Linking Wood and Fire to Cross the Spleen-Earth Tribulation, the Usurper Arrives in Scarlet Gold

A raging sea of fire concealed the true place; five colors and five flames gathered into a lotus throne.

Across the boundless sea of fire, five flames clustered together. Amid flames that burned flesh and seared souls, reducing every karmic cause and destined fate to ash, a blue-black lotus throne rose from the ground, standing alone in splendor. However fiercely the flames scorched it, not a trace of withering or decay appeared.

Before anyone knew it, more than six years had passed.

At last, Jiang Sheng, seated cross-legged on the lotus throne amid the flames, stirred.

He had spent the first three years comprehending the essence of sun and moon, then another three grasping the mysteries of Xuanhuang. The Emperor's Elixir, fused from that essence and Xuanhuang qi, was so pure and abundant that even after six years, Jiang Sheng had refined barely half of it.

"Phew."

He slowly breathed out a stream of white vapor. He had stayed on the Sun Star so long that fire essence had seeped into his breath without his noticing. Every exhalation carried a scorching heat, as though it might burst into flame the next instant.

Sensing the piece of Emperor's Elixir within him, Jiang Sheng frowned. "I spent no more than five years on the Taiyin Star, but I've already spent nearly seven on the Sun Star."

"If I keep refining it until I finish, the sun's power will have corroded me too deeply. Never mind my body and all my magical power being transformed by it—even my soul and Dao Fruit will inevitably be tainted."

"With the foundation I have now, I have enough to break through the Third Calamity. I can't hesitate. I must break through at once and leave!"

With that, Jiang Sheng stored the unrefined Emperor's Elixir in his