Chapter 527: Chapter 527: Fiery Star Flame

The immortal did have special means and methods far beyond the imagination of the practitioners from Central Region.

Even the Virtual Tribulation Realm elders struggled under various punishments and most of them perished quickly.

However, the rewards they received were also incredible. Granting 500 years of lifespan as a reward in a single go was something that only a legendary immortal could do.

“I've never even heard of Fiery Star Flame before. I wonder what kind of flame it is.”

“Whatever it is, Zen is going to die anyway, judging by the intensity I can see even from here. It's a pity, you know? Our Bloodwood Cliff was considering hiring him to build a sect-protecting array. We have even decided on a quite big budget.”

“Why is Zen so unlucky?” Brent pursed his lips. He hadn't expected that Zen would have to face his punishment after a mere three steps.

Even Dillon from the World Commercial Alliance frowned and remarked, “I can see that his aura is vigorous and auspicious, and his karmic luck is extremely good. To be honest, even I have never seen anything like this before. I don't know why he has suddenly gotten so unlucky here.”

The Ancient Tycoon looked at Zen who was surrounded by purple lights at the moment, and smiled faintly, “It is true. This kid's fortune is indeed very strong. But a single moment's luck doesn't mean anything. Only a lifetime's luck is the true luck.”

Dillon didn't say anything, but in his heart, he was thinking, 'A lifetime's luck? Not a chance. He will have to survive this punishment first.'

Watching the purple flames float around him in midair, Zen squinted his eyes. His spiritual weapon body hadn't advanced any level for a long time. Although the red dragon had helped him to forge his body, he had taken the path of body refining. To the untrained eyes, the two methods seemed to be quite similar to each other, but in reality, they were two completely different paths.

Zen had chosen to refine his body with abnormal flames before, but it was hard to find abnormal flames. Before today, Zen had encountered a few types of abnormal flames, but none of them had ever had any effect on him. For example, in Cloud Sect, when he had encountered the flames from Mack's magic array, they had activated his physical body, but it seemed that his body was rejecting the flames instead of absorbing them.

Clearly, not all flames in the world were “good enough” to be used for body tempering techniques.

'These flames should be just what I need, ' Zen thought as he narrowed his eyes.

Although the Fiery Star Flames seemed to be light as a feather and were like numerous strings woven of flowers as they gently descended towards Zen, he could already feel the terrifying power within them before they even touched him!

In the past, only after Zen's body had been completely incinerated by the abnormal flames would he notice any change on his skin. His body would gradually turn red, and a golden vortexes would appear on his skin.

But this time, even while the flames were a good distance away from him, some golden Sanskrit had already covered Zen's skin. Much before the flame touched him physically, the Sanskrit turned into numerous vortexes that erupted with a fierce traction force!

His body began to throb and he suddenly realized that the throbbing was actually a very strong and fierce desire to get close to the Fiery Star Flame!

“What's going on?”

When he would not move towards the flame, the strong traction force attracted the flame itself from a distance and very soon, not one string of flame was left out.

Noticing everything that was going on, Zen stood upright on the ground, and allowed the Fiery Star Flames to enter his body. Apart from a dazzling golden light surrounding him, his body had completely turned red, as if he was a statue that had just been cast using molten metal. ṝἈΝȪβĘȘ

However, for some reason, Zen didn't feel too uncomfortable at the moment. Instead, he felt as if a sense of laziness and comfort had fallen on him.

After a long while, the Fiery Star Flame finally stopped falling above Zen's head. Only then did the light on his body slowly fade away, and with it, the purple light surrounding Zen also gradually dissipated.

“Alas, he has probably turned into a pile of ashes.”

“Him dying here is indeed quite a tragic incident. The most talented runic expert in the history of Central Region only left one piece of work in the world and then died. What a pity!”

“It isn't too surprising, though. Generally speaking, a martial artist with this sort of monster-level talent either has great luck in the world or faces great doom. The heavens cannot tolerate anything else for him. A pity that this boy should belong to the latter …”

Letitia looked at the fading purple light, where Zen was standing, and clenched her fists tightly. Of course, she had investigated Zen before and knew that Zen's physique was very special. In Cloud Sect, his physique had been comparable to a spiritual weapon, invulnerable to swords and spears, and could even bear the burning effects of fire.

However, it was likely that the flames Zen could withstand were nothing compared to the Fiery Star Flame. Therefore, she wasn't so sure about whether Zen could withstand the Fiery Star Flame or not.

Letitia had initially opened her eyes wide and was staring at the purple light. However, all of a sudden, she turned her head, her face completely red.

What was that? Once the purple light had completely dissipated, Zen was sitting upright on the round disk, safe and sound. However, he was completely naked. The Fiery Star Flame had burned his clothes.

At this moment, Zen's body was clearly visible. The newly forged physical vessel was still emitting a faint afterglow. Seeing this sort of near-perfection, the crowd was stunned.

