Meng Wanshu's breakthrough caused an immense commotion, drawing even Long Hou and Yu Shan to the scene.
Yu Shan's expression shifted slightly. Hastily erecting an array of barriers, he ultimately decided to have Meng Wanshu face her tribulation in the Celestial Spirit Mountain Range.
Li Guanqi had intended to go over and help, but wisps of purple flame abruptly surged out from within his body!
His face froze, uncertain of what was happening.
He only felt the power inside him begin to transform.
The origin of the Devouring Void Sacred Flame was actually fusing with his divine soul.
As the flame's origin merged into his divine soul, Li Guanqi received a backflow of power from the Flame Spirit.
Meanwhile, through its fusion with Li Guanqi's divine soul, the origin power of the Devouring Void Sacred Flame grew progressively stronger.
The primal energy within Li Guanqi ran rampant, spiraling out of control.
Everyone around him felt a terrifying heat capable of incinerating flesh and soul alike.
With no time to think, Li Guanqi dashed straight toward the Nirvana Pagoda!
On the first level of the Nirvana Pagoda, Li Guanqi sat cross-legged as the power of his Spirit-Devouring Dao Physique erupted with a roar!
His cultivation technique circulated frantically, transforming the power in his body into pure, robust primal energy.
Yet at that very moment, Li Guanqi discovered to his horror that the primal energy inside him was beginning to evaporate...
The power of the Devouring Void Sacred Flame was actually evaporating the primal energy he had already refined!
"Sword Spirit! What is going on?"
It was no wonder Li Guanqi panicked. If this continued, the flames would likely evaporate his energy until barely sixty percent remained!
The Sword Spirit manifested beside him, speaking with a faint, knowing smile.
"If you want to know what's going on, you'll have to ask the Flame Spirit."
Li Guanqi snorted coldly and summoned the Flame Spirit!
As soon as the Flame Spirit appeared, Li Guanqi noticed that its humanoid form had become far more distinct and lifelike.
The Flame Spirit dropped to one knee, kneeling respectfully before him.
Bowing its head, its rich, magnetic voice slowly resonated:
"Why has my lord summoned me?"
The corner of Li Guanqi's mouth twitched. He had not even fully recovered from his internal injuries, and the primal energy in his body was burning away—yet the Flame Spirit was asking him why?
"The primal energy inside me is burning. Is this your doing?"
The Flame Spirit looked up, slightly taken aback, and gazed at Li Guanqi in bewilderment.
"Just because of that?"
Seeing Li Guanqi's darkening expression, the Flame Spirit hurriedly explained:
"My lord, please do not be angry."
"I saw that your primal energy contained far too many impurities, so I am merely purifying it for you."
Li Guanqi was momentarily stunned.
"Purifying? Impurities?"
Li Guanqi was nearly driven to exasperated laughter.
"Do you have any idea that my primal energy is several times denser than anyone else's?"
"Do you know how high-grade my cultivation method is?"
The Flame Spirit shrugged and replied candidly:
"The grade of your cultivation method is indeed extraordinary—in fact, even I have never seen one so high."
"However, your primal energy... tsk, it has quite a lot of impurities."
Seeing that Li Guanqi did not believe it, the Flame Spirit simply extracted a bucket-sized clump of primal energy from Li Guanqi's body.
Within its palm, that pure primal energy crackled like a dazzling orb of purple thunder!
Crackles echoed as dense arcs of lightning tore effortlessly through the void.
Boom!
Suddenly!
A cluster of flames appeared in the Flame Spirit's palm, and under Li Guanqi's shocked gaze, that mass of primal energy began to shrink dramatically.
In the blink of an eye, enveloped in the Flame Spirit's fire, the massive ball of primal energy was refined and burned down until only a wisp as thin as a single strand of hair remained.
The Flame Spirit opened its palm. As the flames dispersed, it revealed the hair-thin arc of lightning.
Li Guanqi's eyes trembled. Looking at that radiant thread of primal energy, he could clearly sense the terrifying power contained within it.
Though its volume had shrunk countless times over, the energy it packed was far greater than before.
