Purgatory

Chapter 21
The strange scene in front of him made Pang Jian have infinite reverie, and his body was shocked like a sculpture, motionless.

The giant python's head was pierced by a phoenix bone, and the python's head was pressed against the rocky ground at the bottom of the pool, its body was still writhing with all its strength, like a centipede that was dead but not stiff.

I don't know how long it struggled, but it couldn't get rid of the restraint of the phoenix bone, and even made part of the python's body lose its flesh and blood.

A mysterious alien like it seemed so hopeless and powerless in the face of Tianfeng's assassination by a dry bone.

"Is it the root cause of father's listing of Blackwater Pool as a restricted area?"

Staring at the huge python body for a long time, Pang Jian's mind was repeatedly impacted, and he felt that a door to a whole new world had slowly opened to him.

It was also at this moment that he knew that the Denji Mountains he hunted all year round might not be as simple as he imagined.

He even began to suspect that every place listed as a restricted area by his father hides terrifying foreign objects like giant pythons.

"Father, did you know about the existence of these aliens and have been deliberately concealing them, or...even he doesn't know?"

Doubts continued to emerge in Pang Jian's heart.

After a while, he continued to examine the anomalies at the bottom of the pool.

Centered on this giant python with scales, countless skeletons were scattered around the rocky ground at the bottom of the pool that he saw.

Some of the skeletons looked like beasts from the Cenji Mountains, and some of the skeletons were clearly people like him.

I don't know how many beasts and people were swallowed by this boa constrictor dormant in the black water pool, and then spit out their dead bones.

Looking back on the past, he couldn't help but secretly fear.

In the years when his father disappeared, if he did not obey his father's instructions, but entered the black water pool rashly, would he also become a dead bone at the bottom of the pool?
Thinking like this, he saw more dead bones scattered on all sides of the bottom of the pool.

He backed away slowly, distanced himself from Feng Gu and the giant python.

Immediately, it was discovered that this thick and long giant boa constrictor, from the tail to the head, one-third of it had turned into forest white snake bones.

The other part of the python's body connected to the python's head still had flesh and scales covering the bones, but the flesh and blood covering the bones seemed to be slowly disappearing in the direction of the python's head when he observed carefully.

If there is a strange force, from the python of this giant python, it will continue to devour the flesh and blood of the python secretly.

As a result, the flesh and blood of this giant python gradually disappeared from its tail towards its head.

"It's a phoenix bone!"

Looking again at the phoenix bone that pierced the giant python's head and nailed it to the bottom of the pool, Pang Jian suddenly understood.

It was this phoenix bone that fell from the upper realm, after piercing it in an instant, it was still eating its flesh little by little.

The law of the jungle and natural selection are the eternal truths between heaven and earth.

The giant boa constrictor in the black water pool devoured wild beasts and hunters in the mountains, and now it also met the same fate. It was suppressed by a piece of Tianfeng dry bone, slowly sucking its flesh and blood.

Suddenly, Pang Jian couldn't help remembering the strange shape of another phoenix bone.

With the roar of the earth, the ground around the phoenix bone cracked, and many bloodthirsty vines flew out, killing and eating the first batch of Blood Moon and the second batch of Shangguan family members.

After that, a cluster of liquid amber shimmers formed in the phoenix bone, and began to wander in the crystal clear bone.

Is it...

Pang Jian gradually came to his senses, and felt that the second phoenix bone nailed to kill this giant boa constrictor and ate away its flesh and blood energy, in order to condense into a cluster of new amber shimmers!

"boom!"

When he was thinking deeply, the giant python was whipping the ground again, causing the aftermath of the earthquake to reappear near the black water pool.

It's just that, compared to the previous earthquake and mountain shaking, the vibration this time was obviously too slight.

The momentum of the giant python hitting the ground with its snake bones looked even paler and weaker this time.

"It's not dead yet."

Pang Jian raised his eyebrows, but suddenly realized that even though he was not in the meditative state of "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi", the skin on his arms and chest was still absorbing the air in the water.

