Chapter 488: Nine Fires Burning the Heart, Hard to Survive

This dark flame is not hot, bright, or burning, but it illuminates Shi Xuan's entire soul, showing its essence of countless true spirits gathered in a chaotic way. The light is like a complex starry sky, brilliant and gorgeous.

Shi Xuan's third heavenly tribulation "Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation" came nearly a thousand years earlier due to the backlash of hell and evil ghosts in the six reincarnations!

This dark flame is the first heart fire: "Past True Spirit Fire", it spreads slowly, and the object of ignition is the part of the true spirit that is consistent with or similar to Shi Xuan's nature.

The true spirit burns silently, turning into a little bit of illusory water, which merges into the nature of the soul, that is, the most fundamental and core true spirit of Shi Xuan, making it gradually swell and bright.

At the same time, the vast memory fragments they bring hit Shi Xuan's heart like a tide, making Shi Xuan hallucinate.

However, Shi Xuan did not visualize the Pure Natural Morality Heavenly Venerable, nor did he use the Tai Chi diagram. He just kept a trace of clarity in his heart, allowing these memory illusions to appear and disappear, and the demons to dance wildly.

For any real person who has achieved the authentic Yuanshen, the first "past true spirit fire" is not difficult to pass, because what is burned is the part of the true spirit that is consistent with or close to the nature, that is, the part that is easiest to merge when breaking through the falsehood and merging the true spirit. If it is not merged, it is impossible to break through the mysterious gate of life and death.

These true spirits burned out, and the dark flames gradually extinguished as if they were full and did not spread to other true spirits and Shi Xuan's Yuanshen nature.

The past true spirit fire passed safely, and Shi Xuan's Yuanshen nature became much stronger, showing a touch of glass purity.

And where the dark flames extinguished, a pure white, bright flame slowly emerged, and as soon as it appeared, it was like a prairie fire, and white flames were all over the Yuanshen, but they did not ignite anything, as if they were burning out of thin air, burning Shi Xuan's Yuanshen.

Intense, indescribable pain invaded Shi Xuan's mind, a feeling he had never experienced before. At the same time, anger, gloom, resentment, ecstasy, love, hatred, gratitude, joy, greed and other emotions mixed together, making Shi Xuan's mind waver and almost split. It was the second heart fire of the Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation: "The Heart Fire of the Tao in the Present World".

An old man with white hair and beard, wide sleeves and long robes, immortal style, and full of pure natural moral meaning was visualized by Shi Xuan. He sat in the center of the Yuanshen. With his appearance, the pure and natural feeling spread all over his body, relieving the intense pain directly sensed by the Yuanshen, and suppressing many positive or negative emotions together, allowing Shi Xuan to maintain the clarity of his original mind.

The two feelings confronted fiercely, and the Pure Natural Moral Heavenly Venerable was like a rock, standing still under the impact of the tide.

After a few moments, the pure white Tao Heart Fire began to extinguish, and the Moral Heavenly Venerable also became illusory and shook.

The second heart fire tribulation was passed!

At the end of the Dao Heart Fire, a small red lotus appeared and slowly bloomed. Each petal of it was composed of extremely pure and extremely deep red flames, emitting an illusory beauty, as if it came from the deepest part of hell. It was the famous "Red Lotus Karma Fire"!

When illuminated by the Red Lotus Karma Fire, Shi Xuan's body appeared with a lot of black air, which was thick, twisted, hideous, and resentful. Just seeing it made people feel like they were falling straight into hell, and this was the first time it appeared under the illumination of the Red Lotus Karma Fire. More karma has not yet emerged!

Although Shi Xuan did things in accordance with his original intention for so many years of practicing Taoism, he was also very sinful and entangled in karma.

The Red Lotus Karma Fire crackled and burned Shi Xuan's soul, but under the suppression of the Pure Natural Morality Heavenly Venerable, it became dimmer every time it burned a part of the soul, and it was about to be completely extinguished.

But at this time, the rich karma like black worms was thrown into the Red Lotus Karma Fire, making it burn more fiercely and more vigorously. The karma is endless and the karma fire is not extinguished!

When the black karma was put into the fire, it transformed into a series of hideous faces, such as Meng Yuchang, Yang Fei, Duan Wuqing, etc. They were all people who deserved to die in Shi Xuan's hands for thousands of years.

Shi Xuan's soul seemed to be divided into two halves, one half was the ocean of flaming red lotuses, and the other half was the pure natural space suppressed by the Lord of Morality, but the red lotus fire was advancing step by step.

A golden bridge with a magnificent atmosphere, entangled with golden lotuses, as if it could suppress the heavens, appeared and blessed the Lord of Morality. The burning of the red lotus fire became slow, and the speed of the black karma was even slower than a turtle.

After getting a chance to breathe, Shi Xuan re-visualized the Lord of Morality and stabilized the situation. After that, the Lord of Morality and the Golden Bridge on the Other Shore began to stalemate with the red lotus fire.

In fact, if he had not transcended the tribulation in advance and refined the Tai Chi diagram to the eighteenth level of prohibition, the suppression of the Golden Bridge on the Other Shore alone would have stopped the red lotus fire.

The black karma gradually burned out, and Shi Xuan felt that his soul was much more relaxed, as if he had put down many packages and became more agile and lively.

Without the blessing of karma, the red lotus karma fire gradually extinguished, and the third heart fire passed!

Like the previous two heavenly tribulations, there was a brief pause after the three-fold tribulation fire. Shi Xuan flashed a bitter smile in his heart. The previous three-fold tribulation fire was so difficult. Could it be that he really had to use that method in the end? It was really unreliable to pass the tribulation a thousand years in advance!

