The furnace of pain above Gu Zhi's head trembled slightly, and he had been truly forged.

Now, Gu Zhi no longer needs to cut the people in the furnace into pieces. He only needs to inject spiritual power into the furnace to make the people in the furnace feel the most extreme pain.

To deal with people like Chu Yunxi and Gu Kuange, Gu Zhi certainly has the time and the energy to torture them slowly and repay the pain of the past a thousand times.

But there were too many other people, and Gu Zhi couldn't waste his time torturing them all.

This problem was solved after the Furnace of Pain was forged.

As Gu Zhi's eyes opened and closed, more than a dozen Xu family cultivators were sucked into the Furnace of Pain.

Gu Zhi snapped his fingers, and a trace of spiritual power turned into black flames under the furnace of pain and began to burn.

In an instant, the patterns of evil spirits, Shuras, Yama, gods of death and other figures on the furnace wall seemed to revive, and rolling black fog filled the air, covering the furnace of pain.

“Ahhhhh!!!”

The person in the furnace screamed, as if he had suffered inhuman torture and was enduring unspeakable pain.

At the same time, outside the Furnace of Pain, black lotus flowers bloomed.

Spiritual liquid gathered in the pistil. Gu Zhi reached out to collect it, refine it, and his cultivation level improved.

In the past ten days, Gu Zhi not only forged the Furnace of Pain, but also achieved great results in the field of blood sacrifice.

In the past in the Deadwood Forest, except for the living sacrifice of Gu Qingshuang, the failure rate of sacrificing other cultivators alive was very high.

But now, it's completely different.

Without exception, the dozen or so Xu family cultivators who were sucked into the furnace of pain just now were all sacrificed alive, and not a single one failed!

Although the conversion rate has not reached 100%, Gu Zhi is already very satisfied at this stage.

This is destined to be a difficult road. So many great demon cultivators, even the Heaven-Devouring Demon Lord, have tried it, but ultimately failed to achieve any results.

It's a miracle that Gu Zhi has made such great progress so quickly.

If you want to achieve success overnight and seek quick success, you will suffer a heavy loss and may even get hurt.

Gu Zhi is not greedy and is satisfied with the current results.

The research took ten days and consumed many righteous monks.

There are only more than a hundred left now, but they are all people with high cultivation, which should be enough to support him to break through to the fusion stage.

"Holy Son, please spare me, Holy Son, please spare me!"

The remaining monks, seeing Gu Zhi looking up at them, were all terrified and kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Before Gu Zhi came back, they had already lost their fighting spirit due to the residual blood moon. In the past ten days, they had witnessed their companions being slaughtered one after another, and they had lost all their courage and could only beg numbly.

Gu Zhi said nothing, only the furnace of pain was trembling and making a humming sound.

Afterwards, the Furnace of Pain seemed to transform into a prehistoric giant beast, swallowing up more than a hundred righteous monks.

Gu Zhi sat cross-legged, constantly reciting the ancient practice scriptures in "Devouring the Sky Demonic Art" to cleanse himself with the miraculous method.

Black lotus flowers bloomed above Gu Zhi's head, then fell over, and the red spiritual fluid in the stamens poured onto Gu Zhi like a waterfall of blood.

Gu Zhi seemed to be bathing in blood, and in his sea of ​​consciousness, large numbers of runes were blooming and interweaving, trying to build a bridge connecting his body, sea of ​​consciousness and the outside world.

If this bridge is built, the cultivator will be united with heaven and earth, and will enter the fusion stage. At that time, he can intercept the power of heaven and earth at will. Both his combat power and means will be improved to a higher level, and he will be essentially different from the cultivators in the refining stage, with an insurmountable chasm between them.

Buzz——

There was a sound of Tao in Gu Zhi's mind, and an invisible force was preventing Gu Zhi from reaching the fusion stage, preventing the bridge in Gu Zhi's sea of ​​consciousness from condensing into shape.

This was within Gu Zhi's expectations. The further one progresses, the more difficult it becomes to practice. Many cultivators at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm cannot reach the threshold of Fusion in their entire lives, let alone cross the threshold and enter the Fusion Stage.

Gu Zhi remained calm. As the waterfall of blood continued to pour over his body, the runes in his sea of ​​consciousness became brighter and brighter, all like blood-red flowers of the other shore, interpreting all kinds of Taoism and Dharma, trying to build a Naihe Bridge leading to the underworld reincarnation on the other side.

boom!

The bridge took shape, connecting Gu Zhi's physical body and sea of ​​consciousness, and connecting Gu Zhi's inner self with the external world.

Gu Zhi suddenly felt that he was a completely different person. He seemed to have merged into the world. He could plunder the power of the void by raising his hand, and intercept the power of the mountain range of Xueyan Peak by covering his hand.

"Um?"

Before Gu Zhi had time to be happy, he felt something strange.

When he tried to intercept the mountain power of Xueyan Peak just now, he felt an unusual aura under Xueyan Peak.

But when he felt it carefully again, the abnormal smell disappeared again.

After that, no matter how Gu Zhi investigated, he could not find that unusual aura again.

It was as if the unusual aura had never appeared, and it was all Gu Zhi's illusion.

"It can't be an illusion!"

Gu Zhi was very sure that what he felt at that moment was real.

"Xueyan Peak..."

Gu Zhi thought of something——

Legend has it that Shiwandashan was once an ancient battlefield!

A large number of gods and immortals fell here, and even a heavenly palace fell down.

After countless years of changes, the current Southern Wilderness Forbidden Area, the Ten Thousand Mountains, came into being.

"Some say that different gods and immortals nourish different peaks, which is why there are so many wonders in the Hundred Thousand Mountains."

"For example, the Snow Flame Peak has snowflakes all over the sky on the left and magma surging on the right. There's a saying that the Fire God and the True Immortal who cultivated the Law of Ice and Frost are buried underneath."

When Gu Zhi heard these statements before, he just laughed it off and didn't take them seriously.

But now, Gu Zhi's expression became serious.

Could it be that these legends are actually somewhat credible?

If what he felt just now was correct, then even if there were no corpses of gods or immortals under the Xueyan Peak, there would probably be a great opportunity.

Gu Zhi's eyes flickered, but he did not act rashly.

It is at times like this that we need to stay calm, plan carefully and make adequate preparations.

"Xiao Zhi!"

At this time, Ye Qinghan came running over.

She felt the breath of Gu Zhi entering the fusion period, and rushed over from the mountain gate without stopping.

She was holding a blood-killing spear in her hand, and there was still blood on her face.

During these ten days, Gu Zhi was in seclusion studying the method of living sacrifice, and Ye Qinghan dealt with some geniuses who came to challenge Gu Zhi.

Those geniuses are close to each other, all in the Southern Wilderness. Their strength cannot be said to be weak, but it is far inferior to Gu Zhi. Ye Qinghan has them in his hands.

However, the geniuses who came to challenge were getting stronger and stronger. For example, the one Ye Qinghan had just killed was already at the seventh level of the Refinement Realm, but he was still stabbed to death by Ye Qinghan, who had broken the limit six times.

"Thanks a lot."

Gu Zhi hugged Ye Qinghan, raised his hand to wipe the blood off Ye Qinghan's face, and lowered his head to kiss Ye Qinghan on the forehead.

"It's not hard. For me, it's a form of practice. I've improved a lot!"

Ye Qinghan said that she was close to the second level of Grandmaster, and after going through a few more bloody battles, she should be able to break through.

"By the way, there's news from Chu Yunxi."

After sharing the joy, Ye Qinghan said to Gu Zhi.