Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

That was an arrow.

An arrow that seems to have just been stripped from mythology, carrying the aura of ancient times.

Its entire body has a dark gold color that has been eroded by time, unlike ordinary bronze or ironware.

The arrow shaft is heavy in the hand, but its texture is neither gold nor stone. It is more like a mineral that has been melted and solidified by high temperature, with fine lines on the surface that resemble cracked earth.

These patterns are not random, but arranged in a mysterious rhythm, vaguely forming some kind of ancient totem—not the Egyptian scarab, but the three-legged golden crow that symbolizes the incarnation of the sun in ancient civilization.

On the shaft of the arrow, the three-legged golden crow relief is lifelike. It raises its head and spreads its wings, as if it is about to carry the blazing sun and soar into the sky.

The golden crow's three sharp claws gripped the arrow shaft tightly, and the texture of each feather was clearly visible, shimmering faintly in the moonlight, as if it could come to life at any moment and take flight.

The most awe-inspiring thing was that arrow.

It is not the usual triangular or willow-leaf shape, but forged into an extremely elongated, burning flame.

The arrowhead tip is not a sharp point, but rather has a strangely flat shape with fine serrations along its edges, resembling a prominence erupting from the sun's corona.

At the base of the arrowhead, where it connects to the shaft, is a piece of broken jade. The jade is not white, but a reddish-brown color that resembles solidified magma, and it is covered with symbols that are even older than oracle bone script.

When Shen Jue's fingers touched the crimson jade, a burning sensation instantly penetrated his skin and reached his soul.

It wasn't the scorching heat of a desert daytime, but a burning heat originating from the very source of life, brimming with the power of destruction and rebirth.

Shen Jue seemed to hear a great shaman drawing his divine bow on an ancient battlefield. The bowstring trembled as he shot an arrow imbued with the power of the sun god into the sky, striking down nine blazing suns that stretched across the heavens.

The moonlight fell precisely on the crimson jade, and in an instant, the entire arrow seemed to be awakened.

The ancient symbols lit up one by one, flowing with a golden halo like lava.

The halo spread along the golden crow patterns on the arrow shaft, eventually converging on the flame-shaped arrowhead, condensing into a single point of sharpness capable of piercing through the eternal night.

The arrow was held in Shen Jue's palm, feeling both light as a feather and incredibly heavy.

This arrow does not belong to this desert, nor to this era.

It is an ancient civilization from the far East.

This is the Sun Arrow inlaid with Aja Redstone!

Shen Jue felt the crimson jade patterns burning hot in his palm; the ancient heat seemed to ignite his blood.

The sun arrow, buried in the sand dunes for countless years, is once again bathed in moonlight. The ancient totems on the arrow seem to come alive under the clear moonlight, swirling with a dazzling halo.

Shen Jue took a deep breath, the cold desert night air filling his lungs, but it couldn't suppress the restlessness in his heart stirred by the arrow of the sun.

It was a resonance from the depths of his blood, as if the golden crow on the arrow was vibrating in sync with his heartbeat.

"Since this is an echo of fate!"

Shen Jue gently gripped the arrow shaft, the burning sensation from his palm seemingly spreading throughout his body via his veins.

"Then let me see!"

The red stone of Aja, covered with complex runes, suddenly lit up, making Shen Jue's face appear scorching hot.

"My future!"

Shen Jue let out a low roar and, without the slightest hesitation, pressed the flame-shaped arrow hard against his heart.

"Clang!"

A clear, metallic sound echoed through the silent desert, like a resounding bell, making the surrounding sand dunes rustle.

Shen Jue felt something caress her chest.

He looked down and saw that the sun arrow, which seemed capable of piercing the gods, had not even managed to pierce his skin!

There wasn't even a trace of white mark left on Shen Jue's skin, as if the attack had only pierced through his clothes.

"No, buddy? I've been preparing for this for so long," Shen Jue said, his voice strained.

He was also afraid that using too much force would break the arrow of the sun.

However, an unexpected change occurred.

Although the arrow failed to pierce through, the red stone of Aja embedded in the Sun Arrow burst forth with unprecedented brilliance at this moment!

The crimson rune-covered jade seemed to sense some kind of hidden quality within Shen Jue!

That was a mental barrier even stronger than Shen Jue's physical defense!

"Buzz!"

The three-legged golden crow relief on the arrow shaft seemed to come alive, and the golden patterns began to tremble violently!

A visible golden-red ripple forcefully entered Shen Jue's body from the spot where the arrow struck his chest!

This is not just the purification of the alien virus, but also the resonance of Aja's redstone energy!

"Um?"

"Moonlight is also reflected sunlight, right? It makes sense that it can activate Aja's Red Stone," Shen Jue explained to himself in a low voice.

Shen Jue let out a low groan, not a painful roar, but a calm one, like a god accepting a sacrifice.

If we say that the ordinary Stand arrow is the key to purifying spiritual energy and awakening Stand abilities through an alien virus.

So this Sun Arrow inlaid with Aja Redstone is the furnace that amplifies this catalytic power a thousandfold!

It no longer merely awakens latent power, but rather, with the intense energy of the sun, it refines and sublimates the potential of spiritual energy!

If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn't even be qualified to hold this arrow of the sun under the sunlight and moonlight!

Once activated, the purifying power is so immense that it is beyond the capacity of ordinary minds to bear.

In just a moment, it is enough to burn the spiritual energy of an ordinary person to ashes, leaving not even a trace of their soul, and completely evaporate in the blazing flames!

Shen Jue did not struggle. He stood still, letting the golden-red ripples surge through his body, purifying his spiritual energy.

His gaze shifted, and the desert before him vanished completely, replaced by an endless sea of ​​fire.

Shen Jue saw nine blazing suns hanging in the sky, golden crows crying, and the heavens and earth cracking.

"Is this... fate?"

"Please, I don't want a birdman double. I'm not Red the Chicken Boy."

With a jolt, the arrow of the sun shattered, the nine blazing suns collapsed, the sea of ​​fire vanished, and Shen Jue returned to the desert.

The red stone on the arrow shone brightly, and golden-red ripples completely enveloped Shen Jue.

Shen Jue's spiritual energy is being purified and sublimated!

His black pupils had transformed into two dazzling golden suns!

Behind Shen Jue, the scorching sand instantly melted into glass!

A tall, slender figure slowly emerged.

It was not in human form, but a female deity wearing a golden robe woven from fragments of sunlight!

Twelve ribbons woven from sunlight threads hung from the edge of the robe, each ribbon ending with a jade pendant engraved with the twelve two-hour periods of the day in ancient times.

The female deity has a sun disc mark embedded on her forehead, from which twelve rays of light illuminate in sequence as time flows.

Each palm of his hands bears a rotating sun emblem, with three golden dragon phantoms interlocking and biting each other within each emblem.

A miniature sun carriage floats behind her, its wheels made of rings of time, each rotation representing the passage of an hour.

The female deity's feet hovered above the ground, with light trails extending from beneath them, like the path of the sun's journey.

The heatwave was intense, and the sand and gravel within a radius of tens of meters instantly vaporized.

At this moment! The sun disc mark embedded on the forehead of the female deity shone with twelve rays of light simultaneously!

Time started to speed up.

Shen Jue's vision blurred, and the moonlit desert was enveloped by a red sun rising in the early morning!

Shen Jue, wielding the Arrow of the Sun, has a red sun rising behind him!

Shen Jue and the female deity behind him were bathed in sunlight together!

The desert wind blew, causing Shen Jue's robes to flutter.