Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Fiery Sun Fruit
WHOOSH!
Suddenly, Gu Yun was swallowed by a spatial rift that appeared out of nowhere.
The others were all the same, devoured by the dark void before they could even react.
...
Scorching flames burned fiercely. The intense heat made space itself seem to distort, and even the very air felt like it was on fire.
Inside the ruins,
"Where is this?"
Gu Yun hovered in midair, his True Yuan radiating from his body to push back the high-temperature flames, creating a clear space a dozen feet around him.
Gu Yun looked around. There was no one else in sight.
’It seems we were randomly teleported,’ he thought. ’I bet that guy Xiao Chen got a much better deal.’
His gaze then swept over his surroundings, and he found himself facing a sea of fire that stretched to the horizon.
His expression turned grim.
According to his Spiritual Sense, there was no Earth Fire Vein here, yet this place was a vast sea of flames. It was clearly no ordinary place.
Just as Gu Yun was about to fly forward,
Suddenly,
BOOM!
From the raging sea of fire below, a massive figure suddenly shot out. It was wreathed in immense, scorching flames and let out a ferocious roar.
It lunged toward Gu Yun, trying to devour him whole!
Gu Yun’s gaze turned icy. With a wave of his hand, he unleashed a saber strike. The powerful sound of wind and thunder rent the air, tearing through the scorching-hot atmosphere.
Like a bolt of lightning, it pierced straight through the attacking figure!
SHHIIING!
The pale blue light of the saber seemed to tear space itself apart.
The massive, flame-wreathed figure froze abruptly.
The incomparably sharp saber light had passed right through it. The giant fiery shadow was sliced in two before suddenly dissipating into a puff of smoke and fire.
"A Red Flame Spirit?!"
Gu Yun murmured in doubt.
Then, Gu Yun’s vast, ocean-deep True Yuan spread out from his body.
He struck out at the void with one palm, and his immense True Yuan formed a giant, invisible hand that slammed down into the sea of fire below.
The burning flames below began to boil violently, as if they had encountered something terrifying.
Then, they coalesced into the fiery shadow of a demon beast.
"As I thought. This is a Red Flame Spirit."
Gu Yun now focused his attention on the Flame Spirit.
He looked slightly surprised. He could faintly sense a trace of the Fire Realm’s existence within it.
But this Mental Realm was standard for the Tongxuan Realm.
’Why does this Flame Spirit possess the Fire Realm?’
’Could it be?’ he wondered.
Suddenly, bolts of thunder flashed all around Gu Yun, like writhing thunder Flood Dragons.
In an instant, they condensed in the void to form a Celestial Thunder Hand several hundred feet wide, which then smashed down toward the Red Flame Spirit below!
BOOM!
The Red Flame Spirit was instantly obliterated by the thunderous hand, leaving behind only a fist-sized, crimson-glowing pearl.
"Just as I thought!"
With a wave of his hand, Gu Yun used his True Yuan to pull the Flame Pearl into his grasp. He circulated his True Yuan and quickly refined it.
Instantly, the Red Flame Pearl transformed into a stream of red Spiritual Power that flowed from his palm into his meridians.
At that moment, Gu Yun felt his body burn like a blazing fire. He closed his eyes to carefully perceive the trace of the Fire Realm within him.
Then, he snapped his eyes open. His pupils seemed to burn like two blazing suns, emitting a soul-shaking pressure that was unbearably dazzling to behold!
"So that’s how it is!"
"The Tongxuan Realm is so powerful! Once you enter the Tongxuan Realm, the gap between you and a mortal is like that between an immortal and a commoner. You gain the vast power to reshape the very world.
This must be the place where a Tongxuan True Monarch fell, transforming the area into this Fire Domain. Terrifying, truly terrifying!"
"Time to go!" Before the words even faded,
Gu Yun’s figure flickered and vanished, leaving only an afterimage that slowly dissipated in the scorching air.
...
Gu Yun transformed into a streak of thunderous Escape Light and left the area.
While flying through the air, a thought crossed Gu Yun’s mind, and the Skill Level panel appeared in the depths of his consciousness.
