by Shian Jeen
Huwang Xiao’s soul would definitely reach another level after he obtained the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire. However, not even Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi could estimate how much of a change would take place, and at that time, could Huwang Xiao condense a rank ten godhead? Or above rank ten, the king rank. Perhaps even higher, emperor rank!
The closer Huwang Xiao was to breaking through to the Highgod Realm, the harder it was for Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi to remain calm, for this represented that the day he could be freed from the Dragon Pearl’s shackles was within his reach.
The day he regained his freedom was at hand!
As long as Huwang Xiao broke through to Highgod Realm, based on Huwang Xiao’s strength, he could shatter the Dragon Pearl’s seal at its core to free him, so he could once again live and rise to the heavens!
Huwang Xiao understood Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s emotions. He too was looking forward to see to what extent his soul clarity would improve after integrating with the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire.
Without delay, Huwang Xiao made a protective barrier around himself with his true immortal essence fire and flew toward the Phoenix Volcano.
They had yet to reach the center of the Phoenix Volcano, thus there was no need to bring out the Black Tortoise Divine Fire.
Very soon, Huwang Xiao stood at the edge of Phoenix Volcano’s crater.
Peering down into the vent from the crater edge, Huwang Xiao’s expression turned serious. Bursts of dark red fire element energy rushed out from the crater’s mouth, however, this dark red fire element energy was many times more powerful than Huwang Hongtian’s phoenix flames!
Huwang Xiao even suspected that a lump of Divine World ore would evaporate in an instant after falling into this volcano.
Without the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, purely relying on his True Dragon Physique, he could at most endure for ten minutes.
As a precaution, Huwang Xiao summoned his Black Tortoise Divine Armor, protecting every inch from head to toe before flying down the vent carefully.
The moment he passed through the crater, Huwang Xiao was surprised to see that the black emblem of a tortoise and snake on his chest was actually excited, flickering brightly as it devoured the dark red fire element energy.
As Huwang Xiao speed increased, the black tortoise and snake emblem devoured the fire energy even faster.
Bright lights moved energetically up and down his Black Tortoise Divine Armor as the black tortoise and snake emblem grew increasingly clear and solid.
The armor’s change was a pleasant surprise to Huwang Xiao.
Initially, he was worried that the Black Tortoise Divine Fire would reject the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire. If that was the case, his integration progress would undoubtedly be troublesome. But judging from this reaction, he had worried in vain.
Huwang Xiao continued to fly carefully down to the vent toward the magma chamber.
One hundred zhang.
Two hundred zhang.
One thousand zhang.
Protected by the Black Tortoise Divine Armor, Huwang Xiao wasn't discomforted at all despite being a thousand zhang below the ground. In fact, he felt warm and comfortable all over.
Some time later, Huwang Xiao reached two thousand zhang underground, but he had yet to spy the magma below.
At one point, he was inwardly thankful that he had first found the Black Tortoise Divine Fire. If he didn’t have it, he had no way of getting over two thousand zhang of this Phoenix Volcano to reach its magma chamber. Forget himself, most likely even the Ascending Moon Old Man wouldn't be able to do it either.
Well passing the three thousand zhang, Huwang Xiao finally got a glimpse of the ground.
The magma chamber was, in other words, a sea of churning molten rock. There was fire in all directions, everything that entered his sight was nothing but fire and magma, a sea of scarlet red that emitted a faint golden light.
Magma erupted on its surface from time to time, spraying horrifyingly hot liquid into the air.
Even with his Black Tortoise Divine Fire, Huwang Xiao felt his throat go parched watching the roiling magma several meters below his feet.
He couldn’t help thinking about what would happen if the Black Tortoise Divine Fire suddenly vanished… Imagining the ending, a chill ran through his body.
A moment later, Huwang Xiao composed himself and focused his attention towards the surroundings.
The magma chamber of the Phoenix Volcano was bigger than Huwang Xiao expected, even with his eyesight and divine sense he still couldn’t see its end.
