulled from a furnace.

"Let... let me go..."

Ma Xiaotao's eyes were completely bloodshot. She had none of her usual reason left as both hands tightly gripped Yu Chen's forearm, her nails nearly digging into his flesh.

She suddenly opened her mouth, revealing two sharp canine teeth, and bit down hard on Yu Chen's shoulder!

Sizzle!

Black-red Evil Fire erupted from between her teeth, burning Yu Chen's white clothes at the chest black with a crackle.

"This girl has gone completely mad."

Yu Chen did not even furrow his brow. He snorted coldly. "Back at the academy, I only helped you absorb the Evil Fire near the surface of your meridians. That treated the symptoms, not the cause. It seems if I do not tear it out by the roots this time, you truly will not understand how to spell death."

Wang Dong'er, who had been rubbing her sore backside as she ran over from afar, turned pale when she saw the scene. "Yu Chen! Be careful! Her strength was terrifying just now. It was like she took the wrong medicine!"

"Stand aside. Do not get in the way," Yu Chen instructed without looking back.

Wang Dong'er pursed her lips and obediently retreated a few steps, hugging Yu Chen's cloak as she stared unblinkingly at the scene.

The Evil Fire in Ma Xiaotao's mouth grew increasingly fierce, even spreading down Yu Chen's shoulder as it attempted to invade his bloodline.

"Get back in there!"

Yu Chen abruptly raised his right hand, and a savage black dragon phantom appeared in his palm.

Red-Eyes Black Dragon!

Extreme darkness and Yin Thunder erupted in an instant, transforming into rings of black chains that wound up Ma Xiaotao's arms and forcibly suppressed the rampaging dark-red flames on her body.

Ma Xiaotao cried out in pain and let out a piercing scream, struggling desperately as her long legs kicked wildly through the air.

"Quiet down."

Yu Chen slowly released her neck with his left hand. His palm, covered in white jade dragon scales, slid downward. His five fingers transformed into sharp dragon claws and pressed directly against Ma Xiaotao's flat lower abdomen, at her dantian.

The aura of the Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon circulated at full force!

Pure-white Yang Thunder, mixed with the Origin of Ultimate Ice he had just absorbed from the Snow Empress, compressed in Yu Chen's palm into a beam of light no thicker than a finger.

That light was blindingly bright, turning even the surrounding night into day.

"Endure it. It might hurt a little."

Yu Chen's gaze turned cold. Showing not the slightest tenderness, he suddenly thrust his left palm forward!

Pfft!

That beam of energy, mixed with extreme cold and Yang Thunder, brutally pierced through Ma Xiaotao's dantian sea of qi and rampaged through her main meridians!

"Ah!"

Ma Xiaotao threw back her head and let out a heart-wrenching scream!

Her body instantly arched like a tightly drawn bow as she convulsed violently, the veins in her neck bulging one after another.

Extreme cold froze her meridians ahead, while violent Yang Thunder crazily scoured behind it.

The Evil Fire origin that had hidden in the deepest parts of Ma Xiaotao's marrow and bloodline for more than a decade was forcibly dragged out at that moment.

Under the bombardment of Yang Thunder, those black-red impurities had no room to resist. They were directly crushed and vaporized!

"Mm... Yu Chen... it hurts... kill me..."

The blood-red color in Ma Xiaotao's eyes began to tremble violently. Her frenzied cries gradually turned into hoarse pleas, and two streams of crystalline tears even slid down from the corners of her eyes.

That pain was like someone using a rusty iron brush to scrape every bone and meridian in her body over and over, hundreds and thousands of times.

"Shut up. Circulate your power and guard your mind!"

Yu Chen shouted lowly, increasing the output of Red-Eyes Yin Thunder from his right hand and locking the Evil Fire that was darting everywhere firmly in the center of her meridians, giving it no chance to escape.

The white Yang Thunder and ice-blue Snow Empress origin were like an incomparably sharp scalpel, stripping away the Evil Fire's violent, bloodthirsty, and lustful impurities layer by layer.

Boom!

