An Incredibly Powerful Healing Ability

The flames flickered, casting light over everything around them without giving off any heat.

Gu Yue had been about to press the emergency escape button, but when she saw this, she stopped.

What was Qiangu Wuji feeling now?

The moment the flames enveloped him, it was as if he had entered a secluded spring. Bathed in its waters, the fatigue in his body was fading at an astonishing rate.

That wasn't all. The flames also had a powerful pain-relieving effect. The moment they appeared, the burns he had suffered earlier had already begun to ease.

"Huh? What's this?"

Qiangu Wuji raised his hand and looked at it. The flames covering the wound on his palm were burning noticeably more fiercely.

But he soon noticed something else. Though the flames were burning more intensely, the wounds on his body were healing at a visible speed beneath their heat.

He wasn't recovering instantly, but the speed was still absurd!

"As expected, these flames really are incredibly powerful healers!"

Looking at the blaze burning especially fiercely around him, Qiangu Wuji suddenly felt confident that he could beat these creatures.

With these flames, it was like having a spring of healing water with him at all times. Even if he couldn't beat you, he could wear you down until you were dead!

With that in mind, he said confidently to Gu Yue, "Gu Yue, you don't need to press the escape button. We don't have to run. Leave these creatures to me!"

Gu Yue said nothing. She simply watched Qiangu Wuji, her delicate brows knitted into a frown.

Though the flames obscured him, she could still see what was happening to his body.

Did he look as if he had just fought a major battle?

"Phoenix True Fire. So that's what it is. He really is..."

She knew this ability all too well. The power to be reborn in flames had once given her, before she was split in two, no end of trouble.

There was no doubt about it: anyone who could use this power had inherited the true True Phoenix Bloodline. Qiangu Wuji had, indeed.

But why?

Why would the True Phoenix Bloodline appear in a human?

Gu Yue's expression was grave. The ability Qiangu Wuji had just displayed had already made her, the Silver Dragon King, feel threatened.

Qiangu Wuji had no idea what Gu Yue was thinking. Now that he had a rough understanding of the Phoenix True Fire, he felt even more confident.

His fighting style became far more reckless than before. He went all in, trading injury for injury.

For example, when one of the Flame Demon Lions leaped at him to bite, he could easily have dodged. Instead, he let it sink its teeth into his shoulder, then drove the dagger in his hand into the Soul Beast's throat.

This suicidal fighting style left not only the Spirit Pagoda staff watching in stunned disbelief, but even the famously vicious Soul Beasts were frightened.

That was brutal!

Inside the Spirit Pagoda.

The staff gaped, their mouths wide enough to fit an egg.

"Is this really a six-year-old child? Why do I feel like he's even fiercer than those veterans who've been on the battlefield?"

At that, everyone around them swallowed hard. They clearly agreed.

At Leng Yaozhu's request, they had lowered the two children's pain sensitivity a little before Qiangu Wuji and Gu Yue entered.

But that didn't mean they couldn't feel pain at all. Being pinned down and torn at was painful enough, and the helplessness that came with it was something no child should have to face.

And yet Qiangu Wuji, a child who looked so pretty he could have been a little girl, had faced Flame Demon Lions nearly ten times his size without panicking. He had even managed to frighten them instead.

Could he really be only six years old?

"Your Excellency, should we still shut down the Spirit Ascension Platform?"

They watched for a while longer. Seeing that Qiangu Wuji showed no signs of fatigue and was only growing more ferocious, one staff member turned and asked Leng Yaozhu.

Leng Yaozhu was at a loss, too. Under normal circumstances, with him so badly injured, she would have ended the trial immediately without a second thought.

But the situation was different now. Qiangu Wuji was injured, yet he could heal himself almost at once. Under these circumstances, there was no danger to his life.

There wasn't even any risk of serious injury.

She felt conflicted. On the one hand, she was amazed that her son's talent was so extraordinary he even possessed the True Phoenix Bloodline. On the other, seeing her precious son in such a pitiful state pained her as a mother.

Sigh!

After a long while, she sighed and waved her hand.

"Never mind. Let it continue. The boy probably knows his own limits."

Leng Yaozhu hated seeing her precious son in such a wretched state, but she understood one thing: a fledgling had to spread its wings and fly eventually. It couldn't stay forever beneath someone else's wings.

Seeing that she had made her decision, the staff nodded and began watching the screens before them even more intently.

On the screen, Qiangu Wuji was clinging to a Flame Demon Lion, viciously biting its throat. Bright red blood spurted from the wound, staining his pretty little face.

The price he paid for it was considerable. As the Flame Demon Lion tried to pull him off, one of its claws plunged straight into his abdomen. Even so, Qiangu Wuji clung to it like a strip of sticky candy, refusing to let go.

The ferocity of his fighting style made the staff watching on-site twitch at the corners of their mouths.

How was that a person? He was clearly a little beast!

Didn't he even know what pain was?

In truth, Qiangu Wuji really couldn't feel any pain. Whether it was the adrenaline or the flames' effect, when he committed to fighting to the death, he barely felt the attacks landing on him.

That was why he dared to fight these creatures hand-to-hand with such reckless abandon.

"Phew..."

After making sure the Soul Beast beneath him had stopped moving for good, Qiangu Wuji finally released his bite and stood up.

He spat a mouthful of bloody saliva onto the ground, then looked around. The few Flame Demon Lions still there whimpered and backed away a few steps with their tails between their legs as soon as he glanced at them.

It was obvious they were afraid!

His ferocity had frightened them!

"What, you don't want to fight anymore?"

Qiangu Wuji wiped the blood off his face in disgust, feeling a little sick.

Then he looked toward the Lion King in the distance.

The Lion King met his gaze, whimpered, then turned and ran.

It had fled!

A thousand-year Soul Beast had been frightened off by a One-Ring Soul Master!

Qiangu Wuji was stunned.

What was going on? He hadn't even found out his limits yet, and it was already running scared?

No way. He couldn't let it get away like that.

With that thought, he started after it.

But the instant he took a step, he staggered and nearly fell forward.

"Huh? What's happening?"

Qiangu Wuji's eyes widened. He suddenly realized that the world before him was growing dim.

Amid the hazy darkness, stars appeared in clusters before his eyes.

What was this...?

He was puzzled, but had no time to think. The next second, his body pitched forward and collapsed.

Just as he was about to hit the ground, a soft embrace caught him. He looked up and dimly met a pair of eyes filled with complicated emotions.

"Gu Yue..."

Then his vision went black, and he passed out.