The Eternal Saint of Alchemy

This time, the phantom of the guardian spirit reappeared, even more solid than before.

The old man stared at Xiao Fan for a long time before finally smiling slightly. "You've arrived quickly. His spirit core has stabilized, his Extreme Fire Abyss Technique has reached the third level, and his spiritual power has been sublimated at this moment. We can make our move now."

Xiao Fan nodded and handed over a black token.

The golden door on the stone tablet slowly sank down, turning into a beam of black light.

Behind the light curtain was a wide, downward-sloping passageway. On both sides of the passageway, there were adjustment talisman discs that resembled white silk data diagrams. At intervals, there was a temperature-regulating stone that emitted a stable light.

He took a deep breath before stepping inside. The light curtain behind him closed silently, and the temperature inside was much lower than outside.

After walking along the passage for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, his eyes suddenly lit up: a huge crack in the earth's crust stretched out in front of them, clearly divided into three layers.

The upper part is a thick layer of dark rock, the middle part is translucent crystal, and the lower part is a deep purple bottomless cavity.

The source of Yin was in the deepest part of that void. He stood at the edge of the rift and looked down, only to see a ball of light, deeper than darkness, slowly breathing. With each breath, a chilling spiritual energy surged forth from the earth.

He took out the dagger and immediately felt his dantian spiritual core automatically activate, resonating with the dagger. Then, he enveloped himself with a protective shield formed from the fire of creation and stepped into the basalt first.

The black boulders receded to both sides like a tide, as if making way for him.

He walked down step by step, and with each step he used his spiritual power to touch the wall, which would automatically separate to the sides and close up behind him.

The descent went more smoothly than expected. The spiritual power of the Extreme Fire Abyss Technique was continuously injected into the protective shield, while the short sword kept absorbing the surrounding rocks in preparation for any eventuality.

As he passed through the middle layer of crystal, the entire crystal began to glow faintly, like a staircase formed from starlight. The beam of light continued downwards, disappearing into the deep purple void at the bottom, illuminating the entire passage.

He landed safely at the bottom of the hold. Beneath his feet was a smooth, dark purple rock.

Dozens of feet in front of it, a purplish-black energy ball, much larger than the edge of the crack, was floating quietly, its surface constantly rippling with black waves.

Xiao Fan gripped the short sword, flames swirling around him, and he activated the Extreme Fire Abyss Technique at full power.

The guiding structure of the square stele array was crystal clear to Ye Zhong. He slowly raised his left hand, fingers spread, and aligned it with the center of the array, linking each stele with the next. As he channeled his spiritual energy, ripples spread across the deep purple surface of the core.

When the spiritual energy extended from his left hand touched the surface of the spiritual core, Xiao Fan felt an unprecedented resistance.

At that deep purple core, there are countless energies, operating at different frequencies, forming an extremely complex closed system.

The guiding structure of the square stele array is complete, but in actual operation, one has to deal with a system that has lived for tens of thousands of years. Any mistake could trigger a chain reaction.

He wasn't in a hurry. He first let the flames of creation slowly circulate around the core surface.

The outermost and lightest layer is closest to the frequency of its own crimson flame, the middle silver-white overlaps with the deep purple part, and the innermost layer is completely unaffected by known spiritual energy fluctuations, seemingly operating on its own.

An hour passed. Using the Fire of Creation as a probe, it penetrated outward layer by layer, with corresponding spiritual energy fluctuations and slight tremors at each layer.

This process consumes a great deal of mental energy and cannot be disturbed, otherwise the mental energy core will collapse.

The dagger at his waist was still scalding hot, and the Extreme Fire Abyss Technique spiritual core in his dantian was constantly circulating.

Whenever he felt his spiritual energy was about to run out, his spiritual core would automatically replenish it, while the short sword would absorb a trace of spiritual energy from the air and channel it into his meridians. The three forces worked together to continuously drive this process.

When the outer layer is completely breached, the resistance experienced by the middle layer is several times greater than that of the outer layer.

He adjusted his strategy, using the Thunderfire Token to draw out a silver-white arc of electricity, which closely followed the edge of the Creation Fire. Using the Creation Fire as a guide, he stirred up thunderous vibrations, resonating with his own spiritual power.

Just as the three attacks landed, the energy flow in the middle layer suddenly fluctuated violently. Several purplish-black beams of light shot out from the core, grazing his body and entering the stone wall at the bottom of the cave, burning craters into it.

Several beams of light streaked across the sky, disrupting the entire empty psionic field. The crystal overhead emitted a high-frequency buzzing sound, and a chilling aura swept over us from the opposite direction.

Xiao Fan did not dodge.

He knew very well that retreating even half a step at this moment would mean all his previous efforts were in vain. He steadied himself, activated the Extreme Fire Abyss Technique, and poured spiritual power into the light barrier, which immediately became more than twice as thick.

The shockwave struck the light screen, making a hissing sound, like ice water being poured into boiling water, but the light screen remained completely still.

He maintained his composure as the guide and successfully broke through the last barrier in the middle layer.

When spiritual energy enters the body, it's like water being released from a dam, creating an opening, and the internal pressure is released in the direction of his fingers.

The black ripples at the very center stubbornly continue to rotate.

Xiao Fan took a deep breath, gathered all his spiritual power, and condensed it into a golden pillar of light that was a hundred feet thick, which he slammed into the black vortex in the center.

He gave it his all.

The moment the beam of light collided with the black vortex, the entire space seemed to tremble.

After a violent tremor, the deep purple "core" suddenly contracted and then rapidly expanded. The ripples on its surface also changed, transforming from a closed, disordered loop into an open loop guided by the beam of light.

In the innermost darkness, something seemed to be forcibly torn apart, and the excess power was spreading outward little by little along the trajectory of the stone tablet.

Successful.

The patterns that originally flowed around the core of the Heavenly Forging have gradually turned into a uniform color, from dark purple to deep purple, and then to purplish gold.

The chilling aura inside the cave had completely disappeared, replaced by a gentle and neutral spiritual energy, as if the Yin energy had formed a natural cycle here.

Xiao Fan withdrew his left hand, his body trembling slightly. He took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and breathed heavily. Although the spiritual core in his dantian was still operating, its output had been reduced to a minimum.

Not far in front of him, the core had completely changed. It was glowing with a pale golden light and slowly rotating.