Chapter 863: Inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Six Divine Fires Refine the Golden Body…
Inside the furnace, a fiery inferno.
There are no four directions here, only fire.
Six-fold divine fire.
This is one of the most domineering flames in the world, said to burn everything in its path.
The space inside the alchemy furnace was vast, almost like a completely independent world. However, this world was entirely red and empty, containing nothing but the alchemical fire.
"Boss, what do we do?" Ba Ji huddled beside Chen Huai'an, his expression grave, a hint of fear in his eyes. "This is that old man Laozi's alchemy furnace, said to be able to refine anything. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal or a Quasi-Saint imprisoned inside could be refined. We..."
"What's the panic?" Chen Huai'an clicked his tongue.
Upon hearing this, Baji's face lit up with joy: "Do you perhaps possess a method to break through the furnace?"
"No." Chen Huai'an shook his head.
"That……"
"Will panicking solve the problem?" Chen Huai'an retorted.
Baji lowered his head, sighed, and leaned against Chen Huai'an, saying, "No."
It remained silent for a long time, then its face turned fierce: "Let's refine it then... I killed a Fire Pig and severely injured a Golden Dragon. This cycle of reincarnation is already enough."
"In a moment, I will be refined together with you, and we will become one elixir, each containing the other. Although we fail, at least I will die together with my master."
Chen Huai'an: "..."
"Shut your mouth, Lord Nobun!"
"Who would want to merge with you? Lord Nō already has a Daoist partner!"
"Hehe..." Baji shook its huge head, revealing an embarrassed,憨笑 (a kind of simple, honest smile). Even so, its claws still secretly gripped Chen Huai'an's clothes.
It was indeed prepared to die.
"Come in."
Chen Huai'an flicked out a purple-gold gourd.
"If Lord Nobun is able to walk, he will naturally take you with him."
Looking at the sea of fire pressing down on him, his voice was soft, yet firm.
"But Lord Nō has a mandate to fulfill. If there is even the slightest chance, Lord Nō cannot retreat, he must not retreat!"
"If we give those immortals and gods a chance to breathe today, they will break our backs in the future. We won't even need the gods to lift a finger; we'll be worn down by these lackeys!"
"Okay, I'll do whatever you say."
Ba Ji nodded, without saying much, and transformed into a stream of light, obediently entering the gourd.
The gourd still retains the lingering aura of the ferocious beast's soul; living inside is warm and comforting.
Chen Huai'an put away the gourd.
Actually, there is a way to get out of trouble.
They forcibly tore through space to return to the Cangyun Realm to hide. No matter how powerful these gods and Buddhas are, can they really run to the Cangyun Realm to find someone? That's a new territory, another realm.
But if that were the case, the newly opened gate would be rendered useless.
This anger, therefore, dissipated.
Therefore, one cannot escape.
The sea of fire closed in.
Chen Huai'an closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in meditation.
pain.
An indescribable pain.
The flames were not only burning my flesh, but also my marrow and my soul.
The newly formed flesh and blood of the Immortal King was melting and shriveling at a visible speed within this divine fire.
The skin is charred black and peeling off.
His face revealed crimson muscles, followed by stark white bones.
Even the chaotic energy within the body was being refined little by little by this flame.
My vision started to blur.
In a daze, Chen Huai'an felt that the fire was somewhat familiar.
It wasn't just the heat, but also a kind of... resentment.
Deep within those raging flames, time and space seemed to be distorted.
Chen Huai'an saw a thin figure.
That wasn't a person, it was a monkey.
A fish with its collarbone pierced by iron chains and its throat filled with molten copper.
A monkey writhing in agony amidst a sea of fire.
It is in misery.
The sound was as mournful as a cuckoo's cry of blood, each note like a knife stabbing into Chen Huai'an's heart.
"Master...it hurts..."
"Master...why is this fire so hot..."
Fragments of memories, long buried deep within his soul, surged into Chen Huai'an's mind like a river bursting its banks, scorched by the Six Divine Fires.
Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave.
The stone monkey kneeling outside the door, drenched in snow.
That clever little devil was just someone who casually knocked on three doors and sneaked in at midnight to seek enlightenment.
The disciple who was driven from Mount Dan, looking back every few steps, weeping bitterly.
—Wukong.
turn out to be.
