Chapter 0262: Another Breakthrough

Nanyang Li Fire—a flame formed by gathering the essence of fire from heaven and earth—is even more powerful than the Samadhi True Fire.
“Yet, there’s actually such a sea of Li Fire deep underground in this Last Dharma Starland?” Huang Long snapped back to reality, puzzled.
Generally, Nanyang Li Fire exists in the void and does not appear underground.
Huang Long immediately used his Tian Tong Eye to gaze into the sea of fire. But aside from Nanyang Li Fire, there was nothing else. Frowning, he wondered if his guess was wrong.
According to his initial assumption, this sea of Li Fire must have been caused by something else.
Just as he thought his guess was wrong, suddenly, centered on a point in the middle of the sea of fire, the flames began to ripple layer by layer, like waves.
“Is this the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl?!” Huang Long stepped back in shock.
In the middle of the sea of fire, a pearl the size of half a fist slowly rose. The pearl was crystal clear, its surface shimmering with dazzling light, as astonishing streams of red fire energy radiated in all directions.
After emerging from the sea of fire, the pearl emitted a humming sound, with flames on its surface fluctuating in size, creating a powerful sucking force. Huang Long could sense that fire energy from all directions was converging toward it.
The sea of Li Fire grew even more turbulent.
“This Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl has developed consciousness?!” Huang Long exclaimed in astonishment.
Once things acquire consciousness, they may soon break free from their original forms and transform into humans. Clearly, this Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl was not far from achieving human form.
In the Pangu World, Nezha was reborn from a spirit pearl—this Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl was also a type of spirit pearl.
What Huang Long didn’t expect was that the sea of fire suddenly surged and rushed toward him. He quickly regained his senses and used the Earth Escape technique to retreat swiftly.
Above the sea of fire, the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl floated in midair, surrounded by intense light and humming sound. It emitted a powerful sucking force in Huang Long’s direction.
This conscious Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl had detected his presence and seemed interested in him!
After a moment of shock, Huang Long sneered. This little thing dared to target him—it seemed determined to devour him.
Huang Long had already absorbed and merged the divine bodies of Lin Youwu and Black Demon. His physical body was undoubtedly a nourishing substance for this Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl. If it devoured Huang Long and was nourished by energy for a few more years, it might just succeed in transforming into a human.

With a cold sneer, Huang Long focused his mind, and a flash of light appeared as his body was clad in the Bagua Purple Longevity Robe. As the Bagua symbols spun on the robe, a purple energy aura emanated, blocking the absorption power of the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl.

Immediately afterward, Huang Long summoned the Immortals Pavilion. In mid-air, the pavilion expanded rapidly, with its spirit, a five-clawed golden dragon, coiling around and roaring.

“Divine Fiend Dragon Wave!”

As the five-clawed golden dragon opened its mouth and spat, a beam of golden light shot forth, transforming into a divine dragon that rushed toward the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl. Wherever it passed, flames erupted, spreading out and creating a passage hundreds of feet wide, which quickly brought it before the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl.

The Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl seemed unprepared for this outcome. Sensing the threat from the five-clawed golden dragon, it let out a trembling cry and took to the air, with bursts of crimson flames emerging. At the same time, all the fire in a radius of a hundred miles around gathered toward it, turning the area into a crimson swamp hundreds of feet wide in an instant.

The five-clawed golden dragon’s attack struck the swamp, causing intense vibrations and the crimson mud to roll continuously.

The Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl had blocked the attack of the five-clawed golden dragon!

In fact, this Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl was formed over millions of years from the geothermal energy at the core of the Dying Era Planet. After gaining consciousness, it absorbed fire-based spiritual energy for thousands of years, making it extremely powerful. If it were to fully transform, it would be far stronger than ordinary divine-level warriors. That’s why it could so easily block the attack of the five-clawed golden dragon.

Seeing this, Huang Long was initially surprised but soon rejoiced. Although he didn’t know how many years it had taken to form the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl, it must have been at least a million years. If he could absorb and assimilate its spiritual energy over those millions of years, it might allow him to reach the peak of the Tribulation Crossing stage, or even attain the realm of an immortal!

The realm of an immortal, an immortal body!

At that time, he could ride clouds and mist, transform at will, and even take on a dragon form—rather than just a human-shaped dragon!

A cold glint appeared in Huang Long’s eyes. The Immortals Pavilion expanded again, and various magic arrays within it began to activate. As they spun, they sent a crushing force toward the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl. At the same time, Huang Long drew out the Green Rainbow Sword.

Standing high in the sky, the Green Rainbow Sword emitted thousands of sword beams that descended with great force.

Under the continuous attacks from the Immortals Pavilion and the Green Rainbow Sword, the crimson swamp trembled violently before collapsing back into a sea of flames, revealing the shape of the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl at its center.

At that moment, the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl let out a trembling cry and flew away in panic.

“Flee?” Seeing this, Huang Long pointed with both hands at the Group of Immortals Pavilion in midair. A brilliant light shone intensely, and soon a column of light enveloped an area of dozens of miles around. When it touched the panicked Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl, it was repelled by an overwhelming force.

