Chapter 198: Legendary Challenge [Fire God Lion]

Time flies; in the blink of an eye another two days have passed.

Day 23 of the self‑discipline challenge for the Time‑Space Traveling Lion.

Ice Phoenix Temple.

In the endless blizzard, an ice lion with snow‑white fur stands on the snowfield, the surrounding wind and snow obediently swirl around it, forming a massive vortex.

Suddenly, the ice lion opens its eyes.

"I'm a bit hungry; let's get something to eat first!"

Chen Mo's cultivation this time has already lasted several days, and during these days he has been perceiving the power of space.

This awakening is simply because he's hungry.

Although with his current strength, even merely absorbing the free spiritual energy of various elements in the air would never let him starve to death.

But since the condition exists, he naturally still wants to eat something good to satisfy his appetite.

He won't eat anything bland and tough.

Moreover, after completing the Master Chef Lion, every extraordinary dish Chen Mo creates is extremely delicious.

Chen Mo takes a piece of catastrophe‑level beast meat from the nearby ice vault and ignites a soul fire.

He then grills it while spreading a special seasoning onto the roast.

He is making an extraordinary dish called Deadly Poisoned Roast.

During these days of seclusion cultivation, Chen Mo has eaten this dish the most.

It is a catastrophe‑level extraordinary dish.

Mainly because grilled foods are relatively easy to prepare; just cook the meat and sprinkle the special seasoning.

Soon, with the final pour of soul juice, the Deadly Poisoned Roast is freshly done.

【Deadly Poisoned Roast】

【Quality: Catastrophe‑level】

【Made from the flesh and blood of the Catastrophe Beast Venomous Deer King and catastrophe‑level divine medicine illusion demon mushroom powder, this catastrophe‑level dish, when consumed, can raise extraordinary rank, restore spiritual energy, and heal injuries.】

After eating the roast, Chen Mo feels his body warm, a surge of spiritual energy flows from the roast into his body, wandering through his limbs and bones.

Under the effect of the Master Chef Lion self‑discipline title, this roast is not only extremely tasty but also grants the three effects of 【Vigor Abundant】 【Physical Strength Abundant】 【Spiritual Energy Abundant】.

It allows the eater to quickly recover spiritual energy while also increasing total spiritual energy capacity.

Chen Mo glances at the self‑discipline panel and finds that today is the final day of the Time‑Space Traveling Lion self‑discipline challenge.

Moreover, he has already self‑disciplined for two hours.

"Two more hours and I'll complete the Time‑Space Traveling Lion self‑discipline challenge!"

Chen Mo feels a bit excited inside.

Not only is the effect of the Time‑Space Traveling Lion powerful, granting him a preliminary ability to traverse the heavens, but more importantly, after completing it, the self‑discipline panel is likely to refresh with a gold‑quality self‑discipline challenge.

Without overthinking, Chen Mo closes his eyes and resumes practicing the Spatial Perception Meditation Technique.

In his sight, many specks of silver light float above the snowfield teleportation array.

These are the primal spatial spiritual energy.

Especially the runes on the array, each condensing powerful primal spatial energy.

After nearly a month of cultivation, Chen Mo not only senses the existence of spatial energy but can even preliminarily control it.

He can even use spatial spiritual energy for short‑range traversal.

Of course, this short range means 800 to 2000 meters.

For humans, this may be a relatively far distance; even at full effort it takes several minutes to cover.

But for Chen Mo, it's even less than a single step; he can reach it in an instant.

Therefore, using spatial spiritual energy for short‑range traversal is not faster than running oneself, offering little benefit to cultivation without time.

Once he enters focused cultivation, time passes quickly.

In the blink of an eye, two hours have passed.

Chen Mo glances at the self‑discipline panel and sees the Time‑Space Traveling Lion challenge progress bar finally reaches 100%.

【You have completed the self‑discipline challenge Time‑Space Traveling Lion (purple); equip it?】 A line of blue light text appears on the self‑discipline panel.

After mentally selecting confirm, the silver specks before Chen Mo's eyes suddenly expand rapidly.

These spatial spiritual energies continuously shift and surge in his sight.

The mysteries of space fully unfold before him! The moment he equips the Time‑Space Traveling Lion, his perception and comprehension of spatial power instantly rise many levels! The Time‑Space Traveling Lion has three effects in total.

The most crucial is the preliminary mastery of spatial power.

As Chen Mo's mind shifts, the surrounding silver‑white primal spatial spiritual energy actively surges toward him.

These silver‑white spatial energies converge, forming a massive vortex‑shaped teleportation gate.

