Nine turns of the golden lotus secure a divine ability; a net laid with borrowed momentum lures the flood dragons

In the deepest reaches of the earth vein beneath the Nine Nether Springs.

This place had once been filled with icy Nine Netherworlds water capable of freezing ordinary cultivators along with their divine souls. But after the thirty-thousand-foot black flood dragon phantom was forcibly annihilated and purified, all its savage demonic energy had dispersed, leaving only an exceptionally pure yet unfathomably deep expanse of ink-blue water.

At the bottom of the abyss, Chu Bai sat quietly cross-legged on a simple bed fashioned from mystic ice divine jade.

His purple royal robe billowed without wind, snapping around him.

Wisps of ink-blue vapor, fine as hair yet heavy as mountains, slowly coiled around him. Within them, ancient runes from the primordial wilderness flickered faintly, radiating lofty, vast, and indifferent fluctuations of law.

These were the fragments of "netherworld weakwater" law left behind by the slain ancient demon saint will.

"Whew..."

Chu Bai's eyes remained closed. Each breath drew a deep tidal rumble from the entire expanse of the Nine Nether Springs.

Within his immense purple abode space, the violet-gold ocean of spell power raised towering waves at an astonishing pace.

His Origin-Opening Daoist Scripture operated at its utmost limit. The domineering power of Return to the Origin, like countless exquisitely precise carving knives, peeled away and dismantled the crude, violent fragments of the Ancient Demon Saint's laws layer by layer.

The savage bestiality, brutality, and cruelty within the demonic energy were stripped away in the process, dissolving into nothingness.

Meanwhile, the innermost, purest "weak water origin" was assimilated by the Origin-Opening Daoist Scripture and poured endlessly into Chu Bai's purple abode golden core and divine soul.

Hum!

Within his Niwan Palace, the dazzling divine sense golden core absorbed a vast quantity of ancient divine soul laws. Under the pressure of his spell