From this close distance, he was able to see Tianlong's figure even more clearly.
Tianlong's arms which were now completely covered with azure scales had black claws coming out of them. However, these claws weren't that of a dragon but belonged to a roc!
His hair was still ashen white, but it was even finer. Although there was a wind blowing around him, they were completely still.
The azure blue eyes that glistened like gemstones before now had a shade of silver in them. If one looked closely at the vertical slits of his eyes, one would see a bolt of thunder!
His skin was still tanned as before, but it looked much smoother. Moreover, his entire body looked ethereal and seemed to flicker in and out of existence!
This weird feature caused Hei Diao to widen his eyes in fear. He assumed that the person in front of him was a corporeal soul realm senior who had just lost his body!
"Senior please wait–"
Without waiting for his words, Tianlong directly slammed his palm on Hei Diao's head. Since Hei Diao was about to talk, the slam caused his tongue to get stuck between his teeth and get chopped.
Without another word, he pressed his finger on Hei Diao's forehead. His dragon pupils completely erupted with a shade of silver as he nailed the man with his gaze.
Hei Diao felt as if he wasn't looking at a person but a bolt of lightning. His pupils turned the same shade of silver as Tianlong as he felt his sea of consciousness being invaded by rumbling thunder.
Under the invasion, his sea of consciousness crumbled and blood started to flow out of his seven orifices.
After what seemed like an eternity, Tianlong released Hei Diao.
Tianlong's face was a bit pale. The battle had consumed lots of his spiritual energy. Although it looked as if he was easily able to defeat Hei Diao, it was actually a hard-fought battle. The pressure bought by Yin Yang Cleansing had disturbed the spiritual energy inside his body.
As for Hei Diao, his face was unrecognisable at this point. His eyes were scorched. Black blood covered his face giving his ugly face a more hideous look.
Picking up the interspatial ring and the talisman from his finger, Tianlong's claws dug into Hei Diao's corpse directly. He carefully extracted all the blood essence and started to refine it in the cauldron.
Demons could handle blood and gore far better than humans. While they weren't as bloodthirsty as the devil race, they came pretty close. The law of jungle was much more prevalent among them. Devour others or be devoured, it was their nature.
Although Tianlong was a sheltered child for most of his life, he was a demon by birth. And not an ordinary demon either, he was someone with an incredibly pure bloodline of silver winged roc, which was one of the most ferocious birds of prey. Even the method of body refining they practised, was completely dependent on devouring others.
Adding to all the devil path values that his mother had taught him, his sense of morality was already different from others.
Ever since he entered the mountain range and started to kill the demonic beasts, the corrupt demonic qi of the mountain had started to seep inside him and awaken his instincts.
He had taken note of this and thus started to practice calligraphy. While the process hid the killing intent, it also deepened it.
When he soul searched old Zhan, due to his lack of expertise and due to old Zhan's mental realm, Tianlong encountered the memories as if he was going through all of that. And with his subsequent crazy research on living creatures, his personality gained a tint of viciousness.
Sitting inside the blood refining cauldron, Tianlong's body was rapidly absorbing the blood of Hei Diao. The vast amount of wood spiritual energy in it seeped into him. It caused his body which seemed to flicker in and out of existence to show signs of stability.
Hei Diao wasn't a body refiner. Despite that, his blood contained energy far greater than any rank 1 demonic beast. After all, the man was at the Yin Yang cleansing stage and had consumed a jade core given by Qin Houzi.
The changes to Tianlong's body were too sudden and too strange, which left him apprehensive. He could also feel that his body was currently lacking flesh.
Added to the fact that the person in front of him had a lot of information about Qin Houzi, he had immediately chosen to attack.
Unfortunately, he was one of the weakest among Yin Yang cleansing cultivators.
His cultivation base was largely based on the herbs given by Qin Houzi and the number of Yin Yang Cleansing spells that he knew were too few. Most of his battle prowess came from his treasures.
As such, he wasn't able to contend against Tianlong whose essence and Qi cultivation base combined gave him magic power which was greater than the great circle of Qi Condensation.
