Knowing that this wasn't the time to be perplexed, Zhang Xuan suppressed the dizziness in his heart and turned his attention back to the stone pedestal.
At this moment, the black silhouette seemed to be going through the same experience as him. Heavenly flames rained down from the sky one after another, burning the black silhouette to a crisp. His aura was no longer as strong as before, and it felt as if he would die at any moment.
Just as his aura was about to reach an undetectable level, a slight surge of energy began to grow from the black silhouette's body. Like a seed, it began to germinate, and soon, it grew into a towering tree.
It grew stronger and stronger, and even though the black silhouette was no longer moving, it felt as if he would tear through space and leap away at any moment.
"This is … destruction followed by reestablishment, destruction followed by rebirth?"
Zhang Xuan's heart jolted in astonishment.
The autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves. Once autumn arrived, the flourishing scenery of the world would be drowned out, eventually becoming lifeless. However, once spring arrived, the world would recover, and spiritual energy would return to it. What seemed to be dead would once again blossom with new life.
This was the law of nature.
Clearly, the black silhouette was using such a method.
The more one resists the heavenly flames, the more intense the heat. On the other hand, the weaker one's strength is, the lower the temperature will fall as well. Once one's body is tempered by the low-temperature heavenly flames, one will be able to adapt to it …
Zhang Xuan widened his eyes in realization.
The Empyrean Heavenly Flame was similar to the lightning tribulation. The stronger one's cultivation was, the stronger the lightning tribulation would be. On the other hand, the weaker one's cultivation was, the weaker the lightning tribulation would be.
Otherwise, even with his Aureate Body realm soul, he wouldn't be able to withstand it and fall unconscious. Since that was the case … it would be better for him to feign weakness first so that he could raise his physical strength.
"The arrival of winter, the end of all life!"
Understanding all of this, Zhang Xuan stopped resisting the flames in his body. In an instant, it felt as if his breathing had stopped, and his soul had left his body. It was as if winter had arrived, and all life had been extinguished under the blanket of snow.
Tzzzzzzz!
As expected, as soon as Zhang Xuan calmed down, the temperature of the heavenly flames began to plummet.
Under such circumstances, one's zhenqi was like gasoline. Using gasoline to fend off the flames would only make the latter more and more ferocious. On the other hand, if one were to seal the flames away, as time passed, the flames would gradually lose their momentum and eventually die out.
Unable to use his zhenqi to defend himself, Zhang Xuan fell into a state of stillness, making him look no different from an ordinary person. As the might of the heavenly flame weakened, the excruciating pain was alleviated as well. At this point, he was already able to withstand it.
The flames dispersed in his cells and burned. Streams of black gas were burned out. His physical body was gradually moving toward a golden color.
Having cultivated the Heaven's Path Golden Body, Zhang Xuan knew that the black aura was the impurities in one's body. Even if one were to temper it repeatedly, it would still be difficult to cleanse it completely.
It was like taking a bath. No matter how one washed, there would always be dirt.
There were impurities in the Spirit Qi, which was why Spirit Stones were divided into Peerless, High, Medium, and Low.
However, even the purest pinnacle spirit stones weren't a hundred percent pure. If even the spiritual energy absorbed by a pinnacle spirit stone was so weak, it was easy to imagine how much impurities there would be in the human body.
The Heavenly Flame burned these things into ashes and excreted them from the body, making the cultivator stronger.
Gold was the metal with the least impurities. Through continuous refinement, one's body would emit a golden light, just like it. This was the origin of the Golden Body.
As more and more black Qi was released, the golden light on Zhang Xuan's body grew brighter and brighter.
Previously, it was only his soul that had been burned, but at this moment, his physical body and zhenqi were beginning to turn golden.
With a light knock, a metallic buzz echoed from his body, reminiscent of a divine weapon that had yet to be tempered.
I should be able to raise the temperature of the flames now …
Seeing that the pain from before had disappeared along with the tempering, Zhang Xuan knew that the Heavenly Flame was no longer a threat to him. Thus, his aura began to swiftly rise.
In an instant, the world came to life. The ice and snow melted, and the vitality in his body surged.
Hong long long!
Sensing the condition of his body, the Heavenly Flame felt that it had been toyed with, and it flew into a rage. Thick streams of flames descended on Zhang Xuan once more.
This was the result that Zhang Xuan wanted. With a jolt of his mind, energy surged into his body.
Ji ji ji ji!
The Heavenly Flame, which he had been unable to resist previously, was now roaming around his body. The pain was no longer as excruciating, so he was able to accept it.
The black aura continued to seep out, and the Golden Body grew more and more dazzling.
Under the scorching heat of the Heavenly Flame, the floor that Zhang Xuan was sitting on had turned pitch-black.
It was identical to the Heavenly Flame that he had seen previously.
It's time to deal with the Innate Fetal Poison!
After a while more, Zhang Xuan felt that his body had finally adapted to the Heavenly Flame. Heaving a sigh of relief, he narrowed his eyes.
It was time to deal with the Innate Fetal Poison.
Previously, he had been able to hide it in his body, but this time, there was no way he could hide it!
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes and dashed into the dark clouds above.
Since he was going to deal with the Innate Fetal Poison, he would make sure that it had nowhere to run. The amount of Heavenly Flame that he could summon was still too little.
Back then, even though he had entered the clouds with his soul, he hadn't been able to get too deep, which was why the Innate Fetal Poison had been able to escape.
This time, he wouldn't allow it to happen again.
Hu hu hu!
As soon as Zhang Xuan entered the clouds, he immediately felt countless black flames surging toward him, drowning him.
Without any hesitation, Zhang Xuan opened all of his acupoints and began absorbing the black flames.
The black heavenly fire entered his meridians, and under the control of his mind, it surged toward the Innate Fetal Poison.
Ji ji ji!
The Innate Fetal Poison was still lazily curled up into a ball when it realized that Zhang Xuan would attract the Innate Fetal Poison so quickly to it. Not to mention, the Innate Fetal Poison.
"Do you think that you can escape?"
After being tortured by the Innate Fetal Poison for so long, how could he allow it to do as it pleased? Before it could get far, it saw a ball of flames surging toward it from its meridians.
In the blink of an eye, all of its escape routes had been sealed off.
If he had known that the Innate Fetal Poison would be able to escape so quickly, he would have made preparations beforehand. At this moment, his entire body was enveloped in Heavenly Flame, and his entire body had turned black. If he couldn't incinerate the Innate Fetal Poison completely, he might as well smash his head into a wall and die.
Ji ji ji ji!
With the Innate Fetal Poison completely surrounded, it was unable to escape anymore. Soon, it was surrounded by the Heavenly Flame. Amid the scorching flames, a shrill cry reminiscent of a spirit's shriek of agony grew fainter and fainter until it finally disappeared.
"It's finally gone!"
Zhang Xuan heaved a sigh of relief.
His soul and body had been tempered by the Heavenly Flame, and his spirit had reached the pinnacle. No matter how cunning the Innate Fetal Poison was, it wouldn't be able to escape.
Fearing that the Innate Fetal Poison would make a move, even though it had already adapted to the Heavenly Flame, it didn't stop absorbing the Innate Fetal Poison's cries. It continued burning the Innate Fetal Poison for nearly ten minutes, and only then did it stop.
Pushing the Innate Fetal Poison aside, Zhang Xuan sent his consciousness into the flames, and with a single glance, his eyes narrowed in astonishment.
"This … What is this?"
Zhang Xuan was stunned.
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