C2218 The Appearance of the Extreme Flame
In the Gal Starfield, Yu Yuan had ceased using the Soul Altar to delve into the mysteries of life. With Yuan Lianyao looking on in astonishment, he reached out and swept away the fiery dome enveloping the chariot.
Above him, the flames roared and the chariot was encircled by blazing meteors, creating an awe-inspiring fire formation that held the essence of celestial flames. Yu Yuan paid it no mind, his attention fixed on the stationary Dragon Slash Platform ahead.
"What's the matter?" Yuan Lianyao sensed that something significant was about to unfold; otherwise, he wouldn't have acted so out of character.
"Should I enter with my physical form or as the Yang God?" Yu Yuan pondered aloud before coming to a decision.
Approaching the Dragon Slash Platform in the desolate Starfield, he tore open a rift in space and vanished in an instant. As the Dragon Slash Platform disappeared, the rift hadn't yet fully healed.
Yuan Lianyao's graceful and alluring form tensed, her face etched with stark terror. "It has its presence!"
Yu Yuan's brow furrowed.
"At the location where the Dragon Slash Platform vanished, there's a whiff of the Geocentric Fire's aura! Its spiritual consciousness has followed me here from the Origin Realm and the Boundless Land!" Yuan Lianyao's voice was filled with alarm.
Known as the Flame God by the alien beasts of the Desolate Realm, her greatest fear was not the Demon Phoenix or Yuen Bu, but the Geocentric Fire that had given her life.
The Geocentric Fire had ascended to an intermediate Origin Soul thanks to her transformation and her pact with the Abyss Origin Soul. This allowed her to swiftly rise to the Eleventh Level upon entering the Desolate Realm.
Yet she was acutely aware that only after ascending to the Eleventh Level would the Geocentric Fire's possession bring her powers to their zenith.
The memory of the Boundless Land entering the Gray Domain and the Geocentric Fire's spiritual consciousness possessing her tormented past was still vivid in her mind. She knew she couldn't escape the Geocentric Fire, which left her in a state of constant dread.
"Yu Yuan, I... I might..." Her eyes, like fiery gems, brimmed with fear. She whispered through clenched teeth, "I might not be able to hide from it. Now that its spiritual consciousness is here, it can detect me anywhere in the Desolate Realm."
"It has only begun to send a sliver of its consciousness. In time, it will become more refined and focused, and I will be possessed by it."
"I don't know what the future holds."
Yuan Lianyao clutched Yu Yuan's arm tightly, her heart filled with immense fear.
Facing the Geocentric Fire, she felt as overwhelmed as Sekou before Mother Earth, utterly suppressed with no means of escape.
"Don't worry, I'm here, everything will be alright."
Yu Yuan turned to her, taking her feverishly anxious hands in his, and smiled reassuringly, "There's no need to fear. When I say it's fine, it's fine. I have plenty of insights and strategies for dealing with the source spirit of the Geocentric Fire. I'll teach you soon."
As he soothed Yuan Lianyao, he simultaneously exchanged a harmonious melody with the Yang God.
...
Elsewhere.
"So there is still the Extreme Flame."
Yu Yuan, suspended above Creation Peak, grasped the Dragon Slash Platform that had torn through the sky and observed the sealed barrier of the Creation Pool. He nodded, affirming, "Indeed, if my true form can make it here, then with its assistance, the spiritual consciousness of the Extreme Flame will have an even easier time."
Under the watchful eyes of Yu Zhu, the White Divine Tiger, and numerous Beast Gods, he cast a glance at the expanse of purple demonic energy and commanded, "Come forth. I will transport you to her side."
Whoosh!
The Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, once belonging to Yuen Bu, the King of Desolate Realm, and later refined by Zhiya, obediently emerged from the forefront of the purple sea.
The Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, docilely shrinking, was effortlessly seized by Yu Yuan with a single hand.
Rip!
Countless delicate flames escaped from Yu Yuan's palm into the Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, endowing the formidable weapon with the divine power to shatter realms!
"Go forth."
Yu Yuan cast it downward, and the Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, infused with the lifeblood and patterns of the Demon Phoenix, transformed into a streak of blood-red lightning, piercing the sealed barrier of the Creation Pool.
Within the barrier's first layer, a blood-red column soared, tearing a hole in the firmament!
Crack!
Myriad blood-red lightning bolts erupted, stirring a maelstrom of bloody ripples throughout the first layer of the sealed world.
After activating the Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, Yu Yuan, with a slight smile, soared into the fray, clutching the Dragon Slash Platform.
Whoosh!
In a flash, Yu Yuan, holding the Dragon Slash Platform, plunged into the dazzling seal. The once clear barrier was immediately suffused with a murky, blood-red hue.
