Perseverance

Faced with the terrifying heat that kept climbing within the hall, the Dharma Aspect Stage cultivators inside each employed their own methods to resist it.

True Man Tantai pushed the Emperor Yan's Profound Fire Cauldron to its limit. Crimson light lit up its body as it continuously absorbed the surrounding heat, casting down a red barrier that shut out the terrifying heat around them.

Sima Changqin stood as he normally did, forming hand seals before him with one hand. A faint azure glow emanated from the ancient zither on his back, like whirling gusts of wind enveloping his body.

Wu Yu, meanwhile, merely stood there quietly with her hands folded before her.

To the naked eye, she seemed to be doing nothing. No treasure light shone from her body, yet the surrounding heat appeared to have no effect on her at all and could not harm her in the slightest.

While urging the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel within his dantian to ward off the heat, Yuan Ming secretly used the roots of the Undying Tree to absorb the Solar Power within the hall.

He could not completely block the invading heat, so his flesh also endured unbearable burning pain.

However, heat of this degree could no longer have much effect on Yuan Ming.

Tie Xuan, standing behind Sima Changqin, had at some point taken out a broad, heavy black iron sword. He gripped it in both hands and planted it before himself. Rings of white Sword Qi radiated from the blade, spreading continuously in all directions and forcing back the heat.

Not far from him, Shen Xiu, the female Black Demon, formed a strange hand seal with two fingers. An exceedingly long water-blue spiritual talisman flowed from her palm, winding around her body again and again as it emitted a