Chapter 005: The Power of the Sun

At that moment, Fischer and Anthony arrived, each accompanied by several guards, one in front of the other.
“Your Majesty, Lord Anthony!” As soon as Duke Green saw Fischer and Anthony, he immediately bowed to them.
The people around who were putting out the fire also quickly bowed to the two of them.
“Get up, everyone, get up!” Fischer stepped forward and helped Duke Green and the Duchess to their feet.
Rob and Naixiu, standing nearby, remained motionless, focusing only on Du Fan’s condition.
“Who is this?” Seeing that Rob didn’t pay much attention to him, Fischer immediately asked Duke Green.
“Oh, this is Mr. Rob, a friend my son met in the Dusk Mountains,” Duke Green explained promptly upon hearing Fischer’s question.
“Oh, since he’s a guest from the Dusk Mountains, I won’t blame him,” Fischer said calmly.
“Duke Green, I heard there was a miracle in your family suddenly. What exactly happened?” Archbishop Anthony asked abruptly.
“Oh, it’s just a misunderstanding!” Duke Green said, feeling greatly ashamed upon hearing Archbishop Anthony’s words.
“That’s no miracle at all! It’s my youngest son who, in his recklessness while practicing star combat energy, tried to draw the sun’s energy into his body. As a result, the sun’s energy set this house on fire!” Duke Green explained hastily.
“I see!” Hearing this, Fischer seemed relieved.
“Duke Green, is Du Fan in danger?” Anthony asked immediately.
“Your Eminence! He’s in extreme danger! In our family’s history, two of our ancestors also tried to harness the sun’s power to advance their cultivation, only to be burned to death by it!” Duke Green said suddenly.
“Ah!” At these words, Naixiu screamed and rushed toward the room where Du Fan was.
“Naixiu, it’s useless!” Duke Green quickly blocked her path, stopping her from going in.
“Father! Please find a way to save Du Fan!” Naixiu cried, tears streaming down her face after hearing Duke Green’s words.
“There’s only one way: cut off the energy connection between Du Fan and the sun! The most direct method is to sever that red light column!” Duke Green said firmly.

Just as Duke Green said those words, the fiery red light column grew increasingly hotter! Buckets of cold water poured onto it, but none of it could penetrate—it instantly turned into steam the moment it touched the column, disappearing in an instant.

Soon, the situation changed again. The light column, nearly five meters in diameter, vaporized everything within its reach, including Du Fan and the ground. The fiery red column now enveloped Du Fan entirely.

As he basked in the joy of his rapidly rising cultivation level, Du Fan suddenly felt immense pressure throughout his body. The glowing dots within him had reached a state of saturation in absorbing energy! He had an intuitive sense that if he absorbed even a little more energy, those faint stars within him would explode completely!

Du Fan wanted to stop immediately, but he suddenly realized that the solar energy pouring into his body couldn’t be halted at will!

In that instant, Du Fan found himself in a dangerous situation!

With no other choice, he used all his energy to tightly enclose those glowing dots within him. Under their protection, the dots stopped absorbing solar energy, but the solar energy continued to push its way into them!

The energy of the solar force was incredibly fierce and vast. Du Fan’s own energy was rapidly depleting under its assault, and realizing this, he became panicked!

All his energy was now focused on resisting the solar force from destroying those glowing dots, leaving him completely unable to move.

Pain and agony were clearly visible on his face. Now, Du Fan could hear Nayixiu and Duke Green calling out to him!

But with all his energy devoted to resisting the solar force, he couldn’t even make a sound in response.

Inside the fiery red light column, Du Fan’s clothes and all his hair had burned off due to the extreme heat. He sat naked in the column, his face twisted in agony, with drops of blood even appearing on his skin!