Huwang Xiao flew forward carefully above the sea of boiling magma.
Ten minutes later, other than ember magma, Huwang Xiao failed to see anything else when, all of a sudden, an odd energy fluctuation came from somewhere up ahead.
Huwang Xiao felt a sense of familiarity from this odd energy fluctuation, just like that time when he was searching for the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, that familiar odd energy fluctuation!
“Vermilion Bird Divine Fire!” Huwang Xiao’s eyes sparkled with delight.
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Ecstatic, Huwang Xiao’s speed increased as he flew toward the source of the odd energy fluctuations.
Soon, a bright crimson sphere of fire hovering above the boiling magma came into sight, and inside it was a phoenix in flight!
A great fire phoenix with nine-colored plumes!
Vermilion Bird Divine Fire!
It was really the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire!
This time, Huwang Xiao could barely rein in the ecstasy in his heart.
One of the four divine fires, Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, he finally found it! As long as he integrated with it, his soul would evolve to another level. He absolutely could condense a rank ten and above godhead!
To what extent would his strength improve at the end?!
Unknowingly, Huwang Xiao’s breathing grew heavy as he carefully and slowly approached the giant crimson fireball.
The nine-colored fire phoenix’s body glimmered, emitting bright glows of nine colors that exuded a sacrosanct aura.
As if the nine-colored phoenix sensed Huwang Xiao ’s presence, it stopped flying. Then, it suddenly flapped its wings again, diving at Huwang Xiao.
That giant crimson fireball followed the nine-colored phoenix’s movements, flying toward him as well.
Before the giant crimson fireball and the nine-colored phoenix arrived, Huwang Xiao first felt the destructive fire element power surging at him.
He was dazed for a moment, then his face tightened in fright the next.
Just as he prepared to activate Space Concealment to dodge the giant crimson fireball, the black tortoise and snake emblem on his Black Tortoise Divine Armor flew out, winding itself around Huwang Xiao’s body. Instead of flying away, it zoomed straight towards the nine-colored phoenix.
Huwang Xiao’s eyes were wide with shock.
This…!
While Huwang Xiao was caught in his shock, the black tortoise together with its snake tail released icy white lights like snowflakes that collided with the giant crimson fireball.
The earth-shattering collision Huwang Xiao imagined did not take place, instead, the two forces merged together!
The Black Tortoise Divine Fire’s white snowflakes merged with the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire ’s crimson fire, growing bigger, as white and scarlet merged in harmony.
In the end, the crimson fireball and white snowflakes were all gone, turning into a golden-purple sphere!
There were hints of gold within the purple, and hints of purple within its golden light.
The huge golden-purple sphere wrapped Huwang Xiao inside like a cocoon. The Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird hovered above Huwang Xiao, releasing a strange force that entered his mind. Huwang Xiao’s mind felt a jolt, then he lost consciousness.
In the last moment before he lost consciousness, Huwang Xiao recalled the last time he integrated with the Black Tortoise Divine Fire… Was he going to sleep for a few years again t
his time?
The Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird continued to revolve around each other even after Huwang Xiao lost consciousness. As the two divine fires merged, energy rippled through the magma chamber, filling the underground space with flickers of icy white and crimson red light.
The golden-purple light sphere grew increasingly bigger over time, and even more dazzling.
Both the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire’s spirits continued to release a strange force into Huwang Xiao, and golden-purple light glimmered from the surface of his skin as his body resonated.
The Treasure Dragon diagram inside his body emerged by itself, greedily devouring this strange force, continuously improving Huwang Xiao’s True Dragon Physique.
Time trickled by…
One day, two days…
One month, two months, in the blink of an eye, three months were gone.
In the world outside, in the Phoenix Clan headquarters’ main hall.
Huwang Hongtian asked the Phoenix Clan Elder Huwang Haiyuan, “Are you sure that kid hasn’t come out once in these three months after he entered the Phoenix Volcano?”
