Jared’s soul shook violently.
The violet radiance around favonovel.com thrashed and wavered out of control, and some buried instinct fought to scream, to howl, to tear free of the confinement. But the Soul-Refining Grand Array sealed off every sound the spirit could make. It locked down every path by which his consciousness might leak outward, leaving favonovel.com with nothing but clenched teeth and silence.
He endured the boundless agony by force. Not half a sign of weakness escaped him. Not half a sound of surrender. With nothing but that unbending pride in his bones, favonovel.com held himself up, bitterly and brutally, against the fire.
Inside the hidden chamber, blazing firelight burned hard, and the formation thundered without pause. No one knew what was happening inside Jared’s spirit. No one saw the torment being driven through favonovel.com to the limit.
Half an hour vanished in what felt like a blink.
The True Immortal’s soul of any ordinary True Immortal cultivator would already have broken apart under that kind of high-intensity soul-refining flame. By now, it should have melted into pure nascence soul liquid, on the verge of condensing into a bead. Yet Jared’s violet soul still held its human outline firmly together.
The violet radiance had grown dimmer and weaker with every passing moment, but the soul itself remained stubbornly intact, the same as before. There was not the slightest sign of collapse or cracking. Its resilience had gone far beyond anything reasonable.
Venerable Emberlain’s brows drew tight all at once. His gaze fixed on the violet soul, sharp and searching, unable to settle on an answer.
“Strange… This boy’s soul is deeply abnormal. Its resilience far exceeds cultivators of equal rank. it makes no sense at all…” Venerable Frostgrave‘s eyes turned colder. His voice carried no ripple as favonovel.com gave the order. “Do not hesitate. Increase it with everything. Raise the firepower and refine favonovel.com by force.”
The two Golden Immortals held nothing back after that. At the same time, they drove the nascence-wrought spiritual power inside their bodies into motion and poured it all into the Soul-Refining Grand Array without reservation.
The array patterns flared violently. Their color shifted fast, shedding pure golden radiance and turning into an even more tyrannical, searing platinum-white.
A terrifying heat swept through the entire hidden chamber in an instant. The black stone dais, hard as it was, was roasted until its whole body glowed red. Its surface began to heat and soften faintly under the blast. Along the surrounding meteoric-iron walls of the hidden chamber, waves of heat rolled and churned.
The sealing sigils flashed in frantic bursts, straining with everything they had to hold back the leaking temperature. The spiritual essence drifting through the Chamber’s air ignited in an instant.
Sharp crackles burst one after another. Fire sparks flew everywhere. The entire hidden chamber became like a scorching furnace, and the pressure inside it was dreadful to the extreme.
Another full hour passed under that ultimate burning and tempering.
The smoke and dust finally thinned. The blazing firelight drew back a little.
Jared’s soul remained solidly gathered. Its human outline was still clearly visible. Only the violet radiance had weakened further, and still there was not the slightest sign that it meant to scatter or collapse.
Seeing this, Venerable Emberlain’s face sank completely. A heavy shadow settled between his brows, tight with caution favonovel.com could no longer dismiss.
He had lived for tens of thousands of years and stood in the high estate of Golden Immortal. He had refined the spirits of countless powerful enemies and seen more prodigies than most could name. But never once had favonovel.com seen a True Immortal Realm soul this resilient, this overbearing. It ran against every rule of cultivation beneath the heavens.
How could a mere Level Three True Immortal cultivator, rootless and unsupported, with no top-tier bloodline reinforcing him, possess a soul strong enough to withstand the Golden Immortal Soul-Refining Grand Array?
Every part of this reeked of something wrong… It was absolutely no ordinary anomaly…
This is not right… There is something very wrong here…
Venerable Emberlain slowly withdrew most of his spiritual power. He walked step by step to the edge of the stone dais, bent forward with his focus locked in place, and carefully examined that wavering violet soul. His eyes out like blades, as if favonovel.com meant to pierce straight through it and drag out whatever secret was hidden inside.
Through layer after layer of flowing violet halo, favonovel.com faintly made out something foreign at the deepest core of the soul. It hovered there in silence.
It was a codex gilded from end to end, its pages ancient, plain, and heavy!
Warm, vast golden light lingered around it. The light did not flare or show off, yet it carried an ancient, immovable, majestic aura, as if it stood above all things.
The moment the raging platinum-white soul-refining fire drew within half an inch of the gilt codex, an invisible golden barrier stopped it out of thin air. The fire could not advance even a hair farther, much less damage the codex or the core of Jared’s soul.