In that lifetime, I was truly your master...
Chen Huai'an looked at the monkey in the sea of fire, its flesh charred, its eyes blinded by smoke, its spine slowly burned away by the divine fire. His heart ached a thousand times more than the pain in his own body.
"Master...I want to go back to the mountain..."
"I don't want to be some kind of Great Sage Qi... I just want to sweep the floor for my master..."
In the void, the monkey stretched out its hand, which had been burned down to the bone, and weakly reached out to grasp the void, as if trying to grasp the only support it could remember.
Two lines of clear tears flowed from Chen Huai'an's eyes, which had already been burned blind.
The tears were instantly evaporated by the divine fire.
"turn out to be……"
Chen Huai'an reached out his hand, trembling, wanting to touch those illusions.
"So, you were in this much pain back then?"
In that life, I chased you to the mountain to avoid disaster.
But unexpectedly, I pushed you into this inferno of no return.
Suddenly, the monkey in the illusion seemed to sense something.
It froze.
He stared blankly at Chen Huai'an.
It felt as if they were staring into Chen Huai'an's empty eyes across countless times.
The Six Divine Fires, which were originally extremely violent and were burning Chen Huai'an's body, suddenly became quiet at this moment.
They coalesced, transforming into a hand made of flames. That hand, gently and carefully, wiped away the tears from Chen Huai'an's eyes.
"Master, don't cry."
A faint thought, traversing countless millennia, entered Chen Huai'an's soul.
"I, Old Sun... don't feel any pain."
The monkey's figure disappeared.
Transforming into golden-red specks of light, they gently enveloped Chen Huai'an's broken body.
The pain disappeared.
Instead, a warm current flowed through it.
That was the monkey's last remaining attachment, its last spark of spirit, left in this furnace.
This spirituality is the arrogance and true self that have been refined by the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
It was protecting Chen Huai'an.
"You mischievous monkey..."
Chen Huai'an lowered his head, a smile that seemed to be both a cry and an anger tugging at the corners of his mouth.
"You've been reduced to ashes, and you still want to protect me?"
He suddenly looked up.
Although there were no eyeballs in those two empty eye sockets, two balls of golden karmic fire, even hotter and more frenzied than the Six Divine Fires, ignited within them.
"Since we've burned your bones and turned you into a mere shell."
"Then today..."
"I, your teacher, will take the heat and bear the consequences for you!!"
Chen Huai'an released all defenses.
It actively opened every pore, opened its charred mouth, and let out a roar from the depths of its soul towards the raging divine fire.
——꽭魔녌·吞꽭噬地.
"Come on!!"
"Whether it's pain or resentment! Bring it all in, Lord!!"
boom!
The Six Divine Fires seemed to be enraged, becoming even more violent and transforming into roaring fire dragons that frantically burrowed into Chen Huai'an's body.
But Chen Huai'an was fearless and accepted everything.
Devour, devour everything.
We cannot let down that silly monkey who fought for us for this one-shot opportunity.
Before it was refined, it left behind a thought in this Eight Trigrams Furnace.
It contains instructions on how to counter the Six Divine Fires.
How to devour and refine them.
The monkey failed to become a monk.
Now 놛 is to become 녌 for monkeys.
Then the most domineering flame in the world will temper your chaotic body.
Sizzle sizzle—
Flames entered the body.
The body's internal organs were instantly burned to ashes.
But in a second, it was reborn under the domineering vitality of the demon.
Destruction, rebirth.
Destruction, rebirth.
With each reincarnation, 놛's physical body becomes even stronger.
The original grayish-white chaotic bones began to tinge with a strange golden-red hue after absorbing the divine fire that carried Sun Wukong's resentment.
That's the color of fire.
It is the color of calamity.
It's even more so the color of Qi.
The ancestral dragon bloodline within the body was fully activated, perfectly merging with this divine fire.
No longer half-demon, half-immortal.
It is no longer a simple chaotic entity.
Rather, it is an indestructible golden body that transcends the rules and is born from destruction.
"Not enough..."
Chen Huai'an's aura was rising wildly, and his voice boomed like thunder in the furnace.
"Again!!"
It frantically devoured everything inside the furnace.
Flames, spiritual energy, and even the Daoist runes inscribed on the inner wall of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
Eat them all!
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