Chapter 208: The Light of Primal Chaos!
"No one can stop me!"
The flame giant plunged its feet directly into the magma sea below. Its colossal, titanic form was enough to make the soul of anyone seeing it for the first time tremble. A single punch from this giant, even a Dou Sheng expert would likely be blasted into nothingness...
The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame stood atop the head of the Demonic Flame Divine Idol, his gaze fixed on the ant-like, minuscule figures of Jiang Yun and Qing Lin below. He grinned sinisterly...
In the next instant, the Demonic Flame Divine Idol abruptly raised its fist, which resembled an enormous mountain peak, and smashed it down towards Jiang Yun and Qing Lin. The moment that punch was thrown, a massive magma whirlpool, thousands of zhang wide, appeared on the surface of the magma sea ten thousand zhang below, spinning and howling madly.
Facing such a fist wind, brimming with destructive power, Qing Lin's small face was filled with solemnity, ready at any moment to support Jiang Yun ahead.
Jiang Yun, however, merely chuckled lightly. His pupils watched the giant fist descending like a meteor from the heavens. His hand seal changed, and his finger lightly tapped in the direction of the giant fist in the sky.
"Buzz—"
Instantly, the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array began to operate at high speed. From within the array, a milky-white magma fire pillar shot out with a whoosh, carrying the force of a thunderclap. It slammed into the magma giant fist. The terrifying power directly blasted the magma giant fist apart.
"Roar!"
His attack blocked, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame flew into a rage. In the next moment, his figure violently shot into the sky. Billowing milky-white flames surged fiercely from within the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's body, then swiftly spread out. In the blink of an eye, they encompassed this stretch of heaven and earth, like a flame prison, rushing towards the grand array around them.
Four enormous milky-white flame curtains poured down from the heavens.
"Demonic Flame Refines the Heavens!"
"Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, you should know the power of this Heaven-Refining Ancient Array even better than I do!" Watching the flames falling overwhelmingly from the sky, Jiang Yun chuckled lightly. His hand seal changed, and the heaven-shrouding array began to slowly rotate with a rumbling sound, like a millstone.
As the two grand arrays slowly rotated, the energy in this stretch of heaven and earth instantly became extremely violent. And as the arrays turned, the surrounding milky-white flames, which could incinerate even Dou Sheng experts, suddenly seemed to encounter something terrifying. In an instant, they were decomposed into pure heaven-and-earth energy.
"Refine!!!"
Watching the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame within the array, whose expression was beginning to turn frantic, Jiang Yun smiled gently. In the next moment, the arrays rotated. This entire stretch of heaven and earth shuddered violently. A ring of milky-white light rapidly spread from the edges of the arrays towards the center. Finally, under the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's horrified gaze, it coalesced into a hundred-zhang-wide milky-white light pillar.
As Jiang Yun's finger pointed down, both the Heaven Array and Earth Array of the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array trembled intensely. Under the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's terrified gaze, two milky-white light pillars accurately blasted onto his body.
"Ah..." The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame immediately let out a miserable shriek. Forcibly enduring the injuries within his body, he stared at Jiang Yun with a gaze full of cold malice. With a thought, several figures with not-inconsiderable auras emerged from the void, clustering protectively around him.
Among them was a gaunt, withered figure wielding an enormously exaggerated and bizarre, several-zhang-long blood-red giant axe. This figure emanated a powerful aura as heavy as Mount Tai pressing down.
It was precisely the ancestor of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Chen!
Jiang Yun had driven the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to a dead end, and now he was pinning his hopes on a few Dou Saint puppets.
Facing these puppets, which possessed little combat strength, Jiang Yun waved his hand. A sky-covering sheet of flame instantly engulfed them. As the scorching flames blazed, the fate of the several figures was instantly unknown.
"I even burned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint to death! A stinking little brat like you, who just got lucky and inherited his legacy, thinks he can refine me?"
"Keep dreaming!"
His puppets destroyed, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame seemed to go insane. Thousands of years of imprisonment had driven him to near madness, and now, just as he was about to successfully escape, someone had struck him like this. How could he not be furious, not go berserk?
"Boom—"
Within the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame erupted in his true form. The milky-white flames expanded more and more. At the center of the flames, hints of pink gradually appeared. These pink flames slowly condensed, and a slightly crimson, demonically alluring fire lotus finally emerged.
Within the vast space, every region was permeated with milky-white demonic flames. An indescribable, terrifyingly high temperature filled the space.
Such a terrifyingly high temperature—even an expert at the level of a four-star or even five-star Dou Sheng couldn't endure it for long. The temperature here had reached a point where even Dou Qi itself could be ignited.
