At this moment, the secret chamber was filled with scorching and explosive energy. The terrifyingly high temperature had distorted the air within, and the temperature was still rising.
On the large bed in the center of the chamber, Gu Xun'er sat cross-legged, her eyes closed, her delicate brows slightly furrowed, her body trembling slightly. Her soft pink lips were pursed, her silver teeth clenched, and a ferocious expression appeared on her exquisitely beautiful, curvaceous face.
A blush rose on her swan-like neck, and her fair, slender fingers constantly changed hand seals. Her body was enveloped in a deep green flame radiating intense vitality.
As the hand seals in Gu Xun'er's hands changed, the boundless vitality, along with the violent fire-attribute energy in the surrounding air, surged into Gu Xun'er's body.
As soon as the energy entered her body, it frantically washed over Gu Xun'er's limbs and bones, sweeping through her meridians, bones, muscles, and blood, constantly reshaping her body.
"Hmph..."
Although aided by gentle life energy, the pain from this transformation of her flesh and the cleansing of impurities still caused Gu Xun'er, whose willpower was now incredibly strong, to groan softly, her brows furrowing even more deeply. The
energy surging within her body was too violent. Even with the dense life force of the Flame of Life constantly repairing the bones and meridians damaged by the violent energy, it was gradually becoming unable to keep up with the rate of destruction.
This violent energy was a segment of the Flame of Life belonging to the Dou Sheng level. Although Gu Xun'er had the help of an ancient clan Dou Sheng, she could not truly refine this Flame of Life, which belonged to the Dou Sheng level. Even if it was gentle, it was still extremely terrifying to Gu Xun'er.
Therefore, Gu Xun'er instructed Gu Juan to extract the essence of the Flame of Life, discarding the energy belonging to the Dou Sheng level, and instead devouring and refining the essence of the Flame of Life. This way, she could successfully devour the Flame of Life, which was essentially at the Dou Sheng level, even at the Dou Huang stage.
Although discarding the energy reduced the power of the Flame of Life to less than one-tenth of its previous strength, its quality remained high, and it possessed immense vitality.
Even if severely injured, it could recover to a perfect state in a very short time, allowing Gu Xun'er to fight without worry and enjoy herself to the fullest!
After refining the essence of the Flame of Life, Gu Xun'er had already reached the third level of the Dou Zong realm, an astonishingly rapid advancement.
The remaining energy after stripping away the essence of the Flame of Life was not wasted; Gu Xun'er used various methods to seal it away and divided it into dozens of portions.
Now, Gu Xun'er is using one of the sealed portions of the Life Flame's energy, combined with the Life Flame within her own body, to refine and strengthen her physical form.
However, to her surprise, this energy cannot even be completely suppressed by the Life Flame of the same origin. If this energy continues to rampage through her body, Gu Xun'er's physical body is very likely to collapse.
Sensing the chaotic energy within her body, Gu Xun'er opened her beautiful eyes, a cold glint flashing in them. She snorted coldly,
"Hmph, I've even devoured and refined your origin, I refuse to believe I can't deal with your remaining energy!"
Gu Xun'er's hand seals changed again, the energy circulation of the Burning Technique within her body began to flow, and with a sip of her cherry-like lips, three flames of various colors were exhaled by Gu Xun'er. These were the sub-flames of the Golden Emperor's Burning Heaven Flame, the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and the Fire Cloud Water Flame.
Three flames of different colors surged towards the Flame of Life, intertwining and merging together.
However, the merged flame remained unchanged, retaining the deep green color of the Flame of Life, only much darker.
Gu Xun'er was merely relying on the special properties of this Burning Technique to temporarily strengthen the source of the Flame of Life with other strange flames, using it to suppress the raging energy within her body.
At this moment, the deepened Flame of Life surged and swirled around Gu Xun'er, the surrounding temperature reaching an extremely high level. Had Gu Xun'er not set up a protective array within the secret chamber
, her meticulously prepared and most beloved chamber would have already melted into molten iron by the terrifying heat and then evaporated into air.
As time passed, the energy in the air continuously surged into Gu Xun'er's body, damaging and eroding her bones, muscles, and meridians. Meanwhile, the Flame of Life was rapidly restoring her vitality, creating a stalemate. Gu Xun'er
's delicate brows furrowed and relaxed intermittently, her face contorted in pain and then serene, revealing the discomfort she was experiencing from the stalemate.
Finally, after the energy in the air had completely entered Gu Xun'er's body, the deep green flames rising around her rapidly split into four streams, flowing into her body.
At this moment, the entire secret chamber finally quieted down. Gu Xun'er's eyes were tightly closed, no breath escaped from her mouth or nose, and not a trace of life escaped her body; she appeared as if she were dead.
A moment later, her beautiful, tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, flashing with a dark golden light. She jerked her eyes open, her delicate body trembling.
A series of crisp crackling sounds emanated from within Gu Xun'er's body. Wisps of black impurities seeped from her pores, and black smoke billowed from her head.
Gu Xun'er noticed the anomaly, but her face remained expressionless, as cold as ever. She slowly removed her crimson silk robe and tossed it aside. A flame flickered at her fingertips, and she touched the robe, which quickly burned to ashes. Then, she lightly lifted her jade-like foot
and walked towards a nearby prepared area. The bath was made from countless seventh-grade medicinal herbs, several eighth-grade herbs, and a ninth-grade herb as its core. It
also contained a precious medicinal bath, refined by Gu Xun'er's great-niece, Gu Juan, a two-star Dou Sheng, using her Dou Sheng strength—a bath that was arguably the most precious in the world.
It could be said that very few people on the entire Dou Qi Continent could enjoy such a medicinal bath, and this was merely Gu Xun'er's ordinary daily medicinal bath after a cultivation session.
Slowly immersing herself in the medicinal bath, which contained a rich concentration of energy, the energy gently cleansed Gu Xun'er's body. It was a world apart from the pain she had just experienced. The impurities in her body were completely evaporated by the energy of the bath, turning into steam and drifting into the air.