Inside the Large Formation, after more than twenty days of relentless battle without rest, all the Cultivators were exhausted, and their supplies of Spirit Stones were nearly depleted.
All the Cultivators worked together and finally drained Feng Xi of its Blood Qi completely!
Feng Xi’s Blood Qi dissipated, and it seemed feeble; it slowly collapsed to the ground.
Elder Yu and the others were pale, gasping for air, clenching their teeth, having endured for over twenty days.
When Feng Xi fell, everyone felt numbness filling their hearts. It took a long time before they gradually came to their senses, incredulous, they said:
"Dead?"
"Killed?"
"The Big Demon is dead, it’s been killed..."
...
Joy surged like a tide, and they couldn’t help but shout out in celebration.
Mo Hua also took a deep breath and collapsed to the ground.
But before Mo Hua could relish the victory, a sudden unease gripped his heart.
He scrambled up and looked down, his pupils shrinking involuntarily.
The fallen Feng Xi, without noise, was slowly standing up again...
Just like the Pig Monster that had died once before, it stood silently and suddenly, silently, swallowed the Patriarch of the Qian Family.
The cheers stopped abruptly, and the onlookers also saw this scene, exclaiming in shock:
"The Big Demon isn’t dead?"
"Impossible, its Blood Qi was clearly depleted..."
"What do we do now?"
At the same time, the aura of Feng Xi changed; no longer did it carry the crimson hue of Blood Qi but was now enveloped in a black-grey aura of death.
Its pig face twisted and deformed, reshaping and transforming into a huge human face.
This human face was like a strange Taoist persona.
He opened his mouth, without lips or teeth, and spoke in an indistinguishable gender.
It sounded like one person speaking, yet also like many speaking together, eerie and noisy:
"Who is it? Who ruined my grand plan?"
"Ruined my grand plan!"
"Who dares?"
"Ruined... my grand plan!"
...
Many disordered voices mingled together, sounding as though they were both ringing in the ears and in the Sea of Consciousness.
Zhang Lan and others turned pale:
"What is this thing?!"
"This pig... is a person?"
The moment Mo Hua saw the human face, enlightenment struck; he understood why the pig could die and then return to life.
Because within it, there had always been another Divine Thought hidden.
The Divine Thought of that strange Taoist persona!
The Monster Sensing of Feng Xi had long since extinguished; what drove its rebirth was the Divine Thought of that Taoist persona.
The person Mr. Zhuang prohibited him from asking about, thinking about, or mentioning... that strange Taoist persona!
Feng Xi revived, the human face emerged, evil spirits entwined, and Death Qi was heavy.
In the mountain abode, Mr. Zhuang also wore a grave expression and muttered:
"Planting Devil in Taoist Heart..."