Claiming the Throne of Gods, Starting from the Rebirth of Nezha

Nezha thought he had almost fallen into the Netherworld.

There were flames everywhere in this place.

Headache.

Head splitting headache.

Actually, his head was already split open, from the back of his head to his forehead. Although the wound had barely healed, it still revealed a huge and ferocious scar that looked like it was left by a beast after a bite.

He walked barefoot on hot coals, feeling the intense heat, as the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi within his body rapidly consumed. Although the primordial energy between heaven and earth was abundant, it was terrifyingly scattered like the fire beneath his feet, with the horrific presence of Samadhi Fire. Not to mention refining, even taking a breath could burn a person's lungs to ashes.

"Where on earth is this place? Is it the underworld?"

Nezha touched the scar on his head and gritted his teeth: "This Jiang Ziya dares to trick me, don't let me catch him!"

He walked a few steps forward, a flash of inspiration struck his mind, consuming some of his primordial energy. He transformed into a Fire Bat and soared freely within the Samadhi Fire, unaffected.

This was the miraculous aspect of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skill. This Fire Bat was originally an elf of the flames. He transformed into a Fire Bat, not just adopting its appearance, but possessing its characteristics. He wasn't afraid of Samadhi Fire anymore.

After flying a few steps, he saw an iron wall piercing the sky. He followed the iron wall for a long time but came back to where he started.

"It seems it's not the Eighteen Layers of Hell but rather trapped in a huge furnace of fire."

Nezha muttered to himself, flew a while longer, and suddenly smelled a whiff of medicinal fragrance. Following the fragrance, he searched ahead and soon saw a heap of Golden Core floating in the air.

No doubt about it, a heap.

Not dozens or hundreds, not even thousands, but tens of thousands of extraordinary elixirs.

Nezha was shocked, thinking: "These are enough to allow hundreds and thousands of geniuses to achieve Nine-Pattern Divine Pill. How many heavenly materials and earthly treasures were consumed to refine these elixirs?"

"This place might be an Alchemy Furnace. The smoke indeed stings the eyes, but no matter how you think about it, it seems it can only make the eyes smoke-blind rather than refine into Eyes of Golden Flame."

He already had a rough guess in his mind.

However, since I'm here, I should feel at ease. The other party put him together with a heap of elixirs, surely not just to guard against him secretly eating them.

After finishing his thought, he chewed a handful of Golden Core and swallowed it down, and instantly felt a surge of heat all over, even his newly advanced realm became a bit more stable.

"Golden Core is not meant to be eaten like this."

A deep voice echoed in the world, jolting Nezha awake from meditation.

He asked, "Who are you?"

"Haven't you already guessed it in your heart?"

Nezha's heart sank, and he said, "I just wonder why you sages, near-omniscient beings, can't be a bit more straightforward in speaking and doing things."

"Because heavenly secrets cannot be revealed."

"Are you saying that I've divulged many heavenly secrets?"

Li Er said, "What you said isn't considered heavenly secrets. The so-called heavenly secret is something even I am not qualified to know."

"May I ask?"

"Don't ask, even if you do, I won't tell."

Nezha had to say again, "Then you just mentioned, the elixirs are not meant to be eaten like this. How are they supposed to be eaten then?"

"Previously, my junior brother Tongtian once gave you a Divine Evil Pill. That elixir indeed is powerful, but given your current condition, unwilling to sever the seven emotions and six desires, once consumed, you might trigger an enormous divine calamity, turning to ashes in one blow."

Nezha smiled bitterly, "What qualifications do I have to invoke a divine calamity?"

"It's not you, but the Divine Evil Pill."

"So?"

"This Pill Furnace isolates heaven and earth. If you consume the Divine Evil Pill here, supplemented with Golden Core protection, you can effortlessly reach Daluo Golden Immortal Perfection."

Quasi-Saint Perfection.

That's almost the pinnacle of individuals under heaven and earth.

"Do not doubt, naturally we will not help you without reason. We need you to accomplish something, yet your current strength is absolutely insufficient."

"I still don't understand, even if my strength boosts to Quasi-Saint Perfection, what I accomplish, other Quasi-Saints naturally can also accomplish. Why go to such great lengths?"

"Looking at you, do you think by showing this attitude, I'll explain everything to you?"

Li Er suddenly slapped the furnace, and Nezha immediately felt the flames raging across heaven and earth, even this transformed Fire Bat, couldn't endure and was about to be burned to ashes.

At this moment, the voice of the old alchemist still echoed in his ear:

"If you don't want to die, eat the Divine Evil Pill, and you can naturally survive. If unwilling, then let this fire turn you to ashes!"

"Damn old man!"

Nezha cursed inwardly, hurriedly took out the Divine Evil Pill. He just glanced and immediately filled it into his mouth.

Instantly, tremendous medicinal power exploded within his body!

His eyes turned blood red, and intense murderous aura emanated from his pores, overwhelming heaven and earth, almost squeezing away all the Samadhi Fire in the space.

"Is this?"

"How do you think the Divine Evil Pill enhances cultivation? The world is rife with war, grievances skyward, initiating the Divine Enthronement slaughtering the world, even cultivators suffered countless casualties. For thousands of years, all these grievances were collected by Tongtian and used a secret technique to refine into Divine Evil Pill. Cultivators who consume it can transform this evil aura into cultivation. However, if one's will is not resolute, after consuming, one will instead be seized by the evil aura, becoming a Quasi-Saint Realm demon, rampantly slaughtering in heaven and earth, until dead by divine punishment."

Nezha was almost unable to hear.

With the aura of Divine Evil Pill accumulated, the so-called resolute mind individuals mentioned by Li Er, probably don't exist in this world.

This Li Er also understood.

So he guided the muddle-minded Nezha to start consuming the elixirs in this furnace, over thousands of years, he himself sought the spiritual objects of heaven and earth to refine this furnace of Golden Core.

These Golden Core, besides stabilizing cultivation, have another function, which is to reduce the evil aura.

He and Tongtian never had any communication, yet were extremely consistent in heading towards this common goal.

If Nezha began to think at this moment, he would undoubtedly think about the inexplicable protection given to him by Yuanshi Tianzun before, perhaps also for this reason, but he was now beyond thinking.

He couldn't feel the heat, but more pain.

He could only rely on instinct to forage for elixirs in the Alchemy Furnace, before the medicinal power of the previous one dissolved, ingesting the next one, until his belly was round and full, he still didn't stop.

Li Er watched this scene and sighed: "Eating Golden Core as food, had I been given such a treatment back then, how could I be so difficult, spending so much time to reach this stage?"

"However, spending tens of thousands of years, even the Netherworld Venerate perished in the Yellow Springs, I must fully extract your value."

Li Er thought in his heart, suddenly turned his head, and looked at Zi Chen standing in the center of the grand hall, smiled: "Void Tribulation, old friend, it's been a long time indeed."

Anger flashed across Zi Chen's face: "Dead old man, who's your friend, who allowed you to call me by my true name?"