C474 The Heavenly Fire Burns the Body

Cultivators always stole the fortune of heaven and earth to make up for their own shortcomings. That was why cultivators were able to transcend the mortal world. It was also the fundamental way to make up for everything in the world.

However, it was not as simple as one might think. One had to pay in order to gain something, or else everyone would become a cultivator, and everyone would be able to achieve the position of the heavenly phenomena.

And the cost of that was known only to the practitioners themselves, but there was one thing that was the same to anyone, that there was nothing in the world that came free, that you could only get what you wanted through hard work.

For example, the essence Lee Zhuohua wanted to condense at this moment, was more than enough for the heavens, and if Lee Zhuohua wanted to condense it, he would have to pay the corresponding price.

Not only the essence, but the rest of the Qi and Shen Erhua were the same. Maybe it was because the third essence represented the first level of transcendence of the mortal world. The vast world didn't allow ordinary people to easily condense it.

It was like a threshold. If one wanted to cross the threshold and touch Sanhua, then one had to pass the test. Only by passing the test could one truly condense Sanhua into one's body.

The tests each of the three Shen Hua had to go through were different. The essence corresponded to the burning of the heaven flame, the essence corresponded to the immersion of the soul in water, and the essence of the god corresponded to the transformation of the astral wind into a spirit.

Only by passing all three tests could one truly surpass ordinary people. However, how could these three tests be so easy to pass? Moreover, in the Qian Yuan Academy, which was known as the gathering place of geniuses, there were only a few people in the Outer Palace who could condense the Three Magnificence. From this, it could be seen how difficult these three tests were.

And it was precisely because of this that these three trials were also known by the world as the Three Magnificence Three Calamities. Those who passed the Three Calamities would achieve the Three Magnificence. They would no longer be different from ordinary people and would also have the qualification to enter the Energy Shaping Realm.

Those without the Three Calamities were mere mortals, after all, and for those who had condensed the Three Calamities, they were no more than a little more powerful than ordinary men.

That was why it was extremely difficult for cultivators to have three flowers. However, Lee Zhuohua, who had just broken through to the Astral Realm not long ago, was going to attract the disaster that corresponded to the essence to condense his first Divine Flower. If news of this got out, it would definitely shock a large group of people.

"My physical strength has already reached its peak. Right now, all I need is a single essence to condense the strength of my physical body into one. With the Dao Fruit of Life in my body, I believe my tribulation will be even more intense than the others." Lee Zhuohua's mind settled in his dantian, and he was thinking about his own situation.

Indeed, Lee Zhuohua had the Dao Fruit Of Life, which was a unique advantage compared to others, but correspondingly, it was also extremely difficult for him to condense the essence of his corresponding body because no one could have a shortcut.

Lee Zhuohua knew this too, so he was not in a hurry to immediately trigger the disaster of essence. He was still brewing the power of his body and wanted to be fully prepared.

"Buzz ~" Under Lee Zhuohua's brewing, the energy hidden under his body was appearing in a dense state.

Streams of white gas sprayed out from the pores on his body and were absorbed by his breath. The power of his body formed a strange cycle in his body.

Lee Zhuohua was adjusting his condition to the best state, so that he could deal with the disaster that was about to be triggered by him.

The essence corresponded to the heavenly fire that burned the body, hence its name. In order to condense the essence, one needed to use the heavenly fire to burn one's strong body and refine one's own body's strength into the essence.

It was like being tempered into steel. Only the strength of the body that was tempered by the heavenly fire would be able to completely break free from the shackles of the body and evolve into a higher form.

Countless people had walked on this path, but very few of them were able to successfully condense the essence of their physical strength. Most of them had their physical strength completely destroyed after activating the Skyfire. Not only were they unable to condense the essence of their physical strength, but even their bodies had been destroyed.

Therefore, those who were able to condense the essence were extremely powerful in terms of combat strength. It was also because of this that Lee Zhuohua had defeated Yan Zhengtine who had condensed two flowers without the help of Shen Hua. This was the reason why it had such an impact on the people of the Outer Palace.

Crossing the gap of two Shen Hua flowers to defeat the enemy was not something that anyone could do. Only a monster like Lee Zhuohua could do it.

And the Heavenly Fire that condensed the essence was known as the Intrinsic Flame. It was the flame of the universe, and the flame of the universe was the flame of nothingness. It was an extremely ethereal existence.

There are those who think the fire burns the body by drawing fire from the void, but that is wrong, because the fire of the void does not exist in the void, but in the body of the practitioner.

The burning of the physical body was not something that could be done by igniting the external fire. One must know that the physical body was the essence of the cultivator's essence, and if one wanted to burn it, one had to burn it by igniting the flames of desire within the body.

The desire of a man could not be seen, nor could it be described. However, it was real. When the desire reached a very strong level, it could be called the fire of desire.

Few men are able to control their desires and hold on to their hearts, as mortals do when they wish to do so. It is clear how terrible this fire of nothingness is, and of course it is only the desire of mortals.

The desires of cultivators, on the other hand, were different. Cultivators abandoned themselves to pursue the Dao, so if one wanted to condense the essence, one had to endure the test of the fire of their own desires in order to succeed.

"It's almost ready." Lee Zhuohua had already adjusted his body to a perfect state. He believed that he could already stimulate the flames of desire in his body to burn the strength of his body.

"Beat ~"

The streams of white gas that were still circulating in Lee Zhuohua's mind suddenly stagnated, and then the white gas began to flow back into Lee Zhuohua's pores.

"It used to be so painful to stir up this fire of desire, but with the polishing of the Self-Cutchering Sword, it may not be so terrible to me anymore." When Lee Zhuohua thought of the pain when he was being slashed, he didn't feel that the Catastrophe of Sanhua was any more dangerous.

Unfortunately, Lee Zhuohua was wrong about one thing. Although the path of killing oneself was dangerous, the Catastrophe of Sanhua was controlled according to the cultivator's cultivation base. The stronger the cultivation base, the more violent the Catastrophe would be. If Lee Zhuohua's current cultivation base triggered the Catastrophe of the Heavenly Fire, it would probably be extremely terrifying.

But Lee Zhuohua had not officially triggered it, so he did not know that only when he officially endured the fire of desire would he know how childish his thoughts were.

In the end, when Lee Zhuohua felt that he was fully prepared, he finally triggered the fire of desire in his body.

"Boom!"

A little flame of desire ignited in Lee Zhuohua's heart, and with the force of a burning star, it instantly spread to his entire body. Streams of dark red gas overflowed from his pores.

"Humph."

Lee Zhuohua, who felt the fire of desire burning in his body, let out a muffled groan, obviously not feeling good either.

These desires would not be able to cause any harm to Lee Zhuohua in the past, but when they materialized into a disaster, they carried an unimaginable ferocity that constantly burned his body, as if it was going to burn him down. It was extremely dangerous.