"Since illusions are useless, let you taste... the real flavor!" The Heavenly Demon went utterly mad, deciding to make one last attempt.

It no longer limited itself to creating illusions, but instead mixed its chaotic, corrosive demonic thoughts with the "damage" caused in the illusion, directly acting upon Xu Ping’s Divine Soul essence.

Boom.

Xu Ping’s body suddenly shook violently.

In his Sea of Consciousness, a phantom of the demon god struck him with a punch, causing severe pain in his chest.

At the same time, in the outside world, a clear, recessed punch mark appeared on his chest out of thin air, the skin ruptured, and pale golden blood seeped out.

The "injuries" suffered in the Heart Demon world began to directly reflect on his physical body in reality.

Next, in the Sea of Consciousness, he was pierced through by ten thousand swords, scorched by demonic flames, bitten by soul-devouring poisonous insects...

The physical body in the outside world correspondingly showed sword scars, charred marks, and strange signs of corrosion.

The injuries began to accumulate.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, even an early-stage Divinity Transformation one, facing this kind of Spiritual Sense attack directly affecting the physical body, they would likely panic, leading to distraction in their mind, eventually letting the Heavenly Demon exploit the situation.

However, Xu Ping’s physical body is the Nirvana Golden Body.

At the instant those strange injuries appeared, the vast energy and blood within him, like a sea of stars, boiled instantly.

Pale golden immortal Dao rhythm circulated at the wounds, a powerful and terrifying vitality and recovery power erupted.

The punch mark on his chest bulged and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The necrotic tissues at the charred sword scars fell off, new granulation tissue crazily grew.

The traces of corrosion were directly evaporated and purified by the scorching energy and blood.

In just a breath’s time, all the injuries fed back by the Heart Demon Tribulation had completely recovered as before.

Not even a single scar was left!

"What?"

"What kind of physical body is this?" The Heavenly Demon avatar found it hard to believe.

This kind of recovery ability was completely unreasonable.

Even Divinity Transformation cultivators find it difficult to achieve.

Xu Ping, although his eyes were closed, had a cold curve on the corner of his mouth.

Exhausting each other?

He welcomes it!

Thus began a bizarre tug-of-war.

The Heavenly Demon avatar frantically attacked Xu Ping’s Divine Soul, and fed back the "damage" to his physical body.

Meanwhile, Xu Ping’s Nirvana Golden Body offset all physical injuries with abnormal recovery ability, while his formidable Divine Sense stood as the most solid fortress, resisting the Heavenly Demon’s main body’s corrosion.

This is a contest of foundation.

Watching to see if the Heavenly Demon exhausts its power first, unable to maintain the feedback of injuries.

Or if Xu Ping’s physical body supports first or his mind succumbs first.

Time slowly passed.

The roars of the Heavenly Demon avatar became weaker, its body composed of demonic thoughts starting to become transparent and scattered.

After all, it was just a strand of an avatar, crossing an endless void to arrive, and its power was not infinite.

While Xu Ping’s breath remained long, his physical body radiant with golden light, Divine Sense as steady as Mount Tai.

The energy and blood of the Nirvana Golden Body seemed never to be exhausted, the Dao heart, after being tempered, became brighter.

The Heavenly Demon avatar let out one last roar full of resentment and greed, its voice hysterical.

"Ant!"

"Next time... next time if you dare to advance again, triggering even greater causality, my true body will definitely descend, crossing myriad worlds, to utterly devour you!"

The threatening curse echoed in the Sea of Consciousness.

Ultimately, the Heavenly Demon avatar exhausted its power, unable to maintain its existence, completely dissipating like smoke in Xu Ping’s Sea of Consciousness.

"Hoo."

The tension in Xu Ping’s mind finally relaxed, a deep sigh of relief emanated from the depths of his being.

"The Heart Demon Tribulation is finally over."

Xu Ping felt an unprecedented fatigue, but more than that, a sense of relief and solemnity for overcoming the crisis.

"Unexpectedly, this breakthrough attracted an extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon!" He recalled the dangers just moments ago, still with lingering fear.

The Heavenly Demon’s techniques were unpredictably eerie; if not for his strong Divine Sense, firm Dao heart, and the Nirvana Golden Body backing him, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Although it was just a strand of an avatar, the degree of difficulty... if a Nascent Soul Cultivator encountered it, it would surely be a certain death."

"Even ordinary early-stage Divinity Transformation cultivators would likely fail!"

Xu Ping internally assessed, providing him with a more direct understanding of the danger posed by extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons.

"The main body of this demon, is at least an existence beyond the Fusion stage..." Xu Ping’s gaze was solemn.

He had just barely broken through to Divinity Transformation, still many miles away from Fusion stage, let alone existences beyond Fusion.

To be targeted by such a terrifying being was definitely not a good thing.

The Heavenly Demon’s final curse was not mere empty threats.

However, fortune and disaster are intertwined, disaster and fortune are mutually dependent.

Though the process was perilous, it wasn’t completely without harvest.

At the moment the Heavenly Demon avatar dissipated, Xu Ping’s formidable Divine Sense acted like the most precise net, forcefully capturing and refining the remains of the avatar’s purest demonic thought essence and fragmented memories.

A cold and complex stream of information surged into his consciousness. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

After a brief sorting, Xu Ping’s eyes burst with brilliant joy!

"These are... two Divine Sense Secret Techniques!"

One is called "God Slaying Needle."

It is an extremely ferocious and sharp Spiritual Sense Attack skill, capable of condensing the Divine Sense into an invisible and intangible needle that targets the vulnerabilities of the enemy’s Divine Soul, leaving them defenseless.

The other is called "Heavenly Demon Divine Evolution."

It is a rare secret technique capable of enhancing Divine Sense.

Xu Ping’s strength of Divine Sense already far surpassed peers of the same stage, previous Divine Sense Secret Techniques had already become useless.