The dark flame emerged, and the "past true spirit fire" attacked again. This time the target was the part of the true spirit that was quite different from Shi Xuan's nature.

For Shi Xuan, this was naturally not a problem. He kept his original heart and watched them completely turn into water and merge into his original spirit, making it stronger and the color of the pure glass more obvious.

After the "past true spirit fire", the "present world heart fire" also appeared, which was more pure white and transparent, and more scorching and bright.

As soon as it appeared, it burned violently, turning into a huge white flame that wrapped around the soul, burning with a sizzling sound. Shi Xuan's soul twisted and shook, and a pain hundreds of times greater than before suddenly rose from his heart.

And the Taoist Heavenly Venerable, who exuded a sense of purity and nature, was spread by the white Dao Heart Fire in just a moment, burning illusory and dim, as if there was not much resistance.

Shi Xuan gritted his teeth, and a purple jade ruler flew out, sprinkling nine golden flowers and auspicious aura that suppressed the mind, landing on the Taoist Heavenly Venerable, making his body stable. At the same time, the Golden Bridge on the Other Shore appeared again, and golden lotuses bloomed, and golden light hung down, suppressing the Dao Heart Fire in the present world slowly and dimly.

Especially so, it still burned firmly towards the core of the soul. Two moments later, Shi Xuan's mind was shaken and he could no longer maintain the state of visualizing the Heavenly Lord of Morality. It suddenly collapsed, and the pure white flames burned fiercely, burning the Nine Heavens Yuanyang Ruler behind him. In just a moment, the golden flower was burned, the purple air was burned out, and the jade ruler was burned.

However, this moment allowed Shi Xuan to regroup, and the Heavenly Lord of Morality was visualized again to resist the invading Dao Heart Fire.

At this time, the Dao Heart Fire of the Present World was already at the end of its strength, and was dragged to the time of extinguishing by the Golden Bridge of the Other Shore and the Heavenly Lord of Morality in the slow retreat.

After all the efforts, the fifth level of calamity fire was finally passed!

The sixth level of calamity fire ignited in Shi Xuan's soul without any interval, still the pure and deep "Red Lotus Karma Fire", but under its illumination, the emerging black karma was more twisted, more dense, and more terrifying.

The faces they transformed into were the more innocent people that Shi Xuan had killed for his own purposes, such as several Dharma Real People in the Seven Immortals World, and many monks who generously resisted in the capital of the Yuan Mang World... Their resentful curses seemed to entangle Shi Xuan's mind for a long time.

These black karmas were thrown into the Red Lotus Karma Fire at the same time, causing the fire to rise sharply and burn fiercely, with a sense of judgment, burning Shi Xuan's Yuanshen like a broken bamboo. The Pure Natural Morality Heavenly Venerable could not stop it at all and was burned into an illusion.

At this time, an ancient bronze lamp suddenly appeared at the core of the Yuanshen. The lamp decoration was simple and mysterious. The wick was made of condensed ice silk, like glass, and the ice crystal-like flame on it was white and cold, shedding pure light.

As soon as the cold flame heart lamp appeared, it emitted a faint ice crystal-like halo, one circle after another, like a flowing water wave coming to the front of the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

The Red Lotus Karma Fire was touched by the ice crystal flame and immediately separated from Shi Xuan's soul, heading towards the wick of the Cold Flame Heart Lamp, burning and merging with the ice crystal-like wick flame. After a few moments, both were extinguished.

The sixth level of the Nine Fires Burning Heart Tribulation has passed!

All the karma was completely burned by the Red Lotus Karma Fire. Shi Xuan seemed to have taken off a thick, airtight outer robe, and also seemed to have thrown away the mountain on his back, and was extremely free and relaxed.

After the six calamity fires, Shi Xuan's calamity secret treasures and pure yang magic treasures were consumed. The eighth "heart fire of the present world" and the ninth "glass fire of the original heart" looked very desperate.

After a short pause, the dim and dark past true spirit fire was rekindled, and this time it was the part of the true spirit that was opposite to Shi Xuan's nature that was burning.

For most real people, this heavy calamity fire must be passed by using secret treasures or nurturing and strengthening the true spirit of nature for more than 3,000 years, because when they cut through the falsehood and merged the true spirit, they did not merge this part at all. The dark flame had nothing to burn, so it would ignite the true spirit of nature.

For example, Meng Nishang nurtured and strengthened the true spirit of nature for 3,100 years before the third heavenly calamity was triggered. Compared with her surviving the first two heavenly calamities in more than 900 years, it was a world of difference. Of course, not everyone can successfully nurture and strengthen the true spirit of nature. It is related to one's own Tao heart. For example, some real people delayed the nine fire burning heart calamity for five or six thousand years and did not dare to pass it. It was because their heart was not good enough to strengthen the true spirit of nature.

Due to the perfection of the fusion of the true spirit when achieving the primordial spirit, Shi Xuan easily passed this heavy calamity fire. All the true spirits were completely integrated into the primordial spirit of nature. There was no need to control them by returning to chaos. They were one and the same.

If the past true spirit fire shines again, what you see is not the true spirit light spots like complex stars, but the only soul that is as transparent and pure as glass, just as the saying goes "life after the disaster of glass".

The eighth level "heart fire of the present world" is like a volcanic eruption, unstoppable.

In an instant, the Pure Natural Morality Heavenly Venerable completely collapsed, and the Golden Bridge on the other side was severely damaged and withdrew from the soul! Both of them have no power to resist!

If Shi Xuan is given another thousand years to practice, it will not reach this point!