Chapter 1314: Chapter 1314: Annihilating the Three Saints!

One Qi Transforms Three Pristine is essentially a divine skill straddling the line between Clone Technique and Illusory Art, allowing the practitioner to use primordial qi to manifest the Three Saints for combat.

However, these Three Saints cannot truly harm the enemy, they can only delay them temporarily and cannot last long.

Yet what the Ziwei Demon Monarch used was not this type of Three Pure Ones Skill.

In a certain life, he was besieged by the Nine Saints of Heavenly River, but counterattacked and killed each of the Nine Saints, seizing their cultivations from myriad cycles of reincarnation, obtaining numerous daoist skills in the process.

One Qi Transforms Three Pristine was among these skills, and upon understanding it deeply, Ziwei developed the Purple Qi Three Gods Skill based on it.

His true form was a Heavenly Spirit Root in the chaos, born with Purple Qi Protection, from which the Purple Qi Three Gods cultivated by him could achieve what others could not.

With it, he forged a path to sainthood never charted before!

He was not unaware that all contemporary Qi Refining Skills had pitfalls, but he had no choice. Because at that time, he had already harmonized with light and dust, severing his True Self.

Without the True Self, there was no way to cut the corpse or merge the corpse to become a saint.

As for proving the Tao with power, he had long demonstrated that this path was unfeasible...

Those who prove the Tao with the Three Corpses sacrifice the cause and effect of countless beings to make up for deficiencies.

Those who prove the Tao with power sacrifice the cause and effect of the Lost World to make up for deficiencies.

In terms of difficulty, the Three Corpses Skill is much easier than proving the Tao with power.

This is because the Immeasurable Catastrophe summoned by the former rarely involves a saint making a move.

The Catastrophe of the Lost World summoned by the latter, however, can encounter Initial Saints or even Nirvana Saints obstructing the path.

Of course, as long as Reverse Saint doesn’t make a move, any who possess the talent for Reversal can eliminate the ten nightmares of the Lost World and achieve the status of Returning Ruins Saint.

But Ziwei was different!

He attempted to prove the Tao with power four times, but each time, at the last moment, his path to sainthood was extinguished by the hands of a Reverse Saint.

Moreover, on his fifth attempt, destiny descended with bronze-black flames, burning away all possibilities of proving the Tao with power throughout all of Ziwei’s reincarnations, branding him with the inevitable fate of being unable to become a Returning Ruins Saint...

At this moment, the Ziwei Demon Monarch finally realized the sorrow and helplessness of "no one can break destiny"...

Before him, there seemed to be only the path of merit to sainthood; or perhaps those in high places intended to use him as a pawn to manipulate the merits of the Nine Days.

But he did not intend to achieve sainthood through merit.

Even in harmony with light and dust, he still had choices, ultimately creating the path to become the Polar Saint through his Dao Enlightenment.

Thus, he cultivated the Purple Qi Three Gods that resemble the Void, and coupled with his main body, formed the Arctic Four Gods.

When the four gods unite, his main body can become a Polar Saint.

If he achieved sainthood through this method, the cultivation of the spirit sense would instantly transfer to his true form.

Thus, if Ziwei were to become a saint, he would not start with just one cycle of reincarnation’s cultivation like an ordinary saint.

Instead, he would directly acquire the entire reincarnation of spirit sense on the foundation of one cycle, starting at the level of a 57-cycle Primordial Saint!

As the fastest cultivator in the world, Ziwei had the power to shatter the norms of the world.

Precisely because Ziwei’s path to sainthood was so extraordinary, Ning Fan had to stop this, otherwise Ning Fan would not be facing the second step of Ziwei but a 57-cycle Ziwei Saint, he would undoubtedly face an unprecedented level of suppression...

...

The three saints summoned by Ziwei at this moment were neither Illusory Art nor Summoning Technique, but precisely the Purple Qi Three Gods he cultivated.

Since they were formed of Purple Qi, the Three Saints were not true saints; they had cultivation without existence, akin to a magical treasure, thus not restricted by the Taiyi Dream.