The column of light under the Group of Immortals Pavilion pulsed with light as it tightened inward. Buzz! Trapped, the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl sensed danger and let out loud trembling sounds. Puffs of fire-based spiritual energy surged out rapidly, and its size expanded several times over, turning it into a fireball that charged straight at the column of light. Boom! Under its attack, the column of light trembled violently, its brightness dimming significantly.

Seeing this, Huang Long quickly took to the air, spat out his vital energy, and poured it into the Group of Immortals Pavilion. He also ordered the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon to activate the internal arrays within the pavilion, unleashing continuous attacks with purple lightning, true fire, and various other powerful formations.

The Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl continued to tremble, its surrounding red light fading under the attacks of the pavilion’s arrays. It fled in all directions, and soon its size returned to normal. Yet no matter how hard it attacked, it couldn’t break through the column of light surrounding the pavilion. Whenever the light dimmed, Huang Long would spout more vital energy to strengthen it, causing its brightness to surge again.

Eventually, realizing it could not escape, the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl even emitted pleading trembles toward Huang Long. In the end, Huang Long took the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl inside the Group of Immortals Pavilion.

After storing the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl there, Huang Long exhaled in relief, then felt joy—unexpecting such a surprise while trapped on the Last Era Planet. For Tian Yun and his group, this was the greatest gain!

The Blue Whale Temple’s strange bottle, capable of repairing damaged divine essences, was unimportant to Huang Long, but the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl was different. Equivalent to a million-year-old spiritual herb, absorbing it could directly enhance Huang Long’s cultivation level and even help heal his damaged soul, with no side effects.

After storing the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl, Huang Long calmed his excitement. He glanced at the sea of fire formed by the Nanyang Separation Fire around him, then summoned the Five Prisons Divine Cauldron to collect it all. The Nanyang Separation Fire was valuable, whether used for crafting pills or magical artifacts.

After gathering the Nanyang Separation Fire, Huang Long expanded his divine sense. Finding nothing unusual around, he vanished from the ground. Instead of returning to the magic teleportation array, he went to the summit of a mountain thousands of miles away. There, he set up several large arrays around him.

Now, what Huang Long needed to do was erase the consciousness of the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl trapped inside the Immortals Pavilion, and then, just as he had absorbed Lin Youwu and the Black Demon’s divine bodies, use the Triple Pure Fire and the Galaxy Vortex Technique to melt it, extract its spiritual energy, and integrate it into himself.

Sitting in lotus position, Huang Long focused his mind, summoned the Immortals Pavilion, and then emitted his vital energy to activate its magic array. The Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl, trapped within the Dayan Divine Thunder Array at the center of the pavilion, began to dart around frantically, emitting intense red light as it struck wildly in all directions. Yet no matter how hard it tried, it could not break through the Immortals Pavilion’s array and escape.

After days and nights, Huang Long finally erased its consciousness and began to melt it using the Triple Pure Fire and the Galaxy Vortex Technique. But he did not expect that the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl would be even harder to refine than the Black Demon’s divine body. It took him half a month before it started to melt, even as his own magical energy grew depleted.

Once melted, streams of red gas flew toward Huang Long and merged into his body. At that moment, Huang Long activated the “Water-Fire Primordial Dragon Technique” to continuously absorb and refine this energy, integrating it into every corner of his body. Two dragons of water and fire coiled around him; from afar, red and blue lights shot straight into the sky.

As the million years of spiritual energy from the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl was gradually melted and absorbed by Huang Long, the spiritual energy in the surrounding area was also affected, becoming increasingly violent. It spread rapidly, covering hundreds of miles around.

Hundreds of miles away, the dust on the Surface of the Dying Era Planet was drawn upward, floating slowly into the sky. Thousands of miles further away, Long Yi and the others sensed the astonishing activity and stopped in shock, then rushed toward the scene.

Meanwhile, Huang Long remained immersed in his meditation, continuously using the Water-Fire Primordial Dragon Technique to absorb and refine the million years of spiritual energy from the Nanyang Fire Spirit Pearl, unaware of what was happening around him.

As it melted and was absorbed, the coiling dragons of water and fire grew larger, their scales becoming thicker, like pieces of cold gold. With each roar of the dragons, storms arose high in the sky of the Dying Era Planet. The fierce energy layers were torn apart by the power emitted by the dragons.

Huang Long’s cultivation level continued to rise. Gradually, he broke through the later stage of the Calamity Crossing period and reached its peak. Yet he still did not stop, continuing to ascend.

Long Yi, Sea God Apton, Phoenix Simp, and Belin, who had come from various corners of the Dying Era Planet, were shocked by what they saw. “Is that Brother Huang Long?!” In his astonishment, Long Yi recognized Huang Long, who was sitting in lotus position in mid-air.

Could it be that Huang Long is once again accidentally about to make another breakthrough?! Long Yi and the others exchanged glances, speechless.