#643 - Golden Crow Essence Fire

Jun Wuxie sat cross-legged on a fragment of a shattered and drifting star core, within Ling Qingyu's Saint Spirit True Qi barrier.

"Are you ready?"

Ling Qingyu asked.

"I'm ready, let's begin."

Jun Wuxie nodded, having already circulated his Dark Energy throughout every inch of his flesh, fully prepared.

Ling Qingyu ceased speaking, turned towards the sun, and reached out to draw something from the starry sky.

Visible to the naked eye, crimson flares erupted from the sun, swirling like gigantic waves.

Her Saintly energy delved into the sun's core, extracting the essence of the sun.

It was a golden, liquid-like substance that, upon being extracted, emitted a loud, clear cry, transforming into a golden divine bird engulfed in dazzling golden flames.

This sight astonished both Ling Qingyu and Jun Wuxie.

"That's… a Golden Crow!"

They exclaimed the name of the divine bird almost in unison.

"How could the essence within the sun transform into the form of a Golden Crow?"

Jun Wuxie was filled with confusion amidst his shock, a certain conjecture forming in his mind.

"So that's how it is…"

Ling Qingyu, possessing broader knowledge due to her restored memories, said, "This ruined universe must have long been frozen and desolate, devoid of sun-like celestial bodies. This sun is very likely formed from the essence and blood of a Golden Crow…"

She looked in the direction they had come from and said, "That void black hole must have been formed when the Golden Crow's original essence and blood fell, piercing through the universe's barrier!"

Ling Qingyu's face flushed with excitement. Even the usually indifferent she found it difficult to remain composed in the face of such a scene!

"The Golden Crow divine bird is said to be a level above Heavenly Divine Beasts, possibly reaching the Super Divine Beast level! Its bloodline is unimaginably powerful, with the highest potential to grow into a legendary Emperor-level!"

Ling Qingyu's voice trembled slightly: "This sun contains the original essence fire of that ancient Golden Crow divine bird. If we succeed, we will possess unimaginable fire resistance. Perhaps no flame in this world will be able to harm our bodies…"

"Little lass, we've struck gold! Quickly extract that Golden Crow's original essence fire; I want to try it!"

Jun Wuxie was naturally ecstatic. This essence fire was of a much higher grade than his Solar True Lotus. This time, it was highly likely to allow the Solar True Lotus to evolve!

"You… don't you dare call me… little lass…"

She gritted her teeth inwardly, somewhat angered.

"Little lass, little lass, I just like calling you that. Objection overruled."

"You… you scoundrel!"

Ling Qingyu's face flushed red, both angry and helpless. Eventually, she let him be, no longer dwelling on it.

She extracted the essence fire, dividing it into countless strands, and very carefully drew one strand into the barrier.

Jun Wuxie was somewhat apprehensive, but without hesitation, he gradually absorbed that strand of essence fire into his body.

Instantly, his entire body ignited. Golden divine flames burned, incinerating his internal organs, bones, and flesh.

Excruciating pain caused his body to convulse, unable to suppress low, hoarse roars.

"Scoundrel!"

Ling Qingyu's expression changed, and she hurriedly moved to extract the essence fire from his body.

"Don't interfere; I can withstand it!"

Jun Wuxie quickly stopped her, enduring indescribable torment and pain. Within his heavenly passage, the Taiji Star Ocean surged, and vital life energy surged, flowing to his limbs and bones, repairing the burned flesh.

At the same time, he directly drank a large mouthful of divine beast blood to help nourish his flesh.

Ling Qingyu watched him nervously, seeing his body constantly convulsing, the flesh on his surface carbonized, but he was still enduring, a powerful life force constantly emanating from within.

This was a contest of pain and will beyond the limits!

For a cultivator in the Half-Saint realm to use the Golden Crow's original essence fire to temper his body was something unimaginable to anyone.

The pain he had to endure surpassed imagination. Perhaps few in this world could sit still and allow themselves to be burned like that.

