The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 96 - 83: Seeking Survival from Death!_1

In the utmost darkness.

Pang Jian adjusted his emotions, ignoring the pain in his body, and first sensed the condition of his Spiritual Sea.

After two successive attacks on Qi Qingsong in the courtyard and the arduous breakout from Dong Tianze’s ambush, only a meager one or two tenths of his spiritual power remained from his original full capacity.

The urgent task at hand was to quickly replenish his depleted spiritual power.

Feeling his physical injuries were bearable, Pang Jian took out several Spirit Stones from his storage bag, planning to draw the pure Spiritual Energy from them.

A sudden and strange change occurred!

Once the pure, untainted Spirit Stones left the storage bag, the Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm, as if finding a vessel to inhabit, madly surged towards the Spirit Stones in his hand.

In an extremely short time, the pure Spiritual Energy within the Spirit Stones was contaminated by the Filth Alien Power in the darkness.

Pang Jian, who intended to cultivate using the Spirit Stones, unexpectedly drew in a thick Filth Power, which also carried a sour, rotting, and bizarre smell.

In his perception, above his vast Spiritual Sea, there seemed to be pitch-black raindrops falling.

As the raindrops hit, they "sizzled" upon contact, igniting his Spiritual Sea and rapidly contaminating his spiritual power.

Try as he might to stop and cut off the absorption of power from the Spirit Stones, Pang Jian found he couldn’t stop at all.

The rich Filth Alien Power in the darkness, as if discovering a new continent, not only poured out of those Spirit Stones but also rushed towards his Spiritual Sea from all directions!

In turmoil, Pang Jian, not in a state of mental clarity, found the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell" strangely activating on its own.

In Pang Jian’s visualization, a glossy black "Spirit Pot," like a pitch-black mini sun, was frantically engulfing the Filth Supernatural Ability from the darkness!

Above the Spiritual Sea, the funnel-shaped vortex had already stopped spinning, falling into a silent, deathlike state.

The incessant flow of Filth Alien Power turned into black raindrops, dark flames, or dark rocks, sinking directly from his dantian into his Spiritual Sea.

Soon, not a trace of spiritual power remained within him.

His Spiritual Sea, expanded over countless occasions, was now contaminated by the Fifth Realm’s Filth Power, being wildly filled with an unknown Alien Power!

However, what he found strange was that, when not a trace of spiritual power remained inside him, he didn’t feel any discomfort at all.

He even felt the air he breathed into his organs was no longer so foul-smelling and irritating.

"Strange."

In the corner of the dark street, Pang Jian sat with his back against the solid stone wall, murmuring in confusion.

He still couldn’t see any sights.

But he could feel that the Filth Alien Power, deemed a scourge by cultivators, was still uncontrollably surging into him!

Before long, his Spiritual Sea had become a pitch-black ocean, filled with a vast amount of Alien Power tinged with the scent of filth.

Unbeknownst to him, right there in the darkness, a storm was faintly emerging around him!

In the vicinity of this street, all the Filth Alien Power existing in the darkness was attracted by his Spiritual Sea, gathering towards him from every direction!

...

Inside the City Lord Mansion.

At the entrance of an alley, only a hair’s breadth from brightness.

The young girl who had rearranged the tables and chairs vanished into the darkness, savoring a lavish feast while watching the scheming and maneuvering of the people around the pool.

"Are they not fighting yet?"

She tossed a grape into her mouth and took a sip of fruit wine, muttering impatiently.

Suddenly, she turned around, alert, and looked curiously towards the entrance of the alley.

"Why would the Filth Evil Power from the Fifth Realm suddenly converge in one place? Could it be that a powerful creature from the Fifth Realm has managed to sneak into Bagua City?"

The girl, talking to herself, shook her head with a mix of laughter and disbelief, "Impossible."

The Heavenly Tribulation Pillar standing in the Fifth Realm, with its peak, was Bagua City.

For thousands of years, countless demon fiends and evil spirits of the Fifth Realm have reached here, attempting to destroy or climb the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

Every single one has failed.

Those who dared to touch the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar were all shattered by the power hidden within the pillar.

——Even the Evil God was no exception.

Over time, the location of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar was seen as a Forbidden Land by the creatures of the Fifth Realm.

The strongest of this realm strictly forbade the creatures of the Fifth Realm from approaching the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, to avoid being blasted by the pillar’s power.

There are seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars in the Eternal Darkness of the Fifth Realm, scattered throughout, deterring the creatures of the realm.

Although named as bridges to Heaven, claiming to offer the creatures of the Fifth Realm a chance to ascend, in reality, they completely severed any possibility for the creatures of the Fifth Realm to climb to the Upper Realm.

Never has there been an anomaly with the massively thick Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, and it’s unthinkable for a creature of the Fifth Realm to have reached this place.

"Could it be the guy who just went in has caused a massive convergence of the Filth Evil Power?"

The girl was taken aback, then shook her head again, "Impossible. If that were true, he would only be corrupted by the Filth Evil Power and die even faster."

The girl, sensing something peculiar, pondered for a moment, then refocused her attention on the pool inside the mansion.

...

In the darkness.

Pang Jian could only passively feel the Spiritual Sea below his dantian, being furiously injected with the Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm.

