Chapter 111: Earth Flame Beast! (1/2)

The roar of the fierce beast from the earth’s core shook Nie Tian to the point that he spat out blood, while his head rumbled continuously.

Terror started to appear in his eyes. Subconsciously, he took a few steps back, moving slightly further away from the huge hole. He stood there flabbergasted.

With merely one roar, it managed to cause slight damage to his physical body, even though he considered himself to be stronger than average. This had put a bit of fear in him.

He couldn’t imagine just how strong the blurry fierce beast was, which moved about under the magma.

He also noticed that when the fierce beast vaguely showed itself moments ago, the ancient magical symbols that flowed within the crystal-like ribbons, suddenly became dazzling and bright.

He remembered clearly that during the three times when the Flame Dragon Armor had attempted to dive into the magma, only a small part of the magical symbols within the ribbons had lit up.

He suddenly came to a realization that the real purpose of the ribbons was to stop the fierce beast from escaping and rushing out from the earth core.

ROOOOAR!

Once again, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar burst out from the boiling magma within the earth’s core. This time, Nie Tian, who had prepared in advance, circulated his spiritual energy and tightly shielded his internal organs and eardrums. Only in that way did he manage to resist the damage.

He saw that within the magma in the huge hole, a giant blurry figure with three long tails seemed to have swam by.

“It lives in the earth’s core magma, and it has three tails!”

He tried his best to calm himself and recall the formidable spiritual beasts that his master had imparted to him. Suddenly, he had an epiphany.

“Earth Flame Beast! It’s an Earth Flame Beast!”

Wu Ji had once told him that there was a unique kind of spiritual beast that resided in the middle of the magma of the earth’s core, and was therefore known as the Earth Flame Beast.

They were fire-attributed spiritual beasts that were by nature extremely vicious and violent. It was said that they possessed the bloodline of Flame Qilins.

Their growth, cultivation, and advancements all greatly relied on the magma in the earth’s core.

Once they had found a suitable magma lake in the earth’s core, they would make it its habitat and spontaneously gather flame power from the surrounding areas, and merge it into the lake.

Whatever place Earth Flame Beasts inhabited, even if it were once damp and rainy, with their arrival, the place would slowly become hot and dry, with the formation of volcanoes that frequently erupted.

As long as they lived there, the flame energy nearby would be absorbed by them and slowly flow into the magma lake in the earth’s core where they resided.

Over a long period of time, the mountains within their habitat would turn into volcanoes one after another, and as they cultivated and condensed more flame power, the volcanoes would become more active and erupt more frequently.

“Can it be that… this Earth Flame Beast has made the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range what it is now?”

Looking at the numerous crystal-like ribbons, Nie Tian’s eyes flickered. Suddenly, he came to a realization that the most powerful experts of the Spiritual Treasure sect must have been aware of the existence of the Earth Flame Beast for a long time.

Otherwise, the crystal-like ribbons wouldn’t have extended so far that they covered the entire Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.

He assumed that a founding expert of the Spiritual Treasure sect must have only built their sect in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range after discovering the Earth Flame Beast underneath it.

As long as the Earth Flame Beast was there, the magma lake deep within the earth’s core would forever gather flame energy, causing the three volcanoes to never go extinct.

Qi warriors of the Spiritual school, who cultivated with the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, and equipment forgers of the Treasure school, who refined spiritual tools, were mostly reliant on the blazing flame energy.

The existence of the Earth Flame Beast had caused the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth shrouding the Spiritual Treasure sect to carry rich flame power.

The fierce flame from the earth’s core could be drawn out for many uses. Some of it would be used to form the grand Heaven Burning Earth Flame formation, while some would flow into the caves to allow the equipment forgers of the Treasure school to refine spiritual tools.

However, the flame power at earth’s core wasn’t infinite. Normally, the flame power on this land would have been completely used up after hundreds of years of consumption by the numerous Spiritual Treasure sect disciples.

But the Earth Flame Beast could change that!

It could unceasingly draw flame power from the vicinity of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range and channel it into the magma lake.

Its existence would ensure that the Spiritual Treasure sect thrived among the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range, with an infinite supply of flame energy to be used for their cultivation and equipment forging.

ROOOOAR!

While Nie Tian was pondering such matters, the Earth Flame Beast within the magma once again let out mad roars. It seemed to be attempting to break away from the restriction of the crystal-like ribbons and burst forth from the magma lake in the earth’s core.

“It must have also noticed the damage to the grand Heaven Burning Earth Flame formation and want to seize the opportunity to get out. That’s probably the reason why it’s so violent and restless.”

Shortly after everything had started, the dome of the grand spell formation had been torn open. Later on, seeing the losing momentum couldn’t be reversed, Fang Hui deactivated the defense to give the mass disciples a chance to live.

Fang Hui’s decision had compromised the formation, which gave the Earth Flame Beast within the magma lake a sign of hope.

WHOOSH!

At that moment, the Flame Dragon Armor, which had remained silent for a while, once again flew out.

“Will you stop messing around?” With a bitter smile, Nie Tian said, “Even that beast can’t burst out of there, so please stop wasting your energy.”

From Nie Tian’s point of view, all the ancient magical symbols within the glittering ribbons had now turned dazzling and bright because of the frantic behaviors of the beast.

Compared to before, the restrictive force of the net of crystal-like ribbons must have also multiplied by who knew how many times.

If the Flame Dragon Armor were to give it a try now, not only would it not stand a chance, it could also use up its own flame power. It might as well wait quietly for the Earth Flame Beast to rush out of its bindings.

It seemed as if the Flame Dragon Armor had heard his call, and this time, it actually did not make another rash attempt, but rather floated motionlessly half a meter above the crystal-like ribbons.

At that moment, he faintly felt that an odd aura started to ripple outwards from within the Blood Core on the Flame Dragon Armor, quietly flowing downwards like a mist.

He realized that the Flame Dragon Armor was trying to determine a path with the help of its aura.

Even though Nie Tian could feel the aura, he still didn’t understand its true significance.

However, the Earth Flame Beast, that had previously swam away with its three tails, appeared to have noticed the strange aura that came from the Flame Dragon Armor.

It immediately stopped its frantic roaring and started to circle back towards the source of the aura.

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and found that the Earth Flame Beast seemed to be concerned with the formidable power of the crystal-like ribbons sealing the magma lake, and didn’t dare to rise to the surface.

Therefore, Nie Tian could only see an enormous, vague shadow, but couldn’t get a clear look of its appearance.