Chapter 207: The Madness of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame!
"It's almost here!"
Outside the Demonic Flame Space, Jiang Yun withdrew his gaze from the distance and murmured. In the next instant, he chuckled lightly, took Qing Lin with him, and shot into the milky-white ring of light, disappearing from sight.
As the two entered, that milky-white space suddenly erupted with a powerful force. The spatial passage Jiang Yun had opened began to contract violently.
In the blink of an eye, it had completely sealed shut.
"Bastard—"
A furious roar resounded throughout the entire Central Plains. Heaven and earth echoed with rumbling at the sound of this voice, emitting mournful cries.
In the next moment, boundless, endless flames seemed to sweep out from the void. The flames exuded an infinite devouring power. The surrounding mountain ranges were rapidly incinerated and devoured under these flames.
Dark red magma gushed from deep underground. As bubbles churned, streams of extremely scorching air currents burst forth.
Endless black flames coalesced into the form of Nihility Devouring Flame. His expression was unsightly as he stared at the now completely sealed Demonic Flame Space. Endless flames billowed around him, and a terrifying temperature directly blanketed this region.
At this moment, he was like a blazing sun, continuously releasing blinding, intense light. A terrifying heat steamed upward from the magma, causing the space for thousands of miles around to take on a distorted appearance.
"You think slipping through a crack will work?" Nihility Devouring Flame stared coldly at the Demonic Flame Space. The next moment, a furious roar erupted from his mouth. "Let this seat open it!"
Nihility Devouring Flame extended a finger and tapped the empty air.
As his finger pointed down, the boundless, endless sea of flames that filled heaven and earth directly howled forth, transforming into a sky-piercing giant finger that hurtled toward the Demonic Flame Space.
"Boom—"
Following Nihility Devouring Flame's action, heaven and earth immediately thundered with a tremendous roar. A fiery array, nearly tens of thousands of zhang in size, slowly emerged from the void on the outer perimeter of the Demonic Flame Space...
The sky-covering fiery array, like an enormously huge fiery disc, shrouded this space. As the giant finger approached, the heaven-shrouding array began to slowly rotate with a rumbling sound, like a millstone.
As the fiery array rotated, the energy in this stretch of heaven and earth instantly became extremely violent.
"Bang!"
The collision lasted for merely a split second. An earth-shattering explosion spread outwards. The surroundings for ten thousand li were directly transformed into a sea of magma and fire. The ground itself was forcibly shaken, creating an enormous crater hundreds of thousands of zhang deep.
"Bastard! A dead old relic from who knows how many years ago wants to stop me?" Seeing his first attack blocked, Nihility Devouring Flame's expression turned even darker. He was about to attack again immediately.
"Nihility, wait a moment!" Hun Tiandi, who had followed closely behind, also appeared at this moment. He furrowed his brows slightly, looking at the distant void, and spoke out to stop Nihility Devouring Flame from attacking again.
"Gu Yuan, since when did you start enjoying playing the 'despicable scoundrel' who skulks and peeps?" The halted Nihility Devouring Flame looked with ill intent in the direction of Hun Tiandi's gaze. Hun Tiandi, beside him, wore a faint smile and spoke in a teasing tone.
In the distant void, a figure with hands clasped behind its back slowly emerged.
"Gu Yuan!?"
Nihility Devouring Flame's expression darkened. Black flames roared up around him as he abruptly shouted sternly, "What are you doing here?"
"My purpose is the same as yours. Why ask when you already know?" Gu Yuan's face was calm, bearing a light smile. Then he looked Nihility Devouring Flame up and down, his tone mocking, "If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have gotten to see you in such a 'wretched' state!"
Hearing Gu Yuan's words and seeing his smiling face, Nihility Devouring Flame instantly flared up. His face ashen, he glared furiously at his opponent. The black flames that had subsided around him began to burn once more.
"Heh heh, Gu Yuan, there's no need to provoke Nihility. Had you come instead, you might not have fared any better," Hun Tiandi said with an air of nonchalant ease in the face of the about-to-explode Nihility Devouring Flame. Then he looked at Gu Yuan and asked, "You've seen the situation now. What is your decision, Gu Yuan?"
As he spoke, Hun Tiandi swept his gaze around, scanning patches of the void one by one. Gu Yuan also wore a grave expression. The hundreds of powerful auras around them all indicated just how many experts had already gathered here.
Only due to the closure of the Demonic Flame Space and the deterrence of the three of them, the crowd hadn't acted too recklessly. If the three of them started fighting, the scene would absolutely descend into chaos, and the situation would become difficult to control.
