NABC Chapter 47 Pure Yang Golden Light
Chapter 47 Pure Yang Golden Light
Chapter 47 Pure Yang Golden Light
"Arrogant!"
A furious and violent shout resounded from the depths of Shenhuo Mountain Manor!
In an instant, a pure golden flame, as blazing as the rising sun and so bright it was impossible to look directly at, shot into the sky! The flame was majestic and righteous, exuding an awe-inspiring aura that could cleanse demonic influences and burn away evil spirits—it was the divine flame of the Eastern Spirit Clan, which was renowned throughout the world, the Pure Yang Flame!
This fire, known as the "Demon-Slaying Divine Fire," is indeed the nemesis of all demons in the world, capable of burning away demonic energy and dissipating demonic power. However, its true terror lies far beyond this; it can also reforge and purify human magical treasures, and even—directly ignite the magical power of cultivators! It's just that Dongfang Guyue was kind-hearted during his lifetime and mostly used it to slay demons, thus its fearsome reputation remained hidden.
However, before Jin Renfeng's angry shout had even fully landed, the black-clad figure that was pulling the fierce winds of the sky had already ignored the obstruction and threat of the blazing fire and closed in on him in an instant!
There were no complicated sword moves, no mysterious spells.
Zhou Yi simply took the sky-filling gale behind him, which he had forcibly restrained, compressed, and transformed into a roaring wind dragon, and swung it down like an invisible giant blade that split the heavens, aiming it at the Golden Phoenix who had just revealed its form and was still surrounded by dazzling golden flames!
Or rather, it was a smashing! A violent bombardment with the mighty power of heaven and earth as its hammer!
"boom-!!!"
Jin Renfeng didn't even have time to form a complete defensive stance. Just as his protective divine fire surged, he was struck by the extremely savage wind force, like a meteorite thrown with all its might. He was transformed into a blinding afterimage of fire and flew backward at an astonishing speed!
The air along the way was torn apart by a deafening sonic boom, and the air waves rolled like a tsunami.
"Bang-!!!"
Dozens of miles away, the summit of a mountain peak hundreds of feet high exploded with a deafening roar! Rocks flew through the air, and dust rose like a mushroom cloud, turning the sky gray and yellow.
If it were the Jin Renfeng of the past, before he had killed his master to change his bloodline, he would probably have been completely shattered and turned into dust by this attack.
However, he is no longer the same person he used to be!
"ah!!!"
With a roar laced with pain and rage, golden flames, even more intense and violent than before, suddenly erupted from the collapsed mountain ruins! The flames did not dissipate, but rather, like living magma, instantly engulfed the entire shattered mountain!
No, it's not devouring, it's transforming!
In the blink of an eye, the majestic mountain was melted into scalding lava by the terrifying heat, transforming into a violently erupting "Flaming Mountain" composed entirely of pure yang flames!
Lava erupted, flames surged, and golden flames, like billions of wildly dancing fire serpents, surged back towards Zhou Yi in the sky! Jin Renfeng stood at the heart of this volcanic eruption, surrounded by flames, and apart from slightly torn clothes, he was truly—completely unharmed!
He extracted the spiritual blood that Dongfang Guyue had cultivated throughout his life and used the secret method of the leech spirit clan to replace it with his own. His internal magical power had already undergone a qualitative change, increasing by tens or even hundreds of times in a single day! Coupled with the protective power of the pure Yang Flame, he actually withstood this blow that was enough to split mountains and shatter the earth!
"Zhou Yi—! You've truly courted death today!!!"
Jin Renfeng's face appeared extremely ferocious in the firelight, his eyes blazing with hatred and killing intent. He suddenly thrust his arms towards the sky, causing the entire "Flaming Mountain" below to tremble violently. An even more magnificent and vast golden sea of fire surged into the sky, as if it would set the entire heavens ablaze and burn them to ashes!
In the sky, Zhou Yi's face was cold and stern. The restrained gale behind him not only did not dissipate, but instead continued to compress and solidify as it spun at high speed, emitting a terrifying sound like the roar of thousands of giant dragons. It transformed into a chaotic wind pillar that connected the sky and the earth, and from the nine heavens, it crashed down fiercely towards the surging flames below with the force of destroying the world!
Fire erupts from the earth, defying the heavens! Wind descends from the ninth heaven, suppressing mountains and rivers!
The next moment—
"BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Like two stars colliding, or like the first great roar at the beginning of time!
Wind and fire, two completely different yet terrifying forces capable of destroying a region, collided solidly in mid-air!
No tricks, no fancy moves, just the purest, most savage, and most extreme annihilation and explosion of energy!
The blinding light instantly engulfed everything; sound lost its meaning in that moment, and space itself seemed to distort.
Shattered! Visible ripples of destruction, mixed with golden flames and chaotic energy, spread wildly and swept outwards from the point of impact!
