Chapter 1034: Dark Golden Star Bone

The scorching breath of death slammed into the face! A golden fire dragon, bearing the might to incinerate the eight corners of the world, instantly devoured Yun Li's figure! She could even hear the faint sound of her hair tips curling and carbonizing under the terrifying heat!

The shadow of death has never been this immediate and close!

He struggled to get up, but it tugged at all his wounds, blood surged wildly, and he could only watch helplessly as the destructive blaze swallowed Yun Li!

However!

At the instant when the golden flame, hot enough to melt gold and iron, was about to touch Yun Li's skin...

A sudden mutation erupted!

Buzz!!!

An indescribable tremor, originating from the deepest veins of his bloodline, erupted explosively within Han Wuxian without warning! It was as if a slumbering ancient beast was awakened by a flame of the same origin! Deep in his dantian, the dormant primordial core of the Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force ignited and detonated like a spark thrown into boiling oil! A similarly domineering, equally scorching golden flame, tinged with a hint of defiance and protective will, burst uncontrollably from his body!

This flame was not meant to attack Yun Li; rather, as if summoned, it transformed into a golden angry dragon that, moving faster than thought, arrived before its cause and slammed hard into the golden fire dragon that had surged from the earth‑vein fissure toward Yun Li!

Rumble!!!

Two golden flames of the same origin and nature, yet with subtle differences, clashed like two enraged primeval fire dragons in the empty space less than three feet in front of Yun Li!

An indescribable thunderous roar and flash of heat erupted instantly! The dazzling golden rays, like a newborn supernova, illuminated the dim ancient battlefield in a blaze of white! A terrifying high‑temperature shockwave swept outward in a ring!

Where it passed, the ground instantly turned glassy; the vengeful spirits that rushed forward fearless of death didn't even have time to scream before they vaporized! Even the Myriad Bones Beast that had just turned and prepared to pursue was forced to retreat repeatedly by this sudden energy burst and scorching heavenly might, its three heads emitting uncertain roars!

Yun Li, at the edge of the exploding core, was violently hurled by the raging blast wave, crashing heavily onto the scorching ground, spitting blood from her mouth; fortunately, the lethal golden flame did not land directly on her.

And Han Wuxian became the absolute focal point of this collision of homogenous golden flames!

When the two golden flames collided and burst, an unimaginably massive, pure and domineering torrent of fire, as if magma had found an outlet, ignored spatial distance and, following the link of the Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force erupted within Han Wuxian, surged back into his body like countless rivers returning to the sea!

"Ugh—aaah!!"

Han Wuxian let out a wail unlike any human sound! His body instantly arched into a shrimp‑like shape!

Pain! An indescribable agony! It was as if billions of red‑hot steel needles pierced every pore, every meridian, every inch of bone deep within him! The raging golden flame energy surged like an uncontrolled torrent, wildly ravaging, colliding with, and scorching his riddled meridians!

He already had his newly formed arm bones riddled with cracks, and under the impact of this raging energy they emitted a nauseating cracking sound! Pale golden star‑glow blood boiled forth from the fissures, only to be instantly vaporized by the terrifying heat! His waist, abdomen, left leg, and other wounds across his body instantly shattered and carbonized! His skin cracked and blackened like a dried riverbed, inch by inch! He seemed to be burning from the inside out!

The even more terrifying part was his sea of consciousness! The raging golden flame energy not only burned his flesh but also bore a dazzling heavenly authority intent to incinerate all and proclaim sole supremacy, crashing violently into his consciousness, attempting to fully assimilate and scorch away his own will!

"Submit! Or be destroyed!" A grand, indifferent voice, as fierce as the scorching sun of the nine heavens, reverberated explosively in the depths of his soul!

Han Wuxian's consciousness, like a small boat in a raging storm, was instantly submerged! The excruciating pain, the scorching heat, and that terrifying will impact nearly tore him apart and incinerated him! Beneath his charred skin, the golden flame burst uncontrollably through his body, turning him into a blazing golden torch!

"Han Wuxian!" Yun Li, struggling to rise from a distance, saw the horrific, self‑immolating scene of Han Wuxian and was terrified to the core! Ignoring her own injuries, she staggered forward, trying to charge at him.

"Don't... come!" Han Wuxian forced a hoarse warning through his clenched teeth, his voice sounding like a broken bellows. He gritted his jaw until his gums cracked, blood streaming from the corners of his mouth, instantly vaporizing into a blood mist under the intense heat!

His eyes were blood‑streaked, and deep in his pupils burned a will even more frenzied and unyielding than the invading golden flame!

"My fate, Han Wuxian... is my own... not dictated by Heaven! Nor by... a blaze!" A silent roar rose within his heart!

The Green Lotus Fairy's star‑map seal, stimulated by the raging golden flame, erupted with unprecedented azure starlight, firmly protecting his remaining heart meridian and the core of his sea of consciousness! The faint star‑glow deep within his newly formed arm bones, under the forging of the homogenous flame, not only persisted but, like steel tempered by countless blows, became denser and tougher! A subtle, strange sheen, merging starlight and golden flame, shimmered through it!

He no longer tried to expel the raging torrent of golden flame, but instead took an even more reckless action!

He used the stubborn, unyielding source of the Golden Sun Burning Heaven Force within himself as the core, the heart meridian and sea of consciousness guarded by the Green Lotus Fairy's seal as the foundation, and the increasingly resilient star‑glow in his newly forged arm bones as a bridge, forcibly channeling the back‑flowing raging golden flame as if he were the most mad blacksmith, hammering, smelting, and reshaping himself!

This is a process of breaking and then re‑establishing, reborn amid destruction! It is a hundred times more painful than the previous forced continuation of his severed arm! Every second feels like torment in a furnace of purgatory!

His body was burning, collapsing, carbonizing! Yet, under the forging of the golden flame and the nourishment of the star‑glow, at the most microscopic cellular level, a tragic yet slow... nirvana unfolded!

The charred dead skin continuously peeled away, revealing fresh skin beneath that shimmered with a faint golden sheen! The cracked wounds, forced to heal under the scorching golden flame, left behind dark‑gold scars!

Especially his arms, the bone riddled with cracks, under the melting of the golden flame and the permeation of the star‑glow, had its fissures forcibly sealed; the bones themselves now emitted a strange metallic luster interweaving dark gold and star‑glow, becoming tougher and stronger! A vast, unstoppable sense of power quietly sprouted amid this agony of destruction and rebirth!

Time seemed to solidify.

After an indeterminate span, the golden torrent of flame that had surged from the earth‑vein fissure finally waned and vanished. Only dark‑red lava and lingering blue smoke remained at the fissure's mouth.

And the raging golden flame burning on Han Wuxian's body gradually subsided and calmed.