For a moment, the entire vine world was shaking violently.
The terrifyingly high temperature was no ordinary high temperature; it was the tyrannical power of sequence.
Although Nine Gloom did not know exactly what this power of sequence was, he could roughly tell that it was a type of extreme flame with powerful destructive and burning characteristics.
To a certain extent, this kind of flame was more explosive than most Dragon Flames.
Nine Gloom's true form fled deep underground in fear. At the same time, he controlled countless vines to cover the flames. He no longer wished to extinguish the flames. He only hoped to suppress them slightly so that the area of effect would be smaller.
'Did Silver Armor, that lunatic, self-destruct?' Nine Gloom cursed inwardly as he continued to flee into the distance. He did not even dare to release his Divine Telekinesis to investigate, for fear that the flames would burn his soul.
But not long after, he denied his own guess.
This was because he could clearly sense that there was another aura left in his God Territory apart from himself.
Silver Armor was not dead!
At this moment, in a deep, charred pit, a humanoid monster made entirely of dark red flames slowly stretched its body.
Its body was astonishingly seventy to eighty percent similar to Silver Armor's from before, except that its head had been magnified countless times and was a full thousand meters tall.
Unlike the dark red all over its body, where its pupils should be was a blazing white.
It stood where it was, seemingly at a loss for a moment, but soon, the blazing white in its eyes flourished.
It merely lifted a foot slightly and stepped out of the deep pit that had just been blasted open. With every step it took, the ground cracked inch by inch and fiery red magma seeped out.
As it ran forward aimlessly, it swung its heavy fists wildly, bombarding everything that stood in its way.
Mountains, rivers, swamps … Everywhere it passed, it transformed into an expanse of lava.
Naturally, Nine Gloom also sensed that his God Territory had been severely contaminated.
Every step the other took, even every punch it threw, was polluting and assimilating Nine Gloom's God Territory.
After enduring for a long time, Nine Gloom could not help it in the end. He released his Divine Telekinesis to see what was going on.
After a sweep of his Divine Telekinesis, he immediately saw the flaming monster that seemed to have fallen into a state of madness.
Although his aura and physique had changed drastically, Nine Gloom was still able to tell right away that this person was Silver Armor. This was because Silver Armor's aura was still vaguely lingering on him.
"How did this guy become like this?!" Nine Nether was very confused. This was a completely different life form.
But soon, Nine Nether couldn't be bothered to continue thinking about this problem because he sensed that the other party's gaze was directed at his hiding spot.
The probing of the Divine Will had exposed him!
Without even thinking, Nine Nether fled frantically.
On the other side, the flame giant, who was hundreds of millions of kilometers away, locked onto Nine Nether's aura with a pair of eyes that were spewing white flames, and dashed toward him.
Nine Nether's speed was fast, but the flame giant was even faster.
In just over ten minutes, the flame giant had caught up to Nine Nether.
The gigantic sole of the foot stomped down without hesitation, and the entire ground collapsed with this stomp.
The cracked ground began to quickly soften into a dark red magma state, and it infected and radiated in all directions.
This kick was extremely ferocious, but Nine Nether managed to dodge it in time. Just as the flame giant's foot was about to hit the ground, Nine Nether burrowed out of the ground and narrowly avoided the attack.
But with this dodge, he was completely exposed.
It was a jet-black vine that resembled a giant python. Its skin reflected a sheen that resembled snake scales.
If one were to look at it alone, it was actually not that small. It was more than half a meter thick and over a hundred meters long. However, in front of the flame giant, it was no different from a loach.
It was as if the position of a fisherman and a loach had been swapped in an instant.
Nine Nether knew that he could not escape.
As he silently observed Silver Armor's changed form at a close distance, he quickly checked the revenant's imprint, wanting to summon the revenant again.
"Silver Armor, why don't we call it quits now?" Nine Nether wanted to buy himself some time. "Look, we've both used our trump cards. If we continue fighting, it'll be a fight to the death. There's no need to go this far — "
However, the flame giant completely ignored Nine Nether's words. Without waiting for him to finish, the flame giant's palm slammed down on Nine Nether's location.
When this palm came down, it was as if the sky was collapsing.
Nine Nether dared not take it head-on. His figure shifted rapidly once more.
While he could not outrun the current Silver Armor, he could still shift and dodge attacks within a short distance.
Seeing that the flame giant's attack had missed, it entered a berserk state and began slapping everything around it in a frenzy. Nine Nether's mind began to work again.
In this form, the other party's mind was clearly not very mature. One could even say that it was in a completely instinctive combat state.
Although this state was powerful, it had a fatal flaw for Nine Nether.
This was because in this instinctive combat state, Silver Armor did not possess the ability to calculate. He only knew how to go about things in a straightforward manner; all his actions were obvious.
