Devouring demons, I attain immortality.

"Not only can it swallow, it can also spit it out!"

Lin An plunged the knife into the seabed, and the swallowed black water gushed out from the nine blood grooves, transforming into three hundred cursed spirits that retaliated.

The three men in black robes were instantly bound by the spell they had cast, their flesh sizzling and steaming.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Hongyi flung out a fragment of the Reverse Scale: "Break the altar!"

The Xuan Tian Mirror suddenly magnified into a giant mirror hundreds of meters wide, refracting thousands of laser beams from the fragments.

The bronze nails began to melt under the intense light, and Bai Tang's dragon tail suddenly twitched.

Just as Lin An was about to rush over, the face on the Chaos Bell suddenly opened its eyes: "Little thief, I've been waiting for you for a hundred years..."

The moment the bell rang, everything went black before Lin An's eyes.

The system is issuing frantic alerts: [Detected pressure from a Distraction Stage cultivator! Initiating emergency absorption...]

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade, out of control, plunged into his own dantian, bursting forth in excruciating pain and spewing out a cloud of blood mist—which actually swallowed all the invading bell sounds.

"You son of a bitch..."

For the first time, Chaos Bell's face showed an expression of terror.

Lin An grinned maliciously, his mouth full of blood: "I'll even swallow myself, are you scared now?"

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade turned completely blood red, and Lin An felt the dragon pattern on his right arm crawl up to his neck.

The Xuan Tian Seal suddenly flew towards the Chaos Bell on its own, its bottom spikes spinning wildly: "Break for me!"

The bells stopped abruptly.

All the bronze nails on Bai Tang's body exploded, and the moment the dragon's tail wrapped around Lin An's waist, the Chaos Bell let out its final roar: "East Sea Dragon Clan, heed my command! Activate the Myriad Dragons..."

"...A grand formation!"

Boom!

Ye Hongyi inserted the wolf-tooth jade pendant into the array eye at the top of the bell, and the entire altar began to collapse.

Bai Tang weakly spat out a dragon pearl and stuffed it into Lin An's mouth: "Swallow it...it will temporarily suppress the backlash..."

The system notification sound was drowned out by the Dragon Ball energy.

As Lin An carried Bai Tang out, he caught a glimpse of countless dragon eyes opening in the seabed crack—the true East Sea Dragon Clan army had awakened.

The golden light shining from the seabed fissure was so bright that it was impossible to open one's eyes.

Lin An, with the Dragon Ball clenched in his mouth and the metallic taste of blood in his throat, roared, "System, scan for weaknesses!"

[The Mysterious Mirror is activated: The core of the Myriad Dragons Formation is in the southeast (Xun) position!]

The Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade suddenly trembled violently, and three bone spikes sprang out from the hilt, piercing Lin An's palm and sucking his blood.

The second-stage Blade Soul was forcibly activated, and the blade split into nine blood-red afterimages, shooting out in a volley towards the southeast.

"Cover him!"

Ye Hongyi used her reverse scale as a shield.

Bai Li bit her finger and drew a blood curse on the coral reef, instantly summoning hundreds of merman skeletons.

Lin An charged forward, stepping on the skull. The Xuan Tian Seal grew to the size of a millstone and spun wildly, smashing the dragon guards blocking his way into mincemeat.

Three golden dragons emerged from the crack, each unleashing a combined jet of water.

Instead of retreating, Lin An advanced, plunging the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade into the seabed: "Swallow it!"

The blood groove on the blade formed a vortex, which actually drew the water column into three water lines.

The system notification kept popping up: [Devour the Dragon Clan's essence, unlock the third transformation: Dividing the Seas].

Lin An drew his sword and thrust it upwards, the sword energy, saturated with seawater, cleaving out a hundred-meter-long vacuum zone, severing the three golden dragons in half.

"The Mysterious Heaven Mirror!"

Lin An flung the mirror away.

The mirror suddenly turned into a black hole, sucking in the golden dragon's remains and turning them into a bloody mist, which was then sprayed out and smeared all over the faces of the dragon guards behind it.

A furious roar echoed from the rift: "Activate the Dragon Soul Cannon!"

Tens of thousands of dragons opened their mouths simultaneously, and golden light gathered in their mouths to form a ball of light.

Lin An felt a chill run down his spine as a red warning suddenly popped up from the system: [Detection of Void-level energy aggregation. Immediate evasion recommended!]

"Stop hiding, my foot!"

Lin An plunged the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade into his own thigh to suck blood.

"What is the ninth move of the Tide-Rising Technique taught by Bai Tang?"

The blade suddenly burst forth with a black and red light.

Lin Anfu, seized by a sudden impulse, swung his knife and slammed it to the ground: "Tide Rises Ninefold, explode for me!"

Nine ring-shaped blades of energy spread along the seabed, petrifying corals and freezing dragons wherever they passed.

The charging of the Ten Thousand Dragons Formation was interrupted, the Dragon Soul Cannon exploded in the mouth of the dragons, and dragon corpses fell to the bottom of the sea like dumplings.

"Now!"

Ye Hongyi suddenly threw out the wolf-tooth jade pendant.

