Chapter Ninety: Azure Blood Divine Body

"Hmph. Your aptitude is indeed monstrous now, and with your extraordinary comprehension, even in the vast universe you would already count as a remarkable genius. But even genius has its limits. You have not even reached the Starlight level, and you already imagine you can harm a Mid-Nebula-level foe? Do you think crossing realms in battle is so easy? Let alone when your opponent is a cosmic behemoth that is already invincible within its own tier!" White shook his head and urged him on with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation. "Hurry up and check your body—see whether there have been any special changes!"

"Special changes? What changes?" Blue Sky asked in confusion.

"Are you stupid? Azure Blood Starfire!" White said eagerly.

"Azure Blood Starfire? Is that real?" The moment Blue Sky heard those words, his composure shattered. He nearly pitched out of the air, and after hastily steadying himself, he asked in shock, "You mean I can produce Azure Blood Starfire too?"

This was an enormous blessing. What kind of existence was Azure Blood Starfire? It was precisely by virtue of Azure Blood Starfire that Flame Marsh had risen to fame!

Even in the boundless universe, where secret arts and innate talents of countless races were endless and beyond reckoning, Azure Blood Starfire still stood among the very highest tier.

"From what I can tell, Flame Marsh's essence-blood has already transformed your body into the legendary Azure Blood Divine Body, but I still cannot be completely certain. We need to see whether you can ignite Azure Blood Starfire, and... summon the Flame Marsh phantom!" White said with deep admiration. "Only when you can truly kindle Azure Blood Starfire and call forth the Flame Marsh phantom can the Azure Blood Divine Body be said to be truly complete!"

"The Flame Marsh phantom? I can even summon the Flame Marsh phantom?" Blue Sky exclaimed in renewed amazement.

"Otherwise, what did you think a special constitution was? There are countless billions of geniuses in the universe, but those with special constitutions are as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. Every single one of them is an earthshaking existence!" White's eyes blazed with fervor.

"What effect does the Flame Marsh phantom have?" Blue Sky asked straight to the point, striking at the heart of the matter.

"How would I know? I've never seen it. I only learned a little from ancient texts, and even there it was mentioned only in passing, with no detailed explanation at all." White shook his head, meaning that Blue Sky would have to discover the rest for himself.

Blue Sky then suppressed the ecstasy swelling in his heart and tried to feel the changes within himself.

First, there was no doubt that all the blood in his body had completely transformed into Azure Blood. Each beat of the silver-gray heart produced a great quantity of Azure Blood, which flowed endlessly in circulation through his body. But how exactly could this Azure Blood be used to ignite Azure Blood Starfire?

Blue Sky pondered it repeatedly, trying to discover the method for igniting the flame, yet he failed to notice that while his entire attention was fixed on the Azure Blood within him, wisps of gray-white fire were already beginning to appear along his arms, then swiftly spread over his whole body.

"Heavens! It really is Azure Blood Starfire! Hahaha, Blue Sky, you've made it! This time you really have made it!" White's ecstatic voice rang out, interrupting Blue Sky's thoughts.

Only then did he react, and he too was swept into overwhelming delight.

So that was it!

There was no need to search for any method at all. Azure Blood Starfire was born from Azure Blood itself; it was almost like instinct. With a single thought, Azure Blood Starfire could arise!

Looking at the Azure Blood Starfire boiling across his entire body, Blue Sky heard the crackling roar of air as it burned. With a thought, he used his spiritual power to make the Azure Blood Starfire take the form of a flaming longsword, and he swung it toward the summit of Mount Everest below.

Wherever the flaming sword passed, the snow and ice that had covered Mount Everest for countless years instantly melted, and streams of lava began to flow down the mountain as thick smoke rose into the air.

And then came the Flame Marsh phantom!

Once Azure Blood Starfire had been born, Blue Sky sensed a profoundly mysterious aura rising from within it. Seizing that thread of feeling, he bellowed, and the Azure Blood Starfire all over his body suddenly surged upward, automatically condensing into a Flame Marsh phantom made entirely of Azure Blood Starfire.

The phantom roared to the heavens. Under Blue Sky's will, it slapped downward, and at once mountains collapsed, the earth split apart, and snow flew in every direction. The violent tremor triggered a colossal avalanche.

When everything around him finally fell silent again, the surrounding space was dim and blurred. Endless snow melted into water, then was instantly vaporized into vast clouds of steam, until the peak beneath his feet vanished into thin air.

With that single strike, the enormous mountain had been shattered to pieces, while all the stone had turned into lava and flowed freely everywhere.

The Azure Blood Divine Body was beyond question.

"Wow..." Blue Sky suddenly went weak at the knees, his face turning pale as he plummeted straight downward.

Just now, after the Flame Marsh phantom unleashed that strike, he had felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained away in a single instant, leaving him utterly hollow and weak.

"Hahaha, peak High Nebula level! The power of that Flame Marsh phantom is actually two major realms above you! My heavens! As expected of the legendary special constitution! It's too monstrous!" White cried in wild delight.

"Monstrous? That phantom only struck once, and it drained all my strength. I can't even stand now..." Blue Sky, clad in the Blazing Gold Divine Armor, flew up again. If he had not urgently summoned the armor just now and used its power to lift himself into the air, he would already have plunged into the lava below.

That strike from the Flame Marsh phantom had not only emptied the strength of his body, but had even drained his spiritual power as well.

"What do you know! Without the Flame Marsh phantom, even if all your power were added together and multiplied tenfold, you still could never unleash a strike at peak High Nebula level! I've never even heard of anyone who could, by their own strength alone, launch an attack that surpassed two major realms!" White was beside itself with excitement. "And you still haven't used divine resonance. With the mysterious power of the first layer of the basic combat art's divine resonance, it will surely be able to empower the Flame Marsh phantom as well..."

"I can hardly imagine it anymore. Once you step into the Starlight level, with Azure Blood Starfire, the Flame Marsh phantom, my master's secret arts, and the divine resonance enhancement of the Heaven-Splitting Tower added together, just how terrifying will your strength become..." White murmured, completely lost in a beautiful vision of the future.

"Haha, then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and pass me the Starlight-level cultivation technique," Blue Sky said excitedly.

"No rush, no rush. The cosmic energy required at the Starlight level is immense, and breaking through on Earth would not be ideal. There is a very real chance it would affect the quality of your breakthrough. We're leaving soon anyway, so there is no need to hurry this moment." White shook its head. "If you didn't have the Azure Blood Divine Body before, that would be one thing. But now that you do, you must advance step by step and cultivate every realm to perfection. There must not be the slightest flaw!"

"I see..." Blue Sky said with regret, though he was also deeply in agreement with White's words.

If he had not been blessed with such extraordinary aptitude, then casual cultivation and a few imperfections would not matter; they would have almost no impact on his future. But now that he possessed the Azure Blood Divine Body, how could he leave any regret behind? He knew well that flaws left in the early stages were basically impossible to make up for later, and even if they could be repaired, the price would be astonishing.