Surviving in adversity can often unleash one's greatest potential. However, once a person stands at a certain high point and can look down at those who are climbing up below, he or she will often lose the motivation to climb up and become too tired to deal with the climbers below.
This is also one of the reasons why Meng Xiang felt confused.
Seeing another self fighting against the Flame Demon at this moment, his heart was moved. For a moment, he forgot the pain of being burned by the fire, and took out his spirit sword, rushed over like the wind, cut off a claw that was swinging towards him, and laughed: "Hey, don't forget that you are me. If you die, I don't know if I can live." After he responded to the inner demon, he chopped the Flame Demon's body with a sword, and the flames immediately covered him like a demon. Meng Xiang felt that his whole body was burned into charcoal in an instant, and every inch of muscle was hissing with pain.
Seeing the spirit sword gradually penetrate into the body of the Flame Demon, it seemed that there was a chance of victory. However, the claws of the Flame Demon that had been cut off before regenerated unconsciously. With two "crackling" sounds, Meng Xiang and the Inner Demon were thrown away, thrown dozens of meters, and hit the wall behind them.
The temperature in the hall was even higher at this time. No matter how Meng Xiang used his spiritual energy, he could not suppress the tingling pain all over his body. If this continued, even if he was not roasted to death, he would die in pain.
"Hey, what should we do next?" Meng Xiang casually asked the inner demon.
"If you can't think of a solution, how can I? I can only fight." The inner demon was not afraid at all, and raised the spirit sword to pounce again. Meng Xiang held him back with one hand, and trembled while enduring the pain, saying: "You said that I am you and you are me. If our powers are combined, is there a chance to kill the Flame Demon?"
"That's a pretty disgusting thing. How about this, you merge with me and let me become the main personality. Then maybe I can kill the Flame Demon." The Inner Demon put away the spirit sword and looked at Meng Xiang with disdain.
"I can become the main personality and kill the Flame Demon as well." Meng Xiang frowned, his eyes flickered, and he said coldly, "I'll give you a choice. Either die, or give me your power and kill the Flame Demon together. In this way, we don't need fusion. I only need your power. What do you think? Are you willing to contribute your power?"
The temperature was getting higher and higher. Meng Xiang and his inner demon were like being in an oven. Their clothes and hair had long been scorched. Their skin was like a scorched fish, black and smelling like burnt fish. If they were ordinary people, they would have died of shock from these injuries.
"So that's how it is. I feel it. You are so eager to get my power, but it seems that it is not enough." The Inner Demon was thinking when the Flame Demon's claws swung over. The two of them jumped up at the same time and used "Shave" to dodge left and right under the claws.
"Okay, let's temporarily combine our strength into one force and resolve this crisis first." After saying that, the inner demon suddenly changed direction and collided with Meng Xiang. Suddenly, Meng Xiang felt a force different from spiritual energy enveloping his whole body. Even fire could not penetrate the protection of the spiritual energy.
This power was exactly demonic energy, which intertwined with Meng Xiang's spiritual energy, and gradually formed a colorful ball of light on Meng Xiang's right palm - a spiritual bullet condensed by the mixture of spiritual energy and demonic energy.
"Swoosh" Meng Xiang threw out the spiritual bullet, which went into the air like a rocket and hit the body of the fire demon. The flames then rushed up and burned the spiritual bullet.
The inner demon popped out of Meng Xiang's body with a "pop" sound, and yelled angrily: "Damn it, you're going to abandon me after borrowing my power? Meng Xiang, you're so despicable!"
Meng Xiang was speechless. He couldn't let the inner demon live in his body forever. Otherwise, once the inner demon took over his personality, he would be no different from dead.
The spiritual bullet formed by the mixture of spiritual energy and demonic energy was indeed extremely powerful. The fire demon's continuous burning with flames was of no avail. As the spiritual bullet penetrated into the fire demon's body, a violent explosion occurred, and the entire fire demon exploded into pieces in an instant.
Meng Xiang’s eyes went dark and he lost consciousness again.
When Meng Xiang woke up again, he saw a white space similar to the main god space in front of him, and the burning pain on his body disappeared. Meng Xiang stretched out his hands to touch his body in surprise. His body was safe and sound, but he felt that the previous confusion had been completely eliminated. Now his heart was eager to move, revealing the desire to confront the strong.
