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Chapter 389, Strong Physical Body → Strong Soul → Even Stronger Physical Body

The chaotic space inside the tomb of Zhu Rong doesn't seem large when viewed from the outside; even after Hua Changxi flew in, it didn't seem that big, and the royal family member who had entered before her was not far away.

However, she soon discovered that this was not the case.

The first thing Hua Changxi did upon entering the space was to ambush and kill the royal family members who had entered before her.

This person who can manipulate her with black flames keeps her on edge; she must get rid of him as soon as possible.

Hua Changxi summoned the Floating Light Sword and used all her strength to fly at full speed toward the male cultivator not far away.

However, the person on the other side remained motionless.

Zhu Yan calmly watched the red-clad female cultivator rush towards him, intending to kill him. After a few minutes, he saw Hua Changxi suddenly stop and raised an eyebrow knowingly.

This female cultivator is quite alert; she noticed the anomaly in this space so quickly.

This chaotic space, shaped like a chicken egg, may not seem large, but its interior is as vast as the starry sky.

When he first entered, he exhausted more than half of his spiritual power and was still unable to get away from the spatial barrier. He was only able to move around in this space by constantly using the Star Shifting Divine Power.

The female cultivator's flying technique, which would be considered top-tier in the outside world, was of little use here.

Unless she has also practiced the supernatural power of spatial teleportation, she will never be able to get close to herself.

Hua Changxi did indeed sense something was wrong. With her flying speed, she should have been able to reach the royal male cultivator by now, but after flying for so long, the distance between them showed no signs of shortening.

To her even greater surprise, when she looked back, she found that she was still near the barrier, having just flown around in vain.

Something's off about this space!

Hua Changxi looked at Zhu Yan, who appeared calm, and felt a sense of unease.

Her flying technique was ineffective in this space, but the male cultivator was able to travel through it.

In other words, she cannot get close to him, but he can get close to her; she needs to be constantly on guard against him suddenly attacking her.

Knowing that she could not get close to Zhu Yan in a short time, Hua Changxi decisively abandoned her plan to assassinate him and instead began to explore this chaotic chicken-shaped space.

Zhu Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the red-clad female cultivator was no longer attacking him.

Using the Star Shifting Divine Power consumes a lot of spiritual energy. He needs to focus his energy on chasing the Fire Axe. It won't be too late to kill the female cultivator after he gets the Fire Axe and becomes the master of this blessed land.

Looking at the fire axe just a few meters away, Zhu Yan felt somewhat devastated.

In the outside world, he could easily grab the fire axe with a wave of his hand, but here, it was as if there was an insurmountable chasm between him and the fire axe. No matter how hard he tried, he could never reach it.

This fire axe did not exist from the beginning.

After entering the space, he discovered its vastness. He used the Star Shifting Divine Power to wander around but still found nothing. Then he remembered that this blessed land was related to the Ancestral Witch Zhurong. He tried using the 'Body Transforms into Fire' Divine Power, and only then did the Fire Axe suddenly appear.

The supernatural power of 'transforming flesh into fire' is a closely guarded secret of the Zhu clan, and only those who possess the bloodline of Zhu Rong can perform it.

And he was the one in the Zhu clan with the most concentrated Zhu Rong bloodline.

The moment the fire axe appeared, his intuition told him that it was the token of the master of this blessed land.

The fact that the Fire Axe appeared after Zhu Yan used the "Body Transformation into Fire" supernatural power made him even more convinced that he was the chosen one of this blessed land.

At the spatial barrier, Hua Changxi saw that Zhu Yan ignored her and instead chased after the fire axe. While relieved, she was also extremely anxious. Yes, she also believed that the fire axe was the token of the Lord of Zhu Rong's Tomb.

But now, she can't move an inch in this space, and she doesn't even have the qualifications to compete for the Fire Axe.

Hua Changxi could only suppress her anxiety and carefully explore this space.

The space was elliptical in shape, and the barrier was neither stone nor jade, but a translucent crystal wall with flowing dark golden bloodline patterns. Unlike other barriers she had seen, the barrier here was pulsating in a regular manner.

Each beat was accompanied by a slight sound, which, if listened to carefully, sounded somewhat like a heartbeat.

At the same time, three powerful forces were mixed in the space: one was the scalding power of blood and qi, like molten lava; another was the all-encompassing power of fire-based laws; and the last was the purest power of the soul.

Before entering this space, Hua Changxi guessed that it might be a place for cultivating the third stage of the Meridian Chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, which involves expanding and filling the meridians. The three forces she felt now were exactly what she needed for cultivation.

Hua Changxi did not immediately begin practicing the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, but instead observed Zhu Yan chasing the Fire Axe for a while.

It was discovered that although he could travel through space, the distance he moved each time was not very far, and he had to stop and meditate to recover his spiritual energy every three times.

Only after confirming that this person could not approach her at will did Hua Changxi begin to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

The first thing to flow into the meridians is the power of Qi and blood.

Hua Changxi then realized that widening her meridians was so unbearable. As soon as the blood and qi entered her body, it was like boiling magma surging in, causing her to tremble all over in pain.

But the effect of widening the meridians is astonishing.

Under the scouring of qi and blood magma, the meridians continuously expand outward. During repeated tempering, subtle "crackling" sounds and faint metallic vibrations are emitted from the body.

Hua Changxi gritted his teeth and struggled to circulate the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.

Whenever she felt so much pain that she wanted to give up, she would think about the crises of being controlled by black flames and the inability to suppress the unrest in Nanxiang City, which allowed her to persevere.

After the power of Qi and blood clears the way, the power of the fire element follows closely behind, surging into the meridians.

Under Hua Changxi's divine sense, the power of the fire element transformed into tiny red light fragments scattered throughout the space, floating in the chaos like stars, each containing the power to burn mountains and boil seas.

As the power of the fire elemental law surged in, the pain Hua Changxi endured immediately magnified several times over.

If the meridians are like star trails, then the power of Qi and blood is like paving the road with mud, and the power of the fire element is like the fixed steel mesh that solidifies the roadbed.

Hua Changxi could only maintain one meridian cycle before collapsing from exhaustion.

She used the Xuanhuang Fruit to go from one level to seven levels of enhancement, breaking through seven layers of physical shackles. She could then cultivate the seventh chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique to its ultimate potential.

The maximum number of times she can refine her body at each stage is nine. In other words, if she doesn't want to waste her potential, she needs to expand her meridians eight more times.

The thought of having to endure eight more times of excruciating pain made Hua Changxi want to cry on the spot, but seeing Zhu Yan still panting as he chased after the fire axe 'not far away', she sat cross-legged again after recovering for a while.

The seventh chapter of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique also has a fourth stage, which uses the physical body as a furnace and the spirit as fire. The fire is fueled by the furnace's power, and the furnace is strengthened by the fire's cooling effect. The two grow together, nourishing and strengthening each other to achieve the effect of body refinement.

This stage of body refinement involves making the soul grow stronger in sync with the physical body, but it always remains attached to the physical body and does not detach from the body. Therefore, it cannot condense a separate primordial spirit like a magic cultivator.

In short, the seventh chapter of Body Refinement is about forming a complete closed loop of "strong physical body → strong soul → even stronger physical body".

(End of this chapter)