Once he understood all of that, Xia Li felt much more at ease.As expected, this predicant was only temporary.The Heaven Alliance existed as a mutual-aid association for people who liked bullying the weak with greater power. I watch your family for you, and in exchange you go out and do whatever you want.So that was how it was.Xia Li had attained enlightennt.And once he understood that, breaking it beca simple.All it would take was one true prodigy stepping forward with a raised arm, rallying rogue cultivators and every cultivator outside the Heaven Alliance, telling them to stop watching from the sidelines just because the flas had not yet reached their own feet.Gather hearts.And trade blood for blood with the descendants of Heaven Alliance mbers.Sooner or later, the Heaven Alliance would crack.Xia Li thought of an organization he had once despised intensely.Snake Eye.Their guerrilla tactics had been shaless to the extre. If turned toward hunting the relatives and descendants of Heaven Alliance experts, they would be perfect.When the ti ca, Xia Li intended to borrow Snake Eye's thods wholesale and give those Heaven Alliance old monsters a very big surprise."Qiu Fu, actually, there's one thing you were wrong about. You said the White Tiger Division had been wiped out, but aren't you still here?"Xia Li rested a hand on Qiu Fu's shoulder.The cancer called Heaven Alliance did not only grow within humanity.The White Tiger Division had been sothing like the immune system of demonkind."But I no longer have any heart left for the affairs of demonkind. Let them do as they please."Qiu Fu was different from Bai Qi, whom Xia Li had t before.Bai Qi had still believed demonkind might be saved, and had wanted to save it.But Qiu Fu had already lost all hope in demons.Perhaps she really was the last surviving orphan of the White Tiger Division.In that case, living on and watching demonkind rot further, making fools of itself again and again, might not be so bad."If you can truly let it go, that's for the best. I only hope you really have let it go."Xia Li did not try to lecture her about responsibility or mission.He could tell Qiu Fu was lost right now, just as he himself had once been.The feeling of being alone in the world, with no clear goal, and finding even the search for the aning of living exhausting."Should I let it go?"Qiu Fu looked into Xia Li's eyes, as if his answer would decide her future.Would she bury her na and live out the rest of her life quietly, or...Xia Li did not answer directly.He rely took out the Three-Apertures Stone Heart and, using Void Refining power in conjunction with shamanic arts, condensed a shamanic fire rune.Then he solemnly handed that rune to Qiu Fu."Sunscorch Valley is just ahead. No one knows what we'll run into there. If we get separated, this will at least let you protect yourself.""This rune has two uses. Throw it out to burn your enemies and buy ti to escape, or...""crush it yourself. The power of Sunscorch Valley's fire-aspect force will surge into your body, and you will wield Void Refining strength until the last drop of your spirit blood burns out.""morize the incantation."Xia Li transmitted a difficult, obscure spell formula into her mind.The path of the shamanic race excelled at directly drawing on the power of heaven and earth, bypassing the process of spiritual-energy transformation.The result was enormous power, but the backlash of many such spells damaged the user.The shamanic race regarded that backlash as a trial.Without a shamanic physique, though, taking that trial simply ant death.The shamanic spell Xia Li had used earlier against Wang Xian and the army formation had not even been an offensive art.It had rely been a trial ant for testing the younger generation of the shamans."Mm..."Qiu Fu nodded.Xia Li had handed the answer over to her.One rune, two possible uses.Two possible roads.Would she preserve her flesh, or preserve what was in her heart?As they went farther on, the green mountains and clear waters vanished.All around them stood scorched, withered black trees.The air carried the reek of burning.Ash fell like rain.Once they passed through the charcoal forest, they erged at the edge of a cliff.Before them lay an enormous sunken basin, and even now flas still gushed continually from the cracks in the earth.Magma flowed across the land like rivers.Terrible heat spread in all directions.From the dim sky, burning cinders continued to fall.This was Sunscorch Valley.The place where the Golden Crow had fallen."We've finally arrived... Is what you want here?"Qiu Fu gazed down over Sunscorch Valley from above.Sunscorch Valley was both a treasure land and a death land, because from ti to ti, fla storms would erupt and burn everything within it to ash.So said the remnant soul of the Golden Crow still had not vanished, that the fallen sun had not truly died, and was still trying to rise again from the ashes."Mm. This is also the end point of my journey."The Golden Core realm was not a realm that fundantally transford the nature of life.
