Chapter 325: Divine Spirit Test Body

Chapter 325: Divine Trial Body

With the breakthrough, the golden bird’s size had more than doubled, its black body like an ancient supreme beast of prey, the temperature contained in the flames it emitted scorching the earth, sending up wisps of black smoke, and the soil on the ground had turned into crystals.

Every grain was shocking, making one feel that extreme heat at a single glance.

Even the void twisted, and even the sparks scattered possessed astonishing scorching heat.

And the light in its eyes, vivid and lifelike, carried unparalleled sharpness and ferocity, as if all who were locked by it, whether in the nine heavens or the ten lands, could not escape its devouring. Though this was merely a feeling, not something it could achieve now, the golden bird at this moment gave an immense impact to everyone on the battlefield.

Especially when it spread its wings and soared through the sky, causing the sea of fire on the ground to continuously expand, each flap of its wings bringing rumbling sounds.

And in the sea of fire, Xu Qing’s long hair now drifted loose, his entire person exuding a denser sharpness; that peerlessly beautiful face carried an eerie quality, and an inadvertent glance from him would make one’s mind grow hazy,

as if the surrounding flames, the golden crow in the sky, everything, existed only to set him off.

Apart from this appearance, the second-stage Golden Crow Refining Ten Thousand Spirits also brought a ferocious boost to combat power, no longer just one flame but directly reaching the level of six flames.

These six flames were all added to Xu Qing’s physical body, causing cracking sounds to emit from his frame. Though there seemed no great visible change, in truth his bones, his flesh, his entire body were all transforming at this moment.

It was an elevation of life level!!

And at this very moment! After a cry that spread across the sky, the flying golden crow returned to Xu Qing, its tail flame formed by thirteen tails rotating around him, turning into patches of fiery phoenix feathers that drifted down before him. Returning together were the flames scattered around, now all surging back and enveloping Xu Qing’s body.

At this moment, he was clad in flames, the golden crow atop his head like an imperial crown, drawing the attention of all directions.

Moreover, with the appearance of the two heavenly palaces, his aura on the battlefield soared directly, and his combat power likewise; even the surrounding Seven Blood Eyes disciples and the outer members of Candlelight were all shocked, instinctively unwilling to approach in their terror.

Xu Qing stood there, silent.

He lowered his head, looking at the unclosed eyes of Sheng Yunzi’s head in his hand, a strange glint in his eyes—he felt something was off.

He was very certain that Sheng Yunzi was indeed dead, and his death was within reasonable bounds, after all, the gap between one heavenly palace and two was insurmountable. But Sheng Yunzi’s father had not appeared.

This defied common sense, since during the Blood Trial back then, everything Sheng Yunzi’s father did seemed to be for Sheng Yunzi’s sake; now that Sheng Yunzi was dead, his father was nowhere to be seen.

This was very suspicious.

Another point was that Sheng Yunzi was very abnormal—he had not spoken a single word from start to finish, even his roars were muffled, and his screams, though miserable, were slightly different from usual, not sharp enough.

This was not the Sheng Yunzi Xu Qing knew.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, suddenly raised his left hand, grabbed the chin of the bloody, mangled head of Sheng Yunzi, and wrenched it hard.

The mouth of Sheng Yunzi’s head was forced open.

Xu Qing’s gaze swept over, and a strange light burst from his eyes in an instant.

Sheng Yunzi’s mouth was missing its tongue!!

The most vivid impression Xu Qing had of Sheng Yunzi was the slime-covered tongue that spread before him after the Xuanling Yongyi Gate opened; later Xu Qing learned that this gate, when opened, could reflect a person’s inner heart.

Sheng Yunzi’s inner heart was that very thing.

Whether coincidence or not, the dead Sheng Yunzi now had no tongue.

Just then, a heaven-shaking boom suddenly came from the sky, and a terrifying fluctuation erupted in the heavens.

The source of the boom was the rock giant that had been fighting Seventh Master.

This giant had persisted until now, unable to bear it, let out a wail, half its body shattered into countless irregular stones that scattered to the ground with banging sounds, smashing deep

pits into the earth, while the black coffin buried within its body was now largely exposed.

The black coffin, under the sunlight, gave off an eerie feeling, and from within it came sharp sounds like fingernails scraping, piercing into everyone’s ears, shocking to the heart.

Xu Qing’s eyes narrowed.

As for the two Candlelight members, they also breathed rapidly, retreated, and with decisiveness in their eyes, rapidly formed hand seals; immediately the black coffin revealed in the giant’s chest shook with a bang, and from within came a roar not like a human voice but more like a wild beast, spreading in all directions.

Just the sound caused many of the Seven Blood Eyes disciples to tremble violently, blood spilling from the corners of their mouths, and they retreated in terror, not daring to approach.

Indeed, this sound contained some indescribable force that could shake the mind, stir the soul, and make one’s life level feel suppressed, instinctively giving rise to fear and horror.

Soon, rumbling echoed, as if the existence inside the coffin was punching the lid again and again, trying to break it.

This scene made the surrounding Seven Blood Eyes disciples immediately step back; Seventh Master narrowed his eyes, and Blood Refiner’s eyes gleamed with strange light.

Almost the moment everyone looked, the coffin lid, under a deafening sound that shook the mind, could no longer withstand it, burst open with a bang, shattering into countless fragments that shot in all directions, while at the same time, a heaven-stirring divine fluctuation surged up from within the coffin.

This fluctuation was incredibly astonishing, carrying a terrifying pressure; as soon as it appeared, the expressions of the Seven Blood Eyes people changed, and the sky likewise.

