The battle between Noah and the ninth heavenly baptism ray lasted three whole days before the black dragon ferociously bit the thunder dragon's neck and split it in two, dividing its head from the rest of its body.
A crazed look appeared on Noah's face as he activated his heaven devourer ability to the limit, causing a black vortex to appear in the black dragon's mouth, swallowing the golden dragon's head.
An immense amount of energy penetrated Noah's body as an extremely violent golden beam entered his dantian and began to wreak havoc.
Noah pushed his focus to the limit as he circulated his art of pure yang at maximum power while trying to refine that golden beam.
The storm cloud over his head dissipated, heralding his arrival at the transcendent rank but he didn't mind any of that.
He split a portion of his focus to open a portal to his lair. That action alone took a great deal of effort and because of it the golden lightning in his dantian almost escaped his control.
A few minutes after Noah left, a large number of experts from the immortal ascension realm arrived on the scene.
Although these people would not be a threat to him under normal circumstances, right now he could not focus on anything else but refining the golden ray.
Three months later, a golden ray flashed in Noah's violet eyes before it shot out of his hand and coiled over his finger like a snake.
"I've finally made it. The celestial ray..."
The celestial ray was an excellent offensive weapon that specialized in purifying negative energies.
Normally it would have conflicted with the yin energy of his golden skeleton but fortunately, his dantian took it upon himself to not only suppress it but also integrate with it.
Because the nature of both of them was yang, their compatibility was quite high.
"With this, even Yang Bai couldn't beat me."
Now that he had not just one but two weapons that were his nemesis, coupled with the weakening caused by the curse, the current Yang Bai would not survive a direct confrontation against Noah.
"Putting that aside, my biggest advantage is that he doesn't know who his enemy is."
On the other side, Yang Bai led his army and marched towards the war city, where the Yang family's inheritance war was taking place, where most of the experts had coincidentally gathered.
Yang Bai's six demon generals began slaughtering the people of the city and might have killed everyone if it wasn't for old man Meng taking out a very powerful magical artifact that formed a protective barrier that shielded those on his side, isolating them from the six generals.
Yang Bai stood on the other side of the barrier while pinning his eyes on Lin Tai Xu.
"Master."
"I'm not your master!"
"A master for a day is a master for life, whether or not you're willing to acknowledge it.
This Yang Bai has only had you as his master in this life.
When I heard that the knot in the master's heart had been resolved, this Yang Bai was very happy."
"Yes, such was the gift you gave me. Fortunately, this old master was able to turn misfortune into a blessing."
"The master taught this disciple for many years, so naturally the disciple should also bestow some gifts on the master."
"Hmph."
"Very good, Qing Luo."
"Yes, demon lord!"
"Stay here and keep an eye on them. everyone else, come with me.
Take care, master."
When Yang Bai left, Noah appeared on the battlefield, concealing his aura before he activated his divine sense so that he drew all the remaining souls of the fallen in battle into his spiritual sea before he began to purify them with his demonic eye of annihilation.
Half an hour later, he consumed all the remnant souls and his cultivation advanced slightly.
He then teleported to the central capital, where Yang Bai's forces had just arrived.
Noah transformed into a mole before digging a burrow ten meters below the ground.
"Haha! I feel like a baby being brought food up to its mouth."
As Yang Bai and his generals indiscriminately slaughtered the experts in the central capital, none of them noticed the person who benefited from their hard work.
The demonic eye of annihilation continued to work, absorbing and purifying the surrounding remnant souls before Noah refined them.
The Yang family patriarch rose into the air along with his clan elders and began a fierce battle against the demonic generals.
Noah took advantage of the hustle and bustle and sneaked into a secret room in the Yang clan mansion.
Inside the room, there was a single golden cauldron.
Noah placed his hands on the cauldron and began to break its restraints before having his divine sense penetrate the furnace, taking him to a pocket dimension where the souls of the Yang family's dead experts resided.
The souls in the place were surprised by the newcomer but Noah gave them no time to react, transporting them to his spiritual sea and causing the demonic eye of annihilation to purify them.
In all, 50 soul essences of transcendent rank experts remained.
The golden cauldron turned to dust as Noah pulled his hand away.
Teleporting to his lair, he took out a few medicinal essence crystals and absorbed them with his art of pure yang while absorbing the soul essences into his spiritual sea.
An hour later, he successfully reached the second transcendent rank.
Packing all his things into his magic gourd, he stuffed his two pets into cryogenic chambers before storing them as well.
Teleporting back to the central capital, he noticed how a huge crater had opened up.
After deploying his divine sense, he noticed a puddle of water at the edge of the road and manipulated it telekinetically.
"If you don't show yourself I'll make you evaporate."
Noah lit a mass of fire under the water bubble.
"Wait! Wait! You win!"
The water bubble transformed into a blue-haired young woman.
"If you want to go home now is your best chance. Just keep quiet and get in this bottle."
Noah pulled out a jade bottle and urged the young woman to get in."
"You want me to go in there? Are you crazy?"
"Hmmm?"
"All right! It's okay!"
The young woman turned into a stream of water that went into the bottle.
Noah capped it before stowing it in his tunic and heading deeper into the crater.
After a while, he entered through a passageway only to find the scene of a great battle.
