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The temperature inside the hall rose sharply, as though they were inside a furnace.
A scorched, anxious atmosphere filled the air, both physically and psychologically.
Fine beads of sweat seeped from everyone's foreheads, only to evaporate instantly in the scorching heat.
The exhilaration of Yang Ruxue's narrow success had yet to fade when Ma Rulong's even more perilous Heart-Burning Fire tribulation came like a basin of ice water over their heads, sending everyone's hearts into their throats again.
Every second dragged on endlessly.
Every violent fluctuation of fiery energy spilling through the door, every intensification of that heart-burning agony, left those outside, especially Ma Tianyang, feeling suffocated.
Ma Tianyang clenched his teeth. Blood seeped between the fingers of his tightly clenched fists and dripped onto the scalding floor with faint hisses.
Only one frantic thought screamed in his heart: Hold on! Rulong! You must hold on! For the Ma Family! For yourself!
"Uncle Rulong, steady your mind! Your martial soul is your wings-how can you let it turn against its master!" Chen Xun barked.
Chen Xun's mental power once again became a mind-steadying hammer, striking hard at Ma Rulong's chaotic consciousness. "Uncle Rulong, think of Chang'an! Think of the Ma Family! Your Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix should soar through the nine heavens, not burn in its own flames!"
Like a blow and a shout awakening him, a shaft of heavenly light appeared in Ma Rulong's chaotic Sea of Consciousness.
An elder's admonition exploded like thunder-one of the central lessons repeatedly instilled in Ma Rulong from the breakthrough taboos and insights his family had accumulated over countless years: "The nine heavens burn the heart; the origin turns