His Fire Spirit Soul had swallowed the existence of the Great Sun Lotus Fire and inherited the characteristic of burning bloodlines. If he were to use the Fire Spirit Soul to deal with the Great Sun Fire, it seemed to be a possibility.
As flesh and blood burned, bloodline power was rapidly consumed, and vitality was quickly fading.
Su Nan didn't have time to think much. With a "try anything" attitude, he didn't hesitate any longer and immediately summoned his Fire Spirit Soul from within his body.
The Fire Spirit Soul left his body, and the next moment, something that surprised Su Nan happened.
The Fire Spirit Soul was burning within the Great Sun Fire, and the two flames seemed to be at odds. Upon discovering the Fire Spirit Soul, the Great Sun Fire that had been burning around Su Nan actually abandoned him. Most of it surrounded the Fire Spirit Soul as if trying to eliminate this intruder.
It was as if they wanted to annihilate this anomaly that had appeared here.
This finally gave Su Nan a breathing space. The trend of his flesh being burned was temporarily stopped, and under the influence of his Essence Qi power, it slowly began to recover.
In the face of the encirclement by the Great Sun Fire, the Fire Spirit Soul not only showed no fear but also appeared excited.
The Fire Spirit Soul flickered, emitting a crimson radiance that was particularly conspicuous amid the golden flames.
The scorching temperature radiated, as if it wanted to compete with the Great Sun Fire.
Moreover, Su Nan noticed that the Fire Spirit Soul seemed to want to devour the Great Sun Fire, just like it had swallowed the Great Sun Lotus Fire!
This further provoked the Great Sun Fire, as if it had ignited a powder keg.
However, the Fire Spirit Soul showed no fear and resisted the Great Sun Fire.
Unfortunately, facing the continuously summoned Great Sun Fire, the Fire Spirit Soul, which initially held its ground, gradually began to fall behind as the power of the Great Sun Fire continued to increase.
Seeing this, Su Nan naturally couldn't just stand and watch.
With a thought, his internal mana began to flow continuously.
With the help of his mana, the Fire Spirit Soul's flames surged, actually suppressing the Great Sun Fire.
"Not bad, not bad. With the help of the Fire Spirit Soul, perhaps I really have a chance to succeed this time."
Watching the clash of the two flames, Su Nan's eyes shone with excitement.
Two minutes passed.
By this point, nine minutes had already passed, with only one minute left.
With the Fire Spirit Soul taking on the majority of the Great Sun Fire, although the Great Sun Fire still burned around his body, his condition had improved by hundreds of times.
Finally.
As the last minute passed, Su Nan was finally able to stop the formation that had been drawing in the Great Sun Fire under him.
With the formation stopped, the Great Sun Fire, which had been confined within the formation, began to disperse.
The Fire Spirit Soul, on the other hand, was like a child who had achieved victory and was jumping for joy on Su Nan's body.
"I didn't expect that at the last moment, I would rely on you, little guy, to get through this ordeal."
Su Nan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at the Fire Spirit Soul on his body.
Compared to before, the Fire Spirit Soul had consumed a considerable amount of the Great Sun Fire this time. The volume of the flames seemed to have increased by half, as if it had eaten to its heart's content, now almost the size of a baby's fist.
"This Great Sun Body Scripture not only enhances my physique but also provides an opportunity to strengthen the Fire Spirit Soul, a double benefit."
"If I can continue like this, perhaps one day, when I successfully cultivate the Great Sun Body Scripture, the Fire Spirit Soul will also be able to regain some of its ancient power, like the old Fire Spirit."
Thinking of the complete Fire Spirit from ancient times, Su Nan's eyes showed anticipation, and he was satisfied with his previous choice.
He put away the Fire Spirit Soul and examined his current situation.
At this moment, he looked extremely battered, even to the point of being unbearable.
His whole body was charred, like a corpse that had just been partially burned and had suddenly been extinguished, with a terrifying and grim appearance.
If it weren't for his faint breathing, no one would have thought he was still alive.
Within him, the power of his bloodlines had been completely depleted, whether it was the physique system bloodlines or the Secret Strength system bloodlines, even the power of the law system bloodlines had been exhausted.
If this time had lasted for one more minute, even with the Fire Spirit Soul, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on.
Even though he had survived the ordeal of the Great Sun Fire burning his body, Su Nan's condition was extremely critical, with weak vitality and almost depleted life force.
If it weren't for the help of the life-restoring elixir he had taken, he would have already died.
"This is too miserable."
