Astral World.

The turmoil subsides.

The Black King vanished into the Sea of Ruins with the Purgatory Demon Sword.

It exclaimed in wonder:

"Indeed worthy of the Chaos Emperor."

The Purgatory Demon Sword wore an expression of pride.

"Naturally, my elder brother has slain a Supreme."

The elder brother had long predicted that he would face this tribulation upon coming to the astral world.

Thus wrote that word in the palm of his hand.

Truly worthy of the elder brother, the realm had already exceeded his imagination’s Maximum.

Omniscient and omnipotent!

Now, he has personally struck down his foe.

The Purgatory Demon Sword was elated.

"So this is the feeling of thoughts being unburdened, does the elder brother understand me in the same way? Does he also have unavenged blood relatives and loved ones?"

He couldn’t help but begin to imagine.

...

Returning to Nora, the Purgatory Demon Sword and Black King faced each other.

A father-son reunion, seeming a bit awkward.

The Black King said:

"This is for you."

He handed a ring to the Purgatory Demon Sword.

"What is this?"

"The divine persona of the Brilliant Prison Dragon God and other battle trophies."

"You don’t want it?"

"I’m merely a giant dragon, what use do I have for it? Besides, I’ve already grown to the strongest realm ever reached by the Purgatory Black King Dragon, there’s no path ahead."

"What do you plan to do next? Do you want to join Nora?"

Although he disliked his father, the Purgatory Demon Sword still hoped he would stay. Now Nora was flourishing, the best time to join.

"Forget it, I’m used to being free like the clouds and cranes, can’t stand any restrictions."

The Black King was near the end of his life, and from now on just wanted to live out his days happily. He had no interest in ambitions, Civil War, or even proving the Supreme Path.

As long as his bloodline continued to flow and grow.

"Then goodbye."

The Purgatory Demon Sword turned to leave.

The Black King watched his son’s back, sighed and said:

"He’s got quite a character."

...

Black Dragon Territory.

"Elder brother, these are the battle trophies."

The Purgatory Demon Sword handed over the ring to Levi.

Levi curiously opened it to take a look.

There were a few items that were quite good.

One being the divine persona and Divine Crystal.

Also the shedding before the Brilliant Prison Dragon King’s divine enthronement.

Another was a longsword, exuding Death Energy, extremely ominous.

"Nether River Life-taking Sword, it can cut down a person’s lifespan."

He flicked his fingers, destroying the longsword.

Red flames instantly refined it into a piece of raw ore.

"This item is bad for us, best to store it away."

There were also many Nine-level Treasures, but Levi wasn’t interested.

He took the Dragon God’s divine persona and gave the rest back to the Purgatory Demon Sword.

"These are useless to me, take them and exchange for cultivation resources. Quickly advance to legendary, become the pillar of Nora... By the way, did your father leave?"

"He’s gone."

"How are you planning to walk the legendary path next?"

Levi suddenly asked, as if interrogating a student like a teacher.

Gandaph didn’t need to worry, he was on the Chaos body refinement path.

Moreover, he had the Six Kings Relics, and the yet-to-be-obtained [Blood Tai Sui Bone].

Everything was ready, only lacking cultivation.

The Purgatory Demon Sword said:

"I want to use the ’Wind and Fire Purgatory Manual’ I created as a foundation, using the Brilliant Prison Dragon God’s shedding left after divine enthronement as fire, then search for appropriate wind-element affinity items to refine the wind-fire intersecting [Black Brilliance Heart]... I don’t know if it can work."

It’s obvious.

The Black King voluntarily sought the Purgatory Demon Sword.

Also aiming to help his son collect legendary materials.

Levi said:

"It’s good, wind and fire complement each other, this path suits you. But sect dual cultivation to advance legendary is highly difficult, you need to prepare well.

Legendary can come later, but ensure success once.

Other Great Tribulations, failure might still spare life.

Legendary Great Tribulation, failure means Death!"

Even Levi couldn’t intervene in a rescue there.

The only current exception was the Green Forest Master.

According to her recollection, it was Sauron guiding her out of the Great Tribulation.

The Purgatory Demon Sword said:

"I understand, I’ll first stabilize the realm, then go to the front lines."

Levi nodded.

"Go on."

A projection manifested beside Levi, it was Charactus.

"Grand Council Chairman, we have important news to report."

"Speak."

"We found many traces of demons."

"No problem, kill them and you’re done, no need to worry about Abyss retaliation."

"Killed them, and then the demons came back." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"Hmm? Could they be Nightmare Avatars like us?"

"Seems similar, looks like the Abyss also has experts in the Nightmare path. Could it be Eternal Slumber·Celestia?"

"Possibly, what’s our damage?

"Tolerable, not very severe. It’s just these demons constantly plundering our resource areas, and launching surprise attacks on some outposts, many have returned to the city."

"I see."

After ending the call, Levi instructed Fingal to pause his work.

Next, Fingal would go to the Northern Battle Zone for an on-site investigation. Levi wanted to test if he could reverse invade the Abyss through the demons’ Nightmare Avatars.

If possible, solutions for Eternal Slumber must be realized.

Nora’s battle trophies are not to be shared with the enemy!

...

Twenty years later.

Nora Calendar 3830.

Ancient Dragon Continent, Tower of Summer Flowers.

[Spiritual force: 64,000/72,000]

"Nine Rings Perfect, this Heart of Wan Chuan is indeed a Primordial Relic."

Elena stored away the azure blue bead floating before her.

She hadn’t refined it, only absorbed some [Ten Thousand Rivers Water Qi] during usual times, although it couldn’t directly enhance spiritual force, it silently improved elemental talent. Additionally, greatly boosting meditation efficiency, and stacking with medicine effects.

Together with the previously refined Sun Refining Artifact [Mountain Spring Sound].

Ultimately allowing her to break through to the Nine Rings Perfect Realm.

"Now I’ve refined the Water God, Sea God Series, Tide Spirit... Plus River Heart, Ocean’s Heart, Heart of Lake, and Heart of Mountain Spring, these four great Sun Refining Artifacts."