Di Kun's combat strength was greatly compromised because the Fanluo Truefire burned his body, making him unable to maintain his previous resistance. The power of the Seven-Story Pogoda pressed down so hard that Di Kun's body trembled, shifting back and forth between a demon cultivator and a fierce beast. Judging by the current trend, it would probably not take long for the Seven-Story Pogoda to beat him back to his original form.
Di Kun belonged to the Flying Silver Corpse clan, and the Fanluo Truefire had absorbed the Buddhist aura of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, having a restraining effect on corpses, ghosts, and fiends alike. Because of different races and varying strengths, the restraining effect had slight differences.
It was just that the Fanluo Truefire was already a rare wondrous fire between heaven and earth. Throughout the entire Qingyu Continent and several immortal cultivation realms, Lu Xiaotian had only managed to procure a small piece of Panqing Stone to refine this fire, and it was exchanged using the Ultimate Wood Rock Marrow—a supreme treasure equally rare between heaven and earth, capable of directly advancing a Nascent Soul Cultivator's physical body to the ninth rank.
Another small piece was seized after he killed the Mirage Wolf leader in the secret realm, which showed just how rare this fire was. Even a Great cultivator, wanting to refine this fire, relied more on fortuitous encounters than sheer strength.
As soon as the Fanluo Truefire burned Di Kun's body, which was normally hard to injure even with spiritual artifacts, it was no different from ordinary mortal flesh under the scorching heat of the Fanluo Truefire. In the blink of an eye, two festering patches appeared on the left and right of his silver-gray body.
Yet this also showed that Di Kun's physical body was truly