Chapter 352: Obtaining the Fire

352. Chapter 352: Obtaining the Fire

"Good! Since you won't let me live, don't think you'll have an easy time either; even if I die today, I'll drag one of you down with me!"

Madness flashed in Yan Tiexin's eyes as he finally began to fight desperately, manipulating the Heavenly Fire to condense fire ball after fire ball, hurling them at his opponents as if they cost nothing.

In this desperate situation, he began using the power of the Heavenly Fire without regard for the consequences.

Without having fully mastered the Heavenly Fire, it could go out of control at any moment, making such an action undeniably extremely dangerous.

Seeing the sky filled with attacks of Heavenly Fire, the Thunder King and the Wind King both changed color, hastily dodging.

If one were hit by even a single strike of this Heavenly Fire, even if one didn't die, one would be half-crippled.

Fortunately, the Wind King specialized in manipulating the power of Wind, and the Thunder King specialized in manipulating the power of Thunder; both were speed-type Gu Cultivators, so dodging the Heavenly Fire attacks was not difficult for them.

Moreover, Yan Tiexin had only obtained the Sunset Divine Flame recently and simply hadn't had time to perfectly control its power.

At this moment, the Heavenly Fire was completely beyond his control, causing the attacks he released to lack accuracy; even those two Gu King Late Stage experts were difficult for him to hit.

Not only did his use of the Heavenly Fire fail to hit anyone, it actually burned many of his own people to death.

Under his Heavenly Fire attacks, the Yan Family grounds quickly became a Fire Sea everywhere, with buildings ignited by the Heavenly Fire all around, and many members of the Yan Clan had already perished in the Fire Sea.

A very serious fire had now broken out within the Yan Family; if it was not extinguished in time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Seeing that the Heavenly Fire posed no threat to himself, the Wind King burst into loud laughter: "Haha... Yan Tiexin, are you actually attacking us, or are you attacking your own people?"

"Not many Yan Clan Gu Cultivators were killed by us, yet under your Heavenly Fire attacks they are dying in whole swathes; are you a spy we planted inside? Haha..."

As he spoke, he threw another Palm Thunder at Yan Tiexin; the Lightning moved with extreme speed, striking his chest with precise accuracy.

Although his body surface was protected by a layer of Heavenly Fire and this lightning bolt did not cause him substantial injury, it still made him grunt in pain.

"You are seeking death! Today, even if I have to sacrifice the lives of all my clansmen, I will slay you!"

Madness appeared in Yan Tiexin's expression once more as he again manipulated the power of the Heavenly Fire to attack.

He clearly knew that the power of the Heavenly Fire was too immense and that fighting here would surely affect the rest of his clansmen, yet at this moment he surprisingly did not care in the slightest about the lives of so many clansmen.

Not only did he fail to use the power of the Heavenly Fire carefully, he instead recklessly and frantically destroyed everything around him without regard for the consequences.

Whether it was the Gu Cultivators on Master Sun's side or the Yan Clan Gu Cultivators, all suffered collateral damage; both sides sustained heavy casualties under the power of the Heavenly Fire.

Everywhere there was scorching high temperature, and everywhere there were screams of agony.

Even the large number of onlookers were greatly terrified in expression, retreating one after another, fearing they would be caught by the indiscriminate Heavenly Fire.

After dodging a stray fire ball of Heavenly Fire, Master Sun revealed a grave expression.

He realized that Yan Tiexin was not fighting desperately due to anger; rather, from the very beginning he had never intended to care about the life or death of his clansmen, otherwise he would not have hidden his true body away, attempting to provoke conflict and cause a large number of clansmen to die.

What exactly is this Yan Tiexin trying to do? Has he gone mad? At this moment, a sense of foreboding arose in his heart.

At this time, Long Xuan also frowned, engaging his opponent in a tangled fight while casting his gaze toward Yan Tiexin at the center of the battlefield.

Yan Tiexin simply could not resist the combined assault of the four Gu Kings; even with the aid of the Heavenly Fire, he was now sustaining serious injuries under the siege of the Four Gu Kings.

Being injured was actually the minor issue; the terrifying part was that the Heavenly Fire had not been fully controlled by him, and under conditions where his body was failing, excessive use of the Heavenly Fire's power would lead to backlash from the Heavenly Fire.

At this moment, pain showed on Yan Tiexin's face, and his expression grew increasingly mad, clearly indicating that he had already begun to suffer backlash from the Heavenly Fire.

