Light after light appeared as all manner of principles were broken down by the yin and yang energies.
He Xian gradually became absorbed in the sight. An inexplicable aura of the Dao arose around him, exactly like that of the figure holding the great bronze halberd.
Pfft!
That bronze-like figure gradually became a seed, making it simpler and easier to comprehend.
Rumble!
The Yin-Yang Furnace shook, drawing them in again and again.
Three days later.
He Xian had almost completely comprehended all the seeds, including the Red King Seed and the Heaven Devourer Seed. He rose and walked toward the Yang Furnace.
His most important purpose on this journey had actually been to enter the Yang Furnace to temper his flesh and put his principles in order.
This was the true key to how the Yin-Yang Furnace could defy heaven and change one's fate.
Without enduring the heavy blows of a thousand hammerings and a hundred temperings, how could one shine with dazzling brilliance?
Only by cultivating anew amid dissolution could one attain supreme strength.
The Yin Furnace and the Yang Furnace were connected, each communicating with the other!
The moment He Xian stepped into the Yang Furnace, the Great Dao symbols within his body underwent violent changes. The Indestructible Scripture circulated instinctively, and his body stiffened.
Under the pull of the Yin-Yang Furnace, swathes of Dao laws were torn apart.
He felt towering waves of heat assailing him relentlessly, as though his flesh were a medicinal pill being refined.
Before long.
Even his quasi-Supreme body, fortified by the Indestructible Scripture, could scarcely endure it.
This fire could roast a Supreme alive.
Crack!
The sounds of bones breaking and reforming rang out constantly inside He Xian. He had sat in meditation for a long time in the Yin Furnace, where yin energy gathered. As soon as he entered the Yang Furnace, yin and yang met and produced an astonishing resonance.
A Dao diagram appeared beneath his feet.
This Dao diagram had neither intricate patterns nor a transcendent aura. It possessed only "naturalness."
The Dao followed nature, plain and unremarkable.
Yet this was precisely what made it most astonishing.
Pfft!
The yin and yang energies separated. Turbid energy sank into his wheel sea, while clear energy rose into his heavenly spirit. Like a creation born after heaven and earth had been opened, the Dao diagram underwent wondrous changes.
With a boom, He Xian's physical strength increased. The effects were immediate, his surging blood energy carrying a silvery-gold radiance.
Then golden light covered his entire body, brilliant and dazzling. At that moment, all the hair on his head grew wildly, becoming strands of sunlight that shone with golden splendor.
Gu Hong's eyes widened, but he did not dare enter the Yang Furnace to temper his body as He Xian had.
Was this the foremost member of our world's younger generation? He struggled to keep his Dao heart steady. The moment he stepped into that Yang Furnace, he would be burned alive.
"Let yin and yang be the furnace, and refine a golden body." He Xian's brow glowed, growing ever more radiant.
He took the initiative to draw in the earth fire from the valley. He felt it was still not enough.
The next moment, wondrous manifestations filled the sky!
The entire Scarlet Sea suddenly erupted. It was as though a giant dragon had lain coiled there before soaring into the air. The four extremes stirred, and earth, wind, water, and fire appeared together. Flames from the four extremes enveloped the Yin-Yang Furnace, which stood in the world, growing ever more magnificent.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The flames blazed fiercely, illuminating He Xian's crystalline body. He shone like a golden body, his blood energy surging violently, filling heaven and earth as it burned. Even the void warped and collapsed, only to be smelted anew beneath the scorching heat, over and over.
"Indestructible Golden Body, imperishable through myriad calamities!"
He Xian formed seals, circulating the Indestructible Scripture as he sat cross-legged amid the flames, refining his body and burning his spirit.
As the flames burned and the yin and yang energies flowed, his flesh perished and regenerated. What was broken became whole again; crystalline bones fractured and were recast, enacting the two extremes of life and death within the furnace.
Several days passed, yet he remained motionless, enduring the flames' tempering. His body had already been reconstructed over a thousand times. The Emperor Clan corpses he had brought and the astounding precious medicines he had thrown in all became nourishment, transforming into essence that filled his body.
