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Chapter 69: Taking down Zi Ling! Cultivation Breakthrough!
On the way from Lingyuan Water Pavilion to Ice and Fire Road, there is a mountain forest with abundant spiritual energy.

This place is where many rare herbs and fruits are grown.

Any cultivator who passes the first level can freely pick spiritual herbs here as a reward for completing the level.

The Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng that Han Li needs is right here.

Zi Ling's purpose in coming to the Void Heaven Palace was to pick the medicinal herbs she wanted to use for alchemy.

However, these things were of little use to Zhu Chen.

Most of the spiritual herbs and fruits here are leftovers left over from those people in the Star Palace.

Only a very few immortal herbs and fruits that have already developed sentience are barely passable.

But those things are too difficult to catch.

It's not cost-effective.

Zhu Chen did not intend to linger here, and directly took Zi Ling to the place where the entrance to the Ice and Fire Path was located.

Of course, if he saw any valuable spiritual herbs on the road, he would pick them and toss them to Zi Ling.

However, his casual behavior unexpectedly touched Zi Ling deeply.

Looking at the 'cheap Daoist partner' who had been leading her to gather spiritual herbs along the way, Zi Ling couldn't help but feel a warmth rise in her heart.

She lost both her parents at a young age. Although she was the head of the Miaoyin Sect, the sect had long been sidelined by the Xinggong.

To outsiders, she was just a dog of the Star Palace.

They could only eke out a living under the protection of the Star Palace.

From childhood to adulthood, everything she has achieved has been earned through her own hard work and dedication.

This is the first time someone has been willing to give her these spiritual herbs and fruits for free.

This was a feeling she had never experienced before.

After running around for half a day.

Zhu Chen finally brought Zi Ling to the end of this mountain forest.

This is a chaotic and disorganized architectural ruin.

The Ice and Fire Path of the second level of the Void Heaven Palace is located at the deepest part of this ruin.

"I'm going to the Lava Path to absorb the fiery energy for cultivation later, you'd better come with me..."

As Zhu Chen walked deeper into the ruins, he gave instructions to Zi Ling beside him.

"Ah."

Zi Ling nodded obediently without saying anything more.

That Wu Chou has already chased into the Void Heaven Palace, and perhaps Ji Yin and the others have followed him in as well.

If she didn't stay by Zhu Chen's side, and if she encountered those people, she would only face certain death.

After all, no one else knew that she had now become a Daoist couple with this 'senior' Zhu Chen.

As they spoke, the two had already reached the end of the ruins.

There are two entrances here.

The other one leads to the Frozen Path.

Both passages lead to the third level of the Void Heaven Palace.

Zhu Chen did not hesitate and decisively chose the lava path.

……

Upon entering the lava passage, Zhu Chen and his companions were greeted by a sea of ​​lava, with magma overflowing everywhere, and even the air they breathed was filled with the scorching heat of fire.

"Cough cough~"

Zi Ling's cultivation level was not yet at the Core Formation stage, and she couldn't stand it after arriving here.

Zhu Chen waved his hand and created a fire shield to protect her, which made her feel a little better.

Afterwards, Zhu Chen found a place nearby where the fire energy was most concentrated, sat cross-legged, and manifested the six divine ring grottoes behind him. He then began to frantically absorb the fire spiritual energy of the place by using the power of the grottoes.

The air here is filled with a kind of fire poison, which is extremely deadly. Even those cultivators who specialize in fire-attribute techniques cannot directly refine and absorb it.

However, Zhu Chen is different; he possesses the bloodline of the ancient Vermilion Bird.

The Vermilion Bird is born from fire, and it can absorb and refine any flame, including the flames here!

As Zhu Chen's six great grotto-heavens opened simultaneously, the surrounding fiery energy instantly converged towards him like a tidal wave. Although the spiritual energy required to open a Divine Ring Grotto-heaven is greater than that of an ordinary grotto-heaven, the effects of a Divine Ring Grotto-heaven are incomparable to those of an ordinary grotto-heaven.

Zhu Chen manifested the six great grotto-heavens simultaneously, and the speed at which they absorbed the fiery energy was many times faster than that of ordinary grotto-heavens.

"Array up!"

Seeing Zhu Chen begin cultivating, Zi Ling quickly took out several array flags she had treasured and planted them around Zhu Chen, forming a protective array around him.

Then she quietly sat down nearby and began to protect Zhu Chen.

Time passed by, second by second.

As Zhu Chen continued to absorb the fiery energy within the lava passage, the temperature here gradually began to drop.

A day later, a huge fire cloud appeared above Zhu Chen's head.

The fiery cloud gradually gathered around him, eventually forming a vortex that blotted out the sky.

On the third day...

The fiery breath that filled the lava passage had all converged on Zhu Chen's side.

Zi Ling, who was standing nearby, was stunned.

This was the first time in her life she had ever witnessed someone single-handedly controlling all the spiritual energy within a given space.

It’s too shocking!

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would have found it hard to believe that such a thing could happen.

"Open the Seventh Grotto-Heaven for me!"

Just then, Zhu Chen suddenly opened his eyes, his hands moving rapidly as he unleashed several hand seals in front of him.

next moment.

The fiery cloud vortex that had been hovering in the sky suddenly began to spin rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually transforming into a powerful fiery cloud tornado that directly entered Zhu Chen's body.

Zhu Chen's body began to radiate a dazzling divine light.

At the same time, a divine ring-shaped grotto-heaven, shimmering with blood-red light, floated out from between his brows.

At first, this Divine Ring Cave Heaven seemed somewhat illusory and unreal.

However, as the fiery cloud vortex in the sky completely disappeared into Zhu Chen's body.

This grotto-heaven quickly solidified.

Zhu Chen finally succeeded in opening up the seventh Divine Ring Grotto Heaven.

however……

Just as the seventh grotto-heaven was opened, Zhu Chen's expression suddenly changed.

He discovered that there was still some fire poison in his body that had not been refined.

"Could it be that I absorbed the fiery breath too quickly these past few days, causing a large amount of fire poison to accumulate in my body, which is why some of it remains?"

"Since that's the case, let's refine it again..."

After figuring out what was going on, Zhu Chen once again mobilized the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire within his body to refine the fire poison.

However, it was fine when he didn't practice, but as soon as he did, something went wrong.

Because the fire poison accumulating in his body at this moment is not ordinary fire poison at all.

Rather, it was because he had absorbed the flames too quickly, and the impurities remaining in those flames accumulated in one place, resonating with the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire within his body, and actually transforming into a kind of evil fire.

This wisp of evil fire has now merged with his Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, but it cannot be assimilated by the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire.

The two flames repelled each other within his body, causing his body to begin exhibiting unusual symptoms.

His eyes gradually became bloodshot, and his body began to burn, as if a terrifying fire beast wanted to tear his body apart and burst out of him.

This feeling……

"Senior... what's wrong?"

Seeing that Zhu Chen was not in a good condition, Zi Ling immediately ran over worriedly.

However, as soon as she arrived beside Zhu Chen, he pulled her away with bloodshot eyes.

……

　I'm begging you to read on!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)