Qin Ming was deeply moved; he yearned to visit that mysterious realm and see what kind of place it truly was.
Beneath the "twilight," the forest's branches and leaves appeared coated in a layer of pale gold. In the distance, glowing trails wound through the trees, casting shadows that overlapped with the real world yet seemed distinctly separate.
At present, he had no choice—he could only fight.
The silver-robed youth, his black hair disheveled, gripped a pitch-black Sky-Measuring Ruler. Every time he swung it down, demonic qi surged alongside heavenly light force, resembling a streak of lightning tearing through the air.
Any towering trees, vines, or obstacles in his vicinity shattered into splinters!
Qin Ming's mutton-fat jade iron saber blazed with brilliant heavenly light. In an instant, it clashed against the Sky-Measuring Ruler dozens of times, leaving his arms somewhat numb.
This was an exceedingly rare occurrence. His heart sank; he was facing an exceptionally dangerous adversary!
*Crack!*
Their left hands formed a fist and a palm, respectively, colliding with flashes of lightning. Centered on the two of them, shockwaves radiated outward, blasting away the surrounding foliage and scorching the ground black.
Qin Ming found himself in a crisis. Right from the start, he had encountered such a formidable opponent, and the dangerous demons lurking nearby acted without hesitation.
The flood dragon-headed youth was overwhelmingly aggressive. Extending his right hand like a reaching dragon claw, he lunged forward at blinding speed.
Sparks sprayed from Qin Ming's jade iron saber. After exchanging a blow with the silver-robed youth, Qin Ming bounded over ten meters into the air like an arcing rainbow, landing atop a towering ancient tree.
He avoided the pincer attack of the silver-robed youth and the flood dragon youth, yet another assailant struck from midair. The peacock demoness streaked forward like a radiant beam, arriving in the blink of an eye.
Though slender and supple in appearance, her fists struck with terrifying ferocity. Behind her, the phantom image of a colossal peacock seemed to resonate in tandem.
The two exchanged a punch atop the great tree.
The entire ancient tree shattered, bark, splinters, and foliage swirling into the sky.
As the two figures collided, the silver-robed youth shot upward, the Sky-Measuring Ruler in his right hand unleashing a terrifying streak of black light that reached skyward like thunder and lightning.
At the same time, the flood dragon youth bounded up, his five splayed fingers clawing forward once more.
Qin Ming's jade iron saber clashed against the silver-robed youth's Sky-Measuring Ruler with an ear-piercing clang. It was as if two shooting stars had collided in midair, scattering bursts of heavenly light force in all directions.
Simultaneously, Qin Ming's fist met the flood dragon youth's dragon claw with a deafening boom, like a thunderbolt erupting between them.
The surrounding leaves were blown into a frenzy before disintegrating into dust.
At that very moment, the seemingly delicate peacock demoness appeared behind Qin Ming, driving a brutal fist toward his spine in an attempt to punch clean through his chest.
Qin Ming countered with a backward donkey kick. Borrowing the momentum of her strike, he accelerated through midair, piercing through the foliage and landing on an old tree twenty meters away.
However, there was no time for him to catch his breath. A young girl with two pairs of immaculate white wings—a mutated crane demon—soared into the air with a flap of her wings.
She surged forward at extraordinary speed, arriving in a flash. Her five fingers pinched together like a crane's beak, releasing a piercing beam of light that melded heavenly light force with baleful qi, packing devastating might.
Behind him, the peacock demoness was also capable of flight. She sped in to flank him, driving her translucent white fist toward the back of Qin Ming's skull. The silver-robed youth and the flood dragon youth arrived as well, unleashing their full might.
Four demons attacked from distinct angles, converging in midair to target Qin Ming together.
The entire forest seemed to tremble violently. Blinding radiance filled the area, and amid the flurry of silhouettes, towering trees disintegrated like drifting snowflakes.
Qin Ming fell to the ground, a trail of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
The silver-robed youth alone was capable of matching him blow for blow—a terrifying rival in his own right. The other demon youths were equally formidable. Being hunted by such a pack placed him in mortal danger.
Yet at this moment, the fragmented demon seed essence within him began to boil, yearning for this battle. His dragon-snake force also grew active, eager for a blood-soaked metamorphosis.
The white-haired youth whose left ear had been torn away by a jade iron arrow was an ox demon blessed with immense strength. Maintaining a humanoid form, he appeared abruptly as if teleporting, his hands wreathed in flames as he struck forward.
