Chapter 278: Collecting Divine Fire in the Flaming Mountain

Su Chen arrived above the Jisaiguo in Xi Niuhe Zhou; he continued forward, and the further west he went, the more scorching it became.

Approaching the eight-hundred-mile Flaming Mountain, Su Chen's auspicious cloud hadn't landed yet, and the heat wave had already rushed toward his face.

The Flaming Mountain spanned the horizon, the mountain body was bright red, the entire mountain was burning with raging flames, emitting terrifying high temperatures, and within a radius of thousands of miles of the Flaming Mountain, almost nothing could exist.

Su Chen landed in a mountain hollow at the foot of the Flaming Mountain, cast a concealment technique at will, suppressed his aura, and walked into the mountain with his hands behind his back.

Su Chen just stepped into the mountain when a rolling wave of fire rushed toward his face.

The Hunyuan Jin Dan in his dantian turned lightly, the fire Dao mark on the Hunyuan Jin Dan lit up accordingly, and the incoming giant wave of fire seemed to sense a natural enemy, immediately restrained itself, and obediently bypassed Su Chen.

Su Chen walked into the Flaming Mountain and discovered that there were actually many practitioners in this mountain.

These practitioners were mostly cultivating the fire element Dao; some were carrying magic tools in the mountain looking for fire-attribute spiritual materials, some were setting up arrays and sitting in the depths of the mountain belly, using the fire element spiritual energy gathered by the Flaming Mountain to meditate and cultivate. Su Chen even discovered a practitioner at the Heavenly Immortal realm going deep into the hinterland of the Flaming Mountain, his whole body wrapped in flames, comprehending the fire laws in the Flaming Mountain, wanting to break through the realm with this.

With Su Chen's Tai Yi Jin Xian realm, he passed through the territories of many cultivators along the way, but no one could detect Su Chen, who had concealed his figure with magic.

He walked along the mountain ridge toward the depths; the further in he went, the deeper the color of the flames became, and the mountain body itself was glowing, every rock looking like it had been ignited from the inside, bright red and translucent.

Later on, that heat was mixed with a trace of indescribable oppression.

It wasn't a problem of temperature, but that this fire carried the aura of fire laws, which was essentially different from ordinary mortal fire.

Not long after, Su Chen arrived at the core of the Flaming Mountain; the temperature of the flames here was extremely high, and no cultivator approached this place.

Su Chen stood on the mountain ridge and looked forward.

He saw a huge meteorite crater embedded in the mountain belly of the Flaming Mountain; the rocks at the edge of the crater were all smashed, and the bottom of the crater was burning with dense fire patterns, like some kind of array circulating on its own.

In the center of the crater, a red brick lay there.

That red brick emitted a terrifying temperature, and all the fire of the entire Flaming Mountain was caused by its natural dissipation.

Su Chen looked with his Dharma eyes and saw the six fine patterns on the surface of the brick flowing endlessly—red, orange, yellow, white, blue, purple.

That was the law power of the Six-Ding Divine Fire flowing naturally.

Su Chen smiled slightly; the purpose of his trip was this furnace brick that had fallen from the Eight-Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun.

Su Chen moved his body, floated down, landed at the bottom of the crater, and walked toward that brick.

As Su Chen approached that furnace brick, his eyes narrowed slightly; he noticed that the furnace brick seemed to be a bit wrong.

Just when Su Chen was less than ten zhang away from that furnace brick, the fire patterns on the surface of the furnace brick suddenly lit up, and the brightness of the entire brick surged.

A terrifying flame surged out from the furnace brick; it was the Six-Ding Divine Fire from Taishang Laojun's Eight-Trigrams Furnace.

The moment the Six-Ding Divine Fire appeared, the entire Flaming Mountain was affected by it, the Flaming Mountain mountain body sprayed fire pillars outward violently, and terrifying flames surged outward along the mountain belly fissures. The practitioners on the mountain opened their eyes collectively, their faces changing drastically.

Su Chen snorted coldly; he didn't expect that the Six-Ding Divine Fire in this furnace brick had actually given birth to a sliver of intelligence and bred a fire spirit in the short time after leaving the Eight-Trigrams Furnace.

He drove the Hunyuan Jin Dan in his dantian to rotate violently, the fire Dao mark on it shone brightly, and invisible fire law power surged out from Su Chen, covering the entire meteorite crater.

The fire Dao mark of Su Chen's Hunyuan Jin Dan was obtained from the Sun Divine Fire origin left by the Demon Emperor Di Jun, and the Six-Ding Divine Fire was forcefully pressed back into the brick.

