In Douluo, Wuhun holds the Tianping

After arriving at the seabed, Li Xuan did not leave the Swordfish's cabin, but instead controlled the Swordfish to dock at the seabed.

After the Swordfish docked and stabilized, Li Xuan slowly closed his eyes, releasing his immense soul power.

Li Xuan couldn't be sure whether the god in the center of the Sea Dragon Ruins would revive after the Annihilation Poison disappeared.

Therefore, Li Xuan had to extract the divine essence from the deity's body before the deity awakened.

In that case, even if he could still live, he would have no power after losing his divine status. If he could still awaken, Li Xuan would be able to get more information about the god from him.

After all, the first to strike gains the upper hand, while the last to strike suffers the consequences.

Li Xuan's spiritual power quickly reached the corpse of the god at the bottom of the sea, and then he began to carefully examine the condition of the corpse.

After a thorough examination, Li Xuan could say with absolute certainty that there were no signs of life in the deity's body.

At this point, the exterior of the deity's corpse appears intact, but inside it is completely rotten.

After confirming that the deity was indeed beyond saving, Li Xuan became bolder.

"Ka... Ka..."

As the Swordfish's cabin opened, Li Xuan swam out. As he emerged, a faint layer of foul flames appeared around him, isolating him from the surrounding annihilation poison.

After all, this is the core area of ​​the Sea Dragon Ruins. Although the visibility has improved a lot, the concentration of Annihilation Poison is still very high. Otherwise, these puppets would not have to wait any longer before they can enter the core area.

After confirming that the deity could no longer be poisoned, Li Xuan quickly went to the deity's corpse.

Li Xuan formed hand seals, simultaneously mobilizing the soul power within his body and his own spiritual power.

The next second, a golden light array appeared beneath Li Xuan's feet, and Li Xuan frantically poured his soul power and spiritual energy into the array.

With the addition of this energy, the formation began to emit a faint golden light.

Golden energy tentacles emerged from the light array and slowly climbed onto the god's body.

This formation is the one described in "Tai Xuan He Shen Jing" for stripping away a god's divine essence. However, stripping a god's divine essence requires a large amount of soul power and spiritual energy.

However, Li Xuan was abnormal enough. Not only did he have a vast amount of soul power in his body, but he also had an even more vast amount of soul power, enough to consume the energy of this formation.

Half an hour later, the golden tentacles enveloped the god in a cocoon-like form. This was only the beginning of the formation. Soul power and spiritual energy would need to be continuously injected to extract the divine essence from the god's corpse.

Two hours later, there was no change in the formation. Li Xuan looked at the formation calmly, his emotions unchanged.

Ten hours later, Li Xuan felt that a quarter of his soul power had been consumed!

Li Xuan's soul power was extremely vast, and consuming a quarter of it was already a very large amount.

At that moment, a change occurred within the formation.

Strands of blue-gold energy slowly emanated from the golden cocoon and then gradually condensed above the god's corpse.

The divine essence has finally revealed its true form, which means that it won't be long before the divine essence can be completely extracted.

Li Xuan was not in a hurry and continued to steadily control the injection of soul power and spiritual power.

The performance of "Douluo No. 2" is relatively stable, allowing Li Xuan to release and absorb soul power at the same time, which can barely keep the soul power in Li Xuan's body in balance.

Two hours later, a palm-sized blue cube floated above the god's corpse, but this blue cube was missing a triangular gap about one-quarter the size of the whole.

It seems the records of the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan are correct; this life form is missing a piece of its divine essence.

Li Xuan closed his eyes and used the array to examine the god's corpse. After confirming that there was no energy left by any divine spark, he slowly withdrew the soul power and spirit power from the array.

Moreover, Li Xuan did not expect that this formation would consume so much energy. In just over ten hours, it had consumed all of his soul power and one-third of his soul power!
Soul power is understandable, after all, Li Xuan has never played with compressing soul power before, so the soul power in Li Xuan's body is just purer than that of other soul masters.

But one-third of Li Xuan's soul power is a huge number!
One-third of Li Xuan's soul power is equivalent to the combined spiritual power of several Limit Douluo like Poseidon.