Mountains were leveled, rivers were instantly evaporated, the earth was torn open with bottomless ravines, and the clouds in the sky were completely ripped apart and dispersed!
The aftershocks swept across hundreds of miles! It truly resembled a terrifying scene of the apocalypse and the upheaval of the world!
Those cultivators watching the battle from the distant clouds and mountain peaks, even though they were prepared and had unleashed their strongest defensive magic treasures and condensed protective qi, were still shaken by the terrifying shockwave. Their blood churned, their faces turned pale, and they had no choice but to retreat again and again, their eyes filled with unparalleled shock and horror.
Fortunately, there were indeed far-sighted and insightful elders in the Dao Alliance who had foreseen the wide-ranging impact of this battle and had taken measures in advance to relocate all ordinary people within hundreds of miles of the battlefield to safe areas. Otherwise, the residual force of this first clash alone would have caused countless innocent casualties, and the resulting carnage would have been so immense that even the waters of the Three Rivers and Five Lakes could not wash it away!
At this moment, high above the clouds, an old man with a deep and solemn aura and white hair and beard gazed at the devastating collision in the distance and couldn't help but sigh deeply. His voice was filled with complex and indescribable meaning: "The talent and brilliance of these two people—truly, even if we look back a thousand years and forward a thousand years, we would probably find it difficult to find a third like them."
Another cultivator beside him, also of considerable age, shook his head with a look of sorrow upon hearing this, adding, "Yes—what a pity, what a tragedy! Fate is cruel, circumstances are unforgiving, forcing them to settle this score here. Regardless of who wins or loses, it is a great loss to our human race!"
This statement is not an exaggeration.
Regardless of external factors such as family background and bloodline inheritance, if we only consider personal aptitude, comprehension, and the speed and extent to which he can transform his talent into strength, Jin Renfeng is indeed a rare genius among humans in the past few hundred years. His extraordinary talent has almost reached the limit that humans can imagine.
Even if Zhou Yi were to be reincarnated with extraordinary talent and inherit the wisdom of his past life, his innate talent and physical constitution would only be slightly better than Jin Renfeng's before his blood transfusion.
On the surface, this earth-shattering clash between the two appeared to be a draw, with neither able to gain the upper hand.
However, this very "draw" was like boiling oil poured into a raging fire, instantly igniting the most twisted and surging jealousy and rage in Jin Renfeng's heart! He had paid the price of patricide and betrayal, enduring the backlash of his bloodline, and suffering torment day and night, meticulously plotting and scheming to steal the so-called demon-slaying divine fire, the Pure Yang Flame, and the Eastern Spiritual Blood! But what right did Zhou Yi have?! Without spiritual blood, without divine fire, and without even drawing his sword, merely by controlling the winds of heaven and earth, he could rival Jin Renfeng's stolen "divine power"?!
How unfair and biased God is!
If he hadn't been so astute in perceiving Dongfang Guyue's unusual appreciation for Zhou Yi back then, and if he hadn't cleverly sown discord between the two, causing them to become suspicious of each other and ultimately parting on bad terms—this Zhou Yi would probably have become that old scoundrel Dongfang Guyue's disciple long ago, or even—or perhaps he would have already been engaged to Dongfang Huaizhu. Where would Jin Renfeng have had any room for his later schemes?
What "treating him like his own son," what "the future will surely pass the throne to him"—that puts him at ease? Ridiculous! What a ridiculous joke! In this world, Jin Renfeng only believes in the power he holds firmly in his own hands, and only believes in the destiny he can control!
"roar-!!!"
Jealousy burned within him, even more intense than the divine fire outside his body! Jin Renfeng roared like a wild beast, and the already blazing golden flames around him suddenly surged even more fiercely without warning! The fire was so fierce and intense that it seemed to burn away even his own reason!
But this is not the end!
With his roar, his body emanated an indescribable, pure, and dazzling golden light from within! This golden light was not flame, yet it was more solid and domineering than flame, carrying an aura of invulnerability to all magic.
The supreme majesty that burns all things!
"Oh no!" Dongfang Huaizhu, who was watching from afar, exclaimed in shock, her pretty face instantly draining of color. "That is—"
"Father's ultimate skill, Pure Yang Golden Light Protecting the Body!"
Dongfang Guyue had meticulously imparted the highest secrets of this divine fire to her, but despite her remarkable talent, she had always struggled to truly grasp its essence, only understanding its form and not its spirit. Unexpectedly, Jin Renfeng, having only stolen the spiritual blood and divine fire for a short time, was able to comprehend it on his own, successfully unleashing this supreme defensive and destructive technique—a technique that could only be performed by activating the Dongfang spiritual blood to its peak and achieving an unparalleled understanding of the pure Yang Flame!
A golden light flashed, and a domain was formed!
