Chapter 312: Chapter 254: Subdue the Evil Fire
“I gave you an opportunity. Since you can’t do it, let me handle it.” Su Yuan glanced at Ruan Ruan. “Ruan Ruan, prepare.”
“Puff!”
Ruan Ruan responded, and an even denser power of devouring silently spread out from its body to mask any movement.
Su Yuan nodded secretly, and white and green flames appeared on his body. He immediately activated the Great Sun Burning Body Technique with all his might!
Previously, such intense fluctuations would have been impossible for Su Yuan to conceal. However, with Ruan Ruan’s help, even the Undead Evil Fire, a treasure of the fire element, did not notice.
Seeing that the Black Fox remained still, Su Yuan flipped his hand and took out a snow-white elixir and swallowed it. It was the Snow God Lotus Heart Pill that Yang Yifeng had someone refine using the Snow God Lotus.
“Ruan Ruan, let’s go.” Su Yuan reminded.
“Puff… puff!”
Ruan Ruan felt that the Black Fox could boil it alive with just a touch. Although it was somewhat afraid, it mustered up the courage to cheer for itself and its master, transforming into a bracelet and wrapping around Su Yuan’s wrist.
Su Yuan activated the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique within him. He raised his hand to form a seal, causing a large amount of star power to surge and gather into his right hand. In just a moment, a fiery golden imprint appeared in his palm!
Despite Ruan Ruan masking the fluctuations of the star power, the moment this golden imprint appeared, the Black Fox sensed a danger from its instincts and its eyes flashed coldly, abruptly looking in this direction.
Meeting the cold gaze of the Black Fox, the bracelet-transformed Ruan Ruan trembled in fear.
At that moment, Su Yuan’s eyes flashed silver, and he instantly teleported to the side of the Black Fox, extending his right hand with the golden rune to strike.
The Black Fox sensed an even stronger crisis. The black flames that circulated calmly on its body roiled violently and started to disperse upon a slight agitation.
However, at that moment, a twisted gravity wave suddenly spread out centered on Su Yuan, causing the Black Fox to pause.
Immediately following this, the Sky Lock, lurking in the void, shot out in all directions and instantly entwined the Black Fox!
The Sky Lock Golden Cicada had nowhere to hide!
Su Yuan had observed for a long time. Now that he had made a move, he had to hit the target with one strike!
The Black Fox felt immobilized and couldn’t escape even in energy form. Its black flames surged violently, burning backward along the twelve Sky Locks.
The Sky Lock, which had never been destroyed by an enemy, was about to be incinerated and melted in a short time!
Although Su Yuan was quite surprised, this amount of time was enough. With a wave of his hand, the imprint in his hand was already pressed on the Black Fox’s head.
The scene suddenly fell silent.
Then, the golden light in Su Yuan’s palm shone brightly. Numerous golden threads shot out from the imprint, interwoven, and within moments, formed a net covering the Black Fox entirely.
The Black Fox let out a silent roar. The phantom body couldn’t be sustained anymore and exploded into a large area of roiling and expanding black flames, almost the size of two basketball courts, nearly breaking free from the golden net.
However, the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique was a secret technique created by human experts specifically for divine fires, extremely valuable. With Su Yuan pushing the Great Sun Burning Body Technique to the extreme star power, it was impossible for the newly born Undead Evil Fire to break free!
The golden net woven with golden threads became increasingly refined. Not only did it forcibly stop the growth of the black flames, but under Su Yuan’s mad injection of star power, it began to shrink!
The process was thrilling yet safe enough. The Undead Evil Fire had no means because the golden net not only suppressed the power of the divine fire but also prohibited its traits. This was the power of the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique!
Watching the divine fire within the golden net getting smaller and smaller, until it was condensed into an egg-sized fire seed pulled into Su Yuan’s star power vortex by the golden threads of the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique!
Instantly, the evil fire erupted again. Part of the black flames with extreme destructive power escaped from the golden net!
Although Su Yuan had laid star power defenses all over his body in advance, they were still burned through by the black flames in an instant, causing significant injuries.
Without the restraints of the golden net formed by the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique, this bursting energy of the evil fire could have turned Su Yuan into ashes from the inside out in an instant!
Su Yuan was prepared for this. He immediately swallowed the Snow God Lotus Heart Pill prepared in advance and activated the Phoenix Perch Saber in the star power vortex, now in Star Card state!
The elixir dissolved quickly, with countless icy intents rapidly neutralizing the incredible heat from the Undead Evil Fire.
The Phoenix Perch Saber could absorb some of the black flames and convert them into a healing effect for Su Yuan’s body.
However, the energy within the Undead Evil Fire was terrifying to the extreme. It was not so easy to suppress; the repairs couldn’t catch up with the speed of destruction. Shortly after, more and more black flames ignited on Su Yuan’s body!
“Puff?!”
The bracelet-transformed Ruan Ruan naturally sensed the terrifying and violent divine fire energy within Su Yuan’s body, already quite anxious.
Seeing the black flames burning on Su Yuan’s body, Ruan Ruan was so frightened it quickly returned to its original form, jumping around Su Yuan in panic!
In just a short moment, several patches of Su Yuan’s skin had turned red and black, severely burned.
