LRAB Chapter 13 The Other Shore Demon Land, Metamorphosis
Chapter 13 The Other Shore Demon Land, Metamorphosis
Looking at the Bitter Sea shrouded in a dim, misty haze, Zhao Tianpeng's gaze seemed to pierce through the mist and water, revealing an ominous aura below.
The aura was gloomy and ominous, appearing after he had cultivated the phenomenon of the Yellow Springs Bewilderment using a secret method. It was as if the appearance of the phenomenon had stimulated the phenomenon of the Yellow Springs Spirit Body itself, and it had actually begun to show a hint of its manifestation in the Sea of Bitterness.
"Unfortunately, it's just a glimpse of what's to come. We'll have to wait until the Four Extremes Secret Realm to see the full picture. Right now, we can't even make a dent in it."
Zhao Tianpeng withdrew his gaze, having refined the Calamity of Loss. His spiritual senses became increasingly acute, and his divine consciousness, as if it had undergone a baptism, grew stronger and more resilient. He stood on the increasingly robust and crystalline Heavenly Vein Divine Bridge and strode forward. The Heavenly Vein shone brightly, like a purple-gold beam spanning the sea of suffering. At its end, he found himself in a pure land, shrouded in mist. High in the sky, he vaguely saw a massive Dao Palace.
After reaching the other shore realm, he felt the changes within himself. His essence, energy, and spirit were sublimated, his divine power surged, and the sea of suffering expanded to the size of a palm, shimmering and sparkling.
He stepped from the Divine Bridge Heavenly Vein onto the Pure Land of the Other Shore, sat cross-legged, and began to circulate his profound magic according to his own scriptures. In an instant, the entire Sea of Wheels changed color, streaks of blood-red lightning flashed across the sky, yin winds stirred up ghostly mist, and the Sea of Bitterness stirred up thousands of giant waves. These strange phenomena even broke out of the Sea of Bitterness and manifested in the room. If Zhao Tianpeng had not inscribed Dao patterns in the room and condensed his power to block all these strange phenomena, such a strange scene would probably have covered several blocks around.
Zhao Tianpeng conjured countless Origin Technique patterns that landed on the Other Shore. The land on the Other Shore rapidly rose up, transforming into a series of great dragon mountain ranges. A total of ninety-nine great dragons intertwined to form a formation that completely enveloped the Other Shore. This was none other than the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain formation recorded in the Origin Emperor's Scripture.
"Ugh~~~~~"
But unlike the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain, which devours countless lives and defies the creation of heaven and earth, these ninety-nine dragons, after letting out a long roar in unison, actually caused the endless death energy in the sea of bitterness to begin to permeate the other shore, which was like a fairyland. The endless light and holiness in the other shore faded away, and darkness, demonic nature and death took root and expanded in the other shore. The ninety-nine dragons transformed into evil dragons of the Yellow Springs. In the middle of the ninety-nine dragons, a demonic coffin took shape, containing all his potential transformed into the demonic embryo of the Yellow Springs.
The terrifying deathly aura and demonic energy rapidly eroded the sacred other shore, transforming it into a demonic underworld shrouded in yin energy and ghostly mist. Layers of ghostly fog rose, within which were phantoms of fierce gods and illusory figures of evil spirits dancing wildly, and the shrieks of evil spirits. It looked like a graveyard of gods and demons.
He actually turned the other side into a burial ground, and himself into a living tomb!
After opening his eyes, Zhao Tianpeng took out two pieces of divine source from the sea of bitterness, his gaze shifting uncertainly between the blood beast and the gold-eating beast.
Since he has transformed himself into a living burial ground, it is naturally meant to bury living beings. The other shore realm requires undergoing a transformation involving nine lives and nine deaths, completing nine blood and bone replacements to achieve perfection. However, his scripture requires burying the origins of powerful corpses to help him complete a transformation of life and death. The origin of a powerful creature undergoes one transformation, and nine lives and nine deaths will bury the origins of nine powerful creatures.
