The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body sisters were bathed in Supreme blood, their bodies dyed crimson. The other two Dark Supremes paid no heed, attacking Xiao Ping'an in a frenzy. They wanted to break the Overlord Heaven Bell, kill Xiao Ping'an, and seize his Heavenly Venerable imprint and origin essence blood.
Rumble.
Xiao Ping'an suddenly opened his eyes and stopped drawing in the universe's origin essence Qi. A great purple hand shot out and seized one of the Dark Supremes. It squeezed hard, crushing him into a pulp with a splat.
After squeezing that Dark Supreme to death, he rose and struck out to kill the other, but his body staggered, and he nearly fell.
The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body sisters immediately came to support Xiao Ping'an. One held him up, while golden origin blazed fiercely around the other as she prepared to charge forward and kill the Dark Supreme.
"Weiwei, stop burning your origin at once. You don't need to do that now."
With that, Xiao Ping'an gave a great shout. A force of spacetime shot from his brow, transformed into an eternal Flower of the Great Dao, and struck out to suppress and kill.
The golden spear in Weiwei's hand blazed with dazzling golden light and shot toward the Dark Supreme as well.
With a splat, the last Dark Supreme was reduced to flying ash on the spot, his body and soul utterly destroyed.
Just as they had refined and gathered the blood of the four Supremes,
the vast sea of blood suddenly surged up in towering waves again.
The blood-colored Fallen Phoenix's great crimson hand flew at them once more. Although he held no White Bone Saber, the force of his descending palm blotted out the sky and sun and shattered heaven and earth.
The Phoenix True Immortal had appeared again.
Though he did not wield the White Bone Saber, his presence was even more overbearing, and none could withstand his edge.
In the blink of an eye, the great hand turned into blood-colored divine light, then transformed into a blood-colored phoenix that tore through the universe.
The twin sisters immediately stepped forward to protect Xiao Ping'an, ready to fight the blood-colored phoenix with all their strength.
Xiao Ping'an moved ahead of them, pulling the two women behind him before throwing them back to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.
With a furious roar, Xiao Ping'an drew in the Hundun Immortal Essence from all eight reaches of the universe. The last of the longevity essence in his body exploded with a bang, and he attacked with all his might, unleashing a Tyrant Fist.
Xiao Ping'an and the damaged True Immortal launched into an earth-shaking battle.
He knew that, though the twin sisters were powerful, they had not truly proven their Dao and become emperors. If they fought this True Immortal, they would only be throwing their lives away. There was no chance of survival.
Xiao Ping'an's Tyrant Fist shattered heaven and earth, and chaotic light completely engulfed the area.
"Ping'an!"
"Ping'an!"
The twin sisters cried out, tears streaming from their eyes as they rushed madly back to the Cosmic Frontier.
They saw Xiao Ping'an staggering, drenched in blood that flowed from every pore of his body.
The blood-colored phoenix had also retreated.
After his battle with Xiao Ping'an, he had clearly suffered even worse injuries. Moreover, the suppression of this world's Great Dao rules and the curse in the blood were steadily weakening the True Immortal.
The blood-colored light suddenly shone brightly, about to vanish from this world and hide in the chaos.
Xiao Ping'an snorted coldly. He had shattered the last of his longevity essence; how could he let this True Immortal escape just like that?
Though covered in blood, he took the Overlord Heaven Bell and charged straight into the sea of blood.
Rumble.
Xiao Ping'an forcibly punched a hole through the sea of blood that the four Supremes had been unable to breach, drawing vast swathes of it into the Overlord Heaven Bell.
Then Xiao Ping'an charged into the sea of blood, where an earth-shaking battle erupted.
People heard the ringing of the White Bone Saber.
They also heard the lingering toll of the bell, shaking all ages.
Whether it was the sound of the White Bone Saber or the Overlord Heaven Bell, both made this universe tremble.
The Fallen Phoenix let out a scream, and soon the people sensed that the True Immortal's presence had vanished.
Even the sea of blood disappeared.
When Xiao Ping'an tore through the void and appeared in this world again, he was drenched in blood, his body swaying constantly.
"Ping'an!"
Tears filled the twin sisters' eyes, and they could not help bursting into sobs.
Back then, Xiao Ping'an had been full of spirit, his might shaking the world.
But now, Xiao Ping'an's hair was entirely white, his face was covered in wrinkles, and his blood and Qi were decaying. He could die at any moment.
The twin sisters were grief-stricken. They supported Xiao Ping'an, tears falling without end.
"Ping'an, let's go back to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star, refine that immortal vein, and swallow it whole."
They were about to take Xiao Ping'an away.
