Chapter 98: The Fire Calamity of Heaven and Earth

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Nightfall.

After a day of wind and sun, plus the fright from the White Sand Demon Soldiers earlier, everyone soon fell into a deep sleep.

Xiaotian and Jingyun lay down beside the camp to keep watch; with the deterrent aura of Commander-level beasts, the Sand Howling Tigers within a radius of several kilometers very sensibly chose to stay away.

The temperature difference between day and night on the Gobi Desert is extreme; once the last trace of warmth vanished, the cold struck silently, like a gust of wind without obstruction, cutting with a sharp pain.

"Cheng? Are you asleep?"

Xiaotian and Jingyun shifted their bodies, revealing a gap that exposed Lv Cheng lying in the middle.

"What's wrong?" Lv Cheng looked suspiciously at Jiang Shaoxu, who was sneaking in through the gap.

It must be said, this girl is truly too quick to get familiar with people.

In just a short day, she had already hit it off with Ye Xinxia and the others; this kind of girl, bold on the outside but delicate on the inside, is popular wherever she goes.

"Phew! I'm freezing to death." Jiang Shaoxu lay down beside Lv Cheng, leaning against Xiaotian's massive, radiatingly warm body.

"This sub-dragon of yours is really human-like," Jiang Shaoxu exclaimed.

Dragon-type Summoned Beasts are usually only possible for Summoning Element Mages above the Super Level to obtain; after all, dragon-type demons have volatile temperaments and are extremely difficult to tame. Even if successfully summoned, they can barely be commanded during battle. She was seeing one like Lv Cheng's, which stayed by his side without the slightest discord and could even be described as well-behaved, for the very first time; she hadn't even heard of such a thing before.

"Why, are you interested in the Summoning Element?" Lv Cheng asked.

The Jiang family, as a clan with a Forbidden Curse Mage presiding over it, should have no problem raising dragons.

"Mm, I'm mainly interested in your Summoning Element," Jiang Shaoxu said with a chuckle.

"And your Mind Element, it's different from any Mind Element I've ever seen."

"Just an innate talent," Lv Cheng said.

Jiang Shaoxu nodded; she had already roughly guessed as much. That kind of scene could no longer be explained by strong Spiritual Power and control alone; even a Super-level Mage couldn't create such a scene. The only possibility was a special innate talent.

"Then your Spiritual Power..." Jiang Shaoxu finally asked this question that had been bothering her.

Sixth Realm Spiritual Power—this is truly too exaggerated!

Even if one awakened Dimensional Magic, which has requirements for Spiritual Power, from the very beginning, Sixth Realm is a level of Spiritual Power that even some Super-level Mages do not possess!

Normally, for a Dimension Element or Mind Element Mage, reaching the Third Realm in Spiritual Power at the High Level is already quite exaggerated. Someone like Ai Jiangtu, who could step into the Fourth Realm, only managed to reach it under the vigorous cultivation of the Northern Military Region with a massive investment of resources.

This Sixth Realm... did you grow up eating Mind Stones?

Lv Cheng took a stone out of his portable space; it was completely transparent and silver, dotted with many patterns resembling swirling Star Nebulae.

"..."

"A Mind Stone?" Jiang Shaoxu was stunned.

No, you actually have one?

"Where... did you get it?" Jiang Shaoxu couldn't help but ask.

A Mind Stone is an antique-level precious treasure!

Money is useless for it!

"A rich lady gave it to me," Lv Cheng said.

He didn't know where Ye Chang had gotten the Mind Stone for him either. This thing is priceless and unavailable on the market; even the Black Vatican, with its influence spread across the globe, would not find it an easy task to obtain one.

He had previously tried to extort the Magic Palace, demanding a Mind Stone, but to this day, there hasn't been the slightest news.

"A rich lady?" Jiang Shaoxu's expression turned strange.

Whose rich lady is so generous?

"Do you want it?" Lv Cheng asked.

Jiang Shaoxu was startled and turned her head away with some difficulty.

"Don't use this thing to seduce me! I really won't be able to resist!"

For a Psychic Mage, a Mind Stone has a fatal attraction!

This thing can allow their otherwise difficult Spiritual Power cultivation to gain a cheat-like, high-speed improvement!

"If you can't resist, then don't. Do you want it?" Lv Cheng held the Mind Stone out in front of Jiang Shaoxu.

Jiang Shaoxu bit her lip. "I do!"

This is a Mind Stone! A priceless, unavailable-on-the-market Mind Stone!

There are plenty of people who want this thing!

Only a fool wouldn't want it.

"Then it's yours." Lv Cheng placed the Mind Stone into Jiang Shaoxu's hand.

"..."

"Giving it to me?"

Looking at the Mind Stone in her hand, Jiang Shaoxu was dumbfounded.

"Are you... serious?"

"Of course," Lv Cheng said.

The Mind Stone was of no use to him; after all, he could enhance his own soul by devouring the Essence and souls of demons, and his Spiritual Power would increase accordingly.

Asking for a Mind Stone from the Magic Palace before was merely to find an excuse for his terrifying Spiritual Power.

At that time, many people in the Magic Palace had seen the Mind Stone he produced.

