The Evil Formation destroyed itself, causing a storm in Heaven and Earth.
Within the Ancient Array, the rules were those of ancient times; outside Heaven and Earth, they were the rules of the outer world. Different rules collided, and in that moment, Zhou Yan realized that this chaos was more terrifying and powerful than he had expected.
However, he didn’t care because he was guarded by the Ancient Evil Spirit—after all, the Ancient Evil Spirit hadn’t yet extracted and devoured all of his Essence Blood. Therefore, Zhou Yan couldn’t be killed prematurely by these chaotic energy impacts!
Thus, the Ancient Evil Spirit also had to split its attention to protect Zhou Yan, making it look quite embarrassed even though it was so strong.
Although the Ancient Evil Spirit was the Ghost of a genius from Ancient Times, its intelligence was accumulated over later generations, not carried over from its previous life. Therefore, it didn’t know much about the Ancient Array. This led to Zhou Yan continuously using the extracted Essence Blood to trigger the Ancient Array. Various deadly and fierce attacks repeatedly struck, aiming to kill the Ancient Evil Spirit.
Even being incredibly formidable, the Ancient Evil Spirit was rendered severely haggard by these constant deadly attacks!
"Screw this! Have I suffered bad luck for eight lifetimes? Or is it because of this damned guy who is rejected by the Heavenly Dao? He really is a jinx—ah—damn it, here it comes again!"
A turbulent flow struck by, moving so swiftly that the Ancient Evil Spirit couldn’t react in time. When it did react, the turbulent flow had already struck. In a panic, its figure twisted in a flash, and one arm was directly hit by the turbulent flow and sent flying.
The body of the Ancient Evil Spirit burst into countless black vapors, and it had no choice but to condense its body and transform back into a petite and cute little girl.
However, as a little girl, carrying Zhou Yan was not only inconvenient but also almost got hit repeatedly by the turbulent flows, and even Zhou Yan nearly got struck—Zhou Yan’s body being somewhat large, frequently encountering danger.
Reluctantly, it reverted back to its original form, turning into a two-meter figure to barely manage carrying Zhou Yan without too much difficulty.
But during this route of dodging, it had already suffered enough.
Little did it know, it wasn’t just bad luck, but Zhou Yan was using these Evil Formations and deadly moves to erode its abilities!
What Zhou Yan had done actually went far beyond just that.
After wearing down most of the Ancient Evil Spirit’s abilities, Zhou Yan took advantage of its immense confusion. Using the Purple Flame Void, he extracted a significant amount of Chaotic Energy and some Cultivators’ corpses. He then used the Refining Technique and the Natural Dao of Form to condense these people’s physical bodies. Combining them with Purple Flame and some Spiritual Lotus materials, he refined a physical body that looked almost identical to his own.
Then, using his own Essence Blood as a guide, he continuously executed the Undying Rebirth Technique. For this refined body, using Zhou Yan’s blood essence as the Origin, he surprisingly refined another "Zhou Yan."
However, this "Zhou Yan" had only one-tenth the strength of Zhou Yan’s Bloodline, and a significant amount of Origin Energy had been depleted, leaving Zhou Yan himself a bit weak.
But this weakness, presented on the outside, made it seem more genuine, because after all, the external environment was extremely chaotic. Having been injured and "devoured" of Essence Blood, it would be odd not to be weak.
After this transformation, Zhou Yan equipped the refined body with Spirit Grade Top Spirit Armor and a long sword, then using his Essence Blood combined with the Undying Rebirth Technique, he formed an Emperor’s Arc for this body.
Even a series of internal structures had about one-tenth the degree of Zhou Yan’s own conditions. Naturally, this wasn’t enough. Zhou Yan then extracted all the remaining unrefined Fist Intent left in his body after throwing a punch last time, forcing it out, and refined it with Purple Flame into this body.
By this moment, this body had a terrifying vibe.
However, at this point, Zhou Yan was fairly satisfied.
Then, enduring the painful sensation of his Soul, he gave his Soul a strike with a sword, slaying and separating a strand of his Soul.
With this strike, Zhou Yan felt as if he had been cut by thousands of knives, his Soul trembling with agony. He couldn’t help but roar and convulse, but he firmly persevered.
In that instant, a strand of his Soul was severed, and all feelings of Perfection within Zhou Yan shattered, as if there was suddenly a great regret in his life, making it impossible to be perfect again.
This discomfort felt like suddenly having a hole in his body that could never be mended.
When this feeling of incompleteness arose, there was a strong retreat sensation in his Realm.
Yet Zhou Yan didn’t care and insisted on embedding that strand of Soul into another refined physical body.
At that moment, when that strand of Soul entered that refined body, Zhou Yan paused in awe.
Because that body also came alive.
Not only did it come alive, but it was also exactly like him.
Unintentionally, he had created another version of himself!
Although it was only a "Split Body," it was not just a simple Split Body.
The body formed by Zhou Yan’s Spiritual Sense just stood in front of this "Split Body," the two looking at each other as though looking into a mirror, feeling oddly peculiar.
One mind, two bodies.
"A very strong feeling!"
Zhou Yan’s mind moved, and he spoke.
Consequently, both bodies spoke simultaneously, their words exactly the same.