With the conflict between the Nine Nether Palace and the Blood Hawk Hall settled for the time being, the meeting soon returned to normal. Throughout the remainder of the discussions, Jiuyou remained silent until the meeting finally came to an end.
Once the meeting concluded, Jiuyou immediately led Liu Bai and the other three out of the grand hall, leaving the Blood Hawk King—who had originally planned to mock them a little—completely empty-handed, causing a trace of displeasure to rise in his heart.
However, compared to his annoyance, Xu Qing by the Asura King's side felt even more disappointed. He had finally mustered the courage to prepare to strike up a conversation with Jiuyou, only for her to leave directly without giving him any chance.
On the way, Liu Bai looked at Jiuyou and teased with a grin, "Why are you walking so fast? I noticed that Xu Qing's gaze was glued to you the whole time. He looked like he had summoned up a great deal of courage to come talk to you. Leaving like that must have dealt him quite a blow, huh?"
Jiuyou shot him a sharp look, her eyes like blades, and said coldly, "If you want to die, just keep talking…"
Liu Bai: "…"
Behind them, the Tang sisters watched the two bicker and could not help but cover their mouths as they laughed quietly.
Jiuyou snorted softly, withdrew her gaze, and said, "I've already given you the opportunity I promised. Whether you can seize it or not depends on you. Also, it would be best if you settle your Sovereign Celestial Body before the Greatlaw GoldPond opens. Otherwise, even if you win and successfully enter the Greatlaw GoldPond, what use would it be?"
"Don't worry. Two months is more than enough!" Liu Bai patted his chest, brimming with confidence.
"Do your best."
Tang Bing and Tang Rou exchanged glances and softly offered their encouragement as well.
Those two nearly identical beautiful faces carried the same hope and anticipation. This would be the first battle of the Nine Nether Palace since Jiuyou's return, making it extraordinarily important.
Giving the sisters a reassuring look, Liu Bai said nothing more.
At the same time, within the Blood Hawk Palace.
The Blood Hawk King's expression was icy. Having Jiuyou take back one slot this time was no small loss for the Blood Hawk Palace.
"Pass down the order. Speed up contact with the various city lords under the Nine Nether Palace. As long as they are willing to defect to my Blood Hawk Palace, this king will grant them generous benefits. Otherwise, it means they are looking down on my Blood Hawk Palace. As for the consequences, let them think it through themselves!"
Since she dared to snatch food from his mouth, the Nine Nether Palace would have to pay an even greater price.
"Just a woman indulging in wishful thinking. Does she really think this king would be afraid?"
The Blood Hawk King's gaze shifted to Wu Tian and Cao Feng as he said indifferently,
"For this Greatlaw GoldPond contest, I will secure slots for both of you. I hope you won't disappoint me."
Wu Tian and Cao Feng both clasped their fists in acknowledgment.
"And also…"
A sinister smile curled at the Blood Hawk King's lips.
"That brat called Liu Bai dared to kill a commander of my Blood Hawk Palace. I don't want him alive by the time the Greatlaw GoldPond opens. You know what to do."
Wu Tian immediately exchanged a glance with Cao Feng, and cruel smiles appeared on both of their faces.
Killing Liu Bai? That was exactly what they loved to do.
In the time that followed, the Nine Nether Palace became unusually quiet.
Inside the cultivation chamber that originally belonged exclusively to Jiuyou, Liu Bai sat cross-legged. Spiritual energy slowly circulated within his body, and his aura appeared exceptionally vast and powerful.
In the next instant, five light orbs of different colors flew out from his body. They were the Five Element divine objects Liu Bai had long prepared: Taiyi True Water, Haotian True Flame, Taiyi Metal Essence, Purple Phoenix Wutong Wood, and Heavenly River Divine Sand.
Among them, the Taiyi Metal Essence was refined by Liu Bai from hundreds of thousands of jin of Taiyi Spirit Gold. Though only about the size of a fist, it contained the most extreme Metal-element power. Even when merely suspended in the air, the sharp aura it emitted was enough to leave countless tiny spatial cracks in the surrounding space.
The so-called Five Spirit Divine Sovereign Celestial Body possessed one body with five aspects—five aspects, five spirits. The Five Elements were unified yet existed independently. It was a special Sovereign Celestial Body that required an extremely profound mastery of the Five Elements to control.
For ordinary cultivators, this alone would be enough to stop most people in their tracks. But for Liu Bai, who cultivated the Innate Five Elements Grand Law, this was merely basic operation.
Not to mention the fact that he had directly comprehended the great divine ability of Five Elements Thunder Arts through the Five Elements Divine Thunder spiritual art—this alone was enough to demonstrate the terrifying level of his control over the Five Elements.
