Su Ming stood on the magma in the volcano. During the instant the mighty pressure from the sky and the divine sense swept past him, Su Ming felt as if his entire body had become transparent. Not a single secret could be hidden from him, and everything about him had been revealed clearly to the divine sense.
This feeling caused Su Ming's expression to turn dark, and he gained a deeper understanding of what the old voice in Yin Death Vortex had said about the Barren Lands of Divine Essence being a gigantic prison.
'These True Guards are the guards who guard the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. ' As Su Ming remained silent, the gigantic Crimson Python Phoenix that had flown out previously no longer roared. Instead, its body instantly withered, as if the roar just then had used up all of its strength.
With a dispirited expression, it gradually sank into the magma and fell into deep sleep once again.
The bald crane also popped its head out of the magma at that moment. There was still a lingering fear in its eyes. It flapped its wings and flew out of the magma, then lay down on the stone it had been on previously.
The bald crane scratched its bald head and mumbled, "I'm going to suffocate myself to death. Damn it, this place is too hot. But why do I feel like there's a place that's even hotter than this place?"
After a long while, Su Ming gradually closed his eyes and no longer thought about the True Guards. After all, the strength of the True Guards was something Su Ming could not hope to fight against. The most important thing for him right then was to continue training and increase his level of cultivation. Once he reached a certain level of cultivation, he could leave this place and search for the king of Yin Death's Fragmented Worlds, search for the entrance to the Fifth True World, or … leave this place!
A brilliant light shone in Su Ming's eyes. He might have been cut off from his emotions and lost all sense of pain, but the beautiful things in his memories still existed. However, when he remembered them, he would feel numb, and this numbness would cause anguish to rise in the depths of his heart.
In silence, Su Ming circulated his cultivation base and began the repetitive act of continuously absorbing the hot aura in the place during the past year. As he did so, he would also devour the physical power in the blue stone so that his body would become even stronger.
Time passed just like that. One month, two months … In the blink of an eye, another year went by.
There were no seasons in a year in Crimson Flame Planet. It was as if no matter what time of day it was, it would always be filled with heat. That heat could roast a person's skin, evaporate their blood and sweat, and gradually burn away a person's will.
During the year, Su Ming had ventured out once, but he had not gone too far. Instead, he stayed within ten thousand feet of the volcano. He could not go further than that, because once he got close to that spot, a blue screen of light would immediately appear and envelop a circular area of ten thousand feet around the volcano, preventing him from moving forward.
Aside from that, once Su Ming left the volcano, he could clearly sense that the spiritual energy in the world was incredibly lacking. He could only release his cultivation base in his body and did not absorb it. Because of that, it was difficult for him to replenish it.
He might still have quite a large amount of crystals in his storage bag, but he would eventually run out of them, which was why Su Ming rarely used them. He did not know how long he would have to stay in the Barren Lands of Divine Essence. Perhaps … it would be his entire life.
When all the crystals disappeared, Su Ming did not know whether he would end up like the others, killing and carrying corpses in search of the God that the sinners spoke of, who was like the Crimson Python Phoenix, in order to obtain an incomplete crystal.
Fortunately, his current body was very different from other people's. He could absorb the rampaging power of fire in the magma. This power of fire might only have a single attribute, but in this barren Crimson Flame Planet, being able to absorb the rampaging power of fire was already a form of transcendence.
As two years passed, Su Ming's level of cultivation was still at the initial stage of Life Privation Realm, which was the threshold of Earth Cultivation Realm. It might not have increased in the slightest, but most of the Yin Death Aura in Su Ming's body had already disappeared. Most of the divine abilities he executed now contained the power of fire.
It became his most powerful Divine Art.
During the past two years of training and devouring, Su Ming would obtain quite a large amount of crystals from the people who relied on the Crimson Python Phoenix once every three months, causing his physical body's training to progress at a rapid pace. However … as time passed and more of the people who relied on the Crimson Python Phoenix died, Su Ming's physical body's training could not help but slow down.
He had gone out previously because of this. He had wanted to search for those blue crystals alone.
On this day, when there was only one month left until the time for the sacrifice to be held once every three months, Su Ming was immersed in the magma to exercise his breathing. He had his Atman spread out and spread his Atman through the area. This had already become his habit.
Yet this time, not long after Su Ming spread out his Atman, he suddenly opened his eyes.
At that moment, Yue Hong Bang had a forlorn expression on his face at the foot of the mountain range beyond the volcano. His body was covered in blood, and he was moving forward swiftly. Of the people who had been by his side in the past, only the thin old man remained. There was a wound on the old man's chest that looked as if it was about to pierce through. Blood flowed out of it, and his face was pale. If it was not because he still had a breath of Origin True Qi, he would have died a long time ago.
There were three shadows chasing after the two of them. They were two men and one woman. All of them were thin, but the light in their eyes shone brightly. There was a bloodthirsty look in their eyes as they chased after Yue Hong Bang relentlessly.
Besides an old man who had reached Heaven Cultivation Realm, the other two middle-aged men and women were in Earth Cultivation Realm. The speed at which the three of them chased after Yue Hong Bang increased with each passing moment, and cackling sounds came from the old man's mouth.
"Yue Hong Bang, I've been waiting for a long time to kill you, but as expected of the third generation descendant of a sinner. I only managed to injure the two of you severely when I set the trap.
