Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

The eight-cornered ice grass trembled slightly.

It was for the Ice God aura on the Snow Emperor, and also for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye at this moment.

It was too quiet; not a single herb made a sound.

At this moment, the valley is covered with mysterious black and white patterns. From the air, it looks like two huge black and white whales swimming slowly in the basin, chasing each other's tails.

Black and white patterns converge between the two colors of spring water, forming two mysterious black and white array eyes. Ma Xiaotao is one of them. It seems that only within the coverage area of ​​these two array eyes in the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye still has some vitality.

Besides, all the magical herbs seemed to be in a strange state, as if they were dormant, or perhaps...

"die".

Upon closer inspection, the patterns and spirit of these formations are remarkably similar to those of the Azure Sky Cloud Refining Array in the Divine Realm on the Cloud Refining Isle of Life and Death.

Seeing this, Kong Tianxu let out a soft breath.

Finally, everything was ready.

The Snow Empress raised a hand to tidy the eight-pointed ice grass tucked into her hair, but her gaze fell upon the massive array patterns winding and flowing in the canyon, and she asked:

“Cain and I have redrawn the formation according to your instructions. Now you can tell me your plan, right? The Soul Power and Soul Core Transformation Technique is incredibly difficult, even for a Limit Douluo, or even for me now. If it were just about physical strength, that would be easier; your current physical strength should be sufficient. But that step requires a massive, continuous supply of energy while maintaining its purity. Di Tian was able to take that step not only because of the immense life force of the Lake of Life, but also probably because of the legacy of the Dragon Clan.”

"The energy contained in this Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire is indeed enormous, but its attributes are too numerous and too mixed. Even an Emperor-level auspicious beast wouldn't be able to refine it quickly. Even with the energy-gathering arrays you had me inscribe, it's still the same. Are you suggesting that she directly devour the immortal herbs here? Even if she can digest those conflicting attributes, it took those two little bears a year to grow to a cultivation level of ten thousand years, let alone a million years?"

You'll find out soon enough.

Kong Tianxu looked towards the distant Wujue Stone—

Her long, wavy, light blue hair cascaded down her back, with many strands reaching the ground as she sat. Her eyes were closed, her long, curled eyelashes were striking, and her straight nose, fair skin, and pink lips perfectly embodied the Creator's definition of beauty.

She sat cross-legged with her long legs slender and her back straight. Because she was only draped in a light veil, her round and full buttocks were easily visible from the side. The beautiful curve from her waist to her hips was enough to attract any man's gaze.

Even with her eyes closed, Wang Qiu'er still exuded a chilling aura that kept people at bay. Only the small red and white flowers she held in her arms seemed to keep her connected to this world with a last bit of tenderness.

It was an ordinary-looking white flower, about the size of a palm, shaped like a peony, without any leaves. Its stem was attached to a large stone, which was completely black. From the way Wang Qiu'er carried it, one could tell that it was incredibly heavy.

On that white flower were several striking red patches, so vividly red as blood that they gave one a somewhat breathtaking feeling.

Suddenly, her delicate body trembled slightly, and then a strange scene appeared. In the center of her forehead, a golden light quietly lit up. Then, this golden light extended into a ray of light about an inch long. The bright golden ray of light slowly split open to both sides and actually turned into an eye, an eye that looked like an endless night sky but was presented as a pale gold.

The moment that eye lit up, everything around seemed to lose its color, as if only that eye possessed life, and everything else was subject to judgment before it.

Her golden eyes gazed into the distance, and gradually, the pale golden light began to ripple clearly, emanating a soft golden glow from Wang Qiu'er's body.

With a flash of light, the girl went from stillness to movement, standing up. This movement made her slender and alluring figure appear even more striking.

The golden eyes on her forehead closed instantly, and then a pair of beautiful pink-blue eyes with long eyelashes opened.

