Boom!
As the second punch fell, cracks spread wildly across the curtain of fire like a spiderweb, fine golden fragments showering down. It looked as though it would collapse completely in the next instant.
Chu Tian did not pause. His left fist slowly drew back, while his right clenched once more. Dark golden light compressed to the extreme around his knuckles. It was the power of Proving the Dao with Force, fused with the Dao essence of the Five Great Treasures—tyrannical, pure, and carrying an irresistible destructiveness.
Just as he was about to unleash his third punch, the fire-element power within his Five Elements Dao suddenly began to throb violently beyond his control. This was no ordinary fire law, but an ultimate flame fused from Chaos and Yin-Yang. Yet now, it seemed to be answering some ancient summons.
Inside the curtain of fire, Chu Yueyao opened her eyes at the same time. Her hands rapidly formed seals, and an ancient, weathered Nirvana Profound Meaning rose from within her, resonating in perfect rhythm with the fluctuations of the fire curtain.
The instant the two forces collided from within and without the fire curtain, Chu Tian's divine sense seemed to be dragged into a strange space.
He saw a fire phoenix so immense it defied description.
Its entire body burned with crimson divine flames, every feather like a blazing river of stars. It was the remnant soul of the Ancestral Phoenix.
The Ancestral Phoenix's remnant soul suddenly opened its eyes. Endless exhaustion and ancient weariness filled them, as if it had slumbered through countless epochs. Yet when those eyes touched the dark golden aura of Proving the Dao with Force on Chu Tian, they abruptly lit up.
"Hongmeng... Orthodoxy?"
A vast, ancient voice rang through Chu Tian's sea of consciousness, trembling with