The fireball Long Chen shot out was the Netherworld Karmic Fire obtained from hell. When the flames touched the altar, it instantly ignited.
Strangely, the red karmic flame, when ignited on the altar, blossomed with a pale blue flame.
As soon as the Netherworld Karma Fire appeared, it immediately spread across the altar. Ye Ming's expression changed, and the power of darkness transformed into a giant hand, aiming to cover the altar and extinguish the flames.
But when the hand covered the altar, a look of shock appeared on Ye Ming's face. The hand was instantly ignited, reduced to ashes in an instant.
Ye Ming retreated rapidly, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes. If he hadn't severed that giant hand in time just now, the flames would have burned him.
He had already come into contact with the Netherworld Karmic Fire, and it nearly cost him his life at the time. But the Netherworld Karma Fire before him hadn't condensed together; it wasn't a spell, so it didn't look particularly terrifying.
But when his hand touched the Netherworld Karmic Fire, he felt a strong threat of death in that instant and immediately severed that large hand.
"What kind of flame is this?" Ye Ming shouted sharply, his previous composure gone.
Before the Netherworld Karmic Fire, he had already suffered two major losses. The first time was when he was struck by Long Chen's World-Destroying Fire Refinement, which severely injured him in one blow.
This time, he had taken the initiative to attack the Netherworld Karma Fire, but the sense of deadly danger was even more terrifying than the World-Destroying Fire Lotus. He couldn't understand how Long Chen could control such a dreadful flame.
"This fire is called the Netherworld Karmic Fire, originating from the underworld. As the name suggests, karmic fire is a flame that burns away karmic obstacles.
The Devouring Heaven Evil King's karmic obstacles were ignited, yet you actually dared to put out the fire. You were truly lucky, caught by the evil king's karmic fire and not burned to death. Long Chen chuckled.
The Netherworld Karma Fire Dragon Dust still cannot fully control it, or rather, the Fire Dragon cannot fully control it yet and can only extract part of the Netherworld Karma Fire's power.
But karmic fire is a kind of flame that transcends the laws. No living being can escape its scorching flames, not even gods.
This relates to the cycle of cause and effect. When the Devouring Heaven Evil King is set ablaze, the Netherworld's karmic fire burns his own karmic obstacles. Ye Ming had just been tainted by the Devouring Heaven Evil King's karmic fire; if he hadn't cut off the dark power in time, he would have been burned alive.
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Ye Ming's forehead; he had nearly died in this inconspicuous mass of flames.
"Huff, huff, ..."
The blue flames flickered, not fierce, but gave off an unusually eerie feeling, as if they could be extinguished in one breath. Yet no one dared touch it, not even Long Chen himself.
The Netherworld Karmic Fire is nothing more than a fire seed. The current Karma Fire belongs to the Devouring Heaven Evil King, and its fuel is the karma he created in his lifetime. Contamination can be fatal.
Although he didn't understand the true power of the Netherworld Karma Fire, Ye Ming knew that if things continued like this, the Devouring Heaven Evil King and the Four Divine Generals would never be able to revive.
The life force they extracted from underground was nowhere near enough to consume the Karma Fire, and his plan would be completely ruined.
"Buzz!" Suddenly,
Ye Ming threw a formation disk behind him. The disk hit the ground, rapidly expanded, and quickly formed a massive teleportation array.
The teleportation array lit up, and groups of powerful figures dressed in evil sect attire appeared. Ye Ming had actually used a special method to teleport the evil sect disciples here.
Long Chen didn't know what Ye Ming was up to, but he knew that since the evil sect disciples had been summoned, they definitely weren't here to pay respects. Long Chen swung the Dragon Bone Evil Moon blade at the formation disk.
"Sealing heaven and earth, shifting the universe."
Ye Ming seemed to have been on guard all along. With a sharp shout, he shielded Long Chen with his whole body in front of him, a strange phenomenon enveloping the formation disk behind him.
He actually put down the Serrated Sword, formed hand seals, and his whole body became ethereal.
"Boom!"
Long Chen slashed down with his blade, and a loud explosion came from somewhere outside the dark domain. Long Chen's blade strangely diverted away.
"What the hell is this thing?" Long Chen was shocked. Ye Ming's strange spells were endlessly emerging, something he had never seen before.
"This is a dark divine ability that can divert your attacks. This kind of divine ability is unbeatable and almost flawless.
But you don't need to worry. When using this divine ability, his body cannot move, and it is timed. After just a few breaths, his body will shift from illusory to solid, and the spell will disappear on its own. "Dragon Bone Xie Yue said.
Sure enough, after several breaths, Ye Ming's body gradually shifted from illusion to solid, and Long Chen slashed down with a single strike.
"Clang"
At that moment, Ye Ming's serrated sword appeared again, blocking Long Chen's strike, but Long Chen sent him flying with a single strike.
"All disciples of the evil path, obey orders! Use the Soul-Capturing Rebirth Technique to channel your life force into the altar and resurrect the Devouring Heaven Evil King." Ye Ming was sent flying backward, suspended in midair, shouting loudly.
The evil disciples who had been summoned hadn't fully understood what had happened. Upon hearing Ye Ming's call, they formed hand seals, and blood-red flowers appeared on their foreheads.
