331: Chapter 332 Refining Divine Fire, One Step Back to One!

The System Mall's interface was a dazzling display of items, shimmering with divine light.

Gu Changsheng's gaze did not linger anywhere else, landing directly at the very top of the Medicinal Pill category.

There, a mystical pill lay quietly; it was chaotic in color and branded with countless ancient fire patterns.

[Ten Thousand Fire Dao Source Pill]

[Effect: A supreme Divine Pill refined by an ancient Pill Emperor who spent his life's blood collecting the Origin of ten thousand types of divine fires. Consuming it grants the Myriad Fires Body, allowing one to command all fires under the heavens. The supreme Dao rhythm contained within can also cleanse the marrow and wash the bones, reshaping a Cultivator's Foundation and greatly shortening the time required to refine exotic fires.]

[Price: 450,000 luck value.]

Four hundred and fifty thousand.

Gu Changsheng chose to exchange for it immediately.

[Ding! Exchange successful. Deducting 450,000 luck value.]

As the System notification sounded, a pill identical to the one described in the mall appeared out of thin air in his palm.

The pill felt warm to the touch, yet it contained a terrifying energy sufficient to make even the stars tremble.

Just by holding it, Gu Changsheng could feel the mana within his body beginning to boil uncontrollably.

Without the slightest hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed this priceless ancient Divine Pill.

The pill melted the moment it entered his mouth, turning into an indescribable warm current that flowed down his throat and surged into his limbs and bones.

In that instant, Gu Changsheng felt every inch of his flesh, every bone, and even every Divine Soul thought being remodeled and reshaped at the deepest level by a gentle yet overbearing force.

Then, with a thought, he summoned the crimson-gold Emotion-Extinguishing Mysterious Fire from within his body.

Almost the moment the Emotion-Extinguishing Mysterious Fire appeared, the ten-thousand-foot-tall phantom of a Fire God—which resided at the core of the flames holding a bolt of lightning—suddenly snapped its eyes open!

Those eyes were filled with a violence and majesty capable of incinerating the Nine Heavens!

However, before it could act, an absolute suppression originating from his Bloodline and the depths of his Soul erupted from within Gu Changsheng!

That was the medicinal power of the Ten Thousand Fire Dao Source Pill!

The moment that overweening Fire God phantom felt this aura, the violence in its eyes turned into endless terror.

It actually lowered its proud head slowly toward Gu Changsheng!

Submission!

The fire spirit of this notoriously fierce Emotion-Extinguishing Mysterious Fire, born from Chaos, had actually taken the initiative to show its submission to Gu Changsheng!

Gu Changsheng was not surprised by this at all.

He sat down cross-legged and sank his Divine Thought into his body, beginning to guide that majestic medicinal power to formally refine this peerless, second-ranked exotic fire.

...

Time flew by like a weaver's shuttle.

For a Mortal, three years is enough for a newborn child to learn to run and for a spirited youth to enter their thirties.

For a Cultivator, it is but a mere snap of the fingers.

During these three years, the lands of the Middle Heaven had finally begun to recover from that tragic war, thanks to the efforts of the various Holy Lands.

Cities once destroyed by the fires of war were rebuilt.

Displaced Mortals were also properly resettled.

To replenish the fresh blood lost heavily during the war, the various Holy Lands and Sects opened their gates wide to recruit disciples. For a time, an unprecedented craze for cultivation swept across the entire Middle Heaven.

Everything seemed to be moving in a positive direction.

However, only those truly at the top knew that the trauma brought by the war was far from as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The Mortal population of the Middle Heaven had plummeted by nearly one-fifth.

The casualties among Cultivators were even more horrifying.

The backbone of their forces, those in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm and Myriad Laws Realm, had been depleted by nearly half.

This once-flourishing land was like a heavily wounded giant; though it had managed to stand up, no one knew how many years it would take to return to its Peak.

On this day.

Deep within the Eastern Region, on that secluded island in the middle of a lake.

The heavy stone doors of the grand hall, which had been tightly shut for three years, slowly opened with a thunderous rumble.

A figure in white robes stepped slowly out of the hall.

It was Gu Changsheng, who had been in seclusion for three years.

The moment he stepped out of the hall, the Spiritual Qi of the entire world seemed to find an outlet, transforming into visible dragons of Spiritual Qi that poured frantically into his body!

Countless profound and mysterious dao patterns manifested around him, flickering in and out of existence before finally merging entirely into the space between his eyebrows.

Deep within his brow, inside that magnificent Heavenly Palace.

An Immortal Emperor Incarnation, identical to him in appearance and wearing imperial robes and a Flat-topped Crown, slowly opened its eyes.

Those eyes were deep and majestic, as if they contained the supreme truths of the Universe's birth and death and the Reincarnation of ten thousand Daos.

With just a casual wave of the Immortal Emperor Incarnation's hand, the violent Spiritual Qi and heavenly dao patterns surging into Gu Changsheng's body instantly became incredibly docile, fully mastered and incorporated into himself!

Meanwhile, within Gu Changsheng's Dantian Qi Sea.

That once-unbeatable Fire God phantom had now become ethereal to the extreme.

The last trace of divinity within it was completely extracted by the overbearing medicinal power of the Ten Thousand Fire Dao Source Pill, turning into the purest nourishment and merging into Gu Changsheng's limbs and bones.

With the dissipation of the final trace of divinity, the Fire God phantom finally collapsed completely, turning into a sky full of light specks.

The Emotion-Extinguishing Mysterious Fire had been completely refined!

Gu Changsheng floated quietly in mid-air, feeling the unprecedented, terrifying power within him—power enough to overturn seas and pluck the stars and moon.

The Return to One Realm.

He had finally taken this final step.