He slapped the flat of the jade iron saber with his bare hand, knocking it aside slightly before closing the distance to exchange blows with Qin Ming. Then, the white-haired youth suddenly lowered his head and charged.
The two ox horns nestled in his white hair, curved and sharp as scythes, carried glowing runes as they thrust toward his opponent.
Qin Ming shifted sideways, quickly widening the gap. His jade iron saber swept across, unleashing a cascade of pure white light toward the ox demon's neck. Roiling baleful qi and demonic aura gathered around the two horns, solidifying into a pair of curved scythes that parried the blade.
Even so, the white-haired youth let out a muffled grunt, knocked back several paces by the strike.
At that moment, the others converged on the center like strikes of lightning from various angles. Qin Ming leaped into the air once more, evading their joint assault.
Just then, the golden elephant demon, which had remained quiet for some time, suddenly erupted.
Its trunk extended dramatically like a golden rope, instantly wrapping around Qin Ming in midair and pinning his arms so he could not swing his weapon.
Having succeeded with this strike, the elephant-headed youth locked down his quarry, attempting to drag him close.
The other formidable demons, well aware of his specialty, coordinated seamlessly to close in and finish off their prey once he held him fast.
However, a startling change occurred. Qin Ming's body ignited with radiance as his golden silkworm force erupted. Countless golden threads pierced out from his skin, riddling the elephant trunk with holes and drenching it in blood.
The elephant demon roared in agony. Its punctured golden trunk instantly loosened its grip.
The instant he broke free, Qin Ming swung his mutton-fat jade iron saber with full force. With a squelch, blood sprayed everywhere, and the rope-like trunk severed, falling to the ground.
"Ah...!"
The elephant-headed youth shrieked in pain. Whenever he ambushed his enemies in the past, he had almost always captured them in an instant. Today, he had suffered a disastrous, agonizing loss.
With tears and mucus streaming down his face from the searing pain, he reverted to his true form, becoming a golden behemoth as massive as a small hill. Seeing this, the flood dragon youth, the peacock demoness, and the others unleashed their power at once, swarming forward together.
With such a massive creature before him, Qin Ming naturally took advantage of it. He stuck close to the elephant demon, circling around its bulk to evade the coordinated assault.
Enraged, the elephant demon blazed with golden runes as if burning alive. Its two golden tusks detached from its body and shot toward Qin Ming.
Qin Ming swung his blade. Amid a series of metallic clangs, he notched the golden tusks repeatedly while using his adhesive force to intercept and trap them.
The elephant demon bellowed, its massive golden frame glowing as it ignited its bloodline to summon its tusks back. Qin Ming's left hand adhered to the tusks, allowing him to be pulled along with them straight toward the beast.
The elephant demon's pupils constricted as it saw the blinding blade light descending. It aborted the summons and, despite its immense size, nimbly danced aside in a desperate bid to dodge.
It moved with surprising grace, more agile than creatures many times smaller, dodging the blade light and shattering any ancient trees in its path.
Yet Qin Ming had locked onto it, determined to use it to establish his dominance. Moving like lightning, he closed the distance. The other demons, powerful and unrelenting, pursued him relentlessly to intercept and butcher the human youth.
However, the colossal elephant demon served as Qin Ming's ideal shield. Channeling adhesive force, he latched onto the golden beast's flank, climbed onto its back, and thrust his saber downward.
With a wet crunch, the blade struck with thunderfire force accompanied by the roar of a dragon. Blood gushed as the saber sank deep into the massive elephant skull, carving a bloody cavity.
The elephant demon wailed, violently thrashing its head as golden runes flared like raging fire in an attempt to dislodge the human youth.
Yet Qin Ming's adhesive force proved overwhelmingly effective. No matter how the beast shook its head, whipped its tail, or rolled its body, he remained firmly anchored to its flesh.
The other demons converged rapidly. The silver-robed youth leaped onto the elephant's back, his pitch-black Sky-Measuring Ruler streaking down like a black lightning bolt. The peacock demoness struck with ferocious fists, while the four-winged crane girl swooped down from above. The flood dragon youth and the white-haired ox demon also arrived to encircle him.
Qin Ming slid across the hill-like elephant like a streak of light, maneuvering under its throat to use its bulk as cover against the onslaught.
In the process, five-colored radiance blazed across his body, coalescing into a five-colored blade that merged with his mutton-fat jade iron saber. He plunged it into the elephant's neck and circled rapidly around its throat.
"Ah... Big Brother, save me!" the elephant demon cried out in terror.
