On the top floor of the Star-Gazing Pavilion, Han Li had used the sword qi of the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and the aura of the Spacetime Dao Fruit fragment to lay down overlapping layers of the chaos sword domain, sufficient to block even a Deity Transformation cultivator's probing spiritual sense. All the clamor and weeping outside, even the omnipresent gloom of defeat, were shut out.
At the center of the pavilion, Han Li sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion carved from ten-thousand-year warm jade. His face still bore an unhealthy pallor, but the ashen air between his brows had been replaced by a restrained stillness as deep as an abyss.
Three objects floated before him.
On the left was a jade slip containing the first three layers of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art. It shone with faint golden light and held the dual Dao rhythms of the Brahma Saint and the true demon. This art originated from a towering figure of the Great Jin Demonic Dao and was an unsurpassed secret canon of body refining. It had remarkable effects in repairing bodily injuries, strengthening one's foundation, and even resisting foreign energies, making it the best choice for healing and breaking through at this moment.
In the middle was a small pile of ten eighth-tier demon cores, each the size of a pigeon's egg, dark gold in color, with destructive power rippling across its surface. These were gifts from Ling Yuling, taken from the fiercest kings of the sea beasts in the outer waters of the Chaotic Star Sea. Each contained the entire essence of a nascent soul early-stage cultivator, holding incomparably vast life essence and demonic power. They were precisely the finest "blood sustenance" and energy sources needed to cultivate the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art.
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