Chapter 172: Clones gather, the original arrives!

Canaan Academy has now turned a fiery red.

Magma churns, and endless red magma erupts from underground, turning the surrounding thousand miles into a sea of fire.

From within this magma, countless Fire Lizard clansmen rush out, killing anyone they see!

Deep in the magma below, an ancient storage ring, wrapping a wisp of Fallen Heart Flame seedling, shuttles continuously, fleeing into the distance.

"Too terrifying! Too terrifying!"

"Is this Dou Qi Continent really this terrifying now..."

Venerable Skyfire's soul body carries the storage ring, wrapping that wisp of Fallen Heart Flame seedling, dodging those Fire Lizard men, and fleeing continuously.

He had been in this Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower for many years; he never expected that upon seeing the light of day again, he would see the sky filled with Dou Huangs and Dou Zuns! There were even quite a few Dou Sheng powerhouses.

He was just a pitiful soul body; what means did he have to go head-to-head with these powerhouses? Even more terrifying was that through the magma, he saw quite a few people from the Soul Hall. To a soul body, these people were the most terrifying things!

Fortunately, he originally had a fire-attribute constitution; even without a body now, he was like a fish in water in this magma.

As the previous master of the Fallen Heart Flame, this wisp of Fallen Heart Flame seedling felt very close to him.

One person, one fire, and one ring were able to travel through this magma world without being encountered by others.

High in the sky, Lin Dong and Chen Ping'an are using 【methods】 to collect the wandering living souls in the sky.

Suddenly, Lin Dong looks down at the magma world below, but discovers nothing, and cannot help but withdraw his gaze.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ping'an glances at Lin Dong, somewhat curious.

Lin Dong shakes his head, "I saw wrong. Let's go find Long Aotian and the others first and have him bring Zi Yan out!"

"I think this Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion should be appearing soon."

Chen Ping'an nods, and the two gallop off into the distance.

In the magma below, Venerable Skyfire carries the Fallen Heart Flame seedling, fleeing madly into the distance.

Lin Dong and Chen Ping'an blast away the lizard men in front of them and continue to rush forward.

By now, the number of living souls on the few of them has added up to over a million.

Greed has caused countless people to lose their lives in this magma world.

Soon, Lin Dong and Chen Ping'an arrive at a mountain peak a thousand miles away, where Long Aotian, Zi Yan, Su Qian, Little Doctor Fairy, and Xu Qi'an are all here.

Su Qian looks at the magma world before him, filled with desolation.

Zi Yan sits beside him, patting his back, comforting him: "It's already very good. At least the students in the academy, under prior arrangements, have all left."

"Being alive is hope!"

Su Qian smiles bitterly, touches Zi Yan's head, then looks at Chen Ping'an and the others, and says: "Thank you all. If it weren't for you, little Zi Yan and I would probably have died here."

Long Aotian says: "Great Elder, no need to be polite. I treat Zi Yan as my own younger sister."

"My brothers taking action is also to help me."

Su Qian nods, his gaze lingering on the faces of Chen Ping'an and the others, but some doubts arise in his heart.

"Isn't Long Aotian from the Dragon Clan... how come these brothers of his look so similar to him, yet they are human..."

Just as he is puzzled, Lin Dong, Xu Qi'an, and the others look up simultaneously, looking toward the magma world in the distance.

He also follows everyone's gaze, looking toward the magma sea area in the distance.

They see a huge vortex suddenly appear in the original magma sea area; this vortex kicks up hundred-foot-high magma waves, completely swallowing the surrounding mountain peaks.

Some Dou Wang powerhouses who couldn't get away in time were directly swallowed up by the surging magma.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Accompanying the expansion of the vortex, a magma fire pillar a full thousand feet wide suddenly erupts from the surface of the magma sea, covering the sky and earth.

Quite a few people in the sky were affected; the terrifying high temperature, accompanied by the powerful impact, caused quite a few casualties among those still fighting in the sky.

Seeing the magma surging over, everyone pulls back together and flies to a mountain head a few miles behind them.

Su Qian sees this scene, shocked in his heart, and mutters, asking: "Could it be that beneath this magma world, there really is some Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion?"

"Is it this Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion that destroyed Canaan Academy..."

Long Aotian and the others hear Su Qian's words but do not answer; everyone continues to watch the surging magma in the distance.

By now, they have already finished collecting the living souls needed by Ye Ming's original body. With this Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion appearing, they naturally cannot miss it.

"Whoosh, whoosh!!"

The thousand-foot-high magma waves suddenly surge up, then smash down fiercely. As they splash magma across the sky, the rapidly rotating magma vortex gradually slows down.

