Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 479 Burning the Body
Zhou Leng gritted his teeth, keeping his right foot in the lava, the burning sensation slowly intensifying.

After a while, the burning sensation reached its limit and stopped increasing.

Carefully feel the skin.

My body is undeniably strong, but even so, my skin still shows minor damage.

After all, this is a temperature close to 1000 degrees Celsius; an ordinary person would be burned to a crisp immediately if they went in.

The flame temperature of a typical household gas stove is only around 550 degrees Celsius.

As the skin is slightly damaged, a powerful healing force surges, and the treatment is completed quickly.

I tried circulating my inner energy, and a faint trace of it adhered to my feet, isolating them from the magma and heat. My feet felt slightly warm, and I was no longer injured.

Zhou Leng was immediately relieved. He withdrew his true energy and, relying solely on his body, slowly walked into the lake.

Pause for a moment after the water level reaches your ankles, then continue walking forward.

It's not up to the knees, so linger a while longer.

The pain didn't even reach my groin; an unbearable, excruciating pain spread throughout my body—a genuine, agonizing pain that almost made me jump up.

Hair burned, and the smell of burnt eggs filled the air.

Seeing Zhou Leng trembling all over and sweating from the pain, the giant furnace burst out laughing.

The giant furnace laughed, "Don't worry, the divine blood magma has amazing abilities. As long as you don't die from the burn, as long as you hold on, it will actually enhance all your abilities. Let me put it this way, any Iron Dwarf who enters the divine blood magma will have countless descendants and will always be strong! In human terms, how would you say it? Right, a gas station for men, a beauty salon for women, and a high-level one at that."

The other Iron Dwarf Grandmasters chimed in, "For the sake of endless bloodlines, little ones, keep striving!"

"The day after the trial is completed, you will experience an unprecedented wonderful feeling."

The trial participants endured the pain while also being teased by a group of old men.

Zhou Leng continued forward, and the lava soon reached above his neck.

Having survived being scorched by lava, the current level of pain is nothing to me.

Finally, Zhou Leng gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, squatted down, and submerged his entire body into the lava lake.

My hair and eyebrows were on fire, and my eyelids, lips, ears, scalp, and all other delicate parts of my body were burning with a sensation no less intense than the pain in my testicles.

Zhou Leng felt as if his head was about to explode, and an unbearable pain shot straight to the top of his head.

It was as if I could see my ancestors from eighteen generations ago flying all over the sky.

Fortunately, I sealed my mouth, nose, eyes, and ears with my inner energy beforehand; otherwise, if magma had entered my ears or nostrils, the pain would have been enough to make me jump ten meters.

Zhou Leng was being burned in the Red Lotus Flame, but it was a burning of his spirit and will.

Now, it's real physical burning.

He insisted on not using his true energy or activating the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique, relying on his body to withstand the damage and continuously repairing his damaged skin with his powerful self-healing ability.

Beneath the magma, it remained motionless, silently enduring the pain.

My skin was sizzling, as if I were in an oven.

Most of the others were in the same boat, except for a very few who were still shouting on the shore; most had already gone underwater.

However, apart from a few races such as dragons and demons, most of them rely on their own power and cannot withstand the attack with their bare flesh.

After enduring immense pain, Aiden and Zhao He discovered that their physical bodies could not keep up with the rate of destruction, forcing them to abandon their physical endurance and begin circulating their energy to isolate some of the heat.

Zhou Leng and Shan Heyuan insisted on not using their true qi, enduring pain that ordinary people could hardly bear.

Soon, many people were in so much pain that their minds went blank.

Zhou Leng, however, remained unusually clear-headed.

Nothing more than training at the Gates of Purgatory.

When an hour had passed, Zhou Leng felt for the first time a subtle heat entering his muscles and blood vessels along his skin, slowly spreading throughout his body.

"According to the dwarves, this heat is called the blood of the earth god..."

Zhou Leng was overjoyed, and the pain seemed to lessen by a third.

My body felt like parched earth, absorbing all the heat with all its might.

As heat accumulates, the body's ability to resist the divine blood magma increases, and the pain becomes less intense.

It's as if the divine blood magma has cooled down.

Zhou Leng thought for a moment and decided not to use his true qi to protect his body, but to circulate his cultivation technique in turn.

The Star-Gazing Technique is an internal skill; it does not directly absorb this power.

The Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique is a healing technique, and it does absorb nutrients, but it seems to only absorb a small portion of the essence, wasting the rest.

The Undying Star Body is a body-refining technique, and its absorption effect is better than the previous two, about 5 times that of normal.

The Ten Rebellious Beast Fist is a training method that connects the body with the moves, and it happens to be the most effective.

When practicing the Lixiang and Feijing chapters, the absorption effect is about 10 times that of normal.

So Zhou Leng simply started playing the dynamic Standing Image Chapter and Flying Whale Chapter at a slow pace under the magma.

The Serpent Stance was not used because it couldn't be sustained for long.

The surrounding magma was stirred up by the cold air, causing the hot air to boil and form magma waves.

Shanheyuan sensed something was wrong and hurriedly moved away.

The nearby trial participants cursed him inwardly as a pervert and quickly moved away.

Before long, Zhou Leng was the only one left in the vicinity.

The lava lake above their heads, propelled by Zhou Leng's cultivation technique, transformed into a constantly rotating vortex.

“Not bad…” Giant Furnace nodded with a smile.

“After all, he’s one of us Iron Dwarves.” The other Grandmasters also treated Zhou Leng as one of their own.

Two hours later, Zhou Leng's body stopped healing.