With the evidence right before his eyes, Li Guanqi's throat bobbed.
Instantly changing his tune, he patted the Flame Spirit's shoulder with a grin.
"Well... nicely done."
"If I let you refine and purify all the primal energy in my body, how much will I have left?"
The Flame Spirit pondered for a moment and said softly, "You should still have about thirty percent left."
The corner of Li Guanqi's mouth twitched. He never imagined that what he had thought was boundless primal energy would be whittled down to a mere thirty percent in the other's eyes!
Perhaps sensing Li Guanqi's dismay and unable to watch him sulk, the Flame Spirit could not help but explain:
"Well... you shouldn't feel down about it."
"This is only because it's you. If it were anyone else... they'd be lucky if their remaining primal energy amounted to ten strands of hair."
On this point, the Flame Spirit was not lying.
Li Guanqi's primal energy was naturally profound and robust; after all, the high grade of his Divine Punishment technique was indisputable.
Had it been an ordinary cultivator, not a single scrap of primal energy would have survived after being refined by the Devouring Void Sacred Flame.
The Flame Spirit and Li Guanqi now shared a symbiotic contract.
In other words...
The Flame Spirit and Li Guanqi were bound together in life and death; each was vital to the other.
Hence, the Flame Spirit had directly fused its origin into Li Guanqi's divine soul.
In this way, as long as Li Guanqi's divine soul was not extinguished, the Flame Spirit would not die.
Conversely, so long as the Flame Spirit survived... Li Guanqi's divine soul would never be destroyed!
If anyone wished to obliterate Li Guanqi's divine soul, they would first have to extinguish the number-one chaotic flame of the Human Spirit Realm!
It had to be said that Su Xuan had taken painstaking pains to pave the way for Li Guanqi.
Even the Sword Spirit could not help but admire this.
Having gained Li Guanqi's approval, the Flame Spirit began frantically refining the primal energy in Li Guanqi's body.
Furthermore, as the flame origin merged with his divine soul, Li Guanqi's aura surged upward at a breakneck pace.
Li Guanqi had no choice but to continuously crush purple gold crystals to replenish his primal energy.
Yet the Flame Spirit's power was far too potent. Though it had claimed thirty percent would remain, in truth, only twenty percent was left after the purification...
Li Guanqi suddenly stopped, feeling rather awkward; he had run out of purple gold crystals in his storage ring.
The remaining high-grade spirit stones were completely useless to him, as they contained far too many impurities.
The Flame Spirit popped out, and upon inquiring and learning there were no purple gold crystals left, it asked in confusion,
"Don't you still have immortal crystals?"
Li Guanqi paused, caught off guard.
"I do have immortal crystals, but the primal energy in my body hasn't converted into immortal primal energy yet. I can't absorb them."
Hearing this, the Flame Spirit waved its hand dismissively.
"Just hand them to me. Even without the immortal qi inside, their spiritual energy is far more potent than purple gold crystals."
Skeptical, Li Guanqi took out about a hundred immortal crystals.
With a wave of its hand, the Flame Spirit unleashed flames that enveloped every single immortal crystal.
Immediately afterward, the terrifying fire actually melted the immortal crystals down!
The corner of Li Guanqi's mouth twitched. These were things he could not even snap in two, yet the Flame Spirit could melt them with ease.
As the flames enveloped his palm, he felt only a gentle warmth, like the afternoon sun.
Yet in the outside world, this very fire was capable of incinerating all of creation!
Just like that, Li Guanqi's aura climbed madly, his strength growing increasingly terrifying.
His cultivation at the middle stage of the Tribulation Transcendence realm quickly stabilized, and propelled by the Flame Spirit's power, it began to soar furiously.
As Li Guanqi refined the immortal crystals and elevated his strength, pushing toward the peak of the middle stage and even the late stage of the Tribulation Transcendence realm, Meng Wanshu's heavenly tribulation continued to brew in the outside world.
The commotion here was simply too vast; by the end, nearly all of the Eight Generals had arrived.
As the Frost Master, Meng Wanshu faced a heavenly tribulation whose pressure was all the more terrifying.
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