However, all these losses are worthwhile if they can be exchanged for a divine spark.

Then, Li Xuan took out a jade box that he had prepared beforehand from the space of the small cave.

This jade box was processed according to the requirements of the "Tai Xuan He Shen Jing" and its surface is engraved with countless magical runes. It was specially used to store divine essence.

Divinity is something that usually doesn't appear alone; it's transferred to the new deity in the form of a divine position during the transition between old and new deities.

No one on the Douluo Continent has ever succeeded in using Li Xuan's method of directly "pulling out" a godhood.

If stored away, the energy within the divine essence will dissipate, eventually turning the divine essence into a worthless empty shell.

Li Xuan carefully used his mental power to control the divine spark to fly to his front, then carefully put the divine spark into the box, closed the box, and sealed it.

After doing all this, Li Xuan put the divine essence box back into the small cave.

"What a pity, I just don't know where the remaining piece of divine essence is. Oh well, let's deal with the Annihilation Poison problem first. We won't transfer the Annihilation Poison here into the Palm Heaven Bottle." Li Xuan thought to himself.

Then Li Xuan arrived at the bottom of the sea, sat cross-legged, and at this time the soul power in Li Xuan's body had almost recovered and could be used normally.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xuan mobilized the soul power in his body, and the pure filthy flames formed from the soul power were released. These filthy flames transformed into a black fire dragon that swam freely in the seawater above Li Xuan's head.

In an instant, the surrounding seawater boiled, and the annihilation poison in the seawater transformed into pure soul power, merging into the seawater.

Seeing the boiling seawater, Li Xuan quickly released the Ice Soul Spirit Fire, which transformed into a blue fire dragon that followed closely behind the black fire dragon, lowering the temperature of the seawater.

In an instant, the boiling seawater cooled down rapidly and returned to calm.

As the two fire dragons continued to swim in the sea, all the annihilation poison in their path was transformed into pure soul power and merged into the seawater.

Moreover, with Li Xuan personally taking action, the purification effect is much better than that of the purification pool inside the Palm Heaven Bottle.

After being purified by Li Xuan, the seawater contained no trace of annihilation poison. Then, Li Xuan stood up and walked step by step towards the center of the Sea Dragon Ruins. With each step Li Xuan took, the concentration of annihilation poison in the Sea Dragon Ruins decreased by one point.

Until Li Xuan arrived at the center of the Sea Dragon Ruins, the Annihilation Poison within the ruins was completely refined into pure soul power by the two fire dragons.

The poison from the Sea Dragon Ruins, which had plagued the sea for countless years, has now been completely cured by Li Xuan.

"This place must have been incredibly prosperous back then, it's just a pity it met me." Li Xuan looked at the ruins in front of him, imagining the former glory of Hailong City, and couldn't help but sigh.

Then, Li Xuan closed his eyes and took out all the fourth-order puppets from his Heavenly Bottle space. Li Xuan wanted these puppets to find the divine fragments hidden in the Sea Dragon Ruins as quickly as possible.

For a moment, the once empty core area of ​​the Sea Dragon Ruins felt somewhat crowded.

These fourth-tier puppets, shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand, explored the Sea Dragon Ruins inch by inch, trying to find the hidden treasure vault and thus the fragment of divine essence.

Thus, Li Xuan's puppets searched the Hailong Ruins three times without finding anything.

"Damn it, how could there not be any? When the God War happened, the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan didn't have time to move the Godhead fragments. The Godhead fragments must still be in the Sea Dragon Ruins." Li Xuan frowned slightly as he looked at the report from his puppet, then muttered to himself.

Li Xuan really couldn't speak while underwater.

Then, Li Xuan issued an order to all the puppets.

"dismantle!"

Li Xuan refused to believe that the hidden divine fragments wouldn't appear after all the remaining buildings in the Sea Dragon Ruins were demolished.

In an instant, all the puppets got busy. The mining puppets were responsible for dismantling, while the exploration puppets and the Five Thunder puppets were responsible for transporting. All the puppets worked at an extremely fast speed, trying to completely dismantle the entire Sea Dragon Ruins.

Each puppet performed its own function, and the Sea Dragon Ruins disappeared at a visible speed.

