After settling Fuxi and Nuwa, Su Ming finally felt a weight lift from his heart.
The Wu Clan's greatest weakness was about to be fully compensated for.
By then, with invincible physical bodies and the workings of fate in their grasp, who in the Primordial World Heaven and Earth could still stand against the Wu Clan?
He did not linger at Buzhou Mountain. With one step, his figure crossed billions upon billions of miles of starry sky and headed straight toward a place of extreme yang and hardness.
The Sun Star.
The source of light and heat for the entire Primordial World, and a forbidden zone for living beings.
Endless True Sun Fire raged here. Even a Grand Unity Golden Immortal's Dao body could not last more than three breaths before being burned into nothingness.
Yet when Su Ming descended here, the True Sun Fire, powerful enough to scorch mountains and boil seas, became as gentle as the warm sun of early spring. It affectionately circled him, as though welcoming the arrival of its king.
Su Ming's Chaos True Body already contained the origins of the five elements. To him, the True Sun Fire was not only harmless but also a great tonic.
His gaze pierced through layer upon layer of flame and looked toward the core of the Sun Star.
There, a divine tree that reached heaven and earth stood majestically.
Its trunk was scarlet gold, its branches and leaves lush. Golden flames that never went out burned upon every leaf, radiating endless light and heat.
It was none other than the Fusang Tree, one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots!
"What a fine Fusang Tree, and what a rich origin of fire." Su Ming praised it.
He could clearly sense that the Chaos Fire Element True Body within him had begun circulating on its own the instant it saw the Fusang Tree, emitting a desirous hum.
If he could fuse the origin of the Fusang Tree into himself, his Chaos Fire Element True Body would surely undergo an astonishing transformation, and his strength would soar once more.
That was precisely the purpose of his journey.
The Wu Clan's great undertaking and the calamity of the future both required stronger strength as their foundation.
He no longer hesitated and walked toward the enormous tree that supported the sky.
Just as he was about to approach the Fusang Tree, a sharp, piercing cry suddenly rang across the entire Sun Star!
"What insignificant vermin dares trespass into the forbidden grounds of the Sun Star?"
Along with the angry shout, the Fusang Tree blazed with light. Endless True Sun Fire furiously gathered and transformed in the air into an enormous phantom of a three-legged Golden Crow.
The Golden Crow phantom spread its wings, blotting out the sky and sun. Flames of judgment burned in its eyes, and terrifying pressure belonging to the Quasi-Saint realm poured down on Su Ming like the Heavenly River overturning!
This was a trace of the origin imprint that Di Jun and Tai Yi had left behind in the Fusang Tree when they were born. Nourished by the True Sun Fire for countless years, it had formed a protective obsession.
Under this pressure, an ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal would probably be unable to move even a finger before their soul was annihilated.
Yet Su Ming merely glanced at it indifferently.
"You're nothing more than a remnant imprint, yet you dare act insolently before me?"
He did not even make a move. The blood qi originating from Pangu within him merely rippled faintly.
Boom!
Pressure far more overbearing, ancient, and supreme than that of the Golden Crow phantom soared into the heavens!
It was the majesty of the one who had split the sky and earth!
The flames of judgment in the Golden Crow phantom's eyes instantly froze, replaced by fear that came from the deepest depths of its bloodline.
Its enormous body trembled violently before this pressure, like a candle flickering in the wind.
"Pan... Pangu's aura... You are..."
The phantom uttered fragmented cries of terror, but before it could finish, it could no longer withstand the pressure. With an unwilling wail, it exploded and collapsed, transforming back into the purest True Sun Fire before dispersing into the world.
From the appearance of the Golden Crow phantom to its collapse, less than a finger's snap had passed.
Su Ming's expression remained calm, as though he had merely brushed away an insignificant speck of dust.
He continued walking toward the Fusang Tree.
But just then—
Dang!!!
A bright, resonant bell chime, as though it had come from primordial antiquity, rang across the universe without warning!
The instant the bell rang, the entire Sun Star, along with the spacetime within billions of miles around it, froze completely!
