Chapter 341: Chapter 339: Rebirth in Fire
Jiang Chen was stunned to find himself suddenly in a place filled with his own memories.
"Why is this happening?"
’Have I really lost my memories?’
He was filled with self-doubt.
After all, Jiang Chen had been reborn a thousand years after being killed in the explosion of that Pill Furnace.
He had no idea what had happened during that time.
A thousand years had passed in the blink of an eye.
He was completely unaware of the events of that millennium and the memories he had lost.
The space before him was densely packed with manifestations of his own memories.
But he didn’t know how to search for them.
He grabbed one of the figures that looked just like him.
"How do I find my own memories?"
"How do I find you?"
That Jiang Chen shook his head. "I don’t know either."
"You’ll have to search for it slowly."
Jiang Chen was speechless.
’How am I supposed to search for something when I don’t even know what’s missing?’
In the end, Jiang Chen gave up. He couldn’t integrate with any of the other Jiang Chens’ memories here, gaining nothing from them.
’How do I get out of here?’
He knew he was still climbing the steps on the sixth level of the Ghost Temple. His soul had yet to reach the final level; he couldn’t stay here forever.
"Look, over there."
Jiang Chen looked ahead.
He saw another Jiang Chen slowly walking toward him.
"I am your memory, a part of your memory."
"A thousand years ago, when the Pill Furnace exploded, it blasted this part of my memory away."
That Jiang Chen walked over, step by step.
Above his head, a ball of fire slowly rose.
The flame transformed into a Firebird.
Its fiery light illuminated the entire sky, emitting a scorching glow.
"Today, I will merge into you and let you regain the memories that are rightfully yours."
That Jiang Chen approached slowly, his steps firm.
"That’s..."
Looking at the flame and the Firebird above the other Jiang Chen’s head, Jiang Chen himself was stunned.
He muttered to himself, "That’s my Vermilion Bird Seal, the Vermilion Bird that the seal transforms into."
The flame of the Vermilion Bird is the Vermilion Bird Fire.
Jiang Chen still didn’t know how he was supposed to leave.
Just then, the other Jiang Chen merged into the Vermilion Bird, which suddenly flew toward him.
The searing temperature threatened to incinerate Jiang Chen.
"I am your memory, reborn in fire."
"I am also your forgotten memory, reborn in fire."
The voice of the Jiang Chen he had forgotten entered his mind.
Jiang Chen trembled violently, finding it hard to believe that this was actually a part of his own memory.
If that was the case, then he had indeed forgotten many of his memories.
He had no idea he even possessed a Divine Technique like being reborn from fire.
’The meaning of the Vermilion Bird is...’
The moment the Vermilion Bird drew near and its flames began to burn him, a bright light flashed in Jiang Chen’s eyes.
’Vermilion Bird Fire, rebirth from fire.’
’I understand. My physical body is shattered and my soul is fragmented. Only by being reborn in fire can I become whole again.’
’I might even be able to rush to the final level in one go.’
Jiang Chen stood amidst his memories, accepting the burning of the Vermilion Bird Fire.
A segment of his memory, carried by the Vermilion Bird Fire, poured into his mind.
It made his entire body tremble.
’Rebirth from fire... this really is my memory. Could it be that dying in the Pill Furnace explosion a thousand years ago caused me to lose parts of my memory?’
He was shocked. The idea that his memories were incomplete was terrifying.
Now, he had recovered a part of his lost memories: the memory of being reborn in fire.
「Back on the steps of the sixth level.」
On the nine hundred ninety-ninth step, where Jiang Chen’s body had shattered and his soul had fragmented.
A flicker of flame was suddenly born.
The flame seemed to appear from thin air, landing on the step.
At first, it just burned quietly, but then, an unyielding will began to erupt from within it.
"Memories return... I am Jiang Chen..."
A ripple of consciousness echoed through the space of the sixth level.
It caused the sixth level to hum and vibrate.
Flame Dragon abruptly raised his head, looking toward the nine hundred ninety-ninth step ahead of him, the place where Jiang Chen had vanished.
A sharp glint suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"That’s Big Brother! It’s Big Brother’s unyielding will!"