With the siege of the four Gu Kings from without and the rebellion of the Heavenly Fire from within, under this double assault, Yan Tiexin was certain to die, and very soon at that.

Knowing that he was certain to die today, what kind of mad act was he about to commit?

Long Xuan grew alert in his heart; a dying person would surely drag a large number of enemies down as cushions.

He had thought the same from the start, so while fighting he kept retreating, fearing being caught in Yan Tiexin's final desperate counterattack, and very quickly moved far away from Yan Tiexin's position.

But very soon he discovered that the situation was far more serious than he had imagined.

When his Perspective Eye saw the Fire Seed inside Yan Tiexin's body rapidly cracking, his pupils instantly contracted and the hairs on his body stood on end.

"Damn it!"

Long Xuan was so frightened that he instantly cursed, abandoned his opponent, and ran desperately toward the outside of the City, moving at the fastest speed he had ever achieved in his life.

At this moment his face turned pale; this Yan Tiexin actually intended to self-detonate the Heavenly Fire! Had he gone mad?

The power generated by the self-detonation of the Heavenly Fire was immensely huge; to speak without exaggeration, once the Heavenly Fire exploded, all Yan Clan Gu Cultivators would be killed by its power, and the Yan Clan would be completely exterminated.

Yan Tiexin actually intended to pay the price of exterminating his entire clan just to drag all his enemies down to the grave with him; he was simply mad.

Once this Heavenly Fire exploded, it would kill not only all the Yan Clan Gu Cultivators and all the invaders, but the entire Emperor Flame City would be flattened by the Heavenly Fire.

Everyone in the entire City would die; not a single one would survive, including all Gu King Peak experts!

Terrified out of his wits, Long Xuan exerted the fastest speed of his life, and in the blink of an eye ran far, far outside Emperor Flame City.

When Emperor Flame City behind him had shrunk into a tiny black dot, he subconsciously looked back.

"Boom!!!"

A deafening explosion suddenly erupted from behind, the ground beneath his feet shaking violently as the massive Emperor Flame City was instantly swallowed by flames.

Crimson-red flames released scorching high temperatures, spreading outward at an astonishing speed; Long Xuan, who had already run far away, was quickly swallowed by the approaching flames.

"I..."

"Water Bear Gu! Hold on for me!"

A roar of anger from Long Xuan came from within the Fire Sea.

Deep within the Fire Sea, his clothes were instantly torn apart by the Heavenly Fire, revealing the Soul Armor underneath; stimulated by the Heavenly Fire, the Soul Armor flickered with dark black flowing light, resisting the impact of the Fire Sea.

At the same time, he rapidly circulated the Purgatory True Demon Art, forcibly withstanding the high temperatures generated by the Heavenly Fire.

It was only because the First Layer of the 'Purgatory True Demon Art' involved swimming in Lava, giving him extremely high resistance to high temperatures, and because he was already very, very far from the explosion center, that he had not, like those Gu Kings, instantly turned to ash under the Heavenly Fire's explosion.

Propelled by the flames, Long Xuan flew far, far away; only when the flames dissipated did he crash heavily to the ground, propping himself up with his hands and vomiting a mouthful of blood.

Looking back at the scorched black land behind him, Long Xuan revealed a bitter smile; indeed, accidents are everywhere, and this time an accident had ultimately occurred.

Everyone had died completely; the entire City's population was dead, and only he, who had run far away in advance, became the sole Survivor here.

Long Xuan quickly checked the injuries on his body, and his heart quickly sank.

This time, his injuries were undeniably severe; even his Third-Stage Soul Armor had been destroyed, and it was only by relying on the Water Bear Gu's ability to negate fire and high temperatures that he had narrowly saved his life.

Even so, he had nearly lost his life, and the Water Bear Gu had exhausted all its power and fallen into a deep slumber.

The Water Bear Gu's method of Transformation is to destroy before rebuilding, where disaster and fortune depend on each other; although he suffered heavy injuries this time, the Water Bear Gu could use this opportunity to complete its Transformation.

But Long Xuan felt no joy at this; he immediately activated the Far Sight Ability of his Heavenly Mechanism Eye to look toward Emperor Flame City.

Where was Emperor Flame City now? The four tall walls surrounding Emperor Flame City had long vanished, and the entire magnificent Emperor Flame City had disappeared into thin air, leaving behind only a huge deep pit in its place; the bottom of the pit was scorched black, with no living creatures remaining.

Everything in Emperor Flame City, whether people or objects, had been directly vaporized by the power of the Heavenly Fire.

