Primordial Star Scripture

Thud!

After Ye Chen was sucked into the gigantic Ancient Furnace of Creation, hundreds of times larger than himself, he fell straight to the bottom of the furnace.

In an instant, the golden Creation Spiritual Liquid within the ancient furnace completely submerged him.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

During the fall to the bottom of the ancient furnace, Ye Chen even unconsciously swallowed several mouthfuls of Creation Spiritual Liquid.

No sooner had the Creation Spiritual Liquid entered his body than it transformed into strands of Golden Dawn Light, which then shot out from within him.

Completely engulfed by the countless Creation Spiritual Liquid, all Ye Chen could see were dazzling golden lights, and immersed in the Spiritual Liquid, he felt as though every pore was breathing.

This sensation had barely lasted a moment when the Ancient Furnace of Creation emitted a heavens-shaking bellow.

Subsequently, Ye Chen felt an endless barrage of light shooting toward him, and an incessant surge of golden Spiritual Liquid rushing at him!

In an instant, Ye Chen understood that the first test of the Ancient Furnace of Creation—"Tempering Flesh," had begun!

Because, every piece of skin and every muscle in his body was being infused with grains of golden Creation Spiritual Liquid, followed by a tearing and crushing sensation that swept over him, bringing with it an extreme pain that assaulted Ye Chen's entire soul in a flash!

That tearing feeling, it was as if each piece of flesh was being ripped apart by an unimaginably powerful force!

That crushing feeling, it was as if the cells within every piece of flesh were being thoroughly obliterated!

Amid this tearing and crushing, an intensely scorching power was forging every piece of Ye Chen's torn flesh, and every pulverized cell!

This was the purification by the Spiritual Liquid! This was the tempering by the ancient furnace!

Ye Chen had experienced this agonizing sensation before, back in the Thousand Lotus Cave Abode when he was nurturing the Fire Lotus Law Pattern and was burned by myriad fires—it was the same feeling.

Ye Chen, once again experiencing this unbearable pain, bore through the pain that pierced straight into his Spirit Sea!

Having endured the scorching by myriad fires and undergone a transformation of will, Ye Chen withstood the agony of this first level of tempering, and was beginning the first layer of transformation within the bubbling Creation Spiritual Liquid.

Meanwhile, in three other Ancient Furnaces of Creation, there were three youths who simply couldn't endure the moment the first test of "Tempering Flesh" had just begun.

Amid the sensation of their skin and flesh being torn to shreds and pulverized, these three youths let out piercing screams of pain as they tumbled and wailed in the rolling Creation Spiritual Liquid, their bodies convulsing and twitching violently!

"It hurts!"

"It's too painful!"

These three youths, who had never experienced such torment, saw their willpower collapse instantly under this hammering pain.

In the end, completely unable to withstand the pain, the three youths were knocked unconscious by the tumultuous Creation Spiritual Liquid.

Boom!

The instant they lost consciousness, the three youths were swept out of the Ancient Furnace of Creation by a beam of light and eventually floated down to the ground.

Only when they landed on the ground and a cool sensation washed over them did the three youths wake up from their stupor.

Although the pain had subsided, their faces were ashen and their bodies still trembled uncontrollably.

They had never imagined that the challenge of the Ancient Furnace of Creation in the central region of the Ancestral Land would be so agonizing, so terrifying!

Just the thought of that pain made them shudder.

"The first layer of 'Tempering Flesh' incomplete, the challenge of the Ancient Furnace of Creation, failed!"

"Your trial in the Ancestral Land Secret Realm has officially ended!"

"Return to the peripheral area of the Ancestral Land and cultivate there, wait until the day the exit of the Secret Realm opens, and then leave on your own!"

As the deep voice of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact echoed, the three youths who were thrown out of the Ancient Furnaces of Creation were swept toward a teleportation matrix by a force.

Then, amidst the shimmering light, they were directly teleported back to the Green Flow Plains within the peripheral area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm.

Eliminated!

These youths were eliminated just as the second round of testing had begun!

Standing once more upon the Green Flow Plains, the Myriad Treasures Stele had vanished, and the teleportation rings had disappeared as well.

Only the clusters of Green Flow Creeper and the Golden Light Beads still radiated an inexplicable brilliance, and dense globules of Heaven and Earth True Qi continued to drift through the realm between heaven and earth in the Green Flow Plains.

"We've failed."