No matter how it struggled, it could not shake off the human youth, and its golden runes failed to budge him. He clung to it like a stubborn plaster, and now he was severing its neck.
Blood gushed like a fountain, dyeing the earth red and pooling into small streams.
To its credit, its enormous size and thick neck saved it from being decapitated on the spot, even as heavenly light force tore through its flesh.
The expressions of the other demons hardened. Even with all of them surrounding him, this human had still managed to grievously wound the elephant demon. The silver-robed youth, the flood dragon youth, and the crane demon girl unleashed their strongest attacks.
Yet Qin Ming navigated the elephant's massive bulk with his adhesive force, darting swiftly between its belly and back. At one point, the peacock demoness's fist even slammed squarely into the elephant's spine.
"Sister Kong!" the elephant youth wailed. He was already mortally wounded; taking friendly fire made him feel like he was on the verge of collapse.
He wanted to revert to human form, but the opponent refused to let go. If he shrank, he would likely be cleaved in two or beheaded instantly.
"Ah...!" the elephant demon screamed.
At this moment, Qin Ming went all out. Blazing with five-colored light, he drove the blade completely through its neck, his whole body sinking into the wound as he completed a rapid circuit around it.
The golden behemoth went wild, rampaging and crashing blindly as swathes of trees collapsed and the forest trembled.
Suddenly, its body ground to a halt. Gouts of blood erupted as a massive elephant head tumbled to the ground, followed by the thunderous collapse of its colossal body. A second-realm demon of extraordinary bloodline was slain on the spot!
In the distance, Jiang Ruoli, Gan Jincheng, Liu Hanya, and the others watched in utter disbelief. Besieged by a formidable squad of elite demons, he had actually managed to slay a renowned demon with overwhelming force.
"I will slaughter you!" the silver-robed youth growled, his voice chillingly cold. For their sworn sibling to be slain despite having the numbers on their side was a profound humiliation.
The white-haired ox demon and the flood dragon youth also wore icy expressions, advancing step by step to seal off the area. In the distance, Xiao Wu could no longer hold back; he strode forward, eager to join the fray.
Suddenly, the silver-robed youth halted, his expression freezing as he peered toward the distant edge of the forest.
Qin Ming sensed it at the exact same moment. The fragmented demon seed within him grew agitated, generating a powerful resonance that signaled another expert harboring a fragmented demon seed was in the distance.
Furthermore, the "gift" that newcomer possessed seemed far stronger!
"Five fragmented demon seeds... Someone has already devoured another holder and is approaching!" The silver-robed youth's face looked exceedingly grim as he alerted his sworn siblings.
Qin Ming's heart sank as well. Dealing with this current squad was already difficult enough, and he might well be overpowered.
If someone bearing two or even three demon seeds arrived, he would be doomed.
"Xiao Wu, take them and leave immediately! Avoid that direction!" Qin Ming transmitted his voice, warning that an even more terrifying demon had appeared in the distance.
"Brother, I'll help you! Together, the two of us have nothing to fear from them!" Xiao Wu urged.
Qin Ming shook his head. "No, get out of here quickly! I can fight or retreat at will and pull away at any time. If things go wrong, I won't fight them to the death!"
Unwilling to leave him behind, Xiao Wu said, "If we run together, we can watch each other's backs!"
Qin Ming pressed urgently, "No, we split up! You retreat first, and I will make my escape shortly after. Otherwise, these demons have winged bird demons among them; they might intentionally fly ahead of us and leave us behind as cannon fodder to stall for time."
At the same time, he reminded Xiao Wu to look out for extraordinary phenomena, suggesting that he might find a special path leading to a mysterious realm with tremendous fortunes.
He shared the visions he had glimpsed earlier when the demon seeds resonated.
In his eyes, Xiao Wu was the sole heir of the Fourth Peril, possessing a unique method of cultivation; he had to be considered a "seed" in his own right. In the end, under Qin Ming's stern urging, Xiao Wu stopped dawdling and led the group away at top speed.
"What? An even stronger demon has appeared, possibly holding two or three fragmented demon seeds?" Xin Youdao felt his scalp tingle upon hearing the news.
Gan Jincheng, Xiao Yaqin, and the rest turned pale. A second-realm demon of that caliber was bound to be horrifying, far beyond their ability to confront. Realizing they truly could not help, they made no delay and retreated swiftly.
Clearly, the silver-robed youth was also wary, conferring in low whispers with his companions.