However, due to the flaws in Qi Refining Skill, Ziwei initially refrained from overusing this skill before eliminating its shortcomings, but now he could only make an all-out effort!

Under the assault of the Three Saints, Ning Fan immediately found himself at a disadvantage.

"Black and white should not be possessed, a thousand rounds of life and death thoroughly known, the empty gate speaks of the eternal sand tribulation, should laugh at pursuing a foolishness lifelong."

Master Qingdu recited in a low voice, using the Great Transformation Freedom Technique to manifest the spectral shadows of twenty-four Fixed Boundary Yang God Pearls.

Upon the appearance of this treasure, it further manifested twenty-four layers of Chi Ming Space.

All the Bright Realms unified, causing an influx of Chi Ming Holy Fire into Ning Fan’s Divine Spirit Domain; in an instant, seven thousand spirit trees sank into a black fire sea, the divine domain burned by the fire, a single thought eternally flames!

As for Ning Fan himself, he was trapped amidst the raging black fire.

These twenty-four pearls were originally in the possession of Ancestor Separation God, but because Ziwei once used the Taiyi Dream to completely sever Ancestor Separation God and take the Creation Shadow of this treasure, he could utilize part of its power.

Chi Ming Holy Fire can simultaneously burn the realms of life and death, rendering nowhere to hide for the enemies of life and death; even Taiji Life and Death cannot evade it.

Although Ning Fan was of the Founding Primordial Spirit Body, he could not endure the fire unaided, for within this fire was embedded the majesty of Mingling Dao Skill, and without a deep understanding of the principles of Mingling Dao Skill, Ning Fan could not directly harmonize this fire with Yin Yang.

Thus, he sacrificed the Flooded Bottle, using the waves of Endless Reverse Sea to fend off the twenty-four realms of Chi Ming Holy Fire.

There was no time to see the result clearly, for he immediately formed the Big Dipper Three Thousand Seals, launching them towards the Jun Tian Mage and Master Guangle who were attacking from the sides.

In such a hurry, how could he counter both, defend against the joint assault of the two saints?

Hence, the hand seal shattered, and Ning Fan’s arm was severed by the Kunlun Merit Sword of the Jun Tian Mage, his chest pierced with a bloody hole by the Reverse Sea Reincarnation Sword of Master Guangle.

But in the next moment, Ning Fan, possessing twenty-seven types of Immortal Power, instantly regrew his severed arm and healed his wounds.

Yet, he was immediately struck continuously by Jun Tian Mage.

"Who can enter the Profound Sect within black or white, a thousand rounds separate life and death. The empty gate speaks of the eternal sand tribulation, should laugh at pursuing a truth lifelong."

Seeing Ning Fan’s Immortal Power being somewhat troublesome, Master Jun Tian chanted incantations and used the Great Transformation Freedom Technique to conjure virtual shadows of the Divine Land’s Ten Artifacts, which he launched towards Ning Fan.

These ten artifacts, namely Bell, Sword, Axe, Flask, Pagoda, Zither, Cauldron, Seal, Mirror, and Jade, were obtained by Zi Wei after vanquishing Hongjun’s various spirit sense projections in the Taiyi Dream.

When Bell, Sword, Axe, Flask, and Pagoda are combined, they can lay out a void formation.

This formation, with the Void Spirit Dao Skill, can seal the enemy in the void, giving them no escape, while the caster can use the Void Dao to attack from the past, present, and future simultaneously.

When Zither, Cauldron, Seal, Mirror, and Jade are combined, they can lay out the Lost Array.

This array, using the Desolate Spirit Dao Skill, can evolve into the three transformations of Horse in the Crevice, Fire in the Stone, and Body in the Dream, which together become the Thoughtless Memory Heaven荒 Fire, specifically targeting the Five Aggregates and Six Consciousness.

Ning Fan then shattered both the void formation and Lost Array with the One Corner Reverse Dust Array, simultaneously summoning the Divine Artisan Palace and various treasures to fend off the assault of the Divine Land’s Ten Artifacts.

