The Dead Sun...
Huai Shi's movements stiffened for a long time. He said nothing.
The required items were the Remains of the Sun, Eternal Unquenchable Fire, and Abyssal Seed. The required condition was Darkness of All Realms.
The required ritual was to ignite hell and burn everything to ash.
In the end, he would be reborn from boundless fire and light.
This was the advancement required for Dongjun, the pinnacle of the Heavenly Inquiry Path.
Tongji had already provided a detailed explanation—within it, the Remains of the Sun referred to a Divinity Crystal left behind by a former Sun God; Eternal Unquenchable Fire was the source of the blazing sun's eternal radiance; the Abyssal Seed came from a ruler's essence and power; and Darkness of All Realms, as its name implied, was the instant when both the borders of the Present Realm and hell lost their light.
In the end, he would ignite an entire hell and reduce everything to ashes, himself included.
From the collapsed hell, he would rise as a new sun, scattering boundless radiance.
Thus achieving Dongjun.
It had to be said that this was an advancement unique to Huai Shi. The requirements were more than a level higher than those of previous Dongjun advancements. And this was only part of it...
Among the long list of required items, not a single one was easy to obtain.
For the Remains of the Sun, he needed to find a Divinity Crystal left behind by a Sun God before their fall. The problem was that most Sun Gods with any sort of name or reputation had been killed off by some passerby ages ago, leaving not even a handful of ashes behind.
And all the remaining ones had fallen into the Ranch Owner's stomach. To dig them out, he