Capítulo 922: Chapter 90: Heaven Hasn’t Treated Me Badly!

“Damn it, this old bastard really thinks he’s got me under control. Damn, with such a big commotion, did this old guy not suspect anything? Damn it, hurry up and retrieve the elixir, if you don’t, how am I supposed to stab you to death with one sword!”

Zhou Yan cursed inwardly again. Zhao Yi believed that elixirs refined over a long period and overcooked were more potent and perfect, so he delayed retrieving the elixir.

Although Zhou Yan gained great benefits, the pain was indeed like a thousand arrows piercing the heart, unbearable. If it were any other cultivator, they would have died in agony. Zhou Yan, with his incredible willpower, couldn’t help but curse inwardly.

After waiting a while longer, this old guy started sensing the temperature of the pill furnace. He judged it could still be refined because the temperature hadn’t dropped. Zhou Yan almost wanted to burn this Zhao Yi to death; damn, this is alchemy!

This is refining ghosts!

Zhou Yan was rather speechless, but this Zhao Yi seemed addicted, occasionally spraying Essence Blood onto the pill furnace, evoking the Emperor Fire Yin Qi to intensify the refinement again.

Zhou Yan’s face turned extremely dark, and he could only grit his teeth to continue absorbing this Blood Essence Qi, transforming it into cultivation energy, and was compelled but naturally began to comprehend the second domain.

The second domain is the Soul-cutting Domain.

Soul-cutting Sovereign Path, as Zhou Yan’s second supreme means, was previously restricted, almost like having his arm cut off, suffering various constraints.

But now, after beginning to comprehend the Soul-cutting Domain, the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path could truly be wielded within the Dark God Domain, representing a new transformation.

Soul-cutting means the divine soul can split in two, and the two become four.

By combining the technique of form and intent transformation, in moments of danger, it can manifest a soul-cutting avatar self. Facing death, the remaining original soul suddenly escapes, concealing itself.

This is an excellent means of shedding one’s skin, almost instantly becoming invincible by combining it with the rules of the Form-Intent Dark God Domain.

If equipped with this means, even if Zhao Yi were ten times stronger, Zhou Yan could escape calmly.

That is to say, once the Soul-cutting Dark Divine Domain is successfully cultivated, Zhou Yan can calmly deal with any cultivator below the Venerable Realm without life-threatening danger.

Even against a Venerable, as long as their strength isn’t too great or if they don’t possess bizarre domain rules, Zhou Yan can escape without falling.

This is definitely a crucial domain rule.

However, to comprehend and successfully cultivate such domain rules naturally comes with significant difficulty, as it is equivalent to re-establishing such a rule.

Zhou Yan comprehends the initial secret technique of the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path, re-understanding the Path of Incompletion and enlightenment of the Original Dao from the past, gradually unifying heart and mind. He directly advanced from the Divine Spirit First Transition Realm to the Divine Spirit Second Transition Realm.

Upon entering the Divine Spirit Second Transition, this second transition’s supreme dao rules, the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path, began to form a domain prototype. Zhou Yan used an Emperor’s Will of the Emperor Qi Sword Body, with an aura of awe across all lands, to simulate the Soul-cutting Domain, then create his own dao within the domain using his imposing presence.

The Dragon Soul, however, distanced itself from the secret technique of the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path, while the Thunderhawk Beast Sword Soul made some progress regarding it.

Zhou Yan wasn’t rigid; he directly used the Thunderhawk Sword Soul as the main body, initiated the Form-Intent War Beast Sword Soul Body, and used the Thunderhawk War Beast Sword Soul for enlightenment.

The Thunderhawk, with the Thunderflame Sword Body, combined with the Thunder-controlling Divine Soul, laid a solid foundation for the next layer of the Thunder Flame Dark Divine Domain while comprehending enlightenment.

While it was difficult for the Dragon Soul to comprehend the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path, switching to using the Thunderhawk Beast Divine Soul as the main divine soul, consolidating all divine souls into one, the Thunderhawk dominated the divine soul, condensed the soul-cutting rules, which naturally followed.

