Chapter 117: A Catastrophe Looms! (1/2)

“Nie Tian!”

Yu Tong’s sharp screech echoed out from behind Nie Tian, filled with bone-chilling hatred.

“Little bastard! You can’t run away!”

Feng Luo’s roar was like a sudden clap of thunder that was filled with frenzy.

However, Nie Tian completely ignored him and had no plans of turning around at all. Instead, he further increased his speed to chase after An Shiyi, Pan Tao, and the others.

“That woman’s fragrance is quite pleasant…” he secretly thought to himself.

He also didn’t understand why he had lost his sound mind and licked Yu Tong’s earlobe.

At the time, he had felt that the fragrance on Yu Tong was really quite nice to smell. His eyes had been caught by the fine curves on Yu Tong’s chest and her jade-like earlobe that had only been inches away from him. All of a sudden, he had failed to control the desire in his heart and made such a preposterous move.

After that, he also felt that it was very inappropriate. Therefore, when Yu Tong resisted with full strength, he didn’t make that cut with the blade.

However, when he turned around and sped away, he tried not to dwell on the matter, and told himself that not making that slash had already neutralized the rude action that he had committed.

In that way, he cast the whole thing out of his head.

RUUUUMBLE!

World-shaking rumbles were still echoing out from the distant short mountain. An enormous surge seemed to have started with that mountain as the center, gradually rippling outwards and affecting the surrounding mountains.

Anxious to rejoin Pan Tao and the others, he didn’t know what was happening there and didn’t have the time to look back. Right now, time was of the essence.

He also didn’t know how long the Fire Dragon would be able to stall Feng Luo, or whether or not Feng Luo would catch up to him.

He unceasingly released his mental awareness and spread it out to the surroundings as he advanced forward, looking for traces of the spiritual aura of An Shiyi and the others.

BOOM!

An enormous rumble suddenly came from a mountain not far from him. That short mountain shook violently, as if it were about to collapse.

CRUNCH!

Deep, narrow gorges suddenly cracked opened below him, within which the faintly flickering glow of lava could be seen, as if smoldering lava was about to flow out of them at any moment.

“This is not good!”

He constantly jumped about to avoid the gradually widening gorges. Suddenly, his heart shook as he realized that an even more terrible catastrophe was looming.

The Heaven Burning Earth Flame formation had been used to seal the Earth Flame Beast deep underground, and also to stop the eruption of magma. By joining forces and chiseling a hole in it, the Flame Dragon Armor and the Earth Flame Beast had caused great damages to the giant, underground formation, and now it was collapsing!

Only when the Heaven Burning Earth Flame had completely lost its effectiveness, would the entire Scarlet Flame Mountain Range undergo such drastic changes!

The magma which existed within the depths of the earth’s core of the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range was now no longer held back by the restrictive force of the grand spell formation, and raging flames and lava were now finding their way out in every area of the mountain range!

It wouldn’t be long before all of the so-called extinct volcanoes in the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range became active and spewed out terrifying, burning lava.

Just as he was pondering in his reverie, An Shiyi’s soft cry suddenly rang out, “Nie Tian!”

He looked into the direction which her voice had come from, and saw that An Shiyi and the others were anxiously looking at him from the foot of a sparsely vegetated mountain.

Only after he got closer and everyone had a clear look at him, did they finally let out sighs of relief.

However, he could still see the anxiety and uneasiness within their eyes, as if they had an even more enormous problem waiting for them.

“Why did you guys stop here?” Nie Tian asked with a surprised expression.

According to his calculations, An Shiyi and the others should have been somewhere further away by this time, not here.

The place they were currently at was too dangerously close to Feng Luo and Yu Tong. Once they broke free, they would be able to get to that place within a short time.

If Feng Luo had cast away the idea of helping Yu Tong wipe out her mental devil, and had simply gone all out to kill them, Nie Tian and his group would already be dead.

Nie Tian said in an urgent tone, “This place isn’t safe! Let’s move out!”

“We also wanted to get further away, but…” A bitter look appeared on Pan Tao’s face, as he walked to Nie Tian and pointed to the area in front of them. “See for yourself.”

Nie Tian looked over with rapt attention, and immediately understood why Pan Tao and the others had stopped.

In front of Pan Tao and the others was a wide gorge that ran deep into the earth’s core, within which boiling lava was slowly surging up to the brim.

Considering their cultivation bases, the gorge was too wide for them to cross.

If they had tried to cross it despite the danger, they would have an eighty or ninety percent chance of falling into the seething lava, and getting themselves reduced to gore.