Chapter 587: Middle Stage of Golden Core and Domineering Plunder

After all, back when he refined the Earth Spirit Flame, he hadn’t yet known about the Great Sun Scripture’s peculiar ability to devour and transform. He had treated that Earth Spirit Flame with an extremely simple refining technique and a straightforward mindset.

He hadn’t intended to seize all of the Earth Spirit Flame’s profound mysteries and devour it completely.

It wasn’t until the refinement was complete and he had made the Earth Spirit Flame his own that he finally perceived the Great Sun Scripture’s unique nature.

This time, however, he was approaching the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame with a method of plundering and devouring from the very start. By doing so, he could naturally seize all of its power to the greatest possible extent.

But without a doubt, this would also trigger the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame’s most powerful instinctual backlash.

A ten-thousand-year-old lotus, even one that had only instinctively absorbed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for eons, possessed an unimaginably vast foundation.

The only saving grace was that the Cyan Lotus lacked sentience. Its backlash was purely instinctual, and as such, its power was naturally unfocused.

He would only have to face a portion of the backlash.

Yet, the terrifying extent of even this portion of the backlash seemed to have somewhat exceeded Chu Mu’s expectations.

The rampaging Cyan Lotus Fire Sea indiscriminately swept over everything in the vicinity that could be annihilated.

This included him, as well as the Sky-Breaking Flying Boat he considered his life-saving trump card!

“Condense!”

Chu Mu let out a sharp cry. The entirety of his terrifying Essence, Qi, and Spirit—so immense it was in no way inferior to an ordinary Late Stage Golden Core cultivator’s—erupted from his body. The surging, majestic power enveloped the rampaging sea of fire and then… BOOM! It was suddenly compressed into a fireball roughly ten feet wide.

The fireball was unstable. His immense suppressive force battled the raging Cyan Lotus Fire Sea within it, and it looked as though it could explode at any moment and annihilate everything.

With a savage expression, Chu Mu swept his robes, pulling the fireball into his embrace. He took a single, forceful step out of the Sky-Breaking Flying Boat, which was on the verge of collapsing.

TSSSSSS…

The collision of fire and water created a continuous roar, like a string of firecrackers exploding. As Chu Mu plunged toward the seabed trench, the terrifyingly high temperature around him instantly formed a vacuum tunnel. In that one instant, the seawater in his path was completely vaporized.

After descending a hundred miles into the trench, Chu Mu settled cross-legged into the crude cave he had carved out earlier. When he looked up, he could still see the vacuum tunnel stretching through the seawater above.

The residual heat of the True Flame lingered in the gloom of the deep sea. It resembled a cyan Fire Dragon soaring up from the seabed—a beautiful yet terrifying fusion of water and fire.

At this moment, however, Chu Mu seemed to lose control of the rampaging Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame. The suppression he had been forcefully maintaining collapsed. In a single instant, the berserk flame swept outward again, vaporizing the seawater and creating a Cyan Lotus Fire Domain on the seabed by sheer force!

Within this suddenly expanding sea of fire, the ordinary mountain cave and even the surrounding stone walls began to crack at a speed visible to the naked eye. Enormous, savage-looking fissures spread with terrifying speed.

In just a few moments, the fissures covered the entire cave and this section of the trench, leaving it riddled with crisscrossing cracks. The Cyan Lotus Fire Sea continued to surge, annihilating everything in its path.

‘If I had tried to forcibly devour this flame on the Sky-Breaking Flying Boat, my life-saving trump card would have been annihilated in an instant by this rampaging sea of fire.’

Chu Mu’s expression was calm again. Aboard the Flying Boat, he had been in such a sorry state only because he had underestimated the terrifying power of the flame’s rampage. As a result, he’d had to face not only the portion of the backlash aimed at him, but also had to endure all the rest of its violent outburst.

After all, he had been refining the flame inside the Sky-Breaking Flying Boat. If he had let the raging Cyan Lotus Fire Sea run rampant, the consequences would have been easy to imagine.

Now, however, with that worry gone and only a portion of the backlash to deal with, his extensive preparations allowed him to handle the situation with ease.

He sat cross-legged within the sea of fire, wreathed in crimson flames. He was like a humanoid black hole, as the churning Cyan Lotus Fire Sea around him was visibly plundered and absorbed by his own crimson fire.

Through this rapacious absorption, the profound origin of the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame seeped through his skin, bit by bit, and entered his body.

The curtain had officially been raised on his devouring and refinement of the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame.

And with it, the curtain was also raised on a deeper level of backlash and chaos.

As this deeper, chaotic backlash began to stir, Chu Mu’s attention was no longer on the raging Cyan Lotus Fire Sea outside his body.

His Heart Spirit sank completely into his body. He focused on controlling the Great Sun True Flame as it devoured the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame, while simultaneously suppressing the latter’s instinctual backlash.

As wisps of the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame’s profound origin were drawn into his body, mottled cyan ripples became visible within the crimson Magical Power of Supreme Yang and Firmness that flowed through his crisscrossing Meridians.

These cyan motes were the profound origin of the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame. They circulated through his Meridians, ultimately arriving at his Dantian to be devoured by the Great Sun True Flame.

‘A truly domineering and ambitious method of plundering. It completely dismantles the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame’s ten-thousand-year foundation and all its profound mysteries, bit by bit, before devouring every last scrap without exception.’

‘Compared to the last time, when I muddle-headedly refined the Earth Spirit Flame and only realized what was happening at the very end—barely getting the dregs—this method is countless times more brilliant and greedy.’