NIP Chapter 292 The legendary 9th-tier path may reappear.
Chapter 292 The legendary 9th-tier path may reappear.
At the same time, at that very moment, an extremely powerful evil emotion surged into his mind.
Slaughter, bloodlust, madness, lust...
These evil thoughts and emotions, like a surging tide, tried to overwhelm his consciousness.
Lin Hanzhou was shocked; so this was the real side effect of refining the demonic heart.
He could feel that he was not only being assimilated by evil thoughts and emotions, but his body was also beginning to undergo abnormal changes.
The human bodies began to transform into those of the demon race, their skin turning purple, their faces becoming ferocious, and their eyes turning crimson.
Fortunately, he had absolute control over the demonic heart and instantly extracted the strange purple energy formed from the demonic heart from his body.
That evil emotion and the physical distortion also came to an abrupt end at that moment.
Lin Hanzhou carefully examined the strange purple energy in his hand, trying to discern some clue from it.
After looking him over, I actually figured out some things about him.
He discovered that this strange purple energy contained some clumps of black matter.
It is precisely within this black substance that endless evil thoughts are contained.
So Lin Hanzhou tried to remove the black substance, and he actually succeeded.
He threw the black substance into the void as a snack for the void behemoths, and then tried to fuse with the demonic essence again.
This integration was much the same as before, the only difference being the absence of those extreme evil thoughts and emotions.
Lin Hanzhou knew that he had successfully achieved a side-effect-free fusion.
"Great stuff! This is really great stuff!"
Lin Hanzhou looked at the remaining two demon hearts, his eyes revealing undisguised excitement.
"If even one pill can have this effect..."
"If I refine all three, will I be able to take off immediately?"
Without any hesitation, Lin Hanzhou reached out again and grabbed the remaining two demon hearts.
The two demonic hearts seemed to sense something amiss, and began to tremble slightly, as if they had witnessed something terrifying.
If they could speak, they would definitely say, "Don't come any closer!"
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On the other side, in the far east of the Tianxuan Realm, lies the Immortal Cliff.
This is a terrifying place that would rank among the top three even among the many forbidden areas in the Heavenly Profound Realm.
It is not a cliff, but a terrifying abyss that stretches for hundreds of millions of miles and is bottomless, lying across the eastern edge of the Tianxuan Realm!
From high above, the entire abyss appears as straight as a line, with a smooth, mirror-like cut, as if someone had used a giant sword to cleave the continent in two.
Hence the name—Fairy Cliff!
Legend has it that this was a divine feat performed by an unparalleled swordsman in ancient times, who slew a powerful enemy with a single sword strike.
For ordinary cultivators, this legend might just be something to talk about over tea.
But for Jian Twelve, this was his lifelong belief.
As the undisputed "Number One Sword Cultivator" in the Tianxuan Realm for tens of thousands of years, he is a powerful figure at the tenth level of the eighth-order Tribulation Transcending Realm.
Jian Shier is a true sword fanatic.
He lived a life without wife or children, with no ties or worries, his only companion being his sword.
Since he became invincible tens of thousands of years ago, he chose to retire and has been living in seclusion by the Immortal Cliff, observing the sword intent remaining at the abyss's edge day and night, trying to comprehend the legendary "Great Dao of the Sword"!
He sat there for tens of thousands of years.
Tens of thousands of years of sitting in meditation, although it did not allow him to break through to the ninth rank, it did bring his sword heart to its ultimate clarity.
He could even use the lingering sword intent to simulate the splendor of that sword strike in his mind.
That sword cleaved the heavens!
That sword cleaved the earth in two!
That sword strike even severed time and space!
"What astonishing power this is..."
Jian Twelve sat cross-legged on a protruding cliff, holding a seemingly ordinary iron sword in his arms.
He gazed at the endless void opposite the abyss, his eyes filled with fascination and longing.
"Even with my current cultivation level of the eighth rank, tenth level, and twelve million sword Dao traces, I'd probably be as insignificant as an ant before that sword strike, wouldn't I?"
"It's hard to imagine what kind of being the predecessor who unleashed that sword strike..."
"Do the legendary immortals... really exist?"
Just as Jian Twelve was, as usual, immersed in his understanding and reverie about that sword strike.
suddenly!
"Buzz—"
A very faint, yet strangely eerie, spatial fluctuation emanated from the endless dark void opposite the abyss!
"Um?"
Jian Twelve suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze as sharp as a sword, shooting out instantly, piercing through the fog before him, and looking straight into the depths of the endless void.
That place should have been an endless void of turbulent currents, a forbidden zone for life, an absolute darkness that could even devour light.
But now, in the deepest part of that dark void.
Jian Twelve vaguely saw a huge shadow, as big as a continent, approaching the Tianxuan Realm at a seemingly slow but actually astonishing speed!
"That...that is..."
Sword Twelve's pupils suddenly contracted.
His sword heart, which had remained calm and undisturbed for tens of thousands of years, began to beat violently and uncontrollably at this moment.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
He thought he was seeing things, or that he was hallucinating.
So he frantically activated the sword path within his body, dispelling the surrounding dark void, and looked at that shadow once more.
This time he saw it clearly; it wasn't a shadow at all.
That was a real continent!
A fragment of a continent, though broken and scarred, exudes an aura that is of the same origin as the Heavenly Profound Realm!
And at the edge of that continental fragment, the smooth, chiseled break was perfectly aligned with the "Immortal Cliff" on this side!
"boom--!"
At this moment, a shocking conjecture that could overturn the entire history of the Tianxuan Realm and drive all cultivators crazy exploded in Jian Twelve's mind!
"This...this could be...?"
"The continent that was... severed apart by that sword strike back then?"
"The other half of the Celestial Profound Realm?"
"It...it's back?!"
Sword Twelve stared in horror at the approaching fragments of the continent, his heart filled with turmoil.
He knew that if this was truly the other half of the Heavenly Profound Realm, then the legendary Path to the Ninth Order might also reappear.
Thinking of this, Jian Twelve could not hide his excitement.
Now, he is just one step away from the ninth level, which is to use his own Dao traces to communicate with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
It was precisely because the Great Dao of this world was incomplete that he was unable to take this step for so long, which had kept him stuck for tens of thousands of years.
Now, with the appearance of another fragment of the continent, there is hope that this world can be restored to its wholeness!