Douluo: My Spirit is Fallen Angel

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"Clan Chief!"

Several figures flew over—each one a Dou Sheng or semi-saint elder of the Nine Nether Earth Python clan.

The elders gazed at Yao Xiaotian, who had been forcibly transformed into a human form by Qian Renhan's top-tier suppression, and at the now-lifeless body of the Grand Elder. One after another, killing intent erupted, soaring into the sky and sweeping through the surrounding space.

"The meddler has already been eliminated by me. The Yellow Springs Sky Wrath has been unsealed. Anyone may now attempt to study it. Preserve the Grand Elder's corpse properly."

Qian Renhan stood with his hands clasped behind his back and turned to walk toward the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. He clearly remembered what the Yellow Springs Demon Saint had told him: to continue the legacy of the Three Yellow Springs Extremes. Therefore, the stone tablet would remain here.

The elders, who moments ago brimmed with murderous rage, instantly shifted to wild joy upon seeing the roaring mouth carved on the stone tablet. They eagerly approached it, even summoning junior clan members to handle the Grand Elder's corpse.

Arriving at the Yellow Springs, Qian Renhan carried Yao Xiaotian's corpse and dove into the depths of the lake. Guided by his soul's connection to his true body, he reached the massive black seal with little expenditure of Dou Qi. Within that seal was his physical form.

As the seal broke, his body—having soaked in the Yellow Springs—had transformed into a deep yellow crystalline form. The intense cold had frozen nearly a tenth of his meridians. Though his low-tier Heaven-rank cultivation method remained active on its own, it could not entirely resist the corrosion of the frigid energy. If his meridians were completely frozen, his body would be on the verge of death.

Even Qian Renhan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the sight.

"Wait… what's this?" Qian Renhan carefully examined the state of his body within the Yellow Springs. The once-vigorous Dou Qi and blood energy had entered a state of hibernation under the cold's pressure.

This situation reminded him of when he refined his body using Tier 7 Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood and the blood essence of Huangtian. Back then, the surging energy and violent Dou Qi nearly tore his body apart, his entire being aflame and on the brink of exploding. In stark contrast, within the Yellow Springs, everything was calm. And now, he held the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood. Wouldn't this make the Yellow Springs an ideal environment for refinement?

He immediately fell into deep contemplation—how best to use the Demon Saint's blood.

"Yao Xiaotian, you beast… even as a ghost, I—Yao Ming—will never forgive you!"

The Demon Saint had left behind only six drops of his essence blood. A single drop was powerful enough to allow an early one-star Dou Sheng to break through to two stars. If all six were used solely for cultivation, it could potentially push a seven-star Dou Sheng to the mid or even late stages of the eighth star. After all, the quality of Dou Qi produced by a low-tier Heaven-rank cultivation method was far from sufficient at that realm.

But Qian Renhan soon remembered: when his body had been refined with the complete blood essence of Huangtian, it had directly elevated his physique to the level of a five-star Dou Sheng. These six drops, refined from the entirety of the Demon Saint's blood before his death, were essentially his full lifeblood condensed into a few drops.

Therefore, these six drops were no different from the complete blood essence of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint—just compressed into six portions.

The Demon Saint, called such for a reason, was undoubtedly a magical beast. To reach such a level of cultivation, his physique must have been extremely formidable. Take Zhukun, for example—also a peak nine-star Dou Sheng. His strength surpassed that of Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi, not merely due to his Dou Qi, but because his physical body alone had reached the pinnacle of the nine-star Dou Sheng realm, capable of battling with sheer force.

Huangtian had also relied primarily on physical strength during their first confrontation, using Dou Qi only as support, overpowering Qian Renhan completely.

After pondering for the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Qian Renhan finally decided: he would strengthen his body. There was no longer any hope of acquiring semi-emperor-tier Demon Saint blood anywhere on the Dou Qi Continent. His greatest opponents were not Gu Yuan or Hun Tiandi—but those possessing semi-emperor-grade Imperial Pills. To compete, he had to elevate his body!

He extracted half a drop of the Demon Saint's essence blood. As the golden liquid appeared in his palm, the surrounding world trembled violently. Centered on him, the energy within a hundred-meter radius surged, and even the waters of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs receded on their own.

Qian Renhan gently pried open the mouth of his physical body and carefully placed the half-drop of Demon Saint essence blood inside. The moment it entered his body, the cold energy from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, which had frozen his meridians, instantly melted. The essence blood surged violently within him, rampaging uncontrollably. A mouthful of fresh blood spurted from the body.

Seeing this, Qian Renhan immediately abandoned Yao Xiaotian's corpse and returned his soul to his own body. He swiftly activated his cultivation technique to suppress the rampaging golden blood. He had severely underestimated the terrifying power of this half-drop of Demon Saint essence blood. He had assumed that his five-star Dou Sheng body, combined with the chilling energy of the Yellow Springs, would allow him to gradually refine the essence blood—just like when he had consumed the Tier-7 Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood—to temper his body with perfect precision.

If his soul hadn't returned in time and activated his technique, his body would have been completely destroyed by the essence blood.

An hour later, Qian Renhan finally managed to stabilize the essence blood. The Yellow Springs water once again submerged his body. With the automatic operation of his low-tier Heaven-rank technique, his body began to slowly absorb and strengthen itself—just like when he had refined the Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood back then.

The only problem was that even with just half a drop of Demon Saint essence blood, the process would take as long as three months. At that rate, absorbing all six drops would require a total of three years—far too long.

Fortunately, with the assistance of his external soul bone, Qian Renhan was confident that refining the Demon Saint essence blood in this way would evolve his body to an unimaginable level—just like what happened with the Huangtian blood refinement.

The continent is vast, and with his devouring powers, Qian Renhan was confident that advancing his cultivation was only a matter of time. But the materials needed to enhance his physical body were truly rare. He could not possibly kill the old Dragon Emperor Zhukun—who had shown him kindness—just to obtain essence blood. If he used the Demon Saint essence blood purely for cultivation, then to enhance his physique again, he'd have no choice but to venture into the Great Thousand World in search of rare treasures.

"Yao Xiaotian, you damn bastard! Once I get out, I'll tear you limb from limb!"

Once again hearing Yao Ming's voice, Qian Renhan ultimately chose to demand the Yellow Springs Essence from him.

The Yellow Springs Essence is a small, palm-sized condensation formed from the chilling energy of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs after a thousand years. Its potency is a hundred times greater than the lake water itself. With its aid, the refinement and absorption of the Demon Saint essence blood could be accelerated greatly. But for the past century, all the Yellow Springs Essence from the lake had been consumed by Yao Ming.

Qian Renhan didn't waste a single word. He punched himself in the abdomen, violently extracting the Yellow Springs Essence. The fist-sized chunk, having been coated in Yao Ming's saliva, was stripped clean of its surface layer, leaving only a pure, palm-sized orb. He then placed the orb into the mouth of his physical body.

Until he had completely refined all six drops of Demon Saint essence blood, Qian Renhan would continue wearing Yao Xiaotian's "serpent skin"—assuming the identity of the Nine Nether Earth Python clan chief. He would quietly await the completion of his bodily transformation, using the clan's resources to gather intelligence and monitor the situation across the continent—especially concerning the ancient clans.

(End of Chapter)