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The thought of the high-quality Yin Fiend Qi below filled Jieming with renewed vigor.
He soared into the sky once more, rising hundreds of meters high.
Looking down at the leveled city ruins below, the Great Light Phase behind him unfurled across the area again!
This time, his target was no longer the snow monsters, but... excavation.
"Maximum output! Concentrate it all! Blast it open!"
As Jieming's will issued the command, thousands of rune-imbued magical artifacts behind him instantly adjusted their angles, all focusing on the area where the Yin Fiend Qi was most concentrated.
Jieming even employed the same technique he had used against the third-tier lava giant, activating the Five Aggregates Rainbow Transformation Mirror to assist in converging all the attacks into a single point.
Thousands of rune-imbued magical artifacts erupted simultaneously, not in a scattered barrage, but in a focused strike. They formed thick energy pillars, each capable of leveling mountains, like divine punishment descending from the heavens, slamming into the frozen earth below!
More condensed and massive than any previous blast, these destructive beams, carrying the power to pierce through mountains, slammed down with devastating force onto the ruins.
Boom! Rumble! Boom!
The city trembled, no, the entire ice crater, and even the distant ice plains, shook violently under Jieming's terrifying saturation bombardment!
Ferocious energy tore through the hardened permafrost and bedrock at light speed. Glaciers cracked open into massive fissures, and thick ice layers instantly vaporized under the intense heat, emitting deafening roars.
Countless fragments of rock and ice were hurled hundreds of meters into the air, raining down like a blizzard.
The earth wailed as ice rivers were forced open into bottomless chasms.
Jieming hovered in the air, his gaze calm.
His Great Light Phase operated at full power, each energy bullet striking its designated area with perfect accuracy, not a trace of energy wasted.
As the bombardment continued, a massive crater hundreds of meters in diameter visibly deepened at an astonishing rate!
The shockwaves nearly evacuated the surrounding air, creating a massive energy vortex.
He continued his bombardment for nearly ten minutes, depleting over half the energy stored in his metal disk.
Only when Jieming sensed the rock layer below was no longer as solid, and the energy beams encountered a resistance akin to a "void," did he slowly withdraw the fiery tongue of his Great Light Phase.
Before him lay a bottomless, irregularly columnar pit, its depth immeasurable, its lower reaches obscured by overturned rubble and swirling dust.
Jieming took a deep breath, first shutting down his magic net terminal and then stowing it in his internal space, ensuring it would be absolutely undetectable.
With that done, he raised his hands, his fingers deftly weaving through magic seals as he silently recited the spell.
The pure true essence of his mid-foundation establishment stage surged forth like a flood, pouring endlessly into the seals and causing each hand seal to emit a faint white light.
This true essence eventually coalesced into an arcane "Guide the Malevolent" talisman, slowly forming at his fingertips.
"Go!"
With a soft shout, Jieming hurled the true essence-imbued talisman into the depths of the pit!
The talisman left a white trail as it flashed into the cold, abyssal darkness, disappearing instantly into the depths.
This was a technique from the Gangsha Gathering Method, specifically designed to handle "primary conceptual materials" like Yin Fiend Qi.
The term "primary" in this context referred not to rank, but to "sequence," in contrast to "secondary conceptual materials."
If we consider spiritual energy as "electricity," then secondary conceptual materials like adamantium, Mortal Dust Qi, and Hundred Flowers Dew are like the "light" or "mechanical energy" generated by this electricity.
The creation of these secondary materials requires spiritual energy. While they can increase the variety of available resources, they remain fundamentally dependent on spiritual energy.
Primary conceptual materials, on the other hand, are more like coal or solar energy.
They are not spiritual energy in essence, but can be transformed into it through various cultivation methods.
These materials were originally created to address the problem of spiritual energy scarcity, so their defining characteristic is the ability to self-generate—to create something from nothing.
Their creation doesn't necessarily require spiritual energy; a "starter" is sufficient.
For example, with Yin Fiend Qi, provided all the necessary conceptual conditions are met, a cultivator normally only needs to release a wisp of the same Qi as a starter. This will then cause the remaining Qi that meets the conditions to automatically condense.
Of course, if no starter is available, spiritual energy can be "edited" into the required starter—this is known as the Yin Fiend Guiding Formula.
For a moment, deathly silence reigned in the abyss...
Then, a chilling, sinister aura erupted from the bottomless pit!
Whoosh!
A thick, almost tangible stream of Yin Fiend Qi surged upward from the pit's depths like a black flood bursting through a dam. It carried an bone-chilling cold and an indescribable, fetid stench, erupting from the pit's bottom like a fountain.
The qi moved with blinding speed, instantly filling the entire pit and even surging beyond its rim, forming a pervasive gray mist that spread across the surrounding ice plains.
