Chapter 620: Eradicating Evils

When Pang Jian saw Luo Hongyan outside the Sacred Soul Continent, he could tell she had become detached and indifferent. The past had left no trace in her heart.

She was one of the four Sovereigns and had schemed against the Abyss for tens of thousands of years.

However, she did not seek the extermination of the human race in the Abyss, nor was she acting on behalf of the foreign races in the Fifth World.

She had always harbored her own agenda, but none of the other Outer Gods, not even Fire God Yan Lie, knew what it truly was.

All Pang Jian knew was that she was no longer the Luo Hongyan of the past.

Since that was the case, he too would bury their past deep within him, erase all memories of what they had once shared, and regard her as his greatest enemy in the Abyss, or perhaps even the starry skies.

One day, he would leave the Abyss and face the Outer Gods.

It was likely he would have to face Luo Hongyan in her true body as well.

He was curious what kind of supreme divine being she would be with six fully merged consciousnesses, or if it was possible for her to truly erase all traces of the past.

"How could Lu Qinghe and Zhou Yi ever compare to you?" Qi Xu smiled charmingly, exchanging a glance with Lie Yang and Jiu Luo before tightening her grip on her divine sword, the Godflame Sword. "Let me make this clear. What you saw back then—the deaths of Lu Qinghe and Zhou Yi—wasn't real.

"Those two are still alive. They're on the Dark Abyss Continent in the Third World. You merely saw what she wanted you to see.

"You're stubborn. I quite like that. But it seems you still need help seeing the truth.

"The future of the Abyss has already been decided. It doesn't matter whether you live or die. You, Pang Jian, cannot change it. Even your master, Li Zhaotian, could not alter its course after ascending to godhood!"

With that, Qi Xu swung the Godflame Sword.

Seven fiery meteors streaked toward Pang Jian. A blood-colored radiance flickered restlessly at the core of each meteor.

If magnified millions of times, one would see interwoven fire crystals within the radiance.

"Bloodline of the Seven Flames!"

The aura of the seven meteors underwent a profound transformation.

Fiery essences of a comet's blaze, the earth's core, solar flame, mortal ember, furnace fire, the heart of the wicked, candlelight, and wildfire all surged forth in unison.

Although Qi Xu's bloodline was known as the Seven Flames, her insights into the Dao of Fire far exceeded a mere seven kinds.

Fire crystals shone brilliantly within the descending fiery meteors. These crystals were Qi Xu's blood essence, infused with her profound Dao of Fire.

Pang Jian, Immortal Divine Soul still human-sized, watched as the seven fiery meteors shot toward him, scorching heat searing his skin.

Knitting his brows, he summoned a frosty protective shield around his body.

Frigid storms formed with a single thought.

Seven glacial storms, filled with razor-sharp ice shards and frost crystals, rose to meet the seven fiery meteors.

They intercepted the fiery meteors like ice shields to flaming lances.

Qi Xu's fiery meteors plowed through the glacial storms, shattering the ice shards and frost crystals in their path.

Scorching flames flared, igniting waves of fire that tore through the icy storms, grinding them into nothingness.

Pang Jian's expression remained composed, only narrowing his eyes as he silently studied the astonishing intricacies within the attack.

Qi Xu had fully comprehended dozens of insights into the Dao of Fire and embedded them into the seven fiery meteors. The depth of her Dao of Fire far surpassed the Flame Dragons of the Dragon Lair Sect.

Even though she had only recently broken through the shackles of her bloodline to advance to Rank Ten, she was undeniably terrifying.

Even Jiu Luo of the Ghost Race, another newly ascended Rank Ten powerhouse, was far inferior to her.

Pang Jian set aside his initial underestimation and resolved to face this battle with utmost seriousness.

"Flame Burst!" Qi Xu lightly thrust her divine sword toward the seven glacial storms, scattering tiny sparks of fire.

The fiery sparks trailed behind the fiery meteors and sank into the depths of the swirling glacial storms.

The divine power concealed within the fiery meteors erupted like powder kegs, unleashing a devastating explosion.

Seven all-consuming infernos blazed like roaring tidal waves, reducing the glacial storms into nothingness.

Fiery sparks and flame crystals crashed onto Pang Jian like a torrential downpour.

The frosty protective shield he had summoned in advance was bombarded by the relentless flames, riddled with so many breaches that it was impossible to tell how many holes had already burned through.

A brilliant starry sky suddenly appeared.

The stars, sun, and moon coexisted in radiant harmony within that dark, frigid expanse.

The starry sky had appeared without warning. Pang Jian had vanished the moment it appeared.

It expanded wildly, with the momentum of devouring mountains and rivers. Qi Xu's fire sparks, flame crystals, blazing embers, and meteoric flames were all swallowed into its eerily silent expanse.

From Qi Xu's point of view, it was as if the flames infused with her divine sense and blood essence were abruptly dropped into the infinite starry skies, becoming as insignificant as specks of dust.

Then, Pang Jian disappeared. Both her eyes and divine sense failed to locate him.

Pang Jian had vanished into the starry sky itself!

Lie Yang had been observing the battle from afar. Seeing this turn of events, he barked, "Jiu Luo, help Qi Xu find Pang Jian!"

The skeletal Jiu Luo reached into his sleeves with hands shrunken like gnarled claws and pulled out several triangular black tokens.

