The cold grew stronger.
Stronger.
Stronger.
Until finally... the impossible happened.
A layer of black ice appeared.
At first, it was thin.
Just a faint crystalline sheen forming across the surface of the flaming halberd. But the mont it appeared, it began spreading rapidly. The cold was no longer rely resisting the flas... It was consuming them.
The black ice crawled across the weapon like a living thing.
Han Yu's eyes widened.
The halberd continued pushing forward, but the flas were losing their brilliance.
The black ice thickened.
And soon the entire blade was coated.
Then the shaft.
Then the burning core of the weapon itself.
Han Yu clenched his will.
His determination remained unshaken.
But the abyss was overwhelming.
The black ice grew thicker and thicker until finally the blazing halberd of Blood Flas was completely encased.
What had once been a weapon of roaring fire was now nothing more than a frozen block of black ice.
GOOONG!
The abyss surged forward.
And then it devoured the halberd entirely.
Han Yu felt sothing break within his chest.
Fear.
For the first ti since this confrontation began, true fear appeared.
The abyss exploded outward like a rising tide.
The darkness poured into every corner of his Dantian.
It did not stop there.
WHOOSH
The vortex surged outward through his ridians like a flood breaking through shattered gates.
The freezing darkness spread into his flesh.
Into his organs.
Into his bones.
It seeped into his marrow and wrapped itself around his heart.
The cold crawled into his brain like creeping frost.
Han Yu could feel his body being consud.
The abyss was claiming everything.
And it continued spreading.
Until finally it reached the final domain.
His Soul Space.
The mont the darkness entered that sacred place, the Eight Emotions Lotus reacted instantly.
The lotus trembled.
"Yi Ya? YAAAAAAAA!"
Soul Qi burst outward like a brilliant wave.
For a brief mont the rich emotional energy and soul qi surged through the Soul Space in an attempt to repel the invader.
But the abyss was far too powerful.
The wave of soul energy barely ford before it was crushed.
The darkness swallowed it.
And the lotus itself was engulfed.
Petal after petal disappeared beneath the endless black tide.
Han Yu felt his consciousness slipping away.
His thoughts began fading.
The concept of self was dissolving.
Even the mory of who he was, started disappearing into the abyss.
Outside in the cultivation chamber, his body was changing.
His skin turned dark.
The frost that had covered him was replaced by an eerie black sheen.
Soon his entire figure beca nothing more than a motionless silhouette sitting in the center of the chamber.
A statue of darkness.
Hope was gone.
Everything was being consud.
But then sothing appeared...
A spark.
Deep within the Soul Space.
At the very center of the Eight Emotions Lotus.
Where the miniature Stelae had been embedded within its core.
A tiny wisp of light flickered.
It was small.
Almost insignificant compared to the endless abyss surrounding it. Yet the mont it appeared, its brilliance was unmistakable.
Hummm
The tiny ember glowed.
Then it grew.
The spark beca a fla.
A small candle fla ignited within the darkness.
And the abyss reacted.
For the first ti since its arrival, the endless darkness trembled.
The mont the fla fully ford, the abyss retreated.
Han Yu heard sothing.
Not through his ears.
But through his soul.
A shriek.
ZIGIAAAAAAA
An inhuman scream of pure terror.
The sound snapped his consciousness back into place. His awareness returned in an instant and Han Yu saw his Soul Space once again.
The Eight Emotions Lotus was reforming.
And rising from its center was the miniature Stelae.
Upon its peak burned the living fla.
The sa fla that had saved him before.
The fla he had absorbed long ago.
The fla that had given him his Fire affinity.
Han Yu instantly recognized it.
The living Dao Fla.
It had once protected him from freezing in the terrifying river within the Harrow Mountains. And now it had awakened again. This ti to oppose the abyss itself.
The fla flared.
Then it roared.
WUAAAAAAAA
Its brilliance exploded outward like the birth of a star.
The abyss recoiled violently.
The fla grew larger and larger until it beca a blazing beacon within the darkness.
The retreat began.
The abyss was pushed back from the Soul Space. Then forced out of his brain. Then expelled from his organs. The living fla surged through his ridians like a river of divine fire.
Every trace of darkness was driven backward.
Until finally the abyss was forced back into its origin... The Dantian.
The fla followed after it.
When it arrived, sothing incredible happened.
The fire did not form another halberd.
Instead, it expanded.
HUALA
The flas twisted together and condensed into a colossal shape.
A giant appeared.
The figure towered within Han Yu's inner world.
It was Hundreds of ters tall, its body massive and powerful. Flas covered every inch of its form while molten magma flowed through glowing veins beneath its burning skin. Its eyes blazed like twin suns as the giant raised its head and roared.
ROARRRR!!!
The sound shook Han Yu's entire inner world.
Then it charged.
The abyssal vortex looked pitiful before it.
What had once seed vast and unstoppable now resembled nothing more than a tiny burrow in the ground.
The flaming giant lifted its enormous fist.
The fist descended.
And struck the abyss with divine might.
BOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!
The impact was overwhelming.
The vortex shattered instantly, the darkness vanishing in a single blow.
The abyss was erased from existence.
Han Yu wondered if what he was seeing right now was all an illusion. But the searing heat of the giant and its majestic form proved to him that all this was reality. He didn't know how but he had a giant made of magma and flas within his Dantian now.
One born from the Living Fla.
But looking at its colossal form, Han Yu felt strange. He found it a bit familiar. As he watched it he finally realized where he had seen it.
"Why does it feel so familiar?"
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