In the tranquil Cloud Valley, the clouds rolled with the heat waves, as though they were boiling. Kuang Jie and his disciples, who were advancing deeper, were soon drenched in sweat, and their lips were dry.
Kuang Jie carefully sensed the changes in his body, and found that other than the extreme heat brought about by the high temperature, there seemed to be no invasion of soul power.
"Leng Yun," Kuang Jie called out.
"Yes," a disciple replied, and then stretched out his arms, using an ability. A ball of light mist spread out along with his arms, permeating the entire team. Everyone immediately felt a cool breeze. The heat brought about by the fire pillar in Cloud Valley immediately dissipated, and everyone became more spirited.
"Continue." Kuang Jie reminded the disciples not to relax because of this little comfort, and the team continued forward. Leng Yun's Cold Mist was effective in reducing the heat, and it seemed that the fire pillar was not that scary. "Cold Mist" was only a rank 2 ability to reduce the temperature of the air, and it was not a powerful method at all.
Kuang Jie pondered along the way, and in the fog ahead, he could vaguely see a fiery red pillar shooting into the sky. The disciples looked at each other, and with extra caution, they continued forward.
"We can't go on anymore." At this moment, Leng Yun spoke, but his Cold Mist was finally unable to withstand the heat of the fire pillar, and they were too close to the fire pillar.
"Connecting Branches, Water Flower, Discernment." Kuang Jie gave instructions one after another, but it was the names of the three abilities. The three students responded and stepped out of the formation, each displaying their abilities. Connecting Branches was a defensive method, Water Flower was an ability to replace the Cold Mist to offset the heat of the fire, and Discernment was to begin studying the fire pillar.
As for Kuang Jie, he had never used his perception, but now he doubled the input of soul power, and it became more and more acute. But there was still no trace of anyone around.
One step, two steps, three steps …
The twenty-one people moved forward more carefully, and finally, the front suddenly opened up. The spiraling fire pillar pushed the fog in a radius of tens of meters in all directions. It was rare to see a clear area in the Cloud Caught Valley that was not obstructed by the fog. The fire pillar was finally clearly presented in front of everyone.
"How is it?" Kuang Jie asked the disciple who was using Discernment.
"It's custom-made." The student observed the changes in the flow of the Soul Power in the fire pillar and made a preliminary judgment. He only glanced at the pillar of fire in the sky before his gaze began to move downwards. Soon, it landed on the foundation connecting the fire pillar to the ground. It was just that the power of the six spirits was mixed together, and it wasn't something that he could discern with one or two glances.
Thereupon, he pressed his thumbs against his left and right temples and exerted a bit of force. After brewing for a long time, he suddenly let out a loud shout. His eyes were already covered with a layer of light, but at this moment, they became extremely dazzling. It was as if two beams of light shot out from his eyes and swept towards the bottom of the pillar of fire.
Boom!
The fire pillar seemed to have felt that it was being spied on and suddenly twisted. The originally thick fire pillar twisted into nine parts in a split second and pounced towards the group of twenty-one people without hesitation like a poisonous snake.
This is!
Kuang Jie's heart stirred as he looked at the ground beneath his feet. The zigzagging flame veins extended behind them.
"It's Nine Dragons Fire Seal! Quickly retreat! "Kuang Guang finally recognized this custom-made ability. As he shouted its name, he immediately signaled his students to retreat.
His students had also heard of this ability before and immediately knew that it was bad. However, it was already too late when they wanted to retreat. Not only did the Fire Dragons twist out from the fire pillar, they also drilled out from behind them and the ground around them. There were nine of them in a group. They reflected each other.
"Transmit!" Kuang Jie couldn't be bothered to explain too much.
The fire pillar was actually the Nine Dragons Fire Seal, and not the Prairie Blazing Custom-Made ability. The difference was huge. The Nine Dragons Fire Seal was undoubtedly meant to delay the encirclement. At the location of the thirty-two fire pillars. They would surround the Big Dipper Sect members who came to investigate. This ability didn't have any offensive capabilities, it only had an impenetrable barrier of fire. This was clearly to divide and delay the strength of the North Style Academy.
Looking at the current situation, Kuang Jie and the other twenty-one people seemed to be trapped in a cage of fire and couldn't escape. If they could send out the information they discovered, the academy would naturally have a response.
