Chapter 616 - 130: Golden Lotus of Creation
Ah Guoshami stared in shock at the Five-Element Lock Chains binding him, discovering his Divine Power was completely suppressed. He was unable to break free, no matter what he tried.
"Yang Jing, how many years have I been sealed!?"
He roared hysterically, his face filled with resentment.
He had previously been sealed within the Demon Moon, where he lost all track of time, unable to tell day from night. Seeing the earth-shattering change in Yang Jing’s Power, he assumed he had been sealed for a century.
"Less than ten years."
Yang Jing held an Array Banner in one hand and formed a Spell with the other, activating the Nine Spirits Returning Fire Artifact Refining Grand Array. A vast amount of Spiritual Mechanism was drawn from the Spirit Vein by the Array and poured into the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace.
Even as a massive amount of Spiritual Mechanism washed over it, the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace remained as steady as a mountain. The Restrictions on its body lit up one by one, emitting a brilliant radiance.
"Impossible! Impossible! How could your Power have undergone such a world-altering change in a mere ten years?"
Ah Guoshami was on the verge of being driven mad.
Yang Jing shook his head, formed a Spell with his hand, and activated the Restrictions of the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace.
Within the chamber of the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace, the raging Five Ding Divine Fire ignited. This was a Spiritual Fire used exclusively by the Celestial Court’s Ministry of Works for Artifact Refining, best at Refining and breaking down all things. Fueled by a Tier Four Upper Grade Spirit Vein, the Spiritual Fire was incredibly intense.
Yang Jing’s Dharma Eyes were incomparably brilliant as he stared intently at the slightest change within the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace.
No matter how strong Ah Guoshami was, he was still only a Golden Core Level Evil God. He had not crossed the chasm-like gap between the Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms. After being Refined by the Five Ding Divine Fire for less than an hour, his Divine Soul was completely annihilated.
Yang Jing waved the Array Banner, adjusting the Spiritual Qi supply from the Nine Spirits Returning Fire Grand Array. In coordination with the Restrictions on the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace, he regulated the intensity of the Five Ding Divine Fire.
This required extremely high control over the Array and his Magical Power. The slightest mistake, and the rampaging Five Ding Divine Fire could easily incinerate the Divine Body.
Fortunately, after advancing to the Nascent Soul realm, Yang Jing’s Divine Sense had increased dramatically, enabling him to perform this delicate, tightrope-like operation.
Under his control, the Five Ding Divine Fire in the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace took the form of a five-colored lotus. It released its heat evenly, Refining the Divine Body seated upon the lotus’s seedpod.
Seven days and nights later, countless useless impurities had been purged from the Divine Body. Some were traces left behind by the White God of the Primordial Storage Realm, while others were the unrefined dregs of the Golden Cores and vital energies of the Cultivators Ah Guoshami had devoured.
Under Yang Jing’s meticulous Refining, all these impurities were drawn out of the Divine Body by the Five Ding Divine Fire and turned into wisps of green smoke.
Wisps of smoke rose from the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace. For a moment, the entire Quiet Chamber was filled with the thick scent of incense.
With a thought, Yang Jing wrapped the smoke in his Divine Thought and swept it out of the Quiet Chamber.
Another seven days passed. Ah Guoshami’s body had completely liquefied, turning into a ball of Spirit Liquid that emitted a dazzling white light.
Yang Jing used his Divine Thought to part the Spirit Liquid and extracted a Treasure Pearl from within.
This Treasure Pearl contained Ah Guoshami’s white light Authority. Unlike the misshapen pearls left behind by other Evil Gods after their deaths, this one was perfectly round and flawless, radiating a soft glow. One glance was enough to know it was an extraordinary item.
Yang Jing did not immediately take out the Treasure Pearl. Instead, he cast it into the Five Ding Divine Fire and then pushed the Spiritual Qi extraction of the entire Nine Spirits Returning Fire Artifact Refining Grand Array to its absolute limit.
With a massive supply of Spiritual Qi, the Five Ding Divine Fire swelled violently, as if intending to incinerate everything.