In the present Great Thousand World, purely in terms of Five Elements manipulation, there was absolutely no one who could surpass him.
At this moment, all of Liu Bai's spiritual energy was completely restrained. From the outside, he looked just like an ordinary person.
However, within his Sovereign Sea, monstrous purple waves surged endlessly. Vast amounts of spiritual energy continuously gathered within the Sovereign Sea.
Condensing a Sovereign Celestial Body required an enormous amount of spiritual energy for support, so Liu Bai had long since adjusted himself to peak condition. The spiritual energy within his Sovereign Sea had nearly reached the limit of a First-Grade Sovereign.
Moreover, to ensure absolute safety, Liu Bai had over a hundred thousand drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid as backup. As long as his spiritual energy proved insufficient, he would not hesitate to use them.
Of course, Liu Bai also had an even better method—directly filling it with experience points…
Back when he was at the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy, Liu Bai had already discovered that directly allocating experience points, even if it could not raise his cultivation realm, could still increase the upper limit of his Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
What was more, this increase would directly fill the newly expanded capacity, just like in a game.
It was a small system exploit Liu Bai had discovered. Though not particularly useful most of the time, it could be lifesaving at critical moments.
For example, when he and Jiuyou worked together to set up the complete Demon Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array, during the process of condensing spiritual seals that completely drained his spiritual energy—if he had enough experience points back then, he would not have needed to forcibly activate the Wood Scripture to compensate for the deficit.
With all preparations complete, Liu Bai's Spiritual Soul slowly emerged from the Sovereign Sea. Wearing a solemn expression, it began forming seals rapidly with its small hands.
Puff!
A mouthful of purple spiritual flame was spat out from the Spiritual Soul's mouth and slowly floated upward into the air.
"Boom!"
The moment the spiritual flame rose, thunderous sounds resounded within Liu Bai's Sovereign Sea. Massive pillars of spiritual energy shot violently upward from within the Sovereign Sea.
Boom! Boom!
The spiritual energy pillars soared into the sky, then suddenly plunged downward like enormous dragons, crashing fiercely into the spiritual flame in a breathtaking display.
The entire Sovereign Sea surged with towering waves. Brilliant purple light spread across the sky above the Sovereign Sea, and around the center of impact, the violent spiritual energy caused space itself to distort.
Liu Bai's Spiritual Soul raised its head, gazing at the dazzling light mass. Then, its small hands formed seals once more.
Boom.
The Sovereign Sea trembled again.
Countless streams of spiritual energy surged upward like water serpents, then all rushed toward the region suffused with purple light, resembling a giant whale drawing in water—an extremely spectacular sight.
Vast spiritual energy continuously gathered there. As such an enormous amount of energy was poured in, that area of purple light grew increasingly brilliant.
Faintly, one could already see a gigantic silhouette slowly taking shape.
This was the first step in cultivating a Sovereign Celestial Body—using one's own spiritual energy to condense the initial prototype of the Sovereign Celestial Body.
This step was not difficult, but it consumed an enormous amount of spiritual energy. However, with Liu Bai's thorough preparations, no accidents occurred. After nearly thirty minutes of continuous infusion, the prototype of the Sovereign Celestial Body was finally completed.
At this moment, within the space of Liu Bai's Sovereign Sea, a gigantic purple figure nearly a thousand zhang tall slowly stood up, eventually towering in the sky. Terrifying spiritual energy fluctuations rippled around its body.
The current Celestial Body prototype was formed purely from Liu Bai's spiritual energy, without integrating any Five Elements power, and thus could not yet be considered a Five Spirit Deity.
Next, Liu Bai would need to combine his Five Elements source power to fuse those Five Elements divine objects into the Celestial Body prototype, allowing it to fully condense into the form of the Five Spirit Deity…
"Haotian True Flame, transform!"
Liu Bai himself had already devoured Jiuyou's Undying Flame, a flame even more powerful than the Haotian True Flame. With the support of the Fire Origin, fusing the Haotian True Flame into the Celestial Body was the easiest step.
As Liu Bai's deep voice echoed, among the Five Elements divine objects floating outside, a crimson-gold flame suddenly trembled before transforming into a streak of light that shot directly into Liu Bai's body.
Boom!
A rift abruptly tore open in the sky above the Sovereign Sea. In the next instant, heavenly flames descended, filling the entire expanse above the Sovereign Sea in moments.
At this time, Liu Bai's small Spiritual Soul was completely focused. His hand seals shifted rapidly, and then, using his fingers like a sword, he guided the crimson-gold flames, drawing them down toward the head of the massive purple figure.
