Nine Transformations of True Form, Patriarch Qu's Summons (5.2K words delivered, asking for

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Two white flames floated in the void, transforming into two spotless white lotus pedestals. The pedestals radiated terrifying heat, so intense that it scalded the void into rolling folds. The rolling void resembled leaping waves, which in turn set off the white lotuses, making them look as though they truly stood in a lotus pond.

The scene looked resplendent and sacred, but it could only be admired from afar, not approached or trifled with. The terrifying waves of heat radiating from the white lotus flames were enough to make anyone recoil.

Above one of the two lotus pedestals floated a scarlet sword furnace; above the other hovered an azure, long-dragon-shaped vine rope.

Behind the two lotus pedestals sat a Daoist, continuously feeding Five Elements metal and various spiritual materials into them. As the Immortal Fire burned away the impurities in the two Dharma Treasures, then extracted the essence of the spiritual materials he supplied and fused them together, the treasures' radiance grew ever more dazzling.

The great dent in the sword furnace had already been restored, and the firebird patterns upon it had become more lifelike, as though they might fly out at any moment. The vine rope's dragon form was also becoming more complete. Head, horns, scales, claws, and tail appeared one after another, leaving it almost indistinguishable from an Azure Dragon stretched long and slender.

Refining treasures, particularly the Dragon Rope, was a process of discarding the dross and preserving the essence, as well as one of flourishing transformation. Within it lay Cheng Xinzhan's understanding of the divine dragon's true form.

During this process, he was refining a Dharma Treasure externally while refining his Fate Embryo internally.

At this moment, within the Crimson Palace, the fleshy shoot of the Fate Embryo on the cloud bed