“That is so, Patriarch.” Elder Huwang Haiyuan answered with surety, “Three months ago, he indeed went inside the Phoenix Volcano, and did not appear again since then!”
Surrounding the Phoenix Volcano were ancient formations arranged by the ancestors of their Phoenix Clan, which detected Huwang Xiao entering the Phoenix Volcano.
“Patriarch, that kid hasn’t come out in three months, more likely than not he’s turned into ash by the Phoenix Volcano’s destructive fire element power!” One one the Grand Elders laughed.
Huwang Hongtian nodded in agreement.
Even him, clad in their Phoenix Clan’s heritage treasure, the Phoenix Fire Armor, could barely last more than three minutes hovering close to the volcano crater. That kid was already dead for sure!
“Patriarch, that group of demonic beasts is still guarding outside, should we launch an ambush to obliterate them?” Another Phoenix Clan Grand Elder suggested.
Huwang Hongtian shook his head saying, “No need, let them stay there as they like. As long as they do not take the initiative to attack us first, there's no need to bother with them.”
“But, the thing that stripling wanted to find inside Phoenix Volcano… What could it be that made him enter the Phoenix Volcano recklessly at this time? Is there some peerless treasure at the bottom of the Phoenix Volcano?” A Grand Elder pondered out loud.
Huwang Hongtian nodded, this matter was also something he had been pondering about these past few months. Thus, he decided that once the Phoenix Volcano calmed down, he would enter and investigate.
If the underground magma stopped acting up, then, with his strength and adding the Phoenix Fire Armor, he’d be able to reach five hundred zhang down the vent.
However, what depressed Huwang Hongtian was the fact that the violent environment around the Phoenix Volcano continued for four years. Not once did it calm down.
In these four years, in the magma chamber of Phoenix Volcano, Huwang Xiao remained unconscious, sleeping inside the golden-purple light sphere. Suddenly, the merging Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine spirits that were releasing a strange force burst out in a blinding light. That blinding purple light then separated into one blue and one red, drilling into Huwang Xiao’s body.
The snow-white and crimson lights around the magma chamber gradually disappeared. The giant golden-purple sphere slowly shrunk, smaller and smaller, and stopped when it reached around ten meters in diameter.
Huwang Xiao’s consciousness slowly returned, opening his eyes.
Blue and a red lights shot out from his eyes, penetrating into the mountain wall above and creating two bottomless black holes. Two kinds of fires burned around the two openings, one icy white and the other hot crimson.
Huwang Xiao slowly got to his feet, a little confused as he surveyed his surroundings. After a while, he quickly checked his body’s internal condition; there was a bright crimson sphere right under his heart, and inside that crimson sphere was none of other than that nine-colored phoenix!
The Vermilion Bird Divine Fire!
Huwang Xiao’s heart raced with joy!
Just like the previous time when he integrated with the Black Tortoise Divine Fire, this time he also succeeded in integrating with the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire without really knowing what happened!
Following that, Huwang Xiao noticed that his mid-Tenth Order God Realm cultivation that was close to advancing to peak mid-Tenth Order had jumped straight to late-Tenth Order God Realm!
As for his soul…
Every corner of his soul sea was filled with radiance, crepuscular aureate lights glimmered like sun reflected on the water surface. If Huwang Xiao’s soul clarity before this was like a great white sun, then now, it was... two suns? Perhaps three?!
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Huwang Xiao was stupefied by the extent of changes in his soul.
Even Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was exclaiming in envy, “This, this is too exaggerated! How can anyone’s soul reach this level of clarity?!”
If Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi wasn’t witnessing it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t believe that a person's soul could actually achieve this level of clarity!
The radiance from Huwang Xiao’s soul would absolutely shock the four galaxies if it could be displayed out of his body!
No, not only the four galaxies, but hundreds and thousands of galaxies!
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi could already imagine the shocking heavenly phenomenon that would appear when Huwang Xiao condensed his godhead.
