Under the frenzied siege of the Taotie Demon Lord and the Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix, the Eternal Furnace was like a stubborn old soldier, dragging its battered body as it struggled toward the edge of the sea of fire under the combined guidance of Li Wuyang's consciousness and the artifact spirit. Every movement widened the cracks in the furnace, accompanied by the artifact spirit's mournful cries. Li Wuyang's consciousness, meanwhile, felt as though it were being roasted over blazing flames, enduring the double torment of backlash from the laws and external impacts as it neared its limit.
Yet perhaps the will to survive after being driven into a corner had awakened their potential, or perhaps the newborn Chaos Origin had unexpectedly resonated with the Eternal Furnace's laws of creation. This man-and-furnace combination actually created a sliver of a miracle under the pincer attack of two quasi-Saints!
The furnace successfully broke free from the main range of the Taotie Demon Lord's devouring net, then cleverly used a firestorm spat out by the Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix as thrust, barely crashing into an extremely unstable spatial rift at the edge of the Domain of Ash and Flowing Fire, one that led into an unknown void!
"Roar!"
"Cry—!"
The furious roars of the Taotie Demon Lord and the Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix were left behind. The instant the furnace entered the spatial rift, a tremendous tearing force descended. The already collapsing furnace let out a piercing cracking sound as countless fragments peeled away and vanished into the turbulent currents.
Li Wuyang's consciousness suffered a devastating blow at that moment and nearly scattered completely. At the last second, he only managed to send a thought filled with protection, hope, and reluctance to the faint embryonic aura within the furnace and to the artifact spirit that had fought