Whoosh…

With a soft sound, Qin Feng plunged headfirst into the scorching metal lake.

This place was close to the earth’s core, where abundant heat melted the metal into molten iron. Ordinary metal creatures dared not enter, even those metal divine beings were cautious, fearing the heat waves would assimilate them into the vast metal lake.

Faced with such a perilous place, Qin Feng naturally exercised extra caution.

After all, his most powerful defensive divine power came from the scale armor of the Ruyi Golden Snake—a gold element divine skill. Though its defense was robust, wandering around in the metal lake for days posed no risk of melting; the lake’s heat, however, could transmit through the golden scales to his body.

Upon realizing this, Qin Feng immediately surrounded himself with a dozen defensive divine powers to isolate the heat, no longer relying solely on the sturdy golden scales for protection.

Otherwise, he feared he wouldn’t last long, and his flesh might get cooked by the overwhelming heat!

He layered defenses around himself, including a spatial barrier on the outermost layer, and equipped himself with armor incorporating the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. He also donned a layer of cold ice armor close to his body, allowing him to feel cool and refreshing within the metal lake!

This showcased the benefit of having multiple techniques, ensuring responses to various situations without being forced to confront them like those with singular power attributes.

Under the protection of multiple defenses, Qin Feng ventured into the depths of the lake, encountering no further danger along the way.

It’s no wonder, thinking about it, if there were life capable of surviving in such a metal lake, how powerful would it have to be?

Considering the level of the Flowing Gold World, it’s hard to have a being at such a grade!

Nevertheless, saying there’s absolutely none isn’t entirely accurate, because the existence of the Metal Heart itself is an anomaly.

It is a unique existence born from the creation of heaven and earth, said to be the true beneficiary of this world’s fortune. Given the distinct gold element principle of this realm, if allowed several million years to slowly grow, it might even develop spiritual intelligence, transforming into a metal divine being.

Based on the current grade of the Metal Heart, if its spiritual intelligence evolved successfully, upon transformation, it could directly ascend to a top-level divine spirit—a naturally immortal life!

In the endless worlds within the cosmic starry sky, such powerful beings favored by heaven, appearing immediately as immortal, are rare but not absent.

Usually, they emerge in strong worlds greater than high-ranking ones, often born when heaven and earth first open as origin beings.

The Flowing Gold World’s rank is too low, though among small worlds it stands as a top entity, just a step away from a medium world. Yet ultimately, it’s still a small world, which couldn’t produce such naturally immortal top-level divine spirits.

Therefore, tens of thousands of years ago, the existence of the Metal Heart was discovered by divine spirits from the eight great tribes due to various reasons.

Originally, metal divine beings from the eight tribes fought fiercely over control of the gold element spiritual veins gathered here, battling for years.

Later, discovering the Metal Heart by chance escalated the conflict, resulting in heavy losses for each tribe, weakening them significantly, almost allowing some medium and small tribes to seize the opportunity to suppress them.

Hence, the eight tribes’ divine spirits compromised, deciding to seal the area, awaiting the Metal Heart’s maturation, ready to collectively absorb and refine its energy when the time was ripe!

From the moment the Metal Heart was discovered, its premature demise was inevitable; no god would forgo such a bountiful advantage and let it mature slowly.

Not only does refining the Metal Heart bring tremendous benefits to the gods, but they also refuse to submit to a potentially dominant presence.

There’s no telling what personality the Metal Heart would have upon maturing; if it’s violent, wouldn’t the divine spirits be doomed?

Knowing the Metal Heart’s existence meant that, regardless of facing invasion from wizards or the Immortal God Alliance, the eight tribes’ divine spirits never fell into total despair. They thought of extracting the Metal Heart and refining it in critical moments, perhaps nurturing a top-level divine spirit to resist the invasion!

Even if not, a few upper peak strong divine spirits could gain significant power, potentially allowing a half-step immortal realm strong individual to emerge.

At the half-step immortal realm, given the metal divine spirits’ formidable attack power, defeating several profound immortals and upper divine spirits among plant gods wouldn’t be impossible.

