Jiuyi True Person grew even more puzzled. He tested the blob of venom with a blast of flame, but the flame passed straight through it. The venom seemed like emptiness itself, showing not the slightest reaction.
Jiuyi True Person found it stranger still, utterly unable to make sense of what was happening. Then he saw the motes of light within the venom gather together, slowly forming a human silhouette.
Something stirred in Jiuyi True Person's heart. Instead, he withdrew his spirit flames and watched quietly from the side. The silhouette opened its mouth and inhaled, and the blob of venom was sucked into its belly in an instant.
After a moment, the silhouette gradually solidified, taking Yan Chihuo's form once more. Only, his cultivation had fallen again to the early Origin Core Stage. Yet the aura around him had become increasingly solid and condensed.
At the sight, Jiuyi True Person cried out, "A True Core!" Yan Chihuo had risen from death this time, and the Origin Core he had formed had actually transformed from a Solid Core into a True Core!
Yan Chihuo himself was both shocked and overjoyed. He had never imagined that he could form a True Core through such a method. Still, although he had formed a True Core, his strength remained far from a match for Jiuyi True Person.
The Blood Phoenix Token Lord had escaped alive from the hands of a Dao Integration Stage cultivator back then only because that had been an ordinary Dao Integration Stage cultivator. This Jiuyi True Person before him possessed divine sense no weaker than that of a Spirit Cultivation Stage cultivator. He was clearly anything but ordinary.
Jiuyi True Person said, "It is good that you are not dead. Let me see where you can run now." With that,