Through this cycle, the Heaven Refining Furnace completely refined the Heavenly Tribulation's energy, absorbing it into every inch of its walls, every pattern, every rune.
This was not the end, but the beginning.
The Heaven Refining Furnace had only completed the first step of its Metamorphosis. The road ahead was still long.
The furnace was smooth and warm as jade, the Chaos Star Chart Patterns on its surface slowly flowing.
The lid remained shut, and all was still inside. Yet beneath that stillness, Fang Chen could sense an unimaginably vast energy sleeping deep in the furnace's heart, like a dormant Primordial Ferocious Beast that might wake at any moment.
He drew a deep breath and lightly tapped the furnace.
"Hum!"
The Heaven Refining Furnace shuddered, and its lid slowly opened.
Countless lights flew out.
They filled the sky, packed as densely as a flood bursting through a dam and surging from the furnace's mouth.
Rather than shooting in one direction, they spread every which way, tracing countless brilliant paths through the void.
Some rose like a silver waterfall flowing backward along Counterflow; some fell like a golden downpour; some swept left like a black meteor shower; some swept right like a Colored nebula.
The lights were all different colors.
Silver was the most abundant.
Silver specks filled the sky like countless stars.
They slowly revolved in the void, shedding a cool, gentle glow. Silver light played across the gray-white Sea of Laws like moonlight falling on a calm sea, beautiful enough to steal the soul.
Gold came next.
There were far fewer golden specks than silver ones, but still a considerable number.
Their light blazed more fiercely than silver, like the sun at its zenith, illuminating the surrounding void with splendor.
Golden and silver specks intertwined, silver-white and golden-yellow alternating