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The Frost Dragon's body fell from the dome and crashed into the pile of rubble at the edge of the pool. It remained motionless, most of its scales shattered and its flesh mangled. Only the slight undulations proved that it was not quite dead yet.

He is critically injured and on the verge of death, and will not be able to move for a short period of time.

At the epicenter of the explosion, a twisted and deformed black shield stood alone in the ground, covered in cracks and devoid of any light.

Beside the shield, half a mangled body lay in a pool of blood.

Lin family head.

He's still alive.

That top-grade defensive magic weapon shielded him from most of the backlash from the self-destruction at the last moment, but at the cost of the magic weapon being completely destroyed, and the golden core within his body no longer existing.

Without a golden core, without legs, with shattered bones and broken tendons, and spiritual energy so depleted that even breathing required immense effort.

Su Xuan slowly walked over.

The footsteps were exceptionally clear in the quiet cave, one after another, crunching on the gravel and blood.

The Lin family head heard the footsteps.

He used his only movable right hand to support himself on the ground and struggled to turn over, lying on his back.

Those once crimson pupils had become cloudy and dim. Without the support of spiritual power, he was just a dying old man whose legs had been cut off.

Su Xuan stood in front of him, looking down at him.

The firelight reflected on that young face, revealing no hatred, no elation, only the calm indifference of someone who had just dealt with a troublesome matter.

The head of the Lin family began to tremble.

Three months ago, the Lin family patriarch, who had orchestrated the operation in Thunder City and mobilized forty-seven elite soldiers to hunt down a Foundation Establishment cultivator, was now trembling uncontrollably.

"Su, Xuan..."

His throat was full of blood and foam, and every word he uttered was accompanied by the gurgling sound of bubbles bursting.

"I... I'll give you everything the Lin family has: spirit stones, magical artifacts, cultivation techniques, everything..."

Su Xuan bent down and picked up the Lin family head's natal magic weapon from the ground. The small sword was covered in cracks, but the tip was still quite sharp.

The Lin family head gripped Su Xuan's trouser leg tightly with his right hand, his knuckles deformed from the force.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, please, please..."

The sword fell.

A crisp, cold light flashed, and the head of the Lin family patriarch was severed from his body.

He rolled twice on the ground, his cloudy pupils still frozen in the fear of begging for mercy.

Fresh blood gushed from the severed neck, quickly mixing with the existing blood on the ground, making them indistinguishable.

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The barrage paused for a full two seconds, then exploded at ten times the speed.

"Dead! Patriarch Lin is dead! The old monster at the Golden Core stage has been beheaded by Su Shen!"

"Three months of pursuit, forty-seven elite soldiers, two legs, one Golden Core cultivator, and in the end, they didn't even keep their heads. The Lin family suffered a devastating loss!"

"A Foundation Establishment cultivator killing a Golden Core cultivator—that's a feat worthy of being recorded in the annals of cultivation!"

Su Xuan retrieved the small, cracked sword and casually tossed it to the ground.

The head of the Lin family rolled in the blood, his murky, lifeless eyes still holding a last trace of resentment.

Su Xuan didn't look at it for long. He squatted down and took a dark gold storage ring from the ring finger of the severed right hand.

As soon as the ring was in hand, a repulsive force surged out from the restriction.

Su Xuan activated his divine sense, and the spiritual essence of the Samadhi True Fire, wrapped in the power of his divine sense, forcefully crushed into it.

The restriction shattered after resisting for three breaths, and the space inside the ring fully unfolded in his perception.

The storage ring contained a space of about 100 square feet, filled with neatly stacked high-grade spirit stones, totaling at least 30,000.

Next to it were dozens of jade bottles, their mouths sealed with spiritual patterns, and filled with pills.

Further inside, dozens of magical artifacts were neatly arranged, the lowest grade of which was a mid-grade spiritual artifact.

There was also a whole row of jade slips, containing cultivation techniques, formations, alchemy skills, and all sorts of secret arts.

After a three-month chase, he ended up giving all his possessions to his prey.

Su Xuan didn't rush to look through the magical artifacts and pills; his attention was drawn to a crimson jade slip placed alone at the very back.

The surface of the jade slip was covered with patterns of fire-attribute spiritual energy, radiating a scorching aura.

Divine sense probed in.

Four large characters came to mind: "Burning the heavens and boiling the seas."

Fire-type divine ability, Golden Core level.

The information in the jade slip flooded into his mind. The cultivation method of this supernatural power was extremely obscure. Every node of spiritual power circulation required extremely precise control. It would take a Golden Core cultivator at least three years to even begin to understand it.

This supernatural power is theoretically perfectly suited to his current cultivation system. Forcibly cultivating a Golden Core level supernatural power during the Foundation Establishment stage would result in backlash, but the Samadhi True Fire itself is a spiritual fire of Golden Core level or higher, and it can withstand the operation of spiritual power at this level.