The Treasure Pearl withstood the Five Ding Divine Fire for three days before a white, illusory figure suddenly flew out from within it.
"You little thief, how dare you steal my Authority! I will remember you!"
After transmitting this thought to Yang Jing through the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace by some means, it was completely annihilated by the Five Ding Divine Fire.
Yang Jing snorted coldly, completely unafraid.
He cautiously continued to Refine the Treasure Pearl with the Five Ding Divine Fire for a full seven days. Only when the pearl showed faint signs of crumbling did he retrieve it from the furnace and store it in a previously prepared Treasure Bottle.
What this Treasure Pearl contained was the fundamental Authority of the White God, far superior to any other Authority.
Yang Jing slowly exhaled and continued Refining the Spirit Liquid that the Divine Body had become.
Later on, he even cast his Five Elements Wheel, which was formed from his Magical Power and Spirit Root, into the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace.
The Five Elements Wheel possessed both Yin Yang and the Five Elements, with its Yin Yang aspect being of an Innate Attribute, making it far beyond any ordinary Magical Treasure.
Inside the furnace, Yang Jing used the Five Elements Wheel to simulate a cycle: the Five Elements returning to Yin Yang, Yin Yang returning to chaos, chaos birthing Yin Yang, and Yin Yang birthing the Five Elements.
After repeating this process, the Divine Body was put through seven cycles of refinement until it was completely rendered into a streak of white light.
Yang Jing let out a deep breath. This was the most profound Artifact Refining technique recorded in the Creation Scripture; without his Five Elements Wheel, it would have been impossible for him to execute.
Ordinary Magical Treasures would not require such a technique.
If this Divine Body hadn’t been meticulously crafted by the White God, it likely would have been reduced to nothing after just three cycles of refinement.
Yang Jing formed a Spell, and as if performing Alchemy, he threw one Spiritual Material after another into the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace, Refining them into various forms of Spiritual Mechanism with the Five Ding Divine Fire. The white light accepted everything, devouring all kinds of Spiritual Mechanism, yet its color did not change, remaining pure white.
As it absorbed the various forms of Spiritual Mechanism, the white light gradually gained substance and solidified into a mass.
By this time, a full three years had passed since Yang Jing had started the furnace.
Despite his profound cultivation, he was utterly exhausted. His hair now cascaded down to his ankles, pooling on the floor, and his face was covered by a messy beard. Only his eyes remained as bright and sharp as ever.
’Success or failure all comes down to this.’
Watching the white light inside the furnace, Yang Jing took out a lotus root.
This was the lotus root of a Golden Lotus of Creation, a Tier Five Heaven and Earth Spirit Root. It could bring the dead to life and grow flesh on bare bones. As long as a single breath remained, even fatal injuries like a shattered Nascent Soul or a broken Golden Core could be completely healed.
A Spiritual Object of this caliber could no longer be bought with Spirit Stones.
If the Nine Marvels Sect’s Spirit Plant Garden hadn’t happened to have a pond of them, Yang Jing would have had to settle for a slightly inferior Spirit Plant.
Yang Jing secretly broke off a small, budding section of the lotus root, storing it in his Inner World before tossing the remainder into the Celestial Spirit Eight Trigrams Furnace.
The mass of white light immediately began to transform, sinking into the lotus root.
Holding the Array Banner, Yang Jing deactivated the Nine Spirits Returning Fire Grand Array.
After drawing a massive amount of Spiritual Qi day and night, the Tier Four Upper Grade Spirit Vein on Canghe Island had long been overburdened. When the Grand Array was stopped, Spiritual Qi surged back, causing the entire island to tremble slightly.
Yang Jing remained seated, steady as a mountain. He methodically straightened his messy beard and hair, then sat cross-legged on the Meditation Cushion and closed his eyes to recover his severely depleted Divine Sense.
Outside the Quiet Chamber, Nine Marvels had been pacing anxiously ever since sensing the Array stop. If not for the fear of interfering with the final stages of the process, they would have broken the Quiet Chamber’s Restriction and charged right in.