Qin Ming spoke up: "Gentlemen, why don't we join forces to kill the demon holding two seeds first? Afterward, we can settle our own grievances. What do you say?"
Across from him, the demon youths' eyes remained frosty. This human had just butchered one of their sworn brothers; how dared he propose an alliance?
"Agreed!" the silver-robed youth finally nodded coldly.
"Big Brother!" the white-haired ox demon protested.
The silver-robed youth said, "We must survive the present threat first. I didn't expect someone to have devoured another demon seed so quickly. This will be very troublesome!"
The other two demons remained silent, offering tacit consent.
"Fine!" the ox demon grumbled, nodding reluctantly.
The silver-robed youth continued, "Let us first discuss how to confront this beast together. He should be an insect demon whose cultivation was already slightly higher than mine. Having consumed another fragmented demon seed, he is now... practically unbeatable."
Frowning deeply, he turned to Qin Ming and asked what strategy he had in mind.
"An insect demon? What is his true form, and what makes him special?" Qin Ming inquired.
"His true form is..." Suddenly, the silver-robed youth erupted with dazzling radiance. Silver ripples swept outward with unstoppable force, causing the ground to collapse, the foliage to shred, and boulders to disintegrate into powder.
Engulfed in silver light, his aura surged drastically as he launched a vicious sneak attack, intent on slaying Qin Ming in a single blow. At that moment, Qin Ming's pupils shrank. As expected, the bastard had harbored ill intentions all along, and he was even stronger than anticipated.
Heavenly light force erupted across Qin Ming's body. Radiant divine rings materialized once more, layering over one another to form a protective mantle of divine light.
Blending and unifying his multiple wondrous arts and various heavenly light forces, he appeared as though standing within a blazing sun, dazzling to the extreme.
Recently, he had been attempting to manifest this peak heavenly light force using a single art, but he could only ever approach it; he had never been able to match this unified potency.
However, this unified heavenly light consumed immense energy.
*Boom!*
One wielding a Sky-Measuring Ruler, the other brandishing a pure white jade iron saber, they clashed head-on, their fists and kicks delivering crushing blows to each other.
Amid the relentless exchanges, blood trickled from Qin Ming's mouth. The concussive shocks caused his blood and qi to churn, inflicting intense pain across his internal organs.
"Big Brother... has completely activated his fragmented demon seed and even utilized a forbidden art!" The ox demon gasped in awe.
"Surround him! Don't let him escape!" the silver-robed youth barked. Rather than teaming up with this human, it was far better to devour him first, becoming a master of two fragmented demon seeds himself to counter the distant threat.
At this moment, the silver fragmented demon seed within his body temporarily dispersed, turning into beams of light that flooded his limbs and meridians.
A complete demon seed was inherently colorless, but having been torn into five portions and gifted to five young demons of immense potential, they had refined and assimilated them into their beings, naturally understanding how to wield their power.
Qin Ming, on the other hand, merely treated his seed as fuel, never intending to merge with it.
Now, with the silver-robed youth stimulating his demon seed, his strength skyrocketed. Even with Qin Ming unleashing his peak state and deploying his unified heavenly light force, he was forced onto the back foot.
All of it came down to the disparity in their cultivation realms.
In the second realm, the silver-robed youth's eyes had turned a shimmering silver-white.
Every punch he threw made the void roar and pulverized the nearby trees. The Sky-Measuring Ruler danced like a black flood dragon wrapped in lightning, tearing through everything in its path.
Qin Ming coughed up mouthfuls of blood under the concussive force; it had been a long time since he had been pushed this hard. Worse, the surrounding demon youths closed in to join the siege.
Moving like lightning, he fought back with everything he had, waiting for the right moment. Abruptly, he activated an extraordinary light within him—an ability born during his sixth rebirth, equivalent to a full-force blow unleashed by his boiling heavenly light force.
At that moment, the light surged out from Qin Ming's body, carrying with it the pure white sword pendant hanging from his neck. Truth be told, the silver-robed youth was astonishingly powerful; at the critical threshold between life and death, he actually managed to dodge.
Even so, his left ear was pierced by the exotic metal miniature sword and obliterated by the terrifying heavenly light, permanently costing him an ear.
"Ah!" A shrill, brief scream erupted from behind him.
The silver-robed youth, already enraged, aggrieved, and humiliated, felt his body run cold. He knew he had dodged, but the peacock demoness had taken the hit.
This was an angle Qin Ming had chosen intentionally; the ideal outcome was skewering two with one blow!
