Chapter 435: An Old Opponen (1/2)
Chapter 435: An Old Opponent
As the two of them marched on, Dong Li told Nie Tian about the volcanoes in the Realm of Unbounded Desolation in a low voice from time to time.
They came across three enormous, extinct volcanoes along their way.
They all belonged to the Tool Sect. It was just that, after centuries of consumption, the flame power within them had already been completely drained by Qi warriors from the Tool Sect for equipment forging.
One day passed...
As soon as Nie Tian and Song Li arrived at the foot of a short mountain peak, he sensed that the Flame Dragon Armor had grown restless.
He immediately realized that this unimpressive mountain peak contained fierce flame power in its belly.
Thus, he came to a stop.
As he examined the Flame Dragon Armor with his soul awareness, he noticed that wisps of flesh power being generated from the spirit beast meat he had consumed earlier were quietly dispersing from his abdomen into his bracelet of holding.
This feeling went on for a while...
That was when he realized that the Flame Dragon Armor had been secretly absorbing his flesh power ever since he had returned from the mysterious land.
Meanwhile, it seemed that the green aura coiled at the bottom of his heart knew nothing about it.
During this period of time, every time he replenished his flesh power with spirit beast meat, a quarter of it would quietly flow towards the Flame Dragon Armor within his bracelet of holding.
He understood that the Flame Dragon Armor had overly consumed its strength to refine the discarnate souls and Specters within the Spirit Pearl. At this moment, it was like a dried-up well that desperately needed to be refilled with power.
What surprised him was that it didn’t straightforwardly absorb flame power from his spiritual sea.
Instead, it showed a strong, almost greedy desire for his flesh power. Even though it was stored in his bracelet of holding, it was still channeling his flesh power bit by bit.
Therefore, he suspected that his flame power was merely a cup of water to a burning cart of firewood for the Flame Dragon Armor. (Idiom: an utterly inadequate measure)
The amount of flame power the Flame Dragon Armor needed would probably be an astronomical figure. Considering his current cultivation base and strength, the flame power within his spiritual sea wouldn't make even the slightest difference to the Flame Dragon Armor.
He recalled that there had been two occasions where he had witnessed the Flame Dragon Armor madly absorb flame power.
The first time had been when it had drained the flame power of every flamecloud gem in the Nie Clan’s mine.
The other time had been when it had snatched torrential flame power from the mouth of the Earth Flame Beast in the lava lake deep under the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range.
The reason why he had decided to come to the Realm of Unbounded Desolation in search of a suitable volcano was that he knew that he knew that the fire-attributed spiritual materials in his possession were far from enough for the Flame Dragon Armor to restore itself to its normal state.
At this moment, standing at the foot of this seemingly unimpressive volcano, he once again felt the Flame Dragon Armor’s intense urging.
As Nie Tian sized up the mountain peak, which was about a thousand meters high, he noticed that people would occasionally enter and exit the numerous caves halfway up the mountain peak. “This mountain peak...”
“Don’t even think about it!” Dong Li hastily stopped him. “This volcano belongs to the Tool Sect! There’s still rich flame power within the belly of this volcano. The reason why it’s not spewing any lava or flames is because it’s being suppressed by a spell formation set up by the Tool Sect, which continuously channels the torrential lava and flames into each and every equipment forging room in those caves.”
With those words, Dong Li pointed into the distance. “Those volcanoes that have smoke and flames constantly rising from them are the ones that haven’t been claimed by the Tool Sect. That’s where you can try to unleash your Flame Dragon Armor.”
With a thought, Nie Tian suppressed the Flame Dragon Armor’s urging as he looked off into the distance and said, “Man, that’s far.”
Dong Li sighed. “I know. If only we had an air-transportation spiritual tool of our own.”
She pointed up into the sky at a crimson chariot, which had just flown out of Desolate City. “Look at those people from the Tool Sect...”
“That crimson chariot is named Rainbow Lightning, an air-transportation spiritual tool that costs five million spirit stones to forge. If we had a vehicle like that, we’d be able to arrive at our destination and find a suitable unclaimed volcano for the Flame Dragon Armor within hours.”
Upon hearing Dong Li talk about air-transportation spiritual tools, Nie Tian sighed inwardly, thinking that their journey would have been much easier if he had gotten the air-transportation spiritual tool left by the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace out of the mountain peak in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations.
Having an air-transportation spiritual tool, the speed at which they traveled would be enhanced by at least a dozen times.
Instead of spending a month traveling from the “Phantasm relic” in the Realm of Dark Underworld to the inter-realm teleportation portal, they would have only needed a day or two.