Inside the Transmission Hall, all auspiciousness was shattered, demonic atmosphere reached the sky! The black-robed cultivator swallowed the demonized innate qi, his aura surging to Nascent Soul late stage, his demonic might imposing, blood-red eyes like two hell lamps, dead-set locking onto Tang Xiao Qi and Mu Xue, killing intent like substantial ice picks, bone-piercingly cold.
"First eliminate these two obstructing sources of purification!"
The black-robed cultivator laughed ferociously, his form merging with demonic qi, transforming into a pitch-black demonic shadow traversing the void, speed to the extreme, everywhere he passed, even light was devoured, space leaving twisted traces! Both palms thrust out simultaneously, one demonic palm with five fingers like hooks, fingertipsentwined with soul-corroding filthy demonic light, straight grabbing at Mu Xue's face, the other demonic palm expanding like a mountain, palm center manifesting a rotating devouring vortex, covering toward Xiao Qi, intending to devour and demonize both of them along with their innate qi!
At the same time, the remaining few demon puppets also as if receiving orders, issued crazy roars, disregarding their own injuries, again pouncing toward Ao Qin, Ling Jueyi, and others, using self-destructive attacks to contain them, not giving them a chance to help.
The situation was critical! The black-robed cultivator's strength surged, and he launched a sneak attack, Xiao Qi and Mu Xue instantly fell into unprecedented danger!
Mu Xue's ice eyes contained killing intent, extreme cold qi instantly condensed before her into layer upon layer of ice walls comparable to ten-thousand-year mysterious ice, on which Great Dao runes circulated, trying to freeze everything. However, that grabbing demonic claw's filthy demonic light actually possessed a bizarre "law-breaking" characteristic, the ice walls rapidly melting and disintegrating under the demonic light's erosion, unable to completely block!
Ao Qin roared repeatedly, dragon body tumbling, wanting to break through the demon puppets' entanglement to rescue, but was temporarily blocked by two fearless demon puppets self-detonating their demonic origin. Ling Jueyi's sword qi crisscrossed, slaying one demon puppet, but was slightly delayed by another demon puppet spurting filthy blood demon curse.
Watching that devouring demonic palm about to envelop Xiao Qi, that filthy demonic claw about to tear apart Mu Xue's defense—
Just at this life-and-death moment, Tang Xiao Qi moved.
He didn't panic, nor did he retreat. At this moment when the Dao seed had sprouted and his understanding of his own Dao had undergone a fundamental change, his state of mind was unprecedentedly clear and firm.
Guard! Purify!
This thought born, the aura around his body suddenly changed! No longer simply defense or expulsion, but emitting a grand will that embraced all things yet transcended above filth!
He didn't hard-receive that enveloping devouring demonic palm, but his form like a swimming dragon made an extremely exquisite turn, avoiding the most vigorous devouring power of the demonic palm's front with hair's-breadth timing, simultaneously his right hand with fingers together like a sword, fingertips no longer purely platinum, but flowing with a strange radiance interweaving chaos and purity, vitality and order—this was precisely the power manifestation of his newly realized Dao!
His finger didn't point toward that massive devouring demonic palm, but as if with foreknowledge, pointed toward an inconspicuous-looking node on the demonic palm's side that was actually connecting to the black-robed cultivator's main body's demonic origin transmission!
"Sizzle—!"
At the moment that chaotic pure radiance from his fingertip contacted the demonic palm, there was no violent explosion, only a slight yet seemingly resounding-at-the-law-level strange sound!
That violent devouring demonic palm, like a punctured balloon, its condensed demonic qi instantly lost control, became chaotic! Even more shocking, that chaotic pure radiance like it had life, counter-spread along the demonic qi channel, everywhere it passed, pure demonic qi was forcibly "decomposed,""transformed," turning into pure and peaceful heaven-and-earth spiritual qi, feeding back into this void!
"What?!" The black-robed cultivator issued a shock-anger intermixed shrill cry, feeling his own demonic origin was being dismantled and plundered by the other party in an unheard-of way! He hurriedly severed the connection with that demonic palm, his form violently retreating, his gaze toward Xiao Qi filled with incredible horror!
On the other side, facing that filthy demonic claw about to shatter the ice wall and reach Mu Xue, Xiao Qi's left hand raised, palm upward, a completely condensed by purification origin and guardian Dao rhyme, lifelike platinum lotus quietly bloomed.
"Purifying World Lotus, open."
He softly whispered, that platinum lotus spun and flew out, seemingly slow, yet instantly traversing space, appearing before Mu Xue, perfectly meeting that filthy demonic claw.
Lotus and demonic claw collided.
No sound, no light explosion.