Witnessing this terrifying scene, Long Xuan was horrified in his heart and could not help but gasp sharply.

Is this the destructive power of Heavenly Fire? It is simply terrifying; what kind of living being could survive under the power of Heavenly Fire?

Long Xuan took a deep breath and continued to gaze toward the center of the deep pit.

The center of this deep pit was not entirely empty; it had left behind two things for him.

One was a small, fire-red flame, flickering in the Wind, seeming as if it might be blown out by the breeze at any moment.

The other was a black Storage Ring; do not ask why this Storage Ring was not destroyed by the power of the Heavenly Fire, for he did not know either.

He presumed the material of this Storage Ring was very special, allowing it to remain undamaged under the power of the Heavenly Fire.

Seeing the small flame flickering in the Wind, Long Xuan was instantly overjoyed in his heart, his heart pounding wildly.

This flame was precisely the Fire Seed of the Sunset Divine Flame.

Although the Sunset Divine Flame had self-destructed, it seemed only most of the Fire Seed had been blown apart, leaving behind fragments of a small portion of the Fire Seed.

This incomplete Fire Seed had suffered heavy injuries and was now extremely fragile, so fragile that it seemed it could be extinguished by a single gust of Wind at any moment.

Long Xuan could no longer suppress the joy in his heart; forcing his extremely weak body to move, he rushed quickly toward that Fire Seed.

Even though the powerful Sunset Divine Flame had self-destructed, leaving behind only fragments of the Fire Seed.

He was already very content; as the saying goes, a loss may turn into a gain, and for the power of the Sunset Divine Flame to be greatly weakened was, in a way, a good thing for him.

No matter how strong the power of the Sunset Divine Flame, what use is it if he cannot control it?

The stronger the Heavenly Fire, the less likely it is for a Gu Cultivator to swallow it, especially for someone of his Low-Realm.

Originally, with his current power, swallowing the Sunset Divine Flame carried an extremely high risk, practically a nine-to-one chance of death.

But now that the power of the Sunset Divine Flame had been greatly weakened, it could naturally be safely swallowed by him, a Low-Realm Gu Cultivator.

A Fire Seed can also be repaired; he could completely allow the Sunset Divine Flame to grow along with his own Cultivation Realm, gradually restoring it to its Peak state.

In his view, exchanging the weakening of the Sunset Divine Flame for absolute safety was entirely worth it.

Not long after Long Xuan ran over excitedly, he stopped in his tracks.

Because the center of the explosion was simply too hot, or rather, the Fire Seed of the Heavenly Fire was simply too hot, far beyond what an ordinary person could approach.

If he were in his peak condition, perhaps he could withstand the high temperatures and retrieve the Fire Seed.

But now his physical body had suffered severe injuries, so naturally, he could not easily approach the Heavenly Fire.

Helpless, Long Xuan could only take the Heaven-Devouring World Toad off his buttocks where it had been lying.

Just now, the Insect Breeding Bag had been directly destroyed by the terrifying power generated by the Heavenly Fire's explosion, exposing the Heaven-Devouring World Toad inside.

Fortunately, the Heaven-Devouring World Toad could use the Treasure Qi generated by all the treasures within its body to form an extremely terrifying defensive power.

And all his Gu Worms and all his treasures were inside the Heaven-Devouring World Toad's body.

Therefore, the Heavenly Fire's explosion had only destroyed his clothes, without destroying any of his treasures.

Otherwise, if he did not have this Heaven-Devouring World Toad today, he would inevitably have suffered heavy losses in this calamity.

"Stop playing dead; do you see that Fire Seed ahead? That is the most top-tier Heaven-defying treasure in this world; no other treasure's value can surpass it."

"Go swallow it right now, and your size will increase significantly again."

Long Xuan threw the Heaven-Devouring World Toad onto the ground, finally deciding to entrust the difficult task of retrieving the Fire Seed to it.

At this moment, this Heaven-Devouring World Toad, having landed on the ground, was still trembling in all four limbs, its eyes revealing a look of terror, clearly having been badly frightened by the scene that had just occurred and not yet recovered.

It reluctantly turned its head to look at Long Xuan.

It was not blind; it was most sensitive to treasures and had long sensed that Heaven-defying treasure.

The key issue was that the thing was scalding to the mouth; how would it dare to easily swallow that thing into its stomach?

If that thing were not scalding, it would have long rushed over and swallowed it into its stomach. (End of Chapter)