All the suffering and pain surged into Chen Yan's mind along with the death of an External Incarnation he had sent out into the world.
Yet to the present Chen Yan, pain of this degree was hardly worth mentioning.
He had once experienced the agonizing pain of his soul being torn into fragments, as though layer after layer were being peeled away. What were the torments of flesh and Spiritual Sense now in comparison?
Still, for a dignified True Purity Realm Sage to use such methods against a junior in the Divine Ability Realm was undeniably despicable.
Especially given that Southern Bright Sage had already been a Sage for fifty million years.
But this also indirectly proved Yu Li's longing for Separation Fire.
Separation Fire seemed to have left behind certain legends across countless realms, Chenping Continent included.
True Man Vermilion Bird of Lingxiao Temple had likewise spent his entire life pursuing Separation Fire.
To every fire cultivator in this world, Separation Fire seemed to possess an intoxicating allure.
Perhaps Separation Fire was not the most arrogant or explosive flame in the world.
But it was undoubtedly the flame closest to the essence of the Heavenly Dao.
Perhaps, in an age unimaginably distant—possibly even before Heaven-Stabilizing Sage Yin Ji attained Sagehood, in that even more ancient chaotic era when this world was still called the "Immortal Origin Land"—
Among these many realms, there had once appeared a great cultivator who wielded Separation Fire, leaving behind a bold and vivid mark upon the world.
That was precisely why countless fire cultivators flocked toward the legendary Separation Fire like ducks to a pond.
This was merely Chen Yan's conjecture.
If, in that unimaginably distant era, there truly had been a great cultivator wielding Separation Fire and roaming freely across countless realms, then