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Chapter 658 - 734: Trapped in the Furnace, Life and Death!

Chapter 658: Chapter 734: Trapped in the Furnace, Life and Death!

The divine fire in the copper furnace erupted fiercely, turning the entire heaven and earth into what seemed to be an endless sea of flames.

The golden flames were blinding, melting the earth wherever they passed, leaving no grass or trees, and Chen Nan, clutching his fists, had nowhere to hide.

The spread of the divine fire was simply too fast.

Now, he was surrounded by flames in all directions, leaving him nowhere to hide, and even the birds and beasts in the forest perished innocently in large numbers.

"Even if it means death, I can only fight now!"

As the flames approached like the wind rolling the remaining clouds, Chen Nan activated his Mysterious Skill to the extreme, his body enveloped by thick Protective Gang Qi. He stomped on the ground and leaped up dozens of feet high, stepping out the Slaughter God Seven Steps, treading on the void towards the outer edge of the divine fire.

"Hiss hiss..."

The divine fire, capable of melting steel and stone, scorched upon Chen Nan’s Protective Gang Qi, making a slight noise, as if water had met a blazing flame, evaporating bit by bit.

However, Chen Nan’s current Protective Inner Strength had already materialized into Gang Qi, which was substantial and not simply the True Qi of the Qi Dao Realm.

Despite being slowly disintegrated by the scorching of the divine fire, the rate of this disintegration was so slow it could almost be ignored for the short term. However, prolonged exposure would likely become unbearable.

Clad in Xuanhuang Qi, Chen Nan shot through the Golden Divine Fire at extreme speed, like a shooting star rushing outwards.

At this moment, he was pushing his Cultivation to the limit, his speed reaching a peak. With the first step, he was already over ten feet away; with the second, he traversed an even greater distance.

When he took the sixth step, he had already reached the very edge of the divine fire’s periphery.

With the seventh step, I will surely break free from the range of this divine fire!

Chen Nan thought to himself, but just as he lifted his foot, he discovered that outside the divine fire was a golden hole, with divine fire surging inside and an extraordinarily high temperature.

That was—

The mouth of the Golden Copper Furnace!

Chen Nan’s face drastically changed. Previously in the flames, he couldn’t see the outside scene, but now, emerging like this, if he plunged into the furnace mouth, it would likely spell disaster.

But at this point, he was already diving towards the mouth of the furnace, and it was definitely too late to turn back.

Feeling the intense heat from inside the furnace, just before hitting the furnace mouth, he wildly spread his legs, and with a loud "bang", heaven and earth trembled as the Slaughter God Seventh Step landed on the rim of the furnace mouth.

Chen Nan, with his legs spread, stood on either side of the furnace mouth, numbing both legs from the shock, but he managed to stabilize his figure.

"Hahaha, Chen Nan, you’re courting death!"

The mid-aged cultivator in the sky laughed out loud, forming another spell with his hands, and shouted, "Close the furnace and refine!"

Hearing this, Chen Nan had a bad premonition.

His legs twisted, then with a powerful effort, he tried to move away from the furnace mouth. However, at that moment, a tremendous suction force from within the furnace attempted to draw him in for refinement into ash.

Chen Nan’s legs twisted nearly causing him to be sucked into the furnace.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, he leaned forward, propping his hands on the rim of the furnace, desperately resisting.

"Whoosh..."

At that moment, a wild wind surged, the divine fire previously ejected now drawn back toward the furnace mouth by the furnace’s pull, seeking return to the furnace.

Chen Nan channeled his Inner Strength with all his might, his Protective Gang Qi enveloping his entire body.

All the Divine Fire passed through the mouth of the furnace and scoured over Chen Nan’s body, but in the end, it failed to burn through his Protective Gang Qi.

Having to resist the suction of the copper furnace while enduring the smelting of the Divine Fire, Chen Nan’s Gang Qi was depleting rapidly, at a rate two to three times faster than usual.

