"Boom!"
Xiao Ting's voice faded away.
Suddenly, endless thunderclouds gathered in the ancient sky.
Countless lightning bolts transformed into massive dragons, roaring like thunder dragons as they charged toward Xiao Ting, shaking the entire world.
"A meaningless test!"
Since Xiao Ting found resisting troublesome, he directly used his own cultivation method to absorb all the lightning.
To him, lightning was merely a nourishing tonic for tempering the body and a stepping stone to increase his strength.
These lightning strikes had enough power to kill a Dou Venerable expert, but the moment they touched his body, they were absorbed into the five-star vortex like a tornado being sucked into the sea.
After the lightning disappeared, a massive yellow finger appeared in the sky and suddenly unleashed a violent gust that tore through heaven and earth.
This was the low-level Heaven-rank battle skill — "Yellow Spring Finger"!
Xiao Ting lightly raised his hand. A tremendous amount of soul force erupted and directly shattered the Yellow Spring Finger.
"Boom!"
After the Yellow Spring Finger shattered, even more Yellow Spring energy appeared and converged into a massive yellow palm. It fell at lightning speed, carrying the power to suppress the void.
This was the mid-level Heaven-rank battle skill — Yellow Spring Palm!
Seeing this, Xiao Ting released even more powerful soul force from within his body and easily shattered the massive yellow palm.
"Boom!"
When Xiao Ting shattered the massive palm, the entire earth suddenly shook. A massive crack opened, and immediately after, a mountain rose from the ground, towering toward the sky and releasing the power of heaven and earth.
At the peak of this mountain stood a golden throne. Seated upright on it was a man wearing a yellow fur robe, exuding an aura of supreme authority that transcended heaven and earth.
"A Heavenly Realm completed soul." The remnant soul of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint showed an approving look in his eyes. "You haven't even reached the age of twenty, yet you've already reached this level. Even in ancient times, you would have been a first-rate genius."
"You have a real chance of reaching the God realm in the future. You are qualified to inherit all of my legacy, including the Demon Saint's essence blood."
Although Xiao Ting had undergone advanced Heavenly Realm cultivation, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint did not drop his arrogant attitude until Xiao Ting released his strange flame.
However, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint looked at Xiao Ting, who had one foot in the completed Heavenly Realm, with eyes full of admiration.
After all, having one foot in the completed Heavenly Realm meant that one would definitely be able to break through to the completed Heavenly Realm.
Xiao Ting's age was also a factor, and he had more talent to reach a God-level soul than he himself had back then.
At the very least, he was qualified to inherit his legacy.
"Greetings, Senior." Seeing that the remnant soul of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint agreed so readily, Xiao Ting confirmed a certain idea and asked with a smile, "Senior, would you like to try living in a different way?"
The Yellow Spring Demon Saint, the Pure Lotus Demon Saint, and Xiao Xuan had all perished without exception.
Their physical bodies had disappeared, and the fruits of their cultivation had vanished. However, because their souls had once reached the God realm, they continued to exist in a special form.
The reason Xiao Xuan was still alive was because his soul imprint was attached to the Heavenly Tomb and had become a special energy body. He was strong enough to remain unharmed, but he still needed to periodically absorb free energy bodies drifting in the Heavenly Tomb in order to continue living.
The Pure Lotus Demon Saint had the cleanest death because his downfall was related to the betrayal of the Lotus Demon Saint. The soul traces engraved on the Pure Lotus Demon Flame remnant diagram were extremely weak and could barely appear in the Demon Flame space even with the help of the Refining Sky Ancient Formation.
The situation of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint was better than that of Xiao Xuan and the Pure Lotus Demon Saint. His situation was similar to that of the remnant souls of the Dou Gods from the major Ancient Clans.
The soul traces remained intact. Before his downfall, he had fused his own physical body — the body that had reached the peak of nine-star Dou Saint — with a strange stone taken from the bottom of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, transforming it into this Yellow Spring Stone Tablet.
That was why the Demon Saint's essence blood, which could allow a peak Dou Venerable to break through to Dou Saint and also raise a Dou Saint's cultivation level by one stage, had been preserved for thousands of years without losing its power.
If one possessed a Dou God level physique, a Dou God level flame, and a God-level pill, then it could be said that the Yellow Spring Demon Saint could be revived using a method similar to the one used to revive Yao Chen.
Xiao Ting did not possess these things, and even if he did, he would not hand them over to the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who had nothing to do with him.
However, he also had another method to revive the Yellow Spring Demon Saint in a different way.
"A different way of living…?"
This piqued the interest of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.
As time passed, his soul force had weakened, and he remembered fewer and fewer things. However, he still retained important information.
Back then, he had one foot in the Dou God realm. The only thing missing was something that no one in the world could break through. Even so, he could not avoid the end of his lifespan and death. In the end, he survived in another way.
Was this young man, Xiao Ting, really saying that he could keep him alive?
"Senior, given your level of power, you should be able to sense that something is missing in this world. That is why it is impossible to continuously produce Dou Gods."
"Our ancestor, Xiao Xuan, also reached this level back then and named it the 'God's Origin.'"
"During the era when the Dou Qi Continent was at its peak, there was no shortage of existences that could become the God's Origin. That was why many Dou Gods appeared in ancient times."
"However, the great war caused the Dou Qi Continent to collapse, and the God's Origin also began to disappear."
"Senior probably doesn't know that the Dou Qi Continent is merely a lower dimension."
"In this vast world, they are as numerous as the hairs on a cow, but they are nothing more than a drop in the ocean and not worth mentioning."
Xiao Ting taught the Yellow Spring Demon Saint about the situation of the vast world and the existence of countless lower dimensions.
He also realized that while a Dou God was the supreme existence on the Dou Qi Continent, this world was flawed and weakened.
To reach the vast world, a Dou God must first overcome the three calamities of a supreme being and then reach the level of a sixth-rank supreme being.
However, until a Dou God reaches the level of an Earthly Supreme, as long as there are sufficient resources, there will be no bottleneck.
After explaining these points, Xiao Ting paused for a moment before getting to the main point. "In this vast world, there is a strict classification for magical treasures and sacred items."
"The lowest grade is the Spiritual grade, which is further divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade."
"Above spiritual artifacts are sacred artifacts. The first four levels are the same as spiritual artifacts, with the final one being quasi-divine artifacts."
"Sacred artifacts are classified into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and quasi-unparalleled sacred artifacts. Their power is immense, and even Earthly Supremes desire them. It is generally impossible to nurture such sacred artifacts in a lower dimension."
"Unparalleled sacred items are classified into Spiritual, Immortal, and Sacred grades. They are extremely rare, and even Heavenly Supremes do not possess many of them."
"The strange stone that Senior discovered at the bottom of the Nine Nether Realm has existed since the birth of the Dou Qi Continent."
"After fusing with the relic of the previous generation, the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet reached the level of a quasi-divine existence."
"Once a spirit is born, it can become not just an ordinary low-grade item, but a true sacred artifact."
"Not only that, if properly nurtured, it has a very high chance of eventually transforming into a divine item."
"The influence that the spirit of a sacred artifact exerts when controlling the sacred artifact is so great that even Earthly Supremes must be wary of it. It far surpasses the power of an ordinary supreme being and is not comparable to a Dou God."
Upon hearing this, the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's breathing quickened and his eyes lit up.
"What do you mean, young man?"
"Make me the spirit of the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet."
If the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet could become a sacred item…
Then he would be the spirit of the Yellow Spring Sacred Tablet!