Chapter 103: Fire in the Cage

Three days later, Black Grave Mound.

This was the seventh Black Grave Mound Lu Ran and the others had seen.

Looking out, the hill was covered in mounds of earth, with gravestones standing crookedly one after another.

This special terrain was truly like a mass grave!

The night wind blowing through here had also turned into gusts of eerie wind.

There were also pitch-black lanterns drifting everywhere in the graveyard, making the scene even more terrifying.

"Kill!!"

On the torch path, Deng Yutang let out a roar.

Afraid?

In the dictionary of Red Scarf believers, there was no such word as "afraid"!

Even if one took a step back, even if there were truly ghosts in this graveyard...

Under Deng Yutang's impassioned war cry, everyone dared to grab their weapons and charge!

Red Scarf blessing, nothing is forbidden.

The great flag unfurled, just get it done!

In fact, the combat power of the Black Lantern clan wasn't very strong; at least, their threat in the early stages was small.

There was only one evil technique everyone needed to pay extra attention to—Illusion Miao Miao Huo Long.

This technique could cause hallucinations!

It could make the target's mind confused, unable to distinguish between virtual and reality.

This was an evil technique equipped by the Black Lantern clan at the Stream Realm, 3rd Stage. Once a human was hit, it was truly quite troublesome.

However, the weakness of this technique was also very obvious.

When you realize something is wrong, just close your eyes quickly.

As long as you don't look at the faint luster emitted by the Black Lantern, you won't be hallucinated.

For example, when you find that the graveyard in front of you is constantly switching with the scene of your own bedroom, close your eyes quickly!

You are about to be hit!

If you look for a while longer, the scene in your eyes won't switch anymore, and you will truly have "gone home"!

Perhaps, there will even be a knock on the door from your mother behind you, gently calling you out to eat...

If you go with her, then your physical body in reality will naturally leave the torch path and walk into the pitch-black graveyard.

Can you choose not to go?

It's difficult.

Because the moment you are hit, your mind is already unclear.

Apart from the Evil Technique: Illusion Miao Miao Huo Long, the other evil techniques of the Black Lantern clan weren't so eerie.

They were nothing more than healing, explosions, releasing black smoke, and so on.

Over these 3 days, the Deng-Tian-Chang trio performed their duties, constantly grinding, and their cooperation became increasingly tacit, with their enemy-killing efficiency rising rapidly!

Why was it a trio?

Because that lamb wandering outside had always been in the darkness.

Lu Ran seemed unable to see the light, always roaming in the undulating hills, wandering in the eerie graveyard.

More like a ghost than a ghost!

From another perspective, Lu Ran, who was in the darkness, had always been following the Deng-Tian-Chang trio...

Wasn't this another kind of "haunting"?

"Soul, return."

In a pitch-black graveyard, Lu Ran reached out a hand and muttered.

Four canine teeth appeared out of thin air, and not far away, a pitch-black lantern was bitten to pieces.

"Why are the four directions...?"

Lu Ran opened his dead sheep eyes, speaking eerie soul-summoning words.

The Black Lantern soul drifted from afar and was sucked into Lu Ran's Pupil of the Death Realm.

In the days without a "camera," Lu Ran's combat power soared!

This feeling of wantonly unleashing evil techniques...

Awesome!!

When Lu Ran killed enemies on a daily basis, he was always shuttling back and forth on the battlefield, killing enemies at close range.

When had he ever stood in place and gotten things done like today!

The happiness of a mage,

I have felt it...

"Hmm~"

Lu Ran's figure swayed slightly, and he shivered.

The souls of the Black Lantern clan had been collected enough; he could activate the Black Lantern Yemo Yemo Xiesu!

He scanned his surroundings quickly, threw out a few more canine teeth, and then immediately established a connection with the God and Demon Sculpture Garden in his mind.

"Hum!"

Inside the sculpture garden, a giant Black Lantern sculpture vibrated gently.

Lu Ran felt it carefully, closely connected to the activated evil sculpture.

"Disaster Miao Miao Huo Long, Disaster Miao Miao Huo Long..."

Lu Ran quickly understood the first evil technique of the Black Lantern sect.

After a short ten seconds, a ball of black flame quietly ignited in Lu Ran's hand.

"Ah, this?" Lu Ran opened his mouth slightly.

Is this Evil Technique: Disaster Miao Miao Huo Long?

There's only fire here; where is the cage?

Oh, right!

The Black Lantern clan itself is a lantern!

The names of the evil spirit clans and evil techniques were mostly named by humans.

For those Black Lanterns that exploded with a boom, people called them "Disaster Miao Miao Huo Long," which was naturally fine.

But as a human, when Lu Ran unleashed this evil technique...

What he summoned was a ball of pitch-black flame!

Obviously, the Black Lantern clan was just triggering this fire to explode, thereby harming others and themselves.

"My god." Lu Ran didn't dare to move!

He was afraid that this ball of black flame would explode in his hand!

So, do I also have to harm a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of my own?

In the future, if I see someone with a foul mouth, I'll just slap them!

My hand will be covered in blood, and the other person's mouth will be blown to pieces, right?

It's a satisfying method?

"Hmm?" Lu Ran's heart stirred.

The Fire in the Cage gave Lu Ran clear feedback; this was an exclusive connection between the evil technique and the caster.

Lu Ran pondered for a moment and tried to send it forward with one hand.

Sure enough!

The Fire in the Cage drifted forward slowly.

If you put a lampshade on it, isn't this a Black Lantern?

Lu Ran suppressed the excitement in his heart, shook his palm left and right, and the Fire in the Cage also drifted left and right.

Then, he controlled the Fire in the Cage to meet a Black Lantern.