Mother Earth, the Light Origin Spirit, Yu Zhu, and the White Divine Tiger were unable to discern the events unfolding within.
The image of Yu Zhu, previously beleaguered by numerous Dao Elephants, was now obscured by the blood-red murkiness.
Yu Yuan's entry seemed to throw the laws governing the eleven layers of seals into chaos, rendering everything indistinct.
...
Deep within the sealed realm, the stars glittered like purple diamonds, emitting a light that could extinguish souls.
Zhiya looked up and felt a ripping sensation from her Demon Soul. The link between her soul and bloodline was shredded into fragments by numerous purple Soul Blades.
She was cut off from the outside world, with only the Phoenix Shrine she had painstakingly crafted maintaining a faint connection.
When the Phoenix Shrine neared the Creation Pool, she sensed a presence. It was Yu Zhu, attempting to breach the barrier with the shrine.
Confronted by the unseen Great Demon God Beilstein and Lin Daoke, the Boundless Human Race's mightiest warrior, Zhiya felt an overwhelming pressure.
She was aware that beyond the eleven layers of resplendent seals lay dangers even more profound and fearsome.
Yu Zhu, not having fully grasped the essence of life, could not withstand the warping power of flesh and blood. Should she fall into the seal, she would dissolve just like the white python Beast God.
Zhiya was determined to prevent this at all costs.
She desperately yelled for no one to enter, when suddenly, a brilliant golden sword light streaked towards her heart.
Even before the sword light reached her, her heart, a repository of endless life truths, began to throb with pain.
At that moment, her demon soul seemed to sprout purple crystals, causing her thoughts and reasoning to slow.
As she summoned the mysteries of her bloodline to conjure a purple-gold shield before her, she was overwhelmed by a deluge of fiery waves.
Within this towering inferno, she sensed the fearsome power of the Geocentric Fire and the restless consciousness within it.
In this world sealed away, only the principles and energies left by the Origin Spirits manifested into extraordinary Dao images.
Yet, with the Origin Spirits long perished, their sentient consciousness should have long since dissipated.
The consciousness of the Origin Spirit of fire, a force that should never manifest within the sealed world, had done just that!
And this particular Origin Spirit of fire was all too familiar to her; it was the very same entity that had persistently thwarted her attempts to reach the Geocentric Soul in the Boundless Land!
As the purple-gold shield was consumed by the ultimate flames, Zhiya finally experienced the terrifying power of fire that Mo Baichuan had never managed to wield—a power capable of reducing all under the heavens to cinders and ash.
Her shield, refined from her own blood, vanished without a trace.
The golden sword light, aimed at her heart, found its way through the tumultuous sea of flames, which parted to create a slender path for its passage.
She had an epiphany—the sea of flames had manifested to complement Lin Daoke's sword technique!
"I never imagined that in this sealed barrier, my heart's defenses would be shattered by Lin Daoke's unparalleled swordsmanship," Zhiya reflected, a hint of defiance sparkling in the depths of her icy gaze.
She had left a contingency within the purple demonic energy sea, ensuring that even in death, she retained the capacity for resurrection.
Yet to regain the strength she possessed today might take centuries.
In an era when the Three Realms were in upheaval and Source Spirits were emerging, she could not bear the thought of waiting hundreds of years, missing out on this tumultuous age!
Torn by indecision, she contemplated whether to gamble everything and introduce the alien beast she had created into the seal to disrupt the status quo.
With a resounding clang, a blood-red Heaven Bearing Life Pillar plummeted from the sky, shattering the golden sword light traversing the sea of flames and tearing a vast chasm through the fiery expanse.
"Heaven Bearing Life Pillar!" Zhiya's mind reeled, her composed and natural visage now etched with bewilderment.
The freshly consecrated Heaven Bearing Life Pillar, undetectable and unsummonable within the seal, had inexplicably made its presence known.
"Why has it appeared here?"
"Yu Yuan!" she called out as a figure, formed from a sentient blaze, emerged from the depths of the inferno.
He stood as the sovereign of flames, the primal source of fire in the world, bellowing towards the firmament.
His roar echoed with the Fire Laws within the eleven layers of the seal, drawing scattered flames from other sealed dimensions to converge in an instant.
Within moments, this world transformed into a realm of fire, more formidable than the very core of the Boundless Land.
Volcanoes erupted spontaneously, and the fiery Stars Worlds took shape, forged by His might.
Countless flame meteors streamed through the void, meandering like rivers, revealing the profound truth of fire that shapes the Three Realms and all life within.
He fixed his gaze on Yu Yuan and declared, "You have the audacity to invoke the Yang God!"
