Chapter 10

**Update Time: February 21, 2013**

In this climb, it took Mo Yu an entire day and night. During this time, he sustained himself with moss to replenish his strength. Despite the temperature dropping and the mountain wind becoming increasingly piercing, his eyes remained resolute, never wavering.

Suddenly, Mo Yu's figure, which had been climbing, came to a halt. At the end of his line of sight, the dark, sprawling stone wall and the green on it suddenly disappeared. He was slightly taken aback, and his body began to tremble with excitement.

Finally, he had reached the summit!

Climbing the nearly vertical mountain wall, he endured the constant assault of strong winds and low temperatures. Even with moss to replenish his strength, Mo Yu's body was already at its limit. But at this moment, a surge of energy suddenly welled up within his exhausted body, doubling his speed. He climbed the last stretch, and with just one more step, he could reach the edge of the summit by simply extending his hand!

But at this moment, the wind suddenly picked up.

This wind was not the piercing mountain wind from the heavens, but rather a warm and gentle breeze that enveloped his body.

Mo Yu's body stiffened suddenly. At this moment, a profound sorrow welled up within him, unexpected and without warning, yet it came from the depths of his heart!

He suddenly looked up at the sky, and at that moment, the fog had dissipated!

The fog that had enveloped the mountain, impervious to the cold mountain winds, was easily blown away by this gentle breeze. The sky was a clear blue, with the sun hanging high. Mo Yu was so close to them, as if the sky was just an arm's length away.

In the next moment, the sky changed dramatically. Countless clouds rapidly formed in the blue sky, creating a thick curtain that completely obscured the sky!

And these clouds were a deep, blood-red!

Blood-red light flashed in the cloud layer, and a thunderous boom echoed through the heavens, like the roar of a deity! In the depths of the mountain range, countless beasts, regardless of their strength, lay prostrate on the ground, trembling, as if submitting to a great being, not daring to move an inch!

Dense raindrops, as large as beans, fell from the cloud layer, and this rain was as red as blood, vivid and shocking. In just a short moment, Mo Yu's robes were completely soaked by the rain! But he seemed to be in a trance, his mind immersed in the sudden sorrow, completely unaware of the changes in the outside world. His eyes had turned red, and the blood-red raindrops mixed with his tears, sliding to the corners of his mouth, slightly salty.

At this moment, the red clouds covered the sky, and the blood-red rain fell to the ground. On the mountain wall, a person shed tears, which mixed with the rain to form blood tears!

Below the nine heavens, a small, thumb-sized red core was rapidly moving forward. Its speed was so fast that in a flash, it had traveled hundreds of miles, as if avoiding something or searching for something. On the surface, the red core seemed ordinary, but it had an incredibly high temperature. All raindrops that touched it instantly vaporized, creating a clear path through the rain, with white mist trailing behind, forming a thin white cloud in the rain. As time passed, the core's size decreased, but its speed increased, whistling through the sky, and in an instant, it was gone without a trace!

At this moment, the core trembled slightly as it seemed to sense something. Without stopping, it suddenly changed direction and plunged toward the ground with the blood-red rain. At the incredible speed, the ground rapidly grew larger in his field of vision. Below was a towering peak split in half, with a figure huddled on the steep wall, drenched in rain!

*Plop!*

Like an ordinary raindrop, the core struck Mo Yu, not piercing his chest with its terrifying speed, but directly merging into his flesh, instantly disappearing.

Mo Yu suddenly awoke from his sorrow, feeling as if he were in scorching flames. The intense pain that enveloped his body made him faint immediately upon waking, and his body plummeted downward with a whoosh!

Although he was unconscious, his subconscious still endured the relentless burning heat, as if it were trying to incinerate him into ashes. As he fell at high speed, if one could see his current state, they would notice that his entire body was red, and the blood-red rain that fell on him sizzled and evaporated instantly, like water on a red-hot steel plate. The rapid descent created a series of afterimages, making him look like a burning meteor falling from the sky!

With a loud *splash*, Mo Yu hit the water at high speed, causing a high splash on the turbulent river surface. The heat generated a cloud of steam, which was quickly blown away by the mountain wind. With his physical strength, such a terrifying speed would have destroyed his body upon impact with the water, but at this moment, perhaps due to the intense heat within him, his body was completely unharmed. However, the intense collision shattered his consciousness, plunging him into the deepest darkness. His last thought was the faint coolness he finally sensed amidst the heat...

The Cloudy River continued to flow forward, the splashes it caused instantly smoothing out, leaving no trace.