Although the challenging reproduction of metal beings limits their numbers, consequently their army’s size isn’t highly advantageous, rallying a realm’s strength can still counter the invasion army.

Adding a half-step immortal realm strong individual would enable negotiations with the invading expedition army, holding some initiative whether to fight or make peace.

If the invaders recklessly attacked without support, their losses would be severe, possibly failing to win!

This is the prowess a strong individual beyond the upper peak divine spirit yields!

Unfortunately, their actions were not discreet, providing Qin Feng the opportunity to trail the Golden Winged Great Peng here.

He continued his descent, gradually approaching the Metal Heart.

Looking up, the Metal Heart was roughly the size of a house, with two layers of membranes—an outer tough layer and an inner flexible resilient layer. Within lay countless densely packed gold element principle-formed patterns, resembling myriad capillaries spreading everywhere.

The core area was a fist-sized golden light cluster, exuding a faint immortal aura.

Gold immortal; in the cultivation world, immortal great powers refer to it as a Golden Immortal, indicating some unique aspect of the character 金 (Gold).

The immortal energy condensed from gold element principle is particularly valuable.

Qin Feng raised his hand and gently placed it on the Metal Heart, feeling its slow and steady beat, prompting the heart in his chest to thump excitedly.

Such a treasure filled with immortal aura was now before him, how could he not be excited?

It’s a pity he’s not a metal creature; otherwise, by integrating the Metal Heart into his chest and replacing his original heart, complete fusion would bestow him with its immense power and immortal aura directly.

This was also the plan of metal divine beings upon seizing the Metal Heart, thinking it the most likely way to create a strong being surpassing upper divine spirits swiftly.

Since he is not a Metal Creature, he cannot use the methods of those Metal Divine Beings and must resort to the Cultivation World’s method to refine this treasure.

Qin Feng glanced around, observing the channels connecting the Spirit Veins to the Metal Heart, and couldn’t help but sigh softly.

If it weren’t for the inevitable return of those Metal Divine Beings to attempt to seize the Metal Heart, he would definitely choose to retreat here for a few years, slowly absorbing and refining this Metal Heart. The benefits would be much greater then.

Forget it!

Things have come to this point, overthinking is useless!

Qin Feng shook his head, and behind him surged streams of golden light.

The Ruyi Golden Light flowed like water from his back, circled slowly around the Metal Heart, and after wrapping it up, only the Spirit Vein channels connecting to the Metal Heart remained.

Qin Feng did not sever all the Spirit Vein channels at once; instead, he came to the smallest channel. The Ruyi Golden Light suddenly became sharp and with a swoosh, forcibly cut off the channel supplying spiritual energy.

Instantly, a vast and pure flow of Gold Element Spiritual Energy and Power of Laws emanated from the cut.

Aside from a portion emitted by the Spirit Vein, more flowed from within the Metal Heart.

The spiritual energy within the Spirit Veins was manageable. As the channel leading to the Metal Heart was severed, part of the spiritual energy merged into the Metal Lake, making the aura here even more abundant.

However, every bit of power within the Metal Heart is accumulated over countless millennia, pure and unmatched. More importantly, the spiritual energy flowing out contains the Power of the Gold Element Law, and if it merges into the Metal Lake, it would be like a drop of pure water melding into the lake, irretrievable!

Qin Feng quickly extended his hand, drawing the energy and Power of Laws flowing from the Metal Heart into his body and rapidly refining it.

At the same time, the Ruyi Golden Light swirled around the breach on the Metal Heart, sealing the outflow of energy completely after a moment.

Qin Feng made hand signs and cast spells onto it, sealing the breach completely, before turning to the next connection between the Spirit Vein and the Metal Heart.

He followed the same method, severing the energy channels of numerous Spirit Veins converging on the Metal Heart. While absorbing and refining the energy and Gold Element Laws from the Metal Heart’s outflow, he sealed them to prevent energy overflow.