The fire patterns on the brick surface trembled violently, as if struggling, but as Su Chen continued to suppress it, the trembling became weaker and finally calmed down.

The fire pillars in the mountain fell back, and the raging flames of the entire Flaming Mountain calmed down.

The practitioners on the hillside looked at the Flaming Mountain's inexplicable disturbance and inexplicable calm, confused, not knowing what was going on.

Su Chen walked to the front of that brick, squatted down, and looked at the six fire patterns still trembling slightly on the brick surface.

That was the fire spirit hidden in the furnace brick being afraid.

"Stop shaking." He said, "I'm not here to take your life."

He reached out, a wisp of fire element power emerged from his palm to touch the brick surface, indicating that he had the power to obliterate the fire spirit.

The fire spirit felt the terrifying power in Su Chen's palm and became even more afraid.

Su Chen said calmly: "You are in this mountain, causing the human race nearby to suffer unspeakably. If you continue to stay, sooner or later you will face a calamity. It's better to come with me; I'll find you a safer place."

The fire patterns on the brick surface were silent for a moment, and one of them lit up slightly, conveying a weak intention, indicating that it was willing to submit.

"Very good, but I still need you to split off a wisp of origin; I have a use for it." Su Chen sensed the fire spirit's intention and nodded slightly.

Then Su Chen used an extremely delicate method to split off a wisp of Six-Ding Divine Fire origin from the fire spirit of the Six-Ding Divine Fire inside the furnace brick, refined and condensed it, turning it into a fingernail-sized, six-color intertwined fire seed, put it into a special jade box, and sealed it with a restriction.

The quality of this thing was one grade lower than the Innate Sun True Fire, but for the practitioners of the Three Realms, it was already a top-tier fire element supreme treasure.

And for practitioners with outstanding fire element talent, this fire seed was worth a thousand kinds of fire element spiritual objects.

Afterward, he put the entire furnace brick together with the fire spirit inside into an independent space in the Nine Demon Tower.

The moment the fire spirit entered, the six fire patterns scurried around in a panic.

Su Chen extended his consciousness to soothe it: "Stay honestly; when we arrive, I will naturally let you out."

At the bottom of the meteorite crater, as the Eight-Trigrams Furnace brick disappeared, the fire patterns on the crater wall extinguished accordingly.

The entire meteorite crater returned to calm, with only the scorching residual heat still dissipating on the rock wall, and this Flaming Mountain would gradually calm down after leaving the dissipation of the Six-Ding Divine Fire laws.

Su Chen leaped out of the crater, patted his sleeves, drove an auspicious cloud, and headed toward the direction of Mount Cuiyun.

Mount Cuiyun's mountain range was continuous, lush and green, and it was an extremely rare spiritual mountain.

Su Chen landed outside the mountain and indicated his identity to the small demons guarding the mountain.

The demon heard that the Demon Alliance Advisor had arrived and hurriedly went to the Banana Cave to report.

Not long after, a loud laugh came from the mountain.

"Hahaha, Brother Su Chen, Old Niu has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Niu Mowang strode over, his aura appearing deeper than when they parted at Flower Fruit Mountain years ago.

He slapped Su Chen on the shoulder, his pair of bull eyes staring wide at Su Chen: "Brother Su Chen, this cultivation base of yours..."

Su Chen smiled slightly: "I've gained a little something over these years."

"Where is this 'gained a little something'." Niu Mowang pointed at Su Chen and shouted: "You make me, Old Niu, feel like these tens of thousands of years of life have been lived in vain."

"Brother Niu, you speak too seriously; let's not talk about me." Su Chen cupped his hands: "I came this time to congratulate Brother Niu on gaining a son."

"Good, good, good, let's not talk about you." Niu Mowang nodded, remembered something, and asked, "I wonder if Brother brought any Monkey Wine? I've been craving this sip for these years."

Su Chen laughed loudly, took out a jar from his storage space, shook it in front of him, and then put it away.

"Brother Niu, rest assured, there is plenty of fine wine. But we have to wait until I see my nephew, and open it at the banquet."

Niu Mowang smacked his lips, put his hand back helplessly, and said, "Go, go, go, enter the cave dwelling first."

"Let me tell you, my child is extraordinary." Niu Mowang hugged Su Chen's shoulder with a proud face.

"Oh, then I must see, how extraordinary is it?" Su Chen responded, following Niu Mowang into the cave. ===== CHAPTER 279 =====