Chapter 1360: with translation of chapter title

But soon, Lin Feng snapped out of that bitterness, turning his gaze toward the black fire clouds randomly attacking in the distance.

"Wu Nie Tun Yan, today I'll show you the combat power of a human Ninth Star early-stage Dou Saint!"

As he spoke, golden flames burst rapidly onto the long spear in Lin Feng's hand.

At the same time, the surrounding illusion dissipated quickly.

As for the battered Wu Nie Tun Yan, it quickly noticed that its surroundings had suddenly changed drastically.

But soon, when it saw Lin Feng in the distance, it knew the opponent had dispelled the illusion.

Yet after leaving the illusion, Wu Nie Tun Yan felt no joy, only sorrow filling its heart.

After everything so far, it realized Lin Feng was not stupid at all.

Now that the opponent voluntarily removed the illusion, there must be stronger means waiting behind!

Soon, under its gaze, Lin Feng in the distance swung his long spear.

The two large arrays above and below began to rotate again.

"Boom! Boom!"

In the next moment, amid the harsh friction of light pillars and space, two pillars of blazing golden fire, flashing intensely, streaked across the sky at astonishing speed, finally reaching the black fire clouds.

"Take it in!"

Seeing the suddenly accelerated light pillars, Wu Nie Tun Yan realized there was no escape; its face turned frantic, it fully controlled the surrounding fire clouds, emitting waves of devouring power.

It hoped to use its innate ability to devour the two light pillars as much as possible.

"Boom!"

However, no matter how hard it tried to wield its innate divine power, the two light pillars that arrived in a blink, with a bang, completely destroyed its black flames.

Indeed, the flames released by Wu Nie Tun Yan.

Under the ultra‑fast impact of the light pillars, they instantly turned to void and vanished into the air.

Then, the unimpeded golden light pillar rushed toward it.

Finally, in the sky where the black sea of fire lay, it collided with a thunderous impact!

In an instant, the sky was filled with golden and black flames.

Centered on the impact point, the flames spread rapidly to the inner wall of the massive array tens of thousands of zhang away!

The terrifying shock from their collision instantly caused the entire Lian Tian Ancient Array to shake violently.

Simultaneously, the fierce, dense golden‑black flames instantly filled the interior of the entire array.

"Take it in!"

Seeing this, Lin Feng swung his hand dramatically, and a golden fire vortex hundreds of zhang tall instantly appeared in the sky.

"Hoo‑hoo"

Immediately, a powerful suction burst from the vortex, crazily drawing in the surrounding golden‑black fire clouds.

In the blink of an eye, the space inside the array, once filled with the two‑colored flames, instantly returned to normal.

At the same time, Wu Nie Tun Yan, which had been slammed by the light pillar into the array's inner wall, also manifested its form.

However, at this moment it no longer resembled the previous sea of fire.

Instead, the earlier attack forcibly reverted it back to a human form.

It knelt on one knee at the edge of the array, breathing heavily.

Simultaneously, droplets of black liquid continuously seeped from Wu Nie Tun Yan's shoulder.

They ran down the arm to the fingertips, fell, and were vaporized by the extreme temperature of the ground array below.

"Hehe, didn't expect you'd been hiding your skill all along. I and the Soul Heaven Emperor thought our opponent was only the ancient‑flame two‑clan alliance. We never imagined that, unseen by us, you Lin Feng were quietly accumulating power, and today gave me such a huge surprise."

Wu Nie Tun Yan clutched the wound on its shoulder, its pitch‑black eyes fixed rigidly on the slowly approaching Lin Feng, grinning sarcastically.

Judging by the power the opponent displayed when it acted against the Yao Clan,

Lin Feng was probably already beyond the Fifth‑Star Dou Saint level of Dou Qi.

It was laughable that Wu Nie Tun Yan then only knew the opponent's combat power was decent among peers.

But it never saw through this guy's true strength!

Thinking of this, its pure black eyes hardened, and in a deep voice it said, "The Stone Clan incident was your doing, wasn't it?"

"Hehe, that's right. When I saw you start attacking the Spirit Clan, I knew the Soul Heaven Emperor was gathering the eight Tuo She Gu Di Jade pieces to open the Tuo She Gu Di Dongfu. So I planned to wipe out the Stone Clan, hide one Tuo She Gu Di Jade, making it so even if you gather seven pieces you still can't open it."

