Preparing to Act!

(Second update, three thousand words. Sixue asks for recommendations and bookmarks. Whew! By the way, I finally finished revising the outline. It looks much better now. Next, the protagonist will start to... Hehe, Sixue isn't telling!)

Boom!

Endless flames surged out as though their lives depended on it! His joints and muscles crackled through another round of popping, as if every cell had been scoured clean, then instantly bound together by fire!

Stubborn, revolting impurities, carrying traces of dead cells, were gradually stripped from his body by the fierce flames and burned to ash!

The flames whirled faster and faster, scouring his increasingly shriveled body as though determined to squeeze out the last trace of impurity in his bloodline!

As his bloodline grew purer, Er Dongsheng felt streams of brighter crimson blood welling up inside him. It was his refined bloodline, reshaping his body!

Time raced by!

"Ah! Break through!"

Feeling the barrier within his body begin to loosen, Er Dongsheng suddenly roared. Fire blazed in his scarlet eyes, and he looked half-mad!

Boom!

The final assault had come!

Success or failure hinged on this single strike!

Rumble, rumble!

Crash!

Through the haze of excruciating pain, Er Dongsheng heard wave after wave of cracking. His body, which had felt ready to shatter, began to give off a pure breath of life. It was so pristine, so perfect, that his cells, parched for countless ages, greedily absorbed this hard-won energy!

"Did... did I break through?" Er Dongsheng struggled to open his eyes. Looking down at his skin-and-bones body, he grinned. He had forced his way through in the end!

"But it doesn't seem to be over yet!" The Ink Spirit Flame still burned fiercely across his skin, as though bent on destroying him completely. Its illusory fire twisted into