Hearing Elder Yu's words, the people of Jade Sea City exchanged looks, feeling slightly complicated within their hearts.
If one were to say that the current Sacred Sun Clan and the Heavenly Thunder Hall, as well as the already declining Black Nightmare Mountain and the Decimating Abyss, hated Yan Zhaoge to the bone, then those like Jade Sea City and Infinite Boundless Mountain as well as Turbid Wave Pavilion had rather complicated feelings towards Yan Zhaoge.
Jade Sea City was an ally of Broad Creed Mountain, having a common enemy and a common interest.
However, both sides also had their own aspirations for development. No matter which side it was, they all wanted to improve their own strength.
Under such circumstances, Broad Creed Mountain's every action similarly drew the attention of Jade Sea City.
The current Yan Zhaoge already possessed the flair of the number one expert of the Eight Extremities World's younger generation.
More importantly, not only was Yan Zhaoge's talent and potential shocking, his strength at the same cultivation level surpassing others, he was also always able to accomplish miracles that others were unable to even imagine.
His power was not something that could be measured by his cultivation level.
If that was the case now, what about in the future?
The pressure brought about by the Sacred Sun Clan's Huang Guanglie was immense. Before Jade Sea City had their own Sacred Artifact, they needed the combination of Broad Creed Mountain's Yuan Zhengfeng and the Clear Qi Robe to resist Huang Guanglie.
Yuan Zhengfeng's death was something that Jade Sea City did not wish to see.
However, towards Yan Zhaoge and Yan Di, Jade Sea City's thoughts were very complicated.
With Yan Di's current cultivation base, his momentum was already established as it would be hard to shake him easily. Meanwhile, Yan Zhaoge was still in the process of maturing.
Jade Sea City naturally wouldn't have any designs on Yan Zhaoge, but if Yan Zhaoge perished, amidst Jade Sea City's sympathy for Broad Creed Mountain, it was hard to say whether there would be people secretly rejoicing over this.
If a person was too outstanding and showed too much potential in the future, not only would his enemies feel uneasy, but his allies might also feel uneasy.
This was especially so after the battle of Broad Creed Mountain, with Broad Creed Mountain's strength having already begun gradually rising above that of Jade Sea City, the changes in people's hearts had become even more subtle.
Before the great tribulation of Jade Sea City this time, there had been quite a few martial practitioners of Jade Sea City who had had complicated feelings towards Yan Zhaoge.
But at this moment, seeing a Flame Devil King truly drawn away, the group of Jade Sea City bigwigs all fell silent.
Elder Yu sighed in his heart.
Earlier, he had still been thinking of sending Yan Zhaoge out of the encirclement as returning the favour of Broad Creed Mountain for still providing him with the Unfalling Ghost Rock despite knowing that he wanted to forge a Sacred Artifact.
Who would have thought that Yan Zhaoge was not someone who spoke empty words, actually doing what he said he would, actually really drawing away a Flame Devil King, instead buying precious time for Jade Sea City.
If Jade Sea City could safely tide through this tribulation today, the entire city would have to thank Yan Zhaoge.
Not only did he not return the favor he owed, but he also owed him even more.
Such a result caused the feelings of Elder Yu and the other Jade Sea City martial practitioners to become even more complex.
Whatever the case, however, under such circumstances, most people were like Elder Yu. Whatever their previous impressions of Yan Zhaoge had been, they all hoped that he would be able to escape safely.
However …
"Too difficult." A Jade Sea City Elder muttered, "Being targeted by a Martial Saint, without someone of the same level acting as him, how will he escape?"
That's right, although they had succeeded in luring the tiger away from the mountain, being targeted by a Flame Demon King that was equivalent to a human Martial Saint realm expert, how were they going to escape from danger next?
Ah Hu was currently looking at Yan Zhaoge with a bitter expression on his face, "Young Master, are you sacrificing yourself to save Jade Sea City?"
Ah Hu had already recognised the dark red ring on Yan Zhaoge's finger. It was precisely what Yan Zhaoge had obtained after slaying Ye Jing in the Eastern Tang that year.
