Hou Niao didn’t know if this was his opportunity, but he had to take a gamble.
Talking about the Continent, for the ordinary people, all these were too unreal; the situation was caused by those Daoists, why should he clean up their ss and still risk so much?
But if it was his own matter, there would be a reason to stay and fight for a chance of survival; so, while others ran, he quietly stayed behind amidst the chaos.
The Fire Worshiping Beast, an innate exotic beast, had imnse destructive power. Most fatally, it never considered any life in a Star Domain to be very important; in its consciousness, this Universe should belong to the naturally born beings, they were the true masters of this Universe.
It simply acted on instinct, and whatever disaster it might bring to humans was beyond its consideration.
Because of this concept, it disregarded everything when it broke through the volcanic vein’s molten lava, not considering the consequences at all, which put Hou Niao in a very difficult position.
Kill this creature? With the protection of the Fire Spirit Pearl, it was utterly impossible, even the Dutian Formation ford by Zhi Xuan and twelve others couldn’t do it, let alone him alone?
To subdue this Fire Worshiping Beast, he first needed to gain the support of the Fire Spirit Pearl, which was unfamiliar with him, so he could only pressure it through the other four Five Elents Pearls, that was roughly the logic.
As flas raged, Hou Niao directed his mind towards the Fire Spirit Pearl, establishing a connection within the frawork of the rules, devoid of any friendship, entirely based on the Five Elents, with understanding of the Fire Spirit Pearl and his own insights.
He did not consider himself as a human, but as an enlightened creature, just like the Fire Worshiping Beast.
His gains from the past six years, and the accumulation over hundreds of years, all combined, quickly established a connection with the Fire Spirit Pearl. It wasn’t recognition yet, since what he understood was too superficial, but at least, considered a fellow traveler?
Each of the Five Elents Pearls had its own Spiritual Sense, completely different from human consciousness; in communication with it, one couldn’t use interests, emotions, threats, intimidations, everything based on the Five Elents.
This was difficult, but also easy.
He made a request to the Fire Spirit Pearl to invite the other Five Elents Pearls, not for anything else, but to verify the Five Elents Path; since their arrival in this Boundary Domain, they hadn’t had a family reunion yet.
In hesitation, the Fire Spirit Pearl pondered, and Hou Niao found it hard to understand what it was hesitating about? But in his judgnt, such a gathering might be a bit early, should it naturally occur at the mont of Jinxiu’s Heaven Creation?
The Fire Spirit Pearl was still considering, but the Fire Worshiping Beast wouldn’t contemplate; it discovered a human ant during its Upper Realm convergence process and imdiately launched an attack.
It lacked a sacrifice for its Upper Realm, about why this ant stayed here, or any conspiracy, it didn’t care.
The attack of the Fire Worshiping Beast was purely the power of fire, no moves, no routines, an attack of rules; Hou Niao knew he had to counterattack in the sa way, couldn’t use Flying Sword, couldn’t use the bizarre human ans, once used, the Fire Spirit Pearl would imdiately categorize him as a foreign entity, and he would lose the Fire Spirit Pearl’s aid in the contest with the Fire Worshiping Beast.
Moreover, even using a Flying Sword might not put the Fire Worshiping Beast to death; for such energy-natured innate exotic beasts, apart from the Dao Realm, no other thod could truly kill it.
In the face of life and death, for a Sword Cultivator to resist using his most expert swordsmanship and only use Fire Elent cognition to contend, how many could achieve this?
He did it!
The power of fire filled every space around, this was a contest of fire; unfortunately, he was at an absolute disadvantage in the confrontation.
Not ntioning the stance of the Fire Spirit Pearl, even the foundation of the two opposing sides rendered comparison aningless, one was a human majoring in swordsmanship with limited Fire Elent understanding, the other was a cosmic Exotic Fire turned spirit, the gap was huge.
From the beginning, Hou Niao had no chance to retaliate; all he could do was fiercely resist the Fire Worshiping Beast’s fire invasion, making strategic retreats step by step.
It was a gamble, he didn’t place hope on making a miraculous coback, his real hope lay in the recognition from the Fire Spirit Pearl;
Judging the right mont was tough, a wrong step might lead to death under the fire of the Fire Worshiping Beast, how long to endure was most appropriate, he couldn’t say, but he knew to resolve his problem, he could only walk down this tightrope.
After over two centuries of cultivation, he was accustod to this rhythm, without which he wouldn’t stand out among nurous talents.
To manifest before others, one must strive desperately behind the scenes, an undying principle.
Only by gritting his teeth and persisting.
Whenever he was on the verge of giving up, he would tell himself to hold on for ten more breaths, or five, and a chance to catch his breath might co, persisting step by step in this way until even his mana was insufficient to help him escape this dangerous place.
Now, not persisting was not an option.
And the Fire Spirit Pearl kept wavering, neither aiding the Fire Worshiping Beast nor him.
He didn’t know what his fate would be if the Fire Spirit Pearl continued hesitating...
Cultivation was also a gamble; so thought it unworthy, believed the Sword Cultivator’s destination should lie in the sword, but over two hundred years of cultivation, he truly understood that if there was sothing above the sword, it was the Dao.
Or rather, the two were different entities, one was a Skill, the other was the Dao, the weight of each, self-evident.
The true destination for a cultivator was in the pursuit of the Great Dao.
Not unsheathing his sword till death, this was his determination.
Sowhat failing to endure, he could clearly feel the fire toxicity penetrating deeper and deeper into his body, to the extent where even escaping the danger left him clueless on expelling the fire toxicity.
From skin, flesh, bones, invading into ridians, dantian and Inner Secret, finally seeping into the Purple Mansion... to use an idiom, it was a sickness entering an advanced stage, incurable.
One foot had already stepped into Ghost Gate.
Hou Niao couldn’t help but smile wryly, Ghost Gate he was familiar with, never thought he would return so soon, and wondered if Wu Yaoyao’s Chunnuan Pavilion would accept him?
Gradually, his Purple Mansion was entirely tainted by fire toxicity, and he was passively becoming a fire toxicity person, his entire body filled with this extre Fire Elent factor, turning into a Half Fire-man, losing the fundantal traits of a human, in any outside environnt, light would an death, but in this Fire Elent environnt, relying on a hint of clarity from his Spirit Platform, he could still barely retain a trace of conscious awareness.
He was gambling, gambling that after seeing the other four Five Elents Pearls, their Spiritual Sense characteristics would not be fundantally different.
The fire toxicity burnt into his Divine Sense at the last point within his Sea Of Consciousness’s Spirit Platform, when this bit of Divine Sense was lost too, he would beco nothing more than a trivial speck of dust in the volcano.
As the fire toxicity neared his Spiritual Sense, a sudden surge of joy rose within his spirit...
The fire toxicity of the Fire Worshiping Beast stopped within an inch from the last stand of his Spiritual Sense, it could advance no further.
The Fire Spirit Pearl stopped it.
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