Chapter 109: Desperate Situation!

This is a terrifying furnace.

It sits inside an ancient hall guarded by Supreme Furnace patterns, the surroundings gloomy and dark, with boundless killing intent lurking.

Within it blazes the Great Dao True Fire, capable of incinerating all things, terrifying to the utmost degree.

On the racks around it, several metal fragments lie scattered in disorder.

If one looks closely, one can see that these fragments are actually Divine Gold exotic materials rare in the universe.

Even among them is a small piece flashing with green Immortal Light, suspected to be Feathering Green Gold.

Of course.

Clearly, these Divine Golds have already lost their divinity, becoming waste material after smelting.

But being able to smelt Immortal Gold like Feathering Green Gold, one can imagine the power of this furnace; it is inevitably a terrifyingly peerless Alchemy Ground.

However.

On this day, what burns in the furnace is not some Divine Gold or stone, but living flesh and blood!

The flesh body of Dacheng Holy Body Xu Lie!

And not far from the furnace, a towering figure stands dragon-proud tiger-fierce, staring dead at the scene inside the furnace, face cold and murderous, eyes flashing with cruel delight.

It is precisely Dacheng Tyrant Body Xuan Ming!

Before, in the Border Wilderness Starry Battlefield battle, his hundreds of years of bitter cultivation were not in vain; he finally narrowly won against this generation's Dacheng Holy Body.

It truly was a narrow victory!

If not for Xu Lie having just entered Holy Body Great Perfection not long ago, his combat power far from reaching the absolute peak, and a momentary relaxation of vigilance toward the Tyrant Body line, a touch of negligence.

While on the contrary, Xuan Ming had plotted painstakingly, single-mindedly targeting him, just to wipe away past shame and retaliate for his ancestors' defeat at the hands of the Holy Body line.

The outcome of this battle was still hard to say.

But regardless, Dacheng Tyrant Body Xuan Ming is now the victor; watching Xu Lie trampled beneath his feet, his heart is naturally refreshed and unrestrained.

And what he wants to do goes beyond this.

At the battle's end, the Supremes of the Beidou several Life Forbidden Zones perceived the mutually destructive situation and slashed out two Peerless Killing Strikes, intending to exterminate both young dragons in one stroke.

One strike was blocked by Xuan Ming burning his remaining essence blood; the other was repelled by the Tyrant Body Zujing's Ancestor.

And Xuan Ming took advantage of that surging-to-the-extreme Energy Explosion to carry the heavily injured Xu Lie to the Tyrant Body line's Weapon Forging Ground, unknown to anyone!

His purpose is very simple.

That is to refine this generation's Dacheng Holy Body alive into a weapon, forever under his enslavement and suppression!

As for what kind of weapon to forge, no need to think much; Xuan Ming had an idea at the first moment.

Since the Holy Body himself uses a Source Heaven Treasure Wheel, then refine his flesh and blood into a Treasure Wheel as well.

Very good, very nice!

Even Dacheng Tyrant Body Xuan Ming himself couldn't help but grin, revealing white teeth, cheering for his own marvelous idea.

Of course.

Him doing this is actually not merely out of a retaliatory heart; there is also a certain ancient indifference within, viewing all things including enemies as nothing, nothing worth his concern.

And a Treasure Wheel weapon refined from Dacheng Holy Body flesh and blood is indeed a rare weapon, able to raise Xuan Ming's combat power not a little.

As for the rest, he fundamentally won't consider it.

……

Pain!

Xu Lie wakes from pain out of the coma after heavy injury.

The supreme burning of raging flames makes him feel his five viscera and six bowels in violent pain, as if every part of his body is being burned to shreds.

Being able to make a Dacheng Holy Body like this, one can imagine the terror inside the furnace.

And he also recognizes the severity; this is absolutely not ordinary flame, but a kind of Great Dao True Fire!

Fire tongues penetrating to the bone marrow sweep over, bringing indescribably violent pain, making one feel as if they walked a round in hell, every inch of skin as if fiercely roasted by flames.

