Suppressing Fire Sets the Pen in Motion, Battle Imminent

"Um?"

Following the flames, Fire Sovereign bursting out of the palace, he looked up and was stunned by the sight of Heavenly Fire filling the sky and being absorbed by a void circle. He was then greatly alarmed.

"Who exactly is this person?" With a sweep of his senses, Fire Sovereign detected a faint fluctuation of divine power behind the circle, accompanied by immense pressure.

This pressure, stemming from the difference in Divine Grade, was heavy and continuous, instantly causing Fire Sovereign's chest to feel tight, and his soaring Divine Body to stop in mid-air.

No one answered his question; instead, he was greeted by a mighty fire dragon!

Fire against Fire Sovereign!

This dragon appears to have two heads, and within it lies a scene of Human Path, releasing a surging heat that even the Fire Sovereign finds difficult to withstand!

"Outrageous! How dare you set off a fire in front of me!"

His expression changed, and he tried to take control of the fire dragon, but found it difficult to do so. After a slight delay, the fire dragon crashed directly into him, shattering his Divine Body!

However, the essence of a deity lies in talismans. While a broken Divine Body is a severe injury, it is not fatal.

The Fire Sovereign, its Divine Body shattered, was trembling as it tried to reassemble and restore itself, but was then restrained and suppressed by a surging divine power!

A surging Fire Pillar roared down from the sky and crashed into the Fire Regent Palace.

Boom!

The entire Domain of Law trembled, a deafening roar echoed, and the massive palace complex tilted and twisted, sinking nearly ten feet into the ground!

"Hmm..."

The Fire Sovereign's Divine Body solidified again the instant it hit the ground, but was suppressed by a Divergent Flame. This flame meandered and seeped into every part of the Divine Body, fitting perfectly, even more familiar with its internal structure than the Fire Sovereign Lord himself. It locked and imprisoned him, making it impossible for him to move an inch, and he sank into the ground along with the palace.

Swish! Swish!

The palace collapsed, and the flames expanded suddenly, spreading across the ruins in two lines. When viewed from above, it looked like a huge "human" character.

"Let this Fire Sovereign here quietly for a few years, lest it cause any unexpected trouble. If he is willing, he will surely gain some understanding."

High in the sky, Qiu Yan looked down. He raised his hand and swiped four times, and four flames fell down like strokes. They were connected end to end around the word "" and turned into a frame, enclosing the word "" inside, turning it into the character "prisoner".

Solidification!

As soon as the character took shape, the raging flames in the palace ruins suddenly froze, and the entire building fell into silence.

The Fire Sovereign endless resentment, fell silent along with the city.

He didn't even see his opponent's face until he was suppressed, which made him extremely frustrated.

Qiu Yan withdrew his gaze and his eyes fell on a dark figure in front of him.

The shadowy figure shared his field of vision. As they locked eyes and their senses intersected, the world around them instantly underwent a dramatic change.

The shadowy figure was strange, appearing to be only a thin layer, with a human-like outline, but otherwise vastly different from ordinary people. It exuded strong emotional fluctuations, like the behavior of a person in a state of heightened emotion, bringing a sense of familiarity. If one did not see its shape and relied solely on sensory perception, anyone would mistake it for someone they had in mind.

This is the influence of Heart Demon on the human heart.

This dark figure was none other than Qiu Yan's Heart Demon Body.

In addition to the five senses, Divine Spirit Body's perception of the world is also manifested in their observation of rules, Karma Fortune. Through the eyes and perception of a deity, the world becomes more three-dimensional.

In comparison, the perception of the Heart Demon Body is much more monotonous and flat. In its senses, the world seems to be composed of emotions, feelings, and thoughts. This was not obvious in the Original Edition Heart Demon Body. Now, after experiencing a severe injury and settling in the heart and mind of a deity for a long time, it can not only perceive the Divine Sense of the deity through the body of the deity, but also contact the believers of the deity and compare them with the believers of Qiu Yan's Divine Spirit Body.

In this way, the essence of the Heart Demon Body gradually began to change.

Now, with both bodies united and their perceptions differing, Qiu Yan sensed that the entire world had changed. He opened his mouth and inhaled, Heart Demon Body transformed into a cloud of black mist, which he swallowed. Without stopping, the surrounding flames and a bit of the mystery of the Fire Sovereign Domain also gathered with the rolling wind and were swallowed by Qiu Yan.

Immediately afterwards, the Core Talisman shone brightly, illuminating the flames.

At the same time, in a house in the Lin Zhong outside the Eastern Capital, the Fleshly Body raised his hand, dipped it in ink, picked up the brush, made a dot, turned the brush tip, and with a few strokes, a ball of flame appeared on the paper.

Then, with a flick of the wrist, several short pieces of wood were revealed beneath the fire, forming a bonfire.

As the pen moved again, lines appeared on the paper, their inner Qi and Blood surging, as if they were growing Qi and Blood and bones. In no time, several figures gathered around the campfire took shape, imbued with a sense of Human Path, which traveled from the pen tip to the wrist, penetrating the body and entering the heart.

A strange and subtle atmosphere slowly emerged from the painting.

Netherworld.

Flames surged around the Divine Spirit Body, while the aura of Human Path swirled around him. His gray robe billowed in the wind, changing like an ink painting. His entire Divine Body appeared and disappeared, moving with the wind and traveling thousands of miles in an instant.