Looking at the busy fourth-tier puppets, Li Xuan turned around and returned to the cabin of the Swordfish. With his eyes closed, he controlled several fish puppets and searched for the divine essence in the Sea Dragon Ruins. Li Xuan was still making a final effort.

More than ten hours later, the ruins of Hailong, which were already in ruins, had completely disappeared, leaving only the pits left by the foundation.

Li Xuan still hadn't found the remaining fragment of the divine essence.

"This is really strange. I've dismantled the entire Sea Dragon Ruins, how come I still haven't found that fragment of divine power?" Li Xuan frowned and muttered to himself as he lay in the cabin of the Swordfish.

"Keep searching!"

Li Xuan issued another order to all the fourth-tier puppets: expand the search area and continue searching for the remaining fragments of the Time Godhead.

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Three days later, having gained nothing, Li Xuan finally considered giving up. He couldn't just waste his time in the ruins of Hailong forever.

The Tai Xuan He Shen Jing requires the power within the divine core. Although the divine core is incomplete, a considerable amount of divine power can still be extracted, which is enough for Li Xuan to complete the foundational work of the Tai Xuan He Shen Jing.

So Li Xuan stopped worrying about it and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Li Xuan glanced once more at the empty ruins of Hailong.

The Sea Dragon Ruins are now a desolate wasteland; apart from the corpses of the gods and the sea dragons, there is nothing left to take away.

Just then, Li Xuan suddenly thought of something and his eyes widened sharply.

The next second, all the fourth-tier puppets rushed madly toward the largest and longest sea dragon corpse among them.

The fragments of the godhood from back then may have been absorbed by the Deep Sea Blue Dragon!

For a long time, I had assumed that the fragments of divine power would be regarded as treasures by the Blue Dragon Clan of the Deep Sea and kept in their treasury.

Seeing these sea dragon corpses now, Li Xuan realized that in order to resist the power of the gods, these deep-sea blue dragons might have allowed the most powerful being in the deep-sea blue dragon clan to absorb the fragments of divine power.

Only in this way will the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan have the strength to be opponents of the gods!
Otherwise, even a million-year-old soul beast would be nothing more than a chicken or a dog in the eyes of the gods.

Therefore, Li Xuan decided to try to extract a fragment of divine essence from the corpse of the deep-sea blue dragon that was made up of this physical form.

Li Xuan opened the hatch of the Swordfish and swam towards the corpse of the deep-sea blue dragon.

Soon, Li Xuan swam to the body of the sea dragon.

Then, Li Xuan clasped his hands together and released his soul power and spiritual power simultaneously, which condensed into a light array under his feet.

Through this formation, Li Xuan clearly sensed that the missing fragment of divine essence was hidden inside the corpse of the most powerful deep-sea blue dragon.

"As expected, it's here. It seems that the reason why the Deep Sea Blue Dragon Clan was able to contend with the gods back then was because of this fragment of divine essence." Li Xuan thought to himself.

Li Xuan quickly increased the input of soul power and spiritual power, and began to extract the divine fragments from the body of the deep-sea blue dragon.

Because this fragment of divine essence was hastily absorbed by the Deep Sea Blue Dragon, its extraction was not as slow as extracting divine essence from a god's body. In just two hours, Li Xuan extracted the fragment of divine essence from the Deep Sea Blue Dragon's corpse.

Li Xuan did not allow the two fragments of divine essence to merge into one.

If the two divine sparks were to be combined into one, it would be far too easy to attract the attention of the divine realm. If the gods of the divine realm were to discover that they could extract the divine sparks, it would be dangerous.

These kinds of things are usually done secretly, without letting anyone know.

Li Xuan took out another box containing the fragment of divine essence, placed it inside, sealed it, and then put it into the space of the Palm Heaven Bottle.

After doing all this, Li Xuan went to the body of the god, reached out and used the Ice Soul Spirit Fire to freeze and seal the body, then threw it into the space of the small cave.

As for the divine sword stuck in the ground, Li Xuan had already taken it into his possession.

After having the fourth-tier puppet collect the other sea dragon corpses, Li Xuan returned to the sea aboard the Swordfish.

(End of this chapter)