Chapter 391: Fire Axe

Chu Junshan's guess that Hua Changxi was the master of Lingguang Hall was not a random assumption.

First, the revival of the Dan Sacred Hall, the emergence of the Stargazing Tower and the Xuanfu Mansion were almost all directly connected to Hua Changxi, so it was hardly surprising that she was now linked to Lingguang Hall.

Second, Hua Changxi was also a fire-attribute spiritual root cultivator, and she practiced fire-based techniques, yet her true strength had always remained a mystery.

Third, despite such a major incident in Nanxiang County, the master of Lingguang Hall had never appeared, which everyone found very strange. But if Hua Changxi was indeed the master of Lingguang Hall and was trapped inside this blessed land with no way out, then the reason for her absence became perfectly clear.

"Chu Junshan, have you lost your mind?"

Zhu Yan was reluctant to believe that the female cultivator in red across from him was the master of Lingguang Hall, and he voiced his doubt loudly at Chu Junshan.

Chu Junshan himself was not very confident either, and he looked at Zhu Yan. "When did you enter?"

Zhu Yan: "The twentieth of September."

Chu Junshan: "The twentieth of September of which year?"

This question made Zhu Yan pause, and he was taken aback for a moment before answering, "The twenty-eighth year of Yongxing."

Chu Junshan: "The day I entered this blessed land was the eighth of August in the thirty-second year of Yongxing."

At these words, both Zhu Yan and Hua Changxi's expressions changed.

After entering the Zhurong Tomb, neither of them had paid much attention to the passage of time, and they never expected four years to have already passed.

Ignoring Zhu Yan's shock, Chu Junshan spoke again. "What about Hua Changxi? Did she enter before you or after you?"

Zhu Yan: "After me, but it shouldn't have been much later."

Chu Junshan turned his gaze back to Hua Changxi, his expression now much more certain. "The Vermilion Bird Force lost contact with the master of Lingguang Hall at the end of September in the twenty-eighth year of Yongxing, which coincides almost exactly with when you entered this blessed land. Is that not too much of a coincidence?"

He paused, his tone firm. "Hua Changxi, you are the master of Lingguang Hall!"

Zhu Yan still found it hard to believe and looked at Hua Changxi as if seeking confirmation, hoping she would deny it.

Unfortunately, Hua Changxi still gave no response.

Zhu Yan could not stand this kind of ambiguous, half-baked situation the most, and he instantly grew furious. "If you are the master of Lingguang Hall, just say something! Have you gone mute?"

Hua Changxi could not be bothered with Zhu Yan's outburst; at that moment, her mind was preoccupied by the passage of time.

She had not expected time to fly so fast. After entering the Zhurong Tomb, she felt she had accomplished nothing, yet four years had already slipped by.

Chu Junshan looked down on Zhu Yan's outburst and spoke again. "Hua Changxi, do you want to know the current situation of the Vermilion Bird Force? Do you want to know the state of Nanxiang County?"

This remark did catch Hua Changxi's attention.

Hua Changxi was indeed concerned about the Vermilion Bird Force and Nanxiang County. After hesitating for a moment, she condensed a line of fiery red characters in the air using spiritual power: "I don't know the art of sound transmission!"

Seeing these words, Zhu Yan and Chu Junshan suddenly felt as if thousands of "grass mud horses" were stampeding through their minds.

Sound transmission techniques were very basic arts, after all.

Not knowing divine sense transmission might be excused if the spiritual platform was unopened, but not even knowing spiritual power sound transmission… Was this person some sort of savage?

Zhu Yan looked at Chu Junshan with a mixture of amusement and disbelief, his eyes full of questioning: Could someone who does not even know sound transmission be the master of Lingguang Hall?

Chu Junshan was also stunned, and his previous certainty began to waver.

It might be understandable for an ordinary cultivator not to know sound transmission, but for the master of Lingguang Hall not to know such a basic technique—that was truly baffling.

However, Hua Changxi was very reclusive and cut off from information, so it might actually be normal that she did not even know sound transmission?

Even though Hua Changxi was eager to know the current situation of the Vermilion Bird Force and Nanxiang County, she knew she could not ask first. Asking would be tantamount to admitting she was the master of Lingguang Hall.

She could only suppress her urgency, continue sitting in meditation, and put on an air of indifference as if she did not care whether Chu Junshan spoke or not.

Seeing her like this, Chu Junshan became even less sure whether his earlier guess was correct.

However, deeply versed in the game of wits, he naturally would not volunteer information or act as a messenger. Since Hua Changxi was pretending not to want to know, he turned around to explore the space instead.

After repeated exploration, he quickly discovered that this space was immensely vast inside, and unless one had mastered a spatial translocation divine ability, moving even an inch here was extremely difficult.

Unfortunately, he had not cultivated any spatial translocation divine ability.

However, he did know a transformation divine ability.

Chu Junshan immediately cast the "Pangu True Body" divine ability, and his body suddenly grew larger and taller, becoming in an instant a giant that could stand between heaven and earth.

After turning into a giant the size of a mountain, Chu Junshan couldn't wait to start strolling through the space. One step of his was equivalent to hundreds of steps by Zhu Yan and Hua Changxi.

At first, Hua Changxi and Zhu Yan were a bit nervous, but soon, the two of them set their minds at ease again.

Simply put, although Chu Junshan's strides were huge, he still moved very slowly within the vast space, and his travel speed was inferior to Zhu Yan's use of the 'Reversal of Stars' divine ability.

However, before the two could breathe a sigh of relief, their hearts were lifted up again.

It turned out that Chu Junshan, seeing that the 'Pangu's True Form' divine ability was not very useful within the Egg Space, activated another divine ability—the Furnace True Form.

He transformed his physical body into a furnace, aiming to strengthen himself by devouring and refining various energies within the space.

As soon as the 'Furnace True Form' activated, the originally chaotic space was showered with a rain of blood and a wind of crimson.

This blood rain and red wind surged towards Chu Junshan in a swarm. At this moment, Chu Junshan was like a bottomless black hole, constantly devouring the blood-qi energy, fire-rule energy, and soul energy within the Egg Space.

If this were elsewhere, the energy in the space would definitely have been drained by him very quickly.

But within the Egg Space, aside from some turbulence in the area where Chu Junshan was located, the other regions were completely unaffected.

However, this still brought great shock to Hua Changxi and Zhu Yan.

"Why has another fire axe appeared?"

Zhu Yan stared wide-eyed at the fire axe in front of Chu Junshan. He had always thought that the fire axe was a token of this blessed cave dwelling and a unique item belonging to him.

But now, Chu Junshan also had one in front of him, and it was even larger than the one in front of Zhu Yan.

Hua Changxi also looked dumbfounded, but soon fell into contemplation.

If the fire axe was not the token of the master of Zhurong's Tomb, then it could only be a tool of trial within this space.

How did the fire axe come out?

Hua Changxi hadn't seen how Zhu Yan had produced the fire axe, but in Chu Junshan's case, the fire axe appeared after he had used a fire-type divine ability.

Fire-type divine ability...

Hua Changxi's eyes flickered. With a wave of his right hand, a rapidly spinning cluster of flames emerged.

As soon as the 'Myriad Flames Return to the Source' divine ability was activated, a fiery meteor shower appeared, a hundred times more powerful than the blood rain and red wind triggered by Chu Junshan.

At this moment, the originally chaotic space suddenly became filled with sparks flying everywhere.

Countless sparks coalesced into a meteor shower, all flying towards Hua Changxi's right hand simultaneously.

At the same time, a dazzling fire axe also appeared in front of Hua Changxi.