Name: Gu Yun
Realm: True Martial Realm Second Layer Peak
Cultivation Technique: Nine Tribulations Thunder Gang Decision
(First Tribulation: Wind and Thunder Tribulation 65%)
Martial Techniques: Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Palm (Beginner 6%)
Celestial Thunder Hand (Beginner 95%)
Thunder Gang Body (Minor Success 12%), Wandering Dragon Step (Perfection)
Fusion Martial Techniques: Wind and Thunder Annihilation Saber (Perfection)
Technique: Three Thousand Thunder Flashes (Beginner 60%), Earth-Bursting Heaven-Shaking (Minor Success 50%)
Breath Concealment Technique (Minor Success 65%), Celestial Thunder Technique (Great Success 60%)
Secret Technique: Star Refining Soul Technique (Beginner 1%)
Blade Momentum: Great Success Blade Momentum (3%)
Alchemy: Low Tier Human Tier (5%)
Transforming into a streak of lightning, he flew at extreme speed and soon left the fiery sea of the Starfire Spreads.
Even so, the temperature inside the ruins remained extremely high.
The air itself seemed to faintly shimmer and distort.
All the vegetation on the scorched earth of the ruins was a fiery red color.
It was sparse and scattered, and the exposed soil was incredibly dry, as if it had been burned crimson.
In such an environment, if a Spiritual Martial Realm Cultivator were to come here, they would likely be baked to death by the scorching heat within days.
But for a True Martial Realm expert, it was nothing much.
By circulating their True Yuan, they could form a True Essence Shield.
Along the way, Gu Yun occasionally encountered a few True Martial Realm First Layer Flame Demon Beasts, but he casually dispatched them all.
...
「Meanwhile」
The burly He Kun was cooperating with another True Martial Cultivator named Zhao Chun to kill a Flame Demon Beast on a fiery mountain.
There, on the mountain, they had discovered a precious Fiery Sun Fruit.
The two of them were, naturally, ecstatic.
"Brother Kun, what do you say we split this Fiery Sun Fruit fifty-fifty?" Zhao Chun said with a smile.
"Of course! We’re brothers, after all. It’s only right," He Kun replied with a hearty laugh.
As they spoke, the two drew closer and closer to the Fiery Sun Fruit.
At the same time, the distance between them shrank to within ten feet.
Suddenly, in that very instant, everything changed. He Kun and Zhao Chun attacked at the exact same moment, completely in sync.
Two incomparably powerful fists of True Yuan erupted, piercing through the air in an instant as they flew toward each other’s heads.
BOOM!
The collision of True Yuan created an explosion, and the shockwave of momentum blasted outwards in all directions, sending the surrounding red soil and stones flying.
Immediately after, the two shot backward at high speed, putting distance between them.
"Brother Kun, is this what you call being ’good brothers’?" Zhao Chun said, his face dark.
He Kun roared in anger,
"That’s the pot calling the kettle black! Who the fuck do you think you’re fooling? Shit!"
Before his words faded, he attacked again.
His figure flickered and vanished, reappearing in front of Zhao Chun an instant later.
He threw a punch that whistled through the air, its immense power like a massive mountain crashing down on Zhao Chun.
Zhao Chun’s expression was ice-cold as he snorted.
A terrifying aura erupted from his body. He, too, threw a counter-punch, swift as lightning, like a clap of thunder, striking his opponent with unstoppable arrogance.
Both men were at the True Martial First Layer Peak. If they could obtain the Fiery Sun Fruit, a treasure of heaven and earth, they would have a chance to break through to the True Martial Second Layer. Faced with such an opportunity,
the "brotherly bond" they had formed just moments before while killing the Flame Demon Beast was shattered in an instant.
BOOM!
The power that erupted from the two was enough to overturn mountains and seas. A powerful shockwave swept out in all directions.
The resulting impact caused the surrounding dry, red earth to crack and shatter.
Then, two figures flickered across the fiery mountain as fast as lightning, a duel between their powerful Physiques.
Every clash was a brutal impact. The True Yuan around their bodies vibrated, sending ripples through space like waves on water.
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