Xiao Ping'an shook his head and asked them to put him down for the moment.
Then Xiao Ping'an sat cross-legged in the starry sky, motionless.
In truth, his injuries were severe, but that was only one part of it. Most importantly, his life was running dry.
Countless streams of essence Qi surged toward him from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. Many regions of the starry sky grew dim as countless rays of starlight, sunlight, and moonlight were drawn over and swallowed into Xiao Ping'an's body.
Xiao Ping'an continuously circulated his cultivation methods and secret arts, his body radiating precious purple light. All the Heavenly Venerable essence blood that had scattered during the battle was drawn back into his body.
Then Xiao Ping'an refined the essence blood of seventeen Dark Supremes in all into its most fundamental essence and guided it into his body.
His body gradually healed, and his blood and Qi steadily withdrew. It looked as though he had returned to his former state.
But all of it was merely an outward appearance. Most terrifying of all, his life had run dry. His flesh had already begun to age, and his primordial spirit grew dimmer by the day, a decline that was hard to reverse.
Xiao Ping'an's body could no longer store much of heaven and earth's essence Qi. After countless rays of sun and moon essence entered his body, they began to leak out on their own. He could hold no more.
His body was decaying, his blood and Qi drying up. Like a rotting wooden bucket, it could hold no more water.
Once the water was full, it would naturally leak out.
He now looked like a candle guttering in the wind, on the verge of falling.
Immortal Divine Medicine was already useless to him.
He looked every bit as though he were about to meet his end.
At present, no one in this world could save him. Moreover, he had already consumed too much Immortal Divine Medicine. Even if he took a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill now, it would probably be of little help.
Under these extreme circumstances, making the ultimate leap and defying heaven to live a new life was truly too difficult.
In the final battle with the Phoenix True Immortal, he had consumed every last drop of longevity essence in his body.
Fighting eight Dark Supremes had already pushed him to his limit. Forcibly restoring himself to peak combat strength had consumed nearly forty percent of his longevity essence, leaving his body depleted.
Then he had fought the Phoenix True Immortal and exhausted the last of his longevity essence.
"Ping'an!" The twin sisters were also in tears.
Seeing the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, who had once dominated the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, supreme above the heavens and beneath the earth, now so aged and seemingly ready to pass away at any moment, their hearts ached.
They had originally seen how much longevity essence Xiao Ping'an had accumulated in his body and felt certain he could live a third life.
But the situation now left them feeling helpless.
In the end, Xiao Ping'an had not defied heaven.
His soul flame was on the verge of going out. How could he achieve Red Dust Immortal Ascension? How could he go on living?
Though Xiao Ping'an's will to live was still strong, he was only forcing himself to cling to one last breath. Otherwise, his primordial spirit might have gone out in an instant.
Xiao Ping'an looked at the twin sisters and managed a strained smile. Life was truly unpredictable. He had thought that, having transmigrated into this world, everything was under his control.
He had never expected to come to such an end.
He had been unrivaled under heaven for nearly sixty thousand years, only to draw the pursuit of so many Dark Supremes and unexpectedly encounter an unlucky True Immortal who had fallen into this world through a rift in the Immortal Domain.
This Fallen Phoenix seemed to possess a special ability that allowed him to sense Xiao Ping'an's unusual longevity essence.
The moment he struck, he went straight for Xiao Ping'an.
He had never thought of attacking the other Dark Supremes or the other Heavenly Venerables lurking in the forbidden zones.
He only wanted to seize the longevity essence in Xiao Ping'an's body.
Xiao Ping'an had cultivated to his present realm, where even if his body and primordial spirit were shattered, his primordial spirit could not die, and he could still recover in an instant.
But the most precious longevity essence he had accumulated in his body over these two lives was the foundation he relied on to live a new life.
Xiao Ping'an had carefully observed the old turtle that had inexplicably lived a new life and combined that with the contextual descriptions he had read in the trilogy, forcibly deducing the secret of living a new life.
For every living being, a method could be used to live a new life, but the same method could not be used a second time.
He had accumulated longevity essence for so many years to save it for his transformation today. Now, these Dark Supremes and this True Immortal had utterly ruined it.
Xiao Ping'an now looked gaunt and withered, as though his lifespan was about to run out.
After absorbing the origin essence blood of these eighteen Dark Supremes, Xiao Ping'an was delighted to discover that the method he had deduced, using Supreme essence blood to imitate the transformation of the Phoenix clan, actually seemed to work.
He could feel what seemed to be wisps of Longevity Substance forming once more.
Without this battle, he should have been able to live a third life with ease.
But the True Immortal who appeared afterward was simply too powerful for Xiao Ping'an.
