Xiao Yan waited for Yuan Qing to leave before his gaze landed on the shattered mountain.
Xiao Yan's gaze was fiery and his blood was boiling. After confirming that there was no one else around, he flew towards a huge crack in the mountain.
After Xiao Yan entered, there was a spacious cave. Dozens of people were standing side by side in a horizontal row.
As soon as Xiao Yan entered, an invisible heatwave rushed towards him. Xiao Yan ignored it and was pleasantly surprised. With a wave of his hand, a fiery light screen appeared around him and enveloped Xiao Yan.
The heatwave surged and bombarded the fiery light screen. With a bang, ripples burst out like water and then dissipated into thin air.
Xiao Yan frowned. He didn't expect the heatwave to not only have the ability to reflect attacks like the barrier outside, but it could also counterattack on its own.
Fortunately, the power of these attacks wasn't great. At least for now, it wasn't enough to break through Xiao Yan's Fighting Qi barrier.
Xiao Yan walked forward within the cave. However, Xiao Yan discovered that the further he walked, the stronger the heat wave that whizzed out of the cave became. It directly bombarded the Dou Qi light barrier that Xiao Yan had placed, causing it to repeatedly tremble.
However, Xiao Yan completely ignored all of this. All he did was continue to walk forward.
However, from Xiao Yan's tightly furrowed brows, it could be seen that Xiao Yan's heart wasn't as calm as he appeared on the surface.
At this moment, Xiao Yan's heart was filled with shock. This was because whenever the heatwave bombarded his fiery light screen, Xiao Yan could discover that whenever the heatwave exploded, there would be a wisp of flame that Xiao Yan couldn't detect fusing into the fiery light screen that he had set up.
At first, Xiao Yan thought that it was a wisp of the Heavenly Flame's origin and that it was a great opportunity. Xiao Yan didn't reject it and absorbed it all into his Heavenly Flame.
However, after Xiao Yan absorbed a small portion, Xiao Yan was shocked to discover that the Heavenly Flame's origin wasn't something that he had obtained by chance.
Instead, the Heavenly Flame's spirit wanted to use this to seize the Heavenly Flame in Xiao Yan's body!
Xiao Yan also wanted to isolate himself from all of this. However, Xiao Yan was even more surprised to discover that he was unable to separate the 'Heavenly Flame' from his body. Instead, the 'Bone Chilling Flame' within his body was being repeatedly swallowed.
In just a moment, more than half of the Bone Freezing Fire had been devoured and it was impossible to return. This was because the cave passage behind Xiao Yan was already filled with raging flames.
If he wanted to return, he had to break through this sea of fire. However, with Xiao Yan's strength, Xiao Yan didn't have the slightest confidence that he could get out. Hence, he could only continue moving forward.
Xiao Yan's expression was grave. At this moment, Xiao Yan had finally reached the end of the heat wave. However, at the end of the heat wave, Xiao Yan didn't discover any useful information. There wasn't even the shadow of the Heavenly Flame.
Xiao Yan stood at the end of the tunnel. In front of Xiao Yan was a bottomless abyss.
The abyss gave Xiao Yan a feeling of death just by looking at it. It was obvious that it was a no-fly zone. Even if it was Xiao Yan, it was impossible for him to stay in the void for even a minute or a second.
Only the stone platform that was suspended in the void, which meandered upwards, gave people a feeling that they had come back from the jaws of death.
Xiao Yan looked at the top of the stone platform. At the highest point of the stone platform, there was a platform. There, there was a faintly discernible flame.
The flame was very dim, but it illuminated the entire cave. Around the stone platform, there were six icicles. The icicles were connected and emitted raging flames.
Xiao Yan couldn't see the contents of the icicles under the cover of the flames. However, he was sure that the six icicles weren't ordinary objects.
There were flame seals engraved on the stone platforms that were about ten feet wide. Waves of extremely hot aura surged from them, causing Xiao Yan's scalp to tingle.
However, when Xiao Yan saw the figure on the opposite stone wall, he was slightly stunned.