The energy released from the sacred blood drops had increased his body refining realm all the way to the peak of the first stage. It was almost completely silver and just had a bit of blood-red in it.
However, it was nothing compared to the increase of his Qi refining cultivation base.
While undergoing the metamorphosis bought by the Seven – element lotus, his meridians had broadened and became much thicker allowing his qi to flow much more easily. It absorbed the energy from the spirit pond and forcefully condensed 216 qi vortexes, raising his cultivation to the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Condensation.
Bang!
The cauldron made a loud sound as all of the blood in it was absorbed. The residue that was left on the cauldron looked like dried fungus.
Sshh~
A grey smoke emitted from his pores which immediately blew away the residue. His naked body looked much more corporeal than before.
"What happened was outside of my expectation." He sighed with emotion as he thought about everything that went through in the last few hours.
Even though he had imagined hundreds of different scenarios, he had never imagined something like this would happen.
Raising his palms, he looked at them for a long time. It was completely covered in azure silver scales and five claws were coming out of his five fingers. He looked even less human than before.
Looking at the claws, his eyes glinted with a mysterious light. Then with a swift motion, he slashed his palm with the other hand.
However, not a single drop of blood was spilt out. The moment his claws touched his skin, the flesh of his arm turned into a mass of smoke which caused the claws to pass through them.
"Interesting." Looking at the strange phenomenon, his eyes lit up.
When Hei Diao was about to use the talisman, Tianlong had turned himself into the wind and directly appeared behind him. He had done this unconsciously out of instinct.
But now that he was free, he needed to understand its implications. Unless he understood what was happening, he wouldn't use it again.
Taking out a small stick, Tianlong started to poke different points of his body. Without fail, all of these parts would turn into grey smoke the moment they came in contact with the stick.
The place which turned into smoke would give him a slight tingling sensation.
When he repeated the same thing by applying spiritual energy to the stick, it didn't pass through completely. Only a few inches of his flesh turned into smoke.
"Hm, so basically, I'm immune to any type of attack that doesn't use spiritual energy. However, the defence is pretty much useless considering that all kind of spells and treasures have spiritual energy."
Although he was disappointed a bit, he didn't mind it too much.
He tried to recall the sensation when he had turned himself into smoke and went behind Hei Diao.
At first, he wasn't able to feel anything. But soon, he felt that familiar tingling sensation. Without resisting the sensation, he let it cover his whole body. In the next moment, he vanished!
Having lost his physical form, he turned into a cloud of colourless smoke. He felt as if he was merged with the wind in the room and could control it as he wished. Moreover, the energy required in the process would be almost negligible.
In that state, he had to perceive his surroundings through his spirit sense. The world that he viewed through it was dyed in the shade of silver.
"Lightning consciousness. The spirit sense that I emit will have the power of lightning. Unfortunately, I still don't have the power to create physical lightning bolts."
Lightning was heavenly might, even the little amount of spiritual lightning that he had inside his mind was sufficient in wiping out everyone below the Yin Yang cleansing stage.
He swiped the room with his spirit sense which turned everything inside to dust. No traces were left behind.
He looked at Hei Diao's severed head which was completely drained of blood. There was a ghastly expression on its face.
"Even though you were responsible for kidnapping many females and committed lots of evil, you were at least a good friend." He kept the head inside his interspatial ring and stepped towards the entrance. "Don't worry I'll let you reunite with him."
Meanwhile, outside the room, the crowd was in disarray.
Even though the spirit chamber had a formation that blocked off spirit sense, it couldn't block the massive power of Yin Yang Cleansing.
It caused most of the crowd to disperse out of fear. Only a few of them still dared to remain here.
"Hey, what do you think is going on inside?" one of them asked.
Although they were fearful of Hei Diao's power, they were even more curious about what was going on inside.
"How'd I know? I'm just as curious as you are…" said the other man with an irritated look.
Similar conversations were going on everywhere when suddenly the door to the chamber opened.
As soon as they looked towards the door, they saw a flash of silver after which they fell unconscious with blood seeping out of their eyes and ears.