“Hurry, cut off that beam of light!” Duke Green shouted at Du Fan, as streams of star combat energy were continuously fired out under his cries and poured into the red beam. Once Duke Green’s streams of star combat energy entered the red beam, its color actually faded a bit. As the beam’s color lightened, Du Fan’s painful expression eased considerably. Seeing Duke Green attacking the beam, Rob also didn’t idle away; with a wave of his hands, he infused energy of both wind and thunder into the beam. Noticing Rob’s action, Anthony nodded, thinking to himself, “Sure enough, he’s a domain expert.” Judging from the intensity of the energy waves Rob released, Anthony immediately realized he was a domain expert. However, Anthony didn’t expect that Rob was actually a god-tier master. To avoid revealing his true strength, he had been drawn into the divine realm and only released energy at the level of a domain expert. Seeing Rob and Duke Green taking action, Naixiu also waved her hands, sending streams of arrow energy into the fiery red beam. Seeing everyone else joining in, Anthony waved his hand, and a milky white light combat energy also entered the red beam. With so many experts pouring their energy into the beam, Du Fan inside still only felt that his own energy was now sufficient to resist the assault of the sun’s power, without having to worry that it would soon break through his defenses and cause the starlight to explode. Even in this situation, Du Fan was still unable to move. After about ten minutes, Anthony said first, “Duke Green, it seems this is futile. As long as Du Fan can’t get out of that beam, it’s useless for us to stand here doing nothing!” said Archbishop Anthony. “It seems Du Fan is holding up for now; we need to send more people quickly!” Duke Green said after assessing the situation. “Hmm, if that’s the case, I’ll dispatch more experts,” Anthony replied. Initially, seeing Duke Green and Rob taking action, other experts from the duke’s palace who had trained in combat energy or magic also joined in, but they soon realized that experts below the sacred rank had no effect on the fiery red beam at all.

In this situation, Anthony, who had planned to mobilize more people, also stopped doing so. In the Gavin Diocese, aside from Anthony, there were basically no other high-ranking saints. In fact, even if there were, Anthony wouldn’t dare to reveal them all in the face of various forces.

“Duke Green, look—how much longer do we have to keep going like this?” Rob asked.

“If this continues, I estimate the power of the sun will disappear automatically by sunset. We’ll probably have to hold on until then,” Duke Green said after thinking for a moment.

Hearing Duke Green’s words, everyone’s expressions turned serious. They had to maintain their energy output at full strength until sunset, and judging by the current situation, sunset was still about six or seven hours away. Only Rob seemed capable of sustaining such energy output for that long.

“Father, is there any other way?” Nayshu asked anxiously after hearing Duke Green’s words.

“Another option is to cut off that beam of light, but we can’t even stop it, let alone maintain it,” Duke Green said irritably.

“Duke Green, how about I summon Master Abraham?” Fischer suggested seeing the situation.

Abraham was also above the saint rank.

“Your Majesty, it would be good to summon Master Abraham, but I doubt it will make much of a difference,” Duke Green said.

Under these circumstances, four high-ranking saints were already working hard to weaken the power of the sun. Even if all the known saint-ranked experts from the imperial capitals were brought in, it might still be futile. In fact, Rob was equivalent to two people, wielding both wind and lightning energy.

Just as Duke Green was speaking, the power of the sun suddenly intensified! As the day reached its hottest time, the sun’s power grew stronger. Anthony was the first to groan in pain, blood appearing at the corner of his mouth. Seeing this, Duke Green sighed and said, “Elder Bishop, you should rest for now.”

Hearing Duke Green’s words, Anthony said nothing and quietly sat down to recuperate. With Anthony’s departure, the pressure on the three of them increased even further.

Relying on the magic of star combat energy, Rob’s formidable divine-level cultivation, and Nayshu’s body transformed by the Spring of Life, the three of them still managed to withstand the assault of the power of the sun when Anthony left!
Feeling the pressure on their bodies increasing, Rob suddenly roared, “Lilith, come here!”
Hearing Rob’s call, Lilith quickly ran to his side.
“Lilith, if I’m no longer here, will you miss me?” Rob suddenly asked her.
“Rob, what are you trying to do? Don’t scare me,” Lilith said, stunned after hearing his words.