"Is my charm that terrifying?" Jiang Shaoxu returned the Mind Stone to Lv Cheng and touched his forehead with some suspicion.

"Has it muddled your brain?"

The corner of Lv Cheng's eye twitched. "I'm not just giving it to you for nothing."

Jiang Shaoxu held Lv Cheng's hands, their eyes meeting. "Let's talk details."

She really didn't dare to take it for nothing, nor could she.

But if there was give and take, she wasn't a fool, so naturally she wouldn't refuse.

A Mind Stone! It's an antique-level treasure that even the Jiang Clan can't get their hands on!

……

The next morning.

Under Lingling's guidance, the group slowly stepped into the Sha Wang River.

Along the way, with Ye Xinxia, Jiang Shaoxu, and Ding Yumian taking turns casting Mind Magic to Pacify the White Sand Demon Soldiers, the path that was originally the most dangerous became exceptionally smooth.

"How extravagant," Zhao Manyan sighed.

Mind Element Mages are quite rare; they are almost all supported by great families or hold important positions in the Magic Association, and they would never come to a hellhole like this to risk their lives.

Having several Mind Element Mages take turns acting like this is just too extravagant!

"That is..."

A streak of crimson fire appeared, rushing toward them from the far distance, undulating like mountain ranges and burning higher and higher; even from several kilometers away, it made people's throats dry and parched with a boom.

"Holy crap! The fire is burning over here!" Mo Fan exclaimed.

"Don't be nervous, it's fine," Lv Cheng said.

"Just stand where you are."

"Stand where I am?" Mo Fan, who had summoned his Winged Demon Wolf and was preparing to slip away, froze for a moment.

"Brother Cheng, can we not show off at a time like this? Saving our lives is what matters!"

Lv Cheng stood his ground, "If you want to run, then run. Anyway, running back means the Sha Wang River, and if you go in, you'll face endless White Sand Demon Soldiers; if you dare to fly up, you'll face the White Sand Bone-Coiling Dragon."

"Go ahead and run. In the future, during holidays, if I remember, I might come to burn some offerings for you. After all, in this sky full of yellow sand, even a cenotaph wouldn't be able to stand."

Mo Fan's expression stiffened. He hesitated for a moment, then put the Winged Demon Wolf away.

"Are you sure it's okay?" Ai Jiangtu frowned deeply.

That flame was giving people such terrifying pressure from so far away; once it closed in, they were afraid they would be burned to ash!

"Brother, Ah Cheng said it's fine, so it must be fine!" Ai Tutu said.

"If there were really any danger, he would have taken us and run long ago," Lingling said with a calm expression.

Even the Silver Sky Sovereign couldn't kill Lv Cheng; this guy has plenty of ways to save his own life.

As the flames gradually approached, Ai Tutu and the other women couldn't help but hide behind Lv Cheng.

"Are we... really not running?" Chen Ying said with a stiff expression.

Zhao Manyan swallowed hard, "Don't be nervous, it's fine. You've seen Teacher Lv's abilities before."

"If you can't block this thing, I won't let you off even if I become a ghost!" Jiang Shaoxu grabbed Lv Cheng's arm tightly.

"Can you all have a little faith in me?" Lv Cheng raised his right hand, and a crimson flame surged out, drawing a large circle on the ground with a radius of over a hundred meters, centered on the team.

"Drawing a circle? No, do you think you're Sun Wukong?" Mo Fan looked constipated.

Damn it! This is life-threatening! Why did he believe this guy's nonsense!

He should have run!

Boom!!!

The ring of fire on the ground shot into the sky and closed upward; in just a few breaths, it transformed into a massive flame dome.

"Is this... a Domain? You have a Fire Element Domain?" Jiang Shaoxu asked in confusion.

"Then why do you still need a Soul Seed?"

Lv Cheng had used the Mind Stone to trade for many things with her, and a Soul Seed was one of them.

"This is a Natural Domain," Lv Cheng said.

"……"

"A Natural... Domain?"

The group looked bewildered.

Domains can be natural too?

"You wouldn't happen to be a Fire Element Sufferer, would you?" Jiang Shaoxu asked suspiciously.

A Natural Domain—isn't that something that only the legendary talent of a Sufferer could possibly possess?

"Perhaps," Lv Cheng said.

He wasn't too sure either, as there were currently no known Fire Element Sufferers in this world.

The Fire Element Magic that Shendu triggered in him was indeed a bit strange; Shendu only helped him cultivate for a period at the beginning to study Star-based Magic, and after that, he basically left it alone.

His Fire Element, just like Ding Yumian's Mind Element, was in a state of free-range growth. He hadn't really cultivated it much, but this thing just kept surging upward on its own. It was also the only type of magic that didn't even require a Galaxy Pulse when breaking through to the High Level.

Therefore, he must have occupied the position of a Fire Element Sufferer.

He almost never used Fire Element Magic when fighting, simply because this thing was too brutal when used.

Especially this Fire Domain; its effect was extremely overbearing, and all fire elements within the domain were under his control.

Back in Hangzhou, he had let that blockhead Zhu Meng help him test it out.

As long as he didn't allow it, even a Super-level Mage of the Fire Element couldn't cast a single Fire Element Magic spell within his domain!

(End of chapter)