Yang Bai was fighting alone against Old Meng, Lint Tai Xu and the other patriarchs of the other forces while at the same time protecting a corridor from the void behind him.
Despite being outnumbered, Yang Bai handled his opponents with ease.
Noah hid his aura and waited for his chance.
A few minutes later, he appeared behind Yang Bai and used the demon sealing chain, further reducing Yang Bai's already reduced cultivation, causing him to drop to the bottom of the first transcendent rank.
Noah drew his sword and enveloped it by the heavenly lightning before slashing at the speed of the wind, decapitating Yang Bai and absorbing his soul into his spirit sea before speeding into the void corridor while giving a smile to Old Meng and Lin Tai Xu.
"That brat..."
"It's over? Just like that?"
On the other side, Noah appeared in a lush forest.
The first thing he noticed was that the world energy here was much richer than in the small world.
Opening the bottle, he let the young woman out.
"Waaa! I'm finally back in the Tong Xuan realm! I can finally go back home!"
"Hey shouldn't you thank the one who brought you here first? And you should also introduce yourself, young man from the water spirit temple."
"Eh? You know my temple? Ah thank you by the way.
My name is Shui Ling."
The young woman stuck out her tongue before awkwardly introducing herself.
"Well, you'll have to wait a bit while I adjust to the surrounding world energy."
Noah entered his spiritual sea and consumed Yang Bai's soul essence, causing his cultivation to increase slightly.
Half an hour later, he stood up and began to explore the place together with Shui Ling.
"Shit! He ran away! Bunch of useless people! How could they let the scarlet blood orchid escape!"
"My friends, you seem to be in trouble."
Noah and Shui Ling appeared before a group of people led by a young girl surrounding a pond.
The young woman immediately became alert as she sensed Noah's second transcendent rank cultivation level.
"There's no need to be alarmed, I just finished my closed door cultivation and found that you guys were here.
If what you want is the scarlet blood orchid I can get it for you.
I have to go down to the bottom of the pond anyway."
"Major, you'd better not bother with the trivial matters of us."
"Haha! Don't worry, I won't ask for anything in return."
"Shui Ling, you know what to do."
"Hmmp."
Shui ling seemed reluctant to follow his orders but had no choice but to obey, conjuring a transparent bubble that enveloped the two of them before diving to the bottom of the pond.
Noah used his qi yang to summon a blazing flame that neutralized the cold aura coming from the bottom of the pond.
"Those are ice flame stars!"
Ice flame stars were a type of special yin attribute material and was excellent for refining weapons.
"I'll collect them while you go get the blood orchid, and don't worry I'll save some for you."
A while later the duo left the pond and Shui Ling handed the blood orchid to the young woman.
"Thank you very much for your help, major!"
"You're welcome, if you're done here we can travel together to the bold independent city."
"Really!?"
The young lady was in a good mood knowing that an expert would accompany them back. In case of any attack or anything like that he could defend them.
On the way Noah took the opportunity to stealthily cast a few tracking spells on the group.
Arriving in town the group of adventurers said goodbye to Noah.
"Let's go find an inn to spend the night."
After a while, they arrived at a random inn and rented two rooms.
"Hm? What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I can't sleep so I decided to come talk to you."
"I noticed you went out earlier today for a while, did you manage to contact your family?"
"You noticed?
I got in touch with my family, my water spirit temple has a branch in the independent city, so I went there and let them know where I have been and what has happened to me these past two years.
In half a month, someone from the main sect will arrive to pick me up and escort me back."
"Okay, you can stay with me during that time to avoid getting into trouble."
Fifteen days later, Shui Ling knocked on his door to say goodbye, giving him a pendant that he could use to call for the water spirit temple's help in case of trouble.
Noah put away the piece of jade and focused on sensing the presence of the group he had cast the detection spell on.
To be on the safe side, he stayed more than 10 kilometers away as he followed them.
After a few minutes, he reached the outside of a barrier that protected the area the previous group had entered.
Sitting down right there, he simply waited for a while before an explosion sounded.
Most of the members of the bold and unrestrained alliance were killed while a few made it out alive.
As they regrouped, something suddenly began to cut the cultivators in two, killing them one by one.
When only two young girls and a young boy were left, the unknown entity stopped killing.
"Hehehe. Well kid, show me a good show, pick one of those two to spend your last fun time with before I kill you."
The young man was frightened by the transcendent rank succubus demon that suddenly appeared in front of him but when he heard those words his eyes quickly fixed on the young leader of the bold and unrestrained alliance adventurers.
The young woman looked at the man who was lustfully glaring at her with pure disgust before attempting suicide.
"I allowed you to die?"
The succubus demon completely blocked the young girl's energy, leaving her defenseless.
Just as the boy was about to pounce on her, a blast of golden sword qi cut off her head at the same time as the barrier isolating the area shattered into pieces.
Noah wasted no time and pulled out the demon sealing chain before wrapping it around the succubus demon's body.
Five minutes later, Noah killed it and devoured its soul essence.
"Are you all right?"
"Major..."
Tears of relief filled the face of the young woman of the bold and unrestrained alliance as she knew she would not be dishonored by that man before she began to thank Noah repeatedly.
"You don't have to thank me, it's just a trivial matter, since I was passing through towards the city of burning flames I decided to help."
"The elder is also heading to the city of burning flames? May we accompany him? Our destination is the same."
"No problem."