A bloody hole appeared between the peacock demoness's brows. Her eyes lost their light, and she collapsed stiffly to the ground. The miniature sword forged of exotic metal specialized in piercing all manners of heavenly light force and conscious spiritual light, proving utterly unstoppable.
With a whoosh, Qin Ming recalled the miniature sword using the residual power of that beam of light. All of the silver-robed youth's negative emotions erupted into soaring murderous intent.
Qin Ming traded blows with him, but he was indeed at a disadvantage, wounded repeatedly by this second-realm demon.
Amid the exchanges, his left hand became drenched in blood, and his right hand holding the saber was battered to a pulp by the immense demonic power, nearly causing him to lose his grip on the weapon.
"Sister Kong!" the other demons cried out in grief, lunging forward in a frenzied assault.
"Hehe... haha..." The silver-robed youth's power continued to climb, but his laughter took on a bone-chilling tone, and a shadowy phantom began to surface within his shimmering silver light.
"Big Brother, wake up! Don't let the fragmented demon seed consume you!" the flood dragon youth shouted.
This was the side effect of fully activating the fragmented demon seed. Though it boosted one's strength drastically, the fractured seed was left behind by another true demon seed that had perished, retaining messy, residual emotions that could easily warp one's sanity.
Qin Ming secretly rejoiced that he had only treated his seed as fuel—refining its essence while discarding the dross—rather than assimilating with it; otherwise, he too would have suffered such latent hazards.
Amid the fierce clash, Qin Ming activated the second beam of light within him. Swathes of golden haze wove together like a shattered blazing sun. This was the ability that had emerged during his seventh rebirth, tied to conscious spiritual light, and it propelled the exotic metal miniature sword forward.
He did not target the silver-robed youth this time; instead, he aimed squarely at the flood dragon youth lunging at him with dragon claws.
Despite knowing Qin Ming possessed this trick and remaining on high alert, the flood dragon youth was still critically wounded at the decisive moment, his protective barrier failing to halt the strike.
The miniature sword drove into his skull. Though it failed to punch clean through, it caused his vision to black out, freezing his expression and slowing his reactions by two full beats.
Qin Ming followed up instantly, severing the youth's head with a single slash of his saber.
*Boom!*
Simultaneously, he was clipped by the fist radiance of the crazed silver-robed youth, sending him flying backward. Qin Ming stumbled upon landing, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
At this sight, the white-haired ox demon and the crane demon girl were gripped with terror. Their companions were being slaughtered one after another, striking dread deep into their hearts.
The silver-robed youth's eyes were mad, his state visibly erratic. The phantom within his body was on the verge of manifesting externally, roaring at the sky.
At that moment, the silver-robed youth mimicked the phantom, howling toward the heavens.
"Big Brother, wake up! Don't let the fragmented demon seed control you!" the ox demon cried.
Qin Ming glanced into the distance, sensing that the other powerful demon was approaching at an unhurried, measured pace.
"What is happening to me?" The silver-robed youth shook his head violently, regaining a sliver of clarity. In his rush to devour the fragmented demon seed before him, he had destabilized himself.
Qin Ming pressed the attack with everything he had, his unified heavenly light force erupting through the jade iron saber.
Though the silver-robed youth had just regained his senses, he was provoked once more, his gaze turning wild. He knew something was wrong and desperately tried to rein himself in, but his body failed to obey.
As the two clashed, the demon possessed greater raw power, but the turbulent emotions from the seed disrupted his rhythm.
Qin Ming governed all his arts with the silk book's doctrines, causing his heavenly light force to grow increasingly radiant as he attempted to manifest various wondrous spectacles within this state.
For a time, five-colored light, Purple Palace thunderfire, and celestial lightning striking earthly flames all emerged within the layered divine rings surrounding him. Next, dragon roars echoed as a dragon phantom surfaced across his flesh and blood.
His dragon-snake force had not yet merged into his unified arts, only manifesting as a wondrous phenomenon within his flesh.
*As expected, heavenly light force must be tempered through fierce battle!* Qin Ming realized that his power increased each time these extraordinary phenomena surfaced within the divine rings.
Now, as he clashed with the silver-robed youth once more, he no longer coughed up blood with every single blow.
"Big Brother!" The ox demon and the crane demon girl looked on with deep anxiety and dread as they attempted to flank him.
Qin Ming unleashed the final beam of light within him—an ability born during his eighth rebirth, tied to divine wisdom. Regrettably, the exotic metal miniature sword failed to pierce the crane demon girl.
