The manifestation of the World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom was not a simple energy explosion, but the descent of a supreme law. It quietly hovered behind Tang Xiaoqi, its twelve grades of lotus petals slowly rotating. Each slight sway seemed to expound the fundamental principles of "purification" and "creation" in the universe. That hazy green light halo was not blinding, yet carried an invisible, irresistible transcendent power that filled every inch of the Demon Palace's grand hall.
Under this green light's coverage, the world's rules seemed to be rewritten.
That pitch-black energy tide originally sweeping in due to the Demonic Lord's mad counterattack, containing multiple negative laws of destruction, decay, curses, and chaos, the moment it touched the green light, was like flames meeting absolute zero, emitting dense, continuous "sizzling" sounds.
No earth-shaking explosions, no violent energy clashes.
Only the purest, most fundamental... melting.
The pitch-black demonic energy, like ice and snow splashed on a red-hot branding iron, rapidly disintegrated and vaporized, restored to the most primordial, harmless heaven-and-earth spiritual energy particles, then assimilated and absorbed by the green light, instead becoming slight nourishment for the Green Lotus phantom. That destructive energy sufficient to annihilate Nascent Soul cultivators, before this purification origin, appeared so vulnerable. Without raising a single ripple, it completely vanished into thin air.
The Demonic Lord's shadow, shrunk by more than half, under this omnipresent green light irradiation, let out miserable howls twisted to the extreme. It desperately contracted, rolled, twisted, attempting to condense power to resist, attempting to flee into the void.
But everything was futile.
The World-Purifying Green Lotus's light seemed to have locked onto its essence from the dark side. Where the light reached, its shadow's edges were like being burned by invisible flames, constantly "evaporating" and shrinking. The negative emotions and laws contained within—greed, hatred, fear, despair... like dew exposed to the blazing sun, rapidly dissipated. Its power was flowing away rapidly. Its very existence essence was being fundamentally... purified!
"No! This power... should not exist in this realm! This is... this is the authority from the beginning of chaos!!!" The Demonic Lord's shadow let out a scream filled with fear and disbelief. It felt the trembling and collapse from the soul's depths of its own demonic source. This restraint was an absolute crushing of rank, the innate fear of a mouse encountering a cat!
Its originally sufficient-to-envelop-the-entire-hall, terror-inducing majesty to make all beings tremble, was now forcibly suppressed and compressed by that seemingly gentle green light, no longer able to produce any effect on the outside. Instead, like a venomous snake with its tail stepped on, it could only thrash madly and helplessly in place.
Not only the Demonic Lord's main body, the entire Demon Palace's grand hall was undergoing earth-shaking changes under this Green Lotus's power.
That massive blood pool sealed in ice, the solid ice on its surface quietly melted in the green light. But what melted was not the ice layer, but the blood pool itself! The viscous dark red liquid was like being thrown into a purification furnace. The resentful souls' wailing gradually quieted. Those twisted, painful faces gradually relaxed and faded, finally transforming into dots of pure soul light, as if receiving deliverance, rising up and dissipating into the void illuminated by green light, finding peace. The blood pool rapidly became clear, finally transforming into a spring emitting faint spiritual energy.
That Perfect Demon Body on the verge of collapse due to the Demonic Lord's injury was now like a sandcastle meeting ocean waves. Under the green light's washing, the pure demonic energy and resentful soul origin constituting the body rapidly separated and purified. Demonic energy dissipated, resentful souls were delivered. That massive body shell disintegrated and shrank at a visible rate, finally transforming into a wisp of green smoke, completely vanishing, leaving behind only an unusually clean space that had been purified.
Even the sinister demon relief carvings on the grand hall's four walls had their demonic nature stripped away in the green light, becoming like ordinary stone carvings, no longer having the previous evil strangeness and vitality. The demonic patterns flowing on the ground and pillars rapidly dimmed, finally completely extinguishing, losing all effect.
Purification! Indiscriminate purification!
All demonic energy, all evil entities, all negative energy, under this World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom's light, was restored, disintegrated, transformed into the most original, pure energy form!
This was power transcending this realm's existing laws! It was a display of purification authority from the universe's origin level, towering above ordinary spiritual energy and demonic energy struggles!
Mu Xue, Ao Qin, Zhao Tiezhu, and the Second Senior Brother with his weak soul body all bathed in this warm green light. Their injuries healed at an astonishing speed under the green light's nourishment. Their depleted spiritual power and divine souls, like parched land meeting sweet rain, rapidly became full. The various discomforts and negative emotions from demonic energy erosion were also swept away, their dao hearts becoming clearer and firmer than ever before.
They looked at that Green Lotus phantom slowly rotating behind Xiao Qi, looked at the Demonic Lord's shadow wailing, struggling, and constantly shrinking in the green light, their hearts filled with ineffable shock and awe.
This was... the World-Purifying Green Lotus's power?
This was... the ultimate form of the "Purification Source" within Xiao Qi's body?
Xiao Qi stood before the Green Lotus phantom. He did not actively control anything, but he could clearly feel the close connection with this Green Lotus phantom that was linked by bloodline and merged by divine soul. Father's sacrifice unlocked the final seal, truly guiding this power from the ancient supreme treasure onto him.
He looked at the Demonic Lord painfully perishing in the purification light, no pleasure in his eyes, only a cold calm.
He slowly raised his hand, not to attack, but to guide.
With his thought, the World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom behind him shone even brighter. That transcendent power of purifying all things, like a tide, more concentrated, more surging... flowed toward that Demonic Lord's shadow core that had already shrunk to only a millstone's size, still making final futile struggles!
The final purification was about to be completed.