Volume One, Chapter 236
At this moment, Zhao Fu sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes slowly closing as he formed a circle with his hands before him. The countless swords embedded around him began to tremble slightly, emitting sword lights of different colors.
Suddenly!
The scene around Zhao Fu began to change. Countless streams of magma surged from the ground, stretching as far as the eye could see like a sea of lava, while the sky above turned the color of fire.
Zhao Fu sat cross-legged in the middle of the lava sea. Magma bubbled around him with gurgling sounds, sending plumes of white smoke into the air. It was as though another world had taken shape around him—a world filled with magma, radiating an extreme heat that seemed capable of burning even stone to ash.
Even those standing far away could feel the blazing heat, as well as the terrifying sword intent within it, like molten lava itself, stirring fear in their hearts.
Yet Zhao Fu, seated there, remained utterly unaffected.
Time passed bit by bit. Zhao Fu's body became enveloped in fiery light, while strands of flame-colored sword qi drifted out from the surrounding magma and flew into his body.
After a while longer!
The fiery light shrouding Zhao Fu grew even more intense, and still more flame-colored sword qi poured into his body. Magma actually began flowing from Zhao Fu's entire body, as though his body had become part of the magma itself, radiating a sword intent as searing and violent as lava.
The scene around him slowly faded away, and a forest gradually emerged around Zhao Fu. The trees there were dark gray and exceptionally tall, each over a hundred meters high. Their trunks were straight, though their branches were relatively sparse. Zhao Fu sat