Igniting the Fire

According to Old Li, the fire-condensation method has three main difficulties—

The first is how to completely and purely infuse one's own imprint into pure [consciousness].

Secondly, how to ensure that the [consciousness] imprinted with one's own mark will not be confused with other [consciousness] within the body after entering it.

Thirdly, it is about how to compress these [consciousnesses] so that they can be ignited.

The most troublesome part of Feng Xue's cultivation of the Martial Way True Form is precisely how to shatter and then reassemble her own will, otherwise she simply cannot pass through the crystal shell of the dice.

This led to Feng Xue completing the second step, which she had originally thought would take a lot of effort and even waste a lot of dice, with remarkable ease.

Not to mention pollution and spread, once those [consciousnesses] entered his body, they quickly gathered together like soldiers in formation. They didn't even need Feng Xue to deliberately control them; they formed a "square" and gathered in his spiritual Sea of Consciousness, condensing into a ball in front of the mirror engraved with countless strange runes.

The third step, compression, is even more interesting.

According to Old Li's teachings, not much [knowledge] is needed to ignite the Supernatural Tale Fire; even just one tower would be enough. The reason why hundreds or even thousands of times more fuel must be prepared is because the compression process is difficult to complete on its own.

The usual method is to use the knowledge provided by one's own Trait and Tag to bombard these knowledges that are imprinted with self-identification. However, this makes it easy for the outer layer that is bombarded to become tainted with impure knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly discard the contaminated outer layer to prevent the contamination from spreading, while the pure inner layer will be contaminated again under bombardment.

However, preparing too many raw materials at once is also not advisable, because the larger the volume, the greater the force required to compress it. If it is just a small lump, it can quickly reach the standard, but if the amount is too large, it may be found that the force has not even penetrated into the core area after a lot of tempering.

Feng Xue originally only intended to test the waters little by little, but he suddenly realized that he didn't need to use [knowledge] to bombard him at all.

Because the Martial Way True Form can appear directly in the Sea of Consciousness.

In other words, he can personally "forge" this [consciousness]!

Within the starry space of consciousness, five flames of different sizes and colors revolved around a bright mirror placed on a high platform, like satellites. Before the mirror, a cloud of consciousness, as soft as cotton or mist, was slowly expanding and contracting.

As countless profound runes lit up on the Bright Mirror Platform, a faint phantom emerged in this space. The phantom slowly formed a human shape, which was Feng Xue's Martial Way True Form— [True Self].

In reality, the Martial Way True Form is merely a symbol of one's spiritual realm and has not yet been developed to the point where it can influence the material world. However, in the spiritual world, it possesses considerable influence.

Under Feng Xue's control, the [True Self]'s body suddenly swelled until the Bright Mirror Platform in front of him was nothing more than a makeup mirror. He suddenly stretched out his palms, grasped the cotton-like and misty [Consciousness] in his hands, and squeezed it hard.

It is the embodiment of Feng Xue's "self", completely reflecting his own imprint, and even imprinting these [consciousnesses] with his own imprint. It is achieved by the [True Self]. Therefore, the compression work performed by the [True Self] can not only deepen his own imprint, but also effectively avoid waste and loss.

In this way, only a few dozen towers are needed to compress the flames to a level sufficient to ignite them.

Feng Xue had this thought in her mind, but she did not try to separate this ball of [consciousness]. After all, the more intense the initial flame, the faster it could digest other flames.

"If I had known this would happen, I should have tried to crack the Weird Tale that 'diamonds can be formed by gripping coal with extremely strong force'."

Feng Xue continuously activated her Martial Way True Form, applying more pressure to that mass of [consciousness], but couldn't help thinking of a certain fat guy whose hands were like a furnace in the earth's core.

However, with the East Kingdom occupied by Weird Tale, it's uncertain whether the freest cartoonist on Earth can still draw Fat Boy Road. Moreover, Feng Xue still doesn't understand the principle behind this compression behavior.

Whether it requires a continuous and stable pressure output like pressing charcoal into a diamond, or a burst of high pressure like a piston igniter, he needs to experiment little by little.

The Martial Way True Form clasped its hands together, completely enveloping the ball of [consciousness] within the space of its palms. With its ten fingers joined together, the Martial Way True Form slightly lowered its body, and then suddenly exerted force.

Peerless Martial Art – the Great Clumsy Hand!

This is the most advanced External Martial Arts that Feng Xue currently possesses. Even her Main Body hasn't yet reached the physical threshold required to cultivate it. However, for the Martial Way True Form, as long as the principle is understood, it is not difficult to use.

Although it's just a pretty face, in the world of consciousness, the mind trumps the material!

Only with the strongest will can one unleash the strongest punch.

During the past six months of spiritual practice and hiking, Feng Xue's State of Mind underwent a qualitative leap.

Under the constant pressure of Great Clumsy Hand, Feng Xue felt the [consciousness] in his palm gradually getting hot. He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he didn't stop.

Her palms clenched tighter and tighter, the temperature rose higher and higher, and wisps of [consciousness] leaked out from between her palms, transforming into a large amount of "information" that began to merge with Feng Xue's world of consciousness.

As if triggered by the properties of the Fierce Fire, the five Supernatural Tale Fire almost simultaneously erupted with astonishing heat, and even the smallest one, "Yan Country People Know Martial Arts," emitted a blazing white light.

Although the Martial Way True Form doesn't even possess perception, Feng Xue felt as if she were in a furnace, with terrifying pressure and heat both inside and out.

The feeling wasn't like he was putting pressure on [consciousness], but rather like he himself was the one being compressed in a pair of fleshy palms.

Illusion?

Or was it meant to be this way?

After all, what was compressed was Feng Xue's own imprint, and sharing that feeling didn't seem impossible.

A great sense of fear surged into Feng Xue's heart, but his strength continued to increase. Although he could clearly feel the pain, and his body was even uncontrollably in a posture of resisting the pressure, he could clearly understand, through the power of [Martial], that his body was not receiving any feedback.

This pressure isn't real!

As she continued to exert force with both palms, it was as if something was beginning to shatter. More information overflowed from her palms, Feng Xue almost saw images of near-death experiences before her eyes. However, Martial Way True Form's hands even began to rub against each other, increasing the force.

Skin torn apart, muscles crushed, bones shattered...

But strangely, when the pain exceeded a certain limit, Feng Xue actually calmed down. He didn't know why he was calm; he only knew that in the instant his consciousness disconnected from the pain, a flame was ignited...