Ye Qin swallowed the spiritual paste within the Abyss Savage Beast's body, attempting to break through to the Divine Transformation stage, surrounded by potent Five Elements spiritual energy.

Ye Qin’s divine sense manifested within his Purple Mansion, upon the floating island.

All around was an endless grey mist. Within that mist, as far as his sight could reach, countless hair-thin strands of purple lightning zipped and darted through the vast expanse, appearing and vanishing abruptly— "Purple Lightning!" Ye Qin’s nascent soul was already at the absolute peak of the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer. Yet, instinctively, he felt an extreme dread toward the purple lightning within this space. This divine-might-like purple lightning exerted immense oppressive force upon a cultivator’s nascent soul. Time passed, though he knew not how long. The grey mist thickened, the purple lightning multiplied, gradually coalescing into a gigantic vortex, filling the entire space with purple electrical radiance. In this grey mist space, the purple lightning was forging the fifth island— The Water Abode.

Ye Chen’s nascent soul remained quietly observing within the floating island. His nascent soul frantically absorbed the surging primordial energy flooding into his Purple Mansion, while his divine sense continuously expanded—hundreds of miles, thousands of miles, tens of thousands of miles—stretching out into this boundless void. Only when Ye Qin felt his consciousness becoming hazy and indistinct did he realize his spiritual sense had expanded too far, becoming exhausted. In his daze, a flash of enlightenment crossed his mind: this vast scope of divine sense was something only cultivators who had reached the Divine Transformation stage could possess. "Boom! n" His divine sense contracted sharply. More terrifying than an explosion was this contraction. The divine sense distributed over ten thousand miles retreated like a waterfall, collapsing and condensing back into the nascent soul body. Everything before his eyes underwent an earth-shattering transformation once more.

Ye Qin surveyed the remodeling within his Purple Mansion. A brand-new Water Abode island had been born. The Wood Floating Island, Fire Floating Island, Earth Floating Island, Metal Floating Island, and Water Floating Island—five colossal grey islands—were now joined together in the sky, brimming with vitality. The previous four islands were inherently lifeless and still. If Ye Qin’s nascent soul were not active upon them, those four islands would have remained inert. The five islands, joined as one, now formed a world unto themselves. The spiritual energy on the five islands cycled ceaselessly. Although no living things yet moved upon any of the islands, they were no longer steeped in dead silence. Above the five islands, there was a small layer of cloud formed from the Five Elements Qi, within which purple lightning occasionally flashed, emitting crackling sounds— "Pizi, kacha." The cloud of Five Elements Qi then descended like rain, dropping individual, crystal-clear, five-colored spiritual raindrops. The grey mist permeating the islands began to slowly subside.

"What is going on?" Ye Qin showed surprise, mixed with confusion. Unable to figure it out immediately, he did not dwell on it. Ye Chen made a beckoning gesture, and a ten-zhang-sized hide of a Thirteenth-Tier Thunder Mantis Beast appeared in his hand. This was the hide of a small Lord-level magical beast, and it was lightning-elemental, possessing intense lightning resistance. He decided to test the might of the purple lightning. "Go!" The Thunder Eel hide was launched toward a patch of purple lightning cloud. "Kacha!" The purple lightning cloud discharged a tiny bolt of purple lightning, striking the tip of the ten-zhang-sized Thunder Mantis hide. Boom! Under the bombardment of the purple lightning, the Thunder Mantis hide instantly sputtered, rapidly melting and igniting, releasing fierce lightning-fire. In a short moment, the entire piece of Thunder Eel hide was incinerated to ash—no, not even ash remained; it disintegrated into countless minute lightning spiritual energies. "The Thunder Mantis hide is a Thirteenth-Tier material suitable for forging Great Divine Ability-grade defensive artifacts. Is this purple lightning perhaps exceeding the Divine Transformation level, belonging to Sixteenth-Tier or higher Divine Lightning?" Ye Qin grimaced. Ye Qin was stunned by the power of the purple lightning, and even more so by how hard the stones on these five grey rock floating islands must be. At the very least, the purple lightning could not damage the grey stones on these islands.