Chen Mo's gaze looks toward the back of the massive teleportation gate.

Behind the gate lies an ocean of countless bubble membranes.

This golden sea is boundless, each bubble membrane containing a world, large or small.

The Blue Star also resides within one of those bubble membranes.

The Boundary Sea.

The worlds inside the bubble membranes are planets from other star regions of the universe; the nearest planet to the Blue Star is separated by tens of thousands of light‑years.

But once one masters spatial power, one can roam the Boundary Sea.

By traversing these bubble membranes, one can reach the corresponding planet in an instant.

"So that's how it is."

Chen Mo suddenly recalls the Heiyuanmolong's portal opened before it left the Blue Star, which is almost identical to the portal before him.

There are also many secret realms that appear on Blue Star; most likely they only show up on Blue Star after anchoring its coordinates and passing through the Realm Sea!

Chen Mo's consciousness entered the teleportation portal and immediately looked toward the dozen or so bubble membranes nearby.

These are the dozen or so worlds near Blue Star, and they are currently among the few worlds Chen Mo can shuttle into.

When Chen Mo's consciousness passes through a bubble membrane, he can overlook the vast landscape of that world like a satellite hanging in the sky.

This is also an ability granted by the Time‑Space Traveling Lion; whenever he enters another world, his aura can blend perfectly with that world and will not be rejected by its will.

If other beings who have only begun to master spatial power dared to act as Chen Mo does, they would have long been discovered and expelled by the world's will.

Most of the worlds behind those dozen bubble membranes are extremely barren planets, with very poor spiritual energy; although beings exist, there are no extraordinary beings.

Of course there are exceptions.

Among them is a crimson planet covered with molten lava and primordial volcanoes.

Chen Mo originally thought this was an early world, like Blue Star's ancient era, also filled with various primordial volcanoes.

But after a careful observation, he discovered many powerful fire‑type extraordinary beings on this planet.

There are flame giants encrusted with lava, as large as volcanoes; there are giant elk crowned with a solar‑corona; there are fire dragons immersed in lava; and even some legendary‑realm beings.

It is estimated that the spiritual energy concentration on this fiery planet is also not low.

Immediately after, Chen Mo saw in another world a black giant beast the size of a mountain; it looked like a ferocious beetle, its body covered with various pus‑filled soft tissues, exuding an extremely evil aura.

"This seems to be... an Abyssal Being?"

The moment he saw the massive insect beast, a familiar feeling rose in Chen Mo's heart.

It seems that Abyssal energy also surges within this massive insect beast. Unfortunately, Chen Mo's current perspective is an extremely special top‑down view, preventing observation and any information about the black giant insect.

But judging solely by size, Chen Mo feels this creature is at least a legendary‑realm being, perhaps even stronger!

Around this massive insect beast, various Abyssal insect beasts also live.

After a brief observation, Chen Mo ended this Realm Sea journey.

He did not enter any world behind the bubble membranes.

He has not yet fully mastered spatial power; before him is an unstable teleportation portal.

It can exist only for a short time.

Moreover, accidents may occur during the crossing, and other worlds may hide lethal dangers.

No need to take the risk.

Besides, after completing the Time‑Space Traveling Lion, the newly refreshed self‑discipline challenge hasn't even been seen yet!

Chen Mo ended this state of consciousness roaming the Realm Sea.

Soon after, the spatial teleportation portal merged into the void and slowly vanished, as if it had never appeared.

Chen Mo immediately looked at the self‑discipline panel.

He saw that on the self‑discipline panel, the slot for the Time‑Space Traveling Lion self‑discipline challenge was flashing with golden light.

Wow! Golden legend!

As he expected, it is another legendary‑grade self‑discipline challenge.

Fire God Lion

Self‑discipline challenge:

1. Devour one legendary‑grade or higher spiritual fire.

2. Immerse the whole body in lava over 10,000 degrees for at least 8 hours each day.

3. Defeat one mid‑tier legendary‑realm fire being.

Title effects:

1. Initially grasp the Law of Fire.

2. Transform into a Flame Sovereign, immune to any Totem‑grade or lower flame damage.

3. Fire‑type spell power increased by 200%.

At the moment he looked at the Fire God Lion title effects, Chen Mo felt a faint excitement inside.

No wonder it is a golden‑quality self‑discipline challenge; the effects are truly astonishing.

Just the first point, initially grasping the Law of Fire, is already extremely powerful.

One should know that the power of the Law can only be mastered by Totem‑realm beings.

It is a higher‑order energy form than primordial spiritual power.

