Chapter 389: Body Strong → Soul Strong → Body Stronger

Looking from the outside in, the egg-shaped chaotic space in the hinterland of the Zhurong Tomb didn't feel big; after Hua Changxi flew in, she didn't feel it was very big either, and the Imperial House disciple who had entered before her was not far away.

However, soon, she discovered that this was not the case.

The first thing Hua Changxi did after entering the space was to ambush and kill the Imperial House disciple who had entered before her.

This person who could use black flames to control her kept her heart hanging, and she had to deal with him as soon as possible.

Hua Changxi summoned the Floating Light Sword and used all her strength, flying towards the male cultivator not far away at full speed.

However, the person opposite didn't move at all.

Zhu Yan looked very calmly at the red-clad female cultivator who was rushing towards him, wanting to kill him. After about a few minutes, seeing Hua Changxi stop suddenly, he raised his eyebrows in understanding.

This female cultivator was really alert; she discovered the strangeness of this space so quickly.

This egg-shaped chaotic space, which looked small on the outside, was as vast as a starry sky on the inside.

When he first entered, he exhausted more than half of the spiritual power in his body and still couldn't get away from the space barrier. Later, it was by constantly performing the "Star-Shifting" divine ability that he was able to wander in this space.

The female cultivator's flying technique could be called a top-level flying technique in the outside world, but here, it didn't have much use.

Unless she had also practiced spatial movement divine abilities, she would never be able to get close to him.

Hua Changxi indeed sensed that something was wrong. With her flying speed, logically speaking, she should have been able to rush to the Imperial House male cultivator, but after flying for so long, the distance between them hadn't shrunk at all.

What surprised her even more was that when she looked back, she discovered that she was still near the barrier, having flown for nothing just now.

There was something strange about this space!

Hua Changxi looked at the calm Zhu Yan, feeling alert in her heart.

Her flying technique didn't have much effect in this space, but the male cultivator could travel through the space.

In other words, she couldn't get close to him, but he could get close to her, and she had to be careful at all times that he would sneak attack her.

Knowing that she couldn't get close to Zhu Yan in a short time, Hua Changxi decisively gave up the plan to ambush and kill him and turned to explore this egg-shaped chaotic space.

Seeing that the red-clad female cultivator no longer ambushed him, Zhu Yan also breathed a sigh of relief in secret.

Performing the "Star-Shifting" divine ability was very consuming of spiritual power. He had to put his energy into chasing the fire axe. After he got the fire axe and became the owner of this blessed land, it wouldn't be too late to kill the female cultivator.

Looking at the fire axe just a few meters away, Zhu Yan felt somewhat broken in his heart.

At such a short distance, if it were in the outside world, he could get the fire axe with a wave of his hand, but here, it was as if there was a chasm between him and the fire axe. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch it.

This fire axe didn't exist from the beginning.

It was only after he entered the space and discovered that the interior of the space was vast, and after performing the "Star-Shifting" divine ability and wandering around without any gain, he thought that this blessed land was related to the Ancestral Witch Zhurong and tried to perform the "Body into Fire" divine ability, that the fire axe suddenly appeared.

The "Body into Fire" divine ability was the secret of the Zhu clan, which could only be performed by those who possessed the Zhurong bloodline.

And he was the person in the Zhu clan with the richest Zhurong bloodline.

As soon as the fire axe appeared, his intuition told him that this fire axe was the token of the owner of this blessed land.

Because the fire axe only appeared after Zhu Yan performed the "Body into Fire" divine ability, it also made him more convinced that he was the person of destiny chosen by this blessed land.

At the space barrier, Hua Changxi saw that Zhu Yan didn't pay attention to her but went to chase the fire axe again. While breathing a sigh of relief, she also felt very anxious.

Yes, she also felt that the fire axe was the token of the owner of the Zhurong Tomb.

But now, she was unable to move in this space and didn't even have the qualification to compete for the fire axe.

Hua Changxi could only suppress the anxiety in her heart and carefully explore this space.

The space was oval-shaped, and the barrier was neither stone nor jade, but a semi-transparent crystal wall flowing with dark gold bloodline patterns. Unlike other barrier walls she had seen, the barrier here was beating regularly.

Every time it beat, it was accompanied by a slight sound. Listening carefully, the sound was a bit like a heartbeat.

At the same time, the space was mixed with three majestic forces: one was the blood and Qi power as hot as magma, one was the all-encompassing fire-system law power, and the last was the extremely pure soul power.

Before entering this space, Hua Changxi had guessed that this space might be a place for practicing the third stage of the Meridian Part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art"—widening and filling the meridians. The three forces she felt now were exactly what was needed for cultivation.

Hua Changxi didn't immediately practice the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" but observed Zhu Yan, who was chasing the fire axe, for a while.

She discovered that although he could travel in the space, the distance he moved each time was not very far, and every three moves, he had to stop and sit in meditation to recover spiritual power.

Confirming that this person couldn't get close to her at will either, Hua Changxi started practicing the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art."

The first to pour into the meridians was the blood and Qi power.

Only then did Hua Changxi know that widening the meridians was so unbearable. As soon as the blood and Qi entered the body, it was like boiling magma pouring in, making her tremble all over with pain.

But the effect of widening the meridians was astonishing.

Under the scouring of the blood and Qi magma, the meridians kept widening outwards. In the repeated tempering, a faint "crackle" sound was emitted from her body, and there was a faint sound of metal trembling.

Hua Changxi gritted her teeth and ran the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" with difficulty.

Every time she wanted to give up because of the pain, she would think of "being controlled by black flames" and "the chaos in Nanxiang City being unable to be suppressed," and only then could she persist.

After the blood and Qi power opened the way, what followed into the meridians was the fire-system law power.

Under the perception of Hua Changxi's divine sense, the fire-system law power turned into fragmented red light fragments scattered in all parts of the space, floating in the chaos like stars, each containing the power to burn mountains and boil seas.

With the influx of fire-system law power, the pain Hua Changxi endured was immediately magnified several times.

If the meridians were star tracks, the blood and Qi power was mud paving the way, and the fire-system law power was the fixed steel mesh that consolidated the roadbed.

Hua Changxi only persisted for one meridian cycle before she couldn't persist anymore and collapsed in exhaustion.

Profound Yellow Fruit, she had consumed from one pattern to seven patterns, and seven shackles of her body had been opened. Practicing the seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art," she could refine it to the extreme.

The extreme number of times for body refining in each stage was nine. In other words, if she didn't want to live up to her potential, she had to widen the meridians eight more times.

Thinking that she had to experience eight more times of unbearable pain, Hua Changxi wanted to cry on the spot, but seeing that Zhu Yan "not far away" was still panting and chasing the fire axe, after recovering for a while, she sat cross-legged again.

The seventh part of the "Nine Revolutions Profound Art" also had a fourth stage: through "body as a furnace, soul as fire," that is, fire borrows the furnace's momentum to flourish, and the furnace is cold and firm because of the fire, the two coexist and grow together, nourishing and strengthening each other, to achieve the effect of body refining.

This stage of body refining was to make the soul body grow synchronously with the physical body, but it always relied on the physical body and did not leave the body, so it could not condense a separate Primordial Spirit like a dharma cultivator.

In short, the seventh part of body refining formed a complete closed loop of "body strong → soul strong → body stronger." ===== CHAPTER 390 =====