Zhou Yan almost instinctively triggered all kinds of thoughts rushing in as if having a sudden enlightenment.

The condensation of the Soul-cutting Sovereign Path’s Dark God Domain proceeded much smoother than Zhou Yan anticipated, surprisingly exceeding expectations.

“The Thunderhawk is the king amidst thunder, soaring across the skies, representing the decree of divine punishment.”

“Thunder, soul-cutting, annihilating all beings, cutting soul to form soul, cutting dao to achieve harmonization.”

“The Soul-cutting Dark God Domain, begins to take shape!”

Zhou Yan murmured to himself, gradually condensing the second layer of the Soul-cutting Domain.

The Soul Sea remained the Soul Sea, but above it, a layer covered by Soul Spring appeared, like a black cloud pressing down, yet emanating a scent of soul power.

Zhou Yan fell into a state of emptiness and silence, a realm of absence of thoughts and feelings, where above his Soul Sea, numerous densely packed soul energies were derived, dispersing, breaking, and rebirthing, deriving the origin of the dual techniques of Undying Rebirth and Nirvana Rebirth, manifesting forms of supreme dao amid thunders.

The Soul Sea began to sway, as if starting the breath of ripples.

Waves appeared in the Soul Sea, soaring high and crashing upon the black soul energies, which transformed into black bubbles that melded into the Soul Sea, repeatedly shuttling within.

After shuttling, when they burst forth from the Soul Sea again, the black bubbles transformed into a multicolored hue, and after ascending into the void and shattering, they exuded an immaculate soul energy scent, incomparably pure, as if various daos could be presented within this soul energy.

“Pure Soul Spring”

In the state of empty silence, Zhou Yan vaguely sensed this scene, his heart somewhat moved.

But he maintained that state, without exiting the bright, thoughtless state due to it.

The changes in the Soul Sea, Zhou Yan allowed them to unfold while only focusing on his own Dao.

Time, amidst the condensation and enlightenment, continued to pass, and as for Zhao Yi, Zhou Yan no longer cared.

The Pill Furnace gradually quieted down, yet within it seemed to hide an unparalleled treasure.

Zhao Yi stared at the Pill Furnace, trembling with excitement, muttering to himself phrases like ‘Heaven does not treat me poorly,’ while carefully searching certain areas of this Void Sword Mountain Emperor Fire Heavenly Prison, trying to find powerful soul resources and soul liquid.

He searched for these things, believing that this batch of Heavenly Soul Pills would certainly succeed, thus continuously adding strong divine medicine and resources, hoping to refine something even better, and to compensate for the final transformation of the elixir by absorbing the energy of heaven and earth.

Zhao Yi was worried that the elixir was too strong and that without sufficient energy absorption after coming out of the furnace, it would affect the quality of the elixir, so he painstakingly kept adding divine medicine and soul liquid.

The strength of Zhao Yi, in this realm, finding the rules of heaven and earth was naturally easier than for other cultivators, even though as a divine soul avatar entering, his realm was also suppressed to the peak state of the Divine Spirit Nine Transitions, but it was his experience and ability that were key.

Now Zhao Yi further invested soul liquid, preparing to risk it all.

Zhou Yan initially thought Zhao Yi was simply assuming, yet as the realm advanced, Zhou Yan discovered that the feedback from the Pill Furnace was indeed somewhat abnormal.

Integrating the analysis of array patterns, Zhou Yan strangely discovered that according to elixir standards, the Twelve Beast Sword Souls combined with the original soul, the thirteen soul qi unified, it inherently was in the form of a Soul Pill, disregarding Zhou Yan’s own life energy, this itself conformed to the rules of elixir combination.

This discovery made Zhou Yan suddenly enlightened.

It wasn’t that Zhao Yi was mad, but rather the Pill Furnace, tied to Zhao Yi’s heart and blood, transmitted abnormal information, making Zhao Yi very certain that the alchemy hadn’t failed.

