Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Subsequently, the water in the black pool rippled, and the Threefold Water surging from the Abyss of Nine Yin rustled. Zhang Yuanjing could clearly feel a massive, super-strong aura gathering just a stone's throw away.

Before long, this aura surged towards the Origin Stone, and was then transferred by the Origin Stone into Zhang Xuan's body.

Her pale face immediately regained its rosy color, and her aura began to rise steadily. In just two breaths, her cultivation broke through the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Stage and entered the transitional phase of advancing to the Sacred Core Realm.

Similar to the Daoist's Golden Core formation, demonic cultivators also condense an inner core in their dantian. However, the demonic cultivator's inner core is called a "core." It is formed by the condensation of turbid energy and the burning of demonic fire, making it extremely hard. Hence, it is called a "core." Demonic cultivators refer to it as "Sacred Core" to elevate their cultivation path.

Because the demonic core is hard, demonic cultivators in the Sacred Core Realm usually forge powerful close-combat weapons as demonic treasures, and their combat style tends to be tough. Of course, this is also closely related to the Candle God Sect's emphasis on group combat and its habit of training military formations.

The key to condensing a demonic core is to internally generate a cluster of demonic fire, and the basis for generating this fire lies in the divine soul.

Zhang Xuan's divine soul was quite strong, and her will was firm. With an extremely abundant supply of turbid power, she quickly ignited a cluster of black fire in her dantian to burn the surging magic power. After only a cup of tea's time, a dark and shiny, peach-pit-sized demonic core was condensed.

Zhang Xuan felt a shock throughout her body, and her divine soul, magic power, and physical body were all renewed. A powerful force filled her body.

Her connection with the Candle Dragon became even closer. Whether it was her divine soul or her physical body, they seemed to be connected by thousands of strands, as if they could be exchanged at any time.

Before she could carefully experience this wonderful yet frightening feeling, she felt the power surging from the Candle Dragon's body become even more majestic, a hundred times stronger than before. She was like a small boat in a huge wave, tossed up and down, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

Her strength continued to grow rapidly like a raging fire, and in a few breaths, she broke through a small bottleneck and entered the middle stage of the Sacred Core Realm. After another dozen breaths, she entered the late stage of the Sacred Core Realm.

At the moment of breakthrough, her body suddenly let out a long "mang" sound, and a miniature Candle Dragon, only an inch long, appeared on her right wrist. In her sea of consciousness, an idea inexplicably appeared: as long as she issued a command, the Candle Dragon would respond to it.

She could directly command the Candle Dragon without going through its sea of consciousness.

Her main body and the Candle Dragon were fused! Not just the divine sense, but the overall fusion of the divine soul, physical body, and magic power!

In an instant, many of the memory fragments that were originally hidden in the Candle Dragon's sea of consciousness were also mostly unsealed and integrated into Zhang Xuan's divine soul, allowing her to understand many of the mysteries of the Candle Dragon's body and all the secrets it possessed about the Candle God Sect.

Through the divine soul, these memories were integrated into Zhang Xuan's sea of consciousness, unfolding one novel but incomplete "world" after another, some of which were even very fragmented.

Her sea of consciousness expanded accordingly, her divine soul strengthened accordingly, and her strength continued to rise.

However, before long, the Threefold Water in the black pool gradually became scarce, and the Abyss of Nine Yin no longer had water flowing upwards.

Zhang Xuan's cultivation stopped growing when it was only a line away from the Great Perfection of the Sacred Core Realm.

And most of the unfolded "worlds" were dim and uncertain. Only a few revealed their true faces, which were the knowledge of techniques, secret realms, formations, strange objects, and secrets possessed by the Candle Dragon, the true foundation of its power.

Inside the Origin Stone, in the pitch blackness, Zhang Xuan sat in silence, various thoughts running through her mind, and she was somewhat dazed.

At this time, a loud "boom" sound came from above, wondering if that Zhen Ye could not find the flaw in the formation and was violently attacking the great formation.

She shuddered and was about to stand up, but remembering that she was in the Origin Stone, she sighed sadly and transmitted her voice to Zhang Yuanjing's location: "Daoist, the Threefold Water in the black pool is exhausted, and I can no longer improve my cultivation."

Zhang Yuanjing did not realize her abnormality, but asked with concern: "What realm has your cultivation reached? Do you feel any discomfort in your body? Especially your divine soul, is it compatible with your magic power?"

The last sentence was also an subconscious question, remembering the situation of Ape Twelve back then.

Zhang Xuan shook her head and said, "Daoist, I'm fine. My cultivation has also reached the late stage of the Sacred Core Realm, and I can control the Candle Dragon's body as easily as I control my own limbs. As long as it doesn't require a strong divine soul, I can basically use all of its innate abilities."

Zhang Yuanjing breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and then asked: "Do you feel that with your current strength, you can fight that Zhen Ye?"

Zhang Xuan calmly said while flipping through the Candle Dragon's memories in her sea of consciousness: "If I had the strength of the Transformation Realm, I would definitely be able to defeat him. But with my current cultivation, I still don't have much confidence. The Buddhist techniques are very restraining to demonic cultivators, and it's hard to say what secret techniques or treasures Zhen Ye has. However, the memory fragments of the Candle Dragon provide a way, which is to rely on the great formation of the Hidden Soldier Cave."

"The great formation?" Zhang Yuanjing was stunned for a moment, and then asked with joy, "Is the great formation here similar to the sect's mountain protection formation?"

Generally, sects have mountain protection formations, which can defend against enemies from the outside and suppress from the inside, integrating offense and defense, and are extremely powerful.

When entering Candle Shade Valley, Chang Guangming said that the underground was full of formations, which were mostly the Candle God Sect's mountain protection formation. However, it was unexpected to build an offensive and defensive formation in this deeply hidden secret cave.

"That's right!" Zhang Xuan said, "This place is the last foundation left by the Candle God Sect. The founding predecessors worked hard and always had a strong sense of worry, fearing that the fundamental scriptures of the sect would not be tolerated by this world, attracting powerful enemies to invade. Therefore, relying on the pure and strong turbid energy in the Abyss of Nine Yin, they established a powerful formation in this space of more than a hundred zhang. This formation is isolated from the Candle Shade Valley's sect protection formation. Even if the sect protection formation is destroyed, this formation can still operate independently, both to protect the seed of the Divine Sect for the future, and to launch a counterattack in times of crisis, trapping and killing powerful enemies. This formation is called the Divine Fire Burning Heaven Formation!"

Strictly speaking, the founder was the strange insect, Candle Dragon. However, Zhang Xuan was obviously not referring to it, but to those earliest believers.

"Divine Fire Burning Heaven Formation!" Zhang Yuanjing smiled wryly at first, and then became solemn and respectful.

The name of this formation implied that the disciples should hold the determination to perish with the enemy and fight the invading enemies with their backs to the water.

It is no wonder that this sect could establish itself in a desolate and dead land in the cracks of the Daoist forces and develop to such a scale. Compared to the Heavenly Demon Abyss, which is unworthy of its name and has a complex background, this Candle God Sect is the true number one demonic cultivation force in the Southern Region.

"How to kill the enemy? What do you need me to do?"

"The opening of this formation will create a huge momentum. If it is not controlled properly, it may hurt the disciples in the cave. Zhang Xuan wants to ask the Daoist—"