Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 415 Refining Heavenly Gang to Capture Earthly Fiends
He pondered for a moment, but ultimately made up his mind.

It's time to pay our respects!
At this moment, the Arctic Celestial Qi struggled in Xu Yunfan's palm, and each tremor caused the ice layer of the Ice Abyss Dome to crack.

He didn't take it to heart and immediately sat cross-legged in the center of the ice cave.

The Arctic celestial energy roared and struggled in his palm, each tremor causing starlight to fall from the icy dome.

For three whole months, he remained as still as an ancient rock, and gradually a Dharma image of a tortoise and snake coiled around his body appeared. The patterns on the tortoise shell corresponded to the stars in the sky, and each pattern flowed with the power of the stars.

The scales of the Nether Serpent gleamed with a malevolent aura like lava, and its eyes flickered with the light of earth fire as it opened and closed.

Until midnight three months later, seven stars in the Big Dipper constellation in the sky suddenly aligned.

Seven dazzling starlight beams poured down like a celestial river, solidifying into tangible silver chains that cascaded down into the icy abyss, each chain entwined with ancient star runes.

These starlight chains precisely pierced into Xu Yunfan's seven major acupoints, dragging the struggling Arctic Heavenly Qi inch by inch into the depths of his dantian.

The ice on the dome of the Ice Abyss refracted a seven-colored halo under the starlight, and the white breath that Xu Yunfan exhaled merged with the starlight, condensing into a miniature Xuanwu star map around him.

When the seventy-ninth stellar ray pierced his body, his spine suddenly erupted with a roar like a dragon's cry. Dark golden True Martial Inscriptions lit up section by section of his great dragon's golden bones, as if an unseen giant hand was using stars as a hammer to forge him into a humanoid divine weapon.

On the seventy-ninth day, thunderclouds suddenly gathered over the Ice Abyss.

Xu Yunfan suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils now transformed into the vertical pupils of a Xuanwu (a mythical tortoise).

The Heavenly Qi finally let out a mournful cry, and under the constant scouring and squeezing of the True Martial Subduing Demon Essence, it condensed into the Demon-Suppressing Seal of the Black Tortoise Star Lord in his chest and abdomen.

Xu Yunfan slowly opened his eyes, and deep within his pupils, it seemed as if a tortoise and a snake were coiled together.

He lightly raised his right palm, and a wisp of dark black and gold-patterned True Martial Heavenly Qi leaped from his fingertip, instantly causing the temperature of the entire Ice Abyss to plummet.

"laugh!"

Where the qi swept across, the millennia-old ice melted silently, leaving a smooth, mirror-like surface.

Suddenly, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the ice pillar three zhang away, and then it collapsed with a roar. The remaining force shattered the ice fragments into dust before they even hit the ground.

He flicked his finger, and the aura of the Arctic demon-slaying energy instantly transformed into a three-inch sword.

Before the sword was even touched, the surrounding air spontaneously condensed into frost blades, slicing hundreds of crisscrossing sword marks into the ice wall within ten steps. Even more astonishingly, starlight flowed through the cleaved ice cracks, as if the sword energy carried the killing power of the Big Dipper.

"boom!"

Xu Yunfan suddenly pointed his fingers together to form a sword shape and pressed down.

A muffled, thunderous tremor emanated from the bottom of the Ice Abyss, and the magma of the ninth layer of the Earth Vein Hell was remotely stirred, forming a crimson vortex with a diameter of hundreds of feet beneath the ice.

The image of Xuanwu emerged from behind him, the star patterns on its tortoise shell reflecting the earth fire, illuminating the entire Northern Xuanbing Abyss with flickering light.

"Something interesting..."

Xu Yunfan's eyes suddenly shone brightly, his pupils swirling with a brilliance reminiscent of a tortoise, a snake, and stars.

He clearly felt that the Arctic Demon-Subduing Qi within his body was perfectly merging with the True Martial Demon-Subduing Scripture, surging like a river in his meridians.

"When he reached the terrestrial immortal realm, he was already comparable to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining."

He clenched his fist, and the black qi bursting from his palm instantly froze and shattered the ice pillar ten feet away. "Now, I wonder what level I can reach by refining this True Martial Heavenly Qi..."

This power is more than double that of before.

If the previous stage was half a step into the Foundation Establishment stage, now it has truly touched that threshold.

But then Xu Yunfan frowned slightly.

