pjbooks Chapter 132 Fusion Begins
Chapter 132 Fusion Begins
The temperature in the spherical space dropped by tens of degrees in that instant.
The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor opened his eyes. They were ice-blue pupils, reflecting thirty thousand years of history deep within. His gaze swept over Jiang Chen, then landed on the wildly trembling spark of the Burning Soul Star on the Primordial Sword, then on the shallow scratch on the hilt of the silver-white longsword at Ye Wuhen's waist, and finally returned to the half-gold, half-red flame pattern on Jiang Chen's right palm.
His lips moved slightly. He hadn't spoken for thirty thousand years, and his vocal cords were so stiff they could barely vibrate. But his voice still managed to escape from that body that had been frozen for so long, hoarse and broken, like ice cracking under immense pressure in winter.
"The sword of the beginning. The fire that burns the heavens." He paused, something awakening deep within his icy blue pupils. "You are their successor. The seal of Kunlun is broken, and the seal of East Africa is broken too. You came to Antarctica for this fragment within me."
Jiang Chen knelt down on one knee, placing his right hand on the ice-blue ring on the left ring finger of the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor. True essence surged from his fingertip, resonating with the remaining will within the ring.
"Jiang Chen, the seventh-generation disciple of the Qingyun Sect, greets Ancestor Bingxuan. The fragments of the Demon Ancestor's primordial spirit sealed in Kunlun have been shattered by the Primordial Sword, and the fragments sealed in East Africa have been burned away by the Burning Blade. I have come to Antarctica to bring Ancestor home."
The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor fell silent. He looked down at the still slightly undulating ice-blue halo on his chest, and at the dark red fragment of chaotic power that had been frozen for thirty thousand years deep within the halo. The fragment pulsated slowly within his body, each pulsation creating a dark red ripple on the surface of the ice, like a heart awakening from a long hibernation.
"Thirty thousand years ago, a hundred Immortal Emperors besieged the Demon Ancestor. In that battle, most of us perished, and the Demon Ancestor's primordial spirit was shattered into dozens of fragments, scattered in every corner of the universe. Tai Chu, Fen Tian, and I were assigned to guard the three largest fragments." He raised his head, his icy blue pupils looking at the slowly flowing icy blue runes on the spherical dome of space. "Tai Chu sealed it with the Zhou Tian Star Array, Fen Tian suppressed it with the Burning Silence Fire, and my Ice Profound Power is the only one of these three powers that can completely freeze the will of chaos. So I sealed the largest fragment within my own body."
"Use your body as a cage." Jiang Chen's voice was soft, yet it made the temperature in the entire space drop even further. "How long have you lived?"
"I can't remember." The corners of the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's mouth turned up slightly, a faint smile that was more heartbreaking than any bitter laugh. "It's probably longer than Tai Chu and Fen Tian combined. Their physical bodies have long since decayed, and their remnant souls are about to dissipate. I relied on the power of Ice Profound to forcibly seal my life force within my body, and I've lived until today."
He raised his right hand, looking at his hand enveloped in icy blue spiritual energy. His fingers slowly bent and straightened in the void, and his knuckles made a crisp sound like ice shattering.
"But I can't hold on much longer. The power of ice is waning, and the fragment of chaos is awakening. If you had arrived a few years later, this fragment would have broken free."
Jiang Chen stood up and summoned the Primordial Sword from his palm. Seven stars on the hilt lit up simultaneously, and the golden Zhou Tian Star Fire and the dark red Fen Ji Fire intertwined on the sword to form a golden and red vortex of flames, with a point of almost white incandescent light at the center of the vortex.
"I'm not here to reinforce the seal." Jiang Chen gripped the Primordial Sword, looking into the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's icy blue eyes. "I'm here to completely destroy this fragment. With the Heavenly Star Fire and the Burning Silence Fire, I will burn it from its very existence into nothingness."
The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor gazed at the two celestial flames fusing on the Primordial Sword, at the last embers of the Burning Heaven Immortal Emperor's remnant soul within the dark red star on the sword's hilt, and at the eternal radiance of the Primordial Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit within the pale golden star. The smile on his lips deepened.
"it is good."
He pressed his right hand against the icy blue halo on his chest, his fingers clenching and embedding themselves into the ice. The sound of the ice shattering echoed in the spherical space, like a mountain collapsing, like a continent sinking.
