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Jiang Chen shook slightly, and a layer of golden flames appeared out of thin air, instantly burning away the filth on his body.
Although he did not have a specific cultivation technique, Jiang Chen could already use the Authentic Solar Fire in his body in a simple way. Using it to burn the filth on the surface of his skin was just a small test.
He clenched his fists, and powerful energy flowed through his limbs and bones. The spirit qi in his spirit sea also had a circulation route, and along with the body tempering technique, it continuously washed his body.
Jiang Chen exerted a little force, and his entire body emitted a layer of sparkling and translucent five-colored flames, making people unable to help but be dazzled by it.
This was precisely the befuddlement effect stemming from Fire Body Tempering.
“Right now, the strength of my mortal body is comparable to a Divine Sea-realm expert’s. The weapons of the mortal world won’t be able to even pierce through my skin. In terms of strength alone, I should have the strength of ten bulls!” Jiang Chen muttered to himself.
In addition to the mainstream cultivation system, there were also body cultivation and body tempering experts, whose strength easily reached hundreds of thousands of kilograms and where adult bulls were used as a standard of measurement.
One bull was equivalent to 500 kilograms of strength. Ten bulls were equivalent to 5,000 kilograms of strength.
At this moment, Jiang Chen’s strength had skyrocketed, and he really wanted to find something to try it on.
However, in his room, there was only a rotten wooden bed and a broken table.
Jiang Chen took a look and eventually gave up on trying it out here. If the bed was torn apart, there would be no place to sleep at night.
“It’s just that if the first level of Fire Body Tempering already showed such divine power, when the cultivators reached mastery, wouldn’t they be able to fight Golden Bridge-realm experts with just their physical bodies?”
There were a total of nine levels to Fire Body Tempering. If he could master all of them, he would be ten times stronger than he was now!
His physical body was ready and felt indestructible. He could already ignore most magic spells. With his divine power, he could indeed match Golden Bridge-realm experts to a certain extent.
Soon, the bell of the Firesmith Hall rang. It was time to start work.
When Jiang Chen arrived at the main hall, there were already five laborers lined up neatly.
In front of these labor disciples, the green-robed disciple from yesterday was lecturing.
He put on a cold grin upon seeing Jiang Chen’s arrival.
“Jiang Chen, I’ll leave the five-array formation on the west side of the sect to you. The fire spirit’s eruption stage will be happening soon. You must maintain the array formation well. If there are any mistakes or you can’t complete the mission on time, be careful of your skin!”
After the green-robed steward disciple finished speaking, he did not give Jiang Chen a chance to speak and hurriedly turned around to leave.
At this moment, as the green-robed steward disciple left, the remaining five laborers had expressions of relief on their faces.
The laborer responsible for the maintenance of the array formation in the west had died. According to past practices, he should have chosen another one from the five of them.
After all, it was not a place that newcomers could handle.
The Skyfire Sect had always been on Flame Mountain.
Back then, True Lord Skyfire had used his great magic powers to move and break mountains, gathering the Fire Spirit Earth Vein from five directions, and supplemented it with a spiritual array to suppress it. Only then did it become a cultivation holy land.
Within the sect, the east direction with the red sun reigned supreme.
The south was second, and the north was third. The west was the worst.
Therefore, all kinds of important buildings and halls were basically concentrated in the first three directions.
The array formations in these places were naturally more complete and powerful. The violent fire spirit energy was suppressed and refined, making the environment more suitable for cultivation.
As for the west region of the sect, not only was the grade of the spiritual array there low, it had also suffered serious damage.
Those that came later did not have sufficient cultivation to restore the spiritual array to its peak state.
The efficiency of the array formation had worsened, and the effect of refining fire-attribute spiritual energy became insufficient. Instead, the power of the fire poison had increased greatly, wreaking havoc in this region. As a result, this place became the worst environment in the entire Skyfire Sect.
It would have been fine under normal circumstances, but the fire spirit was approaching its eruption stage, so the West District became even more dangerous.
No matter which of the five of them went there, they would most likely die.
This newcomer had been directly assigned there. Clearly, he had offended the green-robed steward disciple, which was why the other party had deliberately sought revenge.
Instantly, they looked at Jiang Chen as if he was already dead.
Jiang Chen ignored them.
After receiving a bucket of fire spirit stones of decent quality, he walked towards the five spiritual arrays that he was responsible for.
On the day he arrived at the Firesmith Hall, Jiang Chen had somehow offended the green-robed steward disciple and was now assigned to the most dangerous area.
However, he was not worried at all about the job that he was about to face. After all, he had initiated into the Dao and had achieved success in tempering his body. Every move he made had the power of 10 bulls. He could be considered an elite disciple in the inner sect.
Most importantly, he possessed the Authentic Solar Fire and was constantly nourished by the power of the sun’s flames. Any fire poison that entered his body would immediately be refined. Not only would it not cause him any harm, it would even slowly increase his cultivation.
He liked places with more fire poison!
“Hai, what a pity!”
The other laborers watched Jiang Chen leave, and they couldn’t help but shake their heads. This new labor disciple had been assigned to the most dangerous place, and he was bound to not live for long!
Jiang Chen soon arrived at the location of the first array formation in the West District — the Inferno Prison array formation.
The surrounding heat was stronger, and so was the fire poison!
Flames that were visible to the naked eye would flare up from time to time.
In this place, whether it was ordinary plants, normal beasts, or humans, they could not survive for long.
Jiang Chen followed the map in his memory and arrived at the spirit gathering array of the Inferno Prison.
The yellow-clothed middle-aged disciple that guarded the array opened his eyes and glanced at Jiang Chen before he asked, “You’re the new firesmith laborer?”
At this moment, it was almost the eruption stage of the fire spirit. A labor disciple without any experience would easily encounter an accident.
Logically speaking, they shouldn’t have sent an inexperienced novice.
However, he did not care about the life and death of a mere labor disciple. As long as he did not delay the exchange of spirit stones for the spirit gathering array, it was fine.
“I was just assigned to the Firesmith Hall yesterday,” Jiang Chen replied.
“Oh! Hurry up and change the spirit stones. ”
The middle-aged disciple nodded. Because Jiang Chen was a new laborer, he intended to pay more attention to him so as to prevent this labor disciple from making a mistake when changing the spirit stones.
Hearing this, Jiang Chen started to change the spirit stones for the Fire Gathering Spiritual Array.
Having been initiated into the Dao, he had already developed his divine sense and was extremely sensitive to spirit qi. Without the guidance of the middle-aged disciple, he easily found the used-up spirit stones and replaced them with new ones.
The entire process was extremely smooth as if he was an experienced veteran.
The middle-aged disciple had originally planned to wait for Jiang Chen to make a mistake and give him some pointers. After all, it was difficult to accurately find the depleted spirit stones that needed to be replaced most of the time.
However, when he saw Jiang Chen’s actions, the middle-aged disciple could not help but reveal an astonished expression.
“Are you really new here?”
“I just arrived yesterday. Today is my first time changing spirit stones.”
At this time, Jiang Chen had already replaced the last spirit stone. He finished his work and stood up.
“What a pity!”
The middle-aged disciple looked at Jiang Chen and sighed.
This was his first time working as a handyman for the Firesmith Hall, yet he was able to change the spirit stones in the array formation so quickly. It was clear that he was quite talented in a spiritual sense and had great mental strength.
But since he was a labor disciple, then he definitely didn’t have any natural talent in cultivation.
Without talent, one would never be able to initiate into the Dao. If one did not initiate into the Dao, one would ultimately be as weak as an ant.
It was such a pity to waste such spirit and talent for no reason!