Because the lava could no longer damage the skin.

Even the new hair that is slowly growing is already able to withstand the scorching heat of the lava.

As it continuously absorbs the heat of the divine blood magma, it gradually cools down in my perception.

I don't know how much time passed, but I felt that the temperature of the divine blood magma had dropped to about 100 degrees Celsius, like taking a bath, which was very comfortable.

Zhou Leng wanted to sprinkle some body-refining bone powder on himself and take a medicinal bath on the spot.

Suddenly, the giant furnace roared, shaking the entire God Blood Lake, and lava waves crashed against the shore.

"The preliminary test is over, and everyone has passed. Your batch is quite good; only nine people failed."

Zhou Leng slowly walked outside.

A lava lake emerged overhead, and lava flowed slowly over my body.

Where the crimson lava passed, the skin turned slightly red, neither scorched nor burned, but glowed with a faint light, like ice and jade.

Upon reaching the shore, his body trembled, and without even using his inner energy, his power flowed directly to the tip of his hair, blasting away the remaining lava from his body.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes.

Looking at the lava lake, it resembles a hot spring.

Looking around, most of the trial participants were charred black and had wounds on their bodies.

A few trial participants remained completely untouched, showing no signs of change.

Shanheyuan's body was charred black in many places, but the charred parts were slowly peeling off, revealing the bronze-colored new skin underneath.

Aiden and Zhao He both stared at Zhou Leng, and when they saw that Zhou Leng's skin was as good as new, they were relieved.

It seems that Zhou Leng also used true qi to protect himself; otherwise, there would have been no trace of him at all.

Although using true qi to protect the body will reduce the amount of power absorbed, it is still better than being burned and unable to participate in the real divine blood magma trial.

Not far away, Ten-Horned Bloodthirst glanced at Zhou Leng without making a sound.

Zhou Leng's performance was far more effortless than he had imagined.

He whispered to the demon beside him, "Something's not right with this Zhou Leng. I observed him before; when he went down into the lava lake, he didn't rely on luck, he just toughed it out with his body."

"Although it is unclear whether he used his inner energy to protect himself in the lake, it is very unusual that he could cause the magma to churn."

“Deep Dark Wrath has a history with him, but we are directly under His Majesty the God of Calamity, and His Majesty the God of Calamity’s orders are supreme.”

"Let's see how he performs in the next Divine Blood Magma Trial. If he can't last six hours, it means his potential is mediocre, so ignore him."

"If he can hold out for more than six hours, secretly send me a message, and I'll find a way to take him out from under the lava."

A demon asked, "Won't we be discovered if we do this?"

Ten-Horned Bloodlust smiled and said, "The Divine Blood Magma contains immense power, beyond the comprehension of even demigods, let alone grandmaster examiners. Do you think the deaths of demons every time the Divine Blood Magma is used as an accident?"

"If you fight, it will trigger magma tremors, right? There are magical artifacts to detect it, since the Divine Blood Forge workshop is located at the foot of the mountain, connected to the Divine Blood Magma. Furthermore, fighting is prohibited during the trial. If you're discovered, Zhou Leng only needs to survive the initial phase until the Grandmaster arrives, then you..."

“I don’t need to fight at all. I just need to pretend to be unconscious and drag him deeper into the magma. The divine blood magma in the depths is even stronger, and he won’t be able to withstand it. Once he’s dead, I’ll surface again. Am I, the son of a demigod and a Great Innate Demon Dragon, really inferior to his mere Bone Forging?”

"I see. Then we'll have to rely on you, Lord Jukaku."

The demons looked at the Ten-Horned Blood Demon with respect.

The dragon, a Great Primordial Being and the son of a demigod, is capable of rivaling newly promoted Grandmasters of ordinary races.

Once he sets his sights on someone, even a mere human undergoing bone forging will surely die.

Ten-horned Mangxue pretended to pass by Zhou Leng, secretly memorizing his aura.

Within the divine blood magma, one cannot open their eyes to see; one can only sense the aura at close range.

Zhou Leng looked at the slowly peeling skin off Shan Heyuan's body and asked, "You didn't use your true energy?"

"It's no use. My dad said to avoid using it if possible. However, once we enter the real divine blood magma, we have no choice but to use it. It not only has high temperatures but also immense power. Without true qi, we simply cannot withstand it."

The giant furnace's voice rang out: "Go to the crater, but you'll have to climb up the lava waterfall."

After finishing his speech, the giant furnace led the dwarf master to jump onto the lava waterfall hundreds of meters high, and climbed upwards with the lava flowing down their backs.

Everyone follows.

Most people use their own strength, but Zhou Leng and a few other trial participants climb upwards entirely by relying on their physical bodies in order to achieve the most perfect trial results.

Before long, the group arrived at the summit of Shenxue Mountain, where a huge crater, more than five kilometers in diameter, stood.

Thick black smoke billowed out, and the magma inside churned and bubbled, as if a magma dragon god was breathing below.

The magma outside is blood red, but the magma here is more vibrant, almost bright red.

The giant furnace said, "This is the real divine blood magma. The temperature deep inside is twice that of a magma lake."

"Next, you will jump in and endure the scorching heat of the lava far beyond your imagination."

"Don't think that just because you've passed through the lava lake, you can cultivate recklessly in the divine blood lava."

"The average trial time for each trial participant in the divine blood magma is one and a half hours. Remember, this is the average time."

"Many of you spend less than an hour and a half."

"Ordinary people with innate bone-forging skills can't even last half an hour."

(End of this chapter)