Before he could finish, he sensed through his mind the message from the spiritual beasts under his command, advising him that a powerful Metal Divine Being had already arrived outside.

Moreover, the Metal Divine Being that came was formidable, with the spiritual beasts under his command barely able to fend it off, likely unable to hold for long!

This was all due to the proper command of the Divine Turtle; without this tactful Old Turtle, the spiritual beasts would be each fighting for themselves, becoming wildly scattered.

Even if the Three-legged Death Crow could lead its followers to form the Ten Thousand Crows Formation, and the Ghost-Faced Spider could marshal its hordes of million Demon Spiders to cast a web of webs formation, such forces were insufficient against the Upper Divine Spirit.

Upon receiving the message, Qin Feng also vaguely sensed the tremendous aura and battle fluctuations transmitted along the channel from the ground above.

He cursed inwardly, surprised at the swift arrival of these Metal Divine Beings. seaʀᴄh thё NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He felt somewhat helpless, as evidently the front-line Expedition Army of Immortals and Gods were unaware of the matters here. Plus, the entire army hadn’t yet assembled for a decisive battle, lest a Upper Peak Metal Divine Being had the chance to leave the battlefield silently!

While grumbling inwardly, it was exceedingly difficult for him to speed up now.

Firstly, he continually absorbed the pure energy and Power of Laws streaming from the Metal Heart, nearly saturating his body. Refining these forces and laws wasn’t easy; no matter how strong his absorption ability, there is a limit. Now he feels his entire body is somewhat bloated, as if he’s overeaten.

More crucially, the remaining channels are all Top Level Spirit Vein channels.

This differs from the energy channels of medium and small Spirit Veins; they are giant, with energy channels as thick as barrels.

Cutting such large energy channels will not only cause a surge of spiritual energy from the Spirit Veins, unsettling the entire region, but also release extremely abundant energy and laws from the Metal Heart.

Cutting them all at once would lead to enormous loss.

Thus, he had to use the “Binding Spell” to soothe the Divine Turtle and other spiritual beasts, urging them to hold on for a while longer.

At the same time, his body suddenly expanded several times over, transforming into a giant of ten zhang, and with one hand directly tore off a barrel-thick energy channel, while using mighty immortal power to imprison the Spirit Vein conduit, flinging it upwards to avoid the spiritual energy impacting the lakebed.

A loud roar was heard, and the Metal Lake surged with hundred-zhang waves, with burning molten iron splashing everywhere.

Beneath, Qin Feng opened his mouth wide, sucking in the energy surging from the Metal Heart, crazily refining it with his internal immortal power. The vast power swelled his body, quickly growing nearly a hundred zhang tall.

Meanwhile, his mind constantly absorbed the Power of the Gold Element Law, causing intricate patterns to appear on his dark golden scales.

This exhibits the overpowering strength of the Gold Element Law and reflects his inability to absorb more, leading to the Power of Laws being refined into his body.

This not only relieved his pressure but enhanced his body’s endurance, preventing it from being overwhelmed by this vast power.

As the Metal Heart, capable of aiding an Upper Peak Divine Spirit to advance to the Immortal Realm, its plentiful energy astounded him. Even with Qin Feng’s accumulation far exceeding ordinary Heavenly Immortals, at this moment he had no choice but to adopt this wasteful method to absorb and refine it.

Unable to absorb any more, nine fierce and terrifying dragon heads appeared behind him, with each of the dragons aiding in absorbing and refining this vast energy.

Simultaneously, Ruyi Golden Light surged from his body, sealing off the energy channel of the Metal Heart.

After several such efforts, he finally managed to sever all the Spirit Vein channels to the Metal Heart, sealing the Metal Heart with layers of Ruyi Golden Light and various spell spirit lights, he sighed in relief.

By now, Qin Feng’s body had swelled to several hundred zhang tall, with his long legs extending from the lakebed and his head nearly reaching the metal ceiling above, forcing him to bend down to withstand the relentless assault of waves from the Metal Lake.

His aura surged powerfully, an overwhelming vast aura radiating uncontrollably everywhere.

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