Chapter 394: White Flame Rescue

Hua Changxi noticed Zhu Yan and Chu Junshan rapidly approaching her; though she was wary, her full attention remained on the fire axe.

The moment she grasped the fire axe, she understood the true trial of this space—to prove the Dao through force!

But how exactly was she supposed to "prove the Dao through force"?

Hua Changxi looked at the fire axe in her hand, recalling the scene of the "giant splitting the heavens" that had flashed through her mind earlier.

Was she also supposed to split the heavens with a fire axe?

Hua Changxi turned her gaze toward the spatial barrier not far away; the sky of this egg-like chaotic space should be that spatial barrier.

Thinking this, Hua Changxi flew toward the boundary barrier.

Seeing this, Chu Junshan's expression shifted: "Not good—Hua Changxi is trying to escape!"

Zhu Yan said calmly, "Relax, she won't get out. This space is easy to enter but hard to leave—I noticed it when I came in."

Hearing this, Chu Junshan was not relieved; instead, his expression turned grave. If Hua Changxi couldn't escape, then neither could they.

Although he didn't think that he and Zhu Yan together would lose to Hua Changxi, what if...?

Hua Changxi rode the Somersault Cloud, appearing to fly very fast, but in reality she moved very slowly.

Fortunately, after entering the space, she had not strayed too far from the boundary barrier. After expending most of her spiritual power, she finally reached the barrier.

Facing the boundary barrier up close again, she noticed many details she had overlooked before.

For example, the dark-gold bloodline patterns flowing on the barrier made her feel the might of the "Law of Fire."

She also discovered, amidst the barrier's rhythmic pulsations, that "fire axe patterns" flickered with varying brightness.

A foreboding feeling arose in Hua Changxi's heart, and she instinctively reached her hand toward the boundary barrier.

The boundary barrier was very soft and highly ductile.

Soon enough, her bad premonition came true—no matter how hard she pushed or how vigorously she tried to charge out of the space, she could not break through the barrier.

Can't get out?!

Hua Changxi's mood grew heavy. She glanced back at Chu Junshan and Zhu Yan, who were still closing in on her, and after a moment, her gaze fell on the fire axe in her hand.

It seemed the only way out was to split the boundary barrier with the fire axe.

Hua Changxi raised the fire axe and chopped at the boundary barrier.

The barrier didn't budge; the axe blade left not even the slightest mark on it.

Somewhat stunned, Hua Changxi swung the axe again.

Once, twice...

Hua Changxi hacked until she was gasping for breath. At first, the barrier showed no reaction, but after swinging the fire axe over a hundred times, sparks began to appear sporadically where the blade struck the barrier.

Wielding the fire axe was extremely tiring and draining on her physical strength.

However, tired as she was, with each swing of the fire axe, the power within her body grew little by little.

"So this is strength?"

Feeling the increased force in her arm as she swung it, Hua Changxi pondered for a moment. The next time she raised the fire axe, she summoned the seven-colored strange fire, merged it with the axe, and then struck the boundary barrier again.

"Sizzle—"

The sparks increased, and the power unleashed by the fire axe grew stronger!

Seeing this, joy flashed across Hua Changxi's face. She then fused the seven-colored strange fire into the Great Sun Divine Flame, merged that with the fire axe, and swung once more at the barrier.

This time, the barrier trembled slightly, and flames burst out where the axe blade contacted it.

Clearly, the fire axe merged with the Great Sun Divine Flame had once again boosted its power, and at the same time, the strength Hua Changxi gained while swinging the axe also increased accordingly.

Pressing her advantage, Hua Changxi next summoned the Southbright Lihuo.

"Boom—"

When the fire axe merged with the Southbright Lihuo, its unleashed power was astonishing, causing the boundary barrier to vibrate on a small scale, and the axe blade even rubbed flames off the barrier.

Through her experiments with the seven-colored strange fire, the Great Sun Divine Flame, and the Southbright Lihuo, Hua Changxi understood: the boundary barrier was essentially the ultimate fusion of the Law of Fire and strength.

Using force to verify the Dao actually means reaching a state where "force contains law, and law contains force."

Gazing at the boundary wall thoughtfully, Hua Changxi found that even with Nanming Lihuo, the fire axe could not leave any mark on the boundary wall. In her mind, the scene of the "Giant Splitting Heaven" surfaced once again.

Transforming into a giant to hack at the boundary wall undoubtedly allowed her to push both the Law of Fire and the power of her physical body to their limits.

Thinking of this, Hua Changxi's eyes suddenly flickered. Could breaking open this space with the fire axe be the trial to become the master of the Zhurong Tomb?

The more Hua Changxi thought about it, the more she felt her guess was correct, and she urgently wanted to cultivate the "Dharma Manifestation" divine ability to confirm this.

However, she suppressed the urgency in her heart.

For no other reason than that Chu Junshan and Zhu Yan were already very close to her.

Knowing that her speed was no match for the two of them, Hua Changxi directly sat cross-legged, preparing for battle.

Zhu Yan was slightly faster than Chu Junshan and approached Hua Changxi first.