And so, Wang Qiu'er, dressed only in a white veil, holding the second Acacia Heartbreak Red flower from this treasure trove of heaven and earth, walked slowly towards it barefoot.

Cain patted Xiong Da and Xiong Er on the head, signaling them to step back. The two giant bears gave a low groan and reluctantly moved away from Kong Tianxu, finding a comfortable corner in the open space between the two springs to lie down.

Cain himself sat cross-legged between the two springs and began to regulate the power of his bloodline, which he had just broken through to the next level.

The Snow Empress looked at this scene with a complicated expression, took a few steps back, and stood quietly in the dark array eye, leaving the two of them some space to be alone.

Just a few steps away, when they faced each other, they looked at each other in silence.

It seems that everything that needed to be said had already been said on that day when Kong Tianxu revealed his true intentions.

Wang Qiu'er's eyelashes trembled slightly. She didn't speak, but naturally handed the brightly blooming, heartbreaking red flower in her hand to Kong Tianxu.

When his hand touched the petal, her fingertips twitched slightly, but she didn't pull them back.

The sheer veil slid down like a curtain, piling up at her ankles with a soft rustling sound. Bathed in the sunlight streaming through the crack, she appeared as a goddess draped in rosy clouds, completely naked.

Chapter 373 The Beginning of Yin and Yang, Boiled for a Hundred Days, Forging My Supreme Ring and Unparalleled Bone (The End)

Wang Qiu'er turned around and closed her eyes.

In that instant, blazing flames erupted from her body, and crimson-gold light, like magma, surged from her pores, engulfing her entirely. Her form shifted rapidly within the golden light—

With four claws like a dragon, its feet treading on golden flames, its entire body is covered in a layer of brilliant golden fur, each hair resembling a translucent crystal, shimmering with an eerie texture in the sunlight. Its overall form is similar to a lion, but its body is more slender and majestic. Beneath the fur, fine golden scales are faintly visible, extending from its forehead to the base of its tail. Besides its normal two eyes, a third eye, resembling a vertical pupil, resides in the center of its forehead. While the two normal eyes shimmer with gold, this vertical pupil emits a red hue, a red tinged with an eerie quality.

The true form of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was fully revealed at this moment without any concealment. She took four steps and slowly walked towards the high platform in the center of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye.

Black and white lines converge here, vaguely resembling the shape of Tai Chi.

The two bears growled uneasily. The golden soul beast, which looked to be only a little over three meters long, exuded an aura that made them tremble from the depths of their souls.

Cain silently recalled the records in the ancient books:

"The Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion... When it reaches its peak, it will possess four attributes: ultimate light, ultimate fire, spirit, and power. At this moment, with only a little over ten thousand years of cultivation, its primary attribute should be spirit. Its fire and light attributes are not yet fully evolved, only approaching their peak. It needs the power of destiny and spiritual energy as fuel to briefly use ultimate fire. It possesses a strong golden dragon bloodline, no wonder it can simulate a golden dragon martial soul but lacks the true essence of a golden dragon. It turns out that was merely a disguise of its martial soul..."

Kong Tianxu's gaze remained fixed on the three-eyed golden lion on the high platform. After a moment, he took a deep breath—

A powerful burst of soul force suddenly erupted!

However, what appeared behind him was not only the Holy Dragon with eight spirit rings, but also the Holy Spirit Puppet Martial Soul on the other side, which also had a spirit ring, only one, but it was red and at the level of 100,000 years.

The fourth-ranked red spirit ring of the Sacred Dragon and the Holy Spirit Puppet's only 100,000-year spirit ring lit up simultaneously. The two red lights complemented each other, enveloping the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye.

Black energy surged from the Holy Spirit Puppet, flooding every groove of the black and white array patterns like a tide, filling the existing patterns with a dark color between jet black and blood red.