"Fire Spirit Divine Core, take your place!"
Accompanied by resounding heavenly tones, the crimson-gold flames rapidly compressed, ultimately transforming into a ferocious Fire God mask that slammed directly onto the face of the purple giant.
Rumble!
Divine thunder rolled, and crimson rain poured from the heavens.
It was as though the world itself was celebrating the birth of a true god capable of controlling all flames. The entire Sovereign Sea was bathed in this spiritual rain.
Among the Five Elements, fire gives rise to earth.
Since the Fire God had taken its place, the next step was naturally to condense the Earth God. Otherwise, conflict between the two would spell disaster.
The same process followed—guiding the Heavenly River Divine Sand and condensing the Earth Spirit Divine Core…
After that came the Metal Spirit Divine Core, the Water Spirit Divine Core, and finally the Wood Spirit Divine Core.
When all five Spirit Divine Core masks had fully formed, the massive purple figure had transformed into a bizarre god-like being with one body and five faces.
However, the Five Spirit Deity was still not fully complete.
Though the Divine Cores had taken their places, the body itself had yet to be forged.
Soon after, from within the five Divine Core masks, vast torrents of Five Elements power began to circulate throughout the purple giant's entire body…
This was the most dangerous step of all—Five Elements fusion!
Although Liu Bai had already achieved preliminary Five Elements fusion back in the Spiritual Art Hall, the difficulty of that fusion was utterly incomparable to the present one.
As Liu Bai's Spiritual Soul carefully manipulated the enormous Five Elements power within the five Divine Core masks to merge inside the body, the colossal spiritual energy stored within the giant was consumed at an astonishing rate.
At the same time, the massive figure began shrinking rapidly.
At this pace, within mere dozens of breaths, the Celestial Body prototype that Liu Bai had painstakingly condensed would be completely drained by the fusion process.
Inside the cultivation chamber, Liu Bai's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened. He flicked his finger, causing the Spatial Ring on his hand to tremble. A jade bowl floated out immediately after.
This jade bowl was naturally the replica Spiritual Condensing Bowl, containing all of Liu Bai's Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
The moment the Spiritual Condensing Bowl appeared, a raging torrent surged out. At least ten thousand drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid gathered together and were swallowed by Liu Bai in one gulp, instantly pouring into the Sovereign Sea.
In the next instant, countless rifts split open in the sky above the Sovereign Sea. Streams of spiritual energy cascaded downward like waterfalls, flooding into the Celestial Body.
This immediately halted the continued shrinking of the body.
As the supply of spiritual energy persisted, Liu Bai noticed that the originally purple giant began slowly shifting toward a grayish-white color, resembling a piece of dull, lusterless purple jade.
However, Liu Bai was not worried about the color change, as this was a normal phenomenon.
True Five Elements fusion manifests as a transparent gray—it does not alter colors but instead veils them with a mysterious layer.
In the end, Liu Bai's Five Spirit Deity Celestial Body would still retain a purple divine form, though it would lose its original brilliance and become subdued and indistinct.
From here on, things became much simpler.
All that was needed was to maintain the balance of the Five Elements and continue the process.
Originally, Liu Bai believed this stage would not take too long—after all, even his Sovereign Spiritual Liquid reserves had limits…
But when the Celestial Body finally stabilized completely, ten full days had passed.
During this time, Liu Bai had consumed a staggering one hundred thousand drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid!
Ten thousand per day!
Had it not been for his fortuitous journey to the Relic Continent, entering Divine Wood Mountain, and obtaining the Spiritual Condensing Bowl, this amount of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid alone would have been enough to make Liu Bai break down in tears.
What a terrifying level of energy consumption.
It was practically enough to push a First-Grade Sovereign directly to the peak of Second-Grade Sovereign!
Compared to ordinary Celestial Bodies that typically required only two to three thousand drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, Liu Bai's consumption was fifty times greater!
Who would believe that?
Of course, greater consumption also meant greater power.
If Liu Bai remembered correctly, in the original story, when Mu Chen condensed the Great Sun Undying Body, the amount of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid he consumed was only half of Liu Bai's.
"The Great Sun Undying Body doesn't rank on the Sovereign Celestial Body Ranking, yet its might is enough to place it within the top fifty. If my Five Spirit Deity Celestial Body consumed twice as much… where would it rank? Top forty? Or even top thirty?"
A smile slowly crept onto Liu Bai's lips, growing wider by the second.
However, despite the successful condensation of his Celestial Body, Liu Bai had no intention of leaving seclusion just yet.
Instead, he merged his Spiritual Soul into the Celestial Body and began carefully comprehending the profound mysteries of the Five Spirit Deity…
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