Chapter 271: The Five Great Secret Realms of the Body (2)

"I will not die," Lin Yuan's voice echoed, not outward, but inward, reverberating through the absolute core of the Heavenly Furnace.

He did not push the fire away. He opened the floodgates of his Primordial Spirit and aggressively drew the golden-crimson Hellstorm inside.

Outside the crater, the spectators gasped in collective horror.

"He has given up!" Jiang Wan yelled from the Wan Jian pavilion, his silver eyes widening. "He is drawing the fire into his soul! He is committing suicide to end the pain!"

"No," Xuan Mingzhe whispered, stepping to the very edge of the ruined terrace, his Half-Step Soul Transformation aura flaring as he sensed a fundamental shift in the ambient laws. "Look closely. He is not burning. He is... he is eating the tribulation!"

In the Feng pavilion, the sixteen-year-old Feng Yao, let out a breathless laugh. "He is building a cage for the fire. He is forging a new body."