A moment later, the blood-red cloud layer that had obscured the sky was torn apart, and a figure in a black robe stepped out. The sun's rays penetrated the tear, forming a pillar of light that connected heaven and earth, and this figure stood within it, like a deity or demon descending upon the world! His face was hidden under the black robe, but one could see the pair of crimson eyes in the darkness, like two blazing flames! His gaze swept across the land, searching for a long time, but the aura he had sensed was completely gone!

After a long while, he suddenly let out a roar of anger and frustration, "No matter where you go, you cannot escape!" His voice echoed through the wind and rain, resounding across the entire mountain range, but it was destined to receive no response!

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At the Four Seasons Sect, the sect master Liu Biancheng stood by the railing, looking at the blood-red clouds and the torrential blood-red rain, his face grave, with a hint of awe and sorrow. "Red clouds cover the sky, and blood-red rain falls to the ground. Such an unusual phenomenon indicates that a peak powerhouse of this era has fallen... We cultivators, after a lifetime of hard cultivation, even reaching such a realm, cannot escape death..." His voice gradually faded into the wind and rain, becoming inaudible.

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The Cloudy River originates from a peak deep within the mountain range, where melting snow and heavy autumn rains have made the water flow the most abundant of the year. The swift and clear river water rushes, eroding the riverbanks and the chaotic rocks at the bottom, occasionally forming white splashes and emitting a low, rumbling sound, like the roar of a powerful beast.

Suddenly, a figure was lifted by a swirling eddy. Upon closer inspection, it was a young man, his naked body red like iron in a furnace, radiating an extremely powerful heat. The contact with the icy river water caused it to boil, with bubbles rising from the bottom, forming a white mist.

This man was Mo Yu!

The eddy lifted his body for only a moment before the turbulent river pulled him into the depths, carrying him forward rapidly. His body was incredibly hot, with an intense heat permeating every inch of his flesh, like a giant furnace, refining his physical body. During this process, his flesh, bones, and organs struggled in the intense heat, driven by the instinct for survival, voraciously absorbing the intense heat within him. As a result, his physical body was rapidly strengthening, and his tolerance for the intense heat was increasing!

The cold river water was the only way to cool him down, with the excess heat rapidly dissipating through his skin. However, even so, the intense heat within him still exceeded Mo Yu's tolerance, inevitably causing damage to his body. His flesh and bones were charred in many places, and if he could not counteract it, his ultimate fate would be to become a burning fireball at the bottom of the river, then be completely incinerated into ashes.

At this moment, a muffled *thud* sounded from the bottom of the river. Mo Yu's body suddenly jolted, and his lower back was slammed into a protruding rock at the bottom of the river by the current. The incredible speed and the force of the water made this collision deadly! Even a third-stage body cultivator, with bones as hard as iron, would have had dozens of bones broken, and even the spine shattered, leading to a watery grave. But where Mo Yu was hit, a red light flashed, neutralizing all the impact force. His bones were unharmed, leaving only a shallow white mark, which quickly disappeared, leaving no trace of the terrifying collision.

During this process, the intense heat that had accumulated at the point of impact was dispersed by the force of the collision, directly merging into the surrounding flesh! In the next moment, this part of his flesh's tolerance for the intense heat would be greatly increased! Such collisions had already occurred countless times since Mo Yu fell into the river. His head, body, and limbs... almost every part of him had been hit, and even an iron body would have been shattered by such impacts. But Mo Yu's physical body remained unharmed, with no wounds. It was precisely because of these continuous, destructive collisions that he was able to endure the intense heat burning within him.

When he fell into the water, his consciousness, shattered by the impact, had been pieced back together by the intense heat. As his physical body was refined, his soul also underwent a baptism of intense heat. The difference was that this heat would not destroy his soul but would bring the deepest pain, like burning his soul in a fire. This pain was impossible to resist and could only be endured through sheer willpower. If he collapsed, it would mean the withering and death of his soul.

The intense heat acting on his soul was equally lethal, but it gave Mo Yu the choice between life and death. If he gave up, his soul would collapse and vanish, escaping all pain at the cost of death. If he persisted, he would have to endure the endless, despair-inducing pain of being burned by the flames!

In the intense pain, Mo Yu's will had gradually become blurred. He had reached the brink of collapse countless times but had persisted with a resilience beyond imagination, only to face the next collapse and continue to persist... over and over again. As this cycle repeated, his soul began to undergo a qualitative change under the intense heat, its color gradually deepening, like a precious crystal being refined in a furnace.

After an unknown amount of time struggling on the edge of pain and death, the pain from his soul and physical body gradually subsided, and Mo Yu's consciousness, which had been struggling, finally relaxed. Under the instinctive protection, he fell into the deepest sleep.

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