Chapter 23: Burning Out Soul Power

  At the foot of a silent stone mountain, Wang Shi ran here in disarray, his hair messy and his expression ferocious. When he raised his head, his skull was like a ball of fire, fiery red, just like high-temperature forged steel! It seemed transparent, as if separated by a sheet of fiery red paper.

  "What the hell is going on?" Wang Shi cried out in agony.

  He was afraid of disturbing his mother and Zi Cao, so he hurriedly ran out and came to this uninhabited place.

  Wang Shi only felt that the whole world was a deep crimson, his eyeballs shattered like they were about to burst, and threads of something flowed out, but it wasn't fresh blood or tears, rather it was a fiery red liquid, like molten lava! Scorching hot beyond compare.

  His mind was being constantly scorched by the high temperature, his veins bulging, making him suffocate, his nerves tense, rolling around on the ground, that unspeakable pain made him scream nonstop, even washing his marrow and cutting his bones wasn't as painful as this!

  Wang Shi gritted his teeth, cold sweat seeping out, his upper body flushed red, that scorching heat had already begun to spread throughout his entire body! His whole body seemed to be melting away! His entire being was on the verge of disintegrating, this pain was so intense that even his spiritual energy couldn't bear a single thread of it!

  And his mind is the source of fervor!

  Wang Shi picked up a stone and smashed it towards his own head with gritted teeth!

  "Ah! Ah! Ah!" Wang Shi struggled in despair.

  Heh-heh

  In the dark of night, a fiery red beam suddenly flashed, like a meteor, like a flame, yet that stone was melted into sand!

  Only King Shi's brain was like molten steel, flowing and brewing, his eyes had long since lost their black pupils.

  Sweat dripped from his forehead, making a hissing sound, and then a white mist slowly rose.

  He felt that his right eye seemed to have its own consciousness, slowly crawling, but every crawl seemed to take Wang Shi's life. He felt his whole body convulsing, his heart being pulled and twisted, his muscles and bones cracking like a broken frame, making a cracking sound!

  Wang Shi was yelling crazily, his voice hoarse, like a wild wolf, that one wheel of fiery red was extremely dazzling!

  This pain lasted for a very long time, Wang Shi's consciousness seemed to be melting away, becoming dull and dim, while his right eye also seemed unable to sustain the high temperature, gradually fading away.

  But this doesn't mean the pain disappears.

  Wang Shi's mind suddenly turned bright red, with scorching flames burning fiercely.

  "Ah! What is this, those damned diagonal lines!" Wang Shi finally found that diagram in his mind.

  Only to see that the intricate and complex lines in one's mind intersected, like a spider web, at this time emitting a red glow, under the scorching of that ball of fire, becoming even more dazzling!

  That fire kept burning, burning nothingness, burning lines and shapes, of course, also Wang Shi's body!

  Only to see the lines sketched in Wang Shi's mind, slowly moving, like a closed space, then...then wrapped that ball of fire! The bright red color became dull.

  But that mass of fire was still burning, the flames had become much smaller, and there was a deep blue spot in the center.

  Hehe

  Wang Shi felt a dull ache all over his body after a long time, but the scorching sensation had also disappeared, and sweat had soaked the ground.

  "It's finally over!" Wang Shi let out a breath, his eyes filled with some fear. This kind of pain was unprecedented, he checked his body and found it to be unscathed, even stronger than before, the bones that had been scorched were now even harder.

  In the air sea, the stone beads were still quietly suspended.

  "Huh, why hasn't this fire gone out yet?" Wang Shi entered his mind, and suddenly felt that his mind was no longer so narrow, but had broadened a lot. The dark red lines in the middle wrapped around a cluster of faint flames, with only a hint of deep blue, burning quietly. However, he didn't feel even a hint of scorching heat.

  But Wang Shi didn't feel even a little uncomfortable.

  Wang Shi stepped out, took a deep breath, wiped away his sweat, and felt as if he had just been through a life-or-death experience.

  "Is this an illusion?" Wang Shi couldn't help but doubt it.

  Wang Shi sank into his mind again, facing that fire, he was at a loss for what to do.

  Wang Shi took a deep breath and began to study the flames.

  Wang Shi's divine consciousness stirred, and instantly the flames fluttered back and forth. Wang Shi lightly exclaimed, with some effect.

  Wang Shi's consciousness stirred, and a wisp of ethereal energy was released from his mind, like a spider web, enveloping the surroundings. "Is this the power of the soul?" Wang Shi wondered, under the cover of this soul power, all living things were within his sight, he became extremely sensitive, even the smallest creatures, he could see very clearly! The wind blew through the trees around him, everything was within his knowledge, he entered a state of extreme subtlety.

  "What a wonderful soul power." Wang Shi's eyes lit up, and that soul power was like his empty eyes, which could be observed in fine details. "But this flame can't be the soul power, right?" Wang Shi said with some speculation, and he didn't know what was going on either. After all, it was all caused by Shi Zhu.

  "What's the origin of this stone bead?" Wang Shi couldn't help but be curious.