The divine power and power of faith within the magma were completely unleashed, and although the temperature of the magma couldn't match the Ultimate Fire, it still burned every inch of Su Yu's flesh thoroughly.
After the pain came a soothing, cooling sensation.
His whole body felt warm and tingling.
However, Su Yu hadn't enjoyed this feeling for long before another round of burning began.
Magma surged beneath the Endless Volcano, with vast amounts of fire attribute energy flowing into the volcano's peak crater at the core.
Su Yu looked inward at himself, a glimmer of Dawn appeared between his flesh and was filled with numerous patterns growing.
Hiss~
Though painful, this method offered the most fundamental upgrade to the physique; the longer one persisted, the greater the benefits.
The stingy Fire God only provided this as compensation, so it couldn't be wasted.
The gathered fire attribute energy frantically drilled into Su Yu's body.
Even more intense pain assailed him.
However, the warm feeling did not increase proportionately with the pain.
Nonetheless, the burning with flame energy did not cause damage inside Su Yu's body; after the burning, it merged with the magma energy to participate in body forging.
It seemed as if the burning process was merely a minor punishment.
...
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Su Yu and his companion spent a month undergoing body forging in the magma.
Feeling the magma no longer entering their bodies, with the divine power and power of faith also thinning out,
the magma ceased to provide any benefits, beginning to burn flesh and dissolve everything.
Su Yu immediately activated his Soul Power to fend off the magma, leaping out from it and landing on the crater's edge.
Huo Yuhao, under the Ice Emperor's protection, quickly used Ultimate Ice to instantaneously isolate the magma, giving him the time to leap out.
"Brother Yu, I've condensed the Qi and Blood Power!" Huo Yuhao felt that this round of magma body forging significantly enhanced him.
"Hmm, although we didn't receive the God's trial, we at least got some benefits. Let's go, there's nothing more for us here."
...
Not receiving even the Fire God's trial, Su Yu felt no regret at all.
The matter regarding the Ice God was merely a casual mention by him.
If Huo Yuhao could get the news, it would naturally be a good thing; however, without any information on the Ice God, there was no need to feel down.
After all, although it's said that Huo Yuhao is in harmony with the Ice God, the match wasn't that perfect.
Order and destiny seemed to suit him better.
The follow-up advancement of these two divine positions should be easier than that of the Ice God.
As for the Ice God divine position, it could very well be consolidated by the Snow Empress in the future.
Compared to Huo Yuhao, Su Yu felt that the Ice Heaven Snow Lady, who inherently possessed the Ice God Bloodline, would find it easier to consolidate the Ice God's position.
Having spent half a year assisting the Snow Empress in cultivation, Su Yu considered his relationship with the Snow Empress quite good.
In the future, he could even consider bringing her into his camp.
"Of course, the prerequisite for all of this is figuring out how to consolidate divine positions."
All of Su Yu's current plans had to be built on this premise; that was, discovering how to break through Level 99 to reach the Hundred Level and consolidate a divine position.
He never considered this to be pursuing the minor details while neglecting the major ones.
After all, the process of exploring this method inherently deepened one's understanding of cultivation—a more profound enlightenment.
Currently, Su Yu was merely at the Soul Saint level, still far from Level 99, just studying these matters alongside his cultivation.
Firstly, it didn't delay his cultivation, and secondly, it occasionally solved the problem of potentially being stuck at Level 99 without any progress, without having to spend a lot of time studying when the critical moment arrived.
Regarding the rewards obtained in the process of inheriting already existing divine positions,
wasn't Su Yu already receiving rewards from the Life God?
...
"Brother Yu, are we going to the other side of that space passage?"
"Of course we are!" Su Yu said without hesitation, "Yuhao, that's an untapped small world, full of abundant resources, and we might even find some Immortal Grass there."
"Immortal Grass?"
Huo Yuhao was taken aback.
Indeed, an undeveloped small world might even harbor Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures with its long history of existence.
The two people spent a month in the Fire God's inheritance land, delaying their journey with magma body forging, now urging forward more quickly.
Before Feng Kuang and others made their second entry into the space passage, the duo finally arrived.
"Xiaosu, Yuhao?"
Feeling the aura of the two, Feng Kuang secretly marveled.
More progress was made?
Especially Huo Yuhao, carefully observing his eyes, Feng Kuang sensed that Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eyes had successfully awakened a second time.
"Brother Kuang, something delayed us for a month."
"No worries."
Feng Kuang waved dismissively.
Based on the previous preliminary exploration, Feng Kuang concluded that it was a continent as the Blood Flame had described.
Such a large piece of land, even the entire Essence Sect couldn't develop it fully, two more people wouldn't overwhelm it.
Orderly entering the space passage.
Su Yu stepped into the channel.
A familiar feeling swept over him.
The rich Power of Space enveloped him, greatly accelerating his comprehension of it.
This enhanced understanding from being enveloped by the dense Power of Space left Su Yu captivated.
Yet, time passed quickly, even more so than in Dragon Valley.
It was just a matter of closing and opening his eyes; soon, Su Yu felt a void, though he didn't fall, being a Soul Saint allowed him to fly by manipulating the Power of Heaven and Earth.
Huo Yuhao's bone wings unfolded as well, preventing any fall.
Before this, Feng Kuang warned them that the passage's other side wasn't connected to the land but opened mid-air.
The last exploration benefitted from Feng Kuang's formidable strength; though his Soul Power had regressed, losing the ability to fly, his abundant experience allowed him to step across the void, returning through the space passage to the Endless Volcano.
The Blood Flame Sect was also restless.
And now, this sect was completely wiped out.
...
"Brother Yu, this place still feels like Douluo Continent."
Huo Yuhao had a strong intuition they were still above the Douluo Continent.
Could the small world be like this?
"Yes, we are still in the plane where Douluo Continent lies; this isn't a small world but rather another continent likely located in the ocean."
Unlike the previous Sun and Moon Continent or Douluo Continent, the level of development here seemed somewhat low, with the highest soul master cultivation level recorded as only being Soul Sect.
However, the relationship between humans and soul beasts here wasn't as tense as on Douluo Continent.
Humans venerated some powerful soul beasts as totems.
...
"Ten kilometers ahead there's a human settlement. Do you want to understand the situation there?"
After a month's exploration, Feng Kuang had a basic understanding of the environment here, offering advice to the two.
But Su Yu shook his head.
"No, Brother Kuang, I want to explore this continent first."
Feng Kuang didn't mind, proceeding alone to inspect the blood essence production site he had extracted information about.
"Brother Yu, have you sensed something again?"
Huo Yuhao found Su Yu's current state familiar.
Su Yu looked serious as he spoke, "Yuhao, haven't you noticed? The vitality of this continent is extraordinarily rich."
"Huh? Is it?"
Huo Yuhao wasn't very perceptive of this.
Possessing the Ultimate Life Attribute and the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, Su Yu was sensitive to such things.
"Feedback from my martial soul indicates the vitality of the Blue Silver Grass across this entire continent can even compare to that of Xingdou Great Forest."
Based on this feedback, Su Yu carefully sensed the Primordial Energy of the continent and found the Life Attribute exceptionally active.
Even the activity of the Life Rule here was approaching the level in the Life God inheritance space.
Su Yu felt that Tiandou Continent might be the land of his opportunity.
"Yuhao, activate Spiritual Detection, let's traverse the continent first."
Su Yu planned to explore the entire Tiandou Continent before considering returning through the space passage.
With his strength and Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection, they had all the means necessary to do so.