“This brat … how did he do that? What did he do?”

“Look. His body wasn't damaged at all. The flames were unable to harm him even a bit!”

“Yes, I don't get it! Even if Zen was a Life and Death Realm expert, he would still have been injured while trying to resist the Fiery Star Flame. Even in the best possible scenario, he wouldn't have ended up like this after his encounter, with all his clothes burnt out and his body completely fine. But somehow, I get the feeling that the aura from Zen's body has become even stronger!”

Apart from Letitia, all the other warriors were looking at Zen in shock and surprise, including Lady Poison-blood and the Holy Maiden of the divine kingdom.

The Holy Maiden of the divine kingdom looked at Zen, who was sitting not far away. For the first time now, there was surprise on her face.

It was just as the elegant man had said. In her opinion, everyone here was lowly like an ant. She was well aware that this round's assessment was about luck and fortune, but whose luck could be stronger than hers?

Even though that kid at the Illuminating Soul Realm did not have an extremely powerful luck factor and had taken only three steps after throwing the dice twice, his strength seemed unusual.

Besides the Holy Maiden, the handsome man, and several other martial artists from the divine kingdom were also stunned.

As an Illuminating Soul Realm practitioner, once he had entered the Mist Celestial Tomb and been suppressed by the energy that haunted its airs, Zen should only have been a nature creature, right? How could he possibly block the Fiery Star Flame?

Even a Life and Death Realm warrior would have found it difficult to resist the Fiery Star Flames. Therefore, it seemed extremely impossible that Zen could pass through the punishment of the Fiery Star Flame without being harmed at all!

Although the martial artists from the Central Region were also surprised, the shock on their faces was not as intense as the people from divine kingdom.

Before today, Zen had already displayed his ability to challenge opponents on much higher levels of cultivation. Therefore, the Central Region had already come to know of his monstrous strength and no longer treated him as an ordinary Illuminating Soul Realm warrior.

However, even if Zen was comparable to an Internal Elixir Realm cultivator, how did he manage to endure the Fiery Star Flame? Even a Virtual Tribulation Realm elder couldn't endure it, so how did Zen survive?

“I guess one can only say that this kid is completely unpredictable and can surprise you when you least expect him to,” Dillon laughed as he shook his head.

Eddie was calm. It did not matter to him whether Zen was dead or not; Eddie would always see him as a dead man. No matter what happened, he had to kill Zen.

Sitting right where he was, Zen glanced at his chest before getting up. As his eyes caught a glance of his chest, they were filled with surprise. “Three textures? What's going on?” he asked.

The cyan dragon answered in an indifferent voice, “A loss can actually turn out to be a gain. One man's trash is another man's treasure. For the others, this is perhaps bad luck; but for you, this is great fortune indeed! The true fortune does not lie in the smoothness, but in the overflowing adversity. Truly fortunate people are able to turn all adversity into their own opportunity! The Fiery Star Flame is a fire that is used specially to temper the stars. It is extremely beneficial for your body. But sadly, you did not get the full benefits this time... Your body should have directly become a sacred weapon. But that did not happen. You got so close.”

“These are three fairy textures? I now have a top-grade fairy weapon's physique!” A look of ecstasy appeared on Zen's face.

Because of the existence of the black fire, it was not difficult for Zen to obtain the Heavenly Essence. Inside the Central Region, as long as he had enough life vitality crystals, he could buy as much as he wanted. This meant that Zen could light a greater number of dragon scales on his body and borrow more energy from them.

However, because of the limitations of his physical body, Zen had never dared to borrow too much strength. After going through body tempering, his body had now mastered the forceful energy that lay within him, and his strength had greatly increased. However, he only dared to borrow the power of five hundred dragon scales!

Just now, when he had used the Fiery Star Flame to temper his body, all he had wanted to do was to turn his body into a fairy weapon. Since fairy weapons were extremely powerful, Zen was satisfied with being able to become just a low-grade one, but he had never expected the effects of the flames to be so great that his body would temper itself into a high-grade fairy weapon.

No wonder he had felt a desperate longing for the Fiery Star Flame just now. At that time, he could not understand it, but now, he naturally did.

Once his body reached the strength of a high-grade fairy weapon, he was only one more step away from becoming a sacred weapon. For Zen, as the strength of his body increased, the amount of dragon scales he could borrow also increased.

A thousand? Two thousand? Five thousand?

What would happen when such a terrifying force was suddenly unleashed? Zen did not know if he could beat Eddie to death at this level just yet, but he licked his lips nonetheless; his gaze sweeping over Eddie who was standing not far away.

Eddie suddenly felt a hint of killing intent fall over him and his eyebrows knitted together. Of course he knew that this killing intent was coming from Zen who was standing close by. This little brat was becoming more and more unbridled with time and had begun to underestimate him now.