The pain of the Golden Crow's essence fire was ten, even a hundred times more intense than that produced by other flames!

She stared blankly at the already carbonized Jun Wuxie.

The tenacity of this scoundrel's will deeply shocked her!

She had never admired anyone in her life, but at this moment, this man filled her heart with respect.

Leaving aside everything else, just his willpower alone was probably unmatched among his peers!

If she hadn't been able to sense the continuous burst of life force within his body, she would have thought he was already dead.

Gradually, the life force within his body became stronger and stronger. The carbonized flesh began to fall off, and new flesh grew rapidly.

"Again, the second strand of essence fire!"

Jun Wuxie transmitted a soul wave. Ling Qingyu, jolted back to her senses, trembled as she drew in the second strand of essence fire.

… …

The following process was still painful and difficult, but it became increasingly stable.

After refining the first strand of Golden Crow's original essence fire, Jun Wuxie's resistance to flames greatly increased. Relatively speaking, the damage this essence fire caused to his body was also reduced slightly.

He continued to refine it like this, the second strand, the third strand…

Ten days, twenty days…

Time flowed by constantly in the process of refining the Golden Crow's original essence fire.

He had already lost count of how much Golden Crow's original essence fire he had refined.

He only knew that he had developed an extremely strong resistance to this essence fire. Now, even if it entered his body, it would only cause him to feel burning pain and would no longer carbonize his flesh.

The Solar True Lotus within his body had evolved during this process, condensing the third sun, and even the fourth sun was about to take shape. The quality had improved too much!

A month passed quickly.

On this day, Jun Wuxie opened his eyes. The Golden Crow's original essence fire entering his body caused very little damage to him now; he could completely repair himself in time.

At this stage, he discovered that continuing to refine the essence fire could no longer improve his fire resistance.

That Solar True Lotus had now condensed the fourth sun, evolving into a Four-Sun True Lotus. Each sun was shining with golden light, and golden flames were rolling!

"Little lass, I'm done!"

Jun Wuxie got up, quickly put on a set of clothes, stretched his arms, and the surging golden blood energy burst through the void, and the yang energy rolled!

He himself was like a burning sun!

"Scoundrel, you are the person with the strongest willpower I have ever seen…"

Ling Qingyu's face was slightly red as she saw the scoundrel's strong body. She was amazed. Even with extremely strong fire resistance in the Half-Saint realm, it was impossible to achieve this level. One's will would have collapsed long ago. No one would dare to make such a crazy attempt at this realm.

This man not only dared to try, but he also succeeded!

"It's okay, I'm used to pain, so pain is naturally not that scary."

Jun Wuxie smiled indifferently. Since entering the Eternal Life Shrine, how much torment and pain had he experienced that ordinary people could not imagine?

In that weapon graveyard, enduring the forging of weapon intent, both the body and soul had to endure inhuman torment, fighting against the Dark Curse, and the mental pain was also unimaginable.

The physical pain he endured, no matter how intense, could never defeat him. Only the pain in his heart was the most terrifying, the most unbearable, such as the life and death separation from a loved one.

Just like that moment outside the capital city when he saw Yue Yao turn into a rain of light, that was the most unbearable pain in life…

Listening to this scoundrel saying such words in a calm and breezy manner and looking at the indifferent expression on his face.

Ling Qingyu was stunned in her heart. What exactly had this man experienced over the years?

"Yes, a cultivator from a lower realm, with such achievements in the Half-Saint realm, one can imagine his growth process…"

She was very emotional in her heart.

"Are you stupid?" Jun Wuxie stepped forward and slapped her upturned butt. "Aren't you going to quickly refine the Golden Crow's original essence fire?"

"You…"

This slap woke her up, her delicate body stiffened, and she was so angry that she wanted to hit him.

This scoundrel was too presumptuous. She had now recovered to the Saint realm, and this scoundrel still dared to hit her… hit her…

"You bastard!"

