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Chapter 348, Nine Heavens Fire Spring

As the karmic fire died down, Hua Changxi felt a pang of reluctance and wished it could burn a little longer.

There was no other reason than the sheer beauty of the tranquility and peace she felt, a peace that permeated both her body and soul. In that moment, she seemed to merge with the universe, eternally vibrant and timeless.

She felt her full existence, and therefore, she was filled with joy.

Having experienced the complete burning process of karmic fire, Hua Changxi gained some understanding of karma.

The karma that a person carries can be either bad karma or good karma.

The fire of karma burns away evil deeds and transforms them into good deeds.

Evil deeds damage the foundation and undermine the basis, while good deeds strengthen the foundation and solidify the basis.

When the karmic fire burns away evil deeds, everything from the physical body to the spiritual root, to the dantian, to the inner elixir and primordial spirit, and even to the sea of ​​consciousness and primordial spirit, will suffer multiple burns. The pain of being burned is not only a punishment, but also a retrospection and amplification of "evil".

When one transforms good deeds, both the physical body and the spirit are nourished and repaired. At the same time, it is also an affirmation and recognition of "goodness".

One's karma cannot deceive anyone; as long as one has committed an act, it will remain within them.

Through the illusory image of karmic obstacles revealed by the petals of the Lotus of Karmic Fire, we peel away the artificial disguise and confront our own evil and good.

Hua Changxi examined her own body. After being burned by the karmic fire, her physical body had become more solid, her spiritual root more brilliant, and her dantian more stable.

What surprised her most was that after being burned by the karmic fire, the black flames on her nascent soul shrank!

At this moment, Hua Changxi felt more relaxed than ever before.

Hua Changxi looked around at the lotus platform, her eyes sparkling.

This Karmic Fire Platform is undoubtedly an extraordinary blessed land. Being here will provide witnessing and judgment.

As long as one can withstand the burning of karmic fire, one's state of mind will be elevated to a certain extent. At the very least, one can see clearly some things that are usually overlooked through the illusion of karmic obstacles.

For example, the fear and anxiety buried deep in one's heart.

At this moment, Hua Changxi understood somewhat the meaning of Jing's words that she 'lived in fear,' and some of her fixed mindset began to loosen.

Although she saw some of her own fears and anxieties in the illusory image of karma, she still couldn't let go of them.

She couldn't imagine whether she would still have the motivation and need to move forward if she weren't driven by fear and anxiety.

Hua Changxi exhaled, no longer delving into the matter. Then, she summoned the Karmic Fire Platform Seal, dripped a drop of her essence blood onto it, and her perception of the lotus platform became increasingly clear.

The Fire Platform had suffered a major blow. Apart from the lotus pod itself, which was largely undamaged, the outer lotus petals were damaged to varying degrees.

Without a doubt, this is due to the ancient invasion war.

With a thought, Hua Changxi disappeared from the lotus platform and floated above the lotus petals surrounding the platform.

The outermost layers of lotus petals are the most severely damaged; in some places, the entire petal is gone, and in most places, only one-fifth to one-third of the petals remain.

The Karmic Fire Platform was not created from any natural object in the world. It was formed by a wisp of karmic fire that the Vermilion Bird Emperor placed here, which was then ignited and condensed through the burning of karma.

Therefore, each lotus petal carries its own karma.

Hua Changxi collected some lotus petal fragments, intending to take them out and give them to Tong Yao so that he could help create karma boxes and place them in the four corners of Lingguang Palace Square to collect the 'public opinion' of the Vermilion Bird Army.

There is an irreconcilable structural contradiction between those who manage others and those who are managed.

Throwing 'opinions' into the karma box increases the karma of the thrower, which can, to some extent, prevent malicious attacks.

If an injustice were to occur in the Vermilion Bird Army, reporting it would incur certain karmic consequences, but she believed that most of the Vermilion Bird Army would be willing to bear it in order to seek justice.

This is the best way Hua Changxi can think of to balance the stewards of Lingguang Palace and the ordinary Vermilion Bird Army.

She also knew that the biggest problem was that she didn't have time to personally participate in the management of the Vermilion Bird Army, and could only maintain stability through this method of mutual supervision.

Afterwards, Hua Changxi inspected the rest of the Karmic Fire Platform one by one. Once she confirmed that there were no other discoveries, she conjured a Karmic Fire Red Lotus to open a spatial rift and prepared to leave.

When we came out of the bonfire, it was already dark.

Feeling relaxed, Hua Changxi saw that it was a dark and windy night, more suitable for searching for the Twelve Blessed Lands, so she did not return to Lingguang Palace or Danyuan Peak.

The twelve blessed lands of Nanxiang City, when connected, form a Vermilion Bird totem. Now, with the Karmic Fire Platform as an anchor point, it will be easier to find other blessed lands.

And the closest one to the Karmic Fire Platform is the Nine Heavens Fire Spring.

After Hua Changxi reached the approximate location of the Nine Heavens Fire Spring revealed by the Zhou Tian Star Chart, he began to hover in the air.

This was a flat, open area, neither a canyon nor a cliff, and she couldn't imagine that a waterfall would flow through it.

However, both the Zhou Tian Star Chart and the information gathered by the Vermilion Bird Army indicated that this place was the location of the 'Nine Heavens Fire Spring,' so she could only patiently search carefully, bit by bit.

Although this area lacks canyons and cliffs, it does have many lakes and rivers.

