Chapter 171: 170: Sun‑Scorched Body Refinement

Yin Shenli basically moved into Wang Wu's house, and all day she does nothing but watch Wang Wu's domestic violence there and supervise his cultivation.

It's domestic violence in the literal sense, nothing else, don't overthink it. Wang Wu is actually a very evil person.

After returning, Qin Xiang seemed to run into some other matter, so for the next month he hasn't had time to come over.

Wang Wu didn't ask Qin Xiang what had happened, he only asked whether his master had encountered danger.

Qin Xiang didn't answer directly, merely muttered vaguely for Wang Wu not to worry. Then Wang Wu instantly understood roughly what situation his master was facing.

It should be that something went wrong at home, not a big issue, but Qin Xiang probably can't resolve it.

Whether it comes from his parents or his wife, based on Wang Wu's knowledge of his master, it could only be one of those three.

Still, he's a bit curious, because his master clearly didn't do anything, so why did he provoke his family?

Qin Xiang can't come, but Wang Wu's body refinement must go on.

Anyway, with master Yin Shenli by his side, she alone is actually enough.

To be safe, Yin Shenli originally planned to bring over another Direct Transmission Disciple of hers.

But that guy's family also happened to have some issues, so for now he can't come over either.

"By the way, master, do I really have to do body refinement inside the Sun? This star system does have other gas giants, you know?"

In near‑Earth orbit outside Tianyuan Star, Wang Wu rode a motorcycle, turned his head toward the master behind him, and asked with some worry.

"Damn it, with me by your side, what are you actually scared of? Afraid you'll die inside the Sun?" Yin Shenli scolded her disciple with obvious displeasure.

This guy's courage is a bit too small.

"Just head straight into the Sun, fly to the Sun's orbit and stop there; then you'll go down and start diving into the Sun."

"Huh? Go now?" Wang Wu hesitated a bit; he had thought his master sending him into space was to first explain the relevant matters, but now it's a straight jump?

"What?" Yin Shenli glared at Wang Wu.

"Well, okay then."

Wang Wu nodded, then twisted the throttle and began flying toward the Sun.

This motorcycle's top speed doesn't reach 0.1 times the speed of light; even after a second upgrade, its maximum is only seven hundred Mach.

Eight hundred fifty thousand kilometers per hour, and at this moment Wang Wu's location is a full 150 million kilometers from the Sun.

At such a distance, if relying solely on this motorcycle, it would take a full seven days to get there.

However, in space you don't need to follow aerodynamics, so as long as Wang Wu's motorcycle has any thrust, it can accelerate almost without limit.

Of course, strictly speaking it can't accelerate infinitely, because its material can't handle it.

In vacuum you don't need aerodynamics, but when speed gets too high, even the tiniest particles can pose a lethal threat to a spacecraft that isn't hard enough.

Not to mention, when speed reaches a certain level, the things you can collide with are no longer just tiny space dust.

But with Yin Shenli present, it's like Superman not having to worry that intercepting a plane in midair would cause it to explode; Yin Shenli likewise has such a skill.

It didn't take long; under Yin Shenli's propulsion, the motorcycle already reached a super‑high speed of 0.5 times the speed of light.

That's a full 150,000 kilometers per second, and even at this speed it still takes some time to reach the vicinity of the Sun.

But that's enough.

The motorcycle now became a small craft, just like the one on that planet previously protected by the celestial court's divine generals.

Sitting in the craft's cockpit, Wang Wu sipped today's milk while admiring the starry sky outside.

The world's starry sky isn't that dark; even in space you can see brilliant, dazzling stars.

It's just not suitable for ordinary people to look at; if a normal person does, they'll incur irreversible damage in no time.

Those shining stars, and the blood‑red sky, both contain special power.

And that power can trigger mutations in human bodies, pollute their souls, and turn them into complete monsters.

That's definitely not what they want to see.