At the same time, with Kong Tianxu as the center, the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to converge on him at a terrifying speed, but just before it touched his body, it was forcibly reversed by his powerful control and poured back towards the location of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

The fourth soul skill of the 100,000-year-old Immortal Spirit Grass: Holy Essence Gathering.

At this moment, Xue Di seemed to have thought of something. She looked at the energy that was originally scattered throughout the valley and forcibly gathered together by Sheng Yuan Ling Ju, and murmured, "The first step, energy gathering."

Cain pondered the words carefully, and just then, a gentle soul force surged from the direction of the high platform, like two invisible hands, gently lifting her and Ma Xiaotao up.

Kong Tianxu's voice rang in the minds of the three women simultaneously: "Yin'er, Xiao Tao. Focus on your core and absorb everything you have."

Without a doubt, Cain immediately activated his inner cultivation technique. An immense and unbelievable amount of energy instantly poured into his body from the array eye beneath him, causing his cultivation to soar like a rocket. With each circulation of his soul power, his cultivation improved noticeably.

Snow Empress sat gracefully, her Yin and Yang balancing and flowing naturally. Unlike Cain and Ma Xiaotao who accepted everything, she selectively absorbed the extreme fire and extreme ice in the Yuan Power according to the ratio, in order to maintain the balance of Yin and Yang.

Even most of the absorbed elemental energy was only transferred to the Ice Emperor to help him stabilize his consciousness.

Her eyes narrowed slightly.

The surging undercurrents finally filled the entire Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire!

Kong Tianxu didn't stop; he looked up at the sky and laughed loudly:

"I once saw water being poured into a bottle by a stream—"

The first soul ring of the Holy Spirit Puppet's 100,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger lit up, and the phantom of that ferocious beast that once terrified the entire plane flashed past behind him.

Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's innate soul-devouring skill, Dark Demon Refining God Devour!

The entire Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, all the immortal herbs, and even the ice spring and yang spring that form its foundation, underwent rapid changes under this refining power. Countless different types of energy were forcibly separated from their respective hosts that had resided for millions of years, rising up and converging into a terrifying torrent of mixed energy above the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

However, after being filtered by the Holy Essence Spirit Gathering, it has reached an extremely pure level, just like the Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flower from back then, which can even be directly absorbed and used!

"Refine it."

The Snow Emperor murmured to herself, her usually indifferent ice-blue eyes now reflecting the soaring torrent of energy, and for the first time, a genuine shock appeared deep within her pupils.

Kong Tianxu suddenly lifted both hands upwards, his voice like thunder rolling across the sky:

"Transform into clouds and ascend to the blue sky!"

The black and white colors began to swirl, and the entire ground of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye trembled violently. At that moment, all the black and white patterns etched on the ground were illuminated, emitting a black and white fluorescent glow.

Viewed from above, the two black and white whales were no longer static figures, but began to slowly swim along the center of the Tai Chi formation. Their speed increased, eventually forming a black and white pillar of energy that stretched from heaven to earth along the vertical axis at the center of the formation.

The column of energy shot straight up to the dome, crashing into the dome formed by millennia-old ice. It then spread outwards, projecting countless rotating black and white light and shadows onto the ice surface, as if the entire sky was changing color in response to the activation of the formation.

The Azure Cloud Refining Array, activated!

What was Kong Tianxu's greatest gain from his day of ascension to heaven? It wasn't his level 89 soul power, nor his position as the Ice God, but rather the Azure Cloud Refining Array that could transform the world's most turbid elements into the purest!

Even though he couldn't perfectly manifest it due to various limitations, by combining this wonder of heaven and earth with the creativity of Kong Tianxu, a ninth-level soul master, he could at least further purify the sufficiently refined heaven and earth elemental energy after the large-scale gathering of holy essence, at the very least enough for soul beasts to directly convert it into cultivation—

"Absorb!" Xue Di exclaimed, her face filled with shock.

Kong Tianxu intends to use the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye as his human body, imitating the Myriad Beginnings Returning to Origin Domain, to create the Great Circulation of Heaven and Earth!