"Mystic Ghost Command Token, Soul Search!" Jiu Luo flung the tokens forward.

The nine triangular tokens morphed into nine towering black mountains.

Eerie runes were etched across the mountains' surfaces, depicting rivers leading to the netherworld, ancient Sunken Crypts, seas of consciousness of the living, or the strange forms of ghostly entities.

The nine mountains howled within the frigid starry sky, emitting waves of gray energy that rippled outward, scouring for concealed traces of soul fluctuations.

Suddenly, Jiu Luo vomited a mouthful of blood.

"It's all him!" he shouted.

His appearance turned ghastly, expression contorted in pain as he struggled desperately to retrieve the nine Mystic Ghost Command Tokens.

Dark blood oozed from his eyes, nostrils, and ears.

Qi Xu, Lie Yang, and even Li Bai, still locked in battle with the Abyssal Demon, were startled when they saw Jiu Luo's state.

Although they were unsure of what was happening, they could all see the terror in his eyes and knew he was experiencing something truly horrifying.

"The stars are him! The sun and moon are him! The darkness is him! The frigid emptiness is him! His soul fluctuation is everywhere! He isn't just hiding within this starry sky. The entire starry sky is him!"

Jiu Luo let out a terrified scream.

"My Mystic Ghost Command Token!"

The Thunder Pool silently appeared between the nine mountains in the starry sky.

It grew steadily larger, a towering silver-white palace rising from its depths.

The palace was lined with crackling silver lightning, exuding a majestic presence capable of commanding all Thunder Gods and governing the Dao of Lightning across worlds.

This palace was the manifestation of the Duke of Thunder's heavenly might.

Lightning erupted in dazzling arcs. The roar of thunder alone could eradicate ghosts and demonic beings.

Jiu Luo's Mystic Ghost Command Tokens—transformed into nine black mountains—crumbled among the raging thunder and lightning.

The lightning followed the tokens' connections back to their owner, striking Jiu Luo.

Jiu Luo no longer bled foul, dark blood from his eyes, nostrils, and ears. Instead, lightning crackled from his orifices.

The newly ascended Rank Ten warrior of the Ghost Race had barely intervened before the Thunder Pool, his natural nemesis, invaded his sea of consciousness and shattered his soul.

Jiu Luo was simply far too weak compared to the refined Thunder Pool, which the Thunderveil Godbeast himself had elevated.

The Thunder Pool was an artifact meant to eradicate ghosts and demonic beings. In other words, Jiu Luo had no chance from the beginning.

It was not just Jiu Luo either.

When the Mystic Ghost Command Tokens crumbled into nothingness, the Thunder Pool shot out from the dark starry sky, racing straight toward the ancient demon Li Bai had conjured.

The ancient demons were revered as the origin of the Demon Races as a whole.

Li Bai's conjured demon embodied his longing and admiration for the ancient Demon Race. He had hoped to use this ancient demon as a blueprint to create his own unique demonic body in the future.

Unfortunately, an ancient demon was still a demon, and it was also weak to the Thunder Pool.

The silver-white palace in the Thunder Pool released a burst of lightning, causing the ancient demon to fracture. This lightning surge disrupted the energy Li Bai used to maintain the ancient demon's form, causing his control to falter.

The ancient demon's limbs and head started to separate from its body.

"Stay out of this!" the Abyssal Demon shouted, visibly startled. "The aura of that Thunder Pool will destroy my demonic realms! I will suffer from backlash too!"

The six demonic realms trembled violently as if on the verge of collapse.

The Thunderveil Godbeast's refinement of the Thunder Pool had brought the divine artifact to new heights. At its core, it bore a grand palace that emanated with a trace of the Divine Court of Thunder's majesty.

Its power instantly obliterated Jiu Luo and even made a true Demon God tremble in fear.

"My bad." Pang Jian's ethereal voice drifted from the starry sky.

The Thunder Pool abruptly halted. A faint starlit glow flickered within the starry sky as Pang Jian emerged from the vast sea of stars.

𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Pang Jian retracted his Chaos Firmament and returned to his original form.

"Five Thunder Annihilation Bombardment!"

He hurled out a massive pillar that towered like a world-supporting monolith.

Metal Thunder, Earth Thunder, Wood Thunder, Water Thunder, and Fire Thunder rapidly coalesced within five swirling vortexes and fused into the pillar. A barrage of elemental lightning spheres dropped toward Lie Yang with a force capable of splitting heaven and earth apart.

The Patriarch of the Radiant Race's forehead glowed as a single drop of blood essence seeped from the blazing sun imprint between his brows.

The suns within the Sun Veil roused, bursting forth from the scorching Fire World to collide with the descending lightning spheres.

Blinding light and searing heat erupted in a cataclysmic blast. Lie Yang unleashed his divine techniques, using countless blazing suns to neutralize the Five Thunder Annihilation Bombardment.

He let out a cold snort, clenched his fist, and punched toward the sky.

His unyielding fist filled the sky. Surging blood essence crushed through the surrounding bizarre mist and smashed into the towering Five Thunder Annihilation.

The radiant white pillar was sent hurtling skyward, obliterating the descending Metal Thunder, Earth Thunder, Wood Thunder, Water Thunder, and Fire Thunder.

The Patriarch of the Radiant Race, still in his normal-sized form, had countered the barrage of lightning spheres through sheer physical strength and bloodline rank alone.