"We've failed,"

"There are no more opportunities for us to obtain on this journey to the Ancestral Land Secret Realm."

The three teenagers standing on the Green Flow Plains looked at each other, their eyes filled with disappointment.

"Fortunately, with Ye Chen's help in the first round of the trial, we obtained quite a few treasures."

"Although we can't continue deeper into the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, this peripheral area is also rich in Heaven and Earth True Qi, which is extremely suitable for cultivation."

"There are still more than twenty days left, let's cultivate here."

After a while, the teenagers sighed and consoled themselves.

They then sat down cross-legged and began cultivating on the Green Flow Plains, waiting for the day when the exploration of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm would end.

A short while after these three teenagers were eliminated from the challenge of the Ancient Furnace of Creation, another five teenagers were transported out from the central region of the Ancestral Land.

These were teenagers who had not successfully passed the first layer's "Tempering Flesh" trial; although they had lasted a bit longer than the first three, they too had failed and were out!

After eight individuals had been eliminated, the next half hour saw another eight being continuously transported out.

Then, the continuous elimination finally stopped.

By this time, sixteen teenagers had arrived on the Green Flow Plains!

Sixteen of them had been eliminated without completing the first layer's "Tempering Flesh" trial.

This number accounted for more than half of the thirty teenagers who had entered the Ancestral Land Secret Realm!

This revealed just how difficult the trial of the Ancient Furnace of Creation was.

Just the first layer's "Tempering Flesh" trial had eliminated more than half of the participants, no wonder it was said that in the first five openings of the Ancestral Land, out of the hundred and fifty members of the three tribes who entered, no one could pass the trial of the "Ancient Furnace of Creation" and enter the core area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm.

The difficulty of this trial was indeed immense.

Given this elimination rate, it was hard to imagine who could endure the three layers of pain: Tempering Flesh, Tempering Meridians, and Tempering Acupoints.

After waiting another half of the day and seeing no one else being transported to the Green Flow Plains, the sixteen teenagers who had been transported there finally realized that perhaps the remaining fourteen had withstood the terrible pain of the first layer, Tempering Flesh.

"Ye Chen, Bai Xiaodie, Qian Ming, they are all still in the Ancient Furnace of Creation, not eliminated."

"Could it be, they all completed the first layer's transformation of flesh?"

"How much longer can they hold on?"

The eliminated teenagers all looked in the direction of the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, speculating in their hearts.

They were not wrong; after enduring a half day's washing and tempering by the Spiritual Liquid in the Ancient Furnace of Creation, the surviving fourteen teenagers had entered into a bizarre state.

The deepest and most expansive area of the central region of the Ancestral Land, which was the area of the eighteen Golden Monkey Statues where Ye Chen was, within the Ancient Furnace of Creation.

Ye Chen, who had withstood the terrible pain of the ancient furnace's tempering, was now using his Divine Sense to survey the entire situation of the Ancient Furnace of Creation and to examine the changes in his flesh.

At that moment, Ye Chen saw that deep within the flesh where the tearing sensation came from, there were faint golden patterns slowly appearing, and in the cells where the crushing sensation arose, there was golden light sparkling.

These golden patterns and lights were slowly surfacing all over his body before slowly disappearing into the depths of his flesh.

Boom!

At last, golden patterns appeared in the depths of all the flesh, and these golden patterns were connected into a whole.

When all the golden patterns connected into a large piece, the depths of Ye Chen's skin transformed these connected golden patterns into countless golden Spiritual Patterns!

These golden Spiritual Patterns were exceedingly fine, shaped like golden monkeys, and there were as many as ten thousand of them!

Countless golden monkey Spiritual Patterns, hidden deep within the flesh, were truly magical.

Just as these golden monkey Spiritual Patterns formed, in the valley where Ye Chen was, the eyes of the eighteen Golden Monkey Statues once again burst into light, infusing the Furnace of Creation with endless golden radiance.

In an instant, the entire Ancient Furnace of Creation vibrated thunderously, and the Spiritual Liquid tumbled fiercely!

And as for the ten thousand golden monkey Spiritual Patterns deep in Ye Chen's flesh, amid the roaring blaze of the Ancient Furnace of Creation and the wild tumult of the Creation Spiritual Liquid, they howled towards the meridians all around Ye Chen's body.

This was undoubtedly the commencement of the second layer of the five-layer trial of the Ancient Furnace of Creation—"Tempering Meridians"!