Chapter 594: Refined in an Instant

Chapter 594: Chapter 594: Refined in an Instant

The moment it left his body, the Eight-Colored Clouds swarmed forth, instantly coiling around the flagpole of the Star Spirit Banner floating above Xu Yunfan’s head.

Infused with this profound Cloud Qi, the Star Spirit Banner reacted as if injected with a violent catalyst.

RUMBLE!

On the banner’s surface, the rotation speed of all the stellar phantoms abruptly increased tenfold.

The silvery-white Star Rocket instantly swelled and solidified, its color shifting from silver to an incandescent white that seemed capable of burning through the void itself.

Then, carrying an apocalyptic aura capable of scorching the heavens and destroying worlds, it smashed down toward the defiant remnant soul at the bottom of Five Finger Cliff as if the very sky were collapsing.

"Aaaargh!!"

Locked onto by the attack, the remnant soul of the fierce monkey felt an unprecedented mortal threat. It couldn’t help but let out a savage roar, one powerful enough to pierce clouds, shatter stone, and shake the very void.

Though on the verge of being utterly spent, the Demon Monkey erupted in a final, furious burst of power. Above its charred and broken body, it instantly condensed the Dharma Aspect of a giant, furious ape that roared at the sky, beat its chest, and stomped its feet.

Though the phantom was blurry and its Golden Eyes incomplete, it still radiated an unparalleled battle intent—one that could prop up the heavens and defy the earth.

The Dharma Aspect unleashed every last shred of its remaining Power of Origin, frantically tearing and clawing with its fists at the annihilating starfire pouring down from above.

CRACK!

BOOM!

A teeth-grinding crack and a violent explosion of energy erupted simultaneously.

The Five-Finger Buddha Seal Law, which had been condensed from the Tathagata Supreme Method and had persisted for countless years, began to crack. Under the frenzied collision of these two equally tyrannical and unpredictable powers, a web of dark golden fissures spread across it.

What leaked from the cracks was no longer pure Buddha Light, but a violent demonic essence and a cold torrent of starfire.

Xu Yunfan’s face filled with astonishment. ’I never expected an Innate Spirit from the Celestial Realm to be this profound,’ he thought. ’It’s not even inferior to the Innate Dao Platform Creatures of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm.’

’It’s as if all the Heavenly God Essence Qi of this realm was poured into creating this one monkey.’

Though various thoughts flashed through his mind, Xu Yunfan continued to chant the Spell without pause. His Dantian felt like a great furnace connected to heaven and earth, surging out an endless supply of Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi.

This Cloud Qi was formless and intangible, yet it could aid in Artifact Refining and amplify Magical Treasures—it was truly miraculous.

The point of collision between the incandescent starfire and the giant ape’s Dharma Aspect was like ice water being thrown into a wok of boiling oil.

The giant ape phantom’s incredibly resilient, dark-gold demonic essence rapidly melted away under the starfire that contained the power of the Eight Sceneries Refining Heaven, like snow doused in boiling water.

Wherever the starfire passed, the phantom disintegrated inch by inch.

It was like snow melting in the sun.

"That old man Tathagata crushed me for five hundred years and still couldn’t break my will."

Sensing the irresistible Starlight being drawn by the Star Spirit Banner, the fierce monkey’s fading consciousness let out a final, unwilling cry.

"You think some heretic devil like you can—Puhh...!!"

"Get in here!"

Xu Yunfan’s hair flew wildly about him, the light in his eyes flaring as he pulled with all his might.

Having lost its last bit of resistance, the fierce monkey was instantly swept up by the silvery starfire and pulled completely into the Star Spirit Banner.

VMMMM!!

The Star Spirit Banner instantly let out an unprecedentedly violent hum.

The flagpole shook violently, looking as if it might shatter at any moment.

Inside the banner, the Star River Space—which had gradually stabilized after absorbing the three great Star Spirits: Yang Jian, Nezha, and Taiyi—was now in chaos, as if a volcano made of a billion stars had been dropped into it.

The entire small world within the banner was being violently overturned.

Stellar phantoms that had long been solidified by Circulation Star Power were knocked from their orbits by the impact of the indomitable will and remnant Divine Power that had just surged in.

