The seven- or eight-year-old boy showed a flicker of alarm. With a wave of his tiny hand, Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder surged toward Yan Chihuo like a tidal flood.
Even with the Jade-Scaled Double-Pupiled Snake's defense, rarely matched beneath the heavens, when the Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder passed through his body, he felt himself ravaged from the inside out, a complete wreck. The pain nearly made him pass out.
Yan Chihuo knew this was the critical moment. If he endured it, he could merge the spirituality of the Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder into his soul, adding another transformation to the Innate Seventy-Two Transformations. But if the Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder killed him first, everything he had done before would be wasted, and he would have to start over from scratch. He had already failed once; with his cultivation weakened afterward, he would have even less chance of succeeding.
Yan Chihuo secretly thought, Why wasn't it this troublesome when I merged with the spirit of the Earth Heart Spirit Flame? What he did not know was that, when he merged with that spirit, he had already fused with the Fire Phoenix's soul and cultivated the Red Sun Clear Wind Art, giving him considerable resistance against the Earth Heart Spirit Flame. But against this Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder, he could only rely on his physical body to endure it head-on.
It was only because Yan Chihuo's physical body had greatly strengthened during his time in the Myriad Demon Grassland and Tianyang Kingdom that he could hold out. Otherwise, even the Jade-Scaled Double-Pupiled Snake's formidable defense would have struggled to withstand such a relentless barrage from the Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder.
The Wish-Fulfilling Divine Thunder swept over him again and again, scorching him black each time, until waves of roasted-meat scent even rose from his body. Yet Yan Chihuo