The Demonic Lord abandoned its remaining rationality, using its own origin as a guide to forcibly devour and fuse the broken demon body and blood pool energy, transforming into a madly expanding "Oblivion Demon Embryo" radiating chaotic destructive aura, attempting a final counterattack. That distorted tumor pulsed violently, gushing filthy demonic energy that actually temporarily withstood the World-Purifying Green Lotus's purification light, dragging the battle situation once again into an unpredictable peril.
However, facing this deathbed struggling madness, Tang Xiaoqi's eyes remained calm, even carrying a trace of... pity.
He clearly felt that behind him, the World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom transmitted an eager-to-try, as if encountering a worthy opponent for full-strength action... lively thought. This was not his active control, but the Green Lotus origin's own inherent desire to purify ultimate evil.
It was time.
To end all this.
Xiao Qi slowly closed his eyes, not to give up, but to cast all his heart and spirit, all his will, and his endless guardian thoughts for his father, for his companions, for this world, without reservation... toward the Green Lotus phantom behind him.
"Come."
He silently recited in his heart.
As if responding to his call, that slowly rotating World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom suddenly stopped turning. The twelve grades of lotus petals all turned toward Xiao Qi. In the center of the lotus platform, a point of green light source indescribable in its brilliance and purity pulsated like a heartbeat.
The next moment, the entire Green Lotus phantom transformed into a vast and gentle green torrent, no longer merely illumination of light, but substantial ultimate power containing purification and creation origins, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surging toward Xiao Qi's body!
No resistance, no barriers.
Xiao Qi opened everything of himself—flesh body, meridians, consciousness sea, even the most core soul imprint, allowing this ancient supreme treasure's origin to completely merge with him!
Boom—!!!
An indescribable sensation swept through his entire body!
It was not a rough infusion of power, but a... leap in life level! A... sublimation of existence essence!
His body, under the green torrent's washing, seemed to be thrown into a creation furnace, undergoing the deepest level of tempering and reshaping! Skin, bones, internal organs, meridians... all impurities, all dust acquired afterward, including the hidden injuries from previous battles and traces of demonic energy erosion, were all swept away in an instant!
His body became crystalline and translucent, as if carved from the purest glazed glass, internally faintly circulating green dao patterns, radiating a pure aura unstained by dust, inviolable by ten thousand evils.
And his cultivation was like sitting on a rocket soaring to the sky, madly skyrocketing at an unprecedented speed!
The early Nascent Soul stage barrier was easily broken through like paper, directly reaching mid Nascent Soul! The aura hadn't stabilized before the mid-stage barrier also crumbled, entering late Nascent Soul! This still didn't stop. Late-stage realm soared all the way, spiritual power like a vast ocean roaring and surging through brand new meridians, finally... steadily stopping at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage—Nascent Soul Great Perfection!
This was not simple spiritual power accumulation, but accompanied by profound understanding and control of great dao laws such as "purification," "creation," and "guardian"! His divine consciousness spread at unprecedented speed, as if able to connect with the entire world's righteous energy, able to clearly sense vegetation's breathing, mountains and rivers' pulsing, even faintly able to touch the underlying law meridians maintaining the world's operation!
He felt he was no longer an isolated cultivator, but had become part of this world's purification will, the embodiment of light against darkness!
That World-Purifying Green Lotus phantom did not disappear, but completely merged into his dantian energy sea, replacing the original Nascent Soul's position, transforming into a green lotus platform rooted in chaos, shimmering with radiance. Above the lotus platform, his divine soul sat cross-legged, solemn and majestic, perfectly merged with the Green Lotus origin.
At this moment, his aura was vast as the sea, yet introverted and deep. Standing there, he seemed to be the embodiment of the word "purification," the only light source and hope in this filthy demon lair.
He slowly opened his eyes.
Those eyes, no longer the previous crimson and grief, had transformed into two pools of bottomless green cold springs, clear, cold, containing supreme majesty that could pierce through falsehood and control laws.
He calmly gazed at the "Oblivion Demon Embryo" still madly expanding, attempting to pollute the green light.
The Demonic Lord's deathbed struggle, in his current perception, was no longer a massive threat, but more like an... ugly and pathetic farce.
He slowly raised his right hand, not even needing to use that half of the Nirvana Crimson Flame Sword.
With his thought, the vast-as-sea purification power around him naturally gathered, condensing above his palm into a miniaturized, only palm-sized, yet incomparably solid, as if containing the entire Green Lotus origin essence... twelve-grade green lotus.
This tiny lotus slowly rotated, radiating purification fluctuations that made the entire Demon Palace's grand hall solidify.
Xiao Qi's gaze locked onto that "Oblivion Demon Embryo" most core position where the Demonic Lord's remnant soul hid.
Then, he gently... pushed out that miniaturized Green Lotus in his palm.
"Dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth."
"Evil demon... disperse."