But immediately, Master Qingdu caught him off guard in a sneak attack. Ning Fan felt pain in his back as Master Qingdu’s Holding Ming Inverse Crane Claw tore through the defense of the Five-Colored Immortal Robe and shredded his Tao Body Divine Bone.

Ning Fan’s physical defense exploded into a blood mist but he used the flash of blood to escape from the Endless Void Realm that the claw shadows shattered, arriving behind Master Qingdu.

As his physical defense instantly recovered, he hurled the Ant Lord’s Five-Colored Divine Stone Dao Soldier at Master Qingdu’s back, landing a blow that left the mage’s head bloodied.

There was no time to breathe as he was again caught by surprise by Master Guangle’s sneak attack.

"Who can plunge into the profound with black and white, only the body of life and death can complete the circle. The teachings of the Gate of Emptiness speak of innumerable catastrophes, yet laugh that the whole year precedes all."

Master Guangle muttered incantations, under Great Transformation Freedom, conjured the four Bodhi Trees: Holding Nation, Growth, Vast Eye, and Duowen.

The sweeping of the four trees instantly rippled infinite reincarnation waves outward. These waves could fix the Three Desolate circulation, making it impossible for the Primordial Saint to escape, thus anchoring Ning Fan’s reincarnation.

At this time, the figure who should have had its Immortal Bone shattered by Ning Fan, Zi Wei executed the River Cutting Technique, slicing away its present self to exchange for its past self, where its Immortal Bone was intact.

This restored the Immortal Bone, then conjured the Execution Saint, Slaying Saint, Trapping Saint, and Jue Saint Sword Array, joining the assault.

The Polar Sword Light transformed into galaxies and expanded, once again slicing Ning Fan, bound in reincarnation, into a sky of blood mist.

After the blood mist dispersed, Ning Fan did not reconstruct his physical defense as before, but remained bound in fixed reincarnation, immobile, and his Immortal Power’s flow was halted.

But Zi Wei knew that the Three Desolate level of fixed reincarnation could not bind the demon sect for long. Thus, using the Great Thousand World as the foundation, it transformed into a Heaven and Earth Furnace, attempting to seal the sky’s blood mist within, before Ning Fan could reshape his physical defense, with the intention of using the Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment to suppress this demon.

Qingdu: "Chi Ming Holy Fire!"

Jun Tian: "Tao Spirit Holy Fire!"

Guangle: "Reincarnation Holy Fire!"

Zi Wei: "Spring and Autumn Holy Fire! Heavenly Desolate Holy Fire!"

All four cast the fivefold saintly fire towards the furnace, merging the five fires into Reverse Saint Palm Patterns, and affixed the palm patterns onto the Heaven and Earth Furnace, also placing talisman papers of the Nine Secrets of Hongling upon it.

The palm patterns contained a hundred lines that could suppress hundred-level reincarnation; even the Hundred Generations Primordial Saint under this Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment could hardly escape!

Yet, in Zi Wei’s heart, there was no sense of triumph. Even though the advantage was entirely theirs, the unease within only grew instead of lessening!

Creak, creak, creak!

Numerous cracks appeared on the Heaven and Earth Furnace, evidently revealing that the person inside had broken free from fixed reincarnation, having completed the reconstruction of their physical defense and was attempting to break open the furnace!

"Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment is designed to suppress obsession. This fire punishment with my full strength can temporarily suppress even Hundred Generations Holder Cultivators, yet it cannot contain this demon! How vast has this demon sect’s obsession grown... I, having endured destruction five times, find my obsession dwarfed by this demon’s by far. Just how many destructions has he witnessed to become this way..."

Zi Wei, Qingdu, Jun Tian, and Guangle all pushed their Great Transformation Freedom to the extreme, striving to repair the Heaven and Earth Furnace and increasing flame output.

Furthermore, Zi Wei employed the Shushan Bronze Technique again to reinforce the furnace, making it formidable, rivaling Heaven-Opening Artifacts.

