Chapter 1247: True Body of Ten Thousand Fires

As soon as the words fell, Han Yu immediately waved his hand, intending to eliminate an ancient soul puppet not far from him that was beating the normal teammates into a rout.

But before he could act, the distant giant tree suddenly moved its branches again, firing a dozen terrifying black light columns at the other normal Dou Saints.

Boom!

At the same moment the giant tree shot out the light columns, a massive black python suddenly slithered out of the void, then swung its tail without hesitation, attacking the figure cloaked entirely in silver square cloth.

Seeing this, the latter abandoned his intention to support Han Yu and the others, instantly forming a hundred‑zhang‑wide icy circular shield in front of him.

Bang!

In the next instant, the tail slammed into the icy shield, and in a flash a blast sound that Lin Feng knew all too well rang across the sky again.

Fortunately, the latter had already leapt far away, and having suffered a dark deficit earlier, he was already prepared, immediately summoning exotic fire for protection, so he was not as disheveled as before; after a slight frown, he successfully withstood the energy shock.

However, although Lin Feng was prepared, the Dou Saints of the Tongling Sect who faced both the controlled teammates and the black giant tree's dual attack were not so fortunate.

At the moment the demon beast's massive tail met the mysterious woman's icy shield, the already chaotic group could hardly react.

Most only felt a sudden darkness before their heads buzzed as if exploding.

Those a bit weaker simply tilted their heads, and their bodies fell straight down like birds with broken wings.

"Who could have thought that the Dou Saint elites, so highly prized by all external powers, would be so worthless in today's melee, dying en masse with a single blow."

Seeing the silhouettes falling like dumplings under the double onslaught of the black giant tree's attack and the aftereffects of the demon beast's battle with the mysterious woman, Lin Feng couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

But that feeling lingered in Lin Feng's mind only for an instant before vanishing without a trace.

After all, the more Tongling Sect members that die, the more it benefits him.

However, Lin Feng, looking at the already dead Dou Saints, couldn't help but let out a sigh in his heart.

Since the fire seeds he sowed were mostly low‑rank Dou Saints, they suffered the heaviest casualties in this great battle, causing most of the fire‑seeded Dou Saints to be wiped out at once.

And those fire seeds inside their bodies were the result of months of painstaking work, having tunneled through various paths before successfully planting them.

"The remaining ones, help me hold back this tree!"

Just as Lin Feng felt helpless about the damage to his hard‑won results, over on the other side Han Yu and his group finally dealt with the companions controlled by the giant tree, and he immediately shouted at the remaining hundred‑plus people.

"Yes!"

The Dou Saints who recovered from the earlier chaos also roared in unison, their attacks converging in the sky and turning into dazzling rainbow rays that struck the giant tree directly.

Seeing this, the latter continued to emit a black liquid column, stalemating against the attacks from those in front.

As for Lin Feng watching from afar, after the group holding back the giant tree resolved the internal chaos, under Han Yu—temporarily elevated to a late‑stage Nine‑star Dou Saint by secret technique—rejoining to restrain the black giant tree, he stopped watching that side and shifted his gaze to the battlefield of the mysterious woman.

But when he finally saw the true form of that mysterious demon beast, he first searched his mind for information, then his complexion changed sharply, and a flash of horror crossed his eyes.

This bizarre black serpentine demon beast was massive, its body covered in black scales.

Moreover, a faint black mist swirled over those scales; Lin Feng observed that whenever the mysterious woman's attacks struck the giant python, the mist always deflected them.

And in his line of sight, the python's head was truly terrifying.

Because its facial skin was unlike that of ordinary serpentine demon beasts, it vaguely resembled a huge, snarling human face, giving a chilling impression.

Of course, what surprised Lin Feng most was that he had seen this kind of serpentine demon beast before.

During the incident when the Bodhi Ancient Tree emerged, he had taken several women to the Wild Ancient Realm to search for the tree and had encountered a similar demon beast.

That one was only about a hundred zhàng tall, but this one was a full ten thousand zhàng!

"I never expected such an ancient heavenly demon python of this terrifying caliber to be here."

After a long silence, Lin Feng finally murmured his sentiment.

But on reflection it makes sense; after all, the ancient heavenly demon python is an extremely rare mutated beast, and in terms of lineage it is akin to some of the elder ancestors of the snake clan.

Yet because its killing nature is so intense, its intelligence struggles to keep pace with its own level.

Nevertheless, even so, the bloodline grade and potential of the ancient heavenly demon python are not to be underestimated.

Some top‑tier ancient heavenly demon pythons even dare to approach the ancient heavenly snake.

The one Lin Feng saw back in the Wild Ancient Realm was probably just a relatively ordinary‑blooded ancient heavenly demon beast.