Centered on Jin Renfeng, the space within a radius of several miles seemed to have been thrown into the core of a purgatory furnace! The extreme high temperature no longer spread, but transformed into an absolute "domain"—wherever the golden light reached, all things were annihilated!
The air was instantly sucked out and ionized, emitting an eerie hiss before returning to nothingness; the earth, rocks, grass, and even the pervasive dust, upon contact with the golden light, did not burn but simply "disappeared," as if they were completely erased from the realm of existence! In just a breath, a terrifying hemispherical crater, tens of feet deep with smooth, mirror-like edges, replaced the original landscape, exposed on the earth. Within the crater, only the pure, chilling golden light flowed, radiating an aura of annihilation.
The onlookers were all horrified and retreated again. Some of the weaker cultivators, even from a great distance, found their protective magic treasures beginning to heat up slightly and their spiritual light fading!
"Where is the Lone Peak Sword?! Could it be—could it already be—?" someone asked in a trembling voice, their eyes frantically searching within the destructive golden light domain, but to no avail.
"Too...too powerful! Is this the true power of the Demon-Slaying Divine Fire?! It's completely unmatched!" Exclamations and gasps of astonishment rose and fell.
"Father!" Yang Yan's heart tightened. Even though she had almost blind faith in Zhou Yi, she couldn't help but feel terrified at the sight of such earth-shattering power.
Beside her, Yang Yifang's expression was extremely solemn. The closed third eye pattern between his brows suddenly lit up, and an invisible power of insight swept across the battlefield. His gaze pierced through the chaotic aftershocks of energy and the dazzling golden light, meticulously searching every inch of space.
Suddenly, his divine eye inadvertently swept across a charred leaf that was drifting and tumbling in the raging air currents, yet strangely untouched by the golden light.
Yang Yifang, who was about to look away and continue searching, suddenly stopped.
"Um?"
He immediately focused all his attention back on the seemingly ordinary fallen leaf. He activated his Heavenly Eye at full power, piercing through appearances—
"Found it!"
But—what kind of technique is this? Shrinking into a mustard seed? Or some kind of extremely sophisticated spatial folding technique?
In Yang Yifang's Heavenly Eye vision, Zhou Yi's figure became extremely small, as small as a crystal dewdrop clinging to a fallen leaf. He stood quietly on the leaf, drifting and tumbling with the leaf in the world filled with destructive power, his aura almost nonexistent, as if he had merged with the fallen leaf, cleverly avoiding the most violent direct impact of the golden light domain.
Faced with the "Pure Yang Golden Light Protection," whose power surpassed even the Samadhi True Fire that many great supernatural beings were proud of, even Zhou Yi at this moment had to temporarily avoid its overwhelming sharpness. He used a rather peculiar, borrowed high-level supernatural power, the "Little Death-Avoiding Leaf," and hid himself within a mustard seed, barely dodging this earth-shattering attack.
Looking at Jin Renfeng, who was showing off his power in the distance, Zhou Yi felt no emotion.
While the pure yang golden light protecting the body is indeed incredibly powerful, the consumption of magical power from such a large-scale domain must be astronomical! How many times can Jin Renfeng use it?
And since he had already witnessed the power and characteristics of this move firsthand—
How could there be no way to deal with or restrain such a situation?
If this "pure yang golden light" that burns everything is Jin Renfeng's last trump card—
Therefore, there is no need to drag this out any longer.
Just when almost all the onlookers thought that the invincible Lone Peak Sword had been reduced to ashes or at least severely damaged in the golden light—
The charred leaf drifted silently to the edge of the golden light domain, creating a barely perceptible ripple.
The figure in black robes materialized from the void, stepping out from the center of the slightly rippling space and reappearing between heaven and earth.
His robes were spotless, his black hair was perfectly styled, and his expression was calm and indifferent like a deep pool. He was truly—completely unharmed!
"Heh ————·————"
Jin Renfeng hovered in mid-air, his chest heaving violently as he gasped for breath. His previous rage and arrogance were still frozen on his face, but now they were covered by an unbelievable horror and a chilling fear.
He stared intently at the unharmed figure in black robes not far away, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets. His hoarse voice, like sandpaper scraping, trembled with the urge to break down: "How could this be—how is this possible?! You—how could you still be alive?!"
That "Pure Yang Golden Light Protection" was his trump card, a supreme technique he had only been able to unleash after stealing spiritual blood, fusing with divine fire, and painstakingly comprehending it for a long time! He believed that even if Wang Quan Shouzhuo himself came, he would die from this move! This Zhou Yi—what makes this Zhou Yi so special?!
Zhou Yi hovered in mid-air, his gaze calmly sweeping over Jin Renfeng's slightly disheveled figure, visibly exhausted from his heavy breathing, and the barely concealed, weak aura emanating from him despite the golden light still surrounding him. His voice rang out clearly, not impassioned, but like ice water striking stone: "Jin Renfeng, if your skill ends here—"
He paused slightly.
