Chapter 1646: Primordial Source of the Secret Realm

Everyone was quickly digesting the fire flame power they had just absorbed, preparing to fight again.

The Magma Pool kept surging upward, covering the sky and blocking the sun.

"No need to look, we can't handle this one!" the clone told Ye Liuyun.

"Set up the Formation Flags!" Ye Liuyun decisively took out the Formation Flag forged by Qiong Qi, gave them to the clone to arrange together, trying to buy Qiong Qi time.

The Warship was also released, allowing more than twenty Metal Puppets to enter it; they didn't need to move, just use their attack weapons to strike the Fire Spirit.

When he finished arranging everything, the magma‑formed beast opposite had already shown its head and limbs.

"Fire phoenix!"

Lei Ming was the first to guess: "Looking at the shape of the wings and tail, it looks like a fire phoenix!"

Ye Liuyun also thought it resembled one. But no matter what form it takes, it's just a Fire Spirit.

Now it was clear that the Fire Spirit was absorbing all the fire flame power in the Secret Realm, intending to extinguish them at once.

"With such overwhelming power, is this Fire Spirit invoking the Primordial Power of this Secret Realm?" Ye Liuyun guessed in his mind.

Facing such a massive fire phoenix, they could not resist at all.

Ye Liuyun had already begun pulling everyone into the Space World, preparing to leave the Secret Realm via the Teleport Tower.

The fire phoenix was too strong; even if they teleported to the Secret Realm's entrance, it would quickly catch up.

At this moment, within the Formation created by the Formation Flags, only Ye Liuyun and Qiong Qi remained.

As the fire phoenix outside gradually took shape, Ye Liuyun suddenly felt that the Ice Power he had just obtained seemed to be summoned.

"Huh? There's Ice Power here too?" Ye Liuyun became curious.

And this sensation grew increasingly obvious.

Fearing his feeling might be wrong, Ye Liuyun immediately released Man Shu, letting her sense it as well.

As soon as Man Shu emerged, she sensed the Ice Power.

"Exactly! A very strong Ice Power!" Man Shu confirmed.

"But where does this Ice Power come from?" Man Shu was also puzzled.

At that moment, the fire phoenix's head appeared in the air, staring at Ye Liuyun and the others. Yet it was not fully formed, its body seeming to struggle.

It also did not attack Ye Liuyun; its claws and wings remained partially on the ground, as if grasping something.

Ye Liuyun and Man Shu didn't know what it intended, and could only stare dumbly.

"Screech!"

The fire phoenix let out a long cry toward Ye Liuyun and the others, as if trying to convey something, but without Divine Sense communication, Ye Liuyun and Man Shu could not understand.

Seeing this, the fire phoenix seemed anxious, as if wanting to spread its wings and fly, but after a couple of frantic calls, it dared not lift its wings fully.

Ye Liuyun immediately summoned Lei Ming again, asking him to translate and listen to what the fire phoenix was saying.

Lei Ming manifested his true form and roared at the fire phoenix.

The fire phoenix heard the beast's roar and immediately replied with a sound.

"I understand; it wants us to absorb that Ice Power and set it free!" Lei Ming translated for Ye Liuyun.

"Ask it why there is Ice Power here," Ye Liuyun said, not rushing to act but wanting clarification first.

Lei Ming roared a few more times, after which the fire phoenix also cried out several times.

Then Lei Ming explained to Ye Liuyun: "The Primordial Power of this Secret Realm is that Ice Power. Long ago, a mighty fire phoenix voluntarily sacrificed itself, turning into flame to guard this Ice Power!"

After ten thousand years, the cultivation resources here were exhausted, and the natives had long departed. These Fire Spirits had begun evolving from that time.

At first they could not defeat the natives and could not grow strong, so they barely suppressed the Ice Power, constantly draining themselves. Once the native strong ones left, they began devouring everything to empower themselves.

Now it has become stronger than the Ice Power! Seeing that we can absorb the Ice Power, it asks us to help it; otherwise it will attack us!

"Oh? Then how do we help it? Where is the Ice Power?"

When Ye Liuyun heard Lei Ming's words, he thought that if they truly released this fire phoenix, they probably wouldn't have a good outcome.

Now the fire phoenix certainly dares not cease suppressing the Ice Power; otherwise it would have attacked them long ago.

While Lei Ming was again questioning the fire phoenix, Ye Liuyun sent a Transmission Voice to Man Shu: "How strong is the Ice Power here?"

"It seems stronger than the power of Xuecheng. If fully released, everything here would be frozen," Man Shu estimated.

"I think the fire phoenix dares not fully unleash the Ice Power, so it won't let go," Ye Liuyun guessed.

"It's possible that once this Ice Power erupts, it will quickly consume it; even if it is stronger than the Ice Power, it may gain little benefit in the end, leading to a mutually destructive clash!" Man Shu also analyzed.

At this point, Lei Ming also clarified the situation and replied to Ye Liuyun.

"The Ice Power of this Secret Realm's Primordial Power lies in an Ice Crystal beneath its two claws! As long as a Martial Cultivator of Ice attribute goes over and directly absorbs it, we can."

Ye Liuyun was contemplating how to deal with the fire phoenix when Qiong Qi finished his cultivation and sent a Transmission Voice to Ye Liuyun.

"We can't listen to it! That fire phoenix probably thinks it has no good way to deal with us now. If it keeps fighting us, it will become weaker!"

"I think it initially underestimated us. If it came up and used that move directly, it would still have plenty of room to finish us off," Qiong Qi analyzed.

"So what do we do now? Keep confronting it?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"Leave it to me to handle it!" Qiong Qi said, also revealing his true form and directly communicating with the fire phoenix.

While chatting, he even sent out a Formation Flag, getting close to the fire phoenix. Seizing the chance, he used the Broken Copper Cauldron to absorb a lot of fire flame power.

"What are they talking about?" Ye Liuyun asked Lei Ming.

Lei Ming, while listening, also translated for Ye Liuyun: "Qiong Qi is bragging, saying there are many strong ones in the divine realm outside, that the fire phoenix would be absorbed if it left… saying he can help the Fire Spirit forge a Physical Body, condense its Soul, making it a normal person… while helping it, also taking fire flame power from it… he's bragging, saying we should all follow him… and the fire phoenix actually believed him…"

Ye Liuyun and the others also saw the fire phoenix spew out some fire source, which Qiong Qi collected into the Broken Copper Cauldron; thereafter the fire phoenix slowly dissipated, sinking into the Magma Pool.

On the shore of the Magma Pool floated an Ice Crystal, yet it was still wrapped by fire flame power to prevent the cold from leaking out.

Qiong Qi also rushed back to the Formation Plate, telling Ye Liuyun: "Don't act hastily; wait until I finish cultivating, then I'll tell you how to act. First give me a stone puppet!"