"It's just a pity that you and the Soul Heaven Emperor got ahead and took the Stone Clan's Tuo She Gu Di Jade, leaving a fake, causing our efforts to be in vain. It's been bothering me for a long time."

"Hmph, didn't expect you'd already known our plan and silently prepared in the shadows, intending to, at the crucial moment when we and Gu Yuan are both crippled, ally with the Tai Xu Ancient Dragon Clan's Ninth Star Peak Dou Saint to eliminate us and take the Imperial Essence Proto‑Pill."

Seeing the former admit it, Wu Nie Tun Yan's face turned extremely grim, gnashing its teeth as it stared at Lin Feng.

"Hehe, so what? Not so? You cooperate with the Soul Heaven Emperor, still scheming against him. You want to use his power to obtain the ancient emperor's inheritance inside this cave dwelling."

"Moreover, your idea of buying time may be good, but it's useless to me."

As soon as the words finished, the black‑white and golden phoenix wings behind Lin Feng fluttered, and his figure vanished from the spot instantly.

"You know the inheritance the old guy left behind?!"

When Wu Nie Tun Yan heard the opponent voice its thoughts, its gloomy expression instantly turned to one of astonishment.

However, Lin Feng clearly had no intention of continuing the conversation.

The instant the opponent spoke, its body, empowered by both the celestial phoenix wings and the nine‑sky phoenix glide, suddenly appeared before Wu Nie Tun Yan.

Immediately, the long spear in its hand thrust forward, aiming straight at the opponent's chest.

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, Wu Nie Tun Yan was shocked by the opponent's speed, and quickly shifted its thoughts.

It turned the area in front of the spear into a void.

After all, being flame, it can freely alter its body's shape.

However, as it passed through the former's body, the tip of the dark purple long spear suddenly flashed a milky-white light point.

Immediately after, a purifying power, like water inside a bursting dam, surged outward and rushed into Wu Nie Tun Yan's body.

Thereafter, the formless and colorless purifying power ran rampant throughout the latter's body.

Wherever it passed, Wu Nie Tun Yan felt that his body and soul were being purified by that energy back to their original state.

"Damn it!"

Upon noticing this situation, Wu Nie Tun Yan's heart jolted in shock, and he hastily used his innate divine ability, continuously devouring that purifying power.

However, just as the former was frantically dealing with the problem inside his own body, Lin Feng's lips twitched slightly upward.

Immediately after, the black and white metallic books that had been continuously circling around him suddenly came to a halt.

At the same time, the black Book of Death happened to pause right in front of Lin Feng, precisely aimed at Wu Nie Tun Yan.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, a black light beam shot out extremely quickly from the book.

Since the two were right next to each other, that light pillar gave Wu Nie Tun Yan no chance to dodge.

In an instant, it had already struck his body.

At the instant the black light beam struck him, Wu Nie Tun Yan suddenly realized that everything around him seemed to have come to a halt.

Not only Lin Feng in front of him, but also the surrounding Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, and the golden flames continuously burning on the formation.

It seemed that even the surrounding space and time, at this moment, suddenly lost their trajectory of motion.

He now felt as if he had been completely abandoned by this world.

Space, time, and everything around him seemed to have lost all connection with him.

But that was merely his illusion.

In fact, it was simply that the Book of Death had devoured everything around him, including space and time.

This thoroughly disrupted the opponent's temporal trajectory.

This caused his perception of everything around him to deviate greatly!

But in Lin Feng's eyes, his original fourth-dimensional temporal motion also came to an abrupt halt at this moment, turning into a zeroed straight line.

At the same time, taking advantage of Wu Nie Tun Yan's pause, Lin Feng immediately gripped the dark purple long spear with both hands.

One by one, the various alien fires he had previously absorbed, ranked from low to high, quietly appeared in front of his spear tip.

The first to appear was the Xuanhuang Flame, ranked twenty-third on the Alien Fire List.

Next came the Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Flame, ranked twenty-second, and the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, ranked twenty-one.

As these alien fires continued to appear, soon came the Fifth-ranked Flame of Living Spirits.

However, due to the absence of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

Therefore, after the Flame of Living Spirits appeared, the third-ranked Pure Lotus Demonic Fire from the Alien Fire List showed up.