Her speed was astonishing; the sword merely grazed her scalp, slicing off several strands of hair.
However, Qin Ming had already anticipated her dodge direction. Leaping ahead with his jade iron saber, he cleaved downward in advance. Meanwhile, the silver-robed youth, driven mad, failed to provide any cover despite his savage strength.
With a wet crunch, the crane demon girl was beheaded, her head flying through the air amidst dazzling heavenly light.
"Ah...!" The ox demon broke down completely. So many renowned demons had joined forces, only to be butchered one by one while their eldest brother had lost his mind. It was a catastrophic defeat that never should have happened.
He turned and fled, having no desire to linger in battle, and the demon retainers behind him turned and bolted as well. Only Qin Ming and the crazed silver-robed youth remained, trading blow after blow.
Amid the brutal struggle, the silver-robed youth dropped out of his forbidden state, his aura plunging sharply into a condition far weaker than his normal baseline.
"Sigh, to think I would suffer such an utter defeat. How hateful... how humiliating!" he sighed.
Though he did not surrender tamely, in his weakened state, he could no longer withstand Qin Ming's sun-like unified heavenly light force.
In the end, Qin Ming cut him down with a single stroke!
The two halves of the silver-robed youth fell into a pool of blood as a beam of white light shot out, streaking straight toward Qin Ming.
Qin Ming took out the rag woven from exotic metal and channeled his heavenly light force into it. The blazing sun depicted on it instantly flared with light, enveloping the fragmented demon seed.
Then, he retrieved the Sky-Measuring Ruler, turned, and fled swiftly into the distance.
*Mm, it works; it can refine demons!* Qin Ming was astonished to find that the resonance between himself and the distant expert holding a fragmented demon seed had weakened.
Next, he did everything he could to shatter the remaining bits of the fragmented demon seed within his body, forcing them out. Before they could return to his flesh, he wrapped them in the rag and began refining them as well.
Only after he could no longer sense the distant demon seed's fluctuations did he finally relax. Qin Ming fled rapidly, continuously refining the seeds along the way.
Eventually, he absorbed both fragmented demon seeds into his body and stimulated them forcefully, yet he could no longer sense the distant expert. Instead, he caught sight of the faint, glowing paths.
"Now is not the time to take that road; I must make a breakthrough first," Qin Ming muttered, spitting out a mouthful of bloody foam. He was soaked in blood and heavily wounded from the grueling battle.
Moreover, the two demon seeds within him had grown active, once again placing a severe burden and inflicting damage upon his flesh.
Qin Ming sat cross-legged in the dense forest, pulverizing the demon seeds and absorbing their essence as nourishment.
Eventually, his flesh ruptured, shedding like snake skin to give rise to dragon scales, as the Dragon Snake Scripture began circulating wildly. He crushed the two demon seeds repeatedly, extracting their pure essence.
When drowsiness washed over him, Qin Ming moved into the hollow of a mountain, undergoing his metamorphosis in a half-dreaming state.
In his dream, he seemed to relive the battle against the silver-robed youth and the others, though his body felt as if it had transformed into a dragon.
The transition from snake to dragon was never a peaceful one!
His experiences today aligned remarkably well with the records of the Dragon Snake Scripture: flesh tearing apart, dragon horns sprouting, dragon claws growing... Furthermore, he had battled fiercely in the wilds, slaughtering a powerful squad of demons.
Now, the two demon seeds served as nutrients, fueling his further metamorphosis toward becoming a dragon.
Qin Ming's flesh ruptured repeatedly, forming scabs that bore scale-like ripples akin to true dragon scales. His Dragon Snake Scripture accelerated, pushing his dragon-snake force toward great mastery.
A vibrant aura of rebirth spread outward, growing richer by the moment as he pressed toward the threshold of his ninth rebirth.
As time passed, dragon roars echoed within him, and his dragon-snake force reached the pinnacle of his current limits. A layer of "dragon scales" coated his exterior, while within rested an even more powerful, newly reborn physique!
Above Kunling City, Sun Taichu's pure yang conscious spiritual light assumed a humanoid form, standing atop the pitch-black clouds. "The higher-ups of the esoteric sect are willing to cooperate in hunting the auspicious beast, yet they refuse to breach the perils?"
"Indeed!" someone reported.
Sun Taichu's expression turned graver than ever before. "An extraordinary figure has emerged within the esoteric sect—one of earth-shattering caliber, setting their sights on every peril within the lands of Kunling!"
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