Although the Demon-Suppressing Seal in the dantian has taken shape, it still feels like something is missing.

Like an unsharpened divine weapon, it has form but no true meaning.

"It's still not quite there. It still needs to subdue the demons and evil spirits. I need to go to the Nine Layers of the Earthly Vein Hell to search for it..."

He muttered to himself, his gaze falling on the ice beneath his feet. The Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends are both rare treasures of heaven and earth. If it weren't for the True Martial Subduing Demon True Scripture's innate connection between the True Martial Subduing Demon and the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, it would be harder than ascending to heaven to find them on his own.

This is why the true scriptures, born from the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, are so highly sought after.

"boom!"

Xu Yunfan's figure suddenly exploded into hundreds of black streaks, which pierced into the ice cracks like meteors falling to earth.

Wherever it passed, the ancient ice of ten thousand years spontaneously gave way.

The magma of the nine layers of the molten hell split open automatically beneath his feet, revealing a boiling sea of ​​lava and fire below.

Xu Yunfan glanced around.

This is a purgatory where crimson and dark gold intertwine, with viscous magma slowly writhing like the blood of a giant beast, and waves of fire, several feet high, constantly exploding on its surface.

As the waves of fire crashed against each other, they coalesced into countless hideous ghost faces, which let out silent roars before falling back into the sea of ​​fire.

Deeper still, the dark purple earthly evil energy surged like a giant python, tearing the entire sea of ​​fire into spiderweb-like cracks.

"This place... is probably close to the underworld."

Xu Yunfan frowned deeply, his gaze piercing through the churning lava and looking into the depths of the sea of ​​fire.

In the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm, all living beings are subject to reincarnation, and there are high heavens and dark lands.

Beneath the boiling lava, one could vaguely see dark purple malevolent energy slithering like a giant python, each surge bringing with it countless twisted, vengeful faces.

"These nine levels of the Molten Hell may have already touched the edge of the Netherworld."

His Martial Arts Heavenly Eye opened and closed, its golden light flowing, clearly revealing the souls of the dead bound by the Earthly Fiend Qi.

It's unknown how these souls came to be here, to suffer the torments of purgatory.

Xu Yunfan stood on the edge of the lava sea, the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture circulating throughout his body. The True Martial Heavenly Gang with its black and gold patterns surged through his meridians, echoing the boiling Earthly Fiend Qi beneath his feet.

How to obtain the Demon-Subduing Earthly Fiends? The True Martial Demon-Subduing Scripture provides very clear instructions with the help of the attribute panel.

It was created by refining the extremely complex and chaotic earthly elements below, after performing meritorious deeds to deliver the souls of the dead.

He took a deep breath, formed a hand seal, his ten fingers gripping the heavenly gate, and a strange light flowed between his knuckles.

This is the True Martial Demon-Subduing Seal, which can both suppress and exorcise demons.

"True Martial Arts Subdue Demons, Pray for the Deliverance of the Dead!"

With a low shout, the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture within Xu Yunfan's body suddenly erupted, and a dark pillar of light shot up from the top of his head, transforming into a martial arts dharma image in the void.

As the tortoise and snake, formed from the demon-quelling energy of the Arctic, coiled together, the Dharma image opened its mouth and spat out a beam of clear light, like a celestial river falling, directly piercing into the sea of ​​lava and fire.

"boom!"

Lava churned and fire bursts exploded.

Under the clear light, the grotesque ghost faces of those souls bound by the earthly evil energy gradually lost their ferocity, and their distorted expressions returned to calm.

For a whole day and night, Xu Yunfan still hadn't extracted a single trace.

Undeterred, he continued to unleash his vast true energy, practicing the True Martial Demon Subduing Seal, transforming it into a tortoise and snake intertwined, using the martial arts techniques cultivated from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Talisman, the two intertwined to deliver the souls of the dead.

It wasn't until half a month later.

A dark purple aura melted away like ice and snow. Under the cleansing of the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture, all impurities were removed, leaving only a wisp of pure Subduing Demon Earthly Fiend Qi, which slithered through the lava like a snake.

Xu Yunfan's gaze sharpened, and the golden light of his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye surged, locking onto that wisp of Subduing Demon Earthly Fiend.

(I got back late today and need to sort out the upcoming plot. The next event is a Foundation Establishment Ceremony, I hope you all enjoy it.)
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