The four hundred kilometers of Fire Melt mountain was no longer teeming with life like before. It had become much quieter. There were no longer many fire devourers playing around in the rivers of fire and magma. A few fire devourers would appear from time to time, but they were all in a hurry, as if they were facing an imminent disaster.
The strange illness spread at a speed that surpassed all the fire devourers' imaginations, erupting with extraordinary intensity. Whether it be the elderly or the children, men or women, their hearts all turned to stone. Even when all the powerful fire devourers worked together, they could only maintain the illness of a few fire devourers, preventing them from dying from the illness so quickly.
Day by day, more and more fire devourers died. It had already surpassed half of all the fire devourers on Fire Melt mountain. This was a number that had taken who knew how many years to reproduce. Every single surviving fire devourer was filled with pain and fury. Over the past few days, several fire devourers lost control of their inner demons during cultivation, blowing up into a ball of fire.
The shadow of despair loomed over Fire Melt mountain.
"Just who did this!?" Zhu Yan furiously questioned the heavens. The high spirits he had when he first obtained the Divine Fire Badge were no longer there. Without a large number of clansmen to serve as a foundation, strengthening the fire devourers and rebuilding the divine kingdom on earth would be like water without a source. No matter how powerful the Divine Fire tablets were, it would be impossible.
He had already questioned the sky countless times furiously and suspected many people, such as the Myriad Poison Ancestor who was skilled with poison, the King of Southern Yue who wanted to use them as fighters, and so on. However, he never had the opportunity to investigate. Large numbers of clansmen died every day.
This time, he did not count on the heavens to answer his question either. He was purely venting, but a voice actually rang out from the sky, an extremely familiar voice.
A white cloud had drifted over Fire Melt mountain before anyone knew it, assuming the appearance of the Merfolk Queen Gongyuan. She said, "Zhu Yan, when you launched a sneak attack on me on Giant Ship island, did you ever think a day like this would come?"
The vast voice rang through the entire mountain. The fire devourers all emerged from their stone rooms and raised their heads at the sky.
"It's you! It really is you! Gongyuan! " Zhu Yan gazed at the sky and ground his teeth furiously. He had suspected many people, but he was not particularly suspicious of the Merfolk, as they had been at war for so many years. If the Merfolk could do something like this, they would have used it a long time ago. And, infiltrating the magma in the depths of Fire Melt mountain and poisoning it was not something the Merfolk could achieve.
"So what if it was me? I'll help you reduce some of your burdens and ties. You can also cast aside your worries and wholeheartedly serve as a dog for the Yue Prince's estate. Perhaps you can even obtain other bones. "
A thousand kilometers away, Gong Yuan sat on a rock on the shore of the South sea, speaking to a crystal ball. Not far away, Li Qingshan was leisurely lying on the surface of the sea, looking up at the azure sky. Originally, he was worried about the strength of Gongyuan's mockery, but he soon discovered that when a woman's mouth became poisonous, it was really incomparable to a man's. Although she spoke calmly, every word was like a cold ice knife, piercing straight into the heart.
The fire devourers of Fire Melt mountain understood who their enemy was. They all let out hysterical roars and rushed into the sky without any regard, unleashing balls of flames at the Gongyuan conjured from the clouds.
Very soon, the cloud dispersed. Gongyuan's cold, delighted laughter echoed through Fire Melt mountain, lingering for a very long time.
"Gongyuan, if I don't get my revenge, I swear I'm not human!"
Zhu Yan's roar rang out from the crystal ball. Li Qingshan laughed aloud and said to Gongyuan, "How's it? Does it feel good?"
"The effects of Stoneheart are even better than I anticipated, so good that it makes my heart palpitate! The legend says that the Flower of Water and Fire will definitely bring disaster to the fire devourers and merfolk. Sure enough, it's true! "Gongyuan let out a long sigh.
"Doesn't the legend bring peace?"
"Peace is only peace between two people, but disaster is disaster for the two races!" Gongyuan's eyes shone with cold light. If there was a virus similar to Stoneheart that specifically targeted merfolk, what would happen then?
"As long as you don't have any ill intentions, the legend won't come true, or disaster will definitely befall you." Li Qingshan stood up and stared straight at Gongyuan. His voice was filled with a warning.
"What, you've fallen in love with her?" Perhaps because she had just vented, Gongyuan was in an extremely good mood. She did not react to Li Qingshan's warning. Instead, she was curious.
"If you're talking about falling in love, that's not exactly it. However, I won't allow anyone to touch a single hair on her!"
Li Qingshan thought about it. Although he had basically done it with Ru Xin, there might not have been much love between a man and a woman. Instead, it was more of a friendship. On the path of cultivation, friendship often lasted longer than love between a man and a woman. However, his possessiveness was real. Even if he really refused to give her to him, he would not mind. However, he would never allow anyone else to touch her either.
"That's her luck." Gongyuan sank into her thoughts. "Let's go. The fire devourers might come after us!"
