Chapter 542: Strange Bonfire

Li Heng's voice rippled along the light of the Present World Lighthouse.

He had long since added some functions to the Present World Lighthouse; the light it emitted could not only illuminate the Great Void and the Endless Unknown, but also serve as tentacles for his mental perception.

It could be said that wherever the light shone, he was omniscient.

And after the light of the Present World Lighthouse shone into the Unknown Realm, even while in a state of cultivation, he had been paying constant attention, hoping to discover something from this mysterious Unknown.

However, it had always left him somewhat disappointed.

Everything was Unknown chaos.

Until now, as the light covered a bonfire, he finally perceived that within this piece of Unknown chaos, there actually existed a formed, known bonfire?

This was simply surprising, even somewhat absurd.

This situation was like the chaos in the Primordial-style novels Li Heng had seen in his past life, where a bunch of swords, blades, and such so-called Spirit Treasures—which should only have appeared in the post-celestial era—would appear.

But primordial chaos should not even have the concepts of time or space, let alone the concepts of post-celestial, man-made tools like swords, blades, sticks, or clubs, so this was very absurd.

And everything that could be defined was considered known; it was fundamentally impossible, and should not appear in the Wuqiong Weizhi, unless someone had brought this bonfire into the Unknown.

The bonfire burned continuously, the flames leaping, illuminating a small portion of the Unknown.

Li Heng sensed it carefully.

He discovered that the light had something special; although it could not illuminate everything like the Present World Lighthouse, it seemed to possess a mysterious power that could protect living beings from being assimilated by the Unknown?

Interesting.

With a slight movement of his mind, the light shining into the Unknown underwent a marvelous change, condensing into a humanoid figure made of light—this was the Transformation Body Li Heng manifested to appear beside the bonfire.

There were black ashes beside the bonfire?

Li Heng raised an eyebrow.

It seemed someone had used this bonfire not long ago, adding firewood to it? But where were those people? He looked at the black ashes, a thought rising in his heart; he condensed Source Power into his eyes, tracing the origin of these black ashes.

Scene after scene of images appeared before his eyes.

After watching, he was lost in thought; so that was it, it was actually those Heavenly Court Immortal Gods? They had turned into firewood, lighting the flames to illuminate the Unknown once more for the living.

He did not know how to evaluate this behavior.

A feat of drinking poison to quench thirst?

It was clear now that there was no one beside the bonfire, only black ashes that could no longer burn; clearly, everyone had died. He had arrived a step too late after all, and Xuanyang's expectations had come to nothing.

Li Heng sighed slightly.

No, he felt a shock in his heart, suddenly thinking of a problem. The result of his tracing was that there had been ten Immortal Gods here, but the remaining ashes here seemed to be only a little over nine.

Why was this?

Could it be that one Immortal God had not died?

He released his mental perception, carefully searching the surrounding Wuqiong Weizhi, and finally discovered an anomaly not far from the bonfire: he found Taiyin, who was about to be completely assimilated and burned into nothingness.

Li Heng fell silent; was this Immortal God really this miserable? Being burned and then assimilated, now only that tiny bit of True Spirit remained. In a sense, this person was already dead.

But whether dead or not, one should always try.

With a thought, Li Heng pulled the tiny bit of True Spirit remaining of Taiyin to the side of the bonfire, separating it from the Unknown assimilation, while simultaneously beginning to use his power, relying on the light of the Present World Lighthouse to try to extinguish the flames.

But the flames did not move at all.

This was not because his power was insufficient, but because he felt this flame seemed to be on another level, not on the same parallel line as him, and thus he could not interfere.

It was just like that behemoth he had encountered before.

Li Heng suddenly realized that the bonfire was quite strange, and the flames were quite evil.

A bonfire appearing all alone in the Wuqiong Weizhi, while capable of illuminating the Unknown, required burning everything of a living being; was this fortunate or unfortunate for the person who found the bonfire?

He could not help but have such a thought, glanced at the Taiyin who was about to turn into nothingness, and uttered a sentence: "Consider it your effort, and consider it your good luck."

Li Heng used Source Power to roughly reconstruct the gist of the matter from the traces of Causality; while feeling some emotion, this was all he could say.

That this Immortal God named Taiyin could hold on until his arrival was due to the dual blessing of effort and luck.

If this Taiyin had not struggled to survive, they would have lived half a quarter of an hour less, and in that half a quarter of an hour, he would not have sensed this place; by the time he arrived, this Taiyin would have been completely gone.

So it was effort.

And as for luck, naturally, it was that Taiyin had met him, Li; after all, no one else could have saved them.

His mind stirred slightly, and Source Power transformed into Supreme True Water; a single drop of water contained infinite Great Thousand Worlds, immeasurable time and space, with no telling how many civilized worlds living, dying, and evolving within it.

As the True Water was sprinkled, it instantly extinguished the strange flames, finally preserving that tiny bit of True Spirit at the last moment.

Li Heng, on his side, had an even stranger expression, raising his eyebrows.

He had not given a specific target for the Supreme True Water transformed by Source Power, but had let the Source Power handle it, as long as it could produce something to extinguish the flames. In this situation, the Source Power would very likely, based on the mysterious sensing, use the Dao of mutual generation and restraint of all things to produce the thing most suitable for resolving the matter at hand.

This method was not necessarily the most efficient, but it was relatively efficient. Yet now, he had consumed half of his Source Power.

Although he had not used a Golden Source Point this time, this half of the Source Power here was half of the Source Power he had obtained after hunting that monster Calamity Wave; the massive volume added up to not much less than a Golden Source Point.

It seemed the level of this bonfire and flame was very high.

Li Heng was lost in thought.

"I hope you, fellow, are worth this half of my Source Power."

He looked at Taiyin, who only had that tiny bit of True Spirit left, and said calmly. Then, with a wave of his hand, he used the channel of the Present World Lighthouse's light to let them escape the Unknown and return to the Present World to recuperate and recover.

As for him taking action to help this Taiyin recover?

However, being burned by this strange flame was equivalent to having everything one possessed turn into nothingness; how could it be so easily recovered or compensated? Relying solely on his power would be difficult.

Just like those nine Immortal Gods who had already turned into ashes; let alone being unable to reverse time and space in the Unknown Realm, even if one could reverse time and space, one would only find a pile of black ashes.

The past, present, and future had all been burned; what was there to recover?

Unless he used Source Power.

But neither that Taiyin nor the nine Immortal Gods who were completely gone were enough to make him use Source Power so extravagantly. Moreover, he was not in a hurry now.

Whatever there is, we will talk about it after going back.

Since Li Heng had finally managed to come to the Unknown Realm, he was even more interested in the Strange Fire Pile before him, and he very much wanted to know the origin and authenticity of this Strange Fire Pile.

And so, he activated the Appraisal Technique that he had not used for a long time.