"Soul Tempering? Could it be that my soul just left my body?" The more Meng Xiang thought about it, the more logical it seemed. That would explain why the inner demon appeared with him, and why he couldn't activate the spiritual defense. However, he didn't understand what the purpose of this tempering was. If the first level of the soul tempering was to test the strength of his hand-to-hand combat ability, then in the second level, he only merged his power with the inner demon to defeat the flame demon, and didn't do anything else.
Just as Meng Xiang was puzzled, a voice sounded in his ears again.
"The soul tempering is completed. The tester can pass the tempering and meets the requirements to receive Haotian's last words." Meng Xiang only felt that the entire space was shaking. Cracks appeared from the white space, cracking like glass, revealing the darkness inside.
"Crackle..." The entire white space broke into pieces and what appeared in front of Meng Xiang was a pitch-black space. This space was not without light. Meng Xiang felt like he was in a chaotic space. He could not see any matter around him, but he could clearly see every bit of his body.
This space is very similar to the Black Dragon God's Chaos Space.
"My friend, I never imagined that your soul actually contains another completely opposite power of the same kind. This is really beyond my expectation." A kind voice sounded from the darkness.
"Who are you? Haotian?" Meng Xiang looked up. He even unlocked the level 3 potential lock, but didn't see anyone.
"I am Haotian, the former captain of the Zhongzhou team." The voice originally emanated from all directions in the darkness, but the more it spoke, the more the voice gathered together, and gradually, in front of Meng Xiang, a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe, with a long beard, and full of immortal and chivalrous spirit appeared in front of Meng Xiang.
Meng Xiang took only one look at this man and immediately felt a liking for him and a sense of respect for him.
This man was Haotian. Judging from his appearance, he was over 50 years old, with faint marks on his face caused by the passage of time.
Haotian smiled amiably and said, "This is an inner universe that I have formed here with my remaining strength and the power of my soul." He looked down at his body and said with embarrassment, "Although I don't look old, I am actually over 300 years old. In order to achieve enlightenment, I followed the immortals to learn Taoism in the plot world."
"Did you learn the art of cultivation in the plot world?" Meng Xiang was full of admiration after hearing Haotian's words. He cultivated in the Fantasy Sea for less than half a year, but Haotian cultivated for 300 years. He didn't understand how Haotian spent 300 years of cultivation, and he didn't understand why he had such a huge amount of points to enter the plot world. He only knew that a person who was so persistent in pursuit of power must be a person worthy of praise and respect.
Haotian smiled regretfully and said, "In fact, not all of it was learned in the plot world. The way of cultivation is very flexible. There are many horror movies that you have experienced, or cultivation tools in the plot that can be used to distort time, such as the spirit and time house in Dragon Ball. One day inside is one year outside. Although there are limitations, the effect of practicing in it is also very significant."
Meng Xiang nodded secretly. He suddenly remembered the dream machine. The time in the third level of dreams was 6,000 times different from that in the real world. Maybe Haotian had also entered the dream to practice, so he set up a side story in Fang Ru's deep dream.
However, Meng Xiang had another question about Haotian's words: "Excuse me, what is the power of the soul?"
"Once you unlock the genetic lock, you will know what soul power is." Haotian did not directly answer Meng Xiang's question, just like a kind old man teasing a child.
Meng Xiang felt ashamed. He had been stuck at level 3 of the potential lock and it was difficult to improve. Not to mention the gene lock, it was unknown whether he could unlock level 4 of the potential lock.
Haotian seemed to see through Meng Xiang's thoughts and immediately said, "My friend, your soul is very interesting. It was exchanged for the Great Separation of the Demon Clan, and then another soul was hatched. If it weren't for his help, I believe your soul tempering would have taken 100 times longer to pass."
Speaking of time, Meng Xiang became anxious and asked, "I have been here for a long time. I don't know what is happening with my companions outside. If you have something to say, please speak up quickly. Otherwise, the Lord God's mission will fail and I will be wiped out."
Haotian laughed and said, "I told you, this is my inner universe. The time is infinitely close to zero relative to the outside, so you don't have to worry."
Meng Xiang's heart finally settled down after hearing Haotian say this.
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