Nine-colored light intertwined, spun, and collided where that planet lay, even across tens of millions of kilometers.
The cultivators on Blue Star could faintly sense that heart-stopping pressure.
Heavenly Tribulation.
Its final wave.
The core of Mars.
Nine-colored lightning poured into Chen Hao's body.
Cracks appeared across his flesh again, deeper and denser than during the eighth wave. Blood seeped from them, only to evaporate the instant it touched the energy of the Way of Fire.
Pain.
For the first time since he had begun cultivating the indestructible battle body, Chen Hao experienced true pain.
It was not pain of the flesh. It was pain at the level of his very essence, born from the collision of two Daos.
The Flame Spirit Marrow worked furiously. Nearly thirty percent of the lake inside the Guixu Pearl was consumed in that instant.
Chen Hao's body trembled slightly amid the nine-colored lightning.
But he did not retreat.
The Way of Fire penetrated the final inch of his flesh.
The two Daos fully intermingled.
With the Flame Spirit Marrow as their medium, the Spatial Great Dao and the Way of Fire reached a delicate balance. They no longer repelled each other. They no longer collided.
They coexisted.
The nine-colored heavenly lightning collapsed at that moment.
It was as though some power had shattered it from within. All the lightning disintegrated in an instant, becoming pure energy of heaven and earth that Chen Hao's body absorbed in full.
The enormous fissure in the sky above Mars began to heal. The black thunderclouds dispersed.
The atmosphere grew calm again.
Deep within the core...
Chen Hao slowly exhaled.
That breath became a crimson-gold column of air in the core's intense heat, punching upward through tens of thousands of meters of rock and blasting a circular crater a