His flight was not aimless; rather, he followed several Karmic Thread and went straight ahead.

Once outside the Fire Sovereign Domain, the surroundings became empty again, with only monotonous Netherworld scenery along the way. Occasionally, one could see Wandering Soul drifting in the yin wind on the ground, some in a daze, while others were clearly awakened.

Swish!

Suddenly, a sword light flashed across the earth. It turned out that a Wandering Soul had awakened its past life memories and pointed its finger like a sword, slaying all the other Wandering Soul that were surrounding and attacking it!

The Netherworld may appear calm, but it is actually turbulent beneath the surface. It may not mean much to the gods, but the Wandering Soul living there live in constant fear and rarely have a moment of peace.

Looking at the familiar wandering Wandering Soul wielding the sword light, Qiu Yan did not make a move, but simply watched quietly. He captured a bit of unwavering determination from the person, and with a shift of his Divine Sense, he grasped a sense of being adrift and uncertain from the scattered and collapsing Wandering Soul around him.

The scene changed, and this brief interlude was fleeting. Not long after, the surrounding Karmic Thread began to vibrate, and Qiu Yan's Divine Spirit Body trembled in mid-air, splitting into two, manifesting the appearances of the Fire Sovereign and the Child-Giving God.

The Fire Sovereign aura within the Heart Demon Body, along with the karmic Karma the Child-Giving God originating from Feng Yuan's True Spirit, are attached to the two "deities," making it difficult to discern the truth from the falsehood.

Then, the two gods plunged downwards. The camouflage covering the sky rippled, and the scene changed, revealing a vast forest with several cities scattered Lin Zhong, where spirits wandered. It was just like the Mortal Realm.

However, compared to the Mortal Realm, these spirits have no destiny. Their Fortune is linked to the Domain of Law, and the aura they exude is like a small boat on a vast ocean, drifting with the current.

This is the Netherworld Domain of the Jiannan Circuit City God!

In a humble hut in the Lin Zhong, Fleshly Body, their pens moving like dragons and snakes.

As the painting unfolds, the people around the campfire gradually come into focus, revealing a sense of mutual reliance yet also isolation and helplessness. Surrounding this group are simple, primitive dwellings, some simply made of thatch and branches, nestled against cave dwellings and deep pits.

With a few strokes of the brush, a simple tribal settlement appeared on the paper, and the surrounding dense forest slowly emerged.

Suddenly, Qiu Yan changed the subject, and wrote a stroke at a spot between the tribal stronghold and the dense forest.

Instantly, a cold glint flashed, revealing a sharp blade held in the hand of a person. The person's figure was blurry, but as soon as the outline appeared, their unwavering spirit leaped off the page.

As the cold light and human figure appeared, the strange artistic conception on the entire scroll gradually intensified, spreading from the desk to other parts of the room.

Outside, Chen Cai and Su Yan, who had just sat down, looked at several well-dressed men not far away and couldn't help but ask the person next to them.

The person being asked happened to be well-informed, and upon hearing this, replied, "These are disciples from several major academies who have come here to collect paintings to take back for the Grand Confucian to appreciate. I heard it's to instruct Qiu Yan in his studies."

"How can these Grand Confucian be so biased?" Su Yan frowned and complained.

The man found it difficult to answer, only saying, "That's beyond my knowledge. Perhaps Qiu Yan is exceptionally talented and has won the favor of Grand Confucian, who are mentoring him."

"In that case, I'll go and see Qiu Yan's knowledge now." Su Yan said, getting up to go inside, but was stopped by someone.

"Not now. Qiu Sheng is currently painting. If we go and disturb him, we'll offend several major academies. Qiu Yan doesn't receive guests when someone comes to collect a painting."

Upon hearing this, Su Yan snorted coldly twice, turned around and sat down again, but his gaze fell on the door, revealing a hint of jealousy in his eyes, and his emotions began to fluctuate and gradually spread.

Beside him, Chen Cai listened to these words and looked thoughtful, appearing to be deep in thought.

A thousand people, a thousand faces. At the same time, people like Su Yan and Chen Cai will have different thoughts and express different emotions because someone comes to collect the painting. Even if they are shrewd and do not show their emotions, their emotional fluctuations are hard to hide.

The farmland and ridges surrounding the house are filled with air currents that flow like water, gradually forming a formation.

Within the formation, a multitude of emotions were contained!

Netherworld.

Circuit City God 'Domain of Law.

Within the Domain of Law, countless souls released a stream of emotions, seemingly living as if they were in the Mortal Realm, yet revealing a sense of repression.

These emotions, drawn together by the power of Karma, cycle endlessly, revealing the Unseen force that suggests that the Samsara life and death is controlled by others, and that one can never Transcendence.

In Qiu Yan's perception, the scenery of this Netherworld Domain actually overlapped with the vast, endless forest in the Land of the Divine Remains, which contained unknown dangers. The Netherworld Souls in the Domain of Law also intertwined with the figures of the tribespeople in the Lin Zhong.

A chilling wind blew, carrying with it suffocating emotions. As it passed Qiu Yan, these emotions were gradually absorbed by his Heart Demon Body, forming a connection...

During this process, the two deities who were Divine Spirit Body did not stop and proceeded smoothly. The ghost messengers who set up checkpoints along the way dared not interfere, and the deities who passed by did not interfere either.

And so, the two "deities" proceeded unimpeded to the center of the Domain of Law—

Yin-Yang Pagoda!

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