Su Xuan put the jade slip away, stood up, and looked around.

The cave had been completely destroyed by the Lin family head's self-destruction, with rubble and cracks everywhere.

Meanwhile, amidst the pile of rubble at the edge of the pool, the Netherworld Frost Dragon coiled in place, its icy blue vertical pupils fixed intently on Su Xuan.

The power of the Golden Core's self-destruction shattered most of its scales, tearing its flesh and blood apart, and several ribs protruded from under its skin, their shapes ferocious.

However, the water-repelling bead floating above the pool was radiating a continuous stream of water-based spiritual energy, which was repairing its injuries at a visible speed.

Su Xuan stood fifteen feet away, the Samadhi True Fire dancing around his body.

The cold dragon did not move.

It was badly injured, and its instinctive alertness made it unwilling to confront a raging inferno in its current state.

In particular, the natural suppression of fire against ice filled the beast's wild nature with fear.

Su Xuan did not move.

His current condition is also not good; he has three broken ribs, two cracked meridians, and has consumed more than 30% of his spiritual energy.

Even if you were to fight a Golden Core Flood Dragon head-on, and the opponent were severely injured and on the verge of death, your chances of winning would not exceed 20%.

Su Xuan moved first, retreating to the bottom of a recessed rock wall at the far end of the cave.

This location is the furthest from the Cold Dragon, and it's backed by a solid rock wall, so there's no angle from which it could be ambushed.

The cold dragon's vertical pupils followed him for a moment, but it did not pursue him.

It chose a safer approach, curling its entire body up beside the pool, its head lowered, and submerged in the shallow water.

The water-repelling pearl's spiritual power formed a pale blue film on its surface, and the shattered scales were slowly regrowing.

Su Xuan sat down against the rock wall, took out a handful of high-grade spirit stones from his storage ring, thirty of them, and arranged them into a simple spirit-gathering array in front of him.

He then took out two bottles of Grade 4 Qi-restoring pills, unscrewed the caps, poured out four pills, and swallowed them.

As the pill entered his stomach, the warm spiritual energy flowed along his meridians, beginning to repair the two cracks.

At the same time, Su Xuan placed the crimson jade slip on his forehead, and the complete technique of Burning Heaven and Boiling Seas unfolded in his mind once again.

Su Xuan closed his eyes, and the Samadhi True Fire began to circulate within his body along the path required by the cultivation technique.

The first spiritual energy node has been opened.

The second is to open up the connection.

The third node is ten times more complex than the first two. It requires splitting the spiritual energy of the Samadhi True Fire into three streams, which then converge from three different meridians into a tiny acupoint below the dantian.

It would take an ordinary cultivator half a month just to understand this step.

Su Xuan only took twenty breaths.

The spiritual energy is split, advancing along three lines simultaneously, and converging precisely.

A burning heat began to condense and take shape within the acupoint.

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The screen was flooded with comments.

"Is Su practicing his skills in front of that dragon? His mental fortitude is incredible."

"Both sides are healing, it's a race against time to see who recovers first."

"No, Su Shen isn't healing; he's cultivating a new technique. Look at how fast the spirit stones around him are being consumed."

"Holy crap, that's a Golden Core level divine ability! Can a Foundation Establishment cultivator practice a Golden Core level divine ability?"

"Samadhi True Fire, brother, that thing is a spiritual fire of the Golden Core level or above. As long as you have enough comprehension, you can cultivate it."

"Is there any need to question Su Shen's comprehension?"

Inside the forbidden area, Su Ruo had been maintaining the same posture for a long time, standing still with her ten fingers clasped together in front of her chest.

"That dragon isn't dead yet." Victoria leaned against a withered tree, her long golden hair falling over her shoulders.

"It's absorbing the power of that bead to heal itself, and its recovery speed is quite fast."

Anna munched on a piece of jerky, speaking indistinctly.

"But that man is getting stronger too; you can see the fire on his body is getting stronger and stronger."

Yukina sat silently in the corner, her black ninja outfit blending into the shadows, her cold eyes fixed on the crimson flames that were constantly expanding around Su Xuan in the sky.

Alice sat high up with her legs crossed, her emerald green eyes slightly narrowed.

"Can a Golden Core level cultivation technique, with a Foundation Establishment stage body, withstand the backlash from forced cultivation?"

Su Ruo didn't reply; she just stared intently at the sky.

Inside the cave, time passed little by little.

The spirit stones in front of Su Xuan dimmed at an alarming rate, and he would take out another batch from his ring after each batch was used up.

The spirit stones that the Lin family head had accumulated over three months came in very handy at this moment.

The cultivation progress of the Heaven-Burning and Sea-Boiling Technique is advancing rapidly.