That filthy demonic light sufficient to defile Nascent Soul cultivators' magic treasures and erode Great Dao laws, upon contacting the platinum lotus, as if meeting the supreme monarch, actually trembled, rapidly dissolving and dispersing! And that lotus grew even more brilliant, between petals unfurling, emitting warm and grand purification waves, not only completely purifying the residual demonic qi, but also transforming into a soft light screen, steadily protecting Mu Xue and that ice-blue innate qi before her.
In Mu Xue's ice eyes flashed an extremely minute fluctuation, she glanced at Xiao Qi, then no longer hesitated, accelerating the fusion of the innate qi.
"Impossible! What evil art is this?!" The black-robed cultivator was both shocked and angry, he felt the other party's power seemed naturally to counter his demonic arts, that way not of brute force confrontation, but "resolving" and "sublimating" from the root, made him feel an instinctive fear!
"Not evil art, but the righteous Dao." Xiao Qi's tone was calm, stepping on the void, actively approaching toward the black-robed cultivator. His body's chaotic pure radiance circulated, beneath his feet as if invisible golden lotuses blooming, each step taken, the surrounding restless demonic qi was smoothed and purified, even those crazy attacking demon puppets, after approaching him to a certain range, their movements became sluggish, the blood-red in their eyes dimmed several points.
He seemed to have transformed into the "order" maker of this area, using his own Dao to forcibly twist and purify all "abnormality" and "chaos"!
"Playing the deity! Die!" The black-robed cultivator, embarrassed into anger, forcibly suppressed his inner unease, activating his surged demonic origin to the extreme, around his body manifesting nine skull heads constantly spewing demonic fire, forming an evil Nine-Child Mother Heaven Demon Formation, carrying shrill ghost wails and demon howls, crushing toward Xiao Qi! This was his ultimate divine ability, power sufficient to burn mountains and boil seas, defile heaven and earth!
Facing this ferociously powerful demonic formation, Xiao Qi's expression didn't change, he deeply inhaled, activating the Dao seed's power that had just sprouted to the current achievable limit.
His hands in front of his chest made a hollow embrace, guardian sword intent, purification origin, green lotus phantom, four symbols balance power, a breath of chaotic core fire, and that newly realized "inclusive sublimation" Dao, all powers perfectly blended, between his hollow-embracing hands, condensing into a constantly rotating chaos light sphere inside which scenes of opening heaven and earth seemed to be born and extinguished!
Inside the light sphere, platinum purification light was like the sun, warm yet carrying unquestionable majesty.
"Return to Source."
He gently pushed out the light sphere.
The light sphere soundlessly flew toward that crushing Nine-Child Mother Heaven Demon Formation.
No earth-shaking collision.
When the light sphere touched the demonic formation, those nine skull heads spewing demonic fire seemed to be frozen in time, then, the demonic fire they spewed began to flow backward, their own demonic qi structure began to disintegrate, wails turned into confused whimpers, finally, together with the entire demonic formation, was "absorbed,""included" entirely by that chaos light sphere like a sponge absorbing water!
The light sphere's interior violently surged, its color becoming even more profoundly chaotic, then slowly dissipated into the air. And that terrifyingly powerful Nine-Child Mother Heaven Demon Formation, just like that, vanished like smoke, as if it had never existed!
"Pfft—!"
His life-bound demonic formation broken, the black-robed cultivator was struck like by lightning, violently spurting several mouthfuls of pitch-black demonic blood, his aura instantly withered, his gaze toward Xiao Qi already filled with complete terror and despair!
"The Demon Lord... won't let off..." He hoa.rsely tried to say something.
Xiao Qi no longer gave him opportunity, fingers together like a sword, a concentrated-to-extreme platinum sword ray containing purification and termination meaning pierced through space, instantly penetrating his brow.
The black-robed cultivator's body froze, the blood-red in his eyes rapidly fading, turning into dead ash, his body's demonic qi like an avalanche collapsing, finally transforming into a wisp of green smoke, body and spirit both extinguished.
The leader was executed, the remaining few demon puppets also as if losing support, their movements froze, then were easily resolved by Ao Qin, Ling Jueyi, and others.
Inside the Transmission Hall, silence returned. Demonic atmosphere was completely swept away, leaving only those nine hovering innate qi flows, and the nine people whose breaths were somewhat unsteady but whose eyes grew even more firm.
Xiao Qi stood alone in the void, Dao rhyme circulating around him, though his face slightly pale, his consumption great, his figure in everyone's eyes seemed incomparably tall. With his newly realized Dao, he purified demon evildoers, guarded this final opportunity. After this battle, his Dao path of "guarding is Dao, purification returns to truth" became even more clear and firm.