He had not anticipated that his flesh would run short of replenishment.
He Xian bathed in fragments of the Great Dao, enveloped in extraordinary yin and yang energies, supremely sacred and serene. True fire forged his golden body, and the body that reemerged grew ever stronger.
Now, with every movement, silvery-gold blood energy soared into the sky and tore through the heavens, vast as an ocean.
The raging flames made He Xian look like an immortal Fire Emperor forged through a thousand hammerings and a hundred temperings. His entire body shone, order intertwined around him, and divine sounds of the Great Dao thundered. The sight was astonishing.
"Ah..."
Suddenly, the Yin-Yang Furnace began its analysis. He Xian suffered excruciating pain, blood flowing from the seven orifices of the precious body he had only just tempered. Dao-transforming power spread throughout him. Yin and yang evolved into chaos, and chaos transformed into all things, so the appearance of Dao-transforming power was nothing strange.
The Yin-Yang Furnace was now treating He Xian as a seed to be analyzed. Laws gathered like water, constantly releasing a tremendous aura.
He Xian roared. This power was too terrifying, breaking his entire body apart inch by inch as the Great Dao crushed down and invaded every part of him.
It was as though all heaven and earth had pressed down upon him, a weight impossible to bear!
Pfft!
He Xian's body cracked, as though struck by heaven and earth.
"Excellent!" Yet He Xian's eyes grew ever brighter.
"Let myriad laws reshape my body! Myriad-Calamity Indestructible Body, arise!" He intended to engrave the most fundamental principles of the Indestructible Scripture deep into his flesh and blood, turning them into instinct. This was the beginning of his path.
He Xian had almost become a figure made entirely of blood, and his Dao began to reveal itself.
"Suppress it!" The two characters for "Sky-Supporting" on He Xian's brow shone. A hazy mist appeared, concealing everything.
Opposite him, Gu Hong in the Yin Furnace could no longer sense even a trace of the principles. He was stunned!
He had thought his opportunity had arrived, that he could comprehend all the Dao arts of his world's foremost genius. He had never expected this.
Everything had been screened off.
Gu Hong was bitterly unwilling to accept it, yet he could do nothing.
"Let the old body perish and the new body emerge!" Several more days passed. He Xian's flesh withered like an old medicinal pill refined a hundred times, yet it brimmed with indescribable vitality. He was about to shed his shell.
He Xian sensed that the Yin-Yang Furnace no longer harmed him. Instead, it constantly nourished him, filling his interior with vibrant life and shimmering brilliance. As though cast from eternal immortal gold, he radiated an awe-inspiring light.
"Open!" He Xian suddenly shouted.
He tore apart his old body, and a nirvana new body stepped out, gleaming with golden light. Like a golden body Dao physique, it was free of dust and impurities, glasslike from head to toe, with an otherworldly quality and a refreshing fragrance.
Hiss!
His cultivation brought to completion, He Xian was brimming with essence, energy, and spirit. The instant he opened his eyes, golden light shot in every direction, and swathes of runes emerged, terrifying beyond measure.
At this moment, vortices appeared outside his body after its rebirth. Golden energy interwove, as though lightning possessed him, or as though a vast ocean had manifested, clinging to him and surging.
Hum, hum!
He tried curling his five fingers. Merely clenching his fist slightly warped all the space around him. Even within the Yin-Yang Furnace, he released energy freely, heavenly power flowing through him, his entire body at once ethereal and awe-inspiring.
He had succeeded. His body now truly qualified as an Indestructible Golden Body.
In truth, he could become stronger still by incorporating the power of Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade, but he abandoned that idea. Keeping himself pure was the path to supreme strength.
Pfft!
The furnace lid flew off. With a single punch, He Xian emerged into the outside world.
He had never felt better.
"Congratulations! Congratulations on your tremendous gains, young friend. Your future prospects are limitless. You will surely stand shoulder to shoulder with the founding ancestors of the various clans." The Gu Clan's old Supreme smiled as he congratulated He Xian, his white hair carrying a pale golden sheen.
Behind him, Gu Hong also strode out.