As the Golden Core entered his body, Fang Lin Kong suddenly regained consciousness. Liexiezi, having lost his physical form, had no choice but to embrace the demonic path. After years of cultivation and reincarnation into a demon, he found himself completely out of sync with the powers of Xuanmen Zhengzong. Fang Lin Kong, having just been transformed by Liexiezi's demonic body, was particularly sensitive to the innate royal path power of the Golden Core. It felt as if he had been thrown into a bronze furnace, being roasted by fierce flames; he let out a cry of agony before fainting again. Yet, moments later, he was jolted awake by the pain, truly experiencing what could be described as the unbearable agony of life and death.
Surrounded by the five-colored smoke of the Five Elements Escape Spirit Flag, Fang Lin Kong felt no joy in soaring through the skies. While his body endured torment, several magical artifacts that Liexiezi had absorbed into him were suddenly activated to protect their "master." They unleashed powerful forces that only added to Fang Lin Kong's suffering.
In his haste to reclaim these artifacts, Liexiezi had unwittingly granted control over them to Fang Lin Kong's body. Now, unless Fang Lin Kong was in front of him, there was no way for Liexiezi to retrieve his treasures. Among Liexiezi's artifacts were two whose origins he did not fully understand.
One was the Haotian Divine Sword, used to plot against Voidbreaker; the other was a mysterious black iron ruler. For these two artifacts, he had slaughtered all practitioners of a certain Daoist sect but still failed to grasp their secrets. He had been driven out by Kunlun Celestial Path and relentlessly pursued by his senior brother Voidbreaker because of this.
During his confinement over the past few centuries, although Liexiezi had not had the chance to see these two artifacts again, he finally comprehended the strange spell inscribed on the Mystic Heaven Ruler through memory and transformed into a Celestial Demon. However, he had never fully understood the power of the Haotian Divine Sword.
The artifact that was now drawing forth spiritual energy was indeed this mysterious treasure used against Voidbreaker—the Haotian Divine Sword. As three forces contended for dominance within him, Fang Lin Kong's body could no longer withstand it; his bones cracked under pressure. At this critical moment between life and death, the sword's extraordinary ability was truly unleashed, and a dark golden light suppressed the other two forces while drawing Fang Lin Kong's consciousness into itself.
Finally free from pain for that fleeting moment, Fang Lin Kong believed he had achieved complete liberation. Although he could not see the halo above his head or the wings behind him—likely due to his Chinese heritage—he remained unaware that the Haotian Divine Sword acted like a gluttonous beast, disdainfully disregarding the chaotic energies within him. After forcibly absorbing Fang Lin Kong's Yuan Shen, it transformed into a thread and burrowed into Voidbreaker's Pure Yang Inner Elixir that had been cultivated over two thousand years.
Merged with the Haotian Divine Sword, Fang Lin Kong felt as though he was enduring torture in a blazing furnace. The vast righteous energy emanating from Voidbreaker's two-thousand-year-old inner elixir allowed the ignorant Fang Lin Kong to experience what medical science defined as level ten pain.
Initially powerless against this torment, as soon as a flicker of awareness sparked in his mind, his body seemed to respond instinctively and erupted with a powerful aura to counteract the Pure Yang Golden Elixir.
Feeling a slight alleviation of pain, Fang Lin Kong naturally strove to enhance his strength. Liexiezi did not instruct him on how to utilize the demonic energy infused within him; yet it seemed as if some will within Fate guided him. Using an unfamiliar and peculiar method he had never encountered before, Fang Lin Kong continuously compressed the power of the Pure Yang Golden Elixir.
In this situation, whether it was Voidbreaker’s resurrection or Liexiezi’s personal arrival, both could only stare in astonishment, unable to explain what exactly was happening with Fang Lin Kong.
From the future, Fang Lin Kong had anticipated that his reversal of time would bring about certain unpredictable changes, so he had left behind backup measures. An enigmatic method began to operate on its own.
In Voidbreaker’s original plan, the Pure Yang Golden Elixir he had cultivated for two thousand years would completely expel the demonic energy attached to him, restoring him to his original state. If that happened, his Golden Core would no longer sense the demonic energy and would detach from Fang Lin Kong's body, ascending to the Celestial Realm and returning to his side. Fang Lin Kong would remain unchanged, still just an ordinary boy.
However, what he did not know was that one of the Haotian Divine Sword's extraordinary abilities was its possession of ancient cultivation secrets. Only if the holder's essence could merge with the Haotian Divine Sword could they learn its unique powers. This cultivation method was an ancient secret long lost to history; Liexiezi had been baffled by it, yet today it was inadvertently triggered by Fang Lin Kong, who absorbed the ancient records within the Haotian Divine Sword.
To enable Fang Lin Kong to break his sealing restrictions, Liexiezi forcibly made him master a technique from the Mystic Heaven Ruler—Giant Spirit Transformation—which was the means by which he had just transformed into a green demonic form. The ancient Giant Spirit was a naturally born divine being; although its level was quite low, its divine power was boundless, with a body as tough as bronze and iron. However, its nature of power did not align with the later cultivation of Xian Dao.
After Liexiezi transformed into a demon, he discovered that the demonic energy resonated closely with the aura within Mystic Heaven Ruler. The natural path of demonic cultivation was actually closer to ancient power.
With Liexiezi's demonic power protecting him, Fang Lin Kong easily endured the violent transformation of the Giant Spirit. Although possessing the body of a Giant Spirit meant he could not immediately digest this power, he could barely protect himself and withstand the drastic changes brought by the Haotian Divine Sword.
The techniques within the Haotian Divine Sword were perfectly complementary yet opposing to those of Mystic Heaven Ruler. Had it not been for Liexiezi infusing him with a portion of demonic power beforehand, Fang Lin Kong would have already been unable to endure the anomalies of the Haotian Divine Sword and would have perished.
The Haotian Divine Sword embodied pure Yang and rigidity, while Liexiezi's path blended good and evil; thus, it could not invoke its mysteries. Meanwhile, Voidbreaker had cultivated Kunlun Celestial Path for over two thousand years, refining a Golden Core that was purely Yang and rigid. After lying dormant for thousands of years, the Haotian Divine Sword suddenly unleashed its inherent power upon receiving this substantial infusion of pure innate essence.
Originally an Ancient Immortal artifact meant for transcending tribulations, the Haotian Divine Sword utilized true solar fire to protect its owner's Yuan Shen from nine heavenly lightning tribulations.
However, cultivation itself is ever-changing and unpredictable. Before this final measure could be employed, that Ancient Immortal had already successfully transcended and ascended; thus, the Haotian Divine Sword had never been used. Once activated by Voidbreaker's two thousand years of Pure Yang Golden Elixir, it automatically housed its master’s Yuan Shen within it according to its original purpose. This allowed Fang Lin Kong to escape from the conflict between Pure Yang Golden Elixir and his own demonic energy, which would have otherwise led to his inevitable demise.
Several strange powers began to sprout and grow within Fang Lin Kong's body, yet he had no control over them at all.
The burning sensation gradually faded away. Meanwhile, this somewhat bewildered urban youth remained unaware that Pure Yang Golden Elixir was precisely the source of power driving the Five Elements Escape Spirit Flag. As Pure Yang Golden Elixir was absorbed by Haotian Divine Sword, the Five Elements Escape Spirit Flag immediately ceased operation; colorful smoke dissipated as it fell down...
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