“Regardless of life or death, what fundamental difference is there between a cultivator and the transformation of an elixir? From the reaction of the Pill Furnace, it seems the distinction should not be large. Perhaps, the condensation of soul energy should be exactly the same. The rest, the rest are just secondary.”

“Since that is the case, if I treat myself as an elixir, then helping Zhao Yi, through self-tempering, what effect would it have?”

Zhou Yan pondered, and then he began self-refining.

Self-refining was inherently similar to self soul-slashing, thus, under sudden enlightenment, Zhou Yan made significant progress in the rules of this domain.

Zhou Yan wholeheartedly cooperated with Zhao Yi’s refining; thus, Zhou Yan’s understanding of the soul-slashing domain rules improved at an extremely rapid pace, as if suddenly bestowed with the ability of enlightenment, many doubts gradually dissolved, and sudden enlightenment occurred.

With Zhou Yan fully cooperating, Zhao Yi’s refining process naturally became smoother, with various anomalies appearing from time to time, waves of pure soul energy and soul-slashing domain rules emerged, and this overflowing soul energy made Zhao Yi ecstatic.

He frequently licked his lips and rubbed his hands, exclaiming excitedly, “Heaven does not treat me poorly!”

The time like this continued for another two days, during which Zhou Yan endured the powerful tempering of Emperor Fire, his body infused with a true elixir fragrance, as if genuinely turned into an elixir.

If Zhou Yan had no living presence, he would be almost indistinguishable from a Soul Pill.

Yet Zhou Yan was alive, so all the benefits naturally fell onto him.

During these two days, Zhao Yi was even more exhausted, unable to contain his excitement.

A cultivator, repeatedly excited, thrilled, and anticipating for nearly ten days, nights on end, this expenditure of heart power was incredibly astounding; Zhao Yi not only looked much frailer but also because he continuously burned essence blood and sacrificially refined Emperor Fire Yin Qi, his entire aura was much weaker, as if on the verge of decaying and dying of old age.

It was only due to the strong sense of expectation that Zhao Yi did not collapse, and could also be considered a person of astonishing perseverance.

Zhao Yi believed Heaven did not treat him poorly; overwhelmed with excitement, finally awaited the information feedback from the Pill Furnace, indicating the elixir was fully formed, possessing thirteen refined and unified soul qi divine attributes; he believed this elixir was enough to help him completely break free from the constraints of the Venerable Realm, holding hope of stepping into immortality.

After all, for this elixir, he consumed an extraordinary amount, among which were some soul springs, soul liquid, and life divine medicine, acquired at unimaginable costs and were extremely precious.

Zhao Yi, with the Pill Furnace intimately connected, in a divine thought, the Pill Furnace left the Emperor Fire, landing before him; he solemnly, extremely excitedly, lifted the lid of the Pill Furnace.

He anticipated, there would certainly be radiance overflowing, brilliant colors, light shooting to the sky, and fragrance spreading.

And indeed, that was precisely the case, as the Pill Furnace opened, a golden light elixir shot out, Zhao Yi swiftly grabbed it, mastering the essence of quick, accurate, and ruthless.

“Heaven does not treat me poorly!”

Zhao Yi was overjoyed; seeing this Soul Pill, his eyes nearly bulged out, yet at the moment of reaching out, suddenly felt something was amiss.

In that instant, Zhao Yi felt cold all over, as if falling into an abyss, filled with a chilling sensation—for beneath the elixir, a youth with cold and determined eyes suddenly unfolded a terrifying domain, overwhelming him with unstoppable killing intent!

Killing Spirit Divine Dao Avatar.

Soul-slashing Supreme Dao suppressing the divine soul.

Thunder-controlling Divine Soul unleashed a peerless strike, Divine Soul Killing Path!

The Xuanyuan Sword activated simultaneously.

All attacks combined at one point, erupted with the augmenting killing move of Emperor Xuan Yuan’s energy, an utterly terrifying killing move capable of slaying the Supreme Heavenly Venerate; how could Zhao Yi, a mere Venerable not even at the realm of Heavenly Spirit Venerable, resist?!