Immortal Fire? Quasi-Immortal Emperor Fire!

Ji Hao hurriedly took out a bottle of Sacred Spring Water and drank it. Vital essence continuously surged from his abdomen, and his condition improved immensely.

The Lihuo Divine Furnace acted again, capturing a large amount of Nine-Colored Divine Fire and injecting it into the Saint Spirit Furnace.

"Keep going! You can do it, blacksmith!"

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The deserted ninth level was once again filled with the sound of hammering metal.

One day, two days, three days... fifteen days... one month.

The Saint Spirit Furnace hung high in the sky as one Imperial character after another transformed into massive hammers, continuously branding and pounding its surface.

Threads of nine-colored fire flowed through the hollow patterns carved into the Saint Spirit Furnace.

Ji Hao let out a sigh of relief. After a whole month, he had finally forged the Saint Spirit Furnace.

If not for the endless supply of Sacred Spring Water, Ji Hao would have long since died from exhaustion after continuously inscribing Imperial characters for an entire month.

"Come on, let me see just how powerful this Saint Spirit Furnace is!"

Ji Hao activated the Saint Spirit Furnace, and its lid rose.

The next moment, a tremendous roar rang out across the ninth level.

Towering divine flames erupted from the Saint Spirit Furnace, spreading across the sky and earth, covering everything around them. Then they swept countless strands of Nine-Colored Divine Fire back into the furnace as a streak of nine-colored divine light bloomed.

Innate Patterns condensed once more. Heaven and earth fell into utter silence, leaving only the sound of flames burning.

The Wisdom Light Wheel appeared behind Ji Hao's head, and he once again entered a state of enlightenment.

Three days later, Ji Hao slowly opened his eyes. There was no great commotion, only an unremarkable calmness, as though he had returned to his original simplicity.

"That was fast. Once I get through the tribulation, I'll probably reach Four Extremes Grand Perfection," Ji Hao said with a sigh.

As expected of a cheat. It's incredible!

"It's time to enter the final level." Ji Hao put away the Saint Spirit Furnace and looked ahead.

Immortal Fire was not something one could encounter whenever one wished.

At the very end lay an entirely different region. There were no flames of various colors, only deathly silence. It was barren and devoid of any life. Legend had it that an immortal had once been burned to death here, and the Desolate Pagoda had risen and sunk here for several thousand years while repairing itself.

"So this is the tenth level of the Fire Domain!" Ji Hao said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"Immortal Fire?"

Holding the Lihuo Divine Furnace in his arms, Ji Hao walked forward. Before long, he saw a small tree at the center, a little over half a meter tall and exceptionally ancient-looking.

The little tree was moving, making rustling sounds. It was not a tree at all, but fire—Immortal Fire!

This cluster of flames leaped vigorously, terrifying beyond measure, as though it could burn down the heavens and myriad worlds. Its temperature was searing, and laws intertwined within it.

This was not fire in the ordinary sense, but Immortal Flame. It was formed from runes, woven together by divine chains, with symbol after symbol dancing within it.

Staring at the sapling, Ji Hao discovered that it was entirely composed of countless Great Dao runes. Great Dao divine chains intertwined within it, while one symbol after another flickered and danced.

"I wonder if I can extract an Immortal Dao Seed from this cluster of True Immortal Fire."

"Let's test it!"

Ji Hao activated the power of the fishing rod, turning the Dao laws contained within the Immortal Fire into a seed. The process was slow; after all, only a cluster of flames remained.

Whatever creature it had once belonged to had ultimately perished, and utterly so. It was unlike an Immortality Elixir, whose Dao laws lay hidden within its body, waiting to sprout again one day, perhaps granting it a chance to live once more.

Just like the Azure Emperor.

The power of the fishing rod connected to the River of Time. Anything that had existed was bound to leave traces behind. Threads of seven-colored radiance shone forth from the Void, supreme and peerless. Though tiny, they surpassed all things in the world.