“Puff, puff, puff…”
Ruan Ruan was teary-eyed with anxiety, but immersed in subduing the divine fire, Su Yuan had no time to manage it.
At this moment, Ruan Ruan suddenly thought of something. Water light appeared on its body, instantly initiating its devouring skill, Sea Soul Protection!
A layer of water light emerged from thin air, covering Su Yuan’s body entirely. Under the strong healing power, the skin that was continuously burned and cracked didn’t quickly heal but significantly slowed the burning speed.
“Puff, puff…”
Ruan Ruan sensed that this was just treating the symptoms, not the root cause. Its master was still suffering from the black flames’ burning.
Thinking about how touching its master just now felt so terribly hot, and now that horrible black flame was within its master, how much more painful must it be!
With these thoughts in mind, Ruan Ruan couldn’t help but recall how its master had always provided for it since birth, nourishing it without reserve…
Its golden pupils grew increasingly determined, and Ruan Ruan had made up its mind.
Bright water light radiated from its body, and in an instant, Ruan Ruan transformed into a giant water ball several meters in diameter.
Carefully approaching and touching Su Yuan, even with the water shield of Sea Soul Protection, Ruan Ruan instinctively wanted to shrink back due to the heat.
But in an instant, Ruan Ruan restrained itself from withdrawing.
“Puff!”
Brave Ruan Ruan, not afraid of difficulties, protect the master!
Ruan Ruan steeled itself, shook its head to dismiss fear, and resolutely used its massive body to envelop Su Yuan entirely. It began to devour the black flames on his surface.
Instantly, Ruan Ruan’s entire body began to tremble with pain!
The divine fire energy dispersed from Su Yuan’s body was beyond what Ruan Ruan at the Silver Stage could withstand, directly exceeding its devouring limit.
In just a short time, the part of Ruan Ruan’s body enveloping Su Yuan began to dissolve visibly.
“Puff…”
Tears streamed uncontrollably from Ruan Ruan’s big eyes due to the pain, but it gritted its teeth, using the Regeneration skill upgraded to the Transformation Realm by Su Yuan to continuously repair its body while strengthening its devouring of the black flames dispersing from Su Yuan…
Inside Su Yuan, under the continuous weaving and refining of the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique, along with the help of the Phoenix Perch Saber and Snow God Lotus Heart Pill, the dark fire seed of the Undead Evil Fire had become increasingly smaller.
However, it was the Undead Evil Fire. Unless it was completely refined into the star power vortex as described in the Flame Sky Fire Control Technique, Su Yuan dared not relax even a bit.
During this process, Su Yuan felt that at a certain point, his body suddenly became much cooler, and even the surging heat inside him was being absorbed by something, providing significant help.
But now Su Yuan was entirely focused on the Undead Evil Fire in the star power vortex, with not a single extra thought to spare.
As time passed, the fire seed became increasingly concentrated, until it was only the size of a fingernail. Suddenly, an intense black light illuminated the fire seed, with the golden threads wrapping around it shining brightly!
The black fire seed suddenly exploded, finally transforming into a unique, interwoven illusory and real mark that hovered within the star power vortex!
At that moment, all the scorching energy within dispersed entirely, and Su Yuan’s mind was filled with insights about the Undead Evil Fire, like a revelation.
“It’s done!”
Su Yuan’s heart trembled, followed by uncontrollable joy.
Suddenly, Su Yuan felt something fall off his body.
Before he could look, he felt a change in the star power vortex due to the fire seed mark, causing a surge of immense energy.
Su Yuan immediately concentrated, fully refining this vast energy. Having just broken through to the Gold Level not long ago, his cultivation was rapidly stabilizing and continuously rising under this energy’s impact!
After an unknown period, when Su Yuan fully refined the energy, his star power cultivation had forcibly reached the Gold Middle Stage!
Accompanied by a fluctuation of star power, Su Yuan opened his eyes, his silver pupils now swirled with some black flames, appearing quite sinister.
“Phew…” Su Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes filled with intense joy. “Divine fire, got it!”
Just then, Su Yuan recalled something.
“Ruan Ruan?”
He remembered that the one assisting him earlier must have been Ruan Ruan!
Su Yuan turned his head quickly and saw Ruan Ruan lying beside him like a puddle of mud, its sea-blue body now exceptionally transparent.
Su Yuan’s heart tightened, and he quickly checked on it.
After a while, Su Yuan let out a long sigh of relief.
Thankfully, due to the devouring law and high-speed regeneration, Ruan Ruan was not in any danger of life.
The reason it was unconscious now was due to swallowing too much evil fire energy, causing indigestion, star power depletion, and severe injuries without star power for regeneration.
“This little one…”
Just thinking slightly about what had happened and Ruan Ruan’s efforts, Su Yuan understood most of it.
Looking at the exhausted Ruan Ruan asleep on the ground, Su Yuan smiled and carefully sent it into the Guardian Beast Space for treatment.
Having done that, Su Yuan silently thought, “System!”
As Su Yuan gave the command, the system panel appeared before his eyes:
[Su Yuan]
[Level: Gold Middle Stage]
[Soul Card: Azure Sky Phoenix]
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[Heaven and Earth Treasures: Undead Evil Fire]