Nine Nether, on the other hand, relaxed. He was not in a hurry to escape. Instead, he began to circle around the flame giant where he stood.
As he easily dodged the flame giant's repeated attacks, he prepared for his next wave of counterattacks.
The explosion caused by Silver Armor's transformation had almost instantly destroyed all the revenants that Nine Nether had summoned.
Most of the revenants had not only been physically destroyed, but their soul imprints had also disintegrated as well.
Nine Nether had no way of summoning a revenant at this level of destruction.
Fortunately, a small portion of the revenants had only been physically destroyed; their soul imprints were still present. Furthermore, this small portion of revenants was the most powerful batch.
Sensing the remnant soul imprints, Nine Nether's spirits soared once more.
He secretly gathered Divine Power and patiently waited for the opportunity to summon the revenants again.
Time flew by, and another ten minutes or so passed.
This time, when the flame giant bent over and slapped the ground, countless vines suddenly emerged from the void and wrapped themselves around the giant's neck and limbs.
Even though the flames on the giant's body were wildly destroying the vines that had wrapped around it, the endless vines continued to surge toward it, all for the sake of temporarily sealing off its movements.
In this instant of sealing, Nine Nether summoned the revenants again without hesitation.
Giant Sarcoma, Crimson Eye, the three-tailed snake lady … Powerhouses with overlord-level abilities and those close to overlord-level abilities were summoned again.
As soon as dozens of revenants appeared, they joined forces and attacked the flame giant, whose mobility had been sealed, without hesitation.
Even Nine Nether himself took the opportunity to attack, activating a killer move.
Countless vines began to devour the Divine Power in the flame giant's body by force.
As soon as this round of attacks was launched, the flame giant roared and broke free of the vines' control.
However, it was still a little too late. It only managed to defend against a small portion of the attacks; most of the attacks hit its mark.
Although the flame giant was not killed after this round of attacks, its body had clearly shrunk, and its color was much dimmer than before.
Seeing this, Nine Nether immediately knew that his strategy was correct.
"Continue attacking and drain its Divine Power!"
In his current form, the amount of Divine Power in Silver Armor's body might be hundreds of times greater than before, but there was no qualitative change.
The only reason his attacks had become more powerful was that each of his attacks consumed more Divine Power than before.
Judging from the change in color of the flame giant's body earlier, his Divine Power was not endless; it could be drained.
Knowing this, Nine Nether was not worried at all.
This God Territory was his territory. He was not afraid of anyone when it came to Divine Power consumption.
Having decided on a strategy, Nine Nether grew calmer.
He no longer fought the flame giant head-on. Instead, he controlled dozens of revenants to engage in guerrilla warfare, constantly harassing and draining the flame giant.
Each time the flame giant attacked, he would control the revenants to dodge and flee, trying to avoid a head-on clash as much as possible.
In the blink of an eye, more than half an hour had passed.
Only half of the revenants under Nine Nether's command were left. Even though he controlled the revenants to dodge as much as they could, there were still times when they could not evade in time.
However, he was relieved that the flame giant's body had shrunk to a hundred meters, and the flames on its body were beginning to become unstable.
Nine Nether continued to patiently drag it out.
After another ten minutes or so, the flame giant's body suddenly began to shrink rapidly. Nine Nether was stunned to see this.
He immediately stopped attacking and waited patiently for the other's transformation to complete.
Within the span of a few breaths, the flame giant's height of a hundred meters had shrunk to approximately two meters. It was even smaller than Silver Armor's original body.
After its body stopped shrinking, the flames on Silver Armor's body began to fade slowly.
Approximately two to three minutes later, the flames faded completely, revealing a new body.
That body wasn't covered in silver armor, but bronze armor.
The copper armor looked rather dilapidated, and its body was more than a size smaller than Silver Armor's.
If Nine Nether had not sensed the remnants of Silver Armor's aura on the other party, he would have suspected who it was.
"Is this the price for turning into a flame giant?" Nine Nether looked at the Copper-armored Being, whose aura had fallen to rock bottom, with a slight smile.
The Copper-armored Being before him now only had eighth-rank heavenly god-level combat strength, which was an entire rank lower!
After staring at the unconscious Copper-armored Being for a while, Nine Nether still did not kill it. Instead, he extended a black vine and pierced it into the other party's heart.
A moment later, the vine was pulled out, and the smile on the gigantic face Nine Nether had constructed was even wider.
"What an excellent petri dish for a living species …"
After the battle with Silver Armor ended, Nine Nether exhaled deeply. Subsequently, his God Territory began to disintegrate inch by inch, revealing the original primeval forest.
The moment his God Territory was completely withdrawn, a languid voice suddenly rang out and reached Nine Nether's ears clearly.
"This battle of yours took a long time. I'm getting a little sleepy from waiting."
(End of this chapter)
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