Along with the appearance of these alien fires, the temperature between heaven and earth surged dramatically.

However, Lin Feng paid no heed to this, merely mobilizing the Burning Technique battle qi within his body.

He controlled the twenty types of alien fires in front of his spear tip, not the quantity he had absorbed, continuously rotating, merging, and compressing them.

"Hehe, Wu Nie Tun Yan, this move, since I researched the Burning Technique, is the first time I'm using it; I've even thought of a name for it. Today, I'll test its power on you."

As he spoke, those twenty alien fires, under his constant strong pressure and the harmonization of the Burning Technique battle qi,

They slowly merged into a mass, a new type of alien fire possessing twenty colors.

Looking up, it bore a striking resemblance to the flame-like hair on the illusory ancient emperor Tuoshe and the crown of the Emperor-grade Infant Pill.

At the same time, Lin Feng also produced a storage ring, took out a pile of pills and medicinal herbs, and then used Wu Nie Tun Yan's child fire to devour them all.

He then poured all the newly replenished battle qi into the colored flame on the spear tip.

But even so, his flame battle qi within his body had been depleted by over ninety percent at this very moment!

And this was still the result of having a top-tier heavenly Burning Technique, as well as the constant replenishment from those pills and herbs.

Otherwise, it would likely be impossible for him to fully fuse all those alien fires with his entire battle qi!

"Well, since my body has already been strengthened by the primordial emperor qi, I should be able to add a little new material."

Thinking of this, Lin Feng's mouth curled into a grin, and a flash of madness crossed his eyes.

Immediately after, a tiny trace of quasi-undetectable strange energy flashed out from the former's body and silently merged into the cluster of colored fire in front of the spear tip.

"Bang!"

The instant that trace of energy entered the flame, its rising flames suddenly surged.

At the same moment, an aura several times more violent and scorching than before burst forth from that colored flame!

"Crack!"

At the same time, the dark purple long spear in Lin Feng's hand unexpectedly cracked open with fissures as fine as hair strands.

"Looks like this Golden Core master's weapon cannot withstand such a formidable combat technique. I hope you can hold out until I finish unleashing this combat technique."

Noticing the fine cracks rapidly appearing and spreading on his spear's shaft and tip, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel tense.

Having invested so much, I must not let the weapon's collapse cause this combat technique to fail!

"Hiss."

However, one wave hadn't settled before another arose, especially as Lin Feng and Wu Nie Tun Yan stood before the wall of the grand formation; under the scorching blaze of the surging flames, the wall of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation actually began to melt!

"Please, Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, hold on a bit longer; don't collapse completely now, or else if the outside Soul Heaven Emperor interrupts, I'll never get such a good chance again."

Gazing at the wall rapidly melting, Lin Feng's nervous heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, as he continuously rotated and merged, the colored fire before his spear tip finally fully fused with that trace of strange energy.

"Go!"

Seeing the wind-up complete, Lin Feng immediately stepped back half a step with his right foot, then gripped the spear with both hands and thrust it forward fiercely at Wu Nie Tun Yan.

However, I don't know whether it's because Lin Feng's attention was diverted, or if Wu Nie Tun Yan reacted.

Anyway, at the instant the former's spear was thrust, the latter also just recovered.

But as soon as he regained his train of thought, immediately he saw Lin Feng thrust his spear.

Immediately, a flame he felt somewhat familiar was instantly compressed into a colorful light beam, which came charging at him.

What the hell are you doing with that old thing, Tuoshe Gu Di—Boom!

However, before he could finish speaking, that light beam, about the same size as him, struck him as if exceeding the speed of light, causing a fierce explosion that shook heaven and earth.

The power of this explosion was so great that it directly shattered the entire Refine Heaven Ancient Formation, and even the outside chatter broke; the Soul Heaven Emperor, who was brutally tormenting the Old Dragon Emperor and Gu Yuan, instinctively stopped his actions.

He turned his head in astonishment, looking toward the place where the deafening explosion sound originated.

As for Wu Nie Tun Yan, who bore the full brunt of the light beam attack, his human form also completely vanished from this world in an instant of the explosion.

Meanwhile, that colorful light beam had merely dimmed slightly.