The two are almost incomparable.

"If I can complete the Fire God Lion self‑discipline challenge, I'll most likely have the strength to challenge ordinary low‑grade Totem beings."

Chen Mo thought to himself.

"However, the Fire God Lion self‑discipline challenge seems to require going to that planet filled with lava and flames to complete."

The lava temperature on Blue Star is roughly around 1,000 °C, and Snow Realm currently is a world dominated by ice and poison, so lava of 10,000 °C could not possibly exist there.

Let alone defeating a mid‑tier legendary‑realm being.

Nevertheless, Chen Mo isn't in a hurry to complete the Fire God Lion self‑discipline challenge.

These past days, completing the Time‑Space Traveling Lion has already drained a great deal of his energy.

He plans to rest for a while.

Anyway, his current strength is already more than sufficient.

With that thought, Chen Mo left the teleportation array, intending to return to the Ice Lion Kingdom for a look.

"I wonder how Lion Sister and the others have been lately."

But just as Chen Mo stepped out of his secluded snowfield, he saw the figure of the Snow‑Stepping Six‑Tail Spirit Fox leader.

It was covered in a thick layer of snow, as if it had been waiting for a long time.

Snow-Stepping Six-Tailed Spirit Fox had been closing its eyes to absorb the surrounding ice-origin spiritual power; it seemed to sense Chen Mo's appearance, and it opened its eyes.

After seeing Chen Mo, the six-tailed spirit fox slightly bowed its head, speaking in a respectful tone.

"Your Majesty, while you were in seclusion, something important happened in the outside world."

"A race called the Abyssal Insect Clan boarded a shuttle ship, descended upon Blue Star, and attempted to descend upon Blue Star."

"Fortunately, their strength is not strong; we have already annihilated or captured them all."

"And we obtained information about the Abyssal Insect Clan from the mouth of one Heavenly Calamity Abyssal Insect Beetle."

Immediately after, the Snow-Stepping Six-Tailed Spirit Fox reported to Chen Mo in detail the information it had obtained from that Heavenly Calamity Abyssal Insect Beetle.

Including the Planet Will and the strength of the Abyssal Insect Clan's Ghost Eye Division.

During that, the Snow-Stepping Six-Tailed Spirit Fox also used Ice Illusion Technique to recreate the scene of the Abyssal Insect Clan's descent and its interrogation of the Abyssal Insect Beetle.

Upon seeing these Abyssal Insect Clan members, Chen Mo recalled the giant worm beast he had seen in one of the worlds during his recent Consciousness Divine Travel Realm Sea.

The creatures beside that worm beast were almost identical to these Abyssal Insect Clan that descended upon Earth! "It seems that world is the place where this group of Abyssal Insect Clan was exiled by the Blue Star's Will."

Chen Mo thought.

Originally I wanted to just lie low for a while, but now it seems not possible.

Although the Abyssal Insect Clan cannot descend upon Blue Star in the short term, they have been lurking in the shadows, eyeing it covetously.

If they happen to find a way to directly descend upon Blue Star, then the Ice Lion Kingdom and all living beings on Blue Star will be in danger.

Although Chen Mo has now preliminarily mastered spatial energy, allowing him to enter the Realm Sea and travel to other worlds.

Even if he cannot win, he can also flee to other worlds for refuge.

But Blue Star is ultimately his homeland; he has some feelings for this planet, not to mention the existence of the Ice Lion Kingdom and the Ice Lion Clan.

These are things Chen Mo finds hard to part with.

Therefore, before he possesses the power to defeat these Abyssal Insect Clan, he continually feels somewhat uneasy.

"Although the Ghost Eye Nest possesses Totem Realm strength, its combat power is weak; as long as its ability is responsible for reproducing and nurturing other Abyssal Insect Clan, and playing a role similar to a brain."

"As long as I complete the self-discipline challenges of the Fire God Lion and the Immortal Lion, I will roughly have the ability to counter it."

"Moreover, even if the Ghost Eye Nest truly could descend upon Blue Star, its combat power would be severely weakened."

Chen Mo thought in his heart.

But he decided to quickly go to that world filled with fire.

"I understand."

After hearing the Snow-Stepping Six-Tailed Spirit Fox's report, Chen Mo nodded.

Then he slowly closed his eyes.

Immediately after, his field of view began to rapidly extend in all directions.

This is the ability from the Lord Lion+; within his own territory, his consciousness can reach anywhere! Soon, Chen Mo's consciousness arrived at the Ice Prison located in the Ice Lion Snowfield.

(End of chapter)