Lin An caught the jade pendant and pressed it against the bottom of the Xuan Tian Seal. The bronze seal instantly swelled into a mountain and smashed towards the true form of the Dragon Lord in the crack.

The Dragon Lord threw out his natal Dragon Pearl to block, but was immobilized by the Xuan Tian Mirror.

Lin An grinned maliciously and pounced, plunging the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade into the Dragon Ball: "System! Dinner's ready!"

[Devouring a Nascent Soul stage Dragon Ball, Warning! Host's physical body is about to collapse!]

Lin An's veins bulged all over his body, and dragon patterns covered half of his face on his right arm.

He endured the excruciating pain and slammed the Dragon Ball fragment into the Xuan Tian Seal: "Upgrade me!"

The surface of the Xuan Tian Seal cracked and peeled off, revealing its dark golden core.

The two ancient seal characters "镇海" at the bottom lit up, and the entire East China Sea suddenly came to a standstill.

The Dragon Lord's true form was fixed in the crack, and its scales peeled off piece by piece.

"It's time to wrap this up."

Bai Tang suddenly transformed into human form, pressing Lin An's bloodstained hand against her own chest, "Use my dragon blood to power the Demon-Slaying Blade for one last turn."

The nine blood grooves on the blade exploded simultaneously, revealing the true form of the white dragon bone inside.

Lin An felt his life force being frantically drained, and as his vision blurred, he heard a system notification: [The ultimate form of the Nine Revolutions Demon-Slaying Blade has been unlocked: Dragon Slayer!]

With a single slash, the seabed split in two.

The Dragon Lord's true form, along with the Myriad Dragons Formation, was shredded into a bloody mist by the sword energy, and the Mysterious Heaven Mirror automatically flew over to devour it.

Lin An, slumped in Bai Tang's arms, grinned as he watched the blood raining down: "Next time... let's try a more life-saving fighting style..."

He fainted before he could finish speaking. The system's last message was: [Host's physical body detected as collapsing. Emergency plan activated—Seize the Dragon Lord's remaining body!]

The remaining dragon blood on the seabed suddenly flowed back, wrapping Lin An in a blood cocoon.

Ye Hongyi picked up the Xuan Tian Seal that had fallen to the ground and discovered that the bottom was engraved with newly appeared words: Lord of the East Sea.

The blood cocoon floated in the seawater, its surface displaying dragon scale patterns that flickered in and out.

Ye Hongyi suddenly threw out seven talismans and stuck them on the cocoon: "He's trying to possess the remnant soul of the Dragon Lord, he needs..."

boom!

The seabed suddenly collapsed, and nine chains of ice pierced through the rock layers.

The West Sea Dragon Clan's ice warship crashed through the barrier, and a woman wearing an ice crystal crown stood on the deck: "The East Sea is without a master; it shall be taken over by my West Sea."

Bai Li's bone bell necklace automatically formed a defensive array, but was frozen into ice shards by the chains.

Ye Hongyi swung the Xuan Tian Seal and smashed it down. The warship raised an ice wall to block it, and the two characters "Zhen Hai" even formed frost flowers.

"System...starting up..."

A mechanical voice suddenly came from inside the blood cocoon.

Lin An's right hand emerged from its cocoon, its skin surface crisscrossed with golden scales and blood-red patterns, and he held half of the dragon lord's horn in his palm.

The Dragon Girl of the West Sea sneered, "A monster that's half dragon and half human."

She swung her Ice Soul Sword, and the seawater froze wherever the sword light passed.

Lin An suddenly made a grasping motion with his right hand, and the Xuan Tian Mirror flew out from Ye Hongyi's arms. The moment the ice sword's trajectory was reflected on the mirror, nine identical ice swords were thrust out from the mirror!

"The mirror image swallowing function has been activated."

The blood cocoon burst open completely, and Lin An stood suspended in mid-air.

Broken dragon scales remain on his left cheek, his right eye has turned into a mechanical gear-like pupil, and nine fragments of the Nine-Turn Demon-Slaying Blade float behind him, each inlaid with a dragon ball of a different color.

The ice wall of the West Sea warship was pierced by her own ice sword, and the dragon girl flung out her life-bound scales as she retreated.

Lin An opened his mouth and bit down on the scale, a grinding sound echoing in his throat: [Ice Dragon Breath detected. Fuse with the Chaos Fire Seed?]

"Merge my ass!"

He suddenly slapped the scales into his chest.

The forces of ice and fire collided within his body, and his mechanical right eye emitted a red light, creating a steam explosion circle with a diameter of one kilometer on the seabed.

Bai Tang's dragon tail wrapped around Lin An's waist: "Are you crazy!"

The moment they touched each other's skin, blood-red contract patterns appeared on their bodies simultaneously—a life-sharing pact formed when the Dragon Ball recognized its master.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Dragon Girl of the West Sea launched a sneak attack, her Ice Soul Sword piercing Bai Tang's back. The fragments of the Demon-Slaying Blade on Lin An's back automatically protected their master; three fragments ignited with black flames, three formed frost, and three were wrapped in lightning, combining to form a blade wheel that shattered the ice sword.