He was also taking a gamble. He was gambling that he could survive during the chaos, and there was nothing he could not afford to lose. Even if his judgment was wrong and no one followed him from the first dimension and he died in Su Ming's hands, once he disappeared, all the people would know that his Nascent Divinity had been obtained by Su Ming. Because of that, he would truly be attracting trouble to himself.
By the looks of it, no matter what Flame Fiends' Progenitor did, it would be difficult for Su Ming not to be hunted down.
Unless Su Ming could instantly seal him so quickly that Zhu You Cai would not be able to save him in time and the others would not be able to attack him in time. If Su Ming could do this, then he would be able to break the trap, but the prerequisite was that he had to give Flame Fiends' Progenitor's Nascent Divinity to someone else.
But Su Ming … did not choose to break it like this, even though he was confident that he could do it if Progenitor Long Hai brought out all the power of his Nascent Divinity and fused it with Su Ming's Ecang clone.
But once he thought about it, a faint smile appeared on his face.
"Sure," Su Ming said faintly. When he said those words, he instantly attracted all the people's gazes. Under the old monsters' gazes, Su Ming sat calmly, and not a single change in his expression could be detected.
Even Flame Fiends' Progenitor narrowed his eyes. The madness in them disappeared, replaced by a hint of hesitation, but it was soon covered up by him bowing to Su Ming.
"Thank you, fellow Daoist." Flame Fiends' Progenitor forced down the resentment in his heart and had to say these words.
Zhu You Cai frowned. He scrutinized Flame Fiends' Progenitor, then looked at Su Ming with a pensive expression. As for the others, no one knew what they were thinking, but based on their expressions, there did not seem to be many changes. Only the white-robed teenager who was the centipede cast Flame Fiends' Progenitor a sinister glance before he frowned and swept his gaze past Su Ming.
"Words are no proof. If you attack while I'm off guard, it will be difficult for you to make a decision. Swear an oath." Su Ming turned his head around and looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor. There was the ghost of a smile in his eyes, and it was also a calmness that no one else could understand. It was a gaze that only Flame Fiends' Progenitor could understand.
Flame Fiends' Progenitor hesitated for a moment. When he looked towards Su Ming, their gazes met.
"I, Huo Kui, swear on my Nascent Divinity, and with the universe as my witness, if you truly wish to protect me, then I will definitely not attack you while we are in the fifth kiln." Similarly, only Su Ming could understand these words.
This was telling Su Ming that he, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, only wanted to live. If Su Ming truly wanted to help him, then he could write off all their previous enmity in the fifth kiln.
As Flame Fiends' Progenitor uttered his oath, an indistinct connection rose in Su Ming's heart. It meant that the oath had taken effect.
Su Ming nodded calmly. He did not say anything else. When he sat down and meditated, not a single hint of what he was thinking could be seen on his face. Su Ming had his own judgment regarding his promise to Flame Fiends' Progenitor and his decision to step into it even though he knew that it was a trap.
It would have been fine if Flame Fiends' Progenitor had not chosen the white-robed teenager to provoke, but he had chosen the person Su Ming wanted to kill the most. Because of that, he could be considered to have complied with Su Ming's intentions.
"Alright, since we're all here, then let's head to the next layer. This layer is much more dangerous than the previous ones. I hope that all of us will appear at the Spirit Trudging Platform at the edge of the second layer and not be buried here forever," Huang Mei said coldly.
As he spoke, he lifted his right hand and pushed down on the Spirit Trudging Platform beneath him. Light immediately shone on it, and a vortex appeared on the platform under his feet. It looked like a Relocation Rune.
The others did the same thing. As the vortex appeared, light also appeared under Su Ming's feet.
As the light appeared and the Runes on all the platforms roared, a large amount of tumbling sounds immediately appeared in the air in the distance. It was the Fire Spirits coming over when they heard the sound.
Zi Long cast a profound look at Su Ming, then swiftly disappeared into the Rune. The yellow-browed man seemed to hesitate for a moment before he too disappeared without a trace.
Zhu You Cai remained silent for the span of a few breaths. When he saw the air around him tumbling even more and shrill roars charging towards them, he cast a glance at Flame Fiends' Progenitor and disappeared from the Rune beneath him. At that moment, only Su Ming and the white-robed teenager remained on their respective platforms and did not move.
Su Ming's expression remained the same as he looked at the white-robed teenager.
The white-robed teenager stared at Su Ming. After some time, when he saw that the shadows of the Fire Spirits still appeared in the air around him, he let out a cold harrumph and disappeared. Once he did so, Su Ming also stepped into the Rune beneath him. Flame Fiends' Progenitor's eyes sparkled. After some hesitation, he gritted his teeth and stepped in as well.
At the instant the two of them disappeared, the white-robed teenager's platform suddenly had light reverse, and he reappeared.
"My attainments in Runes are above those of others. How could you mere mortals know of them?" The white-robed teenager took a step forward and charged towards the platform where Su Ming had disappeared. With one step, he stepped into the Rune and swiftly disappeared.
Once the crowd disappeared, a large number of Fire Spirits surged towards them. In the blink of an eye, they filled the entire space. Piercing roars filled the air and traveled faintly into the Rune, traveling far into the distance.