It seems to have evolved into an instinctive habit.

He immediately felt much more at ease, knowing that with this ability, he would be able to stay at the bottom of the pool for a long time, and he would not have to worry about the dark ghosts for a short time.

"Go and see it head on."

Pang Jian, who was curious in his heart, immediately became active at the bottom of the pool, and soon found the dragon spear he had thrown earlier.

He quickly swam over, holding the dragon-pattern spear in his hand, and with the weight of the dragon-pattern spear, he stood firmly on the ground.

When he held the dragon-patterned spear, he became very courageous, and quickly moved to the front of the giant python's head.

The head of the boa constrictor, which was even bigger than the stone house he lived in, also had olive-green scales, and those scales were superimposed like folds.

The giant python opened its mouth slightly, and one could see the deadly phoenix bone stuck in its mouth behind its sharp fangs.

Slender black lines like ink, like secretions from its mouth, went straight to the water above.

The moment he saw the black line, Pang Jian knew the strangeness of the black water pool. The thick black in the pool water came from the black secretion in its mouth.

Then Pang Jian found that the living python had its pupils closed, as if it was suffering great pain.

The giant python, who was alive but suffering, didn't seem to notice his arrival, allowing him to look around and observe.

After watching it for a while, Pang Jian knew that when the phoenix bone ate its python's back, it would eventually eat its python's head, and then it would die.

Perhaps at that time, a cluster of new amber shimmers will suddenly reappear in the bones of the phoenix.

Pang Jian, who had guessed what was going to happen, wanted to explore the bottom of the pool thoroughly, so he headed for an area far away from here.

Not long after, two clusters of crimson blood light suddenly caught his eyes!

Attracted by the blood light, he gripped the dragon-patterned spear tightly and approached the target, wondering if there are other living creatures besides the giant python at the bottom of the pool?

If there are new living creatures that can survive in such an environment, they must be monsters of the same level as the giant python!

He was secretly worried, thinking that there were dark ghosts on the surface of the water, and if there were new horrors emerging from the bottom of the pool, he would really be doomed this time.

As he got closer to the bloody light, he noticed that the farther away he was from the python and phoenix bone, the dimmer the light at the bottom of the pool became.

at last!

He saw the two balls of blood light, and found that it was actually the light released by a pair of deep red pupils.

At the bottom of the pool, a strange man as skinny as a skeleton, with blood-red rays of light in his eyes, was staring at the phoenix bone for a moment, as if waiting for something.

On the chest of the strange man, there is a lifelike tattoo of a phoenix bird, and the feathers are blood red, as if it is about to spread its wings and take off.

The phoenix bird is obviously just a kind of tattoo totem, but it gives people a lively and agile feeling.

Pang Jian stared at the strange man for a while, but the strange man didn't seem to know his existence. The strange man and the phoenix tattoo on his chest were just staring at the phoenix bone inserted into the giant python's head.

It seems that there is no such person as Pang Jian at the bottom of the pool.

Pang Jian, who had been hiding under the water early, didn't know that the strange man in front of him was Ouyang Duanhai, and that Ouyang Duanhai was the black water pool he jumped into behind him.

At the bottom of the pool where there should be no living things, Pang Jian suddenly encountered a humanoid monster like Ouyang Duanhai, and Pang Jian felt his scalp go numb.

If it wasn't for being underwater, he would probably be sweating nervously at this moment. Holding the dragon-patterned spear with both hands, he waited in agony for a while.

He finally confirmed that the humanoid monster in front of him didn't care about him at all, just staring at the phoenix bone.

In the depths of the crimson pupils of the humanoid monster, Pang Jian couldn't see any emotion that a human should have. He even suspected that this guy was not human at all.

"Is he waiting for that cluster of mysterious gleams that will condense in the phoenix bone?"

After observing for a long time, Pang Jian felt something.

Guessing that the motionless humanoid monster staring at Feng Gu was waiting for Feng Gu to completely eat the python, waiting for the cluster of amber shimmering to appear.

