Chapter 343: Crimson Sun Entry

The white halo trembled weakly, having just coalesced into a blurred shape behind Wang Yu, when it suddenly dissolved without a sound.

The white orb between his hands also vanished in a flash.

"Indeed impossible—still far from truly forming the Yang Ring," Wang Yu opened his eyes, a strange flush crossing his face before he murmured.

According to the first-level incantation of the Crimson Sun Scripture, to enter its realm, one must first form the so-called "Yang Ring," then use this ring to absorb external fire elemental energy and refine it into the body.

Fire elemental energy is the most violent of the five elemental energies; without a Yang Ring, one cannot directly absorb fire elemental energy into the body.

His previous fire elemental cultivation technique, though called a fire-affinity method, actually ingested ordinary elemental energy mixed with all five elements; though the transformation method favored fire affinity due to the technique's nature, it still contained traces of other elements.

Not just the fire elemental technique, but most Qi Condensation stage techniques, and even the majority of Foundation Establishment techniques, were the same.

Only a handful of Foundation Establishment techniques, like the Crimson Sun Scripture, required the ingested elemental energy to be purely single-affinity, ensuring the internal cultivation energy remained sufficiently pure to maximize the technique's power.

If it were other elemental energies, it might be tolerable—but fire elemental energy was so violent that only after forming the Yang Ring could one contain and refine it; only then could one truly enter the Crimson Sun Scripture and begin proper cultivation.

This is why the Sunset Sect, possessing a massive fire crystal vein, could offer special cultivation sites like the Cloud of Fire Cave and the Essence Fire Chamber, providing abundant fire elemental energy; otherwise, merely a few second-tier spirit veins could never satisfy the Crimson Sun Scripture's demands.

Yet the difficulty of entering the Crimson Sun Scripture far exceeded ordinary imagination.

Even though Wang Yu had purified his meridians with Green Yang Bright Flame, allowing his body to tolerate violent fire elemental energy, a mere month of cultivation had made him understand the true difficulty of forming the Yang Ring.

According to the technique's description, to form the Yang Ring, one must inhale a sufficient volume of fire elemental energy in one breath, then manipulate it into shape.

To inhale enough fire elemental energy at once, one must first advance the first-level incantation of the Crimson Sun Scripture to a certain level; to skillfully manipulate the fire elemental energy, one requires a sufficiently strong spiritual sense and countless trials and errors.

The first point is manageable—if one's meridians are purified and resources are generously spent, most Foundation Establishment cultivators can achieve it.

The second point, however, is truly excruciatingly difficult, and may even require a touch of luck.

For this so-called "Yang Ring" is, in essence, a special spiritual pattern composed of nine fire-affinity spiritual runes, and all nine runes are formed entirely of pure fire elemental energy.

In fact, constructing a spiritual pattern outside the body is a hundred times harder than forming one within the spiritual sea.

Forming a spiritual pattern within the spiritual sea relies solely on pure spiritual force; as long as one's spiritual sense is strong enough, it can be achieved with a single thought.

Forming a spiritual pattern outside the body requires not only a powerful spiritual sense, but also a corresponding technique to mobilize elemental energy—its complexity far surpasses the former.

The process of forming the Yang Ring demands not only constructing each of the nine runes, but also perfect coordination of their size, position, and the exact amount of fire elemental energy used to form each rune, so the entire pattern remains utterly stable—only then might the Yang Ring succeed.

Thus, forming the Yang Ring requires countless trials and errors from the cultivator.

Yet each failure to form the Yang Ring causes a certain backlash of cultivation energy; though not severe, it demands several days of rest before continuing, greatly slowing the first-level cultivation of the Crimson Sun Scripture.

According to the technique's description, once one begins cultivating the Crimson Sun Scripture, one must succeed in forming the Yang Ring within three years, or else, if cultivation exceeds three years, the body will spontaneously combust from prolonged inability to refine fire energy, turning to ash.

Thus, those beginning the Crimson Sun Scripture must invest more spirit stones and pills, utilize more cultivation resources, if they wish to attempt forming the Yang Ring frequently in a short time—this is the only solution.

And Wang Yu had only been cultivating the first-level incantation of the Crimson Sun Scripture for a mere month.

During this time, he had long-term rented the Essence Fire Chamber and consumed several premium auxiliary pills, including the Fire Refining Pill, yet he was still far from absorbing enough fire elemental energy to form the Yang Ring.

Conversely, the relatively harder task—forming the "Yang Ring" spiritual pattern—had progressed smoothly; he could now form multiple runes outside his body using fire elemental energy in a single attempt.

All that remained was to master the formation of the remaining runes, absorb sufficient fire elemental energy, and gradually balance the nine runes so their pattern became as perfect as possible, allowing him to finally attempt forming the Yang Ring in one complete, stable formation and thus enter the scripture.

His ability to reach this point was naturally tied to his spiritual sense, which was nearly ten times stronger than that of cultivators at his level.

More importantly, during this month he had repeatedly entered the Taiyuan Login Interface, practicing and familiarizing himself with the Yang Ring formation method using the first-level incantation of the Crimson Sun Scripture.

After all, within the Login Interface, no matter what condition he suffered, he would return to normal the moment he left—it posed no risk of backlash, allowing him to rapidly accumulate vast experience in formation.

Wang Yu's expression quickly returned to calm; he pulled out a thick incense candle from his robe and planted it into the nearby array, then closed his eyes once more to cultivate.

Now, he needed only more cultivation time, and more trials and errors.

A month ago, he had been uncertain whether he could truly enter the Crimson Sun Scripture; now, he had seven or eight tenths confidence.

If he still failed to form the Yang Ring under these circumstances, then it must be Heaven's will.

…

On a certain day two and a half years later,

The news that the Four Symbols Sect's exchange true disciple, Wang Yu, had successfully formed the Yang Ring and entered the Crimson Sun Scripture spread like a storm through every corner of the Tianyang City Internal Affairs District.

Upon hearing this, every Sunset Sect disciple—inner and outer sect, Foundation Establishment elders and officers—stared in stunned silence, faces filled with shock.

For at present, the entire Sunset Sect had only four people still cultivating the Crimson Sun Scripture, from the Golden Core Ancestor down to the Foundation Establishment true disciples; not a single soul in the sect did not take pride in cultivating the Crimson Sun Scripture!

Now, suddenly, an outsider from another sect had entered it—the uproar was unimaginable.

But this uproar lasted only a few days before another astonishing piece of news emerged.

Wang Yu, who had been studying the Crimson Sun Scripture at the Sunset Sect, suddenly departed without any warning, and only a handful of Sunset Sect elders and disciples knew of it.

Thus, the Sunset Sect, which had been simmering with hidden currents due to an outsider mastering the Crimson Sun Scripture, quickly returned to its former tranquility under deliberate guidance from its upper echelons.