Chapter 39: The True Fire of Earthly Calamity

  His entire body was immersed in the dark purple medicinal liquid, feeling the medicine being absorbed through his pores and slowly repairing his damaged meridians, tendons, flesh and internal organs. All of this was clearly reflected in his mind's eye, but he didn't have the slightest thought to care about it now, instead he was drowsy and on the verge of falling asleep.

  "No, I can't sleep like this, or else my mental state will suffer greatly!" Wang Guanlan forcibly held on to his spirit, repeatedly circulating the yuan zhen spiritual technique to repair his heavily burdened soul.

  Inside the house, four sticks of priceless Ning Shen incense were lit as if they didn't cost a fortune. This was also the maximum tolerance of a cultivator; any more would be harmful to their divine soul.

  Today, his spirit is no longer just a problem of being overburdened, but rather one of overloading.

  As a third-grade cultivator, he was able to cast the Nine Fire Dragon Technique that only an eighth-grade cultivator could cast. For his divine soul, it was a huge pressure. If not for his divine soul being transformed by the Azure Spirit Ghost Flame and the One Thought Gives Rise to Myriad Laws symbol, forming its current strange state, his sea of consciousness would have been burst open long ago. But even so, his divine soul still exceeded its burden.

  The originally seemingly infinite spiritual power of the sea of consciousness was like a rubber band that had been stretched to its limit, and various cracks began to appear around it. What he is doing now with the yuan zhen spiritual technique is repairing these spider silk-like cracks.

  Everything that happened today was completely beyond his expectations, seemingly easy, but in fact, everything had gotten out of control since the appearance of the Golden Giant Demon God. Wang Guanlan had to use the Nine Fire Dragon Technique ahead of time, defeating the Golden Giant Demon God and the Seventh Prince Jiang Xuetian consecutively, and showing extremely strong power and confidence in front of everyone, but he knew his own difficulties.

  Jiuhuo Yanlong is the third-ranked technique in Wuxing Xuanhuo Jing, with extremely high requirements for the practitioner's spiritual soul. Generally speaking, the top five techniques in Wuxing Xuanhuo Jing can only be performed by a cultivator who has reached the eighth stage of cultivation. Unlike Huoqiu Technique, which is ranked ninety-eighth and is considered basic, requiring only that one be a cultivator to cultivate and perform it.

  Wang Guanlan was able to cast the Nine Fire Dragon with his third-grade cultivation thanks to the array method. The Crimson Robe woman's array chart had already surpassed the first boundary of the array method, reaching the second boundary of Heaven and Earth without bounds. In this realm, the primordial energy within the five-element array could be mutually transformed, eventually converting all surrounding primordial energy into fire-elemental energy, gathering it at a single point, purifying it, and allowing the fire-elemental energy to reach the conditions necessary for forming the Nine Fire Dragon, completing the first step of this technique, which was also the most crucial one - gathering Heaven and Earth's primordial energy. Apart from that, after gathering the primordial energy, the array method would automatically operate, basically completing the second step of the technique. All Wang Guanlan had to do was guide this extremely concentrated primordial energy to form the Nine Fire Dragon.

  His guidance was very simple, just like a computer program, all the words and sentences were set, Wang Guanlan only needed to click the "start" button.

  After clicking "Start", the formation automatically rotated, generating nine fire dragons. King Guanlan only needed to manipulate them, which was also the only thing he had to do after the formation of the nine fire dragons. However, even such a simple task was no longer bearable for his divine soul.

  Everything that happened today, if seen by the woman in red, would also be shocked, because according to her original speculation, Wang Guanlan didn't need to fight so desperately like today. The Nine Fire Flame Dragon was just something he used to intimidate others. Which idiot would dare challenge Wang Guanlan after the appearance of the Nine Fire Flame Dragon?

  But as a result, Wang Guanlan used the Nine Fire Flame Dragon Technique twice in a row, crushing his opponent with overwhelming strength!

  It was precisely because of these two manipulations that Wang Guanlan's divine soul power was overloaded, but at the same time, it also brought him a huge harvest. The scene of manipulating the Nine Fire Flame Dragon to sweep across the field made him unable to calm down for a long time. The feeling of infinite and endless power brought by the Nine Fire Flame Dragon still lingered in his mind, unable to fade away.

  When he was struggling to control the Nine Flame Dragon, his divine soul power was insufficient. At that moment, his sea of consciousness churned up, and the nine talismans hidden in his sea of consciousness once again radiated light, directly pulling his consciousness out of his body and merging it with the Nine Flame Dragon. In that instant, he was the Nine Flame Dragon, and the Nine Flame Dragon was him; there would be no problem of being unable to control it.

  It's just that this method of separating consciousness from the soul seems magical, but in the end, it still requires Wang Guanlan's own soul power to support it. If not, then Wang Guanlan would be manipulating the Nine Fire Flame Dragon, and his soul would also be consumed by the Nine Fire Flame Dragon.

