Chapter 49: Conquering the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword! Breakthrough!

Inside the Guiyi Secret Realm.

Zhou Chen sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, enveloped in a faint halo, like a deity walking out of the Primal Chaos.

He slowly opened his eyes, which showed no fatigue, and a spiritual light flowed within them.

With a slight thought, a ripple appeared in the Void Realm, and three treasures with distinctly different auras appeared before him.

First was a longsword, entirely red, full of Spiritual Qi, and with a crystal-like texture.

"Ding! Detected that the Host successfully intercepted Ye Chen, the Son of Destiny's Opportunity—the Low Grade Earth Rank Crimson Cloud Sword! Triggering a Hundredfold Return! Rewarding a Low Grade Heaven Rank Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword. Do you wish to claim it?"

The System's prompt was cold and pleasant, like a heavenly melody.

"Yes!"

Zhou Chen silently affirmed in his mind.

The Low Grade Heaven Rank Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword instantly appeared before him.

The moment it appeared, the temperature of the entire space abruptly rose to a terrifying level.

Violent, ferocious Evil Qi surged out, and terrifying energy coursed wildly within the longsword.

From time to time, a twisted bloody ghostly face would condense on the surface of the longsword, faintly roaring!

Then, the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword quietly floated there, without earth-shattering momentum, only an extreme profoundness that seemed to pierce the Nine Hells and annihilate all things.

This sword was forged from magma deep within a sea of blood, its core mixed with extremely evil resentful spirit essence, and refined by a Grandmaster of Artifact Refining over several years, making it a Low Grade Heaven Rank Spiritual Artifact!

The violent Spiritual Qi and filthy Evil Qi contained within it would instantly kill ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators upon contact!

Even Core Formation Cultivators would find it difficult to withstand its sharpness.

Zhou Chen took a deep breath, his gaze extremely solemn.

Without the slightest hesitation, he activated the Primal Chaos Scripture, forming hand seals to guide it.

A flicker of firelight appeared, and space began to distort; it was the Golden Emperor Glazed Flame.

"Go!"

A barely perceptible golden thread of fire slowly separated from the golden flame, drilling into the Blood Soul Burning Flame Sword like a living thing.

Even with Zhou Chen's stable Foundation and endless Spiritual Qi, he was now covered in sweat.

The next moment, a wisp of black Spiritual Qi was drawn out, following the Golden Emperor Glazed Flame's guidance, slowly entering the Laogong acupoint in his palm.

"Sizzle—"

An unimaginably strange and chilling cold instantly swept over him.

Zhou Chen's body trembled violently, his skin instantly losing all color, becoming like Netherworld Ice Jade, and a thin layer of deep black Evil Qi quickly covered his entire body.

That strange black Spiritual Qi, after entering Zhou Chen's body, rampaged wildly.

Zhou Chen immediately broke out in cold sweat, his spiritual consciousness feeling as if it were being gnawed by billions of ants.

However, the black and white runic light formed by the Primal Chaos Scripture shone brightly, firmly protecting his Dao Foundation and spiritual consciousness.

The black Spiritual Qi seemed to encounter something terrifying and dared not move further.

The next second, it was drawn by an invisible suction into the Primal Chaos runes, and Zhou Chen's body quickly returned to calm.

Phew!

"That was too difficult! Heaven Rank Spiritual Artifacts are indeed not that easy to refine."

Zhou Chen felt a lingering fear, unaware that this was also due to his cultivation being too low.

One refinement!

Just refining the Origin of a Low Grade Heaven Rank Spiritual Artifact required him to go all out to barely succeed in absorption, and failure would inevitably result in severe injury.

This was much harder than intercepting Ye Chen's Profound Rank High Grade Profound Immortal Sword and the returned Earth Rank High Grade Azure Dragon Sword, but fortunately, its power was also terrifying.

Zhou Chen had a premonition that if he were still in the Qi Refinement Stage, he would be unable to refine it at all.

Even if he somehow succeeded in refining it, wielding it would likely drain ninety percent of his entire body's Spiritual Qi!

It should be known that the quality and total amount of Zhou Chen's Spiritual Qi already far exceeded that of Cultivators at the same stage, yet it was still difficult to satisfy this sword.

However, what Zhou Chen didn't know was that there was a great deal of luck involved in his subjugation of this Spiritual Artifact.

Spiritual Artifacts and Magic Treasures above the Heaven Rank already possessed a trace of consciousness and would choose their own masters; if not for the Primal Chaos runes, he would likely have suffered a backlash by now.

This consciousness not only greatly enhanced the Spiritual Artifact's power but also allowed the Cultivator and the Spiritual Artifact to be telepathically connected, operating smoothly, and not easily taken away in battle.

"Haha, your Opportunities are truly excellent, Ye Chen! But they are all mine now! I almost don't want to kill you anymore!"

Zhou Chen didn't stop, his gaze turning to his second gain.

"Ding! Detected that the Host successfully intercepted Ye Chen, the Son of Destiny's Opportunity—the Low Grade Earth Rank Condensing Origin Pill! Triggering a Hundredfold Return! Reward: Low Grade Heaven Rank Nirvana True Flame Pill!"

A white jade medicine bottle floated in the air, its stopper already shaken off by him.

Inside the bottle lay a Golden Core-sized, entirely golden Medicinal Pill.

Zhou Chen hesitated not at all, opening his mouth and inhaling, the Golden Core instantly entering his mouth!

"Boom—"

A beam of light suddenly burst forth from Zhou Chen's Baihui acupoint!

If someone were nearby, they would find that Zhou Chen seemed to have transformed into a golden man of light.

This was not the burning of the Physical Body, but the evolution of his life level!

Resisting the urge to use the Golden Emperor Glazed Flame to resist, Zhou Chen completely let go of his mind.

Not long after.

Every inch of his bones, every Meridian, was constantly transforming under the medicinal power of the Nirvana True Flame!

Before long, a faint golden halo began to flow on Zhou Chen's skin.

His bones became as clear and translucent as divine jade, their hardness far exceeding their previous state by several times.

"Uh—ah!"

The indescribable pain and comfort made Zhou Chen unable to help but let out a low growl.

Finally, the golden Nirvana Flames slowly converged.

Zhou Chen remained in his cross-legged posture.

At this moment, his bronze skin seemed to be turning into jade, his aura was even more ethereal and pure, and his spiritual consciousness had increased several times over.

Thus, at this moment, his potential had been developed to a terrifying degree!

"The effect is too strong!"

Zhou Chen's eyes burned with fervor.