Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

fire!
Endless fire!

Looking up, all around were raging flames, the earth was cracked, and streams of scorching solar fire shot out from the cracks, soaring thousands of feet into the sky, engulfing the entire sun and stars in a sea of ​​fire.

Whether it was Lin Fan or the Crested Ibis Demon Lord, even though one had the body of the blazing sun and the other was a primordial fire elementalist, they still felt as if their souls and bodies were being scorched and burned as soon as they stepped onto this sun star.

In just a few breaths, the two were drenched in sweat, as if they were about to be roasted into dried meat.

The two looked at Jiang Sheng and saw that he seemed not to feel the heat at all. He was not sweating profusely, and there was not much sweat on his forehead. He looked refreshed and looked like he had just returned home.

This truly shocked Lin Fan and the Crested Ibis Demon Lord: as expected of the number one among the immortals, gods, demons, and Buddhas of all realms, the sheer strength of his physical body and divine soul far exceeded others' imaginations.

Looking at Tian Ming'an, Qiu Buyu, Li Jianchun, and Huang Ping'an, their performance was appalling.

At this moment, the four were about to faint, but Jiang Sheng used his skills to protect their fragile souls from being directly burned to ashes by the true fire of the sun, allowing them to barely remain conscious.

Seeing the four of them drenched in sweat, Jiang Sheng had no doubt that under the scorching heat of the sun and stars, his disciples would be evaporated by the flames in no time.

Even when using Fire Spirit Dao Patterns, it depends on the person using them.

Tian Ming'an and the other three ultimately failed to ascend. Both their physical bodies and spiritual souls were extremely weak. In terms of their energy and spirit, they were simply not capable of ascending to the heavens. The fact that they could still breathe at this moment was already a testament to the great effect of the Fire Spirit Dao Pattern.

With a soft sigh, Jiang Sheng took out a crimson talisman from his sleeve.

Lin Fan glanced at it and immediately recognized it as Xu Yuanzi's Fire Virtue Talisman, a valuable item from the Crimson Cloud Dao Sect.

Jiang Sheng activated his magic power and cast a spell. As the talisman rose into the air, it absorbed the endless fire elemental energy from the surrounding area. In an instant, the talisman transformed into a three-zhang-tall crimson Dao seal that floated endlessly.

Spiritual light flowed across the Dao seal, and as the boundless fire elemental power was absorbed by the Dao seal, strands of spiritual energy fell, covering an area of ​​ten zhang in radius to form a Dharma domain, protecting this area from the direct scorching of the true fire of the sun.

With the protection of this talisman, Tian Ming'an and the other three felt the sweltering heat and poisonous aura around them vanish instantly, and the feeling of their souls being scorched disappeared, which truly made them breathe a sigh of relief.

Jiang Sheng sensed the duration of the Dao seal and then said, "I've left you with the protective treasure. The four of you should stay here and focus on your cultivation. You must force out the hidden cold energy within your bodies within seven days and achieve yin-yang balance."

Upon hearing this, Tian Ming'an and the other three quickly sat down to regulate their breathing and began to cultivate using the extremely yang and intense true fire of the sun and stars.

With their level of cultivation, the four of them were certainly not capable of absorbing the power of the sun's true fire. Let alone absorbing the power of the sun's true fire, even absorbing the spiritual energy from the sun and stars would burn the four of them to ashes.

Therefore, the four of them simply kept circulating their energy, not daring to absorb any spiritual energy from the outside world. They relied entirely on their own spiritual power to support themselves, and then used the true fire of the sun to resist the cold yin energy hidden in their bodies in order to achieve a balance between yin and yang.

Lin Fan and the Crested Ibis Demon Lord each unleashed their magical treasures.

Lin Fan activated the Five Dragon Pearls of Li Huo that Ling Wei had given him, while the Crested Ibis Demon Lord summoned the Phoenix Feather.

As the five fire dragons from the Five Fire Dragon Pearls coiled around Lin Fan, protecting his soul and body, Lin Fan felt much more comfortable. He then smiled and said, "Yuan Chen, Fellow Daoist Zhu Huan, I must take my leave now."