"Someone has already entered the Demonic Flame Space ahead of us. Do you still want to contend with us here?" After speaking, Hun Tiandi quietly watched Gu Yuan, waiting for his decision.
Nihility Devouring Flame also watched Gu Yuan with a cold sneer from the side. Even if he couldn't get the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame now, it would be the same result when that thief who snuck in came out.
"Hun Tiandi, you don't need to provoke me. Anyone can take the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but it absolutely cannot fall into your Hun Clan's hands. Otherwise, who knows how many more innocent lives will perish at your Hun Clan's hands," Gu Yuan said, looking at Hun Tiandi with pained solemnity, speaking with an air of righteous grandeur.
Gu Yuan's thoughts coincided with Nihility Devouring Flame's. His current urgent task was to prepare for the decisive battle with the Hun Clan. When that battle came, if they won, obtaining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would naturally be effortless.
If they lost, then who possessed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would no longer matter.
He hadn't lied this time; he had truly come only to stop the two of them, to prevent the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from falling into the Hun Clan's hands, strengthening their side and adding variables to the decisive battle.
Seeing Gu Yuan's attitude, which did not seem feigned, the smile on Hun Tiandi's face slowly faded. He stared seriously into his opponent's eyes. For a time, both sides remained silent. Ultimately, Hun Tiandi laughed out loud...
"Ha..."
"Gu Yuan, it seems I underestimated you. Xiao Yan has already come out of seclusion, hasn't he?"
Shaking his head with a laugh, Hun Tiandi immediately cast the matter of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to the back of his mind. He looked at Gu Yuan and asked with certainty.
Not waiting for an answer, Hun Tiandi continued, "Since he has already emerged, then let us set it for one month from now..."
Gu Yuan's expression darkened upon hearing this, his gaze solemn as he watched Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame.
"Tell Xiao Yan: if he wants to save his father, one month from now, at the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range, bring the ancient jade..."
As Hun Tiandi's words slowly faded, he led Nihility Devouring Flame gradually toward the spatial rift behind them. In an instant, they completely vanished from Gu Yuan's sight.
Gazing at the slowly healing spatial rift in the sky, this mountain range was unusually silent.
Gu Yuan clasped his hands behind his back, his fists clenched tightly, murmuring, "Heaven-Burial Mountain Range... one month's time?" As his voice fell, coldness surged in his eyes.
"Whoosh—" A gentle breeze brushed past. Gu Yuan's figure in the sky had vanished sometime ago.
After the three had left, the hidden Dou Shengs from the surrounding area finally revealed themselves one after another. Looking at the ten-thousand-li stretch of scorched earth below, caused by the spread of Nihility Devouring Flame's power, they couldn't help but draw in sharp breaths, their faces filled with shock.
"What terrifying strength..."
"Grand Elder, it seems we can't get in!" The people from the Pill Tower looked at the Grand Elder at the front of the crowd and couldn't help but ask.
After emerging, they had searched everywhere but hadn't discovered even the slightest spatial crack, leaving them feeling utterly helpless.
As for forcing their way in, they weren't that foolish. Nihility Devouring Flame's display of might was still fresh in their eyes. They didn't possess that kind of terrifying strength.
"All of you, return. This matter is not something you can participate in." Just as the Grand Elder's brows were tightly furrowed, a green ox carrying a child shot over from the distance with lightning speed.
"It's the Ancestor!" The Grand Elder also looked over, overjoyed to recognize the newcomer.
"Mm!" The Pill Tower Ancestor swept his gaze over the crowd. Looking at the Demonic Flame Space behind him, he spoke in a deep voice, "It is not yet the time for the Demonic Flame Space to open. This instance is suspected to be the doing of one who has obtained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint's inheritance. Whether it's a blessing or a curse, this is not the time for us to interfere."
The Grand Elder and the others nodded in surprise. They hadn't expected such hidden circumstances. If that were truly the case, the continent was about to welcome another peak expert.
"Right, Ancestor, there is a matter to report to you..." The Grand Elder then recalled the matter of the alliance. Looking at the Pill Tower Ancestor before him, he spoke respectfully.
While the outside world was in turmoil, the moment Jiang Yun and Qing Lin shot into the ring of light, their vision blurred momentarily before they discovered that the surrounding space had already changed.
The first sensation the spatial change brought them was that of being in a furnace. Their gazes quickly swept around, and they found themselves in a strange space permeated with milky-white flames.