Su Nan's eyes were filled with seriousness.
This was the most dangerous situation he had ever faced in his entire life.
In the game, he had encountered many dangers, but it was still just a game. Even if he died, it wouldn't be a big deal.
But this time, it was in reality, a real crisis.
If he
didn't have a substitute puppet, he wouldn't even dare to risk cultivating the Great Sun Body Scripture in reality.
"It's a pity that the game's public beta started at midnight today, and it won't refresh the players' statuses anymore. Otherwise, I might be able to enter the game and use the game's refresh to recover."
Another bottle of life-restoring elixir was consumed, rapidly transforming vitality into Essence Qi power, and then restoring his physical body.
Of course, he could also use the Perfect Death Revival Card to recover, but that would be too wasteful.
"With my current recovery speed, I wonder if I can fully recover before midnight tonight?"
Thinking of the spatial channel that would appear tonight, Su Nan's expression became serious once again.
It was fortunate that he possessed Essence Qi power; otherwise, anyone else facing this level of injury would find it difficult to completely recover without ten days or half a month.
Sitting cross-legged on the array plate, the Great Sun Body Scripture within his body was still running at full speed.
While the first step of the Great Sun Body Scripture, enduring the burning of the Great Sun Fire, had been passed, the cultivation was far from over.
"The next stage of cultivation, although not dangerous, is crucial and time-consuming."
"Rising in ruins, reviving in desolation, a withered tree in spring, an old tree with new shoots. In this step, I need to discard the old flesh and gather a new one, nurturing the Golden Body within the old flesh."
The method for condensing the Golden Body appeared in his mind, and Su Nan began to nurture the Golden Body according to the instructions recorded in the Great Sun Body Scripture.
This step was by no means achieved overnight and would take a long time.
Luckily, today, Mount Song was exceptionally deserted, and no one would come to disturb him.
Su Nan silently practiced, immersed in his practice, unable to extricate himself, forgetting about time and everything else.
One hour later.
He still sat there, with no change in his movements.
And his body didn't seem to have recovered much, but upon closer inspection, tiny specks of golden light were blooming beneath Su Nan's charred flesh.
As the sun set and the moon rose, nightfall covered the earth.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
Everyone was waiting.
Waiting for the start of the third public beta, waiting for the appearance of the spatial portal mentioned in the announcement, waiting for the game to come to reality.
"What should I do? I'm still at the foot of Mount Song, and the traffic here is paralyzed. I'm trapped here."
"I'm stuck here too. This is bad. I finally got the game wristband this time. Am I going to be killed by monsters before I even enter the game?"
"Don't panic. The authorities have sent the military, and we should trust their strength."
Although they had received news early on that a spatial portal might appear near famous mountains and rivers, many people hadn't been able to leave in time.
It was not just Mount Song; it was the same for other famous tourist destinations.
Players were relatively fortunate, as they had some self-defense abilities, but ordinary people could only pray silently.
At the foot of Mount Song, a group of more than a hundred people had gathered.
These people were fully armed, each of them carrying guns and live ammunition; they were members of the military.
Moreover, judging by the speed at which these people were running, they were not ordinary soldiers, but a group of players who had joined the military.
Or rather, it was a group of players who had formed a military team.
Among them, the leader was a burly middle-aged man in his thirties.
"It's Qi Hong, the great god Qi Hong! I didn't expect the authorities to send Qi Hong here. That's great; we don't need to worry now."
"Qi Hong ranks fifty-second in the game and has reached the mid-level of the Spiritual level. With him leading the team here, we should be safe."
In the distance, some players recognized the leader, and they whispered in excitement.
"Captain, there has been no earthquake detected near Mount Song, so there may not be a spatial portal here. It might be a bit of an overreaction to send us here. Besides, manpower is tight in other places right now, so I think we should go to other areas first," a young soldier whispered.
The man known as Qi Hong shook his head and said, "If a spatial portal is really going to appear between famous mountains and rivers, then Mount Song should theoretically have one as well."
He paused and added, "Better safe than sorry. If there's no spatial portal here, that's fine. But if there is one, I'm afraid it won't be an ordinary portal."
Gazing at the many towering peaks of Mount Song, Qi Hong's expression became solemn.
For some reason, he had a premonition that tonight would definitely not be peaceful here.
At the moment when large-scale earthquakes occurred, the armies in various cities were mobilized again, and in places where earthquakes occurred, heavy weapons were stationed.
Armored tanks were deployed, and fighter jets patrolled the skies. All available combat equipment was put into action.