This pain is absolutely not inferior to what the Heavenly Tribulation brought on the day of his Holy Body Great Perfection, even surpassing it.

Xu Lie wants to cry out in pain, yet discovers he can no longer make a sound, only voiceless hoarseness remains.

And he also sees outside the furnace, Dacheng Tyrant Body Xuan Ming's infinitely cold, cruel bloodthirsty face, eyes flashing with endless cold light.

And in his hand, he shakes a treasure bottle, inside crimson and gorgeous, the Holy Body line's supreme Treasure Blood, smelted into a bottle.

This scene makes Xu Lie's only remaining pupils in the raging fire involuntarily contract.

This Xuan Ming, is he truly cruel to this extent?!

And this is still not the most critical.

Immediately the next moment, Xu Lie learns of an even more terrifying matter.

He perceives that his flesh body is about to be refined into a Treasure Wheel, same shape as his own Supreme Soldier Source Heaven Treasure Wheel.

Only crimson like blood, faintly containing the true meaning of Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.

And his own Primordial Spirit is also gradually being refined by the Great Dao True Fire in the furnace, to erase the Soul, leaving only a trace of residual Instinct, then integrate into that Blood Treasure Wheel, to forge the Treasure Wheel's deity.

This moment.

In Xu Lie's heart arises a great terror he has never known in his life!

He knows now, Dacheng Tyrant Body Xuan Ming wants to refine him into a weapon, enslave and suppress him for all eternity.

Without doubt, this is the ultimate humiliation of the Hugu Holy Body line!

If Xuan Ming succeeds, who knows how many years before he can gain liberation.

Perhaps some Holy Body descendant hundreds of thousands of years later, or perhaps never possible at all.

But even if he could gain liberation, in the endless years before, he himself would have to serve as a flesh-and-blood weapon, trampled underfoot by his enemy, arbitrarily abused and humiliated.

This is a tragic plight worse than death!

And at this time, Xu Lie's heart also gave birth to great regret!

He regretted that he had been too careless before, too arrogant.

Clearly the Holy Body and Tyrant Body were mortal enemies, clearly the Thunder Tribulation fluctuations of Xuan Ming's Tyrant Body reaching completion had come from the Border Wilderness Star Domain, clearly friends had reminded him to be careful……

Yet he still had not raised sufficient vigilance, so that he suffered today's crushing defeat.

He was unwilling!

He would rather self-destruct his physical body than let his enemy humiliate him like this!

"Want to self-destruct? Useless. All your magical power has been sealed by me."

The completed Tyrant Body Xuan Ming stood not far away, like a demon god, looking down at Xu Lie in the furnace, his gaze like he was looking at a lamb awaiting slaughter, victory firmly in hand, yet with utmost contempt, and moreover carrying immense smugness.

In fact.

Xuan Ming indeed had reason to be smug.

He could already envision that in the endless future years, he would become the glorious successor of the Tyrant Body lineage, a peerless figure who would wash away the Tyrant Body Ancestor's shame, revered by countless younger generations of the ancestral star.

As for the Blood Treasure Wheel transformed from the Holy Body, even if not convenient to widely spread, it could also become an exquisite artifact, used to inspire the Peerless Heavenly Prodigies among the younger generation.

All of this, Xu Lie saw in his eyes.

Even Xuan Ming's thoughts, he could guess the general outline.

And for him, this was a great shame, a great terror difficult to accept, making his bones turn cold!

This moment.

He once again exerted all his strength, wanting to gather a trace of Dao power remaining in his Primordial Spirit, wanting to mobilize the Saint Power in his physical body that had gradually turned into a Treasure Wheel.

However, facts proved that Xuan Ming's words were not wrong.

All of Xu Lie's Dao power had been sealed; self-destruction was completely impossible!

Is it really going to go on like this?

Am I to become a weapon of the enemy, accepting that endless enslavement and humiliation?

