No Scheme Left Unaccounted For, Yet Fallen into the Demon's Den (Double-length)

No matter how astonished he was.

Before his eyes, Zhuang Wanqing showed no restraint, nor any intention of stopping.

In the flash of lightning and the strike of flint, Liu Dongqing ultimately had only this fleeting instant left to ponder.

Besides.

He merely could not hold back; that did not mean he could not respond.

The next instant.

Amid a fierce shout.

The Pure Yang Heavenly Fire enveloping Liu Dongqing erupted first. The incandescent heavenly fire seemed to become a furnace, engulfing his entire figure in an instant.

The Dao Fruit resonances of [Burning Emotions], [Bing Fire], and [Pure Yang] erupted together!

Especially beneath the eruption of the [Burning Emotions] Dao Fruit resonance, whether it was the thunderous crackling of flames, the animating power of Ten Thousand Households' Lights, or the disciplining voice of enlightenment.

Every "sinister" Dao art applied to the realm of the seven emotions and six desires was drawn into this domain before the [Burning Emotions] Dao Fruit resonance, then successively burned and destroyed by the might of the Pure Yang Heavenly Fire.

Immediately afterward.

The auras of [Bing Fire] and [Pure Yang] erupted in their wake, fully expressing the true Dao essence of the Great Sun Pure Origin Refining Diagram through the outward form of that furnace.

Within the perfectly rounded treasure furnace, apart from the pure-origin flames of the Pure Yang Heavenly Fire itself, nothing of all other Daos and arts could survive!

Their combined workings produced the power of "purification" in its utmost purity!

By all rights.

This Pure Yang Heavenly Fire alone should already have been the absolute natural counter to Zhuang Wanqing's first technique on the level of Dao and arts!

Yet.

The instant the two attacks met, Liu Dongqing's face suddenly twitched, almost imperceptibly.

He felt his pure yang furnace violently