The firestorm raged for a full quarter of an hour before it finally began to subside. Chen Cang's aura, which had been surging wildly and fluctuating without cease, slowly settled and stabilized.
His tightly closed eyes opened, and purple flames instantly blazed within his pitch-black pupils. Two fiery beams shot out, tearing two gaps more than a hundred feet wide through the sea of fire ahead.
After briefly adjusting, Chen Cang swept his sleeve and rose. Sensing the power surging through his body, he smiled in satisfaction.
"Three-Star Dou Zun!"
"Congratulations on entering the Dou Zun realm, young master. I still vividly remember meeting you in the Underground Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy. Who would have thought that in just a few years, your cultivation would nearly catch up to the peak I reached in life?" Inside the Storage Ring, the Heavenly Fire Venerable sighed with emotion.
Before his death, he had peaked at Six-Star Dou Zun.
That was not much higher than Chen Cang's current level.
And that was only cultivation, without accounting for actual combat strength.
"Hahaha, the Three Thousand Burning Flame strengthened my body enormously. Its effects were even greater than I expected. I thought reaching Two-Star Dou Zun would be about the limit."
The deeper Chen Cang delved into cultivation, the more clearly he understood that the barrel principle still applied to physical essence, energy, and spirit. Once the shortest stave was lengthened, an increase in strength was only natural.
"It was also because your foundations were sufficiently deep, young master. Even without the Three Thousand Burning Flame, this old man believes you could have broken through within ten years, or even five."
The Heavenly Fire Venerable was not particularly surprised. As he had said before, every major realm could actually be subdivided into three