In Xu Lie's only remaining pair of pupils, blood tears welled up, bright red and about to drip, yet appearing extremely shocking!

His unwillingness reached the extreme, regret without end!

If he could escape a thread of life force, he would absolutely never repeat the same mistake!

But magical power being sealed is sealed; this is an objective fact, no matter how he struggles, it is to no avail.

And the completed Tyrant Body Xuan Ming clearly knew this in his heart as well.

He stood at the furnace's periphery, watching Xu Lie struggle with great interest, like watching a prey waiting to be dismembered, seemingly greatly enjoying this moment.

However.

The next moment.

As if sensing something, a strange change occurred in Xu Lie's Ku Hai.

It was a small stone stele, appearance extremely ancient and simple, normally not revealing itself at all.

Over these years, Xu Lie had campaigned all along the Star Sky Ancient Road, heroic spirit soaring to the clouds, grand and spectacular, never seeing this stone stele have any movement or reaction.

If not for it being left by a Saint Emperor, he would have almost forgotten this stele's existence.

And at this moment, the Saint Emperor's stone stele finally gave a slight tremble.

Then, its entire body shone brilliantly, as if boundless divine light burst forth, illuminating Xu Lie's entire Ku Hai.

Immediately after, with a boom, a mysterious Qi mechanism radiated outward centered on the Treasure Wheel forged from Xu Lie's physical body.

That was an unyielding Battle Intent!

Vast and unmatched, shocking heaven and earth, piercing the Nine Heavens!

Hum!

Under the stimulation of this Battle Intent, Xu Lie's originally sealed Primordial Spirit finally rose up, breaking through the restriction set by the completed Tyrant Body Xuan Ming.

A wave of fluctuations red as blood exploded outward, incomparably violent, shaking this Forbidden Ground!

In fact.

The stone stele's role, truly calculated, could only be considered assistance, merely giving Xu Lie a push, helping him unlock his shackles.

The most crucial was still his own extreme unyielding will aroused by infinite sorrow, regret, anger, and so on!

"What……"

In the completed Tyrant Body Xuan Ming's incredulous shocked gaze, that eternally firm ancestral star furnace that had forged countless weapons of the Tyrant Body lineage split into four and cracked into five.

Even the Supreme Furnace patterns around it could not block them, struck by that terrifying fluctuation, the patterns shattered.

"Get back!"

Xuan Ming naturally was unwilling; golden light shot from his eyes, like two supremely strong light waves sweeping across.

And divine light lit up around his body, clearly his Dao Principles operating to the extreme.

Then he swung his Tyrant Fist, purple Qi steaming and rising, covering the sky and blocking the sun, smashing down toward the Treasure Wheel below.

Boom rumble!

This Forbidden Ground underwent great destruction!

If not for Xuan Ming extending his other palm to protect the surroundings, the Tyrant Body lineage disciples near the furnace would certainly have suffered countless deaths and injuries.

But still several Tyrant Body cultivators were smashed to pieces by this aftermath, even their Primordial Spirits returning to dust; additionally some had broken bones and severed tendons, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, clearly suffering severe injuries.

This scene made Xuan Ming's face turn iron-green with anger.

He never imagined, a refining completely under his control, a sure thing, how could such an accident happen?!

The Holy Body had already been crippled of cultivation by him, even its Primordial Spirit sealed dead tight, fundamentally not a trace of resistance power left, how could it suddenly have the strength to break the restriction?

But at this moment, he also didn't think so much, couldn't even attend to his own lineage disciples' casualties; dead they could be reborn anyway, all just some unremarkable young juniors.

Watching that Treasure Wheel red as blood struck down by his full-power Tyrant Fist, falling into the blazing Great Dao Divine Fire burning at the furnace bottom.

Xuan Ming was about to press his advantage and strike with full force once more, to completely suppress that Treasure Wheel!

Chi chi chi!

The Treasure Wheel was originally formed from Xu Lie's flesh and blood; now having fallen into the Dao Fire, it was immediately burned charred black, its condition horrifying — needless to say, the pain was also incomparably intense!

