The Ancient Dragon Bear's Essence Blood had only just touched the Dou Zun skeleton when a crackling, sizzling burn erupted.
Fortunately, only the frame of bones remained now. If there had still been flesh and skin on it, everything probably would have exploded apart.
That would have made for quite the lively scene.
Under Xiao Jin and Skyfire Venerable's gazes, fresh flesh actually began to grow slowly over the surface of the Dou Zun skeleton that had been reduced to bare bones.
The flesh did not grow quickly. Three full hours passed before it finally wrapped around the entire skeleton.
As the Essence Blood fully merged into the corpse, the corpse's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened. Within those hollow eyes, a faint trace of vitality appeared.
The source of that vitality was precisely the wisp of soul power Skyfire Venerable had separated earlier.
"Old sir, go in," Xiao Jin said calmly, while Skyfire Venerable was seized by wild joy.
Skyfire Venerable, who had long since prepared himself, immediately shot toward the skeleton. After passing through the flames of the Reincarnation Nirvana Flame, he plunged headfirst into the skeleton.
The instant his soul came into contact with the skeleton, a strange black-red ripple suddenly spread from between Skyfire Venerable's brows. The ripple rapidly expanded across his entire body.
As the black-red ripple spread, Skyfire Venerable's soul collided with the skeleton.
The two did not rebound from each other, but slowly fused together.
"Old sir, next, I will use the Heavenly Flame to burn the skeleton. As long as you can withstand the Heavenly Flame's burning and gradually seize control of the body, it will count as a true revival."
Skyfire Venerable could not respond, but his heart was exceptionally resolute.
The agony of being burned by a Heavenly Flame was not