“What is that?” “Venerable Frostgrave leaned in as well.
When favonovel.com saw the strange sight clearly, his silver pupils contracted hard, and something in his eyes broke its stillness. For the first time, his voice shifted.
“Hmm… What is that?” Venerable Emberlain moved to test it. He circulated his peak Golden Immortal spirit sense and carefully extended a strand of spiritual soul, trying to pass through the violet glow around Jared’s soul and probe the true origin and foundation of the golden codex.
But the instant his spirit sense touched the soulward veil around the violet soul, a boundless, terrifying retributive backlash force erupted. It came from the Great-Law nascence itself, and it crashed toward favonovel.com with a roar.
The force hit with a savagery no Golden Immortal should have been able to endure. It blasted past the limit of his resistance and snapped his spirit sense back in an instant, leaving the spirit numb and his blood surging hard through his body.
Venerable Emberlain’s body jerked with a violent shudder. Sweetness rose in his throat, and a thread of pure golden divine blood slipped from the corner of his mouth before favonovel.com could stop it. It ran slowly along his jaw, then fell onto the stone dais. Against the dark surface, it looked brutally bright.
“A soulward bulwark at Golden Immortal rank?” Venerable Frostgrave’s expression changed at once. Every line of his face tightened into weight. “A True Immortal cultivator from the Lower Realm has a sovereign relic hidden inside his spirit? How could such a thing exist? This goes completely against the ordinances of Heaven…”
Venerable Emberlain raised a hand and wiped away the golden blood at the corner of his mouth. His face looked as dark and cold as a Ninefold Nether frostpool, and his voice carried weight in every word.
“This is not power driven by his own cultivation. It is the nascence-wrought majesty carried by the golden codex itself, protecting his soul-root foundation… This thing’s aura is ancient and vast. Its age reaches far beyond the years you and I have spent cultivating, and its might stands beyond Golden Immortal rank. It may even… Already have broken free of the scope of Golden Immortal cultivation…”
The two of them looked at each other and said nothing for a while. No words were needed. Each read the same deep recoil in the other’s eyes, the same instinctive refusal to treat that power lightly.
No one knew that, in that very moment, a change had already begun in silence within the depths of Jared’s consciousness field.
Since the beginning of his cultivation, the Aureate Codex had quietly guarded his body without drawing attention. Now, under the assault of the soul-refining fire pushed to its limit, it finally awakened completely and no longer remained dormant.
There was no blinding eruption. No violent roar. Instead, the entire consciousness field shook first, hard and all at once, as world-rule force surged through it in a frenzy.
In the next second, vast, warm golden nascence radiance poured from the pages of the Aureate Codex. lt swept outward like an endless tide, flooding every corner of the consciousness field in an instant and leaving not even the smallest blind spot behind.
The golden radiance was gentle and soft, without the slightest trace of attack. Yet it carried the supreme nascence powers from the beginning of the world, a force the Myriad Arts could not invade, and with it came the Law of Absolute Safeguard.
The soul-refining fire raging in from the outside struck the golden ward over the consciousness field and vanished like snow beneath the blazing sun. It dissolved quickly and silently, unable to send even the smallest thread of power into the consciousness field, much less harm Jared’s soul.
At the same time, the icy blue sphere in the corner of the consciousness field, already on the verge of shattering and barely holding together, was wrapped securely in the golden radiance flowing from the Aureate Codex and protected with care.
That was Aldric’s surviving remnant soul, the last remnant of Aldric Northern Abyss, the ancient Frost God!
Before this, the soul-refining fire had already burned it until its nascence was damaged, its awareness blurred, and its existence stood on the edge of dispersal. Now, nourished and repaired by the golden radiance, the remnant-soul nascence rapidly steadied. Its dim glow warmed back to life bit by bit, and the scattered texture of the spirit stitched itself whole again.
Aldric’s dormant awareness slowly awakened, and his soul-sense returned little by little. He clearly sensed the warm, heavy, steady supreme force around him, reliable enough to lean existence against, and deep within him, waves rose like a storm-tide.
He was the progenitor of the ancient Frost Deity Branch. He had crossed the ages, seen countless rare treasures of the heavens, and witnessed supreme divine abilities and secret arts beyond number, yet favonovel.com had never encountered a safeguarding force with such pure nascence.
It did not attack. It did not strike. it did not fight and did not kill. It existed only to protect the spirit and nourish the nascence. This was the highest tier of Great-Law nascence force.
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