It instantly broke through the grand formation, like a husky let loose from its leash, and continued to dash wildly into the distance.

"What is this?"

And the Soul Heaven Emperor, gazing at the colorful light pillar rushing rapidly toward him, couldn't help but mutter.

Nevertheless, his years of combat experience still drove him to immediately mobilize the mighty and terrifying Dou Qi within his body, unleashing a ten-zhang pitch-black Dou Qi whip.

"Boom!"

As soon as the former's Dou Qi whip was unleashed, it collided violently with the oncoming colorful light pillar, and both exploded.

In an instant, the powerful shockwave generated struck the Soul Heaven Emperor nearest to the explosion's center.

At the same time, the latter felt as if his body had been smashed by a heavy fist.

Under that tremendous impact, the Soul Heaven Emperor was instantly flung backward hundreds of zhang before stabilizing his body.

At that very instant of the explosion, the space within a radius of tens of thousands of zhang rippled with an invisible undulation.

You see, the space of the Gu Di Dong Fu is so solid that even when Lin Feng and his five companions previously fought the Chu Dan together, not even the slightest ripple had appeared.

But now, in the clash between the Soul Heaven Emperor and that colorful light beam, this scene actually appeared!

From this, one can see just how powerful this mutual clash truly is.

"Holy shit, could it be that another mysterious expert has appeared on the Dou Qi Continent?"

Seeing this, Gu Yuan, who had endured too much today, could no longer hold back and directly burst out with profanity.

At the moment he spoke, the Old Dragon Emperor, whose massive body was covered in scars, likewise nodded in agreement.

He had thought he was the sole hidden expert on the Dou Qi Continent, but now his heart felt somewhat lacking in confidence.

Meanwhile, the women and experts of the three major demon beast races who were besieging the Soul and Ancient clans' experts in the distance.

Likewise, at this very moment, they unconsciously stopped their actions and stared blankly at the sky of the distant explosion.

"This attack emerged from the battlefield of the black-hearted kid and Wu Nie Tun Yan—who exactly is its creator?"

After being dazed for a while, Zhu Kun's huge dragon eyes fixed firmly on the distant ruined formation, his mind constantly pondering what to do next.

"Whoosh!"

However, just as everyone was undecided, a stream of light shot out from the ruined formation, swiftly turning in the sky and finally transforming into a figure opposite the Soul Heaven Emperor, where it came to a stop.

Looking over, everyone saw that half of this figure's body emitted a faint golden light, while the other half was shrouded in black-and-white mist.

Even the pair of wings behind it were the same.

"Is this... Lin Feng?!"

Once everyone could clearly see the figure's true appearance, their expressions all turned to astonishment.

But soon, their gazes were drawn to the pitch-black flame hovering in the former's hand.

That flame, about the size of a human head, was pitch-black like ink and continuously exuded a terrifying violent aura and scorching heat.

Yet the most striking aspect was the black flame's devouring power, continuously spreading outward.

That devouring power seemed capable of swallowing everything in the world.

Even the surrounding heavenly and earthly energy and the battle's aftermath were being continuously sucked into that flame!

Upon seeing that black flame, the faces of the Soul Heaven Emperor, Gu Yuan, and the Old Dragon Emperor instantly underwent a drastic change.

Immediately, the Soul Heaven Emperor's ink-black eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "Wu Nie, you've beaten Wu Nie until his consciousness shattered, turning him into the flame's true form?!"

"What, the Great Wu Nie / Wu Nie Tun Yan was beaten by Lin Feng into its true form?!"

As soon as the former's words fell, the remaining Soul and Ancient clan experts in the distance instantly stared at Lin Feng with shock.

In that hoarse exclamation, disbelief filled their faces.

If someone had told them before this that Lin Feng could beat Wu Nie Tun Yan back to its true form,

they would surely laugh at the other's idiocy, thinking they knew nothing.

But now, these words come from the mouth of the Soul Heaven Emperor, who has spent thousands of years with Wu Nie Tun Yan.

Moreover, at this very moment, the black flame hovering in Lin Feng's hand in the sky

whether judged by its aura intensity or its inimitable devouring power,

it is highly likely to be the former Wu Nie Tun Yan!

Thinking of this, the crowd, who had been fighting fiercely and covered in blood, instantly froze in place, not knowing what to do.

(End of chapter)