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It was a realm with much greater symbolic aning.There was an old saying:When dicine ets its proper qi, form is born.When the Dao joins the subtle and formless, nature reveals itself.Swallow one golden core into the belly,and only then do you know that your fate is no longer ruled by heaven.The golden core refined inward from essence, qi, and spirit was a path of self-sublimation.The golden core refined outward from heaven and earth was the bold ambition to swallow the sun and moon.From the Golden Core realm onward, the paths of cultivation on Earth and in the Profound World diverged more sharply than anywhere else.And on Earth, the path of outward refinent was also the very essence of technology.What I perceive and what I conceive beco what I attain and what I desire.Never let go.Pursue everything to the end.That was why, after Soul Transformation, Earth's path did not proceed into Void Refining.It turned back toward substance and forged the Golden Body.Not seeking union with the Dao, only refusing to let the heart fall silent.On Earth's lineage, the realm after Soul Transformation was the Golden Body Realm.After Golden Body ca the Undying Heart Realm.Beyond that, Xia Li did not know.This much had only been available through internal materials of the Telekinesis Society, which was why he even knew there was a realm beyond Golden Body called Undying Heart.And so here, Xia Li would step onto the road of Golden Body and Undying Heart.The imitation-star golden core would be the first step.A star endures for ages.Only by laying the foundation now could he later preserve a body of gold and a heart that would not fall silent."You look like you're about to do sothing big here."Qiu Fu noticed the expression on Xia Li's face.It carried anticipation, and determination.Xia Li had already decided to walk the path of Earth.A damaged path, and one whose future remained unclear."I'm going to form my core here.""Just Golden Core? That's nowhere near enough to change everything we're facing."Qiu Fu had thought Xia Li was about to do sothing earthshaking.In the end, it was only forming a golden core.He had made it sound as solemn as if he were ascending or proving the Dao.But what Qiu Fu did not understand was that, for Xia Li, this was practically the sa as ascending and proving the Dao.Why was the imitation-star golden core not recomnded?Because Earth simply could not find materials that perfectly matched the theory.It was a hypothesis.And even more than that, it was a kind of romance unique to humanity.No matter how different their cultures, races, or beliefs, humanity had always held an instinctive reverence toward the sun.That reverence still endured, and had even developed into the dream of conquering the sun itself.One of the most arrogant manifestations of that dream was the Dyson sphere.Humanity could not yet build such a cosmic wonder in truth, but a miniature Dyson sphere?That had aning.The significance of the imitation-star golden core was unlike that of the other ninth-grade golden cores.Xia Li wanted to be a pioneer.He wanted to create an imitation-star golden core that truly matched its theoretical values, explore the limits of humanity, and construct a Dyson sphere within his own dantian."It's enough!"If he really could reach the theoretical limit, then the final overheating phase would no longer be a re supernova jet.It would beco a truly supre killing move.Helium flash.The radiance of one hundred million degrees.He certainly would not reach a temperature that high.But if it could still vaporize Soul Transformation cultivators on impact, what more did he need?"Fine. If you say it's enough, then it's enough. But Sunscorch Valley lies in the middle of Manzhou. The mont we show ourselves, both the Demon-Hunting Army and the Human-Subjugation Army will co. And with terrain like this, we won't be able to flee. It's a dead end."Qiu Fu understood very clearly that once they went down, it would either succeed or end in death.This would decide superiority.And life and death."Are you afraid?"Xia Li stared at Qiu Fu."Afraid?"Qiu Fu smiled, then walked to the cliff's edge.Facing Xia Li with her back to the abyss, she slowly spread her arms and let herself fall backward.The sight reminded Xia Li of his earlier self.Then...Qiu Fu dropped off the cliff.After a short accelerating run, Xia Li no longer hesitated and jumped after her.The two of them plunged through the rain of ash, letting the sparks wash over their bodies.More and more cinders were swept up around them as they fell.Their eyes t in midair, and both of them smiled.The humans and demons in the valley below all saw the pair dropping from the sky like teors.Their first thought was the sa:what exactly were these two trying to do, making themselves this conspicuous?And after so of them recognized Xia Li and Qiu Fu, they shot into the sky at once, clearly intending to intercept and kill them before they landed.
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