Trials of the Abyss-Chapter 641: Traversing All Seven Continents

Thunder crackled in the underground cavern filled with lightning.

A blazing furnace roared in the sea of lightning, its molten core churning like a swirling vortex.

As Pang Jian refined You Kui's divine soul using the Primeval Demon Fusion Art, frigid soul essence poured into his Immortal Divine Soul, deepening his connection with his physical body.

Though his physical body remained in the Fifth World of the distant Abyss, the connection grew ever clearer. It was almost as if they could now communicate in real time.

As a mid-ranking God, You Kui had boundless soul essence that greatly nourished Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul.

Even so, the refining process was not without its difficulties.

A torrent of unwanted memories surged forth and attempted to fuse with Pang Jian.

He had to focus all his attention on swiftly purging the waste, ensuring that You Kui's life experience did not interfere with his own memories.

Filtering out the dregs and extracting the essence was a laborious process, but it was also an opportunity to rediscover himself and further temper his divine sense.

Deep within the furnace, Pang Jian noticed a prismatic crystal among the torrent of memories.

It was as green as jade and crystal-clear, with a liquid-like substance flowing within.

Neither the Water God Naga nor the Dark Bat had anything similar within their divine souls, so this discovery left him somewhat astonished.

Sifting through You Kui's memories, he searched for knowledge regarding this item. It did not take long before he found the answer.

You Kui called the crystal a Divine Persona, and the liquid inside the Source of Divinity.

The Outer Gods differed greatly from the True Gods of the human race.

When a human in the Abyss ascended to godhood, their divine soul fused with Fortune, solidifying it into a more tangible form.

Outer Gods, on the other hand, followed a different path.

The first changes for the foreign races when stepping into the ranks of low-ranking Outer Gods occurred within their hearts, where their bloodline mysteries were imprinted.

For them, godhood was centered around the heart, requiring them to awaken and manifest new crystal bloodline chains.

This process was similar to how the foreign races in the Abyss advanced from Rank Nine to Rank Ten or how a Fey King advanced into a Fey God.

At this stage, the divine soul of these Outer Gods had yet to undergo a fundamental transformation.

Only after advancing to a mid-ranking God could they forge a Divine Persona and condense their Source of Divinity within it.

This was their true transformation.

The majority of You Kui's divine soul remained illusory, like a vast green ocean where memories, thoughts, and divine consciousness swirled.

Only a minuscule portion had solidified into a tangible crystal, the Divine Persona.

The Divine Persona was also the defining aspect that separated You Kui from low-ranking Outer Gods.

You Kui could only be considered dead when his Divine Persona was shattered and his Source of Divinity dissipated.

Even Zi Mo would not sense anything until You Kui's Divine Persona was destroyed.

Can a Divine Persona be fused? Pang Jian wondered.

The swirling vortex within the furnace accelerated. Fire-crystal-like lightning surged forward, piercing straight into You Kui's Divine Persona.

You Kui's Divine Persona fractured, with cracks spreading across its surface. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

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Meanwhile, in the Fifth World of the Abyss, Pang Jian traversed the mountains and rivers of the Seventh Continent in the guise of a Radiant Race warrior, tirelessly devouring the murky energy that permeated the continent.

He moved swiftly, never lingering for long.

Eventually, he entered a land of bitter cold, where the murky energy carried a faint chill that made it difficult to absorb into his dantian.

Recalling his experience in Golden Plume City, he relocated the ice pool in his dantian and shifted it onto the second fragmented land above the darkness.

The moment the ice pool settled into place, he sensed a surge of frigid murky energy.

A few hours later, a silver-white phoenix, no larger than a palm, materialized. It had formed from the cold energy of this continent and was infused with the remnants of a second Fey Emperor's lingering will, Fey Emperor Bing Yi.

In the ancient era, long before the Abyss became suffused with spiritual qi, Fey Emperor Bing Yi had reigned as the absolute ruler of the Seventh Continent.

This Fey Emperor was even older than Jin Yu.

It had soared across the many worlds of the Abyss, attempting to break free from this prison.

Unfortunately, in the end, it had also descended into the endless darkness beneath the Fifth World, never to be seen again.

A second ancient Fey Emperor!

Pang Jian found his comprehension of the Fey Emperor's Dao of Cold astonishingly smooth.

When the silver-white Frost Phoenix settled upon the fragmented land above the darkness within his dantian, Pang Jian's soul trembled, and he immediately sensed a faint connection forming with the Seventh Continent.

Afterward, he used the Gate of the Abyss to traverse the other continents.

On the Sixth Continent, he obtained Fey Emperor Shui Yuan's Dao of Water.

Shui Yuan was a leviathan that once dwelt in the deep oceans of the Sixth Continent. After countless failed attempts to escape the Abyss, it too vanished into the endless darkness.

On the Fourth Continent, Pang Jian discovered the lingering remnants of a World Tree.

The integration of its residual power proceeded effortlessly, with Pang Jian absorbing it into his dantian.

Within Holy Flame City on the Third Continent, where the Flame Race once resided, Pang Jian absorbed a miniature Flame Dragon, Fey Emperor Long Hui, into his body.

Before Long Xiao, Long Hui had been the most powerful of the Dragon Race. However, like the others, it too plunged into the depths of the endless darkness, never to return.

On the Second Continent, he obtained the lingering will of the first Fey God of the Rock Bear lineage, Xiong Ji, also known as the Earth Bear.

Finally, on Godfall Mountain on the First Continent, he extracted strands of silver-white lightning, which condensed into the figure of a white crane.

The white crane descended gracefully, merging into the lightning vortex within Pang Jian's dantian.

The lingering wills of the Fey Emperors—Jin Yu, Bing Yi, Xiong Ji, Shui Yuan, Long Hui, the white crane, and a dead World Tree—had persisted for tens of thousands of years, scattered across the seven continents.

Over the years, generation after generation of new Fey Gods emerged. Rank Ten foreign race powerhouses also rose to prominence one after another.

Those seven towering existences, each representing the pinnacle of a distinct energy, had left behind indelible marks that survived through the ages. That alone was already astonishing. More shocking still was that Pang Jian had absorbed them all through his Primordial Chaos Spiritual Sea.

Even Pang Jian himself found the situation hard to believe. He could not help but suspect that these profound insights into the different Heavenly Daos had actually been concealed.

Perhaps these lingering wills and insights only surfaced during a once-in-a-hundred-millennia grand event. Or, just as likely, the presence of the Gate of the Abyss had triggered their appearance.

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In the outer reaches of the Eastern Land in the First World, seven towering Heaven Ascension Tribulation Pillars suddenly manifested in the hazy domain.

This time, Gui Mu was not alone in sensing it. Zhu Ji and Li Wang were also startled as they too sensed the anomaly.