Urban Super Medical Sage Chapter 2159 - 2256: Strange Flower (First Update)

Jiuyou Mountain.

Su Chen was walking step by step towards the mountain summit.

If at this moment, any Martial Cultivator from the Jiuyou Domain saw this scene, they would definitely be at a loss for words.

The pressure of Jiuyou Mountain has always been exceedingly terrifying. Even the top-level experts of Jiuyou Domain couldn’t climb it as effortlessly as Su Chen, let alone, Su Chen was nearly at the summit.

"Such powerful pressure." Su Chen mumbled to himself as he climbed, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Fortunately, he possessed the Three Great Cosmic Treasures; otherwise, reaching the summit of Jiuyou Mountain would be impossible.

Time passed.

One Shichen later.

Su Chen stood at the summit of Jiuyou Mountain.

Standing at the peak, he looked around in all directions, taking in the entirety of Jiuyou Domain at a glance.

However, Su Chen quickly withdrew his gaze, drawn by a blooming flower at the summit.

The flower was black, beautifully composed of forty-nine petals.

The black flower, rooted at the summit, appeared somewhat abrupt on the barren mountaintop.

"Huh." Just one glance at that black flower, Su Chen abruptly felt a sharp pain in his eyes, as if a Silver Needle suddenly pierced his eyeball.

"Young boy Su, that is the Nine Nether Flower." Jiuyou spoke: "The Nine Nether Flower is grown from the Jiuyou Deathfire Seed, taking countless years to sprout, root, and bloom. This flower is very strange, and you’re fortunate to possess the Three Great Cosmic Treasures; otherwise, just looking directly at it could have cost you your eyesight."

"It’s indeed a strange flower." Su Chen nodded, become even more eager.

"Once you acquire this black flower and refine it, you will obtain the Jiuyou Death Fire," Jiuyou continued.

"That simple?" Su Chen was somewhat surprised.

"Simple?" Jiuyou sneered: "You’re thinking too much; it’s not simple at all."

"How so?"

"Try picking it first," Jiuyou teased.

Su Chen stepped directly towards the black flower.

After less than five steps, suddenly.

Su Chen’s expression changed; it was as if he had stepped into the void.

As if he had stepped off a cliff.

He fell.

Moreover, it was an endless black hole.

An endless Abyss.

There was no end, no bottom.

The howling of ghostly winds rushed past his ears as Su Chen fell at an increasing speed.

The speed was so fast that Su Chen felt his Divine Soul couldn’t keep up with his Physical Body’s fall.

Su Chen instinctively attempted to use his movement technique to stop the fall.

But he couldn’t.

It was completely impossible.

He felt as if he was unable to circulate Mysterious Qi, as if trapped in an endless marsh of heaven and earth.

"Jiuyou! Jiuyou!! Jiuyou!!!" Su Chen’s expression grew ever more grim as he shouted; he understood that this was likely caused by the black flower.

"Young boy Su, calm down, don’t resist; it’s just an illusion. The more you struggle, the stronger your emotional fluctuations, the deeper you sink into the illusion," Jiuyou spoke.

"An illusion?" Su Chen calmed down slightly, yet the falling continued.

Su Chen bit his teeth.

He forced himself to calm down, to remain quiet.

He forced himself to ignore the strong feeling of weightlessness brought by the fall.

Bit by bit, Su Chen’s emotional fluctuations decreased.

Until five Shichen later.

"Stopped." Su Chen opened his eyes, his face deathly pale, covered in cold sweat.

"Young boy Su, how do you feel?" Jiuyou asked.

"Very strange!" Su Chen replied with three words. If Jiuyou hadn’t reminded him, telling him what to do, perhaps he would forever be trapped in the falling space, unable to escape.

Su Chen instinctively glanced down at his feet. Indeed, there was nothing, just bare rock ground.

Which meant Jiuyou was correct; it really was just an illusion.

"So real."

The senses of weightlessness and falling were astonishingly genuine.

Even though knowing it was an illusion now, the memory remained vivid.

Su Chen took the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to recover fully.

Then.

He continued looking at the black flower.

He found himself one step closer to the black flower.

Su Chen moved forward again.

This time, Su Chen moved very slowly and carefully.

This time, Su Chen took ten steps in one go.

He thought he could reach the black flower just like that.

Unexpectedly...

The eleventh step.

Suddenly.

A wave of heat surged wildly.

Very hot.

So hot it was a hundred thousand times more than magma.

Su Chen felt as if he was being pulled into a world of black magma.

In front of him, around him, above, below, front, back, left, right.

All was black.

Only black.

Those black magma-like heat waves, as if possessing souls, enveloped him, continuously writhing and squeezing.

The burning sensation was like scorching red needles piercing into the body from every pore.

Su Chen felt as if thousands of ants were biting him.

Painful, numb.

The key was, those black magma-like heat wave liquids seemed to grow in number, like an endless ocean, like giant mountains, surging limitlessly.

Su Chen was beginning to tremble, too hot.

Clearly, he had practiced the True Fire Body Refinement and shouldn’t fear the scorching heat of fire.

Yet at this moment, he couldn’t withstand it.

Su Chen felt his bones, his every limb and bone, his Dantian, his State of Mind, his Divine Soul, everything, was about to be burned.

If someone could see Su Chen at this moment, they would see Su Chen’s eyes were vacant, vacant without any white, only a blackness that belonged to the black heat waves.

"Young boy Su, hold onto your True Heart, channel the Three Great Cosmic Treasures, protect the Divine Mansion, don’t mind the rest," Jiuyou spoke.

In fact, Su Chen was almost entranced by the burning.

However, he still heard Jiuyou’s words.

He certainly had no doubts about what Jiuyou said.

Following the advice.

Su Chen then ignored everything but the protection of the Divine Mansion, allowing his Physical Body to be gradually burned, melted, detached, turned into ashes.

Strangely, Su Chen could witness this disappearance of his Physical Body.

No one knew how much time passed.

"All done, Young boy Su." Jiuyou seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Su Chen felt as though he was reborn, breathing deeply instinctively.

He could once again feel his Physical Body.

Intact?

"This..." Su Chen was astonished; his Physical Body was supposed to be completely burned by the black flame?!!!

What truly happened?

"The fire just now was Core Flame," Jiuyou explained: "What makes the Jiuyou Death Fire most terrifying is its invasion of the Mind. If you cannot hold onto your True Heart and remain calm, it will burn both your Physical Body and Divine Soul, leaving nothing but ashes. However, as long as the State of Mind and Divine Soul remain unscathed, even if the body burns away, it’s merely a trance."

Su Chen fell silent, feeling lingering fear.

Was it still considered an illusion?

Clearly, so real.

Capable of invading the mind, killing invisibly.

Truly terrifying.