Jieming ignored the emptiness and slight dizziness caused by expending most of his true essence in one go.
Joy blazed in his eyes as he immediately summoned the Gangsha Gathering Gourd, a magic artifact specifically designed to collect Yin Fiend Qi, from his internal space.
With a series of hand seals, he inverted the gourd and placed it vertically over the pit's opening.
The gourd's mouth seemed to transform into a bottomless black hole, emitting a humming suction force that drew in every last wisp of the surging Yin Fiend Qi without leaving a trace.
As the collection began, Jieming's heart swelled with delight as he watched the gourd's storage capacity grow visibly, almost to the point of being visible to the naked eye.
He knew he had struck gold!
As time passed, Jieming grew increasingly joyful, even ecstatic, because the Gangsha Gathering Gourd's absorption rate showed no signs of slowing down!
But when he realized that the Yin Fiend Qi was still pouring in relentlessly from the cave entrance, reaching a theoretically unimaginable quantity in mere minutes, Jieming's expression gradually shifted from wild delight to terror!
He suddenly discovered that not only was the amount of Yin Fiend Qi not decreasing at all with continued collection, but it was actually accelerating, growing even more abundant, as if driven by a deep, rhythmic pulse from the depths of the earth!
What truly made his scalp tingle, however, was that the quality of the Yin Fiend Qi was also rapidly deteriorating!
Its originally hazy gray color gradually transformed into a bottomless, pitch-black hue, as if it had condensed all the resentment and death in the world.
By the end, it even approached the color of Profound Black Demonic Qi, meaning its quality had reached the pinnacle!
The Gangsha Gathering Gourd, which theoretically should have had no capacity issues, now emitted a strained humming sound, its talisman seals showing signs of overload!
"Full... it's full?!" Jieming exclaimed in disbelief.
According to the information from the Great Dao Library Pavilion, the Gangsha Gathering Gourd should be able to collect the total amount of malevolent qi generated by the complete annihilation of an entire continent's ecosystem!
He had to quickly withdraw raw materials from his internal space and hastily conjure another temporary Gangsha Gathering Gourd with his free hand.
Though this temporary gourd was crude, it could at least temporarily absorb the continuously surging malevolent qi.
Yet, even with both gourds and his own Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier instinctively devouring the surrounding Yin Fiend Qi, the outpouring showed no signs of abating!
"This level of output is no longer just the Ancient Battlefield's problem..." Data from the wizard legion's archives flashed through Jieming's mind.
According to the wizards' two years of investigation and archaeological findings, the lava giants and snow monsters had only about ten thousand years of recorded history!
Even if all the ancient battlefields across the entire Flamefrost Plane were concentrated in this one area, such a terrifying amount of Yin Fiend Qi was impossible!
"So, there must be something even bigger going on down there!" Jieming's curiosity surged uncontrollably.
Looking at the two Gangsha Gathering Gourds in his hands, their capacity once again nearing their limit, and the Profound Black Demonic Qi still gushing upward in an endless stream, Jieming had no choice but to expend his dwindling true essence to cast a sealing art. Since he couldn't collect it all, he had to temporarily seal the source. Otherwise, if this thing spread, it wouldn't just affect the snow monsters; even the wizards' forward outposts would be impacted.
He hadn't concealed his tracks when he arrived earlier. If someone investigated and discovered something amiss, it would be a disaster!
Fortunately, Yin Fiend Qi itself was relatively "inert." While its eruption could be terrifying, without any driving force, its spread and diffusion were relatively slow. Therefore, a simple sealing art was sufficient to contain it.
As the talisman seals and restrictions lit up around the cave entrance, the surging Yin Fiend Qi was finally suppressed, temporarily halting its eruption and leaving only thin wisps of lingering energy.
This level of leakage was perfectly acceptable; the natural ecosystem could handle it before it caused any significant harm.
However, maintaining this blockade indefinitely wasn't a sustainable solution. The source of the problem had to be addressed.
Instead of rashly descending, Jieming sat cross-legged, regulating his qi to fully recover from the state of slight exhaustion caused by the massive expenditure of his true essence.
He consumed a magic potion to replenish his mental power.
Then, his eyes sharpened, and he leaped without hesitation into the bottomless, frost-chilled abyss!
Jieming's intuition told him that a secret capable of shaking the entire plane lay hidden beneath the abyss!
The moment he entered the abyss, the dense Yin Fiend Qi swarmed around him like tormented spirits.
Protected by the Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier, Jieming wasn't overly concerned about the free-floating Yin Fiend Qi causing him any substantial harm.
In fact, in a way, these scattered, high-quality strands of Yin Fiend Qi would only serve as the best nourishment for the Profound Astral Red Dust Barrier, nurturing its core Gangsha and further enhancing its defensive capabilities.
(End of the Chapter)
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