As the flower appeared, streams of blood energy flowed, as if summoned by some kind, flying straight toward the altar.
"Not good. Ye Meditation must resurrect the Evil King as soon as possible, even at the cost of the evil disciples' life force and lifespan." Dragonbone Xie Yue said in a deep voice.
Even without Dragon Bone Xie Yue's reminder, Long Chen could tell that Ye Ming was indeed ruthless. He couldn't extinguish the Nether Karmic Fire, so he simply used people to fill it in, completely disregarding the lives of those evil disciples.
Over 500,000 evil sect disciples were urgently teleported over by him. Clearly, all of this had been prepared in advance—Ye Ming had too many backup plans.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, the altar trembled, and rays of divine light enveloped all the more than five hundred thousand evil disciples. It was unclear whether Ye Ming had done something to protect them, fearing Long Chen would kill them.
"Although some accidents happened, everything is under my control. Long Chen, no matter how much you struggle, you can't beat me, and I don't want to waste time with you anymore."
"Whoosh,"
after saying this, Ye Ming actually retreated into the crowd, entering the altar's protective range.
With the addition of those evil disciples, the flames of karmic fire on the altar still burned, but they were growing weaker and more faint, barely noticeable.
The Karmic Fire couldn't be extinguished by external force, but Ye Ming suppressed the Nether Karma by increasing the Devouring Heaven Evil King's vitality.
"Long Chen, keep setting them on fire." Longgu Xie Yue said.
Long Chen shook his head: "It's useless. Right now, I can't truly control the Netherworld Karma Fire, nor can I unleash its true power."
The Netherworld Karmic Fire can only act as a fire source to ignite the Devouring Heaven Evil King's karmic obstacles, but it cannot actively burn his body. So, no matter how I try to activate the Netherworld Karmic Fire, it's all in vain. Long
Chen looked up, seeing the giant tree blocking the sky, the endless Sky-Devouring Black Armor Army, and the long-tailed venomous dragon.
"All I can do now is use the Netherworld Karma Fire within my body, and—The Netherworld Karma Fire outside resonated with it.
Then I used my soul power as fuel to increase the power of the karmic fire on the altar, but this caused me to lose the ability to fight.
Besides, my soul power alone is just a drop in the bucket and doesn't really help. I need help from friends. Long Chen said.
"What are you going to do?" Dragonbone Xie Yue asked.
"I want to send out a distress signal so that all the strong ones on my side will come to help.
But there are too many obstacles here. Even if they know, they can't rush through. I need to clear the obstacles for them. "
Buzz"
Long Chen raised one hand, and a flaming lotus bloomed. At the same time, the sacred chanting of scriptures echoed through heaven and earth, like the gods of the heavens whispering.
Long Chen's body slowly rose, and under the summoning of the scripture, the entire world turned dark red. Endless flame runes slowly emerged in the void, surging toward Long Chen like a hundred rivers converging into a sea.
The flame lotus in his hand grew larger and larger, reaching a zhang ... Ten zhang ... A hundred zhang ... A thousand zhang ... Ten thousand zhang ....
And the star sphere within the lotus petals was also increasing—one ... Two ... Three ....
The lotus grew larger, and the number of star spheres increased. When thirty-six star spheres appeared on the flame lotus, there was a sudden tremor. On each petal, six star spheres dimmed slightly, revealing seven star spheres.
The appearance of the seventh Star Orb instantly caused Huo Lian's pressure to surge. At this moment, the World-Destroying Fire Lotus gradually transformed into the Seven-Star World-Destroying Fire Lotus.
According to Long Chen's previous methods, with his body, he could at most withstand the power of a six-star world-destroying fire lotus. Any more would be impossible—one wrong move and he'd be blown to pieces.
However, when Long Chen used the Sky-Covering Mirror to deduce his future self, he saw a technique: extracting a portion of the power from each of the six already born stars to condense the seventh.
When the seventh Star Sphere was first born, its actual power was the same as that of a six-star, so this evolution did not require much strength from Long Chen.
It was like going uphill. Previously, Long Chen would climb uphill in one go, but now a step had been set up, giving him a chance to catch his breath.
A step is set between the sixth and seventh stages. When the seventh Star Sphere appears, its power remains unchanged, making it easy to control.
Then slowly infuse the power into the seven star spheres. When each sphere reaches its maximum charge, draw the power of the seven stars again to condense the eighth one.
Previously, Long Chen could only condense a six-star World-Destroying Fire Lotus, but with this technique, everything became much simpler.
"Buzz"
When the eighth fiery sphere was born, eight, nine, seventy-two stars trembled, world-ending divine might radiating outward, and even the giant tree above Long Chen's head began to sway.
Flames swirled between heaven and earth, space began to burn, and as far as the eye could see, the entire world was set ablaze.
"What kind of spell is this?"
Standing inside the formation, Ye Ming stared in shock at the Ten-Thousand-Mile Fire Forge in Long Chen's hand, utterly stunned. He had never seen such a terrifying technique.
At this moment, even Feng Fei, Mo Nian, Aman, and Zhao Ritian in the distance stopped what they were doing, staring into the distance in shock.
Beneath a giant tree, Long Chen held a massive flaming lotus flower, as if the god of fire had descended, carrying world-destroying divine power and threatening to overturn the heavens.