Yunlun Mountain Range, inner region.
Within the underground lava, a bare-chested young man bathed in it, clutching a mysterious flame crystal in his hand, his aura extraordinary.
His eyes were tightly shut. With every breath of spiritual essence, scorching, dense fire-element energy surged through his mouth and nose like dragons and serpents.
The lava's energy was far too immense.
Soon, as the laws around his body shifted, the flame crystal's ripples spread. The tide in the young man's sea of energy rose, and an enlightened feeling that pierced through confusion radiated from him.
He opened his eyes.
They brimmed with delight.
"Too strong!"
"The Fire Source Stone truly deserves to be called a supreme treasure."
"Together with this fortuitously discovered fire-essence lava, it took only half a day to break through the bottleneck that had trapped me at the peak of the Yin-Yang Realm, allowing me to step easily into the Star Rite Realm."
"The stars of the heavens answer my call and return to me. Now that I hold the Fire Source Stone, I can almost claim that beneath the Throne, I have no equal!"
The young man's name was Xiao Jing, heir to a Taixu master of the Eastern Region.
Having fought his way out alive during the earlier great battle over Source Stones in the inner region of the Yunlun Mountain Range and seized this supreme treasure, he had hidden himself here.
In merely half a day, he had completed his breakthrough and reached the most difficult realm to break through among Grandmasters—the Star Rite Realm.
"Once I stabilize my cultivation, it will be time to go out."
His breakthrough had succeeded, and the vast fire-element energy within the lava had healed the injuries all over his body.
Clutching the Source Stone, a vicious glint flashed through