“Yuan Chen, this time I want to try to let a wisp of the true fire of the sun enter my body. If I can do it, it will be of great benefit to my future path of cultivation.”

"I'll try it for a few days. If it doesn't work, I'll take Tian and the others back. If it does work, I'll contact you using the communication jade pendant."

Jiang Sheng nodded: "Alright, Yunxuan, you may go now."

After Lin Fan left, supported by the Five Dragon Pearls of Fire, the Crested Ibis Demon Lord said, "My original intention was to refine this Phoenix Feather, but the fire spirit energy in the southeast volcanic land is too weak to help me."

"I intend to use this supremely yang and powerful true domain as a furnace to completely refine and master the Phoenix Feather."

“Lingyuan, if I fail, then it is fate. There is no need to look for me.”

"If I succeed, I will return to the Central Region to find you."

With that, the Crested Ibis Demon Lord, along with Phoenix Feather, chose a direction and departed.

As Lin Fan and the Crested Ibis Demon Lord left one after the other, Jiang Sheng looked at Tian Ming'an and the other three who were cultivating in the Fire Virtue Yuan Talisman's protective barrier, and gently exhaled. That breath immediately transformed into a pure energy that lingered under the Fire Virtue Yuan Talisman, flowing like mist and never dissipating.

"You shall remain here and guard this place. If Lin Fan does not return within seven days, you shall take them away from the Sun and Stars and return to Penglai Villa."

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng took out a palm-sized cyan jade pendant from his sleeve.

The front of the jade plaque is engraved with auspicious clouds and three islands in the vast sea; the back is engraved with cloud patterns and Daoist seal script, with the two characters "Lingyuan" written on it.

This is neither the true jade pendant of Penglai nor the identity jade disc of the upper three realms of the Three Realms. Rather, it is a batch of jade tablets that Jiang Sheng himself refined and engraved to represent himself. He usually gave them to his disciples to give them an identity when they travel outside.

At this moment, Jiang Sheng sent the jade tablet into that wisp of pure energy, thus giving that pure energy a temporary identity.

If Lin Fan does not return in seven days, this pure energy can temporarily condense into a form and use this jade pendant as a means to take away Tian Ming'an and the other three.

The breath of pure energy received the jade tablet and immediately transformed into the form of a guardian deity, bowing respectfully to Jiang Sheng: "Receive the decree of the True Lord."

Tian Ming'an and the other three were unaware of this scene, and Lin Fan and the Crested Ibis Demon Lord also did not see it. Otherwise, the two would have been in a state of great shock: Jiang Sheng could transform into a human form and attain enlightenment with just a breath of pure energy, and even enter and exit the sun and stars. Just how profound was Jiang Sheng's cultivation?

With the final measures in place, Jiang Sheng immediately chose a direction and left.

As Jiang Sheng left, the retreating flames immediately surged forward, enveloping the Fire Virtue Talisman, making it appear no different from the surrounding area.

hum~
The sword hummed and sang, and the azure rainbow streaked across the sky, transforming into a horizontal slash.

The blue ribbon disappeared into a raging fire, cleaving its core in two and simultaneously extinguishing its spiritual essence.

As the fire core was severed, the roaring fire spirit immediately collapsed and turned into a handful of ashes.

And there were countless ashes like this on the ground by now.

The azure blade swirled and turned, transforming into a streak of azure light that danced and swirled around Jiang Sheng. Jiang Sheng glanced coldly at the clumps of ashes on the ground; he had killed at least a thousand, if not eight hundred, fire spirits.

"It is indeed the Sun Star. No one has visited it for tens of thousands of years, yet so many spirits and monsters have appeared on the Sun Star."

Since Jiang Sheng began exploring the sun and stars on his own, he has discovered many spirits hiding in the flames.

Some of these spirits are the true fire of the sun that has developed intelligence over thousands of years and transformed into spirits within the fire; others are plants, trees, and strange rocks on the sun and stars that have become spirits and attained enlightenment.

Although these creatures possess intelligence, it is too weak to communicate with them. Moreover, perhaps because they attained enlightenment through spiritual energy from the sun and stars, they are all short-tempered, easily angered, and exceptionally fierce and belligerent.

