A Lawless Devil Aspect thundered into being behind him.
Its six arms formed seals simultaneously, pouring wave upon wave of blood path true essence into the formation like a mighty river.
The Di Jiang Banner unleashed its power first.
The faceless Demon God spread its six wings, and the surrounding space abruptly collapsed inward.
Hundreds of chanting monk phantoms had barely appeared before the distorted space forcibly crushed them together into a constantly trembling ball of golden light.
An enormous beast's head emerged from the Xuanming Banner.
As though it had scented the world's most delectable blood food, it opened its cavernous maw, bristling with bone spikes, and swallowed the golden ball of light whole.
Boom!
The Xuanming Banner swelled violently.
It was as though a colossal beast were struggling madly beneath its surface, bulging dozens of zhang high one moment and abruptly collapsing the next.
Golden Buddha light and pitch-black death qi repeatedly collided within it. Each collision shattered great swaths of bone plates, which regrew under the infusion of white bone essence from the blood pool.
This was a reconstruction of the very foundation of its grade!
Qing Chen did not stop.
Once more than half of the four hundred-odd Golden Core śarīras had been refined, he pointed a finger again, sending over twenty True Lord śarīras and the Great Cultivator's golden body into the blood pool together.
They formed a golden ring around the eight demon banners, Buddhist nature and demonic nature clashing against each other.
With every revolution of the golden starlight, the eight demon banners let out a resonant tremor, and all kinds of white bone essence surged into them.
After more than a thousand such revolutions, the auras of several demon banners had grown considerably stronger!
Boom!
Suddenly, a deathly white pillar of light