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Chapter 1672 - Chapter 1672 Chapter 1673 Smelting Divine Flame

Chapter 1672: Chapter 1673: Smelting Divine Flame Chapter 1672: Chapter 1673: Smelting Divine Flame Song Jian turned and returned to the City Lord Mansion. With his formidable strength, although Song Jian had not yet reached the Divine Realm, he had already touched the threshold and could feel the terrifying power contained within his body.

It seemed, however, that this power was sealed. He wondered if he himself was aware of it!

“Perhaps he knows, otherwise, why would he covet my City of Hope?” Song Jian thought coldly. “Isn’t he just aiming to use the resources of a city to recover his cultivation level as quickly as possible? This battle has at least pushed back his recovery by decades. Wait until I reach the God King Level, and you’ll probably be just an average deity!”

One step behind is a step behind in every aspect. Not to mention comparing with Song Jian, even those deities who were on par with him might recover decades earlier than him.

Back at the City Lord Mansion, Song Jian patiently awaited the purification and smelting of the Divine Flame. Once the Divine Flame was completely purified, Song Jian would be able to ascend to deity status in a very short period of time!

The Blazing Fire Furnace, under Song Jian’s control, began to emerge from the void once more. However, no time for smelting and purification appeared on its surface. It seemed the Divine Flame was no ordinary entity; it required much more time for purification.

Now, all Song Jian could do was wait patiently!

Just then, with a “boom,” the Blazing Fire Furnace suddenly shook violently.

Song Jian’s brow furrowed. He had assumed that purifying and smelting the Divine Flame would go smoothly, but things did not seem to be as easy as he had imagined!

Boom~

Another loud roar sounded. This time, the disturbance was even greater than the first, as if a beast were imprisoned within the furnace, desperately ramming against the furnace walls.

With a gesture of his right hand, Song Jian’s Chaotic Sword Qi began to flow slowly towards the Blazing Fire Furnace.

With the Chaotic Sword Qi, the Blazing Fire Furnace instantly suppressed the Divine Flame, and the noise gradually decreased.

Song Jian let out a sigh of relief and was about to send the Blazing Fire Furnace back into the void when he suddenly felt something unusual.

“The temperature seems to be rising rapidly!” Song Jian thought with a chill in his heart as he looked towards the Blazing Fire Furnace.

On the once dark wall of the Blazing Fire Furnace, a palm-sized dark red area had appeared at some unknown time, as if it had been heated red-hot by a branding iron.

Quickly, the dark red area began to spread to its surroundings. In a matter of moments, half of the Blazing Fire Furnace turned dark red, the original area becoming even brighter, shining three times as much as the Red Lotus Karma Fire burning fiercely at the bottom of the furnace.

“Is the Divine Flame truly so terrifying?” Song Jian exclaimed in surprise. If left unattended, it wouldn’t be long before the entire Blazing Fire Furnace would be destroyed by the Divine Flame. By then, Song Jian did not know if he could still employ his array. If the core of his skill were destroyed, his newly upgraded divine skill, the “Karmic Fire Red Lotus Ten Thousand Swords Art,” might indeed be ruined.

“Chaotic Sword Qi, come forth!” With a light cry, Song Jian’s Chaotic Sword Qi inside him suddenly sped up, gushing towards the Blazing Fire Furnace like the roaring Yangtze River.

At this moment, a battle between the Chaotic Sword Qi and the Divine Flame emerged with the Blazing Fire Furnace as the battlefield. If the Divine Flame prevailed, Song Jian would lose a divine skill and also the possibility of ascending rapidly to divine status.

If the Chaotic Sword Qi won, Song Jian would obtain a completely purified Divine Flame, ready for immediate use.

The auto-recovery speed of the Chaotic Sword Qi was extremely fast, but under rapid depletion, it was visibly draining away at a swift pace.

Sweat had appeared on Song Jian’s forehead by now, and the temperature in the room was getting higher and higher, even spreading beyond the house to an area with a radius of several tens of meters, rendering it impossible for anyone to approach.

Crack~

Just then, a faint sound emerged from the Blazing Fire Furnace, causing Song Jian’s face to pale and his heart to pound wildly. The Blazing Fire Furnace had reached its limit of endurance; if the struggle continued, the furnace that served as the battlefield might be completely destroyed.

“After all, it’s just a formation, constituted entirely of Spirit Swords. This kind of pure confrontation is still not too reliable,” Song Jian sighed.

The Karmic Fire Red Lotus Ten Thousand Swords Art had advanced to the divine level. It could be said that it was more than sufficient to suppress a genuine God King Level expert. However, at this moment, it was starting to fail even in suppressing a mere masterless Divine Flame, a fact that left Song Jian somewhat disappointed.

But the master of this Divine Flame was none other than Cardis, a deity who had grasped two Powers of Law, although he was sealed and suppressed to Legendary Realm status; his essence hadn’t changed in the slightest!

“No, not two, but three!” Song Jian slapped his forehead and muttered to himself, “The Law of War, the Law of Combat, and one more, the law of Fusion. Otherwise, even if two laws are somewhat similar, they couldn’t merge so perfectly…”

At this thought, Song Jian couldn’t help a surge of retrospective fear. A deity that had mastered three Powers of Law stood at the peak of those with weak divine power. If he were to grasp one more complete Power of Law, he could ascend to the rank of those with intermediate divine power. If that had been the case, Song Jian, at the pinnacle of the Demi-God Realm, would stand no chance against him!

“What a stroke of luck,” Song Jian shook his head and sighed.

Compared to Song Jian, Cardis was the true genius. If it were not for the abrupt emergence of this plot in the game world, which cast all deities down from the heavens, Cardis actually had the potential to advance to an intermediate divine power deity. Then, everything would have changed!

Three Powers of Law for weak divine power deities, six for those with intermediate divine power, and nine for those with high divine power. More than nine, and one would reach the Main God Level!

Among all the deities Song Jian knew of, only the God of Light had reached the Main God Level, while the Goddess of Dawn was but a higher divine power deity with seven Powers of Law.

Even among deities, the gulf between them was as vast as that between heaven and earth, an insurmountable chasm!

“With that in mind, it’s understandable that the Blazing Fire Furnace cannot withstand this Divine Flame,” Song Jian muttered to himself.

At this moment, over two-thirds of the Blazing Fire Furnace’s surface had turned dark red. The furnace walls were resounding, and one could faintly see a solid flame burning fiercely inside, resisting the Red Lotus Karma Fire at the base of the furnace.

Crack~

The sound of cracking grew louder and more frequent. Even the surface of the furnace started showing fine, spreading cracks, from which glimpses of firelight faintly shone through.

“Still no good?” Disappointment flashed in Song Jian’s eyes. If the Blazing Fire Furnace couldn’t completely purify the Divine Flame, he would have no choice but to give up. Otherwise, the entire City of Hope might be reduced to ashes by the Divine Flame.

“Perhaps I could place it within the Shattered Divine Realm…” A thought suddenly surfaced in Song Jian’s mind, but it was promptly dismissed, unless he was willing to risk the complete destruction of the Divine Country.

It was at that moment, unable to help himself, that Song Jian opened his inventory, carefully scouring through it. After all, his inventory held many valuable items, and perhaps one of them could resolve the current situation!

Just then, Song Jian’s eyes lit up as if he had seen something, and his demeanor instantly turned joyful.

“Haha, I wonder if this thing will have any effect on it… Let’s give it a try. Even if it’s destroyed, it’s no big loss!” Song Jian laughed, casually retrieving the item and tossing it toward the Blazing Fire Furnace in midair.

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