This was a world filled with flames. The sky was burning, and the ground was roaring. If anyone cast their gaze over, they would find that the volcanoes on the ground were erupting madly. Black smoke tumbled about as if it could cover the sky, but it could not hide the sea of fire that was continuously burning in all directions.
There were rivers on the ground, but the color of their waters was red. They were not blood, but magma from a sea of fire.
Not a single hint of green could be seen on the ground. This was a world of fire.
Su Ming appeared in this place. Once he appeared, Flame Fiends' Progenitor also appeared behind him. Almost at the instant he appeared, Flame Fiends' Progenitor immediately retreated and put a certain distance between him and Su Ming. There were no outsiders in this place, and he could no longer hide the hatred in his eyes. He glared at Su Ming.
"If you kill me, then everyone will think that you have my Nascent Divinity in your hands, and it will be difficult for you to escape the fate of being hunted down!" Flame Fiends' Progenitor said in a low voice.
Su Ming looked at Flame Fiends' Progenitor, whose face was filled with wariness, and asked flatly, "Why would I kill you?"
"How would I know why you ambushed me and made my physical body self-destruct, which is why I ended up in this state?!" The hatred on Flame Fiends' Progenitor's face instantly erupted. His hatred towards Su Ming had already reached a monstrous degree.
"I attacked you because you wanted to kill me first. If you didn't target me, then I naturally wouldn't have attacked you. Destroying your physical body was just a warning.
"I'm warning you, don't provoke me," Su Ming said calmly. As he spoke, a domineering presence spread out from his body. It spread out in all directions and stirred up the sea of fire to tumble about even more furiously.
Flame Fiends' Progenitor fell silent and did not speak.
"Since I've already warned you and you chose to let me protect you, then I will naturally not kill you. But do you want another physical body?" Su Ming asked faintly.
"The choice of a physical body for Flame Fiends is very important. Unless it's a physical body in Mastery Realm, the effect it will have on our level of cultivation is even worse than a Nascent Divinity.
"The physical body you destroyed was something I obtained after much difficulty many years ago. Right now, I still have a few spare physical bodies in my race, but they are all bodies in Solar Kalpa Realm, not in Mastery Realm." A glint appeared in Flame Fiends' Progenitor's eyes. He had a vague understanding of Su Ming's thoughts, and only then did he begin explaining in detail.
"Besides, I have some ties with Zhu You Cai …" Flame Fiends' Progenitor said again.
The meaning behind his words might have seemed vague, but in truth, it was already incredibly clear.
"You will soon have a new physical body," Su Ming said slowly. In truth, Progenitor Long Hai also needed a physical body, but compared to him, Su Ming did not think much of the white-robed teenager's physical body.
"Huang Mei and Zi Long's levels of cultivation are about the same. They are wary of each other, and neither of them will attack easily. But the one you mentioned has extraordinary power as well, and he is also the manifestation of a Heavenly Centipede. It is said that he came from beyond the four Great True Worlds and has the blood of Ancient Wu … Once he activates his blood, he can activate the guide of Ancient Wu and turn into the power of Ancient Wu." Once Flame Fiends' Progenitor finished speaking, a powerful wave of resentment instantly rose with a bang from the originally empty spot beside Su Ming. It swept through the area, causing the flames in the area to spread outwards.
As resentment gathered together, the Resentful Wei manifested. A ghastly light shone on its two dragon heads as it stared at Flame Fiends' Progenitor. The great resentment in its eyes caused Flame Fiends' Progenitor to instinctively take a few steps back.
"Will it be enough if I include you?" Su Ming asked faintly.
Flame Fiends' Progenitor was silent for a moment before his eyes lit up. He immediately said, "He's so fast that he can break the universe."
"Then let's put on a show so that he can't bear to run." Killing intent shone in Su Ming's eyes. As he spoke languidly, he charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
The Resentful Wei moved by the side, and the black resentful flames under its feet immediately tumbled in all directions. In an instant, they filled the area around Flame Fiends' Progenitor. At the same time, Su Ming had already closed in. When he lifted his right hand, he seized the air in the direction of Flame Fiends' Progenitor.
With it, a myriad of thoughts ran through Flame Fiends' Progenitor's mind. He instinctively moved back, then opened his mouth wide and let out a piercing screech. As he did so, the power of his Nascent Divinity instantly shone, and a hand bone flew out of his body. It was an illusion, and it swiftly crashed into Su Ming's incoming palm.
As booming sounds reverberated in the air, Su Ming took a few steps back. Flame Fiends' Progenitor shuddered and staggered back a little, but he let out a huge sigh of relief in his heart. Su Ming might have looked as if he had used his full strength in that strike just then, but in truth, Flame Fiends' Progenitor, who had some understanding of Su Ming's true level of cultivation, knew that he had not brought out his full power.
"How long are we going to keep up the show?" Flame Fiends' Progenitor took a step forward. When he attacked again, he sent a divine thought to Su Ming.
"Act until he makes his move."
"What if he still doesn't attack?"
"Then we'll keep up the show until the moment when no one can tell whether it's real or fake." At the instant Su Ming sent that divine thought to Flame Fiends' Progenitor, he lifted his right hand. The weather changed, and the sea of fire tumbled about. A gigantic palm manifested in front of him and charged towards Flame Fiends' Progenitor with a bang. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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