"He can’t be dead! There’s no way he could die! He’s a prodigy of the heavens!"
"I believe in him."
Especially when he saw that flame, Flame Dragon felt there was something strange about it.
He couldn’t comprehend it.
But the flame was suffused with Jiang Chen’s aura.
Wen Shixuan and the others also noticed the flame on the nine hundred ninety-ninth step and were all shocked.
Soon, a powerful consciousness began to echo ceaselessly through the sixth level.
"Let raging flames consume my broken form."
"From endless life, in fire I’m reborn."
This consciousness was incredibly strong. A force of life was being born within the flames.
It was Jiang Chen’s consciousness, using the Vermilion Bird Fire to begin his rebirth.
The shattered remnants of his body, responding to the ripples of his consciousness, began to slowly reassemble on the step.
Whether it was below the steps or on any other step, the pieces of Jiang Chen’s sundered flesh began to gather as if answering a summons.
They swarmed toward the nine hundred ninety-ninth step.
Even the blood Jiang Chen had shed flowed back up, converging on the nine hundred ninety-ninth step.
It was as if an endless gravitational pull emanated from that spot.
At the same time, Jiang Chen’s consciousness buzzed incessantly.
"From endless life, in fire I’m reborn..."
The flame began to grow, swelling into a much larger blaze.
And it burned with increasing intensity.
「After some time.」 A pillar of fire shot into the sky.
Flame Dragon stared blankly at the scene.
He found it utterly incredible.
"Big Brother, this is rebirth from fire."
"How is this possible? Rebirth from fire... only a Phoenix can be reborn from fire."
"Big Brother, he..."
Flame Dragon couldn’t understand it; all he could do was watch.
As the flames soared, Jiang Chen’s consciousness had reached its peak intensity.
That unyielding will allowed Jiang Chen to be reborn within the Vermilion Bird Fire.
Jiang Chen’s flesh took shape once more, eventually reforming into his appearance.
The blood also returned to his body.
Even his fragmented soul reappeared within the raging fire.
At that moment, Jiang Chen’s body slowly stood up on the nine hundred ninety-ninth step, and his soul re-integrated with his body.
SWISH!
Jiang Chen stood on the step, his eyes snapping open.
A look of pleasant surprise appeared in his eyes. He hadn’t expected to be able to come back from the dead.
However, after his "death," he had discovered something astonishing: his memories were incomplete.
It seemed the current him was not his complete self.
’I will find myself again.’
’I am Jiang Chen.’
Jiang Chen muttered to himself on the step.
Then, he declared loudly, "I, Jiang Chen, have returned."
BOOM!
An air of pride radiated from Jiang Chen.
He was Jiang Chen, one of the world’s most supreme experts. No obstacle could stand in his way.
He was a king between heaven and earth, possessor of an unyielding will.
Flame Dragon discovered to his astonishment that the Jiang Chen before him seemed to have changed, and quite a lot.
That aura was so mysterious.
’But I’m sure of it. He is my Big Brother.’
A prodigy capable of passing the Puppet Array, overcoming the Blood Vine, and charging up to the nine hundred ninety-ninth step.
And now, he was about to assault the very peak, to step onto the one-thousandth step.
Right before his eyes, Jiang Chen suddenly moved.
Flames surged from his body, much like Flame Dragon’s, but the flames on his body seemed even more terrifying.
Transforming into a Flame Man, Jiang Chen lifted his foot and slowly stepped toward the final step.
He encountered no difficulty with this step, as if the tenfold pressure before him no longer existed.
Although he was, in fact, still being oppressed by the tenfold pressure.
It couldn’t stop the Jiang Chen who had just been reborn in fire.
’I am a king. How could I be trapped by a mere Gravity Domain?’
"Break for me!"
Jiang Chen’s foot stomped fiercely toward the final step.
He was so calm and unhurried.
His aura, moreover, was as vast as an ocean, as powerful as a tsunami.
His foot slowly descended toward the step.
He treated the tenfold pressure on the step as if it were nothing.
TAP!
Jiang Chen’s foot landed on the step.
RUMBLE...
At that moment, the steps trembled.
The space of the sixth level began to roar.
Immediately after, a CRACK CRACK sound came from the steps.
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