Heaven and earth changed color, wind and clouds rolled, mist formed in all directions in an instant, and as it tumbled and spun, a huge vortex appeared in the sky, turning the original daylight into night. Lightning bolts darted, thunder rumbled, and then a withered, decayed hand unlike that of a human reached out from the coffin, grasped the edge, and slowly stood up, revealing a shocking body.

That body was extremely broken, with large areas of damage and bones visible, like a corpse that had been dead for who knows how long.

There was no hair, the face on the head was rotted away, leaving only hollow eyes and a bright red tongue hanging from its mouth.

The color of that tongue was completely different from the corpse, as if it had been pieced together; now as the corpse stood up, thunder in the sky exploded violently, lightning darted in all directions transforming into silver serpents, illuminating the earth in alternating light and dark…

A terrible fluctuation suddenly emanated from the corpse in an instant, and in its hollow eyes, two ghostly flames rose at that moment; but what made Xu Qing’s eyes contract was the corpse’s tongue.

This bright red tongue seemed to be the same object as the one missing from Sheng Yunzi’s head.

And the divinity emanating from this corpse was even more terrifying; under its endless eruption, the ghostly flames in the corpse’s eyes faintly revealed a golden light.

As this light appeared, the divinity on the corpse became even more violent, shaking heaven and earth, causing the surrounding anomalous matter to crazily proliferate! It affected the sky, and black rain fell from the heavens.

Like a god!!

But only like, not a true god; what it possessed was merely divinity.

And even if the quantity of divinity was great, even if it appeared godlike, in reality it still was not.

The difference between them was like mist and ice!!

At the same time, the corpse also emitted a strong unstable fluctuation, as if it could explode at any moment.

Clearly, this dense divinity could not be fully controlled by the corpse itself; to Xu Qing, it felt as if the corpse had been crudely pieced together and created, thus forming an unknown life form.

Xu Qing only glanced at it, and his eyes stung fiercely, as if the corpse was unseeable, eerie to the extreme.

“Is this the divine power that Candlelight has mastered? I have studied it for a long time recently,” Seventh Master said softly, gazing at all this.

“Candlelight, what a grand scheme, you were actually creating gods, but unfortunately, as I guessed, you fell somewhat short.

Ancestor, Candlelight cannot send anyone else; we can close the net as planned, suppress this Candlelight divine trial body, and make it our sect’s foundation!”

Almost the moment Seventh Master’s words were spoken, the corpse roared to the sky, divinity surged within it, surrounding anomalous matter went wild, heaven and earth changed color, and at the same time, the corpse’s life level also soared; with one step, it ignored the Seven Blood Eyes’ forbidden barrier and directly reached midair, about to leave this place.

But Blood Refiner’s figure appeared in front of the corpse in an instant, transforming into countless blood threads that converged into a huge fist, punching out.

Yet the corpse only flashed golden light in its eyes, and the void twisted; Blood Refiner’s fist seemed to hit the corpse, but as if they were not in the same space at that moment,

Blood Refiner’s fist passed straight through.

But in the blink of an eye, the figure of Dongyou Shangren suddenly appeared in midair; this old woman had clearly been there for a while, hiding, and now after appearing, her eyes showed disbelief.

“Blood Refiner, your son-in-law is right; Candlelight was indeed creating gods, but they did not succeed. The created thing lacks power, its intelligence cannot be controlled, and it has been melted by divinity!” As she spoke,

a strange light shone in her eyes, and she raised her right hand and pressed down fiercely.

With the flow of countless threads in her eyes, the space around the corpse seemed to collapse in the next moment, while the blood threads transformed by Blood Refiner also surged back, directly drilling into the void, into the space where the corpse

was located.

As the rumbling echoed in the sky, with the joint attack of Dongyou Shangren and Blood Refiner, a sharp glint flashed in Seventh Master’s eyes; he rapidly formed hand seals, and the sky blurred; a huge blood tree directly…

descended onto the battlefield, swaying and solidifying the surroundings, turning into a seal.

Meanwhile, the seven-colored pupils of the Sea Corpse Clan's forbidden treasure soared upon the sky, and now the fourteen ancestral idols turned in unison, unleashing their full power, causing the forbidden ancient mirror of the Seven Blood Eyes to also turn crimson at this moment. After the seven pupils, suddenly another seven pupils emerged. The fourteen pupils all opened, locking onto the corpses on the battlefield, with the massive ancient mirror radiating blazing red light, shooting forth. Reflected upon the battlefield, it transformed again into the force of seals. Under the power of these two forbidden treasures, the remaining members of the Candle Glow outside the periphery, as well as the two masked figures in black robes, all trembled violently, each spewing fresh blood, their bodies being firmly pressed down, falling to the ground, and rigidly fixed there, unable to struggle! This was the plan of Lord Qi! His plan had never been a single strategic target. He had spent considerable time researching the past of Candle Glow, ultimately unraveling a thread of clues through his efforts. Based on this clue, Lord Qi subtly guessed at Candle Glow's subsequent arrangements in the Imperial Palace State, which is why this battle had occurred. If Candle Glow came, the Sword Bureau would take action. If Candle Glow did not send someone, then according to his analysis, there must be something left by Candle Glow here, which was likely related to the deity, and he wished to obtain it, which would make it more convenient for him to understand Candle Glow. Since Candle Glow was now his mortal enemy, just as he had studied the Sea Corpse Clan in the past, he would now thoroughly study this Candle Glow. Lord Qi had once told Xu Qing that the Great Era had arrived, and celestial geniuses were emerging frequently. The Great Era was not something that had only come recently, but had long existed hundreds of years ago. Lord Qi himself was a genius of this Great Era. Therefore, the dazzling and peerless geniuses in this world would never be limited to a few! This was the essence of the Great Era.