The seventh node is now open.

The twelfth node is now connected.

The Samadhi True Fire surrounding him changed from a slight flicker to a visible surge, with the crimson flames whipping up the rubble on the ground and causing the temperature at this end of the cave to rise sharply.

The rock face began to glow red, and tiny waves of heat distorted the air.

On the opposite side, the Cold Dragon's healing was also progressing. Most of its shattered scales had regrown, its wounds were healing, and the dragon's body was undulating with increasing power.

But a hint of unease crept into its vertical pupils.

The fiery aura emanating from that human was changing.

That scorching heat began to contain something that made its very blood tremble.

The eighteenth node.

Su Xuan was completely enveloped in crimson flames, his seated figure appearing and disappearing amidst the sea of ​​fire.

From the outside, he looked like a burning humanoid furnace, so hot that the air ten feet away was visibly distorted.

The Heaven-Burning and Sea-Boiling Technique has a total of twenty-four spiritual energy nodes.

He has already connected to eighteen of them.

The remaining six are the most difficult parts, requiring the power of all the preceding nodes to be combined into a complete killing technique.

This step requires an abnormally high level of precision in controlling spiritual energy.

Su Xuan opened his eyes.

Crimson flames spilled from his pupils, and the pressure emanating from him far exceeded the scope of the Foundation Establishment stage.

Fifteen zhang away, the cold dragon's body suddenly tensed up.

Its injuries have healed by 60%, its scales have regenerated, and its flesh has healed, but it has not yet returned to its full strength.

The fiery pressure emanating from the human opposite it had already triggered its bloodline instincts to issue a frantic warning.

Can't wait any longer.

The cold dragon raised its head from the shallow water, its vertical pupils contracted into slits, and a low roar emerged from its throat.

Ice-blue spiritual energy exploded on its body, and its ten-zhang-long dragon body burst forth from the pool, wrapped in bone-chilling cold air, and crushed towards Su Xuan.

Su Xuan stood up.

The raging flames around him receded back into his body at that moment, leaving only a small, compressed crimson light spot in his right palm, no bigger than a fist, but the heat contained within it caused the rock wall three zhang in diameter to crack instantly.

Burning the heavens and boiling the seas, the nineteenth node.

He slowly raised his right palm, aiming it at the roaring, charging ice-blue giant dragon.

Half a year.

For six months, no one took the initiative to make a move inside the cave, but the murderous intent in the air grew stronger day by day.

Su Xuan sat cross-legged against the recessed rock wall at the deepest part of the cave, his spirit stones being consumed one after another. Most of the 30,000 high-grade spirit stones in the Lin family head's storage ring had already been used up.

Fifteen feet away, the Netherwater Cold Dragon was curled up beside the pool, enveloped in an icy blue light membrane, its broken scales growing back.

The flesh and blood wounds that had been torn open by the self-explosion of the Golden Core were slowly healing under the nourishment of the Water-Avoiding Pearl's spiritual power.

The two beasts licked their wounds, each waiting for the opportunity to strike first.

This day.

Su Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, and two golden-red flames shot out from the bottom of his eyes, instantly raising the temperature at this end of the cave to a terrifying level.

The crimson flames that had been surging around him for half a year were completely subdued at this moment, all the fire spirit energy was compressed back into his body, and all twenty-four spiritual energy nodes were connected.

Burning the heavens and boiling the seas, achieving ultimate perfection.

They were breathing almost simultaneously.

Beside the pool, the head of the Netherwater Cold Dragon suddenly rose, and a deafening roar exploded from its throat, the shockwave sending waves several feet high into the pool.

Its ice-blue scales had been completely covered again, and its wounds had healed to about 70-80%. Although the spiritual energy fluctuations around its body were weaker than in its prime, it still exuded the terrifying pressure of a half-step Golden Core cultivator.

The six-month hiatus has come to an end.

The cold dragon's vertical pupils were fixed on Su Xuan, its icy blue beastly eyes burning with rage and killing intent that had been suppressed for half a year.

It sensed that the fiery aura emanating from the human opposite had undergone a qualitative change in the past six months, and if it didn't act soon, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The ten-zhang-long dragon body suddenly tensed, and icy blue spiritual power exploded beneath its scales. The entire dragon transformed into a blue lightning bolt and shot out. Its blood-red maw opened, and a freezing breath of frost spewed out from its throat, carrying a chilling intent to destroy everything and rushing straight at Su Xuan's face.

Su Xuan stood up.

There was no retreat, no dodging.

His internal blood and qi surged, and the Asura Divine Body was fully activated. Crimson blood and qi steamed out from his pores, forming a thin layer of blood-colored light film on his body surface.

The fiery spiritual energy beneath his feet exploded, and he transformed into a fiery red meteor, heading straight for the attack.