Nonetheless, that one's strength had already entered the Nine-turn Dou Zun Realm early, and with its long lifespan, advancing to Half‑Saint and higher ranks later is not impossible.

"Alas, it's a pity. If it were another demon beast I might have used my Dou Qi Continent cultivator status to befriend it and perhaps gain its protection to escape, but the ancient heavenly demon python—I'm afraid I'd freeze to death if I approached it."

Seeing the beast's true form, Lin Feng remained silent for a long while, then let out a long sigh, looking in disappointment at the ancient heavenly demon python locked in a fiery battle with the mysterious woman.

However, as the mysterious woman and the ancient heavenly demon python stalemated, Lin Feng realized he had perhaps underestimated the woman cloaked in silver cloth.

In combat, she was never outmatched by the ancient heavenly demon python and handled the whole fight with ease.

"Ice attribute, and from her fight with the demon python, her speed is also extremely fast. Most importantly, that woman's ability to single‑handedly withstand the ancient heavenly demon python that even Han Yu and his allies struggle with is truly terrifying. It seems we must pay special attention when we try to escape later."

After watching for a while, Lin Feng silently assigned a label to that woman in his mind.

But after saying that, he cast a regretful glance at the numerous Dou Saint elites and nine‑tier demon beast skeletons scattered on the distant ground, sighing, "What a pity. If I weren't afraid of alerting the rest of the Tongling Sect, I truly couldn't just leave these corpses unattended."

Yet, as much as he wanted to, Lin Feng knew that if he now ran out to collect his comrades' bodies, anyone with a clear mind would realize he was about to flee.

Therefore, he could only endure and abandon those precious Dou Saint elites and nine‑tier demon beast bodies.

Boom!

But just as the former's words fell, a violent explosion suddenly erupted on one side of the sky.

Hearing the sound, Lin Feng instinctively turned his head toward the source of the explosion.

Looking, he realized it was an explosion caused by the collapse of the life‑devouring grass spirit body.

As for Qiu Yue, the moment he dealt with the life‑devouring grass spirit body, he launched himself toward the mountain peak where it grew.

In an instant, when he reappeared, a massive pink‑and‑green spiritual plant, several thousand zhàng tall, floated before him.

Of course, the most eye‑catching parts of this plant were its six pairs of huge special pink leaves and its roots spreading out like squid tentacles.

However, there were thousands of these "squid tentacle" roots, densely spreading out like a "squid‑tentacle umbrella".

Seeing the main body of the life‑devouring grass he had encountered before, Lin Feng's eyes lit up brightly.

In the next instant, he darted forward, appearing before Qiu Yue, his eyes blazing as he stared at the life‑devouring grass, rubbing his hands and saying, "Senior Qiu Yue, the battle at Senior Han Yu's side is now at a stalemate; why don't you go support him first? I'll handle the main body of this life‑devouring grass myself."

That damned native brat, just now when I was fighting that life-devouring grass to the death, you didn't help at all, and now that I finally managed to kill it, you come running over!

Seeing that Lin Feng was about to snatch it directly with his hands, Qiu Yue, whose face was five or six times larger than others', twitched slightly, and he silently cursed.

However, his gaze swept over the struggling resistance of Han Yu and his group in the distance, as well as the two other Eight-Star Dou Saints on the other side who had almost finished dealing with the Purple Soul.

The next moment, he raised a fist and fiercely swung it at the Purple Soul's spirit body.

As his move unfolded, instantly, a thousand-zhang-large energy fist imprint gathered in the sky, then swept down violently, slamming hard into the Purple Soul's spirit body, which was barely holding up under the siege of the two Eight-Star Dou Saints.

Boom!

Under Qiu Yue's full-powered strike as a Nine-Star Dou Saint, the Purple Soul's spirit body rapidly collapsed.

Seeing the Purple Soul defeated by his own hand, Qiu Yue immediately shouted to the two Eight-Star Dou Saints: "One of you go deal with the Purple Soul's main body, the other look after Xiao Yan, lest he be hurt by that tree or beast; I'll go help Han Yu."

As soon as his words fell, he pushed the life-devouring grass's main body toward Lin Feng, and said: "Xiao Yan, don't wander around here; you've seen that tree and beast, both are extremely evil—if you move rashly, the danger is too high."

Don't worry, Senior Qiu Yue; I cherish my life greatly—I won't go running around recklessly.

Speaking, Lin Feng eagerly took the life-devouring grass's main body, then used Dou Qi to cut along the soft roots above, completely separating the root from the six branches growing from it.

After doing that, Lin Feng immediately took out seven storage rings, placing the grass's root and each of its six branches into separate rings for safekeeping. Meanwhile, as he was handling the grass's corpse, one of the two Eight-Star Dou Saints on the other side flew over and stood silently beside Lin Feng.