Finally, relying on her sense of spatial fluctuations, Hua Changxi found several spatial rifts. These spatial rifts were all very small, the largest being only an inch long. If she hadn't mastered the law of spatial 'rift', been sensitive to spatial fluctuations, and searched carefully, these spatial rifts would have been very difficult to find.

If anyone else were to pass by, they would definitely not notice.

How do we get in?

Hua Changxi fell silent; she absolutely did not want to repeat the mistake of 'doing the work for someone else's benefit' again.

She found a blessed land, but someone else took it; this must not happen again.

In search of a suitable entry and exit point, Hua Changxi wandered around all night and finally, just before dawn, discovered a spatial rift at the bottom of a lake that was suitable as an entry and exit point.

Hua Changxi condensed a spiritual energy shield, stood at the bottom of the lake, and carefully pried open the spatial rift, not daring to open it too wide, lest it attract other people.

Relying on her relatively strong physical body, she squeezed into the spatial rift when it was only three feet long.

"Boom~"

Passing through the spatial rift, Hua Changxi found herself amidst a torrent of scalding water.

The water was so hot, so strong, so fast, and so heavy that it was unlike anything she had ever seen in her life.

Despite enduring immense scouring force, Hua Changxi gritted her teeth and conjured a fire lotus to seal the spatial rift before quickly flying away from the water and landing on a nearby rock.

As soon as she stood still, Hua Changxi was stunned by the view before her.

Fei Liu went straight down to 3000 feet, and it was suspected that the Milky Way fell for nine days.

This line of poetry appeared concretely in Hua Changxi's vision at this moment.

It was as if a huge hole had appeared in the sky, causing the red fiery springs from the heavens to pour down here, forming a magnificent and breathtaking waterfall spectacle.

A crimson ribbon cascaded down from the nine layers of clouds, as if the heavens and earth had split open with a crimson rift.

Standing there, you feel the waterfall roaring like thunder, as if ten thousand horses are trampling the sky. You don't even need to jump into the waterfall; the sound of the waterfall alone is enough to shake your soul.

The fiery spring plunged into the deep underground pool, stirring up waves tens of feet high, yet the surface of the pool remained clear, instead shimmering with a lustrous red light.

As the waves receded, they condensed on the water's surface, forming transparent red lotuses with a faint glow on their petals. After a moment, the water dissipated into mist, making the area resemble a hazy fairyland.

After an unknown amount of time, Hua Changxi finally snapped out of her reverie, and was overjoyed.

Not only is the fire elemental energy here incredibly dense, but the cascading fire spring waterfall is also an excellent place for body tempering. Most importantly, the roaring sound of the fire spring erupting helps the internal organs vibrate and resonate.

After surveying the Nine Heavens Fire Spring area and finding nothing amiss, Hua Changxi couldn't wait to test the effects of this body-refining site.

Hua Changxi took out the spiritual herbs she had prepared beforehand and brewed a pot of body-refining medicinal bath. After soaking in the bath, she took a six-patterned Xuanhuang fruit and then plunged into the fire spring waterfall.

At first, she didn't dare to go upstream from the waterfall. Instead, she found a place downstream where the current wasn't too rapid and began to practice the sixth chapter of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique—the Internal Organs Chapter—at full speed.

Soon, Hua Changxi became so engrossed in the experience that she lost track of time.

Meanwhile, the Duke of Liang, whose bloodline power had been burned away by Hua Changxi's sword, finally awoke after consuming a large amount of rare and precious herbs.

Upon waking up, the Duke of Liang learned that he would be stopped at the Lingtai Realm, and he immediately broke down, shouting that he wanted to take revenge on Hua Changxi.

Unfortunately, Hua Changxi has not shown up.

The Liang State Duke's Mansion also had someone planted in the Department of Medicine, and they knew that Hua Changxi had also been seriously injured by the Liang State Duke and should be recuperating in seclusion now.

Not knowing how long Hua Changxi would go into seclusion, the Duke of Liang, having nowhere else to vent his frustration, directly targeted the Hua family.

Fortunately, in order to deal with cultivators from other places entering the capital, the capital had issued a rule that cultivators could not act arbitrarily within the city, so the Hua family was spared from persecution by the Duke of Liang's mansion.

However, given the vast difference in status and power between the Liang State Duke's Mansion and the Hua family, even without direct intervention, the Liang State Duke's Mansion has plenty of ways to torment and embarrass the Hua family.

After the three Hua brothers and the three Yao sisters-in-law were successively attacked by stealth attacks, the Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion withstood the pressure and took the panicked Hua family members to the mansion.

As it was an earl's mansion, it still had some connections within the elite circles of the capital.

Not long after the Marquis of Dingyuan intervened, the Duke of Liang's mansion backed down after much mediation from various parties.

They boasted that as long as the Hua family produced five Xuanhuang Fruits with one to five patterns to repair the Duke of Liang's body, the feud between the Duke of Liang's mansion and the Hua family would end there; otherwise, they would fight the Hua family to the death.

The news that the Duke of Liang wanted five Xuanhuang Fruits, not just one, caused all the cultivators who knew the effects of the Xuanhuang Fruits to gasp in astonishment.

"The Duke of Liang is really bold to speak like that!"

"The Hua family is nothing but ants compared to the Duke of Liang's mansion. Who would be polite to ants?"

"I'm quite curious whether Hua Changxi will back down or not?"

"Unless she doesn't care about the life or death of the Hua family at all, she won't be able to refuse."

(End of this chapter)