Between heaven and earth, the chaotic and violent flow of primordial energy caused by the previous collision seemed to be instantly smoothed out by an invisible hand, suddenly plunging into an eerie and chilling silence.
An indescribable, terrifying aura began to silently spread from Zhou Yi's center. This aura was not ostentatious, but rather exceptionally restrained and profound, like a world-destroying undercurrent brewing beneath the deep sea, causing all the spectators with a certain level of cultivation to involuntarily feel intense tremors and a sense of suffocation deep within their souls!
"—Then what's the next move?"
He slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers naturally spread out, and then gently clenched it.
There was no sword light, no strange phenomenon.
But that simple action seemed to grasp the pulse of the entire world, to grasp—the power of death.
Please—
"Go to hell!"
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it—!!!"
Extreme fear often breeds extreme madness. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, driven to the brink of despair and on the verge of mental collapse, Jin Renfeng let out a hysterical, beast-like roar! His eyes were bloodshot, and he suddenly reached into his robes, pulling out a pill the size of a pigeon egg, radiating an eerie blood-red light, into his palm!
As soon as the pill appeared, a strong, nauseating stench of blood mixed with violent and chaotic demonic energy spread out, and one could faintly hear the hallucinations of countless living beings wailing in agony from within!
"That's—a Blood-Burning Demon Core?!"
The knowledgeable elder cultivators instantly recognized the object and were shocked into silence!
"What?! Jin Renfeng actually crafted such a forbidden item! He's utterly depraved and deserves to die!!!"
Exclamations and angry shouts erupted instantly from the crowd of spectators!
What is the Blood-Burning Demon Core? It is one of the most infamous and strictly forbidden forbidden evil cores in the history of the Dao Alliance! Its refining method is inhumane, requiring a large mixture of human and demon essence blood, smelted using special evil techniques. The quality of the demon essence blood must be extremely high, at the very least from a powerful demon king; while the human essence blood, though without quality requirements, must be in extremely large quantities—at least tens of thousands of living people's essence blood must be extracted!
This pill has a simple and brutal effect. After taking it, it can forcibly squeeze and burn the life potential and essence of blood according to the user's constitution, and increase the user's magic power several times or even up to ten times in a very short time!
However, the consequences are equally horrifying. At best, one's cultivation foundation is completely destroyed, their path to enlightenment severed, leaving them a cripple; at worst, their bloodline surges in reverse, their soul and spirit annihilated, and they explode to death! Furthermore, because its refining process is extremely cruel and contrary to the laws of nature, it has been listed as a supreme taboo by the One Qi Dao Alliance since its inception. Unless humanity faces annihilation or the One Qi Dao Alliance faces a life-or-death crisis, and all the top families jointly decide, it must never be refined, much less used!
Throughout the Dao Alliance's millennia-long history, there are only three documented instances of the Blood-Burning Demon Core appearing, each accompanied by immense bloodshed and endless controversy. And today, the one in Jin Renfeng's hand is—the fourth time!
No cultivator in the world dares to defy this great calamity! The one who refined this pill is no ordinary sinner, but a peerless villain who has violated human ethics, betrayed his clan, and willingly fallen into the demonic path!
"Jin Renfeng—Damn it!!!"
At this moment, regardless of their previous stance or whether they had any past grudges with Jin Renfeng, almost all the cultivators who witnessed this pill felt an unprecedented surge of anger and killing intent! This fiend's evil had far exceeded personal grudges; he was an enemy of the human race!
Even if Jin Renfeng were to miraculously escape the Lone Peak Sword's grasp today by relying on the power of this Blood-Burning Demon Core, or even manage a bizarre counterattack, he would have absolutely no chance of leaving this battlefield alive, let alone having any chance of remaining in the human world.
By refining and consuming the Blood-Burning Demon Core, he had completely severed the last remaining, precarious connection between himself and the morality of humanity, the One Qi Alliance, and all cultivators in the world who held onto their principles. This was no longer a simple act of revenge or conflict; it was a blatant trampling on the ironclad laws of survival etched in blood and fire by humanity over thousands of years, an act of self-destruction from the entire human civilization!
He was truly driven to the brink of despair, with no way out and no hope of escape. Only by relying on this evil pill, obtained at the cost of heinous sins, could he burn his last bit of life and soul in a final, frantic struggle, like a trapped beast.
Then I asked the question that had been buried deep in my heart for so many years—
"Why should I?!"
"What right do you have?!"
"Where am I, Jin Renfeng, inferior to you?!"
We exceeded the target. I'm dizzy from writing all that; did we even reach 25,000?
burnt out.
Back when I was a reader, didn't I always hear stories of authors updating ten chapters a day without anyone complaining? How come it's different for me? *crying*
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