“The Ancestor said that this flame tree would greatly help my The Carter Family's cultivation of the Nine-turn True Fire technique, so these newly ripened fruits must be edible too.” At this moment, Shawn Carter wasn’t thinking about the effects of the fruit at all—he was completely focused on how it would be a shame not to eat such a delicacy. Muttering to himself, Shawn Carter's eyes were already shining as he stared at the three fruits.

Shawn Carter noticed that one of the fruits was especially unique, as if it faintly glowed, looking even more different from the other two. Shawn Carter vaguely remembered that when the flame tree revived from its withered state, this fruit was the first to appear.

Thinking of this, Shawn Carter immediately reached out and picked the hot, glowing red flame fruit and put it into his mouth.

A voice from deep within told him that this thing was just too delicious—he had to eat it.

“Crunch…” The skin was crisp, making a clear sound as he bit down, and then the inside was incredibly tasty. The scalding, comforting red juice flowed into his stomach.

Wow!

It was unbelievably delicious. Shawn Carter sucked, and the juice inside went straight into his belly. Then, with two more bites, he finished off the small, crispy red skin as well. It was so good—he had never eaten anything this delicious before.

After finishing one, Shawn Carter's hand was already reaching for another.

But just then, Shawn Carter felt the juice that had entered his body rush straight into his Renquan. The moment the juice entered the Renquan, Shawn Carter's body froze in place, as if oil had been poured onto a fire—his Renquan instantly erupted out of control.

Not only that, but Shawn Carter felt his body tremble violently, as if struck by lightning, and there was even a trace of lightning power in the fruit that instantly burrowed into Shawn Carter's body.

Although it was just a trace, it almost made Shawn Carter collapse, and he felt as if his whole body was about to shatter and turn to scorched earth. At this moment, Shawn Carter truly felt the crisis of life and death—the feeling of dying. That’s right, it was over.

If this power surged again, he’d be finished. How could this fruit contain the power of lightning? This was just too strange. Suddenly, Shawn Carter recalled the flash of light when the withered tree revived, and remembered The Ancestor saying that this flame tree had been killed by a lightning strike. Lightning—could it be that the power of the lightning seed within had also been activated by that divine soil…

Just as Shawn Carter was nearly in despair, a golden vortex suddenly began to spin. The lightning power drilled into it, crashing around, but was trapped inside and couldn’t get out. At this, Shawn Carter finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then he felt the surging power of the flame fruit flood into his body.

“Boom…” In an instant, a force ten times more powerful than usual erupted into his body, circulating madly. Even his Renquan, which had reached its limit, was now operating frantically—expanding, expanding, and expanding again.

“Ah…” Shawn Carter immediately felt as if his Renquan was about to burst, having grown much larger. If his body hadn’t been unexpectedly tempered before, making it much stronger than normal, it would have exploded by now.

Power—an utterly terrifying power, far beyond what Shawn Carter, at the peak of the Renquan stage, could withstand.

Damn, this thing is way too terrifying—it’s deadly!

Only now did Shawn Carter realize his own greed. This thing was actually so terrifying, its power far beyond imagination, and now his Renquan was about to burst.

I need to find a way to use it up—yes, I must find a way to consume this power. Thinking of this, Shawn Carter suddenly thought of a method: compress the Renquan, drive it to form a vortex inside, and compress it. This is the bottleneck of the Renquan stage—once the power is completely saturated, you need to repeatedly compress the Renquan. The time this process takes depends on each person’s talent.

Because this is something that external force can’t really help with, it’s entirely up to oneself to drive the Renquan, slowly compressing and condensing it, until it’s compressed to a certain degree. This is the self-compression of the original power within the Renquan. Once it’s compressed to the limit, it’s enough to break through the Zhong Dantian’s Diquan in one go, instantly bursting through and opening the Diquan in the Zhong Dantian. This is the bottleneck after reaching the peak.

This process is mainly the self-compression of the Renquan after reaching saturation. Normally, after reaching saturation, absorbing more power or cultivating further is useless, so after hitting the bottleneck, people stop forcing cultivation. But right now, the power of the flame fruit had actually triggered the Renquan, breaking the iron law that it couldn’t absorb any more power after reaching saturation and its limit, and it started frantically absorbing power again. The only thing Shawn Carter could think of now was to quickly compress the power within the Renquan.

“Boom…” The Renquan spun wildly, using this power to drive itself, constantly compressing internally, condensing the power layer by layer, desperately trying to use it up.

Inside Shawn Carter's body, the Renquan was spinning madly. Normally, external force couldn’t help with this, but the iron law was forcibly broken by this special situation. The Renquan entered a terrifying accelerated state, with the power of the flame fruit continuously driving its operation.

“Buzz… bang bang…” The Renquan felt as if it was about to explode, and Shawn Carter was about to burst from the pressure. If it weren’t for using this power to drive the Renquan’s compression, constantly pushing it to the limit—even beyond the power needed to break through the Zhong Dantian and open the Diquan, and still compressing, using this method to burn off the terrifying power—Shawn Carter's body would have exploded long ago.