Nine Nether Divine Flame

"Found it!"

Su Fang quickly discovered the main trunk of the Nine Nether Demon Vine.

He immediately charged forward.

"Gods-and-Devils Power! Activate!"

Su Fang fully unleashed the power of the Nine-Transformation Godfiend Body, then leaped onto the Nine Nether Demon Vine's main trunk and began throwing punches like mad.

"Break for me!"

"Break for me!"

"..."

Punch after punch, Su Fang smashed relentlessly into the Nine Nether Demon Vine's trunk. Before long, cracks webbed across it, and dark green sap splattered everywhere.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

With its core trunk heavily damaged, the Nine Nether Demon Vine wildly swung its countless vines through the air, battering Su Fang's back again and again.

In an instant, his back was smashed into a bloody mess.

Even so, Su Fang did not stop punching.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Empowered by the gods-and-devils power, Su Fang looked like a crazed demon. He felt not the slightest pain, only smashing, smashing without end...

"Boom!"

A thunderous explosion rang out!

The Nine Nether Demon Vine's trunk was finally smashed completely apart, splitting into four pieces and five fragments. All its vines instantly lost their life force and fell to the ground.

Soon afterward, they slowly began to wither.

"Damn it, this thing was hard as hell. I'm exhausted."

Having slain the Nine Nether Demon Vine, Su Fang finally collapsed into unconsciousness.

When he woke again, a full day and night had already passed.

The moment he awoke, Su Fang checked his injuries. Yet what astonished even him was...

Every wound on his body had already healed completely, without even the slightest trace of injury remaining.

"This recovery speed is several times more terrifying than the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art!"

Su Fang was deeply astonished.

"As expected of a technique that surpasses the divine grade. It really is terrifying beyond measure!"

"If only using its power did not affect my mind."

Su Fang felt a faint regret.

Still, he did not care too much. Compared with the formidable effects of the Nine-Transformation Godfiend Body, such minor aftereffects were perfectly acceptable.

After thinking this through, Su Fang turned to inspect the spoils he had gained from this hard-fought battle.

First were the large number of Nether Crystals scattered across the ground, left behind after the Nine Nether Demon Vine had absorbed their flesh.

After taking a quick inventory, Su Fang found there were more than several hundred.

This many Nether Crystals would be enough for Su Fang to cultivate for quite some time. He might even be able to cultivate all the way to the Third-Transformation Divine Body.

As for his second greatest gain, that was naturally the Nine Nether Core within the Nine Nether Demon Vine's corpse beneath his feet.

With that thought, Su Fang tore open the Nine Nether Demon Vine's trunk and dug out a pitch-black crystal from within.

Looking at the crystal, Su Fang began examining it closely.

Although Su Fang's gains from this battle were great, the price he had paid was equally heavy.

More than half the spiritual energy stored inside the Heavenly Evolution Array Disk had been consumed, while the Spirit Stones on Su Fang's body were already running low.

They likely would not support many more battles like this.

Therefore, if the effects of this Nine Nether Core failed to satisfy Su Fang, it would truly be depressing.

Thinking this, Su Fang began trying to refine the Nine Nether Core.

A completely black force seeped into Su Fang's body. After circulating through him once, it began gathering within the qi sea of his dantian.

The scant spiritual energy within Su Fang's dantian qi sea immediately retreated three paces when it encountered that black Nine Nether Divine Force, directly yielding the most central position of the qi sea.

Then, a completely black flame appeared, floating at the center of Su Fang's dantian.

But that was not the end. The black flame burned ever more fiercely, then slowly began spreading outward from Su Fang's dantian.

It began scorching Su Fang's body.

"Ah!"

Su Fang cried out in agony!

He forcibly endured the repeated burning of that black flame.

Very soon, the flames burned from inside Su Fang's body to outside it.

At once, the pain was so intense that Su Fang wanted to curse his mother!

"What body-refining sacred treasure? What rebirth through bone cleansing!"

"This is trying to burn me into ash!"

"That really would be a change of bones... I'd turn straight into ashes..."

As Su Fang wailed in agony, he cursed furiously in his heart.

He truly had not known that absorbing the Nine Nether Core would be so dangerous, so agonizing.

He had not been mentally prepared in the slightest.

The black flames continued burning...

Having become a man of fire, Su Fang felt as though he were about to be roasted black. In his daze, he even seemed to smell the fragrant scent of his own scorched flesh.

Fortunately, at this moment, the Nine-Transformation Godfiend Body began operating frantically, continuously healing Su Fang's flesh.

This kept him from truly being burned to ashes...

And so, nearly half a day passed.

The flames around Su Fang gradually began to dim...

Before long, they completely dispersed and returned to Su Fang's dantian, transforming into a tiny black flame.

Only then, after the intense pain had ended, did Su Fang let out a long breath...

"Phew... It's finally over..." Su Fang said in relief.

He then began examining his body.

He found that he seemed to have suddenly lost dozens of pounds. His entire body had shrunk by a full circle.

Yet Su Fang found his body incomparably comfortable.

It was as though his body were a naturally formed treasure, flawless and perfect, without the slightest impurity.

His skin felt like a piece of translucent jade. Not a single pore could be seen, nor was there the slightest blemish.

"Th-this is marrow cleansing and bone forging?"

"It really made me undergo a complete rebirth..."

Su Fang said in shock.

At this moment, he felt as though he had become a different person, with endless strength throughout his body.

The discomfort he had felt when switching from the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art to the Nine-Transformation Godfiend Body had also completely vanished.

Yet that was still not the end.

Aside from the immense transformation of his body, great changes had also occurred within the qi sea of Su Fang's dantian.

A tiny black flame floated above Su Fang's qi sea like a black sun, continuously shining over it.

Bit by bit, it removed the impurities from the spiritual energy in Su Fang's qi sea, refining his spiritual power until it became even purer.

Seeing this, Su Fang tried to mobilize the tiny black flame above his qi sea.

At once, a ball of flame appeared in his palm.

"Could this be the Nine Nether Divine Force the system mentioned?"

Su Fang recalled the system's introduction from before.

He then tentatively tossed the tiny black flame outward.

"Boom!"

A muffled blast sounded!

That tiny black flame directly burned away the Nine Nether Demon Vine's corpse beneath Su Fang's feet, leaving not even a trace behind.

That was right.

Not even a speck of ash remained. It was as though the Nine Nether Demon Vine's corpse had evaporated into thin air.

"Terrifying! Far too terrifying!"

Su Fang exclaimed again and again.

Su Fang had personally experienced the toughness of the Nine Nether Demon Vine's body. Even if he were smashing it, he would have needed to smash it for a very, very long time.

Yet now, in the blink of an eye, it had been directly burned away by the flames formed from the Nine Nether Divine Force.

This showed just how terrifying that tiny flame was.

"From now on, I'll call you the Nine Nether Divine Flame!"

Su Fang muttered to himself.

With the Nine Nether Divine Flame, Su Fang had undoubtedly gained another immensely powerful trump card.

He would no longer need to rely on the Heavenly Evolution Array Disk all the time.

Thinking of this, Su Fang was instantly overjoyed.