After Fang Xiu took all the forbidden demon bodies, he left the Buddhist spatial node and went directly back to headquarters for seclusion. The loss of control of the two spatial nodes was left to headquarters to handle.
The fat man was still assigned to go to some strange and ravaged place abroad to film how foreign people live in dire straits.
Inside the headquarters' closed-door office.
Fang Xiu quietly looked at the Forbidden Body before him. At this moment, the Forbidden Body seemed to have come alive, and there was even a faint tendency to coalesce. Meanwhile, the Forbidden Heart within him was also overly active, pounding violently.
This time, he specifically instructed Kunlun Maggot not to sever the connection between the forbidden and strange bodies, so as not to affect the fusion.
"Let's begin then."
He suddenly opened his gluttonous maw and instantly sucked the entire forbidden body into his body. The moment the forbidden body entered his body, a strong sense of aggregation came over him.
The forbidden monster within him showed a faint tendency to revive.
Fang Xiu's eyes flickered slightly. As expected of a seventh-order strange being, even at this level, it was not completely dead. It seemed that there were still many secrets hidden in the law.
"The fire of the soul!"
His spirituality suddenly surged, manifesting as an illusory flame that burned fiercely in his mind.
This is a necessary step to advance to the sixth rank. It is also something he learned from Wuwei and Kongjian. After fusing enough of the strange power that breaks the limits, he ignites the Light of the Mind and makes it operate at high power, taking on the form of flames, which is the Fire of the Mind.
Then, using the fire of the mind, the strangeness was completely refined and integrated into one, and the sixth rank was achieved.
The two most difficult steps to advance to the sixth rank are: first, how to capture a sixth-rank monster with a fifth-rank body; and second, how to refine it with the fire of the mind.
Because the strangeness of the fusion must far exceed one's own strength, it is enough to break through the limit. However, precisely because of this, the difficulty of refining it will increase exponentially.
According to Wuwei Kongjian, the Spirit Masters of the previous era also wanted to help more fifth-tier cultivators break through to the sixth tier.
It started with a group of fifth-tier beings gathering together and agreeing to hunt sixth-tier monsters together. They would then hand the monsters over to one person, who would then help the others break through to the sixth tier, with the rich helping the poor. However, the wish was beautiful, but the reality was cruel.
Not all fifth-tier spirit masters can refine sixth-tier strange creatures. Some fifth-tier spirit masters with insufficient foundation will not chew even if someone puts food in front of their mouths.
During the refining process, the power became uncontrollable due to the inability to refine it, eventually leading to the distortion of the strange power.
Therefore, when breaking through to the sixth rank, it is not necessarily better for the fused entity to be as powerful as possible, as powerful means difficult to refine.
Fang Xiu was well aware of this, but he remained unmoved. If Zhou Qingfeng could do it, he could do it too.
He controlled the pitch-black fire of his mind and unleashed it upon the forbidden monster that was about to be resurrected.
I thought there would be a protracted battle, and maybe even a few reloads to improve my proficiency. But who would have thought that the moment the Mind Fire touched the Forbidden Ghost, a faint, ethereal scream came from its body, followed by a wisp of black smoke dissipating from its body.
"Consciousness... annihilated?" Fang Xiu frowned slightly. He hadn't expected that the consciousness of the forbidden monster, which was about to revive, would be annihilated just as the refining process had begun. This gave him the illusion that just as he was about to press on with all his might, he would suddenly find the road ahead unobstructed and wide open.
He gazed at the inky black fire of his soul, and a vague understanding dawned on him: it was the power of pain at work!
The accumulated pain from countless deaths is the best way to obliterate consciousness; it's hard to imagine anyone being able to withstand such terrifying pain.
Without the obstruction of the forbidden demon's consciousness, the refining process was extremely rapid. In just one hour, one-tenth of the forbidden demon had already been refined.
This also means that he can completely refine the forbidden monster in just ten hours.
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While Fang Xiu was fully engaged in refining the forbidden demon, within the Xia Kingdom, at the Dao-Buddha spatial node, the headquarters personnel were also engaged in a fierce battle.
The first hour passed very easily for them; they didn't even have to make a move. The tens of thousands of Taotie present were all dealt with directly, and not a single one of the strange creatures could escape the Taotie's gaping maw.
Since it's only the fourth day to go, and the real spatial node anomalies started on the third day, even if the spatial node is completely unsealed now, the anomalies that emerge will be less than on the third day.
In the third hour, as the spatial rift slowly widened and the strange phenomena began to increase, the people at headquarters finally had a chance to act. Millions of soldiers fired continuously and successfully repelled the attacks of the strange phenomena.
By the sixth hour, the strange numbers were beyond the soldiers' ability to stop, so the spirit masters intervened.
In the eighth hour, among the emerging snakes and insects, there were many C-level and even B-level anomalies, which the captains took action to suppress.
In the tenth hour, even Wuwei Kongjian, who had been resting with his eyes closed, could no longer sit still and was preparing to join the battle when Fang Xiu appeared.
He sprouted black flame wings on his back and flew into the battlefield under the watchful eyes of countless people.
"It's Captain Fang!"
"Captain Fang is here!"
The headquarters' momentum instantly surged, giving the impression of an emperor personally leading an expedition.
Fang Xiu stood in the void, calmly gazing at the enormous crack in the void, and pointed out with a finger.
"ban!"
An invisible, eerie fluctuation spread toward the spatial rift, and then a miraculous scene appeared: the spatial rift, which had been spreading slowly, began to heal slowly, as if some mysterious force was forcibly smoothing out the crack.
The moment the crack healed, no more strange phenomena emerged from the Daoist sect's spatial node, and the pressure on the headquarters in the battle was greatly reduced.
The strange difficulty of dealing with spatial nodes lies not in strength, but in their sheer number—an endless, terrifying number. Killing one, a hundred, or even ten thousand of them has no effect on the battle; it is a number that inspires despair.
Now that the spatial rift has been sealed, these strange entities are no match for headquarters.
Upon seeing this, the old Taoist priest was overjoyed and smoothly offered a set of flattering words: "Congratulations to Captain Fang on breaking through to the sixth level, which enhances the might of our headquarters."
However, Fang Xiu shook his head: "I have not broken through to the sixth rank."
Wuwei was stunned. How could this be? He had refined a seventh-order forbidden demon and could even use its power to seal a spatial rift. And this wasn't even a sixth-order demon? Just as he was about to ask, Fang Xiu had already left and gone to the Buddhist sect's spatial node.
He followed the same method and sealed the spatial rift in the Buddhist temple with a single finger.
Wherever they went, people cheered and jumped for joy, as if they had already won this doomsday battle.
Only Fang Xiu knew that this was only the beginning of the apocalypse.
His sealing of the spatial rift seemed simple, but it was not.
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