At first, Jiang Sheng intended to communicate with these guys, but after several attempts, he became too lazy to waste words on these hot-headed fellows and simply killed them with a single sword strike.

After slaying these spirits, Jiang Sheng sensed the severed fire cores and confirmed that their spiritual essence had scattered and they had become rubble, so he didn't bother to clean them up. "However, these fire spirits also indirectly prove that what Taiyin Yuanjun said is true."

"The Sun and Stars have never had a ruler, which has led to the Sun and Stars being without a master and in a state of disorder. This has allowed these true fires and plants to become spirits and attain enlightenment, and to run rampant on the Sun and Stars."

"Plants and trees become spirits, and fire and stone attain enlightenment; with a little fortuitous opportunity, one starts out superior to others."

"It's a pity that one occupies a prime location but lacks wisdom; that's like a child trying to win gold in a bustling marketplace."

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng had a slight thought, and the Qingping Sword protecting him immediately shrieked and swept away, killing a monster in the distance.

This time, however, a mass of something as solid as glue and containing rich fire element essence flowed out from the body of the slain monster.

"Ok?"

Jiang Sheng was slightly surprised. He had killed so many fire spirits and fire essences, but this was the first time something had been left behind.

With a wave of his hand, the clump of gelatinous substance was drawn up by an invisible magical force and instantly traversed hundreds of miles to reach Jiang Sheng.

Gazing at the crimson gelatinous substance before him, Jiang Sheng frowned and examined it for a moment before his expression finally relaxed: "So it's the Innate Fire Spirit Marrow!"

“The innate fire spirit marrow, such a rare and precious material, can only be obtained after being nurtured by the innate fire spirit energy for ten thousand years in places where fire veins accumulate.”

"A place where fire veins accumulate, a place where fire spirit energy is abundant—looking across the Three Realms, is there any place more suitable than the sun and stars?"

"No wonder that spirit was able to attain enlightenment. It turns out that it had a primordial fire spirit marrow within its body, which was nurtured by the fire spirit essence, and that's how it developed intelligence."

The Innate Fire Spirit Marrow is a rare and precious item. Its grade has never been lower than that of the Void Refinement stage. It is a superior fire-type treasure. Whether it is refining fire-attribute magic treasures, tempering magic tools, refining pills, engraving magic arrays, or cultivating supernatural powers, if you have the assistance of this Innate Fire Spirit Marrow, you can add some fire spirit energy and increase the chance of success.

"In this era, the sun and stars have been neglected for forty thousand years, so I can explore more. There must be quite a few good things like this."

Having made up his mind, Jiang Sheng began searching far and wide for places rich in spiritual energy above the sun and stars.

Although the entire sun and stars are filled with raging and scorching fire essence and fire element, in an endless sea of ​​fire, there are always some places where spiritual energy is particularly abundant and spiritual charm is particularly conspicuous.

These places are often where spiritual treasures are hidden.

As Jiang Sheng unleashed his piercing golden eyes, the azure-gold divine light shone for hundreds of millions of miles, making it impossible for the various strange phenomena hidden within the raging sea of ​​flames that could scorch the soul and body and obscure the perception of the divine sense to escape Jiang Sheng's eyes.

Amidst this endless, raging sea of ​​flames, Jiang Sheng searched and discovered quite a few valuable items.

"A forest is burning 500,000 li to the southeast, a source fire stone is 300,000 li to the south, and 1.5 million li to the east."

"Um?!"

Jiang Sheng pushed his divine sense to its limit, carefully examining the magnificent building located 1.5 million miles to the east.

It was a towering palace that had stood amidst flames for tens of thousands of years without fading or collapsing.

It can be seen that the surrounding buildings are towering and pavilions stand in rows. Among these pavilions and towers, palaces rise from the ground. In the very center of the entire complex, there is an exceptionally tall and magnificent palace.

