Easier than expected

Since Gaofeng now was alone in the center of the Blood Ocean, he decided to begin absorbing the blood around him into the Crimson Arena for so to absorb it to refine his own blood later. His expectations when he began absorbing, was that he might be able to completely drain the Blood Ocean in another week, but the Crimson Arena far exceeded his expectations.

The process of absorbing the blood was so rapid that the entirety of the Blood Ocean formed a gigantic whirlpool soon after Gaofeng began draining it, and one hour later almost half the blood in the ocean had already been absorbed by the Crimson Arena. Truly, the blood essence of cultivators below the Godly realm wasn't much to the Crimson Arena. The only reason Gaofeng didn't completely absorb the entire Blood Ocean in an instant was the limitations of his own cultivation.

One hour later, the last drop of blood was completely absorbed into the Blood Arena. The greatest benefit of absorbing the blood directly into the blood arena was that it would actually qualitatively improve the blood and extract its essence, and it would automatically inject this blood essence into Gaofeng's bloodstream to be completely absorbed by Bloodbath. This would lead to a situation in which Bloodbath would quickly improve without Gaofeng even having to personally refine or absorb the blood, rather it was handed to him on a silver platter.

When the Ocean had completely disappeared, however, a mass of white specters were left on the shore, and they were currently flying through the air towards Gaofeng at immense speeds. Since Gaofeng was in the center of the previous Ocean, he naturally found himself at the bottom of a deep valley, and thus he was being attacked from above from all sides.

The specters were formed from the souls of the cultivators who died in the massacre which created this ocean, and so they were intimately connected to the blood. Thus, they didn't want anyone else to touch their blood, much less absorb it or take it away. Because Gaofeng had taken away the entire ocean, he would naturally face the complete wrath of this mass of restless souls which carried with them immense grievances due to the way in which they died.

When the specters came closer, the entirety of the space surrounding Gaofeng was actually occupied, and due to this some specters somehow began absorbing their fellow specters to increase their own power and lower the numbers.

Millions of specters turned to hundreds of thousands, which turned into thousands and then eventually one specter had gained the upper hand by amassing power far greater than its brethren. This kind of competition to be the superior specter continued for another minute before that single specter had completely absorbed every other specter.

The auras of the specters had varied between the Divine-core realm and the Dao Consolidation realm, but this massive specter had actually broken through not only to the Dao Transformation realm, but all the way to the Transcendence realm. Although it was merely at the initial stage of the Transcendence realm, such a cultivator was far stronger than a Dao Transformation cultivator could compare to.

Feeling the massive pressure of this King of Specters, Gaofeng still didn't back down. Instead, he fully extended his wings, and used both his tail as well as both his muscular legs to shoot up into the air towards this new opponent. He could actually have stopped the process of the specters combining if he wanted, or simply cut a path through them using his new body, but instead he waited patiently for this specter to achieve its peak condition to truly have a good fight.

With each flap of his wings his speed greatly increased until the specter couldn't even see Gaofeng's figure. The special spatial cutting ability of his new body actually made Gaofeng automatically enter the seams of space, for so to shoot out of what seemed like nowhere at an incredible speed right by the specter's head.

The specter didn't have enough time to react and could only take the blow head on. There was no fanciful techniques used on Gaofeng's part either, only the innate power he was granted by his new body and physique. This punch, however, contained the Destructive Dao of the Primordial Yin-Yang beast, and this unstable energy actually created an explosion of concentrated energy drawn from the surrounding air. It even drew on the King specter's own yin energy to use it against itself, making the resulting explosion truly reach the Transcendence realm in might.

A portion of the specter's head was directly blown off, and its body was smashed backwards until crashed into the ground of the newly formed valley. Gaofeng didn't let up his aggression one bit, instead choosing to constantly chase after the specter and the moment the specter hit the ground, he followed up by utilizing his tail to make a cut stretching from the specter's head down to its crotch.

The naturally imbued spacial rendering in the blade of his tail was so sharp that it didn't meet even an ounce of resistance from the body of the yin specter. Although the body of a yin specter was quite fragile compared to cultivators on the same level, it still contained the soul power of millions of cultivators superimposed on eachother. Even so, the specter was almost split in two by this destructive power.

Not wanting to end the battle right away, Gaofeng stood still in front of the Yin specter and let it recover a bit. He waited until the specter again decided to attack him, and this attack was an attack of the mind. Gaofeng was suddenly transported to a great flatland where nothing was growing.

The Yin specter appeared in front of Gaofeng and let out its kingly aura to suppress Gaofeng and sunder his soul apart. However, how could Gaofeng, who had experienced far greater obstacles within the trials of the Golden Tablet, possibly cower in front of a mere King of Yin specters?

Gaofeng didn't even budge in the face of this suppressive force, and instead he counterattacked by utilizing his own heaven-rendering aura, supported by the intent he had comprehended and the destructive animalistic primordial aura he had been gained after his recent transformation.

Instead of Gaofeng surrendering, it was actually the yin specter's knees which were buckling. The specter eventually couldn't even remain standing in Gaofeng's presence, and had no choice but to kneel before him. At this point, Gaofeng got a nudge by the Divine Myriad Changes techniques for him to utilize the symbols of his soul to brand this yin specter. When he presented his soul, a chain of divine symbols, the yin specter cowered even lower, not even daring to resist when the chain branded it.

The brand was a slave-brand, allowing Gaofeng to become this specter's master. It created a connection between the yin specter and Gaofeng which allowed Gaofeng to read through its memories and also to end its existence in an instant if he so willed it.

After this farce of a fight had ended, Gaofeng had completed his purpose in this place. Now, all that remained was breaking the restriction of the valley and leave together with Ming Xie and his sister, as well as the nice elders of the Pale Leaf Merchant Guild.