Chapter 15

The Half-Saint sent by Jiang Cheng to protect Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing was named Lin Shan, an advanced Half-Saint with extremely powerful strength.

Previously, it was Ji Feng protecting him, and he hadn't dared to go to Jia Nan Academy to snatch the Exotic Fire.

Because he remembered that the two elders of Jia Nan Academy seemed to be at the half-step Dou Zun level, and he wasn't sure if Ji Feng could bring him in without anyone noticing.

If they were discovered and called the Dean of Jia Nan Academy, Mang Qianchi, that would be dangerous.

Mang Qianchi was an advanced Half-Saint when he appeared in the original work, and now he was at least an intermediate Half-Saint.

A Half-Saint resides between Dou Zun and Dou Saint; just by the fact that the title contains the word "Saint," one can see the strength involved. It can be described with this sentence: "Entering the Saint realm, far surpassing the Zun realm."

It was definitely not something Ji Feng, a five-star Dou Zun, could handle.

Now it was fine; with Lin Shan, an advanced Half-Saint, even if they ran into Mang Qianchi while stealing the Exotic Fire and couldn't beat him, he believed Lin Shan could take him and run.

Yep, it's settled!

And so, on the second day after the Half-Saint arrived, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing took the Half-Saint and set off toward Jia Nan Academy.

Jia Nan Academy Inner Academy.

In front of Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing was a sunken terrain; inside that depression was an extremely massive black tower, but it was buried deep underground, with only the tip of the tower and a pitch-black entrance exposed.

Seeing that the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower had such a design, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing was very curious about who had designed such a bizarre structure.

And in the space around the tower, there seemed to be faint distortions and wrinkles.

He remembered Hu Qian in the original work saying that to set up this distorted space defense, one needed at least Dou Zun-level strength.

However, this defense should only act upon Exotic Fires, because when Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing and Lin Shan entered, this defense did not stop them.

Lin Shan easily took Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing past the Dou Wang and Dou Huang elders guarding the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and arrived at the bottom of the tower.

As soon as he reached the bottom, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing felt that the air was filled with violent fire-attribute energy.

The fire-attribute energy here was particularly pure; for a fire-attribute cultivator, it was quite a good place to train.

"Swoosh!"

Suddenly, a fire python—whose entire body could not be seen, was nearly transparent, had a head a full zhang wide, and was covered in flames—broke out from the magma.

As soon as Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing entered the bottom of the tower, the aura of the Green Lotus Core Flame on his body was detected by the fire python formed by the Fallen Heart Flame.

The Fallen Heart Flame already possessed a sliver of intelligence; feeling the aura of an Exotic Fire weaker than itself, it was exceptionally excited and couldn't wait to rush out of the magma to devour this Exotic Fire.

But as soon as it came out and felt Lin Shan's aura, it turned cowardly and quickly burrowed back into the magma.

Lin Shan originally wanted to strike directly and take down the Fallen Heart Flame, but was stopped by Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing.

"We'll take this Exotic Fire last; after we take it, we run."

"Take it last? Isn't our goal this Fallen Heart Flame?"

Lin Shan was somewhat curious.

"I feel that there is something I want below; let's go down and take a look first."

Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing certainly couldn't say he had long known what was below, so he could only answer vaguely.

At the same time, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing suddenly felt that Ji Feng was easier to use.

Although Ji Feng's strength was not as good as Lin Shan's, his advantage was that he never asked questions about the things Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing ordered, which made Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing feel very comfortable using him.

"And Young Master, the strongest people in this Jia Nan Academy are only two nine-star Dou Zongs; even if we snatch it directly, they can't do anything to us, right?"

See, Lin Shan was starting to dig for answers again.

"This Jia Nan Academy was founded by the Thunder Clan Half-Saint Elder Mang Qianchi. It's better not to offend them unless absolutely necessary; keep a low profile for me."

"Thunder Clan?"

Lin Shan shivered upon hearing of the Thunder Clan, the most hot-tempered of the eight ancient clans.

"Then let's go down and find what you need, Young Master."

Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing and Lin Shan dove into the magma.

In the vast, endless magma, everything was crimson. Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing instinctively used his soul power to probe the surroundings and vaguely felt a group of living creatures deeper in the magma.

"Young Master, there is a group of red creatures deeper down."

Lin Shan was an advanced Half-Saint, and his soul realm had reached the late stage of the Spirit Realm, so naturally, he detected more than Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing.

"Let's dive down."

The deeper they dove, the clearer Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing's perception became.

There was a group of red figures wandering in the magma; their bodies were entirely crimson, the same color as the surrounding magma. On their crimson bodies, they were covered in red scales, and their red scaly tails flicked slightly.

Those figures stood upright on two feet. Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing also discovered that their feet were exceptionally wide, their heads were round, a pair of somewhat small eyes revealed a faintly visible ferocity, and a rather large mouth was slightly parted, revealing dense, sharp teeth. The entire appearance of these things looked just like a lizard that could walk upright.

If one had to use one word to describe them, it would be "ugly"; two words would be "extremely ugly."

Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing knew these creatures were Fire Lizards, and one of his purposes for coming here was them.

Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing remembered that killing these Fire Lizards would produce a bead containing rich fire-attribute energy.

This bead was a good thing for those who cultivated fire-attribute techniques, so Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing planned to collect all the crystals of these Fire Lizards and take them back to absorb slowly.

At this moment, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing and Lin Shan were already very close to this group of Fire Lizards.

There were about fifty of these Fire Lizards; most had auras at the Dou Wang and Dou Huang levels, a small portion were at the Dou Zong level, and there were three whose auras even Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing couldn't see through. Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing guessed that the strength of these three Fire Lizards very likely reached the Dou Zun level.

Seeing this scene made Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing incredibly excited.

Just running into a group of Fire Lizards had three Dou Zun-level ones; if he collected all the lizards in this magma... tsk tsk tsk, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing didn't dare to imagine what level he could reach if he refined all these crystals!

However, excitement was excitement, but Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing didn't want to let these Fire Lizards run away, so he hurriedly ordered Lin Shan to take action and kill them.

"Lin Shan, there is a red bead inside these lizards; go and kill them all."

"Very well, Young Master."

After receiving the order, Lin Shan rushed toward the group of Fire Lizards.

Seeing Lin Shan rush forward, Character: Character: Character: Jiang Xing swam upward quickly to maintain a safe distance from these Fire Lizards.

These Fire Lizards had Dou Zun-level ones; if he went up, Lin Shan would have to divide his attention to protect him.

It was better to stay far away and watch honestly.

Lin Shan ambushed the Fire Lizards, instantly killing nearly ten Dou Huang-level and one Dou Zun-level Fire Lizard. The other Fire Lizards saw their companions suddenly die, stared at Lin Shan with ferocious eyes, then let out a piercing shriek from their mouths and lunged at Lin Shan simultaneously.

Lin Shan was naturally unafraid and met them head-on.

Lin Shan's strength was far greater than these Fire Lizards; every time his attack landed, several Fire Lizards would be blown apart, and a crimson bead would drop from the bodies of the exploded Fire Lizards.

Before long, the group of Fire Lizards was wiped out by Lin Shan, yielding over fifty crimson beads.

(End of chapter)