Chapter 79 - Near Death (1/2)

Zhong Yue's body was beginning to approach its limit as it was on the verge of crumbling from the excessively tyrannical beast god essence in his body, which had now completely transformed into the Xiang Dragon!

The psyche in his psyche ocean could be said as fully depleted, if his psyche was completely drained, all of his prowess would be stripped off from him!

Both options lying in front of him were equally daunting – one was to be assimilated into a Xiang Dragon, while the other was the complete loss of his prowess!

Xin Huo was indeed experienced; from just a glance, he was able to discern the danger faced by Zhong Yue. He realized that he was too impatient, wanting Zhong Yue to directly charge to the stage of 'Rebirth', but Xin Huo did not foresee that Zhong Yue's psyche was not strong enough to support him.

"Xin Huo, if I visualize the Sui Sovereign and Flame Palace wholly, will I be able to refine the beast god essence at a higher rate right?"

Zhong Yue groaned, the Sui Sovereign in his psyche ocean started to grow more authentic, minute details of its form started to come into form, totem carvings emerged on the dragon scales; and a Heavenly Emperor's palace had arisen from the ground. It kept getting higher and the air around turned stagnant amidst its majestic aura!

Before this, he could never maintain such meticulous visualizations of the Sui Sovereign and the Flame Palace whilst preserving the subtle nuances of both at the same time. Hence, he had only visualized the Sui Sovereign all this while, but now, he intended to visualize the both of them with the highest degree of detail possible so as to greatly expedite the refinement of the beast god essence!

Xin Huo inhaled a breath of cold air, witnessing the emergence of the quartz slabs, jade blocks, stone pillars, and all the structures and elements of the Heavenly Emperor's palace coming to life. The palace continued its construction higher and taller, its edifice grew grander and more majestic. Xin Huo mumbled in shock, "This brat is risking everything! The strain and burden on his brain will be enormous if he visualizes the Sui Sovereign and Flame Palace at the same time while maintaining this level of detail, I wonder if his brain will just burst and explode, his brain juice will splattered all across the ground…."

Visualizing the Sui Sovereign and Flame Palace at the same time, adding more detail into them as they grew more genuine and true to life, it was true that by doing so, he could refine the beast god essence at a higher rate, but at the same time, the load on his brain would be immense!

Xin Huo had no expectations that Zhong Yue could have done it, visualizing two saintly figures while at the same time having the abstruse information from the Great Sun Golden Crow disrupting him. With all these distractions, the concentration needed would be far too intense!

Xin Huo flew out of Zhong Yue's psyche ocean and stared anxiously at his head.

"Burst!" The little flame yelled out in fear and terror.

"Thankfully, it didn't…."

Xin Huo gazed fixedly at Zhong Yue, rivulets of sweat rushed out from the latter's forehead, but his whole body was dead cold. All of the energy in his body was directed towards his brain to support him in maintaining the simultaneous visualizations of the Sui Sovereign and Flame Palace.

All of the beast god essence was also centralized in his brain and was getting refined continuously.

Xin Huo could see the veins bulging out on his head and his face turned crimson red, Xin Huo then mumbled again, "This must be it … I think he is going to burst … EXPLODE!"

Zhong Yue gritted his teeth, his face was red reminiscent of the incandescence of burning iron.

"I suppose he is now at his limit?"

Xin Huo leaped onto Zhong Yue's head, and the little flame gently stomped his feet, yelling, "BANG!"

Zhong Yue purged his mind of all distractions, focusing his senses on visualizing the Sui Sovereign and the Flame Palace. As the beast god essence billowed over, the two saintly figures would smite and refine the essence into his psyche. It would then be refined by the Great Sun Golden Crow into the golden liquid that would flow into his soul.

He was walking on a tightrope between two cliffs – one small mistake and his life would be forfeit!

It was at this moment that the fourth patch of fire cloud condensed, the radiant rays illuminated his whole psyche ocean.

As he could now refine the beast god essence at a higher rate, the psyche was not pouring down like rain anymore, but instead, they were like cascading waterfalls!

Now, I suppose I should be able to advance to the third form?

Zhong Yue was a little worried, if the Great Sun Golden Crow advances into the third form, it would certainly be refining his psyche at a greater speed!

No, not now, I need more time! I need to accumulate more psyche before that, if I act recklessly by advancing into the third form, my psyche prowess will be drained up in an instant and all my hard work would be in vain!

Zhong Yue sat stock-still, not moving an inch at all. Xin Huo waited and waited, but Zhong Yue's head was still intact, he heaved a breath of relief and entered Zhong Yue's psyche ocean, he saw that Zhong Yue had already visualized the Flame Palace and Sui Sovereign, Zhong Yue's psyche was regenerating and the once nearly drained psyche ocean was once again flooded full.

He did it!

Xin Huo praised in his heart, he cast his gaze up to the four cumuliform clouds in the air that were like a crimson canvass that covered the whole psyche ocean. It was only a step away from the "five clouds overlaying the ocean", but there were no signs of Zhong Yue advancing the Great Sun Golden Crow into the third form yet.

Brat Yue is way more sedate than I am, he is trying to gather more psyche and when he deems that he has accumulated enough psyche, that'll be when he advances to the last form!

Time slipped past, but Zhong Yue remained like a statue, he was gathering his psyche, biding his time for the right moment to erupt it.

Ten days past ... his psyche was once again at its peak.

But he waited for another two days; he pushed his psyche to the brim of its limit, and finally, Zhong Yue reached out to the Great Sun Golden Crow; the miniature sun quivered, and the three-legged golden crow slowly walked out from the sun.

Xin Huo's heart palpitated heavily, he gazed at it; whatever was going to happen next, was imperative to Zhong Yue's advancement to a Rebirth Qi Practitioner. If he succeeded, he would be able to shed of the worldliness within him and coalesce his spirit and soul into one!

And if he failed, all of his psyche and prowess would be leached away!

The energy in the sun flowed into the three-legged golden crow. As it strode forward, the golden liquid covered its whole body, and it tardily turned into a three-legged celestial being with the wings behind it and the legs of a crow, its lustrously aureate feathers shimmered brightly.

The third form of the Great Sun Golden Crow, the blazing heat enveloped it and as it made its appearance, it brought the psyche ocean to a simmer, evaporating the psyche and lowered the water line rapidly!