YuXiao traveled from city to city on his way to the Blazing sea which he was going to attempt to swim across cutting his travel time by a large margin, At the middle of the Anguish Qi Gathering realm shouldn't be enough to cross the Blazing sea because there had been rumors spread out saying that even cultivators at the Qi essence gathering realm failed to survive in the sea.
The stages of the Dark Heaven Mantra are completely different from those who cultivate regular techniques, but they can be compared like the minor achievement in the Anguish Qi gathering realm could be compared to a Mid achievement Qi essence gathering Warrior.
On the journey YuXiao spent a lot of time dwelling on his hatred and continuously refining its purity in hopes that he'd be able to reach back to the peak of the Anguish Qi gathering realm, He'd came close to it by the time he reached the Blazing sea but only reached late stage of the Anguish Qi Gathering realm.
YuXiao was now face to face with the Blazing sea, wanting to test his limits he took off into the sea but the second he did he could feel the same pain that used to destroy his body from the inside out once again. The Dark Heaven Mantra circulated itself to cultivate his pain into hatred, He couldn't bare with it and immediately jumped out the sea.
Fucking hell, that hurt like hell I have really underestimated this Blazing sea thinking it would be easy. sighhh, should I have just went around It would have been much easier and especially less painful.
Then YuXiao had thought of something,
Why should I fear pain, it only makes me stronger my existence becomes stronger the more I suffer I should embrace the pain make it apart of myself, there should be no depravity that should be able to cause me to second guess my determination. I suffer for all the being beneath the heavens and shall become the one to lead them to freedom and obliterate the heavens by making my own!
He suddenly had entered a state of enlightenment and his Dark Heaven Mantra Circulated crazily Instantly reaching the peak of The Anguish Qi Gathering realm, his body was now completely full of Anguish Qi but the Dark Heaven Mantra didn't stop there it circulated even faster the closer he got to the peak and broke through to the Seven Depravities Realm!
The moment he broke through, The will of heaven had appeared and three calamities descended YuXiao, First was a tribulation of flames. He was instantly bathed in flames his flesh had melted away while his mind was near its breaking point he refused to die like this and resonated with the Dark Heaven Mantra and using his Anguish Qi to become his flesh, He looked like a Demon from hell with a pitch black body with accents of red his hair was blood red and his eyes were full of killing intent.
The flames were rapidly absorbed and became the foundation for his new flesh, the flames had then completely been absorbed another calamity fell upon him, this time it came in the form of bone eating insects that manifested inside body by the will of the heavens.
Thousands on microscopic mites starting eating away at every bone in his body, until there was nothing left it was an excruciating pain unlike any other. even so he didn't let this defeat him he used his Anguish Qi to slowly fill back in each bite they took out of him, hours later of his bones being eaten away at they finished the last bit of his original bones. In place of his original bones were ones made by Anguish Qi and were several times more durable and Blood read in color, the only thing the think that had been left untainted was his soul.
Then suddenly YuXiao looked up deep into the sky and could see thunder clouds gathering, The last calamity was the vicious Soul Severing Thunder tribulation. in an instant clouds gathered and even before he could mentally prepare himself, his soul was vaporized within an instant leaving nothing left but an empty husk now.
YuXiao body was soulless and his mind was about to vanish as well until some words resonated inside his mind before being obliterated.
Even without a soul in my body my anguish shall live on and so will!
At that moment his anguish became his soul, his entire being.
Every part of YuXiao had now been created by his Anguish Qi even his soul now, he was the embodiment of anguish.
His body had underwent enormous change, his long black hair was now Blood red and flesh from the inside was pitch black his bones were blood red and every part of him was exuding an overwhelming aura of hatred.
He wanted to see how much stronger he was now, he looked towards the Blazing sea that was before him and jumped in head first. The second he made contact with it he felt absolutely nothing on the contrary the water was like that of a nice hot bath and was quite comfortable, he laughed and decided to enjoy it while he could there weren't going to be many opportunities like this in the future.
moments later he'd realized that his mask was missing, it must have gotten destroyed during the calamities he faced and then tried to recreate it with his Anguish Qi and right before his eyes it instantly materialized but this time it was slightly different it felt like it was already a part of him.
He materialized it in his hands and put it onto his face and continued to see the changes in his body, like how much the purity of his Anguish Qi had increased, it had increased by tenfold and his bodies durability must have been amplified by the same amount.
YuXiao had enjoyed a nice and relaxing bath within the Blazing sea which is known to burn people alive, now he just needs swim for a month straight and he should arrive near Blue Lotus city.
And so he began swimming in hopes that he'd be even faster now because he reached the Seven Depravities realm, which he was traveling 4 times as fast as before he'd only need 2 weeks to reach the other end of the Blazing Sea.
He Swam relentlessly for 2 weeks and finally had arrived at the Blue Lotus City!