Chapter 79 - Near Death (2/2)

Within the ebullient psyche ocean, refined golden liquids were drawn into his soul, at the same time, the three-legged celestial being paced towards Zhong Yue's soul. Surrounded by the psyche-formed golden liquid, the spirit and soul started to merge together!

In the air, the emergence of the fifth fire cloud was evident, slowly but steadily, his psyche ocean was overlaid by a stratum of clouds.

Concurrently, his psyche ocean was nearly drained and his psyche was on the verge of depletion!

In mid-air, the beast god inner core was still releasing bursts of beast god essence that was incessantly transmuted into his psyche, but even so, his body was still getting all dried up and shrunk down. It was caused by the depletion of his psyche, his psyche ocean was in urgent need of energy and hence, his muscles and blood were burned, and the energy in his body was siphoned away!

At this rate, his body would die of hunger before anything else!

Xin Huo flew out of Zhong Yue's psyche ocean and gazed at him, Zhong Yue was still visualizing, his body took the form of the Xiang Dragon, the once strong and muscular body had withered up and the dragon scales fell off from his body, its muscles shrunk down and the outline of bones could be seen against the shriveled skin.

Moments later, Zhong Yue became wizened and haggard, he sat there and his heart pumped slower and weaker, to a point that it was barely noticeable.

After a long time, his skin creased and his face withered, his muscles were completely atrophied and his skin was stretched tautly across the bones, even the blood veins beneath had seemingly stopped its rhythmic pulsing, as did the beating of his heart.

Time passed and the macabre air of death wreathed around his body.

"Brat Yue?" Xin Huo called for him, but there was no reply.

The little flame panicked, he quickly lunged into Zhong Yue's psyche ocean and cast his gaze at the coalescing soul and spirit, it was still ongoing!

He quickly flew out again and entered Zhong Yue's heart chamber, his heart was starting to die off!

Oh no! If he doesn't do it now, he will never make it!

A few seconds slipped past, Xin Huo suddenly noticed that the heart before his eyes was slowly yet undoubtedly expanding, after which it then gently contracted a little, and the blood was set into motion again, pumping out to the edges of his body as his previously deathly form was gradually being resuscitated back to life.

Xin Huo heaved a breath of relief and flew out of the heart chamber. The sounds of blood flowing could be heard from beneath his skin, gradually getting louder and clearer. At first, it sounded like a gentle stream of water meanderingly trickling down, from which it turned into sound of the flowing river, and soon, his heart began to beat thunderously and resounded like a crashing waterfall!

Wherever the blood flowed to, his skins would bulged up, the deficit energy and drained vigor in the muscles were replenished; his muscles and skin eventually followed suit and finally regained its usual luster!

His body was like a bone-dry and arid land getting baptized by the billowing waves of blood, replenished by the immense energy. And soon, his body was reverted back to its original state.

"You did it!" A wave of excitement engulfed Xin Huo and he exclaimed in joy.

Zhong Yue slowly opened his eyes that were sparkling with merriment, he succeed at the precipice of death, his spirit and soul coalesced as one ... and he was reborn!

In his body, the beast god essence was still flowing out unceasingly into his body where he refined the essence and turned it into energy that satiated his vacuous reserves of strength The replenishment of his power pushed his prowess back to its peak.

"This was, my fault … I've wrongly calculated the prowess of your psyche, tossing you into a near death experience."

Xin Huo apologized and said, "Thankfully, you remained unwavering in the face of death even when I had lost faith. And that's why you could become a Rebirth Qi Practitioner in just tens of days. Now, show me your atman, let me have a look."

Zhong Yue shifted his thoughts and revealed his atman in front of Xin Huo.

Xin Huo lowered his sight and stared blankly at the little peanut before his eyes, he shouted out in shocked, "This is your atman, the Primordial Spirit you've got after coalescing your soul with the spirit? How is it even smaller than me?"

The little flame was only an inch tall and yet, Zhong Yue's Primordial Spirit was two heads shorter than Xin Huo, he was terribly small.

"My psyche was not strong enough, it's a blessing that I could even survive."

Zhong Yue laughed and said, "Fortunately, I've succeed. As long as I continue strengthening my psyche, my atman will also grow stronger. Furthermore, I still have to look into the totem of the Great Sun Golden Crow, only then, can I fully utilize the power of my spirit."

He was less than an inch tall, but the aura he possessed was fierce and dreadful; a human-bodied celestial being with the head and legs of a crow, surrounded by flames and burning fire.

If one did not look at him, but instead just felt the aura he emanated, he would be mistaken as an ancient beast filled with brutality and atrocity – ferocious and barbarous.

The sun spirit Great Sun Golden Crow, the totem patterns in it are incredibly strong and powerful, it is not something I can fully comprehend in a short period of time, it's best if I head back for now.

Zhong Yue gazed at Xin Huo, he asked measuredly, "Xin Huo, you won't tell me that you didn't prepare a teleportation portal to go back right?"

"A teleportation portal to head back...?"

Xin Huo was startled, his face was filled with shock and he yelled, "Aiya, I've totally forgotten about it … Haha, I'm just joking, I'm way too smart and brilliant to ever make such a low-level error. I've prepared a teleportation portal, we will harvest the energy from the sun and teleport back to the moon…."

"Back to the moon?"

Zhong Yue stiffened up his face, he said, "If that godly statue in the moon is awakened…."

Xin Huo realized it too, and he said tardily, "I've never thought about this. But our luck ... we should not be that unlucky right?"