Qing Qiu Li had not taken the spiritual paste. She had no guards beside her; if a major anomaly occurred while she attempted to break through the Divine Transformation bottleneck, it could prove fatal. She could only watch Ye Qin, under the protection of Huangfu Bing’er, go all out in impacting the Divine Transformation realm, hoping that upon becoming a Divine Transformation cultivator, they could escape the perilous situation inside the Abyss Savage Beast's abdomen.

The chaotic Five Elements spiritual energy swirling around Ye Qin astonished her. However, something even more shocking occurred. A watery chrysalis shield gradually formed around Ye Qin’s body. This water chrysalis grew larger and larger, reaching the size of several zhang. "What is happening?" Qing Qiu Li suddenly exclaimed, her expression turning grim. She distinctly sensed the aura of a familiar Sacred Object. It was a terrifying and mysterious aura, one that could instill fear and reverence in both Demon Saints and Divine Transformation cultivators, yet simultaneously make them intensely desire that power. She had guarded the Twilight Sacred Hall for thousands of years, stolen the Sacred Object, and smuggled it out of the Demon Realm, enduring twists and turns along the way, all for the sake of comprehending and controlling the power within the Sacred Object to become the Holy Lord of the entire Demon Realm. "Ye Qin, when did he comprehend the secrets of my Demon Realm's Sacred Object?" Qing Qiu Li stomped the ground, soaring a hundred zhang in a flash, arriving next to the water chrysalis, and demanding in a trembling voice. Ye Qin could not answer her; she was naturally addressing Huangfu Bing’er. "I don't know when it happened. You will have to wait for Husband to emerge and ask him yourself," Huangfu Bing’er replied with a calm smile. Since the emergence of the water chrysalis, she had felt reassured. This water chrysalis was unbreakable, just like the previous golden and earthen chrysalises; no one could open them. Husband would safely enter the Divine Transformation stage.

An expression of extreme pain surfaced on Qing Qiu Li’s face. The only reason she had compromised with Ye Qin was the belief that she could reclaim the grey egg sooner or later. But now that Ye Qin had comprehended the grey egg, her hope was completely shattered. Once a Sacred Object was comprehended, the comprehending person became its master, their strength soaring to unimaginable heights. Every Demon Realm Holy Lord who comprehended a Sacred Object was capable of unifying all the major tribes of the Demon Realm and becoming the undisputed Holy King. "Damn it! Why is this happening!" Qing Qiu Li was nearly driven mad by rage, waving her hand and sending forth a foot-long crimson light, attacking Huangfu Bing’er. "Sister Qing Qiu, getting angry in humiliation is not good. No matter how fast your flying sword is, it cannot outpace my Void-Shattering Flash." Huangfu Bing’er chuckled lightly, swaying her body to instantly appear a hundred zhang away. She formed a hand seal, and two small divine ability-grade flying swords, one of ice and one of fire, materialized beside her. "If you want to fight, little sister will accompany you!" Qing Qiu Li’s crimson flying sword struck the ground, leaving only a shallow indentation, before being bounced away by the hard earth.

Time slowly flowed by. The Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine had grown to the Fifteenth-Tier, spreading ceaselessly deep within the Abyss Savage Beast's body. Wherever there was flesh and blood, it continued to devour and grow. The Abyss Savage Beast suffered excruciating pain and roared, its colossal body, nearly a thousand li long, writhing and struggling in the sky above the Demon Realm Abyss. Wherever it rolled, the Heavenly Tribulation Cloud of the Divine Transformation stage followed. On the vast land of the Southern Demon Continent, it found no enemy capable of matching it. Under normal circumstances, it would have died only after its lifespan was exhausted over long eons. But today, it was dying because of a terrifying, alien demonic entity growing inside its body. Boom! Its body, weighing billions of tons, crashed heavily onto the earth. The resulting earthquake waves spread for hundreds of thousands of li, startling countless demonic beasts. It was still struggling, but such struggle was meaningless.