It was a huge stone sculpture. The entire stone sculpture was silver-white and emitted a sparkling light.
The content of the stone sculpture was an old man. His face was no different from an ordinary old man, but he stood there proudly. Although his eyes were also carved from stone, he still gave people a feeling that he was looking down on the world.
His clothes were not decorated with any colours. His hands that were carved from stone formed a strange hand seal. It was filled with an incomparably mysterious feeling, causing Xiao Yan's eyebrows to involuntarily furrow.
There was only one part of the stone sculpture that had colour.
That was his hair. A head of silver-white and bright ice-blue hair that was like jade. Although it was cast from stone, the silver-white hair could be seen.
Xiao Yan stood on the spot in a daze. His eyes were wide open and his face was filled with disbelief as he looked at the stone sculpture. Only after a long while did he spit out two words in shock.
"Tou She Ancient Emperor!"
At the same time, in an ice-blue hall, an old man wearing a white long robe and ice-blue hair suddenly opened his eyes that were originally tightly shut.
Looking at the old man's appearance, he was actually exactly the same as the stone sculpture.
The old man narrowed his eyes as he looked at the dome of the hall. That direction was where Xiao Yan was at.
There was some joy in the old man's eyes, but there was also a faint reluctance. The corner of his mouth slightly lifted into a smile as if he had been relieved of a heavy burden.
Immediately after, the old man's heroic voice resounded within the hall.
"Haha, it's been more than ten years. You've finally come. Haha, old fellows, let's see which one of you can compare to this old man this time. Haha … "
The old man took a few more glances at the direction where Xiao Yan was at, then closed his turbid eyes once again. He concentrated on his cultivation and quietly waited for Xiao Yan's arrival.
The hall instantly calmed down along with the old man's silence. Only the sound of the old man's breathing could be heard in every corner of the hall.
Xiao Yan frowned as he looked at the huge stone sculpture opposite him, especially the face of the old man and his head full of ice-blue silver hair.
A surprised expression surfaced on Xiao Yan's delicate and pretty face. He did not expect that the Tou She Ancient Emperor had actually come here before. Perhaps this was a place of inheritance that he had left behind.
"Speaking of which, I can be considered as half a disciple of the Tou She Ancient Emperor. Hehe, Tou She Ancient Emperor, this junior will not be courteous about your inheritance."
When Xiao Yan thought that it might be the place of inheritance of the Tou She Ancient Emperor, he could not help but become excited in his heart. He continuously rubbed his palms together, looking like a professional thief. He was not serious at all.
However, in the next instant, Xiao Yan once again became serious. Since it was the inheritance left behind by the Tou She Ancient Emperor, it must be something extraordinary.
No wonder he had sensed an extremely terrifying 'Heavenly Flame's' aura earlier. It seemed that the inheritance inside was not easy to obtain.
Xiao Yan glanced at the endless abyss, then looked at the many stone platforms that were floating in the air.
After hesitating for a moment, he walked towards the first stone platform.
When he walked closer, Xiao Yan was finally able to see the stone platform clearly.
It turned out that there was a thin black metal chain in each of the four directions of the stone platform. It hung down to the depths of the abyss that Xiao Yan could not see.
Between every two stone platforms, there was also a pitch black metal chain that connected them, all the way to the highest platform that was emitting bursts of fiery light.
There were also many profound and mysterious runes carved on the chains. Those runes would occasionally emit waves of weak energy light, causing the entire space to appear incomparably mysterious.
Xiao Yan's expression was a little grave as he muttered to himself in his heart.
"I did not expect that there would actually be such a huge formation here. Looks like it will be a little difficult to pass through this stage. The first stage is already so difficult. I really don't know how difficult the later stages will be. Tsk tsk, Tou She Ancient Emperor, you are clearly making things difficult for others."
Xiao Yan thought as he shook his head and sighed.
Xiao Yan walked to the front of the endless abyss. The corner of his mouth could not help but twitch slightly, and his heart was also slightly agitated.
Xiao Yan calmed down slightly and stared at the first stone platform.