However, the information that contained the power of the soul. However, the instant it flew into the sky, it was caught up by the nine Fire Dragons and evaporated in an instant. Countless Fire Dragons quickly connected in the sky. Kuang Guang and the other twenty-one people tried to retreat in all directions, but in the end, none of them were able to escape the encirclement of the Fire Dragons in time.
"Violent Slash!" A young student was unwilling to give up. He waved the sharp sword in his hand and slashed at the Fire Dragon in front of him. The power of the soul revolved around the body of the sword. He used his full strength in this attack.
"Stop!" Kuang Jie immediately shouted to stop him, but it was already too late. The moment that student's sharp sword slashed at the Fire Dragon, the power of the soul revolving around the sword was immediately evaporated. The nine Fire Dragons coiled around the sword's body at lightning speed.
"Abandon the sword!" Kuang Jie shouted madly while rushing over. That student was already stupefied. Only when he heard his teacher shout again did he come back to his senses. When he hurriedly threw down the sword, half of the sharp sword had already evaporated in the air, and the nine Fire Dragons had already coiled around his arm.
"Ah!" The young student screamed in pain. A cold light fell at this moment, and his arm was instantly separated from his body. He was pulled away, and before his arm could fall to the ground, it had already been devoured by the Fire Dragon.
"None of you are allowed to go forward." Kuang Jie, who had pulled the young student's severed arm back in time, said in a low voice, "The Nine Dragons Fire Seal is not something we can break."
The other students were originally prepared to use their own methods, but they were slightly slower than this hot-blooded young student. Now that they saw his terrifying fate, their faces turned pale. They hurriedly stopped moving towards the Fire Dragon and retreated one by one.
"The Nine Dragons Fire Seal. As long as we don't touch it, it won't do anything to us," Kuang Jie said. This caused the emotions of the students to slightly calm down.
"But if we can't get out, no matter what happens in the academy, we can only watch from the sidelines." Kuang Jie's gaze paused in the air — the place where the message was blocked by the Nine Dragons Fire Seal.
"Then how long will this Nine Dragons Fire Seal last?" A student asked.
"I don't know." Kuang Jie shook his head. "That will depend on the abilities and methods of the person who set it up."
"Right now, we can only wait." As Kuang Jie spoke, he sat down on the ground.
He still looked very calm, and the emotions of the students all calmed down because of him. But his heart was not as calm as he appeared to be.
Waiting, this might be what the enemy wanted them to do. What would happen in the North Style Academy while they were waiting?
If something terrible happened in the academy during this period of time, wouldn't there be no eggs when the nest is overturned? At that time, even if they escaped from the Nine Dragons Fire Seal, they wouldn't be able to do anything. This, was most likely the enemy's plan.
Right now, they could only hope that the academy would quickly discover the trap concealed by the thirty-two fire dragons.
However, from the process of how their team was trapped, this Nine Dragons Fire Seal was really too ingenious. The moment they saw through it, they had already triggered it. Under such a situation, who would be able to escape? Kuang Jie thought it over and over again, but he couldn't be optimistic. What worried him even more was that if the 32 squads that had gone to investigate the fire pillars were trapped and lost contact with them, the academy would definitely send more people to investigate. If this continued, wouldn't they fall deeper and deeper into the abyss?
Please don't let this happen … … Kuang Guang thought anxiously. He hated that he couldn't send out his thoughts at this moment.
Phecda Peak.
When the thirty-two fire pillars rose, they could naturally see it from this side. The elites of the three academies who were on the move were also clear about what this meant.
The Seven Star Trial was the North Style Academy's own way of exhausting their strength.
The thirty-two fire pillars would further divide and weaken their strength.
At this point, the operation should be in full swing.
"How is it?" Muhong asked. She couldn't hide the anxiety in her voice.
Right now, the North Style Academy was caught unprepared. They were like headless flies. But if they didn't bring in reinforcements, forget about the exhaustion of the Seven Star Trial, or the division and weakening of the thirty-two fire pillars, it wouldn't be enough to kill the North Style Academy. When they came back to their senses, it wouldn't be difficult to annihilate these saboteurs.
Success or failure depended on whether or not the door to the Fortune Store Treasury could be opened.
"It's going smoothly." The missing student who was busy sticking to the treasury door finally gave Muhong an exciting piece of good news.
But in the next second, the expression on the student's face suddenly changed.
"What's going on? What is this? Where did all this courage come from? "
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