The flowing True Sun Fire stopped. The leaping flames solidified. Even the Space Turbulence raging through the void seemed to have been pressed beneath a pause button, becoming a motionless painting.
Time and space were completely suppressed at this moment!
Immediately afterward, an ancient, desolate golden bell, covered in carvings of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, grass, and trees, slowly emerged from the void and directly enveloped Su Ming.
Dao intent flowed across the bell's body. An almighty aura that suppressed the three thousand worlds and stood supreme above all else locked firmly onto Su Ming.
The Top-tier Innate Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Bell!
"It finally decided to come out?" Su Ming stopped walking. There was no panic on his face at being trapped. Instead, a playful smile appeared.
He raised his head. His gaze pierced through the Chaos Bell's walls and looked toward the deeper reaches of the Sun Star.
He had known long ago that there were two future Heavenly Emperors of the Demon Clan on the Sun Star.
That Golden Crow phantom just now had merely been an incarnation!
The Chaos Bell and its master were the true bodies!
"A treasure like this falling into your hands is truly a case of a pearl in the hands of a fool." Su Ming's voice was not loud, yet it echoed clearly through the suppressed spacetime.
He could sense that although the Chaos Bell had enveloped him, the power suppressing spacetime had not reached its limit.
Clearly, the treasure's master had only shallow Dao Cultivation and was far from capable of unleashing the Chaos Bell's full power.
Otherwise, if a Saint held this treasure, a single strike of the bell could reverse spacetime and reforge earth, fire, water, and wind.
"Impudent madman! You dare look down on me and trespass into the Sun Star? Today, I shall use your soul to refine my Chaos Bell!"
A young voice filled with boundless arrogance and fury came from the void.
It was Eastern Emperor Tai Yi!
As his voice fell, the Chaos Bell suddenly shook!
Hum—
Countless profound runes lit up across the bell's walls. A terrifying force powerful enough to obliterate all things fiercely crushed toward Su Ming within the bell!
This was the Chaos Bell's internal refining power, which sought to refine Su Ming completely into ash, from his physical body to his soul!
"You want to kill me?"
Su Ming laughed, his laughter carrying a hint of disdain and a hint of wild arrogance.
"With you?"
Boom!!!
An indescribably terrifying surge of blood qi erupted from Su Ming's body!
In an instant, his entire aura changed.
If he had previously been a deep starry sky, then at this moment he was a devil god who had split the sky and earth!
His body grew taller with every moment. His muscles knotted, and dense baleful energy and battle intent coiled around him. A vague, majestic phantom of Pangu appeared and disappeared behind him.
Facing the suppression and refinement of a Top-tier Innate Supreme Treasure, Su Ming did not summon any magical treasure.
He chose the most primitive and overbearing way to respond.
With his physical body, he would clash head-on with the supreme treasure!
"Open for me!"
Su Ming let out a furious roar. The rolling sound waves actually tore through the Chaos Bell's frozen spacetime by force!
He clenched his right fist. The veins on his arm bulged, as though countless great dragons were surging beneath his skin.
Without the slightest flourish or use of any profound law, he simply gathered the purest strength of his physical body and punched fiercely toward the Chaos Bell's wall before him!
This punch seemed capable of blasting through heaven and earth!
Wherever the fist passed, space shattered inch by inch, revealing the pitch-black Chaos.
Outside, Tai Yi had remained hidden in the void, controlling the Chaos Bell. When he saw this scene, disdain flashed through his eyes.
"Foolish! You actually want to clash with a Top-tier Innate Supreme Treasure using your physical body? You're simply courting death!"
In his view, Su Ming's action was no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
The Chaos Bell had transformed from the blade of the Pangu Axe. Its defense was unparalleled, and it was impervious to all laws. How could a mere physical body possibly shake it?
Yet in the next second, the disdain on his face completely froze.
Clang—!!!
A metallic boom hundreds or thousands of times louder than before suddenly erupted!
Su Ming's fist smashed solidly into the inner wall of the Chaos Bell!
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