Legend had it that it was the legacy of the Flame Devil Emperor, a supreme expert of before the Great Calamity, the ancestor of the Flame Devils.
Standing on Pan-Pan's back, Yan Zhaoge tapped lightly with his feet.
Pan-Pan let out a soundless roar, the black water around him rotating at an increased speed, sweeping along the surrounding seawater as a massive vortex was formed, completely shaking off the few Flame Devils that were still entangled with him.
Then, Pan-Pan carried Yan Zhaoge and Ah Hu, diving into the depths of the sea.
Yan Zhaoge took off the dark red ring on his left pinky, keeping it well.
That aura of annihilation that resembled calamity, that terrifying concept of flames that seemed like it wanted to incinerate all life between the heavens and the earth, instantly vanished.
However, in the distance, a terrifying aura that was not as profound as the ring's, but whose strength far surpassed it, had already appeared, also rapidly approaching Yan Zhaoge.
Flame Devil King!
Seeing Yan Zhaoge's action of keeping the ring, Ah Hu could not help but say quietly, "Young Master, it's already too late to keep the ring now."
"The strength of a Flame Devil King is equivalent to that of a Martial Saint. Our cultivation bases are too far apart from his; even separated by the deep sea, at such a distance, he would still be able to sense our existence."
While the aura of the ring had vanished, that Flame Devil King only had to look for living people.
Swivelling his head, Yan Zhaoge saw that before him was the vast expanse of seawater. However, within his perception, through the seawater, there was a red light that was getting more and more intense, causing his very soul to feel a burning pain.
"Just keeping the ring is naturally still not enough."
As Yan Zhaoge said this, he took out nine ice shards from his Internal Crystal Furnace!
Accompanied by Yan Zhaoge's aura-qi being infused within, the nine ice shards hovered within the sea, surrounding Yan Zhaoge's body.
White threads of light appeared between the ice shards, connecting them as they collectively formed a white ring of light.
Yan Zhaoge, Ah Hu and Pan-Pan were situated at the centre of the white ring of light. As the faint white light flickered, a thin layer of ice condensed from the seawater, forming the shape of an ice ball, sealing Yan Zhaoge and the others within.
Ah Hu and Pan-Pan appraised their surroundings curiously, "Young Master, this is?"
Yan Zhaoge placed his index finger before his lips, "Don't make a sound, and also don't activate your aura-qi, don't exert force. Other than the aura-qi that I am using to maintain the ice ball, don't cause any other energy fluctuations."
Ah Hu was taken aback for a moment, before he hurriedly nodded.
Pan-Pan also nodded his big head, not really understanding, very human-like as he extended his two front paws, blocking before his mouth.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge could not help but smile.
After smiling, Yan Zhaoge raised his head and gazed upwards, his gaze focused and calm.
The ice ball drifted along with the undercurrents of the sea, drifting leisurely.
And now, in the sky above this region of sea, the distant horizon first turned red, before all-encompassing blazing fire swept, enveloping the entire horizon.
Infinite, infinite flames enveloped the sky above the great sea.
The seawater still grew warm, accompanied by the unceasing rise of the temperature, dense steam rising from the surface of the sea, white steam filling the air everywhere.
On the surface of the sea down below, massive bubbles even exploded from time to time.
A massive figure with the head of a human and the body of a snake, its entire body covered in flames, as though it wanted to incinerate the heavens and boil the sea, appeared in the air above the sea.
It was precisely that Flame Devil King who had left Jade Sea City.
His manic, icy gaze focused on the great sea down below.
"The aura of the Emperor has disappeared … Still, it's fine; I can easily drag you out!" His icy cold will condensed to the point of being tangible, his powerful sensory ability scanning the entire region of sea down below.
While there was the obstruction of the great sea, with the abilities of the Flame Devil King, wanting to find a Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster would be very easy.
However, as time passed, a look of disbelief appeared within the gaze of this Flame Devil King, his calmness decreasing as his rage increased.
"How could I not have found him? I rushed over at the first possible moment; he shouldn't have escaped far! "
"No … no … still no! But, how is that possible?! "(To be continued.)
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