The Phoenix Soars a Thousand Fathoms High, Roosting Only on the Parasol Tree! Huo Wu Is Astounded!

Chen Jin looked around and nodded in satisfaction.

"This really is a fine place."

He sat cross-legged on a flat Giant Rock.

With a wave of his hand, several enormous chunks of black whale rubber appeared before him.

Chen Jin wasted no time. Purple-gold Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix flames rose from his palm.

Their searing heat warped the surrounding air.

The flames enveloped the whale rubber, rapidly melting it into a thick black liquid.

Chen Jin opened his mouth and swallowed the mass of strangely fragrant liquid.

That terrifying surge of pure yang blood energy exploded within him.

Chen Jin's skin instantly flushed red, and faint wisps of heat seeped from his pores.

The Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix Martial Soul flashed behind him and vanished.

Three Soul Rings slowly pulsed beneath his feet.

Chen Jin's face was flushed, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead as he circulated his Soul Power at full strength to guide that tremendous energy.

Huo Wu watched from the side, dumbstruck.

Those purple-gold flames and surging Soul Power fluctuations were not the effects of some drug for affairs between men and women at all.

That was pure energy, tempering his flesh and strengthening his meridians.

Chen Jin opened his eyes and exhaled a scorching breath of white vapor.

"Whew-"

"The effects really are good. My physique has grown a little stronger again."

Chen Jin looked at Huo Wu, delight flashing in his eyes.

"You should eat a piece too. I've tested it myself already. The pure yang energy it contains is a great aid to cultivation for fire-attribute Soul Masters."

Chen Jin handed her a piece of whale rubber he had already softened with his flames.

Huo Wu stared blankly at the black liquid offered to her.

At that moment, Huo Wu finally understood.

Chen Jin had really bought the whale rubber solely for cultivation.

Those so-called powerful tonics were simply misunderstood by the world.

And she had let her imagination run wild the entire way, even thinking he wanted to do something to her...

An intense sense of shame welled up in her heart.

Huo Wu's cheeks grew so hot they almost burned.

That blush spread from her cheeks down to her snow-white neck, and even the skin exposed beyond her clothing took on a pink hue.

"I... I'm not eating that!"

Huo Wu cried softly and abruptly turned away, not daring to look Chen Jin in the eyes.

She covered her burning cheeks with both hands, her heart racing madly.

This is far too embarrassing.

She closed her eyes, wishing she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into and never emerge again.

Watching Huo Wu's almost fleeing figure, Chen Jin blinked in confusion, not understanding why she had suddenly become so agitated.

But he did not ask further. He closed his eyes again and continued absorbing the remaining whale rubber.

In the quiet forest.

A breeze drifted past.

Leaves rustled on the branches.

Sunlight was shredded by the dense canopy, falling in dappled patches over the flat Giant Rock.

Chen Jin sat cross-legged in the center of the Giant Rock and held out the mass of black substance in his hand, softened to a warm temperature by purple-gold flames and giving off a strange fragrance.

"Eat it."

Huo Wu stood to one side, the earlier blush not yet entirely faded from her fair, pretty face.

Looking at that mass of dark liquid, Huo Wu awkwardly pinched the hem of her clothes with both hands.

"Are you sure this stuff really is for cultivation?"

Huo Wu looked at Chen Jin doubtfully.

"Of course."

"When have I ever lied to you?"

Chen Jin remained perfectly composed.

Huo Wu bit her red lip. Looking into his crystal-clear eyes, the bashfulness in her heart finally faded a little.

"Fine, I'll eat it. I'm not scared."

Huo Wu stepped forward and snatched up the warm whale rubber.

She closed her eyes and put the liquid into her mouth.

The whale rubber melted the instant it entered her mouth, becoming a warm current that swiftly slid down her throat.

However.

Before Huo Wu could breathe a sigh of relief.

The warm current sank into her belly and became an overbearing wave of pure yang heat, crashing through her meridians.

"Ah!"

Huo Wu could not help letting out a soft cry.

That energy was like a wild horse freed of its reins, charging through her limbs and every part of her body.

A pink flush rose over her fair skin.

Fine beads of sweat also seeped from her forehead.

Chen Jin moved, appearing behind Huo Wu.

"Hold fast to your heart."

"Circulate the Blazing Fire Heart Method and guide this energy through your conception and governing vessels."

"Merge the pure yang energy into your Fire Shadow Martial Soul. Do not resist it."

His voice sounded beside her ear.

Huo Wu did not dare be careless. She hurriedly sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and circulated her Soul Power with all her strength.

The Fire Shadow Martial Soul behind her flickered in and out of view.

Tempered by this pure yang energy, its crimson flames seemed to grow a little brighter.

That was a sign that the quality of the flames was improving.

A long while passed.

Huo Wu opened her eyes and exhaled a scorching breath.

"This stuff..."

Huo Wu looked at her hands, finding it unbelievable.

"The temperature of my flames actually increased this much?"

She had originally thought this was merely that sort of drug.

She had never expected it to provide such an astonishing improvement to a fire-attribute Martial Soul.

"I told you, this stuff is tremendously beneficial to cultivation."

Chen Jin nodded.

He wasted no time.

With a wave of his hand, several enormous chunks of black whale rubber floated before him.

Purple-gold Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix flames rose.

Their searing heat warped the air.

The enormous chunks of whale rubber swiftly melted into a mass of liquid as thick and black as ink.

Chen Jin opened his mouth and swallowed it.

Boom!

It was as though a volcano had erupted inside him.

Tremendous pure yang blood energy roared through his meridians.

Chen Jin's skin turned bright red, and even beads of blood seeped from his pores.

His expression remained unchanged as he circulated the Ultimate Fire within him at full strength.

The Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix Martial Soul behind him gave a soundless phoenix cry.

Beneath his feet.

Three Soul Rings slowly rose.

Yellow.

Yellow.

Purple.

The three Soul Rings shone with dazzling light amid the surging, scorching Soul Power.

Tremendous pure yang energy continuously merged into his bones, muscles, and meridians.

The strength of Chen Jin's body was soaring at an astonishing speed.

He closed his eyes and immersed himself in cultivation.

Within his mind, the inherited memories of the Nine-Heaven Divine Phoenix flashed unceasingly.

"The phoenix soars a thousand fathoms high, roosting only on the parasol tree."

"May it sing of the lord of ten thousand chariots, who opens the frontiers of the eight wildernesses."

An ancient and noble will echoed through his mind.

"Five-colored feathers from Cinnabar Cave; its name is the phoenix."

"At dawn it cries in the Mystic Garden of Kunlun Hill; at dusk it drinks from the torrents of Pillar Rock."

Golden flames coalesced around Chen Jin into the enormous phantom of a phoenix.

Sacred, noble.

Inviolable.

Like a deity, he sat amid the blazing fire, tempering his divine body.

Suddenly.

Chen Jin felt the Soul Power within him touch an invisible barrier.

It was the bottleneck between rank thirty-four and rank thirty-five.

There were even faint signs of advancing further.

He kept his eyes closed in meditation and continued cultivating.

At the same time, in Heaven Dou City.

The Great Soul Arena.

The deafening cheers nearly lifted the roof.

"Phoenix!"

"Phoenix!"

Countless spectators shouted hysterically.

On the Soul Fighting Platform.

A fat figure stood proudly.

Ma Hongjun brushed the dust off his body and looked down at his opponent, who lay unconscious at his feet, burned black.

This was a Soul Elder-level solo Soul Fighting match.

And Ma Hongjun had defeated his opponent in less than three minutes.