Beside the crystalline purple lava lake, Yun Ying and Yun Xi both shed their clothes and slowly stepped into the lake, with Little Capybara following close behind.
As they entered the lava lake, Yun Ying was unaffected, but Yun Xi and Little Capybara began suffering burns, from their feet up their bodies, and were soon injured.
Yun Xi's condition was more serious. Her flesh was burned and withered because her physical body was not yet strong enough.
Despite the pain, Yun Xi endured it and sat cross-legged at the edge of the lava lake. She began absorbing and refining the immense essence within the lake, tempering her body and honing her Primordial Spirit.
Little Capybara was much better off than Yun Xi, with only its fur and skin burned.
Seeing their conditions stabilize, Yun Ying walked alone toward the center of the lava lake. Her physique was sufficiently powerful, and as chaotic light rose around her, even the lake's intense heat could do nothing to her.
Yun Ying soon reached the center of the lava lake, near the Sun Core. She sat cross-legged on the lakebed, solemn and dignified, with Chaos Qi suffusing her surroundings.
Before long, three pure-white Dao Flowers appeared above her head, wreathed in immortal mist, each with a tiny figure seated cross-legged within it.
These three tiny figures represented the past, present, and future.
Yun Ying looked at the three tiny figures. Though they looked exactly like her, she felt something strange about them.
She did not believe these three tiny figures truly represented her, or her past, present, and future.
"You are merely the fruits of my Dao, merely a part of me. You cannot represent my past, present, and future either. Since that is so, become one."
After pondering for a long time, Yun