But Wang Wu and Yin Shenli don't need to worry about that, so Wang Wu can still appreciate the beauty of the universe's starry sky.

Though extremely bizarre and twisted, it does possess a unique aesthetic.

"So beautiful."

Wang Wu took a sip of milk, looked at the sky, and sighed.

Oh no, the milk was finished before he went to space; now Wang Wu is drinking goat's milk.

As for whose it is, um, that doesn't matter.

Since moving to Heavenly Python City, Wang Wu has been well fed, trying all sorts of dairy products, including those that produce the dairy… um, never mind.

Although Yin Shenli is uninterested, even a bit repulsed by some of Wang Wu's hobbies, she does support his drinking of various animal milks.

Every time Wang Wu orders milk, she watches the whole process beside him, very attentively, lest she miss even the slightest detail.

Wang Wu didn't expect his master to actually enjoy watching that, but it's fine. She can watch if she wants; it's his own master, and letting her watch won't take away any meat.

One second is 150,000 km, ten seconds is 1,500,000 km, and a distance of 150 million km is just a matter of a few tens of minutes at that speed for the motorcycle.

"Master, you said those shining stars—have they all become demonic realms?"

After staring at those glittering stars outside the glass window for a while, Wang Wu turned his head and asked his master.

The Heavenly Origin Realm and the March Realm cannot be seen in space because their brightness is extremely low.

Even the stars in their own star system, when compared to the other sparkling stars in space, appear exceedingly dim.

"Demonic realm?" Yin Shenli stared at those stars for a moment, then looked away.

"How would I know? But those stars are indeed acting strangely."

As a supreme master, a top‑level Earth martial Daoist great being of the Realm of Overturning the Universe, Yin Shenli's eyes naturally can see places far beyond Wang Wu's.

Distances of thousands of light‑years are all instantly brought into her sight.

When power reaches their level, even that level becomes unnecessary. Starting from Wang Wu's level, once the fourth‑grade Complete Realm is achieved and body refinement is finished, a warrior's eyes are no longer merely a "photoreceptor".

From that moment on, it becomes a truly extraordinary eye.

The light you see is not the present light, just as the sunlight on Earth actually left the Sun minutes ago.

The stars you see are also how they appeared decades, even tens of millions of years ago.

But once you achieve the Diamond Body and truly possess the "Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils," what you see will be the actual scene.

There will be no delay, and you will no longer need to rely on "light" to perceive objects.

You will be able to see the true reality.

For those True Dao cultivators and the people of the Summer Kingdom, this is probably what they have long dreamed of, right?

"Those planets look as if they've all become supernovae, so they're that bright you can see them from such a distance," Yin Shenli said while swallowing a floating milk‑pearl.

"But in reality, if you look closely, you'll find that's not the case."

"I am actually a bit surprised," Yin Shenli said, glancing again at the stars outside the window, "There are still living things on those planets? The planets have already become like that."

"Living things?" Wang Wu was startled, "Y‑yes, demons?"

"After you finish body‑refining, see for yourself," Yin Shenli replied impatiently, having no intention of using her disciple as a human telescope.

"If you want to know, train hard and reach the Complete Realm quickly; then you can directly look at the star system beside the March Realm you mentioned—it's not far, about thirty light‑years away."

"Then I can just go up and see it?" After hearing his master's words, Wang Wu felt eager to try.

"If you're not afraid of death, you may go up," Yin Shenli sneered, "It's full of monsters up there, some of which are as strong as First‑rank cultivators."

"Huh?"

Although it wasn't unexpected, Wang Wu was still somewhat shocked.

He knew the power tier of his universe was actually quite high, but he hadn't expected there to be so many strong beings.

Even the Heavenly Court itself, at its peak its strength could not compare to the human empire of his masters' homeland, but the human empire has already perished, and the Heavenly Court, as a galaxy‑dominant transcendental civilization, even its remnants are probably comparable in power to his masters' top‑tier cultivators, right?

