Chapter 1149

"It's my lord Lei Di!"

"My lord Lei Di has arrived—Blue Star is saved!"

The molten fire beast rampaging across Sakura Nation stirred the hearts of all Blue Star inhabitants.

Many fearless war correspondents remained in Sakura Nation, broadcasting live.

When Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang appeared above Sakura Nation, people across the country wore expressions of excitement.

In the Firelight World, a vast conference hall.

Evelyn and her daughter, several nations' supreme experts, and Blue Star's ninth-rankers all watched the live footage on screen with tense expressions.

"Xiao Ming is going to fight the molten fire beast!"

Xu Qingwan, who was with them, was deeply worried.

Humans are selfish; she would rather Xu Jingming hide with them in the Firelight World than watch him risk his life against the molten fire beast.

"Don't worry, Cousin Jingming has formidable combat strength—he'll be fine."

Tang Qi, his cousin, was equally tense but spoke up to comfort them.

Similar scenes unfolded across the globe.

Lei Di Xu Jingming is Blue Star's strongest.

Everyone knew that if Xu Jingming failed, Blue Star would fall entirely.

Above Sakura Nation, Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang hovered in the clouds.

Gazing far off at the monstrous beast rampaging below.

"That's the molten fire beast..."

Ling Shuang's voice trembled.

Even tens of kilometers away, she felt the suffocating pressure.

Even as a ninth-rank ability user, she could not help but feel heart-pounding dread.

The molten fire beast had not manifested its divine form, yet the crimson flames swirling around it still seemed ready to burn the entire world to ash.

Kyoto, once a thriving city, had become a sea of fire; millions of humans screamed as they turned to charcoal.

"I sense the aura of destruction..."

The molten fire beast seemed to sense Xu Jingming's presence; its deep voice rumbled like the earth's core trembling.

It unfurled its vast, sky-blocking wings and soared into the air.

The flames swirling around it turned the entire sky into a hellish inferno.

When it turned its crimson-gold dragon-like vertical pupils toward him, Xu Jingming felt a rare flicker of fear!

It was not his mind that feared—it was his body trembling!

His body, strengthened by dragon blood absorbed through cultivation of body-refining arts and molten fire beast blood,

instinctively showed fear before this world-ending monster.

"Interesting." Xu Jingming's lips curled slightly.

How long?

How long had it been since he last felt this?

His spirit felt no fear.

On the contrary, he felt unprecedented excitement!

"Teacher Ling, I'm going. Find the right moment to use Doushen Shenlei."

Xu Jingming's lips curled into a reckless smile.

He shot toward the molten fire beast as a streak of black Lei Guang!

"You don't run? You charge me? Interesting."

The molten fire beast's dragon-like vertical pupils flickered with mockery, "Then let me show you the gap between ants and dragon!"

It opened its massive maw and unleashed a crimson-gold fire column over a hundred meters in diameter.

Where it passed, air twisted, space collapsed!!

"Boom!!!"

A streak of black Lei Guang slashed across the sky like a blade rending the void, splitting the fire column cleanly in two!

The shockwave raised a thousand-meter tsunami in the nearby bay; the water had not yet fallen before being vaporized into white mist by the heat.

Xu Jingming had reached a position less than a kilometer from the molten fire beast.

SSS-rank ability: Chaotic Divine Thunder, and SSS-rank ability: Primordial Ancient Dragon, activated simultaneously.

He stood on empty air, his black battle robe snapping violently in the gale.

Behind him, the brilliant Lei Huan rotated slowly, black thunder coiling around his body like living things.

Most chilling were his eyes—once deep as starlight,

now entirely transformed into pure black, like two black holes devouring all.

"First layer of the Domain of Destruction..."

The molten fire beast flapped its wings; its massive vertical pupils revealed a human-like appreciation:

"I never expected a human from such a backwater planet could comprehend a higher domain. Truly rare.

I shall take you as my human pet. When I complete my cultivation, I shall bring you into the stars.

It is a world far vaster than your planet—you shall have a brighter future."

For humans, keeping pets was common; for demon races, taking human pets was equally ordinary.

Especially such human prodigies—when they returned to demonkind, bringing them back was a mark of honor.

Xu Jingming said nothing; his right hand clenched, and a spear forged entirely of black Lei Ting instantly formed.

The spear's shaft was wrapped in a suffocating aura of destruction, and merely its presence caused fine cracks to form in the surrounding space.

The Meltfire Beast could awaken its true form, "Meltcore Blood Dragon," at any moment.

Therefore, he did not manifest the third layer of the Destruction Domain, but used only the first layer.

Wait until Ling Shuang finds an opportunity to use the Divine Kite Pearl to absorb both of them.

Only after using the secret realm's space to sever the Meltfire Beast's connection to its true form should he unleash his true power.

"Thunder Prison, Thousand Chains!"

With a low roar, tens of thousands of pitch-black lightning chains erupted from the void!

Each chain was compressed lightning at its extreme limit; wherever the chains passed, space shattered like glass.

This was Xu Jingming's self-discovered SSR-tier combat technique, its power even greater than ordinary Thunder-element SSR-tier techniques!

"It seems you're unwilling to cooperate. If so, then die!"

The Meltfire Beast suddenly turned hostile.

It unfolded its Dharma Form—a six-winged dragon phantom appeared above its head.

Each wing burned with flames of a different hue: crimson, deep blue, pale violet...

The six flames intertwined, forming a barrier.

The instant the chains struck the flames, heaven and earth fell silent—then—

"Boom—!"

The explosion's shockwave spread spherically, striking the surface of Sakura Nation!

The entire ground was blasted open into a crack nearly a hundred kilometers long and over a thousand meters deep!

Endless seawater surged up from the fissure; Sakura Nation had been pierced clean through by the battle's residual waves!

At this moment, Xu Jingming's figure had already arrived within a hundred meters of the Meltfire Beast.

"Teacher Ling, now!"

With Xu Jingming's thunderous shout.

Ling Shuang's slender form flickered from dozens of kilometers away and appeared instantly nearby.

Immediately, a pearl the size of a ping-pong ball appeared in her jade hand.

The pearl was completely transparent, within it a world seemed to float and sink.

Divine Kite Pearl! A perfect-grade elemental weapon left behind by the Sky God.

"Open!"

Ling Shuang's S-tier spatial ability was pushed to its limit.

Vast spatial power enveloped Xu Jingming and the Meltfire Beast in an instant.

The next instant, dragon and man vanished, transported into the Divine Kite Pearl.

"Lei Di and the Meltfire Beast have disappeared!"

"They've been teleported into that pearl by Lady Ling!"

"My Lord Lei Di! Don't lose!"

"..."

All people across the world watched the Divine Kite Pearl suspended in midair via live broadcast.

Unable to see inside, they were filled with dread, yet could only wait—for the final outcome of the battle...