The Abyss Savage Beast had been confronting the Divine Transformation cultivators for dozens of days. The Savage Beast grew weaker and weaker. Initially, the cultivators did not understand what was happening, but they gradually sensed something was amiss and ceased their attacks. "It seems it’s about to die!" The Divine Transformation cultivators retreated far away on their swords, watching the scene with sorrow. Further in the distance, hundreds of thousands of Nascent Soul cultivators hovered in the sky, densely packed on various magical artifacts, each looking as if they had lost their parents. "This Lord-level Fifteenth-Tier Abyss Savage Beast is about to perish. We will never obtain another drop of spiritual paste from its body!" "How can the Abyss Hunt, held once every ten years, continue?" "There are a few smaller Abyss Savage Beasts in the Demon Realm Abyss, but they are only Thirteenth or Fourteenth-Tier; they haven't matured yet. It will take far too long for them to grow and generate spiritual paste within their bodies." "Without the spiritual paste, only cultivators with extremely rare spiritual root talent will be able to break through to the Divine Transformation realm on their own!" The losses suffered by the Southern Demon Continent cultivators were incalculable, and such losses would persist for over a millennium. Hundreds of Divine Transformation cultivators, many of whom had rushed over from various parts of the Southern Demon Continent upon receiving news, felt their limbs grow cold when they contemplated this terrible outcome. Among them was a giant, shaped like an iron tower, carrying a blood gourd on his back—it was the Blood Gourd Ancestor. Yet, even with this group of Divine Transformation cultivators present, they could do nothing; even if they joined forces, they could not stop this Lord-level Abyss Savage Beast from heading towards death.

When the Abyss Savage Beast died, the Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine finally drilled out of its surface, beginning to devour the outer layer of muscle, slowly revealing the giant skeleton of the Abyss Savage Beast, thousands of li long. And within this thousand-li skeleton grew a jungle of Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine spanning several hundred li. The lightning tribulation cloud still hovered above the jungle of the Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine. "It's the Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine!" "Isn't this something from the Demon Realm? Why is it on the Southern Demon Continent? Did some Demon Cultivator carry this vicious creature into our Southern Demon Continent?!" "Damn it! Destroying the Abyss Savage Beast—this is an undisguised declaration of war by the Demon Realm against our Southern Demon Continent!" The Divine Transformation cultivators finally understood why the Abyss Savage Beast had died, their faces filled with horror and then immense fury. How could they not know of this terrifying creature from the Demon Realm? Its vicious reputation was famous there. Some Divine Transformation cultivators had entered the Demon Realm and witnessed this creature's might firsthand. However, this Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine only grew in the spiritually rich Demon Realm and would not flourish elsewhere, so they never suspected this vicious entity was the cause of trouble inside the Abyss Savage Beast’s body. "Destroy this patch of Blood-Devouring Ancient Demon Vine to prevent it from growing on the Southern Demon Continent! Then, we will face the Demon Saints!" After consulting with the men in dark green robes and the elder Divine Transformation cultivators, they made their decision.

Swoosh! A stream of light, ten thousand zhang long, shot out from the depths of the Southern Demon Continent, carrying an aura of desolate antiquity—cold and empty. This aura was terrifyingly strong; the Divine Transformation cultivators felt a pressure forcing them to look south. A young man stood barefoot on a giant grey sword and, in a few moments, appeared in the sky near the Abyss Savage Beast. "Divine Lord Eryu, you have finally emerged after cultivating in the Wilderness for so long! We have been deeply uneasy due to the lack of news from you all these years. We are currently discussing how to respond to the invasion by the Demon Realm’s Demon Saints. It is excellent that you have returned." The man in dark green robes started in surprise, then laughed heartily and approached him. The Divine Transformation cultivators finally realized who had arrived: Er Yu, the only cultivator from the Ancient Alliance on the Southern Demon Continent, the Divine Lord. In truth, no one knew the real name of this young man; they only referred to him as Divine Lord Eryu because the word "Er Yu" was engraved on the giant grey sword, and his original title was no longer mentioned. "I will deal with the Demon Realm’s Holy Lord and force them to renew the thousand-year pact. However, there is one thing in this jungle I must take!" The young man said calmly.