As the magma vortex slows down, huge amounts of magma begin to bulge on the surface of the magma sea, and the crimson magma spreads rapidly.

Accompanying the dispersal of that magma, an ancient stone gate standing between heaven and earth slowly floats up from the magma under those fanatical gazes.

On the stone gate, the magma fades rapidly, and an ancient, wild aura instantly fills this heaven and earth.

Under the shroud of this aura, all things are silent; even someone as strong as Hun Sheng Tian, with his eight-star Dou Sheng strength, feels a kind of terror from the bottom of his heart.

That is an aura that transcends this heaven and earth! Between heaven and earth, countless gazes converge on this ancient stone gate. Finally, these gazes all freeze on the four ancient characters above the stone gate! "Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion!"

Hun Sheng Tian's eyes shoot out astonishing light at this moment; even with his concentration, upon seeing with his own eyes these four characters that the Soul Clan has pursued for thousands of years, his heart is filled with surging emotions.

At this time, the deaths of Hun Yuan Tian, Hun Yao, and Hun Feng have long been thrown to the back of his mind.

He raises his right hand, and a wisp of Void Swallowing Flame's sub-fire slowly appears.

"Lord Void, please report to the Clan Leader: the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion beneath the magma world of Canaan Academy has appeared!"

"I understand!"

A gloomy voice comes from within the flame; listening closely, one would find that the voice is trembling slightly.

Hun Sheng Tian looks at the ancient stone gate quietly standing above the magma in the sky, raises his hand, and shouts: "All Soul Clan members, guard the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion!"

In an instant, countless gazes from the sky strike.

Among the Ancient Eight Clans, except for the Spirit Clan which has already been destroyed, and the Xiao Clan which is still struggling with the Furious Lion Rage in Wutan City, the Yan Clan, Medicine Clan, Thunder Clan, Ancient Clan, and Stone Clan all send messages to their clan elders, reporting the news of the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion's appearance.

Among the Magical Beast clans, ancient great clans like the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan are the same.

If at the beginning, the news of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion's existence made these big families send spies to investigate.

Then now that the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion has appeared, it is enough to move the surviving older generation of these ancient families to take action!

Soul Clan Leader Hun Tiandi, Ancient Clan Leader Gu Yuan, Medicine Clan Leader Yao Dan... upon learning this news, they all coincidentally carry fragments of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, tear through the void, and bring the clan's foundation to come!

On the distant mountain peak, Chen Ping'an and the others look at the stone gate standing between heaven and earth, and a look of amazement appears on their faces.

Su Qian cannot help but mutter in a daze, "There really is an Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion!"

"Truly, heaven wants to destroy my Canaan Academy!" The people beside him hear this, and the expressions on their faces are all somewhat strange.

Long Aotian walks silently to Zi Yan's side, looking at the stone gate in the distance.

Xu Qi'an suddenly snaps his fingers, pausing time for Little Doctor Fairy, Zi Yan, and Su Qian.

Everyone hears this and looks at him, their eyes filled with confusion.

Xu Qi'an shakes the scholar's fan in his hand, looks at Lin Dong, and asks: "Back then, you and the original body stayed in Wutan City and even got the Burning Mantra. Did you take that piece of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade from the Xiao Clan?"

Chen Ping'an and the others look at Lin Dong in unison.

In the current situation, everyone understands in their hearts that among the Ancient Eight Clans, the Spirit Clan has already been destroyed, and that piece of Ancient Emperor Jade has probably fallen into the hands of the Soul Clan.

Now that the leaders of the six clans are all rushing here, if Lin Dong has the Xiao Clan's piece of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, then the key to opening the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion should also be able to be gathered.

Lin Dong sighs, spreads his hands, and says: "Where would such a thing need me to take action? The moment Ye Ming's original body knew he appeared in Wutan City, he had already let Shen Cui enter the Xiao Clan and take that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade from Xiao Zhan's hands."

The other clones nod silently; this kind of thing is very much in line with Ye Ming's original body's habits.

Chen Ping'an strokes his chin, "So, the missing piece of the key is now in Ye Ming's original body's hands."

"Then we'll wait for him to come, grab the keys from these few ancient great clans, and we can monopolize the things inside the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion."

The other clones hear this and do not feel anything is wrong.

Although they all have their own personalities, the influence Ye Ming's original body has on them is the greatest!

"No need! Kill the alien races first, stack some buffs!"

"Leave one person here to watch, let these ancient clans fight among themselves first!"

A familiar voice comes from behind; everyone looks behind them in unison.

They see that behind them, the space suddenly tears, and Ye Ming, dressed in green, tears the space crack open with a fierce pull of his hands and slowly walks out.

"Greetings to the original body x5!"

