Translator: CinderTL
As Song Wen watched the nascent soul flee into the distance, a flash of realization crossed his eyes. He had been deceived.
Chi Pei's Blood Sacrifice Art had never truly restored his spiritual power to its peak. It was merely a ruse, a carefully crafted illusion to mislead Song Wen into believing Chi Pei possessed the strength to contend with him.
Chi Pei's desperate gamble was nothing more than a bluff, a feigned show of force designed to create an opportunity for escape.
The nascent soul moved with incredible speed, outstripping even mystic treasures.
Song Wen acted decisively. He raised his right hand and struck the top of his own head.
His skull shattered, and his physical body instantly withered into a mummified corpse, plummeting from the sky.
When Song Wen reappeared, he was already over a hundred miles away, intercepting the fleeing nascent soul just a few miles ahead.
"Chi Pei, you can't escape."
A torrent of Corpse Qi erupted from Song Wen's body, rapidly spreading outward to form a towering wall.
Panic flickered in the nascent soul's eyes as it abruptly changed direction, attempting to flee back the way it had come.
But behind it, another massive Blood wall surged forward, blocking its retreat.
Blood walls and towering walls of Corpse Qi converged from all directions, relentlessly closing in to completely block the nascent soul's escape routes—front, back, left, right, above, and below.
Seeing no way out, Chi Pei's eyes flashed with despair, quickly replaced by madness.
The nascent soul suddenly expanded, radiating a blinding crimson light as a terrifying surge of energy erupted from within.
"Trying to self-detonate your nascent soul? Dream on!" Song Wen seemed to have anticipated this move. Several slender Blood-colored Tentacles shot out, tightly ensnaring the nascent soul and immediately disrupting its self-detonation sequence.
The tentacles continued to extend and coil, wrapping the nascent soul in layer upon layer until it formed a blood cocoon the size of a human head.
Song Wen seized the blood cocoon, then retracted the surrounding Corpse Qi and blood sea. He turned and strode away.
This place was too dangerous to linger; he needed to leave immediately.
Song Wen sped onward, covering a million miles in short order.
Here, the miasma was significantly thinner, allowing Song Wen's divine sense to perceive a radius of five hundred miles.
He found a mountain cave and entered.
After setting up the Ten Directions Illusionary Domain Formation and the Stellar Cycle Formation, Song Wen retrieved the blood cocoon.
Blood slowly trickled down the blood cocoon, revealing Chi Pei's nascent soul.
The nascent soul glared at Song Wen, its eyes burning with boundless resentment and defiance.
"Ye Hua, the Divine Blood Gate will never forgive you!"
Song Wen remained unmoved. He extended a finger and pressed it against the nascent soul's forehead, intending to devour Chi Pei's cultivation.
However, nothing happened. He couldn't directly absorb cultivation from the nascent soul.
After a moment's thought, Song Wen retrieved a mummified corpse—Chi Pei's own.
The Blood-colored Tentacle coiled around the nascent soul and, following the gaping wound in the corpse's abdomen, guided it inside.
Chi Pei was utterly bewildered by Song Wen's actions.
"Ye Hua, are you mad? What do you want? Kill me, torture me—do as you please!" Chi Pei roared.
But his voice abruptly cut off.
He could clearly feel his nascent soul's cultivation draining away at an alarming rate, flowing ceaselessly into Song Wen.
"Ye Hua, you... you can actually devour another's cultivation directly..."
Chi Pei's voice was filled with disbelief, as if he had witnessed something that shattered his understanding of reality.
Song Wen paid no heed to Chi Pei's terror, his heart brimming with satisfaction.
A trace of blood essence remained in Chi Pei's corpse. As Song Wen devoured this essence, he also absorbed the spiritual power of the nascent soul.
Reinserting the nascent soul—whose dantian had already been shattered—into Chi Pei's corpse to devour its cultivation was a gamble. Song Wen had approached the experiment with no certainty of success, merely hoping for the best.
To his surprise, it worked.