Against that incomparably overbearing Blood Phoenix power and the corrosive phoenix blood, he would not have had a chance of surviving the next second without fighting with all his might.
Xiao Ping'an silently refined the sea of blood and the Fallen Phoenix True Immortal.
He soon understood that this Fallen True Immortal had indeed set his sights on his Heavenly Venerable imprint, as well as the longevity essence he had secretly gathered without anyone else knowing.
He had risen through longevity essence and fallen through longevity essence.
"Don't cry," Xiao Ping'an said to the twin sisters with a smile.
"Ping'an, I don't want you to die!"
The twin sisters wiped away their tears and helped Xiao Ping'an refine the True Immortal's remains and the blood-colored sea.
"Don't worry, I won't die." Though Xiao Ping'an was weak, he gave them a confident smile.
"I don't want to die yet, so I won't die," Xiao Ping'an said with a smile.
Xiao Ping'an fought on with all his might. Even if he had only one last breath left, he would not yield.
He would strive to live a new life.
Having transmigrated into this world, if he died so easily, what meaning would those tens of thousands of years of life have had?
Crack, crack.
Xiao Ping'an's body had aged far too badly.
Not only was his body covered in countless cracks, but his Immortal Platform and Source God were also riddled with them, liable to collapse and turn to flying ash at any moment.
In this extremely dangerous state, if he could not live a new life, he really might die.
How many people in the present Nine Heavens and Ten Lands could withstand this True Immortal's attacks?
Yet Xiao Ping'an had done it. With his damaged body in its old age, he had outlasted this True Immortal until he died.
His sea of blood and his corpse both became Xiao Ping'an's spoils.
Even the White Bone Saber, which had fallen from the True Immortal realm and become an Extreme Dao Weapon, had been forcibly devoured and refined by the Overlord Heaven Bell.
Xiao Ping'an remained seated cross-legged in the starry sky and did not return to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star.
He forcibly refined the Fallen True Immortal's corpse right there.
All its origin essence was refined into his body.
By now, the entire starry sky was in an uproar.
In a single day, Xiao Ping'an had slain twelve Dark Supremes and an injured True Immortal.
It was all like a myth, beyond belief.
Most shocking of all were the phoenix blood sea that had descended from the heavens and the terrifying Fallen True Immortal.
The battle had ended, and none of the Dark Supremes dared come out to challenge Xiao Ping'an again.
The myriad beings of the universe had mixed feelings, especially the powerful clans with phoenix blood. An indescribable feeling of jealousy stirred in their hearts.
More of the Overlord Heavenly Venerable's admirers called out his honored name.
His body had declined to such a state, yet he had still beaten more than a dozen Dark Supremes and that injured True Immortal to death.
Such glorious combat strength was truly unmatched throughout the ages.
Perhaps the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable who had killed that injured True Immortal back then could compare with him.
But the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable had been in his prime at the time, so he could not be compared with Xiao Ping'an in his later years.
The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body twins now guarded Xiao Ping'an, Extreme Dao Weapons in hand.
Their gazes remained fixed on the dark forbidden zones in the universe.
They looked ready to fight to the death at the slightest provocation.
By now, many living beings in the universe also knew that the Overlord Heavenly Venerable was gravely injured and about to die.
Many of the Overlord Heavenly Venerable's admirers found it hard to accept, for he was the god in their hearts.
But the truth was as it was: the Overlord Heavenly Venerable, supreme above the heavens and beneath the earth, was truly about to pass away.
The twin sisters carefully brought Xiao Ping'an back to the Tyrant Body Ancestral Star and placed him in the Heavenly Pillar Mountain Ancient Cave.
There were numerous Primordial Life Stones and springs of life there.
Xiao Ping'an sat cross-legged on the largest Dao platform.
His body remained in a deathless, indestructible state, yet was on the verge of death.
"Ping'an was about to die, but with his powerful will and astonishing comprehension, he forcibly found a path within the origin essence blood of those dozen or so Dark Supremes and attempted to imitate the Phoenix Nirvana Method."
"If he refines this sea formed from phoenix blood and makes it entirely his own, perhaps he can reverse life and death and return once more in defiance of heaven."
The twin sisters discussed it carefully as they watched over Xiao Ping'an.
What state did the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body twins exist in after becoming weapon spirits? You can refer to the original text for what the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar looked like when it fully awakened while Ye Fan was being pursued by the Undying Heavenly Blade.
After the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar fully awakened, the Ruthless Great Emperor's figure was lifelike, just as though she had descended in person.
This was how I imagined the battle form of someone who had transformed herself into the weapon spirit of an Extreme Dao Weapon.
(End of chapter)