Clusters of black smoke burst from every pore on Ma Xiaotao's body. When they landed on the solid ice below, they corroded the ground into small pits that emitted black vapor.

Wang Dong'er watched from the side with her heart pounding. Her hands clutched the corners of the cloak as she barely dared breathe. "My god... he is washing her entire body, inside and out? That is far too ruthless..."

Time passed second by second.

The pungent smell of burning and stench filled Ice Valley.

Ma Xiaotao's screams grew weaker and weaker. She looked as though she had been pulled from the water, sweat mixed with expelled black impurities staining a broad stretch of snow.

Her skin, once rough and scorching hot, became smooth and fair again under the cleansing of Yang Thunder and extreme cold. It even glowed faintly with a jade-like radiance.

The Evil Fire Phoenix phantom behind her, which had once bared its fangs and emitted black smoke, now released a clear and pleasant phoenix cry!

The phantom's black-red coloration completely faded away, replaced by the purest and most dazzling crimson-gold radiance!

Ultimate Fire!

Stimulated by the Snow Empress's Extreme Cold Origin and reforged by the Lesser White Dragon's Yang Thunder, Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul finally completed its ultimate transformation, ascending into an Ultimate Fire Phoenix free of all impurities!

Sizzle!

The final trace of black vapor was forcibly driven from Ma Xiaotao's brow, then casually struck by Yu Chen's lightning into a wisp of smoke.

Yu Chen withdrew his hands. The dragon-scale armor on his left arm slowly vanished beneath his skin, and he exhaled a long breath of white mist.

The crimson-gold flames around Ma Xiaotao slowly withdrew into her body. Having lost all strength, she limply fell forward.

Yu Chen reached out and caught her warm, completely naked body in his arms.

Wang Dong'er hurried forward while holding the black cloak, fumbling as she draped it over Ma Xiaotao. She muttered softly, "You got to take all the advantage..."

Ma Xiaotao's eyelids trembled several times before she slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes, once crimson and bloodshot, were now clear as water, filled with deep exhaustion and attachment.

She weakly raised a hand, grasped Yu Chen's lapel, and buried her flushed cheek in his arms. Her voice was as faint as a kitten's:

"Master..."

The cold wind howled through Ice Valley in the Far North, blowing shattered ice across the ground.

Ma Xiaotao lay in Yu Chen's arms, utterly limp and without even the strength to lift a finger. Yet the face that had always carried a violent, sinister air was now clean and pure, possessing the soft whiteness of fresh snow.

She tried to circulate the Soul Power in her body.

The moment she did, Ma Xiaotao's entire body trembled.

In the past, whenever Soul Power flowed through her meridians, it felt as if countless ants were gnawing at her marrow. It was hot and numb, driving her mad, making her want to kill, making her want to find a man to vent her desires on.

But now, her meridians felt incomparably spacious. The black-red impurities that had clogged every acupoint could no longer be found even as a trace.

Her circulating Soul Power flowed with incomparable smoothness. Her fire attribute was so pure that it held not the slightest impurity. As it coursed through her meridians, it instead felt warmly comfortable, making her throat involuntarily release a soft hum.

The Evil Fire that had tormented her for more than a decade, something even Sea God's Pavilion masters Xuan Zi and Mu En had been helpless against, had actually been completely removed just like that?

"If you are awake, stand up on your own. Have your bones gone soft?" Yu Chen looked down at her, his tone utterly calm.

Ma Xiaotao trembled and hurriedly broke free from Yu Chen's embrace.

She paid no heed to the clothes on her body that had long since burned to ash, nor to the broad patches of snow-white skin exposed to the wind and snow. She bent her knees and knelt solidly on the hard ice.

The ice was freezing to the bone, but she did not even frown. She pressed her forehead against the solid ice at Yu Chen's feet, then obediently leaned forward and parted her lips to lightly touch the dragon-pattern embroidery on the tip of Yu Chen's boot.

"Master's great grace is something Xiaotao will never forget for all eternity!" Ma Xiaotao's voice was hoarse, but anyone could clearly hear the fervor within it.