"The Sun-Seeking Compass..." This is a troublesome item.
As the ancestors of playing with fire in the Eastern Region, the Blazing Sun Holy Land truly possessed profound foundations.
"Once the Golden Crow Fire is used, or if intense spiritual energy fluctuations occur within a hundred feet of Zhu Lie, that compass will definitely react."
It seems I will have to be careful later.
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[Blue Intelligence: Lin Zhennan, the City Lord of Crimson Flame City, is no longer himself. Five years ago, an elder of the demonic Blood Fiend Sect used a secret technique to seize his body.
He spent five years setting up this scheme. Hosting this Exotic Fire Conference is actually to gather the final catalysts.
He plans to use the Nine Nether Blood Refining Array to refine the vital energy, spiritual power, and exotic fires of several Foundation Establishment experts into the purest energy, pouring it all into Lin Qingwan's body.
By doing this, and using Lin Qingwan's flesh and blood as the price, he will completely mature the Blood Demon Fetus.
The moment the demon fetus breaks out of her body, pure and flawless, he will swallow it whole, using it to break through to the Golden Core realm in one fell swoop and reforge an infinitely potential Blood Demon True Body.]
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[White Intelligence: Lin Qingwan knows absolutely nothing about this.
She thinks tomorrow's ceremony is a cold-expelling treatment her father is conducting to save her life.
She specially put on the wedding dress left by her late mother, fully prepared to die.]
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[Blue Intelligence: The Blood Demon Fetus is not human, but the demonic Blood Fiend Sect's secret technique, Artificial Dao Foundation.
Although it parasitizes Lin Qingwan's womb, it is not a fetus, but a highly compressed aggregate of flesh and spiritual energy.
Once it breaks out of its cocoon, it will transform into a Flawless Spirit Body with no facial features, only a silhouette.
Seizing this spirit body requires no consideration of compatibility, with a one hundred percent success rate.
Current status: 95% mature. It only lacks the final massive infusion of essence blood to break out of the body.]
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"So that's how it is." Gu Yang slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.
All the rewards were just bait.
"The so-called Exotic Fire Conference is nothing but an elaborately packaged buffet."
The image of Lin Qingwan's face, so pale it was almost transparent, and the guilty, shy look in her eyes when she looked at him, surfaced in Gu Yang's mind.
That silly woman, she was probably still blaming herself right now, thinking her broken body was dragging the family down.
She thought her father was saving her.
Little did she know, in her father's eyes, she was just a fattened pig waiting to be slaughtered.
Blood Demon Fetus...
For those old monsters whose aptitude was exhausted and whose lifespans were nearing their end, this was the only chance to defy the heavens and change their fate.
As long as they seized this body, they could live another life and possess terrifying cultivation talent.
The Blood Demon Fetus is countered by extreme Yang fire. If a trace of extreme Yang fire is injected into it, its strength will be greatly damaged.
I know what to do...
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The second day.
The Lin Family's forbidden ground, the Crimson Flame Suspended Platform.
This was the most famous perilous land in Crimson Flame City, and also the site for today's final selection of the Exotic Fire Conference.
A massive circular stone platform, pulled by four thick crimson copper chains resembling dragon bones, hovered above a churning magma fire vein.
Below was the bottomless earth lung poison fire. Heatwaves carrying the stench of sulfur surged into the sky. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators would be roasted into dried corpses in moments without spiritual energy protecting their bodies.
In the exact center of the stone platform floated a hollowed-out bronze sphere, about ten feet in diameter.
Inside the sphere, a cluster of ghostly blue flame burned quietly. As the tongues of fire flickered, countless twisted human faces could be faintly seen silently wailing.
That was the Lin Family's supreme treasure—the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame.
Cold and hot, the netherworld and the earth fire, converged here into a bizarre red and blue mist.
Gu Yang, dressed in a gray robe, stood among the twenty or so cultivators who had passed the preliminary selection, his expression indifferent.
His gaze swept across the area.
That ugly, hunched female cultivator from before had also arrived.
She shrank in the shadows of a corner, seemingly timid, but in reality, those eyes hidden behind her messy hair were staring dead at his back.
On the other side, Zhu Lie of the Blazing Sun Holy Land stood with his hands behind his back, his red hair flying. The needle of the Sun-Seeking Compass in his hand was trembling slightly, but he seemed to attribute it to the interference from the earth fire below, merely frowning in annoyance.
"Everyone."
Lin Zhennan landed on the main seat with a glowing red face. Beside him was still Lin Qingwan, dressed in her wedding gown, looking deathly pale.
"This bronze sphere is called the Heart-Refining Cage, containing the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame. The cold poison in my daughter's body can only be cured by this fire."
"But this fire is too fierce, and my daughter's mortal flesh cannot withstand it. Therefore, I need you all to inject your exotic fires into it. If you can neutralize the hostility of the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame and make it gentle, you will be considered the victor."
Lin Zhennan stroked his beard and smiled, but his eyes looked as if he were gazing at a flock of sheep and pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
Neutralize the hostility?
This bronze sphere is probably a giant filter.
To be on the safe side, Gu Yang summoned the system.
"System, targeted search: Information regarding the Heart-Refining Cage."
[Ding! 10 Destiny Points consumed. Analyzing...]
[Item: Nine Nether Blood Refining Sphere (Disguised Name: Heart-Refining Cage)]
[Truth: This item is not used to filter exotic fires, but acts as a heart pacemaker. Through the Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame inside, it constructs a reverse devouring array, connecting to the Blood Demon Fetus inside Lin Qingwan below.
The array can instantly lock the meridians of cultivators, draining all their essence blood, cultivation bases, and exotic fires, converting them into pure nourishment to feed the demon fetus.]
[Remaining Destiny Points: 40]
It really is a demonic array.
Gu Yang sneered inwardly.
Standing on the high platform's main seat, beneath Lin Zhennan's refined facade, a greedy ghost face seemed to be grinning maliciously. He waved his large hand, his voice impassioned: "Young talents, my daughter's life is entirely entrusted to you all! The auspicious hour has arrived. Please, everyone, strike together and help me refine this fierce fire!"
"Rest assured, Family Head Lin! We will definitely do our best!"
A rogue cultivator in a yellow robe could no longer hold back. For the sake of that Foundation Establishment spiritual item, he took a step forward. A cluster of earthy-yellow beast fire surged from his palm, slapping fiercely toward the floating bronze sphere.
With someone taking the lead, the remaining dozen or so cultivators, terrified of falling behind, hastily circulated their spiritual energy. Various flames instantly flared up—red, green, purple... like poisonous flowers competing in beauty, they eagerly swarmed into the bronze cage.
Gu Yang blended into the crowd, his movements half a beat slower.
He slowly raised his hand. At his fingertips was what appeared to be an ordinary crimson flame, but in reality, at the very core of the flame, a sliver of fire finer than a needle tip was concealed—the Great Sun True Fire.
That was the sovereign fire of extreme Yang. Although it was just a sliver, it carried brilliant heavenly might.
"Go."
Gu Yang lightly flicked his finger.
That wisp of flame containing his hidden trick mixed into the sky full of firelight, silently drilling into the churning sea of ghostly blue fire inside the bronze sphere.
Afterward, Gu Yang severed his connection to it and took a step back.
Boom!
Twenty exotic fires were injected simultaneously.
Before long.
The Nine Nether Soul-Locking Flame inside the bronze sphere violently surged. The originally ghostly blue firelight instantly turned a bizarre dark red, as if a slumbering ferocious beast had suddenly opened its bloodshot eyes.
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
