Chapter 1026 - : Battle in the Fire Domain (2/2)
Huh?
Mo Wen looked down into the crack in the abyss, and could immediately sense two opposing forces of immense energy, colliding fiercely against each other, deep in the bowels of the earth. “Could they be at the Tide Changing realm?” he mused.
He couldn’t be sure exactly, but he could sense they were not far below, and with that, Mo Wen’s eyes lit up with newfound hope. “Could this be her?” he thought. He had been doubtful if he could ever find Gu Jingman. Now that he thought she was close by, he felt everything would work out.
The ongoing battle was creating endless waves of seismic shocks. This could be felt even from the levels above, a telling testimony to its ferocity. As the battle raged on, the two opposing forms now appeared to be turning white hot! The inner force generated by a monk of the Tide Changing Realm, fighting for his life, was a dangerous thing. If this went on, the entire Beast Lair would founder and collapse, burying everyone within.
Without delay, Mo Wen immediately transformed into a beam of light. Ignoring the fixed passages, he headed straight to the cracks that appeared on the floor of the abyss, quickly filtering through the closest opening. The layers between each level of the Beast Lair were several miles thick. But a monk of the Tide Changing realm, if he so chose, could still force a path through, provided he focused all his powers to the task.
The abyss continued to rumble dangerously. The fearsome battle taking place far below had loosened the ground, causing deep cracks to appear on its floor and the walls surrounding it. This worked to Mo Wen’s advantage.
As he progressed deeper, Mo Wen could now clearly make out the positions of both adversaries, their blazing auras acting like beacons. Calmly, he released his deified soul. Despite being separated by a thick layer of earth that restricted the range of his deified soul, Mo Wen’s cultivation was far more superior to that of a monk at the Tide Changing realm. This allowed him to pierce through the divide to reach the two below.
“It’s Gu Jingman indeed! Huh, that scoundrel with burning hot flames rolling off of him must be Shao Tianqi!” Mo Wen muttered coldly under his breath. After what he had found out about Shao Tianqi, he had added the man to the list of people he would kill. Whether it was for a debt from the past, or as a precaution for the future, there was absolutely no way this man could stay alive.
Mo Wen forged ahead, unleashing his Sword Qi with consummate skill, cutting into the earth, a scarred path that extended for a great distance. And in such fashion, he tunneled downwards through the earth in no time.
Rumble!
This was a world consumed in flames. Everywhere, the sight of red-hot, rolling waves of molten rock. A rocky landscape ringed by a sea of magma.
The Fire Domain!
This was the spawning ground of the Dragon Horse. To a beast of the Fire domain, this was paradise.
In this dark and fiery abode, two beams of blinding light continued to violently crash into each other. Every impact, a cataclysmic collision that sent the Fire Domain into violent tremors.
Fissures had begun to appear on the edge of the magma ocean, unable to recover from the unending chaos. Around the sea of fire, laid heaps of dead beasts, carcasses of fire domain beasts everywhere you looked. To these lesser beasts, the battle between two beings of high order, had proved fatal. Indeed, when a monk of the Tide Changing realm monk pushed his limits, the power he unleashed could wipe out the entire earth.
“Die! You crazy woman!” A venomous roar rose from the direction of a ball of fiery light. Almost at once, a huge flaming sword swept out, seeming to split heaven and earth into two. In the deafening din, countless scars marked the walls of the abyss, where the sword had struck.
Time and time again Shao Tianqi swung his flaming blade, but his opponent was quick and nimble. She appeared as a blazing ball of blood-hued light, easily evading each stroke, moving far quicker than her foe. Flashing around at staggering speeds, she was constantly on the move, finding an opportunity to counterattack.
“Old man, is your humiliation turning into anger now?” She teased. “Are you envious of my skills? Why, you can’t even touch me.” A soft chuckle issued from somewhere within the blood light, in a voice as light as silver bells. To Shao Tianqi, every note evoked strong emotions of desire and temptation, as if being seduced by a superior being. Her every move, and every gaze, coy, and inviting.
“You demon, take this!” Shao Tianqi screamed, shaking off the spell.
From within the fiery ball of light, Mo Wen could make out a red-headed old man of great martial bearing. He was rather tall, and his bones were thick and heavy. He wielded a huge sword, a wide, straight-edged broadsword that almost resembled an unbroken door plank. A terrifying aura of destruction emanated from it. Even a monk of the Tide Changing realm would be seriously injured, if not killed, were he smote by this mighty weapon.
Shao Tianqi had mastered a formidable attacking style. His strength-based attacking technique made it difficult for his peers to match him. It has been told that, when Shao employed his attacking pattern, “flames roared and the winds howled.” As the sages often say that a good painter is not defined by the quality of his brushes. This applied aptly to Shao Tianqi, who had perfected the art of strength-based offensive techniques.
Gu Jingman, on the other hand, a mere slip of a girl, relied wholly on her nimbleness. She was akin to a gust of wind, a billow of smoke, a fleeting illusion. Her movements were precise, yet unpredictable, and she was impossible to catch! Such a style was the perfect foil to Shao Tianqi’s power-based technique.
“You’re such a brute, no wonder you’re so filled with fire. You don’t have a girlfriend, I’m guessing?”, she teased. “Makes sense. What lady would want someone as ugly, classless and boorish as you?” Gu Jingman continued to taunt him as the battle wore on. Even if she was not quite a match for him yet, there was no way she would lose when it came to bickering!
“But I’ll take pity on you since you’re so pathetic. I know a mother beast in this Fire Domain, why don’t I set you two up? She might be a beast and she might be a little ugly, but she’s still a mother. We should at least find someone to comfort you, since you’re already so old, or you might not die in peace. Who knows when your last breath would be?”
“You demon, I’ll have your head today!” Shao Tianqi was livid, seething with anger at the insult. He was an elder of the Petrification Cult, a respected senior. To have a demon poking fun of him like this was simply unacceptable.
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