As the nascent soul's cultivation flowed ceaselessly into his body, Song Wen's aura surged rapidly. The nascent soul gradually faded, becoming transparent before vanishing completely, leaving only its divine soul.
Drawn by an irresistible force, the divine soul was dragged into Song Wen's Sea of Consciousness, where it was suppressed by the Sea of Consciousness Black Hole.
By this point, Song Wen's cultivation had already approached the bottleneck of the mid-stage Divine Transformation realm.
Song Wen retrieved Chi Pei's storage ring and extracted the corpses of Tang Gui and Sang Bu, continuing to devour their cultivation.
The foreign spiritual power surged through his meridians like a raging tide, converging in his dantian. His cultivation advanced in leaps and bounds until an invisible barrier appeared, attempting to halt his progress.
Under the relentless onslaught of foreign spiritual power, the barrier shattered with a thunderous roar, propelling Song Wen's cultivation into the late divine transformation stage.
Song Wen abruptly opened his eyes, his gaze gleaming like starlight.
He had completely absorbed the cultivation power of Tang Gui and Sang Bu, converting it into his own.
His cultivation had already reached the bottleneck of the late Divine Transformation stage, just one step away from breaking through.
The peak of Divine Transformation was now within reach, as if he could grasp it with his hand.
However, Song Wen knew that breaking through this late-stage bottleneck wouldn't be easy; he needed to proceed cautiously.
Moreover, his cultivation had advanced too rapidly, nearly skipping two minor realms, leaving his foundation unstable.
He needed to consolidate his cultivation before attempting another breakthrough.
Clutching Chi Pei's storage ring, he began meticulously searching through it, quickly finding several jade slips that piqued his interest.
One of the jade slips contained the continuation of the Corpse King's Rebirth Art, which he desperately needed.
However, this slip only recorded the cultivation technique from the Qi Refining Stage to the Void Refinement Stage; the sections for higher realms were still missing.
Though incomplete, it was sufficient for his current needs.
Song Wen put away this jade slip and picked up another, which recorded the Ten Thousand Poisons Body.
According to the jade slip, the Ten Thousand Poisons Body was divided into three layers. To his slight disappointment, this slip only contained the first two layers, precisely matching the two sections of the technique he had obtained in the Lower Realm.
Losing interest in this jade slip, Song Wen picked up a third.
This jade slip contained Chi Pei's cultivation insights, detailing his understanding and comprehension of the Corpse King's Rebirth Art, as well as records of his daily cultivation practices, including the forging of the Blood Sea Seal.
From the lines between the characters, it was clear that Chi Pei had poured considerable effort into crafting the Blood Sea Seal.
He had obtained numerous cultivation notes from the Divine Blood Gate, detailing the experiences of previous cultivators who had forged this treasure. Combining these insights with his own ideas, he had made several improvements to the process.
In contrast, Song Wen had merely followed the standard forging method, relying solely on a single manual. His approach seemed rather lackluster by comparison.
After roughly inventorying Chi Pei's storage ring, Song Wen submerged his consciousness into his Sea of Consciousness.
Upon seeing Song Wen's appearance, a hint of apprehension flickered in Chi Pei's divine soul's eyes.
The Black Hole hovering above the Sea of Consciousness completely defied his understanding. It was something no cultivator should possess.
"Ye Hua, who exactly are you? What is this Black Hole above the Sea of Consciousness? And how are you able to devour my cultivation?" Chi Pei fired off a series of questions, but Song Wen merely replied calmly:
"Chi Pei, if you answer a few questions truthfully, I'll grant you the chance to scatter your soul and vanish your spirit."
"You're already trying to scatter my soul and vanish my spirit! Why would I answer your questions?" Chi Pei's tone carried a hint of resentment.
Song Wen countered, "Then I'll have no choice but to let you taste the Golden Soup Curse."
"You even know the Golden Soup Curse?" Chi Pei's expression shifted slightly. "Just what is your background?"
(End of the Chapter)
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