Endless Divine Fire enveloped Chen Nan’s entire body, annealing every inch of his flesh.
At this moment, Chen Nan felt for the first time that death was so close, his consciousness becoming increasingly blurry as if it could dissipate at any moment.
Amidst the haze, Chen Nan felt as if he were engulfed in endless darkness.
His consciousness became extremely vague, he struggled to open his eyes, and it seemed as if there was a door before him. If he could just push open this door, endless light would welcome him.
He repeatedly told himself in his heart, trying hard to stretch his hand to push open the door before him, but he no longer had any strength left.
If I die, what will happen to Qingqing?
Chen Nan clenched his teeth, struggling to twitch his body, his skin split open and flesh burst, the endless pain constantly reminding him that he could be buried in the copper furnace at any moment.
I absolutely cannot die. If I die, who will save my girl!
Chen Nan clenched his fists, used the strength of nine oxen and two tigers to stagger to his feet, surrounded by nothing but endless darkness, without a hint of light.
He struggled to take steps, moving towards that door leading to the light based on his instincts.
His hands pressed against the door, enduring the heart-wrenching, lung-splitting pain, he pushed hard against the door.
Inside the copper furnace, the surging Divine Fire blazed fiercely.
At this moment, Chen Nan still lay on the ground, but in the sea of his consciousness, a gate to the Supreme Martial Arts slowly opened, allowing his consciousness floating in the darkness to feel the light of the future.
A crisp sound echoed.
At the instant that the door in Chen Nan’s mind was pushed open, endless light spread out, and he took another step forward on his path of cultivation.
At this moment, every inch of Chen Nan’s twitching flesh began reconstituting from the split wounds.
A powerful Inner Strength flowed from every inch of his flesh, rushing through his veins and enveloping his flesh, leveraging the external Divine Fire to forge an invincible Martial Body.
The potential of the human body is immensely vast.
The cultivation of an Ancient Martial Artist can be done completely without external Spiritual Energy, only by unlocking one’s inner potential, excavating every bit of strength.
The power contained within the human body isn’t comparable to external Spiritual Energy, but the difficulty of unleashing it is countless times harder than absorbing external Spiritual Energy for cultivation.
Only at this moment did Chen Nan truly understand.
A pure Martial Artist, only by unlocking their own potential and continuously excavating the power of the physical body, can truly reach the peak.
About five minutes passed.
Chen Nan’s body, which had been torn and burst, had now completely restored to its original form. His bronze skin was covered with a faint glow, and his streamlined muscles were even more symmetrical than those of a bodybuilder.
He stood up and moved his body, immediately his joints cracked popping sounds. Every movement was filled with explosive power.
Chen Nan withdrew his Protective Gang Qi and just stood in the furnace, yet the surrounding Divine Fire could not harm him at all.
After undergoing a transformation, not only had his cultivation skyrocketed, but his Martial Body had become unprecedentedly powerful.
Even the Divine Fire, which could melt stone and steel, could not pose any threat to him. Regarding the path of Martial Arts, Chen Nan aspired, to what extent would the ultimate in martial excellence reach?
"Hahaha, Chen Nan you little thief, you must have been burned to ashes by now!"
Suddenly, the voice of that middle-aged cultivator came through, Chen Nan frowned, had the Black Feathered Chicken already been captured by him?
He was just about to burst through the mouth of the furnace when suddenly—
A crisp sound rang out, and the furnace was covered with a lid.
Chen Nan raised his palm, the Power of Splitting the Sky activated, and his originally white True Qi instantly turned golden, combining with the demonic Qi of the Demon Sword to form an indestructible Xuanhuang Battle Qi.
Chen Nan shouted loudly, kicked at the bottom of the furnace, and his body shot up against the void, smashing his fist towards the lid.
The entire copper furnace trembled violently as if heaven and earth were flipping over. Chen Nan’s fist created a deep imprint on the lid, but as soon as he released his grip, the imprint miraculously repaired itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The middle-aged Cultivator outside was clearly taken aback, "You... you’re actually still alive!"
"The one who should die is you!"
Chen Nan sneered, without continuing to strike the lid, he instead slapped his palm against the furnace wall.
After the initial shock, the middle-aged man burst into laughter, "When you were outside, you couldn’t resist, I don’t believe you can escape!"
"Why should I escape, it’s just an Eighth-grade Spiritual Artifact, I’ll smash it to pieces."
As Chen Nan spoke, he launched two consecutive palms, shaking the entire copper furnace violently as if a blacksmith was hammering iron.
The middle-aged man didn’t take the noise Chen Nan was making seriously. He had absolute confidence in the Eighth-grade Spiritual Artifact bestowed by his sect; he didn’t believe that Chen Nan, once captured, could still escape.
"You really think you’re the Monkey King, thinking you can escape from the Furnace of Eight Trigrams, dream on!"
"Even if I were the Monkey King, with your trash, how can you compare to Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad!" Chen Nan launched three palms in a row, all striking the same spot, causing the furnace wall to cave in and protrude from the outer surface.
Immediately after, two more palms were struck, and with a "crack" sound, a crack appeared on the furnace wall.
"How... how is this possible!" The middle-aged Cultivator exclaimed.
"I’ve said before, in front of me, all Cultivation Treasures are like scrap metal, not worth a single blow!" As Chen Nan spoke, he continuously pounded the furnace wall with his palms.
After Chen Nan’s three strikes, the entire wall of the furnace was crisscrossed with cracks.
With the final hit, Chen Nan executed the Dou Character Secret Technique.
The Crack Sky Hand combined with the Dou Character Secret Technique, unmatched in power, and with one strike, a tremendous boom resounded, shattering the entire copper furnace instantly, with broken fragments flying in all directions.
The extremely intense Golden Divine Fire burst forth instantly, engulfing an area of hundreds of meters, burning fiercely.
A piercing scream sounded.
The middle-aged Cultivator, who didn’t possess such an abnormal Martial Body as Chen Nan, was caught off guard and instantly scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, his skin splitting open. Only after raising his Protective Gang Qi did he manage to escape by Sword Flight.
"You brought this on yourself, live with it!"
Chen Nan stepped out with the Slaughter God Seven Steps, moving rapidly across the void in hot pursuit.
He moved incredibly fast, his Xuanhuang Qi soaring into the sky like a divine light streaking across the heavens, and in the blink of an eye, he caught up to the middle-aged man ahead. Chen Nan sneered, "Did you think you could escape?"