Countless torrents of the most basic elements poured in like a flood from the heavens, and after decomposition, they all flowed into the body of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

A burst of crimson-gold light suddenly erupted from the high platform, growing visibly stronger, as if a new sun had appeared in the sky.

Almost instantly, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's cultivation level soared from over ten thousand years to twenty thousand years, and it was still steadily increasing at an even faster rate.

Xue Di now fully understood. She gazed at the scene with a complex expression, her mind churning with conflicting emotions.

To achieve soul power core transformation, the total energy required is at least the complete energy of a peak Limit Douluo. However, in reality, even if a peak Limit Douluo were willing to transfer their entire soul power to Kong Tianxu, the differences in martial souls necessitate purification and transformation, and the waste of mental energy and physical energy would mean that even two human Limit Douluos at this level might not be enough.

She had thought that Kong Tianxu would set a trap to deal with Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, but neither of them were peak Limit Douluo, and even the two of them combined might not be able to gather enough energy.

She had initially prepared herself to sacrifice herself to Kong Tianxu. However, Kong Tianxu's creative idea temporarily dispelled this thought.

Unexpectedly, Kong Tianxu intended to use the vast energy accumulated over countless years by the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye as a foundation, and then refine it through the first soul skill bestowed upon him by the 100,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which is also the most powerful and fundamental innate ability of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger species for devouring and cultivating. After that, it would be transformed into the purest heaven and earth elemental energy through the Holy Yuan Spirit Gathering and Azure Cloud Refining Array.

Even with triple refinement, the various attributes of the elemental energy of heaven and earth were still too chaotic. However, as an imperial auspicious beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was naturally favored by the elemental energy of heaven and earth. The chaotic energy that was enough to cause a Limit Douluo to go mad was tamed almost instantly upon entering her body and then transformed into her own soul power.

In such a short time, her size has more than doubled, and her soul core has naturally formed amidst mysterious fluctuations.

One hundred thousand years!

An intensely bright light burst forth from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, illuminating the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye into a pure white.

Following the ultimate fire, the three-eyed golden lion's third attribute—ultimate light—reached its full potential at the ten-thousand-year mark.

Light and fire intertwined in the air, completely transforming the figure on the high platform into an unbearably blazing sun.

Kong Tianxu's eyes burned with fervor as he unleashed his two great soul skills with all his might.

His initial target was indeed Xue Di.

In the original plan, the Snow Empress, who was completely under his control, would sacrifice herself after fusing with the ice marrow of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave as the energy source for his ninth soul ring and soul power core transformation.

But the Snow Empress's selfless act of saving him changed his mind. If the Snow Empress couldn't do it, then the only ones in the world who met the criteria were Emperor Tian, ​​the Evil Emperor, the Golden Tree, and the soul beasts that might exist in the deep sea that were over 700,000 years old.

Even the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is no match for it. Although it is a million-year-old soul beast, it has lost all the soul power accumulated over countless years. Even when its original energy is intact, its total amount is still less than that of the Evil Emperor's pure spiritual power, and its quality is far inferior. It is only superior in purity, making it most suitable for improving physical constitution, but it cannot be used as an energy source for breakthroughs.

Among the qualified experts, the Golden Tree is the strongest, having reached the demigod realm. However, it lacks its own consciousness and can only passively absorb energy. Such a massive amount of soul power is beyond what Kong Tianxu can currently bear.

As for the others, it was even more impossible to offer them as sacrifices.

After emerging from seclusion in the Sacred Star Plane, Kong Tianxu had been pondering this matter. It wasn't until he fused with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's soul ring and discovered the close relationship between Wang Qiu'er and Huo Yuhao that a new idea emerged in his mind.

From bewitching Yan Shaozhe and capturing hostages from the Three Kingdoms period to eventually wiping them all out, every step was a prelude to today's events.