"How Steel Was Tempered!"
"True gold fears no fire!"
Through those days of pain and torment, Gao Xian encouraged himself like this every day.
His Pure Yang divine consciousness was being forged and refined by the Nine Yang Divine Fire day and night. Even Gao Xian found the sensation nearly unbearable—it was simply too agonizing.
The notion of getting used to pain was nothing but the fantasy of the ignorant.
To say nothing else, a simple toothache was enough to crush an ordinary person's will. Let it hurt for ten days or half a month, and no one could adapt to that level of nerve-searing pain.
Much less those suffering from serious illness—no matter how strong their will, they would be defeated by the unrelenting agony day after day.
Fortunately, Gao Xian had undergone hundreds and thousands of battles, and his Pure Yang divine consciousness had been tempered through multiple lightning tribulations until it became extraordinarily formidable. He could still endure the agony of being tempered by divine fire, though each day was sheer torment.
Having lived for more than three thousand years, Gao Xian discovered for the first time just how interminably long sixty years could be. It felt far, far longer than his previous three thousand years combined.
Fortunately, time was passing bit by bit, and the Heavenly Baleful Star Core gradually merged with the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword. Ninth Master even took the initiative to add a Breaking Army Star Core for him.
The integration of the Breaking Army and Heavenly Baleful Star Cores elevated the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword to another level.
Throughout this process, Gao Xian's Pure Yang divine consciousness was simultaneously fused into the Army-Breaking Heavenly Sha Sword under the tempering of the divine fire.
When cultivators refined a Divine Artifact with divine consciousness,