Deep within the Earth Lung Rift, there was more than emptiness and deathly silence.
Han Li's remaining consciousness was like the last flickering candle flame in a raging storm, struggling to stay afloat amid endless darkness, extreme heat capable of burning all things to nothing, and the cold, filthy Void Refinement demonic will that sought to corrode everything-a curse cast from afar by Cui Gu.
He could "feel" his fleshly body, once tempered through countless trials and carried across two realms, being frantically broken down and refined by the Earth Lung Demon Fire-a torrent imbued with the destructive power of the world's origin. From skin to bones, from meridians to dantian, everything was reduced to the most primitive particles, merging into this sea of destructive laws to become its nourishment.
More terrifying still, the icy demonic will of the Void Refinement Demon Race cultivator Cui Gu clung to him like maggots burrowing into bone, attempting to corrupt and devour the last lucid imprint of his divine soul. That demonic will bore the greed of a supreme demonic intent, seeking to utterly cast down this "Reincarnation Body" of astonishing potential and devour the origins of the "Demon Source" and "Jianmu" within him to strengthen its own demonic Dao, and even... pry into the mysteries beyond reincarnation.
"You want to... devour me? Hmph..."
An exceedingly faint yet indestructible cold snort erupted within his remaining consciousness. It was not the "human" will Han Li had possessed in life, but the awakening of an origin imprint from a deeper level, beyond this world's reincarnation! That imprint was cold, absolute, indifferent to all living beings and demonic wills, like the heart of a glacier that had endured through eternity.
In an instant, a barely perceptible gray light, seemingly containing the meaning of every cycle of