Seeing someone guarding Lin Feng, Qiu Yue stopped wasting words, darted forward, and flew at top speed toward where Han Yu and the others were.

As for Lin Feng, he didn't care about the Eight-Star Dou Saint who had come to monitor him; after finishing with the grass's corpse, he instantly turned into a streak of light and flew toward the area where the life-devouring grass grew.

Seeing that, the Eight-Star Dou Saint furrowed his brow and silently followed.

Since the distance wasn't great, Lin Feng soon arrived at a plateau halfway up the mountain peak.

Looking down at where the life-devouring grass grew, now a huge pit over a thousand zhang in diameter, his soul power quickly emanated from between his brows, spreading into the pit below to search carefully.

Found it!

Soon, a flash of excitement crossed Lin Feng's eyes; then he slightly curled his palm outward, and a suction force burst forth.

Bang!

Under the pull of that suction, a black-gray "silkworm bean" several dozen zhang in size shot out from the pit and slowly landed before Lin Feng.

Hehe, these are the seeds of the life-devouring grass; they contain a lot of its power—great stuff!

Lin Feng lightly stroked the huge "silkworm bean" before him, couldn't help but grin, and exclaimed delightedly.

As soon as his words fell, he waved his hand and stored it into his own storage ring.

After that, he ignored the Eight-Star Dou Saint beside him, turned around, and flew again toward where the Purple Soul was.

As for him, he furrowed his brow, then continued to follow silently behind, turning to fly toward where his teammates were.

However, when Lin Feng and that Eight-Star Dou Saint arrived at the low mountain where the Purple Soul grew, another Eight-Star Dou Saint had already dealt with the Purple Soul's main body.

Furthermore, he had dug it out of the ground.

When Lin Feng saw that, though it looked exactly like the phantom, its size was surprisingly less than one zhang tall, with its branches and leaves spreading only a little over one zhang, he was momentarily stunned.

But soon, having realized this, he hurriedly landed before the Eight-Star Dou Saint supporting the Purple Soul and said: "Senior, I'm an alchemist and more skilled at handling this medicinal herb; let me take care of it."

That's fine; here you go.

Hearing that, the Eight-Star Dou Saint exchanged a glance with his companion, then promptly handed the Purple Soul's main body to Lin Feng.

After all, he's only a Seven-Star Dou Saint, and with the two of them, who have Eight-Star Dou Saint strength, watching, what scheming could he possibly pull?

Seeing the Purple Soul's main body tossed over, Lin Feng hurriedly caught it carefully.

But upon getting close, he immediately felt a strong soul undulation emanating from the Purple Soul's core.

No wonder Han Yu said this item might help one raise their soul power to the Emperor level—this soul undulation is dozens of times stronger than mine!

While feeling delighted, Lin Feng also didn't forget to quickly seal the Purple Soul with spatial power and then toss it into his storage ring.

After doing that, Lin Feng turned and asked: "Seniors, now that we have both the Purple Soul and the life-devouring grass, aren't you going to go assist Senior Han Yu and the others in withdrawing?"

Upon hearing that, one of the two Eight-Star Dou Saints gave Lin Feng a cold glance and said: "No need for you to worry; we have our own plans. Now that you've got the items, you should hurry back south so as not to hinder us."

After his words fell, he pondered a bit, thinking the opponent was merely a Seven-Star Dou Saint kid, then looked at the other Eight-Star Dou Saint and said: "I'll go help Elder Han Yu; you make sure to properly 'protect' Xiao Yan."

"Don't worry, with me here, I will certainly be able to properly 'protect' Xiao Yan; you can go ahead with peace of mind."

Hearing that, the other Eight-Star Dou Saint confidently patted his chest and said.

After all, this little Xiao Yan is merely a Seven-Star Dou Saint; how could he possibly defeat this Eight-Star Dou Saint of mine and then escape?

Although this Eight-Star Dou Saint of mine has just broken through, his realm isn't even fully stabilized yet.

But no matter what, an Eight-Star Dou Saint is still an Eight-Star Dou Saint; he can easily beat that Seven-Star Dou Saint black and blue.

Upon hearing that, the companions of the former also immediately stopped staying there, turned around and flew toward the sky where Han Yu and the others were.

Soon, he also joined that extremely fierce battle.

However, after Lin Feng saw the other party leave, the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched.

Immediately after, his gaze swept over the fiercely battling Han Yu and his group in the distance, as well as that mysterious woman.

On these two battlefields, that mysterious woman was impressive, relying on her formidable ice ability to actually fight the ancient heavenly demon python to a temporary standstill.