But the Dao Fire also wore away a small portion of the sealing laws.

Hong!

A violent fluctuation surged skyward, clashing head-on with Xuan Ming once again.

Amidst that turbulent energy explosion, the Zujing Furnace thoroughly collapsed into ruin, turning into countless fragments.

The surrounding Great Array was also blasted into disarray.

Xuan Ming's body swayed slightly, yet he did not retreat; clearly he had gained the upper hand in this confrontation.

Whereas on the other side, the Blood Treasure Wheel was struck until its body was shattered and bones crushed; blood and bone were everywhere, Treasure Blood flying and splattering in all directions, miserable to the extreme!

However.

Xuan Ming's complexion, however, did not show the slightest joy or complacency; on the contrary it was iron-green, his eyes seeming to want to spit fire.

The reason was very simple.

He could no longer sense, within those flesh and blood remains, the Primordial Spirit of Dacheng Holy Body Xu Lie!

Had it been thoroughly killed by his one strike?

Impossible; Xuan Ming knew he had not done that, and a Dacheng Holy Body's Primordial Spirit was also not that fragile.

It was very obvious: the Holy Body's Primordial Spirit had taken advantage of the chaos in this great collision to escape!

……

Outside World.

Throughout the Universe, no one knew of this event's occurrence.

People only knew that this generation's Saint and Tyrant conflict had drawn its curtain.

This generation's Dacheng Tyrant Body, after paying a tragic price, had finally defeated the Dacheng Holy Body, washing away the humiliation of the previous generation's Dacheng Tyrant Body's defeat.

But it seemed the Tyrant Body also fared poorly, for in the end it appeared yet other Peerless Killing Strikes rushed in, blasting the entire battlefield into Great Dao fragments.

Even some onlookers at endless distance were caught in the ripple, and quite a few died.

By the time that vast and unmatched fluctuation finally subsided, both Tyrant Body and Holy Body had vanished without a trace.

"Is it mutual destruction?"

Someone voiced such shocked doubt.

"Can't be right; didn't the Tyrant Body win? Only it seems he was also heavily injured, and someone took the opportunity to strike and kill him……"

A powerhouse from a major faction employed a sect supreme treasure, saw a bit more clearly, and put forth his own conclusion.

"Why are there no traces left by them in that battlefield? Not even flesh and blood remains can be seen?"

There were also those who questioned, not agreeing with the view that the Dacheng Tyrant Body also died.

But he absolutely could not guess that the Tyrant Body lineage had this plan to refine their body's flesh and blood into a weapon!

A battle of this cultivation level, for the vast majority of cultivators, is extremely lofty; they fundamentally cannot glimpse the truth.

Even though Xu Lie and Xuan Ming had only just recently reached Dacheng, they already possessed a strand of Ji Zhi powerhouse's Qi mechanism; all living beings could only look up in reverence, unable to reach them.

However.

The Universe's major powerful clans, as well as numerous major factions, still left records of this matter.

And most of them recorded it as: "Saint and Tyrant conflict, Dacheng Tyrant Body tragic victory, then battlefield encountered mishap, Saint and Tyrant both missing."

A few words might differ, but the general picture was all like this, as if it had become a kind of consensus.

Worldly affairs are tumultuous.

Even an event as great as the Saint and Tyrant conflict, even with a vague mystery lingering, ultimately slowly lost its heat, like passing clouds and smoke.

Of course, there were still many people grieving deeply.

Among them were Xu Lie's closest kin and friends, as well as many people who had once received Xu Lie's help, saddened that they would never again see such a bright and towering odd man.

Also Xu Lie's birth sect, which had barely produced such a Heaven's Pride figure encountered once in hundreds of thousands of years, yet he died so young.

There were even those who wanted to investigate his true whereabouts, to know whether he was ultimately alive or dead, but because the gap in strength was too great, they could only return disappointed.

(Chapter End)