After being kicked into the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, Guhan's body slid down the smooth surface of the furnace. In the end, he returned to the center of the furnace, where the emperor's blood had fallen and where the broken Yuantu and Avici Swords were.
As he slid down the furnace, Guhan's clothes had already turned into a pile of ashes. His yellow skin had also turned into charcoal. Faint yellow pus seeped out from his skin.
According to medical terms, Guhan's burns had already covered more than 70% of his body.
The temperature of the furnace had risen to 500 degrees Celsius, and it was still rising.
Even though Guhan's body had been strengthened by the Famed Sword Maiden, he could only endure temperatures of around 200 degrees Celsius at most. Even if Guhan was possessed by a deity, he would not be able to last long in temperatures that were over 500 degrees Celsius for a long time.
Guhan secretly estimated that he would not be able to last for long. In just three or four minutes, he would be roasted into a dried corpse by the flames of the furnace.
"Sword of Spring!"
At the crucial moment, Guhan pointed the tip of Heavenly Sword at his feet and used the Sword of Spring from the Enigmatic Nine Swords. The umbrella-shaped barrier had become Guhan's greatest support. It separated Guhan's body from the surface of the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, preventing Guhan's body from coming into direct contact with the furnace.
However, this was not a long-term plan. Every second that the Sword of Spring was maintained would consume a large amount of Guhan's sword qi.
Guhan currently had 38621 quarks of sword essences stored in his body. The Sword of Spring would consume 100 quarks of sword essences from Guhan per second. Going by this calculation, Guhan could last for another 386 seconds, which was around six to seven minutes.
Even though Guhan was separated from the surface of the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, Guhan still had to endure the temperature of 200 degrees Celsius. The water in Guhan's body was quickly excreted as sweat in an attempt to lower Guhan's body temperature. However, it was like trying to put out a burning cart of firewood with a cup of water.
If this went on, Guhan's body would be completely drained of water before the Sword of Spring disappeared.
Fortunately, Guhan was not completely helpless. Guhan still had quite a lot of purified water stored in his dimensional pocket.
The purified water was originally stored in the dimensional pocket as drinking water. He did not expect it to become Guhan's life-saving water.
Guhan directly took out a bucket of purified water and inserted a straw into it.
A large amount of cold and sweet purified water entered Guhan's throat through the straw. Then, under the guidance of the sword qi in Guhan's body, it quickly flowed into his various organs that were suffering from dehydration … Guhan even skipped the conversion process of sweat, and directly forced the purified water out of his skin through the sweat glands on the surface of his skin, forming small water droplets. This made Guhan's body look like a lotus leaf covered with dew in the morning.
Although these dew droplets would evaporate in less than a second due to the high temperature of over two hundred degrees, this successfully stopped Guhan's body temperature from rising any further … Guhan estimated that this bucket of purified water could allow Guhan's body to last for about three minutes, and there were still four or five buckets of purified water in Guhan's dimensional pocket.
Therefore, Guhan only had six or seven minutes left … Perhaps it was not even six or seven minutes, because the temperature of the Furnace of Heaven and Earth had already risen to eight hundred degrees, and the temperature of the air had risen to three hundred degrees. If Guhan could not find a way to escape from the Furnace of Heaven and Earth within these six or seven minutes, Guhan would definitely die.
"It's not like there's no way!"
Guhan looked up at the sky above him. At this moment, he could faintly see an oval-shaped, transparent lid in the sky. This lid had completely covered the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, and not even a trace of air could escape.
If not for this lid, Guhan could have used a sword controlling technique like the Nine Swords of Mysterious Heaven, Engraved Swordsman, to control the Heavenly Sword to fly and escape with Guhan.
Unfortunately, this lid was formed by the heavens and earth, and unless the entire Furnace of Heaven and Earth was destroyed, there was no way to penetrate it.
From the looks of it, Gu Han was completely trapped here. He was trapped in a hopeless situation where he had no chance of survival.
"Your Majesty Shrouding the Heavens!
Please don't joke around!
Hurry up and save me! "
In this desperate situation, it seemed that Guhan could only beg Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi, who was outside the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, to save him.
"I never joke around!"
Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi's cold voice rang in Guhan's ears, "This is your home. You can die here in peace."
"Why?"
Guhan seemed to be on the verge of breaking down. He sounded like he was about to cry, "Why does His Majesty want to harm me like this?
How did I offend His Majesty?
I've completed all the tasks His Majesty gave me these past two days without a single mistake. I'm here to help His Majesty! "
"Your death will be the greatest help to me!"
Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi harrumphed coldly, a hint of joy in his voice, "I didn't think that the person she had been waiting for 50 years was such an idiot. I have to thank you. If it weren't for you, I might never have been able to activate the Furnace of Heaven and Earth."
"What do you mean?
Isn't the Furnace of Heaven and Earth activated by your sovereign blood? "Guhan asked curiously.
"Looks like you don't have any medical knowledge at all. Let me ask you, how much sovereign blood did I release?" Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi suddenly asked Guhan a strange question.
"How would I remember such things …" Guhan replied in confusion. He didn't seem to understand why Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi would ask him such a question.
"Then let me tell you, I released at least 5,500 cc of sovereign blood!"
Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi's voice was still weak, "Let me tell you something common sense. Even if he's a Jiandi, a normal-sized human would only have 4,800 cc of blood. Even if I drained all the sovereign blood in my body, I wouldn't be able to release 5,500 cc."
"I don't understand … What does this mean …" Guhan was still confused.
"Then let me tell you, this means that the sovereign blood that flowed out wasn't mine alone, but two people's!"
As soon as Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi spoke, Guhan saw a figure fly in from outside the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, crashing towards him.
Guhan hurriedly reached out and caught the person in his arms. When he looked closely, Guhan was given a big fright.
"Qing 'er!
What's wrong?
Qing 'er? "
The person Guhan caught was none other than Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi, Yi Qing … However, this was not the sinister man who had just spoken to Guhan, but the real female Yi Qing.
However, unlike the Yi Qing that Guhan had seen before, the Yi Qing in Guhan's arms no longer had the pure and gentle demeanor of a young girl. Instead, she looked like an old woman.
Her hair was already white, and her face was full of wrinkles. However, Guhan could feel Yi Qing's bones through her loose skin.
Yes, this was the world 56 years after the Rise of Heroes Instance Dungeon. Yi Qing was now 70 years old, and a 70-year-old person should look like this.
"No!
That's not right at all! "
Guhan mumbled to himself, "Yi Qing is already an empress. She is Jiandi. As long as she is willing, she can always maintain her appearance when she thinks she is at her most beautiful. There has never been a female Jiandi who was willing to face the world with an old face."
"If the person in my arms is the real Qing 'er, then who are you?
And who is Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi? "Guhan asked blankly.
"I am Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi!"
Outside the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, the man's voice was still there. "She is also Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi. Our fates were once intertwined, but now it is time to end it.
From now on, there is only one Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi in this world. You and your Qing 'er should go where you belong! "
"In another 50 minutes, the temperature of the Furnace of Heaven and Earth will reach its highest temperature of 108000 degrees Celsius. Qing 'er has waited for you for 50 years, but she did not expect to die with you. I have fulfilled her wish, and I have done a little …!"
Before he could finish listening, Guhan suddenly felt a severe ringing in his ears. Then, Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi, who was outside the Furnace of Heaven and Earth, did not say another word.
"Damn it!
My body is on the verge of collapsing! "
The ringing in his ears made Guhan realize that his body could not withstand the high temperature any longer.
In the three minutes that Guhan and Shrouding the Heavens Jiandi talked, the temperature in the Furnace of Heaven and Earth had risen to 1500 degrees Celsius.
This reduced Guhan's original estimate of six to seven minutes to about four minutes. Three minutes had passed, and Guhan only had one minute left.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Guhan suddenly coughed, and a stream of water spurted out of his throat … Guhan's esophagus had been burnt by the high temperature, and the purified water that entered Guhan's body through his esophagus was naturally spurting out from this hole.
This was only the beginning. In the next ten seconds, more and more of these burnt holes appeared on Guhan's body. At the same time, Guhan's consciousness became blurred, and it looked like Guhan would not be able to hold on for much longer.
"Fish!
Big Blue Flower Fish! "Suddenly, Guhan's half-melted ears seemed to hear this.
"Big Blue Flower Fish?"
The moment Gu Han's consciousness was about to completely fade, he instinctively opened his dimensional pocket and released the large blue and white fish in his pocket.
"Chirp chirp!"
Although he did not know why a Big Blue Flower Fish would make the chirp of a mouse, it became a sound that was like the sound of nature in Guhan's sleep.
After the sound rang out, Gu Han felt the temperature around his body begin to drop rapidly, as if he had returned to the normal world.
At the same time, a drop of liquid with a fishy smell dripped into Gu Han's mouth. Gu Han felt a wave of comfort throughout his body, and the pain in his body disappeared. What replaced it was an indescribable itch … This itch was more than a thousand times more painful than the itch caused by a mosquito.
Guhan instinctively stretched out his hands, eager to scratch his body.
"You can't scratch, this is your body recovering!" Guhan heard Yi Qing's voice again, but this time it was filled with an aged feeling.