"Feels like there's a bit of a delay?"

Lu Ran frowned slightly.

Facts proved that the further the Fire in the Cage was from the caster, the harder it was to control.

"Explode." Lu Ran flicked his right hand hard to the left.

The ball of black fire flew to the left, hitting a Black Lantern.

"Bang!"

The black fire ball exploded.

"Bang!"

Another explosion sounded.

After the Black Lantern was hit, it triggered a chain reaction.

You explode, I explode too!

Such a scene actually amused Lu Ran.

I'm exploding a summoned object, you're exploding your own life!

Lu Ran also just realized: the lantern skin of the Black Lantern clan is fully wrapped.

It's tightly sealed with small gaps, so the black fire ball can't fly out, so it can only explode inside the lampshade.

"Whoosh~"

Another surge of energy, and a ball of black flame ignited in Lu Ran's hand again.

He could feel that the Fire in the Cage was very hot.

But Lu Ran wouldn't be burned.

Because he was the caster, constantly supplying energy to the black fire, and the two were closely connected at the "spell" level.

At least, before the Fire in the Cage escaped the caster's control and exploded, Lu Ran wouldn't be injured.

"Since that's the case, can I..."

Lu Ran's mind became active, looking at the two blades stuck in the ground in front of him.

Can I continuously cast the spell and smear the Fire in the Cage on the blade?

At that time, the two blades in my hand will all ignite with black flames!

Just like an enchantment~

Whoever I slash explodes!

Obsidian and black ice materials can naturally withstand this level of explosion.

It's just that I don't know if Lu Ran himself can handle it...

"Hmm." Lu Ran thought and thought, but still didn't dare to be too reckless.

Currently, the Fire in the Cage is only a Mist Artifact evil technique.

Lu Ran has to cultivate the Black Lantern evil sculpture in the garden to the Stream Realm to upgrade this technique to a Stream Artifact.

And the higher the grade of the evil technique, the higher the caster's control over it.

Therefore, Lu Ran still planned to endure a little longer, get more familiar with this evil technique, and then try it.

"In my hands, don't call you Disaster Miao Miao Huo Long anymore."

Lu Ran examined the black fire burning in his hand.

After all, the name of this evil technique didn't match the spell Lu Ran actually cast.

"Let's call you 'Fire in the Cage'!"

Lu Ran sent it forward with one hand.

The black fire drifted, flying across the pitch-black graveyard, like faint ghost fire.

"Yoo-hoo~!"

In the distance, Chang Ying's cheers suddenly came.

Lu Ran turned his head and happened to see a phantom spirit sign rapidly transforming above Chang Ying's head.

Immediately after, a mighty and majestic soldier took shape!

The Summoning Sign of the Five Treasure Signs!

A muffled "thump" sound.

The soldier descended from the sky, his feet stomping heavily on the ground.

He was wearing bronze armor and holding a long spear.

A vicissitudinous, ancient aura rushed toward them.

Under that bronze helmet, the soldier's face was very blurry, almost equivalent to "faceless."

"Long time no see!" Chang Ying placed a hand on the bronze-armored guard's head, rubbed it hard, and was extremely happy.

Over the past three days, she had drawn every sign, but she had never drawn a summoning sign!

The bronze-armored guard remained silent, his head shaking as the girl rubbed it.

This scene stunned Tian Tian.

The bronze-armored guard was over 1.8 meters tall, fully armed, and majestic!

Such a mighty warrior was actually treated as a pet by Chang Ying?

Hmm... well, this soldier was indeed a humanoid summon.

"Is there a time limit for the bronze-armored guard?" Deng Yutang asked loudly.

Chang Ying responded: "Yes, five minutes!"

"To your front left!" In the darkness, Lu Ran's reminder came.

Chang Ying's eyes lit up, and she waved her hand: "Go, kill for me!"

"Hum!"

The bronze-armored guard's body shook, emitting a humming sound, as if responding to the commander.

He followed the order and charged forward with his spear.

At the edge of the torch path's illumination range, the bronze-armored guard picked up his long spear and stabbed directly at a four-sided lantern.

"Bang!!"

The Black Lantern exploded with a boom.

The bronze-armored guard was terrifyingly strong!

The explosive air wave couldn't even force him back half a step.

The soldier raised his spear again and stabbed through the Black Lantern hard, not giving the evil spirit any chance to breathe.

"So powerful." Tian Tian said softly.

Deng Yutang, however, had a strange expression, looking at the heroic and fearless bronze-armored guard.

Since you have him, what am I doing?

Fortunately, the bronze-armored guard could only exist for 5 minutes.

And the probability of the "summoning sign" being drawn wasn't very high.

"So fierce?" In the pitch-black graveyard, Lu Ran leaned on a gravestone and sat on it.

Of course, this wasn't a real gravestone, but a stone shaped like a monument.

Perhaps Lu Ran didn't respect the gods.

But if human deceased were resting here, he couldn't possibly be so disrespectful.

"Ho?" Lu Ran's eyes never left the battlefield, admiring the heroic posture of the bronze-armored guard.

The bronze-armored guard wasn't dull at all; his battlefield sense was exceptionally keen, and he even had martial arts!

The soldier advanced and retreated with evidence, his spear skills were skilled, and his style was open and close.

Worthy of being the hardest summoning sign to draw among the Five Treasure Signs!

This was like a "heavenly soldier," too fierce...

"Over there! Friends over there!" Suddenly, a shout came, the tone extremely anxious.

Lu Ran turned his head and saw a middle-aged woman running on the torch path in the distance.

She was panting as she ran, waving her hands repeatedly: "Help, help us, save us!

What realm are you..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 104 =====