However, given his previous near-death experience at Hua Changxi's hands, he did not attack immediately but instead waited for Chu Junshan to join him in launching an attack.

Hua Changxi naturally would not just watch the two converge. Using her divine sense to wrap around the fire axe, she swung it directly toward Zhu Yan.

Seeing the fire axe hurtling through the air with a fierce and intimidating aura, Zhu Yan sensed danger and hastily retreated.

As he retreated, Chu Junshan arrived: "Don't hold anything back." Saying this, he raised his thick right leg and stamped down toward Hua Changxi, giving the impression that he was determined to crush her to death.

Seeing the enormous leg coming at her, Hua Changxi directly activated the "Ten Thousand Fires Submission" divine ability.

Since this egg-shaped space was filled with dense fire spirit power, in an instant, with Hua Changxi at the center, a flame-devouring vortex formed.

Chu Junshan's pillar-like right leg was aimed at stamping Hua Changxi to death, but it fell into the vortex of grinding devouring.

His entire foot nearly covered the mouth of the vortex. Although it was not devoured instantly, it was gradually being melted away by the burning flames.

Chu Junshan felt an intense pain of devouring and collapse, but he did not withdraw his leg. Under the "Pangu True Body" divine ability, Hua Changxi's divine ability could not harm him for the moment.

Bearing the severe pain in his leg, Chu Junshan continued to press down toward Hua Changxi at the center of the vortex.

"Zhu Yan, make your move."

Zhu Yan's heart trembled at the sight, but he still swiftly summoned a lotus lamp composed of four black petals and four white petals, burning with black and white flames.

He chanted a spell, and soon the originally distinct black and white lamp flames suddenly flared up with black flames.

Then, a wisp of black flame detached, rapidly flying toward the flame vortex.

As it passed, wherever the black flame went, the flames and sparks condensed in the air were covered with a layer of black flame.

That wisp of black flame spread through the space at a visible rate, like a plague.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi was greatly alarmed. The black flame was the fire of desire, not natural fire, and the "Ten Thousand Fires Submission" could not convert the black flame.

If she allowed the "Ten Thousand Fires Submission" to devour the black flame, she would not only be unable to harm Zhu Yan but would also have her mind controlled by the black flame.

She must not let the black flame get close!

Hua Changxi decisively withdrew the "Ten Thousand Fires Submission" divine ability. The moment the flame vortex disappeared, she summoned the Floating Light Sword and slashed fiercely at Chu Junshan's thigh above her head.

The sword light tore through the air and struck Chu Junshan's thigh.

Although the Floating Light Sword was powerful, its blade was not drawn, so it could not normally cut off Chu Junshan's thigh. However, this space was rich in the "Law of Fire," and the sword light triggered the power of the law.

With the reinforcement of the "Law of Fire," the sword light, which initially radiated only a hundred meters, suddenly expanded to a thousand meters, severing Chu Junshan's thigh in one stroke.

In an instant, blood rain fell from the air.

"Ah~"

Hearing Chu Junshan's piercing scream, Zhu Yan shuddered. Just as he hesitated whether to continue attacking Hua Changxi, a deadly crisis loomed over him.

Almost instinctively, he chanted the spell, causing the white flames of the lotus lamp in his hand to flare up.

The white flame blazed up suddenly, and the Soul Pursuit Seal that was about to be imprinted on Zhu Yan's soul deviated from its original trajectory, allowing Zhu Yan to dodge it.

Hua Changxi was shocked when she saw this.

The black flame could control people, and the white flame could save people?!

Despite her surprise, Hua Changxi did not stop her attack. She swung the Floating Light Sword again, and the fierce sword light shot straight toward Zhu Yan.

The thousand-meter sword beam, channeling the Law of Fire, descended like Mount Tai pressing down. Though a chill ran down his spine, Zhu Yan was not despairing.

The moment before the sword beam struck him, the white flames in his hand erupted once more, a dazzling white radiance enveloping Zhu Yan. In an instant, he fled far beyond the sword beam's attack range.

Watching Zhu Yan escape again, Hua Changxi's heart trembled violently. He swung his sword once more. This time, as the sword beam descended, a fire axe silently struck toward Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan dodged the sword beam again, but he did not avoid the fire axe.

At the instant the fire axe struck down, Zhu Yan truly felt the threat of death. The sharp pain from his back caused him to instantly activate the Divine Ability of Body-into-Flames.

Yet even after he transformed into fire, the fire axe still cleaved the flames in two.

He thought Zhu Yan was surely dead this time, but who would have expected—the two halves of the flames flared with white light, and then immediately merged back into a single mass.

After the flames merged, with a *whoosh*, they dove into the other flames in the air and vanished.

On the other side, during the great battle between Hua Changxi and Zhu Yan, Chu Junshan, who had lost a leg, could no longer support his mountain-like body. It crashed to the ground with a thunderous roar. As he fell, he instantly reverted to his original form, then pulled out a life-saving teleportation talisman and disappeared from where he stood in the blink of an eye.