Xu Qi'an and the others see Ye Ming walk out from behind and bow in salute one after another.

Ye Ming nods casually, looks at the stone gate standing on the horizon in the distance, and says indifferently:

"Hand the living souls over to me. Long Aotian, stay here with Zi Yan to observe the situation."

"Xu Qi'an, Chen Ping'an, Ye Gucheng, Lin Dong, first sweep through the alien races around here."

"It will still take some time for those ancient families to arrive."

Hearing this, everyone hands over the living souls they collected to Ye Ming.

Ye Ming sees this, hangs the link to the Fox Immortal Blessed Land on Long Aotian, then directly opens the Fox Immortal Blessed Land and enters it.

Although the Wang Lin clone can nurture Immortal Gu, truly refining Immortal Gu still requires him to do it himself.

Seeing the portal to the Fox Immortal Blessed Land close, Xu Qi'an snaps his fingers again, lifting the time freeze on the three people.

He says a few words to Little Doctor Fairy, then cups his hands to everyone, "I'm going to take care of those two in the northeast."

Xu Qi'an pulls Little Doctor Fairy and flies directly into the distance.

Lin Dong, Ye Gucheng, and Chen Ping'an nod and fly rapidly into the distance.

Su Qian and Zi Yan watch the few leave, their eyes filled with confusion.

"Are they not pursuing the opportunity of the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion anymore?" Su Qian asks in confusion.

Long Aotian pulls Zi Yan's little hand and says to Su Qian: "Great Elder, in this region now, even Dou Zuns can hardly participate."

"This is a matter for those big families!"

Su Qian is somewhat enlightened, "Then we should leave too?"

Long Aotian shakes his head, looks at Zi Yan, and says: "I sense that beneath this magma, there is an Ancient Dragon bloodline that seems to be related to Zi Yan."

"Great Elder, you go first! Zi Yan and I will stay here and see!"

Su Qian hears this, his face filled with hesitation.

Zi Yan glances at Long Aotian, then turns her head and says with determination: "Grandpa, you go first! It's fine with us here!"

Su Qian is slightly startled, nods, and says to Long Aotian, "Remember to take good care of little Zi Yan!"

"Rest assured, no one here can hurt her, not even those family forces."

Su Qian hears this, touches little Zi Yan's head, and leaves directly by stepping on the air.

After Su Qian leaves, Zi Yan takes a pill from her pouch, throws it into her mouth, and asks somewhat confusedly: "Black Dragon Brother, I didn't sense any bloodline!"

"Did you trick Grandpa into leaving?"

Long Aotian smiles, looks at the people surrounding the Ancient Emperor stone gate in the distance, and says softly: "You'll know soon."

In front of the Ancient Emperor stone gate, all the Soul Clan members present gather behind Hun Sheng Tian, waiting here.

Beside the stone gate, the other major ancient families also occupy a position one after another.

Just at this moment, everyone looks toward the magma world below in unison.

They see that in the magma world below, ten-thousand-foot waves suddenly splash up, followed by a heaven-shaking roar that resounds through this heaven and earth.

The moment this roar, which seems to come from ancient times, is emitted, Hun Sheng Tian and the leaders of the other ancient families all change color; the aura rushing out is actually no weaker than them!

"Hahahaha, this Emperor has finally seen the light of day again!"

Ten thousand feet of magma rush into the sky, and a fierce aura that changes the color of heaven and earth surges out from that magma sea area.

The crimson magma seems to want to swallow heaven and earth. Looking around, the entire heaven and earth is filled with ten-thousand-foot waves of magma, and the terrifying high temperature turns this heaven and earth into a furnace.

The ancient families around the stone gate retreat one after another because of this surging magma.

Gazes look in horror at beneath the magma; at this time, even they can feel that an extremely terrifying creature is hidden in the magma sea area.

"Boom, rumble!"

The magma waterfall rushing into the sky crashes down, falls into the magma sea area, turns into huge waves, and surges away rapidly, submerging all the distant mountain peaks.

With the fall of the huge waves, a huge object in the magma sea area suddenly lifts up from it; a huge body covered in purple-gold scales protrudes a section from the magma.

Although it is only a small section of the body, the volume is still extremely huge; the mysterious creature's head, faintly revealing some ferocity and pressure, protrudes from the magma, looking at the many people in the sky, and a look of surprise appears in its huge eyes.

"So many years, finally someone has broken this magma seal!"

Its gaze lingers on Hun Sheng Tian and the few people with the highest cultivation among the ancient families, then suddenly falls on the two figures, one big and one small, standing on the distant mountain peak.

Looking closely, that huge head is actually trembling slightly at this moment.

"Daughter..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 173 =====