"No need," An Ran shook her head, her gaze firm, "I’ll accompany you. Anyway, I have nothing urgent, and can look at the scenery here... Uh, though there’s not much to see, observing the Divine Beast can broaden my knowledge! It might even help with my cultivation? Besides, I also want to try restoring those two demon beast transformations, and what if you need a helper?"

Xiao Jie looked at her serious expression, feeling a warmth in his heart, and nodded: "Alright. Just be extra careful, stay far away, and don’t come out from behind that big rock where we rested earlier."

"Got it!" An Ran replied obediently and quickly ran back to her previous hiding spot.

Xiao Jie turned around, immersing his mind once again in the visualization of the Golden Crow Xi Huang.

For the next two days, Xiao Jie almost devoted himself wholeheartedly and tirelessly to the visualization of the Golden Crow. The process of visualization was indeed not easy and fraught with risks. Every move of the Golden Crow drew on a vast amount of Fire Spirit Power, creating great disturbances, and with one moment of distraction, collateral damage could occur. Although the Golden Crow Xi Huang no longer had any hostility towards him, just the fiery vortex stirred up by its occasional wing flaps, or the unintentional sprinkling of Sun Golden Fire, was enough to cause massive destruction and persistent burning to the surrounding environment.

Xiao Jie carefully kept a safe distance, meticulously observing and recording every behavior pattern of Xi Huang: how it gracefully swooped down, precisely pecking at some glowing mineral from the boiling magma; how it groomed its radiant feathers, each stroke bringing forth a leap of flame; how it sometimes raised its head, letting out a long call towards the sun in the sky, seemingly conducting some mysterious ritual absorbing the sun’s essence; how most of the time it would hover in the air, burning silently like a true sun, radiating light and heat; it even returned to the magma lake at specific hours, bathing to absorb purer Earth Fire Power. Xiao Jie’s Immortal Sense acted like the most precise holographic scanner, continuously recording, analyzing, and simulating all this. The progress of the visualization grew slowly yet steadily...

By noon on the second day, the visualization progress finally reached 64%.

Just a little more! Just a little more to break through to 66%, entering the second stage of visualization, by then he could initially simulate and use the Golden Crow’s Innate Divine Ability!

To achieve this, it was clearly necessary to witness and detail the full process of the Golden Crow casting its powerful Divine Power.

Xiao Jie took a deep breath and shouted at Xi Huang, who seemed somewhat lazy in the sky: "Brother Golden Crow! I heard that your Golden Crow clan is naturally able to cast the all-consuming [Flaming Sun Sky Fire], immensely powerful, may I have the honor to witness it?"

Xi Huang lowered its head, its burning eyes glancing at Xiao Jie, seemingly finding this little one who watched it all day to be demanding. It tilted its head and chirped in a bargaining tone: "You... speak nicely. It’s possible... but, using Flaming Sun Sky Fire... is tiring for a bird. Bring some more... of your snacks... for me to taste." It surprisingly remembered the tasty Fire Element Materials Xiao Jie had fed it earlier.

Xiao Jie, helpless, had to take out the last, originally intended for himself, high-quality pieces of [Undying Elemental Fire] and [Magma Heart] from his backpack and tossed them all to Xi Huang.

Xi Huang joyfully gulped them down one after another, as if taking great supplement, and the flames on its body instantly brightened a few shades. It let out a satisfied and loud call, "Watch closely! I’ll use it... just once!"

With that said, its massive wings suddenly spread, with endless light and heat converging towards them! It soared into the sky, ascending to the highest point in the center of the basin, as if transformed into a second sun!

Xi Huang raised its elegant neck, emitting a piercing call resonating with the blazing sun centrally in the sky, as if in harmony with the true sun! The light around its body instantly became blindingly bright, almost impossible to look at directly, resembling a scorching sun.

In that instant, the actual sun in the sky seemed to dim slightly, and for a moment, it seemed as if the Golden Crow was the real sun.

As this light surged up, countless ancient and complex flame runes on the wings lit up one by one, frantically drawing in all the Fire Spirit Qi within several miles! The magma lake in the basin boiled and roared! It suddenly lowered its head, targeting a gigantic, hard black basalt below with its terrifying energy-charged beak, then spat it out!

This was no ordinary flame but a pillar of fire compressed to the extreme, showing a pure platinum color, like a flow of liquid light! The space distorted and blurred with a teeth-numbing sizzling sound wherever the fire pillar passed. The platinum colored fire pillar instantly hit the massive basalt below!

There was no deafening explosion, only an ultimate, silent annihilation!

That piece of hard rock capable of withstanding a siege hammer’s strike, on being touched by the platinum fire pillar, disappeared without a trace, like snow under the sun or more so as if it were "erased" from this world, silent and without a sound, more than half of it gone! The remaining part instantly melted, vaporized, leaving a huge pit with mirror-smooth edges presenting a glassy texture, the rocks within it still glowing dark red, continuing to melt!

The terrifying high temperatures caused waves of heat that, even from a distance, made Xiao Jie’s clothes flutter noisily, stinging his skin, forcing him to fortify the power of the Fire Avoidance Technique once more. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Xiao Jie, at a comparatively safe distance, watched closely and clearly, with Immortal Sense fully activated, almost fully recording every move of Xi Huang’s spell casting, from its starting gestures, energy convergence method, sequence of runes lighting up, to the final law fluctuation during its projection!

"So cool! So powerful!" Xiao Jie watched with eyes gleaming; this skill’s power is too strong! It’s simply a divine skill for clearing the field! And against Undead Ghosts and similar monsters, it definitely has damage bonuses!

He couldn’t wait to glance at the visualization progress.

83%!

Strangely, why did it stop at 83%? Previously, when visualizing the rabbit, it also seemed stuck at this 83% value. What exactly needs to be done to continue the growth?

He instinctively glanced at the visualization progress of [Rabbit Transformation] in the skill list and suddenly noticed, to his surprise, that the rabbit’s progress had somehow increased from the previous 83% to 87%!

Huh? When did it increase? He clearly hadn’t visualized the rabbit these past two days?

He carefully recalled the last time he used the rabbit incarnation... and suddenly understood! It was that time! After transforming into a rabbit, he encountered An Ran (lynx)’s sudden attack, and at the last moment, he noticed using [Alert Reflex]! Avoiding the assault.

"Of course! That’s it!" Xiao Jie realized, "It seems the final part of the visualization isn’t just reliant on external observation but must include some experiential understanding of the target’s ’essence’! For the rabbit, one essence is being ’the hunted,’ so experiencing ’ambush and awareness’ is also a crucial part of the visualization!"

As for the Golden Crow, such a mighty Divine Beast, what would its "essence" experience be? The power to control annihilation? The freedom to soar the nine days? Or... the unique "solitude" as the incarnation of the sun?

Xiao Jie looked at Xi Huang, who had resumed its leisurely stance in the sky, mentally pondering: Hopefully, within a day, he could find the opportunity to complete the final visualization. If not, then he would have to make do. An 83% visualization progress should at least allow for an initial simulation and use of the [Flaming Sun Sky Fire], though the power, consumption, or control may have some shortcomings, certainly without the Golden Crow’s full attributes and strength augment.

Pretending to be a Golden Crow won’t be an easy task, though.

No matter, time is pressing, let’s do this!

Immortal Law - Golden Crow Transformation!