The entire complex of palaces and pavilions is painted in gold and red, with gold paint, gold tiles, red walls and red pillars. There are gilded and cast sculptures that resemble the sun and flames hanging on the top of the palaces. There are jade carvings of golden crows and fire dragons on the flying eaves and red walls. You can see the fire patterns on the red pillars winding around the heavenly dragons. You can see fire beasts standing in the palaces and spirit birds spreading their wings.

That cluster of palaces and pavilions resembled the sacred site of a certain sun god, majestic and awe-inspiring.

Jiang Sheng thought for a moment, then went to the south to find the Origin Fire Stone and put the fire-type treasure, which was more than ten feet tall, into his sleeve; then he turned and headed to the southeast forest.

Upon closer inspection, Jiang Sheng also saw the true nature of this burning forest: it was a forest composed of intertwined fire mulberry trees: "A Fusang Forest?"

As the saying goes, "The hibiscus grows in Tang Valley, and the golden crow dwells in Tang Valley."

"It's not surprising that a Fusang forest would appear above the sun and stars, but why does this Fusang forest seem to have become a spirit and attained enlightenment?"

As Jiang Sheng was pondering, he suddenly sensed an imminent crisis. Looking up, he saw countless rockets suddenly springing up from the burning Fusang forest before him.

Countless rockets rained down, completely covering the space around Jiang Sheng, as if they were about to pierce him with a thousand arrows.

Gazing at the crimson rockets, Jiang Sheng remained unhurried, casually flicking his wrist. In an instant, the Qingping Sword multiplied into four, then into sixteen, and countless Qingping Sword shadows hummed as they slashed at the rockets falling overhead.

Amidst the crisscrossing sword light, the void was torn apart, the sea of ​​fire was extinguished, and the overwhelming rockets were completely annihilated by the Qingping Sword Shadow, leaving only the dazzling Calamity Annihilation Sword Intent lying between heaven and earth, making it difficult for the torn void to heal for a long time.

As Jiang Sheng annihilated the countless rockets, he looked at the Fusang Forest in front of him and finally realized what had attacked him. It was none other than thousands upon thousands of fire spirits nurtured by the Fusang trees!
At this moment, these fire spirits were standing on the Fusang tree, baring their teeth at Jiang Sheng and then launching a series of fire arrows in an attempt to force him back.

Jiang Sheng, who had been somewhat angry, was amused by the sight of these fire spirits, which were no bigger than the palm of his hand: "Heh, the world is truly full of wonders."

"The sun and stars in this Xuanhuang Realm have been unruly for forty thousand years. Not only have the plants, trees, and rocks become spirits, but even the fruit of the Fusang tree has transformed into a spirit!"

Jiang Sheng could easily see that these palm-sized fire spirits were transformed from the fruit of the Fusang tree!

This hibiscus forest has at least ten thousand hibiscus trees, and the number of trees that grow from them is well over a million!

So many tree fruits have become spirits, growing on this sun and star, enveloped in rich fire elemental energy, and naturally they are proficient in a range of fire-based spells.

However, no immortals have descended upon the sun and stars for 40,000 years, so these fire spirits and monsters that have transformed into spirits remain in a simple and wild world, without forming any system.

Otherwise, if these fire spirits were to coordinate their attacks, form a military formation, and unleash their supernatural powers, Jiang Sheng would have to put in a lot of effort.

However, Jiang Sheng doesn't need to worry about those things right now.

Seeing these menacing fire spirits, Jiang Sheng simply activated his protective aura and entered the Fusang Forest. He picked a batch of tree fruits that had not yet taken on spiritual form, and also took a batch of Fusang leaves. Then, enduring the fire spirits' rockets and fireballs, he left on his own.

After running far away, Jiang Sheng turned around and saw that the fire spirits were still jumping up and down in anger on the Fusang tree, but dared not leave the Fusang forest even a little bit, which really amused Jiang Sheng.

"Fine, I did take your things after all. I'll help you out when I leave the Sun and Stars."

With that, Jiang Sheng left a beacon there, turned around, and flew toward the palace that stood amidst the sea of ​​fire.

Jiang Sheng had a premonition that he would make a discovery in that palace!

"Hopefully, that palace isn't that person's sacred site." (End of Chapter)