C2027 Retrieving Things from the Air
Yuan Lianyao's body abruptly ceased its combustion. A mysterious and vibrant power brimming with life force burst forth from her chest, swiftly cloaking her self-ignited frame with life power. The life force alleviated the agony in her body and the turmoil within her spirit, as if offering significant relief.
She gazed, bewildered, at the agitated and eager Yu Yuan and uttered, "You..."
"Life dew!"
"That's the world's most precious life dew!"
"Is Yu Yuan using it to save and heal her? Isn't that squandering a divine gift?"
Hearing the surrounding chatter and gasps, Yuan Lianyao instantly grasped what had transpired. The Blazing Fire that Yu Yuan had been relentlessly pressured to relinquish was now sustaining her life, fortifying her breath of life.
In that moment, Yu Yuan's blood-red pupils glinted with a soul-shattering brilliance. Yet, to her, Yu Yuan's demeanor seemed endearing and comforting. The despair that had driven her to the brink of death was now soothed; her fragmented heart mended and at peace.
The Ashlands' mightiest felt their hidden sanctuaries tremble at Yu Yuan's bellow, as if the very existence and annihilation of their world were entwined with Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit. His rage and wild outburst had the power to stir the Ashlands' foundational rules, potentially wreaking havoc beyond prediction.
"Whether it's the Blazing Fire or the Primal Soul beneath, neither will let you perish."
Yu Yuan withdrew his hand, observing the fusion of the life dew with Yuan Lianyao's heart. A sense of tranquility returned to him as his purified life dew melded with her heart, evoking a sensation of blood harmoniously blending.
"Alright, I promise you, I'll strive to survive," Yuan Lianyao affirmed with a vigorous nod.
Her hair and eyebrows were gone, her face marred by extensive burns, her once radiant beauty now a memory. As she nodded, tears as red as blood seeped from the cracks at the corners of her eyes.
"I will survive!" she declared, as though infusing herself with courage. Her fists clenched, she fixed her gaze on the Crucible of Evil. "My primordial spirit is still within the cauldron. I need it whole."
"Of course!" Yu Yuan exclaimed.
...
Within the crucible.
The crystalline pillar of flame, riddled with fissures, shattered with a crack, and greenish-black 'crystals' kept falling away.
These 'crystals,' symbolic of the essence, like the flesh and blood that Yuan Lianyao used to forge her divine position, began to break apart when the life dew merged with her heart.
Her primordial spirit, in the form of her soul, watched helplessly as the essence separated, unsure of what to do.
She was powerless to stop it.
Rip!
The strands of lightning, embodying the fire magic within the depths of her soul spirit, also burst forth from her primordial spirit as the essence detached.
In her perception, it was the integration with the essence that allowed her primordial spirit to solidify into a divine position.
And it was the lightning of the cosmic order that spread throughout the primordial spirit, giving it meridians.
With fire magic as its meridians and the essence as its flesh and blood, the primordial spirit could construct a divine position, unleashing numerous profound theurgies and manipulating many aspects of the fire magic in the cosmos.
As the divine position shattered and the essence was lost, the fire magic was stripped away, causing her primordial spirit to plummet rapidly.
Her primordial spirit receded back into the dominant soul.
"Dominant soul!"
Yuan Lianyao's real body, outside the crucible, acutely felt the presence of her dominant soul and called out to it, beckoning the dominant soul within the crucible to return to her body.
The blazing fire that represented her spiritual sense and the reassembled black and green essence were both subdued within the crucible.
Naturally, her dominant soul was not constrained by the Crucible of Evil!
Whoosh!
With the divine position in ruins, the dominant soul that had descended from the exalted primordial spirit was given a push by Yu Yiyi. Amidst the astonished stares of the Bane, it burst forth from the mouth of the crucible.
The fire magic, stripped from her dominant soul, transformed into bolts of lightning that pursued her.
As soon as it left the crucible, Yuan Lianyao's dominant soul immediately descended into her sea of consciousness.
Rip! Rip!
The fire lightning that also emerged from the crucible, drawn by her breath of life, converged with the flame meteors and the energy within the Fire Crystals, racing towards her.
However, the lightning did not enter Yuan Lianyao's sea of consciousness. It did not continue to merge with her dominant soul, nor did it become the meridians of her dominant soul, and it did not ascend to a divine seat.