"This time, I'll definitely kill you. How dare you trespass into my cave abode?! You're just asking for death!" Killing intent and greed shone in the old man's eyes. When he lifted his right hand, the sound of an incantation reverberated in the air. He formed a seal with his left hand and slapped the air. Immediately, a gust of black wind appeared out of thin air before him and turned into a gigantic black spiked club. With a buzzing sound, it charged towards Yue Hong Bang.
"If I kill you, I'll use your corpse as a third generation descendant of a sinner to exchange for ten crystals from the gods. It'll be enough to make up for the cost of killing you!"
The black wind swept up the spiked club and closed in on Yue Hong Bang with a loud whistle. Despair appeared on his face. He turned his head around and coughed up a mouthful of blood. As he formed a seal with his hands, that mouthful of blood instantly gathered together in front of him to turn into a red hammer that swung towards the incoming spiked club.
A loud bang reverberated in the air, and Yue Hong Bang's body shuddered. At the same time he coughed up a large mouthful of blood, he tumbled backwards, and all the wounds on his body tore open.
The red hammer was completely shattered, and the spiked club swept up by the black wind only froze for a moment. It might have shattered, but it still charged towards Yue Hong Bang.
When it was about to close in on Yue Hong Bang, the thin old man beside him let out a loud roar and leaped up to appear in front of Yue Hong Bang. He used his body to block the incoming spiked club, and once they crashed into each other, Yue Hong Bang's eyes turned bloodshot, and tears fell down his cheeks.
However, he did not stop for even a moment. Instead, he used the thin old man as a shield to charge towards the mountain range where the volcano was located at full speed.
"Hmph!" The old man in Heaven Cultivation Realm laughed coldly among the three people chasing after Yue Hong Bang. As booming sounds echoed in the air, he did not even spare a glance at the person he had killed with the spiked club. Instead, a freezing glare shone in his eyes, and he cast a glance at the volcano towards which Yue Hong Bang was charging.
"The volcano cave of the god Crimson Python Phoenix … Yue Hong Bang, are you out of your mind? How could you think of asking for help from the gods? The gods in Crimson Flame Planet have all lost their intelligence. As long as you don't provoke them, they won't attack. Let me offer your corpse to the gods here, then I won't have to carry it back." As he spoke, the old man in Heaven Cultivation Realm laughed ghastly. With the man and woman behind him, he charged towards Yue Hong Bang. The spiked club swept up by the black wind was traveling at an even faster speed, and it was already less than a hundred feet away from Yue Hong Bang.
At the moment of danger, Yue Hong Bang let out a loud roar.
"God, save me!"
At the instant he roared, the spiked club had already closed in on him. At the instant it was about to smash down on him, Yue Hong Bang formed a seal with his hands, and a red light shone on his body. Once he resisted the attack head-on, the blood he coughed up was his Origin Blood Essence. This strike caused his entire body to tremble, and he was already on the verge of death. With a bang, his body tumbled backwards to the edge of the volcano. The spiked club might have disappeared along with him, but when he saw that the three people were less than three hundred feet away from him, despair appeared on Yue Hong Bang's face.
"God, save me! This person's cave abode is completely formed by that blue stone! God, save me!"
"Another crazy person. No one will be able to save you today!" The old man laughed loudly, but even though he was laughing on the surface, his heart let out a loud thump. He knew that Yue Hong Bang was not an idiot. Since he had asked for help from the gods twice, could it be that there was something wrong with this place?
The old man did not show any of his doubts on his face, but he did slow down for a moment. He grabbed the man following behind him and threw him towards Yue Hong Bang.
"Kill this person for me, and I will give you a crystal!"
Almost at the instant the man was thrown by the old man and was less than one hundred feet away from Yue Hong Bang, Yue Hong Bang had already fallen into despair. Suddenly, a cold harrumph rang out from the mouth of the volcano. At the same time, a red figure charged out from within the volcano.
That figure was so quick that in the blink of an eye, it appeared right before Yue Hong Bang. At the instant ecstasy appeared on the despair on Yue Hong Bang's face, Su Ming lifted his right hand and hurled a punch towards the incoming man in Earth Cultivation Realm.
Before that punch even landed, it brought with it a shocking boom. Even space itself seemed to have collapsed, and a wave of heat spread out violently from Su Ming's body. In fact, there was even a layer of distorted ripples that contained laws spreading out from his fist.
The expression of the man who was thrown over changed abruptly. Just as he was about to retreat, the world around him seemed to have started moving in reverse, causing him to be unable to help himself from freezing for a moment while he was in midair.
The price of that pause was Su Ming's fist ramming into the man's chest.
There was no boom when the punch landed, but a muffled bang that sounded as if it had landed on an empty bag. The man shuddered, and with the spot where Su Ming's fist had landed on his chest as the center, his body started disintegrating. In the blink of an eye, half of his body shattered and turned into ashes right before Su Ming …
Su Ming pulled back his right hand and stood in front of Yue Hong Bang. With an aloof and merciless gaze, he stared at the old man standing two hundred something feet away from him. There was no need for Su Ming to intentionally make a freezing presence spread out from his body.
The old man's pupils shrank, and his body came to an abrupt halt. (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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