Yet, even after erupting with such terrifyingly high temperatures, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame despairingly discovered that he still couldn't break through the blockade of the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array.
Seeing this, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's eyes instantly turned blood-red. "Bastard! I'll fight you to the death!"
As an existence who had controlled the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array for thousands of years, he naturally knew the terrifying power of this grand array. Although Jiang Yun wasn't the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint, his familiarity with the array gave the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame the feeling of facing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint himself.
Right now, his heart was filled with panic. The fate of being sealed was still vivid in his memory. That monotonous life, which he had endured for thousands of years, he was already utterly sick of...
At the center of the sea of fire within the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array, a fire lotus exuding a demonically strange aura was slowly rotating. With each of its rotations, its color continuously shifted between dark red and white.
The rotating fire lotus ultimately solidified into a white color. However, all of the lotus's petals were covered with fine red veins, resembling the blood vessels of a human body. Occasionally, a crimson gleam flickered, making this beautiful fire lotus seem full of a demonic and sinister feeling.
"Revealing your origin flame, are you?" Looking at the demonically alluring fire lotus in the sky, Jiang Yun smiled and said, "You are so cruel and violent; presumably, this isn't the result Senior Demon Lotus Saint wished to see. Today, let me help restore you to your original appearance."
"Spare me your hypocritical pity! How I grow is my own business! You are not the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint, so cut the phony act!" A glow faintly radiated from the demonic lotus, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's furious roar came from within.
"Senior Demon Lotus Saint has already vanished from this stretch of heaven and earth. Since you miss him so much, let me send you to meet him!" Jiang Yun looked at the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with a light smile, his words nearly making the other cough up blood.
"Bastard..."
The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame glared venomously at Jiang Yun. Immediately, the demonic lotus began to rotate at high speed. Strands of unusually terrifying blood-red flame suddenly shot out from within the demonic lotus. Faced with these bizarre blood-red flames, the space sealed by the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array actually began to distort violently.
"Strip!!!"
Watching the struggling Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Jiang Yun gently waved his palm. The enormous array, spanning tens of thousands of zhang, actually began to collapse from the outside in...
The collapsing power condensed into an enormous flame curtain. From within the flame curtain, countless fiery lines violently shot out. These fiery lines formed a fiery net, deeply imprinting into the depths of the demonic lotus. Then, the fiery net slowly pulled upwards. Strands of blood-red mist were slowly forced out of the demonic lotus's main body.
"Ah!"
As these strands of blood-red mist rose, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's blood-curdling screams immediately came from within the demonic lotus. It spun madly, but no matter how much tremendous energy it released, it still couldn't break free from the fiery net entangled around it.
"The Heaven-Refining Ancient Array has accumulated energy for several thousand years. Even an eight-star Dou Sheng would not fare well here. Stop struggling..."
Following Jiang Yun's control, the fiery lines gradually forced the blood-red mist, symbolizing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's memories and sentience, out of the main body.
Feeling the gradual blankness within his mind, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame began to panic inwardly. It roared, "I am a divine object of heaven and earth, protected by heaven and earth! If you 'kill' me, you will suffer divine retribution!"
However, faced with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's 'threat', Jiang Yun directly ignored it. His hand seal changed, and the numerous fiery lines within the flame curtain suddenly crisscrossed through the demonic lotus's body.
"Ah!"
Stream after stream of thick blood mist rapidly surged out from the demonic lotus. Finally, it quickly formed a blood-red figure above the demonic lotus—plainly the human form the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had taken.
Forced out of his main body, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame immediately tried to dive back down, wanting to burrow in again. But in mid-air, a pitch-black abyssal maw suddenly split open and swallowed him in one gulp.
Putting away the returning Saint Demon Flame, Jiang Yun's gaze swept over the boundless magma sea and spotted a white lotus flower, its entire body covered in pink veins, slowly swimming. As it moved, it seemed as if the energy of the entire sea area was endlessly surging towards it...
"The Demonic Flame Origin..." Gazing at that milky-white lotus flower tinged with a faint pink hue, Qing Lin, who had been on guard nearby, finally relaxed her mind and looked at Jiang Yun beside her with pleasant surprise.
"The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame!" Jiang Yun gazed at the pink lotus flower above the magma sea. A unique feeling arose in his heart. This Heavenly Flame, ranked in the top three of the Heavenly Flame List, gave him a sensation distinctly different from the Heavenly Flames he had devoured before.
