Chapter 172: Refining the Evil Venerable's Primordial Spirit

  A clearing in the mountain forest, with dozens of yellow soul symbols floating in mid-air. The soul symbols surrounded a square array of several dozen feet, with Mu Feng sitting quietly at its center, Shi Zhuiqiu and Lu Tianye standing at either end.

  "Brother Shi, after refining this Yuan Shen, how confident are you?" Lu Tianye's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he spoke in a low voice. To avoid being overheard by Mu Feng, he deliberately used his Xuan Li to envelop the sound and transmit it into Shi Zhiqiu's ears.

  "It should be around 70% I guess, I'll do my best." Shi Zhiqiu's face was solemn, this primordial spirit, for him, was also quite a handful. However, this was also an opportunity to advance to a high-grade soul cultivator, and he would certainly go all out.

  "Let's get started!" Lu Tianye said in a low voice, although they had already grasped 70% of the situation, but they still had to be careful and cautious, otherwise Mu Feng's life would be lost. Not to mention releasing this evil spirit, who knows how severe the consequences will be.

  Shi Zhiqiu nodded slightly, his hands changing seals rapidly as he whispered: "Rise!"

  The yellow soul symbol seems to have a response, emitting a faint yellow light, and a strange wave of fluctuations spreads out. The yellow soul symbol rapidly trembles in the air, and a burst of yellow light shoots out from the symbol, following some obscure and mysterious trajectory, forming a yellow arc-shaped light shield at the top of the formation.

  On the light cover, a strange pattern flashed and appeared on the entire arc-shaped light cover, and a sealing force was emitted from it. This sealing force has an extremely strong restraining effect on the yuan god.

  Lu Tianye saw the situation, operated his technique, a dazzling white awn appeared in his palm, and with a wave of both palms, the white awns split into dozens of strands, all of which drilled into the yellow soul symbol, making the yellow awns even brighter.

  He infused the autumn darkness with his energy, conjuring a blue sword in his hand. The sword was covered in dizzying patterns that made one's eyes spin, and it was surrounded by the power of the blue soul, emitting a hissing sound like a venomous snake spitting out its fangs.

  Only a faint blue soul force burst out of Fa Xian's body and drilled into Mu Feng's body. The soul force spread throughout Mu Feng's entire body, and his skin also emitted a blue glow, making his face somewhat blurry under the reflection of the blue light.

  Mo Feng suddenly felt as if his body was going to burn, with intense pain entering his brain, as if his body was about to be torn apart. However, previously Shi Zhiqiu had reminded Mo Feng, and with Mo Feng's strong willpower, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

  "Unseal!" Shi Zhiqiu shouted urgently!

  Mufeng hastily followed Shi Zhiqiu's orders and gradually lifted the seal on the Wind-sealing Demon Array.

  As the seal of the Wind Sealing Demon Array weakened, Mu Feng could clearly feel a series of intense fluctuations emanating from within the array. These fluctuations were absolutely unbearable for his current body. If it weren't for Shi Zhiqiu's soul force protecting Mu Feng's heart meridian, he would have worried that he would explode and die.

  "Out!" Shi Zhiqiu cursed softly.

  As soon as Shi Zhiqiu let out a low shout, the Black Wind Seal Demon Array on Mu Feng's chest suddenly flashed and a black awn appeared. After the appearance of the black awn, it began to frantically move about inside Mu Feng's body under the pressure of his soul force.

  Shi Zhiqiu used his own soul power to protect Mu Feng's heart pulse when he opened the seal, and with a strong soul oppression, he forced that primordial spirit out of Mu Feng's body. A surge of powerful energy was stirring inside Mu Feng's body, testing the resilience of his meridians.

  However, Lu Tianye had already realized this point and taught Mu Feng the Heart Sutra, coupled with Mu Feng's own cultivation reaching the realm of creation, the toughness of his heart meridian was already able to withstand such an energetic impact.

  However, the intense pain caused Mu Feng's eyebrows to furrow tightly, his lean face twisted into a ball, and his slender figure also appeared slightly swollen due to the impact of energy inside his body. His consciousness was also gradually falling into a state of dizziness.

  At this time, a virtual shadow gradually emerged behind Mu Feng, surrounded by blue light! Looking at its appearance, it is somewhat similar to Mu Feng.

  Lu Tianye saw the virtual shadow, his mood was tense. He knew that was Mu Feng's soul. Even if a warrior's cultivation is high, a warrior's soul cannot exist outside the body for too long.