His legs bent slightly, and his body bent forward. His feet stomped on the ground, and his entire body immediately flew towards the stone platform that was only thirty to forty feet away from him.
The perfect arc that Xiao Yan imagined did not appear. Instead, when he was halfway there, Xiao Yan's body began to fall downwards.
In the midst of Xiao Yan's shock, Xiao Yan's descending foot once again stomped heavily on the dark-black metal chain.
Xiao Yan's falling body finally flew up again. In the end, he narrowly landed on the edge of the stone platform.
The instant Xiao Yan landed, Xiao Yan's body involuntarily sank downwards.
However, Xiao Yan did not pay too much attention to it. Instead, he looked back with a face full of luck.
However, when he looked back, Xiao Yan actually saw that the originally pitch black metal chain was currently emitting a faint and weak light.
At this moment, the metal chain that Xiao Yan was on in several directions of the stone platform was also emitting light from the point of contact with the stone platform.
At a speed that was visible to the naked eye, it gradually extended into the distance. It was likely that not long later, the metal chain that covered the entire cave would emit a bright light.
Xiao Yan's expression instantly became serious when he saw this. Once the metal chain emitted light, it meant that the mysterious formation in the cave was about to be activated. At that time, it would be really difficult to deal with.
Xiao Yan turned his head and frowned as he thought carefully. After which, he wanted to stand up.
However, it caused his expression to change slightly. In the next moment, however, the corner of his mouth was lifted into a smile.
His body suddenly shook as he stood up. He ignored the strong suction force that was transmitted from his feet and the enormous pressure that was transmitted from his body. He directly walked toward the stone platform in front of him as if the pressure on the stone platform was nothing.
It should be known that Xiao Yan was a strong person who trained both Dou Qi and physical body. How could his physical strength be suppressed by this little pressure?
With his first experience, Xiao Yan also gradually became familiar with the situation on the stone platform. Although the pressure on the stone platforms grew stronger with each step, it was not difficult for Xiao Yan.
However, Xiao Yan also discovered that each time he stepped on a stone platform, the metal chain surrounding the stone platform would be activated. From there, it would begin to emit light and extend into the distance. This caused Xiao Yan to feel a little anxious in his heart.
Xiao Yan continued to leap forward time and time again. Xiao Yan was finally only one step away from the final stone platform. As long as he took this step, he would only be one step away from that platform.
A comfortable smile surfaced on Xiao Yan's face that was covered in sweat. However, when Xiao Yan looked at the surrounding metal chains that were originally dark black in color, his expression became ugly again.
Xiao Yan took a heavy step forward, one step at a time.
It could be seen that at this very moment, even Xiao Yan's strength was not as great as he wished.
"Bang!"
Xiao Yan half-knelt on the ground as he panted heavily. The sweat on his face continuously dripped onto the ground like blooming chrysanthemums.
Xiao Yan's expression was grave. His eyebrows were tightly knitted together as he looked at the platform that was only ninety feet away from him. His teeth creaked as he gritted them.
Xiao Yan raised his head and looked at the platform that was close at hand. He then looked at the large formation that was about to form around him.
He steeled his heart and his hands suddenly pushed against the ground. His body that was originally half-kneeling on the ground forcefully stood up. His gaze was resolute as he looked at the platform opposite him.
Because the platform was rather high, Xiao Yan could not see what exactly was on the stone platform. However, as long as he reached the platform, he would not be far from the Heavenly Flame.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yan's gaze became even more determined. His gaze towards the platform became even more hopeful.
Xiao Yan walked step by step towards the opposite edge of the stone platform. The light on the surrounding metal chains continued to extend.
It was only at this moment that Xiao Yan realized that the ends of the metal chains were actually connected to the six icicles.
At this moment, the six icicles were also emitting waves of sparkling and translucent light, resonating with the lustrous metal chains.
Xiao Yan's expression changed once again. His footsteps quickened as he walked to the edge of the stone platform.
Looking at the platform that was slightly higher than the stone platform, he took a deep breath. His body bent forward once again. His legs were slightly bent and in an instant, he suddenly shot towards the platform.
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