She gritted her teeth in anger, a little frantic, then angrily moved away from him, sat down facing the sun, ignored him, and began to prepare to refine the essence fire.

Jun Wuxie retreated a little and stood nearby, watching quietly.

Now, he possessed extremely perverted fire resistance, and the sun evolved from the Golden Crow's original essence blood could no longer affect him.

Ling Qingyu began to refine the essence fire.

Golden flames burned on her body. This flame was extremely terrifying. Perhaps it was because she refined it too fiercely, causing her body to suffer great damage, and her clothes were burned to ashes.

In the golden flames, the surface of her body also began to show some signs of scorching, so there were no enchanting scenes.

Ling Qingyu's refining process made Jun Wuxie a little frightened. Several times her will almost collapsed, but fortunately, she finally stabilized.

Relatively speaking, her refining process was much slower than Jun Wuxie's.

… …

The broken universe was filled with silence everywhere.

After Ling Qingyu's situation stabilized, Jun Wuxie relaxed and walked on this broken ancient star fragment, watching the vast starry sky, all he could see was ruin.

When he had nothing to do, he also sat down, absorbed Yin energy, and practiced the Taiji Star Ocean.

The desolate starry sky and the monotonous cultivation process were very boring.

It took Ling Qingyu a full half a year to reach Jun Wuxie's level.

She had already refined enough Golden Crow's original essence fire and could no longer make any progress.

However, her resistance to fire was still not as good as Jun Wuxie's.

After all, Jun Wuxie originally had extremely strong fire resistance.

In the past six months, Jun Wuxie had already cultivated the Taiji Star Sea to a state of equilibrium.

Just as he had thought, with the Taiji Yin and Yang in balance, the Star Sea had undergone significant changes compared to before.

The interplay of Yin and Yang, mutually generating and complementing each other, greatly enhanced his explosive power when using his strength!

While there were no changes in his realm or the intensity of his natural talent's growth, the intensity of the attacks he unleashed during battle had increased substantially.

After careful and repeated attempts to sense and evaluate, he estimated that this increase was probably threefold!

It was almost equivalent to a minor sublimation technique awakened by many ancient bloodline physiques.

"Let's go, it's time to go back!"

Jun Wuxie came to Ling Qingyu, having spent seven months in monotonous cultivation here, he couldn't help but worry about Ji Yinlan and the others.

With so much time having passed, the natives inside the Extraterrestrial Remnants had probably already come out. Had Ji Yinlan and the others returned to the outside world in advance?

Also, had Yan Qingcheng and the others encountered those young supreme beings from the five ancient stars?

"Are you not planning to go and see that ancient star that seems to have life?"

Ling Qingyu wanted to explore.

"The time is too long, and I still have many people I care about in the Extraterrestrial Remnants. I don't know what their situation is right now…"

"So, you are worried about this…" Ling Qingyu smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, this place is a broken universe, and the order is very incomplete. The flow of time here is different from the Extraterrestrial Remnants. We have been here for seven months, but I estimate that only less than a month has passed outside."

"Is that so?" Jun Wuxie was stunned, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

Ling Qingyu gave a definite answer.

"That's good. If that's the case, then I won't be so worried. It's okay to go and see that star, but we still have to go back as soon as possible and not stay for too long."

"Yes, just going to take a look."

She grabbed Jun Wuxie's arm and flew away from the star's remnants, heading towards the green and blue star at superluminal speed.

Several hours later, they arrived above the atmosphere of the ancient star.

"As expected, there are humans thriving here, and their civilization seems to be different from what we know…"

Jun Wuxie activated his Primordial True Eyes and saw the scene on the surface of the star. Green represented dense vegetation and green mountains, blue represented the ocean, and in some areas where humans gathered, there were skyscrapers everywhere, brightly lit, and even rune-flashing metal aircraft traversing inside the atmosphere.