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After Bibi Dong calmed down, Xuan Ming took her to find Gu Yuena.
The three of them arrived at a secluded side hall in the Supreme Pontiff Palace, isolating themselves from all outside prying.
Hearing Xuan Ming explain his intentions, Gu Yuena's gaze fell on Bibi Dong. Her silver-purple eyes, capable of discerning origins, flickered slightly as she carefully sensed for a moment.
"The Rakshasa's evil thoughts are indeed deeply rooted, almost inextricably intertwined with her own obsessions," Gu Yuena said softly.
"This power is constantly eroding her mind and amplifying her dark side. If it cannot be resolved, complete degradation is only a matter of time."
She looked at Xuan Ming and said bluntly, "This matter, simply relying on force suppression or purification, is indeed difficult to eradicate. The essence of Rakshasa divine force is treacherous, and forcibly stripping it away might even trigger a more violent backlash. However, I do have a solution."
Gu Yuena pondered for a moment, then extended two slender fingers. "There are two plans."
"The first is to abandon the Rakshasa God Trial. I can use a portion of the heart of the dragon god's primordial power, combined with my own Godhead of Creation, to forcibly strip and cleanse the accumulated Rakshasa divine force and evil thoughts from her body.
This is the safest way, with the fewest future troubles. Once successful, she will be free from the Rakshasa's control. Although she will lose that portion of power, she will at least save her life and clear mind."
She paused, looking at Bibi Dong, "The reason is simple: whether it's the past conduct of the Rakshasa God or the characteristics of this inheritance now manifesting, its inclination is very clear – to create chaos and spread death.
Unless you completely abandon reason and become a madwoman who only knows slaughter and destruction, the Rakshasa's evil thoughts will not truly recognize you, much less allow you to pass the subsequent assessments."
"Your current state is merely a breeding ground it uses to devour your mind. The upcoming Rakshasa Eighth Trial and Ninth Trial will only be more extreme and malicious, very likely directly requiring you to unleash a catastrophe that sweeps across the continent, using the blood and wails of countless living beings as sacrifices.
If you fail to complete it at that time, or if you resist, the long-accumulated Rakshasa divine sense will likely backfire on you without hesitation, devouring everything about you as nourishment, then lie dormant, waiting for the next more suitable inheritor."
However, Bibi Dong almost didn't even think, a trace of decisiveness flashed in her purple eyes, and she flatly refused: "Impossible! I will never give up the Rakshasa God Trial!"
For this power, she had paid too much and endured for too long. This was her reliance for avenging the past and controlling her own destiny.
Furthermore, she knew that Qian Daoliu was sparing no effort to assist Qian Renxue, and the Angel God Test was progressing at an astonishing speed, having completed five trials in just a few years.
If she were to abandon the Rakshasa God Position now, it would be tantamount to handing over future initiative to others, tying her own life, death, honor, and disgrace to Qian Renxue's whim.
This was an outcome that a proud woman like her could absolutely not accept.
Gu Yuena did not seem surprised by Bibi Dong's refusal; she had long expected it.
She withdrew one finger, leaving only the second one upright, her tone still calm and unruffled: "Since that is the case, then there is only the second method."
Her gaze swept over Xuan Ming, "Change to another Divinity inheritance, and this inheritance needs to be similar to the Rakshasa God, yet stronger and more domineering, enough to suppress the Rakshasa."
Xuan Ming's eyes slightly changed, "Asura?"
Gu Yuena nodded slightly: "Precisely the Asura God Position."
"The Rakshasa's evil thoughts originate from the deepest resentment and hatred in the world. Its divine force is sinister and poisonous, excelling at eroding the mind and twisting the soul. Ordinary holy power is difficult to eradicate, and forceful purification is highly prone to triggering a more violent backlash.
Only with a more domineering and purer power of slaughter and judgment can one break through skill with force, forcibly suppress and even gradually wear down its primordial evil thoughts."
She looked at Bibi Dong, her tone solemn: "The Asura God, who wields slaughter and judgment, possesses divine force that is supremely rigid and righteous, specifically countering all evil and wickedness. More importantly, the Asura God's rank is far above the Rakshasa's, and the essence of its power has a natural suppressive effect on Rakshasa divine force."
"If you can obtain the Asura God Test, using Asura divine force as your foundation, gradually devour and transform the Rakshasa divine force within your body, there is a great possibility, while retaining most of your power, to eradicate the erosion of the Rakshasa's evil thoughts, and even turn the Rakshasa's power to your own use, making it a part of your own strength."
Bibi Dong's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, then dimmed again, "At a time like this, how can I find the Asura God's inheritance?"
Gu Yuena was slightly taken aback, "Didn't you tell her?"
Xuan Ming shook his head; he hadn't expected Bibi Dong's Rakshasa God Trial to encounter such a problem.
Meeting Bibi Dong's puzzled gaze, Gu Yuena calmly explained, "The Asura God's method of selecting inheritors is different from other Divinities. Anyone who possesses a Slaughter God Domain is qualified to initiate the Asura God Test. This is a... wide-net approach to inheritance."
She paused, continuing, "You have already possessed a Slaughter God Domain for many years. As long as you can cultivate your Slaughter God Domain to a sufficiently powerful level, reaching a certain critical point, you will naturally be able to draw the Asura divine sense and bring down the God Test."
"However... your Slaughter God Domain, having been long steeped in Rakshasa evil aura, its essence is no longer pure, and it may even have been contaminated by the Rakshasa's evil thoughts."
