Translator: CinderTL

An endless blood sea surged forth from beneath Song Wen’s feet, a crimson tide surging toward Jing Bei.

The first to be engulfed was the colossal corpse qi python.

The serpent, stretching for dozens of kilometers, appeared as insignificant as an ant before the sky-obscuring blood sea.

When the corpse python collided with the blood sea, it merely stirred up a towering wave of crimson before dissolving into nothingness.

"Blood Sea Seal!"

Jing Bei’s eyes widened slightly, his gaze filled with disbelief.

Once swallowed by that blood sea, his chances of survival today would be slim to none.

Despite the overwhelming threat of the Blood Sea Seal, he couldn’t afford to flee.

The moment he left the cover of corpse qi, he would be vulnerable to Song Wen’s ocular techniques.

In desperation, Jing Bei hastily commanded the Corpse Puppet to attack Song Wen from behind.

With a thought, Song Wen summoned a colossal wave from the blood sea beneath his feet, crashing it down upon the Corpse Puppet.

The Corpse Puppet possessed the strength of a peak sixth-tier cultivator, its physical body formidable. While killing it would be difficult, containing it proved simple.

Under the relentless assault of the blood sea, the Corpse Puppet was repeatedly driven back, unable to approach Song Wen.

Hidden within the dense corpse qi, Jing Bei watched as the Corpse Puppet failed to threaten Song Wen. Instead, the blood sea drew ever closer, now looming directly overhead. A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.

"You think killing me will be easy?"

A medicinal pill suddenly appeared before him, the size of a chicken egg and crimson red, casting the surrounding corpse qi in a dark red glow. The pill floated into Jing Bei’s open mouth.

As the foreign object slid down his throat, Jing Bei’s already emaciated body withered further, as if all flesh had vanished, leaving only bone and a layer of skin. Yet his aura surged rapidly.

However, since he was already at the Peak Void Refinement realm, the pill didn’t allow him to directly cross the chasm between Void Refinement and Body Integration. Instead, it placed him in a liminal state between the two realms, as if one foot had stepped through the gate of the Body Integration Stage, but he had yet to truly break through the barrier separating the two realms.

The changes to Jing Bei’s body didn’t stop with his cultivation level.

His eyes, now unnaturally bulging from his withered frame, glared like copper bells, bloodshot and seemingly about to burst, filled with pain and madness.

"Aaaah!" He threw his head back and roared furiously.

Dark-green baleful energy erupted violently from his seven orifices, instantly shattering the lake of corpse qi he had summoned earlier.

The baleful energy coalesced into slender, venomous snakes that surged toward the blood sea overhead.

The blood sea, which had rendered the giant corpse qi serpent helpless, proved utterly vulnerable against this dark-green baleful energy. Not only were gaping holes torn through it, allowing the baleful energy to penetrate its depths, but wherever the dark-green energy touched the blood, the crimson liquid visibly corroded, transforming into a putrid, foul-smelling fluid that rained down from the sky.

Song Wen’s expression froze in surprise. Jing Bei’s desperate gambit had caught him completely off guard.

To prevent further corrosion of the blood sea and a drastic weakening of the Blood Sea Seal’s power, Song Wen swiftly recalled the blood sea.

Seeing this, Jing Bei instinctively assumed Song Wen was trying to flee, a manic grin spreading across his face.

Even the decapitated Fu Kaiyu halted his attempt to retreat his divine soul into his dantian, intending to escape with his nascent soul.

Though beheaded, Fu Kaiyu’s head and body remained intact, sealed by his spiritual power to preserve his life force. He could simply reattach them later.

"You can’t escape! Your life is mine!"

With a thunderous roar, Jing Bei unleashed a torrent of Malevolent Qi that surged toward Song Wen.

In that instant, a miraculous sight unfolded across the night sky.

The blood sea, which had blanketed half the heavens, recoiled in disarray as if facing its natural predator. Behind it, hundreds of dark-green venomous snakes coiled and writhed, relentlessly pursuing their prey.

Just then, dark clouds suddenly gathered overhead.

Faint golden lightning flickered within the swirling darkness.

Crack!

Thunder roared like the wrath of the heavens, shattering the oppressive silence of the night.

A dazzling golden bolt of lightning, like a purifying divine radiance, tore through the clouds.

The golden lightning pierced the already shattered lake of corpse qi, causing it to explode violently.

The corpse qi was pierced, torn apart, and transformed into wisps of green smoke that dissipated into the air.

Jing Bei’s gaunt figure and Fu Kaiyu, whose severed head was clutched to his chest, were now fully exposed.

Two crimson beams of light struck Jing Bei’s mana shield.

He desperately channeled his half-step body integration stage spiritual power, but he couldn’t prevent the shield from crumbling.

As the shield grew increasingly fragile, Jing Bei’s expression turned frantic.

He channeled all his dark-green baleful energy and commanded the Corpse Puppet to launch a pincer attack on Song Wen.

With Song Wen having recalled the blood sea, the two forces faced no resistance as they closed in on his physical body.

The Corpse Puppet reached him first, its claw-like hands raised like withered branches. With a single strike, it shattered Song Wen’s skull.

The two crimson beams of light that had been erupting from Song Wen’s eyes immediately vanished.

The dark-green baleful energy swept through, obliterating Song Wen’s remaining body.

Seeing their formidable enemy defeated, Jing Bei exhaled in relief.

But in the next instant, a bone-chilling dread crawled up his spine.

A frigid killing intent surged silently from behind.

Bang!

A sharp crack echoed as his protective shield shattered from a strike from behind.

Jing Bei had just turned his head when he saw a short blade radiating icy light slicing toward his neck.

He soon followed in Fu Kaiyu’s footsteps, his head separating from his body and flying high into the air.

As the world spun around him, he glimpsed his opponent—the one who should have been torn to shreds by the Corpse Puppet and dark-green baleful energy—standing in mid-air miles away.

Massive amounts of gray baleful qi erupted from the figure, engulfing both Jing Bei’s and Fu Kaiyu’s severed heads and bodies.

The gray baleful qi erupted with extreme cold, instantly solidifying into a block of profound ice that froze Song Wen and Fu Kaiyu, preventing even their divine souls from escaping their skulls.

Song Wen recalled the Soul Cleaving Blade and used his spiritual power to drag the ice formed from Nine Nether Fiend Qi away without pausing.

After fleeing a million miles, Song Wen plunged into a raging river.

Submerging to the riverbed, he bypassed setting up a formation and directly shattered the ice, seizing the two skulls in his hands and devouring their divine souls.

Next came Fu Kaiyu’s mangled remains. After draining his blood essence, Song Wen ignited the corpse with a burst of flames, reducing it to ashes that scattered with the river’s current.

Finally, only Jing Bei’s corpse remained.

Now at the peak of Void Refinement, Song Wen knew absorbing Jing Bei’s spiritual power wouldn’t advance his cultivation.

Yet he refused to waste it and decided to experiment.

After all, advancing to the Body Integration Stage required purifying one’s spiritual power. Song Wen hoped to use Jing Bei’s spiritual power to temper his own.

However, the result defied his expectations.

The spiritual power absorbed from Jing Bei’s body, blocked by a bottleneck, couldn’t be absorbed by Song Wen’s nascent soul or retained within his body. Instead, it transformed into Spiritual Qi and dissipated outward.

(End of the Chapter)

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