  Apart from this, his body also bore a great burden.

  Before unleashing the Nine Fire Dragon, he had already exhausted almost all of his internal energy due to the use of the Bodhi Suppressing Knife and Spiritual Soldiers, causing some damage to his body. As a third-stage cultivator, the connection between his body and soul was exceptionally tight. After unleashing the Nine Fire Dragon, when the power of his soul exceeded its limits, it had no choice but to shift onto his body, nearly crushing him. However, in the end, he managed to hold on, not only surviving but also using the terrifying fire energy of the Nine Fire Dragon to directly break through to the fourth layer of Refining Qi and enter the Condensing Qi stage, even transforming his internal energy into Earthly Fiery True Fire.

  Why did his inner energy evolve into the true fire of the earth, Wang Guanlan knew a little about it, this was not born, in fact, his innate roots were very ordinary, so there would be such an outstanding performance, completely due to the five-element array method. In order to allow Wang Guanlan to display the Nine Fire Dragon Technique, the Five-Element Array Method in the valley transformed the surrounding heaven and earth's original energy while also extracting a large amount of fire element energy from the surroundings. These fire element energies included the fire element energy within a piece of land pulse at the bottom of the valley. Wang Guanlan, who was in charge of the five-element array method, could clearly feel that not far beneath the ground of Fengming Valley, there was an underground lava river. The true fire of the earth actually originated from the most refined flame of the earth's core lava flow undergoing a qualitative change. The Five-Element Array Method extracted the fire element energy from this lava river, purified it, and evolved it into the Nine Fire Dragon while also absorbing some of it, combining with the inheritance of the true fire of the earth flowing in his bloodline, naturally allowing him to break through to the fourth layer and ultimately evolve the true fire of the earth.

  According to the records of the Wang Clan, after reaching the third layer of Qi Refining, members of the Wang Clan who have the opportunity to absorb the pure Fire Element from the Earth's Core Magma can greatly increase their chances of awakening the True Flame. After successfully cultivating the True Flame, practicing near the magma flows underground can also achieve twice the result with half the effort, increasing cultivation speed and enhancing the killing power of internal energy.

  However, this is an extremely ideal state, even for a prestigious family like the Ning Wang Fu. It's hard to come by and not easy to find, let alone the fact that the underground lava rivers are difficult to locate. Just entering such a place would be unbearable for a cultivator at the third layer of Qi Refining. As one delves deeper, they would be scorched by the earth's fierce energy released from the lava rivers and die. Only those who have reached the sixth or seventh layer of Qi Refining can safely approach the edge of the underground lava river, but even then, they cannot stay for long. Hoping to use the underground lava river to improve one's cultivation is basically a pipe dream. But is it impossible?

  It's possible that the Ning Wang Fu had once attempted to use a spiritual instrument that countered the lava river, successfully escorting a group of young masters with the Ning Wang Fu bloodline to the edge of the lava river. They even prepared instruments for purifying the fire element from the lava, as well as corresponding techniques and elixirs - everything was fully prepared. However, in the end, they lost almost all of these young masters. Among this group of Ning Wang Fu's young masters, only one person survived; the rest all went mad due to their bodies' meridians being unable to withstand the extremely pure fire element containing the earth evil aura. The remaining one verified the previous saying and successfully comprehended the true fire of the earth evil, but good times didn't last long - on the tenth day after entering the fourth layer of Qi Refining, he also died. The cause of death was the same: his body couldn't withstand the true fire of the earth evil; the aura of the true fire of the earth evil wasn't compatible with his dantian, and in the end, his dantian collapsed and he perished.

  Since then, the Ning Wang Fu gave up this method, and that underground lava river also disappeared due to a dragon's flip. Since then, the Ning Wang Fu has not found another underground lava river and has not conducted similar experiments. As a result, every generation of awakened Di Xie Zhen Huo warriors can only search for suitable lava rivers all over the world to improve their cultivation, either by borrowing or stealing, which is extremely troublesome.

  Wang Guanlan never thought that under the Phoenix Valley, there was a river of molten lava, which happened to be absorbed by his Five Elements Array, extracting the pure Fire Element. As the controller of the array, he easily converted this refined energy into his Earthly True Flame.

  Having obtained the true fire of the earth, I no longer need to worry about the earth's fierce fire energy in the molten cave. I only need to find the entrance to that river and I can enter it for cultivation. With the help of the molten rock river, my martial arts cultivation will be able to advance rapidly!" Wang Guanlan thought to herself, "Perhaps I should tell the Wang Manor about this and exchange it for some benefits. However, for me now, I have already reached a bottleneck, there are many things that need to be digested, even if the Wang Manor gives me more benefits, I won't be able to take them in. Forget it, let's just make a contribution to the Ning Wang Manor. As they say, 'one loss, all loss; one gain, all gain.' The river is on my territory, and I have awakened the true fire of the earth. In the future, all the benefits will still be mine!!"