Chen Xu was not the first to obtain divine power.

Last time, after drinking the Golden Spirit Jade Liquid Tea from the little mouse, Chen Xu, through development and comprehension, gained an innate divine power [Netherworld Without Gap].

The strength of Netherworld Without Gap goes without saying.

Divine powers, compared to ordinary magic, always carry many more mysteries and wonders.

This time, he merely walked under the Yin Yang Infinite Scale and witnessed a vision of karmic fire burning the six paths—

At that moment, Chen Xu was at the Ghost Market, yet it seemed as if he traversed infinite time and space in an instant.

In a daze, he descended into a sea of fire.

As the flames surged up, he seemed to become a speck of dust or a wisp of smoke in the sea of fire.

He drifted along, witnessing scenes of joy and sorrow, separation and reunion in the mortal world.

There were those with nothing, struggling out of the mire, meeting countless trampling feet, but also arms extending to pull them out of the mire;

Having struggled free, they then turned back to trample those helping arms into the mire completely!

This was the evil side of human nature; some people, though they've escaped the mire, can never truly comprehend what true light looks like.

But that was not all.

Chen Xu also saw, under the calamity, a mother desperately saving her young child, then facing famine and hardship until both reached the brink of death;

At that moment, the mother fell.

The two-year-old child, seemingly innocent, yet possessing an instinct for survival.

Thus, the child followed its instinct, biting open the mother's chest to suck her blood as milk for survival…

This, too, must be considered an evil.

And countless more evils.

Scenes shifted like lightning, one after another, strange and grotesque.

It wasn't just about people either.

For example, in the abyssal forests, there were crows feeding their mothers.

But there was also a type of mother bird capable of picking up the weakest of its chicks, beating it, pecking it, until it killed it entirely;

Then the mother bird, along with the remaining chicks, would devour the dead bird without hesitation.

Cuckoos would lay their eggs in other birds' nests, pushing the original eggs out, killing them.

Then they would naturally use the victim's strength to hatch and raise their own young until they became fully grown birds.

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Too much, the scenes that could be burned by karmic fire were either evil or greed.

There were also obsessions driven by love, hate born of love, enmity due to jealousy, and so on and so forth.

All scenes were filled with deep melancholy for the heart and spirit, none devoid of pain, anger, and various negative emotions.

Thus, when Chen Xu glanced at it and fell into the endless grayness, the impact he suffered was beyond imagination.

In an instant, as if witnessing a million births and deaths.

When pondered, it was as if there were endless causes arising.

Life and death, greed, anger, ignorance, resentment, who can stop it?

Such lingering suffering, wouldn't it be better to become a speck of dust, ignorant and unfeeling, or an ephemeral mayfly, alive for a day and then liberated…

It seemed only natural for one's Dao Heart to collapse.

But miraculously, although Chen Xu was indeed immersed in the chaotic suffering of karmic fire, his heart and spirit remained steadfast.

As steady as mountains, as vast as starry seas, as seeing oneself!

Chen Xu's Dao Heart did not collapse. On the contrary, after witnessing those scenes burnt by karmic fire, his Dao Heart became even more solid.

He was no longer the Chen Xu who just entered cultivation.

Although the overall cultivation time wasn't long, thinking back now, whether his memories from the past life or the struggles before he acquired extraordinary powers in this life, it all counted as a form of cultivation.

Thus, though his time in Qi cultivation was short, his life's cultivation time was not truly brief.

The trials he experienced in cultivation were far from illusory!

He wrapped himself in ghost skin, with Innate Qi ceaselessly generating and circulating in his Dantian.

Passing through Minor Circulation, and then Major Circulation.

In the next instant, he carried his dust-like self through the worlds surrounded by karmic fire, returning to his true self.

He saw that the Ghost Market before him was still the same.

The ten-zhang-high Yin Yang Infinite Scale stood under the dim netherworld sky, majestic and ancient, mysterious and lonely.

He understood something.

A wondrous kind of fire seed was once again born within his Divine Thought, the Food Cauldron Celestial Book opened, and then Chen Xu realized that his status indicator had changed.

[Fire Control Level 2 (999/1000), Fire Seed Condensing at 49%]

This was Chen Xu's previous status.

His Fire Control Skill had already reached a bottleneck.

But after passing below the Yin Yang Infinite Scale and gazing upon this divine artifact, his Fire Control Skill suddenly seemed to grasp a crucial fragment, leaping forward explosively, a marvelous realization permeating his entire being.

[Fire Control Level 2 (1000/1000), Fire Seed Condensing at 89%]

Fire Control Level 2, hereby perfected!

At the same time, the Fire and Smoke Kitchen became able to unlock Fire Control Level 3.

The Celestial Book information feedback made Chen Xu instantly enlightened.

If the ability of Fire Control Level 2 was to communicate with earthly flames, able to control and absorb Fire Attribute Primordial Qi within a certain scope, then Fire Control Level 3, should allow one to comprehend and manipulate both Civil and Martial Fire!

A relaxation and tension, the way of Civil and Martial.

Comprehending the Fire of Civil and Martial is truly the great path of cultivating the Spirit Roasting Eight Techniques to its pinnacle.

But Chen Xu had no time to unlock Fire Control Level 3 at this moment.

As his Fire Control Level 2 reached perfection, Chen Xu subtly sensed that he gained another even more remarkable thing!

[Status: Divine Power, Six Paths Celestial Desolate awakening at 0.1%]

Six Paths Celestial Desolate Divine Power.

This was the true reward that Chen Xu obtained from having a mere gaze at the Yin Yang Infinite Scale before him!

And all of this, though complex when described, happened merely in an instant.

In a split second, Chen Xu traveled through the world of endless joys and sorrows of karmic fire.

He entered, then exited.

Sowing another divine power seed within his Divine Soul, then he walked past the base of the Yin Yang Infinite Scale.

Beside him, the Phantom King Yan Ling seemed unaware.

Both sat facing each other at a stall opposite the Yin Yang Infinite Scale, the Phantom King Yan Ling asked, "After observing this scale, did you gain any insights?"

Chen Xu's slender frame sat cross-legged on the icy, bone-chilling ground of the Ghost Market, maintaining his usual expression as he said, "A little."

The Phantom King Yan Ling slightly raised his head, staring at the Yin Yang Infinite Scale in front, and spoke slowly, "Since you've seen the Yin Yang Infinite Scale, can you think of any differences between the porridge I mentioned and the one you've cooked before?"

This Ghost King always carried an unspeakable loneliness.

Though his green-faced ghost visage, with protruding horns, and a sword at his waist seemed ferocious.

Chen Xu countered, "It's you who should know the differences, and not me to ask."

"It's because I don't know that I'm asking..." The Phantom King Yan Ling replied softly.

Chen Xu once again took out his Red Mud Small Stove and placed a Pottery Jar on it.

The previous Pottery Jar along with the porridge had been given to the Leak Sea Elder, but fortunately, in Chen Xu's Fire and Smoke Kitchen, there were at least a dozen similar Pottery Jars.

He chuckled and said, "It's very difficult for people in this world to look back at the past, yet they always hope the past can naturally unfold again.

Actually, what the Ghost Brother desires might merely be hoping for a kindred spirit to listen to the Ghost Brother's words.

For instance, the porridge Ghost Brother remembers may not necessarily be Spirit Rice Porridge."

With a flip of his hand, a small handful of local japonica rice from Yunjiang Prefecture appeared in his palm.

The Phantom King Yan Ling exclaimed, "Huh."

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