He happened to possess two powerful ancient beasts, but now he faced a dilemma: "Should I bury them both, undergoing two life-and-death transformations in one step, or keep one to refine into a battle corpse for protection?"
Ultimately, he decided to keep the Gold-Eating Beast. This ancient beast devoured all kinds of divine materials and metals, and its body was extremely hard, making it even better for refining war corpses.
He put away the divine source that had been sealed away from the Gold-Eating Beast, then placed some food on the table, inscribed Dao patterns to keep it warm, and looked at the little girl: "Little girl, I'm going to undergo a transformation later. No matter what happens, don't panic. Just wait for me to wake up."
"If you're hungry, there's food here."
"Okay, I'll wait for big brother!"
The little girl nodded obediently and went to sit down at the table.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Tianpeng began his first transformation. He formed a magic seal with both hands, and a mournful, eerie wind swept through the entire room. A rattling sound of iron chains rang out, and several pitch-black iron chains flew out from his sea of suffering, passing through the divine source like invisible objects and piercing the blood beast's body. The chains continuously drilled and weaved through the blood beast's corpse.
Until the moment the entire blood beast was completely locked up, demonic runes lit up on the iron chains, and the eerie dark light emanating from them seemed to extract something from the blood beast's flesh and blood, causing its scales, which looked as if they were cast from crimson gold, to visibly dim.
As the black light was refined, the treasure seal in Zhao Tianpeng's hand changed, and the iron chain, gleaming with black light, was pulled outward with a clanging sound. A fist-sized ball of blood-colored essence flew out from the blood beast's corpse, was pulled into the Sea of Wheels by the iron chain, and fell straight down onto a dragon mountain in the burial soil cultivated on the other shore. The burial soil churned, and a grave mound appeared.
The next moment, the sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling rang out from his sea of suffering. Blood beast phantoms on the burial ground swallowed the heavens and earth, and the ninety-nine Yellow Spring Demon Dragons roared in unison. The terrain of Dragon Mountain shifted, the blood beast phantoms shattered, and the blood beast essence buried in the burial ground was melted and extracted. One after another, pure essence containing brilliant divine light and fragments of the Great Dao Law flowed in that Dragon Mountain. Streams of crimson innate essence carrying fragments of the Great Dao transformed into blood-red waterfalls that cascaded down onto the demon coffin and were swallowed by the Yellow Spring Demon Embryo inside the demon coffin.
A few days ago, as the Blood Beast's essence was swallowed by the Yellow Spring Demon Embryo, a surge of divine light welled up from the depths of Zhao Tianpeng's body and merged into his flesh and blood. Every inch of his flesh and blood emitted divine light with his breath, and his blood and qi grew stronger day by day. By the seventh day, his blood and qi had reached its peak, and his vitality was incredibly vigorous. The blood light on his body transformed into a tangible blood cocoon that enveloped his figure.
After seven days of this, the crimson cocoon of light gradually dimmed, and Zhao Tianpeng's body also lost its radiance. On the eighth day, his body withered and shriveled, resembling tattered cloth compared to its previous crystalline brilliance. On the ninth day, his internal organs ceased functioning, and compared to his previous vitality, he was now deathly still. On the tenth day, his bones were a dull gray, as if they were about to decay. The life force within him had almost reached its end, and endless death energy filled his flesh, blood, and bones.
By the eleventh day, his mind was almost extinguished. The last glimmer of his spirit, carrying endless death energy, fell into the burial ground and merged with the blood beast's primordial essence, which had been hollowed out. At this moment, only an indelible life imprint remained on the blood beast's primordial shell, which was then filled back in as the overwhelming death energy fell.
The little girl, who had been sitting obediently, looked worried upon seeing this. After thinking for a moment, she went to the blood cocoon and took out a small, crystal-clear stone from her pocket, its surface shimmering with seven colors. She held the stone out to the blood cocoon, and the dried-up cocoon emitted a terrifying suction force that drew the stone in, drawing in extremely pure life energy.