Mu Chen found a secluded spot and sat down on the ground.
He endured the scarlet light's body-tempering with nothing but his flesh, bearing an unimaginably intense heat.
Jiu You hadn't lied to him. The Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda could temper an Earth Sovereign's body just as effectively.
Back in the ancient era, when cultivation had flourished to its peak, there had been no shortage of prodigies like him—young talents from super divine-beast clans who already possessed formidable physical strength.
As the Dragon Phoenix Scripture circulated, violet-gold radiance swept over him. Countless Dragon Pattern Phoenix Talismans spread across his body as the Dragon and Phoenix sang in harmony, the phantoms of these two supreme species soaring into the sky.
Whenever his body was damaged, faint violet flames would appear. The power of the Undying Sacred Flame and another powerful, unnamed divine scripture healed his wounds, restoring him as good as new.
The latter was called the Undying Heaven Derivation Method, a gift from the Martial Border Little Princess.
The Undying Heaven Derivation Method had been created by the Master of Life and Death, the eldest senior sister among the Eight Ancient Masters under the Martial Ancestor. She was also the founder of the Undying Sacred Whale Clan, a dominant race among the demon beasts of the Heavenly Profound Continent.
This ancient powerhouse had wielded the Life and Death Ancestral Talisman and commanded both the forces of life and death. Once, surrounded by several opponents of her own level—including an Alien Demon King who had survived three Reincarnation Tribulations—she had been gravely wounded and left on the brink of death, her soul all but extinguished.
Yet she had endured the tribulation and returned at the peak of her strength.
She had done so through the power of the Life and Death Ancestral