After all, on any given planet you can encounter monsters equivalent to First‑rank masters on his master's side; if they're in the core region of the Heavenly Court, the power of those demon gods is so immense he dares not even imagine.

His master's homeland was not an original transcendental civilization; New Humans, built upon the ruins of the human empire, are a new civilization—though transcendental, its development time is still too short.

All New Humans awoke from the Fire Seed Bases; that world‑shaking war back then essentially exterminated all Old Humans.

After hundreds of millions of years, the surviving Old Humans finally revived from their own Fire Seed Bases, stepped into this wasteland, and founded a new civilization.

All Fire Seed Bases have roughly the same dormancy period, so presumably no one awoke early.

The base's powerful AI and its endless energy can operate until the end of time, so there's no need to worry about aging causing malfunctions.

After over a hundred million years of hibernation, the Old Humans and their civilization perished; the New Humans crawled out of their parents' corpses, using the remains to forge their own new era.

Yet the current New Human civilization is still too young.

As a transcendental civilization, they advanced at a divine speed, reaching this level within just a few thousand years.

The Heavenly Court has developed for tens of millions of years; although it never left its own galaxy, having existed that long still grants it considerable strength.

Those divine generals and divine weapons are so powerful that even his masters would have to be on high alert, I suppose.

His mind raced for a moment, and when he came back to himself, the craft had already reached an orbit near the Sun.

"What are you thinking about?"

Yin Shenli's voice sounded in his ear, pulling Wang Wu's consciousness back to reality.

Yin Shenli stood at the cabin door, hand on the handle, and said to him, "Come out?"

After speaking, she opened the door.

In an instant, Wang Wu, along with the air drifting into the vacuum, was sucked outside.

Drifting in outer space, watching the door close again, Yin Shenli's voice sounded in Wang Wu's ear:

"Start with the corona layer, move downward, don't go too fast—reach a level that continuously scorches you but won't kill you instantly."

"Then stop there, begin adapting, until your body no longer gets burned; then you can continue the deep dive."

After hearing his master's instructions, Wang Wu began the descent.

At this moment he was three million kilometers from the Sun, staring at the dazzling fireball; although his strength was not great, the brilliance did not blind him.

He could even clearly see the Sun's photospheric structures, grain‑sized entities aptly named the "Grain Organization."

These entities appear tiny, yet each is one to two Earths in size.

"Master, aren't you coming out with me?" As he kept descending, the surrounding temperature rose. At three million kilometers from the Sun, the ambient temperature was already over a hundred degrees Celsius.

Now, as he delved deeper, the temperature surged rapidly—from the initial hundred‑plus degrees to two hundred, then three hundred.

Until it reached five thousand degrees Celsius now.

Then he stopped, not because he couldn't endure, but because his master Yin Shenli was not beside him.

Wang Wu is quite cowardly, so he needed to clarify the situation with his master before continuing the descent.

"You little guy, why is your courage so small???"

Yin Shenli, seeing Wang Wu frozen in place, was furious, "I damn well said I'd be watching from the side, so go down!"

"Then master, when will you come to my side?"

"When you're about to die, I'll be there." Yin Shenli snapped, "Will you go down or not? If you don't move, I'll have to give you a direct boost!"

"No, no!" Wang Wu hurriedly replied, then began a rapid descent.

Pushing his speed to the maximum, within moments the temperature around Wang Wu reached twenty thousand degrees Celsius.

Although the corona layer is the Sun's outermost region, the solar wind expelled from there can reach temperatures up to one million degrees Celsius.

And that temperature is far from ideal for Wang Wu; encountering such violent solar activity at his current level would instantly turn him into, uh, charcoal.

This is precisely why cultivation manuals do not recommend practitioners of his tier to refine their bodies on the Sun.

Because the Sun frequently experiences violent solar events, which are undoubtedly lethal to cultivators of his realm.

(End of chapter)