Before that, as long as I didn't take the initiative to provoke, it seemed that I wouldn't attract his attention.

After a stalemate for a while, Pang Jian, holding the dragon-pattern spear, tiptoed back to the place where the phoenix bone and the giant python were located.

After hesitating for a moment, he deliberately chose an area that would not be seen by the humanoid monster.

There is a monk from the dark ghost on his head, a humanoid monster of unknown depth at the bottom of the pool, and a phoenix bone eating away at the original owner of the black water pool. Pang Jian, who doesn't know where to go, can only wait passively.

"Forget it, I will continue my practice."

Pang Jian, who racked his brains and couldn't think of a way out, simply stopped worrying and swam towards the middle of the phoenix bone with the dragon-pattern spear in his hand.

He was back on the ground again.

The phoenix bone on which he was leaning was facing the area where the humanoid monster was, and the monster could not see him through the phoenix bone.

He used the dragon-pattern spear in his hand to press against the body of the python with its flesh and scales, and then held the dragon-pattern spear in both hands to stabilize his body, and began to continue his practice.

"Hoo! Hoo hoo!"

A steady stream of acidic and poisonous abilities were absorbed from the black water above and gathered in his blue-black "spiritual pot".

In his spiritual sea, the "cotton floc"-like dross impurities that he could perceive were quickly melted away by the highly poisonous substance secreted from the giant python's mouth.

……

I don't know how long it took, Pang Jian, who was startled, looked down and found that he was holding the dragon-patterned spear against the python skin, and suddenly sank.

It turned out that this part of the python's flesh and blood had already been eaten by the phoenix bone.

After pondering for a while, Pang Jian landed on the python's head, held the dragon-patterned spear against the snake's head again, and practiced against the phoenix bone.

After entering the state this time, he felt that in his dantian spiritual sea, all the dirty dross seemed to have been washed away!
He concentrated and slowly realized that he felt like a blind man, moving freely in an empty room, until his perception touched the "membrane"-like existence, and he realized that he had sensed the end of the spiritual sea.

At this moment, he completely cleared away the obstacles in the spiritual sea, and truly became a practitioner of Qi Refining Realm.

"The Qi Refining Realm is divided into nine levels. It needs to guide the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth into the spiritual sea and refine it repeatedly."

"The first step is to fill the spiritual sea with spiritual energy first, and then refine and wash it into spiritual power. The second step is to reintroduce the spiritual energy into it, and refine it when it is full, turning the gas into power."

Meditating in his heart, the key to the Ninth Level Small Realm of Qi Refining Realm, he began the first wave of receiving spiritual energy into his body.

As soon as he thought about it, he realized that in addition to the aura of heaven and earth in the water, what he inhaled more was the ability of acid poison in the black water!
He was taken aback, fearing that after the filth of the "cotton" in the spiritual sea was melted, those acidic and poisonous abilities would erode his spiritual sea, causing his spiritual sea to collapse, and making him lose the possibility of cultivation from now on.

However, after the aura from the bottom of the pool and the ability of acid poison were integrated into his spiritual sea, he didn't feel any discomfort.

The complicated energies in the pond water are filling his spiritual sea, going through the first process of "fullness".

Seeing that the spiritual sea was unobstructed, he decided to ignore the hidden dangers inside and outside for the time being, and just stayed at the bottom of the pool, using the green and black "spiritual pot" he visualized to practice with the strangeness in the water.

He also took the cracked gray-white rock from the bamboo basket that he had been carrying all along, and a few spiritual stones that Ning Yao shared.

Regardless of whether there would be a conflict or not, he held a piece in one hand and leaned against the wall of the phoenix bone to concentrate on cultivation.

There is a strong dark ghost above the head, a humanoid monster at the bottom of the pool, an undead python, and the mysterious phoenix bone.

All Pang Jian can do is to increase his strength desperately, and he is even willing to take certain risks for this.

He hopes to have more strength to protect himself.

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