Chapter 88: Great Leap in Strength

  After hastily escaping the space left by Zhu Rong's residual soul, Lei Hao felt the high temperature that was constantly melting his primordial spirit again, and hurriedly accelerated his speed to rush out of the scorching range where Zhu Rong's essence blood resided.

  After returning to the dantian, Lei Hao opened his hands and carefully examined the blood-colored transparent soul fragments left behind by Zhu Rong's residual soul. He saw that those soul fragments were surrounded by a fiery red glow, and they kept flashing with a clear and cold light.

  Among them, some small and mysterious ancient runes flickered. Lei Hao thought for a moment before sitting cross-legged in the dantian, his hands igniting with thunderfire as he cast these beads into the flames to begin refining them.

  It wasn't long before those fragments began to slowly melt away, the symbols they contained slowly merging into Lei Hao's primordial spirit.

  The next moment, Lei Hao's face showed a look of wild joy, these runes were actually the origin of Zhu Rong Zu Wu's fire.

  Zu Wu Zhourong was transformed from Pangu's bloodline, inheriting Pangu's understanding of the origin of fire in the five elements. Therefore, he had the divine power to control all fires under heaven as soon as he was born, and his residual soul contained a thread of Zhourong's original fire source.

  Although it's just a thread, one must see whose it is. This is the origin of Zhu Rong's ancestral fire! This is enough to greatly advance Lei Hao's cultivation.

  What's more important is that Leihao's Thunder Source, although a branch of the Fire Source, isn't the Fire Source itself. If Leihao were to add the Fire Source on top of his Thunder Source, he would be a dual-element Golden Immortal. Although still far from breaking through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal, his strength would have increased explosively several times over.

  For example, the ancestor of the Earth Immortal, Zhenyuanzi Daxian, is still a Golden Immortal in cultivation until now, but why does he still hold the title of Ancestor of the Earth Immortal? Why can he sit on an equal footing with the top powers of the various heavens, and even several saints admire him extremely? That's because the Ancestor of the Earth Immortal has taken a path that no one else has ever taken.

  At the beginning of heaven and earth, all cultivators were eager to break through to Taiyi Golden Immortal when their cultivation reached 100%, but Zhenyuanzi Daxian was already cultivating the five elements at the same time as he became a terrestrial immortal, becoming a five-element terrestrial immortal. Although it was extremely difficult, from the beginning of heaven and earth to now, after countless tens of millions of years, Zhenyuanzi Daxian finally raised all five elements to 99%, just one step away from achieving the Five Elements Fusion with the Primordial Chaos, becoming the second person in the Three Realms to achieve enlightenment through power. And the title of Ancestor of Terrestrial Immortals, which was originally a joking name, became a revered title.

  Even if the five elements of Zhenyuanzi's origin are all 99%, and he doesn't even have a single Taiyi Dao fruit, his actual strength is absolutely the strongest in the three realms, second only to the Saints!

  It can be seen that adding one origin to another origin is absolutely not equal to 1+1=2, at least it's always more than ten!

  "What a great opportunity, what a great opportunity!" Feeling the origin of fire in his body rapidly increasing, Lei Hao couldn't hold back his excitement and almost shouted with a trembling voice.

  If Chi Yan Lao Daoshi knew that Lei Hao would gain such a great opportunity in Zhu Rong's essence and blood, wouldn't he regret it to the point of tears?

  An hour later, Lei Hao's Fire Origin broke through one percent, and he became a Fire Attribute Earth Immortal.

  Half a day later, Lei Hao's Flame Origin broke through 50%, and he became a Fire Attribute Heavenly Immortal.

  One day later, Lei Hao's Fire Origin broke through 80%, he achieved the Fire Attribute Golden Immortal. At this moment, a red Dao fruit appeared in Lei Hao's Dantian.

  At this time, Lei Hao's true fire had also undergone a change. In the midst of the pure purple flames, threads of red color like blood slowly appeared. That was the three flavors of the origin of fire, and it should no longer be called Lei Fire, but rather Three Flavors Lei Fire.

  Finally, after Lei Hao's Fire Origin broke through 80%, the Zongheng Soul Fragments in the three flavors of thunder and fire were all melted.

  Lei Hao sprang up with a loud "whoosh", his eyes spinning with a purple-red Taiji diagram. He raised his head to gaze at the drop of Zhurong's essence still suspended above his dantian, and struck out with a spell seal, shouting softly: "Don't you return to your place, what are you waiting for?"

  A miracle occurred, and at first, no matter how many Taoist spells Lei Hao pinched out, the Zhu Rong essence and blood that was supposed to be like a great master's blessing unexpectedly dispersed into Lei Hao's body like his own spiritual power.

  Lei Hao's physical body, which had always kept its eyes tightly closed, suddenly opened them and shot out two streams of purple and red Fa power. On the crimson crystal wall, it smashed out a hole that was neither big nor small.

  The next moment, Lei Hao's physical body began to violently explode, 'crackling and popping' like firecrackers were being set off inside his body, splashing out blood and flesh everywhere. But Lei Hao's face remained calm, as if he hadn't seen the miserable state of his body.

