Chen Yan slowly exhaled a long breath. As it left his body, it turned into a pale golden haze that lingered in the air.
The Dark Gold Divine Flame raging around him and the scorching force field that had reached from heaven to earth receded like a tide, quietly drawing back into every pore and every inch of his bones and muscles.
The towering, solemn phantom of the Indestructible Golden Body Dharma Image behind him dissolved into flecks of light like fireflies, merging into his body before vanishing completely.
The suffocating pressure between heaven and earth suddenly eased, as if the scorching sun that had just walked among mortals had been nothing but an illusion.
Only the faint scorched smell lingering in the air, like iron quenched after being heated in a forge, and the devastated land of Red Ridge Canyon, reduced to scorched earth, silently testified to what had just happened.
"To have such might with the Indestructible Body only newly formed—it truly lives up to its name as an unparalleled body-tempering art."
Feeling the surging power within him, as heavy and fierce as the pulse of the earth, Chen Yan calmly assessed it.
With a casual gesture, he could draw upon the might of heaven and earth; with a sweep of his hand, powerful foes could be reduced to ashes.
The feeling of control was intoxicating.
His gaze swept over the places where Old Goat Duke and the Gray Wolf King had perished. Only two shallow, charred pits remained. The essence of the once-mighty demon kings still lay within them.
"What a pity. The life essence of these two demon kings is no longer of much use to me now that I'm consolidating my Indestructible Body."
Chen Yan shook his head with some regret.
The Indestructible Body had