As everyone knew, negative temperatures had a limit: so-called Absolute Zero.
But there was no upper limit.
Although even the Sun's core was only fifteen million degrees, once it was converted into Divine Power and bolstered by the laws of flame, the fire produced by the Plane Gate instantly surpassed one hundred million degrees.
That was still far from the limit of the Solar Divine Fire. Even purely technological civilizations could create flames reaching trillions of degrees.
The Solar Divine Fire's temperature surged violently, breaking through the one-billion-degree mark in an instant and continuing to climb.
At that moment, the cauldron of the Great Heavenly Stellar Array was being burned until it shone ever more brilliantly with divine light.
Yet contrary to the instinctive impression that fiercer flames produced brighter light, the Great Heavenly Stellar Array now gave off a comfortable, multicolored cool-toned radiance. It looked like nothing more than an exquisite treasure rather than a furnace capable of incinerating all living things.
Perhaps this was what it meant for extremes to reverse.
Once the Solar Divine Fire reached hundreds of billions of degrees, Kindness and Evil could no longer suppress their fear and agony. They began to let out an incomparably unpleasant, mingled roar.
It turned out that Kindness and Evil had remained silent because they had been using their Divine Power to resist the cauldron's refinement with all their strength.
But faced with such absolute heat, not even the once-unmatched Chaos Power could protect them any longer.
What terrified them even more was the discovery that the cauldron was refining their Chaos Divine Power, slowly stripping away their strength layer by layer like unraveling silk from a cocoon.
Kindness and Evil finally realized that their lives had truly entered a countdown. If they could not find a way