But it was not enough, still not enough!

Only suppressing the mere hundred-generation reincarnation’s obsession, how could it suppress the Demon Holding Butterfly that has experienced countless destructions!

Ning Fan may have lived as a human for only one lifetime, but as a Butterfly, he has long traversed the River of Time, undergoing countless destructions and losses.

All beings use reincarnation to cultivate pathways of future lives, unraveling the present confusion.

Ning Fan is no different.

When he pushes open the Heavenly Person Third Door, when he glimpses the past reincarnations of himself as a Butterfly, at that moment, he knew more clearly than anyone his own weakness and understood more than anyone the harshness of the worldly ways.

He always loses, yet can do nothing...

He always faces destruction, leaving her with only despair...

The reason secrets are secrets is because they bring pain.

This saying need not be told by Manzhi; he understood it long ago...

Long before glimpsing the Butterfly’s reincarnation past, he realized the weighty nature of reincarnation...

Inside the Heaven and Earth Furnace, Ning Fan slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, his eyes were shrouded in black, no longer reflecting the light of Daoist Skill Stars, nor did the Tianren Green Light flicker.

It was as if everything before him had sunk into eternal night...

Or as if what had sunk into eternal night was not the world, but he himself...

I am willing to do ten thousand things to save you, but I cannot hold onto you by doing even a million. What saddens me more is that I cannot do even one thing...

Even so, I still wish to do something for you, to respond to your wish...

If the heart holds fire, I wish to be your Chi Ming...

If the heart holds orchid, I wish to transform into wind and rain...

If the heart resembles moonlight, I wish to keep watch over the long night...

If the heart wields sword and blade, I am willing to serve the sword like a minister...

If the heart is scattered paper, I am willing to pursue life and death!

If the heart is to rebel, I am willing to support the heavens unwavering!

If the heart is like dead ashes, I am willing to ignite the red dust!

If the heart is a chess piece, I am willing to forever suppress the Five Spirits!

As long as the malice of the world doesn’t strip away from you, my sword shall not be put down!

Those who bring you no good fruit, under my sword, shall hope for none!

Cack-cack-cack-cack-cack!

Even with the utmost effort of the four, the Heaven and Earth Furnace still cracked more fissures, and the Reverse Saint Palm Patterns on the furnace were the first to collapse, splitting into ten directions of lightning!

It was the Against-Fate Thunder Technique tearing those Reverse Saint Palm Patterns!

It was the thunder-like obsession, striking the world’s very malice!

It was the unbreakable butterfly, breaking free from its cage, attempting to emerge from the Stone Fire Dream Body!

The interior of the Heaven and Earth Furnace, like a universe of Hundun yet unopened, was filled with the flames of Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment.

Ning Fan’s flesh was burned to ash countless times by the fire punishment, yet also reborn countless times amidst it.

The fire punishment, which could extinguish the ordinary person’s obsession, could not burn out his obsession; instead, it made his obsession grow even fiercer!

Amidst countless destructions and rebirths, Ning Fan’s obsession reached its peak, and his Immortal Power merged into an Undying Daoist, generating a thread of unbreakable within the daoist tradition!

Even though the Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment was mighty, before the unbreakable Conviction Flame, it was but a mere candle against the galaxy!

No flame will ever surpass the fierceness of the obsession that burned across ages upon ages!

In the Furnace Universe, Ning Fan, leveraging the Fan Man Yang God Technique, ignited himself, transforming into a blazing sun of conviction!

Then, utilizing the Blood God Change Crow Technique, he detonated himself, now a sun...

Furthermore, he fused the Explosion with the Ant Lord’s Heaven-opening Five Lights Divine Power, making the explosion’s power even more terrifying!

The universe, vast as the Great Thousand World, began to expand and collapse at this moment!

All life and death became nothing at this instant!

Heaven and Earth Furnace, shatter!

Simultaneously, a sea of destructive flames and blinding light swept out from the furnace, the light shaping like a Burning Wing Butterfly, slowly unfolding its wings that covered the heavens!