"Leaving aside whether you can even trigger the Asura God Test, even if you can, with the large amount of Rakshasa divine force currently entrenched within you, once the Asura divine sense descends, these two forces will likely clash within you."
"divine force conflict... you will die."
Gu Yuena's words plunged the side hall into silence.
After a moment of silence, Bibi Dong clenched her fists unwillingly, "Is there really no other way?"
"There is," Xuan Ming said.
"???"
Gu Yuena was slightly startled, and Bibi Dong was also a bit confused.
If you have a solution, say it!
"You didn't ask me," Xuan Ming said.
Gu Yuena's eyelid twitched slightly, "Then what's your solution?"
Xuan Ming paused, "The essence of my Slaughter Domain is purer and stronger than your Slaughter God Domain. I can temporarily share it with you, using it as a barrier to suppress the activity of the Rakshasa's evil thoughts within you, slowing its erosion of your mind."
"At the same time, with the help of my Domain power, I can guide you to temper your Slaughter God Domain to an unprecedented strength, and even... force it to undergo some adaptive mutation, allowing you to accept Asura divine force."
"But this takes time, and we don't have that much time to take it slowly."
The assessment period for this third trial is only one year. Bibi Dong's Slaughter God Domain has already been eroded and affected by the Rakshasa's evil thoughts, mutating towards the Rakshasa Domain. It would be very difficult to help her revert the twisted Slaughter God Domain back towards the Asura Domain, and he didn't know how long it would take, but one year would definitely not be enough.
"Your cultivation direction was led astray by the Rakshasa God from the very beginning, having nothing to do with the Asura God. Your Slaughter God Domain, to be honest..." Xuan Ming paused.
"It's trash."
Bibi Dong's expression froze.
Can't you be a little more tactful, you bastard?
Xuan Ming's expression remained unchanged as he continued, "Your Slaughter God Domain doesn't temper killing intent, but rather the power of evil thoughts! So even though your cultivation is so much higher than Tang Hao's, you are far inferior to Tang Hao in terms of aura."
"The killing intent of the Slaughter God Domain is simple, direct, domineering, and even violent! But the Rakshasa's power of evil thoughts, to put it unpleasantly, is like petty thievery."
"The auras of the two are simply not on the same level."
"Simply put, one likes to confront head-on, the other likes to play dirty tricks."
"To be even more direct, you're a bit cowardly, you can't go all out in battle."
Bibi Dong's face darkened, a trace of humiliation and anger flashed in her purple eyes, but more than that was a sense of powerlessness at having the truth exposed.
She knew that Xuan Ming was speaking the truth.
Her power was indeed more inclined towards treachery, erosion, and manipulating people's hearts, rather than outright crushing and destruction.
This characteristic had made her unstoppable in many situations, but when facing truly pure, unyielding killing intent, she indeed seemed... lacking in confidence, and even a bit unpresentable.
"Then what's your solution?" Gu Yuena asked.
If Xuan Ming couldn't solve it, he wouldn't have said anything.
"First, I need to pull her Slaughter God Domain back a bit, and then I can proceed to the next step," Xuan Ming said.
"Didn't you say there wasn't enough time?" Bibi Dong said.
"What I said was, with conventional methods, there isn't enough time," Xuan Ming said.
Bibi Dong's expression froze, and an inexplicable chill rose in her heart.
"You... what do you mean?"
Xuan Ming paused, "I think you can guess."
"..."
Bibi Dong took a deep breath, "But now the Spirit Empire..."
"A delay of one or two years is not a big problem," Xuan Ming said.
"I can help you stabilize the situation."
Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched slightly, "You... help me stabilize the situation?"
"How will you stabilize it?"
Xuan Ming summoned Blood Spear, "Seeing is believing."
Xuan Ming said no more, raised Blood Spear, and with a flash of his figure, appeared above Spirit City. He hovered in the clouds, the Blood Spear in his hand reflecting dazzling light in the sunlight, instantly drawing the gaze of everyone in the city.
"What is he going to do?" Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena also came out of the hall, looking up at the figure in the sky.
They saw Xuan Ming raise Blood Spear above his head, and the originally clear sky suddenly darkened. Dark clouds gathered at a visible speed, and lightning snakes writhed within the clouds, emitting deafening roars.
But this was not enough.
Xuan Ming's dark red seventh spirit ring suddenly lit up, and the Slaughter Domain fully expanded, a blood-colored light tinged with bone-white shot into the sky, dyeing the entire sky a bizarre dark red.
Immediately after, the dark red eighth spirit ring, with its black-gold patterns, also shone, and a pure evil aura merged into it.
Slaughter and evil, two top-tier powers, intertwined on the Blood Spear, drawing forth the might of heaven and earth.
"Boom—!!!"
A bizarre bolt of lightning, impossible to describe its immense size, displaying a terrifying three-color interweaving of blood-red, dark-purple, and pale-white, as if tearing the firmament apart, descended with the terrifying might of destroying heaven and earth!
The target of this lightning was not Spirit City itself, but a majestic, thousand-meter-high isolated peak towering several kilometers outside the city!
Under the gaze of countless horrified eyes, that terrifying lightning, containing the ultimate will of slaughter and evil, struck precisely on the summit of that thousand-meter peak!
There was no deafening explosion, nor any chaotic scene of flying sand and rolling stones.
There was only a soul-shaking, piercing shriek, as if space itself was being forcibly torn apart!
The next moment, under the stunned gaze of everyone, that thousand-meter peak, which had stood for countless tens of thousands of years, developed a straight, mirror-smooth, terrifying crack from its central axis, from top to bottom!
It was as if an invisible, unimaginably huge blade of a celestial god had split it in two!