This entire space was filled with milky-white flames. The scorching heat they felt was also emitted by these milky-white flames.
"Dreammare Heavenly Mist... unfortunately, it's not quite up to par!" Sensing the strands of flame trying to burrow into their bodies, yet ultimately unable to break through the defensive line Jiang Yun had set up, Jiang Yun chuckled lightly. He had no interest in tangling with the puppets that came later.
With a slight movement of his finger, a stream of blood essence shot from its tip. The blood essence swiftly traced along his fingertip, forming a strange blood talisman. "Dream-Breaking Talisman, shatter for me!!!"
A blood talisman shot forth, blasting towards the empty space ahead. This space immediately began to fluctuate violently. And deep in the distance, a figure seated upon a throne suddenly frowned.
This figure frowned, opened his eyes, and gazed distantly at the anomaly within the vast sea of flames ahead. "What is going on? It's not yet time to break the boundary, yet my Dreammare Heavenly Mist has actually been broken by someone? The sensations earlier were real—someone from the outside world truly has obtained that old bastard's inheritance?!"
Thinking of this, a cold glint flashed in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's eyes. He sneered. In the next instant, strands of milky-white flame slowly spread from within his body. Immediately, a destructive, high temperature gradually shrouded this space.
At this moment, the space around Jiang Yun and Qing Lin fluctuated violently. Finally, under their gazes, it exploded with a bang!
What greeted their eyes was a sea of magma. From within the magma, milky-white flames shot out from time to time. This milky-white magma stretched to the limit of their vision, as if this entire space was nothing but a sea of magma.
"Rumble—"
A rumbling sound echoed as, within the magma sea, an enormous magma pillar, roughly a hundred zhang wide, rose up from it.
An exceptionally handsome man dressed in a white robe sat quietly atop that magma pillar.
"The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame has actually condensed a Flame Spirit Body?!" Seeing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for the first time, Qing Lin couldn't hide her surprise. This Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had actually, like Nihility Devouring Flame, condensed a Flame Spirit Body, becoming one of only two such existences on the Dou Qi Continent.
Truly worthy of being ranked third on the Heavenly Flame List.
The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame locked his gaze, devoid of any emotion, onto Jiang Yun. An icy voice slowly emanated: "How were you able to break my Dreammare Illusion Realm?"
"Haven't you already guessed?" Jiang Yun paid no mind to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's icy stare, looking at him with a light smile.
Hearing Jiang Yun's words, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's pupils contracted slightly. He said fiercely, "As expected... you obtained that old bastard's inheritance?!"
"So what if you obtained that old fellow's inheritance? I've been trapped by him for thousands of years! Even if he personally came, he wouldn't be able to trap me again! Relying on a mere three-star Dou Sheng like you, you think you can refine me?"
The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame lowered his face, then suddenly raised his head. His eyes bloodshot, he stared at Jiang Yun and screamed like a madman.
"Whether it works or not, we'll know if we try!" Jiang Yun's face maintained its relaxed smile throughout. As his words fell, he pointed a finger toward the void and uttered words that drove the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to despair.
"Heaven-Refining Ancient Array, rise!"
With Jiang Yun's action, a thunderous rumble immediately resounded through space. Then, under the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's horrified gaze, a fiery array nearly tens of thousands of zhang in size slowly emerged from the void...
"Rumble!"
When the array appeared in the sky, the boundless, endless magma sea also began to churn. Finally, under the stunned gazes of those present, a super-massive fiery array also slowly surfaced from below...
The moment these two fiery arrays, one above and one below, appeared, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's expression instantly became extremely unsightly.
"Bastard..."
"Impossible..."
"This is impossible! I've studied the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array for thousands of years, I've long since thoroughly mastered it! How could I possibly lose to a wet-behind-the-ears brat like you!"
Seeing this scene, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame roared towards the sky. His figure violently shot into the heavens. Countless lines of milky-white flame shot out, covering the sky, and actually shot into the Heaven-Refining Ancient Array.
Moments later, his expression changed drastically, for he discovered that his control over the grand array had indeed completely vanished.
"You think relying on a broken array can make up for the gap in cultivation? Today, I will tear you to pieces!!!" After his rage, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame stared at Jiang Yun, who was controlling the array, his face dark and cold as he roared.
"Demonic Flame Divine Idol!"
The milky-white flames permeating heaven and earth suddenly and swiftly condensed towards the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Then, under the two's gazes, they coalesced into a flame giant nearly ten thousand zhang in size.
"Roar—"
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