  He used his own soul power to form a blue protective shield, gathering Mu Feng's soul and preventing it from dispersing. He continued to force the black awn inside Mu Feng's body.

  The black awn inside Mofeng's body finally fled in disarray under the pressure of the soul's oppression.

  On the other side of Mu Feng's soul, a virtual shadow gradually emerged. The shadow gradually became clear, and an ancient and weathered face appeared in front of Shi Zhiqiu and Lu Tianye, emitting a fierce aura from his body.

  The aura of this illusory shadow is completely different from the soul aura of Mufeng, this is the primordial spirit of Heiyan Xiezun. The primordial spirit is equivalent to a warrior's second physical body, as long as the primordial spirit is not destroyed, it means that the warrior will not die and can rebuild their physical body, having another chance at rebirth.

  As the illusory shadow appeared, a violent energy swept out in all directions with the shadow as its center, constantly impacting the yellow light shield. Although Mu Feng's soul was protected by Shi Zhiqiu's spiritual power, under the impact of the powerful energy, there were signs of his soul dispersing.

  "Get in!" Shi Zhiqiu shouted again.

  Mufeng's soul re-entered his body under Shi Zhiqiu's manipulation. At the moment of entry, Lu Tianye flipped his right palm and a suction force burst out from it, pulling Mufeng out of the formation. The two cooperated extremely tacitly.

  An old and venomous voice came out from that virtual shadow: "Can this broken formation really destroy me?"

  "No matter what your cultivation was in life, you're now just a mere residual soul. Do you still think you can show off?" Shi Zhiqiu said coldly, swinging his blue sword and taking a step forward into the formation, with the blue sword's blade imbued with violent spiritual energy directly stabbing towards that illusory shadow.

  Soul power and Xuanli have an essential difference, soul power has special damage to Yuanshen, which is why Soul Masters can easily defeat Yuanshen of the same level.

  "Beacon fires light up the sky!"

  Hei Yan Xie Zun seemed to also know of Shi Zhi Qiu's ferocity and immediately went all out with his first strike.

  Dark flames materialized in the sky, and the air of the entire formation seemed to boil. Strands of mysterious black flames carrying a fierce aura rushed towards the blue sword light.

  "Rumble, rumble, rumble!"

  The blue sword and the dark flame collided heavily, producing a burst of explosive sounds. The blue light and black flames spread out and eventually dispersed into thin air.

  His face grew increasingly solemn, the blue light of his sword flashing as his spiritual energy surrounded it, gradually gathering at the tip of the sword and condensing into a ball of blue energy.

  Hei Yan Xie Zun waved his hand, and the dark flame transformed into a long black flame knife that was several meters long. The black flame knife emitted a terrifying high temperature in mid-air, causing the temperature of the entire formation to rise rapidly.

  "Die!" The dark flame evil lord coldly shouted, his hand lightly pointing at Shi Zhiqiu, the black flame great knife fiercely chopping down towards Shi Zhiqiu. Along the way, the air burst open, crackling loudly.

  "Explode!"

  Although Shi Zhiqiu could feel the fierce aura of the Black Flame Great Sword, his face didn't show a hint of fear. With a light swing of his blue longsword, the blue glow at the sword's tip shot out and heavily struck the Black Flame Great Sword.

  "Boom!"

  A deafening explosion resounded throughout the formation, a ripple of energy spreading out in a visible form, black and blue light each occupying half of the sky within the formation. Even Lu Tianye, who was outside the formation, could feel the terror of this energy impact.

  Even a strong practitioner in the state of ecstasy would be blown into a pulp under this energy impact.

  When Shi Zhiqiu was still a lower-grade Soul Refiner, he had already refined the primordial spirit of a Spiritual Communication realm cultivator. Now that he had reached the middle grade, he thought it would be easy to refine this primordial spirit in front of him, but unexpectedly, after forcing his way through twice, the primordial spirit didn't show any signs of defeat at all.

  Although the primordial spirit of Hei Yan Xie Zun is now only in the Divine Ability Realm, it was a powerful Martial Honourable in its lifetime, and it is much stronger than an ordinary Divine Ability Realm primordial spirit. Refining it will not be easy.

  "No matter how you resist, today is still a dead end!" Shi Zhi's face sank, the blue sword flashed rapidly, and a burst of blue sword energy shot out, filling the air with a sharp soul aura that enveloped Hei Yan Xie Zun.

  "Is that so? Then let you experience the true methods of this deity!" The dark flame evil deity said with a ferocious expression.