  At this time, Lei Hao's body also underwent a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering change. A violent blood vein force continuously charged left and right in Lei Hao's body, battering his physical form into a chaotic mess.

  It's not that Lei Hao's physical body is too weak, but the energy contained in Zhu Rong's essence blood is too strong. Although there is no longer any residual soul of Zhu Rong in that drop of essence blood, it is after all the essence blood of one of the Twelve Ancestors of the Primordial Wilderness, and it is absolutely not something that a common Golden Immortal like Lei Hao can easily refine.

  At this time, Lei Hao was secretly rejoicing in his heart. If he hadn't absorbed the remaining soul fragments of Zhu Rong's residual soul just now and become a double-element Golden Immortal of thunder and fire, then at the moment when he merged Zhu Rong's essence blood into his body, he would have been blown to death by the violent energy within.

  Zhurong's essence and blood are still being constantly destroyed, while Leihao is recklessly and unscrupulously using his full strength to refine and transform it with his magic, because Leihao's original fire source was inherited from Zhurong, so although the refining process is very difficult for Leihao, the speed is not slow either.

  After a few breaths, Lei Hao's physical body no longer exploded, but instead some red scales faintly appeared on the surface of his skin, and beast patterns continued to emerge on his face.

  Lei Hao's cheeks also showed a reddish-purple color that only appeared when he was drunk, and he seemed to be panting non-stop, with every breath he exhaled being black, all of which were the accumulated waste in his body.

  After a faint scent of incense, Lei Hao's body suddenly burst into flames, but strangely, the fire did not harm Lei Hao in the slightest, nor did his robes show any signs of burning. However, Lei Hao's figure slowly began to wither away, and before long, the formerly plump and wealthy-looking Lei Hao transformed into a lean and muscular young man with a stern expression, as if chiseled by knives and axes.

  After a long time, the flames on Lei Hao's body also went out, and he slowly got up from the ground.

  At this time, Lei Hao felt very good, unprecedentedly good. He felt that his physical body was full of strength and the Fa power inside him was surging non-stop.

  But when Lei Hao lowered his head and saw the red scales appearing under his skin, he suddenly thought: "Am I still a cow demon in this state?"

  Lei Hao suddenly let out a low shout: "Tú Lóng" (Slay the Dragon).

  With a cheerful "ting" sound of the knife, the Dragon Slaying Knife that had been suppressed in Lei Hao's body for who-knows-how-long suddenly flew out and circled around him several times before landing on his shoulder, its hilt grinding against it.

  "Alright, I know you miss me." Lei Hao smiled and patted Tu Long on the back, then beckoned him to come closer and said: "Come, give me two light chops to try it out."

  Tulong froze for a few breaths, even the motion of rubbing against Leihao stopped, as if it hadn't reacted yet. When Leihao told it to chop at others, it would always charge forward without hesitation. Now that Leihao was telling it to look at itself, Tulong became somewhat bewildered.

  After a few breaths, Tulong 'ting' flew far away, no matter how Lei Hao's divine consciousness summoned him, he didn't come back.

  "Obey me and I'll just lightly chop you twice." Lei Hao straightened his face and pretended to be angry.

  The dragon butcher hesitated and flew over, lightly brushing against Lei Hao's body a few times. The movement was almost as if it was sliding across the hairs on his skin, without even touching his flesh.

  Lei Hao patted Toutulongdao heavily: "Heavier."

  Just like a tantrum, Tú Lóng drew a few light cuts on Lei Hao's back of the hand.

  Lei Hao only felt a sharp and fierce energy piercing his hand, but when he looked closely, he found that there was only a shallow, almost imperceptible white mark on the back of his hand. He couldn't help but feel a sense of joy in his heart, knowing that the Tulong sword was a postnatal spiritual treasure. To think that even the hardest steel or the renowned Tianwai meteorite would be no stronger than tofu in its eyes, yet this one slash hadn't even broken through his skin.

  "Old chap, come on, let's have another round." Lei Hao raised his head and beckoned to Tu Long.

  The dragon slayer trembled twice, seemingly also curious about not hurting Lei Hao. Immediately, two heavy knives chopped down on the back of Lei Hao's hand, chopping out sparks.

  Lei Hao only felt a severe pain on the back of his hand, and when he looked down, he found that Tú Lóng's knife had cut through his skin, but it only left a half-inch long wound, which healed before bleeding.

  Lei Hao was overjoyed in his heart, just like before, this dragon-slaying knife would surely be able to cut off his arm with ease.

  Now that his physical body has absorbed the essence of Zu Wu's blessing, his physical strength has increased so much that even as a postnatal spiritual treasure, Tulong can hardly hurt him. This is still under the circumstance that he hasn't used his magical powers yet. "Now my physical body isn't far from the indestructible golden body of the dead monkey king, if it's like this, then these red scales aren't a bad thing!" Lei Hao thought to himself with some pride.

  "Brothers, have you all given your recommendations to Orange? Those who haven't, give them to me! And those who haven't collected, collect now, brothers! There's still a burst today!"