This all happened in an instant, and Ziwei Demon Monarch’s Free Will immediately responded, clearly not the first time being exploded by the Change Crow.

"Retreat quickly!"

Ziwei Demon Monarch only had time to say two words to the Purple Qi Three Gods before severing the river himself, hiding in a [past] reincarnation coordinate.

He had once used this method to survive between the clashes of the Immortal Ancestor Kingdom, Immortal Whale, and Enlightenment Realm, believing firmly he could emerge safe and sound again.

Though he retreated swiftly, his eyes were still blinded by the light of the Burning Wing Butterfly, which filled him with a slight dread: despite having cultivated the Vast Eye Infinite Technique, with eyes that had once glimpsed the Eternal Dao, meant to be impervious, now injured, was simply unbelievable!

Thus, Ziwei had to pay the price, sever the river again, restoring his sight, and further deepen his perception of Ning Fan’s madness.

This demon is truly remarkable, managing to cultivate the most elusive unbreakable in the Nine Reversal Dao...

This demon is also truly mad, daring to use his indestructibility as a bomb; no wonder his Life Lantern is so frail...

"I only wonder, can my Purple Qi Three Gods survive, though probably not much hope remains, as those three cannot learn the self-severing river... oh well, mere Three Gods, I’ll just cultivate anew..."

Despite foreseeing the destruction of the Purple Qi Three Gods, Ziwei only felt a slight regret and promptly moved on.

If the Purple Qi Three Gods perished, the 56-era cultivations honed within would be forever lost.

Anyone else losing 56-era cultivations would be furious beyond words, yet Ziwei was indifferent, even finding peace.

As if what he lost wasn’t 56-era cultivation, but merely 56 taels of Heavenly Dao Gold.

Even his True Self could be lost, what then is irreplaceable?

Fortunately, he was the world’s fastest cultivator; resurrecting the 56-era cultivation was quicker for him than heavenly talents retreating to become emperors.

His talent was overwhelming, making him in the first life feared by all saints reversed.

Five lives, five times defying destiny, yet all ended in failure, marked by the Five Spirits Chessboard with fate of demise...

Thus in the sixth life, he conceded, choosing to harmonize with light and dust, obtaining a chance to become reverse.

But now, the light once harmonized, the dust once passed, has come to claim a debt...

Is the destiny of demise truly unchangeable?

What if I refuse to believe...

"This demon is too vicious, if even Purple Qi Three Gods and Destruction of Obsession Fire Punishment cannot subdue him, then my last strategy remains [All Dharma Void]..."

"If able to repel this demon, I could regenerate the Purple Qi Three Gods later, but one realm and Beiji Yuanling must not be lost..."

"This is the sixth life I’ve plotted for myself, one capable of ascending the Reversal Road, but losing Beiji Yuanling means the seventh life becomes meaningless, and this sixth life’s Reversal Road likely succumbs to demise too... this is my final battle with destiny, if the end is unchangeable, I accept defeat and return the dao to the vastness, allow [you] to return..."

...

As Ziwei foresaw, his Purple Qi Three Gods couldn’t escape the explosion’s impact.

At the moment of the explosion, Qingdu, Jun Tian, Guangle distinctly fled far away, and each activated the Great Transformation Freedom Technique, yet they were still engulfed by the sea of fire and light...

How to describe the moment of being swallowed?

In this instant, the Three Saints, which were merely formed from a mouthful of Purple Qi, couldn’t possibly withstand such a vast explosion impact and scorching high temperatures, and they fell instantly.

At this moment, the thoughts of the Three Saints suddenly elongated, clearly just a moment, yet it felt like experiencing an eternity of 14 billion years.

The scene seen by their eyes was fixed on such a spectacle: the butterfly’s light engulfed the entire world...

Geng Wu self-destructive explosion, terrifying indeed!

Back then, merely a True Blood Five Star Infinite Geng Wu self-explosion was enough to blast thirty-three past Fans (referring to Ning Fan before the thousand-year blood battle).

