Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1344 - 725: Refining Treasure, Enlightenment, and Heavenly Retribution

Misfortunes never come singly!

Ever since his Lifebound Divine Banner was forced into self-destruction, the black-robed elder had been horrified to realize something truly ghastly. A bizarre, ghostly shadow had somehow manifested within the depths of his Soul Sea, becoming inextricably entangled with his Nascent Soul.

What terrified him even more was that his mind and consciousness were under the constant influence of this phantom. He was becoming increasingly bloodthirsty and violent, frequently losing his grip on sanity.

Simultaneously, he felt a persistent summons, a sensation as if he had been stripped of his most precious possession and was filled with an intense, agonizing yearning to reclaim what was lost.

Over the past half-year, the flickering image of a crimson Blood Banner often manifested in his mind.

Each time this Blood Banner appeared, that strange ghostly shadow would further erode his magic body, an experience that filled him with overwhelming dread.

As a high-ranking figure within the Ghost God Sect, the black-robed elder was intimately aware of the many terrifying properties of the sect’s supreme treasure, the Red God Banner!

He had exhausted every possible method to resist the corruption of the Red God’s demon shadow, yet his efforts yielded almost no results.

As time marched on, the internal desire and impulse grew more potent, and his lapses into irrationality became more frequent.

Despite his desperate struggle against these inner cravings, months of wandering eventually brought him to the fringes of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.

By now, Ancestor Jue Xing was fully aware that the Sect Treasure, the Red God Banner, resided deep within these mountains. He could even faintly perceive the Red God Banner’s constant wailing, calling out for him to rescue it from a sea of bitterness.

This realization filled Ancestor Jue Xing’s heart with immense fear. If he had the choice, he would have fled to the very edges of the world rather than set foot near the Zhao’s Station.

He was painfully aware that the mysterious Great Ability who had annihilated the Ghost God Sect and imprisoned the Red God Banner was currently secluded within the Zhao’s Station.

Faced with such a terrifying entity, his solitary Nascent Soul was nothing; even a hundred Nascent Souls would be no match!

Contemplating his bleak prospects, Ancestor Jue Xing’s expression was instantly overtaken by a mask of total despair.

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While Ancestor Jue Xing sank into hopelessness, waves of screams and curses echoed from the depths of a massive underground Dao Field in New Zhao City:

“Aow... This... God... will... never... yield... to... the... lowly... Human Clan...”

Suspended in the air above the Dao Field was a blood-colored Crystal Banner several feet in height. From within it emerged a Chi God Giant over ten feet tall.

The Chi God Giant was bound by nearly a hundred Five-colored Thunder Chains. Bolts of five-colored Thunder Fire in red, blue, yellow, black, and white relentlessly lashed its body, forcing it to howl in agony. Its spiritual form gradually twisted, becoming transparent and shrinking second by second.

Zhao Sheng stood beneath the Red God Banner, his mind racing as he observed the fluctuations of the five types of thunder laws. He watched them weave and stack into incredibly intricate law constructs, manifesting as Thunder Fire that repeatedly struck the True Spirit of the Red God Banner.

It was clear he was utilizing this true spirit as a tool to refine his Taoist Skill.

The Red God Banner truly earned its reputation as the Chi Ghost Clan’s Sect Treasure; its true spirit had fully inherited the Chi Clan’s iron will and their profound hatred for the Human Clan.

Even after being relentlessly scorched by Five Elements Thunder Fire for years, it remained stubborn and refused to submit!

Spiritual treasures have always been a rarity, and Primordial Yang Spirit Treasures are even more elusive throughout history!

Despite the Red God Banner’s refusal to yield, Zhao Sheng was unwilling to abandon this hard-won Primordial Yang Spirit Treasure.

Naturally, if no other path remained, he would have to extinguish the magical treasure’s true spirit and cultivate a new one from scratch.

However, doing so would cause the Red God Banner to drop in grade to a True Form Spirit Treasure, rendering tens of thousands of years of accumulated power wasted.

Time flowed slowly.

Under the relentless heat of the Five Elements Thunder Fire, the Red God Spirit Venerable had compressed itself into a blood-colored sphere of light, shaped like an egg, in an attempt to preserve its remaining spirituality.

Zhao Sheng paid this no mind, having already committed ninety percent of his mental energy to calculating the cycles of birth and death between the Five Elements and the laws of Thunder Movement. He deduced countless law constructs; most failed instantly and were discarded.

Yet, from this rigorous selection, a handful of law constructs stabilized and were immediately applied to the Red God Spirit Venerable.

With the creation of various Primordial Thunder Skills, Zhao Sheng’s mind grew increasingly sharp. A sense of profound enlightenment washed over him, allowing him to faintly touch a new, elevated realm of existence.

Simultaneously, his divine thought and original spirit merged unconsciously. The amber-hued Returning Void Power within his body silently shifted from a moist purple into five distinct colors.

Within the Soul Sea of his Purple Mansion, a magnificent and vibrant Thunder Light appeared at the edge of the Heavenly Vault, shimmering with gold, red, black, blue, white, and other dazzling hues.

Behind this Thunder Light, it seemed as if countless three-dimensional silk threads emerged, weaving, stacking, merging, and dividing to construct one vast Law Heaven and Earth after another.

Zhao Sheng felt as though he had ascended beyond the heavens, utilizing an unprecedentedly clear perspective to look down upon the infinite Law Heaven and Earth spread out below him.

In this ethereal state, he felt as if he had reached the profound “origin” of the Taoist Law.

Boom!

After an indeterminate amount of time, a thunderous roar suddenly erupted from the Law “Heaven and Earth.”

The sound seemed to echo from the dawn of primordial chaos, or perhaps from an unknowable point in the future...

Zhao Sheng snapped awake with a jolt, only to be struck with horror upon finding his divine thought and spiritual sense almost entirely spent, and the mana in his body completely drained.

At that moment, the Red God Banner had tumbled to the ground. The Blood Banner was dim and devoid of life, its surface now encased in a solidified layer of five-colored Thunder Crystal.