The expression on Yang Jian’s Star Monarch phantom shifted drastically as he was violently knocked back by an immense force, the Starlight around his body flickering erratically.

Nezha’s crimson battle soul flickered like a candle in the wind, on the verge of being snuffed out.

The remnant soul phantom of Taiyi Daoist Master was thrown back and swept away, disappearing into the violent, turbulent energy.

Under the assault of Sunx Wukong’s Fierce Soul, the auras of the three Star Spirits became extremely unstable. Their forms of light and shadow flickered violently, and the entire Star Spirit Space plunged into unprecedented chaos and turmoil.

’What a tyrannical monkey.’

’Still so unruly even after being captured in the banner.’

A solemn expression finally appeared on Xu Yunfan’s face.

He knew that the monkey’s Divine Soul and willpower were of a tyrannical level he had never before encountered, being a convergence of Heavenly God Essence Qi. If he couldn’t suppress it instantly, he feared the very foundation of the Star Spirit Banner would be damaged.

"Taiyi Qingyuan Demonic Purification!" He dared not delay. Bringing the index and middle fingers of his right hand together, he gathered a clear light at his fingertips, so condensed it was almost tangible and wreathed in Shenxiao Thunderbolt. He then traced a series of profound trajectories in the air, leaving behind the lingering marks of a Talisman.

In the blink of an eye, thirty-six Taiyi Qingyuan Demonic Purification Talisman Seals were drawn, each one shimmering with clear light and imbued with the soul-suppressing power of the Great Dao.

He flicked his fingers, sending the thirty-six Talisman Seals whistling through the air. Like thirty-six heavy Ancient Stars, they layered one on top of the other, carrying the power to stabilize spacetime and suppress all evil as they slapped down hard onto the violently trembling surface of the Star Spirit Banner.

With every Talisman Seal that landed, the banner’s trembling lessened, as if being secured by giant nails.

At the same time, the Spell formed by his left hand changed.

The Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi hanging above the banner stopped providing a dispersed amplification. Instead, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, it rapidly converged and condensed.

The Cloud Qi roiled, shimmering with seven-colored light. In an instant, it transformed into a slowly spinning, seven-colored Treasure Lotus.

The Treasure Lotus rotated slowly, and from each petal cascaded myriads of brilliant rays. Like the Milky Way hanging upside down, gentle yet irresistible strands of light descended, enveloping the violently churning space within the banner below.

It was like dousing an erupting volcano with celestial ice.

Under the Treasure Lotus’s suppression, the runaway chaos and violence within the Star Spirit Space were forcibly clamped down as if by a giant, invisible hand.

The turmoil began to subside, and the stars’ orbits were gradually corrected.

Only the monkey’s golden Divine Soul continued to thrash about in the chaotic light like a drop of water in boiling oil. It crashed about and roared madly. Each impact sent out a shower of brilliant, blinding golden sparks, and occasionally a smaller stellar phantom would be struck, its light dimming as it was knocked aside.

"Go on, struggle. The more you struggle, the more excited I get!"

Zhang Ziyang, who had been watching silently from the side, ready to intervene at a moment’s notice, heard Xu Yunfan’s words and looked utterly speechless.

"..."

Xu Yunfan opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of his Lifebound Essence. With a soft PUH, the essence, containing his pure Power of Origin and streaked with wisps of purple light, landed on the seven-colored Treasure Lotus.

Nourished by the Lifebound Essence, the seven-colored Treasure Lotus flared with brilliant light.

The colors of the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi instantly grew deeper and more profound.

An invisible power instantly suffused the entire space within the banner, and the flow of time itself was forcibly distorted by the power of the Treasure Lotus.

While only a moment passed in the outside world, inside the banner, a day passed, then two, then three...

The monkey’s indomitable golden Divine Soul tumbled and crashed about inside, its collisions sending ripples through the light like waves on water.

But with every impact, strands of light seeped into its soul body like maggots clinging to bone, branding it with the unique refining and reshaping power of the Star Spirit Banner’s purple qi and the Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi.

The Demon Monkey’s Golden Eyes still blazed with fiery rage, but the edges of the flames were beginning to be quietly tinged with the cold color of stardust.