This had gone beyond the realm of cultivating immortality. This was nothing short of myth!
Chen Ye did not answer.
His entire mind was immersed in this wondrous cycle of destruction and rebirth.
Pain.
Unimaginable pain.
It was as if billions of red-hot steel needles were piercing every corner of his body at once.
But beneath this excruciating pain was an indescribable comfort, as if he had been reborn.
He could feel himself growing stronger.
At an inconceivable speed, he was crossing the vast divide between levels of life.
The sensation of falling disappeared.
They seemed to have reached the end of this sea of fire.
The surging river of fire fiends around them gradually subsided, turning into a lake of dark golden magma, viscous as mercury.
At the center of the lake, all was silent.
There were no flames or waves of heat, only a calm "void" about thirty feet across.
At its center, a Nine-Leaf Lotus floated quietly.
The lotus was entirely crimson, crystalline and translucent, as if carved from the purest glassy flame. Golden fire flowed slowly through the veins of each leaf, radiating a Daoist aura that made one's Divine Soul tremble.
The Earth Heart Fire Lotus!
The legendary divine treasure of heaven and earth, born only at the heart of the true flames in the earth's veins, and taking ten thousand years to form!
"Oh my..." Ling Feiyan's Spiritual Body drifted out of Chen Ye's arms, taking the hazy, nearly transparent shape of a young woman. She stared blankly at the lotus, her voice trembling. "It really exists... Master... he... he didn't lie to me..."
But Chen Ye's gaze was not on the Fire Lotus.
His eyes passed over it and settled on the area beneath it.
Directly below the Fire Lotus's roots, a pair