After the halo shattered, the still-beating heart in the very center of the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's chest cavity was revealed. The heart was ice-blue, transparent as crystal, and inside one could see a slowly rotating dark red light—that was a fragment of the Demon Ancestor's primordial spirit, sealed by the power of Ice Profound for thirty thousand years.
The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor plunged his right hand into his chest cavity, grasping the ice-blue heart.
Jiang Chen's pupils contracted slightly. "Ancestor Bingxuan—"
"Don't speak." The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's voice was hoarse but calm, as if he were doing something he had been preparing for a long time. "Watch."
He clenched his fists tightly. His heart shattered. Ice-blue fragments burst from between his fingers, transforming into countless tiny specks of light that scattered in the void. The chaotic fragments, freed from the seal of the Ice Profound Power, suddenly shone with a dark red light, surging from the fragments of his heart and expanding wildly within the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's chest, attempting to break free of his physical body and escape into the void.
But at the same instant, the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor pressed his left hand onto the Chaos Fragment. Ice-blue spiritual power surged from his palm, firmly locking the expanding dark red light beneath it.
"Now." He looked at Jiang Chen, his icy blue pupils reflecting thirty thousand years of waiting. "Use your fire to burn."
Jiang Chen gripped the Primordial Sword, its tip aimed at the dark red light struggling wildly beneath the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's palm. The Heavenly Starfire and the Burning Silence Fire fused, intertwined, and compressed on the blade, ultimately transforming into a golden-red pillar of light that stretched across the heavens and earth. The pillar erupted from his palm, piercing through the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's palm, through the dark red fragment of chaos beneath it, through the altar behind him, and blasting a massive hole tens of meters in diameter into the dome of the spherical space.
The fragment of chaos emitted a silent shriek. The shriek pierced through the pillar of light of the Primordial Sword, through the roar of the collapsing spherical space, through the thick clouds above the Antarctic ice sheet, and rippled across the light screen of the Void Temple in the Apostle Realm.
A dark red light surged violently within the golden-red flames, like a venomous snake chained by red-hot iron chains, struggling, writhing, and trying to escape. But the Heavenly Star Fire blocked all its escape routes from all directions, while the Burning Annihilation Fire burned through it layer by layer from within. The combined temperature of the two heavenly fires reached the origin of chaos at the core of the Chaos Fragment—a temperature capable of incinerating the very will of chaos.
The last wisp of dark red light dissipated in the flames.
The Ice Profound Immortal Emperor withdrew his right hand from Jiang Chen's sword light, revealing a burned hole in his palm with scorch marks of gold and red around the edges. He looked down at the hole in his palm, at the completely shattered heart remnant beneath it, now reduced to icy blue fragments, and the curve of his lips finally transformed into a complete smile.
"Thirty thousand years ago, I promised Tai Chu that I would seal this fragment with my life. Today, the fragment has burned, and my life has come to an end."
The remnant soul of the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor began to dissipate from the edges, turning into ice-blue specks of light. First, his feet, then his legs, then his torso, and finally, his smiling face.
Before the last glimmer of light disappeared, he uttered his last words.
"Beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, there are two other fragments sealed. Those two fragments are too small to warrant my personal guarding, so I used my icy power to freeze them deep within the ice. They are two fragments, and also two people. Two humanoid fragments of chaos—no, they should be two beings that are half-human and half-chaos. Their spiritual roots are chaotic spiritual roots, just like that kid named Wang Kai."
The icy blue light dissipated completely. Only an icy blue immortal sword and a ring engraved with a six-petaled ice flower pattern remained on the altar.
Jiang Chen stood rooted to the spot, the blade of the Primordial Sword still warm from the golden and crimson flames. He looked down at the ice-blue immortal sword left behind by the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor, remaining silent for a long time.
"Ancestor Bingxuan, the Qingyun Sect will accept your sword."
He picked up the ice-blue immortal sword and placed it in his palm. The moment the sword entered his body, the sixth of the seven stars on the Primordial Sword's hilt changed from pale gold to ice blue.
Six attributes. Six kinds of heavenly fire. The Dao fruits of the six Immortal Emperors had been dormant in the Primordial Sword for thirty thousand years, and finally completed their first true fusion in Jiang Chen's palm.