Breathing air that carried a sour, putrid smell, he felt a stinging in his abdomen, as if many tiny needles were pricking his organs.

He understood this was an erosion of flesh and blood by the Filth Alien Power.

The Alien Power carried a destructive, ruinous aura, as if it aimed to demolish everything between heaven and earth, strangling all life in the worlds.

"It seems that the Spiritual Sea in the dantian has not been contaminated, it has not dissipated and disappeared."

After silently sensing for a long time, Pang Jian found it strange.

At this moment, within his vast Spiritual Sea, what filled it was the thick Filth Alien Power.

His Spiritual Sea had become the Black Sea, exuding endless mystery and danger, with the blackness deepening as if it were slowly accumulating strength.

The Filth Alien Power of the Fifth Realm continued to pour in.

Time passed unknowingly.

Using the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell" combined with a large number of Spirit Jade, Spirit Stones, and nature’s spiritual energy, the Spiritual Sea he had opened was eventually filled with the Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm.

The "Black Sea" was no longer calm, suddenly stirring up waves!

Towering black waves, with a momentum that shocked the soul, rose abruptly beneath his dantian!

The wild evil force, laden with destruction and ruin, was swept up by the pitch-black waves that rose to the sky, as if striving to reach the Upper Realm’s dantian!

It was as if the beings of the Fifth Realm were striking the heavens over and over, attempting to shatter the eternal seal, break the suppression of endless ages, and reach the world of the Upper Realm.

Those repeated strikes, carrying the resentment and defiance of a billion years, grew more frenzied with each attempt!

Countless terrifying black waves, with the posture of devouring millions of rivers and mountains, fiercely struck at the heavens only to fail again and again, crashing heavily back down.

Gradually, Pang Jian felt movements at the bottom of his dark spiritual sea in twelve areas.

Those twelve areas could connect with his five viscera and six bowels, but had always had natural barriers.

At this moment, the barriers were becoming weaker and weaker with each crashing wave.

Pang Jian was immediately terrified.

He thought back to his situation when he had advanced to the Meridians Channeling Realm.

In the White Tower at Wulan Lake, he had used his Qi Refining Realm cultivation to break through to the Meridians Channeling Realm, piercing eight channels connected to his limbs, allowing Spiritual Power to disperse from the Spiritual Sea to his limbs.

But that was Spiritual Power!

In his current Spiritual Sea, there was not a trace of Spiritual Power, but all was filled with the destructive Filth Alien Power!

And those twelve areas were the twelve meridians connected to his five viscera and six bowels!

Once the channels were pierced and opened, the Filth Alien Power of the Fifth Realm could pour into the twelve meridians that spread throughout his organs!

What would happen?

Just breathing in the air, which contained a small amount of the Power of Filth, could erode his flesh and blood.

When the Filth Evil Power, full of the aura of destruction, poured through the twelve meridians into his chest area en masse...

Thinking of this, Pang Jian’s scalp tingled.

However, as he dreaded the arrival of that moment, the thing he feared most eventually happened.

With a wave that almost reached the dantian above, the pitch-black wave fell heavily back down, failing once again, and an area beneath his Spiritual Sea seemed to shatter like an invisible barrier!

The Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm, finding no way upwards, suddenly chose to "enter the earth"!

The frenzied evil force filled with destruction and ruin rushed into that underground channel connected to his organs in an instant!

The pain was many times more severe than when he had opened the meridians to his limbs, and it erupted within Pang Jian’s body, causing him to howl in agony in the darkness.

The "entering the earth" successful Filth Evil Power found a new outlet, leading to more towering waves crashing down, breaking more channels connected to the meridians beneath.

The second, the third, the fourth, the eighth, the twelfth!

A total of twelve new pathways, like underground channels beneath the Spiritual Sea, were forced open by the Filth Power within Pang Jian’s body!

The continuous Filth Power thus surged in!

In the darkness, Pang Jian emitted an inhuman howl of pain, enduring the torture of the world that was not of humans.

Not far away.

The girl hidden in the darkness was indulging in a vast array of food, waiting for the outbreak of a battle inside the mansion.

In her eyes, Yuan Lengshan was still recounting the tragic history of the Yuan Family of Bagua City, denouncing the hidden hand behind sacrificing Bagua City.

The few people listening showed considerable patience, not rushing to strike at Yuan Lengshan, letting her recount the story.

Suddenly, the girl in the darkness heard a howling sound coming from the street outside the mansion.

The howling, like the cry of a wolf or the mourning of a demon fiend, made the girl sigh softly.

"In the end, he still couldn’t escape it."

She shook her head gently.

In her mind, she envisioned the scene where Pang Jian had risked his life twice for Zhou Qingchen, then sent Zhou Qingchen into the Mirror Tunnel while he himself resolutely entered the darkness.

That scene had also moved her.

"He wasn’t bad."

"But... sending a friend away and entering the darkness of the Fifth Realm yourself, to receive the baptism of the Filth Evil Power, was the choice you made. It’s a pity, you had no way to solve the erosion of the Filth."

"Once the Filth Evil Power of the Fifth Realm contaminates the flesh and organs, this is the end that most people meet."

She had a fairly good impression of Pang Jian and, recognizing that he was slowly dying, no longer held his previous offense against her.

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