The Huanghuan Tian Dao does not allow the ancestor witch to be reborn again. Zhu Rong is indeed dead, but his body is still full of vitality, and he is in a world full of fire. After mixing the spirituality inside his body with various malice, killing aura, and resentment outside, one million years later, this body will certainly give birth to an entity similar to the corpse demon like Ma Yuan.
The Heavenly Path blocked his path of life, eventually turning him into a state of neither alive nor dead, a mere walking corpse.
"Dong Dong Dong" - the heavy footsteps resound from a distance.
Zhu Rong showed no reaction, still following his thousand-year-old pace, circling the fire world around him. He never rested and was never disturbed by unrelated matters.
Day after day, year after year, unless something unexpected happens, he would wander on indefinitely into eternity.
Something unexpected happened today.
Heavy footsteps matching his own ran to his left and right, and after the other ran for what seemed like an eternity, Zhu Rong began to feel a hint of curiosity. Could there be other living beings in this world that were similar to him?
The longing for kinship overpowered his usual habits, and he took a step onto a different path.
Soon, he saw a giant.
Muscles knotted, his entire body enveloped in flames, with only half of his head intact and both his left shoulder and arm completely gone, the giant was now limping after two jin wu essence.
Zhu Rong felt an immediate sense of familiarity with the flame giant. Where had he seen this being before?
The chaotic scene of the two jin wu essence running away even more vividly stirred up memories that were long forgotten, those memories that resided within this body.
Just the sight of the jin wu essence had his fists hardened!
Golden Sun, enemy. Flame giant, friend.
He could only make such simple judgments.
Seeing the flame giant move clumsily, Zhu Rong's anger flared again. He used his single arm to push the flame giant, meaning, idiot, move aside, let me come.
The flame giant was pushed over, and Zhu Rong took a stride forward to chase after the jin wu essence himself.
His strength was very strong, and his body was even more robust. However, the jin wu essence was small in size, agile in flight, and the two parties maintained a situation where the jin wu essence could not escape and Zhu Rong could not catch up.
Soon, the flame giant who had previously been pushed down roared and chased after him.
Two jin wu essences flew ahead, with two identical flame giants chasing after them.
As they chased, they eventually arrived at a sea of lava.
"WAaaagh!" The lagging flame giant let out a howl and then threw a boulder as big as a small mountain.
The throw was forceful, but the accuracy was poor; the massive stone was still over tenli away from the jin wu essence when it plummeted with a splash into the sea of lava.
Zhu Rong: "???"
It seemed to be quite powerful to call out like that!
Learned it, learned it.
He was like a blank sheet of paper, and just like the flame giant, he called out while throwing a boulder.
As he threw this object for the first time, it naturally missed its target. However, the ancestral witch's natural talent for combat was incredibly high. With just two random throws of boulders, his accuracy improved dramatically.
The two jin wu essences dodged and weaved, and the situation became increasingly dire.
"Bang!" Two massive boulders collided mid-air, and the stone that was originally headed towards the jin wu essence was knocked off course by another boulder.
Zhu Rong turned to look back.
He saw the flame giant still throwing boulders with great effort and making some strange sounds that he found peculiar.
"Ha——!"
"Ha——!"
"Hey——!"
Zhu Rong couldn't help but be attracted by the flame giant's loud calls. You shout "throw one," and I shout "throw two!"
The jin wu essence slipped away without Zhu Rong noticing, as he was preoccupied with competing with the flame giant next to him in throwing stones.
When the sea was filled with a quarter of lava, the sea dragon hidden beneath the sea could no longer bear it and roared out from the depths.
Zhu Rong happened to throw a massive boulder, making a series of random growls at the same time.
The fire dragon charged at Zhu Rong, ready to give this idiot a lesson he would never forget.
Using the Ba Jiu Xuan Gong to transform into the appearance of Zhu Rong, with phoenix-like qi as well, it launched its three ultimate techniques again.
"Stand up!"
"Hold on!"
"Quickly move aside!"
While shouting, she moved towards the edge of the battlefield.
The fire dragon opened its wide mouth, spraying out a stream of scorching flames straight towards Zhu Rong. Then, rather cunningly, it bit towards the neck of Zhu Rong's half-disappeared body from the side.
Zhu Rong had only one hand, his hand reflexively sweeping through the air, and he drew out a time-honored steel whip.
He roughly stuffed the steel whip into the fire dragon's mouth and stirred it vigorously, causing dragon teeth and blood to scatter everywhere.
The fire dragon's sharp claws grabbed into the exposed left wound without skin and muscle, pulling out clumps of dark-red flesh. Zhu Rong was enraged, raising the steel whip to strike the fire dragon's forehead.
His movement was a bit too large, and the fire dragon seized the opportunity to spray a burst of dragon fire onto Zhu Rong's side face, exposing his skull. Zhu Rong's face turned into a blackened mass.
Zhu Rong's strength was immense, and the fire dragon was ferocious. The two clashed, engaging in a fierce battle.
The entire fire world was shaking with every blow they exchanged.
As Zhu Rong swung the steel whip, he struck a fatal blow to the dragon's neck, causing it to crash heavily onto the ground. Its howl of anguish had barely pierced the sky when its head was torn off.
Zhu Rong ultimately triumphed, but at a considerable cost.
His left skull, chest, and neck, which had been injured by the Huanhuan Zhong and could not heal, were further damaged. Now, he was a bit unsteady when walking.
Zhu Rong had forgotten about the previous pursuit of the Jinwu essence and just wanted to return to his territory to continue wandering and patrolling his own place.
When he turned around, he saw a strange flame creature behind him, which was completely red, had feathers and wings. He had never seen such a thing in this world before.
Without giving him a chance to ponder, the Phoenix deliberately drew closer and flung its tail with a flash of vibrant colors.
"A swish."
She directly detonated the newly formed Dao Path, filling her body with the profound Dao. The red light of the five-color divine beam reached its limit, directly absorbing Zhu Rong into the divine realm of the Dao.
The next instant.
In the next moment, the Phoenix felt as if she were carrying the weight of an entire world on her back. Her head was spinning fiercely, as if something were pounding her heart. The red light she possessed could not bear Zhu Rong; it seemed that it would burst at any moment.
"Hurry! Start the forge!" she shouted.
With the nine Jinwu essence ready, they launched the Jiulong Shenhuo Lu. The eldest and second elder frantically lifted the lid, and as soon as the Phoenix's intention flashed, the Jiulong Shenhuo Lu became as large as a mountain. With a flick of her tail, she threw Zhu Rong into the furnace and began to refine him!
The Phoenix sat down heavily on the lid of the furnace.
The nine Jinwu essence sat on the nine palace positions that the Phoenix had arranged earlier. The eldest and second elder each held a fan made of the feathers of the Phoenix and those of the Jinwu, which had been mixed together.
The Phoenix shouted to them: "Fan, quick fan!"
The eldest and second elder, being the most intelligent among them, worked tirelessly to fan the flames.
The other little brothers injected their own flames into the furnace.
The Phoenix sat on the lid of the furnace, reciting sutras to bless Zhu Rong's soul.