Instead, it surged into her heart!
Her heart, already brimming with vitality and life force, began to draw in an immense amount of blazing fire after the fire magic entered, initiating a metamorphosis towards the bloodline chain.
Each strand of fire magic, once imprinted within her divine seat and seemingly part of her primordial spirit's meridians, now took the form of a bloodline chain, slowly materializing within the walls of her heart.
Her life form was undergoing a miraculous transformation; she was breaking free from the confines of the human race.
Her heart, infused with life dew and rendered wondrously unique, underwent a sublime elevation.
The vitality and life power radiating from her heart seeped into her organs and bones, rapidly enhancing her condition.
Yet, as the fire magic transformed into the bloodline chain, it appeared to demand an exceedingly complex and potent energy.
This energy was likely a fusion of blazing fire and vital energy, not merely raw flame power.
She murmured to herself, "It seems I'm still missing something."
"I know what's missing," Yu Yuan said, a slight smile playing on his lips. His gaze shifted to the flame blade, forged from the bones of a fire phoenix, lying amidst the rubble.
The moment he laid eyes on the flame blade, it soared into the air and settled in his grasp.
His hand, now wielding the blade, was infused with space magic. A burst of iridescent light within his arm emerged, linking with the Void Rules of the Ashlands.
He was the sovereign of the Ashlands, the eleventh level Solar Spirit, one of the mightiest beings in existence.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The shattered pieces of the Cosmic Crucible, which he had pulverized, flew towards him, settling on the back of his hand that clutched the flame blade.
His hand, capable of piercing the void, held the flame blade as it became shrouded by the fragments of the crucible, emitting a blinding divine radiance.
"Everlands!"
"Fireheart Mountains!"
"Cosmic Crucible!"
He uttered these three phrases consecutively, and his spiritual sense pierced through the void, shattering the constraints of the Ashlands' rules. In an instant, he traversed the infinite cosmic sea.
On the other side, in the Everlands, where the Fireheart Mountains blazed, the scene was set.
The Cosmic Crucible, now without its lid, hung silently in the air, as if patiently awaiting the arrival of life dew.
Within the boiling blood of the crucible, the Fire Crystal Skeleton known as Mo Baichuan had developed organs in his chest, resembling fruits; all that was missing was a heart.
Yet, each time the surging flame energy and life force attempted to form flesh and veins to connect these organs and bones, they would falter at the final hurdle.
The forces that created the flesh and veins would ultimately dissolve back into the blood and become one with the crucible.
Despite this, the crucible tirelessly persisted in its attempts, seemingly oblivious to fatigue and unaware of the underlying issue.
It possessed only the instinct to evolve, lacking the spiritual wisdom and the emotions characteristic of true life.
Swoosh!
The ruby-like eyes within its skull shifted abruptly.
It sensed a call from above and, unable to resist, began to climb.
The Cosmic Crucible responded, moving in tandem with its occupant.
Whoosh!
In an instant, the Cosmic Crucible soared out of the fiery Everlands. With Han Miaoyuan and Lin Daoke looking on in astonishment, it and the crucible vanished into the sky.
The "void" it targeted was the very same tunnel in the fabric of space created by Jihui's Wraithbanner.
It led directly to the Ashlands!
Yet, the one to reopen this passage was not Jihui, who had departed earlier, nor was it Lin Daoke's sword.
It was Yu Yuan's corporeal body, gripping the Dragon Slaying Stage.
...
Whoosh!
The Cosmic Crucible, once distant in the Everlands, materialized from nowhere in the Ashlands. Yu Yuan, wielding the flame blade and shards of the crucible's lid, forcefully extracted it.
Within the seething blood, Mo Baichuan gazed blankly at Yuan Lianyao, who had metamorphosed into a corporeal being thanks to the life dew.
"Gugu!"
An odd gurgling emanated from his neck.
It was as if he was swallowing, yet he had no saliva.
The life dew within Yuan Lianyao's heart was his deepest desire, the key to his transformation into an intelligent being, the catalyst for the growth of his heart, and the source of his capacity for emotion.
To him, it was the most delectable substance in existence, and instinctively, he yearned to consume it, to integrate it with his Fire Crystal Skeleton.
It longed to become a real human being.
