Inside the Dragon-Trapping Tower.
Within the Demon-Suppressing Coffin.
"Hiss... hoo..."
After sending word to Xiahou You and Bai Yue, Xu Taiping, now drenched from head to toe in blood and sweat, worked to steady his breathing. Then he closed his eyes once more and began inspecting his Dao Body furnace.
"Boom...!"
The instant his Divine Sense turned inward toward the Dao Body furnace, a fierce surge of flames slammed straight toward him.
But Xu Taiping ignored the raging flames within the furnace.
He looked directly at its center.
There, the Golden Chalice, the Dragon Pearl, and the Blight Pearl still hovered above the furnace in a triangular standoff.
Only now, whether it was the Golden Chalice and Dragon Pearl or the Blight Pearl-
They had all shrunk considerably.
He looked again at the drop of water beneath them, formed from the fusion of Dao Essence, Dragon Essence, and Blightbone power.
The once-mottled drop of water.
Had now turned pure white.
It was even whiter than the Dragon Pearl.
Yet upon closer inspection, a thread of blood, barely discernible to the naked eye, still remained on the surface of this pure, flawless drop.
Xu Taiping took a deep breath, then murmured:
"Once this last thread of blood is refined away, the Tai Bai Eclipse Power will be complete."
At that thought, he no longer spared his Divine Essence. He poured one of the last five portions of Divine Essence in his Primordial Spirit entirely into the Dao Body furnace.
"Rumble..."
In an instant, the flames within the Dao Body furnace suddenly surged.
He could already sense the auras of the Blightbones outside the inner court. Time was pressing; he had to refine this Tai Bai Eclipse Power as quickly as possible.
Watching the thread of blood on the surface of that