"You’re bound to die sooner or later, Chen Nan, just give up resisting!"

The middle-aged man laughed heartily, reaching out with another spell. The copper furnace that was originally lying on the ground rose in an instant, with flames burning fiercely inside. The fire surged out from the mouth of the furnace, bit by bit incinerating Chen Nan’s Gang Qi.

"I’ll go catch that chicken first. By the time I return, you should already have been refined into ashes!"

The middle-aged man glanced disdainfully at Chen Nan, then, riding his Flying Sword, he vanished in a flash, chasing after the direction where the Black Feathered Chicken had escaped.

Chen Nan wanted to stop him, but he was already struggling to save himself.

The suction from the copper furnace was incredibly strong; he absolutely couldn’t escape, and the Divine Fire in the furnace kept melting his Gang Qi. At this rate, once his Gang Qi was depleted to a certain level, his body certainly wouldn’t hold up.

Once sucked into this copper furnace, it seemed there would truly be only a dead end.

"Damn it, this cursed cultivator!"

Chen Nan ground his teeth, exerting the strength of nine bulls and two tigers, barely managing to lift his right hand slightly.

Power of Splitting the Sky swirled in his palm; he activated the Fighting Secret Technique, and his golden-black hand, heavy as thousands of pounds, slapped onto the mouth of the copper furnace with a "clang." However, the furnace remained as before, the shallow imprint of his palm flashed and quickly returned to its original state.

"The power of an Eighth-grade Spiritual Artifact really is extraordinary. Am I really going to be burned to death here today?"

Chen Nan asked himself, unable to resign to his fate.

He had yet to personally feed the Concentration Fruit to Su Qingqing, had yet to see her wake up unharmed, and even in death, he would find it hard to rest in peace.

Chen Nan resisted with all his might, continuously raising his hand to strike at the mouth of the copper furnace, but each time it was autonomously restored by the furnace. Ten minutes later, Chen Nan no longer had the strength to lift his hand; his Inner Strength was nearly exhausted.

"Damn it, I’m not Sun Wukong; why the hell am I in an Alchemy Furnace..."

Chen Nan scornfully flipped the sky the middle finger, but the next moment, he could no longer resist and was drawn in with a "clang," tumbling into the copper furnace and kicking at its bottom.

The Divine Fire surged all around, and Chen Nan’s Protective Gang Qi melted away even faster.

The temperature inside the copper furnace was more than twice as high as the Divine Fire that had been spewing out earlier!

As Chen Nan’s Gang Qi was rapidly incinerated, in the instant when his Protective Gang Qi was exhausted, one could hear a "hiss" as his clothes were instantly burned to nothing, not even leaving behind ash, directly transforming into gas form.

Without the protection of his Protective Gang Qi, all the Divine Fire directly scorched his body.

Pain that drilled into his very marrow spread across every nerve, and Chen Nan felt as if he could see his own skin cracking.

His Martial Body, though as tough as Gold Essence and impervious to ordinary blades, was still no match for the extremely high temperature of the Divine Fire. If it weren’t for his possession of the Melt Soldiers and Refine Body Divine Power, having fused with such Ancient Divine Weapons as the Demon Sword and the Ancient Shield, resisting would have likely been even harder.

"Hiss, hiss..."

Within the fiercely burning copper furnace, Chen Nan had long since held his breath and closed his eyes.

But despite this, the incessant agonizing pain constantly reminded him that his skin and flesh had been charred to the point of cracking and bursting open, with fresh blood continuously flowing from the wounds!

Under such high temperatures, the fact that the blood wasn’t evaporated showed how extraordinary Chen Nan’s Martial Body was.

But no matter how strong his Martial Body was, it was ultimately hard to withstand the copper furnace of the Eighth-grade Spiritual Artifact. As his flesh and blood continued to crack, Chen Nan felt his consciousness grow dimmer, and finally everything went dark before his eyes, and he collapsed with a thud.

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