If it was ignited with the Yangshen Art, it could blow three hundred past Fans to death.

Further empowered by the Heaven-opening Five Lights, it could easily destroy six or seven hundred past Fans.

Should the self-destruct not be Infinite Geng Wu, but Undying Ning Fan, then it would be enough to destroy six or seven hundred current Fans.

It was only the vast Divine Skills of Ziwei Demon Monarch that cleverly avoided this strike; many Primordial Saints and Nirvana Saints couldn’t escape this blow.

The three Purple Qi Gods could not escape either, even with Free Will, they couldn’t evade the strike that burned through life and death.

However, the fall of a Saint doesn’t lead to complete demise; they die one reincarnation after another, each lost cycle allows for rebirth.

And so.

In the first round of explosion, the Three Saints Qingdu, Jun Tian, and Guangle each destroyed one cycle of reincarnation.

No time to catch their breath, Ning Fan, who was supposed to fall in the self-explosion, returned due to being Unbreakable, and launched a second self-explosion.

This was a bit excessive!

Thus, the Three Saints again each destroyed one cycle of reincarnation.

No time to breathe, the third explosion came again!

Followed by the fourth, fifth, sixth explosions...

At this moment, named Undying, the terror awakened in the butterfly’s flames.

The Three Saints were unwilling to be endlessly blasted to extinction by this crazy butterfly; despite fighting back with Great Transformation Freedom, they were still obliterated.

In the face of absolute power, any means of resistance seemed pale and powerless.

In the Taiji Dream, ordinary means can’t escape at all; the Three Saints could only brace themselves for the blast.

Ning Fan was like an undying spawn, destroyed time and again, returning each time, each self-explosion must take one of the Three Saints’ lives to end.

In the fifteenth round of explosion, Master Qingdu completely fell.

In the nineteenth round of explosion, Master Jun Tian completely fell.

In the twenty-second cycle explosion, Master Guangle completely fell.

At this point, Ning Fan slew the Three Purple Qi Gods, his Evil Qi soared to an unprecedented height that sent chills to most Primordial Saints!

After all, most Primordial Saints have never truly killed a Saint, at most just cut away some reincarnations for others...

Being Unbreakable is not without cost; Ning Fan’s Life Lantern was almost exhausted, trading life for life took a heavy toll on him.

At this moment, the silver-haired Ghost Eye Ning Fan seemed fine, but without it, he might show more gray at his temples.

He was inching toward true destruction...

"Looks like you don’t have much strength left to self-explode many more times. Though you have refined Unbreakable, it’s ultimately too little; if it had just one percent of Ancient God Silkworm’s scale, I’d have no chance of defeating you..."

Seeing Ning Fan’s Life Lantern weak, finally stopping the self-explosion, Zi Wei then retrieved his severed self.

And simultaneously activated his second Immortal Spirit Talent, All Dharma Void.

Ning Fan’s aura appeared weak, Zi Wei’s state wasn’t great either; losing the Three Purple Qi Gods hurt his foundation, causing his aura to be similarly weak.

This weakness couldn’t be compensated by cutting back the past, as those three gods were lost forever...

"With this last resort, let’s decide [your] fate..."

Through All Dharma Void and Great Transformation Freedom stacked together, Zi Wei invoked ancient demon spiritual qi!

In an instant, purple flames began to burn around Zi Wei.

The demon spirit aura of the Fighting Saint Ape, began to surge from within Zi Wei...

Mouth claiming to decide fate with Ning Fan, but Zi Wei’s gaze turned to somewhere afar, seemingly inviting eyes with a Red Dust Flower from the future.

Or maybe, not with a Red Dust Flower from the future, but with his past self...

Chiwei...

Was I really wrong...

Zi Wei closed his eyes.

At the moment of closing eyes, he seemed to recall a girl named Purple Star Dust Flower, wearing a Nuo Flower Crown, who loved counting stars.

[The stars in the sky are really beautiful...]

[Decided, no matter the cost, I must pluck the stars down!]

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