Even in places where there were no earthquakes, military forces were stationed just in case.
Everyone was on high alert.
At the summit of Mount Song.
Su Nan was still sitting cross-legged.
At this moment, his breath was steady, and the charred skin on his face began to peel off, revealing the new skin underneath, which shimmered with a golden glow.
The gestation of the Golden Body continued, and there was still a long way to go before it was completed.
Time passed quickly.
Finally, several hours silently passed.
The clock struck midnight.
The time for the game to refresh had arrived.
The third public beta had begun.
If it had been before, this moment would have been when countless players rushed to log into the game, but this time, very few people entered the game.
No one wanted to risk being ambushed and killed by monsters in reality after entering the game.
Boom!
Almost at the moment when the clock struck midnight, earthquakes occurred simultaneously in many mountainous areas around the world.
"It's here!"
Everyone stood in safe areas, holding their breath and watching everything happening around them.
The earth cracked, and towering mountains rose, while huge lakes suddenly appeared.
Ancient trees covered the high mountains, and the lakes shimmered with blue waves. These mountains didn't rise due to crustal pressure, and the lakes didn't form from crustal collapse; it was as if they had always been there.
"Could it be that the game world has overlapped with the real world's space?"
At the same time, within the game.
Players who had been logged in continuously noticed that at the moment when time reached midnight, the game world also underwent a tremendous change.
Some mountains and lakes disappeared into thin air!
And with the disappearance of those mountains and lakes, the locations where they had been twisted and distorted, giving rise to invisible voids.
These were spatial portals!
At the same time, at this moment, whether they were humans or demons, all the powerful individuals could feel a strange force rapidly increasing in the world.
Ordinary people didn't understand what this power meant, but those who had already been recognized by the power of heaven and earth, those who had reached the level of Saints and Ancestors, knew exactly what it represented.
"The divine opportunity of heaven and earth!"
"The divine opportunity of heaven and earth is being restored!"
Even though they had known that there would be a large influx of extraterrestrial visitors today and that the divine opportunity of heaven and earth would inevitably be restored as a result, many powerful individuals were still pleasantly surprised to clearly sense the divine opportunity of heaven and earth for the first time.
Especially those powerful individuals near the spatial portals could feel it even more distinctly.
However, the divine opportunity of heaven and earth came and went quickly.
It was only in the blink of an eye when the spatial portals appeared that the divine opportunity of heaven and earth surged in from another world.
But no one was disappointed; on the contrary, they were filled with anticipation.
Even though the influx of the divine opportunity of heaven and earth was small, it served as a catalyst, a trigger for this world to autonomously restore its divine opportunity.
Even if there were no more influxes of the divine opportunity of heaven and earth in the future, with time, this world would still be able to autonomously recover.
"Hahaha! My bloodline, my bloodline is getting stronger!"
"The hope of becoming a Saint has appeared! I never expected to have the opportunity to become a Saint in my lifetime!"
Deep within the Ten Thousand Demon Ridge, a dormant demon that had slept for who knew how many years was awakened. Feeling the changes in heaven and earth, it couldn't help but roar with excitement.
"Is this the spatial portal leading to the world of those extraterrestrial visitors?"
"I heard that the world of those extraterrestrial visitors has the divine opportunity of heaven and earth. If I can enter that world, maybe I can also return my bloodline to its ancestral state."
"I heard that the strongest warriors in that world are only at the Profound level. If I can occupy that world, my demon clan will rise to a higher level, and we might even be able to regain our former strength."
With the disappearance of mountains, rivers, and lakes, the situation was not without its turmoil. Many demons rushed to nearby spatial portals and eagerly watched the twisted spaces.
"Charge!"
After a brief hesitation, some demons couldn't restrain themselves any longer. The first one entered the spatial portal and disappeared before the eyes of the others.
Where there was one, there was another. Gradually, demons within a radius of ten miles began to gather near the spatial portals. Forty to fifty ordinary-level demons and more than ten spiritual-level demons began to enter the spatial portals.
In reality.
In front of a mountain that had suddenly appeared, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers were watching with solemn expressions. All of them were prepared for battle.
Finally, as the distorted spatial portals appeared, dozens of demons descended. Most of these demons were ordinary-level, and there were only a few spiritual-level demons.
This number of demons entering the spatial portals did not match the number of demons that had entered.
Still, it put considerable pressure on the guarding soldiers.
"Open fire!"
With a command, the soldiers who were already prepared pulled their triggers and began to shoot at the descending demons.
(End of this chapter)