Li Qingshan had specially accompanied Gongyuan here precisely because he was afraid the fire devourers would use this opportunity to hunt them down. If they ended up losing a core member of their side from a single provocation, it would only be a loss that outweighed the gains. Originally, it was Ji Changfeng who came, but he had already ventured south now, observing the storm that was forming. And, it was easier for Li Qingshan to work with Gongyuan.
Originally, he had considered setting up an ambush, but the three Fire Devouring Kings wielding Divine Fire tablets were not people that could be dealt with with schemes. He could only rely on actual strength!
Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat. "They're here!"
He flew over to the reef and wrapped his arm around Gongyuan's waist. He unfurled his phoenix wings and flapped them gently. Fierce winds swept up, rushing into the air and straight into the atmospheric wind layer. The wings of wind gathered the atmospheric wind and sped up slightly, flying in the direction of the Crystal palace.
Originally, Gongyuan was reluctant to be hugged like this, but when he accelerated, she gave up on the idea of struggling. She stared at Li Qingshan in surprise. This speed is enough to rival the Wind Gale King, and those wings seem like the legendary phoenix. Just how many other tricks is he hiding?
After breaking through to the fifth layer of the tiger demon, Li Qingshan's body was enough to rival Daemon Kings. His strength and speed even surpassed regular Daemon Kings. Coupled with his various bloodlines of the demonic and divine and his startling number of innate abilities, regular Daemon Kings definitely stood no chance against him.
Gongyuan could not help but think of something that many people had thought of in the past. If he underwent the third heavenly tribulation, just what kind of strength would he possess? Making an enemy out of someone like that is truly a disaster!
Soon after they left, before the turbulent ocean had even settled down, a triangular gate of fire appeared in the air. The three fire devourers emerged from the gate and looked around.
"They've run away. They just left not long ago. They seem to be travelling with Ji Changfeng!" Zhu Yan's voice was filled with irrepressible fury. The flames on his body constantly surged. If he did not kill all of the Merfolk, he would struggle to resolve his hatred.
This was the terror of hatred. Not only would it not disperse with time, but it would instead accumulate with each battle. No matter how broad-minded they were, they were no better than mortals when it came to a feud like this. Instead, they would remember this hatred even more clearly due to their long lifespans.
Zhu Zai only said one word, "After them!"
"No, stop them!" The hot-tempered Zhu Fen was instead the most rational one. Although Fire Melt mountain had suffered extremely heavy losses this time, he had already grown accustomed to this sort of brutality from the countless battles he had experienced.
The three of them swung the Divine Fire tablets again and unleashed the Gate of Divine Fire together. They arrived several thousand kilometers away in a single moment, exactly between where they were Just Now and the Crystal palace. They gazed at the water and sky in the distance and expanded their soul senses, searching for Gongyuan, but she was nowhere to be seen.
Li Qingshan divined slightly before taking a great detour with Gongyuan before diving into the depths of the sea. He unleashed the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell and concealed all of his aura. He smiled at Gongyuan. "Let's see how they find her!"
Gongyuan touched the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell gently. The familiar feeling arose spontaneously once again. She asked, "Just what is this cultivation method of yours? Why is it so compatible with the power of Ruin's End?"
Actually, she was extremely tempted by "granny"'s second request. If she could obtain a cultivation method like that and pair it with the All Water to Ruin's End, not only would it bring great benefits to her, but it would bring even greater benefits to the entire Merfolk race. However, she was not stupid enough to use coercion to achieve her objective. Instead, she considered other methods.
"You can stop dreaming. Even if I give this cultivation method to you, it'll be useless. The negative effects of cultivating it might even be greater than the All Water to Ruin's End!"
Li Qingshan directly cut off her thoughts. It was impossible for him to teach the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine to someone else, and the cultivation methods of the Nine Transformations of the Demonic and Divine complemented each other. If he only practised the Spirit Turtle's Method of Sea Suppression, let alone whether he could succeed or not, he would only become a spirit turtle indifferent to everything in the end. He would lose himself.
"Move your filthy hands away!" Gongyuan's face turned cold.
"Heh, do you have to be so realistic? Don't tell me you'll be able to do something else if I teach you the cultivation method?"
Li Qingshan snickered. When he faced life-threatening danger last time, he was only focused on fighting the fire devourers, so he did not think much of it. Right now, it was extremely safe, and they were in the pitch-black depths of the sea, without a third person present. He felt that Gongyuan's waist was supple and strong under the thin mermaid silk, as well as smooth and delicate at the same time. From his angle, her chest was slightly exposed, and her cleavage was deep, which gave off a hint of charm.
When they first met, who would have thought that this cold and arrogant Merfolk Queen would actually lean on him in such a manner one day?
Gongyuan's gaze immediately became as deep as an abyss, and she immediately gave off a bone-chilling coldness. Li Qingshan's right hand immediately lost all feeling, and his body stiffened and froze up.
Li Qingshan shivered. "Alright, alright. I'll stop joking around. Cultivators don't care about trifles. You're a mighty queen, so you should be a little more broad-minded." As he said that, he glanced at her again and thought, Yep, that's pretty broad-minded.
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