This feeling... it was as if this Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was formed from a part of heaven and earth itself, a native-born member of the family. Whereas the previous ones were... outsiders?
The sense of closeness and distance gave him a completely different feeling.
"Am I being too sensitive?" After a moment of silence, Jiang Yun raised his head and glanced at the void above. Finally suppressing his thoughts, he spoke gently to Qing Lin beside him, "Qing Lin, I need to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. It won't take too long."
"Jiang Yun ge-ge, I'll wait for you..." Qing Lin obediently nodded, her beautiful eyes gazing at Jiang Yun with adoration as she spoke softly.
Jiang Yun nodded and slowly approached the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. At this moment, all the lotus petals of the latter had unfurled. At the very heart of the flower, a cluster of pink flame coiled and nestled like an infant.
A high temperature that made one's soul tremble emanated from this cluster of pink flame. This cluster of pink flame was the true Demonic Flame Origin.
Jiang Yun reached his palm towards the interior of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. A mass of pitch-black flame suddenly blazed up in his palm, instantly isolating the high temperature of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. With the appearance of the Saint Demon Flame, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame seemed to sense something amiss. It trembled slightly, as if wanting to flee this place.
But Jiang Yun would not let it escape. With quick eyes and swift hands, he thrust his hand into the interior of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and seized that cluster of pink Demonic Flame Origin. Instantly, a surge of vast energy mixed with searing heat swept through Jiang Yun's entire body, trying to burn him to ashes.
However, with the Saint Demon Flame protecting his body, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame couldn't cause Jiang Yun even the slightest harm.
With a calm expression, Jiang Yun slowly brought the cluster of pink flame in his palm to his mouth and swallowed it alive into his body!
"Bang!"
The moment the Demonic Flame Origin entered his body, pink flames ignited on Jiang Yun's body surface. An indescribable, excruciating pain transmitted from every part of his body.
"Devour, refine!"
Jiang Yun's expression remained unchanged. He urged the Saint Demon Flame within his body to charge towards that cluster of Demonic Flame Origin, then forcibly wrapped around it. A terrifying devouring power erupted, swallowing it bit by bit...
"Roar! Roar!"
Facing the refinement of the Saint Demon Flame, the Demonic Flame Origin also seemed to sense something. It immediately began to struggle violently.
The flame's temperature grew increasingly terrifying, searing the fragile organs within Jiang Yun's body. This caused Jiang Yun's body to appear somewhat transparent, making Qing Lin, watching from outside, deeply worried.
"Reverse Yin and Yang!"
Suddenly, Jiang Yun, who was in the midst of refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, abruptly opened his eyes. His hands formed a seal, and the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array reappeared in the space. The difference this time was that it now displayed two colors—black and white—like an enormous black-and-white millstone.
Endless, boundless energy condensed within the ancient array. At this moment, Jiang Yun's body seemed to transform into an infinite black hole, absorbing the surging energy without any reservation.
The Heaven-Refining Ancient Array's energy, accumulated over several thousand years, now benefited Jiang Yun alone.
The meridians, flesh, muscles, bones, cells, and every other part of Jiang Yun's body were, at this moment, like starving ghosts who hadn't eaten for decades, madly devouring that endless, vast energy.
The abundant energy even began to solidify on the surface of Jiang Yun's body. Finally, it transformed into something resembling a crystal cocoon, enveloping Jiang Yun's body within.
Outside, Qing Lin sensed Jiang Yun's rapidly soaring aura from within the crystal cocoon. Her heart quietly relaxed. The emerald green light in her eyes receded, and the three extremely tiny green flowers deep within her pupils quietly contracted.
Just at that moment, Jiang Yun felt his consciousness sink into an endless darkness. A gray, dim sky; a gray, dim earth. Only the tiny patch of ground beneath his feet glowed with a faint, dim light.
Looking around in all directions, the world was utterly silent and still, without the slightest sign of life. A profound sense of loneliness—of being the sole person in this world—gradually crept into his heart.
Jiang Yun frowned, observing everything around him. Suddenly, in the infinite distance, a pink mysterious light emerged. What met his eyes was a white lotus flower, its entire body covered in pink veins.
Approaching it, a terrifying purifying power lingered around it, shaking one's heart.
In an instant, image after image flashed through Jiang Yun's mind. He felt as if he had returned to that ancient era, to the very beginning of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's birth, witnessing the entire process of its gestation...
Meanwhile, in an unknown location on the Dou Qi Continent, within a stretch of chaos, a chaotic light sphere roughly a thousand zhang in size, lying dormant within a chaotic sea, suddenly began to tremble slightly.
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