As for Han Yu's side, after Qiu Yue and that Eight-Star Dou Saint joined, they were also not at all inferior to that black giant tree.

Especially those mid- and low-rank Dou Saints, thanks to the protection of Han Yu and Qiu Yue, need not overly fear the ancient cultivator remnant soul released by the giant tree seizing control of their bodies; thus, under the joint opposition of over a million Dou Saints on their side, both sides found it hard to tell who would win.

After observing the situation on the distant battlefield, Lin Feng suddenly turned his head toward the Eight-Star Dou Saint beside him, lowered his posture and said: "Junior, I earlier obtained a peculiar fire-attribute lotus spirit plant; it emits waves that make one's heart palpitate, but I have never been able to figure out what this thing is. Now I happen to have time, could Senior take a look for me?"

While speaking, Lin Feng, without waiting for the other to refuse, waved his palm and tossed out a colorful fire lotus the size of a washbasin.

"Hmph, an ignorant native!"

Seeing the other directly toss over a gorgeous fire lotus, that Eight-Star Dou Saint immediately curled his lip, inwardly disparaging Lin Feng.

After all, he hails from this sealed world abundant in heavenly treasures and earthly riches; what thing on this continent has he not seen?

"Huh?"

However, soon, when he sensed that this fire lotus, just as the former said, emitted waves that made one's heart palpitate, his expression suddenly changed; he was secretly wary yet extremely curious as he reached to take it.

"Bang!"

And at the instant the former took the fire lotus, a pair of azure‑red wings dozens of zhang wide suddenly unfurled from behind Lin Feng.

"Human fire merges, Myriad‑Fire True Body!"

In the next moment, within the somewhat bewildered gaze of the Eight-Star Dou Saint, he and his Xiao Ling simultaneously manifested a series of hand seals.

And as the hand seals changed, tiny fire lotuses quietly appeared within Lin Feng's jet‑black pupils.

At that same instant, a towering aura that made the Eight-Star Dou Saint pale, as if intent on destroying everything, surged like a storm, abruptly sweeping out from Lin Feng's body!

"Boom!"

The instant that the cataclysmic aura burst from Lin Feng's body, his own body suddenly ignited.

Black flames, in less than a heartbeat, filled every corner of his body—skin, muscle, bone.

In that instant, every part of Lin Feng's body was rapidly engulfed by the black flames!

"Sizzle."

As the black flames blazed, spreading wildly within Lin Feng's body, his flesh quickly turned the same color as the fire; even the azure‑red wings on his back melted instantly, reshaping into a pair of broad, jet‑black fire wings!

This Myriad‑Fire True Body is actually the Destruction Fire Body that Xiao Yan used in the original work—a special technique that pushes exotic fire energy to its limit and fuses it with the body.

Because exotic fire is wildly ferocious, even after a person is refined, the interior of a living being remains relatively fragile; thus, to employ this method one must wield one's own exotic fire with near‑perfect, near‑limit control.

If it weren't for the long‑term synergy between him and Xiao Ling, the two would have already achieved unparalleled harmony, mastering flame control to the utmost. Even he himself would still dare not use this technique!

When the Myriad‑Fire True Body manifested, Lin Feng did not fight his opponent; instead, he instantly turned, fully activating the speed talent of the Grand Void Ancient Dragon to compress the space ahead and accelerate, then triggering the speed amplification of the Heavenly Phoenix and Wind‑Rage Dragon Flame, dashing north at full speed.

Of course, at this moment he also possesses that Wind‑Rage Dragon Flame from his earlier days.

Not long ago, those "well‑meaning" Spirit‑Communing Sect cultivators helped him obtain a Wind‑Rage Dragon Flame that had been growing for nearly ten thousand years.

After that Wind‑Rage Dragon Flame was merged, the boost from exotic fire elevated Lin Feng's speed to another level.

At this moment, his full‑throttle flight speed was truly star‑and‑moon‑piercing; even an Eight‑Star Peak Dou Saint could only trail behind him, eating dust.

However, while flying at full speed, Lin Feng did not forget the "well‑meaning" cultivator who helped him acquire the Purple Soul.

He instantly turned his head, a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, and softly uttered a single word: "Boom".

"Boom!"

The moment the former's words left his mouth, in the next instant, within the horrified gaze of the Eight-Star Dou Saint, the fire lotus quietly collapsed, and the destructive power it contained was suddenly unleashed in all directions.

"Dead earth dweller, I guess."

Staring at this terrifying power that drove him to despair, the Eight-Star Dou Saint swiftly turned his head and uttered his final words in the mortal world.

But before he could finish that final sentence, his form was instantly devoured by the astonishing fire wave released by the fire lotus. (End of chapter)