"This is actually a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao Seed!" Ji Hao exclaimed in shock.

The Immortal Fire before him seemed to sense something.

"Chirp, chirp!"

Suddenly, the small tree swayed, and a little bird appeared on one of its branches. Its feathers were dazzling, and it chirped incessantly, as though searching for something. Like the flames, it too was formed from runes. The runes continuously danced, and whenever it flapped its wings, layer after layer of runes flashed into existence and vanished, mysterious and unfathomable, as though capable of burning down the heavens and destroying myriad worlds.

"A Phoenix?"

Ji Hao was somewhat startled. It resembled a Phoenix and was lifelike, yet less than the size of a palm. It moved amid the flames, mysterious and unfathomable.

"Could he sense the existence of the Dao Seed?" Ji Hao was greatly surprised.

"Perhaps it's only a coincidence."

"And this should have been a cluster of flames left behind after a True Immortal died. Why has it become that cluster of Quasi-Immortal Emperor Fire from back then?"

Ji Hao's mind was filled with question marks.

"Could it be because of my existence? But can the butterfly effect really influence the past?"

The palm-sized Phoenix shook its head and bobbed about, seemingly searching for something.

"Could he have sensed something?"

"Forget it. With my current realm, I can't comprehend it anyway."

"I should study the runes within the Immortal Fire instead."

"If this is the flame left behind by the Footprint Emperor,"

"Then this cluster of Immortal Fire seems to contain records of many Great Daos. It fused with Liu Shen and even temporarily blocked a Quasi-Immortal Emperor for Huangtian Emperor."

"Perhaps I can't comprehend much with my current realm, but I can carve these runes onto the Saint Spirit Furnace."

Ji Hao opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes, his glazed eyes fixed intently on the evolution of one rune.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Ji Hao tried, he recorded only a pitifully small number of runes.

Soon, the fire tree returned to stillness, and the Phoenix once again turned into a cluster of flames and merged back into the Immortal Fire.

Ji Hao frowned deeply, unwilling to accept it. He could still comprehend it to some extent, but most of the runes were concealed, making them difficult for someone of his realm to glimpse.

Moreover, the surrounding temperature was simply too high. Even the Lihuo Divine Furnace's autonomous protection could no longer withstand it. He had to supply it with divine power.

Ji Hao took out the seed again, and the Immortal Fire changed once more. A young Qilin strode out of the Immortal Fire with its head held high and chest puffed out.

Its pair of bright eyes looked curiously toward where the Dao Seed had appeared.

Finding nothing, it could only return in disappointment.

"Six runes. Nine is the limit, so I'll comprehend three more."

Ji Hao took out the Dao Seed once more. This time, the Immortal Fire remained altered for much longer, as though it had realized something.

Within the Immortal Fire, the runes shone brilliantly. This time, someone actually walked out from within!

He looked young, yet carried an aura that could swallow mountains and rivers, like a Kun Peng about to soar into the skies.

"What is this?"

Ji Hao looked at the humanoid flame in astonishment. It was truly shocking—this humanoid flame was simply too astonishing.

It seemed to possess intelligence, and its eyes were exceptionally lively!

After looking Ji Hao up and down, he could clearly sense that its gaze seemed to pause briefly over his Sea of Reincarnation.

Then it quickly vanished.

Ji Hao let out a sigh of relief. "Nine runes are enough. Biting off more than I can chew won't do me any good."

He had a feeling that his current spiritual power could withstand at most nine runes. Any more, and either he would fail to record them, or his primordial spirit would be injured.

Ji Hao retreated step by step. The Immortal Fire remained transformed into a small tree, quietly burning as its runes flickered in and out of existence. Though it possessed the power to burn the great thousand worlds, it seemed utterly harmless, simply staying there in silence.

After retreating to the ninth level, he took a gulp of Sacred Spring Water to replenish his fluids.