The higher the rank of a godhead, the more extraordinary the heavenly phenomenon that appeared would be.
Hearing Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s exclamation, Huwang Xiao’s face split into a wide grin, “Based on my soul’s current clarity, I should be able to condense a godhead above rank ten, right?”
Huwang Xiao was feeling quite proud of himself.
Think about it, within the four galaxies, in thousands and millions of years, no one had ever achieved the same level of soul clarity as him. Feeling proud and complacent was granted.
Watching Huwang Xiao’s proud expression, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi chuckled, “If your current soul clarity cannot condense a rank ten godhead, then no one under the heavens can do it!”
Huwang Xiao nodded, however, his ultimate goal wasn’t a rank ten godhead.
It was the rank above emperor, a supreme rank godhead!
The king of godheads!
Subsequently, Huwang Xiao checked his dantian. The space inside this dantian had expanded significantly, his true immortal essence force was even more boundless. Moreover, there were signs that it was evolving once again.
‘If I advance to the Highgod Realm, will my true immortal essence fire evolve to golden immortal essence force?’ Huwang Xiao thought to himself.
Something occurred to Huwang Xiao and he suddenly asked, “Old Dragon, can the current me break the Dragon Pearl’s seal?”
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was stunned by the question, falling silent.
“Maybe, we can give it a try?” A while later, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi’s voice sounded hoarse when he spoke. Despite wanting to remain calm, he still failed to hide the slight quiver in his voice.
For anyone who had been confined for tens of thousands of years, thinking that they would be free soon, excitement was only the tip of the iceberg.
“Alright, let's give it a try!” Determination gleamed in Huwang Xiao’s eyes.
Though in the past, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi had said that only Highgod Realm masters and above could break the Dragon Pearl’s seal, Huwang Xiao’s current strength definitely surpassed an early First Order Highgod Realm master.
Even without using the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, Huwang Xiao was confident that the current him could defeat the Phoenix Clan’s Patriarch, Huwang Hongtian!
Huwang Xiao q
uickly composed himself and focused, carefully and slowly directing the force from the Black Tortoise Divine Fire and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire toward the Dragon Pearl between his brows.
Soon, the two divine fires had wrapped around the Dragon Pearl, inching toward the seal’s location.
Right at this moment, the seal inside the Dragon Pearl trembled. Lights flickered as a sealing force surged out, wanting to shake away the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires.
The space within the Dragon Pearl violently shook.
Huwang Xiao’s eyebrows rose in surprise. He made the two divine fires remain still while fending off the sealing off from the Dragon Pearl, then gradually pushing its sealing force back to the grand sealing formation.
At the same time, inside the Dragon Pearl space, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi reverted back to his true golden dragon form, spewing out dragon qi. He was supporting the Black Tortoise and Vermilion Bird Divine Fires in pushing back and suppressing the sealing formation’s force.
Although the progress was excruciatingly slow, Huwang Xiao and Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi saw hope.
Time passed… One minute, ten minutes…
Half an hour, one hour…
Lights glimmered endlessly on Huwang Xiao’s body, his forehead furrowed from the strenuous effort. Even taking the Phoenix Clan Patriarch Huwang Hongtian’s Nine Phoenix Scorching Sky Palm was easier than this.
Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi was feeling the same as Huwang Xiao. In fact, because he himself was being sealed inside the Dragon Pearl, the burden on him was heavier than Huwang Xiao. It could be said that, to support Huwang Xiao, Dragon Emperor Ao Taiyi even managed to summon the strength used to suck milk.
Three hours passed in this manner.
After three long hours of suppression, the Dragon Pearl’s sealing force was finally pushed back into the sealing formation, and then onward to breaking the eye of the sealing formation.
Lights flickered unstably on Huwang Xiao’s skin, wisps of white smoke were rising from the crown of his head.
Huwang Xiao was already at the end of his tethers at this point.
